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Perseus12: ...I wonder whose the founder of the foundation of the Saderan Empire, the creation of Mage City-State of Rondel, the arrival of the Warrior Bunnies, formation of individual kingdoms, and the first advance civilization...

A: Thanks for the feedback! The events that you mentioned will be revealed later as the story goes on. All I can say here is that the warrior bunnies, and in fact most of the demi-humans are one of the few native species of Falmart. And the first advanced civilization will be coming soon in the next chapter!

IC -5900s

High Queen Elena dies without an heir.

IC -5800s

After a century of debates, the Elvish council finally decides to crown Elena's younger daughter the new queen. However, the older child murders her sister in a fit of rage after hearing the news. The council executed her for sororicide and high treason. The elder sister's lover, a general in the army, marches into the city and burns the council house to the ground to avenger her. He announce to the kingdom that he bedded Elena's elder sister and she conceived with a bastard for him before her death. Since Elena has no more children, he anoints his son the new king.

A few councilmen escapes with the help of Elena's sister, and then proclaims her as the new queen. Sometime along the way, a fake Elena appeared, claiming to be the old Queen returned from the dead.

The elves quickly descend into a three-way civil war.

IC -5750s

The battle of Harewood. Fifty thousand elves die in the bloodiest conflict in elvish history. Unable to field a sizeable army anymore, the elves turn to a cheaper alternative - humans.

Warlord Darrion Westros becomes the first human to pledge his service to the elves. In the following centuries, more would flock to each of the three green elvish banners, until the human mercenaries outnumber the elves by five to one.

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First conventional use of cavalry. 500 horsemen under Atshar Numdo charged and rode down the 3000 footmen of Charles Westros. A new weapon had just entered the fray.

IC -5400s

Religion finally makes a HUGE debut, as Elvish King Numandar Marceau says that the Sun God Flare helped him win a critical battle. The other monarchs follow his lead and each adopts a god as the patron god/goddess of their country. To show their piety, they also add a shortened version of the god's name in their own names. This grows to become a tradition adopted by almost every major races on the continent

There were no records on how the gods felt about that.

IC -5250s

Navy is invented when an enterprising general hid his men aboard a few fishing ships and took an enemy fortress by surprise.

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Maize is discovered. Feed armies had just become so much easier.

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The wheel is invented.

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Tired of the endless war, Elena's Great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-grandaughter marries Elena's Great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-grandnephew to form a political alliance. They join forces and destroy Fake Elena's descendants. The elvish kingdom is at peace once more, but at the cost of hundreds of thousands of lives. Whole forest was leveled by war, their fertile fields were burnt to ashes, and the human mercenaries had sucked their coffers dry. The elvish kingdom begins its slow decline.

But the following events would significantly speed up this beautiful race's demise.

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A sharp increase of Goblin and Ogre populations is observed. Orges are a larger, tougher, dumber variants of the goblin, good at tanking damage and nothing else.

At the same time, a Gate opened by a certain goddess 'for fun' spills forth an army of Orcs. (In their original world, their master had just been defeated by a white magical boi and good old Smeagol) The Orcs wander the land aimlessly before allying themselves with the equally hideous looking goblins. This doubles the armies of the monsters, who start massing at the borders of the elves.

IC -4610s

A Goblin chieftain sends a four-word letter to the Elvish High Queen, saying Wood yoo mary mwe? Queen Elsgard took one look, tore the letter in half, and famously replied, "begone, fool, for the elves do not bed with pigs." The goblin envoy left promising retribution.

Many fear an imminent inter-species war, and they were right.

An army of twenty thousand goblins spill across the elvish border at the insult, burning and pillaging as they went. Whole villages were burnt and its inhabitants mutilated. There were tales of men being impaled on spikes and left alive in agony for days, infants used as footballs, and a single girl being shared by a whole goblin army.

Angered by the monstrosity committed, the elves gathered their strength and finally repelled the goblins after a brutal battle where neither side showed any mercy to each other. The elves celebrate by cutting off the Goblin Chieftain's head and sending it back to the palace. Queen Elsgard ordered it to be coated in tar and thrown into her chamber pot so she can "vent her righteous anger on the wretched trophy".

However, the celebrations were too impromptu, for that assault was just the vanguard. The next attack consisted of five hundred thousand goblins, orcs, beasts (these beast are different from demi-humans and more like wargs and minotaurs) and ogres. They swept through the elvish kingdom in days, taking the capital city after three hours of heated battle. The King was killed trying rallying the survivors, and Queen Elsgard went missing as she tried to escape. Eyewitnesses say that they last saw her in the sewers leading out of the city, fighting defiantly as a horde of goblins swarmed her bodyguards.

The surviving royalties continued through the sewers and successfully fled to the human territories.

IC -4600s

The elves beg the humans to fight the monsters, but the humans weren't keen on fight an overwhelmingly numerous opponent. After much persuasion, with numerous mentions of 'the ancient treaty' and 'the food we provided during the Ice Age', the humans agreed, on the condition that the elves would teach them how to use magic, allowing them to train battlemages.

Meanwhile, the monsters settle into elvish land, hunting down survivors from the 'Five Days War'.

IC -4580s

The gods knew that the humans had no chance. They were outnumbered five to one. If they fight the monsters they'd be massacred.

But they didn't want the humans to die out. After all, who will worship them if all the humans perished?

Thus they thought of a plan. As Hardy was the one who opened the Gate and let the Orcs in, the other gods forced her to open another Gate to summon help. Luckily, the new Gate led to a world populated with scaly, winged creatures called Wyverns that are tamed by the humans mages.

Hardy also told the humans of the Orcs and Goblin's weakness - the fear of sunlight. Finally, the gods chose champions from among the greatest fighters, and bestowed upon them superhuman powers. Some say that these were the first Apostles.

Hopefully, this would be enough for the gods' favorites to triumph.

IC -4550s

After a hundred years of preparations, the combined army of the humans states (and a few elves) marched against the monsters. While the humans fielded two hundred thousand men, the monsters number one million. However, the humans had the blessings of the gods and a good plan. Attacking during the day when the monsters were the most vulnerable, and retreating at night, they steady retook the lost elvish land. Their wyvern air force and mages helped the war effort too by providing much-needed suppression power.

However, the ogres were neigh indestructible, and the orcs themselves outnumber the combined army. To make things worse, more reinforcements joined the battle from the monsters homeland, dragging the war out into a war of attrition.

The horrible war lasted for thirty years before ending, and cost more than one hundred and fifty thousand human lives.

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On the last day of the war, a small group of warriors led by the hero Semm stormed the final fortress of the Goblins. Deep beneath the fortress, in a dark, filthy cell reeking of vomit and feces, they found a limbless elf, covered with torture marks and pregnant with a goblin baby.

She had no memory of who she is, only speaking gibberish as the hero covered her in his cape to hide her shame. Her features were mutilated beyond recognition, but as he carried her out of the room, a rusted circlet fell off her head onto the ground. The jewel that adorned it, blood-red ruby the size of an egg, told him who she was.

For it was the Blood Jewel, long in the procession of the elvish royal family.

Semm slit her throat immediately. It would be better if the elves believed that their queen perished fighting the goblins. He buried her in a soft green plain beside a small stream, with her broken crown as a marker (he took the jewel though).

And thus the Human-Monster War ended with the death of the one who started it.

It was the worst conflict in the history of Falmart till now. A whole region was damaged beyond repair, and more than a species were wiped clean off the surface of the world. Nearly two million lives were lost, enough for Rory to go on an orgasm for days.

All the orcs were destroyed, and the ogres and beasts too. The goblins were driven to the brink of extinction, never posing to be more than a nuisance in the latter days. However, on the other side, ninety-five percent of the elves perished as well. Centuries of technologies were lost, as most of the learned elvish scholars died in the 'Five Days War'. An unliftable shadow fell upon the surviving elves, who became increasingly isolated. The great elvish kingdom splintered into a dozen tribes, wandering the land as leaves flutter in the air.

However, if there's one good thing that came out of this, it is the fact that the war united all the humans (except the Wangs and Islanders) under one banner. Bonded together under the rule of Farole, the greatest Champion of their time, humanity is about to step into his next era.

The Age of Empires.

I was going to include details on the Human-Monster war, but if I do so the hundreds of skirmishes would probably bore you out of your mind, so I was like 'meh'. Still, it might appear as a filler chapter later on for them military nerds.

And there are several easter eggs hidden in this chapter. See if you can spot them!