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The Fall of an Empire
The Fire of Coriolis marked the end of the Fyrosian empire. Before the fire, the Fyros were an ever expanding power. Lack of water had always held them in check until they had taken control of the Lake Lands, making it a protectorate of the empire. With the wealth of the Lake Lands they Fyros could expand at will.
A great aqueduct was built, 20 feet in width and 500 miles in length, connecting the northern desert to the southern lakes. It is said that it took four and half years to build using the labor of 10,000 Trykers and their Fyrosian overseers. The route went through the lands of the Matis and so that area too became pacified by the Fyros.
The Holy city of Karavia, built upon the site where the Matis first met and learned from the Karavan was situated half way along the aqueduct. Three generations before the Fyros had conquered Karavia displacing the Matis from their holiest sites.
The Karavan themselves remained, ever watching, but took no action with inter-Homin conflicts. However, the Fyros had fallen so out of favor with the Karavan, the teleportation unit within the city was no longer open to them.
Meanwhile, Aniro III, second son of Danido the Decrepit, had united the Matisian houses under one banner. Their cause, retake the holy city of Karavia. The Matis marshaled their forces and laid siege to the heavily fortified but lightly manned city. Their plan was to trap and eliminate the legions that would come to reinforce the most important link to the great aqueduct using the city as bait. Those legions never came. The great fire of Coriolis ravaged the Fyrosian landscape and created an impenetrable barrier to the relieving armies. The Fyrosian occupation of Karavia was quickly and brutally ended.
The Matis killed or enslaved all they came across. Refugees from the area fled to Zoari lands only to be denied entrance and cut down or captured in the shade of the seclusionary walls. Thousands of Trykers were enslaved and scattered throughout the Matis territory. The Trykers could do little in response, lacking a military and the Fyrosian legions recalled to protect the desert. The Trykers were in dire need of a hero.
Loria, a daughter of the Beachcomber tribe managed to free a group of Trykers from slavery. While she only saved a handful, it motivated the entire Tryker race to stand up for themselves. The Lake Lands would now defend their own.
The Treaty of Karavia was signed and an unsteady peace lasted until 2481, the year it all ended.
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December 7th, 2007 @ 6:10 am
Poor, Misguided Ysquanir…