Emperors of Aeryns

 Timeline 

(693-698PC – The Autumn War)

(698 PC – The Autumn War ends with the Battle of Berrin Hill, with the Benedict-Rogals pacifying the surrounding cities, and any remaining resistance lingering with the Carolls of Ilisoscia ending during the Black Winter of 698-99 during which the famine effectively ended the possibility of any more military action for years to come. 699-700 were largely devoted to rebuilding the shattered government, and it was not until late 700 that Lucas I Rogal had solidified enough power to crown himself.)

700-740 PC – Lucas I

740-768 PC – Frederik I

768-811 PC – Lucas II  (It is reported that Lucas II poisoned his own older brother shortly after their father’s death, and during his first few years in power carried out a bloody purge of most higher officials from his father’s reign. However, in 775 he suffered a fall and broke his neck, and from then on only served in a ceremonial sense, with his royal duties mostly falling to his surviving advisors.

(810 PC is the year historians of the empire say the first long peace ended, though war would not break out for another two years. This is due to quarrelling between the ruling elites on tax policy.)

811-812 PC – no ruler, empire ruled by Lucas IIs advisers for 15 months after his death, in 812 the Falconers War began and would last for the first three years of Emperor Regulus I’s reign.

(812-815 PC – the Falconers War, a family feud between two noble families and their backers. The Rogals supported their own Emperor Regulus I, while their cousins the Benedicts, arguably a more powerful family, supported a rival claimant, Joseph of Kalyns, in the hope that under him a tax placed on wealthy families under Lucas II’s later reign would be reversed.)

812-844 PC – Regulus I

(During the reign of Regulus I, his younger brother Garil Rogal went on to found the Anyeas cadet branch in 819PC)

844-880PC – Lucas III (built Lucas’ Bridges, of which two out of the four are still standing)

880-889PC – Lucas IV (assassinated)

889-920 – Janus I (rebuilt part of the imperial palace including adding the Rivers Gate and Servants Gate)

920-934 – Frederik II

934-934 Regus I (an infant, sickly, did not long outlive his father)

935-937 Sofi I (first Empress, former wife of Frederik, abdicated due to pressure from the council and due to a desire to protect her daughters from the dangers posed by being female heirs. Her first daughter (named Camile Rogal) would go on to become the primogenitor of a large cousin family to the royal family called the Rogal-Roujans, after marrying a nobleman named Alas Roujan

937-954 Areas I (Frederik’s younger brother)

954-956 Regulus II (Died without heir, ended the Rogal line, after a year of turmoil and rioting in the city the Anyeas cadet line was chosen as the new imperial family)

957-961 Beril I

962-974 Antonis I

(In the first years of Antonis reign, the wars of expansion began, with Fallowmarsh being taken in 968 without much bloodshed. From 969-973 there was a lengthy campaign in the south, but despite several moments when Aerynese forces clashed with expeditionary forces from the Summer Kingdoms, no large scale conflict broke out, and the southern hills were taken without any large scale conflict. However, the first attempts to take the Shattered Lands in 973 all failed by the next year due to local hostility.)

974-990 Frederik III

(975 – first trading links established with the Summer Kingdoms)

(978 – first springguns invented)

(979 – first permanent settlement established on Shattered Lands, gold discovered in caves there)

(984 – uprising in the Fallowmarsh, Aeryns wins but only after a gruelling two year campaign against guerrilla fighters, public support for the conflict reaches low point but eventually natives driven back further into deeper more inhospitable swamps. Fallowmarsh (the town) established in 986, then called Burystone)

990 – Frederik III has two twin sons Arim and Regulus, both of whom wish for the throne, and both of whom were inseparable at childhood but have grown to despise each other. They both lay a claim to the throne within the same week, and both flee Aeryns to the Helmet and Ilidoscia respectively to rally their supporters there, as the capitol descended into rioting and the army broke apart as soldiers chose their allegiances.

990-996 – The War of the Twin Crowns. The largest conflict in Aerynese history and possibly the largest conflict since the Collapse nearly a thousand years earlier. Over a million men mobilised, Aeryns sacked multiple times, multiple cities razed and the civilian farming population so devastated that famine kills millions. Arim assassinated in 995 but his eldest son Lucian is crowned as his successor and goes on to defeat and execute his uncle Regulus in the siege of Merscia, ending the war. The cities of Grysha and Saliaras are sacked so completely that they are left ruins, and never recover, their remaining population drifting away or dying off.

995-998 – Lucian I (never recovered from the events of the war, committed suicide after a brief reign dominated by the slow rebuilding of the nation from the war. His brother Gerion took the crown, pledging to “do his father and brother proud” in his ascension speech.”

998-1050 – Gerion. Called “The boy” due to his age upon ascension, at only 13 years old.