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The Magic Sword Kings Period

0 to 9,473

Timeline events

• 0 – The Birth Of The First Magic Sword King, King Ronard.

• 799 - The C'nf's'ng Trade Dispute of 799 - The largely misunderstood agreement between the Vampyres and the kingdom of K'th'ith'h contributes to the already tense situation between the Twelve Realms and the Vampyres.

• 803 - The Vampyric Wars begin.

• 850 - Lord B'gh'd falls under the Fell Blade of Lord Vhadxi on the walls of L'fh'ik; the kingdom of K'th'ith'h falls.

• 856 - The Vuksveufen Schism occurs, forever dividing the Religions of Battal.

• 897 - Vhadxi's plot to exterminate the Sw'ftfl'woots is foiled either by B'llbr'dsk' or an errant Vampyre who started a fire through negligent incense use.

• 903 - Vhadxi is betrayed by his wife, Adhnaten. An internal power struggle blunts the onslaught of the Vampyres.

• 904 - Vhadxi revives and disposes of Adhnaten. He turns his attention back to the Twelve Realms.

• 924 - The Kingdom of Parsonya falls under Vhadxi's control.

• 925 - Morlond's Field falls to a combination of gardening and surrender.

• 939 - Shadia's forest are finally overrun by the forces of the Vampyre.

• 939 - Baren Lothrin, ruler of the grandinous Shadian city Yore, seals himself and the Shimmering Sword of Life in the Cave of Tallows Pire.

• 942 - The Kingdom of Yymp fails.

• 943 - The capital of Ithbarg is taken. Vhadxi settles down here for a time known as the Restless Rest of Resting.

• 950 - Ithbarg II falls, the eastern nations begin to plot their counter-offensive.

• 950-999 - The Fumbling Offensive.

• 999 - The Land of Thrown Fish falls.

• 1,003 - After 200 years of epic struggle (you take your time with things when you're undead), Kelembad launches an epicly epic last-ditch offensive at the Chasm of Eternal Sorrow. The Vampyre threat is eliminated, but the last nations collapse.

• 1,003 - 3,467 - With no nations to provide security, the land falls into chaos. Warlords, bandits, and worse prowl the lands, and villagers have little to turn to for defense but the appearance of wandering warriors and heroes. Because of this, it is sometimes referred to as The Wandering Age.

• 3,512 - Order reasserts itself, stable kingdoms begin to rise.

• 4,229 - King Sc'rch'drth succeeds in unifying the lands of the Twelve Realms into a single kingdom.

• 4,230 - King Sc'rch'drth is assassinated by no less than 200 assassins, at once. Every assassin had a different employer. His kingdom splinters as the old kingdoms reassert themselves.

• 9,473 - At Precisely the longest moment, during a particularly heated game of dwarfball, King Fonard is hit from behind by a hammer. Ronard's Very Large But Unenchanted Spikey Hammer is enchanted with a smell of peanuts. Two weeks later, he dies from his injuries and his 17 heirs fight to the death signalling the start of the decline of the line of Ronard.

Overview

The Magic Sword Kings Period lasted from the year 0 to the year 9,437. It's beginning was marked with the birth of the first Magic Sword King, King Ronard, and its end by The Longest Moment, caused by Prince Fonard's failure and Yar the Sorcerial's birth. The era was so named because of the vast number of magical swords available in that time. In fact, magic swords were so common they were rarely used in combat, being used instead mainly for such tasks as slicing bread and trimming beards. The period is most marked by its almost constant warfare between the neighboring nations of the Twelve Realms.

Major Events

Early in King Ronard's reign, Verdant Anuerism, a time-traveller from tens of thousands of years in the future, brought with him to the past with him the 100 Swords of Sepathok. Unfortunately they ended up scattered when he arrived. (The Verdant Anguish depicts an alternate timeline in which Sepathok and Verdant Anuerism fought for the swords in this period. This horrifyingly gigantic continuity error was retconned out of existence in Holy Crap How Do I Fix This.)

One of the most important of the wars of this period would be the Vampyric Wars, launched by the Vampyre lord Vhadxi in 803. Vhadxi himself was once a Magic Sword King, although which one is never said. Fan speculation varies, with both Ronard himself and Frogeater Notapuppet being favorite choices for Vhadxi's identity. The war would last for 200 years and end with collapse of the remaining nations of the Twelve Realms and the annihlation of the Vampyre threat in a cataclysmic battle at the Chasm of Eternal Sorrow.

Over 2,000 years of chaos reigned in the wake of the cataclysmically epic war. Even the Magic Sword Kings of that time could do little to recalm the land. Several of them took to wandering the realms, righting wrongs and defending villagers from bandits and warlords. Several other of them simply wandered about aimlessly, or stayed at home and got really, really drunk. Famously, Notatall Asmarty bounced off the same tree for 24 days straight before his friend found him. The actions of the kings and others have caused this time period to sometimes be called The Wandering Age.

Finally, order began to come back to the lands, and stable kingdoms slowly began to return. With them, the Magic Sword Kings also returned to power. Soon, King Sc'rch'drth came to power and set about unifying the kingdoms of the Twelve Realms. He succeeded, but the following year was assassinated by 200 different assassins at the same time, all of them under different employ. His successor, King Pn'tyw'st had no interest in maintaining his father's empire, and the kingdoms returned to being independent.

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End of the Magic Sword Kings

The beginning of the end for the Magic Sword Kings came in 9,473. This year, Ronard's Very Large But Unenchanted Spikey Hammer was lost during a particularly heated game of dwarfball. Countless Magic Sword Kings through the ages had relied on the liberal application of the hammer, in the spirit of their ancient ancestor, to proclaim and retain their power. With its loss, the line of Ronard fell into decline, civilization collapsed, and the Spica Wars began. Although the Magic Sword Kings continued to exist durring the Spica Wars they were basically war lords, and not even the most powerful ones at that.