History

The history of Galrath stretches into legend and myth but recent studies by academics across the Commonwealth and Eldrix Empire are beginning to bear fruit. Most historians use the 'great eras; defined by the Eldrix texts; Shadow, Founding, Shattered and Eldrix. Academics tend to also follow Eldrix dating conventions which divide time into BE, 'Before Eldrix', and EE, 'Eldrix Empire'.

The Eldrix Era
0 EE - The Eldrix Alliance is founded after Elven city states reunite after The Shattering.

436 EE - The Eldrix Alliance is unified under the central authority of the Hui’lin Dynasty and began to pursue an aggressive policy of political and military expansion.

439 EE - The new Eldrix Empire invades the Galrathian Continent

459 - After 20 years of bloody conflict Galrath is finally conquered through war or hard-diplomacy. Only Greatwild, Jhalgahon, and The Jagged Dunelands remained outside of the Eldrix authority.

461 - After multiple uprisings and rebellions, Emperor Taneathil the Wise establishes the Galrathian Commonwealth, giving the peoples of Galrath a great deal of autonomy. Rulers were left largely to their own devices so long the tithe of gold and grain flowed continue to flow eastwards.

689 - In the Eldrix heartlands the Hui’lin Dynasty are unseated by their fierce rivals, the Ylang’xa. The new rulers are determined to pursue a new policy of rule over Galrath - challenging the autonomy of the states, replacing dissident voices, and increasing Eldrix military presence through the Commonwealth. In short, to bring Galrath fully under the heel of the Eldrix Empire once more.