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==The Time of Man==


'''-9,623 to 9,302 CA:''' For the first time humans founded their own empire. Far off the coast of the remaining elven nations, these humans spread through islands of the Ilad Sea, their capital a great island they called Ghōl, situated in the Sea's center. In several centuries the humble villages of these peoples became a sprawling island cites which advanced rapidly due to the abundance of resources and their diplomatic relations with the nearby elves, who viewed them as inconsequential so long as they kept their ambitions to the islands. The Avaladh (as the natives of Ghōl were called) abided by their end of the treaty and left the elves to their own affairs and the two expand as rival empires nominally at peace.


'''-9,226 to -9,082 CA:''' As their civilization advanced, the humans of Ghōl started to develop their own schools of magic, gradually leaving the archaic elven practices they had mimicked for centuries. The greatest of these practitioners quickly consolidated power and, removed the current aristocracy, became the first sorcerer kings (Mîr Ashari) of Ghōl, each one ruling domains that spanned from single islands to whole groups.


'''-9,041 to -9,012 CA:''' After decades of competition between the nominally united sorcerer kings, Belteshazzar (the keeper of secrets) through some unknown craft invested himself with true immortality as well as other powers that caused many to worship him as a god and imparted the potential to gain this power into his bloodline. With these powers he demanded the loyalties of the other kings of Ghōl. Many knelt willingly and those who didn't were quickly defeated, and he was declared the first god-king (Ahn Ashar) of Ghōl.


'''-8,802 CA:''' Through treachery, Belteshazar (the keeper of Secrets) was supplanted by Kakrimi (the Maker of Brilliance) who allowed his rival’s kinsmen to live to secure his place in his people’s hearts as a merciful king. However, this mercy was not shown to Belteshazar himself, who was cut into four pieces and sacrificed to the earth, the sea, the sun, and the moon for his blasphemous declarations of godhood. This pretext, however, did not stop Kakrimi from ascending to his position in all but name, instead calling himself Ghōl Ashar (the king of Ghōl).