Editing Belteshazzar (Polesia) (section)

===In Ancient Ghōl===

Unknown (though estimated by scholars to be sometime between -9,423 and -9,312 CA): The greatest sorcerer in Ghōl, Belteshazzar awakens a great power in himself, granting him imortality and a host of other mythic abilities that rise him far beyond his peers. He ensures that it is passed in his blood to his descendants, however it is an unreliable thing as it rarely expresses itself. Belteshazzar declares himself a living god and rules Ghōl as its first and only Ahn Ashar, or God-King.


-9,015 to -8,997 CA: A series of secret wars wage between Belteshazzar and his contemporaries. Some are motivated by jealousy, some are enraged that Belteshazzar blasphemes by putting himself on par with the gods, most of them are motivated by both. In the end, despite his power, Belteshazzar is defeated and he is supplanted by Kakrimi, who to avoid showing open hypocrisy now styles him self as Ul-Mîr Ashar, or Sorcerous Emperor. 
 
-8,602 CA: The kin of Belteshazzar, displaced by the Kakrimi, seek a means to regain power and somehow awaken the great power that is passed through their blood in Kamen Thal-Ortho. He is raised with high expectations and becomes a powerful leader among the Avaladh, rising his family back nearly to the prominence it once had. He keeps his gifts a secret to avoid the same fate as his ancestor.

-8,591 CA: Kamen Thal-Ortho decides that it is time for him to take down the decadent priest kings that have all but sold their nation to the aboleths. He gathers a fairly powerful force and marches to Ghōl, yet is out maneuvered and to save face is forced to take his men to the front lines of his people’s war with the serpent folk.

-8,587 to -8,586 CA: Leading his men on adventures that will in time become myths for millennia to come, Kamen Thal-Ortho actually succeeds on his endeavors on the front, not only holding off the serpent folk incursion but actually taking ground and driving them from strongholds that even the elves had thought were impregnable.

-8,583 CA: With the help of the elves and with his followers and a massive army of outlaws and dissidents, Kammen Thal-Ortho lays siege to the serpent folk capital and within several months manages to take it and kill Vesshelkhal, earning him unparalleled honor and prestige amongst both elves and his own people. The elves swear to aid him in retaking Ghōl and ridding it of aboleth influence. During this year, he also evacuates most of his kin and their followers, knowing that the sorcerer nobles and priest kings will attempt to use them as hostages.

-8,582 CA: Ghol is destroyed along with Kammen Thal-Ortho. The Belteshazzar, now leaderless, move east away from the ruin of their homeland and the horrible memories now associated with it.