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==The Rise of the Magocracy==

The disappearance of the empire led to the events which have shaped the modern world:

* About 230 years ago: The mage guilds start infiltrating the governments of the empire's successor states. Some states simply accept a guild as their sole supplier of high-level magic. Others are taken over completely, and become magocracies.
* About 150 years ago: Gartihann is taken over entirely by a guild specialising in the schools of evocation and abjuration. All public offices are made exclusive to wizards; the traditional quasi-military civic government is suspended.
* About 140 years ago: The mages in Gartihann dissolve the local bardic colleges and outlaw bardic rites and traditions. This mirrors similar restrictions in other magocratic states.
* About 120 years ago: The Dragonborn experience a mysterious religious renewal, and start settling in small communities around Axalvo.
* About 100 years ago: Extremists in the coastal elven nation begin agitating for the restoration of the ancient elven empire.
* About 60 years ago: A faction appears which argues that gnomes, rather than elves, are due for an imperial age.
* About 15 years ago: A claimant to the half-orc empire appears, equipped with some of the lost regalia of state. She has attracted a reasonable following, travelling between the nations which are not full magocracies.
* Less than a year ago: The magocracy in Gartihann is challenged by a popular revolution. The movement is fostered by the Bardic Colleges, and warlocks and sorcerers rush to join it. After some brutal street-fighting, the civic militia defects en masse to the rebel side. The mage guild hires mercenaries to replace the militia. Many mid-ranking guild mages are killed before the surviving local guild leadership are recalled by their superiors. Since then, there has been wary peace between the mages and the ad hoc rebel government.

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