The Chaos
The Chaos was a continent-wide civilisation-collapse spanning approximately ninety-eight years, beginning around year 1700 of the Inarin Calendar when the Iru People Iru The progenitors, and the only naturally evolved people of Elshore. Parliament of the Inarin Empire Faction The Inarin Empire The great predecessor civilisation of Elshore, built by the Iru across thousands of years and ended by the servant-race rebellion known as the Chaos. stripped all rights from the servant races. What followed was a compounding series of rebellions, military defeats, and internal fractures that progressively dismantled the oldest empire on Elshore: the Meir People Meir The only people of Elshore not born of it. of Vaparium Place Vaparium The Sovereign Arcology of Vaparium, the Meir homeland in the south and the most technologically advanced structure on Elshore. halted Inarin's retaliatory campaigns; the Maan People Maan The most numerous people of Elshore and the baseline cultural reference of the age.-led servant races rose in organised rebellion; Inarin's own noble houses fractured from within. By the final years the empire was reduced to the Udhafa Place Udhafa The old capital of the Maan empire and one of the great inhabited ruins of the world, an ancient Iru-founded city in eastern Tarkdaara, carved into the bedrock below the Claw Pe... heartlands, and the decision was made to end the Iru civilisation's era of rule. The Chaos concluded with the Great Flight Event The Great Flight The Great Flight was the Iru civilisation's deliberate collective retreat into hibernation, initiated in the ninety-eighth year of the Chaos by Ilissir, the last Serton of Inarin. in its ninety-eighth year, established a new year-counting era called After the Chaos, and gave rise to the Maan empire on the ruins.
Key traits
- The Chaos began when the Inarin Parliament stripped the servant races of all rights around year 1700 of the Inarin Calendar, triggering the Meir withdrawal to Vaparium and the first armed clashes.
- The Maan-organised servant-race militias captured key southern territories roughly twenty-one years into the conflict, permanently shifting the balance of the war.
- Inarin's recall of eighty thousand BAWSent Sentinels failed when the BAWSent hive-mind declined to annihilate a sentient species and refused to participate in the war against the Meir.
- Saint Randen Character Saint Randen Saint Randen is the revered and feared figure at the root of the Order of Randen and the Randenist faith, known through folktale, scripture, and institutional power in roughly e..., a figure who would become a folk-legend of exile and devotion, lived and laboured through the middle decades of the Chaos.
- The Maan Council Faction The Maan Council The founding war council established in AC 1 by Rokhir Savil after the servant-race rebellion overthrew the Inarin Empire.'s New Confederation proposal in the Chaos's forty-seventh year offered democratic charters to free cities and breakaway provinces, drawing formal Meir recognition.
- After ninety-four years the last united Iru army was defeated and servant-race councils governed three-quarters of Elshore, prompting the decision to prepare the Great Flight in secret.
- The Chaos became the new civilisation anchor: every subsequent era on Elshore is dated After the Chaos, making the event the world's Year Zero.