The Rise of the Iru and the Inarin Civilization
From a Stone-Copper Age of scattered kingdoms the Iru People Iru The progenitors, and the only naturally evolved people of Elshore. emerged into a Bronze Age that would define Elshore for nearly two thousand years. The founding of the Inarin Civilization at the world's Year Zero marked the beginning of an empire of cities, knowledge, and industry that no age since has equalled in reach. Its language, its roads, and its understanding of the planet itself remain the substrate everything else is built on.
Key traits
- The Stone-Copper Age (~20,000 BTC) sees the Iru metal-working revolution; four early kingdoms, Arianum, Irelium, Timbiel, and Gilinor, take shape across the continents.
- The Inarin Civilization is founded at approximately 1,800 BTC, which becomes Year Zero of the Inarin Reckoning (IR); the Bronze Age of Elshore begins.
- 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. builds its cities across Northland, Tarkdaara Place Tarkdaara The northern continent of Elshore, called Northland in common speech, on which every chapter of the story so far unfolds., and the Inarin Peninsula Place The Inarin Peninsula The imperial heartland of Tarkdaara, the peninsula on which Udhafa stands and on which every chapter of the story is set., raising the Hall of Knowledge in 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... and establishing a network of roads and transit infrastructure that outlasts the empire itself.
- The Iru develop a satellite network of over a thousand orbital platforms, a space programme centred on the moon Liir Cosmology The Two Moons Two moons attend Elshore: Liir, the near and swift one, and Ressor, the far and slow one., and ultimately a terraforming mission on the sister-world Tharuun, known as the Traveller.
- The empire moves through caste-based feudal rule under Rokhir Salli after IR 1348, then into a parliamentary monarchy from IR 1512 onward.
- An orbital station on Liir detects unidentified objects beyond Elshore's skies at approximately 129 BTC (IR 1671), the first sign that the world is not alone, a discovery whose consequences will reshape the next era entirely.