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	The period of civil wars that divided the so-called [[successor states]] to the Ubrekti Empire formed during the [[Wars of Fracture]] beginning around 500 years after the final [[War of Fracture]], beginning with the [[Half-Elf Revolts]] (called the [[Half-Blood Revolts]] in Sidhe sources) in the 5th century [[BI]] and the retreat of the Sidhe from the mainland to Sidhe-Praxen, an uninhabited sacred treaty ground where the [[Eight]] would come together and parlay and hunt among the divine flora and fauna. A war divided the Odessan successor kingdom in the third and fourth centuries [[BI]], and the Hakani Successor kingdom fell to succession crisis and the Usurptation of Antioch, generally seen as the beginning of the [[Alexandrian Age]]		The period of civil wars that divided the so-called [[successor states]] to the Ubrekti Empire formed during the [[Wars of Fracture]] beginning around 500 years after the final [[War of Fracture]], beginning with the [[Half-Elf Revolts]] (called the [[Half-Blood Revolts]] in Sidhe sources) in the 5th century [[BI]] and the retreat of the Sidhe from the mainland to Sidhe-Praxen, an uninhabited sacred treaty ground where the [[Eight]] would come together and parlay and hunt among the divine flora and fauna. A war divided the Odessan successor kingdom in the third and fourth centuries [[BI]], and the Hakani Successor kingdom fell to succession crisis and the Usurptation of Antioch, generally seen as the beginning of the [[Alexandrian Age]]


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	The period of civil wars that divided the so-called [[successor states]] to the Ubrekti Empire formed during the [[Wars of Fracture]] beginning around 500 years after the final [[War of Fracture]], beginning with the [[Half-Elf Revolts]] (called the [[Half-Blood Revolts]] in Sidhe sources) in the 5th century [[BI]] and the retreat of the Sidhe from the mainland to Sidhe-Praxen, an uninhabited sacred treaty ground where the [[Eight]] would come together and parlay and hunt among the divine flora and fauna. A war divided the Odessan successor kingdom in the third and fourth centuries [[BI]], and the Hakani Successor kingdom fell to succession crisis and the Usurptation of Antioch, generally seen as the beginning of the [[Alexandrian Age]]		The period of civil wars that divided the so-called [[successor states]] to the Ubrekti Empire formed during the [[Wars of Fracture]] beginning around 500 years after the final [[War of Fracture]], beginning with the [[Half-Elf Revolts]] (called the [[Half-Blood Revolts]] in Sidhe sources) in the 5th century [[BI]] and the retreat of the Sidhe from the mainland to Sidhe-Praxen, an uninhabited sacred treaty ground where the [[Eight]] would come together and parlay and hunt among the divine flora and fauna. A war divided the Odessan successor kingdom in the third and fourth centuries [[BI]], and the Hakani Successor kingdom fell to succession crisis and the Usurptation of Antioch, generally seen as the beginning of the [[Alexandrian Age]]


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	== 3. Dynastic Period ==		== 3. Dynastic Period ==
	:The period characterized by the expansion of the Ubrekti Empire, ~~or at least~~ by the preponderance of Ubrekti sources and the paucity of others. See [[Ubrekt]].		:The period characterized by the expansion of the Ubrekti Empire and other ancient states. Historiography, is is characterized by the preponderance of Ubrekti sources and the paucity of others. See [[Ubrekt]].

	== 4. Ubrekti Period ==		== 4. Ubrekti Period ==

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	The Age of Demigods was an active and dynamic, though often dangerous and chaotic, period between the ascension of the [[Demi-Pantheon]] and the beginning of the [[Prophet's War]]. This period was characterized in the earliest part by the two-century [[Cleansing War]], when the survivors of the mortal [[goodly races]] and their newly elevated pantheon fought against the huge number of remaining, but now leaderless, servitors and driving them into the wild and barren places of the world. The final years of the [[Cleansing War]] saw the foundation of the first cities, which typically developed from fortification complexes and such. When the [[Demi-Pantheon]] removed themselves from the world, leaving behind their influence but abrogating their ability to directly intervene, those cities - often filled with highly skilled men- and women-at-arms - became engines for conquest and dynastic domains, leading - in time - to the rise and decline of the [[First Empire]]. Despite the long, chaotic, and bloody decline of the [[First Empire]], the size of their empire, the scope of their culture, and the reach of their power means that almost all accounts from this period come from Ubrekti written sources, although the Dwarven [[Halls of Account]] also give a great number of (rather dry) accounts of the period. Elven sources, except for those few that survive in University libraries from Ubrekti transliterations, have been entirely lost, while the Halfling and Gnome accounts of the period come from Oral histories that were only written down near the end of the period.		The Age of Demigods was an active and dynamic, though often dangerous and chaotic, period between the ascension of the [[Demi-Pantheon]] and the beginning of the [[Prophet's War]]. This period was characterized in the earliest part by the two-century [[Cleansing War]], when the survivors of the mortal [[goodly races]] and their newly elevated pantheon fought against the huge number of remaining, but now leaderless, servitors and driving them into the wild and barren places of the world. The final years of the [[Cleansing War]] saw the foundation of the first cities, which typically developed from fortification complexes and such. When the [[Demi-Pantheon]] removed themselves from the world, leaving behind their influence but abrogating their ability to directly intervene, those cities - often filled with highly skilled men- and women-at-arms - became engines for conquest and dynastic domains, leading - in time - to the rise and decline of the [[First Empire]]. Despite the long, chaotic, and bloody decline of the [[First Empire]], the size of their empire, the scope of their culture, and the reach of their power means that almost all accounts from this period come from Ubrekti written sources, although the Dwarven [[Halls of Account]] also give a great number of (rather dry) accounts of the period. Elven sources, except for those few that survive in University libraries from Ubrekti transliterations, have been entirely lost, while the Halfling and Gnome accounts of the period come from Oral histories that were only written down near the end of the period.

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	== 4. Ubrekti Period ==		== 4. Ubrekti Period ==

			The period of relative long term stability provided by the economic integration provided by the velvety iron glove of the Ubrekti state. It is during this time that most of the weights and measures that make up the common system were established, and the polyglot trade language generally known as "Ubrekti" developed. A series of political and legitimacy crises eventually shattered the superstate, in a series of civil wars that more or less established the great Human nations of the 15th century.

			See [[Ubrekt]].

	=== 4a. Ubrekti Rising ===		=== 4a. Ubrekti Rising ===

			See [[Ubrekt]].

	=== 4b. Ubrekti Dominant ===		=== 4b. Ubrekti Dominant ===

			See [[Ubrekt]].

	=== 4c. Ubrekti Descendant ===		=== 4c. Ubrekti Descendant ===

			A series of uprisings, civil wars, and conflicts that led to the slow partition of the Ubrekti Empire. See [[Ubrekt]], [[Flannary]], [[Odessa]], or [[Wars of Fracture]].

	=== 5. Revolutionary Period ===		=== 5. Revolutionary Period ===

			The period of civil wars that divided the so-called [[successor states]] to the Ubrekti Empire formed during the [[Wars of Fracture]] beginning around 500 years after the final [[War of Fracture]], beginning with the [[Half-Elf Revolts]] (called the [[Half-Blood Revolts]] in Sidhe sources) in the 5th century [[BI]] and the retreat of the Sidhe from the mainland to Sidhe-Praxen, an uninhabited sacred treaty ground where the [[Eight]] would come together and parlay and hunt among the divine flora and fauna. A war divided the Odessan successor kingdom in the third and fourth centuries [[BI]], and the Hakani Successor kingdom fell to succession crisis and the Usurptation of Antioch, generally seen as the beginning of the [[Alexandrian Age]]

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	== 3. Dynastic Period ==		== 3. Dynastic Period ==
	:		:The period characterized by the expansion of the Ubrekti Empire, or at least by the preponderance of Ubrekti sources and the paucity of others. See [[Ubrekt]].

	== 4. Ubrekti Period ==		== 4. Ubrekti Period ==

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	== 2. Period of Urbanization ==		== 2. Period of Urbanization ==
	:In the wake of the Demi-Pantheon's retreat from the world, the rising churches of the land wrestled with, overcame, or were subsumed by the bellicose warlords beginning to operate out of the great fortresses of the Cleansing Wars around the Heartlands. Pastoral Tribes of Halfing Dogrider clans dominated the fertle Plains of Wrath in what is now Flannary, northern Ubrect, and southern Alexia, which would lead to the wars of expansion that would come to characterize Ubrekti/Halfling relations in the years after the [[Ponic Wars]]. Also during this time, the elven people settled and established dominion over the great tropical and subtropical woodlands of the Northwestern mainland on the eastern side of the .... Mountains where the fractious clans that would one day become the Odessan nation quarreled among themselves in relative isolation. The cold forests of what is now Fresia were the home of human tribes isolated from the dynamic ancient economy of the Stormchalice by the Halfling tribes, and instead floruished thanks to commerce with the rising economy of the Overclans, who traded Fresian agricultural goods to the various, independent Deep Dwarven polities of the [[Underhill Kingdoms]], freeing the later up to concentrate entirely on crafting and digging too deeply. In what is today Celestia, the lowlands were dominated by human and lizard man settlements both reliant on wetland use that existed in various states of trade, isolationism, and war, the unity of the Goodly Races by now completely fractured. In the highlands, rambunctious clans clashed with one another over territory. In what is now Hakan, the ancient Gnomes lived in tight nit communities made of up dozens of burrows and cleverly and tenaciously attacked any who dare try to move into the maintained woodlands and gentle hills above them.		:In the wake of the Demi-Pantheon's retreat from the world, the rising churches of the land wrestled with, overcame, or were subsumed by the bellicose warlords beginning to operate out of the great fortresses of the Cleansing Wars around the Heartlands. Pastoral Tribes of Halfing Dogrider clans dominated the fertle Plains of Wrath in what is now Flannary, northern Ubrect, and southern Alexia, which would lead to the wars of expansion that would come to characterize Ubrekti/Halfling relations in the years after the [[Ponic Wars]]. Also during this time, the elven people settled and established dominion over the great tropical and subtropical woodlands of the Northwestern mainland on the eastern side of the .... Mountains where the fractious clans that would one day become the Odessan nation quarreled among themselves in relative isolation. The cold forests of what is now Fresia were the home of human tribes isolated from the dynamic ancient economy of the Stormchalice by the Halfling tribes, and instead floruished thanks to commerce with the rising economy of the Overclans, who traded Fresian agricultural goods to the various, independent Deep Dwarven polities of the [[Underhill Kingdoms]], freeing the later up to concentrate entirely on crafting and digging too deeply. In what is today Celestia, as well as the hilly floodlands of what is now [[Wydmoor]], the lowlands were dominated by human and lizard man settlements both reliant on wetland use that existed in various states of trade, isolationism, and war, the unity of the Goodly Races by now completely fractured. In the highlands, rambunctious clans clashed with one another over territory. In what is now Hakan, the ancient Gnomes lived in tight nit communities made of up dozens of burrows and cleverly and tenaciously attacked any who dare try to move into the maintained woodlands and gentle hills above them.

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	== 2. Period of Urbanization ==		== 2. Period of Urbanization ==
			:In the wake of the Demi-Pantheon's retreat from the world, the rising churches of the land wrestled with, overcame, or were subsumed by the bellicose warlords beginning to operate out of the great fortresses of the Cleansing Wars around the Heartlands. Pastoral Tribes of Halfing Dogrider clans dominated the fertle Plains of Wrath in what is now Flannary, northern Ubrect, and southern Alexia, which would lead to the wars of expansion that would come to characterize Ubrekti/Halfling relations in the years after the [[Ponic Wars]]. Also during this time, the elven people settled and established dominion over the great tropical and subtropical woodlands of the Northwestern mainland on the eastern side of the .... Mountains where the fractious clans that would one day become the Odessan nation quarreled among themselves in relative isolation. The cold forests of what is now Fresia were the home of human tribes isolated from the dynamic ancient economy of the Stormchalice by the Halfling tribes, and instead floruished thanks to commerce with the rising economy of the Overclans, who traded Fresian agricultural goods to the various, independent Deep Dwarven polities of the [[Underhill Kingdoms]], freeing the later up to concentrate entirely on crafting and digging too deeply. In what is today Celestia, the lowlands were dominated by human and lizard man settlements both reliant on wetland use that existed in various states of trade, isolationism, and war, the unity of the Goodly Races by now completely fractured. In the highlands, rambunctious clans clashed with one another over territory. In what is now Hakan, the ancient Gnomes lived in tight nit communities made of up dozens of burrows and cleverly and tenaciously attacked any who dare try to move into the maintained woodlands and gentle hills above them.

	== 3. Dynastic Period ==		== 3. Dynastic Period ==
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	== 4. Ubrekti Period ==		== 4. Ubrekti Period ==

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	Sages of the Age of Demigods, like those of the Alexandrian Church, often divide their subject up into a number of [[periods]].		Sages of the Age of Demigods, like those of the Alexandrian Church, often divide their subject up into a number of [[periods]].

	1. Cleansing War Period		== 1. Cleansing War Period ==
	:After banishment beyond the [[Veil]] (thought at the time to be destruction) of the Dark Fiend, the success of the remaining Goodly Races was far from assured. The assault on the Demi-Plane of Shadow released a many of monstrous creatures into the world, the losses suffered in the [[Battle of Sacrifice]] were catastrophic, and the new scions of divine power were far more numerous and fractious than the Eight, with the added detriment of singularly and collectively being far weaker than their predecessors.		:After banishment beyond the [[Veil]] (thought at the time to be destruction) of the Dark Fiend, the success of the remaining Goodly Races was far from assured. The assault on the Demi-Plane of Shadow released a many of monstrous creatures into the world, the losses suffered in the [[Battle of Sacrifice]] were catastrophic, and the new scions of divine power were far more numerous and fractious than the Eight, with the added detriment of singularly and collectively being far weaker than their predecessors.

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	:From the Prologue to the Testimonal of Steros: "Thirty kings gave the world to a thousand tyrants. Darkness and corruption reigned." There is, perhaps, some degree of bias in this assessment.		:From the Prologue to the Testimonal of Steros: "Thirty kings gave the world to a thousand tyrants. Darkness and corruption reigned." There is, perhaps, some degree of bias in this assessment.

	2. Period of Urbanization		== 2. Period of Urbanization ==

	3. Dynastic Period		== 3. Dynastic Period ==

	4. Ubrekti Period		== 4. Ubrekti Period ==

	4a. Ubrekti Rising		=== 4a. Ubrekti Rising ===

	4b. Ubrekti Dominant		=== 4b. Ubrekti Dominant ===

	4c. Ubrekti Descendant		=== 4c. Ubrekti Descendant ===

	5. Revolutionary Period		=== 5. Revolutionary Period ===

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	:The period ended when the Demi-Pantheon came together at the [[Great Convocation]] where they unanimously agreed they needed to retreat beyond the [[Veil]]. They gathered at the [[White Obelisk]], the central monument in a mysterious, continent wide Henge left behind by the Eight before the [[Battle of Sacrifice]]. They retreated to the Outer Planes and their ability to directly influence the world was greatly diminished, although (intentionally or unintentionally) the Tapestry of Divinity tied the [[Demi-Pantheon]] to their earthly followers, who were still able to access a portion of that divine power for themselves. It is around these first high priests and other close followers of the [[Demi-Pantheon]] that the organized churches of the Demi-Pantheon formed. The Demi-Pantheon's influence through the rest of the period would be felt indirectly: through gifting great power on those favored and withholding it to those who earned disfavor. The wishes of the Demi-Pantheon were transmitted to their followers through the enigmatic visions and dreams of the child [[Oracles]] around whom great cults arose, controlled or contested by those claiming some form of high priesthood, analogous perhaps to the Oracle/Cleric tensions that still exist in [[Orthodoxy]].		:The period ended when the Demi-Pantheon came together at the [[Great Convocation]] where they unanimously agreed they needed to retreat beyond the [[Veil]]. They gathered at the [[White Obelisk]], the central monument in a mysterious, continent wide Henge left behind by the Eight before the [[Battle of Sacrifice]]. They retreated to the Outer Planes and their ability to directly influence the world was greatly diminished, although (intentionally or unintentionally) the Tapestry of Divinity tied the [[Demi-Pantheon]] to their earthly followers, who were still able to access a portion of that divine power for themselves. It is around these first high priests and other close followers of the [[Demi-Pantheon]] that the organized churches of the Demi-Pantheon formed. The Demi-Pantheon's influence through the rest of the period would be felt indirectly: through gifting great power on those favored and withholding it to those who earned disfavor. The wishes of the Demi-Pantheon were transmitted to their followers through the enigmatic visions and dreams of the child [[Oracles]] around whom great cults arose, controlled or contested by those claiming some form of high priesthood, analogous perhaps to the Oracle/Cleric tensions that still exist in [[Orthodoxy]].

	:From the Prologue to the Testimonal of Steros: "Thirty kings gave the world to a thousand tyrants~~, and darkness~~ and corruption reigned." There is, perhaps, some degree of bias in this assessment.		:From the Prologue to the Testimonal of Steros: "Thirty kings gave the world to a thousand tyrants. Darkness and corruption reigned." There is, perhaps, some degree of bias in this assessment.

	2. Period of Urbanization		2. Period of Urbanization