History

Scholars argue greatly about the details of the history on Rhoas, but common themes and events have been recognized at many of the great libraries.

According to the archivists at the Imperial Library of Parame and seconded by proctors of the Royal Library in Sandala, the history is divided into three ages. The Bastion Age, which ends with the Splintering, then the Age of Reclaimation, and then current age know as the Common Age.

Not much is remembered prior to the Splintering. Only that the world used to be lush and bountiful until an offense to the forsaken gods led the world to slowly wither. A black void crept through the land, bringing with it monsters, plagues, and famine. The survivors found themselves pushed further and further inland. Forced to work together, they used their combined knowledge to build the great Bastion. Through the generations, most of their culture changed and melded together, creating a common language, school system, calendar system, and pantheon. While factions of purists still retained a vestige of their old ways, the controlled population forced each to make do with each other. Eventually, the purists incited several insurrections, causing the Bastion to be destroyed. But outside was not what it once was. Instead the vile all-consuming ichor had receded, revealing a new changed land. Many books written during the Splintering reference the books of this era had pages made from glass. None of these glass page survive fully intact, and fragments of them of the ones said to be recovered from the Sunderlands have no writing on them. Some of these pages have thin frames that contain scrawls of letters and numbers of the common alphabet, which was thought to be developed at this time. These scrawls form no words and are thought to be a reference number to where each glass page corresponds to each other.

The Splintering marks a new age of the world, a time when the races travel out and begin society anew. Strife and disease were common at this time, leading to a loss of many of the old ways. But after several millennia, several cities and states emerged to dominate the lands after a series of brutal and taxing wars, supported by a common religious order. The languages and traditions have changed to incorporate life after the Splintering, giving each region differences in cultures.

Common Age's beginning is heavily debated, with various nations claiming their founding to be the beginning of it. The yearly calendar known as the common calendar was created by a loose network of merchants & sailors for the purpose of tracking and timely delivery of goods. It is a close derivative of the calendar first adopted by early followers of the Aenilliad. It has been revised to more closely match cycles of the seasons. The calendar is made up of a 360 day cycle known as a year. Each year is split up into six seasons that are made up of 60 days. Each season is split into six decants of 10 days. The year begins on the 1st of Spring and ends on the 60th of Wane. The seasonal order starts with Spring then transitions to Summer to Storm to Wilt to Winter and then ends with Wane.