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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. | ||
In the final centuries of the period, as the last of the post-Ubrekti equilibrium began to unravel, it witnessed the political and cultural formation of most of the Human Nations of the modern period carved from the body of the Ubrekti Empire. It is often seen as having ended either with the birth of Alexandria or with her [[Usurpation]] with the opening of the [[ | In the final centuries of the period, as the last of the post-Ubrekti equilibrium began to unravel, it witnessed the political and cultural formation of most of the Human Nations of the modern period carved from the body of the Ubrekti Empire. It is often seen as having ended either with the birth of Alexandria or with her [[Usurpation]] with the opening of the [[Black Obelisk]]. | ||
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]]. | ||