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they have no answer to the Degrain magic.
    Year 818.
    Tusaria defeated by the
Degrainian Empire, towns and villages across the realm are burnt
and sacked, King Bolson orders Duke Heikan to take what is left of
his battered army and escape to the mountainous regions of the
north west.
    Known as Zachania.
    Year 819.
    The Palaces of Tusaria
are destroyed; the Fleeing Tusarian’s break into groups and scatter
across the land.
    Year 820.
    In the ancient book of
ZANCHEK it tells how the Gods returning from a quest discovered the
conquest of Tusaria,
    Apollo was deeply
saddened by his people’s fate so he decided to look further into
why and how his people were defeated. Apollo soon discovered that
the reasons lay in the magical mirror and the aid of his fellow god
Creckas.
    Apollo returned to
Kratos and stole Lord Tagra’s magical mirror.
    Cladas upon discovery
of Creckas’s guilt banished his brother to an eternity of limbo.
The evil mirror had by this time attained so much power it could
not be destroyed for fear that its powers would only enter into
another object.
    Apollo was given the
task of disposing it in a place where its evil could never be used
again; its powers would be buried with it for all of time. Lord
Tagra was also visited in his sleep and warned that if he persisted
in hunting of man then he and his race would meet death.
    Year 980.
    Peace lasted on Kratos
for over one hundred and sixty years, the surviving Tusarian’s
under the leadership of Duke Heikan had settled well in the
mountainous region of Zachania. The tribes that already lived there
welcomed there human cousins with open arms, Zachania and its
sister province Zanlia in time began to flourish.
    Year 981.
    On a peaceful farm just
south of Zanlia lived a hardworking man named Bowen. On one
afternoon his property was attacked by a faction within the
Degrainian Empire who had grown tired of peace. This small party of
Degrain’s were merely a scouting party yet they killed eighteen
members of the family Bowen.
    The Zachanian........
Degrain War had begun.
    Year 984
    Hostilities between
Degrain and Zachania began to escalate, at first there were only
raids on Zachanian and Zanlian lands performed by small groups of
Degrain mercenaries but it did not take long for the large army’s
to follow.
    Year 985.
    Vast army’s march north
to Zachania
    Year 986.
    The town of Zanlia
proclaimed unsafe. The Degrain army’s make camp only one days march
from Zanlia, many thousands of Zanlian’s leave their homes and seek
sanctuary in Zachania.
    The Battle of Zanlia,
thousands who remained are slain, Degrain are victorious.
    Year 987.
    The Degrainian Empire
enters Zachania; the fierce and proud Zachanian’s helped by their
inhospitable terrain succeed in halting the Degrain armies, Degrain
forced to retreat.
    After months of battles
and thousands of deaths the Gods acting under the frantic behest of
Apollo decide to intervene. A peace summit is called. The gods
Apollo and Anfinnis along with Duke Heikan and Lord Tagra attend,
after days of exchange a peace is finally agreed.
    Year 1500.
    The end of the Degrain
civil war.
    While Most of Kratos
for five hundred years basked in glorious peace, Degrain witnessed
internal warring between two great houses, many said that without
anyone to attack they turned on themselves. The great house of
Tagra still controlled the councils but the mighty house of
Harkanikar refused to show allegiance. The Gods kept a watchful eye
on the Degrain especially there creator Anfinnis. Cladas forbid
Anfinnis any intervention in the Degrain civil war but Anfinnis
could not turn his back on the race he had created. Myth and
legends tells how he gave Lord Tagra a magical Bow and arrow to
which used to kill his rival Lord Harkanikar, the civil war ended
and once again Tagra was absolute ruler of Degrain.
    Year 1545.
    Lord Tagra killed by
his eldest son Unk Tagra, old age had finally caught up with him
and as is Degrainian tradition it fell upon