History of the Alliance

A series of battles fought by an Alliance of Azraelites in Valmasia between the ninth and tenth century. It led to the fall of two great cities, Tilandre and Frostvale. Once in power, Azraelism became the state religion. As of the 1400s, the majority of Valmasians are Azraelites.

The Crumbling of the Republic
The Republic is written about slightly differently. The fire and brimstone testaments of New Alterosi publishers claim it to have been nightmarish. Nostvalian historians take a more dry approach as levied by their patrons that it was merely misguided and rotted by their stagnant faith, but all accounts from the Azraelite perspective agree that the Republic undertaken by the continent was a flawed system that entered its death throes in less than two generations.

Assembled by the gathered Krausites, the Republic was rife with infighting and incompetence. With Nostvale and Frostvale having broken away from it and the former no longer imprisoning and castrating the Oscuri, a humble Oscuri rose from the ashes within Nostvale. Finding similar minds and misfits in the north as he travelled with an exiled Hirano king, the varying exiles soon drew a vampire to their midst that brought the Republic's ire...

On the eve of it's collapse.

Attempting to crush the gathered forces at the north, the Republic cleaved in twain from internal fractures and murders born of feuds unquenched and stifling stagnancy. Their attempts at a golem form for a soldier treaded the line of necromancy they feared rather than investigate it, splitting the east and west as they tried to destroy these last remnants of aberrant faith.

Rising up and filling the void, many lives were lost, but the powerful magi that survived and held out managed to seize and capture the city. Those who assisted, the warrior of Saekanis and succeeding lord of Lionheart Amyas, moved to burn the city. Ryan Kyros, however, spoke up for sparing the city and the remains of the folk, and using it as a base from which to change the world.

The lot dispatched of the vampire within their midst, and a first step was taken.

Belial Uprising
The dark Moon God had a history in the City of Nostvale and their influence extended to the royal lineage, corrupting Judas Hirano and Ariadne Hirano. A spell of madness was said to have overtaken the land, with hundreds of thousands losing themselves to Belial. The sanity of the south, Nostvale and Tilandre, was slowly being peeled away. It is written that women and children were sacrificed in the streets and anarchy and chaos ruled for ten long years.

As the City of Danarium and the Belial cultists made enemies of themselves, New Alteros intervened when the cultists were attempting to sacrifice an entire city, Tilandre, brought wind of acts by the ressurected prince Eredis, dispossessed of his title and murdered by the cult, The Azraelites fought strange, otherworldly demons as a red mist engulfed the seaside city.

Drawing upon his great leviathan of a servant, the Kyros called down the order to destroy the city before something untowards could be unleashed, preventing the emergence of the foul demons that had infested and corrupted the Sarab in the far past. Its destruction heralded the start of change for the land, as the jungles sprang and rose up behind them, nature growing anew.

Liberation of Nostvale
In the aftermath of the battle of the Graveyard of Kings costing them Judas and the destruction of Tilandre, The prophetess of Belial, the cult became afraid and reclusive. Ariadne Hirano, the successor to these thrones. staged her death to kneel and become the concubine of Frostvale in exchange for succor and sold her city to a powerful Kaor Lord, Kudana. The Insect Queen prepared and fattened the people like pigs, preparing the remnants for sacrifice to her maw.

Having come to Ryan's aid, the necromanced king of Nostvale, Eredis Hirano marched to the gates of the city with the allies in tow. Calling up to the top, the Kaor Lord was fat on the blood and remnants of the cult, surrounded by a swarm of her spawn and lessers. She was challenged to a battle for the city, and that the people be spared the slaughter- either so they could be devoured by her, or rescued by the Alliance.

Yokai love a challenge. Her interest piqued, she met the Hirano on the field of combat, taking her occultist slaves and loyal servants with her onto the field where they clashed in duels for the fate of the city. A powerful, fiery demon, the clash lasted for hours before she was at last bested, her chitinous armor shattered. Vowing to return again one day, she vanished into the Sarab, where she is said to still devour the unwary and challenge the prideful to their doom.

The drawbridge fell, and the dis-purposed heir returned to the throne.

Destruction of the Drakanite Homeland
In Azraelite chronicles, it is written that the Drakanites of the north fell to their lesser vices. They murdered and betrayed their kin in their sleep, and the word of a northman was worse than rusted iron. Drowning in hubris and greed, their inbred rulers were prone to hysteria and paranoia.

Ace the Glutton, the last King of Frostvale, was no exception. A corpulent traitor, his name became synonymous with corruption and decay. Devouring the foods harvested and slaved over by his people in a time of famine and strife, he obtained his position through ill deals and broken faith. Taking for his own the ornaments of Nostvale's lineage through black deals with the Belial cult, he made their high priestess his concubine and waited like a vulture, turning on his Danarite allies and plunging his blade deep into their back when the Alliance armies came.

The Glutton. then before the king of New Alteros, wringing his hands for a prize for betrayal that was uncalled for and unbrokered. He was treated to a better end than he deserved, given an honorable duel to the death against the Lich King himself; the final King of Frostvale was put to rest.

The Alliance offered solstice and open arms to the Frostvalians in exchange for allowing their capital to be cleansed and buried. The Azraelites marched north and braved an army of 10,000 as well as several hundred dragons, despite having their truce terms rejected. By the end of the battle that lasted 3 days and 3 nights, the army completed a grand ritual that upheaved the land, freeing Frostvale to be reclaimed by the wilds as Tilandre once was, and at last be free of the taint and sickness that had clung to it.

Past that era, descendants of the dragon-kind were encouraged to abandon the narcissism and greed that consumed their forebearers, and help to usher a new age under a united kingdom.

The Final Holdout
The continent was united for the final time, to more modern history. While civil war and rebel outcroppings occured thereafter, Valmasia remained one whole since that era.