History of the Empire

The Grey Crag
The Grey Crag is an island with an Immortal Temple on it. The head priest is the brother of someone very important back in the Sacred Kingdom and when war breaks out he returns to fight for his family and honor. While the prince is away, there is a powerful tempest that destroys the temple and the island and most of the people. The only survivors are humans who wash up on the beaches near a Tarkin trading post town. They find conflict brewing and apparently showed up just in time for it to come to a head. There's some murder and intrigue and then sooooo many zombies. Then there's a crazy guy with a weird leather jacket. After that, we got kings baby!

The Kingdom of Boulderoth
The first king is nice, but his kids kinda let regal power get to their heads. There's some civil strife and a lot of people don't like the idea that some dudes just washed up on a beach, saved everyone from zombie hordes and now just get to be king. Also there's a civil war between the Republican Blues and the Grey Royals.

The Republic of Boulderoth
They drive out the tyrant kings and the council of elders is expanded and given more power. The people are governed by representatives who yell at each other in a big room all day.

The Empire of Boulderoth
This is a period of imperialism born out of a period of civil strife that will have exactly ZERO long lasting consequences in the centuries to follow. Really good times for some. Really not so good times for some.

The Crisis
Okay, I was wrong. There will be a couple long lasting consequences for centuries of kicking people when they're down to enrich yourselves. Let's see, there's war, there's famine, there's plague, there's volcanos, there's demons, there's treachery, this is like if Murphy's Law became a law of physics. Bad times. Just...please, no. I had to write all of this stuff getting built, don't make me write it all getting burned down. Woof.

Rise of the Paladins
After the Empire falls to a bunch of demons and monsters, a guy named Palah-Din, wandering the desert finds an old piece of an Immortal Holy Text. He translates and reads about the sun god going on a multi-millenia long binge in space while fighting evil and how he found redemption and returned to earth and he decides "This is the greatest thing I've ever read. You could start a religion out of this." So he does. He gathers followers, usually vagabonds and degenerates and they help one another fight their personal demons before they forge swords and armor of the highest quality and go out to fight literal demons. The Imperial forces are scattered. These boys are our last hope.

Republic Reborn
Having driven out the last of the demonic invaders, The Paladins give power back to the Senate and People and stay on as protectors of the republic.

The Empire Strikes Somewhere
Old habits die hard. The republic is overthrown, you could say by fascists- and rechristened once again as The Empire of Boulderoth. Delightful.

After The Empire
This is totally uncharted territory right now. I haven't gotten this far yet. They might go to war with the dwarves. They finally have gunpowder so all bets are off.