Hellenaei


 * Age of Ancients

The history of Hellenaei truly begins before the birth of Thesomedia as it was a civilization divided by petty differences and dispersed aristocrats. However this was a people united by race, language, and religion as they were often untitled by separate civilizations within the region. The first nation to unite the area was the Thevellians and we know little about them other then their palaces were colorful and the population before was much worse of by comparison. The reason we know so little is because after the Thevellians faded the Nironians wiped out their history to secure their grip on power and only fell 2000 years ago to the Vellrians, what we know about Nironia is most often from records that are found in old government buildings and they appeared too be decent rulers in times of peace but utterly unprepared for a time of war. The Vellrians were mostly a civilization of intellectuals and historians who recorded their own history very well this history however is not very exciting considering the lack of war, they took the Nironians through an economic revolution since they had a monopoly on trade, and they were conquered in turn by the Thesomedian Empire.


 * Age of Shame

Hellenaei suffered greatly under the Thesomedians until the end of it's reign when it couldn't afford to oppress the country and gave them a great amount of autonomy including their own assembly and making their language acceptable to use in commerce and governance. In the early days of the empire's reign the people were abused by  high taxes and conscription, this caused 4 different revolts and each time it was brutally crushed. The empire's reign in Hellenaei resulted in at least one Hellenian emperor named Ptolemy Nikaphoros.


 * Age of the Setting Sun

After the fall of the eastern Thesomedian Empire the western half inherited Hellenaei and this was when Hellenaei began to truly adopt the idea of a state of their own. For hundreds of years the spirits of the people had been crushed but after many years of back and forth revolts the Kingdom of Hellenaei finally became free after the rise of Astara I.