Yggdrasil Empire | Faction Wars: Event Summary
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It was twelve years before Anatem's vanishing that the Yggdrasil Empire rose from the sands of the Samseru desert, wraiths concealed in the blankets of gold and orange that hung proudly as their banners. In the forefront of the lines, flagged by his four elite guards, the Phoenix Watch, Tide Bennamor rode upon his sandskiff, theAltavair, Andronicus risen over his head. Behind him, an endless sea of his troops marched in unison to the beat of his wardrums. Hundreds of sandfliers hummed in cadence to the magic that held them afloat. The ground reverberated with the rythm of the footsoldiers as they marched onward to claim their next victory. In their wake, they left behind the legacy that only their leader, Tide, could have provided...

Prior to the forming of the Empire, Yggdrasil plundered the sands of the Samseru desert as a band of thieves and pirates, pillaging villages, stealing from nobles, and generally leading a lawless life. One of their many raids included the desert outpost of Noferia, home to the young half-beastman, half-human, Tide Bennamor. The young boy watched in horror as his home was plundered. He was captured by the Yggdrasil pirates and made a slave like the others of his town. But in the ensuing years, he would use his inborn strength from his beastman heritage and his natural leadership abilities and ambition to rise from slave, to pirate, from pirate, to leader. Overthrowing the Yggdrasil priate's current leader, he assumed his role and took on the task of rising them to greatness. The desert bandits became a feared, growing power in the eastern lands, toppling one town after the other, moving onto larger targets such as cities. Eventually, they raided an entire small kingdom, and effortlessly assimulated them into their whole. It was on that day, 10 years after his capture, that the Yggdrasil Empire was formed...

In the following two years, Tide would work closely at adding the Beastmen tribes native to the Samseru desert to the ranks of the Yggdrasil Empire, coaxing them into believing that they were unified as a means to ensure peace and prosperity in the east. Totally unlike a young adult of his age, or any leader, Tide's ambition often madeh im manipulative, bending those who did not agree with him until he did, his goal for power foremost on his mind. Two years passed by, in which the beastmen and other cities were added to the Empire. Technology was expanded, new sandfliers developed, and his army was formed.

It was then that Anatem, the divinity and ever protector of Dividia, vanished, and with his disappearence came the Dark Regime, a massive army led by Mennon Leo. Wielding hte awesome power of the Hex Cannon, Mennon slowly began to claim the world of Dividia as his own...

Thus the Faction Wars came to be, reborn kingdoms of the old world or newly banded ones rising and battling against one another in effort to become the strongest power in the world and challenge the might of the Dark Regime. Upon discovering this, Tide realized that this would be his greatest chance to achieve his goal of scarring the planet with his name. Under his leadership, the Empire rode forth from the desert to challenge the other factions. But Tide new better then to run headfirst into battle. He knew his people would need reason for war, and thus he would forge it himself. Sending a contingent of his army into one of the western continent's cities, he allowed them to be annihilated by the vast power of the Hex Cannon -- knowing of their fate before he even sent them into the other continent. But his plans unfolded perfectly, and the people of the Yggdrasil Empire rallied as a whole and protested against the Dark Regime. His army doubled in size, and soon his Empire's frame of mind was set only on War. Thus did the Yggdrasil Empire become the fourth faction...