When the War of the Beard broke out, these very colonies were either obliterated by the might of the Dwarfen throngs or were abandoned swiftly by its inhabitants under the orders of their new Phoenix King. Many years ago the Elves of Ulthuan were attracted to the shores of the Tilean Sea where they founded several colonies as part of their plans to establish trading networks with the Dwarfs of the Old World. Phoenix King Caledor II of Ulthuan in combat during the War of the Beard. When the smoke cleared and the daemons were banished after two grueling wars, the ancient Kingdoms of the High Elves and Dwarfs finally joined together as brothers-in-arms, and from this mutual friendship the races forged the dawn of a golden age. When the Great Catastrophe assaulted the world and the Old Ones were no more, the lands of Tilea became the battleground from which the remaining forces of order fought a desperate battle to hold back the daemonic tide. Tilea, like all the lands of the Old World, was once inhabited by the ancient and mystical Old Ones and their cold-blooded servants, the Lizardmen. Unfortunately, the obvious falsehood of their lies is all but impossible to prove, particularly as the dishonest Tileans have scrolls and records they claim date from this early time." However, the self-important and pointlessly stubborn scholars of the Tilean city-states persist with fictitious claims that it was their ancestors that were the true civilisers. " It is well known that the founding of our glorious Empire was the starting point of Human civilisation in the Old World. įor a full chronology of Tilean history, see Tilean Timeline Perhaps it is fitting that these mercenaries are known collectively as the Dogs of War. As such, it should be no surprise that the greatest concentration of these gold-hungry cutthroats can be found in the lands of Tilea. Yet for all its wealth and advancement, Tilea is, like much of the Old World, a fractious, war-torn region, where the fertile countryside becomes the battleground from which legions of mercenaries clash in titanic struggles that serve no purpose other than to advance the petty and greedy ambition of the rich and the few. While it is a land that scorns typical ideas of royalty and nobility, it is a hotbed of political wrangling, where careless outsiders may find themselves caught up in the schemes of the merchant princes. Tilea is the most powerful of the southern realms, a collection of rival city-states ruled over by their mercantile elite who tend to follow the lead of Remas, the most powerful of their number. It is only from here that the first true republics in the Old World were formed by the region's people, such as the Republic of Remas, while others are ruled by a powerful caste of wealthy merchants, known collectively as the Merchant Princes. Tilea is a land of great wealth and advancement, a land known far and wide for being the cradle from which the ideals of democracy, civil liberty and justice was birthed, founded, and established. The wealthy city-states that dot Tilea's landscape share the same cultural ideals, embracing the ideals of trade, exploration, progression and civil war with almost equal passion. Tilea is a large, fertile peninsula located in the southern Old World, along the tranquil coast of the warm and bountiful Tilean Sea.
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