A predominantly-Orcish civilization, from the middle-age of The Founding Era. Nestled deep in the region known today as The Direlands, their fortresses mostly lie abandoned— but largely intact. Circumstances of their downfall are vigorously disputed among historians, as past accounts by Voran's state historians have been debunked by scholars. It is speculated that these southern neighbours of the Voran Ridge were either wiped out by up-and-coming Dragonkin broodlords, a bloody (but common for the era) internal conflict, or, perhaps, one of the many horrific diseases spawned from their punitively hostile environment. The truth of Ghyseria's decline into oblivion is undoubtedly a combination of these, along with some other, less-definite factors that are worthy of consideration. For instance, a recent archaeological expedition to the ruins of a Ghyseri fortress tells of hardened, fluorite-coloured ichor deposits found growing in its deepest levels. Further study of the strange substance was deemed ill-advised, when the arcanist who first attempted to identify one of them gouged their own eyes out in a fit of madness, during a sojourn into the former Ghyseri stronghold of Hagh'rinok.

Once a mighty and expansive power whose territory spanned most of the Smoothstone Range & Mort'hano Highlands, the Hemlan Empire collapsed (according to best estimates) closer to the middle of the Founding Era.

The Great Sow, an infamous realm-wide catastrophe which saw armies of 'barbaric aggressors' sweeping across the civilized world, is believed to have been the work of Hemla. Within three generations of their rapid expansion south, however, they were beset by a series of devastating events—vicious storms and brick-cracking earthquakes ravaged their capital city of Chaghan Mordt, severely disrupting their road network. With supply lines cut, their colonies to the south were overrun by the combined efforts of their revitalized foes. All they had seized during their southern exploits was reclaimed during a three-year period known today as The Bitter Reap.

• Spectrali Civil War

• The Crimson Tide Movement in Spectralos gains significant momentum, calling for renewed hostilities with Voran and independence from Antür.

• Loyalists/Pacifists manage to fend off Crimson Tide's coalition of radical movements/oppressed peoples: anarchists, Ostrenszeran tribes, Drow supremacists (Materistes stay neutral). Governor Xhelem Braechii and most of his cabinet are killed when his manor house is burned down– Loyalists blame anarchists, but no group claims responsibility.

• Spectrali Provisional Council, becomes interim gov't while infighting within Antüran Conclave causes no candidate for Governor of Spectralos to gather sufficient votes for appointment.

• Hyperinflation occurs as SPC begins to issue debt scrip in lieu of 'metal' wages.

• The Coin Riots

• Antür deploys fleet let by Admiral Velen Kalthias, but won't arrive for at least two weeks due to inclement weather.

• Spectrali Provisional Government collapses

• Spectralos devolves into chaos: communities hoarding resources, forming militias as warlords rise to power from the Royal Guard's officer corps.

• Antüran navy arrives, and two groups immediately offer assistance in rooting out rival warlords: one backed by the Materistes, the other by the West Daring company. Admiral Kalthias accepts, and they retake the archipelagos in under a month.

• Spectralos henceforth operates formally under Antüran governorship, but in practise is an anarchic society living under free companies'/a fundamentalist Materiste sect's authority.

Hammerdon Dynasty