History of Ignesia

The history of Ignesia, starting with the settlement of the Vimician continent by Proto-Hysante peoples in around 5,000 BE, is very rich and well-documented thanks to strong writing traditions in periods as early as the Hlepreve dynastic era from 4000 BE. The Proto-Hysante peoples would coalesce into four (later three) major groups: the Izactan, Vernero, Ignevan, and Castrelper. The Hlepreve and Yleneler Ignevans were aided by the fertile Nermeve Rivers and the natural border of the Vrezar Veseher mountainrange in the north, considered the core of the Ignesian state, allowing for a resilient state that survived over 3400 years with only few interruption.

The Hlepreve dynasty, founded by Uvjen, encompassed the entirety of the Nermeve area as well as some parts of present day Xernesia. During the infancy of the Hlepreve, the oldest written text in history was found in the city of Fexeros in contemporary Ilvane, a record of the crop yield of the year, dated around 3900-3800 BE. Slowly over the 4th millenium BE, works of literature would be found dating almost more than 5000 years old, including historiographies, rituals, and even biographies. Here, Hlepreve writing is considered one of the only 6 occurences where writing emerged independently.

The written records of the Hlepreve became scarce after the 27th century BE, theorized to be because of the internal collapse of the Ignevan order, and would only return to form during the 2300s BE, parallel to the ascension of Ylenel and his dynasty over Igneva. The state would last almost 1900 years without any significant strife, but would suddenly fall as natural disaster struck the capital city Ievelox. The period between the fall of the Ylenel and Vimicius' First Ignesia is romanticised as the Two Great Wars. These wars would see states and provinces fight over legitimacy over the Ignevan warlords, and was heavily popularized by Jeane Vur Lelexe's Great Wars of the Continent of Vimic in 1688 AE. The end of the second Great War came to a conclusion when Vimicius orchestrated the conquest of former Yleneler lands. Also during this period, Nexarnam's religion would spread across the nation and beyond into the Gandernan and Vernero.

The empire of Vimicius was considered a peaceful and golden age in arts, culture, innovation, religion, and military might. Its fall after the usurpation of the Ignesian throne by Xernos would begin the era of the Vecepere, an almost 1000-year period where war was prevalent across the breakaway states of Vimicia. The Vecepere would end after the fall of the Veltreser Empire at the middle of the 14th century, and Denelssene's discovery of Vimicia in 1529 would again initiate a era of constant warfare, this time between Ignesia and the major Avanere colonial powers

The Treaty of Basroulles that ended the wars in 1701 would bring about a long-awaited period of peace and innovation that had not been seen in full after the relatively dominant First Ignesian era, but would end after Ignesia was provoked by Sevasnean and Naralian bombers in the New Year's Bombing of 1929-1930, forcing the nation to join the war on the side of the Mejerlen Pact, while also founding the Association of Nations. Although ravaged by the war, the nation of Ignesia would remain unscathed during the Trissala Revolutions, mostly thanks to preemptive action and concessions.