THE FOUR ERAS: A HISTORY OF OUR HISTORY
The Eras of Myroria are arbitrary time systems used in conjunction with the common Gregorian calendar to indicate the current timeframe that Myroria is in. Commonly, an era both begins and ends with a pivotal event in Myroria's history. Since Myroria is in general stable and continuous, the nation is only in the Fourth Era of its history. Each one is described with a short blurb below.
The First Era, 1733-1892
Myrorian history begins in 1733. Four years of war with the Pelagian Empire allowed the Myrorians to emerge victorious. Why the first Myrorians invaded, or even how they succeeded, will probably never be known. That year, 1ME 1, was when the First King, Roosdan Vyarden I, took the throne inside the old Imperial Palace of Pelagis. Almost immediately, he moved his official capital to Quarrovth, which was just being built, but for all due purposes, the capital of Myroria remained in Pelagis
de facto until 1ME 27, 1760. In 1ME 53, 1783, Vyarden died peacefully in his bed at the age of 86, very old for his time.
Vyarden's son, also named Roosdan, ascended 13 days later, on the date of November 5, also known as the date fall of Pelagis. Every Myrorian monarch from then on was crowned on November 5, through tradition. In the days or months in between, the Council of Archmasters, from every Great House, ruled as three hyperaristocrats. Vyarden II died in 1ME 106, 1839. His son, Roosdan III, and his son, Roosdan IV, all ruled competently and uneventfully. Then, the Baltijans invaded in 1892 from the west, and Myroria was taken. For nearly 50 years they ruled brutally and malevolently during the Second Myrorian Era.
The Second Era, 1892-1967
The Baltijans, currently a brutal fascist nation, invaded Myroria from the west. The current King, believing in only a peacekeeping military, quickly realized the Baltijan war machine could easily crush Myroria. He surrendered less than a week after the invasion, attempting to save his people. The Baltijans executed the king and installed a governor, Aras Vincentas, as the new ruler.
Under order from Pashka, the Baltijan leader, Aras quickly began the purging of outspoken non-fascists by kidnapping them from their homes at night and exiling them or even dropping them from biplanes into the ocean during the early 1910s. In 1939, however, Pashka could no longer control his people and they revolted. The ensuing civil war destroyed Baltija, and the union was formerly dissolved in 1960. The Pelagian-Baltijan governor at the time proclaimed himself King. He ruled just as brutally as if Pashka was still ordering him. In 1967 his chief general, Julius Belsen, took matters into his own hands and killed the King and his wife. He then took power under a guise of democracy.
The Third Era, 1967-1992
Belsen, however, did not believe in democracy. He only said he wanted one because it was quickly becoming the norm around the world, and he assumed the Myrorian people would not know better if he instead was a dictator. The people did think this was a democracy, but they assumed a democracy was what a learned person would call a dictatorship. Almost instantly, they hated it. The majority of the Myrorians split into two camps: The Loyalists, who supported Belsen, and the Royalists, who wanted to install a monarch - a real monarch.
The Myrorian Civil War lasted from 1967 until about 1981, and in the end the Loyalists prevailed. The majority of Royalist leaders were executed, and Belsen continued to tighten his stranglehold on the people of Myroria. Free speech was virtually outlawed, and religion was suppressed. The Bishop of Pelagis was even forced to flee to Eluvatar and preach from there in 1987. By 1992, many Myrorians wished Belsen would just die, and a man - whoever it was, granted their wish. On October 29, 1992, as Belsen was walking to his car, he was shot by a sniper, and killed instantly. The man or woman got away, and whoever it was was never discovered. On November 3, the last major Royalist family provided records that proved they were the first in line for the throne, and they decided to put their daughter on it. Fredrika Guurith was crowned on November 5, 1992. The Fourth Era had begun.
The Fourth Era, 1992-present
Early in her reign, Fredrika's marriage to the non-royal plantation owner, Marcica Quarrovth, failed. She divorced him in December of 1992, hardly nine months after she married him. Marcica was shot in the prostate by crossfire from a gang shooting in Bustos in mid-1993, and he took his own life in December of that year, three days short of the one-year anniversary of his divorce.
Rumors were circulating that Fredrika was having an affair with a baron from Eluvatar named Peté as she was married to Marcica; a statement by Fredrika in 1999 said that those were false, and that they met after the divorce. In the same conference, Fredrika announced she would be married to Peté in early 2000, and they were.
Fredrika's reign, which was credited by scholars as being anywhere from a high of 4th to a low of 11th on a ranking of monarchs, was the kind of reign Myroria needed as it recovered from the Belsen era. Fredrika ushered in many pro-personal freedom and pro-capitalist decrees, including the Freedom of Choices Act, which struck down the many laws restricting gay marriage, abortion, and even
being homosexual. The exchange rate went from $0.10 to every mark to about $2.00 for every mark in the course of eight years.
On November 5 of 2000, Peté Tar-Ilium became the new King of Myroria. His reign has been largely uneventful since.
