Written by Aelyzabeth von Thors.
— When the Century of Dawn was devoured by the shadow of warfire... —
After the fall of Yudarus, Zyon Thorssius turned his back upon the ruins of the past and forged a new civilization with his own two hands. In but two years, he transformed desolate wastelands into a city of radiance — towers rising like spears of heaven, rivers of knowledge and liberty flowing through its veins.That city would one day be hailed as the cradle of hope for all humankind.
Yet within Zyon's heart burned a flame that no time could quell —the flame of vengeance against Marcus Pompeii Thorssius IV,King of Romulius, his half-brother — a man more cruel and power-mad than any beast sung of in legend.He was the tyrant who tormented both his people and his loyal brother until life itself nearly fled from him.Thus Zyon swore an oath before heaven and earth:
"So long as my blood yet courses, no despot shall ever reign unchallenged upon this world."
He gathered legions from all seven lands. Peoples of every race flocked beneath the banner of freedom —some in faith, others in fear — until his hosts numbered one hundred and twenty million souls.As they marched, the thunder of their steps resounded like the heartbeat of the world itself.
I name that war —"The First War of the Lords of the World."
For ten long years, the struggle raged.Seasons vanished; the heavens burned crimson like blood.The wails of mothers mourning sons lost to smoke and ash echoed across the continents.The realm of Romulius became a sea of fire.And in the war's final year, Zyon met his grim fate —slain by Prince Alectius Commilus Thorssius,heir of Romulius, and son of the very brother whom Zyon most despised.
When word of his death spread through the host, hope itself seemed to perish.Yet from the embers of despair arose a new flame —Prince Zyon Imperius Caesar-Thors I,adopted son of the fallen hero, a youth of but nineteen summers.
Fair of skin as winter's snow, with hair white as moonlight and eyes of emerald deep as the seas of wisdom and war,he bore aloft his father's banner once more and vowed to bring the great conflict to its destined end —the utter extinction of the tyrant's line.
Thus began the long war between the House of Thorssius and the House of Caesar-Thors,a struggle that endured for one hundred and twenty years,longer than the span of three mortal generations.The world became a vast sepulchre;the sky itself was veiled with the ashes of fallen civilizations.
Mountains crumbled.Oceans boiled.And the mighty beasts that once ruled the earth —the dinosaurs —perished utterly in that cataclysm, never to walk the world again.
When at last the flames abated, the earth was reduced to cinders.From two hundred million souls, only nine point six million remained.And among the survivors, only one race endured —the Aryan, fair of skin, heirs to the blood of Zyon.
The House of Caesar-Thors proclaimed final victory under Prince Alexandius Aelius Caesar-Thors II.When the last heir of Thorssius drew his final breath,the age of kings ended, and history began anew.
The system of slavery that had endured a thousand years was abolished.The fiat of false gold and hollow coincollapsed.The world returned to honest barter —goods for goods, worth for worth —the truest exchange mankind had ever known.
Thus was the Imperium Zyonum born,and the House of Caesar-Thors, descended from Prince Zyon Imperius,was anointed the rightful sovereign of the new world.
But instead of taking the crown for himself,Prince Alexandius laid it upon the brow of his sister —a woman of rare wisdom and virtue —Princess Aelyzabeth Alisu Caesar-Thors.
And upon that day, she ascended the throne asEmpress Aelyzabeth Alisu Caesar-Thors I,ruler of the Imperium Zyonum.
She founded her capital upon the sacred ruins of Romulius,naming it Romulium —the city that would, in the ages to come,be known simply as Rome,heart of human civilization and the root from which our world was born.
"May the blood of the fallen become the ink of our chronicles,and may the ashes of war nourish the blossoms of liberty anew."
— From the Writings of Aelyzabeth von Thors,Concerning the First War of the Lords of the Worldand the Birth of the Imperium Zyonum.
Thus ends Chapter B-VI.