Arkhosia

Arkhosia was a dragonborn empire that fell in 0 GD following a protracted war with the empire of Bael Turath.

History
The Empire of Arkhosia was founded in -1167 GD and ruled over by royal lines of mighty dragons. The empire prospered and expanded for centuries, before its expansion brought it into conflict with another growing empire: Bael Turath.

War eventually broke out in -524 GD. By this time, the two empires had extended to cover most of the habitable part of the continent and began to war over territory. The war would go on to last for centuries, during which time dragons scorched the northern areas of the continent, destroying all civilization there in order to eliminate the port-towns the Turathi used to raid Arkhosian shores.

During the war, dragons were hunted to near extinction, leaving Arkhosia's dragonborn clans without the strong leadership that unified them. After the Turathi destroyed the Arkhosian capital in 0 GD, individual dragonborn clans seceded from the Empire, feeling no obligation to suffer further losses in support of other clans. Eventually, no clan remained that held loyalty to an empire whose leaders and capital were gone.

By 0 GD, the empire of Bael Turath had overextended itself across most of the known world in its conquest. Hellbent on destroying Arkhosia, the Turathi had invested everything into their war machine and become a nation of impoverished humans and a growing population of slaves serving a cadre of political elite tieflings in a world sapped of its resources. When the Arkhosian capital was destroyed, the tieflings saw the end of the war coming, and the Turathi emperor was murdered in a coup d'état that resulted in a series of chaotic political assassinations as different tieflings claimed the throne. For the downtrodden citizenry, the added confusion and violence in their homes far from the war front brought the sociopolitical misery to a boiling point, and revolts began against the tieflings. The chaotic revolution spread like a wave, from the capital to the edges of the empire, and with the Turathi army still stationed at the faraway war front and no leadership in place to recall the army, settlement after settlement saw its Turathi leadership overthrown. The day the Turathi throne was destroyed by rioting citizens marked the official end of the empire.