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Interlude Rondo of History Chapter 1 Distant Era

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    Warning: Since this is the history of the first parallel world, this setting may not be accurate in the bis world.

    ¡ª¡ªHistorical Chronology Warning Separator¡ª¡ª

    Before fiducial (bf): the former standard calendar.

    After fiducial (af): standard calendar.

    About 500,000 years bf: Early Homo sapiens began to appear.  It is proved by the theory of evolution to be the ancestor of all humanoid creatures and the source of spiritual power.

    About 100,000 years bf: "Primitive spiritual power" began to appear in history.  Evidence of primitive totem worship and the emergence of spiritual powers was unearthed in the ruins.

    ¡°¡­The main phenomenon of this period is the significant improvement in the ability of primitive humans to hunt large creatures. Since a large number of tools have not been found in archaeological excavations, it is difficult to explain the huge number of corpses of large creatures found in the remains of various fire caves.  : Seemingly overnight, these apes, who were struggling at the bottom, living on berries, hunting small animals and looking for large creatures that died naturally, gained the power to kill large beasts Of course, that is not what we will use in later generations.  Amazing light and electricity, and just a little bit of 'supernatural' good luck"

    ? ? ?bf About 75,000-60,000 years: a period of warm climate, "great differentiation" and "great evolution".  As the total amount of spiritual power reaches a certain level, "primitive gods" appear (many theologians believe that these primitive pagan gods are just empty existences combined with some wishes and beliefs).  During the excavation of ruins during this period, many traces of alien creatures entering this world were discovered; at the same time, other types of creatures that mutated due to "spiritual power" were also discovered.  Therefore, during this period, humanoid creatures differentiated into the major races we see today, and the natural landscape and creatures were also greatly affected by the source force.

    "When we excavated the ruins of the Gaynor people in the northern province of Koman, we found a large number of traces of primitive religion. It can be said with great certainty that they must have had a fetish and totem worship system similar to shamanism.  There are a large number of remains in the caves of the Gaynor people that are difficult to describe and difficult to analyze by paleontologists; many xenobiologists say that they undoubtedly have the characteristics of invasive creatures although we cannot be sure of these worships and prayers  Whether there was a response, and whether our ancestors could wield these powers"

    ? ? ? ? ? ? ? About 60,000-40,000 years bf: Due to the rapid deterioration of the environment and the introduction of a large number of alien genes, the life of early humans became extremely difficult.  In this process, they learned to use tools and developed the earliest magic.  At the end of the "Great Divergence", about nine-tenths of the early human branches died out.  For this reason, mental power declined during this period; but after that, as the survivors' mental abilities improved, the total amount of mental power began to expand again.

    "The spiritual power of this period has obviously developed. According to the murals excavated in Changlin, some human tribes during this period have mastered the technology of obtaining concentrated and powerful spiritual power through 'meditation'.  Magic is no longer an accidental flash of inspiration, nor is it the ancient way of obtaining a small amount of overflowing power of faith through primitive prayer. Instead, like modern mages, it begins to rely on meditation to concentrate its own power and then mobilize the power of nature. We are familiar with it today.  Most of the basic magic technologies may have appeared during this period"

    ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? About 40,000-20,000 years ago: the last glacial period.  This is one of the reasons why many alien invaders perished in this plane; but there are also many new cold alien creatures and magical creatures that have survived in the polar glaciers.  During this period, several main branches of Homo sapiens - human races (white, yellow, red, black), elven races (golden and white elves, gray elves, black elves), halfling races (yellow dwarves, gray dwarves,  White dwarves) and half-orcs (green and gray) expanded to every corner of the southern foothills of the temperate zone and killed almost all docile large animals during their expansion.  The primitive gods began to mature, and humans began to use early magic that would come to be known as "basic techniques."

    " There is still a lot of debate about what the first modern magic was. Many archaeologists believe that the earliest magic should be some basic magical element of the energy-concentrating type - such as 'illumination' or  'Ignition'; while psychodynamicists firmly oppose them, believing that the earliest magic should be the basic elements of protection or change - 'moving objects' or 'retardation'. Theologians have always insisted that the earliest magic  It should be pure 'prayer' This debate continues to this day."

    bf13000-11000: The end of the Ice Age.  At this time, humanoid creatures have occupied all major continents, including the North and South New Islands, and the three most important underground cavities with living things (these cavities - areas later known as "underground cities" -  It is considered to be the main guarantee for some branches of human beings to survive the ice age).  It is believed that these cavities were occupied by some special alien creatures during the Great Divergence period and transformed into the underground world full of creatures and resources.

    ¡°¡­in the early 16th centuryDuring the two eras of discovery in the late 17th and 17th centuries, we rediscovered the surprising ¡®big cavity¡¯ in ancient legends.  This discovery proves that ancient legends are not nonsense.  The first great cavity, beneath the great roof mountains: in it we discover countless lost species and civilizations.  ¡®The Great Cavity is a natural miracle, and we will be able to build a glorious civilization in it¡¯ ¨C if there is no civilized war, this prophecy may really become a reality¡­¡±

    bf11000-8000: The germs of what we will later call "civilization" began to appear.  Some primitive tribes relied on natural cultivation and a small amount of spiritual power to domesticate wild plants - that was the first step for people to break away from the hunting and gathering life.  Later, settled farmers (or some motivated hunter-gatherers) began domesticating the animals.  This period lasted for about 3,000 years, and finally formed what we will later call the "early civilization center."

    bf8000-7000: The origins of civilization that can be traced during this period include the Great Plains of Koman and the Middle Huihe Plain of the Chinese Dynasty: At that time, they should have already had primitive power structures and religious structures, with priestly rule built around magic users.  The structure has clearly taken shape.

    ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? bf 7000-6000: The sprouts of civilization expanded at an astonishing speed (compared to the previous barbaric period of 10,000 years) to the golden and white elves (high elves) of the west and the dwarves of the Roof Mountains.  Only about 40 generations later, the entire continent had entered a tribal theocratic hierarchical society, and many farming tribes had emerged.  During the same period, the domestication of pigs, sheep and other animals was also completed - from these tribes, the earliest herders emerged.  But since writing had not yet been produced, it is difficult to determine the magical achievements of this period: the constant fighting between farming and hunting tribes, and later nomadic and farming tribes, easily eliminated the sporadic sprouts of modern magic.

    bf6000-5000: The earliest hieroglyphic records appeared in the primitive civilization on the west side of the Roof Mountains.  This earliest hieroglyphic script developed to the west and became an alphabetic script - the pronunciation of this script was later faithfully inherited by the ancient Elvish language.  Towards the east, the character gradually loses its pictographic appearance and becomes a knowing square character.  Also entering the hands of civilization during this period was the horse¡ªa great creature that would rule the entire battlefield in the future, defeat all terrifying monsters, and carry the hope of the entire human civilization.  Although there are many creatures and magical beasts in the world that are more powerful than horses, only horses can carry the entire human civilization.

    " Linguistic investigations of ancient Elvish and Medieval Oriental Standard have proven that their original pronunciations are quite close. This pattern was discovered when linguists interpreted the hieroglyphics in the Tepu ruins on the Great Plains of the Far East. A certain  Some words in ancient Elvish and Eastern languages ??can even be replaced by each other directly through pronunciation"

    "In an era without mind control and animal taming, if people wanted to domesticate creatures, they had to go through complex natural genetic selection. Only a very small number of large mammals can meet the conditions for domestication, and almost none of the rest can. Pass  The only large mammals tested were dogs, cows, horses, sheep, pigs, donkeys and camels - of which horses were the most important. This animal with strength, speed and endurance at the same time completely changed the rest of history:  Those with horses defeated those without horses, those with more numbers defeated those with fewer numbers It was not until modern times when they were replaced by steam and internal combustion power that horses disappeared from the stage of history"

    ????? bf5000-4000: The age of bronzes, wheels and magical rituals.  After the advent of writing, people finally found a way to convey the means of using magic: it was called a "spell."  The invention of bronze also promoted the study of early psychodynamics: the first magical items were also created in this era.  With the popularity of horses, chariots also entered people's field of vision.  At the end of the 17th century, after the Great Wasteland was redeveloped, people discovered the glorious ancient civilization relics of this era in the lower reaches of the Marginal River.

    "When we re-excavated the prehistoric dry valleys of the Far East, we discovered the glorious civilization here in the past. The huge above-ground and underground temples! The amazing irrigation channels and ditches! The gorgeous and sensual statues!  There are stone slabs with the earliest magic spells carved in cuneiform! All these products of civilization fully prove the absurdity and limitations of the theory of the superiority of elven civilization. Long before the elves left their trees, the Tepu people on the edge of the Roof Mountains had  An amazing and glorious civilization was completed! That is a lost history"

    (This paragraph was completed in the 18th century, a period when the narrow nationalism of the Komans flourished. The Komans¡¯ crazy pursuit of ancient human history led them to insist that the Tepu were the ancestors of the Komans; in fact, due to the ¡°Great  During the "Invasion" period, it is difficult to determine the characteristics of the Tepu people.)

    ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? bf4000-2000: The two millenniums of the ¡°invading nation¡±, that is, the period of the ¡°Great Invasion¡±.  Horse-owning nomads marched east and west from the Roof Mountains and Sunset Plateau: this marchLong lasting.  The tribes of the Roof Mountains defeated the civilization of the Marginal River, and the Marginal River defeated the civilization of the central and eastern parts. The central and eastern parts crossed the central civilization line we now call Delan-Lunni, and more tribes pressed towards the forests in the west.  Sometimes civilization defeats barbarism, and more often barbarism defeats civilization.  Horses, iron weapons, and bows and arrows became popular with the great migration of nations.  But when this wave entered a lull in the middle of the next millennium, the world finally saw its first golden civilization: the city-state period.

    In the East, this period was the beginning of large-scale civilization.  Unlike the West, the invasion period in the East ended relatively early, and a unified tribal alliance was formed around BF3000 to resist the invasion of more Western/Northern barbarians.  This was the root of the great unified country in the East in the future - they maintained a rigid centralized system for a long time that was even more compact than the Elven Empire and the Holy Empire, which gave them a strong political structure.

    BF2000-1000: The glorious city-state country was born in the West, and the wisdom of the classical era began to shine. The civilization centered on the trading nation was established on the banks of Lu Xinhai.  In the far east, it came under the rule of a huge unified dynasty linked by "ethics".  Countless city-states built on the basis of iron tools, farming and civilization are scattered over a vast area from the shores of the Central Sea to the Metebish River, from the Elf Forest to the Roof Mountains.  The prosperous South in the future was still a primitive forest occupied by green people (orcs) at this time.  In this era, philosophy and magic flourished, and countless scholars proposed numerous hypotheses ranging from the "elements of earth, water, fire, and wind" to the "duality of light and darkness."  Various true and false magic books written in the Spheron alphabet, as well as various idols/religious worships, flooded the entire continent.

    ? bf1000-bf500: In the early stage of this millennium, the civilization of the Spheron people began to decline, and the land people of Canni began to rise.  They did not completely wipe out the previous civilization, but faithfully inherited the discoveries of the Spheron people - later historians called this Spheron-Canni civilization.  The wise men, philosophers, and magicians who emerged from the Canni people accomplished greater deeds than those of Sfaerun.  They already know that "spells" are just the appearance of using source power, and can be shortened, changed or ignored using various methods.  They also know that through consistent basic practice, people can improve their ability to drive their mental power.  The Canni people divided magical effects into five levels from low to high (equivalent to today's levels zero to four, but the organization is quite different). They established universities and magic societies in various city-states to conduct various alchemy,  Discussion and debate on metaphysics, philosophy, and primitive Neo-Confucianism.  This was the first golden age of magic. About fifty percent of the arcana spells below level four that we use today were created during this period.

    As the Canni expanded the scope of arcane magic, the elves developed great divine magic.  There is no doubt that healing magic is an epoch-making invention, and it is qualified to be included in the ten or even five inventions that changed history.  As a modern person who is accustomed to healing magic, it is difficult to imagine the shock this magic gave people at the time: What a miracle it was!  That was far more impressive than the little tricks the priests played.  When a priest heals a wound, even a small one, in your presence, it's hard not to become a convert.  The power of this religion was surprisingly powerful: it successfully unified the chaotic and hostile forest elves and land elves, and finally established a unified national identity later called "high elves".  Even the nearby human tribes were conquered by the power of this religion.  While the civilization of the Canni people was divided into kingdoms, empires and city-states due to the understanding and mutual blockade of magic, the civilization of the elves was unified under the protection of the same religion.

    bf500-250: The philosophical conflict between arcane magic and divine magic finally inevitably occurred.  Philosophers and theologians traveled across the continent, debating the nature of God, wisdom, and the world.  Religion sprouted and took root like mushrooms after a rain, and devout believers began to spread across the land.  During this period, God finally appeared on the stage of history.  When people believe that God has personality, God will have personality.  A large number of real or fake divine messengers, prophets, elects, and popes appeared in various places, and magic gradually began to take root in people's hearts.  At the same time, it is also thrown into war, adventure, and conspiracy.  Around 277 BF, Emperor Diramon Theodestan, blessed by the Ecumenical Church, successfully controlled all the elves in the western forest through peaceful and forceful means, unified them into the "Kingdom of the Holy Forest", and began his great cause of conquest.  .

    ? ? bf250-100: If there is any advantage to elves, it is their lifespan.  King Dillamon can wait patiently until powerful opponents die, or until they become incompetent.  The average lifespan of an elf is about three hundred years, which is quite enough for a conqueror.  During the long life of Diramon Theodestan, he gradually conquered most of the human city-states and kingdoms located on the shores of the mainland and the sea, killed their kings, and transported their wise men to the capital Honlinasti.  .  The academic beginning of elvesWith rapid development, arcana and philosophy have reached a new level.  Priests of other human religions also received such courtesy, and those priests with unique skills began to preach throughout the Holy Forest Kingdom-eventually, most of their gods were subtly accepted by the Orthodox Church.  The glorious civilization of the Shengsen Kingdom has great appeal, gradually making those small countries unable to achieve their goals.  Soon, the Elf Kingdom owned the entire Western Continent and the Inner Sea, and began to face the human power in the east - the Canni Empire with a long history across the sea.

    bf100-0: This century is a century in which elves and humans compete for hegemony.  During the struggle for hegemony between the Canni Empire and the Kingdom of Saint Sen, the entire continent fell into repeated wars.  King Diramon was killed in a battle with the Canni army. His son Kuras; Theodestan inherited the throne, but was still defeated by the Canni emperor many times.  Unfortunately, although they were victorious on the battlefield, the Canni people were still unable to gain even a slight advantage in culture.  Compared with the tolerance and advancement of civilization of the Elf Empire, the Canni gradually felt powerless.  Finally, after their greatest general died, Kuras Theodestan broke through their defenses and razed the glorious city of Cannae to the ground.  The new city was rebuilt there).  That happened around my bf's 15th year.  Next, the elves disarmed all allies and hostile countries with lightning speed. Their force extended to the roof mountains, and dwarves and orcs also surrendered to them.

    " There are countless literary works that praise this great achievement and demonize the Canni people. I think we don't need to repeat them. Works such as "The Epic of the Conquerors" represent the highest peak of early ancient literature. In any case  , The fear of Hannibal Cannae has long been deeply implanted in the hearts of the elves, so much so that this person's name has become a very terrible derogatory term in standard language"

    Base year, the fiducial year, the first year of the standard calendar: the Elf Empire was established in Honlinasti.  In the midsummer of this year, the Supreme and Ecumenical Church crowned the only and eternal emperor, Kuras the Conqueror Theodestan.  This year marks the beginning of the glorious age, which we call "pax elvenia" - the peace of the elves.  The first golden age of civilization has entered its climax, and all intelligent creatures are bathing in the light of civilization. Scholars are not only studying in various practical schools, but also in more impractical or purely fantasy schools.  Study

    Explanation: The concept of gods in this historical outline adopts the "creationism" view generally accepted by modern theologians and psychotherapists, and does not adopt the "creationism" view of some fundamentalist sects.

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