Editing Akhentour (section)

==== The Second Era: The Rise of the Tabaxi ====
In 1460 VR, a large group of tabaxi from northern Morentar, led by Dines-on-Three-Fish, crossed through [[Southbrook Valley]] in the Fangs with a sizable army and took over the town of Greenlands (now [[Lilingbroke]]), beginning the First Tabaxi War. Dines had previously conquered several parts of Morentar and was beginning a swift imperialist push northward to take over the rest of the continent. His reasoning was that tabaxi had lived in all of Dorian prior to the introduction of other beings, mostly the elves, who he claimed "pushed them out." Much of southern Akhentour was unprepared for the assault, and didn't have time to defend themselves. The tabaxi pushed all the way into Diomedes before the Diomedian military was able to hold them at bay.

Meanwhile, separate forces moved into Teveren and took over several cities in the south there. The speed at which the tabaxi moved into northern Dorian was shocking, and their sheer numbers made it difficult to retaliate quickly. By 1466 VR, Dines-on-Three-Fish and his army had made it into Diomed and killed Queen [[Viyevallyn]], and Akhentour became tabaxi-controlled. With the tabaxi conquest at [[King's Pride]] in Teveren a year later, Dorian began an over 800 year imperialist rule by the tabaxi, establishing their Second Era. It is largely believed that Dines' success as a military leader was due to him finding the [[Spear of the Ancient]], which granted him tremendous magical power and political sway. This, coupled with the tabaxi's swift development of magic after uncovering a [[Weave-points|Weave-point]] deep underneath [[Deroa Fortress]], gave the tabaxi army a level of magical ability unseen in Dorian at this point. Even the sorcerers of Kavonne were unable to withstand the tabaxi advancement.

Strangely, after their imperial advancement and establishing of several tabaxi military occupation points throughout the country, Akhentour was left mostly alone by the tabaxi, who essentially ended up taking over for the elven leadership in all ways, as they had little interest in conquering dwarven lands underground. This further allowed the dwarves to separate themselves from the surface dwellers and further strengthen their burgeoning clan kingdoms. Many scholars also believe that Dines-on-Three-Fish was wary of heading into dwarven territory as he knew the dwarves had access to significant magical power of their own via orichalcum artifacts. In the end, Akhentour was devoid of the things the tabaxi wanted, namely access to orichalcum (which was thoroughly mined at this point) and trade shipping routes, and so they established a proxy kingdom in Garrod but otherwise left the country to its own devices. Teveren, on the other hand, was the site of many skirmishes, including the Second and Third Tabaxi Wars. The tabaxi's attempts to control Teveren over their 800 year rule is what ultimately led to their downfall.