Editing Akhentour (section)

==== The Third Era: The Age of 1,000 Kings ====
By the 2200s VR tabaxi rule was waning as they had stretched themselves too thin across the continent. A number of petty squabbles within the tabaxi empire in Teveren caused political fractures that effectively in turn created numerous smaller baronies vying for power. Various astute peoples of Teveren and Akhentour took advantage of this instability, leveraging further fractures and in-fighting until it reached a boiling point in 2298 VR, when a full-scale tabaxi civil war (the [[Third Tabaxi War]]) exploded in southern Teveren, between tabaxi imperialists who wanted cohesion in their military occupation, separatists who wanted to form their own governments in Teveren, and "empathists" who wanted to leave Teveren entirely and return the land to the people who originally lived there. The Third Tabaxi War was short and brutal, best known for its level of magic use: some of the first "reality-warping" spells were cast during the war, which arguably began the arms race for the most powerful magic in Avo, signaling the end of the Age of Magic.

In the end, the Teveren Tabaxi Imperial Army was absolutely decimated by an allied separatist-empathist militia, forcing the imperialists who survived to retreat back into Morentar. The separatists were so splintered at this point, and the power vacuum created by the tabaxi was so great, that upwards of 100 different people sought for rule over Akhentour, Teveren, and Dorian itself, beginning the Age of 1,000 Kings. This roughly 400 year age was fraught with strife; no less than 600 people fought for the throne of Akhentour during this period, up until the [[Wizarding Wars]] and the [[Catastrophe]].