Elerrína and her Empire is a product of centuries upon centuries of warfare, bloodshed, ethnic strife and conquest, from both foreign and domestic actors, that culminated in the necessity of establishing the Empire of Elerrína that formally united the Kingdom of Almárë, the four Principalities of the Haimlians and the southern Kingdom of the Tareldar all under a single banner; the first Emperor was the man who conquered the Principalities and negotiated the Imperial Establishment with the Kingdom of Almárë, the Tareldaran Araton Helyanwë, who himself was a close descendant of the Almárëan royal line. While Araton is established as the hero that formed the Empire in 1455, he was merely the final actor after centuries of hard work. (Will be expanded upon massively by both narrative driven threads and 'wiki' articles)

The Haimlians, called One Minds sometimes as both a derogatory insult, have long claimed historically that they are the oldest ethnicity within the Empire, at the point of it being the reason (among many) for their historical fierce rivalry with the Almárëans; they are factually an Indo-Caucasian race that originally developed out of a collection of tribes in the central and western parts of what is now Elerrína, modern archaeologists put their original homelands in the very western fringes of the Celuivren Province, migrating more to the central parts of modern day Elerrína and northernwards slightly. The very first bits of recorded history among the Elerrínan peoples comes from Haimlian scholars and manuscripts, and some of Elerrína's most notable classic thinkers, inventors and notable figures comes from what is jointly referred to the as "Haimlian Ascendancy", a period of time ranging from about 1,500 BC till about 100 AD. Around 100 AD, the Haimlians governmental structure, a priestly ruling caste that unofficially was a mere advisor to the monarchs staged a coup during a succession crisis and assumed full control, the caste being known as the Gwatha, instituted a number of heavy reforms devoted to ensuring all Haimlians were devout Attu followers, and purging those who thought otherwise. The Gwatha also began the rivalry with their northern neighbors, the Almárëans; however it is notable that the study of academical topics was developed heavily under their rule from 100 AD until 205 AD, when the several key figures of the caste were killed during a war with Almárëa and an uprising restored a monarchial rule. From 205 AD until 400 AD, the new monarchs, the Edwen Dynasty, sought to bring back the period of prosperity that the Ascendancy oversaw and was moderately successful until about 387 AD when the largest host of Almárëans in recorded history at that time began an invasion from the north; Haimlians had not faced their rivals in open warfare for some centuries and their tactics were quickly out-done, and overpowered. The war culminated with the sack of the ancient Haimlian capital of Kethwal, and was considered to have ended there. The Edwen Dynasty was killed off entirely during the Sack of Kethwal and their "Empire" fractured immensely, mostly between the few cities still standing who then began a series of wars to gain control of precious farm land or strategic lands. By 400 AD, power had been consolidated across Haimlian lands by six major cities (to be named later), and thus began the First Period of the Princes, as each of the cities was ruled over by a Prince who claimed some descent from the Ascendancy and sought to establish his rule and reunite the Haimlian peoples. While the cities as a form of unofficial policy never waged direct war against each other, over time, a number of them developed intense rivalries; the First Period was brought to an end when the city of X initiated a war of conquest against the city of Y, nearly destroying it entirely and purging their prince, and the ruling class. The Second Period lasted from approximately 700 AD till about 1200 AD, the longevity attributed to the fact that the four other cities were shocked by the annexation at the close of the First Period and began to work together to maintain a fragile balance between the cities. Around 797, the four cities formed a league to attack the fifth city and bring it into their fold; it succeeded after a brutal ten year war, and the four cities split the war prizes, and lands, among themselves. Around this time is also when the Almárëans became more organized, initiating more heavy hitting raids on frontier locations but retreating before a sizeable Haimlian force could be organized. The cities sought to put an end to the raids, and Almárëans, and began the War of Grace in 865, seeking to purge Almárëans from what is called the Faer Hinterlands (modern day Telyre Province), which would give them a sizeable buffer against any future Almárëan incursions. The War proved to be unpredictable for each side, as Haimlian hosts smashed the mainly mounted archer dominated Almárëan formations within the first three years, sweeping through the Hinterlands, but as they reached the more rocky terrains of the northern lands that the Almárëans called home, they proved unable to cope with the hit and run tactics employed against them; Haimlian generals refused to withdraw and eventually set up fortifications in the occupied Hinterlands, unable to break through the mountain passes that would lead them to Almárë, and unwilling to swallow pride, and the Almárëans were eager to let them sit. The war lasted until 922, when a heavily mixed Almárëans, employing both infantry and mounted forces and using completely different tactics, overwhelmed the Haimlians forts in the Hinterlands and they were forced to sue for peace; the war was disastrous on both sides, especially for Almárëa who had used the Hinterlands as a ample source of food that typically wouldn't grow in their northern homes, being cut off from it for decades led them to massive hunting purges across the northern lands, which caused widespread overhunting and a famine. The war is often cited as the source of many of the grievances that would be aired in the future against the kingdoms.

The Almárëans, or Sky People in English if literally translated, are an Ochran native ethnic group that originated in the very northern fringes of modern day Elerrína; modern research has had trouble placing a rough estimate of their original source due to the fact that the Almárëans were a tribal people for thousands of years, unlike their southern brothers in the Haimlians, they preferred to pass tales and history orally, rather then writing it down. As far as back records and evidence as been able to discover, the Almárëans were a collection of semi-nomadic tribes that moved as their hunting necessitated all across the northern ranges, steeps, valleys and grasslands that make modern day X, Y, and C Provinces. Core to their beliefs, to this day, the skill of horsemanship was considered paramount and even to modern times they remain some of the finest riders across the Empire, and Ochran. Their first entrance into recorded history is around 800 BC when Haimlian manuscripts and records mention raids on their frontier outposts by "groups of fierce and highly skilled mounted archers, who swoop in and out before a response can be mustered" (Source, Kwelan Temple Document C-800-431, IMAH). The Almárëans soon become aware of their apparent prowess in combat and over the centuries, the raids grew more and more frequent, and also expanded in scale and scope of the raids, culminating in the massive raid, some even call it an invasion, in 205 that saw them destroy dozens of settlements and cities, and even killing of enough members of the ruling Haimlian caste to trigger a social uprising that took over the government. At the time, the 205 AD raid was the largest ever mounted, notable because at the time it united 12 of the 18 Almárëan tribes; it was surpassed more then a century later when they sacked the ancient Haimlian city of Kethwal in 387 with 22 tribes, the names of each tribal chief and the King recorded precariously by a captured Attu monk who was commanded to scribe down the events by the Almárëan chieftains. For centuries, the Almárëan way of life remained undisturbed until the decades long War of Grace saw them lose hundreds of thousands to death, war, starvation, famine and disease; they had to change, and the societal transformation took centuries. Over the next three to four centuries, they left behind their semi-nomadic ways, using techniques learned from stolen Haimlian materials in their historic raids or in many cases, kidnapping Haimlain scholars, engineers and thinkers, they raised their own cities and new society to match the Haimlian Principalities and form a solid defense, and legacy, for their children to build upon.

The Tareldar, often called the Lost Ones, Eastern Rats as derogatory insults from the two "pure" natives of Elerrina, is the final major ethnicity in the Empire, and their an unique case and byproduct of the land's long, troubled past. The Tareldar are a byproduct of unions from Western discovers, explorers and traders, who sometimes staid within the empire, notably a series of Rezese explorers who were the first to discover the Empire's lands from a Western perspective, landing outside the Haimlian city of A in 1387. Peace was kept for a time at first, mostly in the interests at accessing the bizarre and new products of the Haimlian and Almárëan markets, but wars soon cropped up at the turn of the century. The power of the Principalities was failing, and Almárëans had suffered a disease that stroke down thousands across the kingdom, a disease many blamed upon the westerners. Furthermore, in 1412, a uprising of what are now termed proto-Tareldar occurred in the Haimlian city of Tu, who sought to close the city to foreigners and expel the children of the half-Western, half-Haimlian unions. The uprising caught the city off-guard and it succeeded, the proto-Tareldar seizing control of the city. Eventually, the descendant of this new state would be known across the Empire as he conquered the three remaining Principalities and forged a union with Almárëa, uniting the full Empire together for the first time in history and bringing a widespread peace.

In more modern times, the Empire has focused on building off of the internal peace and stability, attempting to build itself outwards, while also remaining mindful of Western interlopers; the quandary of putting aside the historical distrust, and the need for the West to expand and grow the Imperial economy as proved a treacherous path to navigate for the last seven decades of Imperial politicians, and Emperors.