Lore:Alessian Slave Rebellion

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A vision of an Alessian knight sacking a Barsaebic Ayleid temple

The Alessian Slave Rebellion was a war that lasted from 1E 242 to 1E 243.

Under the leadership of the Slave-Queen Alessia, the enslaved Nede rebelled against their Ayleid overlords. The legendary nomad-warrior Pelinal Whitestrake dealt the final blow when he killed Umaril the Unfeathered in White-Gold Tower. However, Pelinal died along with the Ayleid king, cut into eighths in mockery of the Divines by the Ayleids, who were obsessed with this number.

The victory, while extremely beneficial to the Nede, signaled the slow decline of the Ayleid race's power, which would end around 1E 500, after the Late Ayleid Period.

Summary[edit]

The elves first settled in Tamriel's interior when Topal the Pilot was given the island that would become the Imperial Isle from the native bird-men in exchange for literacy. The subsequent colonization of what would become Cyrodiil saw numerous elves leaving Summerset Isles over disagreement over their stringent rules, in particular the outlawing of Daedra Worship. The Alyeid Empire saw it's birth in 1E 1 alongside Valenwood when they declared their first High King.

Initially the Ayleid's worshipped both the Aedric and Daedric gods, though unlike the Chimer they made no distinction between good or bad daedra. The Aylied Empire was a decentralized one, with numerous Ayleid City-States allied to one another, and constantly vying for power against one another, with the seat of power being the White-Gold Tower on the Imperial Isle. The Heartland High Elves also enslaved the native Nedic people, and potentially many beast-folk races (such as the Minotaurs, and Imperial-Isle Bird-Men). However a shift in the Aylied Empire came with the Narfishel Schism, which was a conflict between the staunch Daedra worshippers, and the staunch Aedra worshipping Barsaebic Ayleids that had it's origins in the Late Merethic era. This conflict ended in 1E 198 with the Scouring of Wendelbeck, with the Aedra worshipping Barsaebic Elves sent into exile in Argonia, founding the cities that would become Gideon and Stormhold.

Ayleid society took a turn following this, becoming much more sadistic and hedonistic, with slaves being ritually tortured and sacrificed to Deadric princes in exchange for armies of Daedra and other advantages. It was under this oppression that the Slave Alessia prayed to the Eight Divines who granted her their favor. With her slave rebellion successful, she dedicated the city of Sancre Tor to the Aedra. Alongside the hero's Pelinal Whitestrake and Morihaus, Alessia would continue to liberate slaves, and fight the Daedric armies of the Ayleids. Alessia quickly gained many allies- several Ayleid City-States unsatisfied with the outlaw of Aedra worship, or looking to opportunistically strike against their fellow Ayleids allied with the Alessians, creating a civil war within the Ayleid Empire. In addition, the First Empire of the Nords, having been previously unable to penetrate deeply into Ayleid territory, swiftly allied with the Alessians.

The final battle occured with the seige of the White-Gold Tower, that culminated in the duel between Pelinal Whitestrake and the demigod Umaril the Unfeathered, ending with Pelinal slain, and Umaril banished to Oblivion. With this battle, the Alessians seized the White-Gold Tower, and the Ayleid Empire was overthrown.

Despite this, some other Ayleid Kingdoms would persist against the Alessians, the Bravil region was the last to be conquered by the Alessians. Many surviving Ayleid kingdoms searched for the fabled Wrathstone believing it to be a mighty enough weapon to defeat the Alessians, but this effort was doomed. An Ayleid Army would march into Skyrim and lay seige to Mzulft, as the Dwemer there were thought to possess it, but they only owned one half and had kept it in a seperate repository. Nevertheless the Dwemer didn't suffer any serious casualties, and this seige failed. Another half was given to the care of the Ayleid city of Garlas Malatar by Meridia, but the Alessians lay seige to the city and it too fell.

Aftermath[edit]

With the Slave Rebellion successful, Alessia founded the Alessian Empire, the second Human empire in Tamriel, and the first in the province of Cyrodiil, which would see several others. All former slaves were freed, and allied Ayleid city-states were given vassalage status under the new Alessian Empire. The Nordic Empire gained some territories in the Niben Valley.

The shift of power from Mer to Men marked the beginning of the Late Ayleid period. Many of the Daedra worshipping elves fled Cyrodiil, some tried to integrate into the Barsaebic Ayleids in Argonia, but were rebuffed in retaliation for being exiled from Cyrodiil. Instead the Ayleid refugees integrated into the elven populations of Valenwood and High Rock.

The Alessian Empire was a cosmopolitan one, featuring the early Imperials, Ayleids, Nords, and Beastmen amongst their ranks, and Alessia standardized the Imperial Pantheon that saw to fuse elements of the Altmeri and Nordic Pantheons, that would become the basis for Imperial Religion. However two-hundred years later would see the rise of the fundamentalist Alessian Order that was vehemently opposed to Elvish power, and would steadily oppress, exile, or slaughter the remaining Ayleids within the Alessian Empire, and perhaps as well the degradation of Minotaur culture. Eventually any sightings of Ayleids within the Empire were those of tribal nomads, until the Ayelids vanished altogether.

Upon Alessia's death, Akatosh descended and made her soul into the Amulet of Kings, vowing that so long as the descendants of the Dragonborn blood sat upon the Ruby Throne in the White-Gold Tower, that the Aedra would protect Mundus from the forces of Oblivion, which saw a drastic shift of power away from the worship of Daedric Princes during the rule of three different incarnations of the Empire, interrupted by invasions from Molag Bal and his Planemeld, and Mehrunes Dagon during the Oblivion Crisis.

Major Battles[edit]

Umaril and Pelinal duel
  • Duel at the Tor:
  • Duel at Ninendava:
  • Duel at Ceya-Tar:
  • Obliteration of Narlemae and Celediil:
  • Fall of White Gold Tower:
  • Duel of Pelinal and Umaril:
  • Seige of Garlas Malatar: Reportedly the city of Garlas Malatar had collapsed prior to Alessian forces coming in to sack it. Either the city was destroyed to deny it to the Alessians, or it fell to internal conflict in response to King Narilmor's increasingly ruthless rule.
  • Siege of Bravil: Alessian Forces seiged an Ayleid settlement along the Niben Bay, led by General Teo Bravillius Tasus. The army assaulted it at least four times only to find the Ayleid populations mysteriously vanished. The Ayleids used alteration magic to levitate and breathe water to hide from Alessian forces in the day, and return to slaughter them in the night. Once this was discovered Tasus easily routed them, and for this victory the settelment was renamed in his honor.

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