4order

Historically humans were dispersed throughout Radewim along the major waterways, but after the invention of agriculture they gradually came to dominate the Inner Sea coast. The periods of both war and peace between the nations intensified, until the region today known as the Core became unified into the first great human empire.

Its title was lost during a religious upheaval called the First Reformation, but modern history calls it the 4order Empire. It was a merger of four kingdoms, each centered on a Oracle and its resident God, the four Gods of the 4order religion, Eres, Grez, Je, and Merk.

The 4order Empire lasted until the God Sol and his Oracle were discovered in the jungles of Cains, adding a fifth God into many cultures that previously believed there were only four, and causing the First Reformation, which led to crusades that fractured the 4order Empire, and triggered a dark age in Core human history.

Archeologists debate how long it lasted, but have no solid records of Core history between when the great libraries were burned, and when western cultures reintroduced writing, which occurred shortly after the sixth Oracle and its Goddess Lun were discovered in the mountains near modern Hind and Cilen.

The Second Reformation lasted a century, while the Core religions disagreed, sometimes through war, on how to incorporate the Goddess, but the disruption was slight compared to the First Reformation, and that trend continued through the Third and Fourth Reformations, after Oracles were discovered in Sumer and Atos for the Goddess Ditay, and the Eighth God, known to some as Nomare.