First known to the Conorrians as Transmilesia, the region was settled by tribes of elves and humans who lived in small, separate farming communities, or gathered in cities on the coast. Transmilesia was among the first conquests of the growing Conorrian Empire, and as the province of Akasia, remained at the heart of the mighty Empire for thousands of years, its rich harvests supporting a growing urban population

Prior to the Crusades, the land between the Lyodan river and the Valesian Sea was known as Akasia. Once a part of the Conorrian Empire known for its excellent food, fine weather and good black soil, Akasia fell into ruin after the Mage Wars that left it a haven for monsters, strange storms and dark cults.

Akasia emerged from the Mage Wars as a no-man’s land between the eastern and western empires. Strange beasts and magical effects were more common than any of the remaining human inhabitants. Nearly all the elven Akasians fled to the Neldorean Wood, or perished in the service of one or another pretender to the throne. Thus Akasia was a wilderness for more than two hundred years before men began once again to settle there, and to rediscover the horrors that had caused their ancestors to flee.

Akasia’s suffering was not over when Markimillien vanquished all his foes and became the Emperor of the western, Miletian Empire. It was again a battleground in 2282, this time in the war between the Conorrians and the Darothic hordes.

In the winter of 2723, a vaste horde of orcs and allied creatures descended on the lightly-defended western half of the Conorrian Empire and routed its defenders, burning and looting across the once-mighty realm. Only in the east was their power thwarted. In the west, the legions fought on to defeat throughout 2724, managing to survive only in a few well-prepared fortresses which the orcs and their ogre allies could not defeat. Yet even these outposts would have been doomed after the passage of time, if not for unlooked-for help from the west.

Throughout the cities and towns of the formerly Conorrian territories, from Luxur to Tirgonia, the clerics of the powerful Conorrian church stirred their followers into a divine furor, a lust to seek redemption in the driving forth of the unclean orcs from the ancient Conorrian lands. A grand crusade was organized, and the armies of the west arrived in ravaged Conorria in the spring of 2745. The fractious coalition of churchmen and nobility drove the orcs from a large swath of western Conorria, but never reached its goal of entering the capital, which had been liberated months earlier by Varantius II and his Rhanalorian allies.

Conorrian forces soon took charge of all the areas conquered in 2724, but stopped there, leaving the Crusaders in possession of Akasia. The religious coalition swiftly disintegrated, as each prince, baron or abbot staked out his claim among the weird hills and valleys long despised by two separate empires.

Now the people who have survived to call this land home strive to make it a better place to live.