The Uruk Era: The Rise and Fall of a Thousand Dynasties

In the first year of the Alternate Era, the city of Uruk rose from a city-state. After twelve years of conquest, it absorbed the tribes of Haiyi, Aliping, and Daoyi, laying the foundations of a dynasty. Over the next thousand years, war raged across the continent. The Uruk Dynasty transformed into an empire, the Sugut Empire shone briefly and then faded, the Aping Federation swept across the land, and thirty-eight emperors of the false Wen Dynasty came and went like figures in a revolving lantern. The nomadic Khanates of the Dog Slaves and Cat Slaves successively ruled the grasslands. The Galo Dynasty endured for 540 years, until the iron cavalry of the Okuz swept across the land. By 1750 of the Alternate Era, the Okuz Empire had dominated the continent for nearly five centuries, while the Hope Dynasty, far away on the New Continent, was quietly rising and ushering in a new age. This is a blood-and-fire epic written by hundreds of dynasties and thousands of rulers.