Lore

Server Biography
IT IS THE YEAR 27 OF THE FOURTH AGE.... Two years ago, a band of Reunited Kingdom Missionaries set out on a quest into the East to subdue and ally with the men of the East. They were largely successful, with the men of Palisor throwing off their shackles of fear of the Dark Lord Sauron, and becoming good men once again. They journeyed to the Uttermost East, to see what they may discover in the unknown land, but they were attacked! The men of the long hidden Taiyafen Empire killed much of the group out of fear, thinking them to be dark men of Melkor from which they fled long ago. The few missionary survivors fled back to their lands, telling terrible tales of evil yellow men. The renewed legions of the West go into battle against the unveiled men of the Far East in a terrible war. Which side will win depends on you.....

The Custom Lore
The area around Hildorien -the birthplace of Men in the Uttermost East- is a place touched by very few Elvish hands but frequently attacked by Melkor. For much of the First Age it was a blighted land, raided by evil Men from further west, with many of its people enslaved by Morgoth, however after the breaking of the Siege of Angband, Melkor called his forces of evil Men to fight for him in Beleriand, leaving all those east of the Orocarni to their own matters so he could strike the Elves and the Lords of the West more easily. The Men in the far east were at first were a warring group of tribes, fighting for dominance in the area so that by the time the Rings of Power were forged, only two kingdoms remained in the area. These kingdoms had been warring non-stop for nearly 1000 years and too many Men died for them to be able to keep fighting each other, so in S.A 1507 they united to form the Taiyafen Empire. The new Taiyafen empire was first established in the Second Age, when the previously warring Fengji and Taiyo Empires finally allied to prevent more bloodshed amongst themselves, and to protect themselves from raiding Variags, Wainriders, and sometimes the Golden warriors of Rhûdel.

For the next thousand years the empire prospered from trading with the Red Dwarves and developed their own writing system adapted from Dwarvish runes to fit brush strokes. Over 200 characters were developed to fit the languages in the empire. This was a great time and riches flooded the land. However in S.A 3128 various tribes from Rhun attacked from the west and devastated the empire. They were attacked once again a few years after the defeat of Sauron by the men of the Reunited Kingdom, who thought them to be akin to the evil corrupted men of the Near East, and Near Harad. The armies of Taiyafen repelled the westerners and bolstered their western border.