Kings of War 1.2 – Basilean Legacy

Kings of War - Basilean Legacy is a 64 page supplement for Kings of War which takes an in-depth look at the background and history of the heavenly army of Basilea, complete with Angelic troops and holy mounted Paladins.

Kings of War 1.2 – Basilean Legacy
Attribution Information
Authors	Alessio Cavatore, Guy Haley, James Hewitt
Cover Artist	Jonas Springborg
Artist(s)	Des Hanley, Heath Foley, Phil Moss, Roberto Cirillo
Chronology
Preceded by	Kings of War 1.1 – Kings and Legends
Followed by	Kings of War 1.3 – Hellfire and Stone
Publication Information
Publisher	Mantic Games, River Horse
Media type	Paperback Digital
Pages	64 pages
Publication date	Feb 14, 2014

Story

• Foundations of Republic of Primovantor
• The Battle that Never Was (Tribune Gorthion vs Hymenikos the Wise)
  • Resulted in Basila joining the Republic of Primovantor
• Four millennia passed. Primovantor incorporated the human lands in and around the basin that would oneday become the Infant Sea,

• • Between -4170 and -170 The City of The Golden Horn was founded

• The God war begins in -170

• • Primovantor was deeply affected by this conflict, fully a third of it laid to waste.

• The God war ends in year 0

• • Primovantor suffered along decline: the character of its rulers lessened, the lifespan and wisdom of its peoples dwindled. The lands of the Republic fell away, depopulated by disease and battle.

• Winter's War in 2499

• • The northern-western provinces were lost

• Winter's war in ends in 2649

• • Its population was reduced to a tenth of the numbers of the golden days and many cities had been destroyed or ravaged.

• • The Great Inundation. The rush of water that flooded much of the remaining lands of the Republic, destroyed it forever and turned the Damar Mountains and the Basilean Massif into peninsulas surrounded by sea.

• • Republic of Primovantor was mostly wiped out except Basilea

• • Primovantor and the Golden Horn, being mountain cities, were spared.

• Battle of Antovar

• • After Winters War

• • Surrounded by Orcs, Bolisean, the first Hegemon, begged the shining ones for help and they gave it. Becoming gods to the Basileans. He made Bolisean swear an oath that the Shining Ones would be forever worshipped in Basilea

• • Flights of Elohi, the winged, angelic warriors of the Shining Ones, fell upon the Orcs from above

• • The Shining ones stepped out of these portals, swinging magical weapons the length of three men and scattering the enemy.

• • The Orcish horde was utterly destroyed. As the last Orc was speared by the Elohi

• • The gods danced a wild dance, and the groundshook, a spear of rock a mile across burst through theground, soaring high into the sky, taking the Shining Ones with it. Upon this unnatural peak, ever since called Kolosu, they built their city.

• • The Elohi stayed at Bolisean’s side.The Hegemony had been born.

Factions Mentioned

• Basileans
• Ophidians
• Primovantor Republic (Solioskoi were the people of Basilean Massif/Solios, founded Primovantor city, led by Tribune Gorthion)
• Basilea the Golden (Led by Hymenikos the Wise, King of Spartha)

Battles Mentioned

• Battle of AntovarPost-Winter's war. Surrounded by Orcs, Bolisean, the first Hegemon, begged the shining ones for help and they gave it. Becoming gods to the Basileans. He made Bolisean swear an oath that the Shining Ones would be forever worshipped in Basilea

Races Mentioned

• Celestians

• • Shining Ones

• • Wicked Ones

• Elohi

• Phoenixes

• Gnomes

• Elves

• Dwarfs

• Men

Characters Featured

Primovanthor Republic Era

• Primovanthor Republic

• • Tribune GorthionLed the war to expand the Primovantian borders across the Primovantian Peninsula. The war took on something of a crusadingaspect. Gorthion vowed to bring all men under therule of Primovantor

• Basilea the Golden

• • Hymenikos the Wise, King of Spartha

• Primovanthor or Basilea the Golden

• • Clementor the Aspirite

• • Died after a mistakenly shot arrow was released while Tribune Gorthion and Hymenikos debated

• • Dunios of Cortia

• • Kept the peace after Clementor's death

• Wicked Ones

• • Winter Was defeated but caused The Great Inundation before being cast to the abyss

• Shining Ones

• • Mescator, God of Justice

• Basilean

• • Hegemon Bolisean, the first Hegemon

• • King Golloch

Locations

Republic of Primovantor

• Basilean Massif/Solios (Province)

• • Primovantor(state) (state)

• • • Primovantor (City)

• • Spartha(state)

• • • Spartha (City)

• • Martolian plains

• • Damar

• • Basilean Mountains

• Kolosu (Home of the Elohi)

Hegemony of Basilea

• Basilea

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