So I was just wondering, what are we doing for the timeline? I seem to recall someone saying the time the site was down would not count into the lore, but I thought I would ask to make sure.
Either way, does anyone know the current date? Or, for that matter, the method of timekeeping, 'cause I can only remember bits and pieces?

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Ainmire Sera-Blodh of House Flenadrison, second of his name, King in the South, Ruler of Carrickshire, and slayer of false Kings.
"The Crippled King"
"Flanders"

I'm only recently back so I don't know what really happened around here. But I know you can see some of the old timeline on the way back machine:
Old main page: https://web.archive.org/web/20141221220 ... =Main_Page

Lore and info items: https://web.archive.org/web/20130810101 ... the_Empire

A lot of the links on that second page still work. There's a good amount of data that may be recoverable on there.

I would personally be happy to see something like that old library re-created with some sort of wiki backend and populated with this old data to get it going.

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"Not all those who wander are lost."

I have a funny feeling those links will be invaluable in recreating this site, thank you

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Ainmire Sera-Blodh of House Flenadrison, second of his name, King in the South, Ruler of Carrickshire, and slayer of false Kings.
"The Crippled King"
"Flanders"

We should maybe copy and paste those or something sooner or later just in case the archive is no longer there.

Also I personally would like to not count the period of inactivity due to "technical" problems out of our control.

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Scrios V
King of Perth, Brother of Valyria

Took the liberty of uploading this to imgur after cutting and pasting the whole page.

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Petra Ravnikaar of The Veil

I can't see the image Sam!

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Scrios V
King of Perth, Brother of Valyria

I've heard it discussed that the period of inactivity could be treated as a "dark age" caused by the chaos of the Regent leaving the Empire. It would explain the loss of information on the library and the reduction, to a certain extent, of our numbers.

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Ulrik Gunnarson
Duke of the Gathered Races of Hermertia Homeland (GRHH)
The Chairman of the GRHH Co.

That would be a cool addition to the lore I think Chairman. Do you think we should lose all of the mercurian years or just some of them. I am more concerned with having to create a new player without actually being able to create a decent lore for him.

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Scrios V
King of Perth, Brother of Valyria

I've made a post about this in the History sub-forum, and will re-iterate I am happy to assist with gathering these archives if help is requested!

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"Not all those who wander are lost."

I would personally be for a 'Dark Age' Period with a reduced time. That way everyone can keep their characters (unless they were very old) but also it would be a suitable lore explanation for the reduction in numbers/exit of the regent.

Also I would like to start a discussion on how we will explain Cody's world-edit. I've made a post about it here: http://www.hermertia.com/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=70
The summary is that actions in Ikwe led to a widespread collapse of the city and the departure of The Regent. Given his integral part in international affairs his departure created a period of instability resulting in the 'Dark Ages' around large portions of the empire as world leaders convened on the Imperial City.

I would also be pro the idea of an Arson attack on libraries to explain the loss of also of the wiki/history. I don't think the 'Dark Ages' were particularly dark as the serve has been up longer than the website with development in the Imperial City.