The Ages of the World

The history of the continent of Vedar is generally grouped into Ages by historians of the modern era.

In the Aurelian Empire there are two main classifications of Ages.

The Classical Ages are what the history of the world has traditionally been broken down into, as taught by The Elders. This system was historically based upon major shifts in the history of the Elder race, though the shifting of the Age of Heroes into the modern age, defined as the Age of Empires, is a subject of Aurelian scholars.

The Logia Ages, used in academic study in the Aurelian Empire, are a more modern historical viewpoint used mainly by scholars of the Aurelian Colleges. This is broken down into Modern History and Antehistory, with the beginning of Modern History defined as the founding of the Auran Republic.

Classical Ages
Historically, there were three Classical Ages:


 * The Age of Gods
 * The Age of Awakening
 * The Age of Heroes

The end period of the Age of Awakening is more commonly referred to as the Breaking of the Aelderi or the Fall of the Elders - a roughly 200-700 year period in which the power of the dominant Aelderi was broken and the Lesser Races began their ascension.

Modern scholars have defined the current age as the Age of Empires, traditionally beginning with the transformation of the Auran Republic into the Aurelian Empire.

Logia Ages
The Logia Ages are split into Modern History and Antehistory, with these further broken down. Antehistory is divided into ages based upon the 'level' of civilisation theorised to exist (using production of metal as a basis).

Modern history is divided based upon the reigns of the Aurelian Emperors.

Antehistory Modern History
 * Copper Age
 * Bronze Age
 * Early Bronze Age
 * Aelderi Dark Ages
 * Late Bronze Age
 * Iron Age
 * Reign of Tullus Iulius
 * Reign of Gaius Lucanus
 * Reign of Tullus Augustus
 * Reign of Kaiso Cicuro
 * Reign of Caius Aurelius
 * Reign of Iulia Atius
 * Reign of Galius Maximus
 * Reign of Oppius Quintanius

Age Comparison
The Classical Ages and Logia Ages do roughly align, with the Logia Ages being based upon the Classical ones in order to simplify historical studies.

The table below displays a comparison of the Ages and their rough start dates in Anno Imperialis, the system of measurement of Aurelian scholars.