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And now a brief history of Eudonia, as chronicled by Sir Bodsworth Bartleby, rector of Kensington College, St. Tristan's University, as well as Ulbert, a monk in the monastery of St. Baldwin of Arete, and his father, Haeloc, an inventor in the service of the queen.

● 1200

• overpopulation leads to famine
• high unemployment, low wages
• poverty and homelessness
• high crime, civil war, environmental degradation
• the Guild is formed in 1297 to address these issues
• Haeloc loses his wife to the plague and begins work on a machine to cure it

● 1300

• Queniva becomes queen in 1304 after her father dies
• Black Death kills ⅔ of the population, including the queen and her court
• Meiko completes Haeloc's machine and saves as many as possible
• wages soar due to the labor shortage
• everyone becomes wealthy
• the environment repairs itself
• Ulbert joins the Guild
• the Guild reorganizes society and the government

● 1400

• the age of enlightenment and great invention begins
• other countries begin to take advantage of Eudonia's prosperity
• Eudonia decides to adopt an isolationist policy
• closes its door to all nations except Temprynz, its longtime ally
• Eudonia becomes pacifist and ceases development of all weapons

● 1800

• Londinium invents motion pictures
• motion pictures become popular everywhere, including Eudonia
• Screenland in Imperium becomes the movie capital of the world
• hundreds of prospective starlets leave Eudonia for Screenland
• through them, Imperium learns of Eudonia's health machine
• Imperium sends a delegation to Eudonia to negotiate for their technology
• Eudonia requires payment through obedience to their laws
• Eudonia sends emissaries to help Imperium transition to the laws

● 1900

• Imperium never intends to transition
• the government kills off the Eudonian emissaries
• commandeers an airship to attack Eudonia and take their technology by force
• the new airship Titan sets sail on its maiden voyage loaded with soldiers