Fifth Day

The Fifth Day was the historical Day period preceded by the Fourth Night.

Historical Events

 * First year: Night ends after the armies that assaulted the Underworld destroy the Shade nightcasters.
 * Second Year: survivors of the assault on the Shade's nest reach the surface. Originally a force of a hundred-thousand, only a mere hundred survived, Daylen Namaran among them.
 * Captain Daylen Namaran uses his newfound influence as a war hero to bargain with the aristocracy of Hamahra in an attempt to reason with them for the sake of easing their subjects' suffering. Starvation ran rampant from enduring the Fourth Night. He proposes new irrigation systems of his own design, but they are rejected due to funding their cost would deplete the aristocrats' wealth. Namaran starts a public campaign to confront the aristocrats and build support for his cause, constantly confronting the aristocracy and informing their subjects of their crimes while he increases his notoriety. He gains the loyalty of half the army.
 * The aristocracy, unable to strip Namaran of his military rank for insubordination, due to his accolades and public profile, attempts to have him killed. During a public rally with his family and companions to gather support, soldiers loyal to the aristocracy surround and attack the gathering. Despite their inferior numbers, Namaran's group wins the battle, but only 10 people survive the assault, and his wife and children do not survive.
 * Daylen Namaran, fueled by revenge for his slain family, rises in open rebellion. He calls on the people and gathers those in the army loyal to him, attacking every single barracks loyal to the aristocracy in a quick, efficient, and brutal war.
 * In a few months, the remaining army sides with Namaran. He and his forces take the capital of Hamahra. Once in the throne room, Namaran kills the queen and her 9-year-old daughter. Considering the other aristocrats a threat to peace and stability, he immediately after orders that every member of all aristocratic families be executed.
 * In the following falls, most members of aristocratic families in the kingdom of Hamahra are executed. A few manage to escape and go into hiding, believed to be dead.
 * Namaran doesn't claim leadership or sovereignty over the kingdom, having fulfilled his revenge, though the people look to him as the new leader of Hamahra. Without any ceremonies, Namaran accepts his new position and sets about to rebuild his nation, and with the support of a people who love him, reinvents Hamahra as the Dawn Empire.
 * Namaran, seeing the wealth inequality among his citizens, decrees that no one can own property, himself included. Everything is to be owned by the government, in an attempt to create a fair and just system, a true communal state. With the state retaining control over the land, he seeks to ensure a fair and even distribution of its resources, overseeing how the land is worked, putting the effort where it was needed. With this system in place, he manages to feed a starving nation.
 * In response to the overthrowing of the aristocracy in Hamahra, many of the members of which were related to their own monarchs, the neighboring kingdoms of Sunsen, Lumas, and Daymark declare war on Hamahra. Utilizing new weaponry of his own invention, and military tactics that would come to be considered ingenious, the Dawn Empire repels its invaders, and conquers them. In retaliation for the invasion, Namaran executes the aristocracies of these three nations as well, and the Dawn Empire annexes them, thus increasing its territory.
 * The Dawn Empire begins a series of wars with neighboring nations to expand its borders and acquire more resources. Emperor Namaran's ultimate goal is a unified Tellos under his rule, to form an unbeatable army with the singular objective of eradicating the Shade once and for all.
 * After betraying and being betrayed by several of the Dawn Empire's allies, with no end to the ongoing warfare in sight, every nation on Tellos side with either the Dawn Empire or the Allied Empires in a continent-spanning war that would become the First World War of Tellos.
 * At the end of the First World War, concluding at approximately the 31st year of the Fifth Day, Emperor Namaran is dethroned and goes into hiding, his enemies taking him for dead.
 * In the dissolution of the Dawn Empire, new governments rise to replace the power structure. Greater Hamahra, with its historic leaders either dead or deposed, restores private property rights and utilizes public elections to select representatives. Several of the prominent revolutionaries who overthrew Emperor Namaran use their public image to win votes and go on to become senators. The influence of the craftsman Guilds pushes forth a free market economy. With Frey's and other conquered nations' leaderships intact, they regain their sovereignty.
 * Despite the prosperity brought on by the regained freedom, a new political movement within Hamahra, called the Dawnists, seeks to restore the Dawn Empire. Most Dawnists promote their message in public squares, and because they don't break any laws, they are left alone, and manage to convince many more to join their cause. More zealous members of the Dawnist movement start collecting weapons and resources to stage a coup.
 * In the 51st year of the Fifth Day, the Dawnists execute a plan to crash a floating island in the Hamahran Senate and destroy its government. It was foiled by a revitalized Daylen Namaran and the Archknights, though many Archknights were killed in the Dawnists' attack.
 * In the 67th fall in the Spring of the 51st year of the Fifth Day, representatives from every nation in Tellos (except Azbanadar) gathered in the Fair Grounds of Highdawn for the public trial of Daylen Namaran for his war crimes, conducted by the Hamahran Senate. He was found guilty of all charges (including false charges that Namaran refused to deny) and sentenced to life imprisonment as a servant of the Arch Order of Light.