![]() Most members are Traladaran or Karameikan, with only a couple of Thyatian birth, which garners significant support from the native Traladaran population. Though the council is fairly diverse, some view it as a military junta. * A Justiciar establishes the Provisional Government, an autocratic council of military officers, mid-tier state officials, and nobles. The majority of their forces are mobilised and begin establishing control over much of western Karameikos. * With their opposition weakened, the Black Eagles see this as their moment to bring the country to heel. Travel and trade with Darokin becomes untenable. * With Threshold in ruins, the destruction of the King’s Armed Forces battalion, and infighting amongst lordships, the security situation in the north deteriorates further. It was, however, partly effective and allowed a number of civilians the chance to escape. * The actual effect was a catastrophic event that destroyed a significant portion of the town, killed or magically petrified its defenders, and routed the attackers. The intended effect was to freeze the attack and create a corridor free from magical effects and enemy forces. The most powerful mages and adventurers cast a simultaneous time stop and wish. * As they face being overrun, an act of desperation is performed to permit thousands of non-combatants a chance to escape to nearby Kelvin: a tunnel through time. The commander of King’s Road Keep deploys his entire garrison to alleviate the pressure on Threshold. Threatened with total annihilation, the whole town takes up arms under the leadership of the Arcane Alliance, supplemented by adventurers and town militia. * As if driven by the intense chaos permeating the land, a powerful evil force attacks Threshold. * With an uncertain national hierarchy, conflicting orders, and some landed nobles attempting to establish their own authority through local militias, law and order begins to collapse outside of towns. This is the start of a chaotic era known as the Interregnum. Nobles and government officials begin scrambling for positions of power, causing infighting at almost every level. * With the government's line of succession shattered - the Grand Justiciar, Grand Magister, Ministers of War, Trade, and Finance were killed in the attack alongside the royals - the country quickly destabilises. Thyatis views the declaration as a treasonous as Stefan’s original secession and subsequently drops the Black Eagle territory from the Empire. Most of Karameikos rejects his declaration the remainder, mostly the uneducated and uninformed lower classes, are ambivalent. * As the next in line to the Karameikan throne, Ludwig von Hendriks declares himself King Ludwig I. Mystara: Black Horizon shut down at this point following events are specific to the Alternate timeline. * Unknown to the Black Eagles, Terrial and his children (Prince Lucien Karameikos and Princess Argent Karameikos) have survived and been smuggled out of Karameikos via sea. ![]() King Stefan, Queen Olivia, and Princess Adriana are killed in the attack. * Supported by Bargle the Infamous, the Black Eagles teleport into the Royal Palace in Mirros and kill almost everyone inside. Field Marshal Terrial, husband of Princess Adriana and son-in-law of King Stefan, is wounded in the attack but survives. * Princes Valen and Justin are successfully assassinated shortly after, Black Eagles stage an attack on Tarnskeep, killing most of the inhabitants. ![]() * The Black Eagles enact "Operation: Royal Flush", a plot by Energumen and Erebus to assassinate Stefan and his heirs, and establish Ludwig von Hendriks as the new king. The Civil War ends in a loyalist victory, and the Empire of Thyatis backs the Black Eagles, saving them from total annihilation at the hands of the King’s Armed Forces and irregulars from Threshold. * Karameikan Civil War occurs between Stefan’s loyalists and the Black Eagle Barony. Though there are many events prior to this that did not happen in the Mystara canon, this is the point where Black Horizon vastly diverges from the established history. * Grand Duke Stefan declares himself King Stefan I and secedes from Thyatis. * Grand Duchy of Karameikos established in Traladara, led by Grand Duke Stefan. ![]() * Traladara is annexed by the Empire of Thyatis. ![]()
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