Imperial Age

Mendhalia and Kren each were able to unify the people of their subcontinent, albeit through wildly different means, but it was the next generation that truly launched the Imperial Age in which we now live.
Liakir, daughter of Mendhalia, became an empress when the lands her mother unified were formally incorporated into the Kirinian Empire, save but for a few exceptions. Liakir renamed Kirinor for her mother to indicate a new age forward for the Kirinian Empire.  In the west, Kren also had a daughter that solidified her power over the lands her father had originally won. Nalan became the first empress of the Dalkori empire.
Within a generation of the creation of these two great empires came the first war between them, as their peoples were no more inclined to get along than the gods they worshipped.  In the east and west, the empires marched on with wars erupting at least once a century and then dying down to simmering distrust following uneasy truces.
Things were less war-like in the city-states of the northwest, collectively called the Freelands by its inhabitants and sometimes the ‘Unclaimed Wastes’ by those in the empires who wished to stress the fact that these were lands that they had not conquered.. yet.  Despite the lack of overt military conflicts it would be foolish for one to think that the Freelands were tranquil or safe. The battlefields of the north were political and economic, and they were and continue to be a bloody theater of combat.