Protosean Time

For the first time ever, the Viziers in the continent of Valay stop fighting each other and unite to fight the world. They form a council and Majul Kanata of the Flame is the first elected Grand Vizier. They set about subjugating and enslaving all of the regions immediately around Kair Valay and within a thousand years control the entire southern continent.

"The way I hear it, it was mostly cast-offs, layabouts, and would-be shamans (and not just a few under the influence of some potent herbs who maybe wanted to find more potent herbs) that camped around the tree, mostly by accident or convenience, the first winter. When old Greenleaf popped out of the Tree, a dozen or more died right there on the spot, on account of they were scared to death!   "But when those what didn't realized what was going on, they begged him to teach them the "way of the Tree" or some nonsense and he rightfully turned on his heel and went right back on there and slept for a thousand years, and by the time he next woke, the whole place was a school, and they'd made up their own way of the Tree, and he had to learn it right back from them! At least, that's how I heard it..."

— The Storyteller, aka the drunkest man in Vensheim

After his successes in the Rift War (or the Godwar) as it has come to be known, Torg realizes he likes being in charge of every damn thing, and sets about to unite the lands around him.

Having conquering the bulk of the continent, the Empire lays siege to Camellotte, and Torg returns to the place he helped defend 100 years before.

A mayor of a small city in the centre of Issur province leads a successful revolt against the local Torgish administrator. He and his followers are forced to flee before reinforcements arrive but he begins uniting people in secret, and establishing the idea of independence.

The Commonwealth (of Camellotte, of Issur, of the East were some names bandied around at first, before finally settling on just the Commonwealth) is founded with inaugural members: the city of Camellotte, the five Issurian nations (who had had a commonwealth agreement almost since their founding) and Passau.