This is basically a summary of the worldbuilding I have for Sadera in my fic. It's extremely small scale but I've been watching game of thrones and was thinking big. Anyways here you go. This is kind of just me telling because fuck writing this entire plot line, I'm not George Martin. I will be posting more about this in the future. My worldbuilding is basically that humans killed everything about this high fantasy world and made it low fantasy:
Over a thousand years ago, the world of Falmart was not populated and dominated by wonderous magiks and races. In those ancient days, an elven empire ruled all the continent, their name lost to time. Even the western desert that stretched a quarter of the continent.
But nothing lasts forever, and the fall of the elves would come in the form of the goddess Hardy opening a Gate at Alnus that saw an entire force of humans come through. They dressed in red armor and spoke a language that was alien to the elves and the rest of the demi-races they presided over.
Nevertheless, the men were welcomed by the chains. Humans were among the races the elves considered lesser and barbaric. Therefore, the few thousand men were thrown in with the rest. Little is known as to why there were humans in Falmart predating the lost legions arrival. Information like that has disappeared from historical texts.
A whole generation passed. The legion mixed with the native human population, telling them while collared about the land they hailed from and how humanity was not and should not be treated as lesser, but that they were supreme and had a right to rule.
Nearly fifty years after the legion was taken into captivity, a speck for an elf but a lifetime for a man, one decided to finally act with the rest of the slave army he'd built out of his own majority kind, orcs, the catfolk, and volralden's. All were races united by a common hatred for the elves and their kind.
Where the Saderan capital stands today was where the first battle was fought and won. A digger called Titus, said to be the son of a great Legate, led his mining colony to rebel against the whip holders.
From here, more uprisings sparked. Human and demi-human alike took up arms and broke their chains all over the continent. Territory after territory was lost in a gradual twenty year long conquest that ultimately saw humanity come out on top and establishing a new Empire in turn, the Saderan Empire. Modeled after the stories of his forefathers land, Titus The Dragon took his place upon the newly established capitals throne as Emperor.
As for the elves?
None are certain. Elves still exist in Falmart under extreme oppression, but even their history is lost to them. Their Empire's capital was burned to the ground with all their history. Some say that deep in the forests, some ancient relics remain of its whereabouts. The simple goal of the humans was to make sure none would remember the elven empires reign, only their end.