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The {{Lore Link|Third Empire}} was declared by {{Lore Link|Tiber Septim}} in {{Year|2E 854}} after the chaos of the {{Lore Link|Interregnum}}, and was forged through a decades-long conflict to unite {{Lore Link|Tamriel}} known as the {{Lore Link|Tiber Wars}}.{{ref|name=PGE1C|{{Cite book|PGE|1|Cyrodiil}}}} It lasted throughout the whole of the {{Lore Link|Third Era}} and two centuries into the {{Lore Link|Fourth Era}}, when it began to decline.
===Septim Dynasty===
The {{Lore Link|Septim Dynasty}} was founded by Tiber Septim upon using {{Lore Link|Numidium}} to conquer the whole of Tamriel, after which he declared the start of a new era, {{Year|3E 0}}{{ref|name=BHotE1|{{Cite book|Brief History of the Empire v 1}}}} He rule of 38 years was prosperous and relatively peaceful. His grandson {{Lore Link|Pelagius Septim I|Pelagius}} succeeded him, and was poised to continue the golden age, until he was assassinated by the {{Lore Link|Dark Brotherhood}} after less than 3 years.{{ref|name=BHotE1}} Pelagius was the first and only direct descendant of Tiber Septim to rule, as he was an only child and had no children himself. Thus, the Ruby Throne passed to Tiber's niece, {{Lore Link|Kintyra I|Kintyra}}, in {{Year|3E 41}}. Kintyra and her son, {{Lore Link|Uriel Septim I|Uriel}}, were successful rulers who achieved a level of unity within the Empire that would not be equaled for centuries.{{ref|name=BHotE4|{{Cite book|Brief History of the Empire v 4}}}} {{Lore Link|Uriel Septim II|Uriel II}}, who took the throne in {{Year|3E 64}}, had his reign blighted by plagues and insurrections, and accomplished little in his 18-year reign. Instead, he left many problems, and a great deal of debt, to {{Lore Link|Pelagius Septim II|Pelagius II}}. In response, Pelagius dismissed the entire {{Lore Link|Elder Council}}, and allowed only those who paid a princely sum to return to their seats. While this tactic brought some prosperity back to Tamriel, it ended when Pelagius was poisoned in {{Year|3E 98}}, purportedly by a disgruntled former Council member.{{ref|name=BotWQ|{{Cite book|Biography of the Wolf Queen}}}} His son, {{Lore Link|Antiochus}}, was more interested in debauchery than politics, known across the Empire as a womanizer even before taking the throne. His reign was marred by civil war and other conflicts, and the province of Summerset was almost lost to invading {{Lore Link|Maormer}} in {{Year|3E 110}}. Antiochus died ten years later, leaving the throne in the tenuous grasp of his 15-year-old daughter, {{Lore Link|Kintyra II}}. The succession was contested by Antiochus' siblings and would lead to civil war.{{ref|name=TWQ6|{{Cite book|The Wolf Queen, v6}}}}
In {{Year|3E 121}}, Kintyra II was imprisoned by {{Lore Link|Potema|Potema Septim}}, the infamous Wolf Queen of Solitude, and murdered two years later. This triggered the {{Lore Link|War of the Red Diamond}}, a civil war between Potema and her son {{Lore Link|Uriel Septim III|Uriel III}} on one side, and Potema's brothers {{Lore Link|Cephorus I|Cephorus}} and {{Lore Link|Magnus Septim|Magnus}} on the other. The armies of the brothers were eventually victorious and the succession continued.{{ref|name=BotWQ}}{{ref|name=BHotE|{{Cite book|Brief History of the Empire}}}}
The Empire gained and lost power and land unpredictably during the next century until the rise of {{Lore Link|Katariah|Katariah Ra'Athim}}. The first (and only) Elven ruler of the Empire, Katariah was the first in 100 years to secure a steady, iron grip over most of Tamriel, save {{Lore Link|Black Marsh}}. Ultimately, this would be the Empress' undoing, as she died in {{Year|3E 200}} in a minor skirmish in Black Marsh.{{ref|name=BHotE2|{{Cite book|Brief History of the Empire v 2}}}}
Another civil war broke out after the {{Lore Link|Elder Council}} voted to disinherit {{Lore Link|Andorak Septim|Andorak}}, the eldest son of {{Lore Link|Uriel Septim IV|Uriel IV}}, and offer the Imperial crown to his cousin {{Lore Link|Cephorus II|Cephorus}} instead, as they considered Cephorus to be more closely related to the true Septim bloodline. The war lasted nine years until Andorak was mollified by the offer of the throne of {{Lore Link|Shornhelm}} in {{Lore Link|High Rock}}.
In {{Year|3E 268}}, {{Lore Link|Uriel Septim V|Uriel V}} began his invasion of {{Lore Link|Akavir}}. This one invasion dominated his reign, and ultimately ended it. His life was cut short in 3E 290, and again the Empire began a slow decline.{{ref|name=RDAI|{{Cite book|Report: Disaster at Ionith}}}}{{ref|name=BHotE3|{{Cite book|Brief History of the Empire v 3}}}} {{Lore Link|Uriel Septim VI|Uriel VI}} was unable to take the throne until {{Year|3E 307}}, due to his young age at the time of his father's death, and his mother Thonica's attempts to stay in power as Regent. When Uriel VI fell from his horse and died in {{Year|3E 313}}, his half-sister came to power as {{Lore Link|Morihatha|Empress Morihatha}}. Uriel VI had left his sister with rebellious vassals and malcontent citizens to deal with. Nonetheless, she acted decisively and by the end of her reign in {{Year|3E 339}}, Tamriel was nearing a sort of unity. Her nephew, {{Lore Link|Pelagius Septim IV|Pelagius IV}}—though struggling at first—brought the Empire closer to unity than it had been in over 300 years, since the days of Uriel I.{{ref|name=BHotE4|{{Cite book|Brief History of the Empire v 4}}}}
{{Lore Link|Uriel Septim VII}}, son of Pelagius IV, came to power after his father's death in 3E 368. In {{Year|3E 389}}, Uriel VII's battlemage, {{Lore Link|Jagar Tharn}}, managed to imprison the emperor in a dimension of Tharn's own creation. For ten years, later known as the {{Lore Link|Imperial Simulacrum}}, Jagar Tharn ruled in Uriel's place, but showing none of the latter's wisdom. Before Tharn could entirely drive the Empire into the ground, Uriel was rescued and restored to the throne in {{Year|3E 399}}.{{ref|name=BHotE}}
During Uriel Septim VII's reign, which lasted 65 years, he united the Empire for the first time in centuries. By the end of the {{Lore Link|Imperial Simulacrum}}, {{Lore Link|The Warp in the West (event)|Warp in the West}}, and {{Year|3E 427|Vvardenfell Crisis}}, the Empire was even closer to unity than at the end of Pelagius IV's reign. After his [[Oblivion:Assassination!|assassination]], his son, {{Lore Link|Martin Septim}}, ended the {{Lore Link|Oblivion Crisis}}, the Third Era, and—with no more heirs—the Septim dynasty.
The Empire recovered from Tharn's deceit, but ultimately ended when Martin Septim sacrificed himself in a successful bid to seal the rift that had been opened to {{Lore Link|Mehrunes Dagon}}'s plane of Oblivion. {{Lore Link|Ocato of Firsthold|High Chancellor Ocato}} became Potentate Ocato when no candidate to replace Martin could be found. Ocato kept the Empire more or less intact in the tumultuous years after the Oblivion Crisis, but was assassinated in or around {{Year|4E 10}}, which ushered in the seven-year {{Lore Link|Stormcrown Interregnum}}.{{ref|name=RT|{{Cite book|Rising Threat}}}}
===Mede Dynasty===
At some point in the seven years following Ocato's assassination, a Nibenese witch-warrior named {{Lore Link|Thules the Gibbering}} was crowned Emperor, although he was not well liked by the people, the Elder Council favored him over {{Lore Link|Titus Mede}}, a {{Lore Link|Colovia|Colovian}} warlord who sought the throne. Eventually, in 4E 17, Titus Mede captured the {{Lore Link|Imperial City}} from Thules and crowned himself the first Emperor of a {{Lore Link|Mede Dynasty|new dynasty}}, eventually persuading the Elder Council to accept him as a liberator rather than a conqueror.{{ref|name=RT}}{{ref|{{Cite book|The Infernal City|ns=Books}}}}
In 4E 168, Emperor {{Lore Link|Titus Mede II}} ascended to the throne. The Empire was at that time a shadow of its former glory. {{Lore Link|Valenwood}} and {{Lore Link|Elsweyr}} had been ceded to the {{Lore Link|Aldmeri Dominion|third Aldmeri Dominion}}{{ref|name=RT}}, Black Marsh had been lost to Imperial rule since the Oblivion Crisis, {{Lore Link|Morrowind}} had yet to fully recover from the eruption of Red Mountain, and {{Lore Link|Hammerfell}} was plagued by infighting between the {{Lore Link|Crowns|Crown}} and {{Lore Link|Forebears|Forebear}} factions. Only {{Lore Link|High Rock}}, {{Lore Link|Cyrodiil}}, and {{Lore Link|Skyrim}} remained prosperous and peaceful.{{ref|name=TGW|{{Cite book|The Great War (book)}}}}
In 4E 171, the Great War began when armies from the Aldmeri Dominion invaded the Imperial provinces of Hammerfell and Cyrodiil after Titus II rejected an ultimatum to make massive concessions to the Thalmor. An army led by Thalmor general Lord Naarifin emerged from hidden camps in northern Elsweyr and assaulted southern Cyrodiil, flanking Imperial defenses along the Valenwood border. {{Lore Link|Leyawiin}} fell to the invaders, and {{Lore Link|Bravil}} was surrounded and besieged. Simultaneously, an army under Lady Arannelya crossed western Cyrodiil, bypassing {{Lore Link|Anvil}} and {{Lore Link|Kvatch}} and entering Hammerfell. This army was joined by smaller forces landing on Hammerfell's coast. Imperial troops were forced into retreat across the {{Lore Link|Alik'r|Alik'r Desert}}. The {{Lore Link|Imperial City}} was besieged, and fell after the Emperor fled with the remnants of his army to Skyrim. The war ended a year later with the liberation of the Imperial City after the {{Lore Link|Battle of the Red Ring|Battle Of The Red Ring}}, and with the subsequent Imperial acceptance of the {{Lore Link|White-Gold Concordat}}. This treaty contained terms almost identical to those rejected before the war, specifically the outlaw of {{Lore Link|Talos}} worship, which became one of the major causes of the {{Lore Link|Stormcloak Rebellion}} in Skyrim. Hammerfell seceded from the Empire and worked to combat {{Lore Link|Thalmor}} forces on its own, gaining its freedom in 4E 180. This left the Empire in a diminished and less stable condition, though it retained control of the provinces of Cyrodiil, High Rock and Skyrim.{{ref|name=TGW}}
In {{Year|4E 201}}, the Stormcloak Rebellion broke out in Skyrim. The belligerents were the {{Lore Link|Stormcloaks}}, led by {{Lore Link|Ulfric Stormcloak}}, who fought for the independence of Skyrim, and the Imperial Legion, led by General {{Lore Link|Tullius}}, with the intention of holding the Empire together in the face of growing political tensions between them and the Thalmor.{{ref|[[Skyrim:Civil War|Events of Skyrim]]}}<noinclude>
==References==
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The {{Lore Link|Third Empire}} was declared by {{Lore Link|Tiber Septim}} in {{Year|2E 854}} after the chaos of the {{Lore Link|Interregnum}}, and was forged through a decades-long conflict to unite {{Lore Link|Tamriel}} known as the {{Lore Link|Tiber Wars}}.{{ref|name=PGE1C|{{Cite book|PGE|1|Cyrodiil}}}} It lasted throughout the whole of the {{Lore Link|Third Era}} and two centuries into the {{Lore Link|Fourth Era}}, when it began to decline.
===Septim Dynasty===
The {{Lore Link|Septim Dynasty}} was founded by Tiber Septim upon using {{Lore Link|Numidium}} to conquer the whole of Tamriel, after which he declared the start of a new era, {{Year|3E 0}}{{ref|name=BHotE1|{{Cite book|Brief History of the Empire v 1}}}} He rule of 38 years was prosperous and relatively peaceful. His grandson {{Lore Link|Pelagius Septim I|Pelagius}} succeeded him, and was poised to continue the golden age, until he was assassinated by the {{Lore Link|Dark Brotherhood}} after less than 3 years.{{ref|name=BHotE1}} Pelagius was the first and only direct descendant of Tiber Septim to rule, as he was an only child and had no children himself. Thus, the Ruby Throne passed to Tiber's niece, {{Lore Link|Kintyra I|Kintyra}}, in {{Year|3E 41}}. Kintyra and her son, {{Lore Link|Uriel Septim I|Uriel}}, were successful rulers who achieved a level of unity within the Empire that would not be equaled for centuries.{{ref|name=BHotE4|{{Cite book|Brief History of the Empire v 4}}}} {{Lore Link|Uriel Septim II|Uriel II}}, who took the throne in {{Year|3E 64}}, had his reign blighted by plagues and insurrections, and accomplished little in his 18-year reign. Instead, he left many problems, and a great deal of debt, to {{Lore Link|Pelagius Septim II|Pelagius II}}. In response, Pelagius dismissed the entire {{Lore Link|Elder Council}}, and allowed only those who paid a princely sum to return to their seats. While this tactic brought some prosperity back to Tamriel, it ended when Pelagius was poisoned in {{Year|3E 98}}, purportedly by a disgruntled former Council member.{{ref|name=BotWQ|{{Cite book|Biography of the Wolf Queen}}}} His son, {{Lore Link|Antiochus}}, was more interested in debauchery than politics, known across the Empire as a womanizer even before taking the throne. His reign was marred by civil war and other conflicts, and the province of Summerset was almost lost to invading {{Lore Link|Maormer}} in {{Year|3E 110}}. Antiochus died ten years later, leaving the throne in the tenuous grasp of his 15-year-old daughter, {{Lore Link|Kintyra II}}. The succession was contested by Antiochus' siblings and would lead to civil war.{{ref|name=TWQ6|{{Cite book|The Wolf Queen, v6}}}}
In {{Year|3E 121}}, Kintyra II was imprisoned by {{Lore Link|Potema|Potema Septim}}, the infamous Wolf Queen of Solitude, and murdered two years later. This triggered the {{Lore Link|War of the Red Diamond}}, a civil war between Potema and her son {{Lore Link|Uriel Septim III|Uriel III}} on one side, and Potema's brothers {{Lore Link|Cephorus I|Cephorus}} and {{Lore Link|Magnus Septim|Magnus}} on the other. The armies of the brothers were eventually victorious and the succession continued.{{ref|name=BotWQ}}{{ref|name=BHotE|{{Cite book|Brief History of the Empire}}}}
The Empire gained and lost power and land unpredictably during the next century until the rise of {{Lore Link|Katariah|Katariah Ra'Athim}}. The first (and only) Elven ruler of the Empire, Katariah was the first in 100 years to secure a steady, iron grip over most of Tamriel, save {{Lore Link|Black Marsh}}. Ultimately, this would be the Empress' undoing, as she died in {{Year|3E 200}} in a minor skirmish in Black Marsh.{{ref|name=BHotE2|{{Cite book|Brief History of the Empire v 2}}}}
Another civil war broke out after the {{Lore Link|Elder Council}} voted to disinherit {{Lore Link|Andorak Septim|Andorak}}, the eldest son of {{Lore Link|Uriel Septim IV|Uriel IV}}, and offer the Imperial crown to his cousin {{Lore Link|Cephorus II|Cephorus}} instead, as they considered Cephorus to be more closely related to the true Septim bloodline. The war lasted nine years until Andorak was mollified by the offer of the throne of {{Lore Link|Shornhelm}} in {{Lore Link|High Rock}}.
In {{Year|3E 268}}, {{Lore Link|Uriel Septim V|Uriel V}} began his invasion of {{Lore Link|Akavir}}. This one invasion dominated his reign, and ultimately ended it. His life was cut short in 3E 290, and again the Empire began a slow decline.{{ref|name=RDAI|{{Cite book|Report: Disaster at Ionith}}}}{{ref|name=BHotE3|{{Cite book|Brief History of the Empire v 3}}}} {{Lore Link|Uriel Septim VI|Uriel VI}} was unable to take the throne until {{Year|3E 307}}, due to his young age at the time of his father's death, and his mother Thonica's attempts to stay in power as Regent. When Uriel VI fell from his horse and died in {{Year|3E 313}}, his half-sister came to power as {{Lore Link|Morihatha|Empress Morihatha}}. Uriel VI had left his sister with rebellious vassals and malcontent citizens to deal with. Nonetheless, she acted decisively and by the end of her reign in {{Year|3E 339}}, Tamriel was nearing a sort of unity. Her nephew, {{Lore Link|Pelagius Septim IV|Pelagius IV}}—though struggling at first—brought the Empire closer to unity than it had been in over 300 years, since the days of Uriel I.{{ref|name=BHotE4|{{Cite book|Brief History of the Empire v 4}}}}
{{Lore Link|Uriel Septim VII}}, son of Pelagius IV, came to power after his father's death in 3E 368. In {{Year|3E 389}}, Uriel VII's battlemage, {{Lore Link|Jagar Tharn}}, managed to imprison the emperor in a dimension of Tharn's own creation. For ten years, later known as the {{Lore Link|Imperial Simulacrum}}, Jagar Tharn ruled in Uriel's place, but showing none of the latter's wisdom. Before Tharn could entirely drive the Empire into the ground, Uriel was rescued and restored to the throne in {{Year|3E 399}}.{{ref|name=BHotE}}
During Uriel Septim VII's reign, which lasted 65 years, he united the Empire for the first time in centuries. By the end of the {{Lore Link|Imperial Simulacrum}}, {{Lore Link|The Warp in the West (event)|Warp in the West}}, and {{Year|3E 427|Vvardenfell Crisis}}, the Empire was even closer to unity than at the end of Pelagius IV's reign. After his [[Oblivion:Assassination!|assassination]], his son, {{Lore Link|Martin Septim}}, ended the {{Lore Link|Oblivion Crisis}}, the Third Era, and—with no more heirs—the Septim dynasty.
The Empire recovered from Tharn's deceit, but ultimately ended when Martin Septim sacrificed himself in a successful bid to seal the rift that had been opened to {{Lore Link|Mehrunes Dagon}}'s plane of Oblivion. {{Lore Link|Ocato of Firsthold|High Chancellor Ocato}} became Potentate Ocato when no candidate to replace Martin could be found. Ocato kept the Empire more or less intact in the tumultuous years after the Oblivion Crisis, but was assassinated in or around {{Year|4E 10}}, which ushered in the seven-year {{Lore Link|Stormcrown Interregnum}}.{{ref|name=RT|{{Cite book|Rising Threat}}}}
===Mede Dynasty===
At some point in the seven years following Ocato's assassination, a Nibenese witch-warrior named {{Lore Link|Thules the Gibbering}} was crowned Emperor, although he was not well liked by the people, the Elder Council favored him over {{Lore Link|Titus Mede}}, a {{Lore Link|Colovia|Colovian}} warlord who sought the throne. Eventually, in 4E 17, Titus Mede captured the {{Lore Link|Imperial City}} from Thules and crowned himself the first Emperor of a {{Lore Link|Mede Dynasty|new dynasty}}, eventually persuading the Elder Council to accept him as a liberator rather than a conqueror.{{ref|name=RT}}{{ref|{{Cite book|The Infernal City|ns=Books}}}}
In 4E 168, Emperor {{Lore Link|Titus Mede II}} ascended to the throne. The Empire was at that time a shadow of its former glory. {{Lore Link|Valenwood}} and {{Lore Link|Elsweyr}} had been ceded to the {{Lore Link|Aldmeri Dominion|third Aldmeri Dominion}}{{ref|name=RT}}, Black Marsh had been lost to Imperial rule since the Oblivion Crisis, {{Lore Link|Morrowind}} had yet to fully recover from the eruption of Red Mountain, and {{Lore Link|Hammerfell}} was plagued by infighting between the {{Lore Link|Crowns|Crown}} and {{Lore Link|Forebears|Forebear}} factions. Only {{Lore Link|High Rock}}, {{Lore Link|Cyrodiil}}, and {{Lore Link|Skyrim}} remained prosperous and peaceful.{{ref|name=TGW|{{Cite book|The Great War (book)}}}}
In 4E 171, the Great War began when armies from the Aldmeri Dominion invaded the Imperial provinces of Hammerfell and Cyrodiil after Titus II rejected an ultimatum to make massive concessions to the Thalmor. An army led by Thalmor general Lord Naarifin emerged from hidden camps in northern Elsweyr and assaulted southern Cyrodiil, flanking Imperial defenses along the Valenwood border. {{Lore Link|Leyawiin}} fell to the invaders, and {{Lore Link|Bravil}} was surrounded and besieged. Simultaneously, an army under Lady Arannelya crossed western Cyrodiil, bypassing {{Lore Link|Anvil}} and {{Lore Link|Kvatch}} and entering Hammerfell. This army was joined by smaller forces landing on Hammerfell's coast. Imperial troops were forced into retreat across the {{Lore Link|Alik'r|Alik'r Desert}}. The {{Lore Link|Imperial City}} was besieged, and fell after the Emperor fled with the remnants of his army to Skyrim. The war ended a year later with the liberation of the Imperial City after the {{Lore Link|Battle of the Red Ring|Battle Of The Red Ring}}, and with the subsequent Imperial acceptance of the {{Lore Link|White-Gold Concordat}}. This treaty contained terms almost identical to those rejected before the war, specifically the outlaw of {{Lore Link|Talos}} worship, which became one of the major causes of the {{Lore Link|Stormcloak Rebellion}} in Skyrim. Hammerfell seceded from the Empire and worked to combat {{Lore Link|Thalmor}} forces on its own, gaining its freedom in 4E 180. This left the Empire in a diminished and less stable condition, though it retained control of the provinces of Cyrodiil, High Rock and Skyrim.{{ref|name=TGW}}
In {{Year|4E 201}}, the Stormcloak Rebellion broke out in Skyrim. The belligerents were the {{Lore Link|Stormcloaks}}, led by {{Lore Link|Ulfric Stormcloak}}, who fought for the independence of Skyrim, and the Imperial Legion, led by General {{Lore Link|Tullius}}, with the intention of holding the Empire together in the face of growing political tensions between them and the Thalmor.{{ref|[[Skyrim:Civil War|Events of Skyrim]]}}<noinclude>
==References==
<references/></noinclude>