Category:Resurgence Canon

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The Resurgence is an Elder Scrolls RP Canon formulated by the minds of Walley146 and Graythorne. The Canon supports its own continuity and sublore. The basic design of the Canon surfaced in July 2017 with the creation of the key character 'Vjolnir.' Over the past two and a half years, it evolved from just simple head canon to an entire RP universe.

The Resurgence has humble beginnings in the tale of Vjolnir, a powerful Nord Vampire Lord, claiming the throne of the Volkihar Clan with the aid of one Graythorn Perenolde IV, a direct descendant of Graythorn I, who is known as the Champion of Cyrodiil and Second Divine Crusader. Graythorn IV is a man of ambition, who soon finds himself as the Emperor of Tamriel leading a war against the Aldmeri Dominion and An-Xileel.

Summary
In the year of 4E 201 the midnight throne of Castle Volkihar was usurped from the long-lived Lord Harkon by his daughter Serana and his own protégé, Vjolnir, both aided by a traveling Breton knight named Graythorn IV. When the power-crazed Harkon was slain by the trio, Vjolnir immediately set to changing the Volkihar Clan of vampires from a cabal of animals dwelling in caves to an organized society based from power and etiquette, whilst Graythorn IV went on to find a calling in the Imperial Legion and fought against the Stormcloak Rebellion in Skyrim. Both men were gifted with and driven by great ambitions, as Vjolnir reshaped the Volkihar through guile and might and Graythorn ascended through the Legion through singular tactical acumen and martial prowess, bolstered by the Breton's faith in the divine Akatosh. By the end of the year 202, the Legion had stormed the ancient Nord city of Windhelm and Ulfric Stormcloak was slain, thus ending the Rebellion in earnest in Skyrim. And with this accomplished, Graythorn Perenolde IV was honored as a Legate by the military governor, General Tullius. The next few years saw the Legate Perenolde quelling the final holdouts of resistance in Skyrim before he was stationed in the heartland of the Empire, Cyrodiil. As fate would have it, Skyrim was not the only province of the Empire that harbored its share of treasonous talk, for many factions and groups of individuals were covertly speaking of the weakness of the Mede Dynasty, made worse by the Aldmeri Dominion's ever-tightening grip over the Empire. In due time, such talk made its way to the ears of Legate Perenolde, himself doubting the Empire's ability to survive in its current state of decline, though not yet willing to betray his oath of fealty to Titus Mede II. Through diligent prayer and restless service, keeping the peace in Cyrodiil, Graythorn IV finally resolved to lead the growing revolution as a hero of the people, realizing that betraying an oath to a failing emperor was the lesser of a greater evil- letting all the Empire once was, what his own family was, fall into darkness. Upon the dawning of 4E 205, Graythorn IV led an armed and swift insurrection focused in the Imperial City proper, planned and executed to spill as little blood as possible. The Legate and his loyal troops fought through the White-Gold Tower, until they found Titus Mede II, deposing the emperor and imprisoning him. The next day, Graythorn IV was crowned Graynerius Perelius, Emperor of Tamriel. During his coronation, Graynerius declared to any that opposed his rule that he would undo the rot that corroded the Empire from its former glory.

In the next twelve years that followed, Graynerius reorganized the Empire and separated it from its service to the Dominion. The Dominion itself faced domestic issues in Valenwood, combating various Bosmeri rebellions and guerrilla forces.

In 4E 217, Masser and Secunda, the moons of Nirn, yet again vanished as they had in 4E 98. This event was seen as a catastrophe, leading to superstitious riots within the Empire and chaos within the borders of the Dominion. The Dominion, having taken credit for returing the moons the first time they vanished, suffered prosecution from the Khajiit, for they believed the Altmer to have saved their precious moons. The Dominion was faced with trouble in both Elsweyr and Valenwood, and hatred for the Dominion within the Empire grew so profound that the populace demanded war with the "slaving deceivers." Eventually, after pressure from the populace and his advisors, Emperor Graynerius organized his troops and invaded the Dominion's territory, beginning the Second Great War, later to be known as the Wars of Resurgence.

The Wars of Resurgence lasted a total of thirteen long years. The Second Great War came to an end in 4E 223, when the Aldmeri Dominion surrendered to the encroaching forces of the Empire, who had seen success for most of the War. The Empire was successful in liberating Valenwood from Thalmor tyranny and annexing Elsweyr, establishing them both as provinces once more. The Republic of Hammerfell had aided the Empire during the War, and itself faced territorial losses to the Dominion. The terms of Aldmeri surrender were the removal of the Thalmor from power and the reorganization of the Dominion as a confederacy, dubbed the "Aldmeri Dominion of Great Alinor and the Khefric States." In eastern Tamriel, the Dunmer suffered great losses at the hands of the war-crazed nation of Argonia headed by the militaristic An-Xileel. In a last act of desperation, the Dark Elves turned to the Empire for aid, which offered an ultimatum of assimilation or annihilation. The Dark Elves chose the former, and thus the State of Morrowind was assimilated into the Empire once more, and the combined Imperial and Dunmer forces drove the An-Xileel from Morrowind. However, the Argonians refused to surrender, proclaiming their war to be everlasting. In one final, perhaps warmongering act spawned from hatred of the Hist and the Argonian race, Emperor Graynerius sanctioned the Burning of Argonia, in which the Black Marsh was burned in a sea of fire. The An-Xileel bitterly surrendered, thus ending the Wars of Resurgence.

However, Graynerius was not the only monarch that waged war during the Wars of Resurgence. The now heralded King Vjolnir had expanded his vision of vampires united under his governance beyond the limits of Skyrim, aggressively claiming territory from the lesser, more disorganized vampire clans as the Empire was reformed. Vjolnir's greatest opposition came from the infamous Order of Vampyrum based in Cyrodiil, a secret and shadowy war fought between the two clans. Ultimately, however, the Volkihar were victorious and established influence within the Heartlands and portions of High Rock. Not only this, but just prior to the Empire's invasion of the Summerset Isles, Emperor Graynerius hesitantly called upon Vjolnir, an old associate owing him a favor, to cause havoc in the heart of the Aldmeri Dominion with his vampires.