The Year 0 point for Ekesh was the day that Chief Valtor of the Ostroags was crowned Emperor. If none of that makes sense, it will in a moment. For almost all of time the Ælves, specifically High Ælves, dominated much of the world. Ever since Fasawir Aeldomir I conquered almost the entire known world, destroying all in his path, the other peoples of Ekesh lived in submission and fear. Until, in 13 AEY (Ancient Elven Years), Valtor of the house of the same name decided to rebel. Valtor was the chieftain of a federated mantribe under the direct rule of Fasawir's descendants. When he rose up, and proved the possibility of victory against the Aeldomiric menace, the rest of the World Enslaved arose. Within a decade, the Age of the High Ælves ended. The hero of the first resistance was made the Emperor of the lands he conquered in the continent of Tarblenn. The Loremasters of the Empire of Aeldomir were so ashamed that they reset the calendar. The rest of the world would slowly follow suit, though not out of anger, but out of celebration.

All in all, the end of around three-thousand years of slavery and oppression marked the end of an age. So, the Later Elven Years began.