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The history of the Ensigerum, post Errant War, is fairly straight forward. Feeling even more rejected by their expulsion from the elves than the rest of the humans, the surviving Ensigerum monks put aside their differences and banded to together for survival. Unlike many of the other groups of humans, they were quite capable of thriving in the new wilds on their own; they did have their own problems however. The elves never trained female humans as Ensigerum and very few of the male monks had any spouses (and fewer still of them survived the Errant Wars), so they soon faced an extreme shortage of women in their camps. The Ensigerum soon started to take women from the other scattered groups of humans they encountered. Some were lured with promises of safety, food and healing, while other women were simply kidnapped and dragged back to the Ensigerum camps. This practice only lasted a few of generations though, and once it was no longer a necessity for survival the Ensigerum began avoiding the other groups of human when ever possible.
The monks eventually migrated to an isolated mountain valley in northern Veracia and settled there forming the village they live in to the present setting of Errant story.
At first the Ensigerum continued the practice of refusing training to women, but necessity soon overtook that. They began with just training the women of the village in basic combat and magic, partly for their own safety, and so they would be able to give basic instruction to the young men of the village. But soon they started training women as full fledged monks as well. And a few decades later, a female monk named Miranda Laven discovered the time manipulation effects that would become the order’s signature technique. Miranda went on to become the Ensigerum’s first female Imperator, and furthered refined the Order’s understanding of time magic as well as a number of policies of the Order itself, including allowing magically talented outsiders to join if they proved themselves worthy. Miranda served as Imperatrix for twenty seven years then vanished under unknown circumstances, along with her protégé. This caused all sorts of rumors and stories to be created to explain their disappearance, some of which endured to this day as legends of the Order.
