The primordial forces of the world made their first contact with the creator of all things, and named it God. After this encounter, the immortal beings, named God-kin, were born, and the mortal beings of the world evolved from primordial life into sentient beings.
History of Amen
A timeline of historical events starting from the turn of the era.
A Deu
0 P.E. and beyond
With the first contact of God, the immortal races were born, and from them came the mortals that inhabit the world.
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First Contact
First Contact
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1 AD
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The Assistance
Religious eventAfter the first year, on the month of the star, God bestowed part of their divinity to the devout immortal races, giving them their knowledge and power.
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101 AD
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Initial Civilization
FoundingThe God-kin lost contact with God, but presumed God's existence to only be distant, not gone. Some of the God-kin though, like the dragons or the elves, professed the possibility of God's demise, a curiosity that spelled their expulsion from their connection to the God-kin. Now alone, the God-kin split from each other to the furthest reaches of Amen, and began assert domination over the mortals of the world; almost all of which assented the false title of "God." Some mortals accepted these immortal beings as gods, while others, like the dragons, refuse to accept their self-proclaimed divinity. The God-kin then began to bestow the knowledge they had acquired from God to reward the mortal races for their worship, which lead mortals to the beginnings of civilization.
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432 AD
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Fall of the God-kin
Disaster / DestructionInexplicably, at the same time all around the world, all of the God-kin experienced cataclysm. While many of them still remained, the encounter left a considerable effect, as the God-kin no longer had the power to continue blessing mortals with their divine knowledge. Some of the mortals lost faith, and their "gods" died out, but many other mortals continued in their worship, inadvertently feeding and rejuvenating the remains of the God-kin. Regardless, civilization continued on, now with minimal divine assistance.
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450 AD
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Current Civilization
FoundingEach of the mortal races created some explanation for the "god's" loss of power, and though many of the original civilizations were lost to The Fall, progress continued for the mortal races, albeit at a much slower and misguided pace. Many of these new civilizations have existed for hundreds of years now, and some of the world's most powerful mystics sense this age's close coming ever nearer.