| Date | Event |
|---|
| Prehistory |
Mythologically, King Kerwin Longstride, one of King Kelthan of Aorlis paladins, is granted Kaldur. He is known for his battles with Bloodwart the Tarrasque. |
| -544 |
The Karmithian Empire invades and occupies Aorlis |
| -542 |
In the Battle of Bronce Hills in modern Mortwin, Kaldur, General Cornelius Maerus and his Karmithian legions are victorious over the Caedlorian tribes |
| -541 |
The Battle of Ygarl takes place in modern Edby, Kaldur, and General Maxellianus and his Karmithian legions are victorious over the Caedlorian massed tribes |
| -540 |
Solarette Town is founded as a Karmithian Castra |
| -539 |
Baelrin Town is founded as Karmithian castra |
| -538 |
Rgarm Town is founded as a Karmithian castra |
| -537 |
Grensham Town is founded as a Karmithian castra |
| -536 |
Ygarl City is founded as a Karmithian castra |
| -535 |
Ygarl City is founded as a Karmithian castra |
| -535 |
Ymban Town is founded as a Karmithian castra |
| -443 |
In Rgarm Castra, classical author Gnaeus Sullinus writes the much-studied Chronicles of War |
| -165 |
In the Battle of Periden River in modern Periden, Kaldur, Karmithian Emperor Asterium Liapanos is victorious over the Caedlorians tribe. |
| 144-145 |
The Great Mortality plague arrives in Aorlis via Never Street and Unmaed, killing 40% of the population. Aorlisians consider the plague to be divine punishment. |
| 146-148 |
The Great Mortality returns every year through 00008, but the death rate eventually rises to 60-75% of pre-144 levels |
| 149-154 |
The Dread Famine begins with crop failure in 149, endures through 154, and Aorlis doesn’t recover fully for decades. Starvation kills half the surviving population, and generations suffer the effect of malnutrition. This famine is tied to plague-based work-force mortality, and with crops left to rot in the fields |
| 400 |
Kaldur Palace is built in Baerlin City |
| 484 |
Pendarr I of House Pendarr, one of King Torenth’s sons, becomes the High King of Rhonce (This includes Kaldur) |
| 708 |
Most Reverend Florimond Cruikshank witnesses the Blessing of the Chapel in Baelrin |
| 721 |
House Valde, cadet of House Pendarr, becomes the Kings of Rhonce |
| 0750 c. |
St. Alfranc converts Kaldur to the Faith |
| 752 |
The Seal of Grensham miracle is witnessed in Grensham Town by Cornelis Dempster |
| 767 |
The Raethelite Abbey Farrel is founded |
| 770 |
Nichlaus Horning, a solitary vampire, takes residence in Ymban Town. He loves excellent music and ale and is popular among the locals, and lives there still |
| 800 |
The Raethelite Abbey Wissencroft is founded |
| 810 |
The Raethelite Abbey Shadow Cave is founded |
| 811 |
The Humilitine Abbey Grunselm is founded |
| 822 |
Adelbert Wantler invents the hourglass in Ymban Town. |
| 829 |
High King Michael I of House Thurston of Arlium dealt decisively defeats to a Jotun army in the Battle of Three Days at the Beck River, Keld, in Kaldur |
| 829 |
The The Raethelite Convent Rund is founded |
| 833 |
The Raethelite Convent Erndts is founded |
| 836 |
The Humilitine Abby Twin Creeks is founded |
| 877 |
The Renunciator Abby Oulestre is founded |
| 885 |
The House Banville, cadet of House Valde, becomes the Kings of Rhonce |
| 885 |
The House Drossell, cadet of House Pendar, becomes the Palatine Counts of Kaldur, and Kaldur (once called Caedlore) secedes from the Rhonce |
| 899 |
Rothby Town Is founded |
| 901 |
The Raethelite Monastery Bann is founded |
| 903-908 |
The Merciless Famine begins with crop failure in 903, endures through 908, and Aorlis doesn’t recover fully until approximately 925. Starvation kills around 30% of the population, and generations suffer malnutrition |
| 911 |
Raethelite Abbey Umbles founded, |
| 912 |
Perigritian Priory Penneby Founded |
| 922 |
Baelrin City is granted its charter |
| 930 |
Luquin Fabron perfects the reduction furnace in Rothby Town |
| 953 |
Wautier Caron of Solarette Town introduces the alembic (for distilling) |
| 971 |
Robin Ephalates writes The Doomed Romance of Ephaliades and Lamorita in Talos Town |
| 982 |
The Recollectine Order Regular Clergy aka the White Monks are founded in Ygarl City |
| 982 |
The Recollectine Order Regular Clergy aka White Monks founded in Ygarl City |
| 990 |
Alchemist Bearnard Munnings in in what would become Ymban Town molds his ideal love from of clay. The girl, named Berengaria, promptly falls in love with a local minstrel and elopes with him. She is rumored to be ageless and still live in the area. |
| 992 |
The Humilitine Convent Wyndmark is founded |
| 999 |
Br. Lambert Coward witnesses the Sacred Vision of Baelrin |
| 999 |
Gaucher Laugar casts the Seal of Wollyn working designed to bind the lords of Hell, but fails because of too many shortcuts |
| 999 |
Norrick Town is founded |
| 0999-1003 |
The Great Pestilence arrives, eventually killing 60% of the population |
| 1000 |
Binn Castle is build Elmyrlan Barony, Beck County |
| 1000 |
The Mystonian Preceptory Bondlesby is founded |
| 1001 |
House Bryant, cadet of House Drossell, becomes the Palatine Counts of Kaldur |
| 1001 |
In Solarette Town, Berold Elmonduer leads the Grand Reprisal Working to strike the demon Nivash for the Book of the Damned, causing all reference to this being to vanish forever |
| 1005 |
House Talbot, cadet of House Bryant, becomes the Counts of Edby |
| 1011 |
In Grensham Town, philosopher, alchemist, poet, and author Evard DeGrensham, begins his literary career writing My Solace be the Stars, followed in time by An Ode to Visions Distant, and The Journey is the Reward |
| 1011 |
St. Valnor’s Church begins construction in Rothby Town, designed by the mad mason, Tobias Edgeford, a genius who could bend perspective with his designs and create impossible spaces |
| 1015 |
Nadine Chapman witnesses The Grand Apotheosis of the Blessed Ones in Rgarm Town |
| 1022 |
Arlbend Castle is begun in Saltonby Barony, Periden County |
| 1022 |
Br. Flinton Stringfellow and an astonished crowd witnesses The Miracle of the Flying Monks of Norrick Town |
| 1022 |
Colard Beryan, influenced by Arpathian Gospels, enacts the Invocation of the Broken Seal working in Embricht Town. It ends in sorrow, and all his assistants are turned to dust, and their remains later form the basis of Colard Powder |
| 1033 |
Jacques Archambeau invents the floating crane in Baelrin |
| 1041 |
Ington Town is founded in 1043 |
| 1043 |
The Miracle of the Angelic Hosts occurs in Ington Town |
| 1055 |
Mathematician Sylvester Barbierre publishes the revolutionary The Book of Proofs in Baelrin |
| 1055 |
Thodheim Town is founded |
| 1068-1071 |
The Apocalypse Pestilence arrives in Aorlis via Baelrin, Kaldur. During the next months, it envelopes all coastal regions Aorlis its neighboring countries. It covers all Aorlis by 1069. It returns each year through 1071, but kills fewer each time. In total, it has a 40% mortality rate |
| 1073 |
Embricht Town is founded |
| 1077 |
Talos Town is founded |
| 1097-1108 |
The Rothby-Norrick Canal is dug |
| 1099 |
Simeon Norstand of Rothby Town writes The Providential Tales of Morality, a book with anthropomorphized animal characters. |
| 1101 |
Philibert DeLoque attempts The Telfarri Gambit in Grensham Town. The spell goes awry, Phillibert dies horribly, and the first Ithmargs are introduced into Aarthus. |
| 1103 |
Sir Terrence Medway lays siege to Rothby Town, which surrenders peacefully. He hangs all of Rothsby’s men, sells the children to Hextonian slavers, and uses the church as a brothel for with the surviving women |
| 1109 |
Br. Zenis Neuville of Ymban Town writes Everyman’s Pride and Tales of Kaldur a’ Yore |
| 1114-1118 |
The Periden-Beck Canal is dug |
| 1120 |
The University of Ygarl is founded in Ygarl City |
| 1120 |
Ymban Town is founded |
| 1121-1144 |
Kerwin Guant writes the Divine Sojourn, Gaunt’s Grimoire of Hexes, and Gaunt’s Grimoire of Imprisoned Powers around 1121-1144 in Baerlin |
| 1122-1126 |
There is a 12th century imp infestation in Embricht, but local exorcists capture them in spirit jars, thereby creating the infamous imp bottles |
| 1130 |
Most Reverend Laurence Lister witnesses the Heavenly Radiance of Embricht Miracle in 1130. |
| 1130 |
Sir Herpon Monelm of Rothby writes the celebrated tale of Bludwort, the Beast of Rothby |
| 1132 |
The Ansley River is redirected to Ygarl City |
| 1133 |
Beckward Castle is built in Lagolle Barony, Beck County |
| 1160 |
Beatrice LeFowlard of Ygarl founds the Knights of St. Marina, the only known chivalric order made up up of women knights, or militessas |
| 1169 |
The Esjardin River river is redirected to Ygarl City |
| 1177-1179 |
The Dread Famine begins with crop failure in 1177, rages through 1179, and Aorlis doesn’t recover fully until approximately 1200. Starvation kills around 30% of the population, and several generations suffer the effects of malnutrition. |
| 1190 |
The Waldeger Tower Working, in which Bouchard Waldeger strives to make Ington Town’s walls unconquerable |
| 1192 |
Br. Gedefoy Neuville publishes The Amazing Adventures of Sir Whimsy Boxdale in Solarette Town |
| 1198 |
Beckgotte Castle is built in Thylar-Feld Barony, Edby |
| 1200 |
Berengaria Dassien casts the Fermian Working in Norrick Town, successfully mining Firmian from the walls of the Primum Mobile. |
| 1201 |
Si. Alaissa Tait witnesses the miraculous Redemption of the Innocents in Rothby |
| 1204-1212 |
The Ygarl Canal is dug |
| 1210 |
Aliamor Cortessa of Ygarl writes Of War and Strife, subtitled Kaldur—Modern 13th Century War Systemized |
| 1211 |
Antoinelle Gauthierre attempts The Resurrection of Xiscorick working in Baelrin City to open a star gate at the Standing Stones of Stohrs to summon the Great Chthonic Old One, Xiscorick the Inexorable |
| 1211 |
Trobairitz Nadianne of Ygarl de la Plaz writes the Song of Marina the Militessa |
| 1212 |
Beckridge Castle is built in Grunselm Barony, Cormard County |
| 1212 |
Dietrich Moire of the University of Ygarl invents anesthetics |
| 1214 |
Captain Bertrand Goscand burns down the church at Castle Beckridge |
| 1215 |
Harseblum Castle is build in Harseblum Barony, Warford County |
| 1215-1225 |
Nathanial Fitz Pantler, a celebrated performers in Ymban, writes classic sing-a-longs such as Bar Fly Balls, Three Pentels for the Lusty Maid, Me Da’s a Whoreson, and Daisy Rides a Zerde |
| 1220 |
Sir Engilbert Raleighe of Embricht Town writes the crude but entertaining Book of Naughty Squires |
Potential War of the Roses?
Heh. I write those type of situations in with glee. Wars and alliances have swept up players more than once.
You kind of have to. Keeps the player s on their toes, especially when they end up in settlements and get up levels. Have a family of noble born NPCs that's fun to use for this specific purpose.