The Absolutes Established the Dimensions
The History of the World of Arrhynsia
The Founding - The Time of Beginnings
Before Time until The Gathering
Shrouded in mystery, lost in the dimmest reaches of the past, legends of the founding recount the establishment of the very structure of the dimensions, the firmament, the world and her bevy of suitors. The founding is ageless, but so many answers to the questions of why and who we are start here, where the vastness of the cosmos is bereft of the insignificant thing we now call time.
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In the time before timeThe Creation
Era beginning/end -
-The Eldritch Destroyed
Disaster / DestructionShrub Niggarth and her ilk freely wandered the dimensions destroying all they encountered. -
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The Voices Arise
Metaphysical / Paranormal event -
-Sol Gives Light and Life for the People
CelestialNo good comes without cost,and so the life of the first people was bought with sacrifice -
-The Voices Establish the Weave
Metaphysical / Paranormal eventfor the Eldritch preyed upon the people,and the Absolutes would not hear their cries -
-The Voices Create the World
Geological / environmental event
The Rising - The Time of Gods and People
From the Gathering to the Landing
Time and place firmly planted - the Rising is the time of the gathering of the peoples of Arrhynsia to the Voices, the arising of the Ascended, and the struggle between the gods for the sentient peoples they cared for - or not.
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The Voices Gather their People
Era beginning/endAnd the people gathered to them,the Dwarves to the All Father,the Dragons to Saynleh,the Elves to Lameravis,the Short to Crwydryn,but Jiisho called none, instead accepting those who were without. -
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War of Light and Dark
CelestialIn which the Light and Dark became irrevokably separated, and the Voices intervened on behalf of the peoples. The War of Light and Dark
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The Dwarven Kingdom Is Established
Founding -
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The Shattering
Disaster / DestructionThe conflict between Saynleh and Jiishoshattered the leylines and the world itself in the lands of the elves. -
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The Elven Kingdoms Established
Foundingfounds the kingdom of Dryadae in the heart of the Echovad Forest. -
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The War of Blood
Military action -
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Yulasta Ascends
Religious eventBlood deep across the Whispering Plains,the Orcs turned to the Motherwho gave them solace. -
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Elysium, The World Tree Is Planted
Religious eventGiven by Jiisho to the Orcs who had no Voice,but had the fierceness to protect the most precious of gifts. -
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Yggsdrasil Planted
Religious eventBemused by the beauty of his sister's gift to the orcs,Lameravis stole a branch from Elysium,and planted it in the Echovod Forrest. -
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Yulasta Shoulders Jiisho's Burden
Religious eventTrained by the Voice Jiisho herself, Yulasta accepts responsibility for maintaining the weave, guarding the material plane and it's neighbors from invasion by eldritch horrors.
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The Betrayal
Metaphysical / Paranormal eventLameravis himself was made to be no moreand of the Six, there was only One left -
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The Uprising of the Dark
Military actionThe dark elves breach the gate to their prison under the dwarven capitol of Uftlon and vie for freedom for themselves and their evil Mistress.
The Changing - The Time of Humans
From the Landing to Present
When the humans arrived, the sentient peoples of Arrhynsia had no idea the far sweeping changes that would be wrought upon their world. These are the days where acts of good and evil have been passed from the hands of the gods to mortals.
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1 AH
Humans Arrive in Arrhynsia
Discovery, ExplorationThe continent will never be the same.
Location
EryiaSpecies
Human Species -
900 AH
The Cataclysm
Disaster / DestructionHuman wizards attempt to terraform their land, and turn it from a verdant paradise into the frozen Northern Wastes, initiating the Fifth Wave. -
950 AH
Humans Establish the Southern Kingdom
FoundingAfter 50 years of searching and fighting for a new home, humans are pushed to the desert lands south of the Draakthor Massiff to make their future as best they can.
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1000 AH
Land of the Short Arises
FoundingThe short unite to form a coalition government to defend their land and homes against incursions by the humans from the Southern Kingdom -
1527 AH
1538 AH
The Great Spell Plague
Plague / Epidemicover 35% of all people living at the time died by a magically enhanced plague
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1943 AH
1967 AH
The Short Spell Plague
Plague / EpidemicThe current hostile relationship between the Land of the Short and the Southern Kingdom is due in no small part to the attempt of humans to exploit the suffering of the haflings in the Short Spell Plague and the suspicions of many that humans created it -
2025 AH
32027
The Lost War
Military actionA tribal squabble over a little orcish raiding throws the entire universe into peril, and unites a race of warmongering brutes into a genocidal horde with revenge on their mind.
Additional timelines
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2027 AH
8 /2
Death of Yulasta
Metaphysical / Paranormal event -
2027 AH
15 /2 912:002027 AH
17 /2 912:00
Black Fire Massacre
Military action -
3018 AH
19 /6 14:00
The War of the Eternals
Gathering / ConferenceThe War of the Eternals was an effort of the celestials to wipe out the detestable practices of the Dark Mages. It became a pivot in the development of the underlying techology engine of the economy of the continent.
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