The birth of the future first Empress of Alterna.
History of Ducorde
The history of the world of Final Fantasy Horizon.
Before Alterna
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The era before the founding of the Alternan Empire.
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-20 BA
Relis Laurent Born
Life, Birth -
-3 BA
Relis Laurent sets out to see the world
ExpeditionThe woman who would be Empress set out to explore the Gap of Termina and find what lay beyond the mountains.
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-2 BA
Relis Laurent enters the Gap
Discovery, ExplorationRelis Laurent discovers the edge of Ducorde, and steps over it.
Alternan Empire
1 and beyond
The era of the Alternan Empire (and after, as the timeline was fairly well-established at that point).
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1
Founding of Alternan Empire
Era beginning/end -
43
Saron Founded
FoundingThe city-state of Saron is founded, southwest of Alterna. Expeditions to the south and east are launched from here, turning the city-state into a transportation hub for all Alternan traffic.
Location
Saron -
55
City of Mechon founded
FoundingMechon, the oldest city in Machanon, allegedly was founded in the year 55 AE, though this is hotly contested by historians across Ducorde.
Location
Machanon -
119
City of Cardia founded
FoundingThe city-state of Cardia is founded to the north as a base camp for Alternan explorers looking to scale the Rinkan mountains to find what lay beyond the forbidding range.
Location
Cardia -
169
Rinkan expedition abandoned
ExpeditionThe explorers finally abandon their forays into the mountains and instead continue residing in the Empire's newest province.
Location
Cardia -
333
City of Koehnta founded
Founding -
480
Phiro, Sofia, Zurvan founded
FoundingThe three city-states that would form the Triad are founded in some order. They would become the Empire's premier transportation and travel hub due to their central location in the Dicelan Sea.
Location
The Triad -
644
Machanon founded
FoundingThe city-states in the east come together under the first Arithmagician to form the country of Machanon, another province of the Alternan Empire.
Location
Machanon -
801
Caerwyn founded
FoundingUnder the guidance of legendary Arena Champion Xing Wu, Caerwyn is founded as a province of the Empire to ensure those who lived away from the capital still had a voice in its operation.
Location
Caerwyn -
850
Fire of Koehnta kindled
Geological / environmental eventA tower of fire rises in Koehnta and burns for over four hundred years, to the current day.
Location
Machanon -
889
Augustine declares independence
Political eventAugustine officially states that it will no longer be part of the Alternan Empire. A brief and bloody war follows.
Location
Alterna -
891
Treaty between Empire and Augustine
Political eventA treaty declaring the end of the Augustinian War for Independence and the recognition of Augustine as a sovereign nation is signed.
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943
Sainé declares independence
Diplomatic actionSainé declares its independence from Alterna. Alterna takes no public action but privately acknowledges it. No war follows.
Location
Alterna -
950
957
War for Alterna
Military actionAll remaining nations declared their independence from Alterna, declared war on Alterna, and then declared war on each other. War raged until Alterna was wiped out in 957 AE.
Location
Alterna -
957
Great Crystal shatters
Disaster / DestructionThe Great Crystal inside of Alterna shattered. The capital almost immediately became a magical wasteland.
Location
Alterna -
966
Triad Compact ratified
Diplomatic actionPhiro, Sofia, and Zurvan officially form the Triad, ending their infighting after Alterna's destruction and establishing the city as a major trade hub for everyone on Ducorde.
Location
The Triad -
981
Job Crystals Return
Discovery, ScientificJob Crystals return to Ducorde, though they are no longer a force that mandates people follow a fated path.
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1227
17 Kuganepo
Lenore Hikaru born
Life, Birth -
1229
Myrta Osler born
Life, Birth -
1229
12 Forgotten
Jessamine Dravanor born
Life, Birth -
1232
Linnet Leveche born
Life, BirthLinnet Leveche is born.
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1234
Isaline Osler born
Life, Birth -
1243
Samaje Batson ascends as Arithmagician
Life, Career -
1246
Consul Levine Firsker of Saron dies without successor
Life, DeathConsul Levine Firsker of Saron achieves their Memoria without naming a successor, plunging Saron into a civil war.
Location
Saron -
1248
Jessamine Dravanor takes the Cardian throne
Life, CareerWith the passing of her father Peiran Dravanor, Jessamine Dravanor is crowned King of Cardia.
Location
Cardia -
1252
Cardian Houses Exiled
Diplomatic actionJessamine Dravanor exiles the Osler, Schtauffen, and Nakamura families from Court.
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1253
Darksteel Mine in Cardia closes
Civil actionThe Darksteel Mine in Cardia, used for the dragoon spears, closes with no publicly-known reason or planned date of reopening.
Location
Cardia -
1253
Viera Triumverate takes power in the Triad
Civil action