Humans arrive on the eastern shores of Nerasia, launching the Early Age.
The major events in anthropological Nerasian history. Warning: Contains spoilers for City of Reckoning. Spoilers are not hidden.
A fishing village in Kahr, the first region settled by humans, grows into the earliest major city and trading center in Nerasia: Sray. This city will become the continent's oldest, longest-standing city, and a symbol of commerce for many millennia. Sray is famous for its pyramids and beautiful temples, and as the birthplace of writing.
The Saritin people in the Talaris Desert build the first major, multi-citied civilization in Nerasia, and reach the height of their power.
The Mashendian city-states begin their rise to prominence in northern Nerasia.
A simple method of record-keeping grows into the full-fledged Tabaro writing in Sray, consisting of runic lines and small circles and slashes for punctuation. This writing system spreads throughout eastern and northern Nerasia and is used by many languages.
The Saritin civilization descends into weakness, and falls prey to the warlike Telanites, who arrive from southeastern Nerasia and supplant them as a new power.
After breaking up the Saritin civilization, the Telanites form a new coastal city-state: Telanin.
Nomads known as the Sorians migrate south. One major faction settles in the Karoa region; another travels further and settles on the Labira Islands.
The Kidiesh people migrate into the Talaris Desert and build the city-state of Jurro, which will later expand into a powerful kingdom and a rival of Telanin.
The first known epic story is written down: The Epic of Ishara (IH-shah-ruh). The story recounts the deeds of the mythical hero, Ishara, who leads humanity across the seas on a magical winged beast, and founds the city of Sray. The people of Sray, especially its regents, claim to be of Ishara's lineage, and the story is of central importance to their cultural and ethnic identity.
Krijha and Aronma, a married couple living in the city-state of Karoseth, write down their vision for the ideal city-state, which includes an argument for gender equality and a form of oligarchy. Their book is in response to a contemporary title, On Kings, by a man named Heshinia, who advocates for patriarchal monarchies as the perfect form of governance, complete with instructions on how to run one. Krijha and Aronma's response book, On Cities, becomes wildly popular in the Mashendian city-states and greatly influences culture and politics for centuries to come.
The West-Sorian people, later to be known as the Mosori, invent the Karoi writing system. The Karoi writing system is soon used throughout the Karoia region.
Around this time, the Sorian people begin considering themselves two separate people: The Mosori and the Sabani.
The civilization of Jurro, after becoming exposed to the Karoi writing system and coveting its aesthetic beauty, develops a hybrid writing system that incorporates both Karoi and Tabaro characters. The hybrid system, known as Hosho (meaning "both") becomes popular throughout southern Nerasia.
The Pirimians begin their conquest of northwestern Nerasia, launching the Imperial Age.
Jurro plants the coastal city of Ush, officially ending their status as a city-state and beginning their reign as a multi-citied kingdom.
King Jakaro II orders his imperial poets and scribes to write down oral traditions about the founding of Jurro, with many new embellishments. This group effort results in the epic poem, The Hamashunam.
A faction of Aquatic Mosori people, known as the Ili, break off to form the underground city-state of Ilies.
The kingdom of Jurro plants the city of Besset, running into conflict with both the indigenous hunter-gatherers of the region, and the pirating Payeshi people that inhabit the islands between Besset and Ush.
A group of warlike people, the Dorins, leave the Northern Plains to escape religious conflict and the encroaching reach of the Pirimian Empire. They arrive in Karoa and form an uneasy, temporary peace with the original inhabitants, the Mosori and Sabani.
Major conflict breaks out between Dorins and Sabani beginning in 830 IA. A long series of scattered wars leads to the official campaign in 846 IA to conquer the region. Twenty-one years later, in 867, the war ends with both Mosoria and Sabán under the heels of the new Dorish Empire.
After 37 years of conflict, including a 21-year-long campaign to conquer the Karoi region, the Dorins officially establish their empire over the Mosori and Sabani people.
When forces from the Pirimian Empire invade the Dorish Empire, the much smaller Dorish Empire enlists the aid of Jurro to fend them off, leading to the largest battle in recorded Nerasian history to that date.
The unification of the Mosori tribes begins with the Council of Olo-onu in 1023 IA, which marks the formation of the Confederation of Mosoria. The unification effort officially ends in 1135 IA with the inclusion of the Kano and Ali tribes.
Dorina's attempt to fend off Pirimian forces fails. With both a rebellion and a revolution weakening Dorina's power from the inside, the empire crumbles under Pirim's hand, despite military assistance from Jurro. Many peasants and merchant-class Dorins remain peacefully, and integrate themselves into Sabani society.
In the aftermath of the Dorish Empire's fall, a monastic known as Saruni Do'alae, of the Daho tribe, writes down the first completed manuscript of the Epic of the Adaehino.
After the fall of the Dorish Empire, the Sabani tribes form a tight alliance, and soon begin to develop a national identity. Inspired by the Mosori Confederation, the Sabani unite into one nation during the Council of Aesuno in 1090 IA.
The Kingdom of Jurro extends its reach to the Labira Islands, conquering the indigenous Payeshi people there, and unofficially adding itself to the ranks of great Nerasian empires.
The Kingdom of Jurro, unofficially an empire, reaches the height of its power and affluence.
The desert kingdoms of Jurro and Telanin engage in major conflict over the contested, culturally-significant lands to the south of Jurro.
The Labira Islands fight against Jurro for their independence, and succeed. Jurro loses its position as an empire, and Labira becomes its own nation-state.
With the official fall of the Pirimian Empire, the continent of Nerasia steps into its Kingdom Age.
Following the power vacuum created by the Pirimian Empire's fall, revolution sweeps through the Mashendian city-states as powerful figures take control, establish themselves as regents, and war against other city-states to expand their territory.
In another series of brutal conflicts, the kingdoms and city-states of Mashendia come to a head as Irium, Karoseth, and Eprym seek to expand their borders.
Eprym conquers Kicha and Marosapti. Karoseth fights against Irium, Bantakal, and Akkium, but loses.
The city-state of Lekro undergoes a revolution, and shifts from an oligarchy to a monarchy under the new rulership of King Rashato I, also known as King Rashato the Wise. Rather than going to war against Lekro's neighbors, King Rashato strengthens the city-state's relationship with Mekía, Norr, and Asík, and forms a new, friendly relationship and trade network with Karoseth.
Besset negotiates its independence from the Kingdom of Jurro. It soon expands its reach and power in the southern grasslands, forming more cities as part of its new kingdom.
The underground city-state of Ilies suffers an earthquake, and most of the city becomes destroyed and unlivable. The survivors move above ground and form the nation of Casania. Irium, their ally, helps them rebuild.
A conquering Srayish king, Sha-Ruik, unifies the small kingdoms of Urrum into one large kingdom: Ruik.
King Ikaiyes, in response to Ruikite aggression, unifies the cities of northern Kahr into one kingdom.