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  • 0


    The Descent of Helenaphe
    Celestial

    The first of the gods arrive on New Haven and Helenaphe, their leader, sanctifies the land, incepting linear time and preparing the world for the arrival of their subjects, the Humans. Helenaphe exhausts all her strength in the feat and lays down to die, becoming the Trinzejar jungles at the Continent's northern end. The event destroys thousands of Gauthran creatures.

  • 72


    Luziamanie is born outside Grentur

  • 247


    Arrival of Nerimortial
    Metaphysical / Paranormal event

    Nerimortial arrived in New Haven from the world of Ipsij on a scouting mission but was discovered and imprisoned by the gods Knimehaud and Quianna.

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    Nerimortial
  • 300


    Anaphrene's purges

  • 348

    6

    Edd Bechdel's Cure
    Life, Failure / Mishap

    Edd Bechdel takes his daughter, Madder, to be cured in the springs deep beneath Lutol only for her to become an undyne and flee from him in the underground rivers

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    Edd Bechdel
  • 360


    Death of Quianna
    Life, Death

    Pholimor sent the young Quianna deep into the Manatza pampas on a pointless errand to fetch stones for their oven. Ambushed by violent Kimbur, Quianna could not bring herself to lay a finger on the creatures and so submitted to their beatings. Upon realizing what had happened, Pholimor dedicated herself to overseeing Mosh Ebbret all alone as self-atonement. Never again did she ask favors of anyone.

  • 400

    410


    Tauruson emerge in Sulghury
    Population Migration / Travel

    The first Tauruson emerge in southern Sulghury and migrate south into the Faunlands and Jonu Quiato.

  • 433

    439


    The Bestial Purges
    Military action

    The tensions between the Beastpeople of Sulghury and the humans of Jonu Quiato erupted in this 6-year war. This bloody conflict saw the rise of the The Aunonauts, otherwise known as the Paladins, and was the death of Aunon--the second godly death upon New Haven.

  • 460

    480


    Capuran arise in the Mindreland
    Population Migration / Travel

    The first Capuran emerge in parts of the Sullymindre and eastern Canterlund.

  • 520

    540


    Vixson arise in the jungles of the northwest
    Population Migration / Travel

    Experiments by a sorcerer from Sulghury create the first of the Vixson. His creations turn against him and flee their imprisonment, migrating down into Canterlund and Manatz.

  • 560

    560


    Greattapirs are discovered and begin to be domesticated
    Discovery, Exploration

    The Quiaties people, venturing deep into the Greenbelt, discover the Greattapir and began keeping them as pets. The first successful attempt at domestication was in 663

  • 576


    Doeson are born in the Greenbelt
    Population Migration / Travel

    The earth-worshippers, an organization based in Thegrory, ventures to the Greenbelt and prays to the Earthenborn there to embrace their "true nature." They are then transformed into the Doeson and father the last of the Beastperson races.

  • 580

    600


    Minnequieros are caught and tamed by the people of Jonunieres
    Cultural event

    The Sonjanieres people develop the field of husbandry that will become the most economically important in the centuries to come: the taming and training of Minnequieros.

  • 637


    Canison are born in Nilofaur
    Population Migration / Travel

    The Canison are born after the god Asdema is ungraciously tricked into fathering them.

  • 700


    Antona Creinures burns his way through the Greenbelt, opening a southern passage to the Suthegreen lands

  • 871


    The Great Fall
    Disaster / Destruction

    The collapse of the city of Fanfare, then the largest city in the continent. With the city went Anthemir who survived but lost nearly all her strength.

    Location
    Faunfall
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    Faunfall
  • 901


    Asper Weynaw's Seclusion
    Life, Milestone

    Asper Weynaw retreats into the pineywoods of the southern Canterlund and begins her studies of the trees there, becoming a precursor to the Druidic studies.

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    Asper Weynaw
  • 1188


    The Fall of Dessica Nauthes
    Revolution

    Led by Umbert Saissa, the people of Dessica rallied against the tyrannical Desert Lords and brought down their fortress, Dessica Nauthes.

  • 1438


    Creation of the Wicker Crown
    Artistic creation

    The Druid's of the Canterlund, aided by the Hekkauthra, fashion the Earth's Circlet, a powerful artifact that soon fell into the hands of Lutol's future Lords and became known as the The Wicker Crown.

  • 1443

    1446


    The Lords' Rampage
    Military action

    When the Eastern Lords obtained the Wicker Crown, they set it to use immediately, conquering Lutol and Cantra and establishing their rule over all of southern Canterlund. Their rule would last for nearly six centuries, they having achieved immortality though the Crown.

  • 1551

    1562


    "Faithlessness" plagues southern Jonu Quaito
    Plague / Epidemic

    Accompanying the rise in religious intolerance in the mid-1500s, the disease of Faithlessness sprung up in small towns of the lands south of Sullymindre. By 1562, the so-called disease was forgotten and its patients recovered from their panic.

  • 1608

    1618


    The Canter-Hel wars
    Military action

    A short but vicious conflict in which Cantra was invaded by the Helpharians to the south. Lutol, however remained under control of the Eastern Lords. The echoes of this war would haunt the southeastern continent for centuries to come. This marks the height of Helpharian power and influence. The war is viewed as a culmination of the bloody purges the Holy Church of Helen conducted in the decades preceding it.

    Location
    Canterlund
  • 1690


    The Fall of Mosh Ebbret
    Disaster / Destruction

    Epsgird of Lembinaur, with the aid of a group of Quianna's followers, frees the demon Nerimortial from the depths of Mosh Ebbret. Nerimortial disappears from the earth but returns months later in an inexplicable rampage and destroys the prison, freeing the countless other creatures kept there. The land is overrun with criminals and otherworldly beings who had long been kept under chains.

  • 1772

    1775


    Construction of the Oriole Mercury Works
    Construction beginning/end

  • 1789

    1793


    The Curse of Knimehaud
    Celestial

    When the Jiansdotters of Sunnyland-Aster, allied with Moungs, rebelled against the Tornish peoples, the god Knimehaud cursed their existence. From then on, the Jiansdotters shrank in size and were born with arms made of heavy iron. The rebellions in the south were swiftly quelled.

  • 1826


    Esther and Anais journey to New Oriole

  • 1903


    The True Academy of Natural Sciences is founded
    Construction beginning/end

    Durte Sulyha's famous school is opened, headed by her organization.

  • 1910


    Catastrophe of Durte Sulyha
    Life, Death

    The botanist-herbalist Durte Sulyha is destroyed after an experiment involving the memory of plants goes awry. The affected region--a small clearing within a woodland of Sunnyland-Aster--is isolated and guarded by angels of Helenaphe.

  • 2021


    The Fall of the Eastern Lords
    Life, Death

    Trust among the Eastern Lords had grown thin over the past centuries, a trend which culminated in their betrayal and collapse in the year 2021. They slew each other, again and again, their bodies being continually reborn under the power of the Wicker Crown, until the juniper tree which bound their lives withered and perished and they died and became young junipers too.

  • 2214


    The Slaying of Anthemir
    Life, Death

    Antha Dimm, the daughter of Petard Dimm, an Anotinyne priest, rebels against her father and goes to slay the goddess Anthemir, thus fulfilling the prophecy of long ago.

  • 2305


    The Rot Winter
    Geological / environmental event

    Fearing for an especially cold winter, the peoples of Jonu Quiato prepared their animals and stores of grain. But when the snow fell warm and the winds blew humid, a great rot blossomed across the Mindreland and claimed the lives of thousands. This winter of rot, sometimes called Plague Winter or the Warm Snow, devastated the lands for years to come. The Druids took great interest in this event and traced its origins to a great sickness plaguing the earth which they called The Perversity.

    Location
    Mindreland
  • 2433


    The Wicker Crown is Retrieved
    Expedition

    A group of paladins of Othigil venture into the Wickerwood and locate the Wicker Crown. Of the twenty who ventured into the woods, only two come out alive.

  • 2440


    The Wicker Crown is Stolen
    Criminal Activity

    The The Wicker Crown, guarded by the Othigil Paladins beneath the city of Aunumeres, it stolen by a group of Sulghurian druids and botanists. It is subsequently lost in the wilderness for many years.

  • 2670

    2780


    Thistlefield Spreads
    Geological / environmental event

    When the people of Namettes returned from their seabound journies, they unknowingly brought with them seeds of the Fell Thistle. Soon after, the lands were covered in the twenty-foot-high plants, forming Thistlefield. It continued to expand for roughly a hundred years. Named by the Druids the second of the Great Pestilences

    Location
    Thistlefield
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    Thistlefield
  • 2932


    The Wicker Crown is Destroyed
    Life, Death

    Deep within the Thistlefield, the Wicker Crown was found, dead and unwound. The circumstances around this event are unknown and are one of the greatest mysteries of the world.

  • 3433


    The Fall of Helphar
    Military action

    The demons of Keleth, at war with the Helpharians for over 3 millennia, finally achieve victory. They claim the lands all the way to the Mismaur Divide and make plans to continue north. The coldness of their winter spreads north, reaching Cantra.