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Primary Timeline

This is the timeline of Multiverse 19, the core setting for the campaign series.

Primordial Times

Before the Count of Years

  • The Dawn Times
    The Planes are formed
    Celestial / Cosmic

  • The Dawn Times
    The baernaloths spawn the yugoloths.
    Celestial / Cosmic

  • The Dawn Times
    The River Styx forms.
    Metaphysical / Paranormal event

  • The Dawn Times
    Creation of the Gehreleths
    Artistic creation

    A baernaloth named Apomps creates the gehreleths from dead yugoloths and is exiled with the gehreleths into Carcerci.

  • The Dawn Times
    CReation of the Heart of Darkness
    Celestial / Cosmic

    The first ultroloth, the General of Gehenna, creates the Heart of Darkness to expunge the taint of law and chaos from the yugoloths which become the larvae of the lower planes.

  • The Dawn Times
    A creature called the Maeldur Et Kavurik is told the true names of all the larvae.
    Metaphysical / Paranormal event

  • The Dawn Times
    Larvae Migration
    Population Migration / Travel

    The larvae migrated to the Abyss and Baator to evolve into the tanar’ri and baatezu.

  • The Dawn Times
    Disappearance of the Baernaloths
    Extinction

    The baernaloth dissappear, and the ultroloths become the leaders of the yugoloths.

  • The Dawn Times
    First Contact: Baatezu and Tanarri
    Disaster / Destruction

    The baatezu begin to explore the planes, eventually discovering the tanar’ri in the Abyss; as the tanar’ri stumble into Baator and find the baatezu.

  • The Dawn Times
    The Blood War begins
    Celestial / Cosmic

    The archanaloths hire themselves out to either side of the Blood War, and betraying both.

  • The Dawn Times
    Rise of Abyssal Lords and Lords of the Nine
    Political event

    The Lords of the Nine and the Princes of the Abyss (the Abyssal Lords) rise in power.

  • The Dawn Times
    First Contact: Fiends and Celestials
    Discovery, Exploration

    The baatezu and tanar’ri discover the upper planes and the celestials.

  • The Dawn Times
    Celestials Attack
    Military action

    The celestials swoop down on the lower planes and the Blood War in a year long campaign. A truce is called by the fiends as they rout the celestials back to the upper planes, leaving only 3000 alive.

  • The Dawn Times
    The Celestial Schism
    Celestial / Cosmic

    A schism forms in the celestial on how to proceed, forming the archons and the aasimon.

  • The Dawn Times
    First Contact: Fiends and Powers
    Celestial / Cosmic

    The fiends learn about the powers.

  • The Dawn Times
    A God dies in The Blood War
    Extinction

    Gods of chaos and law begin to meddle in the Blood War until a power of chaos is slain and the surviving gods decided to take more subtle actions.

  • The Dawn Times
    Mask of The Pit
    Military action

    Mask of the Pit happens, as tanar’ri forces attempt to disguise themselves as baatezu and infiltrate the baatezu camp. They fail miserably.

  • The Dawn Years
    The Four-Cross
    Military action

    The Four-Cross. Bel turns stag on the baatezu, joining forces with tanar’ri, then rejoining the baatezu, only to turn stag on his kind again for a year and a day, when he leads the tanar’ri into a long planned baatezu ambush, crippling the chaotic fiends for almost a decade. Bel is awarded Avernus, the first layer of Baator.

  • The Dawn Times
    Spirits from the Prime begin to arrive in the Lower Planes
    Metaphysical / Paranormal event

    After millennia, spirits begin appearing from the prime material plane. On the lower planes, they take the form of larvae, which the baatezu learn to metamorphosize into new members of their kind.

  • The Dawn Times
    First Contact: Fiends and the Lady of Pain.
    Celestial / Cosmic

    The fiends discover Sigil and the Lady of Pain.

    Location
    SIGIL
  • The Dawn Times
    The first battle over the Field of Nettles.
    Military action

  • The Dawn Times
    The fiends begin corrupting the prime.
    Criminal Activity

  • The Dawn Years
    Founding of The Dark Eight

    The Dark Eight form on Baator to deal with morale lowered by balor tanar’ri infiltrators. They take over the planning process of the Blood War. Of the original eight, only Baalzephon and Fucas still live.

  • The Dawn Times
    The Maw Opens
    Celestial / Cosmic

    The Maw, a massive crevace down the center of the Gray Waste, opens and swallows a yugoloth fortress. It is now called the Ghoresh Chasm. The second baatezu/tanar’ri truce forms and soon disintegrates.

Before Evermeet

  • -1000000


    Aetas Primus Begins
    Era beginning/end

    Temporum Sphaera

    This is the collective title for the “prehistoric” age of the known spheres.

  • The Birth of The Spheres
    The First Sphere Shatters
    Artistic creation

    Temporum Sphaera

    Almost all cultures have a story dealing with the creation (or rebirth) of the known universe.

  • -100000

    1 Yeartide 01:00

    AETAS PRIMUS Ends / Pre-Classical Age Begins
    Era beginning/end

    Temporum Sphaera

    This period marks the true beginning of space travel, even though it went in fits and starts, and with several failed attempts.

  • -99964


    Migration of the Juna
    Population Migration / Travel

    Temporum Sphaera

    The Migration of the Juna- The first space travellers.

  • -8420


    Illithid Continuum
    Era beginning/end

    Illithids

    The Illithid Continuum rules most of the Prime Material Plane and a vast multiplanar Empire. All other sentient races are enslaved.