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History and Knowledge

Lost History

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  • 3000 BBE


    Approximated first structures of Reivantan & human make constructed at this time
    Construction beginning/end

    Approx. time when Reivantan structures were first built, the oldest Guardian temple near the Peak of Evandyr was dated around this time. There are some histories that describe nebulous signs across all skies, as well.

  • 1700 BBE


    First Day of the Dead upon Er'laria
    Cultural event

    The Arisen are created, stealing the curse of the minds and using it for themselves. This is necromancy, as well, but it is not through an inversion of death and time. Positive-energy undead.

  • 1660 BBE


    Destruction of Jhar'gorn and Er'laria
    Disaster / Destruction

    This great upset in the energies of the Runic Script, as well as the quori's meddling, throw all the Themes in the Story in complete chaos. Convergence and Divergence days are anyone's guess, and it is even said that one day, Z was coterminous five times in one year, the Torfield divegent for a month straight, and Deia-rei equally distant for years.

  • 1660 BBE

    1650 BBE


    The Time of Tears
    Population Migration / Travel

    Jhar'gorn is believed entirely destroyed. Of the two factions that fought in Er'laria, the side of arcane advancement and spiritual convocation has their provinces entirely destroyed. The survivors sail fatally across the Sea of Zaxor, the Face of Insanity, and tens of thousands perish in the eternal hurricanes there.

  • 1650 BBE


    Discovery of the Isles of Erinion
    Founding

    The Er'larian refugees make final landing upon the Isles of Erinion, after having made failed attempts at the Isles of Kentarun. Here, they name the first the Isle d'Lacrimos, making shrines to their dead, and found their idyllic city of Erinion upon the Isle of Anima Vita.

  • 1510 BBE

    1503 BBE


    Dissention Wars
    Military: War

    Early Erinion finds itself fractured between inter-isle dissent. Debate and discussion falls into disarray, and instead of peaceful understanding, early Erinion descended into war and destruction. Seven years pass before the disparate factions across the Isles and Linvik form alliances and defeat Dominus Carlamaine, the war-mongering faction that desired instead to conquer and reclaim the Er'larian heights through force and conquering land and any means.

  • 1502 BBE


    Founding of Erinion
  • 1430 BBE


    Raiding of Reivanta
    Disaster / Destruction

    Reivanta, a mere oligarchic shadow of its former unity, is destroyed utterly by the Duneswalker tribes that they have long subjugated and filled with political and religious dissidents.

  • 1348 BBE

    1335 BBE


    War of the Isles
    Military: War

    Erinion fights the Scions, and unknowingly Vyrasslya as well, which amount to renegade dragons around the Bay of Evandyr.

  • 1335 BBE


    Death of Vyrasslya
    Life, Death

    Vyrasslya is killed by an Erinion Runic Invoker, after a period of riddles and mind games between great minds. This prompts formal alliances and recognition with the Dragonscribes, which are a fractured shadow of their former (if indentured) glory.

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  • 1320 BBE

    600 BBE


    Erinion Golden Age
    Cultural event

    Noted as a historic event in the age of Erinion, where Erinion transitioned from the period of destruction, regrowth, settling, peace, prosperity, into a new golden age.

  • 1290 BBE


    Jerian Races ally and join Erinion
    Cultural event

    The Jerian races return from their ill-fated attempt at colonizing the underworld, and join Erinion, their old allies. There is some mixing of occult tradition into Erinion from the old avernal traditions, but just tools and knowledge, not the corruption of Avernus.

  • 1213 BBE

    1099 BBE


    Invocation Wars
    Military: War

    Caesia Thiir and Erinion make contact and devolve into wars for a hundred years, primarily through proxies and incredibly powerful wielders of magic playing chess, not armies marching.

  • 1100 BBE

    900 BBE


    The System of Esoteric Enlightenment begin to appear in visions...
    Religious event

    The Quori, in a new generation, are more intellectual and millitaristic, reflecting the world. They guide and rapture disciples of wisdom, wisemen, prophets, and social leaders to bring themselves and their followers north... to found a new city of Qu'ara.

  • 972 BBE


    Founding of Alcorion, an Erini colony
    Founding

    Founding of the Erini colony of Alcorin, following the end of the Invocation Wars and the alliance between Erinion and Caesia Thiir. This colony primarily forges Obsidian Galena from the Rift of the Uncrowned, but later becomes a far-flung resort-isle.

  • 600 BBE

    2 BBE


    The Breaching
    Celestial

    Qu'ara and the System of Esoteric Enlightenment, with the created and learned Planar Containment Subminds, weaken the barriers to the other planes and call them all into convergence. This begins the Age of Malevolent Motifs.

  • 600 BBE

    20 BBE


    Age of Malevolent Motifs
    Celestial

    a.k.a. The Invasions.
    All over Sartova, dimensions find purchase within eachother both physically, and areas between become cosmically unsafe. Things physical might become thoughts and disappear just as quickly. Dreams become reality in other worlds. Impure things and failures and falsehoods shift and warp into minds and holy wars of angelic wars and mortal home alike.
    The world finds Disaster, as all worlds overlap.

  • 580 BBE


    Avernal Demons ally with Inevitables to destroy Qu'ara
    Military: Battle
  • 350 BBE


    Invasion of the Dreaming Dark
    Military: War

    After restoring Qu'ara following a destructive invasion from Avernus, as well as creating the second Planar Containment Submind, the Oneirosi enter Sartova by making real the nightmares of man. They desire to control everything, and take control of the Peak of Evandyr again. This is where their rituals of control begin and they start to appease Mazekstand and end the flood.

  • 200 BBE


    Quorforged are created in Qu'ara
    Discovery, Scientific

    Creating a Creation Forge in the center of Qu'ara, the Dreaming Dark creates mobile platforms to be possessed by minds, skipping the dependance on fleshforms to possess.

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  • 82 BBE


    The Ritual of Prismatic Coalition in Durum
    Life, Achievement/ Win
  • 40 BBE


    The Dreaming Dark attacks Erinion
    Military: Battle

    Here, the Erini perfect their mindhunters, making the map of minds the tool of the oneironaut.

  • 22 BBE


    Erinion takes the Peak of Erinion
    Military: Battle

    Erini Farshifters pool their wills to send an extremely large strikeforce to takes one Planar Containment Submind from the Peak for study, destroying the non-Sartovan presence there.

  • 20 BBE


    Erinion attacks and destroyed Qu'ara
    Military: Battle

    The Erinion strikeforce to the Planar Containment Submind in Qu'ara. The Age of Malignant Motifs ends here, but it's namesakes are still very powerful. The PCS/SOE is lost, and the city becomes ephemerally disturbed.

  • 10 BBE


    The Mind-Plagues Begin
    Gathering / Conference

    Trapped upon Sartova, with no connection back to the Torfield, the Oneirosi become desperate. They destroy Qu'ara, creating the fourth Planar Containment Submind, one made of the pure psionic will of all it's people as they lie in turmoil, to transport all their forces to Erinion and begin infecting the people there with terrible the Mind-Plague that turns their enlightened people into monsters.

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  • 10 BBE


    The System of Esoteric Enlightenment attacks Dothania
    Military: Battle

    Quori attempt to attack Dothania in a desperate move to steal the PCS there, as they cannot easily create a new one. In response, High Magistrate <REDACTED> brings his own allies to another dimension and returns it to the Bone Keepers.

  • 7 BBE


    Second Siege of Erinion
    Military: Battle
  • 6 BBE


    Erinion falls to the Mind-Plague
    Civil action

    Those with wills strong enough, such as Magistrates and oneironauts, to repel but not cure themselves of the Mind-plague erect a powerful barrier around Erinion, holding it as they attempt to save what is left of their once-great people.   They also do this around all of their settlements through the Bay, giving them the name and notion of protectors.

  • 1 BBE


    The High Magistrate Invokes the Typhen
    Celestial

    To seal the Mind-Plague, and cause all to forget... because they must, the High Magistrate willingly invokes that which will destroy them. They call down the devilish evil that wished to destroy them for millennia, and through deals, the destroy must also act as guardian... and guard the ruins from any intruders that might spread the mind-plague. In this, the world is saved from utter destruction.

Silent Times

0 BBE 347 AB

Dark Times

348 AB 698 AB

  • 348 AB


    Founding of Golryon
    Founding

    Golryon (as it is later named) has it's first lasting structure built on Golfir's Oasis. It is founded after rumors of undead hordes in the Silver Plains. Walls are built up around the island and the city.

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  • 355 AB

    357 AB


    The Feast of Hell
    Extinction

    Undead Horde attacks Golryon, and massacres all other peoples in the Bay, but eventually starve outside the gates of the only surviving city. This is known as the Feast of Hell. Many Stavs survive upon their ships, fleeing northward, where the undead horde does not tread and continue sparse trade with the Jerians.

  • 356 AB


    First Duke of Golryon is Crowned
    Political event

    First Duke of Golryon is chosen, wedding the heroes of the Dwarves and Men, Golfiir and Auria. City is named after their child, Golryon Verentala.

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  • 356 AB


    Stavik Magnuson's Last Stand
    Life, Death

    Rather than lie down and die, flee until they starve, or struggle to build ships to sail to safety, Stavik Magnusson decides to stand against the hordes of undead atop the Kingsgrave. It is said he knew it was futile, but to stand and fight atop the mound of the ancestors to protect their history and their heroes.

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  • 357 AB


    Sailor's Migration
    Population Migration / Travel

    Those scattered barbaric tribes of the Bay that did not band together, and the small societies that chose to flee instead of protecting their settlements, become refugees from the undead. They flee to the isles in the Bay, most remaining for all history as scattered semi-organized tribes, but many managing to make it to the Second Jeriec Empire, which has no contact with Golryon.

  • 370 AB


    The Stavs return to the Highlands
    Population Migration / Travel

    The Stavs return to the Highlands, led by Orgus Stavikson, finding it littered with dead and undead nearly starved to death. They sail up through the channels by the light of the full moon and dispatch the undead, claiming the center of rivers and roads of their old home here, and naming it the Luna Balcan, after the story of those that made their last stand by the light of the moon in the Feast of Hell.

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  • 394 AB


    Golryon and the Second Jeriec Empire make contact
    Civil action

    This also reconnects Stavik's Highlands to Gol by sail. This is the first reported interaction following the Silent Times. Still, however, the lands of the Bay and Jeria are ferocious, even to the strengthened Empire, and travel by sea is quite rare for another century or more.

  • 400 AB


    Small settlements manage to survive in the lands outside Golryon

    Small, extremely fortified settlements begin to branch off from Golryon, though they do not go far, as those that try to, when they are inevitably destroyed, have far less survivors.   Golryon's government supports none of these, as they simply would not waste so much resources for something they do not desire. These settlements only crop up when there are people that have significant problems with Golryon. This is after a generation and a half of only being able to live inside Golryon.

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  • 419 AB


    Cultural Rift in Golryon
    Cultural event

    Street conflict in Golryen turns into a war between religions.

  • 420 AB

    432 AB


    Drought in the Bay of Evandyr
    Disaster / Destruction

    Caused by the Street Conflict in 419. Began through misuse of Divine magicks while attempting to quell a street conflict.

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  • 421 AB


    Founding of Dinlirys
    Founding

    Those that left Golryon searching for more personal freedom, found a new city, let by Tobias Hao-Lin.

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  • 435 AB


    Tobias Hao-Lin dies, the Dinlirys Republic Forum is formed
    Cultural event

    The Republic Forum is created 8 years into the city's life. It follows his lessons taught to him by the Angel of the Summerlands, the faithless faith of social contract.

  • 440 AB


    The Battle of the Hungry One
    Founding

    Disagreements and misunderstanding turns to war between the Mei'larians and the Stavs at Kegar, burning homes and raiding villages without remorse due to fear. Admist the meaningless struggle, the hate attracts the hunger of the Jaratt, cannibalistic men that devolved into beasts and are drawn to the sins of man. They kill and eat both sides, putting into question the organization of the Highlands.

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  • 440 AB


    The Stormlord and the Drangarin are founded
    Founding
  • 490 AB


    Wood Orcs rise in the Wyrmbone
    Founding

    From Dar'Sof, a cave that is said to have called them from the dirt to guard against the forces within.

  • 501 AB


    Ancient Fortresses are reentered
    Discovery, Exploration
  • 540 AB


    Expansion Period
    Miscellaneous

    Expansion period, the southern City-States grow rapidly.

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  • 555 AB


    Min'ekari standardizes coin across the known world

    A group of Gol bankers in Golryon known as the Min'ekari aid in the communications and commerce throughout the Bay, standardizing coin and working to make the economies of the world stable.

  • 580 AB

    583 AB


    Orion's War
    Military: War

    The Duke of Golryon demands that Dinlirys ban the Fallen Four, and their refusal begets war.

  • 583 AB


    The Lunar Armistice
    Civil action

    The Luna Balcan of the Highlands mediates a peace treaty between Golryon and Dinlirys, making worshippers responsible for the acts of a deity they worship.

  • 590 AB


    The Min'ekari extend their operations...
    Civil action

    Jeria and the Scion's Coasts join a codified and cohesive network of trade and communication systems.

  • 612 AB


    The Shaper's Guild is contracted in the Scion's Coasts
    Construction beginning/end

    Religious crafters and construction teams to the dwarven god are contrated to build castles for the Durumi.

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  • 614 AB


    Border disputes between Dinlirys and Golryon

    Border disputes and skirmishes continue through satellite and rogue agents between Dinlirys and Golryon.

  • 670 AB


    Menevali isolationism ends
    Cultural event

    With their neighbors growing too large to ignore, and the main reasons for their isolationism having passed, Meneval rejoins the world in communication and trade.

  • 671 AB


    Trade flourishes between all societies in the Bay
    Financial Event

    City-state merchants, ecstacic at new contact with another nation, begin trade with Meneval and the Scion's Coasts, and both nations fourish.

  • 685 AB


    The Shaper's Guild embarks on a twenty-five year contract

Age of the Storyteller

699 AB 889 AB

  • 699 AB


    Arcane Magic & Darkwater Chest Discovered
    Discovery, Scientific

    In a plume of aquatic Darkwater, Lofus Stormborn discovers an obsidian chest lost to the ages. Within, the secrets of arcane magic return to the world.

  • 700 AB


    Power in the South shifts away from theology
    Political event

    Those who hold magic hold the power.

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  • 704 AB


    Overthrow of the Verentalas in Golryon
    Military action

    Lofus Stormborn, one of the noble houses of Golryon, takes control. He overthrows the Verentalas using the combined power of magic, money, and the Wardens.

  • 705 AB


    Magocratic Rule Begins
    Political event

    The Twin Dukes do not allow their arcanoscientific discoveries to leave their lands.

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  • 706 AB


    Luna Balcan breaks ties
    Political event

    The Drangarin of the Luna Balcan will no longer come to the aid of the City-States that turned their back on the Stavs.

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  • 710 AB


    Shaper's Guild Returns
    Expedition

    Their home is unrecognizable from the one they left, before magic.

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  • 720 AB


    First Runeborn born
    Life, Birth
  • 731 AB

    733 AB


    The Gravefiller Plague Spreads
    Plague / Epidemic

    The first case of the Gravefiller Plague (Goron-9) is reported after the Convergence of Limoseht. Dimensional studies applied to physical transferrence is a new field, as well as plaguecraft. It it a hungry type of growing infection.

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  • 742 AB


    From afar, an airship of travelers and scientists crash into the Bay
    Population Migration / Travel

    A gnomish airship crashes into the Bay, and no contact is made with their home for centuries, leaving them stranded in the north.

  • 745 AB


    The Highlands Drangarin break with the City-States fully
    Military action

    Citing decades, and possibly centuries, of one-way protection, the Highlands break with Golryon and Dinlirys.

  • 788 AB

    812 AB


    Black Flag Campaigns Begin
    Military: War

    The Second Jeriec Empire offers its own aid to the Highlands, and they ally together to purge the Bay of Evandyr from errant forces of pirates and dark powers.

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  • 797 AB


    Battle of Castle Ryke
    Military: Battle

    Last major stronghold of Bayfolk resistance states and demonic pirates falls in a year long siege that exacts a heavy toll upon the Legion.

  • 825 AB


    Highlands abandon southern fortresses
    Military action

    The Highlands abandon the fortresses and defenses surrounding the southern Bay, and construct Newfolc Gate to guard only their own borders.

  • 830 AB


    Racial integration
    Cultural event

    Full racial integration throughout the Shores, yet Meneval is still primarily Menevali.

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  • 834 AB


    Flame Wyvern Burns Dinlirys
    Disaster / Destruction

    And the precedent for organized mercenaries expands throughout the Bay, changing the financial structure and nature of protection.

  • 850 AB


    Uliun Spice Discovered
    Discovery, Scientific

    The Min'ekari extend operations to Tharsis and the Bronze Sea as the properties of the Uliun Spice are uncovered, and it is snatched up as quickly as possible.

  • 852 AB

    2 /14

    Second Darkwater Chest
    Discovery, Scientific

    Miraculously, a group of mercenaries manages to explore the ruins of Erinion and escape alive--something none have managed to do before. They retrieve a Second Darkwater Chest on employ from the Golryon Stormborn Duchy, and its discovery changes the world, forever.

  • 852 AB

    17 /16 18:00

    The Battle for the Fifth Ward
    Disaster / Destruction

    The city of Golryon is attacked from beneath by monstrous slaadi, hungry and starved for magical energy to feed upon.

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  • 852 AB

    18 /16
    852 AB

    23 /16

    The Sorcerer's Crusade
    Military action

    The people of Gol rise up against the slaadi, and the Duke of Golryon gives them the magic freely to do so.

  • 853 AB


    New Arcanoscientific Discoveries
    Discovery, Scientific

    Uliun's properties are discovered. The Arcane Conservatory and House Kyndarai make new discoveries.

  • 854 AB


    Talon, in Jeria, denounces the presence of Wielders in their lands
    Civil action

    Jeria outlaws Wielders.

  • 855 AB


    Dinlirys Construction Boom
    Construction beginning/end

    Using the newly discoverd Rune of Control as well as the Runes of Law and Chaos and Fabrication, Dinlirys builds their cities up and up, being much easier to build up than sideways, as the excavation is now the limiting factor.

  • 858 AB


    The Lightning Rail is Created
    Construction beginning/end

    Dinlirys builds a Lightning Rail connecting Kinsdale to Raven's Hollow.

  • 858 AB


    Carsters (CSTR-14) Blood-Plague rapidly spreads throughout the Bay of Evandyr
    Plague / Epidemic

    Plaguecraft finds no solution, until Dinlirys veteran and Doctor Jonathan Walker of the Panacea Circuit finds a cure through the new technology of blood transfusion... mending an ephemeral lack.

  • 860 AB


    Identity Crisis of 860
    Disaster / Destruction

    Lofus dies of olde age. In the crowning of Lotharn Dekka, his heir, it is revealed that he, and a number of others, are dopplegangers. The Golryon government collapses, and martial law is declared.

  • 866 AB


    Golryon Martial Law ends

    Martial law in Golryon ends, procedure to bar the encroach of dopplegangers and any other impersonating forces is in place, but the Arcane Conservatory remains as an endless "temporary" government.

  • 867 AB


    Lightning Rail between Dinlirys and Golryon completed
  • 870 AB

    891 AB


    Timeline of Apollyon: River of Life
    Artistic creation

    https://store.steampowered.com/app/1472060/Apollyon_River_of_Life/

  • 872 AB


    Runeborn population expands
    Life, Birth

    The Runic Houses tend to recruit those tattooed or born with the Runes that will help them perform the jobs they desire. It becomes fashionable to marry those with Runic tattoos that pair well with your own, and into Runic Houess.

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  • 873 AB


    Syyr'muth'zeht, the Rimelord of the Bay, is driven out of the Bay by Rado'shyr
    Life, Achievement/ Win

    With this feat, Emperor Fojiri'shyr abdicates the throne to the new Emperor Rado'shyr.

  • 875 AB


    The Abbey of the Magistrate surfaces
    Civil action

    Fergio Visage's organization surfaces, coming from "spaces between space, or rather, between the lines". They are a strange arcane organization that tries to ward against the beyond... but falls to its drawing hunger.

  • 878 AB


    The Houses' bloodlines are meaningless
    Cultural event

    The Houses are now Runic Houses, and simply possessing the correct Runes allows you to join their noble ranks, and gain their power through blood transfusion, created by Doctor Jonathan Walker several years prior.

  • 879 AB


    First Cleansing of the Empire
    Political event

    Lord Seeker Gavedo'zuul is killed by the Emperor Rado'shyr with the aide and information of Seeker Arkaida'zuul. It is revealed that the Avernal soul-blades championed by the Seekers for the last century or more were only tying them to Avernus, not using his tools against him. Gavedo went mad with knowledge of Disaster and speaking to the Head of Balcoth. Arkaida takes the Head, keeping it hidden to use against Balcoth, playing an immortal chess game with the worlds enemy.

  • 880 AB


    House Kyndarai craft Chaos Form
    Scientific achievement

    House Kyndarai craft Chaos Form from Uliun and Coronium, a new technology. With bound elementals, these Runes, and the new magic, the architecture and technology of the Bay changes drastically. All ships have elemental rings propelling them, floating platforms become the norm, elementals are the slaves set to common labor.

  • 886 AB

    891 AB


    The Asterian Initiative
    Military: War

    The Second Jeriec Empire goes to war upon the disorganized settlements in Asteria, containing places of rogue arcanists overlooked by Golryon due to their use as a buffer state.

  • 889 AB

    7 /15

    The Headless Lord Rises, and the Story of Sartova Ends
    Disaster / Destruction

    The Incarnate King, despite his destruction, lives on like an earworm in the nightmares of the God-King. He rises anew, a demon lord in control of the Heart of Avernus to print new terrors on demand from the god-machine below. He destroys the Watchman's Post by turning every Jerian into a bomb and exploding their hearts with viscera shrapnel, and following by destroying the beloved Jade Pillar.   His eternal march moves north, across the Sunsglade and Western Steppes, his voice echoing across the entire world. Declaring the Sartovan War having begun again, the fate of the entire Story of Sartova to be decided this day. In subservience to the Storyteller, or a Story in the hands of the actors therein.   He is, in some ways, defeated. His great sins are defeated philosophically within the Primordial Dream of Avernus, and it is shown that Avernus' truth was not this. The Headless Lord turns to stone, an eternal statue over the Western Steppes of Jeria, and his mind is imprisoned within Avernus', and alongside one who argued for mortalkind.

The Mortal Era

890 AB and beyond

  • 890 AB


    The Emperor of Jeria learns of Mythopeia
    Discovery, Scientific

    The new Mystic Clanfather Ha'ran informs the Emperor of the fact that the Runeborn population in the City-States is actively causing chaos throughout the world at a metaphysical level. Beasts spawned into being, storms that focus on their enemies, wounds in the limen of the world, and more. This insolent use of the arcane cannot be allowed. The Empire prepares for war.

  • 891 AB


    Dagon's Final Gate passes to Sar'var'kesh
    Military: Skirmish

    The Carnomancer and his allies in the Dagonites use the Gate to open a Door to Dis, allowing Strix into the Story. The occult eyes in Watchtower investigate this dimensional breach, but as they get close, the Carnomancer learn of their simple door to the Oubliette. With oneironautic assassination, he kills each of their minds, and uses their knowledge to spark another revolution in Dinlirys, adding further chaos to guise his master's actions.

  • 892 AB

    898 AB


    The Mythopoeic Campaigns

    The signing of the Treaty of the Imperial Alliance, the offensive of the Empire, the fall of the Eastern Wall, and the beginning of the Golryon siege.

  • 892 AB


    Arcanist Erlin'sozran Cassani returns with fragments of Erini knowledge
    Discovery, Scientific

    Erlin's returned knowledge from Erinion brings an unknown Arcanist to engineer the arcanoscientific creation of the first Sigil. This violently changes the future of magic, but the Conservatory immediately silences such prospects, imprisoning the Arcanist that discovered it and hiding it. Their name is never known.

  • 892 AB

    905 AB

    1 /3

    War of Manifest Mythopeia Begins
    Military: War

    With treaty signed, the Second Jeriec Empire and Meneval of the Isles of Erinion attack Golryon on two fronts.

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  • 892 AB

    17 /1

    Treaty of the Imperial Alliance signed
    Civil action

    Meneval and the Second Jeriec Empire sign a secret treaty preparing for war upon Golryon. The Luna Balcan is an observer, who were intended to sign at the treaty's inception, but political in-fighting in the Banneret causes them to withdraw. The war preparation continues regardless.

  • 893 AB

    13
    893 AB

    /16

    The Scourge of Phrenos
    Disaster / Destruction

    An explorer by the name of Phrenos delves illegally into Ødela Skog--aiming to complete great quest through which to take to their Banner and earn glory for their candidate as Stormlord--triggers a terrible disaster.

  • 893 AB

    16 /16

    Dagmar Osloson slays the Heart of Winter
    Life, Achievement/ Win

    A heroic warrior goes into the mounts and slays the "Heart of Winter", and this newly elected Stormlord Dagmar Osloson unites the Banners and joins the Treaty of Imperial Alliance. It takes them a number of years to prepare for war, yet after a period of re-building, they do so.

  • 896 AB


    The Eastern Wall falls to the Alliance
    Military: Battle

    While Golryon has been besieged for a number of years, the fortresses Gol maintains in the Eastern Wall finally fall to the Empire, leaving Golryon with naught but their capital.

  • 897 AB

    5 /13

    Luna Balcan joins the war
    Military action

    Luna Balcan joins the war due to being abandoned to protect the City-States from the monsters of the West, without a thought, and keeping the magic that could have saved so many lives to themselves. They join the Jerians in the siege upon Golryon.

  • 897 AB

    1 /15

    Death of the Mad Storm
    Life, Death

    The Stormlord Dagmar Osloson, believing a vision of a holy quest, throws himself from Myth Decima Drang and dies upon the rocks. Some claim assassination, but without proof.

  • 897 AB

    14 /16

    Dinilrys joins the war
    Military: War

    Dinlirys joins the war as decreed by the Duke Juliun Riviere von Hao, despite his peoples unwillingness and further division on which side to join. Disregarding the people in their veneer of a democracy over an magocratic oligarchy, they join Golryon.

  • 898 AB

    899 AB


    The Shrike Offensive

    A period of grand victory for the Shrike Vortex, and the City-States allying to great effect.

  • 898 AB

    1
    898 AB

    /8

    Third Silver Revolution / Summerlands Revolution

    A third revolution begins in Dinlirys, beginning with the Silent Massacre which attempts to silence the populace before they can rally behind any new leader.

  • 898 AB

    23 /1

    Battle of the Red Moon
    Military: Battle

    A planar vortex is created known as the Mirror-Tower, or the Shrike Vortex, for the screaming sound of the rifts that tear into other cosmic realms. It can bring any dimension into convergence and allows ready and semi-permenant summoning of extra-dimensional warriors.

  • 898 AB

    2

    Fergio Visage dies in a cosmic battle with the Carnomancer
  • 898 AB

    2
    898 AB

    /4

    Alleigance Wars
    Military: War

    Small iles throughout the Bay are forced to ally with Golryon as their host goes by, either formerly not part of the war or just locationally and economically allied with the other side, and conquered.

  • 898 AB

    2

    The Liminal Vault is attacked, yet nothing is stolen
  • 898 AB

    3

    Rantaira joins the war on the side of the Alliance
    Military: War

    They have only been affected by Golryon imperialism, and respond to it in kind.

  • 898 AB

    21 /5

    La Vox Determinis
    Military: Battle

    A battle that was not a battle, one named a holiday by the city from here on. The revolutionaries retake the Republic Forum, and members of the Iron Syndicate and the Royalists surrender one-by-one. For most, the will was in fear and in money, not in compassion for fellow man and desire for a new city.

  • 898 AB

    22 /5

    Battle of the Darkwater

    Golryon lifts the naval siege on Dinlirys from the Imperial Alliance, and forces Dinlirys into a pact with it. Regardless of the victor of the revolution, they will remain in the war.

  • 898 AB

    6

    First Battle of the Shrike Vortex
    Military: Battle

    The Imperial Alliance meets the Shrike Vortex Mirror-Tower at the Ødela Sallaca fortress. They do not commit to the battle fully, sending just a strike force to the Vortex while testing its defenses to gather intel for the Architects of Nox to later build attack plans.

  • 898 AB

    6
    898 AB

    /8

    The Heart Riots

    Demon citizens an occultists in their city in the center of Jeria, and to a smaller degree everywhere else, riot and rebel over their incredible number of deaths. They are used as fodder in the war even when sentient and normal in terms of intelligence. The most of the bloodbath is racial wars between rebel sides.   The Legion suffers in the war due to this dissent, but is stronger for it after. Golryon uses this time wisely.

  • 898 AB

    8

    Battle of the Summerlands
    Military: Battle

    The Summerlands Revolution (a.k.a. Third Silver Revolution) achieves victory as they take Castle Reinheart and the Gilded Tower in one day through arcane strike forces and the defenders abandoning the Duke.

  • 898 AB

    11 /11

    Battle of Crystal Cape
    Military: Battle

    First head-on battle of the war since the Battle of the Red Moon, and one that the Second Jeriec Empire vehemently espouses as the reason the war went on for the next few years, as they did not participate in it willingly. The Highlands demanded the battle be fought.

  • 898 AB

    3 /16

    Second Battle of the Shrike Vortex
    Military: Battle

    Damaged, the Conservatory Shrike moves upon the Stavik fortress of Myth Decima Drang, ignoring the Stavik capital. The Empire, however, laid in wait for just this moment.

  • 899 AB

    903 AB

    /1

    The New War Period

    A period of new technologies of war, such as the Airshop, the use of the Twilight haunts, Avernal passages, and the inclusion of the entire world in the War of Manifest Mythopeia.

  • 899 AB


    Smaller examples of the Shrike Vortex are constructed

    The City-States develop a method of teleporting the entirety of these flying towers across the Bay, though the cost of resources is great. They are often destroyed however, due to lack of anxillary support, as these platforms appear alone.

  • 900 AB


    Skirmish of the Last Manor

    War extends finally to the Twilight and the Last Manor, as all sides have utilized the substrata-world for its Mezzanine as a method of fast travel beyond enemy lines.

  • 901 AB

    2
    901 AB

    /4

    Siege of Forgotten Tears/Siege of Meneval
    Military: Battle

    The Conservatory Shrike of Golryon attacks Meneval, raining dimensional foes down on it from above. Through three Tales, the city is bombarded from above with powers physical, arcane, and extradimensional alike. It is finally beaten back by the Alliance with the unexpected help of a Tarakonian legion known as the Eternal Paladins.

  • 901 AB

    9

    Battle of Craven's Fall
    Military: Battle

    Dinliryan soldiers defending the west in Raven's Hollow, their battle lines the longest dug, surrender en masse. Raven's Hollow is entirely taken by the IA.

  • 902 AB


    House Kyndarai creates the elemental airship, and immediately sells it to the City-States
    Scientific achievement

    This solidifies House Kyndarai upon the side of the City-States, the first House to take a side besides the House Stormborn, whose interests lie within magic.

  • 902 AB

    6

    The Day of Embassy
    Diplomatic action

    All factions of the west and northern world convene at the forever-neutral Qa'tor. Leaders of the Conservatory and City-States, as well as the Imperial Alliance, all meet with their counterparts in Tarakon, Elysia 恵 幸, and Cospia. The war becomes a global split, as all major factions take sides, or are forced to. Offers are made, battle lines drawn, alliances offered.

  • 902 AB

    14 /12

    Diplomacy at the Isle d'Arx turn to assassination attempts upon heads of the City-States

    Amidst plans for a teleportation offensive that will later become the Siege of Talon/Third Battle of the Shrike Vortex, the heroes of the Third Silver Revolution are revealed to be traitors as they attempt to assassinate the Warden-General and Councillors of Dinlirys. In reality, none know truly what happened at that meeting.

  • 902 AB

    14 /16

    Siege of Talon/Third Battle of the Shrike Vortex
    Military: Battle

    The Shrike Vortex is destroyed. This wrecks havoc as all the extra-dimensionals are freed at once, and yet, many Arcanists escaped and the war returned to a roughly equal footing.

  • 903 AB


    Battle of Mythopeia
    Military: Battle

    The largest battle in the War of Manifest Mythopeia, across the world. Armies meet upon land, sea, and in the sky above the Isle d'Arx. Airships versus dragons, extra-dimensional warriors on both sides, Elysians and Tarakonian armies joining from afar. Slowly, over the following year, the City-States are driven back to Golryon and it is besieged again.

  • 903 AB

    905 AB

    1 /3

    The Last War

    The period of the war turning from the destruction of the Shrike Vortex over Talon to the greatest battles of the war and its final end at Golryon.

  • 904 AB

    1 /15

    Peace treaty pauses the war, but is quickly broken
    Diplomatic action

    The first true and meaningful council of diplomacy since the onset of the war, but the ceasefire is a lie and is broken by both sides.

  • 904 AB

    18 /15

    Ninth Legion of the Empire assault Meneval

    Rogue faction of Jerians attack Meneval while a ceasefire is in effect, claiming betrayal for supporting it.

  • 905 AB

    1 /3

    Mystic's Disaster

    a.k.a. the Siege of Golryon
    A great catastrophe during the Imperial Alliance's siege of Golryon causes Arcanist factions to oust some of their most war-hungry elements and attend diplomatic council. The War of Manifest Mythopeia ends, provisionally, and a year of negotation decides how a permenant end might be achieved.   spoilers...

  • 906 AB


    Sentinel Somafex Created

    Kyndarai Sentinel War Somafex are approved as border rangers and automated monster hunters with in areas with magical radiation or the like. War cleanup is their main focus.

    Additional timelines
  • 906 AB

    1 /3

    The early Arcane Congress is formed
    Founding

    The government of Golryon is convicted of war crimes and a majority of those within it removed. Beginning drafts of the Arcane Congress form, as a parent of the Arcane Conservatory, which itself is purged. It is an organization that is made to resolve disputes between the Runic Houses, the states across the Bay and Jeria, and perhaps beyond. It does, however, struggle to even come together and be ratified by all member states, and it is a number of years before it has any true presence in the Bay... besides being a reason for peace.

  • 907 AB


    Battle of the Aelder Sign
    Military: Battle
  • 907 AB

    1 /6

    Diplomatic ship to Qa'tor from Golryon mistakenly falls into Asphodia

    A mercenary and scholar task force is sent to Qa'tor, but the ship flies on a Convergence day, and as such is destroyed over Don's Swamp, and the passangers are not seen again.

  • 908 AB


    Somafex/Warforged intelligence & free will discovered

    Warforged are discovered to have sapience and not just sentience, their production is immediately halted.

    Additional timelines
  • 908 AB


    Congressional Arcanist Program (CAP) begins
    Cultural event

    Standardized practices for arcane magic began to be taught, with spell slot taxes across the Bay of Evandyr & Jeria, as well as mandated learner-teaching routes. Known as the Congressional Arcanist Program (CAP)

  • 910 AB


    Congressional Acts
    Civil action

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