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.
Dinlirys Timeline
This is a timeline of important events that relate to Dinlirys.
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1660 BBE
1650 BBE
The Time of Tears
Population Migration / TravelAdditional timelines
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1650 BBE
Discovery of the Isles of Erinion
FoundingThe 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.
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0 BBE
The Burning of Erinion
Disaster / DestructionSupernatural fires, black winged creatures made of each viewer's personal nightmares, shadows that tear from throats, and portals to hellish realms unknown--and many more terrible calamities--destroy Erinion
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322 AB
Mixing of Dwarves and Humans
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355 AB
357 AB
The Feast of Hell
ExtinctionUndead 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.
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419 AB
Cultural Rift in Golryon
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435 AB
Tobias Hao-Lin dies, the Dinlirys Republic Forum is formed
Cultural eventThe 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.
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501 AB
Ancient Fortresses are reentered
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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.
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580 AB
583 AB
Orion's War
Military: WarThe Duke of Golryon demands that Dinlirys ban the Fallen Four, and their refusal begets war.
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583 AB
The Lunar Armistice
Civil actionThe Luna Balcan of the Highlands mediates a peace treaty between Golryon and Dinlirys, making worshippers responsible for the acts of a deity they worship.
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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.
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670 AB
Menevali isolationism ends
Cultural eventWith their neighbors growing too large to ignore, and the main reasons for their isolationism having passed, Meneval rejoins the world in communication and trade.
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699 AB
Arcane Magic & Darkwater Chest Discovered
Discovery, ScientificIn 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.
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704 AB
Overthrow of the Verentalas in Golryon
Military actionLofus Stormborn, one of the noble houses of Golryon, takes control. He overthrows the Verentalas using the combined power of magic, money, and the Wardens.
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705 AB
Magocratic Rule Begins
Political eventThe Twin Dukes do not allow their arcanoscientific discoveries to leave their lands.
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720 AB
First Runeborn born
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745 AB
The Highlands Drangarin break with the City-States fully
Military actionCiting decades, and possibly centuries, of one-way protection, the Highlands break with Golryon and Dinlirys.
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834 AB
Flame Wyvern Burns Dinlirys
Disaster / DestructionAnd the precedent for organized mercenaries expands throughout the Bay, changing the financial structure and nature of protection.
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852 AB
2 The Tale of Kaligara
Second Darkwater Chest
Discovery, ScientificMiraculously, 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.
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852 AB
18 The Tale of the Sutëir852 AB
23 The Tale of the Sutëir
The Sorcerer's Crusade
Military actionThe people of Gol rise up against the slaadi, and the Duke of Golryon gives them the magic freely to do so.
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855 AB
Dinlirys Construction Boom
Construction beginning/endUsing 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.
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858 AB
The Lightning Rail is Created
Construction beginning/endDinlirys builds a Lightning Rail connecting Kinsdale to Raven's Hollow.
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858 AB
Carsters (CSTR-14) Blood-Plague rapidly spreads throughout the Bay of Evandyr
Plague / EpidemicPlaguecraft 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.
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860 AB
Identity Crisis of 860
Disaster / DestructionLofus 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.
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862 AB
863 AB
First Silver Revolution
RevolutionThe people of Dinlirys, first motivated by the Rune Rebellion and the DC/IC, as well as the long-brewing hatred for the bourgoise mages, stage a resistance and rebellion that ends by treaty and not revolution.
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864 AB
Kyndarai shift to Dinlirys
After disputes about the access to knowledge and material and all, the House Kyndarai shifts their focus to Dinlirys rather than Golryon. The martial law of the Arcane Conservatory caused problems for their works.
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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.
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867 AB
Lightning Rail between Dinlirys and Golryon completed
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870 AB
891 AB
Timeline of Apollyon: River of Life
Artistic creationhttps://store.steampowered.com/app/1472060/Apollyon_River_of_Life/
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875 AB
The Abbey of the Magistrate surfaces
Civil actionFergio 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.
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878 AB
The Houses' bloodlines are meaningless
Cultural eventThe 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.
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880 AB
House Kyndarai craft Chaos Form
Scientific achievementHouse 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.
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881 AB
Arcanist Society creates the first levitating structure above Dinlirys, the Gilded Tower
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881 AB
884 AB
Second Silver Revolution
RevolutionThe people of Dinlirys' problems were never solved, truly, and the People's Coalition has just become a tool for the mages and nobility anyway. This rebellion, however, gains more traction and becomes a serious threat to the Duchy and Arcanist's Society. The Stormborn and Golryon send aide in a violent way, and the Duke puts them down. It is bloody and it is a massacre, ending with tens of thousands dead and all iconography of the Silver Revolutions destroyed. Speaking of them now is a crime.
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889 AB
7 The Tale of the Torfield
The Headless Lord Rises, and the Story of Sartova Ends
Disaster / DestructionThe 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.
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891 AB
Dagon's Final Gate passes to Sar'var'kesh
Military: SkirmishThe 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.
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892 AB
905 AB
1 The Tale of Stygia
War of Manifest Mythopeia Begins
Military: WarWith treaty signed, the Second Jeriec Empire and Meneval of the Isles of Erinion attack Golryon on two fronts.
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892 AB
Arcanist Erlin'sozran Cassani returns with fragments of Erini knowledge
Discovery, ScientificErlin'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.
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893 AB
Arcanist Thalus Blackmire captures a Strix and ties to control the minds of Dinlirys
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894 AB
Eboria-4 is created by Arcanists Blackmire and Fontaine
Plague / EpidemicThe Arcanist's study into the Strix's effect on spirits does indeed rend their ephemera in a way so grotesque as to make it an inversion of reality. However, they discover it does so with or without their involvement, and has been doing it to far more than they realized. The plague known as Eboria-4 is created... however, it is both a plague... and a Haunt.
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895 AB
Eboria-4 spreads, Wyrd's Run is quarantined and lost
Plague / EpidemicThe plague spreads to the point the wider city learns of it. Wyrd's Run becomes coloquially known as Bedlam as the plague has already spread through it by this point, and the public only learns of it because of the city quarantine zones, not through public messaging. They can clearly see the plague-spores, lit by lavafires below.
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897 AB
5 The Tale of Deia-rei
Luna Balcan joins the war
Military actionLuna 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.
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897 AB
19 The Tale of Deia-rei
Viridian Event Time Star
A Strix screams. The Midnight Choir presses in, listening. A pattern of recognition and motif echoed from before the stars became right, and further, before there was time to tell them at all. VIRIDIAN - To know the effect of Antithesis. EVENT - When effect can know cause an epoch ends, and a Story is told as Thesis. TIME - To separate the Stridgian Epoch from the Time-Ensuing. STAR - A phospohorescant mirror in the sky draws a line of thesis from antithesis before the last page is known. And the Void Star rises.
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897 AB
14 The Tale of the Sutëir
Dinilrys joins the war
Military: WarDinlirys 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.
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898 AB
The Tale of Oliana898 AB
The Tale of Fôlifi
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.
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898 AB
1 The Tale of Oliana
The Silent Massacre
Life, DeathAt a speech at the Social Oratory, assassins claim the life of the budding revolutions leader before its true inception. Vox Cuhlecain of the Vox Populi is slain, and within a magical net of silence, arcane golems and incediaries are fired, attempting to massacre all who agree with the message before it can spread.
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898 AB
2 The Tale of Oliana
Striking Day
Civil actionStriking Day is a theory of the Republic Forum's failure, where majority factions declare minority factions terrorist and illegal, banning them from participation, until only one remained. Upon this day, those fears proved plausible.
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898 AB
4 The Tale of Oliana
Battle for Bishop's End
Military: BattleAt the neighborhood and bridge of Bishop's End, while protected by an arcane forcefield stolen from the magocrats themselves, a battle is fought that changes the course of history in Dinlirys.. and the Bay.
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898 AB
18 The Tale of Oliana
Raid of the Darklight
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898 AB
The Tale of Edinhomn
Fergio Visage dies in a cosmic battle with the Carnomancer
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898 AB
The Tale of Edinhomn
The Liminal Vault is attacked, yet nothing is stolen
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898 AB
The Tale of Narhiim
Skywars of Dunstaad
Military: BattleAcross flying platforms, the Lightning Rail, and towers built and flown with arcane construction, a three day skirmish is fought. One that truly decided the fate of overall city control, leading to the royalist faction pivot towards scorched earth by any means. If the city will not serve, it will burn.
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898 AB
21 The Tale of Z
La Vox Determinis
Military: BattleA 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.
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898 AB
22 The Tale of Z
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.
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898 AB
13 The Tale of Asphodia
Raven's Culling
Military: BattleA necromantic colossus rises in the Primrose Cemetary as the Arcanist Society resorts to any outlawed magic to keep their grip on Dinlirys.
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898 AB
The Tale of Fôlifi
Battle of the Summerlands
Military: BattleThe 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.
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898 AB
11 The Tale of the Lyrian
Battle of Crystal Cape
Military: BattleFirst 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.
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898 AB
3 The Tale of the Sutëir
Second Battle of the Shrike Vortex
Military: BattleDamaged, 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.
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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.
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901 AB
The Tale of Edinhomn901 AB
The Tale of Narhiim
Siege of Forgotten Tears/Siege of Meneval
Military: BattleThe 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.
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901 AB
The Tale of Limoseht
Battle of Craven's Fall
Military: BattleDinliryan 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.
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902 AB
House Kyndarai creates the elemental airship, and immediately sells it to the City-States
Scientific achievementThis 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.
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902 AB
The Tale of Asphodia
The Day of Embassy
Diplomatic actionAll 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.
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902 AB
14 The Tale of Mihraan
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.
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902 AB
14 The Tale of the Sutëir
Siege of Talon/Third Battle of the Shrike Vortex
Military: BattleThe 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.
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903 AB
Battle of Mythopeia
Military: BattleThe 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.
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905 AB
1 The Tale of Stygia
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
1 The Tale of Stygia
The early Arcane Congress is formed
FoundingThe 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.
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907 AB
Battle of the Aelder Sign
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908 AB
Congressional Arcanist Program (CAP) begins
Cultural eventStandardized 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)