The Storyteller begins the Story of Sartova, The God's Chronicle..
Avernus creates sorts of societal strife. The Giants study and define Arcane Runic magic.
Vaknevan the Wretched kills a Titan at a feast and early meeting between the two continents and people thereof. This betrayal sparks the Sartovan War.
Five hundred years of war is frought with villification and magic both cosmic and eldritch. The stories of each side of the other become larger than life... as Stories do.
The Oneisori/Quori learn of narrativist calamity, and fear the Sartovan War will begin such disaster. They break dimensional treastise and commune with the Titans, choosing the right-handed warrior.
After repeated attempts, the Titans of Jhar'gorn learn of the abilities of transdimensional storyshifting travel. They capture dragons to extort secrets and begin their study of the Stories.
When the Giants began to travel the Stories, captured the Elves from Medicopia and made them slaves. With this, the first flora and non-aquatic, non-avernal fauna spread across Sartova. Formerly, only sparse parts of Jeria knew nature.
Learning of the Giant's dimensional travel, Avernus creates deceptive thievery and the rest of strife, using it to implant spies among the elves.
Hundreds of such void-marked elves escape from the Titans, by the will of Avernus.
Doneicataru the Aegis is born of a Green Dragon who lived in captivity under a cruel Giant-overlord. He is used as an organic planewalking machine, the same as other enslaved dragonscribes.
The Giants know peace, and maintain a perfect control over their interdimensional dominion. They do, however, begin to war and turn against each other in the later half of these years, and the Rexkhan Jarl of the Cirrusthrone becomes a frequently changing position.
The Giants, with the Titans lying long dead among broken thrones without meaning, break and reshape reality to kill the unkillable and entomb Avernus within itself.
A forgotten child of Jharia of Jhar'gorn turns to the side of Defiance and flesh-creation.
The Golden Age of the Giants ends when those that hide within Avernus return to the surface with the Jeriec Empire spreading a new dominion to the skylit lands.
The Last Titan is slain by the Emperor of the First Jeriec Empire in a battle to last the ages.
Doneicataru the Aegis earns his title first, by flying back and forth before the catastrophes begin, freeing elves from slavery and bringing them to his Domain on Evandyr. He continues this alone for quite some time. He also allows those that repented from Avernus' ways of the First Jeriec Empire to find haven there.
Avernus is not fully dead, for he cannot die, and dreams new creations into being through his nightmares and heart-chamber. As he stirs, tectonic movements expunge the blood of the earth to new land in the Infinity Ridges and King's Spine. Rogue factions of giants fear that the world will break apart forevermore into the depths of Silence, Void, or Apocrypha.
The Giant Kingdoms begin to gather slaves to perform the sacrificial rituals once again, harnessing it's blood power to keep the Avernus Beneath from tearing Sartova apart. Many factions speak out against it, but before it can be completed, the elven slaves revolt under the leader and martyr Liara Luena.
The true cause of their disappearance remains a matter of debate and mystery, often tainted by biased opinions on the Sartovan War.
The true cause of their disappearance remains a matter of debate and mystery, often tainted by biased opinions on the Sartovan War.
The Daelkyr begin to take more material to work with, and dispose of undesirable forms on Evandyr and Jhar'gorn.The Elves of Er'laria and the beings of the First Jeriec Empire ally and wage bloody wars with them.
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.
Jhar'gorn's disaster is made far, far worse, by the Oneirosi/Quori manipulating the psionic energies of Sartovans.
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.
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.
Seeing the ineptitude of the Story at hand, the dragons--servants and tools of the Storyteller--begin to war. Divides form between dragons of differing worlds, as they battle over usurping or maintaining their passive position.
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.
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.