Temshai Timeline

After Temshai's formation, the planet slowly produced life. The Dragonborn awoke around 8,300 BA, and the Lizardfolk awoke around 7,300 BA. Both races had a significant time to evolve and develop before the awakening of the humans and closely-related humanoid races.

Humans and related races came into being and grew in power. Each of the major humanoid races (humans, dwarves, elves, orcs, and halflings) worshiped their own version of a single creator-protector deity. Halflings and gnomes are the oldest, followed by dwarves, humans, and lastly elves.

Out-of-control Lizardfolk magic caused a massive explosion, creating a rift in the southern Verthik Mountains that became the Kepesk Pass and allowing them to leave the Greenstorm Jungle for the first time. This also altered the fabric of Temshai, exposing it to other Planes Of Existence and allowing for planar travel.

No longer confined to the Greenstorm Jungle, the Lizardfolk armies marched on southern Myas'tara. By the end of their conquest, they controlled the Nythenor Plains, Kalaskar Swamp, and parts of the Girimbor Caverns and Dalgablun Marches. In 732 BA, long before the lizardfolk advances on the marches, the Dalgablun Mob razed the human town of Stillwater, unknowingly driving the humans south into the lizardfolk's grasp.

During The Absence, Lizardfolk ruled southern Myas'tara. As the races mingled in captivity, they came to the understanding that they followed the same deity, The Mother.Their captives cried out to the Mother, but no answer and no deliverance came.

A group of seven adventurers, having worked to free Myas'tara from Lizardfolk rule, entered the Greenstorm Jungle to find The Mother and take her to task for abandoning her people. Upon their return, they claimed they'd defeated the Mother and would take her place as deities, ascending to become The Seven Eternals.

Following The Ascension, The Seven Eternals led Temshai into a period of great peace and prosperity. The populace faced many problems, but never felt they did so without their deities on their side.

Rumours started spreading that nearly everyone on Temshai was capable of using basic magic. Seeing this fact as a threat, The Seven Eternals searched for the culprit, eventually discovering it was Charalyn The Augur, who had quietly stepped down from deityhood.

Citizens of Temshai don't know what happened to Charalyn The Augur after the other members of The Seven Eternals discovered she was spreading the word about magic. They do know that the Seven became The Six Eternals, casting Charalyn out and destroying her temples and statues.   The Six declared publicly and broadly that magic was a gift of theirs given to the people, who began to embrace the commonplace use of magic.

The populace of Temshai is embracing the commonplace use of magic, and dependence on The Six Eternals is beginning to wane. Despite the claims that magic is a gift from the Six, many disbelieve that and religion is beginning to seem less essential to some.