A band of humans and dwarves labor to build a great tower of stone. Seeing this as an affront to his power, Asmodeus destroys the tower and binds humans and dwarves to slavery as punishment for their perceived pride.
The Flame Chronicle
This is the collected history of the present era, with scholarly speculation of eras past. It serves as the official account of the ages.
Fathomless Epoch
Theogony and Creation unto the Sundering
A time before time, when even the gods were young. Immemorial being and nothingness, upon which even the keenest of minds may only speculate.
Age of Gods
The Year of Song to the Time of Penthos
The shrouded past. An age before recorded history, gleaned from apocryphal revelations and mystic scrying.
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Year of Song
Advent of Poetry and Music
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Year of the Healer
Advent of Medicine
Scientific achievementThe goddess Pherein teaches the art of healing to humans and elves.
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Year of the Smith
Advent of Craft
Technological achievementGond instructs the mortal races in the ways of the mechanical arts.
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Year of Plenty
Advent of Agriculture
Discovery, ScientificSerenna, goddess of spring, and Idamate, goddess of autumn, teach humans and halflings to cultivate fields and orchards.
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Year of Dreams
Advent of Magic
Metaphysical / Paranormal eventAzuth guides five dreamers through the veil between planes, granting them knowledge and command of magic.
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Year of the Lawgiver
Advent of the Law
Civil actionTyr and Lira descend to Tala for the last time to give laws to the increasingly chaotic human and dwarven chiefdoms.
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Year of Penthos
The Godsflight
Religious eventThe Silver Gods depart Tala and assume their places among the stars.
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A Century After Godsflight
Departure of the Elves
Population Migration / TravelBelieving the humans' and dwarves' impetuousness and obstinacy to be deleterious to their way of life, the elves depart the Valley of Tir Drochain for the northern forests and other lands unknown.
Age of Tribes
Year of Exodus to the Year of Weeping
The first age recorded in writing, preserved in stone.
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1 A.T.
15 Silvanan
The Murder of Belior
Life, Trauma/ LossThe first recorded death of one man at the willful hands of another. Khan, son of Mellik murders Belior, son of Rio, over possession of a precious stone.
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2 A.T.
50 A.T.
The Great Migration
Population Migration / TravelAs the walls of the Great Garden begin to crumble and acrimony spreads over its peoples, clans and families depart, first in a trickle, then a flood, out into the wider world.
Age of Priests
Year of the Pact to the Dark Years
The mortal races gather in gleaming cities built around opulent temples.
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2722 A.P.
8 Zahra2730 A.P.
16 Somnory
The Sacking of Alnarach
Military actionThe opening decade of the Dark Years culminates with the burning of the great city and the extinguishing of Shæl's flame.
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Last of the Dark Years
Defeat of Asmodeus's Champion
Military actionWhen Ulfior, the demon warrior and champion of Asmodeus, surrounds the last surviving humans, halflings, and dwarves at a narrow peninsula in the north, the half-elf hero Oridur leaps across the sea to come to their aid. After a three-day battle, Oridur cuts down Ulfior and disperses his demon host.
Age of Kings
The Year of Coronation to the Present Day
The present age of the world, begun when Oridur returned Shæl's fire to its rightful place and crowned the first Emperor at Alnarach.
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1 A.K.
18 Somnory
Founding of the Empire
FoundingAt the site of the ancient city of Alnarach, which then lay in ruins, Oridur crowns Decius the first ruler of the Empire of the First Gift. Together, they bring Shæl's Fire back to the Place of the Eternal Flame.
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Alnarach -
679 A.K.
5 Ilion
Pact of the Three Lions
FoundingThe petty kings of Warum, Oder, and Balia unite under a single crown to form the Kingdom of Aranesse.