World of Greyhawk Timeline

A list of historical events explaining the history leading up to the present state of the World of Greyhawk.   The following terms used to describe eras in the history of eastern Oerik: Sages divide history into five eras: The Age before Ages The earliest era of the multiverse, when the forces of Law battled primal Chaos. The Age before Ages is broken down into three sub-eras   The First Age - the multiverse came into being and beings of law and chaos, good and evil warred for millions of years. The Second Age - the Material Plane was formed and the first gods came into being. The Third Age - the aquatic aboleth race was created by divine accident, the aboleth went on to master magic and create many creatures including the first humanoids. This Age culminated in a massive battle between Law and Chaos, crippling the ancient powers.   The Age before Ages concluded at the Battle of Pesh, a colossal battle between law and chaos. On the side of Law were the Wind Dukes of Aaqa, an air elemental race whose empire spanned many worlds, while Chaos included demons and evil elder elementals led by an obyrith called the Queen of Chaos. The result was a stalemate: the Wind Dukes destroyed or banished the most powerful demons, but lost too many of their number to continue the battle of law against chaos.