The Overgods are created.
History of Everything
Before Common Era
13.8 billion years ago - 1 BCE
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The Beginning
The Big Bang
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13.6 billion years ago
Oldest star is formed (named Methuselah)
The Greater Gods are created.
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13.2 billion years ago
Oldest galaxies form
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12.7 billion years ago
Oldest exoplanet
Greater Gods create the Primordials.
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12.6 billion years ago
Milky Way forms
Helios creates the Garden.
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10.5 billion years ago
Oldest supernova we have seen
The Lesser Gods are created.
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10.4 billion years ago
Start of the Dawn War
Gods vs Primordials. The Primordials rise up against their creators.
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6.8 billion years ago
Alpha Centauri forms (closest star system to us)
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4.6 billion years ago
Sun forms
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4.5 billion years ago
Earth Forms
Chauntea forms the Earth which is later called Vanyeti.
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4.4 billion years ago
Theia impacts Earth and forms the Moon
A stray rock thrown in the Dawn War hits the Earth, forming the Moon. Chauntea vows to protect her creation and encircles the planet in protection from the outside universe.
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4.3 billion years ago
Water is brought to Earth by asteroids
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4.0 billion years ago
First life on Earth (simple single celled organisms)
The Greater Gods create mortals on various planets across the universe. Chauntea creates life on Earth.
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3.6 billion years ago
Super-continent Vaalbara forms
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3.5 billion years ago
Cyanobacteria evolve
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2.5 billion years ago
Great Oxygenation Event
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2.2 billion years ago
Ozone Layer Forms
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800 million years ago
First plants on Earth
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700 million years ago
Snowball Earth
End of the Dawn War. Dendar the Night Serpent rose up and swallowed the sun causing the Earth to freeze over. Following this, Ubtao betrayed the Primordials and gave the Gods the advantage to end the Dawn War.
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500 million years ago
Cambrian Explosion
The Obyrith's discover the universe and create the Shard of Pure Evil.
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450 million years ago
Ordovician extinction event (85% species lost)
Start of the Blood War. Gods vs Demons. Tharizdun finds the Shard of Pure Evil and plants it in the Garden, ripping this place apart and creating the Abyss and Mount Celestia.
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420 million years ago
First air-breathing animals on Earth
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400 million years ago
First fish on Earth
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370 million years ago
Late Devonian extinction event (70% species lost)
Helios creates Mechanus, a place of lawfulness, to prevent the demons access to the prime material plane.
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330 million years ago
First land vertebrates on Earth
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250 million years ago
Permian-Triassic extinction (95% species lost)
The demons continued to pour into Mechanus and die at the hands of the Modrons. The spilt demon blood degraded Mechanus over time and it splits into a smaller version of itself, and the chaotic Limbo. The war begins again between Mount Celestia and the Abyss.
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230 million years ago
First dinosaurs and crocodilian on Earth
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220 million years ago
First mammals on Earth
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200 million years ago
Triassic-Jurassic extinction (80% species lost)
The goodly Gods make the ultimate sacrifice and create Sigil. This blocks entry to the prime material plane by creatures from the planes on the astral sea. There are many exceptions but this move relieves the material plane from the vast majority of celestials and fiends. In response, the demons carve out the River Styx to continue their quest of domination.
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150 million years ago
First birds on Earth
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68 million years ago
First T-Rex on Earth
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66 million years ago
Cretaceous-Paleogene (K-Pg) extinction event (killed all non-avian dinosaurs)
The Gods create the Nine Hells to stage their forward base of operations in the Blood War. Just as the demons corrupted Mechanus over time, the Angel Army is being corrupted and creating Devils. The goodly Gods want them out of Mechanus and Celestia. They want to move the front line away from their homes.
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60 million years ago
First primates on Earth
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2.8 million years ago
First Homo Erectus on Earth
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300 thousand years ago
First Homo Sapiens on Earth
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200 thousand years ago
First anatomically modern humans on Earth
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100 thousand years ago
First human burial
Humans started to engage in religious rituals and belief of an afterlife. These souls began to enter the Astral Sea and gravitate towards areas consistent with their alignment, their aura, their chi.
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9000 years ago
First city on Earth (Jericho)
As souls become more numerous, more areas form in the Astral Sea. Elysium, Arborea, and Hades come into existence. The river of Oceanus is made to navigate across the goodly planes.
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2200 years ago
Stone Henge is completed
The Pact Primeval is signed. It agreed that Asmodeus, the general of the Angel Army, would be able to harness the power from lawful evil souls to feed his war effort. Asmodeus and the Angel Army at this point were no longer Angels, but now Devils, corrupted by endless fighting with Demons.
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2000 BCE to 2020 CE
Human Civilisation
Common Era
1 CE - Present
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2020
Nuclear Apocalypse
President Trump accidentally starts a nuclear apocalypse. Upset and distraught, Chauntea removes her protection from Earth and it is renamed Vanyeti. Magic is enabled and other gods and creatures gain access to this planet.
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2100 (-35,000 DR)
Days of Thunder
Start of Days of Thunder. Once the nuclear winter abates, there is an emergence of mutated races.
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2100 (-35,000 DR) to 4100 (-33,000 DR)
Sarrukh empire
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4100 (-33,000 DR)
Start of the Batrachi Empire
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6100 (-31,000 DR)
Fall of the Batrachi Empire
The Batrachi end up in a war with the Titans of the north. They use ancient magic to release some Primordials to fight the Titans. The God Asgorath intervened to direct an ice moon to strike the planet in an event called the 'Tearfall'. This event causes huge destruction to the planet. The God Helios intervenes and sunders the prime material plane into 3 different planes. The Feywild and Shadowfell are formed from the Prime and the Primordials move into these other planes, leaving the Prime for the Gods.
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6100 (-31,000 DR) to 7100 (-30,000 DR)
Aearee Empire
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8100 (-29,000 DR)
The Dawn Age
End of the Days of Thunder and start of the Dawn Age. Giants begin to form their kingdoms and Dragons grow and multiply. It was believed the Dragons came from the Tearfall. Inevitably, the dragons and giants would end up at war.
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9100 (-28,000 DR)
The Elves
Araushnee is banished and cast into the Abyss as Lolth. The Wood Elves (Sylvan/Copper) are the first elves to arrive to Vanyeti from the Feywild and create the Ilythiir kingdom with the permission of the dragons.
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11,100 (-26,000 DR)
The Giant-Kin
Othea pursues an extra-martial affair and the giant-kin are formed.
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12,100 (-25,000 DR)
The High Elves
The High Elves (Gold/Sun and Silver/Moon) fled Tintageer in the Feywild, and arrive in Vanyeti. The Gold Elf Prince Durothil defeats Mahatnartorian (Red Dragon).
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13,100 (-24,000 DR)
The end of the Dawn Age
The giants and dragons reach a truce after both their populations and kingdoms are shadows of their former selves. The elves create the Dracorage Mythal which is attacked by the dragons. The Avariel (Winged Elves) are almost made extinct during their defence of the mythal. The magic in the mythal is then transferred to Halley's Comet causing the first rage of dragons.
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14,100 (-23,000 DR)
The First Flowering
The First Flowering marks the time of the Elves. They grow their civilisations across Faerun.
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19,500 (-17,600 DR)
The Elven Sundering
The High Elves use sundering magic to create the island of Evermeet. This causes huge destruction and changes to the land masses over the world. Meanwhile, Lolth seduces the Dark Elves and takes their leader Ka'Narlist as her consort. Some Dark Elves begin worshiping Ghaunadaur. The Sea Elves construct their undersea capital of Aryselmalyr.
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25,300 (-11,800 DR)
1st Crown War
Aryvandaar attempts to peacefully annex Mieyeritar but it is unsuccessful, so they take it by force.
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25,400 (-11,700 DR)
2nd Crown War
As Orishaar remains a trading partner of Aryvandaar, Illythiir destroys Orishaar in response to the Gold elf aggression in the north.
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26,200 (-10,900 DR)
3rd Crown War
Aryvandaar, now known as the Vyshaantar Empire wages war on Shantel Othreirer. Miyeritar is engulfed in killing storms which reduces the area to wasteland in three months. This was called the Dark Disaster and it is believed Aryvandaar mages caused this. Four centuries of peace is made from the shock and awe of the Dark Disaster.
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26,600 (-10,500 DR)
4th Crown War
Ilythiir’s counter attack to avenge Miyeritar sees the Dark Elves use the corrupt powers of Lolth and Ghaunadaur in the open for the first time. Shantel Orthreier is destroyed in flame. The Aryvandaar priests prayed to Corellon and his magic was channeled through them to turn the Dark Elves into Drow and make them sensitive to sunlight. Over two months, the Drow descended into the Underdark. Aryvandaar take over everything other than Keltormir.
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27,900 (-9200 DR)
5th Crown War
The fragile peace was shattered when the Corellon Larethian mandated Elven Court decreed that the Sun Elf clan of Vyshaan was responsible for the thousands of years of war. The Vyshaantar Empire disputed the charges and madly declared war on everyone. Within 200 years, the ancient kingdom of Aryvandaar was no more.
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28,100 (-9000 DR) to 34,100 (-3000 DR)
The Founding Time
A relatively peaceful time when various humanoid civilisations thrived in the absence of elven interference. The most populous races included humans, dwarves, gnomes, and halflings. Most of the Gold/Sun Elves moved to Evermeet. The Copper/Wood Elves stayed in their forest kingdoms. The Copper/Wild Elves remained elusive. The Silver/Moon Elves spread everywhere; some went to Evermeet, others went to live with the Wood Elves, and some integrated with humans. Most half-elves are from a Silver/Moon background.
