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When Balance was created and started creating the Universe. During this time, nobody recorded the exact date of anything, so everything is simply an approximation of the date, although the order is correct.
Balance creates the World of Mortals, creating the only space that is not chaos. This draws the attention of Chaos. To keep the new world from being consumed by the chaos again, Balance separates the chaos into four parts, destruction, water, earth, and air, casting them to the side, creating the Elemental Chaos, the Destruction Chaos, Air Chaos, Water Chaos, and Earth Chaos, in the process creating a system for them to create stuff with. To create morality, she casts aside 16 realms of pure conceptual morality. These would later become the 16 Afterlives.
Balance creates the method of creating Divine Decrees. She does this because she foresees needs for new universal laws.
Chaos attacks and both sides create gods and weapons to fight for them. Some gods comply, some gods don't. This speeds up magic's development as a weapon. During this time, the mortal world is kept controlled with a very tight grip. The gods squash any inter-mortal conflict like wars, making sure the government is powerful enough to keep most people in line. This creates a very centralized government.
Chaos attacks and destroys a large chunk of the World of Mortals. This alerts Humanity, Sul and Balance to the existence of Chaos. The attacks continue throughout the Universal War.
Balance creates the World of Chaos in an attempt to appease Chaos with an area of unbridled chaos, and in order to balance out the now increased amount of chaos in the world, creates the World of Order in order to keep order in the universe and the Modrons to inhabit and run it. This does nothing to appease Chaos, who continues to attack. This is also the start of the modrons accurately recording the events, and is the start of their calendar. In addition, the Modrons are given the right to create and annul Divine Decrees.
Kami reaches puberty and creates Nihonan as a refuge against the fighting, seeing it as pointless and vowing never to fight without reason.
Kami creates the Halfling race in order to follow his 3 tenets of revenge, which he had solidified in his Scriptures of Revenge. This was relatively quick because he copied Sul's work in creating humans.
Chaos decides to venture into creating something and makes Duk. To annoy Balance, they create Duk in the World of Order, and to annoy the modrons messes up their calendar so they have to start over again.
The God Killer is invented, and immediately destroyed by Balance, who feared the potential of it, banning the creation or research of anything to harm gods.
Geltham reaches puberty and immediately takes the ritual. He runs away from Balance, realizing the chaotic nature of his domain and that Balance would squash it, but that Chaos would fail to give it structure. He decides to be peaceful for now.
Balance lifts the ban on the creation of God Killers and manufacturing starts up again.
Geltham starts looking for Heisei. He needs to create multiple new spells, such as Scrying, and his expedition takes him to the furthest reaches of the universe, which gives him inspiration for new spells. Some people think that he went beyond the known area of the universe. He does eventually find her, although it is unknown where Heisei was, except that it was unknown to Balance or Chaos. Geltham comes back with Lod, who is fully developed.
Chaos starts hunting Aasimars, hating the construction of Duk, believing that no son of theirs would create something. Many Aasimars attempt to marry into human bloodlines to preserve themselves.
Geltham returns to the World of Mortals along with his son, Lod. Lod starts creating a set of laws and the Gnomes to carry it out.
Mecin appears to the universe, fully grown, and claims to be Heisei's daughter. Many miraculous healings occur, sparking the creation of the Church of Peace, sometimes claiming to have had a conversation with a god while injured or sick. This god is later revealed to be Heisei. Mecin starts promoting an end to the war, although when none of the gods stop, she settles for helping the people affected by the war.
Mecin creates Dragonborn to be healers, but they quickly get out of hand, diversifying completely, and many become loners, estranging themselves from the society they were supposed to heal.
Geltham, inspired by Mecin, starts work on a masterful system of power to be shared with mortals. Before this, the only celestial power was available to clerics of a god. This was to be something anybody could master with enough practice, dedication, ingenuity, and intelligence, and was to have limitless potential, though other gods put limits on it, such as limits to the power of spells, limiting healing spells, or forbidding other spells without worship of a god, so that mortals wouldn't be able to usurp the gods. In conjunction with this, Geltham created Dragons, which were designed to be embodiment of certain aspects of magic. When the system was finished, Geltham unleashed his creation into the world and let it flourish. This quickly led to a revolution of using magic for war, since different spells could be invented without much restraint. Before this, the only way to harness deity force was through the usage of materials that could interact with latent deity force. Afterwards, the usage of the word magic has surplanted the technical term, deity force usage, in nearly every context, even though magic only refers to the system of mortals being able to harness deity power without the assistance of an immortal being.
Geltham creates Dragons as an embodiment of his creation, magic. He creates two groups, one to explore the aspects of magic, which are rules, destruction, healing and protection, knowledge, and greed, and one to explore the schools, Abjuration, Conjuration, Divination, Enchantment, Evocation, Illusion and Transmutation. This both lets him experiment better with magic, and to establish its core principals. The types are based off of the diversity of Dragonborn.
Singlo reaches puberty and immediately takes the awakening ritual, starting to fight for Balance. Since he viewed Balance's cause as righteous, he swears an oath to be loyal to her, taking domain over righteousness and oaths.
With Singlo, Balance starts winning the Universal War. For many mortals, this was the one peaceful stretch of the Universal War, although the gods were still fighting just as violently.
Over this year, Creator Dragons gradually invent many different species of trees. Each one is either chosen or customized for the area the Creator Dragon cares for, either providing nutrients, shelter, or shade. A large area of Creator Dragons adopt trees into their areas, sometimes sparking conflicts between two Creator Dragons. Some trees have thick and wide canopies, blocking light and providing shade for the creatures and plants that live beneath them. Some have low hanging branches to grant protection to creatures that dig fend near the bases. Some trees have very large trunks and branches, providing lots of homes for airborne creatures. Some trees are designed simply to keep soil in place. Most are flammable, some explicitly to catch fire, either to keep populations in check, or to keep the soil fertile.
Humans create an adult god, using decades of research, and name it Hominid. Balance and Sul find out, and attacks the facility where it was made, banning research into gods and destroys most of the creators. Balance, wishing not to give Hominid much power, forces the domain of perversion onto him.
The twins Eater and Gae are born to Duk and Sul. They are placed in the care of the royalty in the Forgotten Kingdom.
Golenna reaches puberty. She disappears immediately, although some witnesses claim she said "I see the Breaks" before she disappeared. The next time she was seen was by one of her followers who saw her in the light of dawn.
Eater creates wolves as an ideal predator.
Balance and Chaos die under strange conditions. The Universal War stops, with Fex and Geltham as the only remaining combatants with souls who were fighting for Chaos and quickly making peace with Sul and Heisei. Geltham starts to explore the world in disguise, learning about the new facets of magic that sprung up during the Universal War. Fex recedes into the fiery area of the Destruction Chaos. A recently discharged God Killer is found on a nearby mountain. God Killers are hunted down and banned by most gods, although a few are kept intact.
An era of peace after the death of Balance and Chaos.
With the Universal War over, the lands around the The Forgotten Continent are less dangerous, letting people migrate to them. Throughout this time all non-Humans who lived in the Forgotten Kingdom leave the kingdom. If they don't leave, the Humans grow paranoid about completely losing them, and mob many of the non-Humans, creating more fear and forcing more of them out, creating more panic. Dwarves and Gnomes find a bond over the intent of their creation, heading west to the continent now known as Wintsuucidon, then known as the Westlands. Dragonborns migrate primarily east. No name from the time remains for the land they traveled to, and no true name for it exists, although it is commonly called Belahir. Some Humans also create colonies for the Forgotten Kingdom.
Ruler is born and entrusted to the care of the royalty of the Forgotten Kingdom. He is raised, seeing the problems in the wider world, and decides that the problem is that there is not enough central power.
Now unemployed due to the end of the Universal War, many former members of the army use their military prowess to form bands of mercenaries. The non-Human races are the first to be fired, the smaller races, deemed less combat worthy, like Gnomes and Dwarves get fired first, with Dragonborn fired last. Aasimar are least likely to be fired, and many of them stay longer than some Humans, seen by some as either a variant of Humanity or better than it.
Nomefre is settled on the Southern coast of modern-day Sulwint. They immediately declare independence from the Forgotten Kingdom.
The Empire of Belahir is founded, with Hickol as the first city and capital, and Belahir as the first Emperor of Belahir, and Jollan as the first Prince of Belahir. Belahir claims the continent for the empire, and names it Belahir.
Many gods start creating another world, known as the World of Gods, for them to live in. This loosens their control on the World of Mortals. At some point the Abyss of the Gods is created as an easier way to transport between the worlds. In conjunction with that the first Protector is made, inventing the species and creating the Protector of the Abyss.
Multiple Gods, Golenna, Sul, Heisei and Lod specifically, start the creation of a prison for monsters they deem too dangerous to let roam in the world with the mortals anymore. This allows further exploration of the other continents. As the main structure is simply an indestructible bubble of time and space, it doesn't require much work, but Lod and Fex see a responsibility to the monsters and constructs a hospitable environment for them within the bubble.
Elves create a gate into the World of Mortals. They cross into a part of Belahir that is uninhabited but claimed by Belahir, angering them.
Belahir attacks the elvish cities made on Belahir, seeing them as an attack on the kingdom, as they had claimed the land. This destroys many of the cities, but the Elves soon counterattack and drive the armies back to the mountain ranges, where they get stopped. After which, Belahir bombards the Elves with summoned creatures.
Homin creates the Perversions of Ruler, naming them Faller and Vampiron. This also creates the races of Vampires and Night Hags, and creation of the Shadowfell.
Belahir, cursed with a drought that they have no way to remove, summons a demon to try and remove the curse. The demon is ordered to "remove the curse of the drought". Immediately, the demon sees only one way to remove the curse, which is to break the land, and carves the Strait of Belahir through the continent of Belahir in a single instant, breaking the force barrier at the end of the world which instantly regrows.
Belahir summons a more powerful demon prince and tells it to "destroy the elven kingdoms". The demon prince goes to the battlefield and curses the land just to the north of the mountains. Instantly, the ground turns to lava and volcanoes start rising. This creates the Lava Barren, and the volcanoes spew ash. The ash gets caught in some breezes and floats North, covering the elven kingdoms and creating the Ashland. The demon prince is unsummoned after he tries to escape the bonds of the summoning. Many Elves escape through naturally occurring portals to the Shadowfell, taking with them High Centaurs and they push the Night Hags out, replacing them and getting corrupted into dark Elves and Shadow Centaurs over the next century.
The elven kingdoms learn of the fate of the northern elven kingdoms, all previous messengers getting killed by the curse, and as a way to make an official organization to make peace with Belahir, the remaining elven kingdoms on the new continent of South Belahir join together to create the kingdom of Suthphor, although they truly are relatively independent with one overarching royal family. Suthphor offers their princess's hand in marriage to solidify the treaty.
The part of Belahir on South Belahir scrambles to contact the Hickol on North Belahir, but the kingdom has no navy, so cannot. They then scramble to find a suitable new representative, and eventually the army takes charge, placing the commander as acting Emperor of Belahir, and uses the power to make a treaty. Suthphor does have the ability to make good boats, so they help each other make a navy and contact Hickol. Conversations ensue, and Hickol wants the commander to give up his power before the two groups unify. However, Suthphor will not allow the commander to lose power, since if that happened the treaty would be null and void, and neither of the kingdoms want to go to war, but don't trust Hickol to keep the peace.
Nomefre rejoins the Forgotten Kingdom in order to gain their protection and money for mercenaries.
Incorneal is born to the minor noble family called the Acledas. His full name is Incorneal Unribth Acledas.
Isa reaches puberty and takes the ritual. His domain, Insanity and Snakes, immediately forces him to begin to destroy the universe.
Metropolis is founded under the name Anekka because a group of settlers couldn't travel any further.
The The Forgotten Continent is cursed, the curse gradually overtaking the whole continent. Residents flee, Humans and Aasimars fleeing to wherever they could, some going North, creating the Winter Tribes, while other non-Humans try to flee to whichever country has the highest concentration of their race. Businesses flee to other countries, who have better non-Human protection laws, which raises prices, but also boosts the country's economy, providing more employment. Trade becomes impossible in any way except for through Plurum, and Metropolis, already powerful due to their trading power, rushes to consolidate power, financially ruining other trade towns, decimating roads to them and modernizing their roads.
Aereek makes it day. All the major powers in the World of Mortals convene to determine whether or not this is the same day and reorganize the clocks, as well as determine what caused this to occur. In the World of Order the Modrons completely lost track of the correct position of the sun and froze it in the sky. This made the day last longer than normal until all the systems were corrected.
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