Timeline

Civilizations Established

_{Circa 100 Pre-Inaer (PI) through 900 Inaer Era (IE)}

1. Stabilization of magic foments the rise of civilizations
2. Tifereon authors the Inaer, a prophetic tome cataloging a far future cataclysm he claimed “echoed back” to his time.
3. Thri-kreen worship of Solstea grants the moon divine consciousness
4. Ysara Neldrin ascends as first mage queen.
5. Ilithel, goddess of motherhood and compassion, is first to grant humans healing magic.
6. Dwarves construct deep roads connecting their kingdoms.
7. The elven explorer Halpeccia Goldraven is the first air breather to discover their aquatic neighbors.
8. The giants awaken.
9. Elves learn the magic and architecture of monolithic structures from giants.

The Fairy War

_{Circa 900 IE through 905 IE}

1. Oshira (giant fey) attack the city of Rymnelle when a sacred grove is threatened.
2. The aid of the Thri-kreen turns the battle at Rymnelle.

The Magical Inquisition

_{Circa 905 IE through 950 IE}

1. A deadly explosion at the mine of Dulway’n motivates dwarven king Azak to ban magic.
2. Ysara Neldrin forms the clandestine organization The Orphic Veil on Belmea.
3. Elven arcane monolithic spires repel and dominate Magical Inquisition war efforts.
4. The last victims of Caster’s Ailment are locked away in a deep underground vault.
5. Arin’silath opens the Arcane Gladiatorial Arena.
6. The Orphic Veil uncovers long vacant Duergar Ruins on Belmea.
   • Why did Ysara Neldrin dedicate her life to the pursuit of power? | Belmea | Duergar Ruins show a glimpse of a future war that she dedicates her life to stopping.
7. A gifted human sorcerer named Tassarion Elaric leads a cultural revolution to emancipate the arcanists.
   • How did Tassarion Elaric escape the Arcane Gladiatorial Arena? | The druid Ael’yeth Naialine infiltrates the arena as a combatant. | A bloodbath creates opportunity for many arcane casters to escape.
   • How did Ael’yeth Naialine create a plan that pushed back the border expansion of Arin’silath and contributed to the freeing of captive mages? | Ael’yeth called a council of ents from the local forest. | The ent attack created an opening for the mages to be freed.
8. Queen Jaraka, daughter of Azak and a loyal worshiper of Dharthane, god of knowledge and engineering, officially ends the Magical Inquisition.
9. The Orphic Veil manifests Serelune, goddess of peace, to aid in healing the post-inquisition world.
10. Ysara Neldrin is granted knowledge from Katharsidan, the god of death, to achieve undeath. She creates the Black Reach to uphold her end of the bargain.

The Age of Empires

_{Circa 950 IE through 1950 IE}

1. Aethelm, the first cross-cultural metropolis, is formed by Runa Astryn, motivated by visions from her deity Baeyumatal.
2. Ysara Neldrin, presumed dead for centuries, reveals herself and forms the Silver Reach Empire.
3. The Ish’talathin splinter as the crown heir, Nelearyn Ethalys, flees to the city of Kinthal to be with his dwarven partner.
4. Elves form a reluctant military alliance with Thri-kreen.
5. The invention of airships makes travel around the inner ring of Arcis easier.
6. The elven poet Raia pens the epic GRIMKHA, documenting for the first time the history of giants before the awakening.
7. The leaders of multiple empires hold a summit to map Arcis and line out hospitable and hostile lands.
8. Runegazer poet Raia receives a vision to lock up dangerous artifacts in the Vault of Qyrix.
9. The trickster god Suka guides a mining expedition into the icy mountains of Startheim, where an ancient aberration slumbers.
10. An ancient aberration awakens and causes havoc across the continent of Startheim.
11. Arcis Adventurer’s Guild founded.

The War for Control of the Skies

_{Circa 1950 IE through 1970 IE}

1. A contingent of Runegazers follow their obsession with the firmament and collude to wrest control of the skies.
2. Dragons destroy the royal airship of Runegazer Varek Bristorn.
3. The Giant-King Umr Hjoldain attempts to expunge religion from his kingdom and brings a terrible curse upon his people.
4. Pharaoh Neferhotep and his magi create the bronze dracolich Niefarion, and immediately lose control of her.
5. A child of divine heritage (Jelana) is the sole survivor of the massacre at the Sunev Monastery.
6. The hunting and eventual demise of Niefarion at the hands of Thela Cragsfury.
   • How did Thela Cragsfury defeat Niefarion? | The peaks of Than Kuldir | Empowered with the strength of 100 men by Vigsall, god of brutality, in combat.
7. Jelana, sole survivor of the Sunev Massacre, negotiates a peace with the draconic forces, codifying their sovereignty over the skies.
   • What inspired Jelana to negotiate? | Dragonsmoot at Ironspire | Jelana drew upon wisdom from the cosmic runes.
8. Ysara Neldrin perceives telltale signs of ancient spires through runic readings.
9. Pharaoh Senusret, last of her dynasty, names Neferu, god of the river Neferu, sole deity of Harsth.

The Forge War

_{Circa 1970 IE through 2025 IE}

1. The giants and the elves form an alliance.
2. In response to being spurned by their tentative elven allies, dwarves ally with the Silver Reach Empire.
3. Dwarven craftsmen and mages unleash the warforged.
   • What inspired the warforged? | Great Forge of Kragthorn Hold | A mid-ranking dwarven smith named Randver Fornhold disappears for a fortnight, and when he returns he is raving like a lunatic. He feverishly sketches the plans for a humanoid construct, which he claims was granted to him in a vision from Forgefather Ferrux, god of the forge.
4. The giant forces are vanquished at Kragthorn Hold. There are few giant survivors.
   • Why did the giants lose so utterly? | Outside of Kragthorn Hold, the command tent of King Umr Hjoldain | A bad plan fueled by rage and manipulation. Umr harbored a deep resentment for dwarves and would not hear reason. His son Gorak Hjoldain died in an assassination attempt that was meant for him, and blind rage drove him to dash his army against the fortified walls of the dwarven stronghold.
5. Halcyon, the first warforged Runegazer, unites the warforged against their dwarven masters.
6. Warforged revolt against their makers, claiming a nation of underground infrastructure.
   • How do the warforged gain autonomy? | The Deep Roads | The goddess Baeyumatal, patron of the seas, takes favor on the warforged and blesses them.
7. The warforged collapse areas of the Deep Roads, impacting bystander areas and the people above.
8. The elven mage Amthir raises an undead army from the fallen at Kragthorn Hold.
9. Human king Allethane of Krenth weds the dwarven king Valdrag Stonesunder.

The End of the Old Racial Kingdoms

_{Circa 2025 IE through 2200 IE}

1. Elven capital Aelin’faer falls into a sinkhole created by the Deep Roads, ending the kingdom’s lineage.
2. Craftsmen and relief workers of all species converge on the site of Aelin’faer.
3. Standing gates (open portals) to Aeloria, a capital city in the fae realm, are erected at key cities in the Silver Reach Empire.
4. The portal to the realm of Sairin’ Tirah (a shadow fey) is discovered and reactivated.
5. A failed ritual by cultists worshiping Dharthane causes a psychic plague in the city of Kinthal.
6. A band of dwarven and giant mercenaries set off with their fleet and sail to the frigid fjordlands of Startheim.
7. As the emissary Florin Stonepick is welcomed to the aquatic city of Blaroca, trade officially exists among all nations and peoples.

The Fall of the Silver Reach Empire

_{Circa 2200 IE through 2225 IE}

1. Emperor Riven Falkrik breaks an arrangement with a powerful fey (leprechaun), which angers the entity.
2. Vrik’shara sees a vision in the stars that he will lead a kingdom outside of Callum-Thea, and leaves his home.
3. The Silver Reach’s invasion of Callum-Thea fails due to roving hordes of rust monsters.
4. Vrik’shara of Thrax’lan wins a magical contest, disrupting the power balance of the Silver Reach Empire.
5. The vespers arise as a new generation of aquatic warforged.
6. Deposed emperor Riven Falkrik attempts to become Emperor Eternal by ascending to godhood, and fails.
7. The Silver Reach Empire dissolves, splintering into smaller nations of diverse leadership, governance, and culture.
8. The vesper warforged establish an underwater kingdom named Vespera.

The Relics of Progress

_{Circa 2225 IE through 2235 IE}

1. The floating city of Krznlik becomes a hub of trade for Callum-Thea.
2. Skyforged arise as a new generation of dragon warforged.
3. Vrik’shara uncovers the Vault of Qyrix deep in the desert continent of Callum-Thea.
   • What was found in the Vault of Qyrix? | The Vault of Qyrix | The Luminara, the long lost power of plague, and the protective power of monoliths.
4. The power of the Luminara is harnessed to enable two-way magical travel to Solstea.
5. Elven general Eldan’shir gains control of the Luminara.
   • How did Eldan’shir gain control of the Luminara? | Chak’tal Spire | He invaded with a group of powerful fighters and mages, assassinated Vrik’shara, and made off with The Luminara.
6. A warforged named Obsidian forms the cult of Xasthoon, the god of avarice. The cult is centered around the power granted to them by the Awl of Ire, an artifact they recovered from a secret chamber within the Vault of Qyrix.
7. The underground reconstruction of Aelin’faer is completed. The reimagined city is constructed around its only remaining original structure, the Spire of Aelin’faer.
8. Giant smith Karos reforges the Hammer of Harak with help from warforged and other allies.

The Quiet

_{Circa 2235 IE through 2300 IE}

1. Nations and peoples use a time of constrained quiet to reconnect bonds and rebuild once-destroyed cities, reinstating trade and travel routes that were previously disrupted with the fall of the Silver Reach Empire.
2. Archfey Talarion leads a fey push from Aeloria through defunct Silver Reach fey gates, establishing a fey foothold on Arcis.
3. Bainphaerün, descendant of Tifereon, wrests control of the Black Reach from Ysara Neldrin.
4. The rebuilding of cities on ruins, along with expanded travel, allows the Black Reach to seed its members through the lands in search of the Temple of Kalthiirus on a directive from Xeosath, god of eldritch knowledge.
5. With giant aid, a contingent of elves find the ruins of the Great Spire, which is found to be inverted deep underground.
6. The archfey Talarion places a curse of slumber upon the city of Eöla, capital of the Republic of Maramac, and frames the Black Reach for the act.

Full-Scale Toric War

_{Circa 2300 IE}

1. Human king Calith Vorane weds lich queen Ysara Neldrin.
2. In reaction to the blasphemous wedding, agents of the church of Zorius, a god of justice, assassinate Calith Vorane, igniting a volatile web of political alliances into conflict.
3. A coordinated strike by the Obsidian Alliance collapses nearly every Deep Road.
4. The Obsidian Alliance attacks the neutral kingdom of Vespera, invoking the wrath of Baeyumatal.
5. The Battle of Ironspire is waged between the skyforged and Ysara Neldrin’s dracoliches.
6. Mabaluius, member of the long-forgotten Orphic Veil, meets general Eldan’shir and archfey Talarion, and exposes key information about the Black Reach.
7. General Eldan’shir and archfey Talarion establish the Shattered Sigil, an alliance of nations opposing the Obsidian Alliance and the Black Reach.
8. The Black Reach opens the Temple of Kalthiirus to complete the Rites of Lunar Conjunction, awakening the great elder moon presence Inaerth’Torath.
9. Thrice-great king Lonaik brokers an alliance between gnomes and unicorns.
10. The spires originally created by the elves network to create magics previously unknown to all other peoples.