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9999 BCE
Creation
The Most Ancient creates the world from atop Mont Suder. -
3000 BCE
Creation of Elves
The first Genians, elves, are created by the Water God from his small tribe of humans. This enrages the Fire God and begins the deities' war. -
Period: 3000 BCE to 100 BCE
Deities' War
After the Water God creates new forms of life, the Fire God considers this to be an abomination of their father's works, and vows to destroy all new creations. To accomplish this he is soon forced to create his own new lifeforms and servants, spiraling into a massive, cosmic conflict. -
Period: 3000 BCE to 2300 BCE
First Period
This early stage of the war was defined by overwhelming Fire God victories, seizing almost the entire outer shelf, and defeating the Water God's forces in almost every engagement. During this period, fighting in the Lower Valley Lands was taboo, which prevented the Water God's total defeat. -
Period: 2500 BCE to 2300 BCE
Battle of the Shrinking Shores
The conclusion of the first period of the war. So far, the Fire God had been sweeping up victory after victory, and had claimed virtually the entire continent. In response the Water God pulled his troops into defensive positions in the mountains, and then raised the ocean level to submerge everything outside the Lower Valley Lands. Then his troops stationed in the defensible mountains simply picked off whatever survivors swam out. It was a devastating blow to the Fire God. -
Period: 2300 BCE to 1600 BCE
Second Period
This stage of the war saw the favor of the war turn to the Water God. He was able to push the Fire God entirely back to the Fire Mountains, and even attempted a few invasions of those lands. The flooding of the outer shelf also forced all fighting to now happen in the Lower Valley Lands, ending the taboo of the First Period. Most notably, the advent of necromancy with the creation of Vorstheer made the Water God's armies far better matched against the Fire God. -
2295 BCE
Creation of the Eight Generals
Following his victory at the Shrinking Shores, the Water God created 8 powerful generals, giving each dominion one of the 8 schools of magic. With these powerful generals he began the second stage of the war, pushing the Fire God's forces all the way back to the Fire Mountains. This moment is also regarded as the moment the 8 schools of magic themselves were created. -
1800 BCE
Genians inhabit Southern Shelf
The first Genians move onto the Southern Shelf to occupy and defend it as it reemerges from the ocean. Eventually these will develop into the Hooglanders and the Geitskill. -
Period: 1700 BCE to 1600 BCE
Battle of the Eastern Shelf
With the ocean level dropping back to original levels gradually, portions of the outer shelves became open field again. After secretly conscripting his own sorcerers, the Fire God conjured a horde of fire elementals and launched an assault on the Eastern Shelf,driving the Water God's forces back to fortifications in the Fromish Rib. The water god created the Cedar Gulf in a flood to drown the elementals and save his armies. He succeeded, but the inititative of the war was back with the Fire God. -
Period: 1600 BCE to 700 BCE
Third Period
This period again saw the Fire God on the offensive, although not as overwhelmingly as the first period. He retook the Eastern Shelf and the northwestern region. Much of the conflict in this period was centered on the western and southern shelves as the Fire God slowly ground through the Water God's positions there. -
950 BCE
Arrival of the Eastlanders
The troops of the Water God that conquered the southern half of the Eastern Shelf settled in the region and would eventually develop into the Pine Kingdoms, these early predecessors were simply known as Eastlanders. -
Period: 950 BCE to 700 BCE
Second Battle of the Eastern Shelf
In a bid to regain the initiative of the war, the Water God made an offensive to retake the Eastern Shelf. After long, deadly fighting, he could not capture the northern half. In frustration, he transmuted a massive, mile thick sheet of ice which he dropped over the entire region, creating the Vorstholt, and crushing the Fire God's armies. Though not as decisive as hoped, this did move the war into its final, stalemate period. Vorstheer, Generla of Necromancy, was left to guard the Vorstholt. -
Period: 700 BCE to 100 BCE
Fourth Period
This final period of the war was also the bloodiest. A broad stalemate had settled over the conflict, and both sides began using more and more extreme tactics, with both gods creating more and more terrible creatures and weapons. Additionally, the two gods began personally fighting in various battles, each reaping massive death tolls. The capstone was the devastating Duel of Divine Wills, followed by the Earth God's bloody campaign to empty the Fire Mountains. -
698 BCE
Vorstheer's Duel
The Fire God went personally to destroy Vorstheer and the ice shelf. This was the first time one of the Ancient Gods directly fought in the war. Surprisingly, Vorstheer was able to hold off the Fire God alone until the Water God approached and the Fire God withdrew to avoid fighting his sibling directly. This duel created the Great Ice Rift, made Vorstheer known as the most powerful general, and signalled the final stage of the war where the old gods began personally fighting. -
Period: 500 BCE to 165 BCE
Duel of Divine Wills
Massive one-on-one duel of the Water and Fire Gods, the first and only time they fought each other personally. The fight was so destructive it permanently turned the planes between the Middling Forest and the Fire Mountains into a sterile wasteland. At the end of the duel, the Culture Goddess was accidentally slain, and both the Water and Fire Gods were killed. This triggered the final phase of the war, where the Most Ancient and the Forest God set out to clear the world of the remaining hordes. -
Period: 165 BCE to 100 BCE
Earth Campaign
After the Duel of the Divine Wills, the Forest God led an army of Genians, humans, and angels into the Fire Mountains to drive out and destroy the remaining hordes of the Fire God, thus ending the Deities' War and shattering the powerful kingdoms loyal to the Fire God's cult. -
45 BCE
The Cloven Woman/Origin of the Plainsmen
The mourning earth god falls in love with a geitskill woman while on pilgrimage around the world. She's cursed and turned into a horse, and then drowns in a lake. The Earth God returns to his forest in grief, and the children of the god and the Cloven Woman flee the Geitskill Hills to become the Plainsmen of the Sundown Prairies, swearing eternal enmity with the Geitskill. -
Period: 1 CE to Jan 1, 1500
The Lost Age
Due to the catastrophic end of the Great Kingdom of Braen, almost all records are either burned, lost, or hidden deep in ancient archives. Most of the surviving documents are in Tomsburg, and will be destroyed by Mazt's invasion. -
442
People of Joy leave mountains.
The people of Joy descend to the plains when a landslide erases their village. In a few short years they found the Kingdom of Braen in the Northern Wastes. -
446
People of Gerny leave mountains
People of the Gerny arrive on the plains looking for room to expand, in several decades they form the Old Kingdom of Genian. -
Period: 450 to 919
The Kingdom of Braen
Formed as the people of Braen expanded across the Northern Wastes -
Period: 492 to 919
Old Kingdom of Genian
Descended from people who left the mountains to settle around the Southern sea, this Kingdom grew to cover the entire region of the Lower Valley Lands south of the Middling Forest. They were later conquered by the Braen. -
512
People of Tomsburg leave mountains
The people of Tomsburg arrive on the plains looking for room to expand, after many decades they create a unified state under the King of Tomsburg. -
Period: 562 to 615
Old Kingdom of Tomsburg
The first kingdom of Tomsburg, formed when the Tomsburg people descended from the highlands, ended when the -
568
Braen encounter Tomsburg
The expanding Braen reach the west side of the desert and make official contact with the Kingdom of Tomsburg. With little interest in each other's territory they begin trade almost immediately. Growing economic inter connectivity, and the rapid adoption of much of Braen culture by the people of Tomsburg creates a strong tie between the two. -
615
Tomsburg-Braen Unification
After decades of growing political ties and friendly interaction, this year the Tomsburg king agrees to become a provincial governor for the Braen king, officially making Tomsburg a coequal province of the Braen Kingdom, subject to the Braen king. Due to the adaptation of Braen culture by the Tommies, the two quickly see each other as a unified nation. -
826
Clearing of the Forest begins
The Kingdom of Braen begins a massive 65 year effort to cut down the eastern half of the Middling Forest to provide more arable land for expansion, slowly creating the Syldave region. -
891
Braen encounter Genians
The Braen lumberjacks clear a path through the forest all the way to the Southern plains, bringing the Kingdom of Braen into contact with the Kingdom of Genian. The kingdoms are mutually distrustful, and never build stable relations with each other. -
919
Braen Conquest
The Genians start a war by claiming the recently cleared Syldave region. The Braen repel their invasion with a crushing surprise attack, pinning the Genian army against the Ravenlorn river and destroying the entire force. They then conquer the entire kingdom of Genian within a year, although scattered fighting lasts several more years to enforce occupation. Genian is made a province of Braen with none of the rights afforded to other provinces. -
Period: Aug 15, 919 to 1500
Great Kingdom of Braen
The first Great Kingdom (the first kingdom to unite the entire Lower Valley Lands under one government). Eventually torn apart by ongoing disputes between the ruling Human and the subjugated Genian Province. -
Period: 1016 to 1021
Great Trial of Braen
Due to some corruption related to a mining company and its government influence, the Braen launched a failed campaign to clear out an underground Kobold nation. The Kobolds then allied with the Crawler Kingdom and stirred up trouble in the Northern Monster Hordes. This put the Great Kingdom of Braen at war on three fronts. Additionally, a rebellion was launched in Genian. These wars lasted 5 years and were considered by the Braen to be the Gods' test of their worth as a nation. -
1150
Settlement of the Sundown Harbor
A number of Plainsmen tribes living on the more fertile land along the shores of Sundown Harbor transition away from nomadic life towards agricultural settlement. These will eventually develop into the Sundown Cities. -
Period: 1175 to 1207
Royal Decree of General Expansion
During this period, Braen made numerous large-scale military efforts to expand its borders. The main efforts were establishing mining operations in the Musical Mountains, agricultural settlement of the Monster Wastes, further political control over the Hooglanders, and agricultural settlement of nearby Geitskill and Plainsmen territory. All of these campaigns failed miserably, and Braen never made another serious expansion effort. -
1266
Tomsburg Dissidents Emigrate
Recent Genian migrants to Tomsburg begin agitating for greater rights. At the same time, a small movement for Tomsburg independence begins to emerge among some rural nobility. The two movements unite and stir up some trouble, but fail to gain popular support, and are forced to flee by the threat of military intervention. A large band of over a thousand flees into the monster wastes, hoping to find a place to establish their own settlement. -
1398
Misk Tribes Cross the Highlands
After over a century wandering nomadically in the monster wastes, surviving descendants of the Tomsburg dissidents, now calling themselves the Misk, decide to attempt a crossing of the highlands. Only 300 survive the trip, but the survivors cross down into what will come to be known as the Misk desert. -
Period: 1464 to 1500
Braen Civil War
A final Genian rebellion is launched after a series of slights by a particularly cruel Braen King. A charismatic Genian proclaims himself king and rallies a horde of Genians to his side. Now evenly matched, the human provinces and the Genians fight for decades, devastating the land and population, razing most cities to the ground. Around 6 million people die during the war, and as a result of the famine and anarchy following it. Braen will never be re-inhabited. -
1471
Razing of Syldave
The Genians meet the remainder of the Braen field army outside Syldave. Due to incompetent leadership, the Braen quickly collapse, and lose what little army they have left. The City of Syldave is razed by the Genians after they conquer it. Joint civilian and military fatalities from the battle and the razing exceed 200,000. -
1471
Siege of the Belangrijk
After several telling victories in the field, much of the Braen army withdraw to the Belangrijk to stall further Genian advance until more troops can be trained and mobilized. The Genians besiege the fort for only 2 weeks before breaching the once invincible fortress. They proceed to slaughter the entire 135,000 person garrison, and tear the fortress down to its foundations as vengeance for centuries of oppression. -
1482
First Siege of Braen
The City of Braen is besieged, and the outer rings of the city (including parts of the legendary canals) are razed and burned. A relief army of recruits arrives from Tomsburg and lifts the siege. Distracted by pillaging, the Genians are caught off guard and dealy a crushing blow, forcing a retreat all the way to the Ravenlorn river in Syldave. The battles and partial sacking claims over 300,000 lives. -
1486
Razing of Genian City
Having gained the initiative after retaking Syldave, the Braen army marches in Genian and razes the city entirely in revenge. Then they burn, pillage, and murder as much of the surrounding Genian countryside as they can, until the Genian army reorganizes. The Genian monarch is killed, and the kingdom never recovers, now being held together only by the military. Fatalities number around 700,000 -
1491
Second Siege of Braen
After a second siege, the Genians Raze almost all of the city of Braen to the ground, and burn the wreckage. They destroy the tunnels and block the river, stemming Braen's water source. What little of the city survives is saved only because the Genians ran low on their own water and were forced to retreat to the Syldave. Rendered unliveable through lack of water, the capital is swiftly abandoned, a mortal blow for the Braen. 600,000 are killed in the razing, 200,000 more die in the chaos after. -
1496
Battle of the Bridge
The two armies meet at the Ravenlorn Bridge in Syldave, a vital strategic point for either side to campaign into the other's territory. The battle lasts 3 days straight, day and night, and costs over a million lives. By far the deadliest battle in history, even deadlier than any previous wars. The battle ends in a stalemate, with the Genians unable to take the bridge, but the Braen unable to drive them out of their fortified positions across on the south side of ravine. 1.2 million soldiers die. -
1500
The Wall
The war has been stalemate since the Battle of the Bridge, but the armies are preparing for a second round north of Mont Suder. To prevent another enormous loss of life, the Warlocks gather and pool their power to create an impenetrable barrier between the Genian and Human provinces, as well as the two armies. This ends the war, and begins a dark, but peaceful period while the Lower Valley Lands recover from the war. -
Period: Jan 1, 1500 to
The Age of Expansion
This age is marked by the massive growth of the outer shelves into booming trade economies and powerful empires, along with the extensive exploration and mapping of the continent. Within the Lower Valley Lands it is marked by a slow recovery from the Braenic civil war, followed by a long period of stability and peace under the Great Kingdom of Syldave. -
Period: 1500 to
Middle Kingdom of Tomsburg
Relatively untouched physically by the war, Tomsburg weathers the conflict better than other provinces. It is still devastated economically, and its population is halved after the war. The province quickly rearranges itself as a kingdom, the gubernatorial family again taking the crown. The Middle Tomsburg Kingdom fought the Northern Monster Hordes alone in its weakened state. Never at peace long enough to fully recover from the Braen civil war, it met its final destruction at the hands of Mazt. -
Founding of Tempulhed
The nomadic Misk tribes have spread across the Eastern shelf of the continent, splintering into many regional tribes. One of these tribes builds the first permanent agricultural settlement beside the fertile Wildflower river. This will become the city of Tempulhed. -
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Old Hed Kingdom
The period under which the Hed were unified and ruled as one kingdom from the city of Tempulhed, the height of Heddic centralization. -
Mazt Assumes Stewardship
After his 200 year term, the warlock Scandorf hands the guardianship of the The Wall over to Mazt. Unbeknownst to them, the other warlocks have been killed, so no one is coming to relieve Mazt in 200 years. -
Founding of Reydhed
Gradually, more tribes in the fertile heartland between the Grey and Wildflower rivers begin to adopt Tempulhed's settled, agricultural lifestyle. These groups begin to refer to themselves as 'Hed' people, rather than Misk. The oldest and largest city, Tempulhed, begins to exert influence over the others, creating the first proto-kingdom. Around this time, Reydhed is founded. -
Founding of Okhed
Almost the entire heartland is now settled by Hed, with the nomadic Misk only living in the desert and the Beetlands. In the wildflower valley, some Hed begin using the powerful river's upper courses to drive mills for processing grain. A regional capital is established at Okhed, and the region becomes a valuable asset to the king in Tempulhed. -
Kezekleos Defeat
The increasingly powerful Hed Kingdom, ruled from the capital of Tempulhed, is now strong enough to begin actively subjugating the various tribes of the beetlands. Gradually the ruling families of those tribes become settled, with their tribes following. One particularly strong tribe of mounted warriors, the Kezekleos, is defeated, but the king is so impressed he takes them on as his personal guards and elite troops. -
Founding of Smith Royal Family
The first king smith, a halfling blacksmith, climbs the Mountain Spire, surveys the world, and decides to rebuild a Genian Kingdom to lift his nation out of its squalor. His family leads an effort to rebuild Genian City, and then gradually reunites all of Genian. -
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Middle Genian Kingdom
After the collapse of Braen, before Syldave recovered, the Halfling noble family Smith reclaimed the Genian City ruins, rebuilt the capital, and reunited the Genain region into the Middle Genian Kingdom. Eventually the kingdom was absorbed into the Great Kingdom of Syldave when the Smith family ascended to the throne of the Great Kingdom. -
Founding of Pahed
A small group of the nomadic misk, inhabiting the Pa Forest, developed a highly unique culture revolving entirely around the study and pursuit of magic, arcane or divine. Becoming capable magic-wielders, but also developing a philosophy of pacifism, they were vulnerable to raids from the aggressive surviving Beetland tribes. In exchange for protection, they swear fealty to the Hed Kingdom, founding the formal region of Pahed. -
Founding of Greyhed
Discovery of rich mineral resources on the Grey plateau causes the King to set up a province, and send his most capable engineers, smiths, and miners to establish operations. This grows into a booming region famed for talented smiths, and excellent metal craft, and nigh indestructible stonework. -
Dominion of the Beetlands
The powerful Hed Kingdom completes the conquest of the beetlands, the last Misk tribes in the region swearing fealty, and most having already assumed settled, agrarian, feudal lifestyles. The Hed kingdom is now at the height of its power. -
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Syldavian Coalition
After a period of rural chaos, the region of Syldave recovered, and steadily trade ties between Syldavian towns and cities strengthened until the region formed a semi-unified nation, lasting until it was absorbed into the Great Kingdom of Syldave. -
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War of the Five Pillars
A succession struggle between two siblings over the Hed throne spirals out of control, and the Hed kingdom collapses into a massive civil war. Over the course of the war, leading provincial nobles declare themselves grand dukes, organizing smaller nobles behind themselves, and pushing for whichever claimant offers greater autonomy. The result is that the Kingdom reforms, and the political treatise of 5 Pillars is signed, creating the King's council of nations. -
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Second War of the Five Pillars/ Hed Civil War
Less than a century after the creation of the King's Council, the King of Tempulhed dies heir less. The Ruling families of the Five Pillars all claim the Tempulhed throne. The Pahed simply seceded, using protective wards to defend their forest. The Okhed and the Greyhed quickly lost the fight for the throne, but defended independence. The Kezekhed, the King's guard, fought bitterly against the Reydhed ruling family, but lost, and were driven into exile in the coastal desert. -
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Great Misk Disaster
In the upheavals of the Hed Civil War, hundreds of thousands of refugees fled into the desert to join the last Misk tribe. A mysterious figure known as King Misk used evil magic to seize control of the tribe and its refugees. He then invaded the divided Hed Kingdoms. The sheer force of his invasion forced the kingdoms to form a unified coalition to drive him out. After the war, they signed the Coalition Council Treaty, stating all 5 were pillars of a single nation, distinct but connected. -
The Wall Collapses
After 500 years guarding the wall, Mazt goes insane from isolation on his mountaintop. He drops the wall and decides to unify the Lower Valley Lands by force, in order to complete his Great Task. He flies north and unites the Monster Hordes, planning his conquest of the world. -
Re-Discovery
When the wall falls, the Humans and the Genians meet again. They each have some vague mythic knowledge of each other, all of which give dire warnings. But they cautiously establish trade and healthy diplomatic relations. -
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Duke Stavropol's Rebellion
The powerful Grand Duchy of Stavropol led a massive rebellion against the Reydhed Royal Family. The costly war led to a difficult, but decisive royal victory. The aftermath of this war gave the Royal Family the stability and power it needed to pursue the colonization of the Greenhorn, and the eventual creation of the Reydhed Empire. -
Razing of Stavropol
One of the largest cities in the Hed Kingdoms, and a major trade hub at the fork of the Pa and Grey rivers, Stavropol was the capital of the Grand Duchy of Stavropol. In the wake of its duke's failed rebellion, the royal family razed the entire city to the ground except the manor home, which they occupied, and the Raven Monastery. Stavropol would not grow back to a full city until the modern age. -
The Collapse of Tomsburg
The Kingdom of Tomsburg has never recovered from the Braen Civil War, having been fighting the Monster Hordes alone ever since. The Syldavean coalition promised help should they need it, but when Mazt arrives, he unites all the northern monsters for the first time ever, and crushes Tomsburg in days. Syldavean help never had the chance to arrive. The people of Tomsburg either flee, or are fed to the horde by Mazt. -
Warlock War
Mazt marches his horde out of the ruins of Tomsburg and invades Syldave. Only the intervention of the warlock Scandorf and the Genian army saves Syldave. The war lasts only a few months, Mazt is killed, and his army scattered. It will take years for all the monsters to be removed from the Lower Valley Lands, but they never unify completely again. -
Re-Unification
After the victory of the Warlock War, the Lower Valley Lands unify into a new Great Kingdom, willingly this time. The Humans begin to repopulate Tomsburg, and the Syldave city council wants their city to have more power over the other cities in the Syldavean coalition. They offer the Smith family the crown of Syldave if they move their capital to Syldave. After some negotiation, the Smith family become the monarchs of Syldave and all the Lower Valley Lands. -
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Great Kingdom of Syldave
The unified and stable kingdom over the entire Lower Valley Lands that emerged after the end of the Warlock War. This kingdom would collapse after over a thousand years due to immense environmental upheaval. -
Birth of Reydhed Empire
After several decades of failed colonization attempts, a settlement has finally established itself at Greenhorn Tower. The former Longhook Crownlands became the Imperial Longhook Province, the capital of the new Reydhed Empire, including Greenhorn Province. -
Colonization of the Floodland Province
After some tentative exploration, the Reydhed Empire funds the establishment of a small redoubt and settlement at Kalopiganiotus. This would serve as a forward base for further exploration along the coast. -
Reydhed-Famagustan Contact
Reydhed sailors pass the Shattered Arm and meet the small nation of Famagus, introducing them to the Sundown Cities, and making them aware of the distant Mersk Empire. -
Conquest of Nor-Latsia
Seeking to complete control of the region East of the Eastern Mountains, the Mersk invaded and conquered Nor-Latsia, making it a new province, and establishing themselves as a serious threat to Sundown Harbor independence. This action in part inspired the Reydhed conquest of Athienus. -
Conquest of Athienus
After rising tensions, and growing imperial ambitions, the Reydhed empire launches an invasion of Famagus and captures the city of Athienus, making it a provincial capital and further expanding their empire. This is also the moment the Mersk began to see the Reydhed as a serious competitor in the region, having recently conquered Nor-Latsia from the Latsians. -
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Okhed Revolution
The growing number of watermills along the Wildflower has turned Okhed into the industrial capital of the Hed nations, sponsoring a rapid growth of the wealthy merchant class. Royal attempts to seize control of mills leads to a conflict between the aristocracy and the merchant class that spirals into riots and then revolt. After the execution of a few kings and nobles, a massive intervention effort by the Reydhed and Kezekhed Kingdoms is defeated, leading to founding of the Okhed Republic. -
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War of Imperial Ascension
The continually expanding Reydhed and Mersk empires come into direct confrontation following an attempted Reydhed takeover of Famagus. The war spirals into a massive conflict taking many lives and established the carefully maintained stalemate between the empires that stagnated further growth until the collapse of both nations. -
First Mersk Incursion
After a series of massive naval victories, the Mersk successfully launched an invasion of the Reydhed homeland. Intially they dealth massive damage, besieging the capital itself, but lost momentum when their months-long siege of Lighthouse City failed. Shortly the other four Hed nations entered the war, slowly pushing out the Mersk. More attempts were made to take Lighthouse City, all of which failed. To this day, the old wall around that city is known as the Merskbane. -
The First Hed Incursion
After the failure of the Mersk Incursion into Reydhed, a coalition force of all 5 Hed kingdoms invaded the Nor-Latsia province of Mersk, siezing much of the Larder Reach before also losing momentum, then negotiating a withdrawal. -
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The Flight War
The Okhed discovery of dirigibles, and their subsequent commercial use, caused the Dragon Order to declare them in violation of the Dragon Order Monopoly on commercial flight, triggering a war between the small country and the order. Although few in number, dragon riders can summon dragons and draconic creatures to their aid, and the war was devastating to both parties. At the end, the Order granted the Okhed the right to fly commercially within their own borders, but only there. -
The Malum Crisis
A political manipulator called Triune Malum manages a Coup against the Smith family by slandering them publicly and feeding dissent in the populace. He also uses economic and indirect influence to seize control over the eastern and southern shelves of the continent, then invading the western shelf with a massive army. He seizes power briefly, but within a year he is overthrown and the Smiths are reinstated. -
The Second Mersk Incursion/Malum Crisis
An allied effort between Famagus, Fredericia, Svendborg, and Mersk conquers all of the Reydhed empire in weeks, then launches a massive invasion of Reydhed, even as enormous rebellions break our across Reydhed and Kezekhed fueled by angry nobles and religious dissidents. The war ends within a year, with the status quo returning, and though costly, reestablishes the firm international stalemate. This is part of the larger global Malum Crisis. -
The Smothering
A massive volcanic eruption in the Fire Mountains buries Moose-Knee killing hundreds. Shortly afterwards, rainfalls begin decreasing, summers become longer, and the Northern Wastes begin stretching south. Tomsburg remains mostly unaffected. -
Syldave is abandoned
The Great Wastes grew over the Syldave Province, all settlements except the capital were abandoned. When water supply is interrupted, it causes a panic, which becomes a riot, becoming chaos. The Royal Family is slaughtered and most of the city dies, others dies trying to cross the desert. Genian City becomes capital of the Kingdom. Contact with Tomsburg is lost. -
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New Kingdom of Tomsburg
This Kingdom of Tomsburg formed after the expansion of the Great Wastes cut it off from the rest of the world. In isolation, it would make technological and cultural progress at a rate unseen since the collapse of Braen. Eventually it would reconnect and then reunify the lower valley lands -
The Great Kingdom Collapses
Genian City befalls the same fate as the city of Syldave. The capital moves to Clan Genian, desperately tries to hold remaining cities together, but fails. Last of old Royal government are kicked out of office. Surviving regions of the kingdom assume self-governance. -
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The Modern Age
After the collapse of the outer shelf nations into a dark age, the Great Kingdom of Syldave was the last surviving major nation of the Age of Expansion. Its collapse after the smothering marks the end of the Age of Expansion. The subsequent founding of the New Kingdom of Tomsburg, which would go on to become the first modern state, marks the beginning of the modern age. -
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Dominion of Clan Genian
This was a relatively weak political entity governed by the city of Clan Genian. It formed after the collapse of the Great Kingdom of Syldave, and ruled the remaining habitable portions of the Genian region east of the wastes. It was slowly absorbed into the Great Kingdom of Tomsburg over several decades. -
Tomsburg-Middling Trade
The Kingdom of Tomsburg and Middling Town begin trading, using the Ravenlorn River to connect them. This makes Middling Town and Crowville into major, wealthy trade hubs over time, and ties Middling town to the kingdom far to its north. -
Climate Stabilizes
The climate cools back to previous levels, and rainfall begins to increase towards previous levels. The Great Wastes slowly begin to recede. -
Furton Expansion Begins
The King of Furton declares himself emperor and begins taking control over all of West Genian. -
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Furton Empire
This short-lived empire formed when Furton began consolidating power over the Genian region west of the wastes. It was swiftly defeated and absorbed by the New Kingdom of Tomsburg when it tried to capture and important trading partner of Tomsburg -
Furton-Tomsburg War
The Empire of Furton attempts to conquer Middling Town to control the trade with Tomsburg. The Kingdom of Tomsburg moves to protect its ally, and discovers it has far exceeded Furton in technological development as well as population growth. Tomsburg crushes Furton and annexes West Genian, starting its own period of expansion. -
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Tomsburg-Genian War
Tomsburg decided not to conquer East Genian by force, but rather to coax it in over time. To do this though, it needed a base in the desert to project economic and cultural power through. This started a two year guerilla war in the receding Great Wastes to control the town of Kelt. Tomsburg won, and signed peace with the Dominion of Clan Genian. -
Second Reunification
decades after taking Kelt, the towns of east Genian have gradually joined the Kingdom of Tomsburg willingly to enjoy the benefits of a larger, unified state. In 3510, Clan Genian itself joins ending the Dominion of Clan Genian and creating the Third Great Kingdom, the Great Kingdom of Tomsburg. The Great Wastes have now receded into the Syldave region. -
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Great Kingdom of Tomsburg
After the second reunification, the monarch of Tomsburg rules all the Lower Valley Lands. This period is marked by explosive growth as the desert withdraws, Tomsburg technology is dispersed, and ancient Braen technology is rediscovered. All of this culminates in a boom of population and culture, seeming to grow faster than the monarchy can cope. -
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Liberty War
The great wastes have receded to their ancient borders, and Syldave is being repopulated. The industrializing, growing kingdom is beyond the control of the monarchy. A nationwide rebellion is launched lasting 4 years until the Monarchy is toppled. The first of three Democratic governments is installed. -
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The Lower Valley Lands Republic
Only a few decades after the unification of the region under Tomsburg control, the Liberty War deposes the monarch and installs a republic. The nation remains largely the same in territory and capability. -
LVLR is Created
The second democratic constitution is repealed and replaced with a third republic-style government. This one proves stable. -
Imperial Growth
The LVLR has been expanding outwards, further than any previous nation had. They discover the ocean to the south, and make contact with the Hed in the West starting a rivalry between the Hed Coalition and the LVLR than occasionally breaks into open warfare. -
LVLR Splits the Atom
In 3630, the LVLR splits the atom, entering the atomic age.
