Origins of Hrashchar's Inhabitants

  • About 2 million years before the founding of Chak Hruun
    The Emergence of the Togi
    Era beginning/end

    The togi emerged as a sentient people group and earned the attention of the divine Beast Chiefs.

  • About 800,000 years before the founding of Chak Hruun
    The First Hybrid Races
    Religious event

    Some among the Beast Chiefs' followers begin to show direct signs of their gods' influence. Over a period of several thousand years the first gnolls, tabaxi, loxodons, tritons and minotaurs emerge. The first shifters appear among their descendants.

  • About 500,000 years before the founding of Chak Hruun
    The Last Togi
    Extinction

    The last recognised togi died about 1 million years before Chak Hruun, leaving the world to the various humanoid descendants of the elder race.

  • About 8,000 years before the founding of Chak Hruun
    The Arrival of the Orkrell
    Population Migration / Travel

    The Orkrell arrived on Char Navash from other world. Some say they travelled in vessels of rock that became modern-day Koshtonir.

  • About 7,800 years before the founding of Chak Hruun
    The Founding of Orkrellir
    Founding

    The first recognisable nation in Hrashchar emerges when orkrell settlements around Chavash Blue organised under the rule of Korromal, the first high king.

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  • About 5,000 years before the founding of Chak Hruun
    The Fall of Orkrellir
    Disaster / Destruction

    A series of magical cataclysms devastated the major settlements of Orkrellir over a period of decades, shattering the nation and dispersing the orkrell.

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  • The years following Orkrellir's fall
    The orkrell diaspora
    Population Migration / Travel

    In the wake of the cataclysm that destroyed Orkrellir, its inhabitants left their homeland. Most migrated west, eventually to call themselves orcs and found koshtonir. Those worst affected by the magical fallout fled further, becoming the various elven subraces.

  • About 4,000 years before the founding of Chak Hruun
    The Creation of the Sennyth
    Religious event

    The Bolgrim journeyed to Char Navash and created the sennyth, perhaps in an attempt to copy the likeness of the togi and orkrell.

  • About 3.500 years before the founding of Chak Hruun
    The First Goblins
    Cultural event

    By this time, the sennyth in the Otovrasts had fully evolved into present-day goblins after exposure to the strange, magical properties of the mountains.

  • About 2,500 years before the founding of Chak Hruun
    The First Bugbears
    Religious event

    Worship of one of the Beast Chiefs turns a group of sennyth on Ekrys into the continents first bugbears.

  • 1,900 years before the founding of Chak Hruun
    The Creation of the Hobgoblins
    Cultural event

    The Bolgrim Osta created hobgoblins from her sennyth followers and founded Ostanner on Avail.

  • 925 years before the founding of Chak Hruun
    The Arrival of the Dwerrin
    Population Migration / Travel

    The dwerrin finished their traumatic flight across the planes, using the last of their dead pantheon's power to fashion bodies for themselves capable of surviving on Char Navash.

  • About 600 years before Chak Hruun
    The Recognition of the Dwerfolk Races
    Cultural event

    Shortly after arriving on Char Navash, the original Dwerrin diversified into modern dwerfolk: dwarves, gnomes and halflings. The changes are thought to better reflect the race's original physiology.

  • 200 years before the founding of Chak Hruun
    The First Goliaths
    Religious event

    One of the Bolgrim altered the biology of sennyth in the Fists of the Moon to make it possible for interbreeding with the native trolls. From these unions game the goliaths, who quickly became the dominant sennyth force in the region.

  • Circa 625 CH
    The Arrival of the Vedalken
    Population Migration / Travel

    The vedalken appear on Hrashchar, claiming to have escaped the tyranny of the orkrell god Livranka in the Realm of Thought.