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Known-ish history of Adellon

This is the history of the continent of Adellon. Eventually it will be mainly the history of Adellon from the years 0 to the present 227.

  • 167384 AC

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    Humanity created
    Artistic creation

    According to Yhivi and Ropog legend, in an era before record, the cruel god Everyone created meat that could make itself sad as a joke. This created Airn, the first human.   But Everyone did this in front of Ksherbsh(city) , the only tree, who was furious at Everyone's disregard for Airn's suffering. Ksherbsh responded by turning Everyone into The Kesh Forest . Knowing that suffering cannot undue suffering, Ksherbsh tried to aid the human, who was weeping in the forest. Unable to help, and subsequently unable to stand to be near Airn, Ksherbsh in turn cast them from the forest. Airn went north, into the Ishi Plateau and married the stones in the plateau. Both they and the stones became pregnant, and gave birth to seven tribes. Of them, the Ropog and Yhivi are the only ones that are know to survive to this day/

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  • 10000 AC


    Seven Peoples of Adellon

    By 10,000 AC, seven linguistic/cultural groups among humanity had emerged, known as the Seven Peoples of Adellon.

  • 8000 AC


    Orcish migration to Adellon
    Population Migration / Travel

    Around 8000 AC, orcs from somewhere west of Adellon began to settle Tavts. Ropog mythology says the Ropog taught the Tavti orcs to sail, but Tavti mythology claims the opposite. Either way, it is generally accepted that the orcish arrival in Adellon was not the calamity the Elven Invasions / Ishi Migrations / Adellonian Massacre  was for the indigenous population.

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  • 5000 AC


    The Disappearance of the Olul
    Era beginning/end

    The Olul just sort of stop appearing in the myths and histories of Adellon by 5000 AC. It's not clear why the Olul disappeared or how.

  • 2400 AC

    2100 AC


    Elven Invasions / Ishi Migrations / Adellonian Massacre
    Population Migration / Travel

    Starting around the year -2400 AC, elves from Ummuland, driven from their land by famine and excited by rumors of wealth in Adellon started to found small colonies in what would eventually become known as Ishi Plateau.

    Using magic and total war tactics, both of which were practically unheard of on the continent, the elves quickly subdued the indigenous human populations, in effect genocide much of the human population north of The Kesh Forest. It is speculated that a third of humans were killed by war, plague, and starvation, a third were sold into slavery across Adellon and Ummuland, and the remaining third were almost exclusively Ropog and Yhivi, effectively erasing millennia of indigenous human culture.

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  • 1780 AC


    Founding of The Kingdom Of Ishi
    Founding

    Around the year 1780 AC, The Hedon Gambler Saint-King Yal'lre, taking advantage of The Vault Of Secrets, won his independence as Duke from the emperor of Great Ummu. Aware of this news, and tired of paying tribute to Ummuland, the surrounding Ishi Elf lords swore fealty to Yal'lre, forcing Great Ummu to release all their holdings in Adellon.

    The new kingdom is generally considered kinder to the Adellonian population, although only by degrees. There have been several ruling dynasties since independence.

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  • 784 AC

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    Sitrian Migration and the Founding of Deja

    Deja was a city state, empire, and megalopolis founded by the demon Sitra and her cadre in -784 AC. Originally a colonial project, or refugee camp, by denizens of a now forgotten infernal empire, the city became independent in -777 AC and quickly became a center of magical research and regional power in western Adellon thanks to the infernal blessings of The Sitrian Council, the name for Deja's ruling body composed of Sitra and her 776 children.

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  • 486 AC

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    Dejan hegemony over Adellon
    Era beginning/end

    In -486 Dejan soldiers took Tavti Strategos Komen The Unbreakable to the summit of Tavt Mountain and broke his spine on the peak of it, marking the end of the last war Deja would ever fight. From that point forward their control over Adellon, while never absolute, was indisputable. Any institution large enough to be of any concern was either a tributary of Deja or a part of Deja itself. The tributaries would war with each other but at no point did any challenge to Dejan authority reach outright armed rebellion.

    This period of time has a mixed legacy in the memories of living Adellon. There is clear evidence of exploitation under Dejan rule, but Adellon's extensive aqueduct networks are are more immediate argument for many.

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  • 142 AC


    Adellonian Global Hegemony
    Era beginning/end

    Through stunningly effective statecraft, Deja managed to become the cosmopolitan capital of world... although many jealous kings and empresses continued to claim otherwise.

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  • 55 AC


    Yhivan Skepticism and Germ Theory
    Discovery, Scientific

    Yhivan scholars in Tavt develop a spell to enlarge things, and on casting it discover germs when it works on more than the intended target. This ultimately inspires a new movement among Yhivan thinkers called Skepticism, the belief that the universe can be understood by hypothesizing that something about Creation is true, and then working via experimentation to prove that it isn't.

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  • 0 AC

    1 /1

    Convulsion Day
    Disaster / Destruction

    Convulsion Day is the name for the date when "reality twitched and convulsed" for several hours, causing the dead to rise from the graves and the city of Deja, along with hundreds of surrounding miles, to become devoid of life entirely. While it wasn't recognized until a few days later, it is surmised that Convulsion Day is also the day the moon broke.

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    The Adellonian Mysterectomy Campaign
    Cultural event

    The Adellonian Mysterectomy is the name for the relatively successful and frequently bloody struggle to end magic use in Adellon, once it was discovered that use of magic accelerates the Dejan blight. While there are undeniably many magic users in the world today, the transition from a society that used magic to accomplish practically all tasks to one where magic is effectively taboo, and fewer and fewer people are born with any apparent potentiality to learn magic, is arguably the greatest victory Adellonian people have achieved since the era's beginning.

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    Sisters' Crisis
    Political event

    The Sisters' Crisis was a period of great instability in The Kingdom Of Ishi which ultimately ended in the rapid expansion of skinash through the western Ishi Plateau.

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  • 199 ə

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    199 ə

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    The Long Year
    Celestial / Cosmic

    In the 199, specifically in in the month of Jarvis, the moonshards Me and You did not align according to their typical schedules, resulting in a year that lasted roughly 4587 days.

  • 199 ə

    4212 /10

    Reign of Canna Salamandas
    Political event

    Canna Salamandas became Czarina of Yhivi at age 0 (but about 12), and has ruled until the present day.

    Her rule has thus far been market by an effective centralization of power under the Czar, and movement away from market economies to centralized redistributive systems managed by the temple bureaucracy, and foreign military successes in The Kesh Forest and against  Ishi  in what are known as Second Gun Wars.

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    223 ə

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    Second Gun Wars / Ishii-Yhivan Wars / War of Two Fools
    Military action

    The Second Gun Wars / Ishii-Yhivan Wars / War of Two Fools were a series of skirmishes and occasional pitched battles between The Kingdom Of Ishi and The Yhivan Empire, fought for control over a portion of The Kesh Forest.

    The Yhivi empire won handily thanks to their investment in new military technology, like brass dragons. It was the first time indigenous humans won a war against elfin settlers in the several thousand years of exchange between them.

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  • 227 ə

    14 /3

    Start of Sun and Moon Paths

    Start of game, roughly 250 actual Adellon years since Convulsion Day.