History of Ashnoor

Golden Age (Before Epiphany - After Epiphany)

870 BE 0 BE


Precious little is known of our period of history known as the Golden Age. It is widely considered to be a period of time of great technological advances and prosperity.

  • -870 BE


    The Golden Age – approx. 870 BE to 223 AE
    Era beginning/end

    Precious little is known for certain of our period of history known as the Golden Age. It is widely considered to be a period in time of great technological advances and prosperity. Other schools of thought propose that the actual Golden Age is eons long gone and that other time periods named are at best rudimnetary interpretations. That said, they agree technology was in all likelihood unimaginable.

    Location
    Ashnoor

The Decline

7 AE 222 AE

The events of the final years of the Golden Era.

  • 7 AE

    7 AE


    The Knife Accord 7 AE
    Founding

    Treaty at Knife (The Knife accord):

  • 120 AE


    GOLD!
    Financial Event

    It is dangerous work but rewarding

  • 125 AE

    Ildres

    Isolde
    Life, Birth

    The birth of Isolde, celebrated in the 9th Month (Ildres) of the Ashnoor Calendar year.
    Isolde would become a noteworthy monarch.

  • 130 AE

    Wieyar

    Eruption of the Father
    Disaster / Destruction

    Eruption of the Father Mountain (Later known as Mt Tiny resulting from the devastation caused by the eruption.

  • 132 AE

    Ashay

    Admiral Keldon Breckion sets sail
    Expedition

    Admiral Keldon Breckion set sail with a fleet of twenty ships to explore the unknown…

    The expidetion was sponsored by the Crown with high hopes.

  • 148 AE


    The Great Library and Isolde's Coronation
    Political event

    The centre of all knowledge.  

    Isolde’s coronation.


  • 150 AE

    Grigori

    A fleet comes in
    Discovery, Exploration

    A battered fleet returns, a hero dies.

  • 150 AE

    Wieyar
    160 AE

    Behblin

    The Floral Plague
    Plague / Epidemic

    (The Flowering Blight scourge)   A devastatingly deadly illness swept the land for a decade.   An old man from a backwater village found, or rather, stumbled onto the cure experimenting with different herbs to spice the various alcohols they made in said village…   Of course, this was not until millions had died and ten years had passed. However, it the Flowering Blight was stopped.       For now...

  • 200 AE

    Ildres

    Birthday milestone
    Life, Milestone

    Celebrations throughout the lands for the Queen’s 75th birthday.   Ashnoor's achievements during her reign include developing an extensive transport network, message service, banking, universities, hospitals and a welfare system is in place.   Some tentative steps around trade with other nations have commenced. However, it is slow though, other nations do not presently seem to have the desire to travel.

  • 207 AE

    Ashay
    208 AE

    Elyendal

    The Orc incursion
    Military action

    A massive Orc army sweeps south towards the capital.   This was a short live push by these Orcs, however, because it was completely unexpected, they gained a lot ground, but their lack of supply lines and poor discipline their raid fizzled out.   It is thought none of the Orc Warband survived.   It is also only gossip at best regarding where they came from.

Succession Wars

223 AE 250 AE

The Queen is dead, long live the...
Twins in line for throne, one willing to stand down, no one willing to accept that.

  • 223 AE

    Elyendal

    The Queen is Dead
    Life, Death

    Queen Isolda dies peacefully in her sleep. Thus begins the Succession Wars shortly thereafter.

  • 223 AE

    Grigori
    250 AE


    The Succession Wars 223 AE to 250 AE

    Queen Iselda was dead.

  • 250 AE

    Ayvla

    The Rise of The Erayax – 250 AE
    Founding

    The Erayax make their full presence felt with shocking fury almost eradicating Ashnorians entirely.

    Additional timelines
  • 250 AE

    Pelaphon

    The Fall of Aringale – 250 AE
    Military action

    The end of an Era.

    Ashnoor's fabled capital Aringale falls to the Erayax

    Additional timelines

Recovery

251 AE 1252 AE

The war had raged for just over a quarter of a century. The Erayax had stopped pursuing the two forces, so it was that despite being war weary, the great battle was still to come in a sparsely inhabited region a few leagues south east from Bardaga Lake. This would last for some weeks and devastate almost an entire generation. It did not resolve the conflict, BUT, it did briefly halt the hostilities, there was simply no one left with any heart to fight. Both factions retreated to their respective realms to lick wounds and rebuild.

  • 251 AE

    580 AE


    The Recovery Age (Survival) 251 AE - 580 AE
    Construction beginning/end

    The Succession War are as good as done with no clear victor.

  • 580 AE

    750 AE


    The Recovery Age (Expansion) - 580 AE to 750 AE
    Military action

    From about 600 AE on, both the Kingdom of Geldheim and the Hadovean Empire war parties (branded as explorers) claimed new territories. They had begun to do so forcibly, as many of the formerly non-aligned territories resisted what they perceived as occupation.

  • 700 AE

    750 AE


    The Recovery Age (Assault on Neutrality) - 700 AE to 750 AE
    Criminal Activity

    These were particularly dangerous for the keepers of knowledge (such as; scholars, clerks, librarians, to some degree, scribes). Often targeted to not only to pilfer the rarer scrolls, maps, treasures or other artefacts but to remove them as the very representatives of genuine neutrality.

  • 750 AE

    910 AE


    The Recovery Age (Reformation of Class Guilds) - 750 AE to 910 AE
    Political event

    The Class Guilds had survived many hurdles during the first few decades of formation. Notably, both the Kingdom of Geldheim and the Hadovean Empire are widely considered by scholars to be responsible for an infamous massacre relating to Class Guilds. Despite all this, it is broadly accepted by both factions that the neutrality of class guilds remains integral to the overall keeping of knowledge neutral.

  • 803 AE


    Bard's Rest Forest Encampment and Tavern establised
    Construction beginning/end

    At the heart of Bard's Rest Forest is an encampment bearing the same name - Bard's Rest Forest Encampment.
    The original started with a makeshift leanto for a tavern and a rough campsite with a half a dozen semi permanent marquees set up nearby.

  • 910 AE

    1006 AE


    The Recovery Age (Early Conflict) - 910 AE to 1006 AE (approx.)
    Military action

    The first genuine border skirmishes between the Hadovean Empire and Kingdom of Geldheim since the Succession Wars are recorded.

  • 1006 AE

    1253 AE


    The Recovery Age (Escalating Conflict) - 1006 AE to Present (1253 AE)
    Military action

    Although at times presented as a glorious period of peace and collaboration, there is as much evidence to suggest a feeling of disdainful tolerance existed, in some regions at least.

  • 1218 AE

    5 Ildres

    Failed attempt to take control of Bard's Rest Forest Encampment
    Civil action

    A Minor skrimish occured at the encampment in Bards Rest Forest when a group of Magic users attempt to rest control from the encampments leader

    Additional timelines

Geldheim and Hadovean recommence hostilities (After Epiphany)

1253 AE and beyond

After almost a thousand years, the Kingdom of Geldheim and the Hadovian Imperial forces contest for territory in the free lands (Contested territory).
The contested territory offers up an ecclectic mix of self styled duchies, townships, settlements, nomadic bands to name a small few.
And the Erayax perpetually in the shadows (or the field). Starting with minor skrimishes and encounters, they soon transformed into large army battles