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The Wyrmhird

0Lom - 900Lom

The brief period of time after the enactment of the Law of Mortality in which the Ormr, Fyrstbairn, and Leskeln all lived in peace.

  • 0 Lom

    1 /1 01:00
    Enactment of the Law of Mortality
    Metaphysical / Paranormal event

    The ninety-nine remaining Ormr of the original Hundred gather in the centre of the Heartlands and embark upon an endeavour to cast an arcanum unlike any other. They succeed, and in so doing bring about the concept of death. Where all life upon the star was once immortal and could neither grow old nor suffer physical harm, all save the Ormr themselves will now age, and even they themselves can now be wounded. For the rest of time, all will remember this date as marking the beginning of the history of mortals.

  • 0 Lom

    21 /1
    Climate Change
    Geological / environmental event

    Three weeks have passed since the enactment of the Law of Mortality, and the Ormr are still in the process of assessing the changes it has wrought. One of the first things they notice is that the flora they had created in certain parts of the world has begun to turn sickly shades of yellow and brown. In the weeks to come, entire stretches of land that they had cultivated start to wither and die. The Ormr, panicked at the thought of their precious creations being undone, immediately set to work attempting to identify the cause of this deterioration.

  • 0 Lom

    7 /2
    Rain
    Discovery, Scientific

    It does not take long for the Ormr to discover the cause of the plants deterioration. In the Heartlands, a new phenomenon is observed: Strange semi-transparent lumps of varying shapes and size have begun to appear in the sky, ranging from pure white to a dark grey in their colouration. From a number of these lumps cascade down small droplets of a material - a substance - the Ormr have never seen before. Upon making contact with the earth, it at first disappears into the ground, and eventually the soil appears to become saturated with it, changing to a darker shade of its original colour.

  • 0 Lom

    16 /4
    Dehydration
    Discovery, Scientific

    Several months pass, and the Ormr finally identify what they believe to be the cause of the death of much of their plants. They have watched as this strange new substance fell from the sky down onto the ground, and observed that wherever this occurs, the plants do not die. The substance themselves they took to referring to as water, and the strange floating shapes that they were produced by, skylumps. A number of the Ormr find these skylumps fascinating, and devote great effort to attempting to ascertain how they are created, and through what means they release water, but with no means to reach the sky, the extent of their investigation is highly limited.

  • 0 Lom

    24 /8
    The Blot
    Geological / environmental event

    As the Ormr continue to investigate the mystery of the skylumps, something strange happens. A little over half a year has passed since the enactment of the Law of Mortality, and a dark grey spot now appears in the sky in a region far to the south-east of the Heartlands. It is small at first, but begins to grow day by day, quickly becoming larger than any skylump the Ormr have ever seen. Within a month, it has come to encompass the entirety of that region, and within another, it now hangs over half of the planet. Before the year's end, it has engulfed the entirety of the sky, and no light can reach the land below.   The Ormr debate what to do about the strange phenomenon. No other skylumps have formed since it has emerged, and not so much as a drop of water has fallen from it. They soon grow unnerved, unsettled by the lack of sunlight and at the thought of what might become of their plants.   One day, as they are in the middle of their deliberations, it begins to rain.

  • 1 Lom

    1 /1 01:00
    The Deluge
    Disaster / Destruction

    All at once, water begins to fall from the sky all across the world. It begins at what would have been the crack of dawn, a light shower at first, before intensifying into a deluge the likes of which the Ormr have never seen. The water that falls throughout the Heartlands is enough to flatten the leaves on trees and wash away small plants, and the Ormr hurry to fabricate shelters for their groves. But this is nothing compared to what is occurring at the eye of the storm.   One of the Fyrstbairn soon arrives at the Heartlands bearing news from the south-east: A hole has opened up within the blot, they say, and water falls down from it in a pillar that stretches from the sky to the ground and is as thick as a hill. The water released from the pillar does not soak into the ground, and instead begins to accumulate in a great mass, covering the plants beneath it and beginning to rapidly rise, overrunning entire tracts of land. All of the Ormr present depart for the site of the pillar at once, intent on finding a way to stop the flow of water.

  • 1 Lom

    16 /1
    The Wyrms Attempt to Stop the Flood
    Geological / environmental event

    After weeks of travel, all ninety-nine of the Hundred and many of the Fyrstbairn have assembled at the edge of the pillar. Water continues to descend endlessly from the sky, and the entirety of the land for hundreds of miles in all directions is now flooded. To even get near the pillar required that the Ormr use their Arcana to create bridges above the land, and these themselves are at risk of being swept away by the whirling maelstrom below.   The Ormr begin unleashing arcanum after arcanum directed at the pillar, intent on attempting to halt its flow somehow. Their attempts are for naught; no matter what they try, the water cannot be stopped. Next, they attempt to strike at the skylumps themselves; also to no avail. They manifest great shockwaves in an attempt to part the clouds, but they simply reform moments later, and the rain continues to pour. Two weeks pass, and the Ormr are unable to find any way to stop the flood.   Then, as suddenly as it had begun, the water ceases to fall.

  • 1 Lom

    1 /2
    Aftermath of The Deluge
    Geological / environmental event

    With the rains having ceased, it falls to the Ormr and their children to survey the world and assess the damage done. It soon becomes apparent that the majority of the Ormr's great works have been destroyed: Over half of the planet's surface, some among their number estimate, has now been covered in water. Entire continents that once played home to hundreds of Fyrstbairn have now ceased to exist. Some attempts are made to push the water back, but the wyrms soon realise that it is futile. They can do naught but live with the new circumstances they find themselves in.

  • 1 Lom

    6 /3
    The First Deaths
    Life, Death

    As one of the Ormr is at work near the edge of the great expanse of water, they see something floating towards them on its surface. They call upon the Blessing of Creation to summon a gust of wind to bring the object closer. As it beaches upon the edge of the land, the Ormr is horrified to realise that it is the corpse of one of the Leskeln. In the months to come, dozens more such bodies will be discovered in and around the edges of the sea.

  • 1 Lom

    11 /5
    Fate of the Leskeln
    Disaster / Destruction

    In time, it becomes apparent that a staggering number of the Leskeln - more than one third of their total population - were killed in the Deluge. Many more have since starved to death as a result of the scarcity of food brought on by the mass extinction of plants that the flooding caused, and now, scarcely a tenth of the original number of Leskeln alive at the enactment of the Law of Mortality still walk the earth.

  • 2 Lom

    1 /8
    The Great Forest of Ethlarnashem
    Founding

    All among the Ormr and the Fyrstbairn are in agreement; if the Leskeln are to survive in the new world brought on after the advent of the Law of Mortality, then drastic action must be taken to see to it that their needs are met.   After some deliberation, it is agreed that a homeland must be created where the entirety of the Leskeln are to live, so that they can all be cared for in one place. To that end, the Fyrstbairn suggest the great plain to the north of the Heartlands; a region that had been spared the worst of the flooding. The Leskeln agree, and all their surviving number embark on a journey from across the continent to their new home, which they name Ethlarnashem.

  • 2 Lom

    1 /9
    The Nine Holds
    Construction beginning/end

    While the Leskeln were in the process of travelling to Ethlarnashem, the Ormr set to work creating dwellings for them to reside in when they finally arrived. They would create a total of nine great holds, each as large as a mountain and containing every natural resource the Leskeln would need in order to survive. So tall were these holds that snow formed upon their highest reaches, which would then melt and be funnelled into channels created by the Ormr, serving as artificial streams and rivers to supply the Leskeln with water. Where food was concerned, the sides of the hold are flattened down into individual layers, upon which are created terraced fields to be used to grow crops that the Leskeln may eat. When the process is eventually completed years later, the holds become self-sustaining population centres that guarantee the Leskeln will never again starve or be left at the mercy of the elements.

  • 6 Lom

    Strange New Creatures
    Discovery, Scientific

    A number of years have now passed since the enactment of the Law of Mortality. The most pressing crises that had faced them now dealt with, the Ormr begin to turn their focus to rebuilding what had been lost. However, before they can begin, they stumble upon a most unexpected discovery: New life not born of their own designs has come to exist upon the surface of the star. Strange creatures none among the Ormr or their descendants would confess to ever having seen began to be sighted, so tiny that it seemed plausible they might have existed since the days of the Deluge and simply gone unnoticed until now. In the months and years to come, more and more such creatures would be discovered by the Ormr, and it would become apparent that an entire new ecosystem had come to exist without their realising.

  • 15 Lom

    Efforts to Rebuild
    Construction beginning/end

    The Ormr begin by repairing the damage done to the Heartlands. After this is done, they move out from there to the other areas spared by the water, but soon realise that plants aren't growing in certain areas. After some research, they realise this is because it doesn't rain there often enough for them to do so, and this constitutes a problem.

  • 55 Lom

    Creation of the Cloudboughs
    Technological achievement

    Eventually, one among the Ormr comes up with an idea to resolve the water issue in certain parts of the world. They create trees so tall that their canopies stretch up to the very top of the world, and which can absorb skylumps and redistribute the moisture from them to the ground down below. This allows life to flourish in what would otherwise be barren lands.

  • 300 Lom

    Further New Life is Created
    Artistic creation

    The Ormr have grown most fond indeed of a number of the new species brought about by the Law of Mortality. Inspired by the diverse forms and behaviours among them, they decide to try their hand at making new creatures, this time not made in their own image but of these other animals. Most importantly, the Ormr find it perplexing that all of these creatures are so small in comparison to them, and so decide they ought to fashion some larger animals. It will remain to be seen how these new species fare in the coming millennia.

  • 650 Lom

    The Wretched Expanse
    Expedition

    Ever since the creation of the great watery expanses brought on by the Deluge, it has become all but impossible to travel beyond the continent of Pretheya and the western lands to which it connects. The Ormr wish to know the fate of other lands to the south and the east, but to do so would necessitate finding a way to cross the sea. The Leskeln, crafty as ever, had recently invented small wooden vessels that they used to cross the surface of lakes, but the Ormr were unwilling to make use of these.   In their plight, they turned to a creature that had become their favourite among all the new life created by the Law of Mortality: The many birds that had come to populate the land had amazed the Ormr for their powers of flight. To soar above the world as they did had become a dream of theirs ever since, and it just now occurred to them that it might not be an unattainable one.

  • 700 Lom

    The Advent of Flight
    Technological achievement

    Though it took half a century, one of the Ormr has now done it. They have succeeded in using Arcana to transfigure their own body for the first time, and have created for themselves wings which they may use to soar above the world. Though it will take time, the rest of the Ormr will come to develop the skill of changing their body with the Blessing of Creation and will themselves take to the sky.

  • 800 Lom

    Tension Between the Wyrms and Leskeln
    Life, Relationship change

    It has been nearly a millennium since the Deluge and the chaos it wrought. The Ormr and Fyrstbairn remember it as if it was just a short time ago, and still seethe over the destruction it wrought upon their great creations, the majority of their attention in the time since dedicated to finding ways to undo the damage.   The Leskeln, meanwhile, clamour for new holds. Their population has long since recovered to the size it was at prior to the Deluge, and now far exceeds it, to the extent that the nine holds created for them by the Ormr are no longer suitable to house the entirety of their population, and they find themselves having to spread out into the forests of Ethlarnashem. Yet no matter how much they petition the Ormr for new homes, their creators do not oblige; too busy they are with tending to their great gardens and rebuilding their own holds. Over the years, resentment begins building within the Leskeln at this treatment.

  • 899 Lom

    900 Lom

    The Drepana
    Military: Battle

    A small contingent of the Leskeln sneak into Varosok hold and slaughter the Fyrstbairn population living therein. Twelve of the Ormr, incensed by the murder of their children, set out for Ethlarnashem before the rest of their kin can stop them and proceed to lay waste to the Leskeln's great holds, killing over nine tenths of their population. The relationship between the Leskeln and the other wyrms is permanently severed as a result, and the two will always be enemies from this point onwards.

Late Vikingar

900Lom - 2246Lom

Those of the Ormr who participated in the attack upon Ethlarnashem are banished to the far reaches of the earth, and the Hundred find themselves truly divided for the first time.

  • 1100 Lom

    Creation of Humans
    Life, Birth

    Ridden with guilt after the Drepana, Lyrielle attempts to start over by creating a new sentient race in place of the Leskeln. Born of monkeys, enlarged and transformed to have less hair, she calls them humans, and for the next nine hundred years shepherds their development throughout Pretheya. Many of the Ormr come to be fond of these creatures, and some even contribute to spreading them elsewhere upon the surface of the world.

  • 2000 Lom

    Birth of the Thousandforms
    Life, Birth

    Nearly a millennia has passed since her creation of humans, and Lyrielle now begins to agonise over her inability to tell the creatures apart. In order to address this, she repeats the process she used originally to create humans, but endows them with the bright colours and features of various birds and animals. She places these new creatures in the north of the Broken Lands, and names them Thousandforms, after their myriad appearances.

  • 2246 Lom

    The War for Heaven
    Military: War

    The War for Heaven breaks out.

  • 2247 Lom

    Lyrielle's Departure
    Life, Relationship change

    A little over six months after war has broken out between the Wyrms and the Leskeln, Lyrielle receives word of what has happened from another one of the Ormr. Although it breaks her heart to do so, she makes the decision to leave the Thousandforms whom she had been watching over as mother to until now, and depart for Arcadia in an attempt to aid her kin.

  • 2256 Lom

    End of the War For Heaven
    Military: War

    After ten gruelling years of warfare, the conflict between the Wyrms and the Leskeln is over. Roughly four fifths of the Ormr living within Pretheya lie dead, their corpses scattered across the blasted plains of what was once Arcadia, the Fyrstbairn having suffered a similar amount of casualties.   Though victorious, the Leskeln have been devastated. Many entire generations of their species have now been rendered extinct, with more yet losing their souls to the horrific consequences of Theos overuse. Rather than pursue the last remnants of the Ormr and the Fyrstbairn as they flee the continent, they choose to return to Ethlarnashem and attempt to rebuild what has been lost.   Peace reigns at last, and with it, a sense of quiet not felt since before the Law of Mortality was enacted.

  • 2267 Lom

    The Thousandforms Wait
    Cultural event

    It has now been two decades since Lyrielle's departure. For many years, the Thousandforms' faith in their mother did not once waver, but children have now been born and grown to adulthood without ever laying eyes upon the Rainbow Serpent. The eldest among them find themselves at a loss as they are forced to regale the youth with tales of a figure they have never seen, and for all the Thousandforms know, may never see again. Discord begins to grip their race.

  • 2300 Lom

    Mass Extinction
    Geological / environmental event

    With the sudden absence of the Ormr to care for them, many species of both flora and fauna are unable to fend for themselves without assistance, and begin dying out en masse. Hundreds of unique species die, triggering an ecological collapse that wipes out yet further species, spiralling on for decades to come. By the time the aftershocks from the initial deaths have faded, the vast majority of megaflora and megafauna have been rendered extinct, and only few species born of the Ormr's designs remain alive. The majority of the star's lifeforms now consist of those created by the Law of Mortality at its enactment rather than those created by Wyrms.

  • 2324 Lom

    Unity Among the Thousandforms Collapses
    Disaster / Destruction

    Several years ago, the eldest of the Thousandforms and the last to have allegedly seen Lyrielle perished of an illness. No living soul now remains among their people who can claim to have seen their great mother, and as a result, the Thousandforms now slowly begin to let go of their traditional teachings. The sense of unity and oneness that Lyrielle had fostered among them had left with her, and now with the eldest generation among them passing on, for the first time, the Thousandforms begin to fight among themselves. By the half-way point of the century, there will be over a dozen independent tribes within Intersedra where there had before only been one people.

The Grannrormrlen

2361Lom - 3011Lom / 1Re - 650Re

After fleeing from the disastrous War for Heaven that had concluded in 2259 Lom, the Forty-First spends a century biding their time before travelling to Heralya in attempt to create a mighty nation of humans and wyrms that can stand against the Leskeln. The nation he creates will come to be known as the Grannrormrlen.

  • 2361 Lom
    1 Re
    Founding of the Grannrormrlen
    Era beginning/end

    Forfir and his host of Fyrstbairn arrive in what will come to be known as Wyrmheim, at this moment just a small settlement. He assumes control over it and from this point, begins creating his empire. Prior to Forfir's arrival, humanity had regressed in the centuries since the War for Heaven. It had previously been shepherded by the curious interest of a number of the Ormr and Fyrstbairn, but when they had perished, the majority of humans had died, and all had abandoned their settlements. In Heralya there are only a few thousand of them, which is not enough for anything at all. Forfir realises that before he can strike back at the Leskeln, he will first need to advance humanity.

  • 100~ Re
    Lyrielle Returns to Intersedra
    Life, Relocation

    A little under two centuries have passed since the War for Heaven's conclusion. Among the few Ormr to survive it was Lyrielle, who fled the battlefield in Arcadia after the tide turned against the Wyrms. Since then she has remained hidden, but now decides to return to Intersedra and take up residence in an abode amongst the cliffs. There, she begins researching for a way to return the Ormr's long-lost immortality, so that an atrocity like the War for Heaven may never occur again. Though it grieves her to see what has become of them, she dares not reveal herself to the Thousandforms, lest the Leskeln somehow become aware of her presence and descend upon Intersedra with their Divinities to eradicate her children.

  • 200~ Re
    Proliferation of Arcana
    Technological achievement

    After half a century of tutelage, there are now for the first time a hundred humans living within the Grannrormrlen who are capable of using Arcana, albeit in a highly limited scope compared to the wyrms.

  • 281 Re

    War Between Wyrms and Leskeln Resumes
    Military: War

    It is around this point that humans have now started spreading out of the north of the Grannr and into Ethlarnashem. The Leskeln at long last notice this, having at best a vague familiarity with the species that stand before them. Some of the humans defiled the redwoods, and so the Leskeln exterminate them, and decide to see where they are coming from. They shortly discover human cities, and return to Ethlarnashem with the news, at which point a full scale investigation is ordered. Within the next year, the Leskeln find out about Wyrmheim and the other wyrm cities, and realise what Forfir has done. Certain that Forfir intends revenge against them, the Leskeln are forced to unite once more and march on Heralya.

  • 300 Re
    Creation of the Wyrmkin
    Life, Birth

    Some time around 300 Re, the first of a new race of half-Fyrstbairn half-human creatures known as the Wyrmkin are created by the Fyrstbairn through Arcana. Possessing human bodies with certain traits of their wyrm creators, such as scales and in some cases tails, they possess inhumanly perfect physiques and lifespans measured in the hundreds of years, alongside a proficiency in wielding Arcana far beyond that which any mortal could hope to achieve.

  • 355 Re

    Forfir Moves Capital to Zemet
    Political event

    Forfir sets foot in Varosok Hold for the first time in half a millennia. The area was spared being transformed into salt due to a mountain range created around it by one of the other Ormr before the spell could hit it, and so the curse is not present there. Against the advice of his human advisors, Forfir declares that he will make it his new capital and that they will rebuild it to what it once was.

  • 400 Re
    The Intersedran Empire
    Founding

    As the Grannrormrlen continues to grow, another power is emerging in the continent to the south of Pretheya. Within the northern Broken Lands, one tribe of Thousandforms succeeds in subjugating all others within the area, bringing almost the entirety of the Thousandforms species under their control. The civilisation that they have now founded will in time come to be known as the Intersedran Empire.

  • 500 Re

    600 Re

    Crisis of the Sixth Century
    Disaster / Destruction

    Known as the Crisis of the Sixth Century, massive portions of the empire revolt, giving the Leskeln an opportunity to push almost into the centre of Heralya. The Leskeln also begin befriending human kingdoms, turning the tide of the war. The next hundred years are spent with Forfir desperately trying to pull the Grannr back from the brink. By 600, the prevalence of Arcana has grown so great that the Leskeln are now starting to lose in guerrila warfare. In 575, Forfir pushes into southern Ethlarnashem, and the Leskeln respond by breaking through the northern mountains in Grestvyt and attempting what amounts to a blitzkrieg through to Heralya. He is forced to abandon his gains and turn around to defend the region.

  • 502 Re
    Lyrielle Fractures the Law of Mortality
    Metaphysical / Paranormal event

    The experiments that Lyrielle has been performing in the mountains of Intersedra since the War for Heaven have finally born fruit, resulting in the creation of the first phoenix: An immortal creature that exists in defiance of the Law of Mortality, able to revive itself from death whenever struck down and unable to perish of old age. Unbeknownst to Lyrielle however, the creature's existence was sufficient to tear a small hole in the Law of Mortality, causing the systems of Arcana and Theos to begin functioning in ways other than how they had originally been intended to, and causing Mortalos to begin manifesting within the world. Mere days later, Lyrielle would find herself gripped by divinity, and would be forced to use what she had learned in the phoenix's creation to kill and reincarnate herself in the body of a Thousandforms, in order to escape being forcibly elevated to godhood.

  • 507 Re
    The Firebird
    Celestial / Cosmic

    An enormous bird with wings of fire is sighted in the southern region of Ressengia flying over a village. It begins travelling to the north-west, soon moving into Heralya. Everywhere it passes, flowers grow and crops mature and become ready to be harvested, even in the dead of winter. Sometimes, however, it alights upon villages and the plumes of flame from its body cause houses and entire towns to burn down to the ground. Sightings of the creature continue for many months, and it is last seen in the north of Heralya before vanishing. No one knows where it went, and many consider it to have been a harbinger of judgement, or some other kind of supernatural envoy.

  • 651 Re

    A Phoenix Appears in Zemet
    Celestial / Cosmic

    Something peculiar happens, and reports of a great flaming bird begin to be heard from the capital around Varosok Hold. Forfir has no time to investigate, needing to be on the front line to deal with the dire situation in Grestvyt. Some of the Fyrstbairn have heard, and in some cases even seen, a similar creature in Heralya, Ostokive, and Kyigrod, which appeared for the first time roughly 50 years ago. Wherever it passed over, crops would begin to grow to maturity overnight, but it would also burn down towns and villages.

  • 653 Re

    Zemet Secedes
    Revolution

    A catastrophe occurs when the regent of the capital in Zemet attempts to attack the mysterious bird after it sets fire to a village. The bird is killed, but is reborn moments later in a fiery plume of destruction, after which it strikes down the wyrm, marking the first time one of the Fyrstbairn have been killed. This leaves the region without wyrm oversight, and so Zemet revolts and attempts to secede from the Grannrormrlen.

  • 655 Re

    The Ashborn
    Founding

    After an invasion from the Grannr forces is thwarted by the newly independent Zemetan people, the Theocracy of Zemet is founded and its people come to be known as the Ashborn. Seeing the great bird that inhabits their volcano as the source of their salvation from wyrm rule, they begin worshipping the creature as a god, referring to it by the name given to the creature that had once flown through Heralya: Firebird.

  • 686 Re
    The Eastern Wyrmrealm
    Revolution

    The Grannrormrlen is in crisis, and instead of addressing the issues that have brought it to the brink of collapse, Forfir proposes a campaign to recapture Zemet. The proposition is received with awestruck disbelief by the eastern Fyrstbairn, who refuse outright to contribute their assistance to the endeavour. Forfir commands them to do so, and they respond by declaring independence and founding the Eastern Wyrmrealm.

  • 842 Re

    Beginning of The Long Hunt
    Religious event

    For reasons unknown, the Ashborn begin hunting the Hazaran in an attempt to drink its blood and themselves become immortal.

  • 852 Re

    Lihwen Travels to Zemet
    Expedition

    In an attempt to amend their relationship with Zemet, the Wyrmkin have been sending various officials over to help the Ashborn people. One of these is a group of warriors headed by one Lihwen. As part of their duty, they are instructed to participate in an attempt to slay the Hazran, but one among them - Isalendar - convinces the others to defect and they instead assist the great bird in slaying the Ashborn. They then flee Zemet with the Hazran, making their way to the presently-neutral polity of Pasdjit, where they intend to hide from the Grannrormrlen.

  • 861 Re

    Lyri the Mad's Betrayal
    Life, Death

    A year prior, news of the Hazaran's presence in Pasdjit had reached High King Forfir, and he had dispatched a force of Fyrstbairn and Wyrmkin to capture it and bring it back to Wyrmheim. However, before this could happen, disaster struck. While in the field in Ethlarnashem, Forfir was betrayed by his most trusted paladin, a woman by the name of Lyri, who tricked him and cut his head off. Now leaderless, the Grannrormrlen is thrown into dismay.

  • 862 Re

    Flame's Fall
    Military: Battle

    Possessing no ability to capitalise on Forfir's death immediately, the Leskeln wager that the Grannrormrlen is doomed and that it is safe to wait out the winter before invading. On their way to Heralya, they decide to secure Pasdjit to use as a base of operations for the invasion. When they arrive, they are met by the army of Pasdjit, spearheaded by Lihwen's band and Rukhmar. Lihwen does battle with Lyri the Mad, eventually killing her but then succumbing to his own wounds in the aftermath. Although he dies, Lihwen succeeds in shattering Lyri's army and turning back the Leskeln.

  • 863 Re

    Rukhmar's Departure
    Life, Trauma/ Loss

    One of the other members of Lihwen's band, Isalendar the Huntress, was also killed during the conflict with the Leskeln. She had been able to speak with Rukhmar during her life, and her passing left the phoenix bereft of an interpreter to allow her to communicate with humans. As such, a year after the battle, Rukhmar takes off to the west and disappears.

  • 868 Re

    Collapse of the Eastern Grannrormrlen
    Disbandment

    After nine years of interregnum, several territories of the Grannrormrlen are in open revolt. The Fyrstbairn agree on a successor, but the eastern governors do not support the decision, and secede once again, leaving only Heralya and the other territories to the south and west under Grannr control.

Wyrm Kingdoms Period

3332Lom - 3551Lom / 970Re - 1189Re

After the fall of the Grannrormrlen, those of the Fyrstbairn who had formerly been governors of its various provinces began to style themselves as rulers instead, leading to an age of Fyrstbairn-lead feudal kingdoms.

  • 869 Re
    Bickering Amongst the Eastern Wyrms
    Diplomatic action

    Despite their combined desire to be free of the yolk of the Grannrormrlen, the Fyrstbairn of the east have little in the way of unity. Unable and unwilling to agree on a single wyrm to rule the eastern half of the former great realm, central authority rapidly begins to dwindle.

  • 870 Re
    Foundation of the First Wyrm Kingdom
    Founding

    A wyrm by the name of Grunbeld is the first to break the peace in Belyria. He declares a region immediately to the south of the Ormr's Rest mountains of which he was governor under the Grannrormrlen to be his personal fiefdom, and declares himself to be the rightful heir to Forfir. Within months, half a dozen other wyrms have followed in his footsteps, and by the turn of the year, Belyria has collapsed into more than two dozen separate kingdoms ruled by influential wyrms. Thus begins the age of the Wyrm Kings.

  • 1004 Re
    Second Grannr Invasion of Zemet
    Military: War

    By this time, the Grannrormrlen have reconquered the majority of their lost territory save for the regions of Zemet, and Sassania, Asutoa, and Belyria, which remain under the control of the rebellious Wyrm Kings. The current ruler of the empire decides to stage an invasion into Zemet in an attempt to reconquer it where Forfir failed. Despite having many more Fyrstbairn than in their original invasion, the Grannr forces are thwarted by the revelation that the Ashborn can wield Theos, and they are driven back. The Ashborn do not stop there however and begin pouring out from Zemet, intent on shattering the Grannrormrlen for good this time.

  • 1013 Re / 150 FF
    The Blazing Empire
    Founding

    Armies of Ashborn sweep out from Zemet and into northern Heralya, tearing through the unprepared Grannr forces before proceeding east towards Pasdjit. There, they march in and liberate the polity from wyrm control without any resistance from the population. Pasdjit then falls under the control of the Ashborn, who now control the site of Lihwen's death. A religious dialogue occurs between the leaders of Zemet and Pasdjit, and the two people realise their faiths are remarkably similar. This new union of the faithful leads to the declaration of the Blazing Empire, Rukhmar's temporal domain upon earth. In addition, a new calendar is created which starts at the date of Lihwen's death, making it 150 FF in the present.

  • 1065 Re / 181 FF
    Leskeln Disease
    Plague / Epidemic

    (Placeholder: Leskeln tree disease first shows up. Epidemic disease, but not in the sense that stuff like Hollowblight is; tends to just annihilate single cities/at worst regions of a given country, doesn't do anything like take out half the continent.)

  • 1065 Re / 202 FF
    Wyrmkin Diaspora
    Cultural event

    Threatened with extermination by the Zemetan invaders, many of the Wyrmkin nobility within Belyria begin to flee to the west, seeking safety in Heralya and the Grannrormrlen.

  • 1089 Re / 226 FF
    End of the Wyrm Kingdoms
    Political event

    The last of the Belyrian wyrm kingdoms is conquered by the Blazing Empire.

  • 1100 Re / 237 FF
    Continental Adoption of Theos
    Religious event

    The spread of Shahru has enabled the humans of Zemet, Vaeoule, and Belyria to call upon the power of Rukhmar through use of Theos. The remaining human/Wyrm nations that cannot make use of Theos are left at a grave disadvantage militarily, further hastening the decline of the western Grannrormrlen.

Rukhmarite Era

1100Re / 237FF

The time when the Firebird Cult reigned supreme throughout the continent. Though its dominance only began around the 11th century Re, the Flamesfall calendar is backdated to the death of Lihwen the Hero and supposed ascension of the Firebird Rukhmar to godhood 237 years ago.

  • 1120 Re / 257 FF
    Propagation of Shahru
    Religious event

    The expansion of the Blazing Empire has caused the Rukhmarite faith to flourish, and it now supplants the old Ormr beliefs that had previously been held throughout the world. By the end of the century, more than half of Pretheya's population will worship the Firebird.

  • 1139 Re / 276 FF
    The Blazing Empire Begins Declining
    Era beginning/end

    Tensions in the Blazing Empire's distant possession of Belyria have been growing for decades and have now reached a boiling point. A successful revolt sees the region wrested from Zemetan control and made independent, resulting in the creation of a number of fragmented human-lead kingdoms along lines conglomerated from former wyrm kingdoms.

  • 1160 Re / 297 FF
    Formation of Karvinasstrad
    Founding

    The most prominent of the new human kingdoms created when the Blazing Empire lost control of Belyria was that of Altosia. In the time since then, lead by its king Kroskaw the Magnificent, the soldiers of Altosia have swept through Belyria in a lightning campaign to unite the realm under one banner. Upon the successful conquest of the kingdom of Velwend, king Kroskaw declares the new Empire of Karvinasstrad and declares a crusade against the remnants of the Grannrormrlen.

  • 1179 Re / 316 FF
    Karvina Conquest of Sassania
    Military action

    After over a decade of brutal warfare, the combined levies of Karvinasstrad under the ailing Emperor Kroskaw succeed in conquering the region, in what will be his last great act as Emperor.

  • 1214 Re / 351 FF
    Karvina Conquest of Asutoa
    Military action

    After a brief war, the Asutoan peninsula falls under the control of Karvinasstrad.

  • 1221 Re / 358 FF
    The Ressengian War
    Military: War

    The time finally arrives for the fulfilment of the late Emperor Kroskaw's will, and Karvinasstrad launches an invasion of the wyrm-controlled region of Landamar. The war that ensues is one of the bloodiest conflicts since the Grannr-Leskeln wars, with tens of thousands dying on either side, despite lasting only four short years. In the end, the Grannrormrlen - unable to sustain the casualties being inflicted upon its armies - decides to withdraw from Ressengia, leaving Karvinasstrad victorious.

  • 1227 Re / 364 FF
    Karvina Invasion of Heralya
    Military: War

    A short time after their conquest of Ressengia, the Karvina forces decide to push on west in hopes of finishing the Grannr armies for good. This time, however, they are foiled through the actions of a particularly skilled local lord, who leads his troops in a battle against the Karvinas in which he is vastly outnumbered. He achieves an unlikely victory and shatters the Karvina force, putting an end to their dream of ever finishing the Grannrormrlen by their own hands.

  • 1234 Re / 371 FF
    Dissolution of the Blazing Empire
    Political event

    95 years after the loss of Belyria, Asutoa, and Sassania, the Blazing Empire is on its last legs. Long since a shadow of its former self, the people of Pasdjit and Vaeoule now seek self-governance. Weighing their options, the emperor in Zemet decides that it is better to grant their request than to fight a war he does not believe he can win, and so willingly revokes control over the subcontinent, signalling the end of the Blazing Empire.

  • 1276 Re / 413 FF
    The Foolhardy War
    Military: War

    It has been decades since the Karvina Empire last expanded, and the new emperor dreams of conquest. Stories have long been told of the continent to the south of Ressengia, a strange land inhabited by inhuman beasts with feathers for hair. Emperor Broban decides that this will be the site of his first great conquest, and assembles the mighty Karvina army of 200,000 men to invade Intersedra.   The result is an unmitigated disaster. Although they make progress at first, succeeding in securing a landing zone and pushing into the mountains at the tip of the continent, catastrophe strikes when the army are drawn into a trap within a mountain valley that would come to be known as the Bloody Pass. The 200,000 strong Karvina army would be penned in and slaughtered almost to a man, the campaign ended in the span of a single battle.

  • 1277 Re / 414 FF
    Assassination of Emperor Broban
    Life, Death

    The news of the empire's unmitigated defeat in Intersedra triggers an uproar in the capital of Sunsreach. Within a fortnight, the emperor is found dead in his palace with a knife in his back, forever to be remembered as Broban the Foolish. Now left without a ruler, the capital descends into chaos as the nobles attempt to find a successor.

  • 1282 Re / 419 FF
    Sassanian Kingdom Declares Independence
    Political event

    The region of Sassania declares independence from Karvinasstrad under the borders that it had held prior to Kroskaw's invasion.

  • 1285 Re / 422 FF
    Disintegration of Karvinasstrad
    Disaster / Destruction

    In the wake of Emperor Broban's death, the most distant parts of Karvinasstrad begin to secede. First Ressengia, then Sassania, then Asutoa, and in the years to come, the empire's Belyrian holdings begin to fracture. By 440 Flamesfall, the Empire of Karvinasstrad is no more.

  • 1291 Re / 428 FF
    Heralyan Independence
    Political event

    Heralya, formerly the centre of the Grannrormrlen, never recovered after the Karvina invasion. The empire's wyrm rulers continued to neglect it in favour of their new home region to the west, and eventually, local human tribes began declaring independence one by one. Too busy embroiled in a war against the great western empire to respond, the high king of the Grannrormrlen had no choice but to allow Heralya to slip from the empire's grasp.

  • 1300 Re / 437 FF
    The Wyrmkin Kingdom
    Founding

    By the dawn of the 14th century, the Wyrmkin population in Pretheya outside of the Grannrormrlen had dwindled to under a thousand. With the humans of Heralya declaring independence and the Grannr once again in decline, the Wyrmkin who had made their home there decided that they must once again move. They travelled north to the dead land of Grestvyt where no human dared tread, and there founded a new home for their people.

  • 14th Century Re
    Mid-5th-Century FF
    The Lightless Years
    Political event

    With the collapse of the Karvina empire and the earlier dissolution of the Blazing Empire, there now remain no great states within Pretheya. Central authority as a concept has all but vanished from the land, giving way to hundreds of individual human kingdoms and city-states, ruled by kings and Karvina Princes. The last vestiges of infrastructure from the days of the Grannr start to let out their last groans, as roads fall into disrepair and taxes go uncollected. Worst of all, utilisation of the written word is all but abandoned for multiple centuries, making it difficult for historians to be sure what happened during this period. As a result, the next several centuries come to be known as the Lightless Years.

  • 1337 Re / 474 FF
    The Landamaeri War
    Military: War

    More than a century has passed since the Karvina invasion of Heralya, and half that since the region slipped from Grannr control. With the west now suppressed, the current high king turns his attention east, to the great empire's former domain. For the first time in centuries, an army of humans and Fyrstbairn sweeps east into Heralya, easily overrunning the humans there who cannot use Theos and regaining control of the region.   However, they underestimate the response this will trigger in the mainland Pretheyan nations. The Theocracy of Zemet, considering Grannr expansionism to pose a risk to their religious hegemony over the continent, calls for a crusade against the Grannrormrlen, bidding the nations of Pretheya to take up arms and march to the west to drive out the Wyrms. The Landamaeri War, as it will come to be known, will be one of the bloodiest Pretheya has ever seen, being fought in multiple stages with intermittent breaks of up to a decade in-between, and will only conclusively end nearly a century after the first battle begins.

  • 1419 Re / 506 FF
    Northern Raiders
    Criminal Activity

    (Placeholder: Event for the first appearance of raiders from the ice islands near Alicyth; notably not actually Alicyth though. Also, may actually be from Orissa, not sure. Regardless, they aren't vikings aesthetically since that'd be boring and Norse culture is already taken, so they ought to be something cooler.)

  • 1414 Re / 501 FF
    End of the Landamaeri War
    Military: War

    The war between the Grannrormrlen and the forces of Pretheya has now at last drawn to a close, ending with a decisive defeat for the Wyrms. The Grannr forces have been driven from Heralya for what will prove to be the last time, and the region becomes occupied by Rukhmarite soldiers. Heralya is split between four new crusader states; one in the north, south, east, and west.

  • 1439 Re / 526 FF
    Death of A Cloudbough
    Geological / environmental event

    (Placeholder: The water tree in Sassania is observed to begin rotting, and it dies by the onset of the 16th century, at which point the region begins undergoing rapid desertification.)

  • 1444 Re / 531 FF
    Establishment of the Vestaltir
    Religious event

    With the end of the Landamaeri War and the plague that swept through much of Pretheya in the wake of it, the continent's power structures lie devastated in a way they have not been since the fall of the Grannr itself. Zemet, however, lies relatively untouched, having emerged from the great war in a far stronger position than any other. The current high theocrat seizes on this opportunity to push through a reform the making of which has been his life's work: The creation of a new religious governing body known as The Vestaltir, which is endowed with authority over all matters pertaining to the Shahru faith throughout Pretheya. Where authority over religious matters had once rested in the hands of kings or the clerical council at Pasdjit, it was all now centralised in the control of the man at the head of Zemet. Under this new system, the high theocrat came to be known as the Alight; the de-facto religious emperor of Pretheya.

  • 1445 Re / 532 FF
    The Almosfere Revolt
    Revolution

    Seeing an opportunity in the political turmoil caused by the death of the Cloudbough, the western province of Almosfere revolts against its Sassanian occupiers, taking up arms and slaughtering the local garrison. News of this insurrection spreads like wildfire, and soon, the entirety of occupied Ressengia is up in arms.

  • 1448 Re / 535 FF
    Ressengian Independence
    Political event

    After a brief three years of war, the newly formed Ressengian army defeated the poorly supplied and demoralised Sassanian army, pushing them all the way back to the city of Evergrace before terms were signed, and Sassania was forced to recognise the independence of its previously occupied regions. Negotiations among the Ressengian petty kingdoms had been ongoing throughout the war, and after its conclusion, the northernmost polities decided to unite together to become the newly founded Kingdom of Ressengia.

  • 1466 Re / 553 FF
    The Heralyan Revolt
    Revolution

    After half a century of occupation by Shahru forces, the nonbelievers of Heralya successfully revolt and throw off the Rukhmarites. A brief war then ensues between the newly-independent Heralyan Kingdom and the Kingdom of Ressengia, but the latter is defeated and Heralya once again becomes independent.

  • 1557 Re / 644 FF
    Decline of the Sassanian Kingdom
    Geological / environmental event

    Without the Cloudbough to bring rain to central Sassania, huge swathes of land have now gone dry for decades. Enough time has passed that the region is now considered impossible to live in, with the soil becoming too barren to support crops. Once the centre of civilisation within the kingdom, it is now a wasteland, all but devoid of settlements. Although Sassania persists as a nation, its capital and court having long since moved to the east, its status as the great power that controlled the land bridge between Landamar and Belyria is now but a distant memory, as it finds itself unable even to wrest the port of Balthymia from its rival, Ressengia.

  • 1568 Re / 655 FF
    Intersedran Conquest of Tansitole
    Military: War

    The northernmost region of the Broken Continent, Tansitole, was up until now inhabited by humans and considered to be nominally Ressengian. A relatively poor area, little attention had been paid to it due to its detachment from the Pretheyan continent, and close proximity to the great Thousandforms empire. All of a sudden, in the year 1468, an Intersedran army sweeps down from the mountains, smashing what guard regiments exist in the area and annexing the region. By the time news of the attack has even reached Ressengia, it is already over.

  • 1569 Re / 656 FF
    The Tansitole War: Opening
    Military: Battle

    After receiving news of the loss of Tansitole, the king of Ressengia sends envoys to the Thousandforms, demanding that they retreat from the region and return control of it to the crown, or Ressengia will invade. When the Thousandforms refuse to do so, the monarch of Ressengia gathers a force of knights and crosses the Wretched Expanse, making landfall in eastern Tansitole. There, the Ressengian army is quickly smashed in a disastrous engagement against an Intersedran contingent, and are forced to retreat back across the sea. This time, however, the Thousandforms decide that they will give chase.

  • 1571 Re / 659 FF
    The Tansitole War: Invasion of Ressengia
    Military: War

    After spending a little over a year studying abandoned Ressengian ships and learning how to create them, the Thousandforms now possess a fleet with which to cross the Wretched Expanse. They set sail north and soon arrive in south-western Ressengia with an army of 10,000, where they immediately set to besieging local fortifications and conquering towns.   The Intersedran army had thus far been undefeated in battle with Pretheyan forces, but the Thousandforms soon find that they are disused to warfare in the Ressengian clime. There is little in the way of geography to make use of for ambushes, and the majority of battles come down to slogs attempting to break through the walls of fortified cities. Although successful at first, they are soon bogged down in the swamps on their way to central Ressengia.

  • 1599 Re / 736 FF
    The Great Famine
    Civil action

    (Placeholder: Famine that occurred during the Landamaeri war for unrelated reasons.)

  • 1618 Re / 755 FF
    The Hollowblight
    Plague / Epidemic

    One day, reports begin to reach various major cities in central and southern Vaeoule of a new disease that has struck the north of the region. By the time the reports arrive, however, the infection has come with them. The disease's symptoms are unlike anything the world has ever seen prior: Those infected rapidly fall ill and are stripped of their strength, becoming bedridden within two days of exposure with weakness. As the disease progresses, their bones begin to develop fractures, before eventually shattering completely. Within a week, one hundred percent of those infected by the disease perish. The corpses left by the disease possess no solid bones, giving victims an appearance of having been flattened, and leading to the disease being named The Hollowing Blight.   The disease quickly spreads to Heralya in the west and Belyria in the east, before eventually tearing through the rest of Pretheya. By the time it subsides five years later, the population of the continent has decreased by roughly half.

  • 1623 Re / 760 FF
    Aftermath of The Hollowblight: Onset of the Decline of Feudalism
    Era beginning/end

    In the wake of the Hollowblight, around half of the population of Pretheya lay dead, many abandoned in mass graves, denied the proper funeral rights mandated by the Shahru faith. In light of this depopulation, the feudal lords of Belyria find that they now do not have enough farmers to work their fields, and so fearing for their income begin offering large sums of money to serfs in exchange for them to break their vows and come and work at their estates instead. As a result of this, serfs experience an unprecedented increase in social mobility for the first time in centuries, and Pretheya at large begins to see a shift towards using coinage as currency rather than commodities.

  • 1650 Re / 787 FF
    Birth of the Asutoan Merchant Republics
    Political event

    Owing to diminished feudal authority, increased social mobility, and a growing reliance on currency as a medium of exchange rather than commodity money, a new middle class begins to emerge within cities in Asutoa, which will come to be known as the burghers. They secure charters of self-governance from local lords for the cities which they control, leading to the founding of Pretheya's first independent city-states.

  • 1686 Re / 823 FF
    Fourth Intersedran-Ressengian War
    Military: War

    Intersedra once again attempts to invade Ressengia in the year 823 Flamesfall. This time, owing to the development of new tactics designed to deal with walled cities, they are far more successful than in prior attempts, and are able to push as far as the Ressengian capital near Balthymia. It is around this point however that the Vestaltir gets involved, declaring a crusade to drive the Thousandforms out of Pretheya. In the end it is the Vaeoulen kingdoms that answer the call, along with a number of Karvina Princes hoping to get revenge for the Foolhardy War, and with the aid of their combined forces, the Intersedran army is once again pushed back.

  • 1718 Re / 855 FF
    Trade Routes With Intersedra
    Financial Event

    The first trading post on the eastern coast of Intersedra is established by one of the Asutoan republics, allowing commerce to begin in earnest between the continent of Pretheya and the Broken Lands for the first time. As a result, Intersedran goods can now be bought and sold, very often for exorbitant prices owing to their rarity and immense desirability. The wealth generated from these trades shoots the Asutoan republics responsible for overseeing it to the top of power and influence within the peninsula, reshaping the political landscape there almost overnight.

  • 1769 Re / 906 FF
    War of the Asutoan Coalition
    Military: War

    Having fallen from grace centuries ago when its Cloudbough died, Sassania has slowly faded into irrelevance and obscurity over the following years. Now, it has become so weak that the Asutoan republics see an opportunity to finally expand north out of the peninsula, and band together to invade the kingdom. After a short few years of battle, they are successful in taking a chunk out of the south-eastern portion of the kingdom.

  • 1799 Re / 936 FF
    Discovery of Intues in Pretheya
    Technological achievement

    The first large-scale discoveries are made with Intues within the Heralyan region.

  • 1821 Re / 958 FF
    Heralyan Unification
    Founding

    (Placeholder: Heralyan unification is achieved and the Granrik of Heralya is created. Should probably do away with the name given at this point it was close to 50% Shahru, but idk, maybe the whole point is that the guy who killed Brunhild has been high speed persecuting Rukhmarites ever since.)

  • 1860Re / 997FF
    Current Year
    Cultural event

    The current day and age within the setting.

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