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The Mist Times

Before 12238 BPC

The last of the prehistoric eras and the transition point into the modern world. Events occuring in this age and earlier ones cannot be accurately dated, and in some cases, even the conventional sequencing is open to question.

  • Deep Mists of Time
    The Origins of the Old Gods
    Religious event

    There must have been a time, so long ago that no one can now date it, when the ancient peoples of Magicians' End, first began to worship the Old Gods.
  • Deep Mists of Time
    The Blood Iris Sisters settle Lake Oxylium
    Population Migration / Travel

    The Blood Iris Sisters are related to the Fey and chose to settle in this realm at some unknown date in the remote past.

    Location
    Lake Oxylium
    Species
    Blood Iris Sisters
  • Deep Mists of Time
    The Formation of the Way of Trinity Moon
    Religious event

    The Way of Trinity Moon is a spiritual order dedicated to celestial observation and contemplation of the mysteries of the cosmos and its greater setting within the Discontinuum. Its origins are incredibly ancient and are thought to belong to the time when the first Fey visited the realm and imparted their wisdom to indigenous shamen. For thousands of years the world itself was known as Trinity Moon by the Fey and by its own peoples, until the unfortunate events of the Sundering gave it the name we now use.
    Species
    Fey
    More reading
    Timekeeping in Magicians' End

The Painted Peoples

12238 BPC to 9997 BPC

The Painted Peoples were a culture that transitioned from a nomadic to a settled way of life at the beginning of recorded history. They are known to have adorned their faces and arms with richly coloured paints.

  • 12238 BPC
    The Foundation of Pavol-Rag-Rag
    Construction beginning/end

    Pavol-Rag-Rag is the oldest city of the Painted Peoples and their chronicles provide a date for the foundation which in modern systems has been calculated to be 12238 BPC (Twelve thousand, two hundred and thirty eight years Before the Planar Conformation).

    Location
    Pavol-Rag-Rag
  • 12115 BPC
    King Talta's Funeral
    Life, Death

    The ceremony for the death of a much beloved early leader of the Painted Peoples became a famous occasion when it was riven with treachery and intrigue, leading to permanent splits that shaped the course of the Old Kingdoms for generations afterwards. Frequently referenced in song and story.

  • Circa 11960 BPC
    Earliest Evidence of Copper Mining in the Eroveth Mts
    Technological achievement

    This is also the date of the earliest known copper coins.

    Location
    Myruthea
  • 11500 BPC
    Creation of The Crimson Codex
    Miscellaneous

    An aproximate date when the Crimson Codex was written down in Wet Cursive, one of the most ancient languages of the Painted Peoples.

  • 11382 BPC
    The flooding of Pavol-Rag-Rag
    Disaster / Destruction

    An event which led to the city being abandoned.

    Location
    Pavol-Rag-Rag
  • 10828 BPC
    The village of Soque is established
    Founding

    Soque has an excellent claim to be the oldest continuously inhabited settlement in the world.

    Location
    Soque

The New Kingdoms

9996 BPC to 7231 BPC

  • 9996 BPC
    The Settlement of Zaranon
    Gathering / Conference

    The Settlement of Zaranon was a peace treaty between three factions on the continent of Myruthea, resulting in the merger of two of them to form the Kingdom of Myruth, the first of the New Kingdoms.

  • 1st Authon, 9812 BPC
    The Ralismoor Light is lit for the first time
    Founding

    The act which established Ralsimoor as a major city and is considered to mark its "true" foundation, although there was a lesser settlement in the same location before this date.

    Location
    Ralsimoor
    Additional timelines
  • 9749 BPC
    The Foundation of Sunrock
    Founding

    The port town of Sunrock is founded and becomes an important staging post in the opening up of Tinturbean during the early history of the New Kingdoms.

    Location
    Sunrock
  • 9642 BPC
    The foundation of Katrapetch
    Founding

    The northern Punjuki city of Katrapetch was founded by migrants from the New Kingdoms of Myruthea. Although its very early history is somewhat murky and is certainly even older, the Court Circle of Katrapetch traditionally claims that its own foundation and the "true" foundation of the city are one and the same thing, on this year when Gundabah Sarill declared himself the first Raja.
    Location
    Katrapetch
    Additional timelines
  • 9581 BPC
    The foundation of the city of Tylisfort
    Founding

    Location
    Tylisfort
  • 9573 BPC
    The foundation of Cynran
    Founding

    Cynran is the oldest continuously inhabited settlement on Tinturbean and one of the oldest in the world.

    Location
    Cynran
  • 9364 BPC
    Empire of Bradalkut gains full control over Punjuki
    Military: War

    The Empire of Bradalkut gains full control over Punjuki, becoming the first great power to do so when it conquers Katrapetch.

    Location
    Punjuki
    Additional timelines
  • 9358 BPC
    The construction of the port of Bress
    Founding

    The port of Bress on the north west coast of Punjuki, was established by the Potentate of the Empire of Bradalkut as a means of reinforcing his control over newly conquered lands on the continent.

    Location
    Bress
  • 9261 BPC
    The foundation of Goolsyn
    Founding

    The city that would become the capital of the Trinity Moon Triple Enfolding began as a small settlement in the hills of central Tinturbean.

    Location
    Goolsyn
  • 9016 BPC
    Fall of the Empire of Bradalkut
    Political event

    The Empire of Bradalkut collapses and Katrapetch regains independence.

    Location
    Punjuki
    Additional timelines
  • 8613 BPC
    The Triple Enfolding Treaty Signed
    Diplomatic action

    The Triple Enfolding Treaty is an agreement which unites the Kingdom of Helbidden, the Commonwealth of Owpin and the Bress Protectorate to form the Trinity Moon Triple Enfolding. The Enfolding was the most powerful political group to have existed in the world to this date.
    Additional timelines
  • 8394 BPC
    Foundation of the Kingdom of Snowborne
    Founding

    The Kingdom of Snowborne is founded when Rynelder I, declares independence from the Great Northern Dukedom of Peld.
    Location
    Iceholt
  • 8328 BPC
    The construction of the Axial Tower
    Construction beginning/end

    The Axial Tower was the centre of arcane operations in the Kingdom of Snowborne.
    Location
    The Axial Tower
  • 8317 BPC
    Crafting of the Snow Wand
    Miscellaneous

    The Mage King Lanald of the Kingdom of Snowborne, creates the Snow Wand at the Axial Tower.

    Location
    The Axial Tower
  • 28th of Glim, 8209 BPC
    The Thousand Year Alliance begins
    Diplomatic action

    On this date, The Fey Court established an embassy, with the Kingdom of Snowborne at their northern capital of Iceholt when the world still had the name of Trinity Moon. This is the only example known to the Stability Council of a formal relationship between an evolution and an archetype. Although the association between the Fey and the Kingdom of Snowborne did not technically last for a full thousand years, it is still popularly called the Thousand Year Alliance.
    Location
    Iceholt
    Species
    Fey
    More reading
    The Thousand Year Alliance
  • 8148 BPC
    The founding of Oroth
    Founding

    The port city of Oroth is established by the Trinity Moon Triple Enfolding on the western coast of Tinturbean.
    Location
    Oroth
  • 15th of Chiroth, 7891 BPC
    The Snowborne Enfolding Treaty is signed
    Diplomatic action

    The Mage King Johanus, ruler of the Kingdom of Snowborne signs a peace treaty with the Trinity Moon Triple Enfolding in which they agree to suspend the low level hostilities which had arisen from recent tensions between the two powers.
  • 3rd of Pruth, 7231 BPC
    The Sundering
    Disaster / Destruction

    The Cataclysmic Fall of the Kingdom of Snowborne that brought the Thousand Year Alliance to an end. From this time forward the term "Trinity Moon", the previously accepted name of the realm, falls into disuse and the world acquires its new name, "Magicians' End", as a permanent reminder of the scale of this ancient diasater.
    Location
    Magicians' End
    Species
    Fey
    More reading
    The Sundering
    Additional timelines

The Long Thaw

7231 BPC to 5343 BPC

A long dark age of cold with highly fragmented societies and only a few isolated city states.

  • 3rd of Pruth, 7231 BPC
    The Sundering
    Disaster / Destruction

    The Cataclysmic Fall of the Kingdom of Snowborne that brought the Thousand Year Alliance to an end. From this time forward the term "Trinity Moon", the previously accepted name of the realm, falls into disuse and the world acquires its new name, "Magicians' End", as a permanent reminder of the scale of this ancient diasater.
    Location
    Magicians' End
    Species
    Fey
    More reading
    The Sundering
    Additional timelines
  • 7216 BPC
    The Book of Ages is Compiled
    Cultural event

    The Book of Ages, a compendium of writing from many sources before the Sundering is a grab-bag of myths and history in many styles and was an attempt to try to preserve the culture of an earlier age when it must have looked like the whole world could be ending. Later historians owe a great debt to the unknown editor(s) who undertook this work.

    Location
    Ralsimoor
    Additional timelines
  • 7201 BPC
    The formation of the Chapter of Fresh Waters

    The Chapter of Fresh Waters is formed in the city of Cynran
    Location
    Cynran
  • 6978 BPC
    Foundation of the city of Klaractazum
    Founding

    One of the more ancient surviving continuously inhabited cities (although by no means the oldest), founded on a meltwater lake at the edge of the ice sheets of the time, which has long since dried up.

    Location
    Klaractazum
    Additional timelines
  • ~6950 BPC to 6850 BPC
    The Lost Chords
    Religious event

    The revelations of the divine harmonies are sounded in secret dells and hidden glades throughout Magicians' End, leading to the formation of the Way of the Harmonic Path.
    Location
    Magicians' End
  • 3rd Pruth 6231 BPC
    The monument called "The Book of the North" is consecrated
    Construction beginning/end

    The Book of the North commemorates the lives lost in the Sundering and was consecrated exactly one thousand years after the event in the age of the Long Thaw.

    Location
    Tinturbean
  • 11th Glim, 6174 BPC
    The recovery of the Goolsyn Ice Star
    Miscellaneous

    The Goolsyn Ice Star is located by a team of archaeologists sponsored by the Chapter of Fresh Waters.
    Location
    Goolsyn
  • 6095 BPC
    The foundation of Pale
    Founding

    The oldest records of the town of Pale date from this time, although it is likely it may be somewhat older.

    Location
    Pale
  • 5813 BPC
    Foundation of the city of Zalgurim
    Founding

    Location
    Zalgurim
    Additional timelines
  • 5644 BPC
    Foundation of Cliffport
    Founding

    The serious development of Cliffport on the northern coast of Punjuki begins.

    Location
    Cliffport

The Twelve Wise Ones

5342 BPC to 4779 BPC

The Twelve Wise Ones made the first attempt to establish a body for the resolution of disputes between city states since the collapse of the Triple Enfolding following the Sundering, almost two thousand years before.

The Myruthean Unification Wars

4778 BPC to 4514 BPC

A series of wars which started between the small kingdoms of central and eastern Myruthea, gave rise to the creation of the Old Pale Empire and finally unified Myruthea after the defeat of the Jebbin League.

The Old Pale Empire

4542 BPC to 7 APC

The longest lasting and greatest of all political structures on Magicians' End, before or since, the Old Pale Empire was over 4500 years old before it was finally destroyed in the aftermath of the Planar Conformation.   In this global summary timeline only events of the highest significance are listed. Follow the link to the era specific timeline below, for a more detailed look at the specific history of the period.   Magicians' End Eras : Old Pale Empire

The Breach Wars

8 APC to 74 APC

A chaotic period of struggles between the collapsed remnants of the Old Pale Empire and the disruptive malignancy that sought to spread out from the Dark Domains.

  • 20th Chiroth, 12 APC
    The Sack of Brukin
    Military: Battle

    The loss of the town of Brukin in western Tinturbean, to forces which had sailed and flown from the Dark Domains was the first serious military defeat for the peoples of Magicians' End since the catastrophic destruction of Honirham. Inadequately defended by a rump of disorganised remnants from the Old Pale Empire armies it fell easily and became a bridgehead for further invasions deeper inland.

    Location
    Tinturbean
  • 9th Authon, 34 APC
    Sunrock is overrun by Dark Domain forces
    Military: Battle

    Location
    Sunrock
  • 37 APC to 68 APC
    The Building of the Hylacon Gates
    Construction beginning/end

    The The Hylacon Peoples conduct a long covert project to construct the Hylacon Gates around the perimeter of the Dark Domains.
    Location
    The Hylacon Gates
  • 68 APC to 74 APC
    The Locking of the Hylacon Gates
    Metaphysical / Paranormal event

    The process of commissioning and activating the mystic Hylacon Gates, which had been built over the previous three decades was known as the Locking of the Hylacon Gates. Its successful conclusion vindicated the plans of the Hylacon Peoples, sealing the Dark Domains and ending the Breach Wars, although this was not achieved without great sacrifice.
    Location
    The Hylacon Gates
  • 15th Mald, 74 APC
    The Transcendence of Hylacon
    Celestial / Cosmic

    The Transcendence of Hylacon was the culminaton of the work of the Hylacon Peoples when the Hylacon Gates were locked at the Easter Gate and Hylacon redeemed the world. This date is celebrated annually as Easter day.
    Location
    The Hylacon Gates

The Flame Kingdoms

75 APC to 466 APC

The Flame Kingdoms were a number of relatively small fiefdoms in Punjuki, ruled by a group of geomancers. Though never global in scope they were the most significant powers of their age.

  • 75 APC
    The formation of the Society of Arcane Adepts
    Founding

    The Society of Arcane Adepts grew from the remnants of the Hylacon Peoples to provide a group for mutual aid, supporting magic users throughout Magicians' End
    Location
    Ralsimoor
  • 14th Doloph, 77 APC
    Mt. Defiance Erupts in Anger
    Geological / environmental event

    The controlled eruption of Mt. Defiance on the continent of Punjuki, kills a dragon from the Dark Domains and heralds the beginnings of the Flame Kingdoms.

    Location
    Mt. Defiance
    Additional timelines
  • 12th Mald, 227 APC
    The liberation of Sunrock
    Military: Battle

    Sunrock is liberated from the remnants of the forces of the Dark Domains.

    Location
    Sunrock
  • 5th Findil, 325 APC
    House of the Traders opens at Saltmoat
    Founding

    The inhabitants of Saltmoat date the true founding of their town from the opening of the House of Traders, although there had been a much smaller settlement on the same site, for many years previously.

    Location
    Saltmoat

The Water Kingdoms

467 APC to 1195 APC

The Water Kingdoms marked an important step forward in the reclamation of Magicians' End after the upheavals of the Planar Conformation, when it became safe enough to risk sailing the seas again and new, bold, powers arose to supplant the Flame Kingdoms of Punjuki.

  • 11th Mald, 467 APC
    Founding of Nephatar
    Founding

    The Fisher King makes the first successful voyage between Myruthea and Punjuki since the end of the Old Pale Empire and establishes the city of Nephatar as the first of the Water Kingdoms.

    Location
    Nephatar
    Additional timelines
  • 8th Glim, 489 APC
    King Kleyth the Great founds the Kingdom of Saltmoat
    Founding

    The Kingdom of Saltmoat becomes the second of the new Water Kingdoms, expanding ocean travel around the south east coastal region of Punjuki.

    Location
    Saltmoat
  • 682 APC
    The first Festival of the Elements is held at Zalgurim
    Cultural event

    The Festival of the Elements became a long standing tradition after this first one. It was organised by the Society of Arcane Adepts, and took place roughly every twelve years in different cities throughout the world.
    Location
    Zalgurim
    Additional timelines
  • 11th Kerax, 1188 APC
    The Solemn Swearing
    Life, Organisation Association

    The Solemn Swearing was a private ceremony for grandfather (Allakai), father (Serndin) and son (Mikerav), when they collectively dedicated themselves to rule over Magicians' End.

The Three Rogue Mages

1196 APC to 1389 APC

Allakai, his son Serndin and grandson Mikerav were the supreme rulers of a world wide hereditory dictatorship they called the Arcane Supremacy. The historian Hera Plerin, writing some two centuries after the end of their dynasty, coined the phrase, "three rogue mages" to describe them and that is the name by which this period of history is now known.

  • 11th Glim, 1216 APC
    The burning of Peld
    Disaster / Destruction

    The town of Peld burns to the ground in a disastrous accidental fire and explosions

    Location
    Peld
  • 18th Pruth, 1258 APC
    Death of Simon Matterbull
    Life, Death

    Simon Matterbull was a famous playwright who penned his most famous works at the beginning of the Arcane Supremacy.

The Puzzle Lords' Directorate

1390 APC to 1829 APC

The Puzzle Lords were an oligarchy of aristocrats who ran a kind of international government from a number of notionally independent city states.   In this global summary timeline only events of the highest significance are listed. Follow the link to the era specific timeline below, for a more detailed look at the specific history of the period.   Magicians' End Eras : The Puzzle Lords Directorate

The Age of the Long Famine

1830 APC to 1919 APC

A period of prolonged drought and high temperatures caused by a short term increase in solar radiation. The Puzzle Lords Directorate lost control over government which retreated into less sophisticated local power structures no bigger than city states.

The First Popular Ascendancy

1920 APC to 2040 APC

The First Popular Ascendancy was a democratic movement with an anti-magical policy which arose in the years following the long famine.

The New Pale Empire

2041 APC to 2075 APC

The New Pale Empire was a short lived attempt to revive the glories of the Old Pale Empire. Sometimes contemptuously called the Paler Empire or the Glass Empire it lasted for little more than thirty years.

  • 20th Tuzlle, 2041 APC
    Curunax Boddin proclaims the New Pale Empire
    Founding

    The New Pale Empire breaks away from the First Popular Ascendency.
    Location
    Pale
  • 10th Pruth, 2075 APC
    The death of Curunaxe Boddin
    Life, Death

    This resulted in the immediate collapse of the New Pale Empire.
    Location
    Pale

The Four Aerial Courts

2076 APC to 2412 APC

The Four Aerial Courts is a name given to a period of history dominated by powers that used great fleets of airships and balloons.   In this summary timeline only the most significant events are shown, but more details from the era can be found in the timeline linked below.   Magicians' End Eras : The Four Aerial Courts

The Moderators' Council

2412 APC to 3004 APC

The Moderators' Council operated as a power broker within a network of regional governments, managing magical education, licensing mages and punishing arcane transgressions with the stated aim of preventing the rise of chaotic mages.   In this summary timeline, only events of the highest significance are shown. A more detailed breakdown of the era can be found in the timeline linked below.   Magicians' End Eras : The Moderators' Council

The Time of Terrors

3004 APC to 3641 APC

An age dominated by a number of maverick mages who ruled competing fiefdoms with little regard for the welfare of their subjects.   In this summary timeline, only events of the highest significance are shown. A more detailed breakdown of the era can be found in the timeline linked below.   Magicians' End Eras : The Time of Terrors

The Second Popular Ascendancy

3642 APC to 4289 APC

The Second Popular Ascendancy restored a degree of stability to Magicians' End after the chaotic age of the Time of Terrors.

The Age of Shadows

4290 APC to 5148 APC

A time of fractured and disorganised local governments, dark magic and a second wave of more insidious incursions into the realm.   In this summary timeline, only events of the highest significance are shown. A more detailed breakdown of the era can be found in the timeline linked below.   Magicians' End Eras : The Age of Shadows

The Limit Protectorate

5149 APC to 5184 APC

A short period of thirty five years when the realm was briefly under the control of foreign powers from the Limit Lands until Prince Rygarde's regime was overthrown.   In this summary line only the most significant events of the time are shown, but a more detailed breakdown of the events that took place during the Limit Protectorate can be found in the timeline linked below.   Magicians' End Eras : The Limit Protectorate

The Loyalist Thaumatic Army Council

5185 APC to 5265 APC

The Third Popular Ascendancy

5266 APC to 5493 APC

This was the most recent attempt by democratic radicals to form a parliamentary constitution and provide a popular government with limitations on magical use. It crumbled when the Jewelled Queendoms rose to power.

The Jewelled Queendoms

5494 APC to 5939 APC

Six countries rules by powerful queens who drew their magical strength from sacred jewels.   In this summary timeline, only events of the highest significance are shown. A more detailed breakdown of the era can be found in the timeline linked below.   Magicians' End Eras : The Jewelled Queendoms

The Mad Mage's Autocracy

5940 APC to 6168 APC

The powerful magician Ixthamon had complete control of the realm during the age known as the Mad Mage's Autocracy.

The Sacred Coven

6196 APC to 6391 APC

A matriarchy which assumed control over Magicians' End after its first members arranged the assassination of the Mad Mage.

  • 6375 APC

    10 Tivith
    Formation of the Congress of Concerned Citizens
    Political event

Empire, Assembly and Congress

6392 APC to 6929 APC (the current date)

In the current age of the world, power is divided between three competing blocks, the Trans-Oceanic Empire the Alchemical Assembly and the Congress of Concerned Citizens.

  • 24th Glim, 6392 APC
    Emperor Ivold I is crowned as the First Imperial of the Trans-Oceanic Empire
    Diplomatic action

    Location
    Jebbin City
  • 8th Pruth, 6417 APC
    Arginbury joins the Congress of Concerned Citizens
    Diplomatic action

    Location
    Arginbury
    Additional timelines

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