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Timeline of the Mortal World

This is a summarized description of events that have occurred in the Mortal World since creation. Included in this timeline are events that are considered by mortals to be prehistoric.

Cycle of Heaven

1 1456

The new gods, called the Tuatha'Dam, do many great deeds in their first age of power.

  • 0


    The Apotheosis
    Celestial / Cosmic

    The gods of the Mortal World wrest their divinity from the hands of their people's primordial slavemasters.

  • 230


    Founding of the Arcanicum Pansophical
    Founding

    The gods Math Mathonwy, Nemain, and Lugh found the institution of arcane learning and research.

  • 729


    Discovery of the Adran Antithesis
    Discovery, Exploration

    The god Math Mathonwy's scrying reveals the antimagic device hidden on the island of Cyro, in the far west.

    Location
    Adra
    More reading
    The Adran Antithesis
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  • 1455


    The Wounding of Bran
    Life, Death

    Bran, the dwarven prince-turned-god, is mortally wounded by a strike from the blade Winnow, a monstrous weapon created for the hands of Rhewcalon, the patron of deception and betrayal.

Cycle of Blood

1457 1858

The Tuatha'Dam's actions draw the attention and ire of the powers that lurk in the Shadowfell. The beginning of this age is marked by the grave injury of the ward-god Bran at the hands of Rhewcalon, the fiendish patron of betrayal.

  • 1467

    1851


    The First Looking Glass War
    Military action

    The forces of Eresh devastate the world in a massive war unlike anything waged before in the Mortal World.

    Location
    Tuade
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    Eresh
  • 1548


    Birth of Alessandaria
    Life, Birth

    The half-elven Alessandaria was destined to one day become the foremost mancer of her time.

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    Alessandar
  • 1820


    Death of the Wizard Saint Alessandaria
    Life, Death

    The city that would become Alesssandar is saved from destruction by the heroic sacrifice of Alessandaria.

    Location
    Alessandar
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    Alessandar
  • 1843


    Battle of the Black Fens
    Military action

    This cataclysmic battle spelled the end for the champion Artema and the mortal body of Rathias, the Plague Demon.

    Location
    Banelfin
  • 1846


    The Blinding of Golwyddaid
    Military action

    The demon-lord of hunger and devastation is gravely wounded by the Huntress Sevirastra, who wielded the Bow of Andruil. This marked the turning point in the First Looking Glass War.

Cycle of Seas

2174 2647

The world of Tuade, now invaded at one time or another by armies from each plane, turns its focus inward. The Cycle of Seas is an age marked by environmental devastation in the forms of powerful volcanic eruptions and resulting earthquakes, tsunamis, and other natural disasters.

  • 2189 Cycle


    Birth of Corin Shadowstep
    Life, Birth

    Corin Shadowstep was born to a woman whose name and history was unknown to his mothers in the dwarven weather observation post of Petrel's Roost, in the middle of the Stormbreaker Sea. This woman gave birth to a baby boy with pale hair and took ship the next day, leaving her newborn son behind.

    More reading
    Corin Shadowstep

Cycle of Eyes

2929 3166

This cycle heralds the return of extraplanar influence to Tuade. After a thousand years of isolation, the people of the Material Plane contend with fey infiltrators, fiendish cults, and invading forces from the Elemental Planes.

  • 2950


    Founding of the Accuser-State
    Founding

    It is the year 2950 that the Accuser-State is founded.

    Location
    Adra
    More reading
    Adra
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  • 2959

    7

    Invention of the Retort Rifle
    Technological achievement

    Her Majesty's Royal Ingenuiters complete the Retort, an alchemical weapon capable of launching bullets of metal distances greater than a kilometer with significant accuracy.

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  • 2959

    9

    Battle of Petrel's Roost
    Military action

    Soldiers of the Adrisan state of the Accusers unveil a deadly new technology in the face of defeat at the hands of the Margrave's forces.

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Cycle of Thieves

3840 3996

Currently the shortest cycle on record, this age was marked by the Second Looking Glass War, an eruption of the last cycle's underground conflicts.

Cycle of Silver

3997 and beyond

The current cycle, marked at the beginning by a sudden, jarring reorganization of the heavenly bodies in the night sky.