Timeline for the Eastern Kingdoms
Pre-history
- Phantom Kingdom destroyed. Tholuk breaths life into the Dead
Gods. The Worlds form.
Twilight - When
Gods
still roamed the world of Men.
1st
Era - War of the Gods - The Gods battle amongst themselves for
dominance.
Skahild's head is cut off to form the moon. The Chaos Wastes come
about as a direct result of the devastation they cause. The Bloodstone
Empire drives the Orc Tribes into the Azthunk Al'Grabben Wilds.
2nd
Era - Bloodstone Empire expands to cover much of the lands east of
the Chaos Wastes. Aramin the Chaste founds the city-states that will
later make up the Aramian Republic. The Empire of the Eimani and
the Doman Regency of Arkael are established in the West.
3rd
Era - Golden Age for the Bloodstone Empire.
4th
Era - The City of Bloodstone is destroyed (along with many others)
by the Rain of Fire & Stone. Litchland and the other Southern
Kingdoms are built out of the jagged craters left in the wake of
the devastation.
5th
Era - Epic War - The Litch-god Flossi leads the Southern Kingdoms
against
the Bloodstone Empire. Though he fails and his coalition
shatters,
the Bloodstone Empire's power is vastly diminished.
6th
Era - The Bloodstone Empire finaly falls and a dark age passes, when
many strange and terrible things creep back into the world.
The Dawn Age -
Rise
of the Mortal Races.
0
dr - The Council of the Gods form at the Great Table in the Ruins
of Bloodstone. It is agreed to leave Shekhenah to the Mortal
Races and retreat to the Higher Worlds. To protect their
interests they choose Champions from the Heroes of the Dawn Age
to act in their stead.
50dr
- Kingdom of Rikland carved out of the Great Sylvattan Wilderness.
130dr
- Rikland ordains the Crusade against Chaos after it is discovered
that Champions of Law can establish zones of natural order in the
Chaos Wastes; the Outremer Principalities are founded.
190dr
- Barthenor becomes known for its decadent Necromancer-Kings.
280dr
- The Kingdom of Barthenor falls into decline, many of it's patricians
choosing to become undead.
380dr
- Lycanthropy Epidemic spills out from the Chaos Wastes. The Crusade
against Chaos does it's best to stem the tide, though rumors persist
there are survivors. Tribes of Barbaric Shifters, Lycanthopic
decendants manipulated by the stamp of Law in Outremer, become
relatively common as a result of the Crusade's "final solution".
470dr
- The Champion Redcap founds the first Red Elf enclave
on the Isle of Calisto.
600dr
- Lords of Chaos become reviled in the Human Kingdoms.
680dr
- Kingdom of Ardenoth founded by the sons of Danakarl.
760dr
- Aramian Republic becomes a center for trade and prosperity
Recent History
of
the Eastern Kingdoms (most notably
Ardenoth)
840dr
- Kingdom of Ardenoth falls into decline after the last king dies
without a clear heir, thanks to the mechanations and abuses of the
Champion Darksong. Aloria founded in the Eastern Marches.
843dr
- The Minosan Litchlord Guordos Vycna allies with the Hexbreaker Clan
to lead Orcs from the Azthunk Al'Grabben Wilds to overrun Ardenoth.
848dr
- Vampirism plagues the borderlands of Outremer and the Therapu
Wastes.
852dr
- Demons invade Outremer and push up into Rikland.
855dr
- Viking Raids hit most of the coastal kingdoms of the East. King Adam unites much of Ardenoth under
Alorian rule. The rest is carved up between the young kingdomes of
Angstinwoe, Mynea, Grendelheim and the Rivinnwode. Guordos Vycna looses
his arm in battle to the Saint Wallace Tanner.
870dr - After years of
fighting the other kingdoms accept High King Adam as ruler of Ardenoth.
Vycna disapears.
880dr - The Brother's
War devistates Ardenoth when High King Adam retires and his sons
despute who shall take the throne. A conjunction with the Shadowlands
causes many strange events.
883dr - The return of
Guordos Vycna ends the Brother's War with the death of one and the
creation of Old King Crow out of the other. Ardenoth slips into anarchy.
901dr
- The Litchlord Traxum Todd carves the Kingdom of Doomstride out of the
southern coast of Ardenoth.
902dr
- Baethzeil Millitary Expeditionary Force attempts to map the edge of
the
Chaos Wastes, but fail. A single airship crashes in the Nevern Vally.
War
breaks out between Darthen & Barthenor.
903dr
- Doomstride instigates a Jyhad against neighboring Kingdoms of
Ardenoth, recruiting
Tholukite fanatics from across Ardenoth & the Azthunk Al'Grabben
Wilds. Old King Crow swears vassalage and turns over the throne to the
invaders.
905dr
- The Present:
An outbreak of plague
spreads death across the land, and
the world grows cold, feeling the Shadowlands drawing ever closer.
Traxum Todd negotiate with Ardenoth's Regents, finding them as
intractable to their will as the proud patritians cling to their faded
glory. Only a handful of Realms hold out against the Doomstride
Invaders, but their hatred and distrust of each other keep them
isolated, and it seems only a matter of time before they finaly fall.
Rumors persist, however, that a few decendants of the heroes of old may
yet wander the land.
*dr
= divine reckoning
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