Post by Evan on Jul 22, 2007 0:22:02 GMT -5
Important Timeline Events
First Era:
? - Xian creates Tearis from the Void.
1E ~1 - Xian creates the first and greatest gods: Aziel, Dukarn, Marana, Pelagiun, and Vak'Lor.
1E ~1 to 499 - Xian creates all manner of life in Taeris, including feral species of animal and the forerunners of the Trolls
1E ~500 - Aziel creates the Angels, Dukarn creates the Demons.
1E ~525 - Xian creates the Elves, who are immortal and imbued with powerful magic.
1E ~550 - The Immortal War begins.
1E ~600 - The Spiderpeople (later to evolve into the Nerukar) come into existence by unknown means.
1E ~920 - Aziel and Dukarn are "swallowed up" by Xian and so the Immortal War ends. The First Era ends.
Second Era:
2E 001 - Xian creates the Humans.
2E 086 - The first human Emperor is crowned, the Great Human Empire begins.
2E 103 - Vak'lor appreciates the growing strength of the humans, taking some of them under his wing and birthing the sub-race of Werecreatures.
2E 186 - The Empire, in power for now one hundred years, holds a massive celebration that would be held every subsequent year to flaunt its strength. The Empire now holds nearly a third of the main landmass.
2E 252 - The newly appointed 4th Emperor undertakes a massive military campaign, invading the Eastern Provinces. The Empire holds over half of the main landmass.
2E 507 - The 8th Emperor proves corrupt, becoming the worst Emperor to ever rule. Dissenters break off, and while most rebellions are crushed, some of them flee. Pelagiun endows one human with vampiric cravings, driving the Empire into further chaos as an apparent outbreak spreads. The Vampire race is born. Xian punishes Pelagiun by imprisoning him for one thousand years, but chooses to allow things on Taeris to play out.
2E 549 - The Vampires flee the Empire in mass to be free of a massive hunt campaign.
2E 586 - The Empire celebrates it's 500th year of power, now holding nearly all of the mainland. Marana, even Vak'lor, and many minor gods begin to realize the humans are becoming more powerful than they could of ever imagined, and find it heretical how they deny magic for technology. The magically powerful Elves are commissioned to destroy them.
2E 620 - The Great Human Empire is annihilated after over five hundred years of dominance. The Great Separation begins, where many humans flee to Elven regions or evolve into the other human sub-races. The Second Era ends.
Third Era:
3E 1 to 886 - The gods remain generally passive, while the humans attempt to rebuild their empire in various ways. The Elves prove the relatively dominant force, but other kingdoms over time threaten this now longstanding balance.
3E 887 to 943 - The powerful dark entity known as Kach'il Mahmsun is first seen, and a massive following of dark cultists begin to revolve around him. Mahmsun, almost never in the battlefiled himself, sends his cultists to begin capturing remote regions of Taeris and enslaving various species to serve his will. Prayers to Xian for assistance seem to fall on deaf ears.
3E 942 - Present day, and a new myth in the grand history of Taeris begins.