Pre War
Roughly 4500 B.W.
People begin carving religious symbols into an ivory pillar near Mount Fyr.
Roughly 3300 B.W.
First major settlement founded near Mount Fyr around ivory pillar.
Roughly 3000B.W.
Lofruck Flintarm, a dwarf from a lost land, begins hewing stone from the earth with his followers to create a new residence.
Roughly 2800B.W.
Lofruck Flintarm names his new land the Mountain as they hewn earth has been built into a mountainous dwelling.
Roughly 2600 B.W.
Followers of Kord take rulership of the Ivory pillar. An ancient religion is wiped from the face of the Earth, its name forgotten and is now only referred to as the Great Old One.
2341B.W.
Eribaena Hillmane, a beautiful and deadly crafty dwarf, was revealed to be poisoning King Lofruck Flintarm and was put to death.
2339B.W
King Lofruck Flintarm passes from years of poison.
2319 B.W.
Ulam, an Orc, convinces all the Orc tribes in the Southwest to become one known as the All Tribe.
2311B.W.
Ulam and the All Tribe sack the Mountain and set up the first and only Orc kingdom in history
2307 B.W.
The Dwarves that Escaped Ulam’s onslaught settled in the island chain to the west.
2203B.W.
Deforestation around the once False Mountain begins the Orc Wars against the recently formed cities of Falvindar and Verostuul.
2196 B.W.
The volcanic mountain the Dwarves from the Mountain settled at erupted wiping the Dwarves and their settlement on the island chain away.
1321 B.W.
St. Plebuis defeats Ashblight the Void dragon sending him into the Fey Wilds.
1238 B.W
Avendale goes from being a simple temple at the side of the road and builds up to a small town. In this year it is dedicated as an official town and not just a smattering of houses.
1211 B.W.
The war of the Fey commences and those that came out during the events of St. Plebuis and Ashblight are ushered back into the Fey Wilds. Their warped children begin harboring and protecting the secret entrance to the Fey Wilds.
1167B.W.
After over a thousand years of fighting, the Orcs deforestation and bloodlust threaten to wipe out the Elves. Yoranis Phuut, the High King of Falvindar and Saida Therel, the Silver Queen of Verostuul meet with the greatest human fighter at the time, Maro Enoka of Avendale, and off him the Orcs land if they can push the Orcs out.
1163B.W.
Maro Enoka gets sick gathering forces to deal with the Orcs in the South and his son, Camorr Enoka, took up his place.
1161B.W.
Camorr leads the first attack against the All Tribe kingdom.
1137B.W.
Camorr sets up a small village north of a mountain pass. Orcs find the location and seek to destroy the Humans but instead bottleneck their troops in the pass and loose several hundred men. The pass mockingly becomes known as Three Orcs Pass.
1104B.W.
The Orcs of the All Tribe led by an Orc named Abghat ambush an aging Camorr and slay him and his men. Abghat becomes the All Tribe’s new king.
981B.W.
Rakaht Enoka, daughter of Camorr Enoka, has continued pursuing the Orcs doggedly to the point of trapping them within their city walls.
980B.W.
Abghat is slain, Rakaht Enoka claims the city for the humans and names it after her father, Camorr.
776 B.W.
Wynian Arazeiro, a half-elf, leads a revolt taking back Fyr’s Shadow for all religious orders. Treaty of Religions signed giving all religions rights to the ivory pillar.
646 B.W.
A mad blacksmith finishes his life’s work only to be flung into a large rage when an imperfection is noted. He becomes lost in his rage almost wiping Avendale off the map. He later disappears into the Fey Wilds.
558B.W.
Humans spreading in the region near Camorr set up a village known as Treefold.
During the War
412B.W.
The Great Race War starts.
381 B.W.
Izdac, the current Lich King of Hordroth, gains unlife on the battlefields of the East.
358 B.W.
Original city of Fyr’s Shadow destroyed except walls around the ivory spire.
161 B.W.
People fleeing the Great Race War flocked to the largest island just West of Camorr where they began fighting with the Rakshasa.
Post War
2 I.B.
The Treaty of Unified Realms is signed by all civilized races officially ending the Great Race War.
4 I.B.
Donovahn Needham of Avendale is crowned the first Emperor of the United Realms. Camorr becomes the Southern capital led by Malik MacCleash. Dominar becomes the Northern Capital led by Benedict Walbaum. Falvindar closes its gates to outsiders, though is still a part of the Southern Realm.
59 I.B.
An elf from Verostuul began fighting back against the expansion of other races into Verostuul’s region.
112 I.B.
The Emerald Eye is created in Verostuul to help guard and protect all within the reach of the city.
118 I.B
Norther city-states begin infighting. City-state leaders are brought to Oranthos to work out who will become their leader. Jerard Smednar of Tonshire becomes leader of North and dissolves city-state council.
138 I.B.
Rebuilding of the city of Fyr’s Shadow is completed thanks to the dwarf Brourdus Ironbeard.
148 I.B.
Acererak pushes an army forth from World End.
152 I.B.
Kraven Shaw, a Tiefling from the southern island chain, unifies the horse bands and pushes back against Acererak who is beaten by divine intervention. A Rakshasa named Kioko betrayed Shaw and to this day people do not trust these creatures.
168 I.B.
Lumao, present day Kyaht, is inducted into the league of kingdoms with Shaw the Uniter at its head.
172 I.B.
Northern city-states solidify into singular Northern Realm.
212 I.B.
Shaw the Uniter dies leaving a power vacuum. Unais Abbasi, Jasoor Matmud, and Ismad Kyaht begin fighting for Lumao’s throne.
214 I.B.
Unais Abbasi and his clan are absorbed into the roving horse tribes east of the island chain.
219 I.B.
Jasoor Matmud defeats the opposing troops and claims the throne. He renames the city Kyaht.
224 I.B.
Mankind, animals, and plant life defend Fyr’s Shadow from a gargantuan storm elemental. Their unified efforts mark the founding of the Festival of the Bay.
275 I.B.
The Tomb Eye plague sweeps through the land of Verostuul allowing the Gray Wanderer to slaughter several thousand people while the Emerald Eye is weakened.
348 I.B.
At the height of the Tomb Eye plague in Fyr’s Shadow and Glaring, Ryul Fenzana climbs Mount Fyr and convinces the Gods to end the sickness. She is later given the title of Atoka and is the first leader of all religions on Oranthos.
438 I.B.
The last sighting of the Gray Wanderer.
442 I.B.
Anarya is founded.
575 I.B
Haunn Abbasi brings the horse lords to Kyaht and, through guerrilla and biological warfare, manages to overtake the city claiming the throne for the Abbasi. The Horse Lord culture established in Kyaht and the Horse Games become an annual event.
633 I.B.
Gacs Vrebux forms a movement against the hedonistic ways of the then current Atoka.
648 I.B.
As a sign of mass protest, Gacs Vrebux has his followers break into peoples’ houses and rob them of their wealth. They then stage a revolt at the base of the Sky Pillar where they burn all the riches they stole.
652 I.B.
Gacs Vrebux put to death by Atoka Calomis on the spot where he had staged his revolt.
688 I.B.
- The origins of the Tower Festival in Anarya take place.
- A villa is built on the future site of Pinepass for Atoka Calomis where he hides Joshua Sanguine away for grooming to take his position as Atoka.
712 I.B.
Because of political infighting in Fyr’s Shadow three Atokas are elected in the same year.
715 I.B.
Atoka Calomis’s villa is destroyed.
716 I.B.
Yukgnath, an Orc of Kord and one of the three elected Atokas, is defeated. His group finds an ancient artifact and fracture from the church of Kord in the city. They then leave to travel the countryside heralding the artifact.
717 I.B.
Perenth the Careful, a dragonborn of the church of Bahamut, is elected the true Atoka. Joshua Sanguine disappears.
735 I.B.
The oldest temple in Anarya is built, a temple of Ehlonna.
772 I.B
A radical philosopher named Constantin Celice led a revolt against the nobel houses of Anarya. He was swiftly quashed and put to death along with many of his followers.
818 I.B.
A tear in the fabric of the material plane lets loose devils and demons from the Nine Hells onto Stone’s Ridge.
828 I.B.
Nat Adler, a slave of Kyaht, pushed against the slaughter of slaves as punishment for coming in last in the Horse Games. The current king put him to death. Obad-Hai came down and slaughtered the king declaring there should no longer be death in the games nor slaves in the city. Obad-Hai planted Nat’s corpse where an acorn tree sprouted in the shape of a man called the Warrior Tree.
829 I.B.
The anti-slaving laws of Kyaht spread through the Southern Realm sending many slave owners North in a mass exodus.
915 I.B.
The ruins of Atoka Calomis’s villa are restructured forming the trade based town of Pinepass.
1037 I.B.
Manik Hollensbee, a Gnome from Tonshire, sets up Thornburrow just south of Mount Fyr after making a deal with a band of Centari.
1068 I.B.
The band that followed Yukgnath from Fyr’s Shadow during the events of 712-717 I.B. settles in the Kyaht island chain. They name the settlement Ghattas after their recently deceased leader.
1086 I.B.
An Elf named Lyari Alavara
1092 I.B.
A blast of holy energy rained down from the skies onto the town of Glitterhaven and the surrounding countryside. Several Rock Gnomes fled but those that didn’t manage were wrapped by the horrid amounts of energy.
1094 I.B.
The survivors of Glitterhaven set up a village east of the ruins that was donned Newhaven.
1100 I.B.
The Southern King, Aethelhun Ryder, has his son, Finald Ryder, assassinated in Chandall. A schism opens between Aethelhun and the Northern king, Torbald Sezzak, because of this.
1103 I.B.
Hommlet, a small town outside of Avendale, is sacked by roving Trolls and other creatures. The only thing left standing is the temple of Obad-Hai.
1104 I.B.
- A new mountain range breaks up from the landscape almost overnight destroying the main trade routes to Dominar and severely damaging the Northern Capitol city.
- A group of adventurers defeat a powerful red dragon known as Maht S’unne.
1109 I.B.
Falvindar opens its gates to the world and begins talks with other nations about reintegrating.
1112 I.B.
- War breaks out between the Northern and Southern Realms over the assassination of Finald Ryder.
- The artifact that the group of Kord’s followers had at Ghattas was stolen by a wandering angel and their temple was destroyed. A man by the name of Artin Hammerbeard begins rebuilding the Rilouh town and starts to make it a center of trade.
1113 I.B.
Sentient artificial intelligence takes over the machinations of Twinklegem Veil causing the Deep Gnomes to abandon their home.
1114 I.B.
- The Lannis family, the nobel house of Elves that ruled Anarya, were brutally slain with only one surviving member who denounced the name.
- High King Aethelhun Ryder of Camorr declared all Orcs and Half-Orcs traitors to the crown and they were to be slain on sight.
- Nearing the end of the year, a large portal opened above the summit of Mount Fyr snuffing out Pelor’s holy flame. An attempt to seal the portal resulted in the death of the demi-god Avandra who body shattered into 3 separate pieces before flying off in different direction.
- The first world council meet was brought together in over 600 years to deal with the growing tensions between the north and south. Several major items came from this meet.
- Bronzebottom has left the Northern union of kingdoms to exist as it’s own kingdom within the empire.
- The capitol of the North was officially moved to Redia.
- The ruined capitol of Dominar was given to an Orc named Urim Shadbak creating the Second Orc Kingdom
- Vrigg Frostbane has left the empire, the first kingdom to leave the empire since the Great Race War over 1000 years ago.
- Camorr has agreed to end tariffs against Kyaht
- Reconstruction was agreed to from both Northern and Southern cities as reparation for damages against Fyr’s Shadow from their feuding.
- The Civil War was brought to a tentative end depending on the resurrection of both High Kings’ children after dealing with growing concerns of the Shadow War.
- The denunciation of Orcs in the south was quelled by the Emperor.
- Dominar, Spindledown, and Chandal have been given rights to divide the desert east of the mountain range as they see fit.
1115 I.B.
- Only a few months later, the sky above Oranthos cracked open. In one months time the crack grew large enough to encompass the sky above the whole island spewing tornados of horrid power that spewed twisted creatures onto the land. A god named Umbrial began marching his armies against the largest cities of the realm hoping to topple them and take this world for his own. He was met by a group loosely calling themselves Lux Infractum. No one knows what became of the god, but the army was stopped when a holy shower of purifying rain washed the tainted power from all those that were claimed and resurrected in Umbrial’s name.
- Many begin to fear the return of the Tomb Eye Plague as rumors are starting to grow that it has been seen around the land again for the first time in several hundred years.
- Near the end of Helfyrut, the same group left to deal with the machinations of Twinklegem Veil but they were too late to save the settlement of the Deep Gnomes. Only 37 remained of what used to number over 2000.
- King Urim Shadbak has declared war against King Melchior Greycoat of Spindeldown and Lord Riskel Morelli of Chandal claiming they have been plotting against his nation.
- The High Kings’ children were raised from the dead officially ending the Civil War.
1116 I.B.
- Avandra was brought back from the Veil
- Nerull stepped down from the main pantheon
- Avandra was inducted into the main pantheon and changed her name to Seldira and her domain
- New deities were inducted into the lower pantheon as demigods
- Antiga
- Ellifain
- Elmer
- Faramir
- Jeb
- Lol
- Winston
1119 I.B.
- Tylwhist, 22nd: A wizard by the name of Craig assailed the secret guard of World End using the Staff of Vulth to release Acererack from his prison.
1120 I.B.
- Helfyrut, 15th: Dominar declares war against the allied nations of Chandal and Spindledown
1123 I.B.
- Loranlit, 1st: At the start of the new year, Acererack enacts his plans to create a new dark entity from the remains gathered of Umbrial in the Shadowfell. He begins crafting an Atropal in the dark lands of Gani.
- Rutamor, 9th: A large band of mercenaries guarding a convoy of Quiverbane items strikes at the Bronzebottom guards along the main road. Only a handful of guards were killed, the band of mercs and the travelers were killed. This marked a rise in open hostility between the nations of Quiverbane and Bronzebottom
- Rutamor, 11th: Bronzebottom has conscripted new and old soldiers into the Iron Guard and sent them to key strategic points to guard the borders of the new nation.
1124 I.B.
- New party, who dis?
1135 I.B.
- Solsmit, 27th: A leading official with connections to the God Empress Ellifain has gone missing within the lands of Thaumacara