History
- Pre-Convergence Dragon Era Dragons ruled the sky until the Shadow came, and only Zunarorth lived.
The era before the Crimson Convergence, when dragons dominated Eldunary. Ended when a mysterious entity known as The Shadow exterminated every dragon, except Zunarorth, the sole survivor.
Read more - Pre-Convergence Fluffy Appears: Dragon Era
During the final phase of the Dragon Era, witnesses in surviving elf communities reported seeing something in the sky above the Shadow's killing grounds that was neither the Shadow nor any dragon, moving against its path, always arriving slightly too late, or choosing not to close the distance.
Read more - Pre-Convergence Age of Elves
The long era before the Crimson Convergence, when elves dominated Criozevan with a vast, advanced civilization. The Golem King slept dormant in the Jagged Mountains throughout this period. The Convergence destroyed elf civilization in 40 days.
Read more - Year 0 ACC Crimson Convergence A red star burned for forty days, and the world was never the same.
The defining cosmological event of Eldunary: the moment from which all years are measured (ACC = After Crimson Convergence). A red star appeared for exactly 40 days, drew magic out of the earth, and caused millions of years of evolution to occur.
Read moreFluffy Appears: Crimson Convergence
A small group of elves fleeing the Crimson Convergence looked back through the canopy and saw, above the burning open land, something large, patient, and watching. It did not follow them. It did not intervene. It watched.
Read more - c. 1–100 ACC Goldhelm Exodus
In the years immediately following the Crimson Convergence, a family of Folkwynd discovered they carried a hereditary power to passively drain magic from living sources. Terrified of the harm this caused those they loved, they fled and founded what became the Goldhelm Kingdom. This is the true origin of the anti-magic ban and holotech.
Read more - c. 700 ACC Founding of the Goldhelm Kingdom
Around Year 700, the Goldhelm people, who had long held their isolated northeastern peninsula but remained internally tribal, coalesced under a unified ruling structure. It was the first true centralized government on the continent, and the catalyst for every kingdom that followed.
Read more - 712 ACC Founding of the Kingdom of Vacron
The Kingdom of Vacron was formally established as a centralized state in Year 712 ACC, at the same time as the Crimson Rooks were founded. The two grew together from their earliest days and remain deeply intertwined.
Read moreFounding of the Crimson Rooks
The Crimson Rooks were founded in Year 712 ACC, at the same time as the formal establishment of the Kingdom of Vacron. Over three centuries they grew into the continent's primary peacekeeping institution.
Read more - 715 ACC Founding of the Republic of Frada
- 715–732 ACC Early Campaigns of Frada
- 730 ACC Conquest of Eshar-Thi
- 732 ACC Fluffy Gifts the Crimson Blazer
In 715 ACC, the man then known as the Azure Paladin, later the Dark Paladin, founded the Republic of Frada: a military republic with a universal service mandate and the Bronze Chain governing system, aimed at continental conquest in the name of peace.
Read moreEarly Campaigns of Frada
Over seventeen years the Azure Paladin expanded Frada's borders through military conquest, believing that territories brought into Frada's governance would in time benefit from the order he imposed. The Crimson Knight visited repeatedly and asked him to stop. He did not.
Read moreConquest of Eshar-Thi
In 730 ACC, the Azure Paladin marched Frada's forces into Eshar-Thi, the small union of Uyrand and Andport. The campaign was not prolonged. Frada gained a direct foothold on routes toward the southern coast.
Read moreFluffy Gifts the Crimson Blazer
In 732 ACC, Fluffy appeared before the Crimson Knight and gifted him the indestructible crimson blazer, a public recognition of his peacekeeping through consent. The gift halted his aging. The Azure Paladin did not accept the judgment it represented and turned to dark magic.
Read more - 738–780 ACC Formation of Pegasus and Rose
Pegasus was founded in Year 738 with a genuinely idealistic purpose and succeeded for ~30 years before collapsing through internal theft. Rose was founded in Year 780 by ex-Pegasus members specifically to destroy it. The two organizations have been at war ever since.
Read more - 788 ACC Veles Chosen as Master of Magic
Veles was chosen Master of Magic in 788 ACC. The title is held for life and chosen at the Klanron Magic Conference, which needs at least 6 of the 7 Magic Societies to agree.
Read more - 795–800 ACC Great War North and South of the Goldhelm Kingdom fought for five years, and half a million soldiers died.
Civil war fought 795–800 ACC between the North and South of the Goldhelm Kingdom. Also known as the Golden War. Ended with the Equinox of Power: the three-way battle of the Masters. 500,000 soldiers killed. Led to the reshaping of three kingdoms.
Read moreEquinox of Power
The battle between the three Masters (Sunlee, Selvarin, and Veles) that ended the Great War (also known as the Golden War). 500,000 soldiers killed total. The crater formed by the battle became the foundation beneath Ibeson. All three chose peace when they saw the destruction. The definitive proof of the Masters' equal power.
Read moreFluffy Appears: Equinox of Power
During the Equinox of Power, multiple independent witnesses across the battlefield reported a figure in an enormous fleece at the edge of the carnage. Those closest described the sense of being seen in return. It was gone before the silence settled. The Masters stopped fighting. They have never fought each other again.
Read more - 800–835 ACC Founding of the Kingdom of Iyhago
After the Great War, the people of the Vehalo Territories voted Veles to leadership. He renamed the settlement Iyhago Prime, began establishing the Kingdom of Iyhago in 800 ACC, and expanded its territory over the following decades. The kingdom was fully formed in 835 ACC.
Read moreSettlement Renamed Iyhago Prime
When the Great War ended, the people of the Vehalo Territories voted Veles to leadership. He renamed the settlement Iyhago Prime and began establishing the Kingdom of Iyhago.
Read moreKingdom of Iyhago Fully Formed
The Kingdom of Iyhago, which Veles had been establishing since 800 ACC, was fully formed in 835 ACC.
Read more - 820–847 ACC War of Fodon
Civil conflict within the Kingdom of Fodon (820–847 ACC) between four warring districts. Drove the Tharnex race to near-extinction. Ended when Lucifer (#6 Arashi) killed all four district leaders, allowing the Dune Accord to be formed.
Read more - 840 ACC Veles Abdicates
In 840 ACC, forty years after the Great War, Veles abdicated as Master of Magic to build his new kingdom, Iyhago, and to develop his own doctrines. His departure left a vacuum.
Read more - 840–845 ACC First Klanron Magic Conference
After Veles abdicated as Master of Magic in 840 ACC, the Magic Societies of every kingdom convened at Klanron to choose a successor. The office needs at least 6 of the 7 societies to agree, and the congress deadlocked for five years before settling on Velho in 845 ACC.
Read more - c. 880–890 ACC Wizard Uprising Radical Malefici and Metas rose to rule a continent emptied of the unmagical.
Ideological insurgency (c. 880–890 ACC) by radical magic users of every type seeking to eliminate all non-magical inhabitants and rule the continent. Six million dead. Ended through attrition and the intervention of the three Masters. Marked by the death of the Master of Magic Velho (889 ACC) and the first confirmed appearance of Anton (885 ACC).
Read moreKilling of the Master of Magic
In 889 ACC, a mob of more than one hundred revolutionary magic users, including Metas, Malefici, and Runestones raided the home of Velho, Master of Magic, and killed him after he offered them a compromise peace. His death accelerated the Uprising's collapse more than any military action.
Read more - 890 ACC Second Klanron Magic Conference
The second Klanron Magic Conference met in 890 ACC, after the killing of Velho. This time all 7 Magic Societies were unanimous: they voted Veles back into the office he had once abandoned. He has held it ever since. It is often seen as the end of the Wizard Uprising.
Read more - 896 ACC Vaelith Becomes Head of the Darkmane Family
In 896 ACC, Vaelith the Hollow rose to lead the Darkmane Family through political maneuvering and persuasion. He ruled the Darkmane Realm until 938 ACC.
Read more - c. 900 ACC Ipadora Land War
A war triggered when a criminal in Ipadora territory killed a Fodon Bug District Tharnex. Fodon and Frada drove Ipadora off the mainland. Ipadora's military (built for sea combat) was ill-suited for land defence. The manmade river dividing the territories remains as a permanent monument to the conflict.
Read more - 901 ACC Frada Reoccupies Ipadoran Land
In 901 ACC, following the Ipadora Land War, Frada's forces completed the re-occupation of former Ipadora-held inland territory. The transition was not clean: the Fradan military committed organized atrocities against the Ipadoran civilians who remained.
Read moreFluffy Appears: Ipadora Atrocities
During the Fradan re-occupation of Ipadoran territory (901 ACC), Fluffy appeared above one of the burning settlements. It did not prevent the atrocities. But in that settlement, in that hour, the killing paused. Fluffy left. The account was suppressed by Fradan command. It survives in Ipadoran oral tradition with complicated bitterness: Fluffy came, and then it left.
Read more - 919–923 ACC Fort Gildmark Slaughter
In 923 ACC, Darkmane Elves destroyed a Goldhelm fort secretly built on their northern coast, killing all 900 people inside.
Read more - 937–940 ACC Fall of the Darkmane Kingdom
The unified Darkmane Realm collapsed between 937 and 940 ACC following the betrayal of Vaelith the Hollow, head of the ruling Darkmane Family, who sold his own brother Thalrith to a Goldhelm scientist. The act created the first of the Fallen (dark-magic-possessed husks) and shattered the family's internal trust beyond repair. By 940 ACC, a realm that had existed for centuries fractured into the warring tribes it remains today.
Read moreVaelith Removed
When the other branches of the Darkmane Family learned what Vaelith had done, they removed him from leadership immediately. The branches then turned on each other, and by 940 ACC the unified Darkmane Realm was over.
Read more - c. 950 ACC Arashi Declared a Terrorist Entity
Arashi was officially designated a terrorist entity approximately fifty years before the current era, around Year 950 ACC.
Read more - 957 ACC Fluffy Appears: Northern Earthquake
In 957 ACC, an anomalous earthquake rattled the northern half of the continent. At the peak of the tremors, Fluffy was sighted floating above the northern face of the Jagged Mountains, stationary, visible for approximately three minutes, and then gone. No explanation for the earthquake or Fluffy's presence was ever established.
Read more - 993 ACC Mist Family Massacre
In 993 ACC, every member of the Mist family (the Folkwynd noble line that served as Wrofast's de facto ruling family) was killed in a single night by Nebbio, the individual who would later become #3 in the Arashi organization. Nebbio had been born into the family and rejected as too weak in childhood. He returned with power the family had no framework to understand. Wrofast has had no formal noble leadership since.
Read more - 996 ACC Queen Nayele Ascends
Nayele ascended to the throne of the Ipadora Kingdom in 996 ACC, following the death of her father.
Read moreVaelen Appointed to Govern Glaril
Upon her ascension in 996 ACC, Queen Nayele appointed her younger brother Prince Vaelen to govern Glaril, the largest underwater city in Criozevan. This established House Abyrath as a cadet branch of House Nereval.
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