12416 PQ |
Original settlement of Ompher: the voras settle on Nythrawl, the vordreth on Tyga, and the voramer in the oceans. |
12291 PQ |
A group of voras activists split off and settle on Vala, calling themselves the vorfelane or vané. |
1756 PQ |
Dimensional rift first noticed on Nythrawl. |
1728 PQ |
Demon invasion begins in Nythrawl. The demons are capable of retreating across dimensional barriers where no one can follow. |
1645 PQ |
The voras are forced to flee Nythrawl, relocating to Vala and Tyga. Millennia of technology and infrastructure is lost, never to be recovered. |
1572 PQ |
Rev’arric devises a magical ritual to imbue people with power to fight the demons. Rev’arric expects to be allowed to use the ritual on himself. Instead, the ritual is used on eight specific individuals, including Rev’arric’s brother, S’arric. The Eight Guardians immediately begin winning huge successes. |
1390 PQ |
Rev’arric “improves” the Ritual of Eight, or so he claims, but the ritual backfires, turning his brother, S’arric, into Vol Karoth and turning all the ritual participants, himself included, into dragons. The Cornerstones are also created. Vol Karoth immediately seeks out and slays the other seven Guardians before he is imprisoned by the Assembly using a hastily created and devastating ritual called the Ritual of Night. The ritual strips the voras of their immortality, but the person who was holding Urthaenriel during the ritual, a man named Grizzst, is unaffected and remains immortal. |
1389 PQ |
The Age of God-Kings begins. A voras researcher named Su’less develops the god-king spell map. A voras named Cher’thog finds the Stone of Shackles and, upon discovering what it does, uses it to gaesh Su’less, forces her to show him the god-king spell, and forces her to marry him. Su’less teaches her daughter Ca’less the spell before Cher’thog thinks to forbid it, and Ca’lessa teaches anyone who cares to learn. |
1380 PQ |
The god-kings keep the voras alive, but at the cost of humanity’s enslavement. |
1302 PQ |
A faction of vané who are disquieted by the creation of Vol Karoth and the god-kings split from the Kirpis and relocate to the Manol under the leadership of two children of the Eight Guardians: Khaevatz and her consort, Mithraill. |
66 PQ |
Grizzst successfully cures Rev’arric of his insanity and allows him to take a human form. Grizzst successfully resurrects the Eight Guardians. |
65 PQ |
Grizzst, with the help of Tya and Argas, creates the Crown and Scepter and uses them and the Stone of Shackles to bind the demons. |
64 PQ |
First known appearance of Xaltorath. Also the first known mention of the prophecies. |
5 PQ |
The Eight Immortals decide to start doing something about the god-kings. Taja finds a young man named Simillion who just lost his family to god-king soldiers and instructs him to find Grizzst, the keeper of Urthaenriel. |
1 PQ |
Simillion finally tracks down Grizzst in a brothel, but Grizzst takes the boy under his wing and eventually takes him to the god-queen Dana, whom Grizzst entrusted with Urthaenriel. |
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Simillion uses Urthaenriel to slay the god-king Qhuaras (with some help from Qhauras’s consort, Caless). |
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Simillion marries Dana, merging Eamithon and the City-State of Quur. |
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After returning from skirmishing with God-King Nemesan, Simillion is assassinated by the richest merchant families of Quur. The Eight curse the families responsible in retaliation. |
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Ynis invades Quur. The families end up fighting to decide who will be the next emperor, and the winner, Nerikan D’Talus, slays Ynis and adds Khorvynis, renamed Khorvesh, to the empire. Khorvynis’s thriss citizens are either put to the sword or driven from their home. |
43 QR |
Nerikan is slain by Nemesan. This time, Grizzst arrives and formally codifies ground rules for the succession using the Crown and Scepter. |
683 QR |
Vol Karoth wakes. He attempts to free himself by pulling a giant plume of plasma from the sun directly to the planet. Tya blocks the effects by creating the magical barrier known as Tya’s Veil, but the Veil’s presence changes the color of the sky from blue to teal. The voramer become mortal. |
1506 QR |
Atrin Kandor becomes emperor. |
1533 QR |
Kandor conquers Raenena, mostly by virtue of sticking a flag in the mountains and claiming it. |
1612 QR |
Atrin Kandor kills Khorsal and conquers Jorat, in the process creating Lake Jorat and the city of Atrine. |
1699 QR |
Kandor turns his attention to the Kirpis vané and forces them to abandon the Kirpis forest. |
1707 QR |
Atrin Kandor buys Elana Milligreest from her parents and marries her. |
1708 QR |
Vol Karoth wakes again. King Terindel refuses to conduct the ritual, forcing the vordreth to shoulder that burden. |
1709 QR |
Civil war erupts among the vané, while Kandor decides to invade the Manol. Terindel’s brother stages a coup with the help of Queen Khaevatz and leads his brother into a trap, but because Terindel is wearing the Stone of Shackles, he ends up in the body of his killer, Mithraill. Meanwhile, the combined vané forces succeed in killing Atrin Kandor, while Terindel’s daughter, Valrashar, is gaeshed and sold into slavery and his wife, Valathea, is sentenced to the Traitor’s Walk. |
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With Kandor dead, the morgage of the Blight invade Quur. Kandor’s widow, Elana, has a vision that tells her only she can stop the fighting, and so, even though she’s pregnant with Atrin’s child, she travels to the Blight to parlay. She encounters Valathea while traveling, and they become lovers. However, during the trip, Valathea is poisoned and, to avoid the normally uncurable effects, turns herself into a harp. Elana promises to keep Valathea safe, while she bargains with the Dry Mothers and eventually frees S’arric’s soul from Vol Karoth. |
1712 QR |
The Celestial Concord is struck. |
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1962 QR |
The conquest of the City-States of Zaibur occurs. |
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Emperor Gendal finishes conquering Yor, marking the last of the Quuros dominions to be added to the empire. |
2113 QR |
Queen Khaeriel is assassinated. Like her uncle, Terindel, she’s wearing the Stone of Shackles, and like him, she ends up in the body of her killer. However, this was anticipated, and so Khaeriel is captured, gaeshed, and sold to Therin D’Mon. |
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The Affair of the Voices occurs, in which Nikali and Qoran Milligreest, Therin D’Mon, and a Marakori wizard named Sandus uncover a plot to gaesh and control Imperial Voices. When the smoke clears, Therin D’Mon discovers he is now High Lord of House D’Mon. The four friends drift apart: Therin and Qoran because of their new responsibilities, and Sandus to spend time with his new wife, Dyana. |
2120 QR |
Therin’s wife, Nora, dies in childbirth; Thaena refuses to Return her. Racked by guilt, Therin begins drinking heavily and eventually sleeps with Khaeriel under conditions of extremely dubious consent. She becomes pregnant. |
2121 QR |
Kihrin D’Mon is born. Khaeriel sends him away with her handmaiden, Lyrilyn, giving Lyrilyn the Stone of Shackles so she can’t be magically tracked. This backfires when Lyrilyn is attacked and killed by the mimic Talon, turning Lyrilyn into a mimic. In the aftermath, a man named Surdyeh finds Kihrin, puts the Stone of Shackles on the baby, and takes him to be raised by Ola Nathera. |
2136 QR |
Kihrin breaks into the wrong house. |