Timeline

The port of Anchor Point founded.

The Principality of Haldenweald established. The towns of Vonenburg and Corsotha founded.

Three contenders for the throne emerge: Ulric, Gordion’s younger brother, Adrian Stefano, Gordion’s youngest brother, and Gustaves of Grendon, who was betrothed to Gordion’s only child Princess Cassandra.

Civil war erupts across Alessandria between those loyal to Ulric and those loyal to Adrian Stefano.

Prince Nikolai returns to Alessandria to support Ulric and his claim to the throne.

Gustaves unites nearly all of Grendon.

Gustaves asks the Oelyte people to back his claim to the throne of Alessandria. They decline. In response he lays siege to their city of Academos.

The Oelytes form a secret resistance that fights the Grendon occupation with guerilla tactics.

Gustaves invades Alessandria, already decimated by ongoing civil war.

Adrian Stefano is killed in combat with the Patriarch of Khivark.

Lamoreaux, the capital of Alessandria, is sieged and later sacked by Gustaves forces.

An ancient and powerful Avatar of Qos called Icarmadoro raises countless war dead and attacks the living in Alessandria.  He attacks and kills Ulric and Gustaves in the midst of a great battle. Prince Nikolai is presumed dead.

Lamoreaux is taken over by the Unholy and becomes a desolate haunted city.

Icarmadoro and his legions head to the coast of Alessandria and depart across the ocean, leaving a trail of devastation in their wake.

The Kingdom of Alessandria crumbles and is no more.  The central authority of most duchies is dismantled or destroyed.  Unholy and rogue warlords roam the countryside.

The Night of Blades. In a coup, Dame Alexius Lutorus of Grendon seizes the Haldenweald Keep and declares herself Empress of all Feragothe.

Icarmadoro enters the divine realm and slays Qos. Icarmadoro ascends to godhood.

A large tear appears in the sky.

The crack in the sky closes.

Prince Nikolai is found alive, working as a farmhand after losing his memory. He raises an army and begins the reconquering of Alessandria.

Many vampires are driven north to the Free Cities. They begin a silent takeover of the nobility of that land.

Garamont’s Reach is founded by Kraald in the Western mountains of Feragothe known as the Spine.

Gen’ii scouts emerge from the Fendenglade, south of Grendon, and discover verdant land they thought was only mythical. They are attacked by superstitious Grendoners and driven back into the Glade.

The Kraalden kingdoms are attacked from below by an ancient enemy, known in Kraalden lore as demons. King Auducas of Cloud Mane issues a call for all Kraald to return to the homeland to fight this enemy. Kraald are forbidden to speak to non-Kraald about this plight.

The capital of Alessandria is temporarily moved to Bromhead, in the Duchy of Vosburg.

The disorganized Grendoners are finally expelled from Academos and the Oelyte people are free once again.

The Templar order called Terminus Est of the Church of Diakonoff is dispatched to Feragothe to face the dark and unholy forces there.

The Empress of Feragothe is deemed a usurper of the former Principality of Haldenweald. King Nikolai sends a fleet of warships to demand the Empress’ unconditional surrender.

The Empress bends her knee to the King’s ambassador and swears fealty as a vassal state of Alessandria.

A Gen’ii warherd mobilizes in the Fendenglade and begins conquering southern Grendon. Many humans are killed.

The vampires left over from Icarmadoro’s army subdues most of the Free Cities and rule as a dark aristocracy.

Kaetiff sack the Imperial Keep in Feragothe. The Empress is presumed dead.

The Gen’ii recapture their ancestral homeland and immediately sue for peace and petition for membership in the Peace Council. The Peace Council accepts their claims and officially recognizes them as one of the peaceable races of the world. The Sethen abstain from voting.

All across the world magic begins acting strangely. Spells and enchantments go awry or have unintended effects. In some places reality is rent and magical fissures spring into existence.

The vampires declare themselves to be a sovereign nation: the Vampiric Free Cities of Merdensa.

King Nikolai sends forces to retake the old haunted capital of Kassonglen.

Magic completely stops working. This causes panic among mages all over the world.

The Empire of Feragothe is drawn into open war with natives known as Vivallen. The Empire is pushed back to its main cities and fortifications.

After months of struggle Vivallen are defeated, but the strength of the Empire is shattered.

The general populace of the Empire of Feragothe experience unrest. There are growing calls for independence from both the Empire and the Kingdom of Alessandria.

The Kraalden kingdom of Cloud Mane falls to their ancient enemy. Kraalden refugees cross the ocean to Garamont’s Reach.

The private Kraalden war continues on. Kraald still refuse to speak about this enemy to outsiders.

Queen Cassandra becomes pregnant. The King moves the capital back to Kassonglen in Lamoreaux.

The Lords Council of the Empire of Feragothe splits into two factions. One faction petitions the King to depose the Empress.

A representative from Grendon begins sitting in on Peace Council meetings though a second human dignitary was not requested. The Grendoners do not back down and the representative is begrudgingly accepted.

The Oelytes petition the Peace Council to send ambassadors to other races of Merdensa not on the Peace Council, the Uruk’eald and the Kaetiff. The Vamdrenai vehemently object, but lose the vote. Ambassadors are sent out, but both of these races decline.

The Kraald of Cloud Mane have been given leave to settle in the Duchy of Gildea by Regent Duchess Alvery Kiffith.

Duke Erich Halifax, the cousin of King Nikolai I travels to the Empire of Feragothe under orders from the King to investigate the unrest there.

Queen Cassandra births twins, Prince Alfred and Princess Alys.

King Nikolai I dissolves the Empire of Feragothe and re-establishes the Principality of Haldenweald, granting its sovereignty to the twin Prince and Princess.

Duke Halifax is declared Regent of Haldenweald until the royal twins are old enough to assume rule.

The Empress Alexius Lutorus and her lords council are stripped of their titles.

Terminus Est begins a crusade against darkness in the Empire of Feragothe. Ultimately Terminus Est’s forces in the New World are stymied and the remnants return to Merdensa.

Terminus Est accuses the town of Corsotha of attacking them and assassinating their leaders.

The town of Corsotha is put under the control of the Church, under Archbishop Hallewll’s authority, and is now the Constabulary of Corsotha.

A being of divine light appears in Haldenweald and begins attracting a religious following.

Ori gains the spear of Icarmadoro.

Saphlaron consolidates his power in the underground Kaetiff city of Vash.

The divine being, now known as Brighta, becomes aware of the other species of Feragothe and their social behaviors.

Saphlaron takes an interest in Brighta and through his machinations, Brighta becomes corrupted with Darkness.

Ori takes the dagger that corrupted Brighta, uses it on himself and launches a campaign of revenge against Saphlaron.

Ori uses the spear of Icarmadoro in concert with Brighta’s divine power and they destroy Vash with most of Saphlaron’s lieutenants. No word of Ori’s fate escapes Vash.

Brighta is now beyond redemption and in a moment of lucidity, sacrifices herself and her divine power to imbue the weapon of Saphlaron’s destruction.  The courageous townsfolk of Corsotha, emboldened by Brighta’s sacrifice and the recent discovery of how to defeat Saphlaron, combine the powers of the Fey realm with that Divine energy into a prism that now houses the powers of creation.

The Corsothans enlist the aid of Cael Sunfire to provide the final magic, Annihilation, and they meet Saphlaron in one final battle to determine the fate of the known world.

Saphlaron is destroyed in the final battle.  The ensuing blast of magical and divine energy destroys all those who lived in Corsotha and rends the fabric of the barrier created to isolate the realms from the outside.  

All artifacts and relics of the known world cease to work.

A tear in the fabric of the material plane appears.  It encompasses a circle in a 50 mile radius from where Saphlaron meant his end. 

Ori uses the spear of Icarmadoro in concert with Brighta’s divine power and they destroy Vash with most of Saphlaron’s lieutenants. No word of Ori’s fate escapes Vash.

Brighta is now beyond redemption and in a moment of lucidity, sacrifices herself and her divine power to imbue the weapon of Saphlaron’s destruction.  The courageous townsfolk of Corsotha, emboldened by Brighta’s sacrifice and the recent discovery of how to defeat Saphlaron, combine the powers of the Fey realm with that Divine energy into a prism that now houses the powers of creation.

The Corsothans enlist the aid of Cael Sunfire to provide the final magic, Annihilation, and they meet Saphlaron in one final battle to determine the fate of the known world.

Saphlaron is destroyed in the final battle.  The ensuing blast of magical and divine energy destroys all those who lived in Corsotha and rends the fabric of the barrier created to isolate the realms from the outside.  

All artifacts and relics of the known world cease to work.

A tear in the fabric of the material plane appears.  It encompasses a circle in a 50 mile radius from where Saphlaron meant his end.