Timeline
= 1000 years
Prehistory
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Duration: ~200, 000 + years
Orzaal is created, and her first sons and daughters are born.
The original gods.
The First Daughter and Goddess of Summer, Miranda.
The Sons and Daughters spread life and shape the land.
Appearance of the first Dragons.
Born from the raw and highly active elemental energies of the planet.
Appearance of primitive Saurians and Humans.
Rise of the Draconic Empires.
Appearance of the first Dragonborn.
Start of the worldwide Dragon Wars.
The Dragons wage war against the gods.
Dragons against the First Sons and Daughters of Orzaal. Both sides have their human, saurian, and dragonborn followers, as well as other sentient species.
Collapse of the dragon civilizations.
Throws the world back into a dark age of sorts.
The First Sons and Daughters decide to take a hands off approach, ascending to the heavens.
First Eon
Duration: ~10, 000 years
The first post-dragon civilizations are founded, heralding the beginning of the First Eon.
Primarily on the continents of Rodinia and Torrdonia.
The peoples of Ediacara are nomadic at this time.
Sclavia is home to the last Dragon Queendom.
Still not known at large by most of the current world.
No evidence of any people on Uralia during this eon.
First spells are learned and cast.
Very, very, very basic.
Impact event.
The falling of the Silver Star, and the arrival of the celestials.
It is a destructive event, causing the collapse of the early societies of Orzaal.
The Falling Star rings Orzaal like a bell, creating both the feywild and the Shadowfell equivalent.
Second Eon
Duration: ~11, 000 years
Known as the Age of the Gods.
The newly arrived celestials travel the lands, learning about the world and gather followers.
A time of rebuilding across the world.
4 nations on Ediacara are fully established.
Wyum in Western Ulmera.
Yuli in Eastern Ulmera.
Rea in Zetrea.
Unknown fey nation in Borial.
Nations also rise on the other continents sans Uralia, and Arctica.
Time goes by.
The radiant energies of these new gods attracts the attention of a demon prince/evil forces.
The chaotic fiends invade the world, looking to tear it apart.
The celestials along with their angels, and their followers fight them back, but things look bleak.
A human nation makes a deal with some devils who have tracked the demons, turning the tide.
Birth of the tiefling race.
Before the devils are banished, they teach the world how to really use magic.
The weakened celestials ascended to their own realms in the Astral Sea, now only able to walk the land for a little while at a time.
Third Eon
Duration: ~5, 000 years
The First Age of Magic.
The civilizations from the First and Second Eon quickly rebuild and grow even larger over the course of the Eon, due to their new mastery of how to manipulate the raw essence of magic and thought.
The world is now an interconnected place.
Airships fly though the skies. Might sailing ships ply the seas. Magical vehicles of all kinds shrink the world down.
International relations breakdown as war breaks out.
A level of destruction not seen since the dragons fought the Sons and Daughters of Orzaal. This is due to the widespread use of unregulated magic during this time.
This results in the almost complete destruction of the world, and ends up pushing the mortal realm closer to its shadow.
Complete societal collapse.
Many nations and civilizations that had existed since the First Eon are now gone.
Fifth Eon
Duration: ~8, 000 years
An age of rediscovery.
Magical texts and how to manipulate the aether are relearned.
Old knowledge of how to build things such as aqueducts, large cities, and others.
Many of the nations that are around today can trace their founding to the mid-fifth eon.
The peoples of Rodinia take to the waves again.
The Rodinians step foot on Ediacara, reconnecting the two continents after thousands of years.
Fourth Eon
Duration: ~6, 000 years
The Dark Age of Ice
A global reset of sorts.
Most knowledge has been lost, and has to be rediscovered.
Magic is something to be feared, and is a sign of evil when seen being used as a mortal.
global temperatures drop quiet a bit, resulting in an ice age.
Time goes by.
The climate starts to return to normal.
Rediscovery of lost knowledge.
A renascence is well underway.
Seventh Eon
Duration: ~10, 000 years
The Seventh Eon is characterized by the Angels and their Dynasty, and the eventual fracturing of said Dynasty.
Angelic Civil War.
The Dynasty fractures into a dozen nation states.
The Second War of Magic erupts.
The war ends with the gods imprison the self-proclaimed Goddess of Magic on one of the world’s moons.
With the goddess imprisoned, the power of magic wanes quiet a lot, being regulated by her guards.
Eighth Eon
Duration: ~4,000 years
Another age of rebuilding, and it is the quickest one yet.
A period of Enlightenment. People are done with the constant destruction.
First steam powered machine is invented by the gnomes.
Sixth Eon
Duration: ~4, 000 years
A time of exploration and discovery.
As the Rodinians travel the seas, they spread their knowledge of the waves where ever they go.
Arrival of the cosmic angels.
The founding of the world spanning Variazar Dynasty.
Zophiel, the Empress of the Dynasty, names herself Goddess of Magic.
Ninth Eon
Current year is 1825
The current age when our stories take place
1800 years so far, and it has been a time of innovation.
Because of the weakened state of magic, technology and raw resources take its place. It is like our own time, but with a touch of magic infusing reality.
Total Time: ~ 260, 000 years