Timeline

Moments of Elideria's history are spread across many different ages, which marked major, overarching historical periods.

Pre-History
Before anything came into being, the six Primordial Titans, also known as the Creators, formed from nothingness and they created Reality. Within Reality they created the Anchor, a planet which Reality itself centered around, and later became well known as Elideria. The Titans had eventually formed cosmic deities to rule over Reality in their stead, giving them fragments of their own immense power so that they may create and shape the universe to their desires. These deities created magnificent kingdoms and landscapes within the Anchor, springing forth forms of life of glorious, grand design.

One of the Titans, Calamity, was of pure evil, and he had been able to overpower the influence and control of the other Titans. Calamity struck Reality with a fiery fist and shattered it, with the realms that the fledgling deities created scattering into pockets and folds of Reality, separating as different planes of existence from the Anchor, though still connected to it by cosmic force. As Calamity's evil began to wash over Reality, the other Primordial Titans engaged in a conflict with Calamity, attempting to subdue their evil counterpart and prevent him from destroying all that had been created. As legend foretells, the event that transpired, called the Purging, saw the Titan Eternity sacrifice themselves to create the Temporal Realm, and the other three remaining Titans pulled Calamity into the plane, to act as his jailer for all time.

When all of the Primordial Titans left Reality, the deities that remained had a severely wounded, young Elideria before them, and they set to repairing the planet and Reality, returning it to a livable state and shaping it into what the planet is currently recognized.

1st Age, the Dawn Age
The 1st Age, also called the Dawn Age, marks the start of the creation of Elideria's first civilizations. Dragons, dwarves, elves, goblinoids, and orcs all fought for supremacy over the rich and fertile lands of Elideria, waging wars and wielding powerful, untamed destructive magic. Many empires are ruled over by theocracies, with gods both major and lesser playing a role in providing the fledgling civilizations ambition and determination.

The chaos of the Weave during this time caused fluctuations across Elideria, which led to unstable planar rifts where the inhabitants of the Outer Planes invaded, spreading both evil and good. The instability of the Weave also allowed the gods to have a stronger connection and influence with the mortals of Elideria, leading kingdoms to clash in holy wars, fought between prime deities and false gods.

The Dawn Age lasted around 250 years, and it came to an end as Elideria strengthened itself against the Weave, and the first of the humans came into existence.

2nd Age, the Arcane Age
The 2nd Age, called the Arcane Age by scholars, was the point where the first humans came into existence in Elideria, and also marked the strengthening of Elideria's natural barrier against the Weave. Arcane power became refined and was able to be condensed and shaped into various forms, paving the way for powerful spellcasters to have reliable control over magic. Elves became the first to master the arcane arts, but many others soon followed, and knowledge of the Weave, the Outer Planes, and Elideria itself was deepened.

Kingdoms would rise and fall during the Arcane Age, and it also saw several major technological advancements, such as the creation of the warforged during the Archwar, the crafting of several legendary magical artifacts, and the creation of the fabled Dragonstones, among many other historical landmarks. Such use and abuse of the Weave caused its presence to weaken in Elideria, and with it, so did the presence of the gods, unbeknownst to the mortals that endlessly warred and scarred the plane's surface.

The Arcane Age lasted well over a thousand years, and it concluded the moment the dragons broke free of their influence from the elves of Kynvastas, starting the Dragon War.

The Archwar
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The Dragon Riders of Kynvastas
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3rd Age, the Dragon War
In the 3rd Age, the Dragon War began and lasted through its entirety. At the start of the Dragon War, dragons of all types broke free of the influence of the elves of Kynvastas, who had controlled them and ruled over them using the powerful and legendary Dragonstones. Once breaking free of this influence, the chromatic dragons wreaked havoc across the three elven kingdoms of Kynvastas, reducing them to rubble and leaving few survivors. Those who didn't stay in their ancestral and sacred lands fled to Merevar or elsewhere, and soon, the dragons ruled over Kynvastas, renaming it Dragoria in their own self-honor.

During the Dragon War, metallic dragons and chromatic dragons entered a long battle, backed by the forces of good and evil, and caused much destruction across multiple continents, threatening to turn the world to ash with their hapless destruction. Some evil entities even sought to bring Tiamat into the mortal realm, but their plans were thwarted by the relentless metallic dragons and their cohorts of good. As the Dragon War reached its end, both chromatic and metallic dragons had nearly driven each other to extinction, and as the war ended, the surviving dragons on both sides went into hiding, hoping to one day resume their feud.

The Dragon War lasted for just around 300 years.

4th Age, the Age of Recovery
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Year 387
Rise of the Dragons wip

Campaign begins on Thawmyar 2nd.

5th Age, the Age of Heroes
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Year 536
Pioneers of the Westlands wip

Campaign begins on Stormtide 15th.

Year 541
Tales of the Damned wip

The campaign began in Dwendyr on the 12th of Thawmyar. After the undead outbreak in the prison convoy, the party escaped from Dwendyr and traveled north to Darkcoast, arriving there 3 days later on the 15th of Thawmyar.

The party spent 56 days in Darkcoast, and then boarded the Perseverance on the 10th of Highmoon. They sailed for 5 days before the boat crashed on the 15th of Highmoon. They have since been in Jaswan, up until the present day of 20th of Highmoon.

Year 565
S1 wip

Campaign begins on Dragorus 1st.

Year 567
C2 wip

Campaign begins on Leaffall 4th.

6th Age
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History for the Outer Planes
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