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Edrail

By penna
  • 10,000 BCE

    In the Beginning

    Land bridges swallowed by the sea.
  • 1200 BCE

    Vitrantii

    Vitrantii
    First major civilization. Gnomes, dwarves, elves, orcs, halflings, and other human tribes remain loose confederacies and city states.
  • 950 BCE

    Ironsong

    Ironsong
    Unifactation of northern dwarven clans. Vitrantii conquer the Steppes tribes.Nascent human cultures are absorbed.
  • 876 BCE

    Puio-Gralfin

    Puio-Gralfin
    Coastal halfling tribes unify under the union of Vekky Puio and Gralfi Gralfin. Ironsong dynasty changes to Khavkor dynasty. Khavkors take in west coast halfings in a political move to counter the east coast unity. Southern mountain peoples gain independance from Vitrantii. New warrior priest king expands north.
  • 763 BCE

    Bavzan's People

    Bavzan's People
    Elven tribes start to coalesce into small city-states. Trade between them and halflings begin. In the far south, orc warlord Bavzan unifies the five largest bloodlines into an oligarchal nomadic society. Contact is made with the dragonborn of the south.
  • 700 BCE

    Vitrovii, Elven Growth, Opposition

    Vitrovii, Elven Growth, Opposition
    Trade with the mainlands funnels tech and money into the elven homeland. They excel at crafting. Vitrantii give up on conquering the steppes, and instead merges with them in a series of marriages. Now called the Vitrovii Confederacy of human, dwarven, and halflings form in face of the rapidly expanding Vitrantii. Vitrantii pressing into the northern human clans.
  • 600 BCE

    Passings

    Passings
    Khavkor dynasty ends, Kavod replaces it and brings in the southern dwarven clans into the fold. Puio-Gralfin dynasty breaks under economic downturn and warring merchant families. Becomes Chafven in the south and Puigra in the north. Defense confederacy grows as Vitrovii pushes farther north. Human clans in the north fight fiercely, refuse to join confederacy.
  • 567 BCE

    The Schism

    The Schism
    The Vitrovii split after civil war between the children of the last queen. Northern clans unity strengthens from fighting off the weakened Vitrovii. Confederacy starts to break off as threat of Vitrovii ends. Elves society slowly develops, racial and familial unity creating several small kingdoms.
  • 500 BCE

    Revelation

    In three days, magic amplifies and those with magical talent 'awaken'. Five days later, giant winged cats with the faces of mortals come to the West. They leave, taking sixteen mortals with them.
  • Period: 500 BCE to 399 BCE

    Chaos

    With the introduction of true magic, the world is thrown into turmoil. Kingdoms rise and fall. Dynasties are made and destroyed. The status quo is thrown on itself. Only the elves and orcs seem to not be thrown into absolute turmoil
  • 400 BCE

    Return

    Eight of the sixteen return, going to their respective origin's and teaching control and magical theory.
  • 390 BCE

    Reconstruction

    Dwarven kingdom reunifies under a King claimed to be descended from the last Ironsong.
    The two human empires shattered into multiple small city-states and kingdoms.
    Halfling clans in the west form a coalition. Eastern clans retain two old cities.
    Elves expand across the three midland masses.
  • 380 BCE

    Change

    Half elves becoming a common demographic of kingdoms. Mass migration into the south begins from all races. Orc wars spring up when vast nomadic territory is settled on.
  • 375 BCE

    Dreams

    The Eight all have dreams drawing them back to the east, and with them they bring hundreds. Once portal way stations are established in the forming city of Cortena, globalization truly takes hold. The world is introduced to the gnomes, dragonborn, and sphinx.
  • 350 BCE

    Plague

    A sickness sweeps through the north, killing 40% of the human population.
  • 350 BCE

    Certona

    The Eight establish the magical city of Certona on a mountain in the center of the Eastern Continent. Open to all, this becomes the new center of the world and the city rapidly grows to a size that rivals some small kingdoms.
  • 320 BCE

    Expansion

    Dwarves and halflings create a pact, and create a fleet that sails directly west until they hit the eastern continent's eastern shore where they meet the eastern dwarves. By this point, the eastern dwarves are nearly extinct due to some illness that turned the majority infertile. All are welcome, two peoples become one.
  • 300 BCE

    Flight

    Dragonborn create a settlement in the west with permission from the southern kingdoms.
  • 250 BCE

    The Second Plague

    Another plague sweeps through the west, wiping out 40% of their population. Since half elves were unnafected, many accuse them of trying to gain power.
  • Period: 250 BCE to 50 BCE

    The Golden Age

    Relative world stability leads to a boom in development in all fields.
  • 1 BCE

    The Branding

    Certona vanishes, leaving behind a massive explosion and eight great fissures that bore through the world in eight different directions. The massive land shift causes ocean levels to drop and new land to be exposed. Countless die, and the east faces chaos as people try to find out what happened to the great city. Humans and half-elves around the epicenter of the disaster start to change and gain demonic features. These people are called Tieflings.
  • 2

    Obrinon

    The human empire of Thierolant grants independence to it's Baelthriss colony Obrinon to consolidate power in this newly shattered world.
  • 400

    Present Day

    Change is on the wind, the world is quiet. Humanity is entering it's twilight years, and the elves have entered a new golden age.