Timeline

This is a very incomplete timeline of important historical events.

1434

The current year.

1433

In Whitport, the Midwinter Rising, sees the barony reclaimed by House Ashworth. Mayor Jonathan Prince is expelled from the Council when proof of his misdeeds are presented.

1432

Philomeda the Scarlet Fury tries to reignite the Dragon War, but is stopped by intrepid adventurers. Callatis comes under the control of the Pilgrim Knights.

1421

The merchants of Whitport forces Baron Magnus Ashworth to hold elections for his seat on the council, an event known as the ousting.

1407

Artificers of the FTC discover a process to make boomdust at a large scale, enabling the use of cannons and firearms.

1344

The Arid Frontier is settled by the FTC, and Fort Merrida is founded.

1290

The United Archipelago joins the League, the last city-state to join.

1212

The Archivists are founded.

1193

The founding of Covenant and the establishment of the Estian League.

1191

The founding of the Kingdom of Iacaris.

1189

The fall of the Teccan Empire. Thimonos V, the last emperor, triggers the Protocols of Finality and goes into exile and dies only a few years afterwards. The Protocols unleash a magical cataclysm on the city of Tec, making it uninhabitable.

1187

The Northern Islands rise in rebellion against the Empire, and defeat the Imperial navy in a large sea battle north of Maeral. This causes the Empire's grasp on the islands to falter, and other provinces soon seize their chance at independence.

1130

The Flame Eternal is founded as a merchant guild in Heimdall's Anvil.

1123

Sira Blazefire, an alchemist in Greystone accidentally discover the process to make ashresin.

1051

The Pilgrim Knights are granted rulership over the peninsula of Vanadis by Emperor Thimonos IV, in lieu of payment for a mercenary contract where they struck down a rebellion on the mainland.

1041-1049

The Corcaster Rebellion, where Blood-King Sangon ruled over a shortlived undead kingdom before he was destroyed in the Battle of the Midnight Sun.

1014

The founding of the Pilgrim Knights.

945-948

The Amnoran Rebellion, which many historians see as the beginning of the Empire's collapse. Some elves still feel enmity towards the Empire for the atrocities committed by the Legions when they struck down the rebellion.

937

The founding of Solstice.

854-918

The Regulan Wars shake the Empire after the assassination of Emperor Belleron. For more than half a century, the Empire descended into a series of bloody civil wars.

841

Exactly 1000 years after the founding of his kingdom, Sverki the Unkneeling, the last Greatjarl of Kundamar, is killed in battle after refusing to submit his crown to the Emperor. The Empire gains control over all the Northern Islands and founds the city of Greystone. This is the point where the Empire was at its largest territorial extent.

ca 800

The height of power of the Teccan Empire.

763-767

The last major flare-up of the Dragon War. The final battle stood on Iacaris, where Aerilwyn Nilteril and her Bladesingers achieved a pyrrhic victory over a roost of white dragons.

607

The Empire gains control of Iacaris, and the Dwarven Kingdom of Kundamar pays tribute to the Empire.

284-560

The reigns of the Three Great Empresses, starting with Sacella the Blessed. During this time, Tec goes from a regional power to a continent-spanning empire and is ushered into an era of prosperity.

118

The Teccan Empire is formed when Lucius Corillon conquered the two surrounding kingdoms, Arevapis and Amnora.

1

The founding of Tec, which marks the start of the era. AUC is a Teccan abbreviation for ab urbe condita, "since the founding of the city".

-159

Svala the Diplomat, the first Greatjarl of Kundamar unites the dwarven clans of Estia under a single banner.

ca -400

The first mentions of the Aesir gods in religious texts.

ca -500

The first wizards learn to harness the power of the runes.

ca -800

The founding of Tel Edhil.

ca -2000

The first elves find their way from the Feywild to Midgard.