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Timeline of the Worlde of Aedenne
A Short Timeline of the Knowne Worlde of Aedenne:
Method of Year Datage:
All Human Kingdoms date their calendar F.C.; or "Founding of the City" meaning the City of Aquinas. The human cultures did have other dating systems in antiquity, but the extended domination of the Imperium indoctrinated all races to the use of the F.C. system of the Imperial capitol. Therefore, from The Ice Seas of the northern Earldoms to the arid sands of Khoasia, all humans use the F.C. system.
The Elves and Dwarfen realms use different systems. The Elves date all relevant documents of the year of the ruling Argent Lord or Lady (i.e. the current timeline is the 3rd year of the ascention of Davot). As Elven Argents are quite long-lived (up to one thousand years), this system is not as conplex as one might think with only 11 recorded periods of Argent rulership.
The Dwarves, on the other hand, are chaotic in that each warren dates their records according to the supposed year of the birth of their patron god. Which even warrens with the same deity cannot seem to agree on what date this is but as few Warrens communicate much amongst themselves this rarely comes up as a matter of consideration. The Kingdom of Aegol centrally uses the dating of the birth of the first Stone Crown but few Warrens abide by it.
Halflings use the dating of the humans as its easier to get along that way. The humanoid races don't really date anything much anyway. The Drow use the same system as the Elves but dating from their expulsion and the rule of the Obsidian Archons.
Timeline:
F.C. Event
1 Legendary founding of the city of Aquinas.
35 Gathering of the Councilium as the governing body of the Patricians of Aquinas.
80 Aquinas wars with the Sargi & occupies the city of Sargos.
121 Basine cities begin War of Confederation & begin persecution of Wizards.
128 Aquinas grants sanctuary & privileges to the sorcerors of the Basine cities.
252 Humans of Aquinas, with support of the Basine Sorcerors, begin their conquests of the neighboring basine cities (cities in the vallies around Aquinas.
287 Aquinians subdue the Ostander barbarians to the east.
312 Aquinians under Setritius go to war with Istandar & First Aeniat War begins.
451 First Aeniat War ends as Istandar sues for peace and gives up dominance of the southern Basine city-states.
490 Aquinian Legions under Varrys ambushed in the Drakenwald by the Elves and destroyed.
491 Second Aeniat War begins as the Elves & Dwarves ally with Istandar against the Aquinians.
508 Legions under Hetarch Markos decisively defeated at the Basine city of Sargos. Joint Istandarian/Dwarven force besieges Aquinas.
509 The 21th legion under Talonarius Leonidas anihilates Elven army in the Emerald Holt. This allows the rest of the Aquinian forces in the east to move to relieve Aquinas.
512 Siege of Aquinas lifted as Dwarves retreat to the Aegol Mountains. Istandarian army is cut off by Talonarius and defeated. Istandar surrenders.
513 Talonarius is now Dominus Augustus of the Imperium; the name given to Aquinian holdings. The Dominus marches upon the Dwarves of Aegol but cannot draw them out for a decisive battle. He signs a treaty where the Dwarves nominally accept Imperial rulership but in truth are left to rule the mountains unmolested.
515 The Elves of the Ardonae ally with the barbaric Tys and Ygthiri to oppose the Imperial Legions. Talonarius defeats all at the Battle of Lanarkium but sustains so many casualties that a peace treaty is soon signed between the Imperium & the Ardonae. (Treaty of lanarkium)
561 Mage Guild founded in Aquinas by the Dominus Sempaticus to oppose Elven sorcery & Istandarian clerical magic.
580 Third Aeniat War begins with surprise magical assault by Ardonae Elves. Istandar joins in on the side of the Elves, and the Ostander, Tys, and Ygithiri rebel. The allies try to bring the Dwarves of Aegol into the fray but instead the Dwarves support the Imperium with supplies and arms but not troops as per the Treaty of Darkenmoor.
592 The Ostander leader Tigellus slain and the Ostander rebellion quelled.
600 The Istandarian capitol of Mardukosis is captured after a 10 year siege and the entire population taken into slavery. The city was then razed to the ground and magical curses from the Guild cast on the city site so that nothing could live there. Istandar falls under permenant Imperial subjugation.
605 The Elven armies under the Argent Lord Jenneal routed at the Battle of Wonald Holt. No further Elven armies able to take the field, but sporadic resistance continues.
606 The Tys & Ygithiri under Wersengetorix brought to battle at the Greywood and routed. Wersengetorix was killed by the Imperial General (Prince) Talonar leonidas and the two barbarian tribes subdued for the Imperium.
610 Talonar slain in the northern hills bordering the Ardonae by a Ygthiri ambush. His legions fight to retreat and are forced to bury him in a secret barrow in the hills.
641 The Imperium makes peace with the rebel Elves of the Ardonae by offering them the same arrangement as the Dwarves, which they accept, though with bitterness. The Third Aeniat War ends.
682 Imperial Legions with Istandarian auxilaries and Ygithiri cavalry move into Khosia and subdue the nomadic tribes of this region (fertile steppes in the pre-Cataclysm).
900 The CATACLYSM: Due to unknown sources, Aquinas and the Basine cities were bombarded by firery meteors from the heavens that wasted many cities. Then, before any could recover from this carnage, the gates of the Shark's Tongue crags break apart and the Basine vallies are flooded from the Western Seas. The Azure sea is created and most Basine cities destroyed
901 The Tys & Ygithiri to the north, the Ostander to the east, and Istandar to the south rebel against Imperial rule. The Tys and Ygthiri are forced to a compromise with the strong Aquinian forces in their region but everywhere else the Imperial government is overthrown.
905 The Elves of Tir Ardonae engage in a civil war and isolate themselves from the world for 200 years.
906 Kingdom of Eastgard declared under King Merovin I.
912 Grand Duchy of Tys Ygithir proclaimed under Duke Galaxtian.
940 Humanoids encroach on the Northern Human & Elf lands.
976 Eastgard army begins an alliance with the Dwarf Warrens in the Iron Mountains against the Goblin hordes from the Eastern steppes.
1001 King Odovacer II of Eastgard founds city of Haven as a supply base to invade Aquinas. Attempt fails and peace quickly made.
1066 Eastgard wars with Istandar for the next 30 years. War ends inconclusively but with the city of Isenwald declared a ‘neutral’ city-state to separate the two Kingdoms.
1099 Tir Ardonae begins to encroach upon the Eastgard woodlands bordering the two realms.
1105 The Grand Duchy of Tys Ygithir ally with Eastgard against Tir Ardonae. Several small wars, known collectively as the Elven Wars, continue for the next ten years.
1115 The Elven Wars end with some woodlands ceded to the Elves. Much rancor from Eastgard who was the biggest loser.
1115-1214 A period of relative peace as the realms try to recover themselves.
1215 Goblin & Orcish forces invade in mass along Tys Ygthir, Tir Ardonae, & Eastgard.
1220 Joint Eastgard/Elven army at Frisiaburg (N.E. Eastgard) unite and repulse large Goblin/Ogre army under the Hobgoblin Hell-Forger, but the humanoid army remains intact.
1223 Dragon & Bear Commanderies of Tys Ygthir besieged and taken by Orcs hordes.
1224 Elven & Tys Ygithir levies engage the Orcs outside the city of Ral Lanark. Battle is a stalemate, but prevents the Orcs from cutting the Duchy in two.
1227 Ostander Knightly Cavalry sweep into eastern Ardonae and relieve Stone Oak & Grenice Holts under siege from Goblin forces.
1230 BATTLE of BLACK HOLT:
Human, Elf, and Dwarf army battled against hell-Forger's Goblin horde and decisively defeated the Humanoids and slew hell-Forger. Humanoids retreated to the eastern steppes and ceased to be athreat for centuries.
1232 Orcs withdraw from central Tys Ygithir for unknown reasons. Most scholars assume they withdrew due to Hell-forgers defeat at Black Holt.
1289 Exarch Nyssus declares himself Dominus Augustus and proclaims his intent to reunite the Imperium. Beginning of Imperial Reconquest.
1291 Aquinian forces begin to occupy islands throughout the Azure sea and build fortified locales & ports.
1296 Aquinian legions occupy northern coast of Istandar and defeat Anlyn levies sent against them.
1299 Aquinian legions besiege Ral Lanark in the Grand Duchy and occupy coastal territories.
1302 The Dwarf Kingdom of Aegol refused to abide by the ancient Treaty of Darkenmoor with the Imperium and begin to raid Aquinian supply ships. Dwarven troops march east to aid the Tys Ygithirians.
1305 Dominus Nyssus's legions occupy Haven and war with Eastgard.
1307 Dominus Nyssus dies of a horrible wasting disease. Auguries from the temples decree that Nyssus's death was punishment for taking the title of Dominus without the blessing of the Gods.
1291-1323 Imperial Reconquest becomes protracted war of attrition with the Human & Dwarf realms with Aquinian resorces quickly depleted against the numerically superior Istandaran, Grand Ducal, & Eastgard forces.
1323 Treaty of Haven allows for the war's end and the withdrawal of Aquinian forces from the allied realms. Haven is made a free city, and the Basine islands remain under nominal Aquinian control.
1325-1602 "Time of Tranquility": Only minor border wars and disputes mar an otherwise legendary time of peace and commerce in aedenne.
1562 Orcs return to the north borders of Tys Ygithir.
1575 Goblins spotted in force on the steppes beyond the Iron Mountains.
1621 SECOND GOBLIN WAR: The Lich Lords, renegade sorcerors from the Guild (four of the first 5 Primages) are made liches by Orcus and in return lead the Orcs, Goblins & Ogres to war against the southern lands.
1625 Humanoids & Undead invade Grand Duchy, and forces from Eastgard, Aquinas, and Aegol come to their aid. Tir Ardonae refuses to be involved much to the consternation of the Humans & Dwarfs.
1628 Allied Human & Dwarf forces pushed back to the southwest & southeast. Ral Lanark besieged but tenuous supply fleet from Aquinas maintains the city.
1630 Ral Lanark falls & is sacked. Eastgard army forced back to Haven & the Drakenwald. Istandarian forces are hired by Aquinas and march north to the aid of Eastgard.
1634 Goblins move against the Duchy of Iron Mountain & force Dwarves on the defensive. The Great Warren of Aws Noir falls.
1638 Major Orc force under the Lich Lord Xusha of Delos invade Tir Ardonae. Elves fall back and request aid from the Humans & Dwarves, who refuse. Thus begins the real emnity between the races.
1640 Battle of the Magi: The Mage Guild unites against the Liches and despite many casualties imprison 3 of the Liches in the Abyss with the aid of the Golden Oak Path. The Lich Lord Xusha escapes and leads his forces ever deeper into the Ardon Wood.
1641 The Elven Holt-City of Faycrest is burned to the ground during Xushaz's invasion and the entire population put to the sword. Elves blame Humans, saying that the Mage Guild 'allowed' Xusha to escape so he could ravage the Ardonae.
1645 Orcs in Tys Ygithir defeated in the Battle of the Willowood & begin a retreat that stops at the northern hills. Save for occasionally raiding into the Duchy, they remain there to this day.
1649 Eastgard-Istandaran army stops Goblin advance at the Iron Mountains but suffers so many casualties that further attacks are impossible. Istandarians demand more payment and when such is not forthcoming they return to Istandar.
1652 The Golden Oak Citadel is razed to the ground and the Elven Artifacts
held there disappear.
1655 Elves use unknown methods to rous their Patron Bahamut the Platinum Dragon who summon the good Dragons to rout the Orcs & Undead of Xusha outside the Argent Tower. Orc army retreats in chaos.
1657 Last Orcish forces driven out of Tir Ardonae.
1665 Second Goblin War declared over, despite continued sporatic fighting on the borderlands.
1760 Mage Guild reformed with creation of Grand Incanters & more severe rules imposed on members. All Human Realms are signatories to the Guild's GREAT CHARTER. Both Elven & Dwarven races refuse to be part of the Guild.
1801 Eastgard attempts to seize Haven, but intervention by Aquinas & The Grand Duchy prevent the city's subjugation.
1803-1900 Raiders from Cold Islands (Ice Seas) begin massive raids across all coastlands (Vikings). Most of this century is put to repelling these small but fierce bands of warriors with strange magicks. Aquinian forts & forces on Wild Coast suffer the greatest from these raids.
1901 Last Aquinian forces leave the Wild Coast and area is wracked with chaos. Multiple petty fiefdoms take over local authority as well as pirate bands plying the seas.
1933-1949 Naval war between Aquinas & Istandar. Few major engagements, but much privateering and Azure commerce suffers. Haven abrogates prior treaties with aquinas and builds its own fleet to protect Haven merchants.
1962 Exarch Septimus Domedes assassinated & civil war begins in Aquinas. Lasts 22 years but no major interventions attempted by other Realms.
1984 Janos Diomedes takes the Exarchate and eliminates Patrician resistance.
2021 Tys Ygithir encroaches upon the Greywood and the Gray elves begin a guerilla war.
2049 Istandarian Levies primarily from Yorque engage in a futile war of conquest against the Khosian nomads. While this action fails, Isenwald is occupied as an Istandaran fief with only verbal protests from Eastgard.
2052 Ducal emissaries sign a peace treaty with the Grey Elves and withdraw from the Greywood.
2076 Goblins invade Woldham in force.
2096 Argent Lady Melana Ap Tredygar assassinated by Drow agents & Davot becomes Argent Lord. Clan Tredygar accused of complicity with the Drow and declared outlaw.
2101 Today
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