The Second Era is considered to have began upon the founding of the Great City of Jericho, said to have once floated above a boundless ocean. I only know Jericho to be a foul memory of a city in a vile desert.
The Treaty of Jericho is signed between the native draconic population. This allowed dragons to live and collaborate with the population of the city freely.
The City of Jericho is named the capital of the new Draconic Solar Kingdom
The Forges of Jericho are reignited, sparking a technological revolution.
The Forges of Jericho are destroyed, one of it's five power sources - now known as the Heart of Creation - is relocated to the surface of Jericho.
Contact is re-established between the island of Jericho and the rest of the world, dragons spread quickly around the planet, at first acting as envoys for the Kingdom.
Automatons are first recoded, at first humanoid.
Mountain-sized construction automatons are recoded for the Great Reclamation Project.
The Draconic Solar Kingdom constructs the Great Sea Wall, reclaiming an unknown amount of land for inhabitation.
Various populations spread out into the new world as vegetation takes hold.
The fertile plains of Greater Jericho dry up. With the ground water supply drained, the land turns to desert.
The Draconic Solar Kingdom decrees that 4 sections of land by excavated from each region and brought upon the site of the ancient capital.
The capital is excavated, a section on which stood the old palace is lifted to be the 5th section. The City of One Thousand Isles is formed.
The land is completely desert now, life dies outside the capital city.
The Draconic Purge begins, the terraforming projects lead by the dragons was seen to be an affront to the gods, having ruined the world, leaving the common people left for dead.
An advancement in the arcane is made, a method to permanently change a dragon into a humanoid form, initially crude, eventually perfected and resulting in dragons locked in a near perfect human form.
The purge is completed.
Bertolt Von Lohengramm forms House Von Lohengramm and establishes himself as an advisor to the King.
The word "Dragonborn" enters the common lexicon, meaning those descended from the humanoid dragon forms.
Bertolt Von Lohengramm and an alliance of other noble houses launch a coup d'etat, sensing the need for a reformation of government in the more desperate times in changing environment.
Bertolt Von Lohengramm declares himself Kaiser with the support of the common people. He quickly instates a new calendar system, of which we use to this day.
Kaiser Bertolt Von Lohengramm I grants Lyra the position of Captain of the Guard, she held this position until 3411 3E.
The worship of the sun, the body in which scholars believe they originated, was outlawed and worship shifted towards the Triumvirate planets.
Kaiser Bertolt XIV is coronated, Imperial date system reform, accurate timekeeping begins.
Kaiser Siegfried Von Lohengramm is born.
Kaiser Siegfried sees a vision of the empire being burned, and his subjects washed away by mile high waves of black smoke and gas.
Separatists convene in Carina, unhappy with the current state of the Triumvirate Imperium. They seek to secede from the empire and rule themselves.
Weiss Willow launches an attack on Gemini with experimental vampiric soldiers under her direct telepathic command. Only one tenth of the population survive after a loss of control of the soldiers. I'm sorry, Arkus.
A civil war breaks out in the Triumvirate Imperium, both sides face massive losses. The Imperium emerges victorious, but is economically and culturally weak following.
The events of Jericho take place.
The events of Fief take place.
The lover of Margaux Fresnel, Maya Sicarii, is murdered by mercenaries whilst in the Last City of the Githyanki.
Margaux is flung forward in time in an attempt to escape with her life.
The events of Aqua, Stellar, Chroma take place. Rhothaxis is slain over the Moku Sea in the far west. The Blacksteel Company is reorganised into the Blacksteel Group, and remains on Mauna Ki'eki.
Following the first defeat of the God-Dragon Rhothaxis, a new era was marked by the rapid growth of new technologies. The Fourth Era was our bloodiest.
A unique combination of factors, mostly due to the rising threat of a repeat of the invasion of several milleneia ago, the Kaiserreich of Jericho found itself in a new technological revolution, harnessing the power of both phlogistinium and oil to build new technologies.
The first oil-powered ship was constructed, as well as the first oil-powered airship.
The news of the surge in technological power reaches the New Tetrarchy. The 4 Tetrarchs vote against invasion and begin building up defences, whilst attempting to steal as much intelligence as they can from Jericho.
Jericho's military moves the bulk of it's forces to Iserlohn Fortress on the north-east coast.
Advancements in mining in the New Tetrarchy discover a previously useless ore to have an unseen arcane property: it seems to irradiate some kind of radiant energy when in proximity to ore of the same kind.
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Jericho launches a fleet of three thousand ships towards the New Tetrarchy. All but one never return.
The Intrepid returns to Iserlohn Fortress.
The crew are covered in boils, scars, and some even seem to have their very flesh dissolve off of their bones.
They speak of flashes brighter than the sun, explosions larger than mountains.
Severa Willow fails to construct a replica weapon based on Tetrarch plans, instead using sections of the plan to build a containment unit for Rhothaxis' recovered heart using a Phlogistinium-Chimerium alloy. This False Heart, as she called it, could radiate this radiant energy at an unfathomably high rate when resonating at a specific frequency. Severa expanded Project Assured Victory by three-hundred workers, and commissioned ten dwarven Spellsteel forges to construct specific elements of a greater design. I journeyed into the deep desert to convene with Kadmon, who gave me instructions for the construction of a "human" of colossal proportion.
Plans for a Sun-Bomb are taken from a New Tetrarchy facility in the far north, partial copies make their way back to Jericho.
Weiss Willow dies during a contact-test of Hyperium.
Authors note: I, Severa Willow shall continue my sisters work in chronicling the history of this world.
Weiss-II is born on this day.
May whatever God or unworldly being that judges me in the end forgive my sins, for this is one above all others.
Everyone with knowledge of Project Assured Victory is found dead, with the exception of myself.
I hope I may be forgiven.
The new Kaiser, Pyotr Von Lohengramm XXV dies only three weeks into his rule after a Sun-Bomb is detonated over the Capital.
The remaining Imperial Fleet launch a surprise attack against the New Tetrarchy using a captured Sun-Bomb.
The Purge of 1151 leaves eleven-million dead after the systematic killing of all alive in the New Tetrarchy capital city. The surviving New Tetrarchy Army commander declares conditional surrender under the threat of more genocide.
The Imperium install a vassal king to the lands previously controlled by the New Tetrarchy.
Peace. But at what cost?
Several dwarven scientists create a prototype rocket motor based on the ancient designs of the two Deimos-class ships.
Marked after the unification of all without our sphere, the Fifth Era - or the Age of Light - was the closest we got to Utopia. Alas, all things must end. Humanity spread to the stars alongside their brethren dwarves, orcs, and other races. Elves took flight too, colonising worlds on their own - segregated by their own will.
The first slipspace jump is successfully completed by a dwarf of the Lumen clan.
A slipspace drive is stolen from Lumen IV Station around Mars. Months later the design is released publically by the anonymous thief.
Construction of the Deimos III is completed by New Tetrarch engineers. The ship uses a slipspace drive derived from the leaked Lumen design. Four D3-class ships are commissioned and built in the following year.
The envoy-colony to Jupiter goes dark and fails to return comms.
The major superpowers hold a summit in New Andromeda.
The Alliance of the Dawn made their final defence against the forces allied with Rhothaxis, successfully defeating him with the sacrifice of Weiss Willow.
Following the Battle for the Last Light, the Sixth Era was declared to have begun by Severa Willow on the 11th of Hearthfire, 5E 8942.
The Age of Blood begins following the pyrrhic victory over Rhothaxis at the Battle for the Last Light.
The One-Hundred Years of Blood end with the stepping down of Severa Willow as Guardian of the Realm, and the dissolution of the Alliance of the Dawn.
The events of Red Sun take place. The The Second Alliance is formed by Percival Tanwen, Gideon Laranth, Nye Speckle, and Ophea Daphne.
