The History of Arryhnsian Humans

From their arrival in Portsend to today, the history of humans on our continent has been the catalyst for world shattering events.

  • 30001 AH


    First Landing
    Expedition

    Led by Julius Grey, Humans Land in Portsend at the Northwest tip of the Draak'thor Massiff in what is now known at the First Wave.

  • 30001 AH


    Humans Arrive in Arrhynsia
    Discovery, Exploration

    The continent will never be the same.

    Location
    Eryia
    Species
    Human Species
  • 30025 AH


    Humans settle North Arrhynsia
    Population Migration / Travel

    Humans resettle their population from Portsend just across the Halphon Straights at Sigurd's Craw.

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  • 30057 AH


    Establishment of Cairne
    Founding

    Northeast of Sigurd's Craw, humans expand into the central region of North Arrhynsia following the Gilt River and establish their largest city that would eventually become the center of the human empire.

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  • 30124 AH


    Establishment of Magetown
    Construction beginning/end

    The Capital of Wizardry, Magetown was the birthplace of modern human magic, and effectively improved the lives of all citizens of Arrhynsia.

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  • 30189 AH


    War of the Mages
    Military: War

    Not a war of Mages at all, but a war in which magical tools of war such as fire launchers, force sheilds, elemental walls and other magical items were first employed on a widespread basis and made a significant impact on the outcome of the war.

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  • 30376 AH


    The Wave of Trouble
    Population Migration / Travel

    Humans adopt a policy of exiling human criminals creating havoc in the rest of Arrhynsia during the Second Wave.

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  • 30663 AH


    Conquest and Reign of Julius Forthright III
    Life, Career

    Julius Forthright III formed an alliance with the Mageling familiy, his contemporaries who controlled the University of Arcane Studies and Mageville, then brought the human city states into order at the point of a sword, establishing Cairne and the Forthright family as the rulers of the First Human Empire.

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  • 30788 AH


    The Wave of Sorrow
    Population Migration / Travel

    Humans driven from their homes by Luthreian the Mad migrate back to the Arrhynsian mainland as political refugees during the Third Wave.

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  • 30821 AH


    The Telma War
    Military: War

    A War begin in love, foundered in betrayal, and fueled by unreasoning hate, the Telma War was the bloodiest war in the history of North Arrhynsia and the cause of the Fourth Wave.

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  • 30900 AH


    The Cataclysm
    Disaster / Destruction

    Human wizards attempt to terraform their land, and turn it from a verdant paradise into the frozen Northern Wastes, initiating the Fifth Wave.

  • 30950 AH


    Humans Establish the Southern Kingdom
    Founding

    After 50 years of searching and fighting for a new home, humans are pushed to the desert lands south of the Draakthor Massiff to make their future as best they can.

  • 31000 AH


    Land of the Short Arises
    Founding

    The short unite to form a coalition government to defend their land and homes against incursions by the humans from the Southern Kingdom

  • 31527 AH

    31538 AH


    The Great Spell Plague
    Plague / Epidemic

    over 35% of all people living at the time died by a magically enhanced plague

  • 31943 AH

    31967 AH


    The Short Spell Plague
    Plague / Epidemic

    The current hostile relationship between the Land of the Short and the Southern Kingdom is due in no small part to the attempt of humans to exploit the suffering of the haflings in the Short Spell Plague and the suspicions of many that humans created it

  • 32025 AH

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    The Lost War
    Military action

    A tribal squabble over a little orcish raiding throws the entire universe into peril, and unites a race of warmongering brutes into a genocidal horde with revenge on their mind.

  • 33018 AH

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    The War of the Eternals
    Gathering / Conference

    The War of the Eternals was an effort of the celestials to wipe out the detestable practices of the Dark Mages. It became a pivot in the development of the underlying techology engine of the economy of the continent.