The newly reformed adventuring company Small & Mighty have taken upon themselves the uphill battle of trying to carve out some good in the corrupt city of Dowerbridge.
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Master Timeline
A timeline of all events that have been recorded in the Articles of Arnham.
The Modern Aeon
A time of relative peace, beginning at the end of the Ascension War through to the current day.
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1139 ma
The Present Day
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1134 ma
The Great Fire of Ashhold
Disaster / DestructionA calamitous fire gutted the medieval city of Ashhold, leaving nothing but rubble and ash in its wake.
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1130 ma
Magical Licenses introduced
Diplomatic actionIn recognition of the aid magic brought to the defence of Dowerbridge during its time of need, an amendment is made to the Barons Alliance declaration. The amendment, known as the Arcanist’s agreement, allows for people who posses magical talents to be considered legal citizens of Arnham and thus be protected from prosecution from justicars. However, The Arcanist’s agreement was not universally agreed to and some of the Baronies of Arnham refused to acknowledge it.
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1129 ma
The Sacking of Dowerbridge
Military actionAn army of hobgoblins attacked the city of Dowerbridge, laying waste to its bureaucratic district and threatening to destroy the entire city. The hobgoblin force was thwarted and forced to retreat by the joint efforts of the city watch, the city's justicar regiment and vigilante arcanists led by Gelder val Terran.
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1113 ma
Locomotive trains are invented
Technological achievementThe face of overland travel was forever changed when Luticia Faire, a prodigious student from the Brattenshire Innovation Society, created the locomotive train. The technology was rapidly spread across Brattenshire, vastly improving trade routes across the land and further boosting the nation through its industrial age. Impressed by the technology, Rividan began to adopt the technology as well, connecting their rail network to Brattenshire's and making cross-nation travel accessible to the masses for the first time in history. Other nations have been slower to adopt the locomotive train, except from South Kostrand who some years later independently created their own version of the locomotive train and created a rail network across their nation.
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1112 ma
Dirigible airships are invented
Technological achievementTrying to live up to the renown of his father, Wolfram val Marte Jr creates the dirigible airship in an attempt to revolutionise travel across the lands of Arnham. Although the technology was a marvel of engineering, the airship’s spotlight was short lived as less than a year later the locomotive train was invented, providing a far more efficient and cost effective mode of travel.
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1069 ma
Kostrand divided as the civil war ends in stalemate
Diplomatic actionAfter nearly a full year of civil war an uneasy stalemate is found as the magic using citizens of Kostrand take control of all settlements and forts south of the Intalia River and held them securely against any military force intent on retaking them. Over the next few weeks and months the northern military of Kostrand tighten their grip around the remnant of magic users in their midst, causing many to flee south to find refuge in the burgeoning mage-ruled nation of South Kostrand.
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1068 ma
Firearms are invented
Technological achievementInspired by the conflict of the Kostrandic civil war, the now infamous artist and inventor Wolfram val Marte created the first mass produced firearms to even the odds between the Kostrandic military and the rebel magic users they faced.
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1068 ma
The Kostrandic Civil War begins
Military actionAfter a beloved cathedral in Handdorf was burnt down by a mage, an extremist sect of justicars began rallying the common folk against mages. This quickly grew until several lynch mobs formed that sought out suspected mages and their families to kill. Intent on defending themselves and their families, the mages of Kostrand began to organise themselves into groups to better protect against the threat to their lives. Feeling threatened by the sudden appearance of organised groups of mages, The Abbey of Civility implored the Kostrandic government and military to execute these “heathen cults” of mages. The escalation on both sides continued until a full blown civil war was underway between the Kostrandic military and a guerrilla force of magic users trying to survive mass execution.
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1061 ma
Dowerbridge becomes the capital of Brattenshire
Political eventIndicative of Brattenshire's steer toward industrial innovation as its defining characteristic, the courts voted for the industrial city of Dowerbridge to stand as the nation's new capital. Stealing the role away from the ancient (and to some archaic) religious city of Ashhold.
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1031 ma
Dowerbridge Bystander went into print
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994 ma
The Ashguard storm into Umbral
Military actionLed by visions granted to her by the angel Thane, Justicar-Marshal Aurelia formed an army called the Ashguard. She led the Ashguard through a portal to Umbral to join with the angel Thane and her forces in battle against the dragon Rinkarr and its assembled demonic horde.
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917 ma
The Barons Alliance forms
Diplomatic actionAfter a long, frustrating and stunted civil war in which no nation made any real pushes to invade another's territory a begrudging truce was agreed upon instead. The Barons and Baronesses of each of Arnham's nations came together to sign a declaration, agreeing to peacefully cohabitate the lands of Arnham as separate nations but bound in commonality by each continuing to follow the teachings of Civility.
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883 ma
The Sundering of Arnham
Disaster / DestructionIn a cataclysmic event no one could predict, the mountain range at the heart of Arnham violently exploded, revealing its true nature a super volcano which blanketed the lands of Arnham in smog and ash for months. When the skies eventually cleared it was revealed that the entire region of Erimos, the seat of power in the Kingdom of Arnham, has been buried underneath a blanket of magma by the eruption. With Queen Alexandria and all her known successors to the throne presumed dead, the surviving regions of Arnham quickly found themselves divided on where new leadership should be found. Ultimately each nation decided that they themselves were best placed to take the throne of Arnham as civil war broke out between all of the new nations.
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Start of the Modern Aeon
Civility is taught to the people of Arnham
Era beginning/endThe elves of Solisteria teach the newly liberated mortals of Arnham how to read, write and the ways of Civility. Over the next couple of years the elves begin to slowly return to Solisteria, leaving the fate of Arnham in the hands of mortals, thus beginning the Modern Aeon.
The Ascension War
A brutal near-century long war between the tyrannical dragon overlords of Arnham and a host of angelic elves who descended from the heavens to liberate the people of Arnham and ascend them into civilisation.
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0 pa
Dragons are driven to extinction and the Ascension War ends
Military actionAfter a brutal 98 years of war the elven forces successfully eliminate the final bastions of the Dragons, driving them to extinction.
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7 pa
The Fall of Cineres (Modern day Ashhold)
Disaster / DestructionIn the final years of the war, the Dragon Rinkarr became desperate in the face of the overwhelming forces that threatened it with extinction. Its desperation led the Dragon to strike a bargain with the devils of Umbral, which granted the Dragon a massive horde of demons to command. With this monstrous horde the Dragon led a bloody assault on the flying elven city of Cineres, damaging the Basilica that kept it afloat and causing the city to crash down to the earth.
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56 pa
Dragons create the Drakken
Cultural eventIn the midst of the Ascension War, after many humans and dwarves had been liberated from their draconic overlords by the elven forces, the Dragons began to find themselves without infantry to battle for them. As a solution to this, the Dragons concocted a magical ritual that would allow them to create a loyal force of foot soldiers in their own image and from this the Drakken were born.
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70 pa
The War of Ascension begins
Military actionThe skies opened as battalions of elven forces descended from the heavens, immediately clashing with the unexpecting draconic tyrants of Arnham and beginning the Ascension War.
Prior Aeons
Events that occurred before the elves descended upon Arnham, many of which have only speculative dates affixed to them as the events predate written records.
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99 pa - Unknown
Dragons rule over the land
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Sometime between 2000 - 3000 pa
Giants lived on Arnham
Life, DeathArchaeological digs have uncovered bones and fossils of what is suspected to be an ancient race of giants, who lived on Arnham sometime between 2000 - 3000 pa.
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