The Lovers of Loanua, known in legend as Ara and Kara, brought the island together in peace and founded the Meako (or Bird Rangers) with the aid of Halcyon
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History of Garadel
Prehistoric Era
1000 DE 201 DE
Predating written Garadek or concentrated urban settlement
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900 DE
The Lovers of Loanua
Marriage
Bedrock Era
200 DE 300 ME
The Bedrock Era is known as such by historians for its foundational nature. The rise of the great merchant associations and forgelords markes the end of the Bedrock Era
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200 DE
First Prism Settlements in Northeast Garadel
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100 DE
Enchantment of Sorosko Island
Celestial / CosmicSorosko island was once an ordinary island with a harsh climate, but was transformed by The Chimera into a magical trial of survival and endurance
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90 DE
Dragon Forges Created
Celestial / CosmicHalcyon created the Dragon Forges as the only method of magic item creation
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131 ME
Exile of Mirizi
Life, MilestoneIn 131 ME, Mirizi the Pangolin scribe was sent to Sorosko island to die. Instead, he ascended and became the founding prophet of Zihari, the dominant religious group of Garadel
The Weathering Era
300 ME 1100 ME
Known for its rising and collapsing empires, local imperial cult, and fierce wars, the Weathering Era is generally seen as ending with the rise of organized religion
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400 ME
600 ME
The Great Ghost Boom
Metaphysical / Paranormal eventA Global Boom in ghosts as many die in particularly funny or tragic ways
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575 ME
Blue Weniko Founded
Religious eventThe meeting of the priests and the end of the winter wars served as the beginning of Loanuan religious unity.
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690 ME
Selkie Invasion of Larazel
Military actionThe selkie fleet of Admiral Nualoa arrived in South Larazel in 690 to build a march colony in modern-day-Zeshema. Selkie outposts remain in the North to this day, and selkie fleets have never left Garadel since.
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700 ME
Ulo's Evangelical Oshkion
Religious eventWhile Zihari had existed for centuries, Ulo's creation of an official holy text and evangelical mission created a united front that allowed it to begin mass-converting settled territories
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720 ME
Death and Return of Norinar
Life, DeathNorinar was a religious leader, healer, and resistance leader of the Zeshem tribes against Selkie exploitation during the 700s. In 720 he was hunted down and killed by Selkie forces, only to mysteriously return the next week claiming to have been given revelations by the Masked One.
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880 ME
Founding of Hadina
Religious eventThe formal combination of local cult and religious practices by Enelon the Enchanter led to the creation of the Hadina religion. While a Larazelan faith, it would be picked up in Alaran and other Garadek provinces.
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900 ME
915 ME
First Invasion of Loanua
Military actionThe Dragon Sorcerer Avera White-Flower launched her grand invasion of Loanua, conquering almost the entire island by 915. While her successors failed to hold the island, it was the first great external threat Loanua faced and an end to the island's peace
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1000 ME
Exorcists Guild Arrives in Garadel
Metaphysical / Paranormal eventAfter many years of tense negotiation, the Exorcist's Guild finally brokered deals to establish bases in South Larazel and Garadel
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1100 ME
Founding of the Holy League of Zihari
Religious eventKonek the Fire-Breather was a famous Pangolin evangelist of Zihari who amassed a great following from 1080 to 1100. His success created modern Zihari dogma and founded the greatest of Zihari religious structures: The Holy League.
Heartlayer Era
1100 ME 1600 ME
Named after the "heartlayer" of mineral-rich soil so precious to Prisms, the heartlayer era was a time of prosperity and heightened interaction with the outside world. Garadek culture began striving for standards of "civilization" akin to Sonev and Samvara and took increasing inspiration from those continents in their social models. It is seen as having ended when the Second Zeshem empire closed down Samvaran trade
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1100 ME
Founding of the Holy League of Zihari
Religious eventKonek the Fire-Breather was a famous Pangolin evangelist of Zihari who amassed a great following from 1080 to 1100. His success created modern Zihari dogma and founded the greatest of Zihari religious structures: The Holy League.
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1120 ME
1208 ME
Adventures of Coconi
Life, CareerCoconi "The Golden Rabbit of Loanua" was the greatest Meako of all time and represents the peak of Loanua's Meako population and influence. She traveled across Garadel adventuring and sometimes plundering. She is a legend across Garadel and Larazel, and her tendency to bury or hide treasure hoards gave her story an obsessive following. She also attracted a great deal of attention to Loanua, shattering the fragile peace there
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1200 ME
Mass Adoption of Voiceboxes and Chemical Warfare
Technological achievementWhile having always been used by certain Sonevan aquatic groups, thawing of Garadek-Sonevan underwater relations finally allowed for Sonevan aquatic technologies to spread: notably voiceboxes and mustard gas. At long last, the peoples of the sea and the peoples of the land could meet in peace and war
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1370 ME
Arrival of the Great Pratasam Missions
Religious eventWith travel between Samvara and Garadel normalized and Zeshema open to trade, a massive organized surge in Pratasam missionaries poured into Garadel and South Larazel via Selkie trade routes. Funded by large states in Samvara and intertwined with Healing Alchemy and the Shekotan Healing church, the Pratasam missions formed a self-sustaining trade guild and mercenary army in Garadel that remains a force to this day
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1448 ME
1450 ME
Miza Saltskin Crisis
Criminal ActivityThe infamous Pangolin pirate is perhaps the most famous criminal in Garadek history. After selling forged religious artifacts to the Zihari Holy League, she was able to kidnap the League's Heirophant and hold him for ransom. The ensuing negotiations led to the deaths of several forge-lords and merchant-princes, and Miza was forced to flee to distant Loanua. There, she founded the Kamalean Pirate Republic and eventually became a paladin of Emesh.
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1470 ME
Red Weniko Forms
Religious eventAfter many victories over imperialist and the grey priesthood alike, the New Blues of Weniko embraced their anti-foreign militarism with a new image: Red Weniko.
The Rooting Era
1600 ME 2020 ME
Named after "rooting soil", the Rooting era was predicted to be a time of degradation and decay, cut off from the world- and possible an era of diminished Prism dominance. Neither has occurred, but Garadel has gone back to developing many of its own social structures and there is less of a perceived need to be like Samvara or Sonev.
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1620 ME
The Law of Masks
Religious eventThe Law of Masks was a way of closing off Zesheko from foreign influence and forever marked Zesheko communities apart from the rest of the world. Associated with the 1620 to 1810 period of Closed Imperial Zeshema, the Masks have not come off even as trade as re-opened.
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1682 ME
The Sarakan Schism
Religious eventAfter leaving communion with the Zihari holy league in 1680, the Ember League was taken over by a new religious movement in 1682. This transformed into a new religion known as Saraka
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1700 ME
The Forgeguard seize Jasarska
Gathering / ConferenceAfter centuries of brutal warfare over the Dragonforges, the pacifistic Forgeguard finally seize their first Dragonforge and shut down weapon production. The Monks of the Iron Eagle set up a proto-state there and begin pushing for more Dragonforges.
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1800 ME
2020 ME
Life of Grandmaster Flori
Life, CareerFlori was a cuttlefolk monk born in 1800 who rose as the greatest open-palm warrior ever to grace the oceans. Transcending even age itself, Flori traveled to distant Nafena before dissapearing into the open ocean in 1940
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1840 ME
1920 ME
The Dragon Wars
Military actionIn the Garadek heartlands, great empires of Pratasam, Zihari, and Hadina faiths clashed over control over trade and Dragon forge access in a heated religious conflict. Continent-wide total war was barely averted, but the heartlands were left with a religious cold war that continues to this day