The Duvan’Ku Elven Empire is founded, according to the Elven tradition. There's a large controversy, even among elves, about the accuracy of this date. Southern Elves claim this is just a way for the Northern Elves to remain relevant by reliving past glories.
First Age
... 9999
Sages of old describe this age as an age of the Gods and Goddesses, of myths, of courage and strength. This age began when Black Winter struck the boundaries of the land of Rassilon, people’s last haven. The tyrant frost Giant Odd was impaled and left in chains in an eternal slumber. Still, the northern shores of Rassilon began to freeze and harsh cold winds battered Ymir’s Lash. Black Winter was relentless. The spiritual leaders of the natives made the peaks of Ymir’s Lash their home and erected wooden totems to ward off the freezing howling storms. At the same time, Rassiloners learned to use the resources of the land. They built longhouses, ships, temples, and armed themselves with better tools and weapons. First, they spread all across the land and then got together to form kingdoms. The first kingdoms emerged and with them, new cultures and conflicts arose.
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9000 FA
Duvan’Ku Elven Empire
Founding
Second Age
10001 11000
Only fragmentary evidence remains of major events before the Blizzard War and the Ice Rise, and many lesser events have been lost to time. Scholars talk of powerful ancient empires ruled by noble and wise men, all of which were reduced to ruins by the Blizzard War or now lie buried beneath the ice and snow. It is known that the Northern lands were inhabited by the Finnar the Elven Empire and the Dwarven City-states in a stable equilibrium. The Elves took the forests, the Dwarves the Mountains and the Finnar the plains and the lakes. The Orcs, allied with other races (Goblins, Giants, etc) managed to conquer a large portion of the North East section of the continent (Everything east of the Winding peaks) during the cataclysmic war that created the Sunken Realm. That balance lasted until the Blizzard wars. The Low Winter lands and the Hearthland (there was not a distinction between them at the time) were in constant conflict among the Hearth Elves, the Saxa kingdoms, the Anari Empire and the kingdoms of the 'lesser races'
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-711 SA
The Convocation of Elementalists is founded
Founding -
-648 SA
The Anari Empire is born.
FoundingThe Anari Empire dominates southern Rassilon for the next five centuries
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-529 SA
6 Snaermonan (Snowmoon)
Demongate Wars start
Military actionMad cultists create and open a series of portals leading to The Abyss using an artifact known as the Black Key
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-400 SA
4 Sowanmonan (Sowingmoon)
Demongate Wars end
Military actionThe Demongate Wars end with the destruction of the last demonic outpost. Terrible suffering has been unleashed on the land over the last quarter-century. The Black Key is shattered and its parts are hidden.
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-352 SA
7 Huntianmonan (Huntmoon)
Hela's betrayal
CelestialHela, keeper of the underworld goes insane and unlocks the gates to the Abyss. Evil souls flee to the mortal realm where they inhabit corpses, creating the first true undead. Hela becomes the goddess of undeath, her role as guardian taken by Scaetha
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-316 SA
2 Eostremonan (Eostre’s Moon)
The Lich Priest invasion
Military actionThe undead armies of the Lich Priest ravage what is now the northern, eastern, and central Low Winterlands. The Lich Priest bony hand extends into the set, but the expansion is halted by Aspiria and Chalcis
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-222 SA
4 Sceranmonan (Shearingmoon)
The Anari Apex
FoundingThe Anari finally complete their conquest of the Saxa Kingdoms, dominating the Hearthlands as far east as the Thunor Range and Brokentail Mountains. Despite oppression, the Saxa culture in conquered lands is not stamped out, and it later rekindles.
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-28 SA
10 Frostmonan (Frostmoon)
The Lich Priest Defeat
Military actionThe Lich Priest's Army is shattered, the vile fiend entombed for eternity
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-25 SA
16 Wulfmonan (Wolfmoon)
The Blizzard War Begins
Military actionThe Blizzard War Begins. An army of frigid beasts advances rapidly from the north, destroying everything in its path, as temperatures plummet to many degrees below freezing. Countless people are killed. The gods Kenaz and Sigel vanish just before the destruction occurs. When the destruction ends 25 years later, Rassilon is virtually depopulated.
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-15 SA
17 Sowanmonan (Sowingmoon)
The Loss of Karad Khan
Disaster / DestructionContact is lost with the city of Karad Khan, the greatest dwarf city
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-10 SA
1 Snaermonan (Snowmoon)
The Grand Pact
Diplomatic actionAll the nations of Rassilon (What is left of the ones that are left) divided and weakened rally together and begin an offensive of total destruction against the Hellfrost armies.
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0 SA
31 Wulfmonan (Wolfmoon)
The Great Victory
Military actionThe armies of Rassilon defeat the Hellfrost armies who don't have time (or intention) to retreat back north. The Grand Pact obliterates the Hellfrost armies leaving very few survivors that eventually hide beyond the Unclaimed Land. Winters immediately harden, and snow and ice begin to creep down from the north, blanketing the land.
Third Age
11001 and beyond
The Third Age is the current age. It starts right at the end of the Blizzard War when the alliance of all the other races manages to push the Hellfrost back to the northmost part of the continent, beyond the areas that can be populated by humans. The events in this age are better understood and agreed upon most of the peoples of Rassilon
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1
1 Snaermonan (Snowmoon)100
32 Wulfmonan (Wolfmoon)
The White Plague
Plague / EpidemicPlague, famine, and constant warfare wrack Rassilon. Many more people die before order is slowly restored
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1
32 Wulfmonan (Wolfmoon)
The Fall of the Duvan’Ku Empire
Disaster / DestructionWith the end of the Blizzard War the Duvan’Ku Empire also disappeared. Most of the Northern Elves blamed magic and technology for most of their problems and rather than trying to reform the Empire that had been devastated during the war they decided to go back to their roots and live in harmony with Nature. The elves that remain in the North, became the Taiga elves, those that left for the warmer lands of the south joined the ranks of the Hearth Elves.
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45
The Founding of the Magocracy
FoundingThe Magocracy is founded, the position of Mage-King is introduced in later decades
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50
Drakeport introduces the scield
Financial EventThe use of Drakeport's currency spreads along mercantile routes. Eventually, the local scield turns into the silver coin, the standard value of currency today
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82
Founding of the Hearth Knights
Founding -
160
Saxa Marklands Foundation
Political eventThe Saxa push back the Anari out of their former lands. The Saxa found the Marklands, a confederation of Saxa Kingdoms allied against the Anari Empire
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246
Crystalflow Confederacy Founded
Political event -
274
The Frozen Forest Uprising
Disaster / DestructionThe Frozen Forest comes to existence, kiling thousands of Taiga elves, Finnar and dwarves
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319
The Battle of Chalcis
Military actionThe Orc invasion of Chalcis ends in orc defeat at the Battle of Thunor's Fury
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341
345
Golem Uprising
RevolutionGolems somehow gains consciousness and rise up against their masters in a bloody conflict. The Golem Ban Decree is signed by the Mage-King, the Convocation of Elementalists, and the Frost Dwarf Lords making the creation of any form of golem punishable by death. Surviving Golems enter a legal limbo where some become property and others acquire personhood depending on where they live, luck, politics etc.
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381
Frost Giant Defeat
Military actionPushed west by the Finnar, the Frost Giant army is smashed in the Battlelands by the Anari. Raids are halted for many years as the giants recover their strength
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440
Sisters of Mercy Foundation
Founding -
444
Karad Noshrek contact lost
Disaster / Destruction -
445
Frost Giant Raids
Military actionThe Frost Giants, reorganized by the Frost King start raiding the Finnar and Anari towns.
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449
Roadwardens Foundation
Founding -
469
The Mistlands emerge
Geological / environmental eventThe Mistlands become swathed in a permanent fog
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470
Karad Marn Invasion
Military actionKarad Marn was invaded by orcs. The battle to liberate it continues to the present time
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471
The Siphoning
Plague / EpidemicMages and Warlocks suffer a strange loss of power, which has grown more frequent as time passes
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475
Foundation of the Knights Hrafn
Founding -
479
Conquest of Orcmark
Military actionOrcs pour from the Mace Mountains and conquer southern Vestmark. Much of it still remains in orc hands (now called Orcmark)
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496
The Siege of Ostvik
Military actionOrcs assault the city of Ostvik with a vast army of siege engines. The Siege continues to present day
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499
The Disaster of HeillHofn
Disaster / DestructionThe great tragedy where a furious sea storm destroyed the ship of King Horik Gottfredson, killing the King and his firstborn Erik Barn (“the Child”), while they were sailing toward HeillHofn to meet their ally Asbjørn the Red.
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500
15 Eostremonan (Eostre’s Moon)
The Wolf Pack is created and enters the Temple of Hela
ExpeditionThe original Wolf Pack is founded with members of each of the main clans:
Gremzara “Zara” (Jotun Sons)
Finnlau “Finn” Gestsson (Wolves of the Shadow)
Mistnip Morigak (Gjallarhorn)
Skamos Giantslayer (Bear Clan)
Icegleam (Arctic Crows)
Krizyre - "Crazy" (Thunor's Eye)
They accomplish their main mission to look for the source of the disappearance of whole towns and individuals in the far north. They discovered a forgotten temple of Hela and somehow managed to stop whatever was taking the people. This was the first of many exploits that made the Wolf Pack so famous and motivated other groups to imitate them.
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