Linibian Calendars During the Friend Times

Korth Incubation

^{4392 BB to 4217 BB}

Nobody knows why the Linibian States started describing their years by the Korth invasions, but sometime around 4350 BB they became aware of the Korth threat to the north, and began describing the era as a time of Incubation, and for the next few thousand years, the eras were described based on the status of the Korth Horde.

The Korth Incubation is the period before the first major Korth attack.

Abbreviated K#I

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Korth Assault

^{4217 to 4027 BB}

Starting with the beginning of the first Korth Assault, and ending with the start of the second Korth Assault.

Abbreviated K#A

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Korth Correction

^{4207 BB to 3513 BB}

After the end of the second Korth Assault, the people of the Linibian States imagined they had truly defeated the Korth Horde, and began to call this time the "Korth Correction", for they had "corrected" the Korth problem.

They could not be more wrong as the Korth spent the next few centuries building the largest military force they could imagine. The next assault would win.

Abbreviated Kc#F

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Korth Conquest

^{3513 BB to 2857 BB}

After centuries of relative silence, the Linibian States were completely unprepared for the largest Korth Horde ever. The northern third of the states was conquered, and the Korth actually settled in the land. For a time, while border skirmishes were frequent, it almost seemed that the Korth would just be a permanent neighbor. Then, in K434C, the Korth erupted from the Steppe again, and with the wall open and the Northern states already conquered, they swept across all of the Linibian States. Fortunately, great heros of renown, called the Troop of The Trustless, managed to find and activate a powerful remnant of the Dawn Times, and summoned a construct army that drove back the horde. Eventually this tireless construct army drove the horde all the way back to the Steppe, and well beyond, before some defect, or inbuilt betrayal, in the army caused the constructs to turn and begin killing all living things around them. Many Linibians died to destroy that army, but the Korth, for the only time in history, joined with the Linibians to defeat this horror. The construct army was destroyed, but the Korth Horde was nearly destroyed, and the Linibian armies were not much better off. It was a long time before the continent recovered from this error. Eventually, however, the Korth sent, over the course of a century, a great many "servants" as "tribute" to their southern neighbors, and when the numbers became great enough, they launched a rebellion, combined with another assault, resulting in terrible losses.

Abbreviated K#C

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Korth Rebellion

^{2857 BB To 2763 BB}

The next Korth assault was led by a more canny entity than before. It was not until it was too late that the Loremasters learned that a deathless power led the Korth this time. When the rebellion began, the Korth among the Linibians, perhaps over a million, all acted as one, taking up whatever arms they could get, and killing as many people as they could. None of them sought to live, only to kill. many millions died, mostly civilians. It was worse than even the Conquest of centuries before. Worse, the foul curse of the Unliving arose again in the land, and many found themselves fighting off the risen corpse of a loved one days after barely surviving the assault of the former servant that killed them. The rebellion was short, perhaps two months, and the aftermath was only a few more months. The Korth armies, however, had spent a year breaching the Korth Wall, and if it was not for an unexpectedly harsh late winter storm, would likely have conquered the Linibian States again. As it was it was a close thing before the combined armies of the states and the power of the Loremasters managed to destroy both the attacking force and the undying horror that commanded them.

The era that followed, marked by frequent skirmishes and many unspeakable horrors along the Korth Wall, was called the Korth Rebellion.

Abbreviated K#R

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Korth Decline

^{2763 BB to 1 BB}

After the Korth Rebellion, the Korth launched one more major assault, which, in 2763 BB, was utterly destroyed. It seems the Korth had counted on some external force to assist them, and it never came, a betrayal that left the Korth unable to recover.

Over the next few centuries fierce humans, northmen, from the lands to the east and west of the steppe invaded the Korth Steppe, and by 1850 BB the Korth Horde was gone forever. The wild and fierce tribesman who replaced the Horde took up the name of Korth, but were not much threat to the peaceful lands to the south. They lived on the Korth Steppe because they wanted to live there, and had no desire to enter the soft and weak lands beyond the Korth Wall. By the end of the Friend Times, the Korth were simply forgotten.

Abbreviated K#D