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The History and Beginning of the New World

A loose, overarching timeline that stretches from before the War of Turning to the present and future events of New Peace.

Before the Turning

The Forgotten Past

before New Peace was created. The world of Before.

The Age of Awakening

1001 5000

When the ice began to melt, and the new world was awakened. Here, all things were created. Also known as the Age of Beginning, or the First Age.

  • 1001 AW


    The First Signs
    Geological / environmental event

    When the first signs of life appeared on the new world.

  • 1002 AW


    When the World Awakened
    Geological / environmental event

    In the beginning, there was ice. Nothing lived, nothing breathed. The soil beneath the frozen oceans rested. Even the great sun slept. No lights were hung in the sky. Time new not the world. All was quiet, and all were sleeping.

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  • 1005 AW

    1 /1

    The Firstborn
    Life, Birth

    The day the Firstborn came into the world. This is the first child to be born in New Peace. In fact, the Laurelians named the world after this boy.

    Location
    Time's Peak
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  • The day the Craicath was born
    The First Counsel Meeting
    Gathering / Conference

    When the Counsel of Peace (protection and proliferation) gathered for the first time. Lands were allotted, plans were made, leaders were set, and the Constitution of the New Laurelians was written and signed.

  • 1012 AW

    16 /3
    1012 AW


    The Scar of the Earth is Discovered
    Discovery, Scientific

    Araz was traveling cross-country to the east coast, and he got stuck in the desert. It's unknown how he got out, but he was the first to find himself surrounded by this desert's magical power.

    More reading
    The Infinite Wastes
  • 2000 AW

    8000 AW


    The Second Age
    Era beginning/end

    The Second Age is the Age of Creation. After the Old Ones woke from their slumber, they began creating all the things a world needs; peoples, flora and fauna, geography, and architecture.

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  • 3000 AW

    3 /8 13:00

    Creation of the Flowerlings
    Artistic creation

    The day the Old Ones created the Flowerling people.

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  • 4006 AW

    6 /8 08:00
    4006 AW

    14 /8 08:00

    Birth of Camellia
    Life, Birth

    When Camellia was caught in the Gardener's net, planted, and subsequently sprouted.

The Era of Discovery

8001 13000

When the peoples of New Peace began discovering things about their world. Different medicines, continents, races, traditions, etc...

  • 8001 ED

    11000 ED


    The Third Age
    Era beginning/end

    When the Third Age began

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  • 11000 ED

    10
    11001 ED

    /25

    The Coldest Winter
    Geological / environmental event

    The coldest winter in all of New Peace history.

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  • 11001 ED

    11100 ED


    The Fourth Age
    Era beginning/end

    The end of the Third Age and the beginning of the Fourth Age.

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  • 11002 ED

    21 /19
    11022 ED

    /5

    The Cold Sickness Spreads
    Plague / Epidemic

    Shortly after the worst blizzard in all history, people began dying of a very strange disease. It seemed like their bodies had turned into ice. Soon, this disease spread far and wide across the known world and took out over half the population of all flowerlings before someone found a cure.

    More reading
    The Cold Death
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  • 12501 ED


    The Age of Exploration
    Era beginning/end

    The end of the Fourth Age took with it the Cold Death; the sickness that had ravaged the known world for years. Now, healthy people wanted to move from their old, disease-ridden homes, and find new and better places to live. Thus began the Age of Exploration.

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