Something sure happened. The surface become uninhabitable, but how is something not even most scholars really know.
During the time of the Descent much history and knowledge was lost. It was not until Sanctuary was established that people started to pick things back up and record the passage of time once more.
Long before and so forgotten that it might just be a myth, people once walked on the surface of Cygnaria.
Something sure happened. The surface become uninhabitable, but how is something not even most scholars really know.
Exactly how long the Descent took is lost to time. But it was more than a generation for sure. History is a blur here.
After the surface became uninhabitable the sun dwellers came down below and wandered for what seems like time uncountable. All semblance of time lost to them without the sun and stars. History remembers this time only vaguely.
From the Founding of Sanctuary onward, the measuring of time becomes more precise and history is once again recorded and preserved.
The cave system that holds the city is discovered and the first refugees decide that this is where they shall make their home. Groundbreaking on the first structures in Sanctuary. They began counting time again here, declaring the date of founding to be their first day of a new year.
As Sanctuary began to form, resources and land were needed for the city's construction. They attempted to bargain with the local goblinoid tribes that had inhabited the area since before them to trade goods so that both may prosper but the tribes would not deal with the people of Sanctuary. One attempt ended in bloodshed, the merchants of Sanctuary killed by one of the tribes and from there centuries of war and conflict would sprout.
Far from Sanctuary the first record of a mana cavern and its crystal creation is noted. A small civilization forms in the large expanding cavern within the centre.
Allen McAllister showcases his proof-of-concept for a device which allows the transmutation of common underground materials into lost rarities: first, by transforming raw mycellium into extinct cow's leather. The McAllister Alchemical Company is founded the same year
The small civilization across the material from Sanctuary officially becomes military style school 'Cave Camberly'. It now hosts a small population but invites nearby cities young to study the arcane.
The passage to The Unders is opened up for the first time. Exploration begins, exploitation follows.
The great shake of '38. A very significant earthquake hit the city, changing some of the topography in the process. The cliffs were about 25 feet lower before.
The leaders of the goblinoid tribes were invited to the city to sign a peace treaty with Sanctuary. Delegates from the Zhou family met with them inside the Sapphire Hold in order to sign the document detailing an end to the conflict and a hold on any future expansions from the city. While tensions were high, the expert diplomacy of the nobles kept the meeting peaceful and the treaty was signed.
Employees of the Greywind Ironworks were found dead outside the gates of the city. Butchered by the goblinoid tribes, these poor souls were mourned across the city, but after the mourning came the cries for vengeance. The treaty broken, the city saw little recourse but to reignite the fires of war and conflict between the city and the Goblinoid tribes started again in full.
Delving too deep unleashed something terrible. Too much to fight off, instead the way to the Unders was closed. The creation of the Undersgate and the distribution of its keys are all that saved Sanctuary from what lurks beneath.
Citing dissatisfaction with the city's ability to handle disasters such as that from the Unders, Mirabelle Blake leaves her position in the city guard to found a mercenary security company
A critical shortage of the materials used for Fungalite refinement causes the Sundelier to go out for the first time since Sanctuary's founding. For seven days, the city is plunged into unbroken night
When the lights went out and fear followed suit, something else came along with, or rather many things came. Out of the darkness, a horde of insects born of chtin, nightmares and bone burst through the walls of the garrison, slaughtering creatures in their path as they flooded the warehouse district, attacking stores of unrefined fungalite. The exact nature of what followed has been lost, but to those who were there and survived, one thing was clear: the nightmares were real and were ravenous.
The scattered and competing Fungalite refineries are, one by one, acquired and brought under a single umbrella by the priesthood of That Which Was. The House of Lights is founded as the sole, combined house of Fungalite refinement. St. Alicia appointed as its keeper.
Wood elves who have wandered the caves since time lost to memory stumble upon Sanctuary . The doors held open for them and the generosity of the city giving them a new home. They establish what eventually becomes Naturenook .
A group of naturalists, ecologists, and druids gather for the first time. Holding the first meeting of what would become the Unders Ecological Institute. Their curiosity overrides the fear of what they might find, and they plan an expedition into The Unders via secret paths they still have not shared to this day.
The first issue of the scientific periodical is distributed in Sanctuary. Few read it, as it is written in dense Jargon rather than the common tongue.
A labor dispute at the Westwind Textile Plant escalates into a strike, and from there, into a full-scale riot. Hundreds are injured, dozens of buildings are destroyed, and sixteen are killed. It takes 3 days for order to be restored. One month later, Amberlight is granted an indefinite contract to act as a supplementary police force in the Ashworks.
Following a record-low year of profits, the notoriously dangerous Eastreach Iron Mine is closed. One of the main sources of income in Castaway Catch is lost, and soon the mine's upper levels become housing for the destitute, its middle reaches a hiding place for criminals and hermits, and its lowest depths forgotten.
Freelance artificer Raff Mizzleton introduces his first proposal for a citywide system of miniature messenger constructs, travelling via cables charged with arcane energy. Over the next few years, the newly-founded Mizzleton Communications Company links important businesses and the homes of the well-to-do throughout most of the Uppers (and some parts of the Lowers), in what would come to be called the Cableway.
After growing up as the ward of Granny Gardenbeetle The tiefling known as Exo is released. His ancestral vow of a hundred years of service fulfilling. Eventually he makes his way to Sanctuary and builds a home, which will eventually become his bug shop.
A Camberly representative reaches Sanctuary with a group for construction of a centre, after a few years a teleportation circle and main building will be available for Camberly to assist Sanctuary and vice versa.