High Queen Etissa, later known as the “Queen of Tears”, was the last of the royal rulers of the Elves and ruled over the Elven nations through the Elven civil war until her death during the fall of Iflion. Due to the presence of such clear records, as well as the importance of her crowning, her crowning is used as a year 0, with times before marked with BC (before coronation), and times after with AC (after coronation).
The history of the Shattered Isles
A timeline of the history of the Shattered Isles
Elvenfall
... 789 5E
The historical period chronicalling the Elven wars from the crowning of high queen Elisa Fai’anora through the exile of the Drow and Valk, through the fall of the capital of Ilifion, to battle of Undersiege and the end of the Elven wars.
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0 1E
23 /4
The Crowning of High Queen Etissa Fae’anora
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19 1E
The Rebel elven treaty is signed
Diplomatic actionLong seduced by the whispering of the betrayer goddess, Llolth, the Drow elves had increasingly become ill content with Elven society and politics. With Llolth’s encouragement the Drow negotiate a secret alliance with the Valk Elves, known for their mastery of technomancy, to overthrow the other Elven nations and enslave them.
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199 1E
The Fall of Iflion
Disaster / DestructionBy the year 1E 699, the civil war between the dark elven alliance and the United Elven Nations had been in a stalemate for nearly 150 years with neither side being able to achieve any significant victory. The Dark Elven alliance used a powerful new living mechanical soldier, created by the Valk to spearhead a bold surprise attack on the capital city of Iflion. With savage swiftness the Drow and Valk slaughtered the residents of Iflion, ultimately ransacking and then burning the city to ashes, including the mythical World Tree, a gift to the Elven people from the Goddess... For this reason above all others, the Drow are hated and killed on site by Sun or Moon elves today. The loss of Iflion, the greatest of the Elven cities, was a terrible blow to the people of the Elven nations and represented a dark turning point in the war. From this point the Elven nations faced numerous losses on the field of battle and more cities would follow in Iflion’s path of destruction.
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319 1E
The disappearance of the Valk
ExtinctionIn the year 1E 772, With the war decidedly in the favor of the Dark Alliance, the Drow lost all contact with their Valk allies. Emissaries sent to Valk cities either did not return or of the few that did, they reported that there was no sign of life within the cities though their machines and other inventions were still operating normally. No one knows what happened to the Valk but it is known that all of them, down to the very last child, vanished on the same day in the year 1E 772. Without the Valk’s mechanical soldiers and technomancer weaponry, the Drow could no longer hold on to their advantage and the war began to quickly swing in favor of the Elven Nations.
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772 1E
779 1E
The Battle of Undersiege
Era beginning/endBolstered by new alliances with the Dragonkin and human kingdoms, the remaining Sun, Wood, and Moon Elves had successfully pushed back the Drow wholly to the sinister hidden lands of the Underdark. The leaders of the Elven nations, filled with grief fueled rage at the near destruction of their people and thirsting for vengeance, mounted an offensive into the Underdark itself - the very home of the Drow. For five years they battled their way through the blackened tunnels and caverns of the Underdark until they march upon the capital city of the Drow, Ulfshein Dyer. The battle was known on the surface as the battle of Undersiege and resulted in the surface forces capturing the city, and using the altar to Llolth to summon her to the material plane to stand trail before the other Elven deities. Llolth was exiled and stripped of much of her divine power. The Drow ended the war and hid among their other cities deeper within the Underdark to avoid any further retribution from the surface forces. There, they have remained nursing their savage grudge against their Elven kin and all creatures that live on the surface and gaze upon the sun.
The Aeon of Savagery
780 5E 1000 5E
After the fall of the Elven empire, the lands were thrown into a mad lawlessness as those who were strong attempted to conquer the weak and consolidate power. Petty warlords of all races ruled small kingdoms across the isles.
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800 2E
The Sisterhood of the Defiant Devine is founded
FoundingJentihne Ileqwyn completes the first temple to Attix and founds the holy Sisterhood of the Defiant Divine.
The Aeon of the Mortal Gods
1001 5E 1200 5E
The era in history where the major gods descended to the mortal plane, sacrificing much of their Devine power to live among mortals.
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1001 3E
51001 3E
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Skyfall
Disaster / DestructionA large meteor shower bombards the lands with mostly small to medium meteors, raining destruction and leveling cities, ruining crops, and forever changing the shape and form of the areas these celestial rocks landed.
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1016 3E
The birth of the Ironwood Forest
Metaphysical / Paranormal event