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Songs & Swords

Timeline of the Songs & Swords side campaign set in Terra Caelum.

  • Around 35,000 years prior to the Second Era
    The Great Quori War
    Military action

    The Quori are evil outsiders from the Dal Quor, the Region of Dreams. Forty thousand years ago they succeeded in opening up the gates between Dal Quor and Mondum and nearly overran the world. It was only through the intervention of dragons who provided arcane technologies to the frost giants that the plane of Dal Quor was shunted away from its rotation so that it could never again become coterminous with the material plane.

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  • Around 9,000 years prior to the Second Era
    Creation of the Draakhorn
    Artistic creation

    The Draakhorn, an ancient relic, was crafted by the dragons about 9000 years prior to the rise of humanoid empires.

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  • 6131

    21 /7

    Birth of Falmír
    Life, Birth

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  • 6201


    Emergence of Kalashtar
    Population Migration / Travel

    The quori are no longer completely cut off from Mondum. Rebel groups of quori escaped Dal Quor and merged with the bodies of willing human monks in the prime material and in neighbouring planes. These quori/human mergings became a true-breeding race known as the Kalashtar.

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  • 6602


    Ascension of Idril Yerentil II
    Political event

    Idril Yerentil II, son of Idril I, nephew of Feanor II, and twin brother of Azari, ascended to the status of thirteenth High Emperor.   Idril II was the emperor who founded the Black Rose Clan.

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  • 6729


    Birth of Defroksanz
    Life, Birth

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  • 6923

    6929


    Construction of Quabus
    Construction beginning/end

    Quabus took six years to fully construct and was a gift from Falmír the Emerald to the red chromatic dragons. The dungeon was taken on as Defroksanz's domain soon after.

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  • 6931


    Founding of the Black Rose Clan
    Founding

    Idril Yerentil II founded the Black Rose Clan to work on his own personal projects. It was rumoured that he conspired with dragons. Leadership passed to his son Cameron, then was disbanded.

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  • 7131


    Black Rose Clan Disbanded
    Disbandment

    The Black Rose Clan was disbanded for unknown reasons, only to reemerge centuries later.

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  • 7840

    7844

    1 /9

    The Dragon Cull
    Extinction

    King Leviticus Draco and his inquisition sought out and killed every last dragon in Terra Caelum.

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  • 7842


    Death of Defroksanz
    Life, Death

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  • 7844

    6 /5

    Founding of the Order of St. Augustus
    Founding

    Clarisa Sunhaven founds the Order of St. Augustus.

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  • 7861

    23 /11

    Founding of the Black Glaives
    Founding

    Salvadore Krauss and his wife Ameria founded the Black Glaives hoping to overthrow King Draco.

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  • 7863

    27 /10

    Massacre of the Black Glaives
    Revolution

    The Krauss' and their Black Glaives attempt to overthrow King Draco, but they fail, leaving every last Glaive soldier to die. However, the Black Glaives managed to capture several townships in the East. Salvadore Krauss then became a twisted individual known as the Broken King. The Broken King ruled over these towns with an iron fist.

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  • 7864

    22 /9

    Death of Salvadore and Ameria Krauss
    Life, Death

    Salvadore perished and his wife disappeared the same day. Salvadore was buried in the Basalt Tomb in his hometown of Vorana.

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  • 7876

    7976


    Trance of the Dryads
    Life, Failure / Mishap

    The remaining test subjects in the second layer in Quabus fell into a hundred-year trance in the overgrown pool, and thanks to transmutation magic, became dryads.

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  • 7923

    6 /12

    Death of Clarisa Sunhaven
    Life, Death

    Clarisa Sunhaven attempted to enter the Tomb of the Broken King with her followers of the Order of St. Augustus. She was trapped within the tomb and perished, her followers being buried by the Broken King within the tomb as well.

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  • 7940

    8 /11

    Birth of Khelben "Blackstaff" Arunsun
    Life, Birth

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  • 7961

    16 /2

    Birth of Arilyn Moonblade
    Life, Birth

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  • 7963

    13 /11

    Birth of Kreewin Moonflower
    Life, Birth

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    Kreewin
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  • 7976

    18 /6

    Reformation of the Black Rose Clan
    Gathering / Conference

    The Black Rose Clan somehow resurfaced around this time, and became a criminal organisation to carry out jobs under the radar of the kingdoms of Terra Caelum

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    Black Rose Clan
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  • Circa 7976
    Discovery of Quabus
    Discovery, Exploration

    A dangerous half-elf priest named Skuvan the Firesoul discovered the ruins of a dungeon that belonged to (who he believed to be) his great grandfather Defroksanz. Skuvan believed that Quabus was his birthright. With the help of allies throughout the west of Terra Caelum, he intended to revive the dragon dungeon and use it as a base of operations.

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  • 7977

    1 /11
    7977

    23 /12

    Construction of Blire Manor
    Construction beginning/end

    Skuvan employed the Black Rose Clan to hide the entrance to the dungeon. By extorting the local Prince Dunkirk Blire-Tomydon and his mother Haretha Blire, a hag named Vera Frogwort who worked for the Black Rose had a manor built over the entrance to the dungeon.

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  • 7981

    4 /12

    Birth of Danilo Thann
    Life, Birth

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  • 7988

    17 /3

    Death of Dunkirk Blire
    Life, Death

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  • 7988

    14 /12

    Birth of Judith Thann
    Life, Birth

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  • 7990


    Death of Haretha Blire
    Life, Death

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  • 7991

    4

    First Automatons
    Technological achievement

    Invention wizards, with the financial support of the Black Rose Clan, began to develop the first automatons. Automatons were the predecessors to the Warforged race, and they had less consciousness or autonomy. In return, the Black Rose Clan extorted advanced technology from the wizards.

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    Tinkertown
  • 7998


    Dani joins the Moonlight Brigade
    Life, Organisation Association

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  • 8002

    23 /4 15:00
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    25 /6 21:00

    The War of Hope and Despair
    Military action
  • 8002

    15 /6
    8002

    29 /6

    The Collision
    Metaphysical / Paranormal event

    Planes of existence come crashing together in an event that will change Terra Caelum forever.

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  • 8002

    11 /12 12:00

    Harper Reformation
    Political event

    The Moonlight Brigade and the Indigo Order coalesce into the Harpers faction, a faction concerned with the gathering of knowledge, protection of arts and culture, and watch upon the borders of the Alliance Holds.

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  • 8003


    Arilyn Moonblade becomes a Harper
    Life, Organisation Association

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  • 8006

    19 /2

    Wedding of Arilyn and Dani
    Marriage

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  • 8008

    19 /4

    S&S Chapter 3; Assault on Quabus
    Expedition
  • 8008

    19 /4 9:00

    S&S Chapter 1; Danger at Blire Manor
    Expedition
  • 8008

    19 /4 18:00

    S&S Chapter 2; Into Quabus
    Expedition
  • 8008

    20 /4

    S&S Interlude XI; Silver Flames and Silver Tongues
    Expedition
  • 8008

    22 /4

    S&S Chapter 4; Blood Moon Wedding
    Expedition
  • 8008

    22 /4

    Marriage of Laeral and Khelben Arunsun
    Marriage

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  • 8008

    22 /4

    The Blood Moon
    Metaphysical / Paranormal event

    On this day, an extremely powerful blood moon rose in Terra Caelum, as Selene wailed in pain for hours.

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  • 8008

    22 /4

    S&S Chapter 5; Taking the Castle
    Expedition
  • 8008

    23 /4 06:00

    S&S interlude XII; Storm Brewing
    Expedition
  • 8008

    23 /4 12:00

    S&S Chapter 6; Those Who Harp
    Expedition
  • 8008

    23 /4 13:00

    The Battle for Hero's Point
    Military action

    The Battle for Hero’s Point was the climactic battle between the Harpers and the forces of Defroksanz and his master.   The battle began with the Harpers encountering Marceli Greatwell and Duskthorn Poppy at the Statue of the Titan. While they fought, Storm Silverhand and the The Unchained were fighting off the incoming dragons, trying to minimise the damage done to the village.   After defeating Greatwell and Poppy, the Harpers were told by Storm to head to the Hanging Tower to gain vampire sorceresses' help to help repair the clocktower’s magical anti-dragon wards. Along the way they encountered Rock, who was under the command of Defroksanz once more.   After defeating Rock, the Harpers were already down a few spell slots. Once they approached the Hanging Tower, they also alerted the vampires of their presence.   The Hanging Tower battle was set in a circular room 40 ft. in radius, therefore 80 ft. in diameter. Radia and Lorelei Chachki appeared across from each other at two ends of the room, forcing some Harpers out of Art's protective aura of courage. During the battle, Arielle was killed and the deceitful sorceress Rose Chachki pretended to be happy to help kill her abusive step-relatives. Arilyn Moonblade returned to the party during this fight, showing off the power of her new Primordial Fusionblade. However Arilyn seemed cocky and task-oriented, ignoring how problematic her behaviour was, and Dani Thann and her appeared to be actively hostile to one another, not healing or supporting one another.   After Rose acquired the Wand of Whispers andCal'li took Radia’s runic battleaxe, every character had improved weapons. Rose tried to betray the group but they easily disposed of her.   Storm resurrected Kelin easily using the magic of the Cobalt Temple to give him cybernetic enhancements. He rejoined the party of Harpers, now accompanied by Arvan and Stefan of the Unchained, and headed to the Cobalt Clocktower.   The Cobalt Clocktower is an imposing 60 foot wide, 320-foot tall circular clock tower. It was built with the simplicity and precision of monks with the expertise of artificers and inventors. There are nine main floors to the tower, with the top-level containing a massive bell and the arcane core of the dragonwards. To activate the dragonwards, multiple other cores must be activated simultaneously across the tower, in floors three, four, six, and eight.   Defroksanz had already wrapped himself around the roof of the clocktower and was able to climb or fly down to take potshots at the Harpers if he so desired. His breath weapon attack could reach those at the bottom of the tower while the Harpers were outside.   After a long, continuous battle through the tower, the Harpers defeated Defroksanz. They beat him repeatedly until Storm, who was emotionally fragile after realising she was a weaveghost, used her silver flames to eliminate Defroksanz's soul.   The Harpers repaired the dragonwards, and the Battle for Hero's Point was over.

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