There must have been a time, so long ago that no one can now date it, when the ancient peoples of Magicians' End, first began to worship the Old Gods.
The last of the prehistoric eras and the transition point into the modern world. Events occuring in this age and earlier ones cannot be accurately dated, and in some cases, even the conventional sequencing is open to question.
There must have been a time, so long ago that no one can now date it, when the ancient peoples of Magicians' End, first began to worship the Old Gods.
The Blood Iris Sisters are related to the Fey and chose to settle in this realm at some unknown date in the remote past.
The Way of Trinity Moon is a spiritual order dedicated to celestial observation and contemplation of the mysteries of the cosmos and its greater setting within the Discontinuum. Its origins are incredibly ancient and are thought to belong to the time when the first Fey visited the realm and imparted their wisdom to indigenous shamen. For thousands of years the world itself was known as Trinity Moon by the Fey and by its own peoples, until the unfortunate events of the Sundering gave it the name we now use.
The Painted Peoples were a culture that transitioned from a nomadic to a settled way of life at the beginning of recorded history. They are known to have adorned their faces and arms with richly coloured paints.
Pavol-Rag-Rag is the oldest city of the Painted Peoples and their chronicles provide a date for the foundation which in modern systems has been calculated to be 12238 BPC (Twelve thousand, two hundred and thirty eight years Before the Planar Conformation).
The ceremony for the death of a much beloved early leader of the Painted Peoples became a famous occasion when it was riven with treachery and intrigue, leading to permanent splits that shaped the course of the Old Kingdoms for generations afterwards. Frequently referenced in song and story.
An aproximate date when the Crimson Codex was written down in Wet Cursive, one of the most ancient languages of the Painted Peoples.
Soque has an excellent claim to be the oldest continuously inhabited settlement in the world.
The Settlement of Zaranon was a peace treaty between three factions on the continent of Myruthea, resulting in the merger of two of them to form the Kingdom of Myruth, the first of the New Kingdoms.
The port town of Sunrock is founded and becomes an important staging post in the opening up of Tinturbean during the early history of the New Kingdoms.
The northern Punjuki city of Katrapetch was founded by migrants from the New Kingdoms of Myruthea. Although its early history is somewhat murky, the Court Circle of Katrapetch traditionally claims that its own foundation and that of the city are one and the same.
Cynran is the oldest continuously inhabited settlement on Tinturbean and one of the oldest in the world.
The Empire of Bradalkut gains full control over Punjuki, becoming the first great power to do so when it conquers Katrapetch.
The Triple Enfolding Treaty is an agreement which unites the Kingdom of Helbidden, the Commonwealth of Owpin and the Bress Protectorate to form the Trinity Moon Triple Enfolding. The Enfolding was the most powerful political group to have existed in the world to this date.
The Kingdom of Snowborne is founded when Rynelder I, declares independence from the Great Northern Dukedom of Peld.
The Axial Tower was the centre of arcane operations in the Kingdom of Snowborne.
The Mage King Lanald of the Kingdom of Snowborne, creates the Snow Wand at the Axial Tower.
On this date, The Fey Court established an embassy, with the Kingdom of Snowborne at their northern capital of Iceholt when the world still had the name of Trinity Moon. This is the only example known to the Stability Council of a formal relationship between an evolution and an archetype. Although the association between the Fey and the Kingdom of Snowborne did not technically last for a full thousand years, it is still popularly called the Thousand Year Alliance.
The port city of Oroth is established by the Trinity Moon Triple Enfolding on the western coast of Tinturbean.
The Mage King Johanus, ruler of the Kingdom of Snowborne signs a peace treaty with the Trinity Moon Triple Enfolding in which they agree to suspend the low level hostilities which had arisen from recent tensions between the two powers.
The Cataclysmic Fall of the Kingdom of Snowborne that brought the Thousand Year Alliance to an end. From this time forward the term "Trinity Moon", the previously accepted name of the realm, falls into disuse and the world acquires its new name, "Magicians' End", as a permanent reminder of the scale of this ancient diasater.
A long dark age of cold with highly fragmented societies and only a few isolated city states.
The Cataclysmic Fall of the Kingdom of Snowborne that brought the Thousand Year Alliance to an end. From this time forward the term "Trinity Moon", the previously accepted name of the realm, falls into disuse and the world acquires its new name, "Magicians' End", as a permanent reminder of the scale of this ancient diasater.
The Book of Ages, a compendium of writing from many sources before the Sundering is a grab-bag of myths and history in many styles and was an attempt to try to preserve the culture of an earlier age when it must have looked like the whole world could be ending. Later historians owe a great debt to the unknown editor(s) who undertook this work.
One of the more ancient surviving continuously inhabited cities (although by no means the oldest), founded on a meltwater lake at the edge of the ice sheets of the time, which has long since dried up.
The revelations of the divine harmonies are sounded in secret dells and hidden glades throughout Magicians' End, leading to the formation of the Way of the Harmonic Path.
The Book of the North commemorates the lives lost in the Sundering and was consecrated exactly one thousand years after the event in the age of the Long Thaw.
The Twelve Wise Ones made the first attempt to establish a body for the resolution of disputes between city states since the collapse of the Triple Enfolding following the Sundering, almost two thousand years before.
Jebbin City was settled by a group of mages who were unhappy with the rule of the Twelve Wise Ones and travelled west to live beyond their reach. The Town Foundation Stone was carved by the mage, Jebbin, with glowing orange runes which are still illuminated even today.
A series of wars between the small kingdoms of central and eastern Myruthea, which gave rise to the creation of the Old Pale Empire.
The Treaty Of Pale between the cities of Klaractazum and Ralsimoor was signed at the lakeside town of Pale on the shores of Pale Lake.
The Kingdom of Klaractazum falls to the armies of Zalgurim, after a three month siege of the city between 17th of Findil and 8th of Doloph.
The longest lasting and greatest of all political structures on Magicians' End, before or since, the Old Pale Empire was over 4500 years old before it was finally destroyed in the aftermath of the Planar Conformation.
The defeat of the Jebbin League, gave the Pale Empire control over the last significant area of Myruthea to retain independence.
The advance of the Old Pale Empire into northern Punjuki, described more fully in the article The Northern Punjuki Campaign.
Empress Galea orders the armies of the Old Pale Empire into war on the continent of Tinturbean, resulting in three intense periods of conflict punctuated by short truces which concluded with the effective conquest of the entire continent.
The Old Pale Empire invests in the rebuilding of the ruined northern port of Peld, once part of the Kingdom of Snowborne, then buried in ice.
A failed attempt to establish independent rule from the Old Pale Empire on Tinturbean. It was put down ruthlessly and the end of the rebellion was the start of a period of more than a thousand years of peace until the War of the Three Sisters.
Emperor Paul II grants a charter to the city of Vrandakan and declares it to be the regional capital of the Old Pale Empire on Klokken Isle.
The Old Pale Empire Road links the western and eastern oceans on Myruthea.
The city of Fogport receives an imperial charter, having developed rapidly due to its favourable position at the eastern end of the Old Pale Empire Road.
Honirham was in a much more favourable location for access to Tinturbean and Punjuki and benefited greatly from the construction of the Old Pale Empire Road.
A civil war between the half sisters, Acetta, Beatrice and Cecilia daughters of Emperor Myrold II who disputed the succession to the throne of the Old Pale Empire. The War of the Three Sisters was the first conflict the Empire had experienced for more than a thousand years and it was profoundly shocking to the citizens who had come to expect the peaceful conditions under which they had all lived for so long.
An architectural wonder built according to the precepts of the Way of the Harmonic Path as a centre for singing, contemplation and the veneration of the Town Foundation Stone which stands at the centre of the great building.
The Prophet Hylacon, reappears at Ralsimoor with renewed warnings for the world. A wave of enthusiasm results in the foundation of the second chapters and the foundation of the Hylacon Peoples.
Honirham and Tarris are connected by regular air travel, linking Myruthea and Tinturbean.
A reconfiguration of the local Geometries within the Discontinuum which had widespread effects in regions of the multiverse alarmingly close to the evolutions monitored by the Stability Council. It had profound consequences for the realm of Magicians' End in particular, altering the laws of form there, to make new and powerful magics possible and giving rise to the astonishing supernatural intrusion of the Dark Domains.
The denizens of Novanoir start their expansion over Magicians' End. The Old Pale Empire faces its final tests.
Between these dates, the capital of the Old Pale Empire was subjected to a series of meteroric bombardments, instigated from the Dark Domains. The Emperor and most of the senior military leaders were killed on the 23rd and by the 27th, the city had been utterly ruined. In short order the Empire which had lasted for over four thousand years collapsed into chaos, unable to offer more than a token resistance to further incursions.
A chaotic period of struggles between the collapsed remnants of the Old Pale Empire and the disruptive malgnancy that sought to spread out from the Dark Domains.
The loss of the town of Brukin in western Tinturbean, to forces which had sailed and flown from the Dark Domains was the first serious military defeat for the peoples of Magicians' End since the catastrophic destruction of Honirham. Inadequately defended by a rump of disorganised remnants from the Old Pale Empire armies it fell easily and became a bridgehead for further invasions deeper inland.
The The Hylacon Peoples conduct a long covert project to construct the Hylacon Gates around the perimeter of the Dark Domains.
The process of commissioning and activating the mystic Hylacon Gates, which had been built over the previous three decades was known as the Locking of the Hylacon Gates. Its successful conclusion vindicated the plans of the Hylacon Peoples, sealing the Dark Domains and ending the Breach Wars, although this was not achieved without great sacrifice.
The Transcendence of Hylacon was the culminaton of the work of the Hylacon Peoples when the Hylacon Gates were locked at the Easter Gate and Hylacon redeemed the world. This date is celebrated annually as Easter day.
The Flame Kingdoms were a number of relatively small fiefdoms in Punjuki, ruled by a group of geomancers. Though never global in scope they were the most signifcant powers of their age.
The Society of Arcane Adepts grew from the remnants of the Hylacon Peoples to provide a group for mutual aid, supporting magic users throughout Magicians' End
The controlled eruption of Mt. Defiance on the continent of Punjuki, kills a dragon from the Dark Domains and heralds the beginnings of the Flame Kingdoms.
The Water Kingdoms marked an important step forward in the reclamation of Magicians' End after the upheavals of the Planar Conformation, when it became safe enough to risk sailing the seas again and new, bold, powers arose to supplant the Flame Kindgoms of Punjuki.
The Fisher King makes the first successful voyage between Myruthea and Punjuki since the end of the Old Pale Empire and establishes the city of Nephatar as the first of the Water Kingdoms.
The Festival of the Elements became a long standing tradition after this first one. It was organised by the Society of Arcane Adepts, and took place roughly every twelve years in different cities throughout the world.
The Solemn Swearing was a private ceremony for grandfather (Allakai), father (Serndin) and son (Mikerav), when they collectively dedicated themselves to rule over Magicians' End.
Allakai, his son Serndin and grandson Mikerav were the supreme rulers of a world wide hereditory dictatorship they called the Arcane Supremacy. The historian Hera Plerin, writing some two centuries after the end of their dynasty, coined the phrase, "three rogue mages" to describe them and that is the name by which this period of history is now known.
Simon Matterbull was a famous playwright who penned his most famous works at the beginning of the Arcane Supremacy.
The Puzzle Lords were an oligarchy of aristocrats who ran a kind of international government from a number of notionally independent city states.
The Northern Gambit is the name of an opening and a famous game of Tangle Web which determined the course of the expansion of the Puzzle Lords into northern Tinturbean.
The northern Tinturbean city of Quarowl is granted a charter by the Puzzle Lord Appavern Maneck and begins to grow rapidly.
Feldem's Hunting Lodge was built according to the orders of Baron Ivan Feldem in the northern foothills of the central mountains of Punjuki.
The Great Gaming Hall of Quarowl is the most famous building in the city of Quarowl.
The notoriously unconventional Fisher King of Nephatar, King Brenden II goes missing, presumed dead on an expedition to the Dark Domains.
A period of prolonged drought and high temperatures caused by a short term increase in solar radiation. The Puzzle Lords Directorate lost control over government which retreated into less sophisticated local power structures no bigger than city states.
The discovery of the Argin Spring by the geologist Claire Argin leads to the foundation of the town of Arginbury.
The story of Hella and the Widow is a local legend which they tell in the city of Nephatar.
The Tree of New Greening was a symbolic ancient woodland giant in north Myruthea, which was chosen as a symbol of renewal as drought conditions eased at the end of the Years of the Long Famine. A gathering there of leaders from all over the world would lead to the formation of the First Popular Ascendancy.
The First Popular Ascendancy was a democratic movement with an anti-magical policy which arose in the years following the long famine.
The Houses of the Hungry are a memorial to the victims of starvation from the city of Klaractazum in the Age of the Long Famine. They are a centre for contemplation but also for welfare, administered by the Covenant of Nourished Souls.
Oloonya Sarald develops the formula for Arcane Amplification Perfume, extracted from the Triquetra Orchid which she had discovered three years before and it begins to circulate.
The city of Highloft is founded to support the growth of the Triquetra Orchid and the manufacture of AAP.
The New Pale Empire was a short lived attempt to revive the glories of the Old Pale Empire. Sometimes contemptuously called the Paler Empire or the Glass Empire it lasted for little more than thirty years.
The Four Aerial Courts is a name given to a period of history dominated by powers that used great fleets of airships and balloons.
The Great Summit of the Fleets was a grand diplomatic meeting between the leaders of all four of the aerial courts. It was conducted on Saltcross island of the east coast of Tinturbean.
The Free Union of Magical Scholars was formed by a group of mages who were unhappy with the administration of the Institute of Magical Analytics and left to set up their own town and organisation.
The discovery of the illicit work of Alsaibior Rettul in creating the Green Eye disturbs the balance of power between rival magical political groups.
An infamous break down in law and order which occured at the 131st (and final) Festival of the Elements.
The Moderators' Council operated as a power broker within a network of regional governments, managing magical education, licensing mages and punishing arcane transgressions with the stated aim of preventing the rise of chaotic mages.
The Paradise Vale Gardens are a well known tourist attraction which can still be found in the south west of Tinturbean.
Synaptic Unbinding Potion, developed by Ethyl Hendrake at the Institute of Magical Analytics was a breakthrough in enhancing the power of magical spells and superseded Arcane Amplification Perfume which had perfomed a similar role since the late 20th century APC.
An atrocity in which the Examination Board of the Moderators' Council were both literally and figuritively dissolved by the psychotic mage Zemdath Romuth, leading to the overthrow of the Council and the start of the Time of Terrors.
An age dominated by a number of maverick mages who rule competing fiefdoms with little regard for the welfare of their subjects.
An atrocity in which the Examination Board of the Moderators' Council were both literally and figuritively dissolved by the psychotic mage Zemdath Romuth, leading to the overthrow of the Council and the start of the Time of Terrors.
Zemdath the Terrible establishes a permanent gateway to the realm of Noctaliya from Quarowl via the Noctaliyan Gate.
Queen Sheelesha is crowned as the Fisher Queen of Nephatar.
The Battle of the Rising Deep was an attack spearheaded by enraged sea monsters upon the city of Nephatar and orchestrated by the magician Pezulruth Veld. The successful defence was led by Queen Shellesha but came with great loss of life.
The Ruffling of the Feathers was an uprising against Arch Baron Grandalia Coltan in the city of Quarowl
Bontater the Fat was an infamous and cunning mage who ruled in the city of Klaractazum at the end of the 35th century APC.
A concerted attempt made within the Dark Domains to break through the Hylacon Gates at a time of weakness and disarray on Magicians' End. Athough it failed, it is believed to have weakened and damaged the Gates, so that in later years some powerful and covert forces were able to escape.
The Nexorin Pathogen (Sorcerer's Shackles) is identified as the cause of a rapidly spreading pandemic profoundly affecting users of Synaptic Unbinding Potion.
The Second Popular Ascendancy restored a degree of stability to Magicians' End after the chaotic age of the Time of Terrors.
This famous masterpiece came from the artist's studio at Ralsimoor and depicts a scene from the well known story of Hella and the Widow which is an important part of the historical culture of Nephatar.
The famous singer Laura Soosa was subjected to a mirror substitution on this day and operated as a dark fake for the next three years.
This was the start of a long standing tradition of Great Story Fairs which have been held in the city of Katrapetch every ten years on the 1st of Kerax ever since.
A time of fractured and disorganised local governments, dark magic and a second wave of more insidious incursions into the realm.
The Great Gaming Hall of Quarowl was burned to the ground in an act that was thought to be arson, although the culprit(s) were never caught.
The Tinturbean hamlet of High Moons, suffered from a severe infestation of Shadow Suckers which was only purged with great loss of life.
The dark fake that operated as Rayth Halbert was able to inflict much damage on the eastern coastal cities of Myruthea by co-ordinating his attacks with incursions from the Dark Domains.
Feldem's Hunting Lodge is sacked and ruined by some mysterious supernatural invasion from the forest, probably controlled from the Dark Domains.
A short period of thirty five years when the realm was briefly under the control of foreign powers from the Limit Lands until Prince Rygarde's regime was overthrown.
The imposition of a City Protector gave Prince Rygarde direct rule over Katrapetch and swept aside a system of government in the city that had lasted for almost fifteen thousand years.
The Hylacon Gates are butressed with a second ring of gates to reinforce the leaking defences around the Dark Domains.
This was the most recent attempt by democratic radicals to form a parliamentry constitution and provide a popular government with limitations on magical use. It crumbled when the Jewelled Queendoms rose to power.
The town of Coppermint on Tinturbean begins to grow around a mining site opened up by the Third Popular Ascendency.
A secret meeting between Eleth and her daughters that would change the course of history.
Five countries rules by powerful queens who drew their magical strength from sacred jewels.
Queen Oriel I is crowned at the ancient city Klaractazum on Myruthea, becoming the first of the Jewelled Queens.
Lyrinkath the 1st is generally considered to have been the greatest of the jewelled queens.
The mage Ixthamon takes a critical step forward in his rise to supreme power when he seizes control of the Queendom of Katrapetch, imprisoning princess Angeline on the day of her coronation and before she can be crowned, in a palace coup.
Ixthamon delivers the magical assault which overthrows Queen Jayne II of Ralsimoor, destroys the ancient city and creates the dreadful zone known as the Melancholia which surrounds the entire region around the ruined city to this day.
The last free Queendom of Tarris fell to Ixthamon on the final day of the year 5939 APC, when Queen Estella III surrendered to the forces of the all conquering mage.
The powerful magician Ixthamon had complete control of the realm during the age known as the Mad Mage's Autocracy.
Following the successful conquest of the last free Queendom of Tarris and the surrender of Queen Estella III, Ixthamon declares himself the supreme ruler of the world on the first day of 5940 APC, and sets out the new laws of his Autocracy.
A matriarchy which assumed control over Magicians' End after its first members arranged the assassination of the Mad Mage.
In the current age of the world, power is divided between three competing blocks, the Alchemical Assembly, the Congress of Concerned Citizens and the Trans-Oceanic Empire.