Powerful mages, sages, and psions seek to escape the terrors of the world by creating elaborate demiplanes and pocket universes.
Overall history of all of Valbara. Includes most of the broad strokes that any resident of the world would know.
Sometimes considered to not be a Flowering at all, but merely a long dark age after the fall of the First Flowering. An era of strife and transformation. Fiends and dark lords ruled the earth. The larger cosmos, with its separation between the material plane and other realms, assumed its general current form. Most of the current races of demihumans came to be.
Powerful mages, sages, and psions seek to escape the terrors of the world by creating elaborate demiplanes and pocket universes.
Wood elves on Barazinbar undergo a ritual to become one with nature, but instead become fungal arachnid monstrosities.
With the help of Veparus, the wood elves of Barazinbar transform themselves to become more one with nature. Veparus' influence twists them into the serpentine Yuan Ti.
Irrin the Eternal slays the Devourer, last and greatest of the dark lords, and ends the Second Flowering.
The age in which giants ruled the earth. All other peoples were either their subjects, or else hid in distant and remote places. The giants erected great structures and even created new lands with their earth magic, and the ruins of their great works dot the land even today. The giant kingdoms eventually fell due to resource depletion and a phenomenon called the Ebb, in which each generation of giants was slightly lesser than the one that came before.
The last great kingdom of the giants, an artificial island continent called the Ebonslab, collapses into the sea for reasons unknown, taking with it the mage-king Skarmyr.
The current age of the world, characterized by the rise and development of human, elf, dwarf, and related civilizations. Dates in this modern era are abbreviated as HR, for Hightower Reckoning. This refers to the sighting of the Ebonslab's collapse into the sea from the top of the Hightower, the tallest structure in the world, in far southeastern Valbara.
Ashwyn Magesar, the most powerful figure on the Elven Isles, grows uneasy with her niece's talent, and so sacrifices her to their ancestors.
The Yuan Ti begin to show activity in their ruins in the jungles of Barazinbar.
The Ulaeris Empire, which at that time controlled all of northern, central, and eastern Valbara, attempts to conquer Medirra, but is repelled by an alliance of Medirran Ahadimoja. The failure sends ripples throughout the Empire, sewing the seeds for its future destabilization.
Separatist groups in the eastern Empire go into open rebellion, culminating in a massive civil war that ravages the entire continent. The war ends with a much reduced Ulaeran Empire, a new nation in the Hightower Confederacy, and the vast territory of the Free and Disputed lands between them.
Somewhere in central Valbara, Balduuhm the Harvester is reborn.
The Lady, a powerful Necromancer, seems to emerge from the mysterious nation of Khasima Tha and conquers Lorraine, turning all of its inhabitants into undead thralls. She is defeated and killed by the Silver King, and her thralls brought back to life by a staggeringly powerful ritual.
Through diabolically skilled maneuvering, plotting, and statecraft, the Silver King begins to gain power in the Hightower Confederacy.
A falsified will in the Ulaeran city of Argenmont gradually escalates into a huge political crisis as family members take sides, factions form, and longstanding rivalries and plots come into play.
The cloud giant kingdom of Varm, long isolated, suddenly conquers Verine in northwestern Medirra. If one knows where to listen, one hears rumors of the Fifth Flowering and a so-called Star of the Morning, an apparent messiah.
Bryll, Madraga, Toby, and Vicis meet on a riverboat en route to Whitebridge.
The Mile Ridge Company enter Veparus' tomb and entrap his spirit within a soul jar.
The Lodestar, in the caldera of Kharm, activates. Witnesses who survive report a beam of blue light piercing the heavens, and the volcano and its surrounding lake freezing solid.
The adventure begins. Ander, Flea, Tipatu, and Zain arrive at Drytusk Station.
The balance of power shifts as The Morning burn the Jatsuo Temple and defeat Tse Buo, the Jatsuo god of greed.
The ceremony that decides Kangambe's future.