Master Timeline

The bastardous Yema, better known as the 'New Gods', finally could not contain their greed or animosity towards the Old Gods for giving the Yema's first creations, the High Races(High Elves, High Dragons, and Titans), freedom from the control of the Yema and the gift of sentience and free will - and over this, the Yema went to war against the Old Gods in a cataclysmic war that culminated in a slaughter so cataclysmic that parts of reality were permanently torn asunder, as the Yema tore the original creators of reality apart to take their power for their own. Spurned by this genocide, the primordial Yema of obliteration and oblivion would awake and devour the first city forged by mortal hands.

The Yema, now christened the "Major Gods", returned from their eons long seclusion to find the High Dragons locked in an eternal war with the Titans, both eager to use their immense power to proclaim themselves the rightful rulers of all the material planes left behind in the Yema's absence.   The High Elves, the only one of the three that remained neutral in the Yema's absence and continued their duties as they had been commanded, were spared the ensuing storm of destruction and punishment unleashed by the Yema on the High Dragons and the Titans alike, stripping both of their power and reducing them to Dragonkind and Giantkind as they are more commonly known today.

The beginning of recorded history, the Sapphire Elves - a term used to describe the High Elves before the Yema stripped them of their true power - rose to form a unified empire after eons of quiet evolution across reality. Rising up to form an empire that spanned galaxies and crossed the Material Plane, they took up the role of Shephard on the material plane after they found the tomb of the Old God Rakmou-Dahmu, who spoke to them great secrets that spurned the normally vagrant High Elves into action, motivating them to form an empire and personally lead the other races for reasons unknown.

Though the Yema were clear in their orders of abandoning the teachings of the Old Gods and their ways, the Sapphire Elves ignored the orders given to them and cracked open the tomb of the Old God Rakhmou-Dahmu, speaking to the ancient Old God and making peace with it, learning of the sins of the Yema and the evilness with which they schemed - and using its awesome power to found their galactic empire.   Though they warred mightily against the Yema, in the end the Sapphire Elves could not hope to match the true rulers of reality - and in their defeat, they were cast down, stripped of most of their power, and made into the High Elves of the modern day - pale, broken husks of what they once were. Their empire laid low and Rakmou-Dahmu at large, the Sapphire Elves were broken and the people they had sought to protect and enlighten in the ways of the Old Gods were now wholly vulnerable and exposed to the attacks of the Yema...who now sought to destroy them, and all to whom the Sapphire Elves had taught the blasphemous teachings of the Old Gods to.

Now bereft of the protection that had once been given by the Sapphire Elves, the last remnants of those who kept the teachings the Sapphire Elves and fought back against the Yema were forced back to Hyeojiin Island by the forces of the damnable Yema - who sought to destroy them to finish their war of obliteration.   Forced into a corner with no better option, the last six survivors of the war performed a grand ritual in a desperate last resort to save the teachings of the Old Gods from total destruction - and summoned the Spirit Kings by sacrificing their bodies and souls to become vessels for the infinite, otherworldly might of the Spirit Kings.

Though their stay on the material plane was long, the Spirit Kings were forced to abandon their corporeal forms given to them by the Six Ancestors after they were badly damaged in their cataclysmic battle against the Witch Kings of Bhorsis-Razghul.   Leaving their children and a restored Zheng-Kitar behind, the Spirit Kings promised to forever look over those they had made and restored forevermore - but would not entrust the world to those they would leave behind.

Making a deal with the far off Aenorian Empire of the High Lamia, the up and coming Tyrant Cao Lu invited the legendarily dangerous High Lamia into his burgeoning empire as his royal guard - using them to drive off the High Human Hegemony of Man from Zheng-Kitar, tricking the High Lamia and the Princess that led them and luring them in with false promises to get them to support him in his insidious rise to power.

After the tyrant Cao Lu's death of natural causes, the princess of the High Lamia that he had taken on as his royal guard took over control of his empire of terror in his place and, after several failed assassinations, fended off a last-ditch effort made by the people of Zheng-Kitar to destroy her and gain their liberty and independence back.   However, it was not to be - the High Lamia Princess devoured the Six Heroes and brought a pathetic, relatively easy end to the last resistance efforts of the populace to stand against her and crushed it flat - devouring the Six Heroes and gulping them down without much effort. However, in doing so, she absorbed their memories and learned much of the people of Zheng-Kitar's beliefs...and of how she and her people were tricked by Cao Lu long ago. Having seen the truth through the memories of the heroes she devoured, the High Lamia princess had a change of heart and soon saw the errors of her ways.

Having seen the light of the Spirit Kings and converted herself and those of her kind willing to follow her to the faith and ways of the Spirit Kings, the High Lamia Princess, now commanding an allied coalition that aimed to wipe out the last holdouts loyal to the far off High Lamia Empire and Cao Lu's loyalists, stomped out the last bastions of loyalist resistance on Zheng-Kitar and started the foundations of a new nation where she and her people could be free.   With the destruction of these last loyalists elements to Cao Lu and High Lamia rule, the last elements and reminders of Cao Lu's tyrannical, despotic rule was over at last, and life could finally move on...

As the boundaries between the planes thinned, the armies of the evil aligned outer planes staged a massive invasion of Zheng-Kitar as portals to those realms opened up all across the northernmost icy reaches of the Shenchuan Tundra, pouring out legions upon legions of devils, demons, daemons, and more that would organize and head south - eventually slamming into the Dwarves of Nan-Durghalihr, who would be given the unfortunate task of handling the war all on their lonesome while the rest of the world looked on in terror.

Though the armies of the Infernal Host were defeated by the marching armies of the Celestial Host summoned by the dwarves of Nan Dhurgalir, that same Celestial Host would in time turn on them - determined to wipe the last traces of the Spirit Kings faith from reality.   However, the Dwarves were not so easily defeated - and in a final, desperate effort to save themselves from destruction at the hands of the Celestial Armies, they abandoned their capital of Nan Dhurgalir and caught the remnants of the Celestial Host in a deadly trap - sealing the leaders of the Host and the remains of their armies inside the city and sealing all away forever. As a result, the Dwarves of the north became a people without a home, and began a long journey to find a new place to call their own.

The Shaoshu Empire, once the greatest and biggest empire of the Age of Conquest - the very symbol of imperialism - fractured and fell to a combination of infighting, corruption, and pressure from the peoples they had conquered centuries ago to form the empire. It fractured into a mess of warring states and empires that each hold some claim to the unified throne, or in some cases wish the empire to stay dead and try to keep it that way.   With its fall, it heralded the end of the Age of Conquest and the slow decline of Imperialism as peoples all across the land began to place greater importance on independence.

Spelling the death knell for Imperialism everywhere, the Sakhradi Canal was a marvel of engineering at the time and in the modern era still - constructed by the fledgling city-state of Sakhrad after the Khadagan Commonwealth refused them trading rights and cut them out of a vast majority of Oceanic Trade.   The Sakhradi Canal single-handedly showed the world the power of a free-willed people - and with the establishment of the canal, Sakhrad single-handedly assured its dominance over the Oceanic Trade of much of south and eastern Zheng-Kitar and cut off its rival, the Khadagan Commonwealth, from the trade it had once cut Sakhrad off from.

Driven by the promise of newfound riches, countless people across Zheng-Kitar set off into the wilds, hoping to strike it rich and uncover that which dwells in the world's undiscovered corners...