Timeline

== Deep Time ==
Anything before modern recorded history is considered Deep Time, and is most likely unknown by the Readers.
== The Awakened Epoch ==
== The Youth Era ==
11,500 Years Ago / 0 YE: An abrupt period of global warming accelerates the glacial retreat; taken as the beginning of the Holocene geological epoch. Meltwater Pulse 1, a sudden rise of sea level by 100 feet within about 10 years. Early Sapient Species begin to organize and make ART.
1500 YE: The Quaternary extinction event concludes. Many of the ice age megafauna go extinct, including the megatherium, woolly rhinoceros, giant elk, cave bear, cave lion, and the last of the sabre-toothed cats. The mammoth goes extinct in Iahoa and Lokoa, but is preserved in small island populations.
2500 YE: Another sudden rise in sea level, Meltwater pulse 2, by 50 feet in less than 40 years; this concludes the early Holocene sea level rise and sea level remains largely stable throughout the Neolithic.
3500 YE: Bronze Age begins.
4500 YE: With Erathes unprotected, The Old Ones come. A true K6 Type civilization, it is difficult to understand such abstract beings. They exist naturally outside of time and space, and are capable of creating universes and multiverses, and destroying them just as easily. It’s similar in concept to a deity. It’s hard to imagine such a civilization, since its perfection and indestructible nature would offer so much potential. They enslave (but not destroy) the races of Erathes, to pilfer her magic.
6500 YE: Secret societies of the learned among the races of the Homsi, Krasna, Alfar, and Bushi come together to resist the Old Ones.
7500 YE: The Sholk are the first servitor race to fully revolt against their Old One masters.
8500 YE: The Old Ones extra-real nature becomes their downfall, and are expelled from Erathes in an event called The Ouster. 
== The Rite of Passage Era ==
0 RE:	The post Old One Age begins. Little is known of this era, except there was much death. Society was reduced back to the Bronze age, losing almost all recorded history and learning. The truth of the Old Ones, the origins of the species, and history was all lost. The religion of Kraz-Vera is founded to preserve what was known, but it is flawed. The lost knowledge would be replaced, over time, with myths and lies.
1500 RE: The Anteon Dark Age ends. Even the Alfar, the longest lived beings on Erathes, have had three full generations since any Old Ones were on Erathes, and have once again passed into myth and legend. Only the scholarly Bushi have much of an idea of the truth.
== The Adult Era (Current Era) ==
1100: First primitive Empyreal Sling invented.
1386: Longbow invented.
1450: Printing press invented.
1450: The first empyreal sling to use an ignition system, a trigger, true lock, stock, and tines, appears.
1494: Accounting invented.
1500: Slingdust became granulated, prior to this it resembled dust.
1515: Slingmaking became a distinct craft, separate from blacksmithing.
1549: Probability invented.
1585: Even after many improvements had been made, Montaigne penned that “the effect of empyreal slings, apart from the shock caused by the report, to which one does not easily get accustomed,” was so insignificant that he hoped they were discarded.
1596: Thermometer invented.
1636: Early empyreal slings were so slow to recharge that the slowest soldiers only fired seven shots during a battle that lasted eight hours.
1643: Barometer invented.
1680: Calculus invented.
1689: Self-powered empyreal slings introduced, gradually increasing over time.
1706: Electrostatic generator invented.
1712: Steam engine invented.
1716: Human flight invented.
1742: New Principles of Emyreal Slingnery originally published.
1753: The lighter and longer Culverin slings of Alfar design began to be used for military purposes.
1776: A farrier creates the first self-powered, quick recharge, high-damage bantam empyreal sling. An arms race began, and people still want the newest, best empyreal sling.
1776: Submarine invented.
1796: Vaccination invented.
1804: Steam locomotive invented.
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