History and Timeline of Athesia

== A summary of Athesia's written History ==
The ancient history of the peninsula we call the land of Athesia is mostly lost to time. What little can and has been pieced together by archaeologists and exhumed from the sparse writings kept by tandem cultures such as the Deva and the Dragonborn indicates many years of suffering and building following a series of events called the dragon wars. Roughly dated around 60,000 years Before New Athesia, the time running from then until 2000 years BNA is mostly undocumented. Between 2000 and 1000 BNA is the height of Old athesia. 
Old Athesia was formed of 5 distinct kingdoms. Over the millennium there are many documented civil wars and power struggles. In the years leading up to the turn of the millennium there was a truce and an attempt at a possible alliance. However after a few years a combination of resurging civil war and magical cataclysm signalled the end of these Old Athesian Kingdoms.
Between the fall and Modern Athesia many of these kingdoms devolved into sparse and rural communities beset by darkness and destruction. Over time, with populations dwindling, a man named Kiya spread word of a new attempt at and Athesian Alliance. Building from the ground up, there would be order and structure to push back the darkness that now beset that land. At this point New Athesia was formed and the history forthwith is documented in this timeline below. 
== Athesian Timeline ==
BNA [Before New Athesia]
AL [Ad Lucem, ancient elven, (roughly)  Dawning Light]
BNA >60,000- Creation of Athesia.
BNA ~60,000- The Dragon War.  
BNA <60,000 >1000- The extra-planar Elves of the Lexum Empire are forced from their homelands by the Blood War and arrive in Athesia.  
BNA <1000- Old Athesia is devastated by a series of events including civil war and the destruction of the Ivory Tower.
AL 0- King Kiya invites heroes to Unity City to form the first council of new Athesia. 
Ma'keth, greater litch and servant of Horus, attacks Athesia and is discorporated by the new founded council. (A New Dawn)
AL 1- A corrupted Avatar of Pelor is found in the abandoned Spire of Pelor. (Prison or Paradise)
The lost Dwarven city of Aton Thorvald is reclaimed from the Duergar. (Dark City)
Dangerous elemental activity builds in the Broken Lands. (The Elemental Storm)
AL 2- The corrupted Avatar of Pelor is cleansed of taint from the Far Realms. (Light of Clarity)
Athesia is made aware of a growing army of Lycans lead by an ancient hero when they rescued Arch Druid Swirl from peril. (Whispering Mountains) 
The Drow corsair armada begins harassing the coastal regions of the Dark Plains. (Fleet of Shadows)
Athesia becomes aware of the dangerous Shadowfell Empire. (Blind to the Dark)
AL 3- Thane Oskar of Tor Gart [ancient God-Cursed Mountains] leads an army of Lycans on Athesia, he and the bulk of his forces are slain and his hammer now resides in the Dwarven city of Aton Thorvald. (Howling Mountains)
Shyraide betrays her fellow Elemental Generals and assists Athesia in a plan to destroy them. (Critical Mass)
A plan is concocted to anoint a new Pharaoh of Thanya [ancient Dead Wastes. Onuris, son of the last Pharaoh and only of the sons to not be involved with the Pharaoh's assassination, is the candidate] to bring magical stability to the Dead Wastes whilst exploring the magic of the newly unearthed Black Library. (The Never-ending Dawn)
AL 4- With Shyraide's assistance the Athesian Council destroys the Elemental Generals. Though Shyraide is betrayed in turn by Councillor Marcellus and her soul is taken by necromantic forces. (Hidden Powers)
Acolytes of Thor are found in the “thought to be godless” God-Cursed Mountains. (Holy Rock)
Athesia is made aware of the forgotten Dragon War. (The Scales of Time)
AL 5- The Dark Emperor of the Shadowfell marches on Athesia with his forces and is defeated by a united Council. (Shadows Falling) 
It is discovered that the Drow and the darker forces of the Dark Plains are working together and are summoning Demons. It is also discovered that the once Dawn King of Esparr [ancient Dark Plains] has returned unexpectedly (Drow Diplomacy / Grasping Rays of Dawn)
AL 6- One of the great Drow noble families summons a greater demon to destroy Athesia. Refusing the help of another noble family to summon a counter demon, the Athesian Council elects to force it back through it's portal. With the apparent death of King Kiya the demon and he are pushed back into the portal. (Demons and Mortals)
AL 7- Despite the near death of Onuris, a new Pharaoh is crowned in the Dead Wastes. The new Pharaoh is Nkosi [one of Onuris's brothers], he was redeemed from evil by Athesian Councillors. The other brothers are slain and their necromantic forces decimated. (The Crowning of a New Age) 
King Kiya is returned to Athesia. 
AL 8- The Far-realm corrupted Dawn King and the nobles loyal to him assault the lands of Athesia after diplomacy fails. With the aid of his son the Dawn Prince the Council slays the Dawn King, slays or puts to rout his allied Nobles and the Dark Plains are cleansed of Far-realm taint, but in the process a famine sweeps across the Dark Plains. (Dark Dawn Rises)
After taking an angel prisoner Athesia discovers a devious plot by the Rakshasa to incite enmity between Councillors. (Veiled from Heaven) 
The leader of the Tiamat tribe of Dragonborn is seemingly removed as a threat after his mind is destroyed by Councillor Slath i Faigh. (Blood in the Ruins) 
AL 9- Despite how it previously seemed the Rakshasa are being manipulated by King Kiya, who is revealed to be Marcus Imperius Princaii an Illumian and ascended Deva.  His plan to sacrifice angels to ascend the rest of the Deva is altered by the Athesian council. Sacrificing instead much of the life force of Fenrir the world wolf, the council ascends the Deva and then binds them eternally to the service of Athesia with the ancient Fey Oath stone along with the once King Kiya. (Athesia Ascendant) 
The elven mind plague is cured with the destruction of a Gestalt entity made of the stolen memories. (Capital Measures)
AL 10- Empress Imperatrix Augusta Octavia Vitalion Silvanus Magia of old Lexum [ancient Broken Lands] declares a pyrrhic war on Athesia. The Council mitigates as much of the collateral damage as possible and slays the Empress. With her death the puppet-corpses of her empire cease to function and are left scattered around the Broken Lands. (Wrath of the Empress)
A truce is formed between the three Dragonborn tribes, and true Dragons are returned to Athesia for the first time since the Dragon War. (The Bigger They Are)
AL 11- The vales [the extra planar homelands of the dragonborn] phase into the same dimension as Athesia and plummet to the ground. The council, with aid from the Empire and one of the Drow noble houses, divert the lands leaving them to rest east of Athesia by the Drow coast. In doing so a great many Dragons were hatched into the world. (A Fragile Alliance)
AL 12- The planes of existence converge, at the behest of the solstice cirlce the athsian council find a solution to planar collapse in order to prevent the circle from starting over. The solution was to sew two of the planes together and use shadow weavers to maintain the link. This prevented the total collapse of the planes and allowed for the fey woods to continue to be verdant and heavily tied to the fey wilds, it also brought about a return of the Shadowfel. In a separate but connected series of events the fey courts were brought to a truce. (The Convergence)
(Prelude to a new War)
AL 13- (Stolen Unity)
(All Hell Broken Loose)
(A Song of Ice and More Ice)
AL 14- (Ragnarok)