Timeline of Events

The Timeline of Events is a recording of the major historical occurrences within the Divine and Damned universe.

## Before Creation

* The Primordials come forth into the Void, in the event known as the Big Bang.

## Creation

* Creation begins when God sends forth his Seven Hosts of Angels.
	+ The First Great Work has the angels create the physical universe, in all its layers of reality.
	+ The Second Great Work has angels create the various forms of animal life across the cosmos.
	+ The Third Great work has the angels create mankind.

## Age of Strife

* The Great Debate between Cain, Abel and Seth is held. After days of fruitless discussion, Abel declares that he and the fallen angels will assault Heaven to oust God from his throne. This prompts a great battle between him and his brother Cain, which breaks causes the layers of reality containing spirits and the physical to separate for the first time, and prevents their brother Seth from interfering in their battle. The fight ends as Cain commits the First Murder by killing his brother Abel.
	+ Abel's soul is collected by angels of the Fallen.
	+ Seth is infused by the damaged souls of the creatures slain by Cain and Abel during the First Murder, resulting in him becoming the first Skinchanger. Seth tears Cain apart, killing him, and is subsequently taken away by Zephaniah, the leader of the conciliator angels.

## Posttemporal Solidification

* C 450,000,000 BC: Seth emerges from the Age of Fury, during the Ordovician Period.
* C. 200,000 BC: Cain emerges from the Age of Fury, during the late Pleistocene Epoch.

## Age of Atlantis

### 11405 BC

* Jager is born within a valley in modern day Switzerland.

## Age of Nod

### 8004 BC

* The angels unleash the Great Flood, destroying the Noddite Empire and wiping away the last traces of Atlantean magical knowledge.

### 7756 BC

* Adam emerges from the temporal distortions of the Age of Fury.

### 5097 BC

* Samiel and Clan Dumah declare war against Kali and Clan Vetala, beginning the First Black Purge.

### 4420 BC

* Mi-ka-il is born in the city of Uruk to Adam and Princess Abi-Sim.

## Ancient Era

### 1184 BC

* Damianos, recently Embraced by Jager, engages the eidolized Achilles in combat outside the walls of Troy. After a titanic struggle, Damianos emerges victorious.
* Damianos and Amara are Embraced by Jager.

### 857 BC

* Akros is born in modern day France, in what is today the commune of Virv.

### 254 BC

* Dominicus Julius Vitellus is born in Rome.

### 191 BC

* The Romans conquer the Po River Valley, resulting in the first meeting and battle between Akros and Damianos.

### 419 AD

* Caius Galerius Cato is born in Rome, during the waning days of the Empire.

### 461 AD

* Caius Galerius Cato is Embraced by Julric.

## Middle Ages

### 847 AD

Nicolas Mason is born in the city of York in Northumbria, modern day England..

### 867 AD

Nicolas Mason begins the Great Werewolf Purge.

### 983 AD

* Tristan Beauclair is born in West Frankia.

### 1003 AD

* Faust Embraces Tristan, Antoine, Helena, and Lucien Beauclair.

### 1060 AD

* Augustine-Dieubonne le Boutillier is born in France.

### 1066 AD

Nicholas Mason concludes the Great Werewolf Purge, settling down in the city of Limerick, Ireland.

### 1075 AD

* Antonio De Mariano is born in Rome, Italy.

### 1096 AD

* Augustine-Dieubonne le Boutillier is Embraced by Nicolas Mason.

### 1204 AD

* The Sack of Constantinople takes place. Latinus is destroyed.

## Modern Era

### 1602 AD

* Johannes Breidenstein is born at his family estate outside Munich in the Duchy of Bavaria.

### 1689 AD

The Sanguine Brotherhood is founded by Edgar Cullen.

### 1923 AD

The Archduke Abaddon begins whispering to Adolf Hitler. Abaddon's agents on Earth begin manipulating events so as to facilitate Hitler's rise to power. Meanwhile, his ally, the Archduke Gadreel, begins manipulating Joseph Stalin through his pawn, Svarog.

#### 1936 AD

The family of wealthy Chicago businessman Alistair Crout is killed by a newly turned vampire. Crout begins recruiting other individuals to begin forming a group of supernatural hunters.