Timeline

The ages of the world are accounted differently by the different races. The angels call all of time up to the present "Before the Revelation of the Name of the Lord of Creation". The giants divide time into "The Reign of Alkiezador, Allfather", "The Reign of Golerex, Father of Giants", and "The Reign of Zalafah, Storm King". Some giants add one or two more ages since the Four Dwarves imprisoned the Storm King, but others say he still rules Glenn. The gods recon time based on the creation and destruction of constellations in the many wars across the heavens.

Humans, with their short lifespans, don't often care about timeframes measured in millenniums. The most common dating system used in the current age is After the Doom of Preataria (ADM): years since the world-spanning Preatari empire came to a sudden end with the capital city mysteriously turning to ash. But those with an interest in history and the means to pursue it generally divide time into ages as defined by the Preatari historian Annalius in his magnum opus *The Twenty Ages of Antiquity*. His predictive sequel *The Twenty Ages of Preataria* has been largely forgotten.

See Calendar for the tracking of days in a year.

## Before Time

* Beginning: none.
* Length: infinite.

* The boundless, formless, and nameless Waters of Chaos contained all matter.
* Above the Waters of Chaos rested the Infinite Spirit.

## The First Age

* Beginning: the creation of Alkiezador.
* Length: unknown.

* Alkiezador Allfather had his name chosen and distinguished from all others held by the Infinite Spirit.
* Alkiezador planted the world tree Mishtar in the Waters of Chaos.
* Alkiezador separated from himself his second heart, ​Zephadora Archmother.
* Alkiezador and Zephadora built their home in the center of Mishtar, called Glenn.
* Alkiezador and Zephadora had seven sons, each born with two hearts like Alkiezador.
	1. Empyrion and his wife Gia had two sons: Golerex "Father of Giants" whose wife was ​Heradia, and Jovus "King of the Gods" whose wife is Hestia.
	2. Hygatha kept both hearts and wanders Mishtar.
	3. Adameos and his wife Evenella heard a prophesy from Hestia that they would serve their younger siblings Angelos and Malekez so they murdered them, cursing themselves and their descendants to death. They had twelve two-hearted sons, the patriarchs of humanity.
	4. Angelos (Adameos' twin) and his wife Malekez were killed and ascended to topmost branches of Mishtar, where the world tree touches the Infinite Spirit, the Highest Heavens. Malekez births a two-hearted son of pure spirit each winter solstice.
	5. Apzullen and his wife Tiamat had one son, Marduk. Marduk murdered his mother Tiamat for having an affair with her nephew Golerex "Father of Giants". Apzullen sacrificed himself to revive Tiamat (as Two-Headed Tiamat) and she gave birth to Lungfu and Draco, the first dragons.
	6. Yogsyloth kept both hearts and rejected Mishtar, wandering into the Waters of Chaos. Tradition holds that he brought with him a bag containing eyes taken from every kind of animal.
	7. Diadar his wife and Fellorien were born after Alkiezador and Zephadora departed from Mishtar. They had seven two-hearted sons, the ancestors of all fey and creators of the five philosophies, who returned to Mishtar in the second age.
* The fourth generation of peoples were born male and female, each with one heart.
* Alkiezador and Zephadora (newly pregnant with Diadar) set sail into the Waters of Chaos to find Yogsyloth and have not returned.
* Empyrion and Gia outgrew Glenn. They now stand in the Waters of Chaos and tend to the world tree from without.
* Golerex, Heradia, and their children, the Titans, drove Jovus, Hestia, and their children, the Zodiacs, off of Glenn in a brief war called the Stelamachy.

## The Second Age - The Dracomachy

* Beginning: the crowning of Golerex.
* Length: about 1000 years

* Golerex created the first crown, naming himself king over all the children of Alkiezador.
	+ He built the city of Golhom in the center of Glenn, and it was home to all giants.
	+ Some humans lived in Golhom, but because of the curse of Adameos most humans had to farm the lands around Golhom to feed their people.
	+ The dragons laid claim to the rest of Glenn and all its riches, attacking any who wandered too far from the city.
	+ The giants began a long war against the dragons, called the Dracomachy.
* The defeated Jovus, with his wife, children, and grandchildren, fled the might of the Titans, being driven to the edge of Glenn and up the four elemental branches of Mishtar.
	+ Jovus carried on his back the mangled bodies of his children, the Zodiacs.
	+ As they journeyed for many years up the branches of Mishtar, the grandchildren of Jovus and Hestia grew wearied and remained behind. They and their decedents became the Scions, elemental gods divided into Four Great Houses of Fire, Water, Air and Earth.
	+ Being unable to heal their children there, Jovus and Hestia continued up to where the branches divide, grow thin, and eventually intermingle, the Great Heavens in the lower canopy of Mishtar. There, with access to all four elements, as well as the pure mana that flows through Mishtar and collects in gemstones (the fruit of the world tree), Jovus and Hestia were able to reincarnate thirteen their fallen children. The Zodiacs lost much of their humanoid appearance, taking on instead the likenesses of animals.
* Beyond the Great Heavens, home to the gods, are the High Heavens, a place beyond the elements where the highest branches of Mishtar reach up into the Endless Spirit. From there Angelos, Malekez, and their children the celestials observed the worlds below them and considered their relationship, as creatures of pure spirit, to the rest of Mishtar.
	+ When their 18th son, the ​Archangel Aberuha, came of age (half a year old) he declared that the celestials were the chosen servants and messengers of the Source of All Names. He said that Angelos and Malekez must forgive their murderers, Adameos and Evenella, and labor for their salvation. Asmodeus, second born of the celestials, disagreed, pointing to Hestias prophesy that the children of Adameos would be ruled over by the children of Angelos as proof and justification for a celestial conquest of Mishtar. The celestials divided between the two and a great debate ensued.
	+ Accounts differ on what followed, with some saying Asmodeus left of his own accord to seek out Yogsyloth in the Waters of Chaos and acquire a material body with which to rule over Mishtar, and others saying he was cast out of the world tree by the ​Archangel Maraha.
	+ Angelos and Malekez, for their part, did forgive their killers and invited the souls of Adameos, Evenella, and their descendants to join the celestials in the High Heavens after their short lives on Glenn.
* The seven sons of Diadar returned to Glenn, telling no one the fates of Alkiezador, Zephadora, and their parents Diadar and Fellorien.
	+ Their descendants are the race of Fey.
	+ They lived apart for a time, interacting minimally with the other races, but they were frequently attacked by dragons so that the seven sons and most of their descendants eventually went to Golhom and were offered protection in exchange for acknowledging Golerex as king.
* The giants built strong walls around the city of Golhom, travelling outside only in strong hunting parties, and the war slowly began to go in their favor. With the assistance of men and fey they mastered doing battle with dragons and coming away victorious. The dragons, led by their mother Two-Headed Tiamat, realized that they would be taken out one by one if they didn't do something, so they gathered into a single force and struck together to destroy Golhom. Many giants were killed, alongside their fey and human subjects, but ultimately the battle was won when Golerex's eldest son, Saar "The Storm Prince", slew the mighty Tiamat, throwing her body into the Abyss surrounding Mishtar.

## The Third Age - The Sciomachy

* Beginning: the defeat of Two-Headed Tiamat.
* Length: about 1000 years

* With Tiamat defeated, what dragons remained fled from Golhom, hiding in deep caves.
	+ Isitos, son of Diadar and Fellorien, whose wife Tymora was killed in the Dracomachy, blamed Golerex and the giants for his wife's death. He decided to seek out Jovus and serve him instead. After traveling for many years, he found Jovus, Hestia, and the celestials in the canopy of Mishtar. He eventually married the bear-like zodiac Ursa. They had three children, first twin girls Libra and Luna, then a boy, Pan.
* Since the world outside had become much safer, the fey, led by their elected king Brenin, asked Golerex to allow them to leave Golhom and explore the rest of Glenn. Golerex agreed on the condition that they take an oath to return to defend the city if he called on them. Brenin and the other fey took an oath upon the mighty iron bones of Golerex to return when called upon.
	+ The direct children of Diadar and Fellorien were still living on Glenn, still forming their philosophies. They were respected by their descendants, but did not lead directly, allowing Brenin, the grandson of ​Moradin and ​Gruumsh to be king.
	+ Alkiezador had created plants, fish, birds, and animals, but Glenn was empty of trees, streams, and mountains. The world was still quite chaotic, with the different elements not yet given proper boundaries.
	+ The most common fey were trolls, who took after giants. When they left Golhom some became rock trolls and tree trolls. Fey souls grow slowly, but the tree trolls studied plants and discovered a way to have many "children" (now called common trees) with lesser souls drawn from the earth and water of Mishtar, and covered much of the land. Rock trolls grew massive, some even taller than the titans, but directing all of their energy towards growth left them slow and weary.
	+ [During the Elemental Age] Some of the followers of Mystra, the last two-hearted child of Diadar and Fellorien, were called naiads and had a great affinity for the sea but did not wish to leave their friends upon the land. They made themselves into beings of living water, and carried the sea as deep into the land as they could, becoming bays and fjords. Since in those days there was not yet any barrier between the physical world of Glenn and the Ether, world of spirit and thought, the naiads were able to learn to carry water from the sea across the sky by force of will and feed rivers, brooks, and streams. Others pulled water through earth to become springs.
* The movement of the fey and their impact on the face of Glenn caught the attention of the Four Great Elemental Houses. Previously most of the outer edges of Glenn had been dominated by the elements of the nearest branches, but the fey were filling the world with life. The houses decided a stop needed to be put to this, and so they waged a war, the Sciomachy, against the peoples of Glenn.
	+ The giants were weakened by the long war against the dragons and caught off-guard by this attack from beyond Glenn. The scions and their hordes of elemental servants overwhelmed every giant counterattack, taking more and more of Glenn.
	+ Many spoils (rare minerals, creatures great and beautiful, fey slaves and spouses) were carried away to the elemental planes and remain there to this day.
	+ The giants were eventually driven back to the walls of Golhom, and the city remained under siege for much of the age.
	+ The fey, having always been ruled over by giants and never having fought themselves, put up little resistance to the scions. Some scions ignored the fey, others killed then, and others took them as slaves.
	+ At that time there was less distance between the different branches of Alkiezador's descendants. Little magic was therefore needed for intermixing between scions and fey. Possibly the most significant offspring produced by this mixing was Pontus, the son of the powerful water scion Nammu and the fey king Brenin.
* Although Golerex built Golhom to be self-sufficient and unassailable, morale among the giants declined over the centuries of siege.
	+ Although forbidden by Golerex, it was during this time that some giants developed a taste for human flesh.
	+ A young human named Jack became the first human to slay a giant, killing the man-eater Cormoran. Knowing Jack was justified, but not being willing to tolerate the presence of human that killed a giant, Golerex took Jack and threw him through the Ether and into the Canopy of Mishtar.
	+ When Golerex offered no explanation for the disappearance of his son, the greatest warrior of all time, the Storm Prince Sarr, many giants gave up hope of winning the war.
	+ They left Golhom and asked the scions to accept their service. Some scions were skeptical of this offer, but all four houses ultimately accepted the giants in as they knew a war between the houses was brewing.
	+ It was while they were serving the Four Great Houses that those giants learned mastery over the elements
* It is not known how exactly the War of Air and Fire began. The four houses had been jockeying for power for centuries while they waited out the siege of Golhom.
	+ Ultimately the House of Earth decided that maintaining the siege and winning the war against the giants was more important than trying to hold more power than the other great houses.
	+ Despite the meddling of the fey being the reason the war had begun, the house of water grew closer to the fey and helped to shield them from the war.
	+ The war was brief but violent, with the House of Air wiping out nearly all the scions of the House of Fire.
	+ In the aftermath, the victorious House of Air reconstructed Glenn. Where before the elements had intermixed in semi-random blobs, the scions of air moved them into fairly uniform layers.
		- At the top, nearest the light of the angels and access to the branches is Air.
		- As a reward for keeping up the siege on Golhom, below Air is Earth.
		- Below Earth is the layer of Water.
		- Smothered beneath Water, just above what is now the Underdark, is Fire.
	+ So that they could view all of Glenn from their home in the branch of air, the scions set the world spinning, making a complete rotation each year (as measured by the birth of a new angel, on what we now call the Ides of Libra).
* Far above the battles raging on Glenn, at the center of the Canopy, a place now called Jovhom, the gods listened with interest to Jack's descriptions of the lives of humans. Hestia with her sight devised a way to see what was happening on the world below, using one of the many large gemstones that grew from the minor branches of the world tree. Her children, the Zodiacs, discovered they could communicate with and subtly influence people, and they bickered over what virtues to encourage. Jovus discovered that the humans could respond, and that power could be given, or better yet received through means of praise or burnt offerings.
* At the other end of Mishtar, the fallen angel Asmodeus, determined to rule all creation, needed a body to carry out his ambitions. He wandered into the darkness of the Waters of Chaos until after many centuries he found Yogsyloth, the sixth son of the Allfather. Yogsyloth was surrounded by half-formed nameless creatures born from the mixing of matter from Mishtar with the untamed waters. They Lord of Chaos and the Lord of Evil made a bargain, Yogsyloth would make a body for Asmodeus, and Asmodeus would create a pathway for Yogsyloth's "children" to travel from the Waters of Chaos up to Glenn.
	+ The body Yogsyloth created for Asmodeus was powerful and hideous, with one eye and an uncountable number of limbs. The vain tyrant uses his angelic powers to appear radiant and beautiful.
	+ To find and communicate with Yogsyloth, Asmodeus built a tower on the base of Mishtar, pointed down into the waters of Chaos. Nearby, in what is now called the Depths of ​Gehenna, Asmodeus began digging into Mishtar to make a path up to Glenn. He soon realized this task would take him many millennia of tiresome labor to complete, so he instead left his body in the tower and as a spirit traveled up to Glenn to find a faster method.
* As more and more humans died and their souls joined the angles in the Ether, a question arose among the angels of how to deal with evil souls. Some angels thought that unworthy human souls should be obliterated, but Archangel Aberuha insisted that no soul should be destroyed until the coming of the One. Other angels thought that souls could be reformed, but just as the angels were unchanging, souls without bodies remained the same (this discovery did, however, prompt the assignment of angels to help guide humanity towards the good while they still live). An angel, exactly which could not later be determined, suggested that evil souls be cast down to the Waters of Chaos, like Asmodeus and his followers. After some debate, this course of action was agreed upon. What could not be agreed upon though was *how* evil a soul had to be to be cast out.
	+ While the angels debated, Isitos, Ursa, and their children decided to return to Glenn. Seeing the fighting that was taking place on the branches, they choose instead to descend through the Ether. When they were in the midst of the angels, all were amazed with the beauty and wisdom of Luna. While the rest of the family continued on to Glenn, the angels convinced Luna to stay, and act as judge over human souls, deciding who would stay with the angels and who would be cast into the Waters of Chaos below.
	+ While Luna held court in the center of the Ether, and the angels studied what caused a human soul to rise or fall, the elders among the angels formulated seven paths to salvation. These in turn developed into seven groupings of angels, that created seven suns as their homes, each led by a Prince Archangel and each shining with a different light.
	+ In the dark Waters of Chaos below, Asmodeus gathered the souls of the wicked. Pointing out to Yogsyloth that their agreement did not specify how long it would take Asmodeus to create a path to Glenn, Asmodeus convinced Yogsyloth to teach him to create bodies for the human souls, so they could be forced to work in the Depths of Gehenna digging a path through the trunk of Mishtar, up to Glenn.
* While the siege of Golhom continued, Saar "The Storm Prince" snuck away to seek out Marduk, the exiled son of Apzu and Tiamat. Saar found him in a secret hollow in the trunk of Mishtar, just below the deepest depths of Glenn. In this sanctuary, Marduk was studying the way the world tree created mana and the elements. The Storm Prince asked Marduk to create weapons for him, to defeat the scions. Marduk agreed in exchange for Saar traveling to the roots of Mishtar and bringing back the untouched waters of chaos.
	+ Not being able to travel on the outside of the world tree like his grandfather Empyrion or uncle Yogsyloth, nor being pure spirit like Asmodeus, the Storm Prince struggled for many years to find a way down to the waters of chaos. He had nearly given up on his quest and was debating whether to try to force Marduk to make him weapons or find another way to defeat the scions, when Saar saw a crack appearing in the deepstone at the top of the trunk of Mishtar. The crack slowly widened as monstrous tortured beings that were once human tunneled up towards Glenn.
	+ Without hesitation the Storm Prince, wielding Bonewrath his deepstone mace with silver dragon scale spikes, tore into the fissure, destroying the fiendish bodies and sending the damned souls back down to Asmodeus. The souls pulled as far from the Lord of Evil as they could but were tethered to his Tower of Knowledge. Their movement created the circular river Acheron.
	+ The Storm Prince followed the tunnel they had created down (or up as it becomes once you pass below Glenn) to the Depths of Gehenna. In the darkness Saar could only see the light of Asmodeus' Tower of Knowledge, from which the proud warrior was in turn watched by the Lord of Evil. After wandering in the darkness for what seemed an eternity, he was found by Hygatha the Wanderer, who showed him the way to the roots of Mishtar. The Storm Prince gathered the Waters of Chaos in a dragonhide skin and returned up the tunnel to the house of Marduk.
	+ Though surprised that Saar had managed to complete his task, Marduk followed through on his promise and created for the Storm Prince both thunder and lightning. What exactly Marduk did with or learned from the Waters is unknown, but he would go on to be the first to use spoken words to command reality.
* Since the elements of Glenn had been reordered since Saar had departed, he had to pass through the miles thick layers of Fire, Water, and Earth before reaching the surface. This was most likely accomplished using the newly created elements of thunder and lightning.
	+ Once he was on the surface, Saar hid his new powers. Once he was apprised of the situation, he challenged Sabazios, champion of the Air scions. Sabazios accepted his challenge, knowing that the death of the Storm Prince would likely mean the surrender of Golhom. At first Sabazios seemed to be getting the better of the duel, striking Saar with his staff and then flying away before Saar could respond. As Sabazios swooped down for another hit, just as he reached the bottom of the arc the Storm Prince held up his hand and knocked the sky god out with a thunder wave. Before the god knew what had happened to him, Saar shot a bolt of lightning out of his other hand, making Sabazios drop his staff of power. Then Saar stepped on his chest and sent a massive lightning bolt into Sabazios' heart, followed immediately with a thunder wave that created a five-mile-wide crater where they stood and was heard across Glenn.
	+ The giants that had abandoned Golhom were quick to return and pledge their loyalty to Golerex and the Storm Prince.
	+ Now with elemental powers learned from the scions, and led by the newly armed Storm Prince, soundly defeated the Elemental Houses, driving them back to their fortresses high on the branches of Mishtar.
	+ Some fey, including their king Brenin, sided with the scions against the giants; but after Brenin was slain fighting the Frost Titan Thrym they quickly scattered.
	+ The giants then walled off the elemental branches, with gates that opened only from Glenn.

## The Fourth Age - The Silent Age

* Beginning: The sealing off of the elemental branches.
* Length: about 2000 years

* The giants built four citadels, one at the base of each elemental branch, which rotate with the branches (relative to Glenn). They built another eight on Glenn, each about halfway from Golhom to the Rim. Each of the twelve citadels was out under the rule of one of Golerex's children, the Titans.
* The twelve tribes of men, whose numbers had remained few during the millennia in Golhom, were moved out of the city and settled nearby.
	+ There was little water on the surface of Glenn, mostly held by the fey of the forests and the lake dryads, fey who has mixed with the water scions.
	+ Humans had to obey the laws of the fey, pay tribute, and sometimes even dance to receive the water they needed.
* After the death of Brenin, the fey were leaderless. Even during his reign, factions had formed each following a different philosophy, put forth by the prime arch-fey, children of Diadar and Fellorien, now called Dwarf, Orc, Hobbit, Goblin, and Elf. While all philosophies. were spread across Glenn, the fey tended to form into tribes with others that shared their way.
* The Court of the Dead, held by Luna in the middle of the seven suns, continued to grow. The angels, fearing Luna's judgements were too harsh, sent advocates to defend the human souls brought before her. Asmodeus and his devils in turn sent accusers to argue against them. Luna, being an embodied soul, also had physical needs the angels had to provide for, which was difficult in the Ether. At that time the first fruits of the world tree hung down from the canopy into the Ether. The angels plucked the largest fruit, a diamond one twelfth the width of Glenn, and placed it at the base of the Ether, just above the center of Glenn. This was the first moon, Luna's court.
* In the Canopy, the gods grew more numerous, partially through the influx of some of the defeated scions, and to a lesser extent their fey.
	+ The Zodiacs moved to the edges of the Canopy to get closer and better influence humans on the spinning world below. Jovus stayed in the center, interested only in efficient exchange of power with mortals. Hestia traveled constantly between the growing kingdoms (called constellations) of her husband and children, keeping balance and interacting with the mortal world seldomly but with surgical precision.
	+ The souls of humans, learning that judgement awaited after death, began at times to cling to Glenn rather than rise into the Ether. Luna called on her sister, Libra, to help assure souls faced judgement. She became the hunter of spirits, the goddess of death.
	+ Below in Asmodea, the Lord of Evil gathered human souls, convinced young angels to join his side, and used the foul arts of Yogsyloth to craft bodies for his army.

## The Fifth Age - The Fienomachy

* Beginning: Asmodeus' attack on Glenn
* Length: about 600 years

* Golerex believed his reign was finally secure. Though angels, devils, and gods played games with the *souls* of humans, all looking on Glenn paid homage to him. Then ten thousand demonic zombie thralls poured out of a hole dug with unnatural silence into the throne room of Golhom.
	+ Most giants still lived in Golhom so Golerex was reluctant to give up the city without a fight. The palace became the site of unceasing combat for a week as the giants closed breaches, only to have ten more appear below them.
	+ Golerex blew his dragon-skull horn, calling on the fey to come defend Golhom. But at that time the dragons - allied to Asmodeus - came out of hiding and attacked the fey towns and cities. The fey would not abandon their new homes to fight for the city of giants. The only fey to answer the call were led by the arch-fey Moradin and follow his philosophy, now called the way of the dwarf. Golerex cursed all other fey for breaking their oath, which is why the fey cannot abide iron, the bones of giants.
	+ When it became clear that the devils would overrun them. The Storm Prince held the city for as long as possible while his father retreated, then destroyed the gates to Golhom.
	+ The giants retreated to the eight inner citadels, battling dragons as they fled.
	+ While the giants regrouped in the inner citadels, the land burned. The citadel at the Gate of Fire had been defeated and the gate thrown open. Though their defeat had come at the hands of the House of Air, the scions of fire were filled with rage and more than happy to destroy everything and everyone in their path.
* The gods were perfectly happy to see the giants who had expelled them from Glenn suffer and die, but they had become invested in the lives of humans both for sport and power. While most humans perished, the gods gave some the ability to fight back against the devils and their allies.
* The angels were caught entirely by surprise, not knowing Asmodeus had created bodies for himself, his followers, and their thralls. Prince Archangel Maraha prepared the hosts of angels and saints for a great battle against their fallen brothers.
	+ Six suns descended on the fiend-filled city of Golhom, but the small white Sun of Thrones, led by the Prince Archangel Aberuha, remained in the Ether. When the other Prince Archangels questioned him, Aberuha said the time to annihilate the rebels had not yet come. The bodies below would suffer, but spirits would be strengthened. He said they should assist only those individuals that asked for their aid.
	+ The Prince Archangel Kedus, Lord of Chariots, greatly distraught at the prospect of leaving Glenn to its fate, went to Golerex (reigning at that time in the Jade Citadel) and told the King of Giants that all he had to do was petition the Prince Archangel Maraha and all the hosts and powers of angels would come to his aid. Golerex, still reeling from the unforeseen attack and the betrayal of the fey, said that if the angels wished to join the brotherhood of children of the Allfather they could kneel before his throne, and he would command them. The angel told Golerex there is only one to whom they kneel, then withdrew.
* The dragons, taking advantage of their new access to the waters of chaos, sought out and brought back their mother Tiamat. The hearts of an arch-fey, a titan, and a god were sacrificed to the Lord of Chaos Yogsyloth to bring her back to life as Three-Headed Tiamat.
* The details of how the war progressed can and does fill many sagas. Uncountable acts of heroism, cowardice, mercy, cruelty, brilliance, and foolishness were carried out by fiends, dragons, giants, men, and fey.
	+ The giants fought mightily, but the slain fiends and thralls kept returning from the depths with newly fabricated bodies.
	+ The archfiend Orcus "The God of Death" created necromancy, using the bodies of the dead to house fiend and thrall souls. Libra "The Goddess of Death (no relation)" tried to put a stop to this but was almost killed by Orcus; her father Isitos sacrificed himself to save her.
	+ Hygatha the Wanderer convinced the Titan Cadiz to open the gates of the Branch of Water, stemming the resurrection of "killed" fiends and thralls as well as wiping out much of the land on Glenn (the entire human nation of Kamahamu was lost).
	+ The newly created Great Ocean, ruled by the half-fey god Pontus, attacked all with as much violence as the gods of fire.
	+ Many sided fighting took place on the shrinking land masses.
	+ The Frost Titan Thrym froze much of the ocean around his citadel in the north and many peoples fled there.
	+ The fiends boiled away large swaths of ocean.
	+ The Storm Prince personally killed 7 of the 15 archfiends. Another 3 were killed by other titans.
	+ The Storm Prince's son, Zalafah, created the flying castle of Barak.
	+ Asmodeus gathered every craft, charm, and artifact that would make him invincible to himself.
	+ The Storm Prince sacrificed himself to greatly weaken Asmodeus but was devoured by Three-headed Tiamat.
	+ Golerex attempted to finish Asmodeus off but was intercepted by Orcus, who disguised himself as the Storm Prince to make Golerex drop his guard, then killed the King of Giants and stole his crown.
	+ Orcus' master Dagon meanwhile betrayed Asmodeus, destroying his first incarnation and claiming rulership of Glenn.
	+ The archdevil Mammon maintained loyalty to Asmodeus and led the other loyalists, called devils, against Dagon's followers, called demons.
	+ Orcus cursed the Crown of Asmodeus before presenting it to Dagon so that it slowly drove the King of Demons mad.
	+ Mammon, despite having a weaker force, was able to win some victories against the unorganized demons and their mad king, killing the archdemon Grazt.
	+ Dagon, after killing many of his own demons in his madness, was eventually killed by the titan Crius.
	+ Orcus, the last archdemon fled and hid himself.
	+ Mammon, having won the war against the demons on Glenn but not having enough strength left to combat the giants, shut himself in the captured giant citadel of Etna.
* As the fiends and their thrall's had their vile incarnations destroyed, their spirits were cast again into the darkness below. For the first half of the war, the fiends were able to create new bodies and travel back up to Glenn, but after the opening of the gates of water the constant flow prevented further reinforcements.
	+ This obstacle may have been overcome, but after Dagon and the other demons' betrayal of Asmodeus the Blood War began between devils and demons.
	+ Asmodeus and his devils eventually managed to secure the Tower of Knowledge and push the demons beyond the Depths of Gehena to where the roots of Mishtar dip into the Waters of Chaos, now called the Abyss.
	+ The Blood War continues to this day both below and on Glenn.

## The Sixth Age - The Titanomachy

* Beginning: The death of first incarnation of Dagon
* Length: about 500 years

* After slaying the Demon King Dagon, the Titan Crius secured the ruined city of Golhom. Possessing the city of giants and the crown of Golerex, and being among the mightiest of the sons of Golerex, he declared himself king of giants, Glenn, and all Mishtar. Giants, living forever, do not have clear laws of succession, so many other contenders challenged Crius' claim:
	+ The Titan Thrym "The Frost King"
	+ The Titan Cadiz "Lord of the Water Gate"
	+ The Titan "One-Eyed" Arges
	+ The Titan "Hundred-Handed" Briarius
	+ The Titan Bhramari "Queen of Bees"
	+ The eldest son of Saar "The Storm Prince", Zalafah "The Storm King"
	+ And several dozen others
* For many centuries wars were waged, alliances were made and broken, citadels and cities traded hands.
	+ Humans labored and fought under giant overlords.
	+ The fey mostly tried to avoid the giants' conflict.
	+ The prime arch-fey, the children of Diadar and Fellorien, saw the Titans killing their own brothers and sisters, and were moved to end the quarrels between themselves. They agreed that their children needed to be left to make their own choices without the direct influence of the arch-fey. They therefore created ships for themselves, tapped into the Ether, and sailed towards the seven suns of the celestials.
	+ Dragons, under the rule of Three-headed Tiamat, picked off the weakest of their cousins the giants, too distracted by their wars to fight back.
	+ Orcus continued building his army of the dead and used them to create a vast subterranean kingdom. Libra and her mother Ursa continued to hunt the arch-demon.
* After some diplomacy facilitated by Hygatha the Wanderer, the Zodiacs, and the Prince Archangel Kedus, an alliance was made between the eventual holders of the Four Elemental Gates. They agreed to defend each other's claims and keep the elements in balance on Glenn (of particular importance since at the time the world was still mostly flooded after the Titan Cadiz opened the Gate of Water).
	+ The frost-giant son of the Titan Thrym, Lord Winter, controls the Gate of Air.
	+ The half-fey daughter of the Titan Cadiz, Lady Spring, controls the Gate of Water.
	+ The Titan Lady Summer controls the Gate of Fire.
	+ The Titan Lord Autumn controls the Gate of Earth.
* The Storm King destroyed the city of Golhom with rocks and thunder thrown down from the flying castle Barak, killing the Titan Crius. Heradia, the mother of the Titans, then created an alliance of Titans to defeat Zalafah, and they managed to almost capture Barak but were defeated and nearly all Titans were killed. Heradia was imprisoned in a dungeon below the ruined city of Golhom, and Zalafah "The Storm King" crowned himself king of giants, Glenn, and all Mishtar. A hierarchy was created with humans and fey at the bottom (as they were before), ruled over by ordinary ground-dwelling giants, ruled over by Cloud Giants (Zalafah's three sisters and their descendants who live on flying islands), ruled over by Storm Giants, the descendants of Zalafah.

## The Seventh Age - The Age of Seven Suns and Seven Moons

* Beginning: The crowning of The Storm King Zalafah
* Length: about 700 years

* The prime arch-fey, sailing the Ether, attuned to the seven suns and were granted moons, set between Glenn and the Ether to live upon
	+ Nidavellir, the orange moon of the arch-dwarves, was made for Moradin & Berronar by the Prince Archangel Janus and the angels of the Guardian Sun
	+ Caersidi, the grey moon of the arch-orcs, was made for Gruumsh & Luthic by the Prince Archangel Maraha and the angels of the Army Sun
	+ Seelie, the green moon of the arch-elves, was made for Corellon & Sehanine by the Prince Archangel Tadium and the angels of the Choir Sun
	+ Unseelie, the red moon of the arch-goblins, was made for Maglubiyet & Kikanuti by the Prince Archangel Kedus and the angels of the Chariot Sun
	+ Elysium, the yellow moon of the arch-halflings, was made for Brandobaris & Yondalla by the Prince Archangel Germia and the angels of the Garden Sun
	+ Nirvana, the blue moon was made for Mystra by the Prince Archangel Yemrehana and the angels of the Library Sun
	+ The first moon, the white moon Luna, had already been made for the daughter of the now dead prime arch-fey Isitos in the fourth age.
* After two ages of hunting, Libra and Ursa managed to trap the arch-demon Orcus in a deep cave. In the twisting labyrinthine caverns, Libra was cut off from Ursa and followed Orcus all the way down to the Abyss. There she was trapped by demons, and a wedding was prepared for her and Orcus, the god and goddess of death.
	+ Ursa, after losing her daughter, prayed to her mother Hestia for guidance. Hestia, even with her gift of sight, was unable to see Libra in the darkness of the Abyss. She tried looking into the future and saw the light of the seven suns disappearing from the Ether, plunging the world into darkness.
	+ Hestia told everything to the Prince Archangel Kedus, and he prepared to use his chariots to find and rescue Libra. The angel Zayad found her in the abyss, surrounded by Orcus' demonic horde, and sped away unseen.
	+ The archangels knew they would have only one chance to save her, so they decided to bring every angel, consolidating the seven suns into one and descending below Mishtar, into the Waters of Chaos.
	+ The shock and terror felt by the fiends below Mishtar made securing Libra easy. The angels decided to continue the procession, shining their light on the denizens of the Abyss and Asmodea each night, but every night after the first the gates of Sol are assaulted by hordes of demons and legions of devils.
	+ Libra, having indirectly succeeded in driving Orcus from Glenn, decided not to return to the surface. She was interested given a place among the Zodiacs, since her zodiac mother, Ursa, remained on Glenn.

## The Eighth Age - The Reign of Tiamat

* Beginning: The first descent of Sol beneath Glenn
* Length: about 600 years

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## The Nineth Age - The Golden Summer

* Beginning: Unknown
* Length: about 1000 years

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## The Tenth Age - The Age of Hunger

* Beginning: Unknown
* Length: about 1000 years

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## The Eleventh Age - The First Forgotten Age

* Beginning: Unknown
* Length: about 1000 years

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## The Twelfth Age - The Second Forgotten Age

* Beginning: Unknown
* Length: about 1000 years

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## The Thirteenth Age - The Third Forgotten Age

* Beginning: Unknown
* Length: about 1000 years

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## The Fourteenth Age - The Age of Demigods

* Beginning: Unknown
* Length: about 1000 years

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## The Fifteenth Age - The Age of Four Dwarves

* Beginning: Unknown
* Length: about 1000 years

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## The Sixteenth Age - The Age of Sorcery

* Beginning: Unknown
* Length: about 1000 years

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## The Seventeenth Age -

* Beginning: Unknown
* Length: about 1000 years

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## The Eighteenth Age - The Age of Monsters

* Beginning: Unknown
* Length: about 1000 years

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## The Nineteenth Age - The Age of Heros

* Beginning: Unknown
* Length: about 700 years

* Emboldened by their many victories against the horrors that once came out of Onyxia, a group of Borean warriors and their dwarven allies decided to put a stop to the greatest bringer of death to come time and again out of the south: Winter. No one knows exactly what became of their ambush of the Titan lord of the gates of wind. Some say they nearly succeeded and others that Winter smote them all with a single swing of his dark axe. But all agree that there on Jom's Height where he was attacked Winter built a permanent fortress, keeping all of East Adamantia under his icy winds ever since.

## The Twentieth Age - Late Antiquity or The Age of Nine Empires

* Beginning: The creation of Winter's kingdom
* Length: about 900 years

* At the beginning of the age nine powerful states were growing and beginning to clash with one another. At the end of the age there was one.
	+ There were four major fey empires:
		- The Adamantine Empire - Dwarves of the Adamntine Pillar
		- The Mabeline Empire - Dwarves of the Marbeline Pillar
		- The Kingdom of the Spine - Goblins on the spine of Onyxia
		- The Sea Orcs - Orcish invaders from an unknown shore
	+ There were four major human empires:
		- The Preatari Republic in the east of Marbelia
		- The Mamlak Sixth Kingdom in southern Alabastria
		- The Silvian Empire on the islands between Alabastria and Marbelia
		- The Northern Empire, created by Borean refugees who conquered Vertar
	+ There was also a principality of giants under the stone giant Kalevi

## The Twenty-first Age - The Preatari Age

* Beginning: The crowning of the first Emperor of Glenn
* Length: 999 years

* The Preatari ruled in peace for a millennia
	+ The city Preataria grew to fill the Preatari valley, with a population of over 100 million people, or a third of Glenn.
	+ The Seven Orders of Wizards were founded.
	+ The doors to the Underdark were found and closed.
	+ Some lands were set aside for the fey peoples that surrendered, but much woodland was cleared to feed the imperial capital.
	+ Great roadways were built across Marbelia and Alabastria.
	+ Resettlement was begun on the poisoned lands of Onyxia.
	+ Art, architecture, spellcraft, and weapon smithing reached a height never before achieved by men.
* In the heavens, the constellation Lupus that once shone above Preataria grew larger even than Rexdomus, the Throne of Jovus. It circled the sky and stars fled before it. Provhasta, the Spear of Hestia, blocked Lupus' path and was bitten in two.
* As the last Preatari emperor made preparations to celebrate 1000 years of Preatari rule, the city of Preataria was destroyed, creating a dessert of black sand 200 miles across.

## The Twenty-second Age - The Current Age

* Beginning: The Doom of Preataria
* Length: 923 years, so far

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