Timeline

Ages ago, humans alone walked a world devoid of magic, shut off from the other planes. One day the gods, fickle as they are, decided to give the humans the power to create as they do. Using this power, the humans were able to manipulate the world with an ability they referred to as spellweaving or magic. This was referred to as the Genesis event. Some especially powerful weavers were able to create links to other worlds or dimensions known as planes, with their plane being a link to all of them. Through these planes came strange humanoids and fantastical beasts, some were friendly, but they were shadowed by the multitude of hostile beings. Many humans saw this as being indicative that all of these new arrivals were incompatible with human life, and were happy to use them as an excuse to see how well their magic could be used in war. Though not all humans were so ruthless, some wished to defend the new creatures from the others that wished to harm them, and as such, a civil war broke out within the entire race of humanity... the effects were devastating. This "war" was called The Final War and lasted a mere half an hour, so many refer to it as The Thirty Minute War, but the effects will be felt for the rest of history.

Prior to being gifted their newfound abilities, humans had created incredibly advanced technology, including weaponry capable of destroying entire civilizations, to devastating effect. Magic only accelerated this process, and during the final war the humans used these weapons across all of Terrestria. Humanity had nearly exterminated itself, those who survived did so in massive underground bomb shelters. Without communication with the outside world, the humans now live locked away, living their entire lives knowing only the thick metal walls of their shelters, believing that the world above is a desolate wasteland. What they don’t know is that the world survived being bathed in nuclear hellfire, but only by the help of those who came after.

The end of The Final War is when Terrestria's calendar begins, and is regarded as year zero. This is frequently confused with the Genesis event due to their close proximity in time, as such, the years before it are known as Before Genesis (BG) and those after it as After Genesis (AG). Additionally, as time progressed, it was eventually discovered that the further technology progressed, the weaker spellweavers and magic items became. Perhaps the gods or possibly even the world itself has learned from it's past mistakes, and will not allow one to exist alongside the other.

## Major Events

**0:** Genesis, the year the gods granted humans the ability to utilize magic, and introducedthe non-Human races to Terrestria. Which soon after lead into The Thirty Minute War, the world-shaking event that eradicated nearly all life on Terrestria. Those who survived did so thanks to the Shelters created in case of just such an incident. Because of the abundance of now uninhabited land, the beings of the other planes quickly swarmed to Terrestria to claim as much of it as they could. But with them also came creatures more dangerous than the world has ever known.

**1 - 148 AG:** The Age of Titans. The more dangerous creatures saw the new arrivals on Terrestria an easy new food source, as most were spread thin and were not fortified well enough in this new land. The most dangerous of which were the beings of gargantuan proportion, particularly dragons and giants, who ruled the surface and drove any creature who valued their life underground. It wouldn't be until nearly a century and a half passed before these creatures were quelled.

**~150 AG:** The life support systems of the Shelters that the humans took refuge in begin to fail, driving the humans out into the new world.

**716 - 721 AG:** The Lich King's reign.

**995 AG:** The beginning of The Great Silence, where the gods ceased communication with the mortals for unknown reasons. Many theories have been speculated as to why the gods have abandoned them: The Daybreak Empire believes that they must prove themselves to their god Zenith, God of the Sun; The Kingdom of New Khiba believes that the gods have not abandoned us, but instead are sorting out an issue in the heavens; but most folk believe the gods are dead. Other theories come and go, but at the end of the day, that is all they will ever be: theories.

**998 AG:** The year of the fungal plague.

**1000 AG:** The Daybreak Empire's reign is ended with the death of the Sun King followed by a massive shift in the political system leading to what many cite as the beginning of the far more united civilization.