Isles of Aradia Timeline

## **History**

(BE=Before Everglow, AE=After Everglow)

* 12,000 BE~ The Three Kings Alliance is founded, and turns their backs on Aradia having discovered the truth of her deceptive nature.
* 10,000 BE~ Shatterlight Coven is founded
* 4500 BE~ The Lilin attempts her first entry into the mortal realm of Aradia, but instead causes her former follower Cloven to become a Vampire.
* 4300 BE~ Cloven and her two Dusk Elf companions arrive in the Grey Coast.
* 4000 BE~ The Empire of Dusk is founded by Queen Nadia, Lady of Dusk and King Narn, Lord of the Peaks, who would from then on be known as the Empress of Dusk and the Son of Magic. They would spend the next centuries expanding and solidifying their control.
* 3000 BE - (est) migration of Arthur the Grey's people, the Grey Folk, to the Thunderlands as a colonizing force. (est) also birth year of Balthazar of the Black Thorn.
* 1000 BE~ The Cataclysm Event occurs, and the ancient empires are wounded deeply by the effective ice age consuming the top half of the planet. There is no stopping the vent, but it could have been far worse without the Empress of Dusk holding the apocalypse back.
* 900 BE~ The Revelation Mechanism finally runs out of power, and the ice storm recedes, but the world is scarred badly and most civilization is only holding on by a thread and has deteriorated so greatly that a collapse cannot be stopped and begins to gain traction. Only isolated powers who were not heavily interconnected to the old empires can hold out.
* 700 BE~ Civilization has returned to simple communities and fiefdoms, all larger interconnection remains lost, but recovery is processing as the world rebounds.
* 500 BE~ Humanity establishes a new empire now unfettered by the power of the elven empires, they expand and take hold of much of Aradia, reconnect to still living remnants of older civilizations that were kept in isolation, and start a new age of interconnection and diplomacy.
* 184AE: The Lilin is summoned for the first time by her Dusk Elf followers. She is banished by Taegath Faydroka (Elmer Twicefreed).
* 100 BE~ The site that will become Everglow is first built as a trading hub for all eastern trade. It is nicknamed the Jewel of the East, Divankul Dul-Sansiska remembers this being big news as a small child, and more or less the new human power is the dominant force of the Aradian mainland.

* 0 E: Everglow is founded as an 'Everglowing Treasure to the Indomitable Spirit of Humanity', it becomes the new human capital city as the bountiful trade has made it so wealthy it rivals the rest of the empire in sheer weight of gold and silver.

* 59AE: The first recorded mass conflicts with spiders.
* 84AE: Great walls of Everglow are completed.
* 88AE: The senate is created made up of the elite of the city.
* 104AE: Everglow is broken off into districts.
* 104AE: The dockyards of Everglow are completed and ships begin to flow to and from Everglow.
* 114AE: The city guard is officially sanctioned by the senate.
* 138AE: Work on Untergrad is completed, a tiny island off Everglow owned by House Unferth.
* 144AE: The Demon Wars begin with the opening of The Void. Zerstodhia forged by Balthazar, who uses it to slay the goddess Aradia.
* 241AE: Jason Blackthorne is born.
* 266AE: Vermithrax is slain by Jason Blackthorne at the Battle of the Deadlands.
* 267AE: United army takes back Everglow.
* 280AE: Demon Wars official declared at an end by the re-established senate. ~ House Blackthorne established by Jason Blackthorne.
* 284AE: Scholars gather to better understand demons, eventually developing into the University of Everglow.
* 289AE: Repairs to Everglow and other areas are completed.
* 309AE: The great highway is completed. All main settlements of Aradia are now linked by a carefully maintained road.
* 739AE: The lack of space in Everglow leads to the creation of The Halfmoon District.
* 970AE: The Lilin is summoned for the second time, by Harold Umbridge. She inhabits the body of Magnolia Malabre for a time.
* 1007AE: The Lilin is banished by Rasheba Heartstone.

* 1014AE-1016AE: **The Isles of Aradia** (1014, Lady's Moon - 1016)
	+ So fucking much
	+ 1014 - The Lilin is summoned for the third time, by Harold Umbridge. She inhabits the body of Jennifer Ludlow for a time.
	+ 1015 - The Lilin ascends to her next form with the death of her summoner, Harold Umbridge. Later that year, she is banished during The Final Battle.
	+ 1015 - 31st of Demons Moon, FInal Battle for Everglow City.
	+ 1016 - Coronation of Queen Talia I Blackthorne on 1st day of New Moon.
* 1016-1024AE- The Aradian Civil War.

* 1037AE: Magic Uprising in Caybourne
* 1046AE-1052AE: The Pirate War and The Scouring of Briochi (1051AE)
* 1070AE-1073AE: Infliction of the Grievous Wound on the Queen incites The Brecilidian Rebellion
* 1075AE: Death of Queen Talia. Coronation of her son King Gordon I. The Necromantic Assault on Caybourne and The Red Death
* 1077AE: The 1077 Revolution. Overthrow of Blackthorne Monarchy with death of King Gordon. Founding of Parliament as new system of democratic governance, Fabian Halfmoon elected as first Prime Minister.
* 1086AE: **The Isles of Aradia: Sequel** (1086, 21st Day of Lady's Moon)