Timeline

The Mithran calendar has gone through several variations over the years. A timeline of known events follows below:

## ***Great Ascendance (GA):***

**28 Wintersend 1209 GA:** The end of the Third Skirmish between the Zathryan Empire and the Ayabili Nisani is declared by Emperor Arcus IV Zath-Garon as Medura Ayabili's forces take a significant loss on the eastern banks of the Great Zathri River and are pushed back into their desert territories. Some would later criticize this decision to end the war as too quick, but at the time, the new, young, and brash emperor was lauded for bringing an end to a five-year war that was costing the Empire more than it could afford to expend to keep up with it.

**17 Bahara 1209 GA:** Mesi of Kalsan, under orders of a vengeful Medura, takes the staff Akkan's Vengeance, places it in Boundbrook's Central District, and activates a ritual intended to cause time to loop ad infinitum around the city, trapping those inside and isolating them from the outside world. Mesi was supposed ensure preservation of his own temporal awareness so as to lower the barrier trapping the capital when Medura's reformed army was ready to ambush it; however, in an act of rebellion against his very powerful nephew, Mesi neglected to do so. While he could not stop the army in the end, the least he felt he could do was keep them from getting to the ignorant populace safe within Medura's trap.

**18 Bahara 1209 GA:** Known across the empire as the day Boundbrook essentially vanished. First to be cut off was communication, then traders intending to reach the city with supplies for an upcoming festival could neither see the city on the horizon nor pass the boundary where the city's outskirts ought to have begun. Medura's army began marching shortly thereafter, unimpeded with most of the Zathryan military in Boundbrook for the festival at the emperor's behest and the countryside toothless.

**10 Eira 1209 GA:** A group of heroes, with the help of Mesi of Kalsan, the Lady General Eleanor Vorscythe, and an arcane merchant, managed to finally end the magic forcing Boundbrook to repeat the same day ad infinitum. They also aided the army with defeating the surprised and now ill-equipped Nisa army camped outside, killing Medura in the process, albeit not before he killed the young emperor.

**30 Losaigh 1210 GA:** The third cousin of the deceased Arcus IV Zath-Garon, Emperor Zephyr I Veddusen rises to the throne amid a myriad of controversy, having competed in a nobility election for the position with his better-liked sister, Claudia Veristius. He is viewed as having been the weaker candidate, promoting a focus on reconstruction as opposed to retribution like Claudia.

**5 Razal 1215 GA:** The Zathryan clergy are disbanded formally by Emperor Zephyr I Veddusen. The head of the church, Celomir the Rightly-Guided, pushed perhaps a bit too much about when reconstruction efforts on the ruined Temple would begin. He and the remaining clergy leave the city soon after.

**11-30 Sarilla 1215 GA:** Celomir and the remaining clergy are approached by Zephyr I's sister, Claudia Veristius, and begin a small church in Grafwyn. That same month, Lady Claudia issues declarations of a holy war against the remains of the Nisani kingdom responsible for the Year of the Vanishing City and the death of Arcus IV. A level of outrage does erupt as, technically, Lady Claudia holds no rights to declare war on behalf of anyone, but a combination of rambling religious justification courtesy of her new church, the assertion she declared the war in HER name out of a sense of patriotism and NOT on behalf of the Emperor, and increasing public appetite for revenge in the name of the slaughtered Emperor Arcus IV, who by now has become viewed as a martyr, made her attempted war very popular. Emperor Zephyr's hands were essentially tied to stop her as his appointment was already fraught with controversy, and so he backed his sister's declaration with a formal one of his own several weeks later. This marked the beginning of the First Sand War.

**1 Ilantea 1220 GA:** Weylen d'Erith is named Lord General when Eleanor Vorscythe steps down after several disagreements over the years with the Emperor's actions regarding the war.

**8 Sarilla 1221 GA**: *Celomir's Guide to the Unknown* is published to very mixed criticism. Half of these things can't be real, right? I mean, an old man who eats peoples' life force? Get outta' here!

**12 Losaigh 1224 GA:** The First Sand War ends in a Zathryan victory as they officially add territory south of Entara Major to the Crimson Oasis to the active Imperial lands.

**20-31 Mithran 1235 GA:** Incensed Entaran Nisani city-states form a confederacy and push back against the occupation of the desert encroaching upon Basin territory, beginning the Second Sand War when it is again informally announced by Grafwynnic officials and formally confirmed by the emperor in Boundbrook some weeks later. This delay would go on to be tradition for declaring war followed well into the Third Empire and known as Veristic Time.

**19 Bahara 1238 GA:** The Second Sand War ends in the Nisani surprisingly reclaiming much of their lost territory. Far from the last of such wars, it is the final one in which any significant boundary changes are to be made.

**30 Eira 1546 GA:** Ten Sand Wars, one barely squashed rebellion that nearly led to civil war, and countless emperors later, the Second Zathryan Empire is brought to a bloody end with the death of Emperor Pyleosus III Eupidius. Rampant succession issues among his twelve children segue into violent civil wars and the beginning of a chaotic Interregnum period during which Zathrya dissolves into warring city-states and tiny kingdoms with borders fluctuating almost yearly. This period of instability lasts 222 years, ending when a knight and local champion of Highvale, Vera I Eichen-Gyles reunifies Zathrya into the Third Empire, becoming its first Empress.

## ***Zathryan Standard Calendar (ZSC):***

**1 Losaigh 1 ZSC:** The beginning of the Third Empire. The Zathryan Standard Calendar is introduced.

**32 Esenni 106 ZSC:** The Church of Oghma in Grafwyn is formally recognized as the official state religion, though it had informally served this purpose since 1360 GA. This founding day is celebrated yearly as a state holiday, though it is more vibrantly so in the southern portion of the empire and Grafwyn, especially.

**14 Mithran 983 ZSC:** The Registry Act of 983 is passed by Emperor Aurelion I Reynfeld requiring those with magic to enter their names in a federal registry or face imprisonment.

**Ayaz 984 ZSC:** The invention of a rudimentary steam engine occurs by a former street urchin, Elias McKinnon, and technological development begins to take off as less and less people turn to study of the arcane.

**Losaigh 1026 ZSC:** A harsh crackdown on crime begins with a series of laws being passed (collectively referred to as the Acts of Blood) over the course of the year which drastically increased the number of crimes able to be tried as capital offenses from 3 to nearly 200. An anti-gallows movement springs up in response, but they fail to get much significant traction and fade in and out of obscurity.

**14 Wintersend 1030 ZSC:** Imperial citizenship and census procedures are reevaluated and redone with the Census and Citizenship Registration Act. However, citizenship--and proof thereof--for nonhumans becomes extremely difficult to obtain as a result of some of the act's language. A thriving underground market for forgeries of official documents emerges in short order. Those who prefer not using less-savory methods often turn to practice of the arcane, using strict registration requirements of the Registry Act of 983 to circumvent the restrictive citizenship bureaucracy put in place by the 1030 act.

**24 Ilantea 1062 ZSC:** The first major non-human rights protest begins in Valence, leading to the establishment of various pro-nonhuman and pro-magic leagues across the empire. Many Nisani support these endeavors, sparking tensions following the 300-year peace with Zathrya's eastern collective of neighbors.

**20 Eira 1121 ZSC:** The heir-apparent, Kieran Reynfeld, is born to a newly-crowned Emperor Aurelion II Reynfeld and his wife, Empress-Consort Vera VI. Kieran would be Aurelion II's only heir due to poor health that followed the emperor from childhood.

**2 Ayaz 1124 ZSC:** The future Empress-Regent Reva Portmaine is born to a young military officer, Lucian Portmaine, and his wife, Elyssa.

**30 Garona - 2 Bahara 1140 ZSC:** What would later come to be known as *The Week of Red Ash*, the event started as a peaceful non-human and pro-magic rights demonstration made up of a myriad of different organizations that ended up escalating to violence. 128 people were killed, most of them being protestors, and the event was eventually violently culled by Lieutenant Colonel Lucian Portmaine, father of the future Empress-Regent. Due to his efforts under orders of the Emperor Aurelion II Reynfeld, the Portmaines were rocketed from relative obscurity to landed nobility almost overnight, with Lucian's daughter Reva Portmaine eventually securing a marriage with the heir-apparent, Kieran Reynfeld, in 1144.

**4 Bahara 1145 ZSC:** Emperor Aurelion II awards Lucian Portmaine with the title of Lord General--he becomes the second-youngest person to hold the position at 41 since Eleanor Vorscythe in 1209 GA, who accepted the position at 37.

**17 Razal 1147 ZSC:** After the Week of Red Ash, Aurelion II's non-human and anti-magic crusades became almost worse, leading to the expelling of 29 Nisani diplomats from the inner city and strict entry requirements for everyone else. Effectively, anyone not human and/or who practiced magic were barred outright from entering the inner city.

**4 Esenni 1147 ZSC:** A tiefling assassin kills the already frail Aurelion II after a period of enormous unrest following the events in Razal that year. The assassin was killed in the process, and no information was ever recovered on whom, if anyone, he was working for, though several groups all tried to claim responsibility afterwards. His son, Kieran I Reynfeld, takes the throne, a non-human and pro-magic sympathizer. He begins working to reverse many of his father and grandfather's most draconian legislation and restore stability to the shaky peace with the Nisani, successful to only varying degrees.

**26 Ilantea 1150 ZSC:** Emperor Kieran suddenly takes ill and dies. Through some impressively cutthroat backroom politics and grandstanding bureaucracy, his wife, Empress-Consort Reva I Portmaine, becomes Empress-Regent. She's quick to fill political positions with sympathizers and puppets, beginning with the appointment of her arguably inept cousin Bartholomew as the head of the Chamber of Commerce in 1151, replacing a disgraced Lady Vanora Walker who is exiled to Valence.

**8 Garona 1156 ZSC:** The Captain of the Guard is replaced with an extravagant level of pomp and ceremony by another cousin of the Empress-Regent, Graceanne Fielding, albeit more distant and of less power than Bartholomew. Rumbles of corruption begin to spread, but they don't make it much further than that.

**29 Losaigh 1160 ZSC:** A scheduled presentation of a new technological wonder by engineering corporation Thapsius goes up in smoke when a bomb is planted under the prototype and set off, causing an alarming amount of property damage and ending in 4 deaths with 37 more injured. A tiefling was arrested for the plot now being designated as a terrorist attack, and the suspect is subsequently hanged for his crimes under the strict penal code by which the empire abides. There wasn't much public opposition to this execution, as the fact the suspect was a tiefling and the person assumed to be the original target, Leo McKinnon, was a much beloved public figure evoked memories of Aurelion II's assassination.