Timeline

## THE GREAT DAWN

* The Dawning Cradle is born through the rupture of two polarities.
* The two Aethereal realms are born from the polarities representing Creation and Destruction.
* The twelve Celestial Realms are born between the two Aethereal realms.
* The Celestials are born within the twelve Celestial Realms.
* The Mortal Realm is born at the nexus of the twelve Celestial realms.
* Life begins within the Mortal Realm.

## REIGN OF THE PRIMORDIALS - AGE OF AVELTHANE

* The Primordia are created by the Celestials to live within the Mortal Realm as their ageless but mortal vassals - they will eventually be referred to as Angels, Shepards or Premortals.
* The Primordials arrive within the Mortal Realm, ageless but now susceptible to death.
* The Primordials travel the Mortal Realm, studying its many continents and inhabitants.
* The Primordials create Avelthane, their home within the Mortal Realm.
* The Primordials create the Mumakin, their first attempt at creating a mortal race.
* The Primordials create the Merkin, a water-dwelling species.
* The Primordials create the Fae, a winged, wilderness-dwelling species.
* The Primordials create the Golem, stone-like creatures that dwell in the mountains.
* The Primordials create the Titans.
* The Primordials create the Dragons; god-like beings intended to be the Primordials crowning mortal creation.
* The Dragons attack the Primordials, starting the Dragon Primordial War.

## THE DRAGON UPRISING - AGE OF THE DRAGONS

* Avelthane, and almost all of the Mortal Realm, is ravaged in a war between the Primordials and the Dragons.
* Both the Primordials and the Dragons employ devastating weapons that wound the very fabric of the world, including Waking Wards, Dragonsongs, and the introduction of The Necrillis Affliction.
* The Primordials create the Automata to help combat the Dragons and the Necrillis Affliction.
* The Primordials defeat their creations by stripping them of their Intelligence and sealing their patron God; one that was created by the Dragons themselves.

## THE PRIMORDIAL QUESTION - BIRTH OF THE NORTHERN MARCH

* The Primordials, faced with extinction after a narrow victory, split into three clans.
* The first clan attempts to create a self preserving mass-consciousness during the Dragon Uprising, and inadvertently creates the Nightmare.
* The second clan bind their lifeforce to a Primordial artifact located in what will later be known as Anvil’s Peak, becoming The Keepers.
* The third clan undergo an ascension to atone for their mistakes, relinquishing their physical forms and returning their essence to the Ethereal Realms.
	+ This sacrifice creates the Mirror Realms; a dimensional rift that allows for the lifeforce of the Primordials to churn between the Celestial and Mortal realms, allowing the Angels to exist in small Ethereal fragments known as Sigils.
* The culmination of these events is a land reborn; the continent of **Northmarch.**

## ANCIENT NORTMARCH - THE FIRST AGE OF NORTHMARCH

* The continent of Nortmarch begins to grow, catalyzed by elemental and ethereal energy.
* Massive and varied biomes sprout across the island, each housing a diverse range of life.
* Beings created by the Primordial Angels (The Mumakin, Merkin, Fae, Golems, Giants) are found all across the continent. Many variations of these beings evolve.
* The Serpentillian begin to evolve from remnants of the Draconic race.

## ANCIENT NORTHMARCH - Age of Enlightenment

-Soulsprings and Aylus are established

ANCIENT NORTHMARCH - Age of Ancestors

-The Elves arrive on Northmarch

-The Elves and Serpentillian come into contact

-The Elves and Serpentillian form a mutual alliance, which strengthens the

two civilizations.

ANCIENT NORTHMARCH - Age of Prosperous Origin

-Argon and Aldimer are established

-The Citadel and High Esiliyon are built

ANCIENT NORTHMARCH - Age of Trial's Voyage

-Serpentillian civilizations emerge across Hijileen, Valindor, and Daijenphen

ANCIENT NORTHMARCH - Age of Horizon’s Peak

ANCIENT NORTHMARCH - Age of Tenuous Prospect

-Wood Elf civilizations emerge in Argon

-Serpentillian civilizations emerge across Elysmer and Oskrandil

ANCIENT NORTHMARCH - Age of Somber Diligence

-Serpentillian civilizations emerge in Darkreath

-The Dwarves arrive on Northmarch, settling in Darkreath

ANCIENT NORTHMARCH - Age of Ego's Fidelity

-Hijileen and Darkreath become established kingdoms

-The cities of Darsqiba and Scarsmond are built

ANCIENT NORTHMARCH - Age of Vengent Strife

-Darkreath declares war against Argon and Aldimer

-The War of Vengent Strife begins

ANCIENT NORTHMARCH - Age of Burning Rupture

-Gold is discovered within Hijileen

-Hijileen allies with Darkreath against Argon and Aldimer, triggering the War of

Burning Rupture.

-Dark Elf civilizations emerge within Darkreath

ANCIENT NORTHMARCH - Age of Sovereign's Reaping

-Humans arrive on Northmarch, settling within Brenton and Elysmer

-Human civilizations emerge within Daijenphen, Valindor, and Whitehold

-War of Sovereign's Reaping begins between Valindor, Whitehold, and Darkreath

-Orcs arrive on Northmarch, settling within Oskrandill

ANCIENT NORTHMARCH - Age of The Anvil

-War of Vengent Strife ends in a treaty

-The Antilas Hegemony is formed between Argon and Darkreath

-The Vesterian Alliance is formed between Daijenphen and Oskrandill

-War of The Anvil begins between the Antilas and Vesterian factions

ANCIENT NORTHMARCH - Age of Reckoning

-The Antilas Hegemony inadvertently release The Black Winged, the patron God of the Dragons, from their imprisonment

-Vestiage Primortal Sigils guide a band of mortal warriors on a quest to defeat

Algathon. This Voyage is spearheaded by Agmeor the Champion, and is known

as the Reckoning of the Champions.

-Agmeor’s band kills Algathon through the use of an Alignment, and their soul

enters Malikoth. The Sigils manifest within Avelthane for

the first time since the disappearance of the Primordials, but appear

only to Agmeor’s band.

-The Keeper Eternal, honoring the bravery of mortals, prepares twelve unique

Celestial Sigils with the duty of seeking and bestowing their Primortal essence upon Mortal hosts, should the Dragons or any other ancient threat return to Northmarch.

- The Keeper Eternal deliberately ensures that ten elemental and two ethereal Sigils

exist as separate entities, so that no Mortal alone will bear the power of all the

Realms and, in effect, follow in the footsteps of Algathon. This gift is intended as an emergency contingency and, for the safety of the Celestial Realms, would only exist as a singular occurrence when the need was most dire.

ANCIENT NORTHMARCH - Age of Requiem Foreordain

- Although triumphant over Algathon, mortal civilizations struggle to rebuild.

Violence and civil unrest are rampant across the continent as kingdoms

attempt to reclaim their former territories. This bloodshed across

Northmarch fuels the D’rahic essence within Algathon,

preserving their soul within the Garden of the Realms; the realm of

rebirth and the cycle of life and death.

ANCIENT NORTHMARCH - First Age of Depravity

-Algathon’s soul is able to overpower the Shepherd of the Garden, inheriting their

Primortal essence and once again becoming a god-like being.

Algathon begins reviving Draconic beings within Northmarch, sowing

chaos and destruction. The Shepherd is able to use the last of their essence to

rebirth the twelve Celestial Sigils within the mortal realm.

-As part of their contingency against the threat of Dragons, the Celestial Sigils seek

out and bestow their Primortal essence to twelve mortal warriors they

deem worthy. To the Primordials, these are The Inheritors. To the

Mortals, these are The Bornes

-The Bornes discover that the Hellborne is capable of opening ‘void rifts’ between

the Realms, and that their abilities in particular are far stronger than

those of the other eleven. This is due to their D’rahic essence being

strengthened by the rampant violence across Northmarch

-The Bornes are able to open a Portal to the Garden of the Realms, where the

Hellborne remained in the Mortal Realm to sustain the rift while the

other eleven warriors battled Algathon.

MODERN NORTHMARCH - Age of Dawn Anew

-The Bornes manage to defeat the Draconic threat by slaying Algathon

within the Garden of the Realms. In order to revive the Shepherd of the Garden, the Etherborne sacrifices their lifeforce and ascends to become a Lesser Celestial.

-While within the Garden of the Realms, the Etherborne learns that their powers will diminish once the Hellborne is deceased, as their essence is linked to his own. Once this occurs, the Etherborne will subsequently lose their own power, and the fate of the Keeper will be cast into uncertainty. To prevent the return of Algathon within the Garden, the Etherborne traps the Hellborne within a mortal prison that will keep him dormant but alive, allowing for their Primortal essence to remain in the Mortal Realm.

-As a result of this imprisonment, a ‘tear’ is created between the Mortal and Mirror Realms that allows for their energies to intertwine, ensuring the Etherborne’s lifeforce survives within the Garden of the Realms.

-When the Etherborne ascends to become the Shepherd of the Garden, the Primortal Gift begins manifesting within Mortal souls which pass through this realm, along Mortals to harness celestial energy within Northmarch. This phenomena, properly known as the Bloodsong, becomes known to mortals as Magic.

-This series of events was orchestrated by a fragment of Algathon, which continued to exist within the Keeper after it was revived by the Etherborne, as they predicted access to magic would only make mortals increasingly violent; through their bloodshed, Algathon would be reborn.

MODERN NORTHMARCH - Age of Fervor’s Resilience

-The 10 Modern kingdoms are established, known as the Major Powers.

-Aldimer, Argon, and Valdor ally to create the Imperial Powers, or the Velaros Alliance.

-Daijenphen and Oskrandil ally to create the Principon Municipality

-Argon goes to war against Darkreath

-Valdor goes to war against Whitehold

-Aldimer goes to war again Hijileen

-Elysmer and Brenton ally to form the Aerindel Confederacy

-The Principon Municipality declares war against the Aerindel Confederacy

-War of Fervor’s Resilience begins between the Major Powers

-Dungeons and Dwarves

MODERN NORTHMARCH - Age of Perilous Venture

-War between Argon and Darkreath halts with the Treaty of Isunda

-Whiteblind

-Hijileen and Whitehold form the Tergyis Concord

-Dragonsong; The Northern Marches

MODERN NORTHMARCH - Age of Withstanding Testament

MODERN NORTHMARCH - Age of Crowns

-Curses and Cutlasses: Oath of Abbadon

-Curses and Cutlasses II: Mistfall of the Southern Empire

MODERN NORTHMARCH - Age of Crows

MODERN NORTHMARCH - Age of Withering

-First D’rahic Invasion

MODERN NORTHMARCH - Age of Crisis

-Second D’rahic Invasion

-Hellborne

MODERN NORTHMARCH - 2nd Age of Depravity

-Hellborne II: Awakening

MODERN NORTHMARCH -