Timeline

# Age of the Gods

## Time Immemorial (Circa 16 Billion Years Ago)

### Before Creation

The Universe is born from unknown circumstances. When it is created it is filled with a substance/element simply known as Aether. Aether is the essence of everything and is the source of creation.

### Birth of the Primordial Dragon

A being simply known as the Dragon is born from the Aether of the universe. As a being created and made up of pure Aether it becomes the most powerful being in existence, from what has lived and ever will live. It begins using the Aether to create the celestial bodies.

### Birth of the Twins

After millions of years of creating, the Dragon began to feel lonely and began searching the cosmos to find another being like itself. Unable to find one, the Dragon decided to split itself in two. This would create the Twin Gods, the God of Light and the God of Darkness.

## Creation of Gaia

### Experiments

The Twins Gods created a planet known as Gaia. Gaia had its own "soul" made of Aether known as "The Source". Aether saturated the environment. Some of this Aether would take a physical form which would come to be known as the Primordial Dust. The two Gods created separate realms on the planet. The God of Light creates the Domain of Light and the God of Darkness creates the Land of Darkness. The Domain of Light is filled with pools of pure Aether, while the Land of Darkness is full of pools of corrupted Aether.

The two work together to create life using Aether as an experiment to see their capabilities. This causes the creation of the plants and animals by the God of Light. In turn, the God of Darkness creates disease and destruction to see how life would react in the face of adversity. With data compiled, the two begin planning on creating another major experiment.

### Birth of Humanity

The Twin Gods decide to create a species of sapient beings that have the gifts of light and darkness in them with the capability for construction and conservation and death and destruction. This species becomes known as humans and like Gaia itself, they each have souls created from Aether. The early humans create tribal societies and fight animals and each other. Seeing the state of humanity surprises the Gods who have plans on finding a way to create a way to unify the humans.

### Creation of the Grimm

The God of Darkness creates a new species from the pools of darkness in their realm which were created from dark Aether known as the Grimm. The Grimm were created to hunt down human and be their ultimate enemy to so how they would react and as an effort to get them to unify against a common enemy. The Grimm become a major threat, though mankind fails to unify against them and within a few years faces extinction. The Twins conspire to fix the problem.

### Birth of the Phantasmal Species

New species begin to be born from the Source's mana. These creatures become known collectively as the Phantasmal Species, though this only to species that are not human and they are not a unified group. Among the species that were born from this wave were the Beast-kin, Elves, Dwarves, Trolls, Goblins, Ogres, Fae, Centaurs, and other such fantastic creatures. As these creatures were born from mana rather than Aether (which was weaker) they were connected to the Source and thus had the capability to manipulate mana. This manipulation of mana allowed the Phantasmal Species to seemingly do the impossible.

### Birth of the Faunus

With access to magic, Human mages made several experiments with it. These experiments would eventually create a subspecies of humans known as the Faunus. The Faunus were in essence humans with the traits of various animals, deliberately modeled after the Beast-kin. Unlike the Beast-kin who were much more aligned with animals than humans, the Faunus were more human than animal, generally only having a few obvious animal traits and several internal less obvious ones. A problem from this transformation is the partial weakening of their soul. As human souls are made of Aether, in order to transform themselves into a being similar to the Beast-kin they had to modify themselves using mana. As mana is weaker than Aether, their souls were damaged by the transformation. This had no noticeable change in their minds or souls, though it would come into play later.

## Birth of the Dragons

The Gods use the mana of Gaia to create new creatures in their image. These creatures are dragons and they are completely subservient to them. The Dragons could be thought as a sort of lesser God species, though not as powerful as the Gods themselves. While powerful, humans are capable of killing them though the process is extremely difficult and they are just as likely to die in the process.

## Birth of the Silver-Eyed Warriors

Intrigued by the lives of humans, the God of Light decides to live amongst them. The God of Light would mate with several humans which creates a species known as the Silver-Eyed Warriors. The Silver-Eyed Warriors carried the potential to become like their divine progenitor and could become like Gods themselves. While many remained human and lived in Gaia, those who traveled to the Domain of Light could ascend to Godhood, though they were bound by oath to only live there with the God of Light as their flock.

### Discovery of Aura

Ozma's experiments found another method of using their souls to use magic like abilities, though itself is not magic. Magic is based on having access and being able to manipulate mana and the environment around them. This new method, which Ozma christened as Aura, instead involved using their Aether to manipulate themselves. Experiments with Faunus showed that they generally had lower levels of Aura in terms of quality and quantity. This is because their Aether was contaminated by mana. All beings have aura, though the ability to use it needed to be unlocked though multiple means. While useful, it is not as effective as magic which causes people to dismiss its applications. Despite this dismissal, Ozma continues experimenting with it.

## Twilight of the Gods

Salem betrays both the Gods and steals the God of Darkness' power through their connection.

### The Great Migration

All of the Phantasmal Species flee Gaia through Yggdrasil, leaving only humans and Faunus on the planet. A few of the Phantasmal Species remain, though there aren't any large numbers and most go into hiding for the most part.

# Age of Humanity

## 1st Century

### Start of Remnant

With the destruction of the old world, Ozma and Salem dub the new world Remnant as it is a remnant of Gaia.

### Discovery of Semblances

Ozma discovers that through using Aura, people could use their inbuilt Aether to mimic the effects of magic in an ability known as semblances. Aura users only have access to a single semblance as an ability which is based of their own soul/personality. While it can be considered magic, semblances are extremely personalized and only have a single ability or set of abilities.

## 49 B.V.A.

* July 12th: Julius Arc is born in Orleans, Republic of Gallia, United Kingdom of Vale.

* April 2nd: Tristan Arc is born in Orleans, Gallia, Kingdom of Vale

## Great War

### 1 A.V.A.

* The Great Wars ends.
* The monarchies of the Four Kingdoms are abolished.
	+ The United Kingdom of Vale becomes the Union of Vale
	+ The Mistral Empire becomes the Anima Federation
	+ The Kingdom of Mantle becomes the Dominion of Mantle
	+ The Vacuo Sultanate becomes the Vacuo Confederacy

### 2 A.V.A.

* The Huntsmen Academies are established
	+ Beacon Academy is built in Vale.
	+ Haven Academy is built in Mistral.
	+ Alsius Academy is built in Mantle.
	+ Shade Academy is built in Vacuo.

### 1947

* July 22nd: Charles Arc is born in Atlas

* Amadeus Ozpin is born in the Union of Vale.

* The Battle of Fort Castle occurs.

* July 9th: Nicholas Arc is born in Domremy, Gallia, Union of Vale

* James Ironwood is born in Mantle, Dominion of Mantle

* Genevieve Pendragon Arc is born

* James Ironwood graduates from Atlas Academy

* The Color Revolution occurs in Mantle.
	+ The Dominion of Mantle becomes the Dominion of Atlas.

* Cinder Fall is born in Mistral.
* Rogue Keller-Arc is born in Ansel, Gallia, Union of Vale

* Amber Browne is born in Vale.
* Terra Cotta-Arc is born in Argus, Argolis, Anima Federation.

* Saphron Cotta-Arc is born in Ansel, Gallia, Union of Vale.

* April 9th: Adam Taurus is born in Faunus District, Mantle, Dominion of Atlas.

* September 27th: Pyrrha Nikos is born in Argus, Argolis, Anima Federation
* July 28th: Yang Xiao Long is born in Patch, Union of Vale.

* January 19th: Blake Belladonna is born in Mistral
* February 29th: Jaune Arc is born in Ansel, Gallia, Union of Vale.
* May 6th: Nora Valkyrie is born in Asgardia, Solitas.
* May 15th: Weiss Schnee is born in Schnee Manor, Atlas, Dominion of Atlas.
* June 19th: Lie Ren is born in Kuroyuri, Huaxia, Anima Federation.
* Unclear Timeframe:
	+ Arslan Altan is born in Bharatam, Anima Federation.

* October 31st: Ruby Rose is born in Patch, Union of Vale.
* Olive Arc is born in Ansel, Gallia, Union of Vale.

* Coral Arc is born in Ansel, Gallia, Union of Vale

* Abraham Taurus is killed in a riot in Mantle, Dominion of Atlas.

* Lavender Arc is born in Ansel, Gallia, Union of Vale

#### The Dispossession

A massive spike in Grimm activity occurs in Anima. This massive spike in activity is known as The Dispossession.

#### Destruction of Kuroyuri

The Destruction of Kuroyuri occurs.

* An Ren is killed by the King Nuckelavee.
* Li Ren is killed by the King Nuckelavee.

* James Ironwood becomes the Headmaster of Atlas Academy.

* Adrian Cotta-Arc is born in Argus, Argolis, Anima Federation.