Prehistory Timeline

All of the details of the world’s history before six thousand to seven thousand years ago are almost non-existent. There are relics scattered that can be dated back to before the threshold, but they often don’t share a traceable language or writing system. Through major records, archeological dig sites, and general word of mouth and myth the history of Astia before the reign of Iknyr has been vaguely pierced together by generations of scholars working together to recover the past of the world. Many of the commonly known myths are only so well known because of the stories being passed down from generation to generation by word of mouth, so using clues from ancient relics combined with that gave a clearer image. It also doesn’t help that most people didn’t share a language, and each dialect would have differences. Just a small change from town to town might change small or drastic things because no language was unified. Some clerics have even turned to ask their gods about the history of the world, and not even the gods in all of their age are able to reveal the long history of the world before history. P.H. stands for “Pre History”

## The Dawn of time

The sections of prehistory are broken into subsections. The first section known to all of history is called "The Dawn of Time". This section is the earliest known events in all of history. Most of the events aren't even recorded, but the information has been gathered through talking to gods and spirits, searching dig sites, and using hymns as a base. There was no written text in this time, excluding one exception.

105,000 P.H.- Urasil creates the universe.

100,000 P.H.- All of the original gods have been formed, and the multiverse has been created. The original races are walking the material plane. These original races are: Humans, Elves, Dwarves, Giants, and Dragons. The only elves are script elves and feyborn elves, the rebellion of the abyss elves has not happened yet.

100,000 P.H.- Itoth, the Original Tyrant was born. He is the first dragon to exist. Itoth was the first red dragon to become ancient, and is the first son of Tiamat. He was the first red dragon to exist. Although he is not the most powerful, his evil and chaotic actions pave the way for many of his descendants.

99,000 P.H.- The Primordial war began. The red dragon, Itoth, wanted to rule the entire world. He and his chromatic brothers and sisters began to attempt to conquer the world. The metallic dragons wished to stop this, so they began to fight back against the chromatic dragons. Meanwhile the giants were split. The leader of the storm giants, and the most powerful giant at the time, Fulmen , wished to join forced with the metallic dragons to exterminate the chromatic dragons. However, his brother, Ignis, wanted to help Itoth take over the world. Soon the giants were split into two factions as well. The noble giants, and the conqueror giants. The noble giants were lead by Fulmen, and he along with his small group consisting of storm giants, cloud giants, and stone giants waged war with the conqueror giants which were led by Ignis and his fire giants, frost giants, and hill giants. The noble giants won their fight in the primordial war and the remaining giants were sent to flee deep underground or run to far away lands. The humans rejoiced, indulging in an ancient victory ritual. They drank the blood of the conqueror giants. This was a terrible mistake, for giant's blood is potent with magical energy, and as a result the humans who drank the blood all became horribly disfigured and shaped, and the original army who fought alongside the army of good was cursed to wander the earth and spread the very thing they fought to kill. They all gained strange mutations, like supernatural healing, two heads, or losing an eye. The giants would stop them, but there were far too many to kill, and they had a different problem on their hands. The dragons were locked in stalemate. The dragons, knowing their own power, refused to meet face to face in fear their very small species would die and chose to fought their wars with legions of willing humanoids. Eventually the giants stepped in and began to fight against the chromatic dragons, slaying each of them one by one using growing technology. For the most part the giants wielded giant trees sharpened to points and used their magical abilities, but after the defeat of the conquerers the nobles learned of metal forging. They saw the weapons Ignis used and built metal weapons of their own, which were able to slay the dragons with much greater ease. Tiamat saw this and resented the giants for killing her creations, so she asked her most loyal servant, Itoth, to summon her. Through a dark ritual he eventually did, leading to Tiamat fending off the coalition of metallic dragons and giants, ending the war in a stalemate. Tiamat threatened the giants and returned to hell. The giants, now fearful of the chromatic dragons would never wage war against them again. The chromatic dragons, were still very weak. Their numbers had dwindled. The metallic dragons and the noble giants would remain allies for the rest of history, feeling a brotherly bond over their mutual hatred for the chromatic dragons. The conquerer giants and the chromatic dragons would have a complicated relationship. They were never outright allies like the noble giants and metallic dragons, but they would often come to each others aid to prevent their species from going extinct. The war lasted for a thousand years, in which many were born, but many had died.

98,000 P.H. By the end of the war both the dragons and giants were in an endangered condition, allowing the first humanoid ruled civilizations to form. For the longest time the humanoids were merely seen as nothing more than tiny soldiers used to fight the wars of the much more important dragons and giants, but with both of them out of the equation, they decided to make their own settlements. The first known human civilization was a city near the coast in the modern day Favanu territory called "Bellgate". The first elven city was a city in the far forests of the wandering branch called "Alinar" and the first dwarven settlements were in the mountains, the first clan being called the "Brass Tusk" clan. Although the brass tusk was the first dwarf clan and for a brief period the only clan, many more would soon form.

98,000 P.H.- Rithar, the Forbidden One is born because of the affair Tiamat had with Ultarr. He immediately seeks refuge in the abyss and grows while his mother desperately tries to find and kill him for existing.

97.000 P.H.- Itoth dies, but in his wake is left a new generation of red dragons. A new problem arises for the people of Astia.

92,500 P.H.- The ancient city of Babylon materializes on the Material plane. The city is in ruins, but it contains many advanced magical techniques and technologies, and almost all of the major world events have been predicted in some way by some of the ancient babylonian texts. These predictions have text, but are written not in a language, but in the most complex and impossible to decipher cipher known to man. The extremely advanced technology and scriptures that document modern history have led scholars to believe that the city of Babylon is a ruined city from the future that has been mysteriously thrust backwards in time. The script Babylonian texts are written in today is known as the magical script that spell books and spell scrolls are written in. Around this time ancient scriptures speak of a figure known as “The Magenta Phantom '' Who is theorized to be Tamelia. This pink associated figure is seen exiting Babylon and bringing with them various magic items.

92,450 P.H.- 50 years later the city of Babylon is ripped out of the ground from where it suddenly one day appeared, and is torn from the ground into a portal in the sky. A large creature was seen grabbing Babylon and bringing it into the portal, yet there are no descriptions of the creature's appearance, additionally any art of the creature has been long since burned, and the one last artifact we have remaining of it is a artifact magic item called “The script of Madness” which drives anyone instantly mad upon looking at the script. Nobody is sure where Babylon went, but a few of it’s technologies have lived on in the form of all modern magic items. They all have their roots in Babylon technology. There are rumors that a great old one is currently keeping watch over it. This great old one seems to have a close relation with specifically mindflayers. All that went mad because they read the script of madness keep mentioning a certain, “Naodrun”. It is unclear if Naodrun was the monster who tore Babylon from the ground, but it can be assumed. Most scholars refer to the specific creature as “the beast of babylon” in case they are not the same entity. Urasil has never been asked about this “Naodrun” and nobody seems to even know anything about him. The only other person who might know about him, Tamelia, has conflicting responses. Sometimes she never claims to recognize the name. Other times she seems to become sad, and recollect on her past. She says things like, “You never appreciate what you have around you until it’s taken away.” Before she immediately changes the subject.

78,000 P.H.- Dragonborn are made

## The Age of Magic

The age of magic is when magic was first discovered and properly used. By this point, civilization is in the iron age

70,000 P.H.- The first spellcaster arises. He was an elf wizard named Purtham. He casts the first spell, mage hand. He would go on to create the basics for all known magic, but he was only first in a series of spellcasters who would pioneer the art of spellcasting. He also made the spells magic missile, shield, identify, mage armor, misty step, fireball and lightning bolt.

70,000 P.H.- The first group of adventurers come together to slay a dragon. They only had one spellcaster, that being Purtham, but they killed a red dragon named Firro. They used her scales to make armor, and they mounted her head on the front gates of their hometown. This town would eventually grow into modern day Lightholde. Through magic the head has been preserved and it still sits above the east gates of the city for all to see.

70,000 P.H.- Purtham dies, but not before passing the secrets of magic onto a group of monks who took his secrets and used them to develop ki, and further advance on his magic by making new spells and improving on them.