Timeline

##### -14,000,000 CE: **Creation**

Time begins. The five elemental planes coalesce into existence from the chaos that was between the Outer Planes. Along their borders they intermingle, and in these swirls of magic the five races of Titans spawn.

The deities of the Outer Planes lead the Titans to the convergence at the center of the elemental planes, and create a home for them: the Prime Material Plane. They create the laws of reality, much in the image of the Outer Planes. This world-making magic echos, and the Feywild and Shadowfell are born. Together, the Titans sing their Titansong, giving shape to stars, planets, continents, seas, atmospheres, and everything we now know of as the universe in its current form. In the Titan's footsteps on Daederus, the first microbial life evolves. Over the millennia, life grows and evolves, like any planet does.

##### -200,000 CE: **Humans First Evolve**

Humanity evolves from the beasts of the land on Iria. This new species doesn't have claws or wings, but its intelligence is unmatched. It seems to have a fair bit of potential, if it can survive....

##### -100,000 CE: **Elves Differentiate from Humans**

Due to continental drift or something, Iria becomes isolated from the far continents of Daederus. On the far continents, the humans evolve into elves. There are many foreign subraces, one of which eventually bonds with the dragons and becomes the Sky Elves, chosen by Bahamut. A disease emerges in the far continents, nothing more than a common cold to the elves but deadly to humans. The Leviathans foresee the devastation this would cause, so they whip up the seas and drive away anyone who gets too close to ensure that Iria remains isolated.

##### -15,000 CE: **Humans Gain Magic**

The Goddess of Magic Mystra grants humanity the gift of magic. This is not the first time she has given the life forms of Daederus the power to bend the elemental planes, but it is the most profound.

Humanity had done something curious. They had begun creating a civilization. Far more advanced than any other species had ever accomplished, humankind created tools and and agriculture and language and art and even music, a rather surprising reminiscence of the Titansong. Mystra saw this development unfold, and she imagined what humanity might be able to do with her gifts. So she gave it to them, and the species burgeoned further.

##### -6550 CE: **First Contact Between Elves and Humans**

A nomadic band of Sky Elves flies through the storms surrounding Iria and discovers its existence. The flight takes long enough to kill off farsickness; it's a fairly short-lived disease, it just prevents humanity from entering the other continents. Anyway, the Sky Elves meet the humans, and exchange knowledge with them. They show humans some more advanced techniques of magic that they had learned: how to commune with the beings of the outer planes. The Sky Elves then mostly just watch over the humans and explore this vast new land, coming and going as they please.

##### -6500 CE: **The Age of Oil**

Using the knowledge the Sky Elves taught them to contact the outer planes, a lineage of humans known as the Masons make a dark pact with a demon in exchange for knowledge. The knowledge they gain is of a substance known as Oil, a special form of ichor only found in the blood of the Galapagos that can hold an immense amount of energy in a stable liquid form. This propels the technological boom initiated by the Sky Elves into the stratosphere.

Humanity spreads across the continent, developing machines and weapons powered by this incredible substance. They also learn how to refine Necromium, an artificial metal made of Mythril infused with ichor. The largest Necromium refinery burns more Oil than any other single source. The Galapagos population slowly starts to decline.

##### -6200 CE: **The Decline of Ichor**

The burning of Oil has consumed a significant portion of the ichor in the Iria. The element, once common in pools, storms, and various other forms across the land, becomes scarce in its natural form. Galapagos are becoming increasingly rare as humanity becomes increasingly adept at hunting them.

##### -6057 CE: **The Extinction of the Galapagos**

Due to blatant overhunting and the sheer efficiency with which humanity has learned to cut down the giant turtles, the Galapagos are officially hunted to extinction. Though civilization has been aware of this for many years and built up a significant stockpile of the substance, Oil is now a finite resource.

##### -6054 CE: **The Expedition into the Great Unknown**

At this point humanity has built an empire on the technology it has created. From firearms to skyships to warforged, this world of innovation is built on the foundation of Oil and Necromium. It becomes increasingly clear that a replacement must be found, so a group of explorers, led by members of the Mason family, send a fleet of skyships into the cosmos in search of something capable of replacing Oil.

##### -6048 CE: **The Ichor War**

The growing tensions amid the fall of the Galapagos finally snap, and humanity breaks into an all-out war over the remaining ichor. This war was total, and devastating. With such advanced technology powered by the Oil, the humans had created weapons of mass destruction that destroyed not only themselves, but the land on which they stood, leaving it a swampy mess of ichor residue. Humanity on Iria all but goes extinct.

The largest explosion and culmination of the war sent fissures throughout the Material Plane itself, creating permanent cracks in reality through which interplanar magic seeps through, which we now call leylines. The epicenter of this explosion became the Crease. What few survivors there were settled on the fringes of the continent, where the swamps were more habitable, and lived with a newfound fear of technology. With the entire ecosystem of the continent upended, the swamp consumed the land over time, leaving behind nothing but a barren wasteland. The final remains of this once great civilization slowly sank beneath the sands.

##### -6000 CE: **The Age of New Iria**

In the aftermath of the Ichor War, the newly formed Crease drifts westward, carrying its spatial and geographical anomalies with it. As it travels, the Crease's effects on tectonic and volcanic activity create new land area, extending the landmass of Old Iria to include the modern continent as we know today. This lasts until about -6000 CE, after which it slowly came to a rest at its current location, with life already blooming up across the continent. The drifting of the Crease is a direct result of the detonation that caused it; after such a world-shattering blast, the Prime Material Plane underwent a sort of realignment as it "bent" itself back into shape.

##### -5700 CE: **The Construction of the Silvervault**

The Sky Elves, who had declined to interfere with humanity's self-destruction, see peoples start to emerge once again in Iria as the Crease regenerates the continent. They decide to make sure that the Oil Age artifacts aren't found and used again, so they learn the Titansong and use it to create the Aether Bridge, a massive column of magic and air between Daederus and the moon Edor, which allows them to ride their dragons to the moon and build a city there to house all the remaining artifacts they can scavenge. They call this city the Silvervault, and it becomes a haven for them, the first and only Sky Elf city. Bahamut takes residence there.

##### -5000 CE: **Dawn of the Dwarves**

Seeing that the new continental mass of Iria is largely unpopulated, (except for the sparse sky elves) Moradin forms the first Dwarves out of the earth in the Godspill Mountains. They form their clans in the mountains, and begin to repopulate Iria. Because of the rarity of ichor on Iria, its existence is forgotten to the dwarves. The dwarves and dragons get into frequent squabbles over land and gold in the mountains.

##### -3000 CE: **Different Kinds of Elves Differentiate**

Some sky elves part ways with the dragons and decide to take more permanent residence in the forests, Underdark, or elsewhere. They eventually become the Wood Elves, Dark Elves, and High Elves.

##### -2000 CE: **Humanity's Return**

A vessel of humans return from the voyage to repopulate Iria. They deliberately neglect to pass on knowledge of their ancestors' technology, to avoid such a catastrophe from happening again. Only the Sky Elves, the dragons, and the Dar'Miri remember the Oil Age and the existence of ichor, with the Dar'Miri soon forgetting all but the vaguest of legends. The Mason family also secretly pass on their family's legacy.

-314 CE: **The Founding of Hemdoral**

As the world advanced, the other populations of humans, elves, and even dragons began to grow and strengthen, becoming more and more of a threat to the dwarves than their comparatively petty infighting. After a particularly devastating dragon attack, the clan leaders held an unprecedented meeting that would end up becoming arguably the most historic event in dwarven history. This meeting resulted in a pact of peace between the clans, and the founding of a single, united dwarven kingdom: Hemdoral.

##### -305 CE: **Completion of the Construction of Blasturen**

Following the founding of Hemdoral, it was realized that the country would need a capital. It needed to be in a central location of the mountains, but most viable ground there was already settled. The only central mountain that remained untouched was Blasturen, a highly active volcano deemed far too dangerous to settle by each of the individual clans. However, as the audacious first project of the new government to prove what they could accomplish united, the dwarves set to work taming the mountain.

In just under a decade, they succeeded, and built a city floating on the magma in Blasturen’s caldera. This marvel of engineering remains to this day the pride and joy of the dwarven kingdom as a hub of progress and a symbol of their unity.

##### -5 CE: Beginning of **The Golden War**

Hemdoral declared war on the dragons after an eternity of both claiming sole right to the Godspill mountains—and the gold within them. The sky elves came to the dragons' aid in fighting the dwarves. The war waged on for years; the dragons and their riders were by far the mightier on their own, but the dwarves had powerful artifacts and greater unity and structure in their ranks, as well as far greater numbers. However, the dwarves’ resources were more limited than those of their enemies, and the tides were slowly turning in the favor of the dragons.

##### -1 CE: **Infiltration of the Silvervault**

The dwarves convince the young dragon Kaldorva to betray her kin. She agrees to assist in the infiltration of the Silvervault by a dwarf, disguised as a sky elf, and carries him across the Aether Bridge. They manage to break into the deep artifact storage vaults, grab what they can, and escape. As it turns out, what they brought back was one of the last functional weapons of mass destruction used by the Oil Age humans. And thus Hemdoral acquires the Blazing Sky.

##### 0 CE: **The Blazing Sky**

Knowing that they are on the verge of losing their homeland, the dwarves unleash the Blazing Sky on the Aether Bridge, destroying the physical and magical connection to the city. This traps Bahamut on Edor, which violently severs the bond between dragons and elves, causing the sky elves who aren't on the moon to die. Immediately afterwards, the dragons ceded victory to the dwarves out of fear that they too would be wiped out, or that the continent would be destroyed again. The remains of the Aether Bridge became the northern Aurorae.

##### 78 CE: **The Founding of Atheron**

The city-empire of Atheron is founded by Lord Richart Mason. He also creates the Open Purse, and it is successful beyond wildest expectations.

##### 105 CE: **Formation of the Way of the Divide**

A lone monk wandering the north named Kaishi discovers the fallen remains of the Blazing Sky device. The device leaks primordial chaos into the world in trace amounts, which slowly detach people's spirits from their physical forms. Kaishi begins to study it, and learns how it separates the chaos from the order. Based off of what he learns, Kaishi founds the first monastery of the Way of the Divide.

##### 1000 CE: **Arrival of the Warforged**

The humans in space send Warforged observers back to the planet, to see if it's safe or worthwhile for them to return. These watchers are given no memory, no (intentional) sentience, only an objective: to observe. Alloy is one of these, who had crashed into the swamp and whose core became corrupted with ichor. This had no immediate effect, however, because they did not feel emotions.

##### 2289 CE: **The Founding of Emmythra**

Though they have lived in harmony for thousands of years, the spread of humanity and increasing interaction with the outside world prompts the Wood Elves of the forest to formally unite as a nation. The newborn Emmythra has frequent conflicts with the Drow nation of Uth.

##### 3104 CE: **The Dar'Miri War**

Dol Arrah Angels went to war with the Dar'Miri. There was a great drought that had gone on for many years, taking a great toll on the wildlife of the Dar'Imir and making life very difficult for the witches therein. Food was scarce, but enough to survive on---more importantly, however, the witches were struggling to find sufficient sacrifices to feed the hungry swamp. So they grew more ambitious in their hunts, travelling further and further away from the swamp to find blood. This caused a great deal of distress among the nearby towns, who called to the Dol Arrah Angels for help. As protectors of Iria, the Dol Arrah Angels battled the Dar'Miri, pushing them back into the swamp. The war was not long; the Dar'Miri's magic was weaker than usual due to the lack of sacrifices, and the angels were able to force a retreat back into their swamp. Unfortunately for the angels, however, the lack of sacrifices to the swamp caused it to grow over the next several years, encroaching on and eventually enveloping many of the settlements that they had fought to protect. The angels still attribute this to the Dar'Miri using their dark magic as a sort of retribution, and hold the witches in great contempt for doing so to this day.

##### 4732 CE: **The Conquering of Uth**

After millenia of stalemates between the Dark Elves and the Wood Elves, the latter finally defeats the Drow, dismantling Uth's sovereignty and freeing its slaves. Uth becomes a loose province of Emmythra, and its inhabitants foster a bitter resentment to their newfound leaders.

##### 4953 CE: **Alloy Meets Cal**

Cal and Alloy cross paths, and Cal takes a liking to Alloy as he gets to know them. Cal teaches Alloy how to do more than just observe, to be their own person, and the two start to travel together. They become very close friends. Alloy tries to convince Cal to preserve their soul in a warforged core so that they can live for eternity, but Cal doesn't want immortality. Alloy considers forcing it on Cal, but decides not to.

##### 4965 CE: **Cal's Death**

Cal is killed by a common bandit, sending Alloy into a terrible downward spiral. Alloy's moral compass is destroyed, and they becomes obsessed with bringing him back. The ichor in their core becomes regret ichor.

Alloy preserves Cal's body and begins trying to revive it. They conduct many experiments at site Beta to give him a new body or revive his old one, including Project Foundry, where they attempt to create new bodies infused with the essence of Cal's most characteristic qualities, merge them with the stolen soul of a child, and return them back into the world.

##### 4992 CE: **Alloy Abandons Project Foundry**

After several failures, Alloy leaves Project Foundry under the supervision of the Matron, a misshapen homunculus of theirs, and shifts their efforts to other attempts to revive Cal by contact his soul in the Astral Plane. They completely forget about this project.

##### 5026 CE: **Malicith is Born**

In one of Alloy's experiments, they are able to momentarily touch Cal's soul, infecting it with the regret ichor from their corrupted core. This slowly mutates Cal's being into a terrible being of regret and destruction throughout the Astral Plane, which eventually becomes known as the spirit demon Malicith. Over then next half century, Malicith grows in power until he eventually starts appearing to everyone.

##### 5054 CE: **Alloy Begins Constructing "Time Machine"**

Alloy's frantic research uncovers the true(ish) nature of the Blazing Sky as being time magic, and they get the idea to use the same technology to travel back in time to be with Cal. Alloy needs lots of Necromium for this (it requires such precise control that only Necromium can provide), so they start drafting designs and begin mining operations for Mythril in the Godspill Mountains for the portal and to create Necromium. In order to control all the Necromium, Alloy needs thousands of souls

##### 5055 CE: **Alloy Locates the Necromium Refinery**

Needing Necromium for their time machine, Alloy finally discovers the location of the ancient Oil Age refinery in the dead elemental plane of ichor, through the spatial folds of the Crease. They begin work repairing it to a functional state.

##### 5076 CE: **Malicith Begins to Appear to Mortals**

Malicith doesn't want Alloy to bring him back to the world, so he sends people visions of the Silvervault and the Blazing Sky, hoping they'll reach Alloy. Malicith knows that Alloy's plan won't work because of the true nature of the Blazing Sky's technology, and wants Alloy to go to the Silvervault and see meet the spirit of the dwarf who created it, and learn for themselves that their plan will fail. The visions cause a stir in the world; all the major powers of the world become uneasy at the prospect of the Blazing Sky falling into the wrong hands (or anyone's hands). The Masons start to do their sketchy things trying to deal with/imprison Malicith to their bidding to make sure that they reach the Silvervault first.

##### 5077 CE: **Present Day**

Alloy rediscovers Project Foundry and realizes it has succeeded, at least to an extent. They want to bring the party together so they can finally meet... and possibly get some help constructing their device.