Era of Fracturing

### Age of Recording (0 – 120)

No written history before the first year of the current calendar created by the elves. At this point all elves were one single race there was no divergence between the types of elves, humans, dwarves or within any other race.

Year 0 was a year in which elves decided to create a way to track their days on the world. They created the current calendar within this single year. This allowed them to now record history tied to dates. This would prove to be a boon for all beings in the world as the word of the calendar quickly spread and reached all corners of the world. Over the course of a little over a century all races, including orcs and dragonkin, of the world learned how to write and record their history.

### Age of The Gods (0121 – 0845)

During the over seven centuries between 0121 and 0845 the gods and goddesses roamed Chaia. As omnipresent and omnipotent beings they each made decisions on their actions and sometimes were in conflict guiding their own people. They were able to be physically present in the world and speak directly with their followers. Their choices directly impacted actions in the world. This is the period of creations all religions of the world.

Many wars broke out over the hands of the gods and goddesses. Fighting for believers and control over the world. In the end mortal beings came together to realize that the deities have no power without believers and decided to unify against the gods themselves. For 30 years all religions died, and the gods and goddesses reached out to their followers to request a treaty.

Three gods refused to sign the treaty, their followers did not return to their beliefs and their religions ended:

* Zragor - The Black Lark
* Khikhiz - The Distant
* Bhicha - The Slumbering Spirit

All the other gods and goddesses of the world came to the table at the end of the year 0845 with all the leaders of the states of the time and signed a document “The End of the Age of Gods” this document stipulated that people would begin worshipping the gods and goddesses again, doing their best to follow their beliefs, but the gods and goddesses would never again directly interfere in the affairs of mortals. Over the next three thousand years the gods and goddess slowly filtered into myth, many questioned if they ever existed physically. Each religion kept their own records of their religions and deities… some maintained those better than others.

### Age of Mutation (0846 – 1263)

After the Gods and Goddesses stopped affecting the world directly, the natural course of order occurred, and mutations started occurring in genetics, thinking, personality and many other things in the world. An era of change began where many things happened at once:

* Races began to divide due to genetic mutation
	+ Elves separated genetically into three subraces
	+ Humanity separated into many subraces depending on their climate
	+ Orcs separated into the green orcs and the brown orcs.
	+ Dwarves became the Hill Dwarves and Mountain Dwarves.
* Gods and Goddess began to sink into legend and people started believing they were myth, never fully existing at all.
* The rise of independent magic, not attributed to deity influence, occurred leading people to believe that knowledge was the most powerful thing in all of creation.

### Age of Arcana (1264 – 2467)

The Age of Arcana is a time of growth of research and intelligence. People neglected all other items during this period, including the wellbeing of their people and the ideals of wisdom. People who were leaders in each area used this time to nationalize and create legal states over their territories. The Kingdom of Shame was the first of the states to have a place on the map. It included lands, in addition to lands it holds today, of the Uzan Protectorate, The Confederation of Moria, and the Mithilia Federation.

King Shame the First, traveled to the Gold and Silver Elves; the Rysan Diarchy drew breath from his leadership. From there he created the Oligarchy of Ormel while visiting the Obsidian Elves. After meeting with the Obsidian Elves King Shame felt on top of the world and challenged the Chromatic Dragonkin to join the world stage. He promised them that they could take over the riches of the elves if they joined the humans to rule the world. They agreed and the Osevosian Despotate was born. When he met to meet the orcs, they were more resistant. They wanted only glory, and that was the only thing King Shame refused to share. However, the tribes united against him, and the rest of the world. This allowed him to claim that he unified every other race.

As he unified the races, he also harvested all the knowledge they had in their grasp. He created, within the city of Blakhol, a large college to share and teach knowledge. At first this college handled transmission of magical study as it grew, it became a university and begin instructing other people such as bards and monks. It was named Lyncis University after the famous bard who mytically became found a way to communicate with the spirits. It became so large and critical to the survival of the people that it began to realize its own importance and began to hoard knowledge instead of sharing it freely.

Eventually the Orcs even entered the fold falling behind in the ways of magic and realizing the benefits it can provide. The Orcs arranged a truce with the rest of the world and joined in the receiving and sharing of knowledge within the University.

Overall, this era passed in peace driving the collection and sharing of facts between races.