Project CHARYBDIS/Novayan Earth

**Author's Notes and Credits**
In case you readers were confused about the colored texts, here's the legends below:
* **Blue**: Indications that this was recorded by the Congregatio Deorum, voidwalkers and other parties.
* **Red**: Indications that this was erroneously recorded by the worldwide Project CHARYBDIS.

## Background Information

### General Timeline of Events

General Timeline of Events

*Note: All dates are relative, and exact timelines cannot be exactly inferred from ancient sources.*
* **Time Unknown / ~ 1,000,000,000 - 15,000,000,000,000,000:** The Congregatio Deorum (Congregation of the Gods) began preparations for the creation of a universe or multiverse with the express intent of research on the antediluvian pasts and its effects on the modern day as well as ways on combating the voidwalkers.
* **Time Unknown / ~ 999,999,999 - 13,999,999,999,999,900:** A number of universes and multiverses were created.
* **Time Unknown / ~ 500,000 - 900,100,000,000,000,000:** One universe was set aside for experimentation. Earth was seeded with life and divinity.
* **Time Unknown / ~ 400,000 - 900,100,000,000,000,000:** The first multiple species and races rose, but none ever developed societies due to the lack of humanoid races present. Due to their critically underdeveloped nature, it would take long before any would rise as the first societies.
* **Time Unknown / ~ 400,000 - 900,100,000,000,000,000:** **The first gods appear on the Earth. Under the directive of the Congregatio Deorum, the first gods were to shepherd every races present.**
* **Time Unknown / ~ 350,000 - 900,000,000,000,000,000:** **The first race to be born were the fairies of the far western and northern lands. Having first laid eyes to the cosmos, they became known as the *Trans stellaris*, or Children of the Stars. They worship the stars and several gods and goddesses of the stars.**
* **Time Unknown / ~ 450,000 - 500,000,000,000,000,000:** **The first gods appear on the Earth.**
* **Time Unknown / ~ 400,000 - 500,000,000,000,000 to 750,000 - 400,000,000,000,000:** The first man arose on the Earth. Born of divine origin and taught by the brightest of the first gods, the First Man began wandering the world to see its wonders and terrors, a journey that lasted for billions of years. **The First Man married his first wife and had children with her, after which the first wife left to wander the world to learn more of the world and all its mysteries and allowed him to marry a second.** **From that point, the first race of beings identified as distant human ancestors (*Homo aeturnus*), the first humans to be born both with immortality and inherent thaumaturgical properties linked to their direct lineage to the First Man, were first born there.**
* **~ 750,000 - 400,000,000,000,000:** The first city was built by the First Man. **From there, the first society of beings identified as distant human ancestors (*Homo aeturnus*), the first humans to be born immortal, were first born there.** The first gods as well as gods born after them and other races and species converge upon the city and displayed their fealty to the first man. And from there, the first peace - the Peace of Humanity, also known as the Pax Humanitatis or the Antediluvian Peace or even the Pax Humanitatis Antediluvianae (Peace of Antediluvian Humanity) among modern circles - reigned.
* **~ 750,000 - 400,000,000,000,000 to 10 - 100,000,000,000:** During the Pax Humanitatis, the First Man was said to raise or lower mountains, cause the sun and/or moon to rise or set, bring or stop winters, and allow plant life to grow abundant. It was also during the Pax Humanitatis that the first births by the *Homo aeturnus* occur. **The First Man married his first wife and had children with her, after which the first wife left to wander the world to learn more of the world and all its mysteries and allowed him to marry a second.**
* **~ 100,000 - 5,000,000,000,000:** **The first fairies arose in the far western and northern lands.**
* **~ 10 - 100,000,000,000:** The first death occur when the **second** wife of the First Man died either during or **after** childbirth. This resulted in the first sadness ever experienced by the First Man, who nonetheless took care of her only son.
* **~ 10 - 90,000,000,000:** The first vice occur when the First Man first pushed the order of the cosmos and acquired a star from a universe **later revealed to be from Universe-WORLDFLIPPER** in an attempt to break his sadness over the second wife's death. From there the First Man became consumed by envy as he desired for nothing less than for all to fall under his beck and call.
* **~ 9 - 8,000,000,000:** The second death occur when one of the gods tried to stop the First Man, resulting in the first death of one of the first gods. Many now fear him as most of the gods cower before him. Not all cower before him, and that the first of the rebels led by the first of the First Man's children first prepare for their war against the city. **Unbeknownst to all, the youngest child of the First Man and the late Second Wife stole the crown while the former slept and left with a small group who sought to hide the crown.**
* **~ 8 - 6,000,000,000:** The first war occur after one of the rebel groups assailed the city. The resulting conflicted lasted for almost two billion years, **with the Spear of the First Man and the crown being destroyed in the fighting.** Soon, however, the rebel groups' leaders became consumed by the war, focusing less on defeating their father and more on acquiring the city for themselves. Many innocents and even gods fled for their lives as the war soon consumes the whole world, but in the process many of the innocents were killed trying to flee, hide or already in hiding. Eventually, the First Man saw what is happening and, realizing the damage he had caused, soon sent the few brave innocents who remain in the city to call for aid from the fairies to the far west. The fairies, learning of the First Man's call for aid, wished to one of their gods to bring forth justice upon the lands of man, culminating in the wishing of the *Homo nocturnus*, the Children of the Night.
* **~ 6,000,000,000:** At the ushering of their fairy lords, the Children of the Night launched their invasion upon the lands of man to deliver swift justice to the vice-filled children of the First Man. After the defeat of the First Man's children, a trial saw the first condemnation and subsequent exile of many of the First Man's children from the city. Guilty for his actions in driving his own children to ruin the world, the First Man had the Children of the Night try him for his crimes against all that IS and that IS NOT. The resulting imprisonment of the First Man saw the Children of the Sun leaving the City of the First Man for the first time, beginning their gradual change into later human ancestors as their thaumatological connection with their progenitor disappeared. These would eventually become *Homo antediluvianus*, *Homo erectus*, *Homo neanderthalensis*, *Homo demens*, *Homo deus*, and *Homo sanguinus*. The *Homo demens* (Children of Madness) would later become the demons of various folklores and later the dark magicians and the numerically lesser *Homo deus* (Children of the God[s]) would become the the first angels and later the first thaumaturges.
* **~ 6 - 3,000,000,000:** After the fall of the First Man, the *Homo aeturnus* would degrade into the later human ancestors as they scatter throughout the known world. Proto-human ancestors *Homo antediluvianus*, *Homo deus*, *Homo erectus*, *Homo demens*, *Homo neanderthalensis*, and *Homo sanguinus* begin to propagate across the Afro-Eurasian continent. Many small civilizations rise and fall during this period, and very little is recorded about their histories.
* **~ 3 - 1,000,000,000:** The youngest child of the First Man and the late Second Wife met an elder and their family of a mixed *Homo antediluvianus*-*Homo deus* race and befriended them. After earning their trust, the youngest child gave the Crown of the First Man to the elder and named him **Athalen** **and the full name Athalas Endelirikos, meaning "Athalas, Keeper of the Peace".** The youngest child then left to slumber in the City of the First Man.
* **~ 1,000 - 200,000,000:** The Lord General Athalen and his appointed commanders built an empire that would expand throughout the Eurasian continent and then what would become Atlantis. Harrian "the Elder" von Apollyon, one of the few notable men of the empire, would govern the west, while a few others would govern the east, south, and north. Lord General Athalen would govern the center. After millions of years of peace, the kingdom saw Lord General Athalen retiring to explore the world, granting his empire to his heirs - his children and noble commanders - in the process. It was this moment that allowed the empire to send its people to the western lands of antediluvian North America to settle the continent. The existence of a council of gods and antediluvian humans as well as multiple *Homo antediluvianus* tribes saw the formation of the Sovereign Council.
* **~ 2 - 500,000:** The peace everlasting, the Second Peace of Humanity, would erode as the first troubles occur. Taxation, appropriation of land, and conflicts between individuals and nobles cause trouble. This culminated in a civil war pitting the House of Apollyon, the so-called "Proto-Finnic Holy Roman Khaganate" **named the Holy Northern Khaganate**, the Kingdom of Aramaea, and the Kingdom of Akkadia. After a million years of conflict, the descendants of Harrian would win and used the thaumaturgical aspects of the Crown of the First Man to enhance their military might, becoming the dominant superpower in the antediluvian human world. They would eventually expand west and east, bringing them into conflict with the Sovereign Council, the western fairies, the so-called "Great Hwan Empire" **named the Empire of the Eternal Sun**, and several others.
* **~ 5 - 400,000:** The House of Apollyon summons a large army from throughout the tribes allied to the House and sails across the sea to the distant lands of the western fairies and the Sovereign Council. This army, believed to be the largest assembled up to this point in history, were commanded by a number of knights of different human races. The culminating war saw the near-devastation of the western fairies and the sacking of several of the Sovereign Council's cities in the eastern seaboard of antediluvian North America.
* **~ 400,050:** [AWAITING DECLASSIFICATION]

### List of Peoples

General Timeline of Events

The exact lifespan of this civilization is not currently known, nor is it believed that it ever *can* be known. The single living individual who have existed long enough to have resided within Audapaupadopolis was [REDACTED BY ORDER OF THE PFC HIGH COMMAND]
*Homo aeturnus* eventually left the city after the imprisonment of the First Man, beginning their gradual change into later human ancestors as their thaumatological connection with their progenitor disappeared. These would eventually become *Homo antediluvianus*, *Homo erectus*, *Homo neanderthalensis*, *Homo demens*, *Homo deus*, and *Homo sanguinus*. The *Homo demens* (Children of Madness) would later become the demons of various folklores and later the dark magicians and the numerically lesser *Homo deus* (Children of the God[s]) would become the the first angels and later the first thaumaturges.
Though unclear, it is reported that some *Homo aeturnus* had survived but only regressed to the level of the *Homo antediluvianus* and *Homo sapiens*, few even having the appearance of modern day humans. It is purported that the Japanese people were descendants of the Shinto sun goddess Amaterasu Omikami, who is a mixed *Homo aeturnus*-*Homo antediluvianus* deity.

Considered to be the descendants of the *Homo inanis* who were mistakenly referred to as gods due to their arrival via spacecraft, they are quite developed in terms of philosophy, politics, arts and so on, though they have regressed to the times of the day voluntarily in order to preserve local cultures, religions and traditions, an attribute to the Novayan Stellar Commonwealth's and Kalaidian Empire's sociocultural and socioreligious preservation efforts several millions of years before.
Eventually, elements of Novayan and Kalaidian social, religious, political and cultural practices and traditions would be later incorporated into post-High Antiquity cultures and societies. The most notable was:
* a Novayan-style civil-military bureaucracy used by several nations;
* a Kalaidian-style civil-military bureaucracy used by several Hellenic and Indo-Hellenic nations;
* a Kalaidian-style imperial cult and feudal principles (the latter of which incorporates of imperial bureaucracies);
* a Kalaido-Novayan sense of militarism that values service, duty, virtue, honor, justice, competence, courage, valor and self-sacrifice;
* religious syncretism between a dominant faith and non-dominant faiths;
* hybridization and divergence of different societies, religions and cultures, as well as politics, arts, ideas and so on;
* use of a universal currency for transaction with national, regional and local currencies;
* use of a government-approved military currency for transactions between civilian and military currencies;
* sociocultural and socioreligions preservation efforts designed to preserve local cultures, traditions, religions and societies;
* a more stringent animal and environmental preservation, protection and restoration program(s);
* strictly-enforced equality and humanization of non-extreme ideologies and queer ideas;
* a Kalaidian-influenced no-taxation policy;
* a Novayan-influenced low-taxation policy
* stringent anti-monopolist economic policies and antitrust regulations
* stringent regulated scientific and technological research.

Due to the fact they and their *Homo inanis* ancestors coexisted with the *Homo sapiens* since their arrival in the Southern Arabian Peninsula, the *Homo sapiens inanis aeturnus* would be lumped into the *Homo sapiens* group, thereby making them no different from regular humans.