Timeline

The following is a timeline of the events of Tavena.

**Spoiler warning ahead.**

## Before any Stories (yet)

At the beginning there were 3 siblings, Teyva, Dava and Atma.

Due to the their natures, Dava and Teyva got along rather well, but Atma felt isolated. Them only being able to destroy lead to a falling out with their siblings. Atmas tendencies grew more violent, and Dava eventually broke down. to shield themselves from the trauma, they split into 11 pieces, what is currently known as the Gods.

### A Project begins

Teyva had grown bored of the abyss and wanted to make something bigger, she convinced the Davai to help her with this new world of hers. After the worldbones were put into place, Teyva created a mold for each of the Davai to shape, and each of the 11 created their own race of mortal.

In the background, Atma had similarily grown bored, they hungered, felt starved of destruction and when they found out about Tavena, the consumption began. The Davai hurried to protect their work, and as such put themselves in danger. Atmas hunger had grown to such a length that any one of them could not stop Atma if they tried. To protect her sibling and Tavena, Teyva sacrificed herself. "dying" to create the Living Rock. a divine barrier that covered the sky like a shell, locking Atma away underneath. A few mortals of each of the Davai were saved, but Teyva's stayed behind with her.

### First cycle

The world began anew with the previous world buried beneath. Little is known of the first cycle apart from a crisis of liches that ended up allowing Atma to reenter, leading to similar results as the previous. This resulted in what today is known as Karifenas' Chain.

### Further cycles

Details of these are similarly locked away for world safety, but are known to always contain two constants:

* An Experiment - Debai
	+ A variation of the laws of the previous worlds, these may carry over to the next or be forgotten entirely.
* A Catastrophe - Ekava
	+ An event that leads to Atmas eventual freedom and consumption/corruption of the cycle.

It is unknown if the gods realms are restarted as well, but it is doubtful this is the case yet, as the Endless Library have been found to contain some books from previous cycles. These are often difficult to read as the sacrifice is valuable and the language itself is often unreadable.

### Current cycle

It is unknown which cycle exactly the current iteration of Tavena is set in as the gods themselves rarely reply to mortals directly or concisely (this may be the current Dabai), and few books detail the events at all. Most mortals lack the knowledge of cycles or the Living Rock at all.

### Unknown catastrophe

There are a large number of ruins spread around the continents of Tavena, many of them being much older than the Kedavas, most are dangerous to enter. As such be cautious when doing so.

### The Shattering

At some point Temakhan (then containing [The Elven lands] as well, discovered an artifact belonging to the Spider, it was, after a years worth of digging, a shard was handed over to the Ordha of the time, Khadaas. After months of prodding, experimenting with contact and spells, the shard cracked. This resulted in the event known as the Shattering. Time in an enormous radius momentarily broke down. Continents traveled back to before their own creation, others forwards, creatures that should not exist suddenly did and the majority of Temakhan, including a large part of Ovaasia was turned into a Barren desert. (Thoug surprisingly, the capital of Arhova largely survived unharmed)

### Civil War

Temakhan broke, literally and figuratively, radical factions wanting to disallow magic all together, others feeling like there was still work to be done on the artifact and numerous in between. Khadaas is believed to have died during this war, though his body was never officially documented to having been found.

What today is known as the Shattered Lands to most, is the result of the union of a few of the more moderate factions. Khadaas school of Fihra was disallowed from being used to please a rather large percentage of the population in reconciliation.

### War between neighbours

Ovaasia, after an influx of the magically nervous remnants of Temakhan arrived, got more and more radical on this idea. Eventually they declared war on the Shattered Lands, the Light was founded during this time. Mages against men who were refused to stop fighting. Assassins taking out any and all mages, no matter if they were children or not.

### About to get worse

A loud crack was heard from the ground. News of entire cities falling down into the abyss was heard and the war was put on hold. Atma had arrived (this is thought to have had the potential of becoming an Ekava), though the rifts, yet massive, were not large enough for a full scale invasion. Despite this all of the kingdoms had to band together to hold them back, forming the consulate. Somehow the beasts of Atma were held back and Teyva's strength, though still dead, grew back for a while.

### The Silent takeover

Being frustrated at the short alliance with Temakhan, The Light decided to overthrow the ovaasian king from the shadows, putting in a political puppet in his place. Mages are slowly taken out even during times of peace and many try to escape to Temakhan.

## Comic Story

The Shield of Idarak is disbanded at the hands of the Light due to them breaking the law with allowing mages to work in their temples. Teyva manages to send her blessing and chooses Ara as her avatar. Ara is found by the Guardian and is trained.

Further is yet to be developed.