Project CHARYBDIS/Armanya

*Note: All dates are relative, and exact timelines can not be inferred exactly from ancient sources. As a further note, there existed some forms of anachronism, such as those of the Black Empire's commanders and soldiers wearing Second Great World War-era Zeitschen military uniforms or even dresses worn by the high priestesses of Avalon and Toron.*
*ATTENTION: All Triumvirate personnel, the events of the Lanikeia supercluster complex's formation must be masked at all costs. We cannot allow them to realize the existence of the Void they are now living in.*
* **Time Unknown** - The first gods were first formed from nothing, though their appearances were without form. The first concepts, the first reality. The first events. Many did not care for their existence or nonexistence. Many did not care observing the realm they were now in. Some, however, became aware of their individual existence and nonexistence. The first of these self-aware gods - who would later become IS and IS NOT, Yahweh, Bathala, Amaterasu Omikami, Baldr, Idus, Mekhane, Yaldabaoth, Vazjuma, Mekhane, and several others - were the first to begin forming the primordial universe. Other gods joined them: the Worm-in-Waiting and its good brother the Elder One, Azathoth, Cthulhu, Nyarlathotep, Dagon, the Blue Sovereign, the Creators. With their might, they formed the stars, the space, and the worlds themselves.
* **Over 8 - ?????? BCE** - The first society of beings identified as distant human ancestors (*Homo aeturnus*) is destroyed in the fall of Audapaupadopolis (LOI). It was believed that the fall of Audapaupadopolis was an attempt by the Fae entities (*Trans stellaris*) to kill the First Man, named Adam el Asem, by compelling the Children of the Night (*Homo nocturnus*) to cross the great sea and annihilate him.
* **Over 6 - ?????? BCE** - Proto-human ancestors *Homo antediluvianus*, *Homo erectus*, *Homo neanderthalensis*, and *Homo sanguinus* began to propagate across the Afro-Euratelansian and Perenovan continents. Many small civilizations rise and fall during their period, with little recorded of their histories.
* **Over 5 - ?????? BCE** - The third son of Adam, Seth, encounters an individual within the *Homo antediluvianus* subrace named "Harrian the Elder" and befriends he and his family. After Harrian earns his trust, Seth gifts him Asem's iron crown, said to be a star from another universe, and named him Apollyon (King Over The Darkness).
* **Over 4.5 - ?????? BCE** - The "Sky Kings" of a kingdom called Apollyona began their rule over "Old Europ". Utilizing the thaumaturgical aspects of Asem's iron crown to enhance their military might, the Sky Kings became the dominant hegemonic hyperpower in the antediluvian human world. They wage numerous wars against their neighbors, most significantly against the Daevites of Daeva, a massive region of individual governorships to the east of Apollyona. Records indicate the number of "Sky Kings" were about two-hundred, although more than that number were hypothesized.
* **Over 4.0 - 5????? BCE** - The bastard son of the last King of Maradika was given the Black Crown and then crowned Imperial Regent by the Worm-in-Waiting and led an army that butchered and raped Haradolva, capital of the Kingdom of Maradika. Using the Black Crown's thaumaturgical aspects to enhance his Imperial military might, he led the Black Empire of Maradika to numerous wars of conquest and expansion against its neighbors. Many were said to have been subjugated while others willingly and voluntarily joined. A new antediluvian human subrace called the Children of the Void (*Homo inanis*) was born during the war. Through its conquests the Black Empire became the second superpower in the antediluvian world. Both the Black Empire and the Sky Kings waged war upon each other, with the Daevites, Yor-Salem, Ying and Yamato fighting against the two empires.
* **Over 3.7 - ?????? BCE** - The ongoing war between the Sky Kings and the Black Empire saw the involvement of the Sovereign Council of antediluvian North America, then called Nor Am-Auriga, a communion of gods and Great Dragons who lead and protect the antediluvian human subrace called the Children of Harmony (Homo harmonicus). All three superpowers fought each other for control throughout Abaddon. Despite this, the continent of antediluvian South America, then called Suth Am-Auriga, was never explored; the only one to ever visit it was Jorei Apollyon, who was buried alive by the Children of the Night to feed the Dread Titania, once a Fae goddess and now the goddess of the Interlopers.
* **Over 3.6 - ?????? BCE** - The Black Empire attempted an invasion of Yamato, which was botched by Yamaton armies with the aid of the gods of Yamato (Sun Goddess Amaterasu Omikami, storm god Susanoo, and moon good Tsukuyomi) as well as reinforcements from Nor Am-Auriga and Yor-Salem. As a result, the five military governorates of Kanegawa (Kha'neygh-Ghavha), Wakayama (Uvakaiama), Mie (Mihyeheh), Miyazaki (Mih'yash-Zhash'khi), and Kumamoto (Khum'mha-Moh'toh) were established. This leads to skirmishes and outright wars between the Imperial governorates and the Yamato Dynasty, then led by the Oda Shogunate.
* **Over 400,050 BCE** - The second-to-last "Sky King" of Apollyona, Sarrus VIII von Apollyon, summons a large army of warriors from throughout all the tribes allied to Apollyona and sailed across the seas to the distant land of the faeries. This army, believed to be the largest assembled up to this point in ancient history, is commanded by four legendary knights - La Hire the Fierce (Lahaeiv), Lancelot the Conqueror (Lanaselot), Hector the Stalwart (Heketor), and Ogier the Faithful (Ogiev) - with several other lesser knights either leading groups of warriors, working together or working alone. Details of this quest was not known but well understood that the armies of Apollyona found the Faeries in a weakened state due to having been aggressed years prior by the rising power of the *Homo nocturnus*. Thus, Sarrus VIII and his armies sacked the foremost holy city of the Faeries, killed their Fae sovereign, and takes the last living member of the Fae religious nobility - a nameless Fae princess - as hostage.
* **Over 400,040 BCE** - During the return journey the unnamed Fae princess cursed the entirety of Apollyon's house and his kingdom as well as his Lord Knights and the many lesser knights. The details were unknown, but the curse was likely the cause of a terrible storm which had engulfed and besieged the fleet, and caused the chains binding the Fae princess to burn and catch Sarrus VIII's flagship on fire. While attempting to save his flagship, Sarrus VIII was dragged down to his watery death by the chains he was casting them into the sea. Upon returning to Apollyona, the news reached Sarrus IX, who was sworn in as the new Sky King. His first action was to have the Fae princess experience true suffering, then demanded a pit be dug out of the earth and an iron tomb placed in it. The Fae princess, still held captive by the Apollyonans, was casted into the tomb, which was then buried underground with her.
* **Over 400,030 BCE**
	+ Over the following several decades, multiple calamities began wrecking havoc across human civilization, with Apollyona and Maradika being hit the hardest. Records written by the Daevites indicate the flooding, famine, crop failure and pestilence ran rampant in Apollyona, which were then averted by the four legendary knights and the lesser knights. However, each of the four knights and then the lesser knights would eventually become corrupted as a result of the princess's curse, and would begin transforming into a monstrous demon of Fae origin. The exact timeline of these events is not well understood, due to the lack of recorded history, but the emergence of the "Primeval Demons" coincided with the arrival of the "Great Profanities".
	+ During the same timespan, the Black Empire began experiencing troubles that not only included such calamities but also horrors from below. On the Imperial Regent's commands, armies were raised to kill or even imprison the ancient abominations. Nor Am-Auriga was also found to suffer the same calamities but were able to avert them, though said ancient horrors began attacking the Am-Aurigan cities; attempts at saving the ancient horrors using the Elements of Harmony had failed due to the sudden discovery that the horrors cannot be transformed into good beings.
	+ The fortification of the city of Toron (Thou'rhown) began somewhere in this time period.
* **Over 400,020 BCE**
	+ The first of the "Great Profanities", the Vinuvinex (*Vinuvineks*) appeared in the historical record. These entities were believed be the result of a curse placed upon the House of Apollyon and its kingdom by the Fae princess, and each is believed to have been created with the intent to target increasingly larger aspects of human society. The Vinuvinex, or the *Profane Restrictor*, killed Sarrus IX's only daughter. In response, the Sky King engaged the Profanity in single combat, resulting in it "driven into the heart of the world".
	+ Shortly thereafter, the Lamenellant (Lamenelant) appears in the skies over Europ. Known as the "King with Many Faces", the Lamenellant - or the *Profane Adamant*, attacks many smaller towns and villages of Apollyona, causing untold devastation. It was eventually driven off by Lancelot, who was or was not at that time transfigured into the Demon Lancelot. All accounts of the Lamenellant thereafter are by Daevite scholars, leading many researchers to believe that the *Profane Adamant*, for whatever reason, made no attempt to return to Europ.
* **Over 400,015 BCE** - The four knights and the lesser knights, bu now the "Primeval Demons", had either left of their own accord (La Hire, Ogier) or are driven out (Lancelot, Hector). Saruus IX and his citadel of High Apollyona were defenseless when the final profanity, YASH (YAC), the *Profane Dark* - emerges from the Earth. In the eve of night, all of High Apollyona is devoured whole by the YASH, bringing a sudden end to the Sky Kings of Ole Europ as Sarrus IX is killed, along with whatever family remained in his citadel. The remaining human settlements continue experiencing hardships until the end of the age.
	+ According to the records found, there existed a lesser knight of Apollyona, albeit a young woman (perhaps the one and only of her kind), who had not been transformed by the princess's curse and was guilt-ridden over the events that happened in the distant continent of the Faeries. According to the records, this lesser knight was said to have been wandering the lands of Europ, Abaddon and later Daeva not long after the Fae princess was buried underground in an iron tomb.
* **Over 400,013-12 BCE** - Borealis Norsoutha III (Vo'rei'-Al'us Noro'u-Suthdas III) was made Governor-Militant of Wakayama. His first action as its military governor was to establish the Maradikanas Aagiokratia and reform the governorate, resulting in a failed revolt and the four governorates to change for the better, with one of the four governors being killed after forcing their soldiers to kill those who demanded change while the others were either forced to resign or adhere to the demands of the people. After reforming the five governorates, Governor-Militant Borealis III sent messengers to Yamato and Ying, allowing all three to share in the knowledge the Maradikans had kept from human society.
* **Over 400,010 BCE**
	+ The Children of the Night (*Homo nocturnus*) crossed the seas and begin devastating human civilization en masse. Many humans are captured and taken as prisoners back to the home of the Children of the Night, in the darkest of the Fae's forests.
		- Despite the devastation wrought upon by the Children of the Night, elements of human society resisted the Interlopers' attacks. Thou'rhown was one of the first resisters of the Interlopers' attacks, as its fortress-city, defended from all but the Interlopers' nightmares, stood strong. It is said that the High Priestess Viviane (Viviyanai) and the province's magi summoned golems from the Earth to fight back against the Interlopers.
		- Yamato, Ying and the Five Governorates directly opposed the Interlopers' attacks through thaumaturgical means that had been shared with the rest of Yamato and Ying by Governor-Militant Borealis III. The casualties dealt upon the Children of the Night was so great that they were forced to pull out of antediluvian Atelansia.
		- At the same time, the Interlopers' attacks on the Black Empire forced the Imperial Regent to summon a large army of multiple armies that resisted them with iron, steel, fire and magic. This army was, in the antediluvian world, the most largest of its kind in history, dwarfing even the first largest army ever assembled by Sky King Sarrus VIII von Apollyon. In the decisive and cataclysmic battle of Haradolva, the Black Empire scored the most heaviest of casualties upon the Children of the Night, who were pushed back and almost annihilated before being forced to retreat. At the same time, Imperial fleets that had been on guard immediately intercepted the retreating longships and sunk or captured many of them, freeing the prisoners all the while dealing more casualties upon the Interlopers.
* **Over 400,000 BCE**
	+ The human prisoners of the Children of the Night found the exhausted corpse of a human sorcerer named Noah El Mehtoh. The next day it is said all the flowers bloomed at once, followed by a torrential global rainstorm. The resulting apocalypse, called the Great Flood, devastated remaining populations that had not managed to take actions to protect themselves. Survivors of the Great Flood fled to high ground, and nearly all traces of antediluvian human civilizations were wiped off the face of the world. The exact length of the rainstorm is unknown, but Seth said an entire generation lived and died during the Great Flood.
	+ The Demon Lancelot and his cohort of lesser knights attacked the flying city of Audapaupadopolis, since hidden by Seth. His allies came to the defense of Audapaupadopolis and included Yahweh, Yehashua, Bathala, Amaterasu Omikami, Susanoo, Tsukuyomi, Baldr, Jormungandr, Relivine, Beowulf, the sea-lord Arkthurus, a party led by the Hero of the Nation of Light, the great dragon Bharata, the Imperial Regent and his children and their descendants, and the remainder of the Sovereign Council of Nor Am-Auriga. During the battle, a lesser knight unleashed a powerful thaumaturgical spell that caused the shield-dome protecting the surviving half of the Black Empire to shatter, allowing the floodwaters to fall upon the surviving imperial remnant. Only Seth and the Imperial Regent and his surviving children and descendants remained.
	+ The fortress-city of Toron was brought underground by its sorcerers and priesthood as well as a partially-transformed lesser knight. This event was known as **the Rapture**, which saw the city driven underground to protect itself from the Great Flood. At the same time, the Five Governorates alongside its allies in Ying and Yamato commenced bringing its provinces down. The five governorates were fully underground though driven off-course from their intended locations, while the capital province of Yamato and the capital of the Hua Dynasty were able to arrive at their intended underground locations.
* **Over 399,900 BCE** - As the floodwaters recede, the surviving human subraces (*Homo antediluvianus*, *Homo erectus*, *Homo sapiens*, *Homo neanderthalensis*, *Homo inanis*, and *Homo harmonicus*) begin rebuilding their societies from nothing. What information about the antediluvian world was not washed away in the Great Flood is actively hidden through thaumaturgical means by Seth in Audapaupadopolis and preserved through thaumaturgical means by the Five Governorates, Toron, Hua and Yamato underground.
* **Over 1900** - A group of explorers went to a cave in Zeroman to investigate rumors of a bogeyman known as YASH. A few explorers were occultists, among which is Mark Johnson's great-grandfather, Henry Johnson, who survived by virtue of being sick while back at the camp. Only a few explorers returned having survived YASH by virtue of being outside the inner cavern, warning the remainder not to look inside for they will die looking at YASH. Those who didn't heed immediately died, but only few saw it and died as a result. The explorers returned to Versailles, refusing to discuss about it until the formation of the International Union, and with it the Paranormal Forces Coalition.
* **Over 1930**
	+ In the Novayan continent, the Novayan Admiralty Office for Paranormal Affairs and the Charybdis Organization developed proto-paratechnologies that detected anomalous interferences throughout despite seeing none. Many assumed it is simply a glitch in the systems.
	+ In the North Amerigon continent, a group of explorers led by David Johnson, Henry Johnson's son, explored the underground remains of an antediluvian city and discovered the Blue Sovereign.