Dissaria Timeline

**BV = (Before Vanquishing)**

* The time starting from when the gods first arrived on Dissara and when the ruined gods reemerged. This dates back to what can be the start of recorded history, where the gods first arrived, anything beyond that point very little is known.

**BT = (Between Time)**

* This was only used for the time between the two eras, and only counts 348 years.

**PV = (Post Vanquishing)**

* The time after the Ruined Gods were vanquished back behind the Divine Barrier, most historians consider the “modern area” to have technically lasted 1027 years, however the actual term PV and the current date system used which refers to PV, was put in place after peace was created between the Elven and Dwarven Nations.

## The Influencing | UNKNOWN

The Influencing was the first age of Dissaria, during this time the gods discovered this planet, named it and began creating their first forms. Legends tell of the gods creating the beings that inhabit Dissaria, others say the gods only molded and shaped what beings already existed on the planet. Most scholars today agree that a bit of both is probably true. This era marked the time of many conflicts for the gods, their wars with the Ancient Primordial Elemental Titans, who did not take kindly to the gods messing with their home, although most would be dominated by the gods power and come to serve under them. Eventually a conflict arose amongst the gods, from research into much of the gods various religious writings, it is said that they could not agree on something, this caused the two current pantheons to be created. The Gods who sided with Elasay, became known as The Harmonious, and those who sided with Forene, became known as the Ruined. A battle broke between these two groups, where it is said Lennox betrayed the Ruined, giving enough time for the Harmonious to combine their power and scatter the Ruined across the various planes of existence, with Lennox being spared and welcomed into the Harmonious due to his betrayal of the ruined. The timeframe of how long this lasted is unknown, even to most of the gods as they didn't keep track, time not really being a concept to them. With nothing of this era surviving into the modern day, and no history from The Age of Expansion, the era which followed that of the gods mentioning anything about this timeframe, it is impossible to know over how many years this took place. It is known to have ended at least 3385 years ago, when the earliest piece of history from the Age of Expansion started dates back to.

## The Age of Expansion | 2358 BV - 1014 BV

The Age of Expansion was the second age in the world of Dissaria, it covered a history of the races of the world rebuilding their lives, civilizations and finding their way in the world without the influence of the gods. This age reached heights in technology and magic that has not been seen to modern day, with very little of this surviving today. The Age of Expansion lasted for around 1344 years and ended 2041 years prior to current day.

##### A WORLD WITHOUT FAITH | 1 BV - 432 BV

Very little recorded history exists from this earliest period, most of it coming from around 300 years into the Age of Expansion. The earliest pieces of history that can be dated, where religious elven books, describing wars and conflict between the elves, they talked about how everyone was confused and didn't understand what had happened, the world looked different to them and there where now oceans where there weren't any before. It can be assumed this was much the same elsewhere in the world, as some dwarven notes describe creating weapons for wars with other dwarves.

Scholars are unsure of how long these wars of conflicts lasted, but eventually across Dissaria, people began to rebuild and create new societies, most of which are now lost to time. With the gods missing, their worship began to lessen, and soon worshiping gods was seen in most places as holding on to something long gone. This was also the time the continents gained their names, and the foundation for many societies that exist today, came into existence.

## The Reemergence of the Ruined | 1014 BV - 854 BV

This is the age where the Age of Expansion was shattering, with the ruined returning to the world and attempting to take over, much of the societies of this time, their technology and culture were destroyed in the battles with the Ruined Gods, their armies and generals.

The Reemergence lasted for around 160 years and ended 1881 years prior to the current day.

## The Age of Despair | 854 BV - 0 BV

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The age of despair lasted for around 854 years and ended 1027 years prior to the current day.

## The Between Time | 0 BT - 348 BT

This was the period of time between The Ruined reemerging and the start of the Post Vanquishing era, this era is said to have began by historians when the last of Ruined, Cyric, The Lost Mind, was Vanquished by the Champion of Jounin and a powerful lich.

This is the era where the world began rebuilding itself, leading into modern history and its events, this era is marked as the between time because there wasn’t any world changing events that happened, mostly smaller conflicts and such.

This era lasted for 348 years and ended 679 years prior to the current day.

### War and Peace | 283 BT - 348 BT

This was the end of the between time, the era started when the war between the Elven and Dwarven Nations began, eventually ending in a ceasefire and shaky peace between the two nations.

## Post Vanquishing | 0 PV - 679 PV

This is the current age of Dissaria recognized by scholars and peoples all over the world.

This timespan encompasses all of modern history and events and has lasted 679 years.

### Reparations | 0 PV - 103 PV

During the first 103 years after the last Ruined were vanquished the gods seeked to help repair the world that was lost by the The Ruined during the great battles. This was were civilizations recovered and expanded outwards into the world, eventually coming to form many of what exists today, or expanding on what remained and created what now exists.

### Volkurs Accession | 654 PV - 679 PV

During the year 654 PV the Abyssal Maw somehow broke through and began gaining followers to allow him to reenter the world. A sailor monk named Volkur began encountering these followers and defeating them, coming to hate their ideals and preaching freedom of ones self above all else, forming a group to fight with him, he set out as the Abyssal Maw broke through into Dissaria, the first encounter of the Vanquished since they were trapped away behind the Divine Barrier. Volkur using his own self taught monk style (Way of the Astral Self, which many of his pupils teach today) he beat back the Abyssal Maw along with the help of his friends, eventually managing to kill his Avatar form causing it to float utop the glimmering ocean in which the battle took place.

After this battle Volkurs body was said to have dropped onto the avatars body he was fighting on dead, it was determined he did not die from his injuries and he was not able to be revived by clerics, after this everyone thought at first his soul was taken by the Abyssal Maw as a price to lock him back away behind the Divine Barrier. However in the months following, sailors and travelers and those who seeked freedom began being spoke to by a god, a god that called himself Volkur. It soon spread that Volkur had ascended to godhood which he confirmed through his Clerics, although not stating how he had ascended he proclaimed he was a new god of freedom and began to inspire travel amongst the world, more so than he had before. The world today continues with his influence extending and traveling throughout much of the world.

### The Worlds Roots | 680 PV - Present 726 PV

The Worlds Roots is the Current Age of Dissaria, its beginning was marked by the Dwarven Civil War, between the Thornack Empire and the forces that would become the UDC, this war lasted 8 years, ending with the Destruction of Negbolder, the city known for its expertise in war magic and the last bastion of the Thornack Empire. This city was used to protect an entrance to the Underdark and with the Destruction of the city, that entrance was open, marking the end of the war but causing a constant threat which the UDC now faces today.

With the UDC formed, the dwarves began to realize they had forgotten their roots, where they had come from and what their clans and families meant to them. The Eltharion of Athalora realized they too had forgotten their roots, upon hearing of a once destroyed city that was reiving its elven culture with its two living survivors. These nations sparked a new age for the world, as nations and people across the world began to leave behind expansion for expansions sake, and focus on what they truly believed in.