Timeline

### Lost Age

The Lost Age (LA) is the time well before humans began keeping records. Very little is known about this time.

#### **Vitas Creation Myth**

The Great Forest and the Swarm of Chaos halt their feuding and give birth to the city of Kasmacalau. The Ancient Gods, Ashtar and Atavius, create the first mortal being. He is named Onio’nomen. From the forest comes his wife, Prisawel. They name the things of E’yane and define all that exists with word. They rule in a great tower made entirely of jade and emerald. Onio’nomen tricks his creators into granting him divine power and they imprison him in a world known as Ayareath, the Realm of Death, as punishment. Atavius decrees the Law of Death and Prisawel is given the divine powers stolen by Onio'nomen at the behest of a mysterious stranger god and she becomes Aluein, Goddess of Life and Death. Thus is formed the Warring Triumvirate.

The religion and devout worship of Atavius, adhered to by the nation of Ocyria, dictates the beliefs on early humanity clearly in The Bynod. The world was created for man and it was his ambition and pride that caused all mankind to shatter into wandering tribes during its early history and also caused “demihumans” to be formed. Marydians from the province of Dargh concur with this belief, but see the first man’s ambition as something to aspire to.

#### **Human Tradition**

Gernaris tradition is sometimes considered to be a mix of many of the ideas of others, but the most common belief among the people of this province is that which is known is known, and that which is not known is forgotten and may never be known. Of traditions, the faith in the Godheart is seen as the oldest of faiths in the region.

The peoples of Leviat believe that Urz was an egg that Saland, god of all dragons, was hatched from and that people were made to serve dragonkind.

According to the Ayaten tradition of Parnak, man was cultured by elves during this time and taught many of the important lessons required to survive in the world.

#### **Dwarven Tradition**

Dwarves believe that Angdanuck, the spirit of the mountains, broke out of the sea and reached for the glowing sun. It was from him that dwarves came forth and settled the earth that came up around Great Angdanuck.

#### **Elven Tradition**

Elves have kept a more detailed account of the age and believe it was at the dawn of time that Varhuine came to Urz with his children.

 **20000:** | Glaciers recede and the Medramic Period ends. Humans domesticate animals. Early dwarves appear in mountain caves across the continent and begin hunting and gathering, using stone tools and weapons.

### First Age (Age of the One Wood)

The Age of the One Wood (AW), also known the Age of the Fey, and Upgranthas (*Sylvan: Upgranthasuucii or Time of the Mothers*), is the age immediately proceeding the Lost Age. The epoch of this age is a significant overlap of the Feywild and the world of Urz, encompassing a distinct majority of the material plane. According to Ocyrian tradition, the Age of One Wood is simply a part of the Age of Wyrms in which the earliest Elvish peoples came to the world to teach man the importance of civilization. Elven and Draconic traditions hold that this was a time of the beginning of the conflicts for the children of Varhuine and the spawn of Saland that would dominate the Second Age.

### Second Age (Age of Mortality or The War of Sword and Serpent)

The Age of Mortality (AM), also known as the Age Before Ryiomand, the Tulameric Age, the Age of the War of Sword and Serpent, and the Rise of Man (*Old Ocyrian: Ante Urbem Regalius*), is the time defined before the epoch based on the traditionally reckoned year of Ryiomand the First’s exodus to modern day Ocyria. The Age Before Ryiomand is so named because of the reign of the elven civilization of Tulamera, considered the mother nation of most modern human nations and considered the only true bastion of “good” during this troubled age.

### Third Age (Age of Death and Rebirth or The Grey War)

The Age of Death and Rebirth (AR), also known as the Divine Age, the Second Great War, the Age of the Covenant (Old Ocyrian: Aetas Gratulorus), is the century heralded after the epoch of Atavius Gratiarus’ birth and also the conclusion of the Gray War.

 **617:** | The Grey Order forms to stand against the Nine Bastards, abominations formed of the Warring Triumvirate that were freed by their creators to destroy the world. The Covenant of the Ascended is formed.

### Fourth Age (Age of Heroes)

The Age of Heroes (AH), also known as the Last Great Age, the Final Age (Old Ocyrian: Aetas Instauro), the End of Mysticism, is the time before the Common Age of Urz. It is said that during this time, the last of the winds of the gods breathed across the surface of Urz and less primed with the powers of magic.