Ages and Eras

# Age of Culpireal (AC)

## 0-300 AC | Creation

Culpireal creates Heaven, Beathal, the first generation of plants and animals, the first generation of Primordials, and the first court of fey. The Void is also created by Culpireal’s forcing out of the universe to set his bounds.

## 300-500 AC | Faeryears

Culpireal creates the second generation of animals, the first generation of Angels, and the second generation of Primordials. The first fey court creates the first generation of magical beasts and second generation of plants. Culpireal and the first fey court work together to create The First World to house the fey and their magical creations, separate from Heaven.

## 500-750 AC | Abaddon’s Rise

The Horseman Cruelty (Abbrondrom) is formed from Culpireal’s first sign of abuse against Beathal, alongside the Horseman Death (Theabis). The Horseman Pestilence (Menos) is created when the first plant grows ill from poor conditions. The Horseman War (Selarka) is formed from the arguments of Culpireal and Timaern.

## 750-800 AC | Hellspawn

Culpireal creates Hell, imprisons Seophokram in it, and creates the first generation of fiends.

## 800-900 AC | First Devil War

Culpireal attempts to destroy the fiends he created but is stopped by Beathal’s concern and Timaern’s interest in working with Theabis. Mortogoth and Ghonkrim create the second generation of fiends.

## 900-1100 AC | Beginning of Pax Infernus

Hell and Heaven come to a peace agreement, and a relatively uninteresting period of peace begins.

## 1100-1200 AC | Aellarum

Culpireal creates the second generation of Angels. Theabis and Timaern create the first generation of reapers. Menos is redeemed by Beathal. Lyyparim becomes the Horseman Pestilence. The first court of fey creates the third generation of primordials.

## 1200-1600 AC | First Mortal Age

Culpireal creates the mortal plane, and the first generation of mortal races (Giants, Lizardfolk, Talpidae, and all other beast races). The fae court creates the final generation of primordials. Theabis and Timaern create the second generation of reapers.

## 1600-1900 AC | Second Mortal Age

Culpireal creates Conscientia, and the inevitables. Various sources create the second generation of mortalkind (Dwarves, Orcs, and Elves). Ornithaea and Culpireal create Amicial. The fey court creates the second generation of magical beasts and fey. Culpireal slays the first dwarf.

## 1900-2147 AC | Abbrondrom’s War / First God War

Culpireal creates the first generation of archons, the third generation of mortalkind (humans, halflings), and gives all creation the ability to produce children on their own. Abbrondrom begins Heaven’s eternal war against Abaddon by killing one of Culpireal’s sons before fleeing to the mortal plane where he forces the gods to fight him there. Theabis ends this era by imprisoning Abbrondrom in Abaddon with himself. Timaern forsakes Theabis and creates the second generation of reapers.

## 2147-2285 AC | Abysspawn

The abyss is formed from the ruins of other planes that drifted into The Void. Giustanativa is created to monitor and fight it. Dwarves, Elves, and Orcs return to the surface.

## 2285-3800 AC | Second God War

Culpireal attempts to destroy the Abyss, and ends up at war with the fae courts when they side with the abyss. War ends in a stalemate. Zanszanith created from Abyssal and Giustan infliences.

## 3800-4300 AC | War’s Reign

War temporarily shifts the balance of power in Abaddon’s favor after kidnapping several angels’ children and raising them as her own to fight against heaven. This is met with a crackdown by Culpireal on children between races.

## 4300-5500 AC | Famine’s Reign

Famine is able to find a route to starving out the earliest mortals, nearly causing extinction on the mortal plane. Xer reign is met with backlash from the other fiends, and is ended by a devil.

## 5500-6000 AC | Pestilence’s Reign

Pestilence unleashes a disease that kills a large number of the early angels, archons, and inevitables. Their reign is ended after being slain by a mortal.

## 6000-7230 AC | Age of Deepdwellers

Drow and Duergar come into existence, relative era of peace and legacy building.

## 7230-7850 AC | Heaven’s Fall / Third God War

Beathal kills Culpireal, ending the age of Culpireal. Theabis is freed from being imprisoned with Cruelty. Eraille killed by Seophokram. Ellisa ascends to become the deity of all Fate. Nèilóng-Tǔ unified under Kyoshan.

# Age of Dissatra (AD)

## 1-47 AD | Hell's Rise

Period of chaos in which much of Heaven is unable to prevent Hell from cementing itself into place, with Dissatra acting as defacto leader of heaven. Cynesige ascends, ending this age.

## 47-238 AD | Fourth God War

The demon lord Jehoshaphat escapes from the Abyss and begins destroying the mortal plane, forcing the gods into battle outside of their home planes.

# Age of Man (AM)

## 1-223 AM | Mankind's Ascent

Period of peace on the mortal plane under Cynesige’s rule in both Heaven and Highcross.

## 223-487 AM | Fifth God War

Dwarves force Giants into relative peace. Pazuzu and Lamashtu’s war spills over onto the mortal plane creating the rift known as The Darkscar. Nèilóng-Tǔ civil war.

## 487-592 AM | Sixth God War

Klar-Zarkram Osgoyel slays Cynesige, ending the age of man and sending the world into a new war of the gods that results in alliances forming along lawful and chaotic lines rather than traditional good to evil lines. Much of the land in the ‘old world’ sinks. Tiamat is defeated by Durg, and subsequently forms the Stormseas around the Kingdom of Spades.

## 1-28 MR | Merle’s Ascension

Merle leads Highcross out of its dark age, and subsequently ascends. She goes onto lead Heaven as a whole.

## 28-318 MR | Razlorkis’ Reign

Period marked by Razlorkis, son of Timaern and Matanbuchus, claiming Highcross’s throne and beginning an era of global slave trades, colonialism, and conflict. Unification of Nèilóng-Tǔ under human emperor.

## 318-783 MR | Naval Age

Period of rapid advancements in naval technology caused by a cold war between Highcross, Nèilóng-Tǔ, and Essian.

## 783-884 MR | Seventh God War

The four elemental lords kill Lypa and Lynos, taking power over the natural order of the mortal plane. Massive natural disasters begin to rock the plane, setting back technological advances and causing a global dark age.