Timeline

Time in the isles is noted as BA (Before Ascension), or PA (Post Ascension) based on when Aideiilia the white witch took the throne and began the Aideilian Golden Age.

## Ancient Era

* ***6500BA*** (Estimated): First permanent settlement within Akem
* ***3297BA:*** Founding of the first Sveniar city.
* ***2344BA:*** The Black Pharaoh rises back as a Lich and destroys the ancient Kingdom of Akem.
* ***1807BA:*** The city-state of of Solis is founded
* ***833BA:*** Fall of the Solis Empire when its capital is sacked by the Great Solis Uprising.
* ***788BA:*** The Wolf Witch takes the Throne, using her powers she creates the first Hexwolf to serve as her foot soldiers.
* ***728BA:*** Rizwan the Physician, after four decades of studies creates the first scientific medical academy, teaching a way of medicine based on observation and evidence, eschewing supernatural explanation for disease.

## Dark Age

* ***326BA:*** The Dragon Witch arrives at the Isle of Dread with a flock of dragons and easily vanquish the previous witch queen. She takes the throne and rule uncontested for three centuries. She reigns as a bloodthirsty tyrant, allowing her dragons to rampage free, and signals the start of a dark age destroying multiple old civilizations.
* ***266BA***: The Svenia revolution overthrows the Emirs and forms the League of Svenia, composed of democratic city-states. The exiled loyalist take refuge in the red sands desert and form the Emirate of Kadar, they change their names to the Pashir, meaning loyal ones in their language.

## The Golden Age

* ***1PA:*** Aideilia takes the throne of the witches by defeating the Dragon Witch, using her powers to improve the world and push back the powers of the Old Ones. This begins the Golden Age.
* ***133PA:*** Aidelia after a century of reconstruction, battle and diplomacy formally unites the nations of the Isles under the Empire of Light.
* ***198PA:*** Invention of the first printing press.

## The Second Darkness

* ***500PA:*** During the fifth-centennial anniversary of the White Witch taking the throne, the Sisterhood of the Black unleashes an army of deamons upon the capital, including arch-daemon Azarath the Despoiler. This resulted in the White Witch being severely wounded and the destruction of the Capital, which became known as the witch wastes.
* ***501PA:*** With the White Witch incapacitated the Throne is usurped, and so begins a long and bloody witch war between dozens of warlock factions over the rulership of the Isles.
* ***Various years 501 PA+:*** Without the White Witch, the destruction of the capital, and the death of most of the Isles leadership most nations experience catastrophic societal collapses and the empire fractures.
* ***551PA:*** The Swan Witch takes the throne and begins a somewhat stable period for the first time in decade, the Swan Witch is largely considered benign and makes a truce with the Church of Light in the name of stability.
* ***558PA:*** Battle of Sakha pass ends in overwhelming defeat of the Lysian forces and ends the Lys-Dolosk conflict.

## Curses and the Crusade

* ***563PA:*** Previously unknown witch known as Magdalena usurps the Swan Witch and takes the power of the World Tree for herself. In her madness she uses its powers to unleash the Nine Curses, dooming humanity to a slow and painful demise. In response the Church of Light calls for a great crusade to push back the darkness and return the world to sanity.
* ***564PA:*** Thousands of Crusaders lead an all-out assault on the Isle of Dread but are savagely defeated by Magdalena's army of monsters, the crusaders are soon reanimated as undead under her control and begin a push into the mainland to eradicate all life.
* ***565PA:*** Present day