Chronicle of Three Lakes

## Prelude

The Chronicle of Three Lakes is a timeline and collection of texts pertaining to the history of all the nations of The Three Lakes.

The timeline works in three eras.

1. Unua Di Ek, meaning 'Before Second Creation', displayed as UDE. This records the ambiguous history of The Three Lakes before the Second Creation, what Calains call the sudden rise in nationhood and seismic political change in the Western Continent.
2. Eth Media Pona, meaning 'The Content Era', displayed as EMP. This records the history of The Three Lakes from the Second Creation to the founding of The Union of Calai of Three Lakes.
3. Pana Itoni Asal, meaning 'Post Union Glory', displayed as PIA. This records the modern history of The Three Lakes, in it's current time of being a world power and multinational union.

## UDE

Roughly 2,000 UDE - The ancient world begins. The civilisation of Krate is founded, and an unknown civilisation creates the Old Western Empire. Both these nations trade with numerous nations present at the time, such as Sunscythia.

920 UDE - Krate measured and found that sea levels were rapidly rising at a rate of several feet per year. This spurred alarm and confusion, but not serious worry. It would take decades of rising to cause real harm, and most believed it was simply a natural phenomenon that would go its course and return to normalcy after.

915 UDE - The Oleana build their first ziggurat in Grand Calai.

913 UDE - The sea level rise increased ninety-fold. Overnight entire towns were swept under water, and the hills quickly became crowded with refugees fleeing from the disaster. Survivors rapidly worked on salvaging what boats were still afloat, as well as constructing new ones from hilltop lumber. After a week of chaos, the one-thousand and two-hundred survivors set sail from one the top of one of Krate's two largest peaks. They sailed directly south, to a land known by others as Havledon, where the people of Krate landed, and began anew. Another group of unknown number fled to Sumuher. Soom rises from underneath the ocean, and the Ixa Diel form the nation.

912 UDE - The Four Expeditions of Havle take place, founding the nation of Havledon.

907 UDE - The Old Western Empire conquers it's core provinces, including the nation of Soom.

902 UDE - The Great Uniter, leader of The Old Western Empire, is assassinated, causing gradual collapse of imperial authority.

880 UDE - The Old Western Empire begins the Conquest of The Northern States, committing various crimes against what is now The Northeastern Imperial Alliance.

759 UDE - Any nation state that held onto the title of The Western Empire as a successor state has disappeared.

640 UDE - The Seven Great Cities of Sumuher are constructed.

537 UDE - The five main tribes of Calai fall into conflict over differing interpretations of The Great Uniter and their reasons for abandoning Calai. This begins the Centuries War.

428 UDE - The Okuma report this specific date as the first time they considered themselves significantly different from baboons.

358 UDE - The languages of Calai have diverged to the point where none of it's tribes can understand more than a few words of any attempt at communication.

341 UDE - Pria'taz is strangely turned from a steppe to a desert. The savannas of Azir and Soom also experience this phenomenon.

246 UDE - The city of Uru rises above all others in Sumuher.

243 UDE - The Calain tribe of Poursoi learn the languages of every other tribes, and become a neutral party in the Centuries War.

134 UDE - The Calain tribes of Azir and Sial learn to speak each other's languages, leading to an alliance forming between them.

76 UDE - The first colony of Gweriþ is founded in old territories of the empire.

67 UDE - The Chapas suffer a terrible disaster, killing three quarters of their population and forcing migration to the south of the continent.

66 UDE - Don merchants run into colonists, and begin to learn their language.

65 UDE - The nascent religion of Pieua Pioh spreads among it's cities, with the city of Ahl Alia Pieua Ahl Pioh's ruling Bures family claiming ancestry from a god.

60 UDE - The Great Tree of Ketiki is found by Sial Stilters. The local tribe establishes relations with the Diarchy of Sial and Azir.

50 UDE - A Queen Without A Name from the tribe of Ashpon unites the villages and towns of Ke-Seshan.

43 UDE - The Sumuheran cities of Basi and Laku form a union, and conquer the city of Sagmu.

32 UDE - The nation of Rhebbid is founded as a neutral meeting place between Ixa-Diel, Okuma and Human persons in the Western Savanna.

31 UDE - The city of Matu falls to Basi-Laku, Gil of Uru, Son of Ish defies his elder and flees the city of Uru, starting a resistance against Basi-Laku.

21 UDE - The Year of Many Births, with in Calai, the Charrier twins Fabrice and Emile, Sebastian Vertig, Reyn, Sai and Noe Agrippa all being born. In addition, Sol is born in an unknown town in what is now Solyn, Urdal Ull-táru in Namatkore, Arrunjhal Rrejum is born in Lusjhusēkē, Atun in Pria'taz Itoni, Cepik in Ketikiten and Anpona are all born too. All become leaders of their nations.

15 UDE - Kisk Babaeni is born in a border town between Sial and Sang.

14 UDE - Sebastian is adopted into House Vertig and chosen as heir to the Leasehold of Azir.

13 UDE - The population of Havledon reaches 100,000, and the mass of people causes the Mayor of Ujamdon to suggest a Fifth Expedition.

12 UDE - The Chapas reach their new homeland, Kessho-kō. They get the name form their founder, who dies moments after the migration ends. They are met by Noe Agrippa, who upon her return to Sial is awarded title of Stilter Queen despite her considerable youth.

5 UDE - A Queen Without A Name dies, with her daughter Anpona succeeding to the throne.

4 UDE - The carpenter Sai in Don makes an exquisite table, that gains the Don 50 tons of gold. This makes him the first Exemplar as declared by Don's guild, and Superior as declared by the cartels.

3 UDE - The Pent is formed in a port in Gwerib.

2 UDE - Reyn becomes Reyn, killing the previous holder of the name and title, seizing leadership of Sang.

1 UDE - Five cities of Sumuher unite behind rule from Uru by Gil of Uru, Son of Ish, King of Kings of the Wise Peoples of Sumuher, taking Basi.

0 UDE - The Second Creation begins.