Historical Timeline

**All dates provided in Djinnpact calendar.**

## Tilathian Era / Pre-History

* c.-75,000 - Onishikata Okori slays many of the Kaiju dwelling in the Seedoran world-ocean, rendering intercontinental ocean travel relatively safe on Seedorus for several thousand years.

## Shadow Era

* c.-16,000 - The Scarlet Queen entices the Demon Prince Zekoth Necmora into granting her a fraction of his unholy power to stave off her impending death. The Demon Prince agreed, empowering the Scarlet Queen to become the first Blood Lord. Sacrificing hundreds to the Demon Prince, the Scarlet Queen then used her newfound necromantic powers on other condemned prisoners of Ur to rejuvenate herself.
* c.-15950 - The Scarlet Queen weaves powerful magic over the kingdom of Urnox.  Unbeknownst to its inhabitants, she siphons a fragment of the life energies of her entire populace, empowering her as she becomes the first vampire to satisfy her increasingly unholy thirsts.
* c.-15500 - The Scarlet Queen weaves an apocalyptic spell, slaying every last man, woman, and child in Urnox and simultaneously reanimating the strongest into Undead. The Scarlet Queen uses the weak fragments of souls from the rest of her people to fuel another spell to corrupt all of Ur into the first and largest necropolis.
* c.-15200 - Dissatisfied with the limits to her knowledge and power, the Scarlet Queen lures Zekoth Necmora to Urnox once more with the promise of an entire kingdom of damned souls.  She then traps the Demon Prince and drains him of his power and spirit, taking a spark of profane divinity for herself from his death.
* c.-15000 - The Scarlet Queen ascends to divinity after centuries of undeath and relentless effort, fueled by the worship of her kingdom of the dead.
* c.-14000 - Urnox begins to radiate profane energy across the world.  Living and Undead beings alike far beyond Urnox find themselves unconsciously drawn to the necromantic arts, and worship of the Scarlet Queen takes root as a major religion.
* c.-13000 - Pharaoh Atsutep dies under questionable circumstances, and the legitimate rule of Prince Osarithet, his 9-year-old brother, is challenged by Pharaoh Atsutep's lover, Hatsutiti. Hatsutiti seizes the throne of the Talderian Empire after winning the challenge by slaying Prince Osarithet's champion, murdering Prince Osarithet, and immediately murdering roughly half of the Talderian Empire's Council of the Wizened as they began to protest. Queen Hatsutiti's reign of terror begins.
* c.-12980 - Queen Hatsutiti proclaims she will become the second Goddess of Death and rule the Talderian Empire forever, cowing the Council of the Wizened to find a means to secure her immortality.
* c.-12975 - Queen Hatsutiti commits ritual suicide with the intent of rising as an invincible Empress. Legends diverge on whether Queen Hatsutiti's efforts succeeded and were immediately contained, if the ritual simply failed to work as intended, or if she was thwarted entirely by either an irate Scarlet Queen or mortal rebels. The location of Queen Hatsutiti's Tomb is stricken from Talderian records and falls into myth and legend.
* c.-10000 - Primitive Human settlements along the Crimson Straits take up worship of the Scarlet Queen as a monotheistic religion intended to replace the pantheon.
* c.-9500 - The High Templars of Setosh react violently to the expansion of the Scarlet Queen’s influence when Phitan razes the Temple of Nine and declares political and spiritual allegiance to the goddess of death.
* c.-9400 - Phitan is razed by the High Templars in the cleansing of the Scarlet Queen’s influence on the Crimson Straits.  The city takes centuries to return to its former glory.  The surrounding Human nations are dubbed the Silver Kingdoms due to the ever-present reminders of High Templar power - specifically, banners of the Silver Crown of Setat.
* c.-9250 - The Scarlet Queen slays High Templar Tacitus Solis in a pique of anger for conveying the command of Setosh that Urnox and Urnox alone is to be her domain.  An incensed Setosh responds by laying the Curse of the Sun's Wrath upon all vampires, condemning them that the light favored by his slain envoy would forevermore burn them to ash with the merest touch.  The Scarlet Queen herself is afflicted as well, but her own divinity protects her from the full fury of the sun, though it reduces her to a charred skeleton in sunlight and causing pain but no other debilitation to her.  The other major gods, vengeful for her influence that led to razing the Temple of Nine, follow suit, laying their own curses upon vampirism, resulting in the classical weaknesses that endure today.
* c.-8500 - Defiant and spiteful of the Pantheon, the Scarlet Queen finds a unique solution to the Curse of the Sun’s Wrath - kill the sun.  Drawing upon her blend of high arcana and divine power, she weaves a permanent storm of darkness over Urnox, the roiling clouds so thick the sun’s rays cannot pierce.
* -5107 - The Drecuzi are created on Intoba.
* -5077 - The Drecuzi are banished from the Darklight Cabal Citadel on Intoba for failing to meet expectations.
* -3578 - Intoba is destroyed by a Shadowlord summoned by the leader of the Darklight Cabal, Noskyzur the Black. A portion of the Drecuzi are able to escape to Khruk through a magic portal.
* -1899 - Muara is rocked by an earthquake that reveals the Cavern of Mu.

## The Gen Occupation

* -1886 - The Shaitan stabilize a portal in the Cavern of Mu and swiftly conquer Muara as a province of the interplanar Shaitan Empire. The Shaitan immediately enslave the Muaran population.
* -1790 - The first Munan begin appearing among Muara's Human population after a century of exposure to the energies of the Cavern of Mu.
* -1688 - The first Witch Knights begin appearing among Muara's Human and Munan population, fueled by the same energies leaking from the Cavern of Mu.
* -1362 - The Marid stabilize their own portal to Coznakk in Otuzia and begin construction of the Great City of Otuz as a hub for conquest. The Merfolk races assist the Marid but only in an uneasy truce as the Marid demand more and more resources.
* -1135 - First Muaran Rebellion begins, causing significant disruption of Shaitan efforts and major loss of Coznakki life. The First Muaran Rebellion ultimately fails later that year, but inspires ongoing resistance for centuries to come.
* -758 - The Adamant Shaitan Empress Zinura a-Dinduri commands her grandson and viceroy, Prince Fadis a-Dinduri, to crush mortal resistance on Muara, growing irritated with repeated setbacks from unruly Seedorans. The prince is initially successful through employing horrific and brutal crackdowns and mass executions.
* -577 - After a century and a half of suffering Prince Fadis a-Dinduri's cruelty and malice, the Second Muaran Rebellion begins. Lacking the full resources of the Shaitan Empire to quell the rebellion decisively, the resistance against the Gen smolders in Muara.
* -569 - Khruk is destroyed by Intoba's Shadowlord after a cataclysmic accident reopens the Intoba portal, forcing the Drecuzi and Gremlins to flee Khruk.
* -568 - Lord Rikim Sura convinces Emperor Kenez a-Kabas the Majestic of the Marid Empire that he is a more capable viceroy of Otuzia than his predecessor, Lord Cirak a-Zainal.
* -430 - The Second Muaran Rebellion officially ends, although organized resistance continues for centuries.
* -140 - The Third Muaran Rebellion erupts in a bloodbath that cripples Prince Fadis a-Dinduri's ability to respond adequately, and Muara descends into chaos and war.
* -137 - Losing ground against the Muarans, the Shaitan attempt to expand the Portal of Muara, but the Cavern of Mu's energies disrupt the magic catastrophically, tearing open Dinduri's Rift in Muara.
* -135 - Prince Fadis a-Dinduri's loyalists are defeated by the Muarans, marking the first Coznakki territory to be liberated from entrenched Gen control. Prince Fadis a-Dinduri's body is dismembered by the Witch King and his preserved head adorns the King's Spear during his ultimatum to Lord Rikim Sura years later.
* -132 - Marid corsairs arrive at Muara, expecting an easy victory against mortals weakened by struggles against the Shaitan, and they are swiftly routed, prompting the creation of the Muaran Navy with the singular purpose of retribution.
* -122 - The Witch-King arrives at Otuz with the Muaran Navy, and demands Lord Rikim Sura's unconditional surrender and withdrawal or face annihilation. Incensed at the display of the decapitated head of Prince Fadis a-Dinduri, Lord Rikim Sura promises the Witch King a massacre if he dares to attack. The Witch King infamously proves him correct during the sacking of Otuz, slaughtering the Marid occupiers.
* -115 - The Witch-King arrives at Nazcara, which agrees to unconditional surrender and withdrawal. The Nazcarans agree to combine their forces with the Muarans to establish Coznakki control over the Cosm Sea, swiftly end any new attempts at Gen conquest, and prepare for the daunting task of defeating the Efreet in the Flamelands.
* -100 - The Muarans and Nazcarans begin the Hundred Year Siege of Sulis.
* 0 - By divine decree of Setosh during the fall of Sulis, the Gen Occupation of Coznakk is ended and both Gen and mortalkind are forbidden from further retribution.  The decree, brokered by the Djinn and to be enforced by the gods, is named the Djinnpact.  The event is considered the pivot point between history and pre-history by many Human scholars, and the summer solstice of that year is deemed the beginning of the Djinnpact calendar.

## War of the Underworld

* 2797 - The War of the Underworld begins with the razing of Lanora, capital and crown jewel of the Sylvani (Elven) Empire, by the Durau queendoms of the Undernox.  The War grows to technically encompass approximately 200 separate but related conflicts over the next five centuries that are all considered part of a single multi-century war.
* 3122 - Durau arcanists destroy the Bysri nation, creating the Shattered Mountains.  The surviving Bysri fragment and turn upon their neighbors.
* 3244 - The War of Winter's Night begins.  Tinan Anwyr leads the defense of Highlake Village (later renamed Anwyr's Peace).
* 3245 - The War of Winter's Night ends.  Tinan Anwyr founds the Fist of the North to safeguard the Highlake region.
* 3247 - The Durau lay siege to the Odan Deep, starting the Silver War.
* 3253 - Durau forces withdraw from the Northern Kingdoms, marking the end of the Silver War on the surface of Coznakk.
* Autumn 3276 - Tinan Anwyr, Dara the Crow, Saerwynael of Lanora, Talar Val, and Marelus Greenblade reunite at Dara's Bastion before descending into the Spider's Rift and starting the War of the Whispering Shores.  Tinan Anwyr leaves the defense of Dara's Bastion to Naomh Anwyr.
* Winter 3276 - The Durau nations of southern Coznakk, hearing of the slaughter in the North, fear the War of the Underworld has turned against them, and begin work on the Eternity Gate with the intent of summoning Arakaena herself to the Material Plane to bolster the Durau cause.  The Durau simultaneously begin summoning ever-increasing numbers of demons through the growing Eternity Gate to bolster their failing numbers.
* 3277 - Tinan Anwyr returns to Highlake with the bodies of his four companions.  The four are buried somewhere outside Highlake and the Durau lack the strength to retaliate, effectively ending the War of the Whispering Shores.
* 3296 - Tinan Anwyr dies.
* 3322 - The Exalted Crusade begins as races and nations across Coznakk march into the Underworld, led by the High Templars.  One Durau city after another is put to the sword as the Exalted Crusade practices total war to end the Durau threat permanently.
* Winter 3328 - Arakaena is betrayed, murdered, and cannibalized by the mortal Durau who ascend as the Dark Sisters.
* Spring 3328 - Izan Val renounces his rank and status within the Church of the Many Divines and founds the kingdom of Arkae with the prophecy that the Durau would return, darker and more twisted than ever.  The lack of divine protection causes Durau society to implode and the Eternity Gate falls within a matter of weeks.
* End of 3328 - The Eternity Gate is sacked.
* 3329 - The War of the Underworld ends with the near-genocide of the Durau race, rapid decline among the Sylvani, and the deepening withdrawal of Candora from the world at large, signaling the end of the Elven Period and the beginning of the Second Dark Age.  Setosh commands the High Templars (and, by extension, the continent) to cease butchering the Durau.

## Second Dark Age

* 3350 - The Church of the Many Divines orders the creation of the Divine Inquisition, granting it broad authority across Coznakk.
* 3377 - Nakan-Ur conquers Phitan with an undead army numbering in the hundreds of thousands.  The city is swiftly corrupted into a sprawling necropolis as the High Templars and Council of Immortals weigh their options.
* Summer 3378 - High Inquisitor Daliana Morcai rallies the forces of the Church of the Many Divines into a crusade to cleanse Phitan.  The speed and ferocity of her doomed march catches the more-cautious High Templars and Council of Immortals by surprise and Nakan-Ur off guard and marks the first serious projection of Church power in the Second Dark Age.
* Autumn 3378 - Nakan-Ur kills High Inquisitor Daliana Morcai and much of the Divine Inquisition at Phitan.  The High Inquisitor’s dying prayer calls the archangel Zakiel to Seedorus with a celestial host, who lay waste to Nakan-Ur’s horde.  Zakiel remains to cleanse Phitan after seeing to the destruction of the lich.
* 3457 - Sidyrakyz the Inferno attacks Moredhal, razing the city with an army of Kobolds and Orcs at her command assailing the Silver Pass Wall.  The Moredhal Company miraculously manages to hold the wall long enough for Lady Andara and her dragonslayers to arrive and kill the Great Red Wyrm.  Afterwards the Moredhal Company renames itself the Blackwall Company in honor of the charred but unbroken Silver Pass Wall, rebuilding Moredhal as Blackwall.

## The Godfall and the Succession War

* 3864 - N'Ekar is teleported to Seedorus.  Setosh is slain stabilizing the extraordinary energies unleashed in the event, throwing the Pantheon into chaos and distracting the gods from mortal affairs. The event quickly comes to be known as The Godfall.
* 3865 - The Succession War begins in an explosive resurgence of violence in the Eternal Ring as deities war for Setosh's mantle as ruler of the Seedoran gods.
* 3866 - Holus Sanrim launches a bloody coup in Setat, decapitating rival factions in the Great City in the absence of Setosh and the High Templars.  Sanrim crowns himself Emperor Dominus I and founds the Rocian Empire from Setat, renamed Imperial Rocia.
* c.3870 - With the Succession War blinding the gods to mortal activity as they battle across the planes, and demigods carving out kingdoms in the Material Realm, the Church of the Many Divines seizes upon the role vacated by the High Templars.  Laying claim to the mantle of arbiters of divine will in their absence, the Church soon becomes synonymous with the Pantheon to many and rapidly expand their political, economic, and magical influence across Coznakk.
* 3898 - Rocia conquers the Setat Basin.  Emperor Dominus II commands the doctrine of total war as the eternal and unchanging practice of the Rocian Imperial Legions.  The brutality of the Legions' methods becomes Rocia's defining trait among foreigners.
* 3915 - Rocia conquers Omacia.
* 3932 - Rocia launches the First War of the Straits, assaulting the northern holds of the Golden Kingdoms in the Crimson Straits.
* 3938 - Tinan Anwyr is put forth as a candidate for sainthood by the commonfolk to the Church of the Many Divines.  The decision initially meets resistance among the Cardinals of the Church.
* 3940 - First War of the Straits ends in stalemate.
* 3951 - Rocia conquers Kuru and much of the surrounding coastal lands. Kingdoms surrounded by the newly-conquered Western Rocian Empire band together for mutual protection, becoming known as the Simurgh Coast.
* 3955 - The Westland Expedition sets sail for Westland from Arkaedon under the command of Capt. Itello Burne.  The expedition rediscovers a safe sea route through the Kaiju Runs of the Western Okori Ocean around the Black Abyss, achieving success despite being shipwrecked in sight of Westland's Dragontooth Coast.
* 3956 - The Foxhound Rebellion fails in Izanton as the Hand of Arkae establishes full command over the colony.  Regular sea trade begins between Izanton and Arkaedon.
* 3962 - The Church of the Many Divines, facing Rocian conquest of the Cosm Hills, canonizes Saint Anwyr and hold him as a figure and symbol to inspire anti-Rocian resistance.
* 3966 - Rocia launches the Second War of the Straits.
* 3970 - The Earthshatter Quake strikes Coznakk.  The origin of the earthquake is unclear due to its tremendous area of effect, destroying structures across the continent.
* 3975 - Second War of the Straits ends with Rocian gains in the Crimson Straits, formally recognized by the Golden Kingdoms by treaty with Emperor Dominus IV.
* 4003 - Rocia conquers the southern territories of the Cosm Hills.
* 4026 - Rocia is fought to a stalemate in the hills just south of Bastion Hill, home to the Church of the Many Divines leadership and the Divine Inquisition.
* 4041 - Work begins on Saint Anwyr's Cathedral in Anwyr's Peace.
* 4067 - Work nears completion of Saint Anwyr's Cathedral, and the Church of the Many Divines encourages visitation from across the continent as a show of faith and solidarity.  Nobles and commoners alike begin planning for the event.
* 4068 - Emperor Dominus VII agrees to halt conflicts with Human-dominated lands to honor Saint Anwyr.  The Imperial Legions are withdrawn from the fronts in the Cosm Hills to solidify Rocian gains and demonstrate good faith ahead of the dedication of Saint Anwyr's Cathedral.
* 4069 - Mt. Anwyr erupts during the dedication festival of Saint Anwyr's Cathedral, leveling the surrounding region and creating the Desolation of Anwyr.  A thick, noxious fog hangs over the Desolation for years to follow as Mt. Anwyr continues a steady release of fumes, and comes to be known as the Miasma.
* 4080 - The King in Shadows reveals himself as a threat to the world at large during the Dead March through Nastravya.