Timeline

Time is common to all planes of existence, though occasionally awry magic can cause it to flow differently. In Mundanus, the passage of time is often measured in two different calendars, though other than the structure of the weeks and months, the other units of time remain largely the same.

## The Xelaran Calendar

The Xelaran Calendar, starting at the formation of the Ancient Xelaran Empire at 1 XC, is the calendar that was used largely before the creation and adoption of the Imperial Calendar in 5,888 XC. The Xelaran Calendar is still often referred to, especially outside of the Empire. Anything dated before the Xelaran Calendar has been labelled backwards as BXC (Before Xelaran Calendar).

The Xelaran calendar consists of 12 months, with 30 days each, followed by a 4 day period known as Year's End, which is often a period of rest and celebration as the lunar cycle synchronises once more.

## The Imperial Calendar

The Imperial Calendar, labelled IC on all dates, is the common dating system used within the Empire, which spread to other countries in the world. As such, it is used as the standard calendar for all official documentation. Anything that starts before the introduction of the Imperial Calendar is labelled backwards and marked BIC (Before Imperial Calendar) or uses the ancient Xelaran Calendar (XC).

The Imperial calendar lines up with the Xelaran calendar every year. However, the Imperial calendar consists of simply 13 months of 28 days each, without the Year's End period, splitting each month into 4 weeks consisting of seven days each. Some people still use the tenday as a measurement, as it is seen as traditional.

## Units of Time

In both calendars, the smaller units of time are largely the same. Days are 24 hours long, and there are 364 days in a single year. However, the Xelaran calendar uses periods of ten days (known as a tenday), while the Imperial calendar uses periods of seven days (known as a week). While the week is the easier to use with respects to the layout of the calendar, people often use the tenday, out of tradition.

Regardless, during Calibration, the calendars pause.

## Current Times

Orphans of Fate: 13/11/757 IC (Calibration period).

Krystal: 05/10/756 IC.

Paradise: 02/10/756 IC.

Burton crew: 03/10/756 IC.

## Timeline of Events

### Pre-Xelaran Empire

* ~130,000 BIC / ~124,000 BXC - The Gods win the war against the primordials. The Faerie Princes settle on Mundanus with their followers. Prince Dorian and Prince Isren have an immediate disagreement over territory. They both separate, developing their followers into the high elves and the dark elves respectively.
* ~15,500 BIC / ~9,500 BXC - Prince Orion discovers primitive humans on the continent now known as The Empire. He recognises their potential for learning, but abandons the idea as these creatures have very short life spans, instead choosing to develop the wood elves.
* ~13,000 BIC / ~7,000 BXC - Prince Arianna finds the dwarves with her protégé, Malerion. Negotiations begin, with Malerion becoming friends with the dwarf king, Grimm. Together, the two continue what Orion started with the humans.
* ~12,500 BIC / ~6,500 BXC - The white elf city of Salak Tor splits off from the continent that would become the Empire, drifting slowly towards Aldarnesh. Malerion decides to stay with the dwarves.
* 11,337 BIC / 5,450 BXC - Khûndil is built by the dwarves.
* ~10,500 BIC / ~4,500 BXC - A brutal and late Calibration combined with primitive human experimentation brings the primordials back to the world. Malerion and Grimm work together, ending the threat, though Grimm gives his life in doing so. Malerion becomes the Dread King.
* ~9,000 BIC / ~3,000 BXC - Prince Rowan leads his followers too far north and they are irreversibly changed by Yvv. This leads to the creation of the orcs.
* ~7,500 BIC / ~1,500 BXC - The white elves come into contact with the three Witch clans of Aldarnesh. The war does not end for a long time
* ~6,500 BIC / ~500 BXC - Less primitive human kingdoms across the world start to emerge.
* 6,123 BIC / 236 BXC - The Krystallan Empire is created.
* 6,034 BIC / 147 BXC - The Krystallan Empire decides to get involved with other human kingdoms, teaching them magic in return for political control within the kingdom.

### Ancient Xelaran Empire

* 5,887 BIC / 1 XC - The Ancient Xelaran Empire is founded. The Xelaran Calendar begins. Sometime in the next few years, the Faerie Princes will all but vanish from history.
* 5,630 BIC / 258 XC - The Xelaran Empire removes all Krystallan influence from their courts. War is barely avoided.
* 5,603 BIC / 285 XC - A short war between the Krystallans and the Xelarans begins, lasting six years. The Xelarans surprise the Krystallans with several victories before the Krystallans agree to leave them alone.
* 5,242 BIC / 646 XC - A late Calibration leads to the Xelarans discovering the dwarf stronghold of Khûndil when the dwarves are forced above ground by undead.
* 4,982 BIC / 906 XC - The city of Xelaphos is built at the northern fringe of the Xelaran Empire. This is as far as the high elf empire will allow. Mortaran is crowned king of this city with his apprentice, Black Sun, serving as his bodyguard.
* 4,884 BIC / 1,004 XC - The Great War on Magic begins between the Krystallans and the Xelarans. The Krystallans take a pyrrhic victory, enforcing the end of Chronoration practises, as well as a few other illegal magics. The Krystallans go into isolation, surrounding their nation in a colourful fog that prevents ships and people entering the nation without permission, erecting the tower of Mistward on an island just outside this barrier, as well as several other autonomous towers to help maintain the barrier. The Xelarans are angered as they still continue to intervene on magical practises despite their isolation.
* 4,813 BIC / 1,075 XC - Khârond is built, despite protests from the elves.
* 4,781 BIC / 1,107 XC - The First Grudge War between the high elves and the dwarves begins. The dwarves win eventually, though no territory is lost, and the war is not a particularly brutal one.
* 4,717 BIC / 1,171 XC - Khâzarr is built.
* 4,451 BIC / 1,337 XC - Mortaran's physical body and his phylactery are destroyed. His apprentice goes into hiding.
* 4,214 BIC / 1,574 XC - After two centuries of failed rulers, a powerful sorcerer known only as Ahriman arrives in Xelaphos and takes control immediately. He rules without opposition from the people and the other kings that are a part of the Xelaran Empire are frightened of this new king.
* 4,108 BIC / 1,680 XC - After a century of ruling unopposed for a century, there is a rumour that Ahriman was assassinated. This was a ruse to draw out Ahriman's political rivals. Executions follow. A few similar events take place in the years to come, but none as effective as the first.
* 3,790 BIC / 1,998 XC - Ahriman begins to build some kind of huge arcane weapon, supposedly to pierce the fog surrounding Krystal. A possible reason for this is that the Xelarans wish to practice magic however they wish, without Krystallan intervention.
* 3,768 BIC / 2,020 XC - Late Calibration. The Xelaran Empire is wiped from existence in an event known as the Fall of Xela, leaving only heavily warded ruins, as if they wanted to hide themselves within their cities. The southern half of the continent is left barren of civilised life, and soon becomes overrun with undead, demons and orcs. What caused this great catastophe, no one knows. Humans are not seen on the continent for roughly a thousand years.
* 1,954 BIC / 3,934 XC - The Second Grudge War begins. This time the elves win, but barely. After this, the elves confine themselves to Elfhome as humans begin to settle across the continent once more.
* 1,116 BIC / 4,772 XC - A nomad tribe of merchants recolonises the outer ring of Xelaphos. The magic they find makes them rich in all the other kingdoms.
* 756 BIC / 5,132 XC - Heroes from Garwood slay a black dragon terrorising the area. These heroes are supposedly three of the Ancestors.
* 29 BIC / 5,859 XC - In the newly formed human kingdom of Mieza, a boy known only as Arryn is born.
* 5 BIC / 5,883 XC - A war between the countries of Lûeth and Mieza begins. Lûeth is forced onto the back foot. The seige of Laeth begins at the end of the year.
* 4 BIC / 5,884 XC - The boy named Arryn rides into the Miezan war camp with elite cavalry, seemingly as reinforcements. However, the cavalry attack, giving the Lûethians a chance to strike back and break the siege. Arryn is given permission by King Caizen of Lûeth to set up the Inquisition in Laeth. Arryn and his inquisitors begin fighting back, pushing northwards into Mieza. These inquisitors, who had been given a concoction of Arryn's blood amongst other ingredients were oddly resistant to magic.
* 3 BIC / 5,885 XC - King Caizen is assassinated by the Miezans and Arryn quickly takes charge. None argue about this change in leadership. Arryn declares his intention to set Lûeth at the seat of a continent spanning empire.
* 2 BIC / 5,886 XC - Arryn completely overwhelms Mieza and conquers Nore, though loses troops as the dwarves of Khârond refuse his armies passage, so many die during the fights against the norse barbarians, who are used to the winter's cold. The king of Niinûs saw these conquests and pledged allegiance to Arryn by attacking Tyr while they were preoccupied by their war with Felis.
* 1 BIC / 5,887 XC - Tyr and Felis set aside their differences to try to halt the new empire forming as the Lûethians occupied Yen. Arryn himself rode down to Xelaphos, where the people were growing fat on the riches their city was earning. Arryn did not kneel before the Khan, warranting execution, though a priestess of Talos prevented it, declaring Arryn to be the god's one and only son. The Khan made an agreement with Arryn to be only partially part of the empire, though not joining in on the conflict. Gathering more reinforcements from Lûeth, Arryn pushed north into Tyr while troops from the north forced Felis into submission, with Tyr finally surrendering after the Barvielle Keep was almost utterly destroyed by the siege there. The newly crowned Emperor Arryn declared his Empire complete, and started a new calendar.

### Imperial Calendar

* 1 IC - Emperor Arryn rides about the empire ensuring that peace is upheld, throwing celebrations wherever he rides. On returning to Xelaphos, the emperor makes the priestess of Talos his wife.
* 3 IC - Emperor Arryn integrates the nation of Fallar into the empire.
* 5 IC - The calibration so soon after a continental war brings chaos to the world as undead rise, with necromancers from Mieza quickly trying to take advantage, though the inquisition is more than effective at removing this threat.
* 8 IC - Seeing the strength of the inquisition, the high elves of Elias form a council of the most powerful elven mages. This becomes the Council of Thirteen. The council makes a deal with the emperor, allowing the elves independent, at the cost of allowing access by imperial troops, though the wilderness is required to remain untouched.
* 12 IC - The emperor rides to Khûndil to broker an agreement with the dwarves. They manage to make a deal, the dwarves assisting the empire with trade, but not martial conflicts. In return, the dwarves would receive food and independence from the empire.
* 133 IC - Emperor Arryn I is killed at the age of 162, fighting alone against an unknown foe. His great-grandson takes the throne.
* 221 IC - The Battle of Five Paths takes place between the four factions of elves and the orcs.
* 456 IC - Mickey Kriemhild is born.
* 491 IC - Fenris Armando is born.
* 498 IC - The first of two women to sit on the throne of the Empire is crowned. Empress Arya I is considered at the time as the wisest ruler since Emperor Arryn.
* 530 IC - The Fall of Khûndil.
* 688 IC - Grum is born.
* 694 IC - Nigel DeRosa is born.
* 701 IC - Kalruhan Lucaryn and Vicsiara Tios'n born.
* 703 IC - Aerie Goldleaf born.
* 720 IC - A military coup in Tyr leads the city and country to be in control of the Lion, by use of his pawn Sarlock Kaltan. A small group of adventurers lead by Kalruhan Lucaryn revealed Kaltan's involvement in a bandit scheme called the Free People run by Maeloth Decaar, as well as being invloved in the kidnapping of young with a high potential - including Aerie Goldleaf - and got him removed from his position. When he went berserk, the adventurers were forced to kill him. It was later revealed that Kaltan was in fact the Lion himself, and was quietly thanked by the Grand Inquisitor, Fenris Armando, for services to the Empire.
* 722 IC - Emperor Rigel Arryn XIV puts out bounties on anyone who can kill the Deathborn that have been running amok across the Empire for the last few years, and tasks Kalruhan Lucaryn with leading this effort, despite rumours of his own Deathborn heritage surrounding him. This leads to a confrontation with the Azure Twins, Griis and Zhel, though it did not go favourably. Reports are made of Kalruhan and Vicsiara Tios'n being sighted training in Xelaphos with a tall White Elf woman with unusual eyes, and a few months later, the Azure Twins are slain, leading to the Deathborn Troubles being resolved, and Kalruhan is knighted.
* 723 IC - The churches of Aasillist and Pheraa come together for a common cause, enlisting the help of Kalruhan Lucaryn in doing so. An ancient relic known as the Darkfire has been traced to an island to the west of the Old World called Neo Photos, though there are many treasure hunters that would rather take this artefact of religious significance for themselves. Upon retrieving the artefact, it is stolen by an organised group of shades and taken to the ruins of Barvielle Keep, where Kalruhan fights to take it back once more. Upon returning to Laeth with the artefact, Kalruhan elects to hand it over to the inquisition to save the two churches from breaking out into violence over which church should have possession of it. As thanks for all of his services and to make his lordship official, Emperor Rigel grants Kalruhan Barvielle Keep to renovate and do with as he see fit, governing over the people of Barvielle. It is around this time of the last known appearance of the legendary hero, Ilrith Darkflame, and rumours have spread regarding the similarity of names, though these have since been dispersed as coincidence. Where Ilrith disappeared to is still unknown.
* 725 IC - Kalruhan Lucaryn, Aerie Goldleaf and Vicsiara Tios'n disappear for roughly a year, and only the former two returning after that time, refusing to speak about what happened.
* 728 IC - Wander born.
* 730 IC - Alarin Goldleaf born.
* 731 IC - Eliana, a bastard of Emperor Rigel XIV is born.
* 732 IC - Rena Lucaryn is born.
* 736 IC - Yllin, another bastard of Emperor Rigel XIV is born.
* 750 IC - Emperor Rigel XIV dies of old age with no known heir other than two bastard girls, whose locations are unknown. Talos' bloodline has worn thin, and the inquisition has been recruiting non-inquisitors, with the alchemical concoction required to make inquisitors is saved only for the most worthy. For the first time since the inquisition's founding, they invoke the Rite of Inheritance. The inquisitorial orders put forward a candidate from their order, and the Grand Inquisitors each vote for a candidate other than their own, and the candidate with the most votes becomes the new ruler. Emperor Quanis Raam I is elected, much to everyone's surprise.
* 751 IC - Skirmishes break out between the Empire and Shurkar begins after the disappearance of the World Stones. During this time, the Second Imperial Civil War begins in Garwood as the new emperor orders the execution of refugees. Lord Kalruhan Lucaryn and Lord Duncan Callaghan join Garwood and form the Rebellion. The Red Legion is created with Adam Hethard as its general after a small army of peasants manage to beat back the emperor's personal guard.
* 752 IC - Felis and Nore join the rebellion. The Shurkarran born general Luisa Saracia joined imperial ranks and lead an army up towards Tyr from Xelaphos. Lord Lucaryn met her in battle at the banks of the river Xel, but underestimated the cunning of the general, having both his army and sword destroyed, and almost losing his life.
* 753 IC - Rumours are heard of Yllin Arryn, the younger bastard daughter of Rigel XIV, being sited in the north of Felis and these rumours are confirmed by both the Grand Inquisitor, Fenris Armando, and the Spymaster, Maria Mór. Alaric Blackmore and Shapoagataar investigate and find her, but the girl is killed by assassins less than an hour before reaching the safety of the rebellion war camp. In a sudden change of heart, Lord High Admiral James West turns Fallar's navies on Laeth.
* 754 IC - The siege of Khârond begins at the hand of the empire. The rebellion acts quickly, sending Rena Lucaryn and Alarin Goldleaf to support them, beating back the imperial forces. The dwarves join the rebellion. Going for the heart of the rebellion, the loyalists begin the Siege of Barvielle Keep as the Council of Thirteen join the loyalists. Alarin Goldleaf is killed during his diplomatic mission to Elias. The Council of Thirteen are found dead not long after this, and the siege is broken.
* 755 IC - With a combined effort from the rebellion, Laeth finally fell, and though Emperor Raam escaped, he never resurfaced, and many believe he either died on a fleeing ship or is hiding, waiting to make a return. Others believe that Quanis Raam was an alias used by some unknown but powerful person. Empress Eliana Arryn I is crowned. After the war, the wards to the more central rings of Xelaphos are unlocked, and an expedition is proposed, headed by Kalruhan Lucaryn himself. This is the first documented occurrence of The Orphans of Fate meeting. Towards the end of this expedition, all members of House Lucaryn vanish, other than Rena Lucaryn.
* 756 IC - The Primordial Crisis begins and ends. Several billion deaths are recorded across all planes of existence.
* 757 IC - Current year. Calibration begins on the 10/11/757 IC. The Dread King leads his armies against the Empire of Lûeth, seeking the Orphans of Fate. Barvielle Keep, Rosette, Port Wren and many more are occupied, and the war still continues. Due to tensions rising since the Civil War, an insurgent group of peasants assault the ducal palace of Port Wren, and, uninformed of many of the dangers, are slaughtered.