An Exceedingly Brief Timeline

• -1200 BOV (Before Our Victory): King Kelland defeats the fey titans and founds Risur, the first mortal nation on the continent of Lanjyr. In the following centuries, other nations rise up throughout Lanjyr.

• -1117 BOV: The demonocracy arises, its monstrous rulers enslaving the primitive nations of the north. Risur keeps it from expanding south, and Elfaivar blocks its eastward growth.

• -500 BOV: Triegenes the fisherman founds the Clergy in what is modern-day Danor, overthrows the demonocracy, then dies and ascends to godhood.

• -50 BOV: The First Victory, a holy war between the Clergy and the elf nation Elfaivar, ends with Elfaivar losing much territory.

• 1 AOV: (After Our Victory): The Second Victory begins as an Elfaivaran effort to reclaim lost lands but ends in their decisive defeat when the Elfaivaran goddess Srasama manifests physically and is slain in an event called the Great Malice. Danor collapses into chaos as the nation becomes a dead magic zone. The seat of the Clergy moves to Crisillyir. Elfaivar splinters into scattered enclaves of survivors. Dwarves seize control of their own nation in Drakr.

• 300 AOV: King Boyle of Risur claims to slay the last dragon tyrant of Ber, but offers a secret pact with a handful of them. The nation of Danor, resurgent with industry and technology, begins to contest Risur for control of the lush Yerasol Archipelago.

 460 AOV: King Aodhan of Risur encourages his people to pursue industry so they can fight back against Danor. Meanwhile in Ber, Bruse Le Roye unites tribes of monstrous races into a new nation.

• 501 AOV: A towering arcanotechnological colossus is unleashed upon the Risuri city of Flint. No one seems able to control it, and it wanders across multiple countries, mindlessly trampling wherever it roams. It ultimately arrives on Axis Island in the Yerasol Archipelago, and somehow triggers the Great Eclipse.

• 502 AOV: The sun and stars vanish, and the rules of magic change. After a year of upheaval, the Great Eclipse ends, and the sun and stars return, though several planets have changed. Millions of women who died five centuries earlier in the Great Malice are resurrected in Elfaivar.

• 503 AOV: Drakran explorer Kiegar Arukova captures public imagination with a series of expeditions to map the Dreaming. This proves impossible but leads to more fey forays into the real world.

• 507 AOV: After a period of cautious peace, the Elfaivaran Reconstruction becomes the first major international conflict since the Great Eclipse, as the recently restored nation reclaims lands the other nations had taken as colonies in the previous five centuries.

• 519 AOV: Elfaivar claims the Crisillyiri city of Vendricce for over a year. While trying to broker an armistice, Risur’s monarch is nearly slain by a Clergy cadre of gunslinging godhands. A rampaging Crisillyiri army retakes the city and pursues the Elfaivarans into Risur’s colony, before being defeated by the Risuri king. He abdicates in the aftermath.

• 522 AOV: Present day. Risur is about to launch its first aerial battleship, the Burning Sky, as well as the Concord of Nations.