| Year (according to the time scale set down by the World Order of Mages, Seers, and Warriors Who Wanted To Be Included) |
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| -???? (Time Immemorial-Beginning of the First Demon War) | The first Demon War begins, starting as the demon prince Dul-Bhar strikes against the Material Plane from deep within the catacombs beneath the White Mountains of Medomere. A demon capable of forging weapons of immense power, he equips his forces with weapons far beyond those of the mortal men of Medomere and even greater in power than those of the dwarves and elves. The greatest of these weapons is Bloodrise, a morningstar capable of inflicting vicious wounds on both the victim and the wielder. Dul-Bhar, who loves to torment his subjects, sends out troops with this weapon to die while laying waste to the forces of good. He is finally defeated by Lord Silvaire of Terrin (later renamed Beragin), a paladin who takes up Bloodrise and kills the demon with it. His death incites his son, Gar-Thul, to attack the Material Plane en force, starting the war. |
| -???? (Time Immemorial-The First Demon War) | Demons and their undead servants pour forth from both the catacombs beneath the White Mountains of Medomere and portals hidden high in the mountains of the Evermere Highlands. The Shining Tower, a fortress of Pelor in the very mountains where the demons pour forth from, mobilizes its forces to combat them. Meanwhile, the Sun Temple in Terrin (later renamed Beragin) mobilizes its own forces on the other front. Lord Silvaire of Terrin, having killed the demon smith Dul-Bhar, whose death began the war, tracks Dul-Bhar's son, Gar-Thul, to Medomere. There, he meets Sir Tyrael of the Shining Tower, another paladin of Pelor, and Tull the Smith of the Shining Tower, and the three work together during parts of the war. Tull forges the Sunstar for Sir Tyrael, a morningstar with a head like the sun, which is enchanted at the Shining Tower to destroy undead. Tull's smithing hammer is also enchanted to allow him to call down divine fury upon the forces of evil in a fashion similar to that his paladin counterparts employ. |
| -???? (Time Immemorial-The End of the First Demon War) | This event is currently being played out in a campaign, and is subject to change (as is the whole scope of the Demon Wars, in all reality). Basically, the heroes (including Tull and Lord Silvaire, and possibly Sir Tyrael), along with their various companions, engage Gar-Thul in his main camp, which is located in a hellish plane called Abaddon beyond a planar gateway in the Evermere mountains. It might not even be in the Evermere mountains, this whole thing might end up in Medomere where it started. Like I said, it might end up changing a lot of things, but it will be far better because it will be based on an actual campaign instead of my fantastically wandering storyline I've composed thus far. Silvaire dies in battle, and Tull and the others escape Abaddon. Tull smashes the planar gateway with his smithing hammer, trapping Gar-Thul in Abaddon. See also The End of the First Demon War, as transcribed by Lord Tyrael of the Shining Tower, Holy Knight of Pelor in his autobiographical memoirs which were added to the Histories of Medomere in the Library of the Shining Tower of Pelor in the Kornath Mountains upon his death (also subject to change). |
| -???? (Time Immemorial-The Fates of the Heroes of the First Demon War) | Sir Tyrael and Tull the Blacksmith of the Shining Tower of Pelor on Evermere, the two survivors of the three primary leaders of the mortal forces in the First Demon War, return to Terrin (later renamed Beragin) with the body of Silvaire, the Lord of Terrin. There, they hold a funeral service, and Sir Tyrael and Tull remain in the city to ensure that Lord Silvaire's will is carried out, including his burial under the newly built Blue Mountain Fortress in the heart of the White Mountains, where he might remain ever vigilant against further invasion from the catacombs beneath. Soren, Silvaire's younger brother, becomes Lord of Terrin, as his brother, Silvaire, had no heir. Sir Tyrael marries Lady Sylvia, Silvaire's younger sister, and soon after becomes Lord of the Shining Tower on Evermere. He sires two sons, whom he names Silvaire and Galen. Tull the Blacksmith returns to the Shining Tower on Evermere, where he continues working in the forge for several years. He marries a quarter-titan, Mayar, the daughter of a chieftain from one of the nomadic barbarian tribes of the Evermere Highlands. He fashions for her grandfather and caretaker a gargantuan zweihander, which is the sword traditionally carried by the mightiest warriors of the Evermere Highlands. This sword is thought to be capable of slaying Gar-Thul, should he ever escape Abaddon. He, too, sires a son, whom he names Silvar after his fallen comrade. Tull disappears defending his wife's tribe from an onslaught of demons seeking revenge for the defeat of their master, Gar-Thul. His enchanted smithing hammer, the only one capable of reforging the planar gate that imprisons Gar-Thul, disappears at this point, though the demons obviously don't get a hold of it or they would use it to release Gar-Thul. Lord Soren is slain while traveling through the Great Forest of Medomere, his traveling party overrun by an army of Uruks from the Maw on the way to attack Terrin. One member of his entourage escapes and warns the city. Lord Tyrael of the Shining Tower, last survivor of his party, takes up the Sun Blade of the Shining Tower, the sword forged by Tull to be the symbol of the Lord of the Shining Tower, to combat the threat. He and his sons, Silvaire and Galen, along with Tull's sun Silvar, who is capable of unleashing the Titanic blood in him to perform amazing feats of strength, lead the leaderless army of Terrin against the Uruks. They are victorious, and the leadership of Terrin passes on to Tyrael's son Silvaire, who is the nephew of the slain Lord Soren and his oldest living relative, save his sister, Sylvia, Silvaire's mother. She defers the position of Lord of Terrin to her son, who becomes Lord Silvaire II of Terrin. Thus begins the line that descends from both Silvaire and Tyrael, the line that eventually produces Beragin, father of Boradin who became Celestial Emperor of Medomere in 0034 and Freya, who became Celestial Empress in 1031. The original Mellinus Quittal, the Celestial Emperor who moved the capital of the human lands on Medomere back to Crestin from Beragin in 1015, was of a line descending from Bherein, brother of Boradin. |
| -0.000159492 | The meeting of the the World Order of Mages, Seers, and Warriors Who Wanted To Be Included that ended up setting down the timescale that began recorded time at 0000 begins at 10:38:09 p.m., or 22:38:09. This is 1 hour, 23 minutes, and 51 seconds before 0000. See below entry. |
| 0000 | The World Order of Mages, Seers, and Warriors Who Wanted To Be Included sets down the time scale used thereafter for determining the date. Things that happened before this, including the first Demon War and the creation of hourly timekeeping on a 24-hour clock, are extremely difficult to date because nobody had an agreed upon system of keeping track of years except one or two ancient yet surprisingly advanced peoples that were oppressed and destroyed by avaricious conquerors wearing breastplates and amusing metal hats. The exception to this is that the beginning of the meeting of the World Order of Mages, Seers, and Warriors Who Wanted To Be Included that ended up setting down this time scale is dated as -1 hour, 23 minutes, 51 seconds. See above entry. |
| 0030 | The War of the Crystals begins on the continent of Medomere. Emperor Julius Crestin III tricks the ancient dragon Thradin into helping him secure the Elemental Crystals of Earth, Fire, Water, and Air by aiding him in battle against the Elves and the Dwarves, who also seek the crystals. After Thradin assists him, he lures the opposing monarchs to a meeting at a crossroads in the Great Forest by having Sultan Beragin, his greatest general and commander-in-chief of his forces, make a gift of a magical mithril sword to the Elven queen and a magical adamantite axe to the Dwarven king. At the meeting, Emperor Crestin uses the crystals to destroy the Elven queen, Alohiil Moonsong, and the Dwarven king, Dwerin the Ironclad. Thradin smites Emperor Crestin dead, having seen him for what he was, and the continent plunges again into a war even more chaotic than the last. |
| 0033 | The War of the Crystals ends when Denor the Peacemaker, son of King Dwerin the Ironclad makes peace (of all things) with Sultan Beragin, the commander-in-chief of the human armies on Medomere. Queen Galbedir Moonsong, daughter of Alohiil, impressed by both Beragin's battle prowess and compassion, also makes peace. The Human Civil War begins on Medomere when Theonus Crestin, faux emperor of humanity and power-hungry son of Julius Crestin III, declares the alliance that Beragin signed with Denor and Galbedir annulled and proclaims Beragin a traitor to the crown of Crestin and the human race. Galbedir helps Beragin escape to his home city, Terrin, which is now called Beragin. There, Beragin and his twenty-nine bodyguards hold off Theonus and his three thousand men until Galbedir, who rode for help, arrives in the company of the nomadic Night Elves of the Lone Peak Plains of Medomere who turn the tide of battle. Beragin falls just as the Night Elves arrive. Six months later, the desert city of Kerin is destroyed by Theonus Crestin's armies when Beragin's cousin Ahsab, governor of the city, sends food and supplies to the besieged Terrin. Beragin's falchion, which his cousin had recieved after Beragin was killed, disappears. |
| 0034 | The Human Civil War ends when Sultan Boradin, son of Beragin, kills Theonus Crestin in battle near the lighthouse northwest of Crestin with his father's scimitar. Assuming the title of King of Men and marrying Galbedir of Greywode (who eventually became the Queen of the Elves), he moves the capital to his home city Terrin, which he renames Beragin after his father. A great wall is built around it, defending the city in lieu of Beragin himself. It is said that Beragin's spirit watches over the city named for him, which has never fallen. Theonus' armies swear allegiance to Boradin, who had no armies to speak of following the Human Civil War. Denor the Peacemaker becomes King of the Dwarves, and the nomadic Night Elves (who are still regarded with respect by the human peoples of the desert because of their aid) returned to their distant plains. The Elemental Crystals of Medomere are divided amongst the peoples of Medomere for safekeeping; the Earth crystal to the Dwarves, the Wind Crystal to the Elves, the Water Crystal to the race of Men, and the Fire Crystal to Thradin the ancient dragon, who withdraws to his mountain home in the Dragonback Mountains in the heart of the Great Forest of Medomere. Trusting in only the bloodline of his father and the pure nature of his mother Varia, an Astral Deva, Boradin, now the Celestial Emperor of Beragin, rules that only those members of his father's bloodline (including Beragin's other sons and their own offspring), so long as they have Celestial blood, may sit on the throne of Beragin. See below entry for 1031 for more information on the requirements for ascension to the Celestial Throne. |
| 1015 | The Celestial Emperor of Beragin, Mellinus Quittal, inexplicably moves the capital of the human lands on Medomere to Crestin from Beragin, where it had been moved in 0033 when Terrin was renamed Beragin. He is descended from Bherein, Boradin's brother and Beragin's son (see above entry for 1033 regarding his lineage). It is later ascertained that a Drow sorceress has replaced him and was responsible for the change in location (see below entry for 1031). |
| 1023 | The Great Prohibitionist Slobber-Knocker of 1023 takes place in Su-lain on the continent of Evermere when Calain of the Iron Mountain Clan challenges William MacLeod to a drinking contest. The two competitors, after the mayor and the town guard ask them to stop drinking for the safety of the town, proceed to pummel the entire town guard and mayoral staff, save the mayor's clerk. Sir Terrin of the Shining Tower, Holy Knight of Pelor steps in and the two are thrown into jail. Their community service the following day involved clearing out a nearby den of thieves, which led to the Scotsman and the dwarf joining forces with the paladin and creating Terrin, MacLeod, and Calain Adventurers, Incorporated. Bob the Astounding, Transmuter, Evoker, and Taxidermist Extraordinaire opens his store, Bob's Discount Magical Crap and Taxidermy Shop, in the midsized, dusty township of Fallior on the plains of Evermere. |
| 1024 | Loctar, son of Zaxtar, a barbarian warrior from the Evermere Highlands, leaves his home in search of his father. In a town named Su-Lain, he is hired to dispose of a den of orcs that has been raiding the town by the mayor, a wizard named Gohloren (whose house Loctar tears apart after becoming annoyed at the magical morphing door). Loctar defeats the orcs and begins his adventures. |
| 1030 | An army of Uruks sent to destroy the Elven forest of Greywode on Medomere attacks the forest they were sent to destroy. The elves are unable to repel them, and call for help from the Lord of the White Mountains of Medomere, Loctar. Loctar hurries to the aid of the beleagured Elves, and turns the tide of battle. He falls prey to a nymph and dies, but his companion, Freya of the Sun Temple of Beragin (later ordained a Holy Knight of the Shining Tower after being crowned Celestial Empress of Crestin on Medomere), slays the nymph and takes Loctar to the Sun Temple, where he is revived. Loctar, after being revived, pursues the white dragon responsible for the attack with the aid of a magical teleportation amulet purchased from Bob's Discount Magical Crap and Taxidermy Shop. Confronting his foe, he is struck down by a powerful ice spell cast by the white dragon. The dragon teleports himself away and Loctar's companions return him to the temple to be revived once more. Loctar, unable to pursue the white dragon any further due to magical interference preventing his teleporting amulet from targeting the white dragon, returns to check on the extent of the damage caused by the Uruk armies that he'd saved Greywode from. Most of the elves and the greater part of their cities had survived, and in thanks, the Elven queen, Galbedir Moonsong, bestows upon Loctar the title of Lord High Protector of Greywode and gifts him with her mother's leafblade as a symbol of his station. About a month later, Sariah, an elven spellsword questing to become a Dragon Rider, commissions Bob of Bob's Discount Magical Crap and Taxidermy Shop to build a magical machine to age the dragon he is bonded to, Amethyria, artificially. He enters the aging portal alongside her and disappears. Loctar and his companions follow Sariah and Amethyria into the portal, which had malfunctioned because it was designed to function on only the dragon. When Sariah followed it through, it caused the portal to become a gateway to the future instead. See below entry for 1080 (Alternate Future). |
| 1031 | Freya of the Sun Temple of Beragin and her traveling companions, Loctar of the White Mountains, Lobo (a mercenary hailing from the mountains of Evermere, who later created and became Guildmaster of the Mercenaries Guild), Robert MacLeod (brother of William MacLeod, who co-founded Terrin, MacLeod, and Calain Adventurers, Incorporated in 1023) and Helena the half-breed Dwarf/Elf, discover that the long-time Celestial Emperor of Crestin, Mellinus Quittal (who inexplicably moved the capital of the human lands of Medomere from Beragin to Crestin in 1015), has been dead for some time, and in his place upon the Medomere throne of humanity is a Drow sorceress. Slaying the impostor, they also necessitate a search for a qualified successor to take over the throne. It is discovered that Freya herself qualifies for the trials necessary to become Empress, which are that the individual must be of Beragin's line (see above entries for the War of the Crystals on Medomere and the Human Civil War on Medomere, 0030, 0033, and 0034) and that the individual be part Celestial (either they or at least one of their parents must be sired or born of an angelic servant of the sun-god, Pelor). She is of the line of Beragin, who descended from Lord Silvaire II of Terrin (the nephew of Lord Silvaire I of Terrin), who was the son of Lord Tyrael of the Shining Tower. Her father is Avo, an Astral Deva who is one of Pelor's generals. Her mother, Taria, died in childbirth and her father, having little choice, left her in the care of the Sun Temple of Beragin, where she was brought up as an orphan. Freya successfully completes the requisite trials and becomes the Celestial Empress of Crestin. As a symbol of her birthright, her father, Avo, brings her the Sunstar, the weapon of her ancestor Lord Tyrael of the Shining Tower, from its resting place in the Shining Tower itself. The second Demon War begins when demons led by the demon prince Slaak-Bur, son of Gar-Thul, invade the Evermere Highlands in search of The Hammer of Tull, the only hammer capable of reforging the planar gate that imprisons Gar-Thul. See above entries for -???? (Time Immemorial-Beginning of the First Demon War), -???? (Time Immemorial-The First Demon War), -???? (Time Immemorial-The End of the First Demon War), and -???? (Time Immemorial-The Fates of the Heroes of the First Demon War). |
| 1034 | Loctar kills the Tarrasque with the help of Aramus (a companion of Tyrael, Tull, and Silvaire during the first Demon War). |
| 1035 | The Adventurer's Hook, a pub/general store/inn/restaurant/gnomish workshop/bank/adventurer's meeting & hiring place/smithy, is founded by Breu the Sorcerer, Digg the Warrior, Zook the Gnomish Inventor and Cleric of Fharlanghn, Seraph the Pirate (later the Pirate Queen of Pravoka), Martha the Homemaker, and the somewhat mysterious manager of the Adventurer's Hook only known as "Tim?" and referred to as such. |
| 1080 (Alternate Future) | Sariah the elven spellsword, along with his dragon, Amethyria and his adventuring companions, Loctar of the White Mountains and Freya of the Sun Temple of Beragin, step into a time fifty years in the future relative to the date when they'd stepped through a magical portal created by Bob of Bob's Discount Magical Crap and Taxidermy Shop (see above entry for 1030). |
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