We write the timeline for a fantasy/science fantasy/just plain weird world (Version 3.0)

Inspired by this thread, which was inspired by the original.
Let's start at 1000 BCE

• Humans start to form tribes in the vast fertile red plains of Soclari, and begin to learn agriculture.

edited 22nd Apr '17 3:33:03 PM by Skiller2

Bump.

999 BCE

• Humans start fishing. Three eyed fish becomes a delicacy.
• A mysterious time traveller comes to warn the people about a war happening in 20 years. Nobody understands him, or his language.

edited 17th Apr '17 2:49:50 PM by chianticat10

998 BCE

• Humans start the ritual of tree worshipping, as they are rare in the plains.
• Tribes start to merge into 4 bigger tribes, and start to settle down in places, though 1 stays nomadic.

Bump

997 BCE: The nomadic Wanderer tribe discovers a mystic grove. They name it Spirithome and establish a tradition of returning to it every summer solstice.

996 BCE:

• Two of the tribes settle down on part of the river running through the red plains, and they both claim the river for themselves. The other two settle down in the plains, while the nomads continue being nomadic.
• Herds of horned horses migrate to the plains.

995 BC:

• The west plains tribe organize under the leadership of the First Dynast, Seymour Butz.
• The south river tribe discover seven-foot-long sea snails living on the riverbed. They are too deep to be hunted at this time, but their shells occasionally wash up.

994 BCE:

• The south river tribe collects the shells, and the shells become a symbol of wealth.
• The nomads find the horned horses roaming through Spirithome. They immediately decree that they are a sacred animal, and start herding them with their travels.
• Seymour Butz starts to send envoys to the other tribes to see if any are interested in cooperation.

993 BCE:

• The west plains tribe officially adopts the name Holos, as decreed by the Butzian Dynasty in honor of the tree god Holosissus.
• The Holosian envoys to the other tribes reach their destinations, and return with news:
  • The envoy to the north river tribe is accepted.
  • The envoy to the south river tribe is rejected.
  • The envoy to the east plains tribe is rejected, slain, and her severed head sent back to Holos. This causes an uproar.
  • The envoy to the Wanderer tribe returns without ever finding his objective.
• Prince Eilik Butz is born to Seymour Butz' consort.
• The south river tribe invent canoes

edited 21st Apr '17 12:32:56 AM by Anomalocaris20

992 BCE:

• The east plains have rallied under King Salk, who starts cutting off contact with the other tribes.
• The north river tribe and Holos start trading fish for crops.
• The Wanderer tribe starts to worship the horse god Khosan.

991 BCE:

• The east plains tribe is officially named the Salk Empire, after its first king.
• Chieftain Ugh of the north river tribe has a vision of stone columns arranged in ascending height order in a meadow northwest of the tribe's settlement, and orders its construction over the next few years.
• The south river tribe explore further down river and discover a vast expanse of water south of Soclari. Discussion of what to name this new region begins amongst the south river tribe's ruling caste.
• The delta where the Soclari River meets the newly-discovered sea is rich with silt and other valuable deposits. Between this, the snail shells, and the boat technology, the south river tribe begins to develop a strong economy and mercantile leaning.
• A Wanderer tribesman with a speech impediment observes unusual temporal properties in amaranth growing in Spirithome, and remains there to conduct research.

edited 21st Apr '17 11:00:34 PM by Anomalocaris20

990 BCE:

• The south river tribe decides to name the southern region after their Goddess of Water, Amaria. They send a few explorers into the Amarian Sea to explore the body of water and map out the coastline.
• The north river tribe discovers a large patch of clay near the river, and start to experiment with it.
• The Wanderer tribe finds the Holosians, and stay there for a bit to share resources and ideas.
• The Wanderer tribesman starts seeing visions after exposing himself to the amaranth for a long period of time, and he starts to record what he sees, eager to share the information with his clansmen.

989 BCE:

• The Salk Empire becomes an auto-theocracy; King Salk is worshipped as god-king, and inquisitions are launched to expunge heretics and dissuade belief in the Old Gods.
• The Salk Empire discover arid cliffs and mesas east of the Soclari Plains, and quickly snatch up the territory. It is named the Salkian Cragland.
• The south river tribe adopt the name Amarr, and establish their capitol on the coast of the Soclari River delta.
• Small islands are discovered in the Amarian Sea, by explorer-merchant Alexandra Ponte.
• Holos and the Wanderer tribe begin to share religious beliefs; theologists establish both Khosan and Holossisus as spawns of the wind god Maramura, sent to protect and guide humanity whether they wander or remain sedentary, respectively.
• Holos learns of Amarr's new settlement, and sends another envoy.
• The north river tribesman Gurk invents pottery.

edited 22nd Apr '17 4:29:20 PM by Anomalocaris20

988 BCE:

• After the northern river Chieftain unexpectedly died after seeing his vision completed, a group of skilled workers establish a council to rule the north river tribe, now named Nervera.
• The envoy to Amarr is accepted, but cautiously.
• The Wanderer tribe finds a large forest in their travels. Before leaving, they gather a large amount of wood, a rare resource in the plains.
• Salk inquisitors reach the Soclari River, and enter Amarr.
• After exploring a number of the islands, explorers return to Amarr with exotic fruits, and discovery of a ore deposit.

987 BCE:

• The finished Nerveran monument displays anomalous properties following the death of Chieftain Ugh; for 12 hours every three months, it emits a thin ray of light skyward. Though it is not known at this time, the world's first Beacon has been produced.
• Amarr establishes a formal government:
  • Alexandra Ponte is enstated as executive chief, and oversees the formation of the new government.
  • Dumas Aldrich is enstated as military chief, and begins development of simple defensive structures.
  • Pierre Perigold is enstated as exploration chief, and spearheads further exploration of the Amarian Archipelago.
  • Archibald Norgood is enstated as economic chief, and fosters trade with Holos.
• Durians from the Amarian Archipelago prove surprisingly popular with the Holosians, who begin cultivating them in Holos.
• Salkian inquisitors reach Holos, and are immediately rejected.
• The Salk Empire begins mining the Salkian Craglands for ores.

I wonder if anyone else is gonna join in this game.

986 BCE:

• Holosian durians have their own unique taste due to the different Soclarian soil. They quickly become a luxury commodity.
• With their newfound wood supplies, The Wanderers experiment, eventually inventing the bow and arrow. They keep this weapon secret while they master the craft.
• The Salk Empire find the ores of silver, tin, and copper. They start to learn how to smelt metal, but keep their discoveries to themselves.
• Amarr explorers find rich copper deposits all around the islands, and bring them back to Amarr. Scientists from Nervera, Holos, and The Wanderers are all invited to Amarr to study the metal, for a small entry fee.
• Salkan Inquisitors are respectfully declined access to Nervera.
• King Salk looks for a wife to produce an heir.

Hopefully someone does.

edited 22nd Apr '17 7:35:20 PM by Skiller2

985 BCE:

• The Salk Empire's experiments with ore smelting leads to the production of metal lances and shields.
• The collaborative efforts of the scientists in Amarr leads to the production of copper armor and simple weapons.
• Amarr and Nervera begin hunting Soclari River Snails, and discover that exotic purple dyes can be produced with their fluids. The Wanderer Tribe begins trading for large quantities of these dyes.
• Wanderer Tribe scientists begin settling in Nervera to study the monument's tri-monthly display.
• Dynast Seymour Butz attempts to produce a second heir, but both child and consort perish in childbirth. Prince Eilik is groomed to succeed Seymour in spite of his anemic condition.
• A wildfire destroys a small part of the Soclari Plains.
• Salkan Inquisitors return to Salk to report their failures at entering Holos and Nervera. The contingent sent to Amarr reports back with mild success, and enrapture King Salk with tales of Chief Minister Ponte's beauty.

984 BCE:

• Nervera finds a way to make the red grass that grows throughout the plains into a red dye. Holos aristocrats take a interest in it and Holos begins to trade for it.
• The Wanderers perfect the skill of archery, and start getting a large surplus of meat in their travels. In addition to growing a bigger population, they trade this for more purple dye, and copper arrowheads.
• King Salk sends a letter inviting Chief Minister Ponte to his court. Others in Amarr view this with skepticism.
• Holos, using bought copper tools, brings in massive harvests in the fields. In celebration, they make a holiday Jeres to be celebrated on harvest, in honor of the God of Farming Jeresic

edited 23rd Apr '17 8:59:05 AM by Skiller2

983 BCE:

• King Salk sends gifts of rare ores and directly asks for Chief Minister Ponte's hand in marriage, as well as union of her nation into the Salk Empire. Ponte declines. Salk continues to send gifts periodically throughout the year, but the marital and political requests become increasingly akin to demands and threats.
• Amarric expeditions into the Amarian Sea yields the discovery of an island with an active volcano.
• Nervera combine copper metallurgy with their old weaponry to create spiked clubs. This evolves into the development of battleaxes near the end of the year. Armed with new weaponry, Nerveran huntsmen begin hunting the red mammoths that wander between the Soclari Plains and River. Their tusks become popular commodities.
• A potent strain of parasitic fungus kills many of the walnut trees in the woods north of Holos. Clergymen declare it the wrath of a fungus demon toward Holossisus, while Holosian scientists begin developing the idea of environmental conservation.
• The amaranth researcher (whose name has been lost to the annals of time) begins to show signs of physical and mental deterioration. This is now believed to be a result of constant exposure to the anomalous amaranth causing accelerated aging. He puts his research on hiatus to recuperate, but his worsening speech impediment and poor handwriting makes communication of his research difficult.

edited 23rd Apr '17 12:24:07 PM by Anomalocaris20

982 BCE:

• Ponte threatens retaliation from Amarr and Holos if the demands keep coming.
• Salkan smelters discover bronze, and start to outfit their armies with bronze gear.
• Holosian clergymen are sent out the crop fields of Holos to preform a ritual on the crops to prevent the demon from entering the fields.
• A group of inquisitors happen upon The Wanderers walking through the plains. When they denounce the old gods in favor of King Salk, they are greeted by arrow fire. Only a few escape.
• A young Holosian wanders upon Spirithome, and finds the researcher bedridden. He starts to take care of him and decipher his writings.

981 BCE:

• Gifts from the Salk Empire cease; messengers continue to be sent to both Amarr and Holos declaring them nations of heathens.
• Civil unrest occurs in Amarr; those who have been converted by Salkan Inquisitors denounce Ponte as leading her people to ruin by denying their god and refusing to capitulate to the Salkan Empire, while those who still worship the Old Gods or are atheistic are adamant about maintaining independence.
• Outraged by the slaughter of his inquisitors, King Salk sends a small contingent of armed soldiers to locate the Spirithome.
• Wanderer Tribe researchers in Nervera begin to document strange phenomena occuring during the monument's pulses, such as heightened sensitivity to air movement and percieved spiritual awakening. The potential for humanity learning to cast magic becomes a subject of pursuit.
• Nerveran pottery proves popular with Amarric aristocrats.
• Holosian scientists succeed where the clergymen failed, and eliminate the fungus with potent fungicides. Religious beliefs in Holos begin to shift away from over-reliance on the gods and toward human self-reliance.

I'll join in!

980 BCE

• Ponte begins to isolate herself, at the worst possible timing, having both real and imagined enemies everywhere.

• Seymour looks for another consort, while Eilik begins to advance military production.

• A diamond shaped ship appears above the Holosians, and deposits a red haired, purple coated human girl, known as Sigma-239. She extends a greeting to the Holosians, and manages to rouse them into a scientific fervor, before leaving.

• King Salk eventually finds a queen called Sirene, and promises Ammar as a gift for her, while also planning to nab Ponte as a slave.

• Holos breaks ties with Amarr, and begins to befriend the Salks, in exchange for fair treatment, and technological exchanges.

• Ponte begins to purge anyone she suspects of being allied with King Salk, including a disproportionate fraction of her best and brightest officials and military commanders.

• Nervera largely reacts with appall towards the purges, and quits trade with Amarr.

• The Spirithome is found. In the resulting conflict, several of the small group manage to escape, reporting directly back to King Salk.

• Salk names a man named Aaron Chief Builder, and tasks him with building a glorious monument, directly on top of Spirithome, while also lending him an army.

• Aaron, however, is wary of getting involved in the conflict himself, and tasks a young girl known as Eoli to conquer in Salk's name while he adds things like decent plumbing, irrigation, and more benefits of architecture to Salk's kingdom.

• The Wanderer Tribe does not expect a massive army to attack, and barely manages to keep the Spirit Home intact.

• They are reduced to a shell of their former greatness, and eventually Salk is eating from their hands. Slaves are taken, many are dead, but the Spirit Home and the Wanderer tribe live.

• Just in a much weaker and much less negotiable position, but Aaron (Now taking control of the operation, though Eoli did get the credit for pummeling the Wanderer tribe), allows them to keep their 'primitive' religion.

979 BCE:

• In exchange for helping them hunt with their mastery of archery, the Council of Laborers, as they have come to be called, allow The Wanderers to take temporary take refuge in neutral Nervera to recover.
• Many Amarrian citizens, along with some government officials, board canoes and settle on the islands in the Amarian Sea. They declare themselves the true Amarr, ruled by a priest turned leader, Kaiste Polis.
• Holos distances itself from religion, and focuses on science.
• Ponte is left as the only part of the government, some executed, some fleeing the Amarian Sea. Amaria erupts into chaos, believers in the Old Gods and believers in King Salk fighting for control of the city, Ponte being one of them. The belief in the Old Gods is currently majority.
• King Salk, seeing Amarr nearly in his grasp, sends a army to reinforce the Salkan believers.
• Researchers in Nervera find temporal properties similar to the one in Spirithome. They invite the young Holosian to come with the research and amaranth, with the sickly researcher now dead.

edited 23rd Apr '17 2:47:58 PM by Skiller2

Also, thanks for joining us.