Fantasy world timeline: The forum game!

Here's a fun little game, based on an older and inactive one. We start a timeline for a fantasy world. Every post represents an year, and the important events that happened. Let's go!

• 1000 BCE (Before Common era)

• The first humans come to the land of Chaan, lead by King Gilebert.

• The elf race, natives of Chaan, begins warring with the humans. Their queen Kali leads the war. To help fight humans, they build golems known as the Invincible Ones.

999 BCE

The Battle of Ora City occurs. The elves and golems capture the city, there are no human survivors.

Prince Sigmund the third is born.

Construction of a great wall begins around the Capitol city in wake of the Battle of Ora City.

edited 3rd Jan '18 12:33:07 PM by ScotieRw

998 BCE:

• A group of elves to the east breaks off from the rest of the elves of Chaan when their despot, Tuaki, names his tribe Qidarlug, the "Jackal-People".
• Asrun, son of elf priestess Aigi and elf knight Gusran, is born.
• Human sailors discover the island of Tek, which is inhabited by a civilization of imps.

edited 3rd Jan '18 10:08:05 AM by arcada188

997 BC:

• Rare species of dragon found: can telepathically communicate with humans. Breeds by turning people into clones of itself. Survived to modern day.

• Gunpowder is invented by Tiberius Maximus of Tek.

996 B.C.E.

The Imps make a ‘treaty’ with the Humans and go to war with the Elves alongside them.

The Battle of Vengeance(Human title)/ The Ora Massacre(by the Elves) happens. Humans and Imps strike when the Elves expect it least, with gunpowder and poison in their food and drink. Ora was retaken, and casualties were few for the Humans. Hundreds of thousands of Elves died, their leaders heads on spikes around the city.

995 BC:

• Rare dragon population increases a substantial amount when someone let them free on the country of Goiky. Everyone turned into clones of the dragons.

• Speaking of Goiky, before the dragons attacked they built a monolith.

• Oran scientist Plebes figures out that the colors on the dragons indicate what gender they are. Also adopts one as a pet, but not being clone-ified until 891 BC.

994 BCE:

•The Elves back in a decent state of affairs reach out to the humans by way of Ambassador Claine

•The Humans agree to a five year cultural exchange liable for extension sending several families of humans into the best elven cities and schools and vice versa

•racial tensions run high as while both think the other side scum for their actions they all desire some sort of peace

993 BCE:

• In an attempt to keep the dragons from turning too many people into clones all trade with and travel to Goiky becomes prohibited.
• An assassination attempt on Ambassador Claine by a zealous anti-Elf group is foiled.

edited 4th Jan '18 7:57:26 AM by dutchguy1986

992 B.C.E.

The Chaan, a elf supremicist group, leads burnings and pillaging in human lands, weakening the peace between them.

The dragons continue to populate, and some are taken out of Goiky due to this. The species begins to further spread.

The Elves, no longer burdened from war, tries to bring the Jackal-People back. Civil War breaks out. The Elves are divided over this.

A bad gunpowder accident in Tek happens, killing thousands of Imps.

edited 4th Jan '18 8:01:07 AM by Zincmind16

991 BC:

• Prince Sigmund conquers Goiky and Tek.

• The wheel is invented by Plebes.

990 BC:

• The Chaan start taking humans prisoner and using them as slaves.
• Queen Kali gives birth to her second child princess Elora
• The church of Ibdarr, is formed in the human town of Fernsworth.

I'm assuming you're not talking about Sigmund the third, otherwise the kid would lead an army at age 8

edited 4th Jan '18 12:55:56 PM by dutchguy1986

989 B.C.E.

The Jackal-People are desperate, so they make use of dark magic that corrupts them to fight.

The Chaan use magic to destroy a church of Ibdarr

The cultural exchange ends. The Chaan kill the human families in the elf lands. Angering the Humans.

edited 7th Jan '18 7:35:26 AM by Zincmind16

988BCE:

• The Dwarves begin trading with the Jackal People.
• Humans adopt a kill-on-sight policy against elves.
• A Renegade Splinter Faction of the Jackal People begin performing highly dangerous experiments with Corruption.

997 BCE

• The first known human capable of magic, Adiv, is born.
• The elves create a new weapon, the crossbow, that is both more accurate and slightly more powerful than their old bows at the cost of reloading speed.

edited 8th Jan '18 11:50:20 PM by dutchguy1986

‘’’’996 BCE’’’

• Adiv, now age 1, is abducted on Sigmund the Second’s orders, and their parents are given a large sum of money and visitation rights, though Adiv recognizes Sigmund the Second as their father.

• Human settlers continue to culturally intermingle with the Imp population of Tek, as Empress Gallia eventually takes control, declares herself empress, and begins a three year long political purge, with many supporters both among her fellow human settlers, and the imps themselves.

• Tiberius Maximus is given an unlimited budget, and ordered to figure out how dangerous gunpowder truly was, and gauge the potential of it.

• The dragons are halted from breeding any more for now, as a plague begins to kill their numbers. Later known as dragon-sickness, a natural phenomenon that occurs once every 200 years, and seen by numerous religions as an act of god at the time.

• The ‘Jackal-People’ manage to gain access to the crossbow, and begin winning a large amount of victories in combat, due to their dark magical advantage.

• Tukai and Ambassador Claine meet, in an attempt to end the Elven Civil War, also known as the Rise of the Night-Bringers, (By Elves) Decline of the Elven Grip (By humans), and numerous other titles.

• Unfortunately, after weeks of discussion, neither are able to find much common ground, but promise to keep in touch.

• The Chaan attempt to assasinate Sigmund the Third, but horribly fail. In response, platoons of human soldiers march on the Elven borders, taking numerous areas of land.

• Several Half-elves are born due to various factors, and are warily accepted into Human society.

• The ‘Jackal-People’ are bequeathed the slur of ‘Drow’ by their Elven brethren.

• Orc soldiers arrive on the other side of the Dwarf kingdom’s borders, equipped with the material of Bronze. Revealing themselves to be an expeditionary force by their ‘Sun-King’, they proceed to needle Dwarfen border guards with plenty of questions, before eventually coming to a diplomatic consensus of looking over each other’s shoulders while trading.

• It is here that we recieve our first glimpse at Orc culture, revealing a mixture of classical arts and garish brutality. Most elven reviews of early Orc culture see it as woefully inferior, while at the same time noticing their advances in Bronze. Humans, in the meantime, promptly allied with the Orcs, and began to praise them for their achievements, while seeing their brutality as strength.

• Dwarves begin to study Orc writing, as do Humans, while most Elves do not even bother to learn their dialect.

• Half-Orcs are born, and accepted by both Human and Orc cultures.

• Half-Dwarves are born, and accepted by most cultures, though most end up in Dwarven lands.

edited 9th Jan '18 10:51:46 AM by RandomWriter413

995 BCE

• Great Old One ruins are discovered by the Jackal People .
• The dwarves and elves begin feuding. Nobody's quite sure over what, exactly, but the feud persists until today.

edited 9th Jan '18 9:55:10 PM by dvorak

994 BCE

• Queen Kali openly ponders declaring war on the Dwarvern kingdom, now recorded as the Kingdom of Uster due to whatever feud the Usterian Dwarves had somehow started, according to elven history.

• However, in regards to human soldiers and settlers pressing against the Elven borders, she responds by telling them to stay out of Elven affairs.

• The Jackal-People/Drow continue winning more victories, before their offensive gradually grinds to a halt, leading them into a long and bloody stalemate.

• Tek begins sending out more expeditionary vessels.

• Asrun begins studying in the ways of elven religion, and begins questioning the growing anti-human sentiment, along with the new anti-half elf sentiment.

• Many newborn and toddler aged half-elves, thankfully are in the lands of King Gilebert.

• Sigmund III begins being tutored in the ways of combat and politics, along with being taught to never trust elves.

• Half-Dwarves are deemed physically stronger than most human toddlers, though those in the Kingdom of Uster are deemed slightly weaker than dwarf toddlers.

• Parents of Half-Orc toddlers end up writing numerous books on the best way to raise a half-orc, though most of the Orc parents have different opinions than their significant human others.

• The Chann’s headquarters is discovered by a group of Jackal-People/Drow, and many of their leaders are killed.

• Sigmund the First, the elder of the three Sigmund brothers, writes a book about the life of the Heir Apparent, how Sigmund the Second’s adopted daughter’s talents both awe and worry him, and how Sigmund the Third is easily provoked.

• Sigmund the Second is given the title of Supreme Warlord, and command over Gilebert’s armies.

• ‘Princess’ Adiv, now age two, is doted upon by many servants, and visited by Tukai himself.

• Numerous elves are displaced from their former lands, as Sigmund the Second begins setting up outposts on the newly conquered land.

• However, some manage to integrate into human society, angering Queen Kali and a very too young to understand Elora, who begins releasing her own anti-human and anti-half elf propaganda, soon to be followed by her anti-dwarf, anti-half dwarf, anti-orc, anti-half orc, and anti-Jackal People propaganda.

• Ambassador Claine tries to do as much damage control as possible, writing down about their harried attempts to preserve peace.

• Invincible Ones win a battle against the Jackal-People, before proceeding to slaughter the elves commanding them and go on a massive rampage, before eventually being put down.

• Plebes manages to make the connection between dark magic and an entire platoon of golems turning into mad berserkers.

• Dragon breeding finally continues, but at a slow and labored pace.

983 BCE

• Sigmund the First mysteriously explodes during a play date with his granddaughter. The state refers to this as a ‘medical incident’.
• In an ‘unrelated event’, Sigmund the Third is separated from his adopted sister, in a separate building. Sigmund the Second regularly visits both children.
• The Propaganda of the Elves inspires half-orc half-human writer Atcus Grittle to start writing his anti-orc masterpiece, “The Fox in the Roses”.
• Atcus’ cousin, Albo Grittle, begins plans to assassinate Elora, believing the diety Krakkys is telling him to do so.
• Tukai and Claine, during a private meeting, begin a secret sexual relationship.
• Sigmund the Third learns multiplication, and spreads word of it to the people.

edited 10th Jan '18 5:31:09 PM by HelpImTrappedInAForum

982

• Multiplication is found to be the gateway to the sorcerous discipline of Mathemagicks.
• The Royal Physician begins to study Spontaneous Human Combustion, on the grounds that it may be contageous.
• The Drow faction studying the mutagenic effects of Dark Magic returns, their research having yeilded a sort of "Super-Soldier," who are stronger, faster, and tougher than the average jackal-person by a factor of two, and posess magical abilities allowing them to ressurrect corpses and command certain animals-but only at night, and only after drinking fresh blood. They are referred to as "vampires."

edited 11th Jan '18 6:59:21 AM by dvorak

981 BCE

• A group of human hunters manages to tame some wolves and use them as partners.
• The Drow, encouraged by their succes with the vampires, continue their research. Intrigued by the reports of tamed wolves they decide to use these animals as basis for their experiments. After several months they have created a group of jackal-people that can transform into either half-wolf hybrids or full wolves. Although these "werewolves" lack the ability to command animals it's still considered a succes.

edited 10th Jan '18 11:23:54 PM by dutchguy1986

980

• While studying the ruins, a Drow researcher collapses. Upon his awakening, he begins calculating an extremely long and powerful mathemagickal equation.
• The dwarves begin to produce Computori Automatons as a direct counter to the elves' Invincible One Golems.

edited 11th Jan '18 7:29:05 AM by dvorak

979 B.C.E.

A gemstone is found by elven scientists. They name it Magiri, as it absorbs magic and amplified it to great degrees.

The Elves begin trying to find more Magiri, with other lands finding out. The races begin competing over them, many skirmishes beginning.

A Drow puts one Magiri in place of his own heart, becoming a Vampire Lord. Through testing, they discover it can ressurect things as revenants, who retain all original personality-and skills. They can also control other Vampires and use their eyes to see. They, however, have their hearts lose Dark Magic infusion in sunlight, killing them.

edited 11th Jan '18 1:59:52 PM by Zincmind16

979 BCE

• King Gilebert grows ill, leaving Sigmund the Second as primary heir.

• The Vampires and Werewolves begin slight pressure for autonomy, though the civil war with the elves keeps them distracted.

• The Drow/Jackal People are barely pushed back, before gaining ground in a new offensive.

• As if things weren’t already terrible enough, a second tribe splinters from the Elven Kingdom, led by a carpenter. They flee into the nearby Jungle of Trees (aptly named at the time), along with disgruntled members of the military.

• Queen Kali attempts to ‘reintegrate’ this tribe, leading to an unparalleled military disaster for her generals, as they are stuck fighting both the Drow and ‘Wood Elves’.

• Princess Elora grows ill after a large banquet, and is bedridden for weeks. This is later revealed to be due to poison, though she does not die. However, no one can discern the culprit.

• Claine is sent to negotiate with the ‘Wood Elves’, while continuing her ‘negotiations’ with Tukai.

• As a result, the Drow enter into a pact of nonaggression with the ‘Wood Elves.’

• Orc soldiers, sensing the Elven kingdom’s weakness, join their allies in taking slightly larger swathes of land, leading to an impromptu council of dwarves, orcs, and humans deciding who gets which of the elven lands. Ambassador Claine is eventually invited to the council, and gets very peeved once she realizes what they’re doing.

• However, she is careful enough to suggest they consult the Queen, and convinces them to send the Queen a note over it.

• However, had she bothered to see what they had written, and recalled the temperament of Kali, she may have suggested they edit it.

• The Edict of Settlements is delivered to Queen Kali, who has just received word of numerous defeats. Numerous elven curses are thankfully untranslated.

• Claine thankfully keeps her job and head, and is sent to negotiate peace treaties with the Drow, and Wood elves, though Kali’s terms of peace are more akin to ordering a surrender. Basically, they’re being allowed heavily limited autonomy if they accept, along with having to pay all reparations, recieve heavy taxes, and recieve little to no benefits besides autonomy. Heavily limited autonomy.

• Asrun publishes his first book, Advice to the Queen on Leniency.

• Tek begins forging iron, though it is much more expensive to forge than Bronze, having found its way to Tek from far off trade with Orcs.

• Atcus finishes his publication, and begins publicly insulting orcs, only to recieve word of his half-orc heritage.

• The automatons are field tested, and deemed a success by the dwarves, who begin making pilotable automatons.

978 BC:

• Sigmund III, now 21, starts a war against the Elves, recruiting Plebes, Tiberius Maximus, The Royal Physician, and some unnamed human soldiers into his army, using the dragons as chariot horses.

• In retaliation, Kali sends out the Chaan against the humans.

fixed

edited 11th Jan '18 5:31:36 PM by TalesofUnder

Uh, they're not working for Kali, they're in a civil war with her. Or at least, the Jackal-People are. The Chann can still serve her.