History
Timeline
Key events of the New Age in chronological order. All dates in New Age (N.A.) years, counted from Year 0: the Elemental Cataclysm. Approximate dates are marked ~.
| Date | Event | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| 1st Age | 0 – 1400 N.A. | |
| Year 0 | The Elemental Cataclysm | Old Midralis ends. Neo Midralis begins. The Shardbinder order is founded from the war’s survivors through the Accord of Balance. |
| ~200 | Celestrian Observatory founded | Astronomical standard established. New Age calendar begins formalisation. |
| ~200–500 | New Chromatic Current maps produced | Surviving practitioners map the Cataclysm’s altered Current configurations from scratch. Predecessor to the Ninefold Conservatory forms. |
| ~500 | Shardbinder peacetime mandate | Working consensus on peacetime role. Non-involvement in mortal political disputes is adopted as policy. And immediately begins to be tested. |
| ~700 | Rise of the Galekian Empire | The first major continental power of Neo Midralis emerges from Auridia’s post-Cataclysm fragmentation. |
| 2nd Age | 1400 – 2300 N.A. | |
| ~700–900 | Galekian expansion across Auridia | Shardbinder sites destroyed or absorbed. Pattern established: major powers attempt to absorb or neutralize the order. |
| ~900–1100 | The 200-Year War | Galekian assault on Kyou fails. The military alliance that resists will become the Hino Federation. |
| ~1100–1400 | Galekian collapse | Auridia permanently balkanized. Kält contracts to Dracovian remnant states. Solosomor, the great Dwarven empire, also falls during this period. |
| ~1400 | Hino Federation of States founded | Post-war military alliance formalizes into a multi-state political framework. |
| ~1500–1700 | Shadow Ork invasion — Kyou’s Gloomphase | The Forever Wars begin. The territorial conflict remains ongoing in the current era of the 4th Age, in its fifteenth century. |
| ~1700–2000 | Hino Federation formally established | The full multi-state framework of Kyou’s political identity takes its current shape. |
| ~2000–2300 | Demographic shift — Myûr ascendancy | Myûr become the dominant racial group in Auridia through population growth and institutional integration. |
| 3rd Age | 2300 – 3300 N.A. | |
| ~2300 | First contact with the Veiled Continent | Auridian expeditions reach Caligoria. Populations speak Azaim. No sustained contact has been established since. |
| ~2400 | The Memoric invented | A Prismaturgy working that creates preserved experiential records. The inventor is subsequently suppressed by the Concordiax. The Memoric itself is now ubiquitous. |
| ~2600 | The Great Seal of Umero breaks | The Seal’s purpose is classified. Its breaking produces dimensional instability and Places of Power emerging across Midralis. |
| ~2600–2900 | The Fey Migration | Passages to Veraldié open. Fey beings cross into Midralis in significant numbers. Fey communities establish across Auridia and Kyou. |
| ~3250–3300 | War of the Fallen Stars | Fifty years of conflict across Auridia. Causes classified. Something fell. Memoric records exist in Concordiax sealed archives. |
| 4th Age | 3300 N.A. – present | |
| ~3300 | The Auridian Pact | Post-war diplomatic framework. Prismaturgy brought under regulatory oversight. Kyou negotiates its own terms. |
| ~3350 | The Concordiax founded | Post-war regulatory institution. Sincere in origin. The dominant institutional force of the 4th Age. |
| ~3400–3500 | Auridian Union formed · Luminor ascendant | Supranational framework formalized. The Principality of Luminor emerges as the Union’s most powerful member. |
| ~3500–4000 | Shardbinders lose institutional status | Concordiax encroachment on Shardbinder authority accumulates across five centuries. The Shardbinders withdraw further with each decade. |
| ~3800–3900 | Kyou’s Yokai crisis | Spirit Realm fractures. Yokai manifest across Central and North Kyou. Crisis is not quite a war. Truce is eventually reached. |
| ~3900 | Yokai truce · North Kyou red zone | Central Kyou negotiates coexistence terms. North Kyou designated a red zone. The designation has not been lifted in over four centuries. |
| ~4000 | Shardbinders branded enemies of the state | The Concordiax formally designates them potential threats. Official reason not documented in accessible records. |
| 4001 N.A. – present | The current era | Institutional consolidation holds. The Blight spreads. We are somewhere in the 4th Age |