Difference between revisions of "Timeline: 200 AF to 299 AF"

A tournament of games and contests of skills is held in memory of the Fall of the Selucarian Empire, 200 years before. Isildur triumphs, and wins the [[Staff of Nicator]].

[[Sarapis]], the Logos, holds a poetry competition, and Tancred Lasalle emerges as the shining star of the Sapience literary scene with his epic, "Final Resting for Travian Shea."

Treant leads some of the more aggressive [[Druids]] to form a new guild, the Sentinels, in Shallam. They master new metamorphosis forms, including Icewyrm, Gorilla, and Elephant.

Zsarachnor posts vampire guards in the Chrysalis Basilica to slay members of the Church. Some various Shallamese citizens, led by Rezzo, a priest, slay them. Zsarachnor warns that there will be reprisals.

Sarapis unveils the game of freeze tag, played in the Matsuhama Arena.

Elsdragon, leader of the Sentaari, wins a series of six competitions held by the Gods. His prize is a tower, built with divine assistance.

Ashtan declares war on the Church, claiming that the shrines the Church erects are weapons of mass destruction. Ashtan demands the removal of all shrines outside of a limited area around Shallam.

In order to provide a safe place for orphans subsequent to the tearing down of the Halfway House by Ashtan, Aurora, Goddess of Light, organizes a choir in the Chrysalis Basilica, where orphans may lead safe, happy lives.

Banks open in Shallam and Ashtan.

The war widens as Shallam declares that an attack on members of the Church is an attack on Shallam. Darthus, the powerful leader of the unaligned Serpentlords, declares his support for Shallam.

Hashan begins to grow, as it begins accepting new citizens.

Sartan, Lord of Evil announces His existence to mortalkind. Previously known as Shaitan, he had attacked, slain, and absorbed the power of the new God, Apollyon.

Sartan Releases the Seven Truths of Evil, which champion strength and might as right.

Gambling parlours open in both Ashtan and Shallam, and for a time, roulette is all the rage in the monied set.

Gaia, Goddess of nature forms The Council of Oakstone to combat the city of Hashan. She calls for all citizens of Hashan to quit Hashan, claiming that they are being duped by Twilight, God of Darkness. Plans for the expansion of Hashan into a city on par with Ashtan and Shallam begin.

The War of Achaea ends, with Ashtan conquering much of the land, and marching its troops into Shallam.

Sartan opens the Infernals, whose first Guildmaster is Sinistar.

Workmen of Hashan begin to cut trees down in the Ithmia to make room for its expansion.

Gaia, outraged at the betrayal of the forests by Firefox and other Druid or Sentinel members of Hashan's government, declares Firefox an enemy of the forests. She calls on Lupus, wild God of the Beasts for aid, and he unleashes a plague of werewolves to terrorize Hashan. Twilight and Hashan quickly pacify Lupus and the expansion goes on as planned.

Irontounge and the occultists declare war on the Church. Shortly there after, the government of Ashtan declares that it will not honour the old treaty, and declares war.

In what surely be one of the most epochal events to take place since the Day of Creation, Sarapis decides that the long-imprisoned Lorielan has truly reformed, and releases the Jade Empress from her prison on the Crystal Plane of the Kx'khrah. Nearly at the same time, Aegis, who had long journeyed the most remote plains spreading war to the further corners of Creation, returns His attention to Sapience.

Lotash brings news that Bearnath and the cultists are trying to summon the Beastlord to this plane of existence.

Through the offering of the Spawn of the Unnamable Horror, Eris is awakened into the land after a twenty year

Dead sparrows and robins are found littering the land, their hearts burst from their bodies. An insane old man is found roaming the land, raving about 'Death's Heart' and a prophecy that begins with the death of the children of air.

Meetings are called among the various factions of the land, and it is decided that the threat the old man speaks of is the return of the Tsol'teth. They are wrong.

Strange chantings are heard, carried on the wind, from the Shamtota hills, and a bright white light, and an image of a temple projected onto the clouds, is seen far to the north.

Pryla'ka, a Tsol'dasi priestess of Life appears in a Temple to the north. She is the first Tsol'dasi to reveal itself since the dawn of mankind. She claims that someone called the Quisalar is gathering death energy for an unknown purpose, and that in order to stop him, the corpses of the dead sparrows, robins, swans, and geese must be brought, so that she may utilize the latent death energies in them to combat the Quisalar and his Quisalis cultists. The Quisalar makes similar demands, and when Maran, Sultan of Shallam tells him they will not assist the Quisalar in his plan to bring back Thoth, the Quisalar attacks, saying that either all will join him, or they will serve him in their deaths.

Unable to discover the location of the Temple, the Great Mhunna, leader of Moghedu, and a famous campaigner as a young Mhun, volunteers to assist, and an expedition consisting of the Mhunna, Warmaster, Cooper, Aringar, Fuu, Perseon, Thorgon, Armelia, Thalen, and Jem set out to discover it, and succeed.

Achaea is largely polarized over Death's Heart. On one side is Shallam and some of the more nature-loving Druids and Sentinels. The other side is led by Twilight and His Order, with support made up of various citizens of Ashtan and Hashan.