Historical Timeline

The following is a timeline of Modern Achaea and the events that have transpired since. It is a work in progress.

16th of Aeguary, 172 AF:

Modern Age of Achaea begins.

Other notable events in 172 AF:

Erebus becomes first mortal to enter Achaea.

Gawain becomes the first player to kill another, dealing out righteous justice to the chaotic Harlequin.

Modern guilds are founded:

Guild	Founder
Paladins	Gawain
Serpentlords	Crotalus
Druids	Haidion
Occultists	Harlequin
Sentaari	Kothlun
Kharon	Changcoix

174 AF:

Rurin, the Crafter, opens the first of his many shops in Ashtan.

The philosopher Epicurus begins taking students.

175 AF:

Haidion, the Wanderer, discovers the plainspeople village of Tomacula.

176 AF:

Servelan de Vermiis opens her infamous Loving Heart's Orphanage, at which lost children may be enrolled.

Some start to suspect that the orphanage has a more nefarious purpose than formally stated.

The Buckawns and Dryads clash, leading to deadly animosity between them.

177 AF:

The druids Portis and Buckthorn open their Crystal Leaf Inn.

Servelan de Vermiis becomes Secretary of the Occultists guild.

178 AF:

The modern Priest guild is founded by Father Odysseus.

Thoth, the Deathgod, reveals himself to mortal eyes.

182 AF:

Sarapis, the Logos, reveals to all that the Loving Heart's Orphanage is, as many suspected, guilty of murdering the orphans it claimed to protect.

184 AF:

The Kharon Empire is formed. The Overlords of the Empire are Servelan de Vermiis, Grandmaster Laergon, Uldrais the Masked Assailant. The Sentaari, led by Aeschylus, form a temporary alliance with the Church to fight it.

185 AF:

Servelan de Vermiis becomes the first person of the modern age to attain the rank of guildmaster, known in the Occultists as The Demiurge.

186 AF:

Tarkun, a rogue Kharon, and Isildur and Mausolus, two Occultists, begin to sow the seeds of dissent in the Empire with continual in-fighting.

Cactus weed is discovered to be a euphoria-inducing substance, and becomes popular among some of the Druids and Serpentlords.

187 AF: Morpheus, of the Endless, is thrown out of the Occultists by Servelan de Vermiis after he attacked her. The Kharon guild defends him and lets him into their ranks. These are the final nails in the coffin of the Kharon Empire, and it dissolves due to internal strife.

189 AF:

The de Vermiis art gallery opens in Ashtan. Public opinion is positive, though it has some art which depicts the Church in a rather unfair light.

190 AF:

Journals written by Servelan de Vermiis, detailing experiments involving the organs from the brains of children are discovered.

The Arboretum of Enlightenment is opened by Servelan.

Servelan completes an intricate, magical experiment involving the Loving Hearts Orphanage, the de Vermiis gallery, and the Arboretum of Enlightenment. She summons and merges with the Unnamable Horror and is reborn into Eris, Goddess of Chaos.

Azhrarn, a young Serpentlord, discovers the ancient, underground library of the Lorewardens, now overrun by goblins and the minions of Lachesis, the Spider Queen, in the Dakhota hills.

Galadriel, a Druid, gives her life to re-awaken Gaia, the Earthmother, in order to defend the realm from the chaos released by the Ascension of Eris.

Sir Gawain opens his Halfway house in Ashtan, in order to provide an alternative to the murderous de Vermiis orphanage.

191 AF:

During an attempt to repeat Eris' experiment, Mordyval, an Occultist, unleashes the Spawn of the Unnamable Horror.

Haidion, the Wanderer, finds passage through the west ern Vashnar mountains, and discovers the redwood Aalen forest, in which lies the long-forgotten racial homeland of the Tsol'aa race.

193 AF:

The Gods grant the gift of Divine Grace to mortal-kind.

The Celani Hermes wins a bet with Raclawice, Goddess of Rogues and Gamblers, and gains her power to become the god Hermes, the Messenger.

The God of Justice, Dunamis, is able to escape his imprisonment on another plane through the sacrifice of Tassad Barsalan. He is renamed Deucalion, God of Justice.

The Mahtsuhama Arena opens on the Isle of Delos.

196 AF:

Sarapis throws a now-legendary party in the Crystal Leaf Inn. Drakhen drinks himself to death, and in a strangely romantic gesture, Zandram as and Lufton intentionally drink to death in each others arms.

Cobra, formerly a Serpentlord, leads a group of former Serpentlords to Ashtan and founds the Shadowsnake guild in the newly-rediscovered, magically-preserved, sunken ship of Calliope and Sinope.

The first wedding in Achaea's modern age takes place. Changcoix and Morlana are married in the Wedding Chamber of Maya, in the Chrysalis Basilica.

198 AF:

Sarapis, the Logos creates Aeyr, God of Magic.

Twilight, God of Darkness, emerges from the shadows to once again participate in the intrigues He so loves.

200 AF:

The Kharon monks, led by Morpheus, declare the Kharon Empire, and claim dominion over Sapience.

The skill of magical tattooing is discovered. Isildur is the first to master it.

The Sentaari, led by Laergon, foment rebellion against the Kharon.

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.

The Kharon are forced to dissolve their Empire, due mainly to an inability to be taken seriously.

201 AF:

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."

202 AF:

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.

Ashtan and Shallam both convert to limited democracies, and free elections take place for the positions of Archon and Vizier.

203 AF:

Sarapis, seeing a growing trend towards excessive violence, creates Oneiros, God of Peace.

206 AF:

Oneiros opens his temple in the village of Shastaan, near the ocean.

208 AF:

The Coming of the Morning Star. A massive pit in space called Abaddon collides with a gigantic star. Abaddon cannot contain the star, and the two explode. All life on Sapience, save for some Mhun living in the bottom levels of Moghedu, and one mortal human named Clark, perishes in an instant. Two new Gods are created: Aurora, Goddess of Light, and Apollyon, the Malefactor. Vastar, God of the Skies, who has been long absent from mortal affairs returns and cleans the lingering radiation from the skies.

The Flame of Yggdrasil is rediscovered.

209 AF:

Gaia, gone half-mad, infected by a demon of chaos, slays Twilight, God of Darkness, breaking an aeons-old oath not to directly harm another God. Twilight, with the assistance of Eris, Aurora, and Oneiros, bind Gaia, and imprison her in the Gaian Tree as punishment.

The Kharon start yet another Empire which dissolves as quickly as it began.

211 AF:

Achaea's first polygamous wedding. Gijan, Snow, and Anniara marry each other.

Gijan, guildmaster of the Kharon, is cast out of Ashtan and begins a personal war on Ashtan. Although he initially has some triumphs, he is soon overwhelmed by Ashtan's superior numbers and draws in some of his inner circle in the Kharon to help him.

Ashtan declares war on the the Kharon.

212 AF:

Eris gives Her support to Twilight, who brings darkness to the forests of Achaea. His revenge over Gaia, now called Oathbreaker, is complete.

Aurora, discovering that Gaia had been corrupted by a seed of insanity, informs the mortals that she, Hermes, and Oneiros will assist them in releasing Gaia. After much work by Gaia's loyal followers, she is freed. The energy that is released upon this event causes the lower depths of the dungeon of Azdun to be once more accessible. The Vampire Lord Zsarachnor makes hims elf known as the ruler of the lower depths.

The Kharon, recognizing the futility of their position, return to Ashtan and pledge their support to it.

213 AF:

The Vampire Lord Zsarachnor demands the removal of all shrines from Azdun.

Ashtan tears down the benevolent Halfway House for orphans, preferring that its orphans be taken to the de Vermiis orphanage to be killed.