A timeline of the Eastern continent
The
eastern continent of Mystara is certainly the one less developed and
described in canon products. The first image of the continent was in
the map done by Frank Mentzer1
in the D&D Master Set (1985) and shows a few political
lines: the land of Nentsun in the north, the land of Thonia, the land
of Jen, the Empire of the Great Khan, the Empire of Tangor, Minaea,
Zyxl. The western peninsula of the continent is also shown as part of
the Empire of Alphatia. And indeed in Dawn of the Emperors boxed
set (1989), we discovered a little more information on that
peninsula, Esterhold, occupied by Alphatia and inhabited by native
Jennites. Much more about Skothar was detailed in the Hollow World
Campaign set (1990), which gave a basic timeline of the whole
planet and stated that two important cultures of the Hollow World,
the Tanagoro and the Jennite peoples, came from Skothar. The campaign
set also clarified that Blackmoor, the campaign created by Dave
Arneson and detailed in the modules DA1-DA4 (1986-7) was meant
to be set in the past of Skothar before the Great Rain of Fire which
destroyed Blackmoor, and showed also a pre-cataclysmic map of the
planet and the continent and a migration map of the peoples of
Mystara over the millenia. Some additional information was later
added in the Poor Wizard’s Almanacs I, II, and III (1992-4),
mostly about Minaea, Jen and Esterhold. This is more or less the
extent of the canon information available on the continent, which is
much less than what we have about Brun and Davania (see Threshold
issues #17, 18 and 5).
But obviously the active Mystara fan
community soon tried to fill the void adding many ideas which would
allow any DM to bring her/his players to Skothar to find plenty of
adventures.
The purpose of this article is both to summarize the
existing canon and fan material and to add my personal interpretation
of Skothar, giving an unique feel and setting to the continent. In
fact, Brun has been developed in canon and fan material as a sort of
Mystaran Europe in the east and Savage West in the west, while
Davania is portrayed as a Mystaran equivalent for unexplored South
America and Africa. Skothar however cannot be “just” a
Mystara Asia, because it is meant to contain also cultures which do
not come from an asian inspiration (such as the Tanagoro, which are
the Mystaran equivalent of African peoples) and is also meant to be
the true origin of the modern Mystara humans. Yet many cultures
inspired by Africa or Asia have already been used in canon products
in Brun or Davania, therefore the human cultures of Skothar should
have some unique twists to make them a bit different. I think these
unique twists should be a great cultural melting pot and the heritage
of Blackmoor.
As the origin of the human race and the seat of the most powerful empires in Mystara’s history, Skothar reached a major cultural and material development before the Great Rain of Fire. First the Empire of Thonia, then Blackmoor, Tangor and the Empire of the Great Khan. All these became multi-ethnic empires inhabited by different human cultures, demihumans, rakasta, humanoids and many other races. So while in Brun we have fantasy cultures that mirror the ones of the real world, probably Skothar should have only mixed cultures which have greatly changed from their origin during the course of history by mixing with other cultures and races.
[Image: Great Rain of Fire]
The Great Rain of Fire which destroyed Blackmoor was 4,000 years before the present time of many Mystara campaigns, yet the fallout has not ended yet. Before the apocalypse, Skothar had huge empires with immense cities and common technomagic items. Looking at the pre-cataclysmic and post-cataclysmic map in the Hollow World Campaign set, it is easy to understand that the continent has suffered much more than the rest of Mystara, completely changing shape. Whole nations have been destroyed and new lands have risen. Skothar is dotted with ruins of its past, ruins feared and coveted because they contain the Heritage.
Skotharian people know about Blackmoor and how it was supposedly destroyed by its own technomagic powers. They also tell their children about the Wasting disease which was caused by the failing of Blackmoorian technomagic items after the Great Rain of Fire. Many nations and groups therefore forbid the owning and usage of any Blackmoorian item on the penalty of death. Yet despite their inherent danger, and the will of the Immortals to destroy the dangerous heritage of technomagic, there are still people willing to take the risk to obtain incredible powers.
[Image:
Adventurer finds Blackmoorian tech]
Caption:
Adventurer finds Blackmoorian tech, original drawing by Justin Pfeil,
aka warriorneedsfood on The Piazza, check his Keeps on the Borderland
comic http://thekeepontheborderlands.thecomicseries.com/
In the remote past of Mystara, Skothar was completely under water. When the continent began to rise from the waves, its first inhabitants were dragons and the many races of the fairy folk: so were born the Northern Dragon Empire and the Eastern Court, or the Court of Twilight, which dominated Skothar for countless millennia2.
Then other races rose to
prominence, those that now are called “the ancient people”
of Skothar, but that were the young races at the time, in comparison
to dragons and fairies. These races were sandfolk, geonids, fungoids,
hivebrood, frogfolk and gatormen, creodonts and rakastodons. The
creodonts were a race of intelligent carnivorous mammals now extinct,
even if some scholars suspect they could be somehow related to the
ancestry of lupins, hutaakans and gnolls. The rakastodons were the
direct ancestors of the rakasta, who could have their origin in
Skothar, even if some sages think instead their origin was in
Davania.
All of these races competed for prominence in Skothar or
came to dominate different regions of the continent. Other races came
after them - garls, giants and brutemen. The relation between these
three peoples is not clear. Garl may be the ancestors of giants.
Brutemen are probably the ancestors of modern humans, or just a
parallel evolution. Giants dominated Skothar for centuries, then
their dominion fell, according to their myth, due to a world spanning
war between fire and frost giants. Eventually brutemen became the
dominant race in Brun, while it’s not clear how numerous they
ever were in Skothar. It seems that the rakastodon, and all the
rakasta races which evolved from it, dominated large parts of Skothar
for a long time, and so did the hivebrood, particularly in Eastern
Skothar.
To the present day some of these ancient races have
almost disappeared, while others are still numerous and thriving in
many regions of the continent, even if they do not dominate it now
like once they did in times past.
Humanity was born in
Skothar, maybe from a group of brutemen, maybe from the will of some
Immortals or manipulations of dragons or fairies. Either way the new
race became more and more numerous and diversified greatly in shape
and look, establishing different groups in different parts of the
continent. They were not however the dominant race of Skothar, not
yet at least. The rakasta were as numerous and as different as the
humans, and the other ancient races were not extinct as well. The
relations between humans and rakasta varied between conflict,
competition, distrust and cooperation. This pushed both people to
exploration and migration, and slowly humans and rakasta migrated
toward the central islands and Brun in great numbers. Still many
rakasta groups remained in Skothar, differentiating into the rakasta
breeds of Skothar: sherkasta, pardasta, snow pardasta, cloud
pardasta, dwarf pardasta, lyncasta, grey rakasta, jungle rakasta,
sand rakasta, steppe rakasta, wild rakasta, fisher rakasta, rust
rakasta, flathead rakasta, bay rakasta, golden rakasta, marbled
rakasta and Skotharian simbasta3.
Humans differentiated as well into many different breeds, the most
important ones being the Neathar, Oltecs and Tanagoro.
It should
be also noted that some sages dispute that the origin of humanity was
in Skothar, and believe instead it was in the modern Alphatia, or
Bellisaria, or near these lands. Others think the origin of rakasta
was instead in Davania. In any case, it is certain that many
different human and rakasta peoples populated Skothar in great
numbers quite early in the history of the continent.
150,000
BC Rakastodons and Cave Rakasta are already present in Southern
Skothar. The new human species has its origin possibly in the region
of modern eastern Minaea or the Gulf of Tangor, from a group of
brutemen.
100,000 BC Rakasta are differentiating into the
modern breeds. The new human species put some pressure on them
forcing or pushing them to migrate to other regions of Skothar.
75,000 BC Rakasta migrations move to northern Skothar and
toward Brun.
50,000 BC The expansion and growing numbers
of humans force many rakasta groups to disperse across Skothar or
leave the continent to the north.
45,000 BC Wars
erupt in several regions of central and southern Skothar between
humans and rakasta. Even if the rakasta stand their ground for
centuries, slowly the humans gain prominence and settle more
territories. The three main branches of humans, Neathar, Oltecs and
Tanagoro are now recognizable. The Neathar move slowly to northern
and western Skothar, the Oltec to central and southwestern Skothar,
the Tanagoro settle southern and eastern Skothar.
39,000 BC
Expansion of sherkasta, simbasta and pardasta in southern Skothar and
Bellisaria has to compete with the expansion of Oltec men from
southern Skothar to the central plains.
35,000 BC More
Oltec people settle Bellisaria, forcing other rakasta migrations.
(Most of the oltec history come from A Timeline of the Oltec Man by
Átila Pires dos Santos and Giampaolo Agosta, see end of the
article. The Oltec group settling Bellisaria would be the ancestor of
the Mystaran Amerindians Oltecs which will colonize southern Brun and
Davania).
30,000 BC Dwa Tanagoro reach the Sea Kingdoms,
establishing alliances with underwater races. (Dwa Tanagoro are my
creation inspired by Melanesian people, from an idea by Giulio
Caroletti).
20,000 BC The Oltecs of Skothar diversified in
several groups like the Jen-Yal, Peshwah, Jen-Kha, Jen-Wan and Mawa,
spreading through the continent. (Caroletti, Agosta, dos Santos and
me, Jen-Yal, Jen-Kha and Peshwah should correspond roughly to
Mongolian, Jen-Wan to Sino-Tibetan, Mawa to Austronesians and
Tai-Austroasiatic).
19,000 BC Harimau-Belang sherkasta
culture of the lowlands, and the Tagh sherkasta culture of the
mountains develop in Skothar (Neri).
16,000 BC The rakasta
leader Ninfangle leads a great migration of rakasta out of Skothar to
Brun and Davania. (Dalmonte, see end of the article).
15,000 BC
The rising power of carnifex in Davania leads to some of them
reaching southern Skothar and trying to gain a foothold in the
continent pushing gatormen and frogfolk against humans and rakasta.
While the strategy has some success and leads to the increase of the
territory of these races, it fails ultimately when the Immortals
imprison the carnifex (M3 module, Geoff Gander, Threshold issue
#11).
13,000 BC Several regions of Skothar are still
dominated by lizardfolk, gatormen and frogfolk, as is the region of
the future Blackmoor (Rafael).
12,000 BC Metal working,
agriculture, ceramics and the domestication of animals spread in
Skothar, mostly coming from the Oltecs who have learned it from
dwarves and gnomes of Brun (modified from James Mishler).
11,000
BC Lhomarrian people develop in south western Skothar from Oltecs
and Maharian Neathar and spread to Bellissaria and the Sea Kingdoms,
eventually reaching Davania. (Lhomarrr is a creation of Geoff Gander,
Maharian Neathars are the southern, Mediterranean-like population
imagined by Caroletti, Agosta and Gander, see end of the
article).
10,400 BC Most of the Lhomarrians are pushed out
of southern Skothar by the Tanagoro, some settle in the Alphatian
Sea, Esterhold and Minaea (Geoff Gander, Threshold issue #11).
8,400
BC The Lhomarrians of Davania have founded a seafaring empire.
They found colonies in other regions of Davania, the Alphatian Sea
and southwestern Skothar (Geoff Gander).
[Image:
Lhomarrian temple]
Caption:
Lhomarrian temple
8,303
BC Mythical date of the first Khan of Skothar founding the nation
of Khar. The ancient fairy Eastern Court is possibly involved in the
creation of the nation, and called by humans the Celestial Court.
Dragons are involved as well with the first Khan himself being a
dragon (Author, Rafael, MOrient project)4.
8,000 BC The Valoin migrate to Northern Brun. The
Skandaharians are people born in Northern Skothar, mostly from
Neathar populations and Valoin. Maharian Neathars settle Alphatian
Sea and Southeastern Brun (Caroletti, Agosta and dos Santos).
Dunharian Neathar settle north-western Skothar (Dunharians are the
Celtic-like Neathars imagined by Caroletti, Agosta and dos Santos).
8,006 - 7,022 BC The great war between Carnifex and
Lhomarrians in Davania marginally touches also the Alphatian Sea and
southwestern Skothar where Carnifex agents try again to push gatormen
and frogfolk against humans, with mixed success (Gander,
Author).
7,225 BC The region of future Thonia is now ruled
by sorcerer-kings called the Red Coven. (Rafael).
7,000 BC Thonian
Neathars conquers the land of the Vantalians Yevan, displacing them
to the north. First nucleus of Old Thonia. Some Yevan merge with
Oltec tribes in the west, later forming the Afridhi people. (Yevan
was a term invented by me in Threshold issue #9 for the ancestors of
the Vantalians, the Mystara Slavic people, in Skothar. The Afridhi
leader Toska Rusa in the DA series of modules has a Russian name, so
a Slavic influence fits with them. Their Yevan ancestry could also
explain their later hate for Thonia).
6,868 BC First human
record of elves in northern Skothar. Starport in the north is now the
capital of the Red Coven (Maiden’s Timeline). It is possible
that halflings arrived at the same time. The elves belong to the
Genander clan and are related to the Genalleth and Geffronell who
would later settle Wendar and Denagoth in Brun (Author, Håvard,
Threshold issue #10).
6,000 BC Small groups of dwarves and
gnomes from Brun begin to settle western Skothar (James Mishler,
Blackmoor d20).
5,632 BC City of Lum founded by descendants
of Lhomarrians, controls trade between Bellissaria and Skothar on the
current western coast (JTR, Author).
5,500 BC Thonia,
learning advanced agriculture and iron working from the dwarves,
rises to prominence in central Skothar (James Mishler).
5,200
BC Possible date of the founding of Mohacs, King Euphemus makes
it the capital of Thonia (JTR). The Kus, a human group descended from
Tanagoro and Oltec blood, found the realm of Saku in the eastern
mountains (JTR, Author).
5,050 BC Mythical date of the
halfling migration from Davania to Skothar under the guidance of the
heroine Tilla. (Ripvanwormer).
[Image:
Thonian Princes]
Caption:
Thonian Princes in old book
5,025 BC5
Coup in Thonia against the sorcerer king and creation of the Imperial
Council, Robert I of Geneva is the new king of the Thonians, Year 0
of the Thonian calendar (Mishler, Blackmoor d20). The fey people in
the woods of Thonia have good relations with the humans (PC1).
5,022
BC Robert I of Geneva founds a first settlement in the area of
Blackmoor town (Blackmoor d20).
5,000 BC Mawa Oltecs reach
the Sea Kingdoms from southern Skothar. (Mawa Oltecs are my
supposition from Austronesian/Polynesian people and were already
mentioned in several issues of Threshold as partial ancestors of
several populations in northern Davania, Alphatian Sea, Pearl
Islands, Ochalea, Thanegioth archipelago and Ierendi, an idea also
mentioned by Caroletti, Agosta and Dos Santos in the ethnographic
histories, see end of the article).
4,900 BC: Legendary
birth date of the dwarven hero Urbestar Kazakhum in Skothar (DA1).
Telo of Regia is the first Thonian King to declare himself Emperor
(JTR). The Empire of Thonia expands into central Skothar and clashes
with the Peshwah, Valemen and Skandaharians to the north and Tanagoro
to the south, but fails to conquer their territories (James Mishler).
4,800 BC Sakkrad of Saku is traditionally the first great
Togoro of the Tanagoro. Skandaharian raiders start to pillage the
southern coasts (JTR).
4,780 BC Thonia completes the
conquest of the Western Marches (JTR). Thonia contacts the Deres, a
nomad people of mixed Oltec and Tanagoro descent, of Yuila al Kaloon,
the Sea of Grass, trading with them (Biles).
4,700 BC A
successful plot by the ruler of the rival western city state of Shefa
succeeds in fragmenting the Empire of Thonia in Ten Principalities
(JTR). Thonian aggression against the Deres leads to their invasion
and a Deres dynasty ruling for a brief time the southern part of
Thonia (Biles).
4,600 BC Six of the Thonian houses agree
to an arrangement that keep the Imperium restricted to themselves and
the Empire is reunified as the Second Republic (JTR).
4,554 BC
The Bloody Duke, a sadist and architectural megalomaniac, reigns
in Blackmoor Castle. He designs and builds a vast, multi-level
dungeon beneath castle Blackmoor, connecting to natural caves and to
even older, deeper passages (Blackmoor d20).
4,525 BC
Temple of Id is destroyed in Blackmoor: treachery within the human
faction creates a deep rift among the elves. A faction of elves vows
to turn their backs on humans and all civilization, becoming the
Westryn. The elf king Uhlmar curses them and their leader, Uhlmar’s
daughter who will become known as the Black Queen, and plague the
western woods with undeath for centuries to come. The others who
accept mingling with the humans become the Cumasti, also later known
as Meriallis (Blackmoor d20, Threshold issue #10).
4,500 BC
Republic of Thonia annexes the territories of its Southern and
Eastern Marches (JTR).
4,500 BC Beastmen invade northern
Skothar. In Afridhi lands, the beastmen are exterminated, hence the
land becomes known as Goblin Kush. Duchy of the Peaks founded (James
Mishler). Urbestar Kazakhum establish the Northern Delving mines, in
the Crystal Peaks mountains, just north of the northern border of the
Thonian Empire. It is said that these mines are the most prominent
example of dwarvish architecture throughout Mystara (DA1,
LoZompatore).
4,487 BC First war between dwarves and
beastmen (JTR).
4,450 BC Beastmen eventually reach Thonia
and endanger the Second Republic (JTR).
4,426 BC
Skandaharians of chief Skuld sack Mohacs, invade Thonia and a
Skandaharian dynasty begins in the Empire, the Third Republic
(Rafael, JTR). The Third Republic of Thonia creates the North colony
as a buffer zone (Mishler).
4,400 BC Kingdom of Satum
founded in the Tangor Chain by Tanagoro people with some Oltec blood
(JTR, Author).
4,346 BC Revolt in Thonia and end of the
Skandaharian dynasty (Rafael).
4,325 BC The Northlands are
settled by exiles and criminals from the Thonian Empire, who call
themselves "The Unwanted". The first settlements are built
far from the Empire's border, in a wild and off-centre region claimed
by the far Duchy of the Peaks in what will become the Duchy of Ten.
It is known that elves and halflings and the Egg of Coot already live
in the area (DA1, LoZompatore).
4,300 BC The House of Iyx
rises to prominence in Thonia (JTR). Ten lesser noblemen families,
opposing the new dynasty emigrate to the Ten region. Upon their
arrival they find an overpopulated area, so they are both obliged to
establish new settlements in the nearby wilderness or to drop any
hope to rule and to act as traders and merchants, but help develop
the land (DA1). The northern dwarves are engaged in their third major
conflict with the beastmen. In the south, the new coastal kingdom of
Satum devastates and absorbs the older Saku kingdom and makes contact
with Thonia. The Peshwah move into the Hak. The Afridhi begin to
worship Zugzul (JTR).
4,250 BC Establishment of the
settlement of Blackmoor as an official settlement of the Thonian
Empire in the Northlands (DA1, LoZompatore). Among the founders is
also the mortal form of the Immortal Khoronus (WotI). The settlement
of Vestfold is founded soon after. The whole area is annexed to the
Thonian Empire and called "The Province of the North" (DA1,
LoZompatore). It is possible that the fey’s migration to the
Northlands happened in this period. The fey were disappointed by the
increasingly authoritarian government of the Thonian Empire (PC1,
LoZompatore).
4,230 - 4,220 BC Thonian empire defeated by
the Unwanted in the first war of Ten. (Rafael).
4,210 BC
The Mage Wars begin in Thonia (Blackmoor d20). By this date Thonian
traders are reaching to southern Skothar and Bellissaria (JTR).
4,150 BC: Some scholars and wise men establish the Cult of
the Frog in the Province of the North (DA2, LoZompatore).
4,146
BC Two powerful wizards, the “Wizard of the Wood“ and
“Wizard of the Vale“, allies with the Thonian crown,
stabilizing the Empire (Rafael).
4,129 BC End of the Mage
Wars in Thonia and Blackmoor (Blackmoor d20).
4,100 BC
Khoronus the wizard is still alive as one of the founders of
Blackmoor, he will later become an Immortal discovering time travel,
and preserving descendants of his family in a far away world in
anticipation of the Great Rain of Fire (Dalmonte, Mishler). The
cultists of the Frog order settle in the Dismal Swamps, fleeing from
Blackmoorish pogroms due to the Froggies human sacrifices. The
cultists establish the Temple of the Frog in the middle of the swamps
(DA2, LoZompatore).
4,115 BC The Wizards’ Cabal is
officially founded. (Blackmoor d20).
4,100 BC Thonia
attacks Ten but is defeated (DA1, Blackmoor d20). The region is
officially called Duchy of Ten. (DA1, LoZompatore).
4,050 BC
The Duke of the Peaks disappears and his wife Sonia Sholako becomes
the new Duchess (DA1, see also the Duchy of the Peaks campaign in
this same issue of Threshold).
4,055 BC The Egg of Coot
appears and modifies the land, connecting the Black Sea with the
North Sea and joining the raiding capabilities of the Western and
Eastern Skandaharians. Skandaharian raids become much more dangerous
than before (DA1, LoZompatore).
4,040 BC Uther Andahar is
born (Blackmoor d20).
4,031 BC Marfeldt the barbarian
begins his rampage through the north (DA1, Blackmoor d20).
4,030
BC First invasion of Blackmoor by the Egg of Coot, Blackmoor city
damaged in the attack (Blackmoor d20).
4,028-27 BC Orc king
Funk I controlled by the Egg conquers Blackmoor and terrorizes the
north until defeated by adventurers (Blackmoor d20).
4,025 BC
Iyx becomes the new Thonian Emperor under the name Iyx I, Year 1,000
of the Thonian Calendar. Toska Rusa, the Afridhi's high priestess,
receives from her Immortal Zugzul a grand vision of conquest. The
Afridhi start their campaign by invading the nearby lands of the
Valemen (DA1, LoZompatore, Blackmoor d20). Existence of tieflings
discovered in the North (Blackmoor d20).
4,023 BC The
Afridhi complete their conquest of the Vales (DA1, Blackmoor
d20).
4,020 BC The Baron of Blackmoor is killed during a
Skandaharian raid. Uther becomes the new Baron. Battle of Berne
between the Barony of Blackmoor and the Duchy of Ten. The Barony of
Blackmoor forces a route of the Ten army. Baron Uther Andahar
distinguishes himself in the battle. The Afridhi invade the plains of
Hak, inhabited by the Peshwah nomad people (DA1, LoZompatore,
Blackmoor d20).
4,019 BC Thonian Emperor Iyx hears for the
first time about the Afridhi and their movements on the plains of
Hak. Careless about these savages and their actions, Iyx just sends
them diplomats, who are sacrificed to Zugzul (DA1, LoZompatore).
4,018 BC The plains of Hak are under the Afridhi's
control. Their army attacks the Duchy of Ten (DA1. LoZompatore).
4,015 BC Blackmoor Baron Uther Andahar valiantly fights in
the military campaign between the Province of the North and the Egg
of Coot. (DA1, LoZompatore).
4,012 BC The Duchy of the
Peaks allies with the Afridhi, who are completing their conquest of
the Duchy of Ten. The Duchy of Ten falls within the year (DA1,
LoZompatore).
4,011 BC The Afridhi establish a tyrannical
government over the Duchy of Ten and attack the North, but are
repelled. Emperor Iyx accuses the northern baron of treason but the
governor’s army encounters opposition and cannot arrest Uther.
(DA1, LoZompatore).
4,010 BC Emperor Iyx orders again the
arrest of Baron Uther but the Thonian army is defeated in the battle
of the Root River. Battle of the Neck: Uther and the allied Barons
defeat the Afridhi. Uther is crowned first King of Blackmoor. (DA1,
LoZompatore). The Thonian Empire allies with the Peshwah against the
Afridhi (DA3, LoZompatore). The Docrae halfling escape from Afridhi
slavery and settle near Blackmoor (Blackmoor d20).
[Image:
King Uther]
Caption:
King Uther leading Blackmoorians in battle
4,009-4,005
BC This is the time of the Five Victories of Blackmoor: two
against the Egg of Coot, one against the Skandaharians led by Thorsen
One Thumb, previously repelled from Thonia by Taha Markovic, the Duke
of Borno, the fourth against the Thonian army occupying the lower
Province of the North and the fifth against the Afridhi at Blackmoor
city. Toska Rusa decides to suspend any military operations against
Blackmoor and to move around it from the south. An Afridhi army is
sent to conquer the Dragon Hills. (DA1, Blackmoor d20).
4,005
BC: The alien spaceship the F.S.S. Beagle crash-lands on Mystara,
in the Valley of the Ancients, a desert lowland south of the
Blackmoor Kingdom. The barbarian tribes inhabiting the desert start
raiding and looting the landing site (DA3, LoZompatore). On the
Beagle spaceship, Security Chief Stephen Rocklin rebels against
Captain Bork Riesling and escapes, crashing in the Dismal Swamps, not
far from the Temple of the Frog. Stephen and his comrades are revered
as gods and start reinforcing the Cult of the Frog with their
equipment and knowledge (DA2-DA3, LoZompatore). The Iron Duke Taha
Markovic is appointed as the new Governor of the North Western
Province (DA1, LoZompatore).
4,004 BC University of
Blackmoor built (DA1). Zugzul orders Toska Rusa to built the Well of
Souls. The Immortal prophecies that only people not yet born may
destroy the artefact. (DA4, LoZompatore).
4,003 BC The
Blackmoorians learn about the crash landing of the Beagle and send a
first scout mission, with the hope of getting aid or allies against
Thonia. The scouts reach the spaceship, but they are repelled by its
high-tech defences (DA3, LoZompatore).
4,002 BC The
Blackmoorish noble Bascom Ungolian leads an expedition in the lands
of the Egg of Coot in order to free his wife, kidnapped by the Egg's
minions. The expedition is ambushed and Bascom disappears (DA1,
LoZompatore). A group of Thonian mages establish the Wizards’
Cabala and sets up a rebellion in the town of Vestfold, with the
intention of destroying the local University. The rebellion is
suppressed and the surviving mages flee and hide; their leader, Tamis
Azkanikin ("The Green Mage") hides in the ruins of the
tower of Old North Watch (DA1, LoZompatore).
4,001 BC
Uther is kidnapped by the agents of the Iron Duke of Borno. The
rulership is entrusted to the Council of the Regents (DA1,
LoZompatore). Uberstar Kazakhum is captured by beastmen. The dwarves
set up right away a military force to free him, but they are defeated
and pushed back until the gates of Northern Delving, where they are
besieged by the beastmen. This is the start of the Sixth War between
dwarves and beastmen. Lortz Kazakhum, the son of Uberstar, becomes
ad-interim Regent of the Mines. The siege forces him to interrupt any
communications with Blackmoor and the humans (DA1,
LoZompatore).
4,000 BC A group of adventurers from AC 1000
reaches Blackmoor through the Comeback Inn, and manages to free king
Uther. (DA1 main event, LoZompatore). Thonia establishes formal
contact and trade with the Tanagoro Empire (Håvard).
3,999
BC Uther sends an expedition of adventurers to the Temple of the
Frog in order to free an important noble. During the attack, Stephen
Rocklin manages to escape and rebuilds the Order of the Frog. The
Blackmoorians get some high tech devices from the battle site (DA2,
LoZompatore). Some months later, a deserter from the Beagle spaceship
brings a Blackmoorian expedition back. The expedition helps the alien
against Stephen Rocklin, but the captain refuses to ally with the
Blackmoorians, who however are able to bring some alien equipment to
the University. (DA3, Return to the Temple of the Frog). After this
incursion the crew of the Beagle becomes more and more dissatisfied
(WotI, LoZompatore).
3,998 BC The Blackmoorians recruit a
group of adventurers from AC 1000, in order to move around the Zugzul
prophecy about the Well of the Souls. The group reaches Tor Kurram
and destroys the Well of the Souls, thus ending the continuum
perturbations and the alternate timeline (DA4, LoZompatore).
3,997
BC Ogdoban Treel kills the entire crew of the Beagle and provokes
its destruction, in which the only survivor, Rheddrian, turns into an
implosion. Rheddrian is imprisoned into the Mirror but becomes an
Immortal (Wrath of the Immortals boxed set, exact date supposed).
3,995 BC Dragonborn from the Spine of the Dragon mountains
contact Blackmoor, Year 1,030 of the Thonian Calendar (Blackmoor d20
- 4th ed campaign time).
3,950 BC Guidarezzo, later to
become an Immortal, is an extremely famous musician in Blackmoor and
Thonia. (Dalmonte).
3,900 BC The Afridhi capture the
Western Marches of Thonia. Emperor Neryx II is deposed and the Iyx
dynasty ends (JTR). Thonia has fragmented into principalities,
duchies and minor entities, while Blackmoor rises as a major power
with the new Technomancy (James Mishler). Blackmoor starts to
predominate in naval power over Skandaharia and begins trading with
the Deres and Tanagoro to the south (Biles). Afridhi mixing with
Thonians create the Nasuuan people (Caroletti, Author).
3,750
BC Blackmoor begins to use Black powder (Mishler).
3,743 BC
Afridhi under Eos Cynex besiege Mohacs but are repelled by the
intervention of Blackmoorian troops (JTR).
3,740 BC The
iron-wielding Janbu culture of the southern Skothar plains drives the
Ibu jungle tribes eastward. Refugees flee into the sea, with
survivors landing on northern Davania and Brun (possible ancestors of
the Karimari). Southern Skothar is partitioned between the old
Tanagoro and Janbu tribes of the plains, the Satum kingdom of the
mountains, the Ibu jungle tribes, and the Kho tribes (Oltec
descended) of the desert. To the west, a fire priest from the Oltec
nations shook the Bellissarian kingdoms (JTR, Author).
3,730
BC A devastating attack by beastmen and Ash goblins on Blackmoor
city takes and burns the capital. The King and his family are dead,
the heir supposedly missing (Author, supposed from Age of the Wolf
Blackmoor 4th ed vapourware product).
3,726 BC Age of the
Wolf in Blackmoor, the capital city is abandoned and as the heir of
the kingdom is still missing the other cities have become de-facto
independent states as factions debate and compete on the future of
the Kingdom. The Afridhi, the Egg and the Skandaharians take this
opportunity to attack Blackmoor. Local heroes rise, helped also by
the elite dragonborn bombardiers of the city state of Rodhin, to face
these menaces (Blackmoor 4th ed, Author).
3,715 BC The
heir of the Blackmoor crown, Uther III, is found and crowned thanks
to the action of some heroes and the help of the dragonborn of
Rodhin. Blackmoor again defeats its enemies and returns to greatness;
the city is rebuilt (Author, from Blackmoor 4th ed).
3,700 BC
The Afridhi under Sola Carnix conquer and burn Mohacs, prompting
a reaction of Blackmoor which attacks the Afridhi Empire (JTR).
Blackmoor discovers precious minerals in the Sea of Grass and begins
to attack the Deres tribes (Biles).
3,680 BC Blackmoor
destroys the Afridhi Empire, enslaving most of the Afridhi
populations. (Mishler). The Nasuuan migrate to the southeast of
Thonia (Caroletti, Author).
3,650 BC Blackmoor
exterminates beastmen and humanoids in central Skothar (Mishler).
Blackmoor extermination of the Afridhi and racism against the Peshwah
leads to their migration north and south. Some Afridhi will merge
with Neathar people and form the Jen, while the Peshwah in parts go
north and to Brun, to later became the Etesh, ancestors of the
Ethengarians, while others settle Central Skothar in the plains and
the mountains mixing with the related Jen-Kha and Jen-Wan or with the
Mawa people, forming the Paesh (See my articles in Threshold issue #2
and #9 about Etesh, Wan and Paesh people. Paesh should be the
equivalent of Tai-Austroasiatics).
3,620 BC The Treaty of
Dragonia establishes the new Holy Thonian Empire, de facto controlled
by Blackmoor, whose King Uther V is also the Emperor and Patriarch of
the Thonian High Church (Mishler, JTR).
3,600 BC Blackmoor
explorers travel all over Skothar and reaches Brun and Davania
(Mishler). Blackmoor has completed the conquest of the Sea of Grass
in Central Skothar, building many mines with dwarven engineers and
Deres and Tanagoro slaves (Biles).
3,550 BC Robert the
Mariner rounds the Horn of Zyxl and became the first man to
circumnavigate Skothar (JTR).
3,525 BC Blackmoor and
Thonian explorers chart the Great Inland Ocean and western Brun
(JTR).
3,500 BC Declaration of Purity: the Thonian Church
declares a great Crusade against the Goblin races in Brun, considered
by many an excuse to engage in massive colonization of the rest of
the world (Mishler). Gemstone dragon sorcerers begin their studies to
reach immortality and contain Blackmoor (Dragonlord trilogy).
Blackmoor expansion in northern Skothar pushes the Yali people,
ancestors of Huleans and other central Brun populations, to the
Alphatian Sea and Brun (Agosta and dos Santos). The Blackmoor
civilisation is flourishing thanks to the meteoric rise in
technology. Rakasta, considered similar to beastmen, are not
considered proper subjects of Blackmoor and often persecuted. The
rakasta tribes living in Skothar near Blackmoor seek shelter into the
wilderness, where they become isolated and aggressive, refusing any
contact with humans (this happens mostly to the Mountain rakastas and
Tagh sherkastas which live near the Blackmoorian borders) (Giulio
Caroletti). More elves from Evergrun, the Anuliinde, settle Thonia
and Blackmoor and technomagic is brought to Evergrun (JTR, Peronnet).
3,480-20 BC First Beastmen Crusade, Blackmoor defeats the
Draconic Empire in Brun and pushes the beastmen north, establishing
colonies in Brun (Mishler).
3,400 BC The Immortal Ssu-ma
sponsors friendship between sherkasta and pachydermions of Skothar,
helping the sherkasta contact the packydermions of Patera and giving
them and other rakasta some help to resist Blackmoorian aggression
(Giulio Caroletti). Blackmoor explorers had charted the shores of
Bellissaria, Oceania and large stretches of the Davanian coast (JTR).
3,370 BC Start of a massive rebellion of the Thonian
Empire against Blackmoor supremacy in Skothar (Mishler).
3,350
BC Elven war between Evergrun and Blackmoor, mostly fought on the
sea and by proxy, as the elves try to end Blackmoorian slave trade,
particularly in Bellissaria and the central seas (JTR).
3,335
BC Battle of Marban Green, a decisive Blackmoorian victory over
Thonian rebels (Mishler).
3,330 BC Concordance of Mohacs
re-establishes the supremacy of Blackmoor, but founds the
Principalities of the Republic of Thonia, thanks to the generosity of
the reformer King Uther VII Andahar, "The Red". Involvement
of the Serpentine Empire of Davania is discovered, and wars begin
against them, involving also the Sea Kingdoms. Separation of the
Church of Blackmoor and the Church of Thonia (Mishler). In the
Tanagoro lands the Church of Korotiku and the Church of Thanatos
(infiltrated by the Serpentine) struggle for dominance through a
secret war (Mishler).
3,310 BC Beginnings of the Wars of
Unification in the Tanagoro kingdoms after the defeat of the Church
of Thanatos (Mishler). A dynasty from Satum wins the Janbu tribes and
creates the First Tanagoro Empire. Satum however does not join the
Empire (JTR, Author).
[Image:
Blackmoorians in Tangor]
Caption:
Blackmoorian traders arriving in Tangor
3,300 BC Uther
VII dies, at 80, while destroying the Serpentine Empire’s
capital in Davania and is succeeded by his grandson Unther VIII
(Mishler).
3,285 BC Edicts of Westport end slavery in
Blackmoor, but the slave trade continues in Thonia and other colonies
(Mishler).
3,280 BC The Wars of Unification end in the
Tanagoro Kingdoms (Mishler)
3,270 BC Uther VIII pass away
and his less than capable son Melyon III lets mercantile corporations
gain much power during his reign (Mishler).
3,260 BC
Stardock Accords grants to the Skandaharians kingdoms colonies in the
western sea from Skothar to Brun, in the Kingdom of the Giants of
Gandhar in the Isle of Dawn and on Zyxl. Tanagoro expeditions to
Oceania, Sea Kingdoms, northwestern Davania and the Serpent Peninsula
(Mishler).
3,255 BC Melyon III dies drunk. (Mishler).
3,250 BC Colonial Exchange Accords, signed by four of the
Tanagoro Kingdoms, the Golden Empire, the Empire of Evergrun and the
United Hin Dominions. Several elves and hin arrive in Tanagoro lands
(Mishler).
3,248 BC King Marrok II of Blackmoor closes the
city park to let wolves run free. Rumors abound about hm being a
werewolf (Mishler).
3,240 BC Skandaharians reach the moon
(Matera). (Mishler).
3,235 BC Blackmoorians reach the moon
too (Mishler).
3,230 BC Goblinfolk and beastmen reappear
in Skothar spreading destruction, brought into the Skotharian
Shadowdeep by the Serpentine (Mishler).
3,220-3,200 BC
Exterminating again all the beastmen in Skothar, Blackmoor and Thonia
wage the Second Beastmen Crusade in Brun and Davania (Mishler).
Blackmoor tries to use beholders for military purposes but the
creatures escape (Robin).
3,200 BC Blackmoorians,
Skandaharians and elves found colonies on Matera (Mishler).
Skotharian sherkasta and pachydermions from Kompor-Thap build a
magical gate, the Svargadvara, that links Mystara to Patera (Giulio
Caroletti). The immortal to be Cochere leads many gyerians west to
the Alphatian sea and Brun to escape Blackmoorian power. (Dalmonte).
Belorfiwyn from Clan Anuliinde invents dirigible balloon
(Peronnet).
3,194 BC Lunar Accords between Blackmoor,
Skandaharia and the Elven Empire (Mishler).
3,180 BC
Blackmoorian space vessels begin the exploration of the solar
system (Mishler).
3,150 BC Blackmoor develops TransPlanar
technomagic gates (Mishler).
3,150-3,135 BC Dragon Wars,
war between the Dragonlord of Blackmoor and the dragons. Blackmoor
develops giant steamtech robots, ancestors of the Earthshakers. Later
an agreement is reached between dragons and Blackmoor but the
gemstone dragons are exiled from Mystara (Dragonlord trilogy, JTR).
3,120 BC Automatons developed by Blackmoor and later by
other nations, such as the Elven Empire (Mishler, HW boxed set).
3,100 BC Blackmoorian space vessels reach other solar
systems (Mishler). Oltecs of Alphatia and Bellissaria settle the
region of current Esterhold on Skothar (HW boxed set). They are
former inhabitants of the kingdom of Atlan displaced by the rise of
Asydh people in the region, lead by the hero Gilgamesh (see my
article on the past of Alphatia in Threshold issue #11 and the Codex
Immortalis). Start of the reign of the emperor of Blackmoor/Thonia
Korin II (DA1) Anuliinde Clan clashes with the empire of Blackmoor
for ecological reasons. The retaliations are severe and the elves are
put under military rule (Peronnet).
3,088 BC Start of the
reign of Nial II (DA1)
3,080 BC Start of the reign of
Ruxpin I (DA1)
3,077 BC Start of the reign of Oser I (DA1)
3,060 BC In Central Skothar the Blackmoorian government of
Kaloonland began the 'Land Reclamation Project' to render the land
habitable once the mines finally all gave out. In the cooler northern
regions, some progress was made in cleansing the waters and
developing irrigated farms. In the very heart of the Yuila al Kaloon,
a group of magitechnicians began experimenting with life forms which
would consume polluted soil and water and convert it to fertile soil
(Biles).
3,054 BC Start of the reign of Bodmin I (DA1)
3,050 BC Year in which I set the New Blackmoor campaign
(set in the Known World in Brun) in Threshold issue #2. Blackmoor
discovers Patera (JTR).
[Image:
Blackmoorian Power]
Caption:
Allegory of Blackmoorian power in Skothar, with Tangor and Jennite
men kneeling
3,040 BC Start of the reign of
Halkad IV (DA1) Space vessels allow the colonization of other solar
systems (Mishler).
3,030 BC Start of the reign of Ning I
(DA1)
3,014 BC Start of the reign of Melnik III (DA1)
3,005 BC Start of the reign of Reger I (DA1) The
Anuliinde, led by Belorfiwyn, flee Blackmoor on 10 gigantic dirigible
balloons they have secretly built (Peronnet).
3,010-3,001 BC
War, chaos and anarchy reign in the Tanagoro kingdoms, Thonia and
other nations, spread by a strange genetic disease created by the
Serpentine Empire (Mishler).
3,001 BC In Central Skothar,
the seeding of a 400 square mile region is complete, and the supplies
have been put in place to extend the project (Biles). In Evergrun
Clan Anuliinde finds shelter among Clan Nadriendel. Both clans are
forced to escape on the dirigibles when the cataclysm strikes
(Peronnet).
3,000 BC The Great
Rain of Fire obliterates the Blackmoorian civilisation. In north
western Skothar the destruction is massive. The region of the Kingdom
of Blackmoor is completely depopulated and only undead “survive”
(Canon, Author). Thonia is almost completely abandoned in the course
of a few months and all the survivors migrate west to the coast
(Canon). Nyx saves some Thonian wizards who will migrate south and
form the Deathless of Central Skothar (Burns, Author). Other southern
wizards become shadelings to save themselves from the cataclysm and
the Wasting (Burns, Author). In southern Skothar, the sherkasta sages
gather their people and use the Svargadvara to transport them to
Patera, where the sherkasta settles in the jungles south of
Kompor-Thap. As a result, Kata Ng, the White Sherkasta, becomes
Immortal, but the Svargadvara is destroyed (see note 3). Fall of the
First Tanagoro Empire, many Tanagoro people are brought to the Hollow
World to preserve their cultures in the following centuries (HW boxed
set). The Second of The Seven Tangor Empires is born, and the four
elite units of the Empire's army that exist to these days, the Dragon
army, the Rakasta army, The Allies army and the Noble army (Author).
Utnapishtim brings his people to safety leaving Esterhold for
Bellissaria (Dalmonte). The displacements caused by the catastrophe
bring many Paesh and Wan people down to the Tangor coast (Author,
MOrient project). The cataclysm creates the Fiery Serpent Sea in the
northwestern coast of Skothar, which will become Nentsun. The region
is uninhabitable for centuries but eventually becomes warmer and is
colonized by lush vegetation despite its northern latitude
(Sarikhan). The Nasuuan are hit hardly by the cataclysm but manage to
survive in the colder climate. Slowly hardships and external attacks
push them even more to the north (Author).
2,995 BC In
Central Skothar, the shifting of the axis causes disastrous storms
and freak weather for decades in the wake of the Great Rain of Fire,
and many creatures are strangely mutated. Even more of the land
becomes polluted waste, the Keres change their name to 'Waros', which
means survivors in their tongue, and dubb the land that had once been
theirs as 'Drakhaba al Kaloon', the Sea of Corruption (Biles).
2,990
BC After the Great Rain of Fire, only 5 elven dirigibles remain,
united to form one formidable flying city, Filmaelle, a
self-sufficient community which flies over the Farend Ocean
(Peronnet). The radiations of the Great Rain of Fire provokes
mutations among beholders. Beholder city of Kargash settled in
eastern Skothar (Robin).
2,989 BC Led by Urthyne Drelgh, a
small band of Skotharian dwarves take refuge in a complex near the
outermost edge of Blackmoor’s borders. The complex, which
extends deep underground, grants the dwarves shelter from the dreaded
Wasting disease (Calvin).
2,970 BC Thonian refugees settle
Serison on the western Skothar coast and create the Kingdom of New
Thonia. Some elves, dwarves, hin and pegataurs join the Kingdom too
(James Ruhland, 1017 almanac, date mine).
2,960 BC The
Cloud giant Inoq I creates a floating castle on the clouds of
northern Skothar after saving many of his people from the Great Rain
of Fire (LoZompatore).
2,900 BC Djaea promotes the birth
of druidic orders in New Thonia to save the people from the
devastation of the post Great Rain of Fire (Dalmonte). Jennite
culture formed from remnants of the Afridhi and Oltec settlers of
Esterhold (Author). Some Afridhi travel further south and are
absorbed by Tangor people, forming the Nailan culture (Caroletti).
The giant kingdom of Khatmun is created in the eastern mountains
(M-Nepal from MOrient project). Conflict on the elves flying city
provokes a crash on Skothar. Filmaelle is immobilised in a cold
desert between mountains (Peronnet). Satum kingdom of the East Tangor
Mountains now is divided between three rival dynasties (Author, JTR).
The Second Tangor Empire no longer has control of the whole gulf as
the first Empire did and is limited to the central region, mainly
because many other people have settled the gulf (Author, Caroletti).
2,890 BC In north eastern Central Skothar, the Waros
slowly began to flourish. Their coastal region becomes a land of
stubborn farmers and tough warriors. The boldest of them return to
the way of the horse and move into the interior, learning how to
survive among the wastes. They brought back the news of the 'Virik al
Rigoon', the 'Forest of Fungus', which was gradually growing in the
heart of the Drakhaba al Kaloon. It was a strangely pale land of huge
intertwined 'fungal' growth and insects which dwelt within it, led
and guarded by the powerful 'Rigoon al Asagir', the 'Wise Ones of the
Forest', huge armoured insects the size of a small village. The
forest was filled with a strange miasma which would slay the unwary
and careless. The explorers came to call themselves 'Sebgir', or
'Daring Ones', and learned how to survive briefly in the forest, and
fairly well among the devastated lands (Biles).
2,898 BC
Another city is built around crashed Filmaelle, named Ymlyn (Ebony)
after the first tree to be planted (the seed of which came from
Evergrun) (Peronnet).
2,886 BC Belorfiwyn creates the
Marwar, a parasitic fungus which increases both production and the
culture's resistance to the climate (Peronnet).
2,882 BC
Belorfiwyn takes to the air with his fixed dirigible the
Celorfimir, in order to gather all the tree species he can find
around the world (Peronnet).
2,800 BC Jennites spread
across the plains of Skothar. Some eventually settle in Minaea
creating the Teslan culture. (Agosta and do Santos). Golden Khan of
the Paesh, descendants of the Peshwah, creates The Great Kingdom of
Haca (Author). Dragonchildren begin to appear in Haca and soon many
of them become part of the Khan’s army (Rodger Burns, Author).
2,790 BC Foundation of the city of Tesla (Caroletti,
Author).
[Image: Teslan
musicians]
Caption:
Teslan musicians
2,630 BC Some
Skotharian dwarves leave their underground refuges to reach Minaea.
Some are captured by kopru and brought away (Dornhoff, Calvin).
2,602 BC More Skotharian dwarves migrate to Alphatia and
Brun, while some remain in Thorin (Caroletti)
2,600 BC Over
the centuries, the Waros farmers, and the Sebgir nomads have split,
and occasionally war with each other. The Waros build a series of
short-lived nations which repeatedly crumbled into city states,
sometimes falling prey to conquest by Sebgir tribes. They trade with
the Tanagoro and Jennites (Biles).
2,576 BC Most of the
Skotharian dwarves leave their underground refuge to go to Brun
(Calvin).
2,500 BC The great hivebrood expansion.
Hivebrood expand into many region of Skothar, as the modern Esterhold
and several regions of the Tangor chain, displacing humans and
rakasta. Fall of the Second Tangor Empire and further displacement of
Tanagoro people to the mountains and Zyxl. Tarastia unifies the
sparse Jennite tribes and attains Immortality (Author, Codex
Immortalis, Håvard). Some elves from Vulcania reach the Sea
Kingdoms and Skothar (Author, MOrient project). Last flight of the
Celorfimir, which tows the four other dirigibles in the valley to
provide a core to four new cities. The Celorfimir settles around
Ymlyn (Peronnet). By now the Nasuuan have reached Nentsun, settling
on the warmer regions of the coast where the Fiery Serpent Sea keeps
the coast relatively warm, but are in constant danger due to the
intense volcanic activity (Author6,
Sarikhan, Caroletti).
2,450 BC Third Tangor Empire
founded, but it really has even less control on the Gulf region than
the Second one. Tribal warfare is common in the following centuries
(Author, Caroletti).
2,400 BC Newly born forests dot the
landscape. They are composed by the different species Bellorfiwyn
brought back from his trip: Oaks, Acacia, Maple trees, Poplars, and
so on. The four new cities are named Celithrarith (Oak City), Elvawen
(Maple Tree City), Sebrildur (Chestnut Tree City), and Manereteriel
(Cedar City) (Peronnet).
2,333 BC Kingdom of Yeong created
on the eastern Tangor coast (M-Korea in the MOrient project).
2,300
BC Ierain Klee, a candidate to Immortality in the Sphere of
Energy who had been a priest in late Blackmoor, creates ten engines
to warm artificially the cold lands of central Nasuua in Nentsun and
becomes King. He moves most of the Nasuuan population away from the
unstable southern coast (Caroletti, Author).
2,200 BC
First Tanagoro migration to the Serpent Peninsula. (CoM)
2,166
BC The Kasharin affliction (probably a beholder version of the
Wasting Disease), regular volcanic eruptions, and Tangor attacks
force the beholders to abandon Kargash (Robin).
2,050 BC:
Fall of the Enduk realm in North western Davania, Minoides kills
Gildesh, the followers of Minoides become the modern minotaurs and
create a kingdom in the region. The Enduk survivors escape to Brun
(Canon, Mishler, Author).
2,000 BC Tanagoro migration to
the east, reaching north western Davania. (HW boxed set). Some Ee’aar
elves from the Arm of the Immortal reach Eastern Skothar (MOrient
project). Magnificent forests cover the totality of the valley. The
Ainuliinde and Nadriendel clans have merged and are named from now on
the Anuliindriendel (Peronnet).
1,900 BC Rise of the
Jennites who conquer almost all of central Skothar (HW Boxed set).
1,950 BC By now Klee has brought other peoples to Nasuua
and chosen ten apprentices to watch over ten engines which warm
Nasuua. The local tribes are divided and often war among themselves
(Caroletti).
1,800 BC Kingdom of Yeha founded in the East
Tangor chain as Tanagoro people conquer the remnants of Satum
(M-Ethiopia from the Morient project, Author).
1,750 BC
Humans and Elves destroy the minotaur kingdom in Davania. First
minotaurs lead by Minoides (or a descendant) arrive on Skothar,
invading the Tangor Peninsula. (Caroletti, Author). Tanagoro
migration to the Arm of the Immortals and Yalu bay (Threshold issue
#17)
1,706 BC Klee ascends as the Immortal Nentsun and
leaves the ten apprentices to watch over the engines in an unified
Nentsun formed by ten duchies (Caroletti).
1,700 BC Tribes
of humanoids from Brun invade northern Skothar. Repelled by Nentsun
and by the northern giants, they migrate to the central and southern
area of the continent along the western coast (Author)
1,699
BC Minoides settles the city of Erech in Tesla (Caroletti).
1,697 BC The minotaurs of Erech get in touch with the
Teslan city of Ekimmu. Trade begins between the two populations
(Caroletti).
1,649 BC A league formed by Minotaurs from
Erech and Teslans from Ekimmu defeat the greatest Jennite attack of
the last century (Caroletti).
1,650 BC The great humanoid
invasion, Fall of the Golden Khan. Fall of the Third Tangor Empire.
Great barbarian hordes of central Skothar form, made up of ruling
humanoids or rakasta and enslaved humanoids (Author, MOrient
project). A tribe of goblins and hobgoblins mix with a Jennite clan,
eventually creating the Wanderers of Central Skothar (Burns). Goblins
and hobgoblins invade Thonia in large number, occupying for a time
the whole north east of the nation, until they are repelled to the
wilderlands and partially integrated into the kingdom (Author,
Almanac 1017).
1,623 BC After successfully defending Erech
from humanoid attacks, Minoides leaves Erech, appointing his son
Atreides as the new King of Minotaurs (Caroletti).
1,600 BC
Second Tanagoro migration to the west under Emperor Kumba, reaching
Sea Kingdoms, Vulcania, Pearl Islands, Arypt and Cestia. (HW boxed
set and Threshold issue #9). Jennite wars between traditional
followers of Tarastia and followers of Rathanos, traditional Jennites
brought to the Hollow World. (HW boxed set). Some Jennites settle in
Teslan lands forming the Tarystian culture (Agosta and dos Santos).
[Image:
Jennite belt]
Caption:
Jennite gold belt
1,589 BC Atreides of Erech
dies. His daughter Pallas becomes Queen (Caroletti).
1,577 BC
Town of Sinbay founded by minotaurs, following the orders of Queen
Pallas. Minotaurs extend their control over this part of Tesla
(Caroletti).
1,550 BC East Tangor is again invaded by
Hivebrood, which reach to the gulf. Eventually humans, rakasta and
humanoids cooperate to limit their spread. A dynasty of ogre rulers
establish the Fourth Tangor Empire in Tangor. Tanagogre born of human
and ogre parents soon become a middle class in the empire between
ogre rulers and human subjects (Author, Caroletti).
1,555 BC
Queen Pallas of Erech dies. Her son Agesilaon becomes King.
1,511
BC Agesilaon dies of old age. Rumours that he was poisoned by his
son Minoides spread unrest among the population. Minoides seizes the
throne as Minoides II, but is forced to establish the kingdom's laws,
written down and ratified by minotaurs from the most important
families (Caroletti).
1,509 BC Town of Qyrta founded by
Sinbayan minotaurs. They are led by a dissident minotaur named
Achlon, that fiercely opposes the Minoides dynasty. Kingdom of
Minotaurs renamed Minoidean Kingdom (Caroletti).
1,500 BC
Silver Khan unifies humans and humanoids of the plains in the new
Haca (Author).
1,488 - 1,483 BC First War of Tears.
Minoideans minotaurs fight against the Achlonites, claiming that they
have settled on Minoidean lands. Mercenaries from Ekimmu are employed
by both factions, while the government of Ekimmu doesn't involve
itself in the war (Caroletti).
1,477 BC Minoides II dies
mysteriously in his sleep. His eldest daughter Iphygenia becomes
Queen (Caroletti).
1,469-8 BC Queen Iphygenia sends
messengers to the Qyrtans, asking them to open diplomatic ties. A
group of aggressive minotaurs that oppose these ideas are exiled by
the Queen and leave westwards. Diplomatic ties opened between the
City State of Qyrta and the Minoidean Kingdom (Caroletti).
1,462
BC Queen Iphygenia is killed by her husband Archon, who is
thereafter executed. In fact, Archon was innocent, because the one
responsible for her death was her son Minoides III, the new Minoidean
King. Town of Deianira founded (Caroletti).
1,459 BC
Sphinxes attack Erech after the king killed one of them. Minoides III
is then killed by an Immortal avatar in the form of a flaming
minotaur for his empiety. Erech becomes a republic (Caroletti).
1,450 BC Polonius the triton becomes lord of the Sea
Kingdoms, creating the coral walls to defend them from the Kara Kara
orcs, and attaining immortality (Dalmonte). Gold and iron mines found
in the territories north of Qyrta. Qyrta start heavy commerce with
surrounding cities (Caroletti).
1,446 - 1,441 BC: Second
War of Tears. Republic of Erech against City State of Qyrta. The
Qyrtans win thanks to the help of mercenaries and their sphinx allies
(Caroletti).
1,428 BC Astartius, High Priest of Minoides,
is king of Erech (Caroletti).
1,399 BC Astartius abdicates
to his son Iacynthon (Caroletti).
1,391 BC Priests of
Minoides accuse King Iacynthon of being a tyrant and depose him.
Kingdom of Erech becomes a Theocracy, ruled by the High Priest of
Minoides (Caroletti).
1,364 - 1,361 BC The High Theocrats
of Erech declare war on the City State of Qyrta. Third War of Tears.
The Minoideans win and most of the Qyrtan riches and lands are
assigned to the Theocracy and to Erech (Caroletti).
1,359 -
1,356 BC Disappointed with his High Theocrats, Minoides stops to
give them spells and sends a plague until the Threocrats are deposed
by the faithful cleric Albaran, who becomes the new King of Erech and
Sinbay (Caroletti).
1,354 BC Albaran offers a new peace
treaty to the Qyrtans, returning the land taken during the Third War
to them (Caroletti).
1,349 BC A group of military officers
depose Albaran. Albaran and nearly two thousand minotaurs flee Erech
and settle in Sinbay, where they declare independence
(Caroletti).
1,349 - 1,340 BC Fourth War of Tears: Erech vs
Sinbay & Qyrta. At the end of the war Sinbay is a mass of burning
ashes and is later rebuilt by the Erechians. Qyrta is again
dispossessed of its land, although it retains its independence.
Albaran is the new King of Qyrta. Cults of Minoides and Poseidon
officially banned from Erech, the minotaur leaders turn to the
worship of a barbaric divinity named Gylgarid, imported from
mercenaries of the East that were employed for the war (Caroletti).
1,338 - 1,327 BC Albaran seeks the aid of northern
sphinxes and later of a mercenary company from the Jennite Lands, the
Green Spear, secretly followers of Jammudaru, who eventually poison
him and take control of the city (Caroletti)
1,250 BC Some
Tanagogres from Skothar invade Davania establishing their dominion in
Arica. They quickly sever their ties to Skothar to escape the control
of the ogre rulers of Tangor (Wilson, Threshold issue #5, Author).
1,220 BC By now Qyrta has changed for the worse. Many
minotaurs leave the city and move westwards to the sea and even Brun.
Those who remain are turned to the worship of Jammudaru. Meanwhile,
the military hierarchy of Erech continues to rule the Minoidean
Kingdom. Minoides renounces his Quest for Immortality and Protius
turns him into an Exalted being (Caroletti).
1,218 BC A
group of minotaur dissidents from Qyrta and Sinbay manage to throw
down the Erechian corrupted government. They create a Republic and
grant religious freedom to the population. Minoides is again revered
openly, although adventurers and military officers remain mostly
worshippers of Gylgarid (Caroletti).
1,215-1,204 BC Growing
tension between Qyrta and Erech leads to the Fifth War of Tears.
Qyrta is destroyed and its inhabitants massacred. The survivors hide
in the mountains and continue to worship Jammudaru (Caroletti).
1,212 BC Rakasta tribes guided by rakshasas invade and
conquer Nentsun, enslaving the population (Caroletti).
1,201
BC The ten dukes of Nentsun are dead and the engines begin to
emit radiations, poisoning the rakasta and human population
(Caroletti).
1,200 BC First emperor of Chung Eun crowned
on the Dragon Throne, east of Haca. Chung Eun and Haca fight several
wars in the following centuries competing for the eastern plains of
Skothar (MOrient project, Author).
1,146 BC Orcnad
leads a great revolt in Nentsun, defeating the rakshasas with the
help of most rakasta, and becomes first King of Nentsun
(Caroletti).
1,135 BC Tarystian conquer the Teslan city of
Ekimmu. By now the Teslan have been absorbed by the Tarystia culture
(Fan Almanacs, Author).
1,100 BC Wuo people, mixed humans
and humanoids, settle the Tangor chain (M-Manchiuria from MOrient
project). Paesh people settle the Sea Kingdoms, Vulcania, the Isles
of Steam, some parts of the Davanian coast (Yasuko) and Ochalea
(Threshold issue #5, #11). Hinu halflings menaced by humanoids escape
to Zyxl. Sindhi refugees reach Skothar, settling in the eastern gulf
of Tangor and influencing the culture of the late kingdom of Tanat
(MOrient project, Author). Fall of the Fourth Tangor Empire, more
migrations to the Sea Kingdom, Vulcania, Cestia, Arypt and the Pearl
Islands (Author). The Tanagoro migrations meet the Nithians who have
colonized the Alatian islands and the two people agree on a peaceful
division of territories. The Tanagoro settle the Pearl Islands and
parts of the Aryptian coast near the Nithians (LoZompatore, Author).
By now the minotaurs of the northern mountain have become
increasingly violent under the leadership of the brutal clergy of
Jammudaru. The minotaur raiding bands become another of the humanoid
threats that periodically harass the Tarystian coast, and then Minaea
into modern times (Caroletti).
1,054 BC The Tarystian city
of Traun is founded (Caroletti).
1,010 BC Beholders
resettle their old city of Kargash in north eastern Skothar (Robin).
1,000 BC Arrival of the Alphatians, who soon proceed to
conquer the island from native cultures. Some refugees from the
native Alphatian kingdoms settle Tarystia and Jennite lands (Canon,
Author).
1,000 - 990 BC Nithian explorers reach Skothar
and contact Thonia, several Jennites tribes and Tarystia. The
Alphatians make the same initial contact as well, following the
Nithians (Supposed, but likely). The Sakhalian culture arises in
northeastern Skothar from dwarves and humans, slaves and
Blackmoorians, in the northern area of the Drakhaba al Kaloon,
eventually forming the Sakhalin Empire (Biles).
986 BC
City of Lendar founded in Tarystia (Caroletti).
980 BC In
Tangor the union of goblins with humans creates the new Dark Goblin
breed which settles in the Western Tangor mountains dividing into 10
different tribes (Caroletti, Author).
911 BC The Black
Sorcerer of Durhan unifies the gulf of Tangor in the Fifth Tangor
Empire (Caroletti, Author).
900 BC The arrivals of the
Alphatians worries the Thonian Kingdom, who is wary of the newcomers,
even if some minimal trade begins (Ruhland). In the elven valley,
Belorfael (descendant of Belorfiwyn) develops the Trarwar (a variety
of Marwar which doubles the growing capabilities of the trees). This
fungus is inoculated to the five symbolic trees of the cities and
planted at the core of the cities (Peronnet). Orcs and goblins start
to attack Nentsun from the southern mountains (Caroletti)
897
BC Alphatians settle Aaslin and Alinquin in Bellisaria. For
centuries their control of the island will not extend beyond the two
cities (Ebenezum, Author, Threshold issue #11).
854 BC The
Black Sorcerer of Durhan is killed by a Jennite adventurer named
Eet-an and chaos of competing pretenders follows his demise
(Caroletti)
850 BC The peaceful faith of Koryis, also later
know in some nations of Skothar as Rohindartha7,
spreads and becomes official religion in Chung Eun. Mysticism
develops and spreads in southern and central Skothar (MOrient
project).
841 BC Eet-an, now known as the Steel Demon,
crowns himself King of Ubu and Tangor (Caroletti).
821 BC:
The Steel Demon leaves his kingdom and a iron golem named Hawa Dulu
reigns in his place (Caroletti).
800 BC Before the final
fall of the Sylvan Realm some elves sail from Brun to Skothar
(MOrient project).
750 BC Haca invaders place a Khan on
the Chung Eun dragon throne. Many Wan refugees settle the bay of
Tangor, eventually leading to the creation of the Tangi Empire in the
eastern part of the gulf. The hero Jiku leads some Chung refugees,
escaping the new Khan, to Zyxl (MOrient project, Author).
733
BC Local Tangor people attack the Beholder city of Kargash but
fail to destroy it (Robin) 730 BC The Tangors bordering the
hivebrood colonies manage to open diplomatic relations with the
insectoid humanoids. The two races start to collaborate in the face
of the menace coming from the north: a massive migration of Dark
Goblins led by a charismatic chief named Ghulan (Caroletti).
710
BC The Ursinians, a human population descended from Afridhi and
Tanagoro, settle in Nentsun (Caroletti).
700 BC Alphatians
buy gnoll slaves from the Nithians and bring them to Skothar, with
the intent of using them eventually, but soon the project is
forgotten and the gnolls settle between Jen and Thonia, becoming the
Thoth-Ath gnolls (Nowack). A few gnolls are captured by the Thonians
and eventually integrated into the kingdom (Almanac 1017)
696
BC The hivebrood and Tangors of the eastern borders repel the
goblins. The Dark Goblins settle in the forested regions just at the
north of them (Caroletti).
665-61 BC A great campaign
conducted by the hivebrood colony of Lleweryn and the Tangors of the
city of Yara defeat the Dark Goblins, whose king Ghulan had died some
years before. The survivors become hivebrood slaves (Caroletti).
660
BC The general Guthbrand becomes famous in Thonia, later leaving
to serve under the Alphatians (Dalmonte).
632 BC orcs and
goblins invade Nentsun conquering most of the Outer Circle, the
region not warmed by the engines, but the dukes resist in the lands
of the Inner Circle (Caroletti).
600 BC Guthbrand is a
famous Nentsunian pirate on his path to Immortality as the Eternal
General (Dalmonte). Haca invaders have now been absorbed by the Chung
culture and Chung Eun expands in former Haca territories (MOrient
project, Author). Empress Himiko of Zyxl defeats the Chung Emperor
attack on the island (MOrient project). The western Tangor kingdom of
Yara becomes powerful by supplying slaves to the hivebrood of
Lleweryn (Caroletti). Milenians found colonies on the Isle of Dawn,
Bellissaria and the Alatian islands, soon entering in conflict with
Alphatia (Author, Threshold issue #11)
570 BC An Alphatian
wizard discovers a magical blue clay in Skothar, but is killed by a
rival (Robin8)
565
BC The beholder city of Zelphim is founded in northern Skothar.
Beholders proceed to enslave local humanoids and humans (Robin).
554
BC Some non-wizard Alphatians settle the Alatians islands allying
with Milenians against their empire (Guerra, Threshold issue #11,
Author)
550 BC Some Hatwa elves from Davania refusing
integration with the ogres reach Skothar. Finding ogres and
tanagogres in the gulf, they help local humans and rakasta fight
them, establishing the first seed of the Muang kingdom (Author,
MOrient project). A Nithian expeditionary force to modern Esterhold
takes control of the elven valley in north central Skothar. Nithian
priests and magicians discover the remains of technology used in the
dirigibles and conduct experiments (Peronnet).
540 BC
Belorfanwyl of the elven valley creates a mutated version of the
Trarwar, the Uurwar (which provokes quicker and bigger growth of
vegetation). Helped by the Elven resistance, the fungus is spread
everywhere in the valley. When the fungus are magically activated,
the trees mutate and grow hundred of meters in a matter of hours. The
Nithian expeditionary force is crushed by the elvish resistance. The
elvish population settles up at the top of the trees. (Peronnet).
530
BC The five cities are moved to the top of the trees and the
elven valley becomes Calengaer the green ocean. The foot of the
trees, already difficult to reach is made impossible to reach because
of the toxic emanations of the Urwar. A web of trails is set in the
foliage allowing easier communications between the cities
(Peronnet).
500 BC Milenians who by now have colonies all
over the Isle of Dawn and Bellisaria, begin trade with Skothar.
Kiranjo minotaurs devastate Jennite lands and eventually settle in
Tarystia (Threshold issue #11, Codex Immortalis). Chung contact with
Alphatia in the central Gulf of Tangor is disastrous and the eastern
empire becomes more and more isolationist (MOrient project). Traces
and memory of Nithia are wiped out in Brun but some survive in
Skothar among the Thoth-Ath gnolls and in the southern city of Mizpeh
(Novack, Taylor). By now in northeastern Central Skothar the Virik al
Rigoon is growing over the Sebgir lands, while the forces of the
Sakhalin Empire come from the north. The Empire uses lost
Blackmoorian magitech to conquer (Biles). Alphatia absorbs Thothia
and a rivalry develops between Alphatians and Milenians in the
Alphatian Sea, slowly building to an undeclared war (Author,
Threshold issue #11)
463 BC The hivebrood are united by the
Controllers of Lleweryn in a Great Colony (Caroletti).
450 BC
Great Wall of Chung built to stop Jennite raids (MOrient project).
The Thoth-Ath gnolls build the Great Pyramid to preserve their
knowledge and are aided by Rathanos. They establish peaceful
relations with the local Jennites (Novack). First unique creatures
appear in Calengaer (Peronnet).
392 BC King Tsen founds
the realm of Hasa in the Tangor mountains, unifying humans, rakasta
and humanoids (M-Tibet from MOrient project).
350 BC Chung
isolationism lessens and colonies are founded in other regions of
Skothar (MOrient project). The Sakhalin Empire has conquered the
divided Waros kingdoms and become a mighty empire which begins to
exploit the creatures of the Virik al Rigoon for their own benefit,
especially the Rigoon al Asagir, whose shells can be used to make
nearly indestructible armour and weapons. The conquest is quick and
astonishing, reaching Jennite lands and obtaining tributes from Chung
Eun and the God King Eryos of Tangi (Biles, Author). Orcs and goblins
south of Nentsun begin a terrible civil war which ends with the
defeat of the goblins and exile of the green orcs, while the
victorious orcs create small nations which also accept human settlers
(Caroletti).
333 BC King Tekhmet of Sakhalin decides to
destroy the Virik al Rigoon but thousands of Rigoon al Asagir sweep
out of the forest, and the Virik al Ragoon swell to several times its
former size. The Sakhalin Empire collapses. The Sebgir, Waros and the
dwarves revolt and Sakhalin break apart into squabbling states
(Biles).
325 BC The beholder city of Zelphim is destroyed
by a combined attack of humanoids and humans, displaced after the
fall of the Sakhalin Empire (Robin, Author).
300 BC
Peaceful tanagogres, mostly followers of Sumag (Terra) leave Skothar
for the Arm of the Immortals (Canon). The war between Alphatians and
Milenians intensifies in the Dawn Sea and the Alphatians attack
Milenian cities on the Isle of Dawn, Alatian islands and Bellissaria.
Alphatia occupies Ochalea and the Pearl Islands. The Milenians ally
with or pay Tarystian, Traldar and Thyatian pirates to attack
Alphatians (Author, Threshold issue #11).
290 BC Alphatia
plans a full conquest of all the Milenian colonies on the Isle of
Dawn and starts to attack them. Attacks on the powerful Milenian
cities on Bellissaria have less success (Author, Threshold issue
#11)
220 BC In Calengaer the first cyme-raft to navigate
over the trees is built (Peronnet).
210 BC Tritons escaping
the devilfish settle the Sea Kingdoms (PC2, Author)
200 BC
Alphatians invade the lands of Jen, driving the nomadic
inhabitants back several hundred miles. The Alphatians call their new
lands Esterhold and take Jennite slaves (DotE). Alphatian magic in
Esterhold interior lands leads to the spread of the Kukarachans,
large, semi-intelligent insects descended from cockroaches (Daly,
Gander). Eyvind, an explorer of from the Antalian kingdom of
Ystmarhavn in Qeodhar, discover the warm and sparsely inhabited
southern coast of Nentsun, and establish a colony, enslaving the
local population. The volcanic activity of the Fiery Serpent Sea is
greatly reduced by now. Due to the Nentsunian reaction, he ultimately
fails in his ambitions of conquest and is succeeded by his wife, who
releases all the slaves and with firmness and treaties succeed in
creating the kingdom of Højgylden (Sarikhan, Author,
Caroletti). By now in the eastern and northern fringes of the
Drakhaba al Kaloon there are many squabbling city states, much like
the southern region of the Waros, but slightly higher in
technological level. Most of these states boast a handful of
functional Blackmoorian devices, pried from ruins and carefully
maintained. The dwarves gain a powerful economic position
(Biles).
195 BC Alphatia completes the conquest of
Mileanian colonies in the southern Isle of Dawn and Aeria, but Aegos
resists and fights back (Author, Threshold issue #11)
192 BC
Alphatia conquers Thyatis and attacks Mileanian cities in the
southern Alatians and Bellissaria. Milenia strikes back ferociously
in support of its colonies (Author, Threshold issue #11).
188
BC Tangor troops attack the beholder city of Kargash but are
repelled (Robin).
167-153 BC Four Tangor kingdoms are
slowly united by Makala, a woman sorceress and brilliant tactician,
into the Sixth Empire of Tangor (Caroletti).
151 BC Kingdom
of Gan founded in the Tangor Peninsula by Paesh people, later to be
known as the Land of a Thousands Pagodas or Sian. (M-Myanmar in the
MOrient project).
141 BC Alphatian campaign in Bellissaria
conquers the western half of the island. Gaity falls into Alphatian
hands as well. Milenian forces resist in Aegos (Author, Threshold
issue #11).
123 BC A half-orc king known as Glashow unifies
the orc territories of Nentsun and conquers the Outer Circle.
Glashow’s army soon revolts under his lieutenant Abdus
(Caroletti).
113 BC The last surviving duke of Nentsun,
Kewd the Hawk manages to restore pace to part of the lands, gives a
central government to the Inner Circle and is crowned King. In the
eastern conflicting lands, the Ursinians are able to restore peace,
but most of the Outer Circle is dominated by brigands and orc bands
(Caroletti).
104 BC Thanasis is the first Milenian colony
founded in Tarystia (Caroletti).
100 BC Minaea founded by
Milenian colonists from Davania (Canon). The city of Minaea is
founded after an agreement with Tarystia to resist Alphatian
encroachment in the region (Caroletti, Author). In the next two
decades from the decadent and collapsing Milenian Empire waves of
refugees arrive in Bellissaria and join the fight against Alphatians
(Author).
99 BC Milenians colonists settle Alchemos and
eastern Bellissaria in large numbers (Author, Khan).
94 BC
Green orcs of the Nentsun mountains descend to reconquer their
ancestral lands, and the Outer Circle and the hill regions of the
south (known by now as Glashow's Desolation) are left in a state of
chaos and instability (Caroletti).
90 BC Adunapolis is
founded by Milenians in Minaea (Caroletti, Author).
66 BC
Alphatians attack in Bellissaria, temporarily conquering Alchemos
and pushing Minaean forces to the eastern peninsulae (Khan, Author).
65 BC An Alphatian expedition is defeated near Minaea by a
combined Milenian and Tarystian force, cementing the alliance between
the two people (Author).
50 BC The fall of Milenia brings
other refugees to Minaea (Author).
45 BC Now isolated from
other Milenian lands, Aegos finally falls into Alphatian hands. More
refugees reach Minaea (Author).
43 BC Sanka the Hawk of
Nentsun founds the Divine School of the Bear to train the ten masters
needed to control the engines. No one remembered the existence of the
engines, apart from the aristocrats (Caroletti).
0 AC A fire in the
Temple of the Remembrances in New Thonia destroys most of the ancient
Blackmoorian/Thonian relics that survived the Great Rain of Fire.
Among them there were the last ancient Thonian coins known to
Mystarans (DA1). First King of Muang crowned in the Tangor Bay
(M-Thailand from the MOrient project). Thoth-Ath gnolls and Jennite
raiders attack the Alphatian settlements in Esterhold, almost driving
them away from Skothar (Nowack). The Alphatians counterattack and
overrun and burn to the ground a Jennite settlement in the NW of the
peninsula. They build their own settlement called Sky-Fire (DotE).
There are now five main kingdoms in West Tangor: the Tangor Empire,
the Kingdom of Ubu, the Kingdom of Mawuru, the Principality of Zambul
and the Republic of Durhan (Caroletti).
10 AC Minaeans
exploit Alphatian difficulties to launch a campaign of conquest in
Bellissaria, and eventually take the western and southern half of the
island (Author).
42 AC First Kukarachan attacks on
Alphatian colonies in Esterhold (Daly, Gander, Author)
100 AC
Macroblan the Tanagogre defeats the giants and ogres ruling the
Tangor range and becomes an Immortal. The Kingdom of Oblan is
created. (Dalmonte, Author).
115 AC Dalya, an adventurer
from Rockhome, discovers the unnaturally warm coast of Højgylden
in Northern Skothar, leading to a migration of dwarves, gnomes and
Ostlanders to Skothar (Sarikhan).
133 AC The dwarves and
gnomes eventually conquer the kingdom of Højgylden and Dalya
becomes Queen (Sarikhan).
135 AC In Nentsun the engines
are emitting radiations again: disgusted by the incompetence of the
aristocrats, Kashang, Baron of Wolven, raises an army of Outer Circle
mercenaries, and conquers the Kingdom of Vixen. Kashang reunifies
several kingdoms, and re-organizes the engine control, creating
another school of fighting, the Sacred School of Nentsun, to help the
efforts of the Divine School of the Bear. He tells the population
that the reasons for the prosperity of the land were the dangerous
engines, that he called "Unholy Devices of Blekmur, things which
caused the first destruction of an Empire in Nentsun"(Caroletti).
150
AC The Silver Khan of Haca is killed by dragons and the realm
falls (Author). First gondolfière built in Calengaer
(Peronnet).
179 AC Dalya abdicates in Højgylden and
the Sisterhood of Kuldana is created as guardians of the realm
(Sarikhan).
193-194 AC In West Tangor the Republic of
Durhan is conquered by Zambul (Caroletti).
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Tangor cavalry]
Caption: Tangor cavalry
200
AC Alliance between Thonia and the Jennites as Alphatian control
increases in Esterhold (James Ruhland). In Minaea, Milenian and
Tarystian cultures have blended by now: the Milenians, who had taken
with them the technology, magics and architecture of their homelands,
are gradually absorbed into the piratical, warlike Tarystian way of
life, abandoning their old patriarchal ways for the egalitarian
Tarystian attitude (Fan Almanacs). In Højgylden gnomes have
developed greenhouses and the printing press. Trade with Alphatia
flourishes, but the Empire plans a conquest of the prosperous small
kingdom (Sarikhan).
219 AC Kingdom of Ubu conquered by the
Seventh Tangor Empire, refugees found the city state of Akuba in
eastern Minaea (Caroletti).
227 AC Refugees from the
Kingdom of Mawuru, conquered by the Seventh Tangor Empire, reach
Akuba (Caroletti).
238 AC Alphatian forces led by general
Neroli conquer Højgylden (Sarikhan).
243 AC Some
Mawurans build the city of Batu Fomba. The only other Tangor kingdom
to remain independent from the Empire is the mountain Principate of
Zambul (Caroletti).
252 AC As Alphatian forces are sent to
Ylaruam, the Sisterhood of Kuldana stages a rebellion in Højgylden
and frees the country from Alphatian control, but some Alphatians
remain in the kingdom and are accepted as citizens (Sarikhan).
260
AC Højgylden develops small airships and establishes trade
with Nentsun and Thonia, creating also the colony of Bajreve in
former humanoid territories to the east (Sarikhan).
270 AC
Diplomatic contacts between Højgylden and Thorin do not go
well, almost leading to war between the two nations (Sarikhan).
296
AC Kukarachans have become common and numerous in the interior of
Esterhold, harassing both Jennites and Alphatians. The Alphatians try
to exterminate them, but are only partially successful (Daly, Gander,
Author)
300 AC The huge red dragon who will become Pearl
rules over Haca and later conquers Chung Eun too (Codex Immortalis,
Threshold issue #9). Højgylden skyships discover the undead
followers of Hel of the Burning Spires Mountain Range, but the
Sisterhood of Kuldana stops any plan to destroy them (Sarikhan).
335
AC Several Tarystian-Minaean cities decide to create a league in
order to resist the aggressive attitude of the neighbouring Seventh
Tangor Empire (Caroletti).
335-336 AC Minaea's victory
over the Seventh Tangor Empire (Caroletti).
353 AC Four
Alphatian wizards become the rulers of the Tarystian city of Lendar
in Minaea and rename it Leontion. Piracy against Alphatia ceases in
the region and the city begins to trade with Alphatia
(Caroletti).
354 AC A coalition of Minaean cities attack
Leontion but fails to conquer it. The four ruling wizards sign a
peace treaty, promising not to become an Alphatian Imperial base in
Minaea (Author).
360 AC Tension decreases between
Højgylden and Alphatia and trade resumes (Sarikhan).
374
AC King Rikyudy of Wolven destroys the rakastan city of Zeshuita
and enslaves the population to possess the local silver mines. Many
other Nentusian states, enraged by the brutal conclusion of the
siege, declared war on Wolven (Caroletti).
393 AC A
kukarachan swarm time endangers Alphatians and Jennites in Esterhold
until put down by massive Alphatian intervention (Gander, Author)
400
AC Højgylden skyships discover the northern entry to the
Hollow World and after some failed expeditions, succeed in contacting
some Antalian and Beastmen tribes (Sarikhan).
411 AC The
Nentusunian leader known as Warchild creates a theocratic
Confederation of 12 states over the entire Nentsun region, each
assigned to one of the 12 Immortals of the Nentsunian pantheon
(Caroletti).
439-446 AC The Seventh Tangor Empire attacks
eastern Minaea (Caroletti)
445 AC Akuba is conquered by the
Seventh Tangor Empire (Caroletti).
467 AC Tangor tribes
attack the beholder city of Kargash but are defeated (Robin)
500
AC In north eastern Skothar a powerful Waros leader, Nimrod the
Great, conquers the Sebgir and begins to exploit the Rigoon al Asagir
to arm his troops. While he is about to conquer the remnants of the
Sakhalin states the Rigoon al Asagir attack much of the Sebgir lands.
The Waros emperor is slain, the Sebgir come close to extinction, and
the Virik al Ragoon reaches the border of the Waros lands
(Biles).
502 AC Minaeans settle the colony of Erineos
(Caroletti).
510 AC Gemstone dragons return to Skothar,
slowly gaining dominance again in the continent and establishing the
Council of the Six Great Dragons, a Huge Crystal in Nentsun, a Huge
Ruby in the Thonian Range, a Huge Onyx in Minaea, a Huge Sapphire in
Esterhold, a Huge Jade in the Tangor Bay and a Huge Amber in the
Tangor Chain (Dragonlord trilogy, Threshold issue #9).
523 AC
The recently formed Nentsunian confederation is split into twelve
dominions and soon descendants of the ancient families are back on
the thrones. The leadership of the Inner Circle, result in malcontent
and hostility in the regions of the Outer Circle (Caroletti).
530
AC Thonia threatens to invade Højgylden but eventually
desists (Sarikhan).
536-539 AC Minaea loses a war with the
northern Kingdom of Hastwr over the control of the cities of Dool and
Durke (Fan Almanacs).
543 AC A swarm of kukarachans hits
Esterhold. The Alphatians obtain the cooperation of Jennite tribes to
fight the insects (Gander, Author).
554 AC City of
Vidruntos founded in Minaea (Caroletti)
575 AC Micael
Scryv, high priest of the Wind of Nentsun raises an army from the
Outer Circle, conquers the city of Wolven and kills Alsun, King of
Wolven, then he proclaims the Outer Circle free of the Inner
(Caroletti).
581 AC Minaea grants independence to its
colony of Erineos (Caroletti).
590 AC Alphatia attacks
Milenian cities in Bellissaria, almost conquering all the island
(Author).
595 AC Minaeans intervene in Bellissaria,
defeating the Alphatians who have to retreat to the line of Aaslin
(Author, Threshold issue #11).
633-42 AC Great slave revolt
in the hivebrood kingdom of Lleweryn. It takes nearly ten years for
the insectoids to again take control of the goblins, many of whom
manage to flee into the mountains. This leads to increasing tensions
with Zambul, who accuse them of raids (Caroletti).
645-67 AC
Tangor and Lleweryn conquest Zambul after a long war. Empress
Zaila the Ruthless of Tangor donates all the prisoners of Durhanian
language as slaves to the hivebrood in exchange for the complete
sovereignty over Zambul (663). Disgusted by the political move of the
Empress, several nobles and cities revolt, but the Empress crushes
them (667) (Caroletti).
649 AC Refugees from Zambul settle
the Tarystian city of Serenia in Minaea, in a territory claimed by
Adunapolis (Caroletti).
652 AC Adunapolis attacks Serenia
but fails to take the city. The on and off war will continue for
decades (Caroletti).
671-674 AC Empress Zaila is poisoned
by her fourth husband, who seizes the throne to rescue the hivebrood
slaves. The hivebrood go eastward and invade the kingdom of Rathasia,
weakening it greatly. The new Emperor, Vamoro III, is thus able to
conquer it (Caroletti).
681 AC The hivebrood conquer the
Duchy of Cymru, and stop there, using the human population as
broodlings (Caroletti).
690 AC The merchant organization
known as the Ant is founded in Tangor to trade with the hivebrood and
only they are allowed to enter their domains (Caroletti).
693
AC Dwarves exiled from Thorin found the city of Dain-Karak in
Minaea (Caroletti).
700 AC Chung Eun by this time has
absorbed the Tangi empire, but their southern commercial port is
sacked by Alphatians, provoking a time of isolationism in the eastern
empire and eventually the independence of Tangi (MOrient project,
Author). Tanagoro sea raiders begin to harass the coast of Waros, and
eventually the Taylin Tanagoro conquer all the coast. Some of the
nobles of the Waros kingdoms escape to the northwest, and join with
the remains of the Sebgir in the western and northern fringes of the
Drakhaba al Kaloon. These become known as the 'Valley Kingdoms', and
are soon forced to swear fealty to the 'Taylin Heptarchy', a
collection of seven kingdoms dominated by a Tanagoro-derived ruling
class and led by the High King of the Taylin (Biles).
701 AC
Emperor Swahimi of Tangor sets a plebiscite in the provinces of
Durhan and Zambul, allowing the population to choose whether to
become independent or remain in the Empire. Durhan chooses
independence, Zambul remains in the Empire (Caroletti). Kukarachan
swarms hit Alphatian colonies all over Esterhold, forcing the local
rulers to ask for the help of the Empire to face the menace. Another
purge of the creatures is done, but is not resolutive (Gander).
703
AC Beautification project by the Alphatian emperor in the Alatian
islands leads to more Milenian refugees arriving in Bellissaria and
Minaea (Guerra, Author)
708 - 715 AC A great plague spreads
terror in Nentsun, orc raids increase in the Outer Circle which is
almost abandoned (Caroletti).
720 AC A mysterious figure
who calls himself 'the Holy Emperor' appears in the lands of the
Sakhaba (the human survivors of the fallen Sakhalin Empire), with a
great knowledge of Blackmoor's secrets (Biles).
721-722 AC
The minotaur cities of Erech and Sinbay pillaged by orcs and savage
minotaurs. (Caroletti).
723-725 AC Nentsun is invaded by
giant butterflies of mysterious origin whose grubs damage the land
until the creatures are repelled (Caroletti).
725 AC
Alphatian forces complete the conquest of Bellissaria (Author,
Threshold issue #11)
728-31 AC Hjika the orc conquers the
rakasta kingdom of Einikushagi but soon his troops rebel against him
(Caroletti).
730 AC The pirate Arkali, famous for many
victories against Alphatians, deposes the democratic government of
Minaea and becomes king, starting his dynasty, exploiting the fear of
an Alphatian invasion. A Minaean attack on Bellissaria, at the same
time as a Thyatian attack on the Alatians, is repelled by Alphatia
(Caroletti, Author). Some Filwarf dwarves from the Isle of Dawn reach
Minaea (Author, Caroletti, Theisen).
738 AC Minaea defeats
the orcs and savage minotaurs and King Arkali reforms the League as a
Confederacy of Thirteen cities and kingdoms, including the minotaur
cities of Erech and Sinbay. Serenia and Adunapolis finally settle on
a truce. (Caroletti). Leontion joins the Confederacy, and the four
Alphatian wizard rulers swear fealty to Minaea, but they maintain
peaceful trade relations with Alphatia (Author). Hjika is killed by
the orc revolt, the rest of Nentsun defeats the orcs and Einikushugi
is resettled by rakasta, but the orcs who had abandoned the savage
ways are accepted in the area (Caroletti).
[Image:
Minaean plate depicting a minotaur]
Caption: Minaean
plate depicting a minotaur
742 AC Several Dark Goblin
tribes of the mountains are conquered and united by a weird race of
female humanoids that call themselves Demonettes, exiled from Zyxl.
The new kingdom is called Lamu (Caroletti). The Iliifari elves from
Alphatia settle the Outer Circle of Nentsun after chasing away some
local orc tribes (Caroletti).
745 AC The Holy Empire of
Sakhaba is born and the city of New Sakhalin rises on the ruins of
the old (Biles).
794 AC The Demonettes ally themselves with
the governor of Ekleke, and begin to prepare the city to regain its
independence from the Tangor Empire (Caroletti).
800 AC The
five cities of Calengaer have founded numerous forester villages on
the canopy. Cyme-rafts and gondolfières travel the valley
(Peronnet).
811 AC Thanasis creates the colony of Ire as a
base to attack the Tangor Empire (Caroletti, Author).
814-816
AC Third Tangor War between Minaea and the New Tangor Empire. Ire
joins the Minaean Confederacy as an independent city (Caroletti).
816 AC Akuba freed from the New Tangor Empire by the
Minaean Confederacy, defeats an attack from the city of Batu-Fomba.
The Mawuran city of Ekleke manages to gain independence. Black-men
from Batu-Fomba organise a political coup to bring the city into the
Confederation, but it is foiled by a young adventurer named Dabo. He
is crowned King of the city (Caroletti).
823 AC The 80 year
old Alphatian wizard Bo-Keem Marid is believed killed during an
expedition in Esterhold, but he just found another world, Argain, and
began to conquer it (Taylor). Demonettes begin to infiltrate the
human population of Ekleke (Caroletti).
840 AC Højgylden
defeats an invasion of humanoids and giants and enslaves them in the
Læggenkul mine (Sarikhan, Author).
850 AC The huge
red dragon which will become Pearl becomes an Immortal and leaves
central Skothar (Dalmonte). His actions involuntarily wake a great
ancient grey dragon which will take the name of Wei Huang Long
(Author, Threshold issue #9).
890 AC Hivebrood attack the
beholder city of Kargash but fail to conquer it (Robin). A great
swarm of kukarachan attack Esterhold and is driven back by the
Alphatians in the lands of Jen, where they are eventually destroyed
after a large war (Gander).
895 AC In retaliation for the
kukarachan invasion, the Jennites of Jen support the tribes of
Esterhold in attacks against the Alphatians, years of raids and wars
begin which often see the Alphatians in serious difficulties
(Author).
900 AC Dalung-quo, the Empire of the Great
Dragon or new Empire of the Great Khan is founded in the central
plains of Skothar by the ancient dragon Wei Huang Long. He soon
creates an army of Dragonchildren (Author, Burns). The Heptarchy of
Taylin and the Holy Empire of Sakhaba come into contact around the
fringes of the Virik al Ragoon but neither is able to wage a truly
successful war (Biles).
912 AC Alphatia finally contains
the Jennite raids and founds the port settlement of Anchorage in
northern Esterhold, as a way station between Faraway and Skyfyr (PWA
III, Author)
915 AC The port of Rock Harbor is founded by
Alphatia on the Southeastern shore of Esterhold to increase trade
(PWA III).
917 AC A green orc attack is crushed by Minaea
at the Battle of Adunapolis (Caroletti).
934 AC The city of
Dool revolts and leaves the Kingdom of Hastwr, joining the
Confederacy of Minaea (Fan Almanacs).
949 AC The elf
Skaarn became the first non-human Master in Nentsunian history
(Caroletti).
950 AC Zyxl sends its warriors to start a
trade in gems with Gombar and Suma’a (Dragon Magazine #200,
Author)
964 AC Batu Fomba is raided by people from Akuba
(Caroletti).
967-8 AC Batu Fomba and the Tangor Empire's
city of Ungkha ally themselves against Akuba. The city is conquered
and split in two parts: one controlled by the Governor of Ungkha and
the other by the Ruling Council of Batu Fomba (Caroletti).
976
AC In Nentsun the elven King Vidaar is slain mysteriously in the
forest. Rakasta are blamed and tension rises with the elves until it
is discovered it was a plot by a paranoid elf (Caroletti).
981
AC Akuba regains independence and becomes a democratic government
with the support of Minaea (Caroletti).
990 AC The lost
Nithian city of Mizpeh is discovered by the Kassites, a tribe of
Tanagoro and Jennites, who almost conquer it but are eventually
repelled (Taylor).
993 AC The Alphatian wizard Bo-Keem
Marid, on his path to Immortality and set to invade Skothar with an
army of improved kobolds, the boor, is temporarily defeated by
adventurers (Taylor).
1,000 AC Zelphim in Northern Skothar
is resettled by a small number of beholders (Robin). Rumors abound in
north eastern Skothar of the birth of a Holy Messenger, sent by the
Immortals to finally bring peace between humans and the Virik al
Ragoon, who will unite the lands and cleanse them, bringing about a
new age of peace (Biles).
1,004 AC Eruption near the
beholder city of Kargash, which is not directly damaged (Robin).
1,010 AC Xanthus of Skyfyr begins to act as an independent
king in Esterhold (PWA I)
1,012 AC Xanthus is defeated by
Alphatian and Jennite forces in Esterhold. (PWA III)
1,013 AC
The New Alphatian Council names Favian Vern as King of Blackrock.
King Favian’s first act is to declare all Jennites of Esterhold
to be free citizens. (Fans Almanac).
1,017 AC
Thyatian-Minrothaddan Skothar expedition prepares in Beitung, Ochalea
(Fans Almanac)
1,018 AC Minrothad traders and the
Thyatian-Minrothaddan expedition reaches Jennite lands in Esterhold
(Fans Almanac).
1,019 AC The Thyatian-Minrothaddan
expedition reaches Minaea, establishing good relations with the
Confederation (Fans Almanac).
Early
History
History And Evolution Of Rakastas by Simone Neri
http://pandius.com/rakhevol.html
A
Timeline of the Oltec Man by Átila Pires dos Santos and
Giampaolo Agosta http://pandius.com/oltcmant.html
Ethnographic
History of Mystara by Giulio Caroletti, Geoff Gander and Giampaolo
Agosta http://pandius.com/ethno.html
Codex Immortalis by Marco Dalmonte
http://pandius.com/codeximm.html
Lhomarr: The Land, Its People, and Their History by Geoff Gander
http://pandius.com/lho_hist.html
Blackmoor
The Age of Blackmoor by James Mishler
http://pandius.com/ageblack.html
An
Extended Blackmoor Timeline by LoZompatore
http://pandius.com/blktmext.html
Legend of Uhlmar the Elf-King by Håvard
http://blackmoormystara.blogspot.it/2010/08/legend-of-uhlmar-elf-king.html
The Maiden’s timeline in Blackmoor by Rafael
http://blackmoor.mystara.net/pdfs/maidentimeline1.pdf
Age of the Wolf, vapourware Blackmoor 4th ed products
http://www.thepiazza.org.uk/bb/viewtopic.php?f=24&t=2276&p=207529&hilit=age+of+the+wolf#p207529
3000 BC, Under the Great Rain of Fire by me
http://pandius.com/undrgrof.html
Skothar
Overview by Håvard http://pandius.com/skothrov.html
Blackmoor Regional Maps by Håvard
http://pandius.com/bmregmap.html
Thonia
Hail
Thonia! by JTR from Threshold Magazine issue 12
http://pandius.com/hlthonia.html
Thonia
articles on the Vaults of Pandius by James Ruhland, Aaron Novack and
others http://pandius.com/thonia.html
The Thoth-Ath Gnolls by Aaron Nowack
http://pandius.com/thothath.html
Oriental Skothar
Skothar Overview by Håvard
http://pandius.com/skothrov.html
Mystaran
Orient Project http://pandius.com/morient/morient.html
Dalung-quo, the Empire of the Great Dragon by the author
http://pandius.com/dalngquo.html
Who’s Who in the Wyrmsteeth part 2 by me from Threshold
Magazine issue 9 http://pandius.com/wyrmwho2.html
Dwarves
and other races
The (Not So) Young races, a guide to Dwarves
and Gnomes by Giulio Caroletti from Threshold Magazine issue 14
http://pandius.com/notsoyng.html
Shimmering
Lands by John Calvin http://pandius.com/shimland.html
Lost
Immortals: Tilla by Ripvanwormer http://pandius.com/tilla.html
Demihumans of Skothar by Rodger Burns
http://pandius.com/skthr_dh.html
Kargash:
Beholder City by Robin http://pandius.com/kargash.html
and the expanded article in this same issue of Threshold magazine.
The Kukarachans by Jeff Daly and Geoff Gander
http://pandius.com/kuk.html
The castle of the Inoqs by LoZompatore
http://pandius.com/cstlinqs.html
Other lands of Skothar
Atlas of Skothar from the
Fan Almanacs http://pandius.com/aosk.html
Calengaer,
the green ocean by Frédéric Peronnet
http://pandius.com/calen.html
Ist Campaign and Boor by Neal Taylor http://pandius.com/ist.html
and http://pandius.com/boor.html
Kingdom of Højgylden (pronounced Hoygilden) by Isabelle
Sarikhan http://pandius.com/hojg_alm.html
Drakhaba
al Kaloon by John Walter Biles
http://pandius.com/dlkaloon.html
Giulio
Caroletti’s work on Nentsun http://pandius.com/gcarolet.html
Tangor and Minaea
Tanagoro Timeline by Håvard
http://pandius.com/tanagort.html
Thoughts
on the post Rain of Fire Tanagoro Migrations by DJ Hartel
http://pandius.com/tgorgrof.html
Oltec
Timeline and Maps of the Known World before and after the GRoF by JTR
http://pandius.com/oltctime.html
and http://pandius.com/grof_map.html
Giulio Caroletti’s work on Tangor
http://pandius.com/gcarolet.html
Steven
Wilson’s work on Arica http://pandius.com/arica.html
Giulio Caroletti’s work on Minaea and Minotaurs
http://pandius.com/gcarolet.html
Map of Minaea by me http://pandius.com/min_map.html
Bellissaria and the Alphatian Sea
The Minaean
Affair by Jamuga Khan http://pandius.com/minaean.html
Expedition
to the Great Southland by Captain Ebenezum
http://pandius.com/southlnd.html
Alphatian Rulers since Landfall by Jennifer Guerra
http://pandius.com/alphrule.html
History of the Filwarves by Andrew Theisen
http://pandius.com/hfilwarf.html
and Birth of the Filwarf Dwarves by Giulio Caroletti
http://pandius.com/filwarf2.html
The Sea of Steam and the Farend Ocean by LoZompatore
http://pandius.com/stmfrend.html
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1See replicas by Thorfinn Tait in the Vaults of Pandius: http://pandius.com/m_wrldnh.html
2Most of this comes from my article 99,9999985% Mystara history in the Vaults of Pandius http://pandius.com/mysthist.html. Except for some notes in the text, most of the references of this timeline are listed at the end of the article.
3Inspired by real world felidae breeds (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Felidae). Most of this chapter come from History And Evolution Of Rakastas by Simone Neri at the Vaults of Pandius: http://pandius.com/rakhevol.html. For another theory about the evolution of rakasta from Davania see also History and Origins of the Rakasta by Giampaolo Agosta from Threshold Magazine issue #5 http://pandius.com/rksthist.html
4This event and other below are in truth inspired by the Kingdom of Karak in the Wilderlands setting used also by Håvard (http://pandius.com/bmregmap.html) and James Mishler http://pandius.com/wilder_r.html. After Arneson left TSR, Blackmoor was published by Judges Guild and connected to the Wilderlands setting. However even if the Wilderlands could provide great inspiration for ancient Skothar, they have since become their own setting and I do not want to use them fully because the setting contains several non human races which do not really fit with Mystara.
5An exact correspondence between Blackmoor and Mystara history is quite arbitrary because the Hollow World boxed set only indicates 4,000 BC as the rise of Blackmoor, the DA series only speaks of 3,000 years ago (later retconned to 5,000) and the Blackmoor d20 setting was not officially connected to Mystara. I follow mostly LoZompatore’s timeline (see below) but have modified it taking into account Blackmoor d20 which did not existed when he created the timeline.
6The original Nentsun material by Giulio Caroletti http://pandius.com/innrcrcl.html probably meant to place the nation of Nentsun in the coast where I have instead placed the ruins of old Thonia (see maps in next article). I have chosen to place it instead in the north as the region is kept warmer that it should be given its position by the Fiery Serpent Sea created by Isabel Sarikhan, which keeps it from turning into arctic tundra, and later also by the Nentsunian machines.
7In the MOrient project he was an original Immortal, but Koryis could easily be used as it is supposed to have the same pacifist agenda. Older Immortals as Maat, Ilsundal and The Great One may be suitable too.
8Robin used this story to adapt the smurfs to Mystara, see http://pandius.com/smurf.pdf
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