The Chronicle
The calendar counts from the Deity's Sacrifice. Everything before it is written with a minus sign, and everything after it has been living with the consequences.
Older than any record
Before the Calendar
What happened before there was anyone to write it down, and is known only because the consequences are still arriving.
c. −2,000 DS
The Great Renewal
The act of creation, surrender and forgetting out of which the mortal world was made. Not a recovery from anything — the beginning.
c. −2,000 to −100 DS
The Age of the Elders
Fifteen centuries in which the Elder gods walked among their children, settled them, armed them, and led them to war.
The Fivefold Fleets
−1,445 DSFive and a half centuries after the founding of Vadesh, the children of the Ur-City set out to inherit the world. The great dispersal is remembered as the Fivefold Fleets, and tradition…
The Crusades Against the Beasts
The Age of the EldersThe peoples of the Fivefold Fleets did not arrive to an empty land. Kworgalya already had masters — older, stranger, and monstrous — and the long struggle to wrest the continent from them…
c. −100 to 0 DS
The Conflagration
The gods turned on one another and burned the world they had made. A century of it.
0 DS
Year Zero
The instant the Conflagration ended, and the moment the world reset its calendar around.
0 – c. 200 DS
The Years of Ash
Two grey godless centuries in which more died than in every war that came before, and in which what survived decided what it would become.
The Years of Ash
0 – c. 200 DSThe cataclysm did not end the dying — it began it. The first two centuries after the Deity's Sacrifice are remembered as the Years of Ash: the long, grey, godless collapse in which more of…
Sunspire Forest
c. 50 DS onwardOn the far landmass of Thirvandor, past an ocean that most captains will not cross, stands a forest that decides for itself who may enter it. Sunspire is warded by living magic. Its borders…
1st – 11th centuries DS
The Age of Faiths
New gods for a world that had watched the old ones kill each other. Every faith on the map today was founded, or refounded, inside this span.
1337 DS
The Present Age
Now — the year the saga is happening in.
Ongoing, or older than dating
Not Fixed in the Record
Some things in the archive are not events. They are conditions — still running, still unresolved, and impossible to put a year against.
The Magma March
Told in the ash-plains — undatedAsk in the taverns of the ash-plains what broke the land into the shapes it holds now — why the earth stands in cooled black waves, why old roads end at cliffs of glassy stone — and you…
The Demons of Azcaloth
An old war — never finishedNorth past the Blood Gate lies Azcaloth, the burning land — a country of split stone and standing ash where the world's fire runs so near the surface that the ground itself seems fevered.…
The War at the Blood Gate
Centuries past — the watch continuesSouth of the burning land of Azcaloth, where the world's fire runs too near the surface and the deep resonance called the Pyreheart beats beneath the stone, there stands a fortress gate of…
The Abyssal Bloom
Since the forging of HarmoniaIt is not eldritch. It is not from outside. Nothing summoned it and nothing cursed the world with it. The Abyssal Bloom was a dragon. What It Used To Be Before the fall it was one of the…
The Veil and the Planes
The structure of the worldThe world you can touch is one of five layers, and it is the shallowest. Beyond it lies the Veil — a psychic plane that covers all mental activity, including every dream that has ever been…
Everything else in the archive — the faiths, the peoples, the schemata, how a city is fed and clothed and built — lives in the full lore index.