====== Expanded Main Timeline of the Tower of Ascension Setting ======

**"0 AG"** is the Year of the Acendent Gods; which becomes the common calendar benchmark.  This is the year of the Final Ascension, when the [[thefreelands:thetowerofascension|Tower of Ascension]] finally sealed itself forever, and the Order of the Tower formed to protect it.

Dates marked c. are approximate. Some older local chronicles disagree; this page uses the current campaign anchor as the Fall of West Gate, [[organizations:keeperofthelight|Keeper]] Lythria Starhart's installment, and the beginning of the Great Wagon Campaign, which all occur in 17 AG.

===== Date Confidence Legend =====

^ Mark ^ Meaning ^
| Exact | A named campaign anchor or event treated as fixed in the current chronology. |
| c. | Approximate placement chosen to align multiple wiki articles and campaign eras. |
| Range | A span used when a campaign, war, or crisis unfolded over several years or sources differ on exact order. |
| Mythic | Preserved as divine history, temple legend, bardic tradition, or regional oral history rather than a ledger date. |

===== Condensed Modern Anchors =====

^ Date ^ Anchor ^ Meaning ^
| -900 AG | **Betrayal of [[majorgods:feng|Feng]]** | Feng Betrays the other Gods; Casting the relics down and securing the Freelands under his dominion. |
| -350 AG | **Age of the Chosen** | The Chosen arrive at the Tower. Feng is weakened and cast out of the Freelands.  Marrow and Beck Ascend. |
| -70 AG | **[[campaigns:teamsmall|Team Small]] Era** | Team Small plagues/saves the Barony. [[majornpcs:kingvarbisthefirst|King Varbis I]] secures his hold on the Throne. |
| -15 AG | **[[organizations:theironsides|Iron Sides]] and the Crimson Keep** | Tower collapses and seals; the Great Scar is born. The City of Skyfall turns over control of the Crimson Keep to the Iron Sides; Circle of the Eight Crisis begins |
| -10 AG | **[[thebarony:greenwoodcity|Greenwood]] Stabilizes** | The Flying City of Greenwood stabilizes in its current form.  [[campaigns:teamsmall|Team Small]] adopts is current place in the modern world | 
| 0 AG | **Final Ascension** | The Tower is repaired and the Final Gods ascend; sealing the Tower forever. |
| 15 AG | **Blackwake Campaign** | Chartist Cities and Orc Island maintain independence.  Laz'klennar falls to the [[organizations:thetriad|Triad]]. |
| 17 AG | **Breach / [[organizations:keeperofthelight|Keeper]] / [[campaigns:wagontrain|Wagon]]** | Celestial Prison is breached, Keeper Lythria Starhart chosen, and the Wagon Campaign begins; aligned in the same crisis year. |
| 18 AG | **Consequence Year** | [[thebarony:middleton|Middleton]], Veilmoor, [[thebarony:longrest|Long Rest]], [[thefreelands:therune|The'rune]], and other modern crises become visible across the setting. |
| 20 AG | **Aegis Reformation** | Three years after the Breach and Keeper's rise, the [[organizations:theaaegisorder|Aegis Order]] is reformed. |

===== Mythic and Divine Origins =====

//These events are generally older than reliable secular calendars. Priests, dwarven royal houses, and Tower scholars argue over the order and symbolism, but most agree on the broad shape.//

^ Date ^ Event ^ Region ^ Player-Facing Summary ^
| Mythic Past | **Construction of the World Largest Dungeon** | Modern Winterlands | Worlds Largest Dungeon is Constructed by the Celestials of **[[thewinterlands:caelseryn|Cael-Seryn]]** |
| Mythic Past | **Liberation of the Well Lands** | Well Lands | A Group known as the Red Scorpions leads popular uprising; freeing the Well Lands from Imperial control |
| Mythic Past | **The [[thefreelands:thetowerofascension|Tower of Ascension]] Becomes Known** | Tower / World | The Tower is remembered as the place where mortals, champions, and powers could attempt the impossible and reshape the divine order. |
| Mythic Past | **First Ascension of the Major Gods** | Tower | [[majorgods:feng|Feng]], Brian, [[majorgods:lazareth|Lazareth]], the Scarlet Rogue, Lady Corinette, Talic, Vauchy, and Rath rise into the first great divine order. |
| Mythic Past | **[[majorgods:krom|Krom]] Falls in the Original Tower** | Tower / [[thefreelands:dwarvenholds|Dwarven Holds]] | Dwarven and dragonborn traditions remember Krom as a god whose death and later restoration made him the God of Two Peoples. |
| Mythic Past | **[[majorgods:krom|Krom]] Restored and Elevated** | Divine Realms | Most of the first ascended gods surrender part of their power to restore Krom. Feng's refusal becomes the seed of later catastrophe. |
| c. -900 AG | **[[majorgods:feng|Feng]]'s Refusal Hardens into Betrayal** | Eastern World | Feng turns against the weakened divine order, scatters divine artifacts, and begins the chain of events remembered as the [[majorevents:shatteredage|Shattered Age]]. |

===== The Shattered Age =====

//The Shattered Age is the long era of [[majorgods:feng|Feng]]'s domination, refugee kingdoms, lost relics, and divine imbalance. The end date of c. -350 AG is the strongest anchor.//

^ Date ^ Event ^ Region ^ Player-Facing Summary ^
| c. -900 to -350 AG | **The [[majorevents:shatteredage|Shattered Age]]** | World | [[majorgods:feng|Feng]]'s dominion breaks nations, scatters peoples, and leaves entire cultures built around survival, secrecy, and resistance. |
| c. -875 AG | **[[majorgods:feng|Feng]]'s Dominion Expands** | Eastern World | Cities and armies bend under Feng's power. Later histories disagree over which realms fell by conquest, fear, or betrayal. |
| c. -850 AG | **Refugee Migrations Begin** | Freelands / Winterlands | Peoples fleeing Feng's reach push west and north, founding camps, fortresses, and trade roads that later become major settlements. |
| c. -825 AG | **[[thewinterlands:wintershield|Wintershield]] forms Around the Spire** | Winterlands | Wintershield grows around the sacred Spire as one of the great northern refuges against [[majorgods:feng|Feng]]'s age. |
| c. -820 AG | **Frostfell and [[thewinterlands:theboneyard|The Boneyard]]** | Wintershield | [[majorgods:lazareth|Lazareth]]'s terrible intervention destroys Feng's host outside Wintershield, leaving the frozen dead and haunted ground later called the Boneyard. |
| c. -815 AG | **[[thewinterlands:findingflame|Finding of the Flame]]** | [[thewinterlands:thronstadt|Thronstadt]] | The Last Camp discovers the Holy Flame. The Platinum Dragon's blessing turns refugees into a people and lays the foundation for [[thewinterlands:thronstadt|Thronstadt]] and the Church of the Flame. |
| c. -810 AG | **The [[thewinterlands:gatecities|Gate Cities]] Are Founded** | Wintershield | Westgate, Eastgate, Northgate, and Southgate grow as fortified approaches and warning shields around Wintershield. |
| c. -805 AG | **Early [[organizations:knightlyordersofrath|Orders of Rath]] Take Shape** | Winterlands | Rath's knightly traditions begin hardening into the holy and martial orders that will later serve the Keeper directly. |
| c. -760 AG | **[[dwarvenholds:zhufganus:Zhuf'ganus]] Seals Its Landward Doors** | [[thefreelands:dwarvenholds|Dwarven Holds]] | The hold cuts itself off during Feng's assaults. Over sealed centuries, its people change, turning toward Brian and emerging with obsidian skin and deep Underdark ties. |
| c. -740 AG | **[[dwarvenholds:yulganus:Yul'ganus]] Falls to [[majorgods:feng|Feng]]-Worshipping Goblins** | [[thefreelands:dwarvenholds|Dwarven Holds]] | The Kromite hold is occupied by goblins devoted to Feng, becoming a wound in dwarven memory until its later liberation. |
| c. -650 AG | **[[dwarvenholds:kronganus:Kron'ganus]] Holds Free** | [[thefreelands:dwarvenholds|Dwarven Holds]] | While other holds close, fall, or change, [[dwarvenholds:kronganus:Kron'ganus]] remains a symbol of dwarven endurance and Kromite identity. |
| c. -450 AG | **[[majorgods:feng|Feng]]'s Hold Weakens** | Freelands | Feng's armies begin to weaken and disperse after centuries of inaction and decay |
| c. -352 AG | **The Chosen Begin Their Recovery of Relics** | World | [[minorgods:gurkel|Gurkel]], [[minorgods:sylvester|Sylvester]], [[minorgods:vinnin|Vinnin]], Beck, Marrow, and [[minorgods:torgo|Torgo]] enter histories as champions who recover divine artifacts and begin undoing Feng's imbalance. |
| c. -352 AG | **The Hammered Gate is Cleansed** | [[dwarvenholds:yulganus:Yul'ganus]] | The Chosen and their allies break Feng's goblin occupation of [[dwarvenholds:yulganus:Yul'ganus]], restoring the hold to [[majorgods:krom|Krom]]'s worship. |
| c. -351 AG | **[[dwarvenholds:zhufganus:Zhuf'ganus]] Partially Reopens** | [[thefreelands:dwarvenholds|Dwarven Holds]] | Contact resumes with the altered hold, creating centuries of awkward kinship between surface dwarves, Underdark allies, and Brian's priesthood. Lift of Belegost is cleansed and reclaimed. |
| c. -351 AG | **[[thefreelands:wallhaven|Wallhaven]], [[thefreelands:therune|The'rune]], [[thefreelands:moonstair|Moonstair]] and [[thefreelands:freeport|Freeport]] stablize** | Freelands | Threat of Feng's hosts on the major settlements of the Freelands abates due to the actions of the Chosen. |
| c. -350 AG | **End of the [[majorevents:shatteredage|Shattered Age]]** | World | The Chosen restore enough divine balance to break Feng's open supremacy. Most calendars treat this as the beginning of the long restoration. **[[thefreelands:thetowerofascension|The Vortex of Doom]]** becomes a dreaded landmark outside the Tower itself. |

===== Restoration, Lesser Ascensions, and Religious Settlement =====

//After [[majorgods:feng|Feng]]'s defeat, the world does not simply heal. Temples, kingdoms, and holy orders argue over what the restored divine order should mean.//

^ Date ^ Event ^ Region ^ Player-Facing Summary ^
| c. -345 AG | **Second Ascension** | Tower | Beck and Marrow rise as minor gods, transforming living heroic memory into a new divine tradition. |
| c. -340 AG | **Flight of [[thewinterlands:camptuskgar|Tuskgar]]** | [[worldmap:thewinterlands|Winterlands]] | After Beck's ascension, Tuskgar flee in mass from Southscar to the Winterlands to escape his wrath; seeking protection in the realm of Lazareth. |
| c. -330 AG | **[[dwarvenholds:kronganus:Kron'ganus]] Enters Its High Recovery** | [[thefreelands:dwarvenholds|Dwarven Holds]] | King [[minorgods:gurkel|Gurkel]]'s legacy and [[majorgods:krom|Krom]]'s restored worship make Kron'ganus a symbolic heart of dwarven recovery. |
| c. -320 AG | **Bank of Gurkel Traditions Begin** | [[thefreelands:dwarvenholds|Dwarven Holds]] | Coin, contract, and sacred obligation begin binding Gurkel's name to dwarven finance long before his later ascension. |
| c. -300 AG | **Third Ascension** | Tower | Monster races breach or enter the Tower, and Magnore, [[minorgods:icengrim|Icengrim]], and [[minorgods:stannis|Stannis]] rise as minor gods. Their ascension widens the world's idea of who can become divine. |
| c. -285 AG | **Winterlands Doctrine Hardens** | [[worldmap:thewinterlands|Winterlands]] | The [[organizations:churchofflame|Church of the Flame]], Wintershield's old debt to [[majorgods:lazareth|Lazareth]], and competing memories of survival create the conditions for later holy conflict. |
| c. -260 to -240 AG | **[[majorevents:warofemberlight|The War of Emberlight]]** | Winterlands | A religious war between [[thewinterlands:thronstadt|Thronstadt]] and Wintershield erupts over [[majorgods:lazareth|Lazareth]] worship, dangerous toleration, and the limits of compromise. |
| c. -255 AG | **Emberlight Edicts** | [[thewinterlands:thronstadt|Thronstadt]] | Zelora of Emberlight's reforms condemn [[majorgods:lazareth|Lazareth]]'s worship and push doctrine toward open confrontation. |
| c. -252 AG | **Road War and Cold Embargo** | [[worldmap:thewinterlands|Winterlands]] | Trade, pilgrimage, and military movement between sacred cities fracture into raids, blockades, and escalating holy politics. |
| c. -248 AG | **Siege of White Guard** | [[worldmap:thewinterlands|Winterlands]] | White Guard becomes one of the defining strongholds and battlefields of the Emberlight conflict. |
| c. -246 AG | **Battle of Ashen Snow** | [[worldmap:thewinterlands|Winterlands]] | The war produces a battlefield so infamous that poets and priests use its name as shorthand for faith turning against itself. |
| c. -240 AG | **Concord of White Ash** | [[worldmap:thewinterlands|Winterlands]] | [[organizations:keeperofthelight|Keeper]] Halric the Resolute ends the War of Emberlight. [[majorgods:lazareth|Lazareth]] worship survives only under strict limits, establishing the doctrine of the Tolerated Shadow. |

===== Age of Petty Crowns and Regional Powers =====

//This long middle era is when modern cities, trade powers, pirate havens, and local noble lines become recognizable.//

^ Date ^ Event ^ Region ^ Player-Facing Summary ^
| c. -230 AG | **Rise of the Free Lands Trade Cities** | Freelands | [[thefreelands:freeport|Freeport]], Skyfall, Wallhaven, [[thefreelands:therune|The'rune]], [[thefreelands:moonstair|Moonstair]], and other powers grow from survival settlements into rival cities and regions. |
| c. -220 AG | **[[thefreelands:therune|The'rune]] and [[thefreelands:moonstair|Moonstair]] Flourish Together** | Freelands | The elven and mixed settlements of The'Rune and Moonstair become centers of magic, diplomacy, and old-world pride. |
| c. -215 AG | **[[thefreelands:wallhaven|Wallhaven]] Militarizes Its Plateau** | Freelands | Wallhaven's identity as a hard defensive city forms around Caer Dravon, the Black Griffin Guards, and frontier pressure. |
| c. -210 AG | **Corsair Refuge Cities Mature** | [[worldmap:corsairseas|Corsair Seas]] | The Flight from the Freelands and the Time of Storms give way to permanent pirate, merchant, and free-city powers. |
| c. -205 AG | **Rise of the [[organizations:thecoinlords|Coin Lords]]** | [[worldmap:corsairseas|Corsair Seas]] | Corsair's Landing and its peers develop the Coin Lords as a ruling order of pirate captains, merchants, and sea-born oligarchs. |
| c. -190 AG | **First Contact with the Gith** | [[worldmap:corsairseas|Corsair Seas]] | Gith powers around Chaskalla Bay and Skull Cove enter Corsair politics, beginning generations of fear, trade, raids, and uneasy diplomacy. |
| c. -175 AG | **Orc Island Powers Consolidate** | [[worldmap:corsairseas|Corsair Seas]] | Orc cities, tribal confederations, the Coliseum, and the Forest of the Fallen become central features of the western sea routes. |
| c. -160 AG | **The [[organizations:shadarketh|Shadar-Keth]] Take Their Vigil** | [[thewinterlands:daemonwaste|Daemon Waste]] | Masked wardens at the edge of the Daemon Wastes become known as isolationist guardians who decide who may pass and who must die. |
| c. -150 AG | **The Sundering of [[thefreelands:therune|The'rune]] and [[thefreelands:moonstair|Moonstair]]** | Freelands | Forbidden elven magic separates Moonstair from The'Rune, leaving political and magical scars that later generations inherit. |
| c. -120 AG | **[[organizations:scarletsquare|Scarlet Square]] Traditions Spread** | Urban Centers | Criminal, mercantile, and social power networks in several cities become more formal, turning rumor and patronage into institutions. |
| c. -100 AG | **[[organizations:theadventurersguild|The Adventurer's Guild]] Becomes a Regional Fixture** | Freelands / Barony | Guild halls, contracts, tavern postings, and professional adventuring culture settle into the civic life of major cities. |

===== The Team Small Era, The Blackwake War, and the Circle of Eight Crisis =====

//The late pre-AG period is remembered through tavern stories, royal records, and the lingering consequences of [[campaigns:teamsmall|Team Small]] and the [[organizations:cirlceoftheeight|The Circle of Eight]].//

^ Date ^ Event ^ Region ^ Player-Facing Summary ^
| c. -75 AG | **[[campaigns:teamsmall|Team Small]] Becomes Active** | Barony / Freelands | Team Small enters public legend, reshaping the Barony and leaving stories that remain common in [[thebarony:middleton|Middleton]], Ruinelle, and surrounding towns. |
| c. -74 AG | **[[majornpcs:kingvarbisthefirst|King Varbis I]] and Team Small Become Linked** | [[worldmap:thebarony|The Barony]] | The fate of the [[worldmap:thebarony|The Barony]] becomes tied to Team Small's victories, scandals, alliances, and enemies. |
| c. -74 AG | **[[thebarony:greenwoodcity|Greenwood]] Animal Attacks** | [[worldmap:thebarony|The Barony]] | The lumber town of Greenwood suffers unnatural animal attacks, pushing local authorities and adventurers into escalating conflict with druids and wild magic. |
| c. -70 AG | **[[thebarony:greenwoodcity|Greenwood]] is Raised into the Sky** | [[worldmap:thebarony|The Barony]] | Mephisto and Yark's legendary magic lifts Greenwood into the air, leaving a crater that later generations know as the future site of [[thebarony:longrest|Long Rest]]. |
| c. -65 AG | **Old Greenwood Families Gain Status** | Barony | Survivors, founders, and opportunists tied to floating Greenwood become influential families with odd claims and stranger inheritances. |
| c. -35 AG | **[[organizations:cirlceoftheeight|The Circle of Eight]] Rumors Spread** | Freelands | A hidden Fengite conspiracy grows from whispers into a religious and military threat. |
| c. -15 AG | **Last Great Pre-Ascension Instability** | World | The world's powers enter the final years before 0 AG with exhausted armies, changed churches, and surviving conspiracies. The Tower is collapses and the Great Scar is born. |
| c. -9 AG | **[[majorevents:blackwakewar|Blackwake War]] Begins** | [[worldmap:corsairseas|Corsair Seas]] | Gith raids and Chartist retaliation ignite a ten-year naval war between Corsair powers and Gith forces from Chaskalla Bay and Skull Cove. |
| c. -8 AG | **Queen Katarina's [[thefreelands:therune|The'rune]] Becomes a Circle Power Base** | Freelands | The Circle of Eight finds royal protection and infernal-aligned military ambition in The'Rune. |
| c. -8 AG | **Wake of Flame** | [[worldmap:corsairseas|Corsair Seas]] | [[corsairseas:rockspirelanding|Rockspire Landing]] is ravaged, Olean's Post is razed, and the Chartist Pact solidifies under pressure. |
| c. -7 AG | **Hellriders Are Exiled** | [[thefreelands:therune|The'rune]] | The defenders who once gave The'Rune much of its martial identity are driven out, leaving bitterness that echoes into later disasters. |
| c. -7 AG | **Creche Raid** | [[worldmap:corsairseas|Corsair Seas]] | [[majornpcs:ladyzhao|Lady Zhao]] destroys a Gith creche in one of the war's most controversial raids and adopts the child later known as [[majornpcs:zhaorin|Zhao Rin]]. |
| c. -5 AG | **Battle of [[corsairseas:taru|Taru]]** | [[worldmap:corsairseas|Corsair Seas]] | [[majornpcs:blackalice|Black Alice]], undead power, and the artifact [[artifacts:Ossavel|Ossavel]] enter the stories of the war's turning points. |
| c. -2 AG | **Northern Dwarves and Free Allies Strike Back** | Freelands / [[thefreelands:dwarvenholds|Dwarven Holds]] | [[minorgods:gurkel|Gurkel]], [[minorgods:sylvester|Sylvester]], the Foamy Four, and allied forces break Queen Katarina's hold and help restore a council structure in The'Rune. |
| c. -2 AG | **[[corsairseas:orcisland|Orc Island]] Circle Threats Are Broken** | [[worldmap:corsairseas|Corsair Seas]] | The Circle's western influence is blunted after campaigns tied to Orc Island and its divine-political unrest. |
| c. -2 AG | **Siege of Silver Teeth** | [[worldmap:corsairseas|Corsair Seas]] | Chartist forces raid Chaskalla, Githzerai become visible, and predictions of [[minorgods:torgo|Torgo]]'s path toward ascension begins to matter beyond the battlefield. |
| c. -1 AG | **Battle of [[corsairseas:moonshadow|Moonshadow]]** | [[worldmap:corsairseas|Corsair Seas]] | The largest battle of the Blackwake War kills the Gith supreme commander and sets the stage for an uneasy end to the conflict. |
| c. -1 AG | **The Relic Anvil and [[thefreelands:godforge|God Forge]] Crisis** | Burning Sea | Divine artifacts and corrupted crystals tied to the [[organizations:cirlceoftheeight|The Circle of Eight]] are destroyed or unmade, closing one age of Fengite plotting. |
| 0 AG | **Final Ascension** | [[thefreelands:thetowerofascension|Tower]] | The Tower Restored and Sealed, and [[minorgods:gurkel|Gurkel]], [[minorgods:sylvester|Sylvester]], [[minorgods:torgo|Torgo]], and [[minorgods:vinnin|Vinnin]] ascend. |
| 0 AG | **Blackwake Truce** | [[worldmap:corsairseas|Corsair Seas]] | [[minorgods:torgo|Torgo]]'s ascension and the exhausted fleets help force a truce, ending the decade-long Blackwake War. |
| Shortly after 0 AG | **[[thefreelands:thetowerofascension|Knights of the Tower]] Founded** | Tower Region | A new order forms to guard the approach to the sealed Tower, regulate pilgrimage, and keep desperate seekers from throwing themselves into divine ruin. |

===== The Sealed Age and Emerald Wake Years =====

//The first fifteen years after 0 AG are recent history for elves and dwarves but already the lived past of young adults born after the Final Ascension.//

^ Date ^ Event ^ Region ^ Player-Facing Summary ^
| 1-5 AG | **After-Ascension Reordering** | World | Pilgrims, scholars, merchants, priests, criminals, and relic hunters adjust to a world where the Tower is sealed but its scar remains active. |
| c. 4 AG | **Tower Pilgrimage Economy Forms** | Tower Region | Travelers, guides, guards, shrines, and profiteers gather around the safe edges of the sealed Tower's danger zone. |
| c. 6 AG | **Post-Blackwake Corsair Politics Settle** | [[worldmap:corsairseas|Corsair Seas]] | [[organizations:thecoinlords|Coin Lords]], Chartist cities, Gith survivors, and pirate captains redraw their alliances after the war. |
| c. 8 AG | **[[majornpcs:ladyzhao|Lady Zhao]]'s Reputation Becomes Institutional** | [[worldmap:corsairseas|Corsair Seas]] | Zhao's wartime ruthlessness and political discipline make her one of the figures by which later Corsair power is measured. |
| c. 10 AG | **The Lost Isle Returns to Rumor** | [[worldmap:corsairseas|Corsair Seas]] | Sailors speak of a dangerous island, strange crystals, inward tides, and crews who vanish without divination finding them. |
| c. 12 AG | **[[corsairseas:lostisland|Lost Isle]] Escape** | [[worldmap:corsairseas|Corsair Seas]] | The [[shipsandcontstructs:theemeraldwake|Emerald Wake]] is rediscovered in dry storage, and roughly forty prisoners and sailors escape a [[organizations:thetriad|Triad]] and Mind Flayer facility. |
| c. 13 AG | **[[shipsandcontstructs:theemeraldwake|Emerald Wake]] Rises** | [[worldmap:corsairseas|Corsair Seas]] | The rescued ship and its crew become a force in Corsair politics, carrying survivors such as Mazzy, Rebecca Mason, and Val'Threx into broader history. |
| c. 14 AG | **Fall of [[legendarymonsters:caribdys|Caribdys]]** | [[worldmap:corsairseas|Corsair Seas]] | The [[shipsandcontstructs:theemeraldwake|Emerald Wake]] destroys [[legendarymonsters:caribdys|Caribdys]] near Watch Fort Strait, breaking one of the greatest sea terrors tied to Scylla and the [[organizations:thetriad|Triad]]. |
| c. 15 AG | **Undersea [[organizations:thetriad|Triad]] Base Destroyed** | [[worldmap:corsairseas|Corsair Seas]] | The [[shipsandcontstructs:theemeraldwake|Emerald Wake]]'s victories drive Triad power out of parts of the western [[worldmap:corsairseas|Corsair Seas]] and make the ship a symbol of defiance. |
| 15 AG | **[[theblackwake:bwaftermath|Blackwake]] Campaign Ends** | [[worldmap:corsairseas|Corsair Seas]] | The campaign's ending creates a new Corsair balance: celebrated heroes, damaged fleets, displaced villains, and unresolved Blackwake aftershocks. |
| c. 15-16 AG | **Rise of [[majornpcs:brinybecky|Grievance]]** | [[worldmap:corsairseas|Corsair Seas]] | The kraken ship Grievance becomes part of the new naval legendry of the post-Emerald Wake age. |
| c. 16 AG | **Black Ark Sightings** | [[worldmap:corsairseas|Corsair Seas]] / Freelands | In the wake of Caribdys' death, sightings of a Black Ark and its massive cannon spread fear along vulnerable coasts. |
| c. 16-18 AG | **Fall of [[thefreelands:lazklennar|Laz'klennar]]** | Freelands Coast | The [[organizations:thetriad|Triad]] and allied horrors seize the elven coastal city, creating refugees, resistance cells, and a new coastal wound. |
| c. 16-17 AG | **[[organizations:greyrumconsortium|Thyrdk Greyrum]] Returns to [[dwarvenholds:zhufganus:Zhuf'ganus]]** | [[thefreelands:dwarvenholds|Dwarven Holds]] | Wealth and contacts from the [[worldmap:corsairseas|Corsair Seas]] help Thyrdk and Rebecca Mason seed the [[organizations:greyrumconsortium|Greyrum Consortium]]'s later rise. |

===== The Breach Years and Current Campaign Era =====

//This is the most important modern cluster. For this export, 17 AG is the anchor year for the Breach, Keeper Starhart's rise, and the start of the [[campaigns:wagontrain|Wagon]] Campaign.//

^ Date ^ Event ^ Region ^ Player-Facing Summary ^
| 17 AG | **[[organizations:keeperofthelight|Keeper Lythria Starhart]] Rises** | [[thewinterlands:thronstadt|Thronstadt]] | A scholar from a small library is taken by the Holy Flame and raised to the office of Keeper after the previous Keeper's death. |
| 17 AG | **[[campaigns:wagontrain|The Wagon Train]] Campaign Begins** | [[worldmap:thebarony|The Barony]] / [[worldmap:thewinterlands|Winterlands]] / Roads | The Wagon Train era opens as survivors, merchants, adventurers, and strange companions move through unsettled roads and new threats. |
| 17 AG | **The Breach of West Gate** | [[worldmap:thewinterlands|Winterlands]] | Ancient protections fail at West Gate. Horrors from old prisons and buried darkness overrun the city, making the Breach one of the defining disasters of the age. |
| 17 AG | **Pilgrims and Survivors Alert Wintershield** | [[worldmap:thewinterlands|Winterlands]] | Wagon travelers and refugees carry news of the Breach, turning a local catastrophe into a Winterlands-wide emergency. |
| 17 AG | **New Amir is Celebrated in [[thefreelands:caeruleum|Caeruleum]]** | [[worldmap:thefreelands|The Free Lands]] | Travellers, Merchants, Nobles and those seeing work flood into Caeruleum for a weeks long celebration of the new Amir |
| 17-18 AG | **[[thefreelands:newbramblebrook|New Bramblebrook]] Is Attacked** | [[worldmap:thefreelands|The Free Lands]] | The mixed human and halfling town near Skyfall suffers infernal violence before the greater disaster of The'Rune fully unfolds. |
| 17-18 AG | **The Emperor is Assassinated** | [[worldmap:thempire|The Empire]] | The Imperial House moved quickly to suppress the truth. Public records were altered, witnesses disappeared, and official proclamations reframed the event as a sacred transition, illness, false rumor, or foreign lie depending on the audience. |
| 17-18 AG | **[[thefreelands:skyfallregion|Skyfall]] Conspiracy** | [[worldmap:thefreelands|The Free Lands]] | Agents of the Triad begin a ritual corrupt or destroy Skyfall; they are thwarted by the agents of King Randall Von-Shell and the Darkshine Clan. |
| 18 AG | **The Fall of [[thefreelands:therune|The'rune]]** | Freelands / Avernus | Thavius Kreeg's hidden pact comes due, the Companion reveals its true nature, and The'Rune is dragged into Avernus before later being returned. |
| 18 AG | **[[corsairseas:veilmoor|The Night of Ash]]** | [[corsairseas:veilmoor|Veilmoor]] | Veilmoor's modern identity is marked by a night of fire, political rupture, and public trauma remembered simply as the Night of Ash. |
| 18 AG | **[[thebarony:middleton|Middleton]] Reaches Its Current State** | [[worldmap:thebarony|The Barony]] | The local [[organizations:thetriad|Triad]] crisis breaks: the old guildmaster is exposed, Glitzy Groinbiter rises, Bloodbeard consolidates guard power, and the Crimson Daggers are reformed. |
| 18 AG | **[[thebarony:longrest|Greenwood]] Crater Purified** | [[worldmap:thebarony|The Barony]] | The [[campaigns:wagontrain|Wagon]] Train helps cleanse the crater left by floating Greenwood, turning a cursed elemental wound into the future heart of [[thebarony:longrest|Long Rest]]. |
| 18-19 AG | **Long Rest Chartered and Built** | [[worldmap:thebarony|The Barony]] | [[majornpcs:kingvarbisiii|King Varbis III]] and local patrons reshape the crater into an artificial lake with a resort settlement on one shore and Magnore's cathedral rising on the other. |
| 18-19 AG | **The'rune is Returned** | [[worldmap:thefreelands|The Free Lands]] | The'rune is returned damaged and traumtized, but unbowed, from Avernus. The Darkshine and Kurgan Clans assume control. |
| 18-19 AG | **The Tarrasque is Killed** | [[worldmap:thefreelands|The Free Lands]] | The Tarrasque (aka the Abomination), used by the Triad to conquer Laz'klennar, is killed by the Darkshines and the redeemed Archangel Zariel when the Triad attempted to turn it against [[thefreelands:freeport|Freeport]]. |
| 19 AG | **[[organizations:greyrumconsortium|Greyrum Consortium]] Expands** | Zhuf'ganus | Thyrdk Greyrum and Rebecca Mason turn Corsair wealth, dwarven skill, and Underdark logistics into a growing industrial and magical consortium. |
| 19 AG | **[[worldmap:thewinterlands|Winterlands]] Reckoning After the Breach** | Winterlands | The Church, Gate Cities, and holy orders struggle with refugees, blame, military reforms, and public fear in the years after West Gate falls. |
| 20 AG | **Reformation of the [[organizations:theaaegisorder|Aegis Order]]** | [[worldmap:thewinterlands|Winterlands]] / Underdark | Three years after the Breach and Keeper Starhart's rise, the Aegis Order is reformed as an irregular arm of the Keeper against threats too strange for ordinary institutions. |
| 20 AG | **Wellspring Crisis Resolved** | [[worldmap:thewinterlands|Winterlands]] / Underdark | Public rumor credits Aegis agents with sealing a dangerous portal and rescuing a key figure tied to the order's first successes. |
| 20 AG | **[[underdark:aegisfort|Aegis Fortress]] Established** | Underdark | The new Aegis claims and restores an Underdark fortress, giving the order a hidden base linked to portals, allies, and dangerous frontiers. |
| 20 AG | **Wyrmscale [[organizations:thetriad|Triad]] Base Destroyed** | Wyrmscale Mountains | The Aegis strikes a Triad foothold and recovers signs of deeper corruption in mountain and forest alike. |
| 20 AG | **[[thewinterlands:emberlibrary|Ember Library]] Crisis** | [[worldmap:thewinterlands|Winterlands]] | Theft, blood magic, and an altered Kromite creation engine bring the Ember Library into the center of the new age's dangers. |
| 20 AG | **[[thewinterlands:wyrmscalemts|Broken Fang]] Alliance** | Wyrmscale / Winterlands | After battles with shadow dragons and corrupted forces, the Aegis helps create uneasy alliances among Broken Fang forces, Onyx Dawn knights, and Winterlands powers. |
| 20 AG and after | **Keeper Starhart's [[minorgods:icengrim|Icengrim]] Reform Debated** | [[thewinterlands:thronstadt|Thronstadt]] | The [[organizations:keeperofthelight|Keeper]] considers limited, supervised worship of Icengrim as a way to weaken the Triad and reduce border hostilities, creating fierce theological debate. |
| 20 AG and after | **Current Campaign Era** | World | The present remains unstable: the Tower is sealed, the Breach is fresh, the Triad adapts, Far Realm corruption spreads, and new orders try to hold a changing world together. |

===== Regional Threads for Character Backgrounds =====

^ Region ^ Useful History Hooks ^
| **Winterlands** | Frostfell, the Finding of the Flame, the War of Emberlight, West Gate's Breach, and [[organizations:keeperofthelight|Keeper]] Starhart's reforms define the region's living anxieties. |
| **Freelands** | [[thefreelands:therune|The'rune]], Skyfall, Wallhaven, [[thefreelands:freeport|Freeport]], Laz'klennar, and the Tower region carry the scars of [[majorevents:shatteredage|Shattered Age]] survival and modern infernal or Triad crises. |
| **[[worldmap:thebarony|The Barony]]** | [[campaigns:teamsmall|Team Small]], Greenwood's rise, [[thebarony:longrest|Long Rest]]'s founding, [[thebarony:middleton|Middleton]]'s Triad crisis, and [[majornpcs:kingvarbisiii|King Varbis III]] give the Barony a surprisingly dense modern history. |
| **[[worldmap:corsairseas|Corsair Seas]]** | The [[majorevents:blackwakewar|Blackwake War]], [[majornpcs:ladyzhao|Lady Zhao]], the Gith conflict, the [[shipsandcontstructs:theemeraldwake|Emerald Wake]], [[legendarymonsters:caribdys|Caribdys]], Grievance, and the Black Ark form a living naval epic. |
| **[[thefreelands:dwarvenholds|Dwarven Holds]]** | [[dwarvenholds:kronganus:Kron'ganus]], [[dwarvenholds:yulganus:Yul'ganus]], [[dwarvenholds:zhufganus:Zhuf'ganus]], [[majorgods:krom|Krom]]'s restoration, [[minorgods:gurkel|Gurkel]]'s legacy, and the [[organizations:greyrumconsortium|Greyrum Consortium]] tie ancient faith to modern industry. |
| **Daemon Wastes** | The Shadar-Keth and other border guardians represent older, harsher answers to corruption that newer powers may not understand. |