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 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, 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 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	Team Small Era	Team Small plagues/saves the Barony. King Varbis I secures his hold on the Throne.
-15 AG	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	Greenwood Stabilizes	The Flying City of Greenwood stabilizes in its current form. 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 Triad.
17 AG	Breach / Keeper / Wagon	Celestial Prison is breached, Keeper Lythria Starhart chosen, and the Wagon Campaign begins; aligned in the same crisis year.
18 AG	Consequence Year	Middleton, Veilmoor, Long Rest, 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 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 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 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	Feng, Brian, Lazareth, the Scarlet Rogue, Lady Corinette, Talic, Vauchy, and Rath rise into the first great divine order.
Mythic Past	Krom Falls in the Original Tower	Tower / 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	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	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 Shattered Age.

The Shattered Age

The Shattered Age is the long era of 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 Shattered Age	World	Feng's dominion breaks nations, scatters peoples, and leaves entire cultures built around survival, secrecy, and resistance.
c. -875 AG	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	Wintershield forms Around the Spire	Winterlands	Wintershield grows around the sacred Spire as one of the great northern refuges against Feng's age.
c. -820 AG	Frostfell and The Boneyard	Wintershield	Lazareth's terrible intervention destroys Feng's host outside Wintershield, leaving the frozen dead and haunted ground later called the Boneyard.
c. -815 AG	Finding of the Flame	Thronstadt	The Last Camp discovers the Holy Flame. The Platinum Dragon's blessing turns refugees into a people and lays the foundation for Thronstadt and the Church of the Flame.
c. -810 AG	The Gate Cities Are Founded	Wintershield	Westgate, Eastgate, Northgate, and Southgate grow as fortified approaches and warning shields around Wintershield.
c. -805 AG	Early 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	Zhuf'ganus Seals Its Landward Doors	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	Yul'ganus Falls to Feng-Worshipping Goblins	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	Kron'ganus Holds Free	Dwarven Holds	While other holds close, fall, or change, Kron'ganus remains a symbol of dwarven endurance and Kromite identity.
c. -450 AG	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	Gurkel, Sylvester, Vinnin, Beck, Marrow, and Torgo enter histories as champions who recover divine artifacts and begin undoing Feng's imbalance.
c. -352 AG	The Hammered Gate is Cleansed	Yul'ganus	The Chosen and their allies break Feng's goblin occupation of Yul'ganus, restoring the hold to Krom's worship.
c. -351 AG	Zhuf'ganus Partially Reopens	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	Wallhaven, The'rune, Moonstair and 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 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. The Vortex of Doom becomes a dreaded landmark outside the Tower itself.

Restoration, Lesser Ascensions, and Religious Settlement

After 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 Tuskgar	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	Kron'ganus Enters Its High Recovery	Dwarven Holds	King Gurkel's legacy and Krom's restored worship make Kron'ganus a symbolic heart of dwarven recovery.
c. -320 AG	Bank of Gurkel Traditions Begin	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, Icengrim, and Stannis rise as minor gods. Their ascension widens the world's idea of who can become divine.
c. -285 AG	Winterlands Doctrine Hardens	Winterlands	The Church of the Flame, Wintershield's old debt to Lazareth, and competing memories of survival create the conditions for later holy conflict.
c. -260 to -240 AG	The War of Emberlight	Winterlands	A religious war between Thronstadt and Wintershield erupts over Lazareth worship, dangerous toleration, and the limits of compromise.
c. -255 AG	Emberlight Edicts	Thronstadt	Zelora of Emberlight's reforms condemn Lazareth's worship and push doctrine toward open confrontation.
c. -252 AG	Road War and Cold Embargo	Winterlands	Trade, pilgrimage, and military movement between sacred cities fracture into raids, blockades, and escalating holy politics.
c. -248 AG	Siege of White Guard	Winterlands	White Guard becomes one of the defining strongholds and battlefields of the Emberlight conflict.
c. -246 AG	Battle of Ashen Snow	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	Winterlands	Keeper Halric the Resolute ends the War of Emberlight. 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	Freeport, Skyfall, Wallhaven, The'rune, Moonstair, and other powers grow from survival settlements into rival cities and regions.
c. -220 AG	The'rune and 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	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	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 Coin Lords	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	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	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 Shadar-Keth Take Their Vigil	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 The'rune and Moonstair	Freelands	Forbidden elven magic separates Moonstair from The'Rune, leaving political and magical scars that later generations inherit.
c. -120 AG	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	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 Team Small and the The Circle of Eight.

Date	Event	Region	Player-Facing Summary
c. -75 AG	Team Small Becomes Active	Barony / Freelands	Team Small enters public legend, reshaping the Barony and leaving stories that remain common in Middleton, Ruinelle, and surrounding towns.
c. -74 AG	King Varbis I and Team Small Become Linked	The Barony	The fate of the The Barony becomes tied to Team Small's victories, scandals, alliances, and enemies.
c. -74 AG	Greenwood Animal Attacks	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	Greenwood is Raised into the Sky	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 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	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	Blackwake War Begins	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 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	Corsair Seas	Rockspire Landing is ravaged, Olean's Post is razed, and the Chartist Pact solidifies under pressure.
c. -7 AG	Hellriders Are Exiled	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	Corsair Seas	Lady Zhao destroys a Gith creche in one of the war's most controversial raids and adopts the child later known as Zhao Rin.
c. -5 AG	Battle of Taru	Corsair Seas	Black Alice, undead power, and the artifact Ossavel enter the stories of the war's turning points.
c. -2 AG	Northern Dwarves and Free Allies Strike Back	Freelands / Dwarven Holds	Gurkel, Sylvester, the Foamy Four, and allied forces break Queen Katarina's hold and help restore a council structure in The'Rune.
c. -2 AG	Orc Island Circle Threats Are Broken	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	Corsair Seas	Chartist forces raid Chaskalla, Githzerai become visible, and predictions of Torgo's path toward ascension begins to matter beyond the battlefield.
c. -1 AG	Battle of Moonshadow	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 God Forge Crisis	Burning Sea	Divine artifacts and corrupted crystals tied to the The Circle of Eight are destroyed or unmade, closing one age of Fengite plotting.
0 AG	Final Ascension	Tower	The Tower Restored and Sealed, and Gurkel, Sylvester, Torgo, and Vinnin ascend.
0 AG	Blackwake Truce	Corsair Seas	Torgo's ascension and the exhausted fleets help force a truce, ending the decade-long Blackwake War.
Shortly after 0 AG	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	Corsair Seas	Coin Lords, Chartist cities, Gith survivors, and pirate captains redraw their alliances after the war.
c. 8 AG	Lady Zhao's Reputation Becomes Institutional	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	Corsair Seas	Sailors speak of a dangerous island, strange crystals, inward tides, and crews who vanish without divination finding them.
c. 12 AG	Lost Isle Escape	Corsair Seas	The Emerald Wake is rediscovered in dry storage, and roughly forty prisoners and sailors escape a Triad and Mind Flayer facility.
c. 13 AG	Emerald Wake Rises	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 Caribdys	Corsair Seas	The Emerald Wake destroys Caribdys near Watch Fort Strait, breaking one of the greatest sea terrors tied to Scylla and the Triad.
c. 15 AG	Undersea Triad Base Destroyed	Corsair Seas	The Emerald Wake's victories drive Triad power out of parts of the western Corsair Seas and make the ship a symbol of defiance.
15 AG	Blackwake Campaign Ends	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 Grievance	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	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 Laz'klennar	Freelands Coast	The Triad and allied horrors seize the elven coastal city, creating refugees, resistance cells, and a new coastal wound.
c. 16-17 AG	Thyrdk Greyrum Returns to Zhuf'ganus	Dwarven Holds	Wealth and contacts from the Corsair Seas help Thyrdk and Rebecca Mason seed the 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 Wagon Campaign.

Date	Event	Region	Player-Facing Summary
17 AG	Keeper Lythria Starhart Rises	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	The Wagon Train Campaign Begins	The Barony / 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	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	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 Caeruleum	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	New Bramblebrook Is Attacked	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	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	Skyfall Conspiracy	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 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	The Night of Ash	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	Middleton Reaches Its Current State	The Barony	The local Triad crisis breaks: the old guildmaster is exposed, Glitzy Groinbiter rises, Bloodbeard consolidates guard power, and the Crimson Daggers are reformed.
18 AG	Greenwood Crater Purified	The Barony	The Wagon Train helps cleanse the crater left by floating Greenwood, turning a cursed elemental wound into the future heart of Long Rest.
18-19 AG	Long Rest Chartered and Built	The Barony	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	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	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 Freeport.
19 AG	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	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 Aegis Order	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	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	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 Triad Base Destroyed	Wyrmscale Mountains	The Aegis strikes a Triad foothold and recovers signs of deeper corruption in mountain and forest alike.
20 AG	Ember Library Crisis	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	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 Icengrim Reform Debated	Thronstadt	The 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 Keeper Starhart's reforms define the region's living anxieties.
Freelands	The'rune, Skyfall, Wallhaven, Freeport, Laz'klennar, and the Tower region carry the scars of Shattered Age survival and modern infernal or Triad crises.
The Barony	Team Small, Greenwood's rise, Long Rest's founding, Middleton's Triad crisis, and King Varbis III give the Barony a surprisingly dense modern history.
Corsair Seas	The Blackwake War, Lady Zhao, the Gith conflict, the Emerald Wake, Caribdys, Grievance, and the Black Ark form a living naval epic.
Dwarven Holds	Kron'ganus, Yul'ganus, Zhuf'ganus, Krom's restoration, Gurkel's legacy, and the 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.