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=== Third Mortal Epoch - The Midnight Age===
=== Third Mortal Epoch - The Midnight Age===
* Abhorash is embraced as a Consanguine and the four houses are established.
* The Demon Blade rises to prominence.
* The First Totem War takes place in Tasur'ke, as the town angers the Hunter by expanding.
* Bloodloch is resettled by Abhorash.
* Lanos, the Lord of Truth, sacrifices Himself to seal off the Shadow Plane from spilling into the Prime Material.
* Through a ritual led by Haern, the Great Oak is awakened as a conduit of Dendara.
* Rahn is born from a mortal hero and the violent torture at the hands of an unnamed God, erupting from His volcano in a rage.
* The name of Chakrasul, the unnamed God, is revealed by a powerful lich named Amairgen through a necromantic ritual.
* The Sword of Lanos is shattered by Severn, leading to a crisis with the Shadow Plane that is promptly resolved. Lanos is confirmed as dead.
* The latest of many skirmishes between the failed Ankyrean experiment, Zsarachnor, and the displaced Llazuth rock the lower levels of Azdun. In the aftermath, a servant of Llazuth, Lachesis, is returned to the service of the Spider Queen, and the Black Keep is revealed.
* Lleis is awoken from the Mitrine stone in the Liruma scrubland.
* The failing Priest guild splinters, and the Luminaries are founded under the guidance of Sahmie Rhayse.
* Two of the landmarks of the War of Power are rediscovered, these being the Orrery and the Horologue.
* The Ankyrean citadel of Spinesreach is uncovered in the Tarea Mountains, much to the torment of Qeddwyn.
* An ancient sword, a failed precursor to the legendary Demon Blade, is uncovered beneath Hashan and subsequently destroyed after a resounding failure by the lich Amairgen to control it and the slaughter of many residents of the city.
* A faction of Sentaari, led by Clio Thetis, sacrifice their grasp of Kaido for their own Inner Spark, following after the Luminaries and becoming the Daru.
* The existence of the Grand Artifice becomes known to mortalkind.
* A visitation to Zahmekoses and followers by the shade of Habbak, the last Ard-Dhasan of Spinesreach, culminates in the opening of the citadel and resettlement of the city for the first time since the fall of the Ankyrean Order.
* Following complaints and insults from Eocik, a farmer of Spinesreach and harvester of secrets, the Cabal is founded within the citadel.
* Enslaved Dwarven labourers in the caverns of Bloodloch rediscover a
rusted blade, likely that of the shattered Demon Blade. Escaping the
clutches of the lich Amairgen with the weapon, the Dwarf ultimately
surrenders it to the hands of Trabarg the Archaeologist of Shallam and
Dorin Silverbeard, a forger of some repute.
* Ultimately, the blade is stolen by the Consanguine and bloodshed
engulfs Hashan once again, after which Gar'losha himself awakes and
retakes his blade, plunging it into his own chest and destroying both
himself and his weapon.
* Djeir and the Black Lake are revealed far below Azdun.
* Alongside the return of Arion, God of Valor, and His Isle, war
collides with the distant city of Ashtan in the form of shiploads of
Nazetu. Only the intervention of Duiran prevented the Nazetu
establishing a permanent foothold in the Bay of Balaton, and even
afterwards it is known that Chakrasul walks the land once again.
* The Black Forest south of Thera rises up and consumes the village.
* The Syssin Defenders are formed in Spinesreach from the remnants of
the Shadowsnakes.
----130MA----
* Arbothia is founded by displaced Therans.
----150MA----
* An attempt is made by Vasilus and Rosalind, among others, to cure the
Yggdrasil of its corruption, with limited success due to the
interference of Rellin and Sigfriend Cardinalis.
* A cure for vampirism is discovered when Zsarachnor tricks his rival,
Belladonna, into attaining mortality once again.
* The spirit of Azaeru attempts to refound the Naldareth, calling on the
Magi to reveal the Silver Spire and Kelsys and take up the burden of
watching for the Children.
* The Grand Artifice is penetrated by a shard of the Sword of Truth,
revealing the Misty Isles behind the facade of Ashtan-that-was.
----160MA----
* The shell of Mebrene is killed when a misguided attempt to purify the
Flame of the Yggdrasil, made by Ayalaine, channels corruption into
Rahn's form. Forges fail to light and the sun fails to shine.
* Necia, the Luminary tutor, is killed when Mebrene attempts to take
them as a shell.
* Mebrene takes a sick child as a shell and is reborn as Auresae.
* The Sentinel tutor of the time, Vixen, is renamed Inesse by Auresae.
* Lencissa, the last leader of the Illuminai, is brought forth by
Auresae to serve the Luminaries as a tutor; her long vigil over the
temple has however driven her mad, and the Goddess is forced to seal off
the elemental's memories. Now known as Lenci, she takes up a post in the
guildhall.
* A ritual of remembrance for Tecpatl, a Rajamalan hero, frees Omei from
Her prison.
* The Teradrim Sect is revealed within Bloodloch as servants of the
Underking, Dhaivol.
* Two landmarks - the Fist of Dameron and Pillars of Maya - crumble to
ruin.
* A Grook named Oloo, fervent campaigner for 'Free the Suicide Mice' and
'Live in harmony with the Beetles' movements, cordons off the Blood
Falls, a landmark, for environmental reasons resulting from year-long
marathons of blood-pouring.
----170MA----
* Iosyne returns to prominence.
* The Tree landmark is destroyed by lightning.
* The Crystal Cave is destroyed by an earthquake.
* The Rememberers, a group of oral historians, are revived by Qedddwyn
and the Oracle Orechnai.
----180MA----
* Wsalaly, traitorous guardian of the Globe of Balance in Ashtan, is
killed by Barrkesh of the Bahkatu. It is revealed that Wsalaly's abuse
of the Globe of Balance was directly responsible for the destruction of
several landmarks.
* Unable to reconcile the confusion within Himself, Dhaivol splits into
Dhar and Ivoln.
----190MA----
* The Second Totem War takes place in Tasur'ke as Indorani and Bahkatu
aggression spurs the populace to embrace undeath and destroy their
totem. After the sanctifying of a monument to undeath and the subsequent
vicious warring back and forth, as well as the emergence of a holy
artifact called the Savage Crown, the defending spirits are destroyed
and the monument is broken, leaving Tasur'ke covered in lifeless sand.
----200MA----
* Around this time, the secrets of Reanimation are discovered/developed.
----230MA----
* The settlement of Nuunva is revealed to the wider world when a search
for a missing child wanders into it.
----250MA----
* The Chapel Gardens are stricken with a curse of undeath as traitors in
the prison bend necromancy to their own ends.
----270MA----
* In a bid to take the power of the Silver Spire for themselves, Saayar
of the Spellshapers of Ayhesa tricks the Magi into assisting in a grand
heist. When Saayar explodes due to a miscalculation, the Silver Spire is
destroyed in a vortex of power, and Kelsys is destroyed along with it.
* The Kerrithrim, a huge and terrible beast, is wakened by the violence.
Ia, ia. Shastaan is utterly destroyed in its emergence.
* Arion is badly wounded in an engagement with the beast, fading away
before His follower's eyes after only a brief scuffle.
* Khepri is eaten unceremoniously when ordering the Kerrithrim to 'sit'.
* A unified army is assembled from the villages across Sapience, and a
plan is proposed by Corporal Cazin of the Enorian Army - using
catapaults, a team of warriors could be launched onto the beast, to cut
into it and kill it from the inside out.
* Severn attempts to command the Kerrithrim while wearing the form of an
unknown Goddess. The beast does not fall for His trick and the God loses
an arm in the resulting scuffle.
* The combined assaults of Omei, Galleus, Chakrasul, Ivoln and Dhar
avail them nothing, and Galleus loses an eye to the Kerrithrim.
* The beast is slain when Dreadlord Missari and the Azudim Warlord
Mazzion survive the assault on the heart chamber and succeed in
destroying it, and collapses beside the highway.
----???MA----
* Chakrasul merges with the essence of Khepri and becomes Ysmali.
----290MA----
* A second Master Crystal is revealed beneath the Globe of Balance as
Alaihandra attempts to recruit Ianus of the Ascendril Circle into
propping up the flagging guild of the Magi.
* Mitrine hunters in the Tundra accidentally trigger an explosive device
in the lost Ankyrean Containment Laboratory, sending up a beacon and
killing most of the group. A group of adventures move to the containment
facility, and Atrapoema releases an Ankyrean biological war machine
called Amalgamated Prototype - Amal for short. In his rage at
discovering the loss of the Ankyrean Order, Amal killed many, only
halting when confronted by Qeddwyn and ordered to stand down.
----295MA----
* The Dreikathi invade from the east of Sapience, sending a fleet of
airships to invade Delos, bomb Spinesreach and Eleusis, and finally
regroup and establish a beach head in Scidve. Polemarch Andalso declares
that Sapience has been claimed in the name of the Autarch, and demands
the unconditional surrender of the entire populace.
* The Aalen Forest is bombed with a terrible purple sludge, and
mutations and death afflict all who live there.
* Ashtan is conquered by the Dreikathi and they begin brutally digging
out the leylines once called the Seams of Balance.
* Having returned to physical existence and now seeking answers from His
Brother Severn, Arion invades the minotaur village of Sterion and cuts
His way into the Shadow Plane, vanishing from sight.
* Amal rises from the Great Rock and destroys a Dreikathi airship
single-handedly, destroying the Shooting Star Inn, then clashes with
Polemarch Andalso directly before being struck down.
* Weeks of guerilla warfare and outright conflict, as well as the
singular efforts of Villi of Spinesreach in picking off Dreikathi
troops, result in the driving-back of the Dreikathi, and through the
theft of an airship followed by the machinations of an elemental
eld'akathi, the continent of Albedos and the city of Delve made known to
Sapience. The eld'akathi also spreads their power in benediction,
passing knowledge of the Albedi tongue - previously called Herolian - to
the people of Sapience.
----310MA----
* Dhar departs to examine the mystery of the Albedi dead. A revolt
occurs within the Underking's Halls in His absence, led by the
power-hungry Verkai. Edhain, Dhar's Order, as well as His High Priest
Jirair, enter the Halls of Judgement to fight back Verkai but are
repulsed.
----320MA----
* Haern attempts to cleanse the Aalen with divine fire, resulting in the
wounding of the God and the emergence of blood-red stalks from the
purple sludge.
* A terrible disease rises up from the stalks. Known as the Aalen Bloom,
it kills many with no apparent cure.
----330MA----
* When the Hunter attempts to speak to the assembled people of Duiran
about the nature of His wound and His work in the Aalen, it becomes
apparent that He is cursed to silence. Calling upon Auresae, the
congregation learns that the Artificer's mark is on Haern's geas. The
sudden reappearance of Severn, wielding the stolen blade of Arion, once
the Sword of Truth and now the Axiom, throws proceedings into violence,
and it takes the sacrifice of a slave named Danerran to distract the
Artificer long enough for His Sword to be broken and the Artificer
driven off.
* With the breaking of the Axiom, Lanos' essence takes the broken body
of Danerran as a shell and is reborn as Damariel. He frees Haern of His
geas and speaks of Ohlsana, the Shadow Mother, and the true death of
Arion. It seems that the God of Valor sacrificed his essence to fuel
that of Lanos during their long imprisonment in the Axiom and the Shadow
Plane.
* A sarcophagus is uncovered in mysterious circumstances below the
Mhojave Desert, guarded by a terrible Gorgon. Touching this sarcophagus
consumes the blight of the Aalen Bloom, as well as something deeper,
from the bodies of those who do so.
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----340MA----
The first Idreth is born as Korvok Irontooth and Lauri pass uncovered
Ankyrean writings to Spinesreach and Conduit Eleanor sucessfully
undergoes the process.
----350MA----
* Ysmali is destroyed by the accidental assistance of Niuri, as the
Goddess of Mystery attempts to assist Her Sister and instead overloads
her. The sad remains of Khepri form a crazed beast, swiftly caged, and
the essence of Corruption takes Empress Irijali of Djeir as a shell,
returning Chakrasul to the realm.
----360MA----
* Seeking to fill the void left by Varian's silence, Galleus looks into
the Ark of the Celestine and ascends to a higher echelon, leaving His
domain of Air untended. Following raging storms in Spinesreach and the
uneasy cessation of weather patterns, the spirit of Air takes root in
Bokag, once-king of Hashan, and is reborn as Maghak.
----365MA----
* Iosyne is betrayed and murdered by Her sister Omei and brother Maghak.
Omei takes Her eyes, and Maghak takes Her heart.
* The planar orrery is rediscovered under Spinesreach, and the vengeful
spirit of its Ankyrean tender is wrested from the young girl it was
possessing and placed in a mindless shell. The spirit, Vusbati, shares
with assembled Spireans some details of the Disturbance and the true
origins of the Atabahi.
* After meddling by two odd, mysterious Kelki and the assistance of
Xavin, the Iernian Fracture yawns wide beneath the Putoran Hills,
consuming the Naldareth facility housing the Ascendril guild in the
process.
* Baelak Shipbreaker, Nazedha Emperor of the Western Isles, makes
landfall on Sapience. After allying himself with Bloodloch, his Nazedha
Empire demands the obedience of the other three cities, only to be
swiftly denied.
* Shastaan is cleansed of its Thrim infestation by the Ascendril magi
and a group of Kelki called the Pact. Strange, deformed cultists and the
men responsible for opening the Fracture are also found, and killed,
during the purging. A settlement is built over the ruins, named
Mournhold by those living there.
* The corruption of Dendara comes to a head, and in an effort to purge
it of the Shadow that taints it, Lleis sacrifices Her life to merge with
the plane. The Great Oak is revitalized in the process, Dendara is
cleansed, and the spirits of the Praadi come forth, reforming the
Shamans from the tatters of the Druid guild.
----370MA----
* The ancient edifice of Stormcaller Crag is reclaimed by Maghak and
settled by Trolls from Hashan.
* The Nazedha Empire invades Sapience in full force, sending units of
highly organized and powerful soldiers to seige the mainland.
* Their alliance with Bloodloch does not last long as the Nazedha turn
on the mainlanders.
* The Dun Fortress is conquered and rededicated to the strange Chaos God
of the Nazedha, Lanu Du.
* The Revelation of the Dark Spire of Nazedha is made known, shocking
those scholars of Enorian who recall Sahmie's Revelation and the Age of
Enlightenment.
* Prince Tolonar turns to Lanu Du and the Nazedha for power, becoming
lord and regent of the Dun Fortress.
* The Entropic Acropolis, an alien shard of the Chaos Plane, along with
its three strange and terrifying Lords is discovered to be accessible
from the Dun Fortress.
* After a vicious, bloody, gruelling war, the Nazedha are repulsed, in
part due to contracting the Aalen Bloom that once decimated Sapience.
Baelak retreats back to his islands, leaving the Balaton Bay conquered
by the Nazedha and founded as a new settlement.
* Iosyne is reborn in the depths of Azdun as a malignant and terrifying
force, taking the name of the Malevolent. Llazuth proclaims the rebirth
of the Dark Empire over the mangled corpse of Zsarachnor.
----380MA----
* The Sect of Blades is founded in Delos, for the glory of warriors.
* Abhorash returns, dissolves the Imperium of Blood for their crimes
against the Consanguine, and institutes the Dominion with himself at its
head.
* Dhar lays seige to Chakrasul's Tiyen Indoron, setting it to the flame.
* The Pious Wards of Delve are opened to foreigners, offering insight
into the absent Albedi Gods.
----390MA----
* Emissaries of the Dark Empire tour each of the four cities,
reawakening old conflicts.
* Iosyne's meddling in the Shadow Plane results in a plague of darkness
afflicting both the Goddess and Her Order.
* As Iosyne succumbs to the Shadowbound plague and is replaced by a
strange and unstable double, Ati stirs in ancient Farsai. Revealed to be
the progeny of the Shadow Mother, Ohlsana, the creature possesses the
Spirean doctor Janus Anfini after killing its own priest in an attempt
at attaining a physical form.
* Severn intervenes directly to assist Moirean of Iosyne's order in
understanding that her Goddess tapped into the Shadow Plane and
succumbed to Ohlsana's corrupting power.
* Strange, floating jellyfish appear across Sapience as Katia of the
Pact accidentally blows a hole through the planes, only narrowly
prevented from becoming a total catastrophe by the Ascendril guild and
Belgarion.
* Severn's intervention in Iosyne's Shadowbound state results in the
return of the Goddess, although Her followers still suffer the
debilitating effects of the Shadowplague.
----400MA----
* The threat of the strange jellies becomes apparent as they begin to
nest, spawning in far greater numbers and demonstrating remarkable
shapeshifting powers. The very fabric of the planes seems to warp around
the pearls of their nest-spires, and intervention by Teani of Duiran and
the Stormcaller Research Society is disrupted when bipedal, aggressive
entities appear to seize the nests. The creatures are fought off and the
jellies destroyed, and it seems stability has been returned to the Prime
Material.
* A rebellion occurs in Spinesreach at the hand of the mysterious
anti-republic shadow broker, Vex.
* A cult of insane Kelki is discovered under Mournhold, and the birth of
a new Kerrithrim is only barely averted by an armed force of Enorianite
and Duiranite warriors.
* The Kobolds of Siha Dylis reopen their settlement in the dungeons of
Azdun, having rebuilt after Iosyne's rebirth ruined their realm.
* A delegation of Grecht from the distant and vast empire of the Dehkay
Plateau visit the cities of Spinesreach, leaving behind a small
settlement in the Northern Tundra known as Arget Efri. Soon after this,
the renegade Grecht of the Siroccian mountains open the gates of their
Arget Massai atop Mount Sheine.
* Attempting to wrest power from the Source of Knowledge, Niuri is
betrayed by Ivoln. The Gods watch in silence as Her hands are cut off
and She is cast into the Source, destroyed almost entirely by the raging
power of the rift.
* The madness and corruption of Dendara are expressed once again as the
ancient and cannibalistic spirits of Prophet's Hollow war with the
ancestor spirits of the Praadi and the Sentinels. The Pride is gifted
with new training to combat the aberrations that pour from Dendara's
broken heart.
* Mortal experimentation with Niuri's salvaged hand leads to the
wounding of Vrennin and the plaintive dissolution of a fragment of the
Ultraist's spirit, as a ritual to anchor the fragmented Goddess goes
awry.
* Current era.
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