Timeline of Fastague

Timeline of Fastague and the Surrounding Regions

Welcome to the timeline of Fastague and the surrounding regions. This is an incomplete and most likely inaccurate representation of the last millenium of the campaign world of Fastague. More shall be added and changed as the PCs (player characters) adventure in the world and find out more of its past.

Before the First Elf War, over 1000 years ago...
- Civilization flourishes
- Major Magicians of the world sign non-interference pact. 100 years later, 9 of the 12 mages that signed this pact had been murdered.
The First Elf War, a little over 1000 years ago, supposedly started over a feud between governments
Several small wars between humans and elves over the space of 200 years, starting with the five-year-long Second Elf War, reason unknown
800 years ago...
- Elves create new time reckoning based on the creation of Great Star Lake about 180 years earlier, calling it Artis Watandin, "After the Starfall".
- Wars become more intense as small factions of elves swear Blood Oaths against the humans and gain more and more power and influence within the Elven High Court.
720 years ago: contact with the races known as goblins, orcs, and hobgoblins completely ceases. The races disappear from the face of the planet.
650 years ago: Elven coup d'etats in Gritton. Empire replaces the monarchy, and conquest of the north begins.
600 years ago: After 50 years of war, the Kingdom of Fastague falls completely under elven rule. Though considered second class citizens, the majority of humans do not consider the system unfair or unjust towards humans.
555 years ago: Human radicals finally succeed in a 45 year push to secede from the Elven Empire, founding the city of Nihgh in the Western Frontier.
535 years ago (465 AW): The first (and only) human king to ever rule the Elven Empire ascends the throne by disguise, deceit, and treachery, taking to wife the Duchess of Karukani. His ploy is discovered ten years later, and the king is hanged in Lindaton. Humans become the object of derision and distrust among the elvenlands.
480 years ago: The human Kingdom of Fastague takes the city of Lindaton, dividing the Elven Empire in two.
400 years ago: Attacking from both Lindaton and the cities in the West, the Kingdom of Fastague conquers the north. Civil war follows four years later, and the northern regions become the Confederate States of the North.
370 years ago: Elven Empire collapses. Replaced by the High Council of Gritton. War with the humans soon follows when the humans declare Lindaton capital of Fastague.
200 years ago:
- Jade Rundle and Yasir Kendlefoot, two of the three remaining mages who had signed the non-interference pact over 800 years ago, die of undisclosed circumstances. Now only Zinsaber remains.
- Wars between human and elf are now many and within days of each other. Loss of life on both sides steadily increases. King of Fastague bets on infrequency of elven reproduction to win.
100 years ago: Zinsaber disappears.
70 years ago: King Pontias ascends the throne and declares a war of attrition against the state of Gritton.
56 years ago: Daxar, an elven mage, Gaarik DaRuth, a paladin, Mac, a centaur fighter, Skanker, a half-elf bard, and Adam Wolf, a half-elf thief, rise to fame as they battle a notorious terrorist group, Canis Major. Daxar is revered as a god, while Gaarik later becomes a bard himself to tell the tale.
50 years ago: King Pontias dies of a heart attack, and clerics of both Alfadon and the Triple Goddess refuse to ressurrect him. King Relao ascends the throne at eight years old, ends the war against the elves, and begins diplomatic relations with Gritton.
10 years ago: signs of a new race, bones, bodies, and curious weapons, are found in Fastague's northern and eastern reaches.
Story's Beginning, count up from 1000 AW.
1000 AW: Goblin Invasion Saga. Goblin advance halted, the reawakening of Drago the Destroyer, a dragon of immense power, is thwarted.
1001 AW: Zinsaber's plan to overthrow Anala and become god of magic, the balance, peace, and the forest is played out. Mathurin defeats him in battle, becomes Mythala, god of balance and magic, taking his place at Anala's side, who reclaims her former duties.
1002 AW: The last of the orc/goblin rifts close, the strange contraptions known as "lasers" are destroyed.
1007 AW (0 GS): The Great Schism begins as Mythala and the other gods begin to reshape the land of Fastague.
1012 AW (5 GS): The old gods are released. Several of the evil gods wage war in the heavens as humans begin a new war to survive on earth. Orc and goblin reproduction is discovered to be ten times greater than humans, thus making them a threat anew.

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