HISTORY OF THE WORLD
The
following is a brief description of the history of Eberron, the information
here would be common knowledge to all.
Date: -10,000,000+ In the mythic past, the world was one and the
progenitor wyrms, the first and greatest of dragonkind ruled all. The three
most powerful, Siberys, Eberron and Khyber, discovered - or created –
theProphesy. A world shattering
struggle followed, splitting the world into three parts and scattering the
Prophesy across the width and breadth of existence. In the end, Siberys became
the glowing ring that surrounds the world, Khyber was bound in the darkest
depths, and Eberron healed the world between by becoming one with it. Siberys
called forth the next generation of dragons, Eberron created all manner of
other living things, and Khyber spat out the fiends.
Age of Demons
Date: -10,000,000 Khyber’s fiendish offspring overrun the surface world, creating a
hellish environment where Rakasasha and Night Hags rule supreme.
Date: -1,500,000 Dragons rediscover the prophesy and rise from their primitive
state to oppose their demonic overlords, allyinh with other draconic species,
including Couatls. The common races, still in primitive states, hide from the
godlike combatants and find a way to survive.
Date: -100,000 The Couatl sacrifice most of their numbers to send the most
powerful of the demon lords and the majority of the fiends back to Khyber,
where they are trapped for eternity. The dragon retreat to Argonnessen to
contemplate the Prophesy, ignoring the ‘lesser races’.
Age of Giants
Date: -80,000 The giants rise from the ruins of the dragon-fiend wars to establish a vast and powerful civilization on the continent of Xen’drik. They enslave elves and drow, which has the inadvertant effect of raising the first of the common races from their primitive state.
Date: -60,000 Dragons make contact with the giant kingdom and begin to
teach them how to use arcane magic. The elves watch and learn from their place
at the giant’s heels. The giants quickly master the arcane arts, creating marvels unequaled even in the
modern day.
Date: -40,000 The Quori invade Xen’drik through a gate that connects to
Dal Quor, the plane of dreams. After years of battle, the giants call upon the
magic of the dragons to destroy the planar gate. This act results in a
cataclysm that shakes Xwn’drik to its core and plunges large chunks of the
continet into the sea. The physical connection to Dal Quor is severed, perhaps
forever.
Date: -39,000 The remaining giant kingdoms never quite recover from the
quori invasion. Horrible curses and plagues sweep through the land, and the
elves use the opportunity to rebel. In desperation, the giants again turn to
the magic they used to stop the quori. Before they can unleash such destruction
a second time, the dragons attack. Giant civilization crumbles, the drow go
into hiding in the Xen’drik countryside, and the elves flee to the island
continent of Aerenal.
Age of Monsters
Date: -38,000 The giants revert to primitive monsters living in the ruins
of their shattered civilization as the dragons return to their secluded
continent and the elves settle Aerenal. Meanwhile, on Khorvaire, the first of
the goblinoid kingdoms rises in the area that will one day become Breland and
Darguun
Date:
-30,000 Orc nations arise in western
Khorvaire to compete with the goblinoid kingdoms.
Date: -25,000 The Undying Court appears in Aerenal. First skirmish
between the elves and the dragons, which sets a pattern of long periods of
peace, punctuated by short, devastating battles, every few hundred years.
Date: -16,000 The Dhakaani unite the goblinoid nations to create the
greatest empire the goblins have ever known. The Gatekeepers appear among the
orcs of western Khorvaire.
Date:
-12,000 The dwarves migrate from the
Frostfell to the Ironroot Mountains.
Date: -10,000 Aerenal elves establish a colony in what is now present day
Valenar. Peaceful coexistence doesn’t last, and the elves come into conflict
with the Dhakaani. The elves abandon the colony when another clash with the
dragons threatens Aerenal.
Date: -9000 The Daelkyr war decimates the western reaches of Khorvaire.
Date: -5000 Weakened by the Daelkyr war, the Dhakaani empire is
shattered by infighting and civil strife, eventually leading to the collapse of
the goblinoid civilization.
The Current Age
Date:
-4100 The greatpine Oalian is
awakened.
Date:
-3200 The Mark of Hospitality appears
among the halflings of the Talenta Plains. The Marks of Shadow and
Death appear among the elves
of Aerenal. The dragons watch in awe and horror as the Prophesy
Begins to unfold among the ‘lesser’ races.
Date:
-3000 Lhazaar leads humans from
Sarlona to the eastern shores of Khorvaire. The Mark of Healing appears among
the halfling of the Talenta Plains.
Date:
-2800 The Mark of Scribing appears
among the gnomes of Zilargo.
Date: -2600 The Mark of Sentinal appears among humans of pre-Galifar
Karrnath. House Vol, which carries the Mark of Death, is wiped out in Aerenal.
House Phiarlan leaves Aerenal to relocate among the humans of Khorvaire
Date: -2500 The distinct settlement that will become the five
Nations appear in central Khorvaire. The Mark of Making appears among the
humans of pre-Galifar Cyre. The Mark of Warding appears among the dwarves of
the Mror Holds.
Date: -2000 Karrn the Conquerer establishes the nation of Karrnath,
defeats the remaining goblinoid settlements, and unsuccessfully attepts to
defeat the other four human nations. The Mark of Storm appears among the
pre-Galifar half-elves of Thrane.
Date:
-1900 The Mark of Passage appears
among the humans of pre-Galifar Aundair.
Date:
-1800 The Mark of Handling appears
among the humans in the Eldeen Reaches. Kalashtar reach Sarlona, fleeing Dal
Quor and the persecution of the Quori.
Date: -1500 Quori begin conquest of Sarlona. Second wave of humans
reach Khorvaire’s western shores. The Mark of Detection appears among the
half-elves of pre-Galifar Breland. The Dragonmarked houses Launch the War of
the Mark, to end the threat of aberrant and mixed marks. The Twelve is
established.
Date:
-1043 Galifar I is born in Karrnath
Date:
-1022 Galifar assume leadership of
Karrnath
Date:
-1012 Galifar begins his campaign to
unite the Five Nations
Date:
-1005 Galifar makes a deal with the
Dragonmarked houses, offering them neutral status in exchange for support in
his campaigns.
Date:
-1000 The Mark of Finding appears
among the humans and half-orcs of the Shadow Reaches.
Date:
1YK (-998) Galifar I and his five scions;
Cyre, Karrn, Thrane, Aundair and Brey – take control of the Five Nations and
establish the kingdom of Galifar.
Date:
15YK Galifar I establishes the Arcane
Congress
Date:
28YK Galifar – Lhazaar war, a decade
long conflict begins
Date:
32YK The Five nations of Galifar
adopt the names of the kings five children for their own.
Date: 40YK Galifar, now 85 years old, steps down and passes
rulership of his kingdom to his eldest remaining on Cyre.
Date: 53YK Galifar I dies
Date: 106YK House Kundarak is recognized by the established
Dragonmarked houses.
Date: 299YK The Church of the Silver Flame is born
Date: 347YK House Lyrandar takes possession of an island off the coast
of Aundair to create Stormhome.
Date: 498YK House Sivis discovers the Mark of Finding while exploring
the Shadow Marches. House Tharashk is
founded soon after.
Date: 512YK King Daroon orders the construction of the Starpeaks
Observatory
Date: 778YK Medusas from Khyber take possession of Cazhaak Draal.
Date: 789YK House Sivis message stations begin operation.
Date: 802YK The kingdom of Galifar, in cooperation with the
Dragonmarked houses, funds the upgrade of the trade city of Stormreach on the
northern peninsula of Xen’drik.
Date: 811YK First lightning rail connects Flamekeep and Fairhaven.
Date: 832YK The inquisition to wipe out lycanthropes is launched by
the Church of the Silver Flame: it lasts 50
years and drives the race almost to
extinction.
Date: 845YK King Jarot starts a public works project to connect all of
central Khorvaire via lightning rails. Within
20 years, lines connect the Five
Nations, Zilargo, the Mror Holds and the Talenta Plains.
Date: 878YK House Deneith begins to provide clients with goblinoid
mercenaries from the Darguun region.
Date: 894YK King Jarot, the last ruler of Galifar, dies. Kaius, Thalin
and Wroann reject the succession of Mishann.
Wrogar backs his sisters claim and
the Last War begins.
Date: 896YK Order of the Emerald Claw is established
Date: 910YK Kaius II ascends to the throne of Karrnath
Date: 914YK The Mror Holds declares its independence. Thalin of Thrane
dies and the Church of the Silver Flame siezes control of the government.
Date: 918YK Unknown saboteurs destroy the Glass Tower of Sharn
Date: 928YK Ven ir’Kesslan leads settlers from the Five Nations to
forge the kingdom of Q’barra
Date: 956YK Aerenal mercenaries annex southern Cyre and declare the
sovereignty of the elf nation of Valenar.
Date: 958YK The Eldeen Reaches declares itself an independent nation
under the protection of the Wardens of the wood and the guidance of the great
druid Oalian.
Date: 961YK Boranel becomes king of Breland
Date: 962YK Zilargo formally aligns with Breland
Date: 965YK House Cannith perfects the modern era war-forged, living
constructs designed to fight the Last War.
Date: 969YK Haruuc leads the hobgoblin rebellion, and the nation of
Darguun is born.
Date: 972YK House Thuranni splits off from House Phiarlan.
Date: 976YK Regent Moranna of Karrnath outlaws the Order of the
Emerald Claw.
Date: 980YK Queen Aurala’s reign of Aundair begins
Date: 986YK A trio of hags known as the Daughters of Sora Kell, arrive
in Droaam with an army of trolls, ogres and gnolls.
Date: 987YK King Boranel pulls settlers back and seals off the land
west of the Graywall mountains. The Daughters of Sora Kell declare the
sovereignty of the nation of Droaam.
Date: 990YK The first elemental airships go into service for House
Lyrandar.
Date: 991YK Kaius III begins his reign of Karrnath.
Date: 993YK Jaela Daran assumes the power of the Keeper of the Silver
Flame
Date: 994YK Cyre is destroyed, the Mournland is created.
Date: 996YK The Treaty of Thronehold officially ends the Last War. The
treaty officially recognizes the nations of Aundair, Breland, Thrane, Karrnath,
the Talenta Plains, Zilargo, Q’barra, the Lhazaar Principalities, the Mror
Holds, the Eldeen Reaches, Darguun, and Valenar. House Cannith is ordered to
destroy all creation forges; the remaining warforged are granted the rights of
sentient beings.
Date: 998YK The campaign begins…