Timeline

All years marked in the Standard Era (SE).

-4.5 billion SE - The moons form; the Green Moon forms a greenish atmosphere as certain gases spew from its molten surface

??? - Erennane, the Thief of the New Moon, steals the moons from the night sky to create the first new moons

-540,000 SE - The surori of the Grey Moon start the first civilization on the moons

-440,000 SE - The athaks form the first civilization on the White Moon

-320,000 SE - The athaks commune with the Vast and see secrets of the universe

-225,000 SE - The athaks nearly kill the White Moon in an ill-advised attempt to make it a vessel of void energy

-154,000 SE - The surori first bond with lunar wolves

-150,000 SE - Dreams of the moons transform the then-hostile Green Moon into a verdant fey realm with pink trees and lush wilderness

-148,000 SE - The first great mirror of the surori is created

-144,000 SE - The surori of the Grey Moon split into three nations, the Soralba, Soragri, and Soraverde

-133,000 SE - The Soraverde visit the Green Moon and establish a home there, Ogledoma, and the Soralba visit the White Moon and establish Opazovati as a home there

-127,000 SE - The Soragri attune their great mirrors and can see the phases of their moons from the pespective of Shem

-122,000 SE - Diaga is made Queen of the Moon Fey and Diaganacht is founded

-117,000 SE - The athaks achieve space flight via a strange vessel, but quickly give up as they cannot get very far

-105,000 SE - The Soragri visit Shem and teach the mortals there about the moons

-101,000 SE - The Soralba perfect their shielding on their cities to protect themselves from the harsh environment

-84,000 SE - Queen Diaga builds Caislean Og, the Maiden's Castle, her eternal home

-76,000 SE - The Soraverde builds the Zelenogle, the Green Mirror

-61,000 SE - The Soralba invent special mineral gathering tools

-59,000 SE - The Soragri bind the Eldritch Moon Fall

-43,000 SE - The athaks meet and make a pact with gnomes, who have arrived at an unknown date to the White Moon

-41,000 SE - The athaks fly to Shem and form a country under its surface

-39,000 SE - Queen Diaga fashions her treasures: Bogha Airgid, the Silver Bow; Claiomh Fola, the Sword of Blood; Clios Iomha, the Belt of Images; Coroin Aisling, the Crown of Dreams; Crochadan Beo, the Pendant of Life; Fainne Marfach, the Ring of Death; Guna Croi, the Gown of Hearts; Saigheada Fiaine, the Wilder Arrows; Slat Taibhse, the Sceptre of Souls; Slipeir Mhealltacha, the Slippers of Merriment; and Clairseach Milis, the Harp of Sweetness.

-33,000 SE - The Soralba invent a rudimentary seismograph

-27,000 SE - The Soraverde build Devishki Tempelj, the Maiden's Temple

-24,000 SE - The Soragri lead an ancient hunting ritual that creates the first werewolves

-19,000 SE - The Queen of All Faerie visits and gives Diaga her permission to rule the Green Moon

-13,000 SE - The Soraverde build the Polica, their glorious library

-10,500 SE - The athaks create the first null-life weapons and then immediately forbid their creation in their culture

-9,600 SE - The Soralba invent a powerful telescope

-5,000 SE - The Cinn Mhaithe, the six heroes of Diaganacht, fight the monster of Searbh and seal it away into the volcano Urlacan; they are assisted by the soraverde heroine Miroslava, who sacrifices herself to seal the monster

-4,300 SE - The Soragri make an accord with the animal folk of the Grey Moon to live in peace and share resources

-3,800 SE - The Soralba meet the athaks for the first time

-3,200 SE - The Soraverde build a monument to Miroslava called Njen Stolp, Her Tower

-2,300 SE - The athaks create a machine that can create null-space

-1,200 SE - Baron Rothlainn betrays Queen Diaga and tries to build his own kingdom; he is slain by the Cinn Mhaithe using Diaga's treasures

-856 SE - The Swamp Kings arise in the nearside swamps and establish their own kingdom

-663 SE - The Soragri send word to their siblings on other satellites asking to have a gathering

-414 SE - Queen Diaga declares An Bandearg its own kingdom as part of a deal with the tree spirits

-254 SE - The Soraverde, Soralba, and Soragri attend the Zbiranje, a gathering of their elders, on the Grey Moon

-101 SE - The Great Voyage: Queen Diaga, the Cinn Mhaithe, and five sailors of deep space go on a voyage throughout the solar system, spending centuries away; the Regent Ciannait runs Diaganacht until the Queen's return

1 SE - The White Crown Concordance is formed, uniting many eastern empires.

33 SE - The Soragri do a survey of all the moons of the solar system

114 SE - The Soraverde build the Sestrstvo, the Sisterhood Monument, to their sister species

244 SE - The Soralba invent a teleportation mirror

345 SE - The athaks create the Yzor-moatek, their elected body that rules their country

417 SE - The Soralba invent a meteor tracking device

660 SE - The Soragri build the Temple of the Moon Mother

701 SE - The Soraverde send a message into space to ask Queen Diaga to return, as they have had portents of coming danger

762 SE - Queen Diaga and her five sailors return from the Great Voyage, but the Cinn Mhaithe remain on other worlds; Regent Ciannait relinquishes power and returns to being a Duchess

901 SE - Sadhbh, one of the Cinn Mhaithe, returns from the sun, now with a golden leg and blind; she settles down and becomes a healer

1022 SE - Aineislis, one of the Cinn Mhaithe, returns from Weptaram with a kene husband; he settles down and becomes a bard

1062 SE - The Soragri foretell the coming of colonizers

1105 SE - The Soraverde hide one of their cities, fearing what may come to them in coming centuries

1236 SE - The athaks build the null-heat engine

1258 SE - The Soragri return to Shem and seek to prevent the coming of colonizers, but fail

1287 SE - Queen Diaga visits Shem for a Shem-year, leaving Regent Ciannait in charge again

1311 SE - The Soralba create a map of the near cosmos

1404 SE - Dubhdara, one of the Cinn Mhaithe, returns from Ane missing an eye and an ear; he settles down and becomes a scholar

1517 SE - The Soraverde send a ship out into the cosmos to explore

1529 SE - The athaks invent a null-blade armor

1589 SE - The three Tall Ships, the Goodspeed, the Star Venture, and the Imperial Dawn, sail into space to seek the moons

1590 SE - The Star Venture arrives on the Grey Moon, and two months later, the Imperial Dawn arrives on the Green Moon; Queen Diaga makes an agreement with the colonial Reliance Eastcott to allow them a parcel of land to build on; the Soragri send ambassadors to the colonizers but make no promises

1591 SE - The Goodspeed arrives on the White Moon; the Soraverde refuse to treat with colonizers on the Green Moon

1592 SE - Grainne, one of the Cinn Mhaithe, returns from Jahur with a verethir lover; she settles down and becomes a forest ranger

1593 SE - Reliance Eastcott is taken by the Wild Hunt in accordance with the deal he made with Queen Diaga; the colonizers declare war on Diaganacht

1595 SE - The Magnacannon is used on the fairy queendom by the Imperial Dawn; Queen Diaga curses the imperials; a stalemate and cold war ensues

1601 SE - The Soragri and other lunar species go to full war with the colonizers

1604 SE - The athaks come to the assistance of the gnomes in defending against the colonizers, nearly wiping them out

1610 SE - Queen Diaga makes a deal with Tenacious Melnot, the de facto leader of the colonial forces, to end the cold war, taking his daughter Welcome Melnot hostage; the colonials are ceded more land in exchange, and the curse on the colonials only applies to the Melnot family

1613 SE - The Grey Moon Treaty allows the colonizers some land but limits their expansion

1624 SE - Zelentravn founded by colonists on the Grey Moon in violation of the treaty

1630 SE - Colonists at Zelentravn come into conflict with a force of ugriz and lunar wolf folk in the Night War

1631 SE - The colonists abandon Zelentravn, and eight months later, some refugees and natives take it over

1637 SE - The athaks eradicate an entire mining colony of colonizers on the White Moon

1644 SE - Colonists try to retake Zelentravn and are repulsed, the Ten Year War ensues

1651 SE - The Soralba invent a mining drill

1654 SE - The Accord of Zelentravn is formed, the town becomes neutral territory

1661 SE - Muadhnait, one of the Cinn Mhaithe, returns from the asteroid belt with one hundred tricows and a sterupican servant; she settles down and starts a farm

1672 SE - The Soragri have a battle with the colonizers, nearly wiping out one of their major forces, but reinforcements come from Shem

1683 SE - The athaks refuse to sign a treaty with colonizers

1690 SE - Queen Diaga has three colonials executed for killing a fairy child during exploration of fairy lands; the colonizers try to retaliate but are defeated

1704 SE - The Soragri end up being divided from other lunar species when the colonizers spread rumors they have been hiding dangerous secrets

1712 SE - The Soraverde have a skirmish with the colonials on the Green Moon

1725 SE - Welcome Melnot visits her relations in the colonies, not having aged a day, and they try to "rescue" her, but she refuses

1729 SE - The Soragri suffer a major loss to colonizers at the Battle of Mare Nolo, which is wiped out by a meteor strike later that year

1730 SE - The athaks suffer their first defeat by the colonizers due to excessive use of magicks by the colonial forces

1732 SE - The Soralba repel an attack by colonizers

1749 SE - Duchess Ciannait is seen in public deeply aged with her hair turned grey, an odd sight on a fey

1751 SE - The Soragri make peace with the lunar wolf folk and ugriz, preparing for a war with the colonizers, forming the Grey Alliance

1753 SE - A guerrilla war with the colonials on the Grey Moon forces them to pull back

1756 SE - The Grey Alliance forces the colonaisl into a temporary peace

1759 SE - The athaks sign the Treaty of Muqorix with the colonizers

1764 SE - Breccan, one of the Cinn Mhaithe, returns from Ziezi alone and forlorn, having lost his one true love; he settles down and becomes a priest

1767 SE - Present day