Pre-Shem:
Dawn of time:
0 - The universe is born.
1 - The Foundation comes into being.
2 - Bahamut and Kujuta are born.
6 - Chukwas carry the special worlds out into the universe.
1017009943 - Life begins.
9119190183 - Sentient life comes into being, starting the First Age.

Pre-Rending:
0 - Life gains consciousness.
2 - Something dreams. Faeries are born.
1099 - The faerie courts split.
3033 - The second brother binds the three brothers and two sisters, creating two beings, one Balanced, one Contradictory. The five-in-two go their own ways.
3981 - The five-in-two watch their own people die out.
5388 - The five-in-two begin to craft their own people and empires. The Zurashi and the Qwyxane are created.
6096 - The Queen is born.
7491 - The five-in-two go to war, bringing the world to the brink of destruction.
7492 - The five-in-two take the form of commoners. The Balanced becomes a Zurashi, the Contradictory becomes a Qwyxane.
7498 - The five-in-two rise up and war with the gods of their world, crushing them, then tear down the barriers of mortality and Divinity. The Balanced goes left, the Contradictory goes right.
7499 - The five-in-two return as Divines, composed of all the Aspects of their world, and they make war with each other once more. Their world dies, but their war spreads across the cosmos.
7587 - Almost all life dies out in the segment of the universe the war occurs in save for very, very powerful Divines.
7727 - A powerful Divine fashions gates between Mortality and Divinity, replacing the barriers torn down by the five-in-one.
7941 - A Divine hatches a plan with the Balanced to wipe out the followers of the Contradictory. She is given permission to begin this plan.
12878 - The Divine returned with the Swords of Baal and God, giving them to a god and a baal respectively.
12888 - The Swords clash in the height of a final showdown between the armies of the Balanced and the Contradictory. Reality is Rivened in that moment, and most of the armies are wiped out.

Post-Rending:
0 - A race war breaks out between gods and baals. The Balanced sealed his sister, the Contradictory, in a prison before the Gates of Mortality and Divinity.
1 - The Balanced finds his people at war. He smites them all, expending his power to wipe them out, all but 42. He reached forth and hid the baals from the gods' perceptions, for they were few in the aftermath. The Divine who hatched the plan to end the war chose a new Aspect, Redemption.
2 - The surviving Divines begin to build a new life. They fashion homes for themselves, then begin a plan to build a world. The Balanced writes the Divine Laws.
4 - Other Divines choose new spheres.
7 - The extraplanar beings are created or summoned. Faeries flock to the Dreamer. Angels come to serve the Swanmother. The Serpentmother seduces the King of All Angels, and demons arrived. The Gatekeeper brought forth the valkyries, and the Goddess of the Dawn breathed life into the sun, which was named Angelos, and the sollarians were born.

First Shem:
19 - The world is fashioned by all of the gods, with the Maker guiding them. He and his wife, the Silver Mother brought life to the world. The Two-Faced Goddess named it Shem, and the first beings there were named shemir. The World Tree is planted, awakening Mother Shem. The two are considered twin sisters. The Manifests come into being.
20 - The Lupa Subsequent dies, marking the first death of a sentient being on Shem.
31 - Mother Shem has a child by the Eleventh. His name is Elam.
34 - Mother Shem has a child by Ernogemous, the Dragon King.. His name is Asshur.
37 - Mother Shem has a child by Renquire, the Judge Manifest. His name is Arphaxad.
39 - Mother Shem has a child by Leviathan, the Whale. His name is Ziezi.
44 - Mother Shem has a child by Avan-Dar, the Zeronysian Prince. His name is Lud.
46 - Mother Shem has a child by Bohoniv, the Alpha Shemir. His name is Aram.
49 - The Aeonian Courts are created. Leviathan, the Honest Man, the King of All Dragons, the Untouchables, the Chorus, the Eximuses, the Storm Prince, the Sky Duke, and others are born.
50 - The Divine Omniary is created.

The Age of Dawning:
0 - The watchers begin recording history on Shem.
3 - Baako, the Human Manifest, is cursed. Berko, the Human Subsequent, her husband, becomes a trickster trying and failing to save her.
7 - Divergence of races begins.
29 - Madziar is founded.
44 - Deseria is founded.
46 - Green Arbor is founded.
1527 - The Gifts are first created.
1779 - The Riverkin people's earliest recorded histories begin.
2091 - Seinam is founded.
2493 - The Windkin people's earliest recorded histories begin.
8947 - Jesumein founded.
10000 - The Guardians of Mortality are formed and declare war on the Divines.

The First War of the Gods:
0 - War begins between Mortality and Divinity.
31 - The Divines make war on each other.
47 - Gifts become central to civilization due to the war.
88 - The Guardians suffer a defeat at Jesumein and vow to build their new order from the ruins of the city.
1646 - The Jack of Hearts sails from the future to an adventure with The Queen. Fasune vanishes into the Dream Realm, taking the Black Touch with it.
1717 - Taggarus vanishes into the Catacombs after the Many-Eyed God
1877 - Ansulym is scoured of life by the Cannon of Armageddon.
1978 - The Guardians make a deal with the Serpentmother.
1994 - The Law is broken for the first time, and the living Guardians a the time are cursed.
2000 - The Orb of All Saints is destroyed by a Guardian wielding the Sword of Apocalypse. The gods are sealed away. The war ends. Ferali becomes the Last Guardian, at the time thought to be literally, leading to the forming of the office.

The First Godless Age:
0 - The Guardians (Ferali and his new apprentices) begin to build the nation of Jesumein as one founded on mortalism.
647 - Kali is founded.
1020 - Atmet finds the Sword and Armor of the Gods and begins to conquer Palhur.
1330 - The Valhonians are forced from their homeland and become the Lost Elves.
2081 - Galdun is founded.
3037 - Tara'hin and Vesturia are founded.
4041 - Ansulum begins to recover.
4991 - The Serpentmother secretly escapes her imprisonment.
5000 - The first Legend is documented.

The Age of Legends:
0 - Berko plants a garden on an island where Fasune once was.
215 - The Webweaver is born a mortal.
948 - Elliott Bumfuzzle is born.
968 - The Mouth of Chaos is born.
976 - The Messiah of Flowers is born a mortal.
979 - The Prophet of Hours is born.
982 - The Queen of Cats is born.
997 - The Many-Eyed God escapes his imprisonment.
998 - The Flowerlady escapes her imprisonment.
999 - The Second War of the Gods begins.
1001 - The Prophet of Hours frees all Divines. The Messiah of Flowers is slain by an ender, enters the Hells, and arises anew as a Messiah. The Queen of Cats begins gathering power. The Prophet of Hours kills the God-Emperor of Palhur. The Order of Sather is founded.
1002 - The Webweaver acquires the Seven Godmade Prophecies: the Books of Dreams, Threads, Fortunes, Thoughts, Histories, Cosmos, and Death. The Order of the Chrysanthemum is formed. The Mouth of Chaos begins his cult. The Many-Eyed God is slain by the Messiah of Flowers. The Lost Hero is born.
1004 - Elliott Bumfuzzle builds a Fuzzler, the first airship.
1006 - Rochar the Red vanishes.
1010 - The Miracleman position is formed with the Chrysanthemum Faith.
1021 - The Lost Hero and his companions sail to Ansulym and face the Serpentmother, slaying her. The Webweaver steals a numen composed of fragments of her Name, but he is chased into the Hells by the surviving companions and slain by the Queen of Cats. He uses the numen to protect himself from the Gate, and the Bone-Mother takes his soul to her bosom. The evil sorcerer Faustus Simon attempts to take the numen, but his brother, Virgil Simon, seals the Sword of Hope to prevent it. The numen is scattered across the world, and a tower of Hope stands in the Hells.
1026 - Elliott Bumfuzzle dies of old age. Anton Tove's family is cursed; Lucas Tove is born.
1037 - The Mad God arrives on Shem, seeking to replace the Many-Eyed God.
1042 - The Spider Cult is formed. The Jack of Hearts finds himself embroiled in an adventure that spans the globe and culminates in the loss of the Serpentmother's numen and the death of her last powerful followers. The Tove family curse is broken. The Mad God becomes part of Shem. New Divines are born. The Queen of Cats begins hunting morags.
1058 - The Second War of the Gods officially ends with the ascension of the Messiah of Flowers.
1848 - The Mother of Blood replaces the Serpentmother. Legions is created.
2036 - The Arbiter fashions the Orb of Law.
2989 - The first Prophetess of Destruction arises.
2997 - The Divine Spellcaster is slain by the Orb's destruction. Emmanuel becomes the First Law-Master.
3000 - The Divine Courts are sealed again by the final fragmenting of the Orb of Law.

The Second Godless Age:
0 - The War of the Shards begins.
117 - Srisia is founded by the Spider Cult.
431 - The Queen of Cats takes up the mantle of the Crimson Queen and becomes a reever.
1187 - The Sisters of Destruction are formed.
1643 - The Webweaver invents Spiderweb Plague.
2219 - The Triplets of the Webweaver are born.
2404 - The Corrupter is born.
2773 - The Second Propetess of Destruction arises.
2971 - The Keeper of Pentacles is born.
2994 - The Shards of Law are discovered. The Spellcaster Divine is resurrected. Emmanuel is slain. The Master of the Red Cross chooses Hope as the next Age, but that Age does not arrive for millennia.
2998 - The War of the Shards officially ends. Toddbrook University is founded.
3497 - The Guardians of Mortality achieve a worldwide dominance.
4908 - The Guardians of Mortality create an atomic bomb.
4997 - The Guardians of Mortality use a nuclear bomb. The Queen of Cats unseals the Divines with an empowered Sword of Freedom (brought on by Toddbrook's choice). The Third War of the Gods begins.
6242 - Taggarus is brought back to Shem.
6746 - The Webweaver murders the Mother of Blood and becomes Divine.
7202 - The Queen of Cats slays the Goblinfather on the Mountain of Trials on Taggarus. The Masked God replaces him immediately.
7899 - The Arbiter enforces a peace between the gods, ending the Third War of the Gods.
9497 - An ancient design by Elliott Bumfuzzle is discovered in a Tara'hinian vault for a space fuzzler.
9872 - The space fuzzler is perfected.
10000 - Terrestial races make deep headway into space. A new age, empowered by Hope, begins.

The Age of Miracles:
0 - Terrestial and lunar races interact for the first time in a meaningful way via space fuzzlers, starting the Epoch of Expansion.
549 - Terrestial races reach the then-unnamed Ruiz (asterians insisted this planet, which was almost never visible from Shem, had no name).
877 - Terrestial races reach Jahur.
1425 - Terrestial races are repelled from Kruurrach.
1991 - Other worlds are colonized.
2364 - The asterians attempt to convince the terrestial races to return to Shem.
2577 - The Queen of Cats becomes the Ark's Consort.
2626 - The War of Worlds begins as the asterians make war on all terrestial races.
3043 - Terrestial races reach Mytoth.
3811 - Terrestial races reach Ane.
4444 - Terrestial races begin exploring the Moloi Cloud.
4909 - The Narajarian Alliance contacts the logoses and calls for them to prevent Shemmish expansion beyond the asteroid belt. The call is answered. The Epoch of Expansion ends; the Epoch of Reason begins.
5357 - The Grand Academic Network becomes a central power in the world.
8006 - Mortals begin to explore the planar realms in mass movements.
11059 - The Shapers appear. The Epoch of Reason ends; the Epoch of Wonders begins.
11071 - The fashioning of miracles becomes commonplace.
12121 - Fasune reappears.
33181 - The Offerants of Sapphire and Silver arise.
38717 - Conflict arises between the Pantheons.
39099 - The Arbiter creates the system of Champions fo siphon power away from the hands of mortals. The Three Forgotten Champions arise.
40008 - The Breaking of the World occurs. The Forgotten Champions are obliterated. The Age of Miracles ends.

The Age of Sable and Obsidian:
0 - The world begins to recover from the Breaking.
4998 - The Champions of Sable and Obsidian arise. The Offerants of Silver and Sapphire are slain and do not return. The King of All Angels is killed. The Flowerlady is sealed away.
5842 - The Devil is born.
10031 - The Offerant of Swans arises.
10037 - The Offerant of Swans is slain and does not return. The Devil steals his soul and forges two white guns from it.
18970 - The Runners take all of the good people away through a Waygate to Ruiz, named by the future Champion of the Horse-Mother.
18894 - The Champions of Sable and Obsidian transcend, ending the Age. The Champion of the Apocalypse begins marshalling his forces for the end of the world.

The Age of Eschaton:
0 - The Runners return and become the Champions of Viridian, Violet, Vermilion, Alabaster, and Platinum.
5008 - The Fourth War of the Gods begins. The Messiah of Flowers returns to Shem in mortal form.
5027 - The Messiah of Flowers dies, finds the Sword of Hope sealed in the Hells, removes it, and rises again. The Flowerlady is released.
6001 - The Queen of Cats becomes the Messiah's Assassin.
8949 - The Troll God is slain by a Knight of the Foundation. The Ruiner takes the Troll God's place.
8981 - The Champion of Destruction transcends. The Messiah of Flowers stands before him and preserves the righteous.
9000 - The world ends.

Between Shems :
The War of the Righteous and the Damned
:
0 - The Righteous and the Damned make war.
100001 - A final showdown takes place between the Messiah of Flowers and the Omega Shemir. The Messiah of Flowers once more stands before the pure power of destruction with nothing but compassion, hope, and faith. The Omega Shemir is blinded, and the Messiah attempts to bring him redemption. He flees to the Rending, and the Arbiter declares the side of the Righteous the winner. The Promised Land is opened for those who wish to rest. The Messiah retires. The Fourth War of the Gods ends.
100002 - The Divines gather to create the world again.

Second Shem:
The Second Age of Dawning:
0 - The world begins.
65 - Life begins on Shem. Manifests are returned or made.
258 - Inmortal races dominate the world. Shemir reinvent civilization.
944 - The races begin to diverge.
1001 - The first subrace comes to be.

The Age of Evolution:
0 - The gods take a hand in evolution.
2344519 - Mundane life takes to the land.
58210625 - Mundane mammals appear.
122949236 - Tribal socieites form.
1499876124 - Gifts are reintroduced.
1499932764 - Gifts begin to influence evolution.
1500000000 - The first nation-state is founded. The Divines enter Slumber.

The Third Godless Age:
0 - Religions begin to multiply.
403 - The Queen of Cats begins hunting shadow-kin.
802 - The Graysonite Church is refounded.
2416 - The Aeonian cults begin.
3945 - The demon worship cults take power.
5722 - The first known mention of the Prophecy of the Final Sword is recorded.
6471 - The Queen of Reevers is born.
6498 - The Absolute Zero attacks and the gods reawaken.

The Fifth War of the Gods:
0 - The Divines unite and repel the Absolute Zero.
371 - The Aeonian cults are largely quashed.
766 - The Divines begin to battle each other.
1028 - The Queen of the Reevers is believed to have died at the Battle of Nascent.
1372 - The Third Battle of the Great Redwood in Palhur nearly causes the world to collapse.
1505 - The Arbiter forces a peace.

The Age of the Pearl Rose:
0 - The Champion of the Horse-Mother takes the Name of the World.
387 - The Champion creates the Sleeping Colonies.
1364 - Wars end completely.
2051 - The Champion transcends. The Champion of the WAR GOD refuses to take the Name of the World and the WAR GOD curses the world with constant war, then banishes his Champion.

The Age of the Broken Sword:
0 - Worldwide war breaks out.
692 - The Manifestation Wars begin.
694 - The Scarab God dies.
695 - Hollow Jack ascends to replace the Scarab God.
696 - The Lost Gods join Shem's pantheons. The Queen of Cats founds the Obusingye Empire.
700 - Dabusen rises.
916 - Agikaan begins conquering the world.
1602 - Agikaan falls. The Curseweaver and his companions defeat an epitome of the WAR GOD's curse masquerading as the One True God of Agikaan. The One True God escapes.
2603 - The Obusingye Empire breaks the curse of the WAR GOD.

The Declination:
0 - The empires start to dissolve.
1934 - The Corrupter attempts to create a new Book of Names. The Rains begin to fall all over the world.
2000 - The Age ends as the world is flooded.

The Age of Pillars:
0 - The Champions of Pillars begin to control the world.
1112 - The Queen of Cats acquires Demonslayer.
33107 - The War of Hours spans Epochs. The Divine Courts are reordered by a parliamentarian maneuver. The Angelslayer sword is Mastered by the Webweaver. The Green-Eyed Goddess is slain and replaced by the Poacher. The first of the New Gods arise. Consensus is formed.
34101 - The Queen of Cats and the Court of Laurels bring the WAR GOD a wife, Altsisi Swordqueen, the Queen of Swords.
34131 - The Age ends.

The Age of Mantles:
0 - The Champions of Mantles begin to control the world.
6523 - The Fox Wars begin.
18071 - The Age ends.

The Dark Age:
0 - No Champions take up the Name of the World.
9497 - Harkan the Black rejects the world at the moment of Starfall.

The Age of the Wounding:
0 - Starrfall occurs. The Pit is formed. The world is reshaped. The Arbiter is found to be missing. Monsters arise from the Pit. More New Gods arise. The Sixth War of the Gods begins.
1 - The Queen of Cats begins hunting pit-monsters.
3 - The most recent of the New Gods arise.
4 - The Gods of the Pit are cast down.
7 - The Sixth War of the Gods ends.
15 - The Waygates are fixed.
101 - The elves realize they are dying out.
758 - The Samfie War begins.

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