Timeline of Turbulus
The year is based on the events of The Twilight Wars BTW (Before Twilight Wars) & ATW (After Twilight Wars).
AFTER THE TWILIGHT WARS
800- ATW The Events of Souldrinker
800 The Journeys of Polo Battuta begin.
799 AGE OF FIRE ENDS &AGE OF TWILIGHT BEGINS
798 The Night of Flames incident in Southern Townships. Demon Lord Belial invades and occupies The Golden Fields. Wicker King is revived in Darkwoods. The Adventure Corps plan an expedition to scale The Spire of Glass
794 Slayer Robyn begins her wild hunt across Turbulus. The Sons of Akhenaten, infiltrate Al-Plazir madrasas. Bastion Wall Guetteurs skirmish with Grey's Remnant soldiers. The Adventure Corps graffiti Ilbis' largest statue in The Lava Fields
793 The Pestilence poisons the Lush Valley. Refugees driven away by Bastion Wall defenders. Many rally to the side of Lord Grey of Plaguefall.
791 Capital falls to the Demonic Legion led by Demon Lord Mammon, Golden Sun Order decimated. Cold War pact broken at Black Gate. The Iron Fleet is wiped out in The Capital Harbor
786 Empress Yao Xin overthrows her tyrant uncle who usurps the throne while she is travelling. The Adventure Corps explore the tunnel of ancient kings
780 Royal Alchemical Society in Plateau City rediscover Gunpowder from ancient Jongi scrolls. Engineers guild of Sunrise City develop technology from Pharos' Schematics.
776 Demon Lord Iblis forms the Molten Core Legion and begins to construct his Coliseum. League of Scholars discover ancient schematics of Chrome Hammer Dwarf Engineer Pharos.
771-775 Darkwoods-Myst City Trade War instigated by West Venture Company Trade Baron. Golden Sun Knights refuse to join war
769 Salvation Colony is founded in Squalor Mire to treat sick refugees.
765 Water from the Sacred Cistern of the High Elves is stolen by The Demonic Legion for Belial's plague research
757 War of the Iron Fleet and the Sunrise Admiralty.
750 Demon Lord Iblis deserts his allies to conquer the Lava Fields. The Northern Townships are cursed by the last Dark Elf Drwgi to exist in perpetual night
748 Dworgs under influence of rogue Maleficae attempt to invade The Golden Fields. Moonsworn aid Crop Guard Militia in defense. War of the Dworgs.
731 Water Sage Kraken rampages through The Forbidding Ocean, destroys much of the Nords. The League of Scholars explore the prehistoric caves in Land's Edge
725 Human settlers from Wormwoods massacre Drwgi residents and settle the lands of the Northern Townships
702 Demon Lord Lilith is turned over to the Army of Al-Plazir by her kin and imprisoned in the Black Sepulcher
701 Demon Lord Lilith betrays Archdemon Azazel's forces at the Black gate. Blackguard Army forces a 1000-year ceasefire pact with Demonic Legion. West Venture Company founded in Plateau City
699 Elder Vampires revived and enslaved by Demon Lord Lilith. Ninevehan ruins: 'The Nameless City' uncovered by the League of Scholars in the Leviathan Grounds. The Chesshire-Hatter faire set up largest exhibit to date in Sol Lumiere Palace grounds, attended by the regents of all 4 human kingdoms
687 Demonic Legion retake their ancient territories in the North. Azazel rebuilds the Legion Armada in Demon Bay
686 Demonic Legion reawakening and North West Turbulus conquered after months of resistance from Golden Sun Knights. First Legion resurgence War.
685 Archdemon Azazel is revived by occultists in The Temple of the Damned. League of Scholars study and abandon The Circle of Stars
681 Hellhound Garmr attacks funeral procession of Dwarvenholme Thane Hunferth II. Université de Montpellier opens in Sunrise City
649-657 Shuang Long monks fight off Centaur Warlord Kublai. Cheshire-hatter travelling faire formed in Myst City. Second War of Kublai.
649 Centaur Warlord Kublai invades the Jianbing Terrace Farmlands, burns Bangwei Ancient Tree. Dwarven Phoenix fights to keep Dwarvenholme safe from Dragonborne invasion.
647 Yu Hou Jade Empress Yao Xin eats the Zee Wang Mo peaches of the ancient tree and becomes immortal
642 Mount Verseuvia erupts shattering Crescent Island into the Pygmy Isles. Gondishapur Al-Hikma medical madrasa opens in Al-Plazir
639-642 Elven Blood Emperor Monctezuma killed in uprising led by Apanoi Phoenix and Crescent Island Imperial city of Tenochtitlan is destroyed
629-635 War of the Frozen Wastes dwarven tribes
621 Ongenþeow I takes control of Dwarvenholme, Sons of Akhenaten cult uncovered and massacred in Al-Plazir
611-617 Civil war of Dwarvenholme. Splinter faction Clan Wægmunding led by Scyld are exiled to Helheim Caverns
611 Thane Hunferth I seizes control of Dwarvenholme.
600 AGE OF Enigma ENDS
597 Wicker King destroyed by Moonsworn defenders, Lead Drwgi conspirators executed, others exiled to Northern Townships
587-597 Mysterious plagues kill massive numbers of Moonsworn, spread by Wicker King's minions
547-552 Blood Empire Wars wage across Plateau City coastal islands. Aspect of Blood Primordial Huitzilopochtli defeated by The Islander Phoenix
535 Cultists of Lei Gong attempt to revive CaoYuan Guiwu in the Geng Gao Mountains
521-529 Tabernacle-Sanctum war, armies of Suleiman of The Sanctum and Tabernacle army of Rikkard the Lion reach a stalemate in Squalor Mire
518 Countess Bathory is revived by Vampire cultists and re-conquers Chasm. Second Bloodmire Conquest.
515 Frankovine Inquisition to eliminate necromancy cult in Sunrise City
498 Dwarven Slayer Ragnar Lodbrok slays Warg pack leader Fenrir Foultooth
478 Mt. Erebus Eruption engulfs Lava Fields former Chrome Hammer settlements destroyed
462 Newly excavated Mazes uncovered in Turbulus. Chrome Hammers retreat into mazes. League of Scholars founded in Al-Plazir
450 Order of Chaos return and attempt to revive primordial of decay Tor'zelith in The fading Forest but mysteriously vanish
446 Chrome Hammer Dwarves reawaken from hibernation, begin excavations across isolated areas of Turbulus
437 Crown Civil Wars between rising powers of Sunrise City, Myst City and the Capital. Grand Alliance Broken
421 Qi Jian harbor overrun by Akugyo Sirens, repelled by Shuang Long monks. Sixth Crusade against the Order of Chaos wipes out the doomsday cult uprising in The Nords
401 Sunrise city priest Éliphas Lévi becomes Lich Éliphas Lé Morte, founds The Black Cauldron
399 AGE OF Inquisition ENDS
395 Countess Bathory of Bloodmire is executed by a group of Slayers
388 Famines decimate population of Golden Fields.
363 War of The Fang. Unified Vampire-drudge army led by Bloodmire Chasm attacks The Capital, lays siege. Bloodmire armies are defeated by Grand Alliance and Capital Elites.
358 Ancient human cave paintings discovered in Land's Edge- the lost tribe named First Ones
351 The Lycan War. Werewolf pack led by Silver-claw unsuccessfully assault Myst City, defeated by Golden Sun Knights
342-344 Widespread Witch-hunting Inquisitions led by Magistrate Mathers of Wormwoods. Covens in Wormwood and Heartless Swamp targeted
332 Deadlands borders spread South after Maleficae fail to revive Primordial of Decay, Tor'zelith
312-326 Gryphon Lord Rebellion. Led by Souverain Charles Marlesse I of Sunrise City
309 Order of Chaos infiltrators attempt to overrun Mohamia Hurm, driven off by the Pyramid watchers.
290-295 War of The Wormwoods. Captured Golden Sun Knight Graubler sacrificed by Wormwoods seer Veleda the blind. War between Wormwoods and The Tabernacle. Tabernacle annexes Wormwoods as vassal state to Myst City
289 Cult of Souldrinker infiltrates The Arbiter Grounds. Arbiter XXIV dies to entomb Souldrinker.
275 War of the farms. Dworgs overrun Wheat Town, controlled by a rogue Maleficae. Crop Guard Militia founded to protect Golden Fields.
272 Order of Chaos assassinate First Cleric Innocent XI. Fifth Crusade against Order of Chaos
255 Witches of Henxin Swamps try to resurrect evil spirits in Emowu City, but killed by Hei Gui spirits
241 The Cult of The Kraken infiltrates The Nords. Order of Chaos cultists attempt to revive Leviathans in Western Deserts, stopped by Spahi defenders.
233 Hraelsvelgr, Lich Jotunn of The Frozen Wastes raises army of Draugr to invade Dwarvenholme, driven away by Thane Ecgþeow
213-259 The Tabernacle conversions of Southern and Eastern Turbulus
211 War of the Ashes. The Burning of the original Tabernacle by the Order of Chaos infiltrators allied to Bloodmire Chasm
199 AGE OF REBIRTH ENDS
190 Explosion from the sabotaged Sacred Cistern destroys most of Gu Maireannach, Capital of High Elves. Sunrise admiralty formed to fortify coastal defenses, Capital expands The Iron Fleet
153-160 Civil wars of the Gryphons. House Marlesse assumes control with support from the Chevalier Guardiens
146 Chrome-Hammer Dwarves gather at Forerunner Monuments throughout Turbulus and fall into hibernation states
137 First War of The Fang. The Vampire-led Kingdom of Bloodmire Chasm is established, Count Vlad Tepes Bloodmire creates army of drudges to occupy the lands
130 Warlord Dygwr Marwolaeth is slain by the Moonsworn Phoenix and his Drwgi followers are exiled to The Northern Townships
124 War of the Draugr. Dwarven burial grounds in Absolute North Ice flow are overrun with Draugr
121-123 The Collapse of The Ileuadi. Drwgi assassin Tywyll Necros and his Drwgi followers kill King Dyfnwal of the Moonsworn Kingdom. The Dark Elf Kingdom fractures into Magisterial states
89-117 Seasonal waves of mysterious Plague decimates civilian population of Northern Turbulus spread from Fading Forest. Mass witch hunt inquisitions overwhelm Wormwoods and the Rumble Mountains.
89 Tabernacle publishes edicts outlawing magical education throughout Turbulus
79-88 Tabernacle Inquisitors uncover and massacre a dozen hidden groups of mages throughout Turbulus. Chronicler Astralode put on trial, but pardoned by King of Myst City
74 Bastion Wall separating Sunrise City and the Lush Valley is built to prevent raids. Convicts enlisted as Guetteurs
67 Lumiere's Coup. Souverain William X Lumiere Overthrows Sunrise Merovingian Dynasty to seize throne, constructs Sol Lumiere Palace
55 Whispers come from a lost kingdom below The Forbidding Ocean. Cult of Arlyeh spreads in the Nords led by supposed void spirit of the last Emperor Atenen
40 Slayer's Guild of Turbulus founded in The Capital, branches open across Turbulus
28 Black Sepulcher Prison in Darkmouth Pits opened to contain curse of despair infecting the village
25 Darkmouth Pits miners uncover deposits of cursed ore, remains of Xal'lorox, Primordial of Despair
19 Archdemon Azazel hunted down and executed by Grand Alliance in The Capital. The flagship of the Legion armada is sunk by the Capital's Iron Fleet
12 The Mages Purge. The Order of Exorcists and all other groups of mages are wiped out, blamed for crimes against Turbulus and the creation of the Demonic Legion.
10 End of the Twilight Wars.
0-Temple of Destiny renamed Temple of the Damned as base of Demonic Legion forces. Dwarves and Elves ignore call-to-arms
The Twilight Wars the devastating conflict of the Human Kingdoms and the Demonic Legion Forces of Daeva
BEFORE THE TWILIGHT WARS
(dates estimated by historical records)
0 GOLDEN AGE ENDS
20- BTW Fall of the Pharaohs. Khem Pharaohs overthrown by Al-Plaziri Sultanate, joins Grand Alliance. The Sanctum becomes religious authority of West. Spahi guards appointed as royal protectors in Al-Plazir
76 Ore deposits discovered under Darkmouth Village, mining operations begin
100 Formation of the Golden Sun Knighthood in Myst City
150 Dwarvenholme outer settlements burned by Dragon Naströnd. Dwarven refugees flock to The Nords. Dwarvenholme leaves Grand Alliance
177 Moonsworn withdraw from Grand Alliance.
185 Iron-Skin's War. Dragonborne hunted to near- extinction by Frost Dwarven army of Thane Beowulf Iron-skin II
197 Order of Magi Founded, School for Mages opened in Southern Darkwoods
229-201 Fourth Crusade against Order of Chaos
220 Iron Fleet navy of The Capital constructed
231 Warlord Ymir's War. Dragonborne barbarians sack Dwarvenholme, driven back by Grand Alliance Northern battalion. Frost Dwarves join Grand Alliance
243 Grand Alliance defeats resurrected Aspect of Primordial Khas'Moroth in the Rumble Mountains
254-249 Third Crusade against the Order of Chaos
260 High Elves sign peace treaty with Grand Alliance
277 Dark Elf Moonsworn join Grand Alliance. Dark Elven Phoenix imprisons the Elder Vampires.
282 Peace Pact signed between Humans and Dark Elves. Life Sage founds The Circle of Druids
288 The Crimson Plague. Vampires born from the Elven Blood Emperor's Sorcery. Vampire plague sweeps through Turbulus
299 AGE OF Beasts ENDS
310 Dragon Frafnir destroys most of the Northern Townships, slain by Phoenix Siegfried
379 Second War of The Dragon. Army of Sigurd wipe out Dragonborne army in The Frozen Wastes, sealing away Nydhogg Peak's Elder Dragon Jormungandr
380 Dragonborne wage war with Dwarvenholme. Dwarven Slayers Guild founded
387 First War of the Dragon. Dragonborne barbarians raid the Frozen Wastes, granted power by Elder Dragon Jormungandr.
391 Continent of Jong is concealed by the Chaos Maelstrom barrier
399 The reformation of The Tabernacle faith, corrupt members expelled from order
409 Northern Townships area settled by Werewolf refugees.
415 Gui Wall completed to hold off the spread of the Gui Ghostlands. Haunted Emowu City of Hai abandoned
421 AGE OF HEROES ENDS
430 Burgundian Phoenix leads rebellion against corrupt Tabernacle Rule in Wormwoods
437 Centaur Warlord Khan Caoyuan sends a fleet to attack Eastern Turbulus, but boats are destroyed by Guardian Dragon Bei Kong in a massive monsoon
455 Khem decodes The Emerald Tablet and rediscovers Alchemy
461 The Emerald Tablet is discovered in Ninevehan ruins of The Leviathan Grounds
501 Human Kingdoms assemble a council to form an alliance. Grand Alliance founded
530 Territories in Turbulus are allocated to each Human Kingdom to be ruled by separate kings. Lords of Wormwoods remain defiant against crown rule.
577-530 War of Four kings over control of Turbulus
595 High Elven Empire falls during succession crisis, retreats inward to Wetlands. The Sacred Cistern is constructed in Gu Maireannach by the Life Sage
600 Second Crusade against Order of Chaos. The Elven Bulwark burned by armies of The Capital
601 AGE OF UNITY ENDS
644 Sunrise City constructs Barrière d'Enfer Catacombs under the city due to overcrowded cemeteries
671-645 Seasonal waves of Blistering Death Plague across Turbulus, originating from The Lush Valley. Half human population in Turbulus dead
699 Earthquakes of unknown origin shake Turbulus fracturing Land's Edge
710 War council of Dwarvenholme crown First Thane Odyn. Mjolnir Hammer forged as Thane's weapon
740 The First Elven Blood Emperor Cuauhtémoc crowned in the Crescent Isles, establishes capital at Tenochtitlan.
775 The Dwarven Exile. Captured Dwarven forces are exiled to Frozen Wastes and form Dwarvenholme, many Chrome-Hammer Dwarves flee underground.
780 Myst City and Sunrise City formed as allied kingdoms to push back Dwarven invasion of Iron King Chromaximus
800 The Chrome Uprising. Previously hidden kingdom of Chrome-Hammer Dwarfs and their mechanical Golems rise in the Lava fields
822 Pharaoh Ramses' sons rule together and construct twin pyramids
842 Pharaoh Ramses II orders construction of the Dagger Pyramids after executing Heretic Pharaoh Akhenaten and his followers
870 The Capital annexes power of Central territories. The Leviathans of the Western Deserts die out mysteriously.
875-873 War of the Wind Serpent between Jong and The Frankovines
878 Centaur Raiders from Jong launch military attack on Eastern Turbulus. Clovis' forces drive them out with a decisive victory. Frankovine Humans settle the Lush Valley
889 Central Human clans unite under Myst kingdom banner. Clovis the Merovingian becomes the First Frankovine King of Eastern Turbulus.
900 Civil war of the Southern Clans, Phoenix hero Cu Chulainn fights to preserve Gaelish Rule
901 ELVEN AGE ENDS
c.985-950? Fall of the Elven Valley. The Lush Valley is overrun by Undead Horde of Lich Lady Deathwhisper
c.950-1100? High Elven Empire withdraw from Core Lands and build the Elven Bulwark to protect their Lands
c.1750 -1600? The belief in the magical Fae, the religion of Gaelish is founded in Southern Turbulus. Storm Primordial Lei Gong imprisoned by Feng Huang the Phoenix. Crescent Islander Elves, now Eztica Elves settle across Crescent Island
c.1830-1800? Slave Rebellion among human clans in Darkwoods led by Tribal Phoenix. Elven Supporters of the slaves depart for Crescent Island, led by Prophet Ehecatl
c.2100-2000? Moonsworn Elven Kingdom rises, enslaves central barbarian clans. Šarrum Nebuchadnezzar conjures leviathans to protect Nineva, but the beasts instead destroy it
c.2130-2050? Northern Empire of Arlyeh destroyed by Primordial of the deeps, Rhy'goloth. Šarrum Ashurbanipal sacrifices 1000 slaves in the Ur pit temple to summon the firstborn demon, Marduk
c.2180-2150? The Sanctuary of the Sky is abandoned. The Jong continent turtle Pangu appears offshore Eastern Turbulus, life has flourished on it's back.
c.2137-2135? Sanc Ma-Al built by Pharaoh Edfu. Ninevehan Prophet Bel-Ushezib completes his journey throughout Turbulus
c.2149? First Pharaonic Royal Family of Nefertiti massacred in slave revolt. Lilu spirits sent by Šarrum Naram-Sin of Nineva fail to usurp the Khem throne.
2149 AGE OF CHAOS ENDS
(speculative estimate in Tabernacle Records)
c.2145-2149? Arlyehan Emperor Astraloth Opens rift to The Void and is driven insane. First Crusade of Cleansing led by Khemic Pharaohs wipes out Order of Chaos in Western Turbulus
c.2600-2400? The Old God wars between The Sanctuary of the Sky and Empire of Arlyeh. The Khem Pharaoh's army and the Šarrum of Nineveh's Udug demons fight over control of The Western Deserts
c.2700-2400 Khem dynasty rises from unified desert clans in Western Turbulus, first Pharaoh crowned Narmer I. Šarrum Marduk I establishes the rival kingdom of Nineveh
2701 MYTHIC AGE ENDS
(speculative estimate in Tabernacle Records and Archives of Gondishapur Al-Hikma Madrasa & Université de Montpellier)
c.2850 Arlyeh Empire established. Halls of Amenti Cult founded as rulers of Arlyeh
c.2875 The Sanctuary in the Sky emerges as an aerial bastion aided by entities of the void
c.44,000-35,000 Forerunners mysteriously vanish. Sorcery introduced to mortal races. Abandoned Chrome Hammer Dwarves go dormant.
c.>45,000 Forerunners arrive in Turbulus from the stars, begin to study life in Turbulus. Ancient Megaliths built by Forerunners' newly-created Dwarven builders
c.60,000-50,000? Primordials continue to carve out the lands of Turbulus, imprisoned in the void by The Maker to give life a chance to flourish again, humans re-emerge from the caves of Land's Edge. Scholars put this date at 210 thousand years ago as a natural process known as evolution.
c.65,000-55,000? Primordials arrive in Turbulus from the void, begin to infect and corrupt Turbulus. First humans driven into hiding The first Elves are said to emerge from the roots of the Life Trees
c.75,000 Turbulus is seeded with life by The Maker, Humans formed as guardians of life.. Scholars put this date at 550 thousand years ago and the date of first life at 3.7 billion years ago
c. 1,000,000 Theologians believe Turbulus is formed from the divine ash of The Maker. High Elves believe The Celestial being, Gaia birthed the world. Scholars argue the world was created 4.5 billion years ago