0 - The humanoid races enter Zarthuga
Dwarves, Gnomes, Humans and Halflings are placed in the world by the gods. They start recording history, and migrate to areas comfortable to them. In the start they stay seperated, confused by their own existance, what this world might be. How safe it is.
221 - Alfheir, the Citysaur, walks onto Zarth
The capital of the Archelves wanders into the material plane on top of a giant dinosaur.
522 - Death of Librus
Librus - God of Legacy is murdered. His living Avatar on Zarth, dies with him. I took the shape of a vast library, deep below ground, the Deep Library. In death, all life leaves the library, all librarians, all working systems, all light. The library soon changes name to The Dark Library (the “Underdark” of Zarthuga). New inhabitants soon move in. The world looses some of it’s innocence. Librus’s death, causes the Curse of Illiteracy, leading the the decimation of many of the great civilizations.
522 - 564 The curse of illiteracy
The death of Librus - God of Legacy, the god of knowledge, caused all humanoids on Zarthuga to lose the ability to record knowledge, to write, to read. This lead to whole civilisations and societies collapsing. Sales and trade came to a standstill, many people evacuated the cities, resorting to living of the land. After about 40 years, Atla - Demi-god of Talk took on Knowledge into his portfolio. New worship soon turned to him, and soon after the curse of illiteracy rubbed off.
547 - Death of Alfheir
1044 - Death of Death
Ymigard - God of Endings. The God of Death, Endings, Entropy and Fermentation, the ruler of the Death realms, disappears. He is rumored to have died, even though there is no proof of his actual death, the term “Death of Death” or “Death Died” soon catches on. Promptly Souls are trapped on the Material Plane . Chaos ensues while the sentient races try to adapt. And then the Night Century hits… This event eventually leads to innovations like the Move soul spell, Soul Tears, Soul Jars, Soul Repository etc.
1061 - Sol goes missing & Night Century
Sol had two eyes in the sky.
But he dissapeared for a time. The suns are gone. Darkness remains.
With Sol’s disappearance, the twin suns (the eyes of Sol) also vanished. No daylight, for over 100 years. The Night Century first came to an end when Sol reappeared, as the god of the Dawn, though seemingly blinded in one eye, bringing back only a single sun.
1155 - Appearance of the World Pillars
Some time nearing the end of the Night Century, the World Pillars appeared. One in the North, on in the South. They reach into the sky so far, that no end is visible. Some believe them to be infinite. The timing is suspcious, and many therefore believe they are connected to Sol’s return, and the end of the Night Century, but no proof of this has ever been revealed from Sol.
1164 - Sol returns
Sol returns, missing one eye.
1164 - 1195 - Retaking the surface
While most of the sentient races were trapped in the Dark Library they planned how to retake the surface from warped souls, and worse. On Sols return they were ready, innovations like Soul Jars and The Move soul spell let them clean up the surface, and retake some of the cities lost during the fleeing at the start of the Night Century.
1663 - Melters Speech
The Librarian Melter, later known as Melter - Demi-god of Freedom, holds a speech on a hill for a large group of other Librarians. This speech opens their minds, builds a collective idea of freedom, of agency of fellowship. And arms them with arguments, logic, feelings to break free. It marks the start of the Librarians transition from slavery to independence.
1915 - Wedn fractures
Wedn - God of Magics celestial presence is split and disappears.
2295 - Establishment of the public Teleport circle Network
After discovering the material Aetherflux and researching that it could be used for permanent Teleportation Circles, a network was established between all major cities, and from most minor cities to at least on larger city. Where you could teleport again from. This meant many major things. Cities could grow larger than the immediate farmland around them could provide for. Messages would travel much faster to individuals. A global economy with a common currency could be established etc.
2509 - War of the Swarms
The marshes of Arkrak, a peninsula to the south-east of mainland Zarth, were suddenly overrun with entities from the outer planes. They were not friendly to each other, and this started a localized, great war on the material plane. All pre-existing life in the marshes were wiped out in an instant. At the convergence point, bodies of outer-plane entites soon piled up to such an extent, that it became known as the Mountain of Flesh. And it keeps growing to this dat. Though most entities died fighting each other, some started “drifting”. This lead to the establishment of the Nill Guardsmen, holding a line were the peninsula widens into the rest of the continent of Zarth.
2515 - Establishment of the Nill Guard & Creation of the Chasm of Nill
As a measure against the onslaught of monsters from the peninsula south east of Nill, this chasm was created by over 1000 of the sentient races’ spell casters. It was successful, and has stood, together with the Nill guard, as one of the major safeguards against the threat since.
2573: Wyrding of Northhelm
What caused the cataclysm on Northhelm has still not been uncovered, but inspection and interviews with the refugees who flooded the mainland, has revealed that there were tendrils of magic hitting people and buildings alike. Many left with scars and wounds, some were touched by the magic, becoming Lifetouched or Deathtouched.