Timeline

WT - Warmer Times YoF - Years of Frost

~10,000,000,000 - Orsa, the primordial plane, evolves and becomes the Multiverse. The spores of the Queen of A Thousand Roots are spread. Nor lies in nothingness, rejected by the new Order.

~8,000,000,000 Nor is imprisoned by the combined might of all the deities and godminds.

~750,000,000 WT - Hearth's star, Døende Aske, begins to die, bloating into a red giant.

~699,900,000 WT - An outer planet, with frigid ocean covered over with a sheet of ice miles deep, begins to melt with the fading warmth of the gradually nearing sun.

~690,900,000 WT - Much of the ice of Hearth has converted to the ocean, and the ocean levels drop as dense clouds form. The first land rises above the lowering ocean as tectonic plates rise from the release of the water's weight. The peaks of what will once become Licc

~650,000,000 WT - Hearth, now covered in plants, hosts the first land creatures that crawl out onto shore

~600,000,000 WT - The first Lords and Ladies from the Plane of Faerie arrive and begin to colonize Hearth.

1,210,619 WT - The Midgards, the descendants of dwarves and their entire mountain, are cast down from the outer planes onto Hearth.

1,205,009 WT - A nymph and a chieftain of the great wise apes of the north fall in love. Their union is blessed by the upper planes so as to become the dominant race of the lands above, to discourage the spread of the Dwarves. Born is the first Neanderthal, ancestor of all humans. He takes a nymph wife as well. His children breed amongst the nymphs and wise apes.

They begin their own race, though a rift begins between the children of stronger nymph bloodlines and those with a stronger wise ape bloodline. One is fairer, more intelligent and adventurous while the others stronger, coarser, and taken to instinct.

1,201,579 WT - Neanderthals of a nymph tribe discover how to control fire. This begins a great war that spreads across all the tribes of the world. This fire-tribe begins a great burning to remove the gorilla tribes.

1,200,401 WT - The nymph tribe, who will later become known as Humans, become the dominant race of the neanderthals of the world.

The gorilla tribes driven into the cold are forced to become strong or die, and eventually take up the handle of Orc.

11,000 WT - Humans journey into the Heska mountain range, and begin building what will eventually become Licc.

2,851 WT - Poqt is settled by a religious sect.

809 WT - The Winterhaunt formulate their long-term plan to strike open a crack into the prison plane of Nor by using a comet that appears in the skies, and was written to have been seen 800 years before as well.

0 Yof - Through the combined efforts of the Winterhaunt, an epic spell is cast, diverting the comet to the southern pole. The pole is struck, casting an already cool world into a permanent ice age.

1 YoF - The entire world rocks from continuous earthquakes as the mantle is shifted to bring up heat from below. The Fevered Mount is awakened and warm-weather plants and animals are transported there for survival.

9 YoF - The first of the Croakine Colonies are built.

73 YoF Harkatottom is born, the second generation of half-orcs.

166 YoF Harkatottom dies and travels to the spirit world, where he gains deity status.

157 Yof - The valley of Gelid Falls is discovered by a band of survivors from the south.

305 YoF - Emperor Laffin is born to his human mother and fossergrimm father.

374 YoF - The Treaty of Red Dew is made between faerie kind and mortals.

514 YoF - The Emperor's Highway begins construction to connect the human colonies with the others.

2006 YoF - Glacier dwarves discover the Azure Floe and build a mining colony.

2200 YoF - Swiftly Rising is colonized by Raptorans as a fort city.

3050 YoF - Chaunelfiel is settled by the Motard family.

3296 - Warlord Teh is born.

3325 YoF - Salkin Motard is born.

3355 YoF - Work to begin colonization of The Pass begins.

3358 YoF - Current Date