The Elder Worlds

The age of giants and their falls. Humans emerge in the basins. Three of the four elder civilizations rise and end: the Upland Colossal world thins away and leaves its giant roads to the weather, the Ash-Furnace world burns itself to glass and slag, and the Archive-Law world writes itself shut and seals its cities. The fourth, the remote Sepulchre-Kin, rises late in the age and dies unrecorded in the next. In their shadow, nearly every later people finds its feet, by serving them, surviving them, or picking over what they left. Their ruins are still the richest and deadliest ground on Caeldon.

The Dwarves and Elves all but vanish from other peoples' tellings in this age. After the Deep Ruptures the holds close their gates and keep their own chronicles where no outsider reads them, and the Elven realms turn inward to heal. Their histories go on; they are simply not shared.

• The First Human Emergence on Caeldon (c. 300,000-c. 220,000 BR)
• The Rise of the Upland Colossal Civilization (c. 260,000-c. 195,000 BR)
• The Vent-Houses of the Furnace World (c. 250,000-c. 168,000 BR)
• The Rise of the Archive-Law Civilization (c. 235,000-c. 175,000 BR)
• The Swearing of the Crossing-Charges (c. 230,000-c. 190,000 BR)
• The Fall of the Ash-Furnace Civilization (c. 225,000-c. 168,000 BR)
• The Founding of the Floodkeeper Houses (c. 210,000-c. 182,000 BR)
• The Withdrawal of the Upland Colossal World (c. 198,000-c. 160,000 BR)
• The Long Hunger (c. 195,000-c. 160,000 BR)
• The Consolidation of the Bankright Circles (c. 190,000-c. 160,000 BR)
• The Founding of the Windscar Pacts (c. 180,000-c. 150,000 BR)
• The Unlisting of the Warrens (c. 180,000-c. 150,000 BR)