Ages and Events

The Foundations · The Stabilizations · The Deep Ruptures · The Elder Worlds · The Far-Side Terms · The Unrecorded Age · The Corridor Ages · The Settlement · The Medieval Present

The Foundations

c. 35,000,000,000 BR-c. 500,000 BR

The first age, c. 35,000,000,000-c. 500,000 BR, from the first stirring of time to the first lineages of Caeldon; also the name of the book's first block, which holds what does not change from era to…

• Aion Awakens EventBeginning of measurable time.
• Measured Completion of the Great Unfolding EventAll ten Primes are awake and the differentiated cosmic order is fully present.
• Late Great Polarization EventThe proto-anchor sphere reaches mature strain under fully active elemental and abstract Harmonic polarization.
• The Great Polarization pre-temporal sequence-c. 33,600,000,000 BR. It begins before all ten Primes are awake and reaches its late, full phase c. 34,200,000,000-c. 33,600,000,000 BR, after the last awakening (c. 34,700,000,000 BR)The long early strain in which the first field of reality was sharpened towards extremes it could not hold together.
• The Inward Sundering c. 33,600,000,000 BRThe failure of the overstrained early cosmos, c. 33,600,000,000 BR, in which it broke inward, the extremes split away as separate planes, and a balanced core remained; the Unformed gave it its last…
• Early Anchor Settlement EventNewly separated deficit and surplus planes stabilize unevenly rather than all at once.
• Long Settlement of the Balanced Core c. 33,600,000,000-c. 12,000,000 BRThe span from the Inward Sundering to the First Equilibrium, in which pockets of stability formed in the balanced core, failed, and formed again.
• The First Equilibrium c. 12,000,000 BRThe moment, c. 12,000,000 BR, when balance in the core became durable enough that it was a true Material Plane, with spatial law holding everywhere and cause and persistence holding at large scale.
• Formation of the Material Plane EventEstablishes the main balanced material realm through the First Equilibrium.
• The First Celestial Condensations c. 12,000,000-c. 2,500,000 BRThe forming of the first lasting bodies in the new Material Plane, c. 12,000,000-c. 2,500,000 BR.
• Creation of Caeldon c. 2,500,000 BRHow Caeldon rose as a lasting world within the already steady Material Plane.
• The First Regional Differentiations of Caeldon c. 2,500,000-c. 500,000 BRHow Caeldon's first enduring regions took shape after the world's making and before its peoples arose in them.
• The First Material Lineages of Caeldon c. 700,000-c. 500,000 BRThe earliest lasting lines of life on Caeldon, between the shaping of its great regions and the rise of its first peoples.

The Stabilizations

c. 500,000-c. 380,000 BR

The second age, c. 500,000-c. 380,000 BR, in which the Elves and the Dwarves became durable peoples and founded their first civilizations.

• Elven Stabilization on Caeldon EventVerdant Expanse-linked precursor stock stabilizes into the earliest recognizable Elven lineages on Caeldon, with early Wood Elf continuity forming the oldest enduring branch.
• The First Elven Stabilization c. 500,000-c. 450,000 BRThe disciplining of an old inheritance in the forest into a durable people, the Elves, c. 500,000-c. 450,000 BR.
• The First Stabilizations on Caeldon c. 500,000-c. 425,000 BRHow the first enduring Elves and Dwarves took lasting form on Caeldon, before their frontiers met and hardened.
• The Rooting of the Elderweald c. 490,000-c. 470,000 BRThe hardening of the first Elves into the first Wood Elf way of life, c. 490,000-c. 470,000 BR.
• The Founding of the Rootcrown Concord c. 490,000-c. 460,000 BRHow the Elves of the Elderweald gathered into the Rootcrown Concord, the oldest Elven civilization.
• Dwarven Stabilization on Caeldon EventIron Backbone-linked lithic ancestor stock adapts to the Material Plane and stabilizes into the earliest recognizable Dwarven lineages and hold-forming populations.
• The First Dwarven Stabilization c. 475,000-c. 425,000 BRThe becoming of the Dwarves under the mountains, c. 475,000-c. 425,000 BR.
• The Holdmaking of the Ironspine c. 465,000-c. 445,000 BRThe span, c. 465,000-c. 445,000 BR, in which the earliest Dwarves of the Ironspine became a hold people, for whom enduring means sound halls, safe passages, and memory cut in stone.
• The Enclosure of the Seams c. 465,000-c. 420,000 BRThe taking of the Goblin seam-warrens by early Dwarven holdmaking, c. 465,000-c. 420,000 BR, which walled and smoked the Goblins out of the ground they held.
• The Shaping of the Elderweald-Ironspine Margins c. 460,000-c. 445,000 BRHow the forest-mountain borderland between the Elderweald and the Ironspine takes shape before the oldest Elven-Dwarven feud is fought on it.
• The Founding of the Ironspine Holds c. 460,000-c. 438,000 BRHow the Dwarves of the Ironspine built the Ironspine Holds, the oldest Dwarven civilization.
• The Elven Branchings c. 450,000-c. 318,000 BRThe division of the Elves into their branches, c. 450,000-c. 318,000 BR.
• First Rootcrown-Ironspine Contacts c. 445,000-c. 425,000 BRThe first meeting of Elves and Dwarves as stable neighbours, c. 445,000-c. 425,000 BR.
• Caeldon Early Contact c. 445,000-c. 2,000 BRCaeldon's first great age of contact between peoples: Elf-Dwarf verge wars, the drowning of the deep world, and the rise of Humans among older and prouder neighbours.
• The Hardening of the Briarreach c. 425,000-c. 410,000 BRThe span, c. 425,000-c. 410,000 BR, in which part of the Elderweald's people hardened towards watchfulness in the rougher woodland and became the Thorn Elves.
• The Elderweald-Ironspine Frontier c. 410,000-c. 385,000 BRThe verge wars of the Rootcrown Elves and the Ironspine Dwarves, c. 410,000-c. 385,000 BR, fought with raid, ambush, fouled water, and felled groves over springs, slopes, and sacred ground.
• The Founding of the Thornbound Circles c. 405,000-c. 392,000 BRHow the guarded Briarreach branch of Elven history consolidates into the Thornbound Circles.
• The Dwarven Deep Holds c. 405,000-c. 330,000 BRThe growth, c. 405,000-c. 330,000 BR, of some centres below the Ironspine into the heavier holds on which the deep world depended.
• The Rising of the Crownboughs c. 398,000-c. 390,000 BRHow one part of the older Elven world becomes the elevated High Elf world of the Crownboughs.
• The Founding of the Crownbough Courts c. 390,000-c. 375,000 BRHow the elevated Crownbough branch of Elven history consolidates into the Crownbough Courts.

The Deep Ruptures

c. 380,000-c. 300,000 BR

The third age, c. 380,000-c. 300,000 BR, of the Roothollow Rupture, the sealing of the deep world, and the Elf-Dwarf enmity.

• The Stabilization of Failed Mending c. 380,000-c. 330,000 BRThe span in which the twisted Troll healing called Failed Mending becomes fixed and inherited rather than an occasional curse on single bodies.
• The First Crownbough-Ironspine Contacts c. 375,000-c. 360,000 BRThe first meetings of High Elves and Dwarves, c. 375,000-c. 360,000 BR.
• Courts of Stone and Canopy c. 375,000-c. 355,000 BRThe rivalry of pride between the Crownbough houses and the great Ironspine holds, c. 375,000-c. 355,000 BR, fought with insults, raids, and ambush on the slopes between them.
• The Deepening of Stonewake c. 365,000-c. 350,000 BRThe span, c. 365,000-c. 350,000 BR, in which the deep holds below the Ironspine became a branch of their own and made the right to seal a door their defining custom.
• The Founding of the Stonewake Compact c. 360,000-c. 348,000 BRHow one of the earliest deep Dwarven concentrations consolidates into the Stonewake Compact.
• The Krystallis Incursion c. 352,000-c. 349,000 BRThe oldest of the three Incursions on Caeldon, when Krystallis set a far-side valley at the Glassbelt's edge into lattice and Ignis, Aqua, and Lux broke it.
• The Shaping of the Roothollow-Stonewake Interface c. 345,000-c. 340,000 BRThe forming of the threshold between root-cavern and dense stone, c. 345,000-c. 340,000 BR, on the edge of an already standing Stonewake Compact.
• The First Roothollow-Deep Contacts c. 340,000-c. 335,000 BRThe first meetings of the deep Elves and the Dwarves across the Roothollow-Stonewake threshold, c. 340,000-c. 335,000 BR.
• The Drowning Bloom EventThe flood catastrophe of the Surging Deep at the heart of the Roothollow Rupture, which flooded, severed, and later overgrew much of the upper underworld.
• The Roothollow Rupture c. 335,000-c. 328,000 BRThe catastrophe of c. 335,000-c. 328,000 BR that drove the Dark Elves deeper and began the Elf-Dwarf enmity; at its heart was the Drowning Bloom.
• First Great Dark Elf-Dwarf Deep Conflicts EventEarly major Dark Elf-Dwarf conflicts form around post-catastrophe refuge pressure, contested resources, sacred sites, and route control, beginning the oldest durable layer of wider Elf-Dwarf…
• The Sealing of the Upper Roothollows c. 328,000-c. 318,000 BRThe sealing, abandonment, and ritual barring of the ruined passages, c. 328,000-c. 318,000 BR.
• The Darkening of the Roothollows c. 326,000-c. 318,000 BRThe hardening of the Rupture's survivors into a branch of their own, the Dark Elves, c. 326,000-c. 318,000 BR.
• The Founding of the Gloamroot Covenant c. 324,000-c. 318,000 BRHow Dark Elf survivors in the deep Roothollows consolidate into the first enduring post-catastrophe civilization.
• The Heartwell Stakings c. 322,000-c. 316,000 BRThe competing Dark Elf and Dwarven stakes on the Rootstone Heartwell, c. 322,000-c. 316,000 BR.
• The Heartwell Struggles c. 320,000-c. 314,000 BRThe first great Dark Elf-Dwarf war, c. 320,000-c. 314,000 BR, fought for the Rootstone Heartwell, whose grudges every later meeting of the two peoples inherits.
• The Gloamroot Inheritance Ambiguity c. 319,000-c. 318,000 BRThe Dark Elf house quarrel in which physical capability arrives before the House elders accept an heir.
• The Bitter Root Histories c. 318,000-c. 305,000 BRThe spread of the Dark Elf memory of abandonment through the wider Elven world, c. 318,000-c. 305,000 BR.
• The Burdened Seal Histories c. 318,000-c. 305,000 BRThe spread of the Stonewake memory of necessary closure through the Dwarven holds, in the same span as the Bitter Root Histories.
• Early Human Emergence on Caeldon EventHumans emerge as a native Caeldon species in mixed country that rewards wandering, adaptability, and many ways of living rather than one narrow niche.

The Elder Worlds

c. 300,000-c. 120,000 BR

The vanished elder civilizations, Upland Colossal, Ash-Furnace, Archive-Law, and Sepulchre-Kin, and the fourth age, c. 300,000-c. 120,000 BR, named for them, in which the first Humans emerged and the…

• The First Human Emergence on Caeldon c. 300,000-c. 220,000 BRThe rise of Humans, c. 300,000-c. 220,000 BR, in the mixed country where the Confluence Basins meet the Headwater foothills.
• The Rise of the Upland Colossal Civilization c. 260,000-c. 195,000 BRThe span, c. 260,000-c. 195,000 BR, in which the colossal peoples built their terraces, ridge roads, weather shrines, and great exposed roads across the high country.
• The Vent-Houses of the Furnace World c. 250,000-c. 168,000 BRThe span, c. 250,000-c. 168,000 BR, in which hereditary Kobold vent-houses kept the vents and heat-ways of the Ash-Furnace world breathing, lived through its burning, and were bound into deep-world…
• The Rise of the Archive-Law Civilization c. 235,000-c. 175,000 BRThe span, c. 235,000-c. 175,000 BR, in which the archive-cities, oath halls, and marker roads of the archive-law world spread across the Witnessfields.
• The Swearing of the Crossing-Charges c. 230,000-c. 190,000 BRThe span, c. 230,000-c. 190,000 BR, in which Troll lines holding the crossings of the colossal roads were given lasting charges by the road-builders and swore the first bridge-oaths, which they kept…
• The Sinking of the Stairs EventThe rivers of the Green Deep shift their channels and drown the stepped stone cities of an elder world the old regions never knew; the jungle closes over them and the Sollun hives later rise in the…
• The Fall of the Ash-Furnace Civilization c. 225,000-c. 168,000 BRHow the elder ash-furnace world fed its furnaces until they consumed it, and what its glassed ruins still hold.
• The Shaping of the Confluence-Headwater World c. 220,000-c. 90,000 BRHow the basin-and-upland country of the Confluence and the Headwater becomes one wild, linked world long before the first great Human powers rise in it.
• The Founding of the Floodkeeper Houses c. 210,000-c. 182,000 BRThe gathering of Reedfolk reed settlements, crossing shrines, and flood-remembering house lines into one order, c. 210,000-c. 182,000 BR.
• The Withdrawal of the Upland Colossal World c. 198,000-c. 160,000 BRThe thinning of the colossal world, c. 198,000-c. 160,000 BR, into scattered withdrawn Giant lines, leaving its colossal roads, terraces, and unanswered oaths behind.
• The Long Hunger c. 195,000-c. 160,000 BRThe span, c. 195,000-c. 160,000 BR, in which the failing high country stopped feeding large bodies, hunger-bands of Ogres turned their strength on others, and the camps that held bound strength to…
• The Long Tread North EventDuring the colossal withdrawal some colossal lines follow the ridge roads north to the ice instead of drawing inward, cut the White Stair and the ice-cut halls, and dwindle over long ages into the…
• The Consolidation of the Bankright Circles c. 190,000-c. 160,000 BRThe span, c. 190,000-c. 160,000 BR, in which the Kavari bank councils, pool-kin, and nursery keepers of linked tributaries came to act as one, before the Thaluren ascents arrived.
• The Founding of the Windscar Pacts c. 180,000-c. 150,000 BRHow the Orc route kindreds of the Windscar Expanse swore themselves into the Windscar Pacts.
• The Unlisting of the Warrens c. 180,000-c. 150,000 BRThe span, c. 180,000-c. 150,000 BR, in which the archive-law world struck the Goblin warrens it had once entered as peoples from its rolls, and drove them from their gaps, as its classifications…
• The Closure of the First Nesting Confluence c. 178,000-c. 162,000 BRThe span, c. 178,000-c. 162,000 BR, in which egg blight in the Thaluren's oldest sacred water forced the Returning Concord to close it to ordinary return.
• The Walking of the Unkept Roads c. 175,000-c. 140,000 BRThe span, c. 175,000-c. 140,000 BR, in which survivor lines began walking the abandoned roads in seasonal circuits and became the Salvage Peoples.
• The Founding of the Foldward Commons c. 170,000-c. 152,000 BRHow the Halfling folds of the Leeward Folds bound themselves into the Foldward Commons around guarded cisterns and stores.
• The Founding of the Gaugeward Leagues c. 165,000-c. 146,000 BRHow the Gnome harbours of the Tidelace Coasts drew together into the Gaugeward Leagues against fog, shoal, and false lights.
• The Last Keeping c. 150,000-c. 120,000 BRThe span, c. 150,000-c. 120,000 BR, in which the archive-law world shut its rolls and sealed its last cities, while the keepers who would not let the record die carried its oath forms, scripts, and…
• The Mnemosyne Null Incursion c. 132,000-c. 130,000 BRThe second Incursion on Caeldon, when Mnemosyne Null unwrote an archive river city and its country until the city forgot its name.

The Far-Side Terms

c. 160,000-c. 98,000 BR

The fifth age, c. 160,000-c. 98,000 BR, in which the young far-side peoples fought over wells, passes, harbours, and spawning water through a long chain of feuds, raids, and wars, and the terms the…

• The Second-Channel Feud c. 160,000-c. 156,000 BRThe first great Thaluren feud over a redirected run, c. 160,000-c. 156,000 BR, fought over whether the Second Channel could be used before the old water had been answered; it ended in a bargain…
• The Leeward-Windscar Terms c. 160,000-c. 145,000 BRThe first lasting meeting ground of Halflings and Orcs, c. 160,000-c. 145,000 BR: escorted parties are owed an answer at fold markets and cistern halls, because the Pacts could close the Lee Road…
• The Rise of the Sepulchre-Kin EventA remote elder civilization of death-work, burial depth, and Echo-keeping builds its under-mountain Record-engine, too far from the archive-law world to be recorded by it.
• The Sounding Gate Quarrel c. 155,000-c. 149,000 BRThe early Gnome feud at the Sounding Gate, c. 155,000-c. 149,000 BR, which cost ships and crews before the strongest League houses forced terms that tell honest exactness from pride in procedure.
• The Measure Cistern Reckoning c. 154,000-c. 148,000 BRThe Halfling quarrel of c. 154,000-c. 148,000 BR in which good harvests and outside traffic pulled the folds two ways, and the Commons learned to tell honest reserve from hoarding, and welcome they…
• The Gravel Oath Accord c. 153,000-c. 148,000 BRThe bargain of c. 153,000-c. 148,000 BR that ended the standoff at the Gravelbraid Nurseries, where Kavari keepers held a redirected Thaluren run out of their nursery-water with barriers, bodies, and…
• The Tidelace-Windscar Approaches c. 148,000-c. 138,000 BRThe far-side terms, c. 148,000-c. 138,000 BR, reached after escort-bands raided the outlying sounding houses and harbour crews burned the Orcs' boats, that told reception at the outer shore from…
• The Tidelace Calibration Orders c. 148,000-c. 132,000 BRThe Gnome orders, c. 148,000-c. 132,000 BR, that grew out of the Sounding Gate Quarrel inside the Gaugeward Leagues and carried its terms into marker rounds and open benches across the coast.
• The Late-Closure Terms c. 147,000-c. 146,000 BRThe first named quarrel under the Gravel Oath, c. 147,000-c. 146,000 BR, when a Thaluren run arrived late with a real emergency at a braid a Bankright council had already closed; the Kavari councils…
• The Measure Cistern Crisis c. 147,000-c. 143,000 BRThe clash of Orc escorts and Halfling counters at the Measure Cistern, c. 147,000-c. 143,000 BR, in which armed Windscar escorts camped outside the cistern until sworn terms ended the fighting, and…
• The Leeward-Tidelace Measures c. 146,000-c. 140,000 BRThe far-side terms, c. 146,000-c. 140,000 BR, by which Halflings and Gnomes learned to make sense of each other's very different kinds of care.
• The Leeward Measure Orders c. 146,000-c. 139,000 BRThe cistern halls, terrace watchers, orchard tally houses, and reserve counters of the Foldward Commons, hardened c. 146,000-c. 139,000 BR after the first great quarrel over honest measure, which…
• The Estuary Terms c. 144,000-c. 138,000 BRThe first lasting Thaluren-Gnome custom at mixed estuaries, c. 144,000-c. 138,000 BR, won at the Split Reed Mouth after years of cut marker-lines, drowned pilots, and Thaluren war-bands in the reeds…
• The Answering Sound Crisis c. 141,000-c. 137,000 BRThe first great Orc-Gnome clash at one place, c. 141,000-c. 137,000 BR, when storm-driven Windscar parties starved on the shore of the Answering Sound and war-leaders tried the inner channels by…
• The Unreturning Runs EventThaluren Outer-Route runs press past the Far Set behind the deep-witnesses, find spawning rivers in the Dawnreach, and never come home; the Concord mourns them as the unreturning, and their…
• The Counted Lee Timing Feud c. 139,000-c. 136,000 BRThe feud of c. 139,000-c. 136,000 BR in which the folds kept paying for approach windows that moved after their fruit was picked.
• The Tidelace Answering Custom c. 137,000-c. 135,000 BRThe custom, c. 137,000-c. 135,000 BR, that the great harbours carried along the coast after the Answering Sound: a harbour that makes a party wait must say why, for how long, and whether the answer…
• The Leeward-Tidelace Timing Oath c. 136,000-c. 134,000 BRThe oath, c. 136,000-c. 134,000 BR, that carried the end of the Counted Lee Timing Feud to every landing where fold loads meet harbour boats: when the harbour changes the day, it says so, the loss is…
• The Answerward Pilotage c. 135,000-c. 129,000 BRThe order of Gnome pilots, raised c. 135,000-c. 129,000 BR, that carried the coast's word to arriving parties, until it began to use its pilots as a weapon and the Gnomes had to fight it back.
• The Rimward Passage War c. 135,000-c. 128,000 BRThe early Windscar war of c. 135,000-c. 128,000 BR in which Rimward strongholds shut their wells and High Scar escort-bands took water by force, until the Pacts swore new terms over the dead that…
• The Shearing EventOrc bands struck from honour after the Rimward Passage War, refused at every well, go south-west along the Glassbelt and find unheld wells in the deep sand, where they become the Shorn camel-clans.
• The Answerward Overreach Feud c. 126,000-c. 122,000 BRThe feud of c. 126,000-c. 122,000 BR in which the small harbours and Windscar crews banded together against the Answerward pilots, who had begun withholding pilots to rule the coast.
• The Rimward Well-Keepers c. 124,000-c. 116,000 BRThe well-holding side of the Windscar Pacts, hardened c. 124,000-c. 116,000 BR after the Rimward Passage War: well-keepers, cistern guardians, reserve moots, and answer bearers.
• The High-Scar Escort Orders c. 121,000-c. 112,000 BRThe route side of the Windscar Pacts, hardened c. 121,000-c. 112,000 BR: route moots, cairn-line wardens, warning runners, and escort captains, who pay war-bands and bounty-takers by the head for the…
• The Tidelace Coastward Exchanges c. 121,000-c. 112,000 BRThe first calmer age of Orc-Gnome trade on the Tidelace, c. 121,000-c. 112,000 BR, under a curbed Answerward Pilotage, when convoys came down the cliffs to known roadsteads and the worst dangers were…
• The Soundchain Selective Closure c. 109,000-c. 104,000 BRThe first great Orc-Gnome quarrel of the corridor, c. 109,000-c. 104,000 BR, in which the Soundchain harbours shut the corridor piece by piece and Windscar convoys forced the barred passages against…
• The Soundchain Closure Terms c. 104,000-c. 102,000 BRThe terms the Soundchain harbours and the Windscar Pacts struck after the selective-closure fighting, c. 104,000-c. 102,000 BR: the harbours may still shut parts of the corridor, but must name what…
• The Turnwater Reopening Accord c. 100,000-c. 98,000 BRThe last of the great far-side terms, c. 100,000-c. 98,000 BR, an Orc-Gnome accord that reopened chosen kinds of Soundchain traffic at Turnwater one cargo and one season at a time, under old grudges…

The Unrecorded Age

c. 120,000-c. 40,000 BR

The sixth age, c. 120,000-c. 40,000 BR, after writing ended in the cradle, when peoples kept their customs and genealogies in breath and its graves and hoards are still turned up by the plough.

• The Gathering of the Confluence c. 120,000-c. 50,000 BRThe slow gathering of Human bands across the basin valleys, c. 120,000-c. 50,000 BR, until the basin and foothill people saw themselves as one varied world.
• The Unburial War c. 110,000-c. 80,000 BRThe unrecorded fall of the Sepulchre-Kin, c. 110,000-c. 80,000 BR, in which their burial houses turned their power over the dead on one another.
• Human Settlement of the Headwater Marches EventHuman bands slowly settle the foothill and river-headwater corridors, without yet forming polities or a durable frontier with the Dwarven route worlds above them.

The Corridor Ages

c. 40,000-c. 2,000 BR

The seventh age, c. 40,000-c. 2,000 BR, in which the young Humans came into their own, fast and hungry, and swallowed, borrowed, or bent nearly every older order they touched.

• The Founding of the Confluence Marches c. 40,000-c. 20,000 BRThe consolidation of the basin world into the first Human civilization, c. 40,000-c. 20,000 BR.
• The First Confluence-Elderweald Contacts c. 38,000-c. 24,000 BRThe recurring first meetings of Humans and Wood Elves at the forest edge, c. 38,000-c. 24,000 BR.
• The First Headwater-Ironspine Contacts c. 34,000-c. 22,000 BRThe first meetings of Human groups in the Headwater Marches with the Dwarves, c. 34,000-c. 22,000 BR.
• The Lower River Absorptions c. 30,000-c. 8,000 BRThe span, c. 30,000-c. 8,000 BR, in which the Human river powers swallowed the Reedfolk water orders of the lower rivers and turned their command of the water into service, while still depending on…
• The Headwater Alignments c. 28,000-c. 14,000 BRThe span, c. 28,000-c. 14,000 BR, that made Humans and Dwarves each other's engine of growth, metal and craft going down and grain coming up.
• The Lower Serath Guarantees c. 26,000-c. 16,000 BRThe span, c. 26,000-c. 16,000 BR, in which oaths of safe passage, guarded crossings, and shared duty along the crowded lower river hardened into the river towns' first lasting pact, tying the right…
• The Elderweald Border Pressures c. 26,000-c. 10,000 BRThe long quarrel, c. 26,000-c. 10,000 BR, of Human clearing, road-cutting, and water use against the Wood Elves' care for the living forest.
• The Headwater Fosterage Feud c. 24,000-c. 23,000 BRThe feud of c. 24,000-c. 23,000 BR in which Dwarven elders refused oath-right to a trusted Human foster child, and both sides believed they were in the right.
• The Confluence Rise c. 24,000-c. 2,000 BRThe name for the whole Human rise of c. 24,000-c. 2,000 BR, when the young, fast Humans first made themselves felt across the cradle-web.
• The Headwater Rite of Two Oaths c. 23,000-c. 21,000 BRThe custom, sworn c. 23,000-c. 21,000 BR, by which the young of the Headwater Marches are counted twice: first with working right, later with oath-right, so that a youth can belong to the road long…
• The Founding of the Serathic League c. 22,000-c. 16,000 BRThe binding of the Lower Serath's guarantee towns into a league, c. 22,000-c. 16,000 BR.
• The Serathic Oath of Layers c. 19,000-c. 18,000 BRThe oath the great Serathic river houses forced on a feuding river town, c. 19,000-c. 18,000 BR, with their boats drawn up behind them: three thresholds of belonging, Protection, Stewardship, and the…
• The First Confluence-Crownbough Contacts c. 18,000-c. 10,000 BRThe first meetings of the Human Confluence world and the Crownbough Courts, c. 18,000-c. 10,000 BR, all display and little understanding.
• The Chain-Camps c. 18,000-c. 8,000 BRThe span, c. 18,000-c. 8,000 BR, in which Ogre camps that came for seasonal work on the corridor roads were held there by debt and controlled food.
• The Human Corridor Orders c. 18,000-c. 7,000 BRThe span, c. 18,000-c. 7,000 BR, in which denser, harder-held Human orders grew along the corridor, with the Serathic League as their model.
• The Headwater and Serath Corridors c. 18,000-c. 7,000 BRThe two forms the corridor order took, c. 18,000-c. 7,000 BR: hammered out under pressure in the mountains, held by guarantees and spears on the river.
• The River-Lords' Peace EventThe pacts of c. 17,000-c. 7,000 BR, sworn and broken and sworn again, with fortified crossings and shared customs, that turned the Serathic towns into a lasting river league.
• The Elderweald Funerary Accord c. 16,000-c. 15,000 BRThe settlement of c. 16,000-c. 15,000 BR that made custom of the edge country's division: there a death is finished twice, by Human sworn mourning and by Wood Elf return.
• The Headwater Exchange Roads c. 16,000-c. 8,000 BRThe roads Humans and Dwarves built over the foothill country, c. 16,000-c. 8,000 BR, partly with chain-camp labour.
• The Crownbough Embassies c. 16,000-c. 8,000 BRThe High Elf embassies to the rising Human lords, c. 16,000-c. 8,000 BR, which began a long rivalry of gifts, insults, duels, and imitation.
• The Spread of the Predecessor-Frames c. 16,000-c. 2,000 BRThe span, c. 16,000-c. 2,000 BR, in which Dwarven workframes left the holds along the Headwater roads and spread across the corridor world as labour that could not refuse.
• The Crownbough Heir Controversy c. 14,000-c. 13,000 BRThe quarrel of c. 14,000-c. 13,000 BR over a child who mattered to both peoples and became a prize before anyone agreed when the child counts as grown.
• The Confluence-Crownbough Rivalries EventThe long rivalry, c. 10,000-c. 2,000 BR, of the High Elf courts and the growing Human powers: admiration, resentment, borrowing, and competition over prestige, refinement, and the right to rule.
• The Qzoth Incursion c. 4,000-c. 3,500 BRThe last Incursion on Caeldon, when Qzoth's Bloom swallowed a wooded Headwater valley and was burned back by Ignis and the first fire-orders.

The Settlement

c. 2,000 BR-c. 500 CR

The eighth age, c. 2,000 BR-c. 500 CR, in which the lordships, holds, leagues, and temples of the medieval world dug in, most of them won by the sword, and the Wrought awoke.

• The Hardening of the Lordships EventThe long span, c. 2,000 BR-c. 500 CR, in which old contacts, corridor customs, and inherited quarrels became the ordinary ground of medieval life.
• The Awakening of the Wrought c. 1,500 BR-c. 200 CRThe span, c. 1,500 BR-c. 200 CR, in which workframes in several places woke, within a few centuries of one another, as persons with memory and will of their own, and the long, bloody fight over…

The Medieval Present

c. 500-c. 1500 CR

The ninth age, c. 500-c. 1500 CR, which the Settlement shades into without a border.

• Medieval Caeldon EventBroad medieval span in which elder Elven and Dwarven inheritances, Human corridor powers, Reedfolk and Kavari water-right, the far-side pacts, commons, and leagues, Thaluren return custom, and the…
• Medieval Species Contact Layer EventRecurring medieval meeting of peoples, where everyday living side by side, tolerated labour, trade, fear, custom, force, repair, passage, water rights, sanctuary, and misunderstanding fill the world.
• The Bridge-Holders' Quarrels EventThe quarrels of the medieval present, c. 500-c. 1500 CR, at places like the Greyford Reach, where old roads, neglected bridges, tolls, mending, salvage, and who belongs are fought over now.
• The Wake-Seal c. 1,200 CRThe rite of shadow and concealment the Hushvale survivors made c. 1,200 CR to hide their villages from the waking Record-engine, which closed the vale under fog.