Timeline

This is a timeline of events concerning Telara, from its creation to the present.

Age of Legend

• Millenia ago: The Vigil created Telara from a mass of sourcestone.
• Tavril creates the Elves.
• Bahralt the crafter God creates the Dwarves from the spirits that assisted his creation.

Arrival of the Humans

• Humans are created by all the gods of the Vigil and appear in Tavra.
• Humans develop civilization with the help of the Elves.
• The humans splinter: the Eth venture south, and the Mathosians venture north and found the Mathosian Empire.

Age of Dragons / Blood Storm War (1500 years before game starting events)

• The Blood Storm arrive at Telara in dragon form, causing extensive damage.
• Crucia of the Blood Storm inflicts damage on the Elves, destroying most of the High Elven Heart Grove.
• The lesser gods of the Blood Storm turn against Regulos. (999 years before game starting events)
• The people of Telara ally against the Blood Storm, catching them off guard.
• The Shalastiri enter Telara from the Plane of Air and aid the Telarans. (950 years before game starting events)
• The Eth are the first to befriend the Shalastiri.
• The Eth discover a means to harness sourcestone as a fuel for their war machines.
• The Blood Storm gods are imprisoned in the planes.
• A faction of elves - the Kelari - turn from Tavril.
• The Vigil help construct the ward to shield Telara from the planes. (505 years before game starting events)

Formation of the Bahmi and the Ethian Empire

• The Shalastiri settle in the Rhaza'de Canyons and breed with humans, forming a new race, the Bahmi.
• The Eth apply sourcestone technology to their daily lives.
• The Dragonslayer Covenant is formed primarily from Eth and Bahmi, to keep watch over the dragon cults.
• The Vigil demand that the Eth abandon sourcestone technology. (450 years before game starting events)
• The Eth refuse, and found the powerful Ethian empire.
• Sourcestone technology fall into the hands of the dragon cultists. (440 years before game starting events)
• The Eth Empire collapses. (500 Years Before Launch)

Mathosian Civil War / Shade War (25 Years Before Launch)

• The Mathosian King Jostir the ancient dies mysteriously.
• Civil war between Jostir's sons Aedraxis and Zareph ravages the northern half of Telara.
• The Dragonslayer Covenant uncovers evidence that Aedraxis is dealing with the Endless Court.
• Orphiel Fairwind, leader of the Dragonslayer Covenant, sends Asha Catari to warn Zareph.
• Aedraxis resorts to magic that fractures the ward and pulls the Plane of Death over Telara.(20 Years Before Launch
• Most of the Mathosians homeland is destroyed in the Shade.
• Aedraxis turns into an undead and is crowned king as the elder son.
• The Dragonslayer Covenant lose most of their number defending Telara from the Plane of Death.
• Asha Catari dies fighting alongside Zareph.
• Aedraxis and his followers flee north.
• Zareph and his followers flee the shade and found Port Scion. (60 years prior to game starting events)
• The remnants of the Dragonslayer Covenant join the Mathosians at Port Scion.
• The Bahmi arrive at Port Scion and raise the city's walls.

Roots of the Defiant-Guardian schism

• Orphiel begins investigating the remnants of Eth technology.
• Orphiel's philosophy that Eth technology should rise again gains a following.
• The first Ascendants return, Orphiel's following dwindles.
• Orphiel and his remaining followers leave Port Scion.
• Orphiel finds ancient Eth sourcestone machines in the Shadowlands and powers them back up.(1 Year Before Launch)
• Asha Catari is the first Defiant ascendant brought back by the sourcestone machines.

Fall of Port Scion and aftermath (30 years prior to game starting events)

• Zareph was lost.
• The Guardians establish themselves in Sanctum and demand that the sourcestone machines not be used.
• Orphiel and his followers refuse to comply, and establish themselves in Meridian in Freemarch.