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#1 ripvanwormer Mar 27, 2006 14:32:42	I'm using Sigil's calendar, the Temporum Sphaera, the Unified Timeline of the Spheres, and a timeline Gray Richardson posted to the Gravelands forum. And I made stuff up. And I'm assuming that one year in real time equals one year in Sigil, which means many decades pass on Krynn while only a few years pass in the City of Doors, but time can do weird things between planes. Assume, for the moment, that the Temporum Sphaera is pretty accurate. How would other planar events, like those described in Hellbound, fit with it? The result is kind of weird. The multiverse is only a million years old, the gods are less than a quarter that age, and humanity is less than an eyeblink. And it's all stuff that no campaign should set down as definites. Far, far too many darks are revealed. But it's an interesting exercise. Hashkar -1,000,000: The Breaking of the First Sphere in the Material Plane. In the Outer Planes, the baernaloths, priminals, true slaadi, kamarel, and Serpents of Law emerge. Hashkar -990,000: Swelling of the Styx and Oceanus. Hashkar -980,000: Creation of the yugoloths, guardinals, and gehreleths. Hashkar -970,000: The Heart of Darkness. Harrowing of the Elder Baatorians. Brood Wars in the Abyss. Books of Keeping written. Hashkar -968,000: Fall of the Maeldur Et Kavurik. Disappearance of the baernaloths and priminals. Hashkar -966,000: Tanar'ri and baatezu encounter one another. The Blood War begins. Hashkar -956,000: The yugoloths begin their mercenary work. The First of the Ultroloths begins referring to itself as the General. Hashkar -946,000: First appearance of the great lords of Baator, the Abyss, Arborea, and Celestia recorded by arcanaloths, though of course some may have been around earlier. Hashkar -945,000: Celestials begin to interfere in the Blood War. Much of the Upper Planes are destroyed by fiendish retribution. Hashkar -944,900: The fiendish races task certain castes to record and remember all knowledge. Hashkar -944,855: Fall of Triel. Hashkar -922,000: Fiends first encounter the titans. Several of them are killed before they learn not to interfere in the Blood War. Hashkar -921,980: Construction of the Wasting Tower of Khin-Oin begins on the site fabeled to be the origin of the yugoloth race. Hashkar -911,980: Khin-Oin completed. Hashkar -900,000: Fiends and celestials discover how to reproduce their number from petitioners. Hashkar -890,900: The yugoloths begin their move to Gehenna. Hashkar -500,000: Fiends and celestials discover Sigil. Hashkar -100,000: The Migration of the "Real Ancestors." These nonhuman beings, tall, faceless, psionically adept beings who call themselves the Vedmoti, are the first mortals to begin exploring the planes and the City of Doors en masse. Hashkar -60,000: Height of ancient Reigar civilization. The reigar, a race of planet-shaping artists, are found to be extremely vulnerable to outer planar influence. The Watchers, a sect of archons, fall from grace for interfering too closely in the development of the Material Plane. Shortly thereafter, fiends begin exploiting the Material Plane in earnest. The first aasimar, cambions, and tieflings - crossbreeds with the reigar - emerge. Hashkar -59,000: Mass genocide of all tieflings in Baator as part of an experiment in forging souls. Hashkar -58,950: A group of reigar time travelers invite the predecessors of the illithids into their world from Outside. Hashkar -58,850 to -31,400: The Illithid Empire. Hashkar -57,638: The Aeree Empire emerges on worlds not dominated by the illithids. Hashkar -34,743: Aboleths begin manipulating the life of the material plane. Hashkar -32,438: Kiaransalee, necromancer-queen of Threnody, ascends into true divinity. Hashkar -32,000: The natives of the world of Pharagos are enslaved by the illithids; they are found to be obedient servants with little psionic potential, yet somehow ideal for ceremorphosis. The Pharagoans soon become the illithids' preferred slaves and are brought to hundreds of different worlds. Hashkar -31,400: A slave rebellion headed by a Pharagoan warrior-psion named Gith quickly spreads to most illithid settlements. The armies are divided into three groups, one led by a warrior-psion named Zerthimon, one led by a wizard named Vlaakith, and one led by Gith herself. Enough elder brains are destroyed to break the Overmind and plunge the illithid empire into darkness. Hashkar -31,393: The Proclaimation of Two Skies. The followers of Gith begin to battle one another as Gith's general Zerthimon leads a third of their forces against her. Hashkar -31,390: Zerthimon is killed in personal combat with Gith. The followers of Zerthimon make a strategic defeat to Limbo, a plane hazardous enough to discourage pursuit but not devoted to evil. Hashkar -31,389: Gith travels to Baator to make a pact with Tiamat's red dragon consort. She does not return. Hashkar -31,388: Vlaakith is crowned Vlaakith I, Queen of the Githyanki. Hashkar -30,888: Vlaakith I is assassinated by one of her most trusted knights, or possibly a githzerai. Twenty of Vlaakith's female descendents die the same night. Hashkar -30,887: Vlaakith I's youngest daughter, championed by a powerful githyanki faction, is crowned Vlaakith II. Hashkar -30,893: Vlaakith II is assassinated. The githzerai are blamed. Her older sister becomes Vlaakith III, the Bloody Queen. Hashkar -30,891: Vlaakith III dies. Her niece becomes Vlaakith IV. Hashkar -30,038: A member of an powerful royal house makes a play for the githyanki throne and becomes Vlaakith V. Hashkar -21,885: Height of the Juna Civilization. The young gods first appear in the planes, overthrowing the older, titanic powers. The fiends soon teach them not to interfere with the Blood War. Hashkar -21,338: The First Confirmed Citing of the *Spelljammer*. Hashkar -19,885: Bel executes his legendary Four-Cross. Hashkar -19,000: The Field of Nettles first comes into use. Hashkar -17,885: Creation of the Labyrinth Stone. Hashkar -11,864: The race of ethergaunts, or Khen-Zai, abandon the material plane for the Ethereal. Hashkar -9885: Disappearance of the Juna. Hashkar -9874: Shekelor dies. Hashkar -5977: In the dawn of one world's history, the being who would come to be called Skall arose from a battlefield, transformed into something other than mortal. Hashkar -5885: Ascension of the Syllix. Hashkar -5685: Founding of the Syllix Emirate. Hashkar -5385: First Thri-Kreen space travellers. Hashkar -5335: Arrival of the Arcane. Hashkar -4385: Zenith of the Chitin Empire. Hashkar -4085: The The Tyme of Divyne Hosts' Wrath Hashkar -3885: The Screaming Migration. Hashkar -3885 to -3685: Crusade of the Celestial Mantis. Hashkar -3882: The Reckoning/Rebellion of the Inferiors in Baator begins. The lower castes take advantage of changes in the Material Plane to rebel. Some of the Lords of the Nine take advantage of the rebellion to attempt to sieze control of Nessus. In the aftermath, Moloch and Geryon are removed from their positions. Triel is transformed into a hideous, sluglike being. Fierana becomes Lady of the Fourth. The Dark Eight take control of Baator's legions. Hashkar -3785: The Height of the Oortlings. Hashkar -3732: Imaskari empire stricken by mysterious plague. Fated, Bleakers, and Incanterium originate around this period. Hashkar -3300: War between geniekind and the gods. The Loregiver receives the Law from Fate Herself. Hashkar -3285: The Al'Malamut Empire. Hashkar -2963 to -2887: Great Illithid Wars. Hashkar -2839: Destruction of the Oortlings. Hashkar -2785: Height of modern illithid influence. Hashkar -2802: Defeat of the illithids by beholders. Hashkar -2200: A truce between the warring forces of the Blood War is brokered in order to study the newly-opened Ghoresh Chasm. Hashkar -2142: Rise of the fiend-worshipping Empire of Narfell. Hashkar -1885: Collapse of the Al'Malamut Empire. Hashkar -1391: Collapse of Narfell. Hashkar -983: The arrival of the neogi. Hashkar -885 to -787: The Years of Blight (The First Inhuman War) Hashkar -883: Charter of the Imperial Elven Navy. Hashkar -875: Arrival of the grommans, hadozee, and giff. Hashkar -865: Vlaakith CLVII is crowned queen of the githyanki. Hashkar -857: Fraternity of Order officially becomes a faction. The Transcendent Order impulsively follows soon after. Hashkar -816: Arrival of the tinker gnomes. Hashkar -812: Bleak Cabal finally gets around to filling out their paperwork. Hashkar -804: The Doomguard is driven from Citadel Cavitius by the lich Vecna. Their organization crumbles. Hashkar -787: Battle of Greela. Hashkar -774: Rillith founds her Collector's Society. Hashkar -770: Rillith's Society moves to philosophical concerns, becoming the Sign of One. The Transcendent Order attempts to destroy it, but the plan backfires. Hashkar -761: The destruction of Borka. Hashkar -757: End of the First Inhuman War. Hashkar -753 to -747: The Insectare War. Hashkar -749: Athar formed by Dunn and Ciro. Hashkar -744: Perrine forms a philosophical society, the precursor to the Believers of the Source. Hashkar -740: Factol Gaelan of the Sign of One makes a pact between his faction and the pit fiend Bel. Later that year, Bel seizes control of Avernus from his predecessor, Zariel. Hashkar -665: An increasingly paranoid Vlaakith CLVII becomes a lich, the first and last of the royal githyanki line to do so. Hashkar -628: The Rama'tal'ain. Hashkar -581: Society of Sensation formed, initially as a social club. Within twenty-five years they're one of the most popular factions, though without a factol. Hashkar -500: The Great Upheaval. The Mercykillers form from the Sons of Mercy and Sodkiller factions. The Doomguard becomes an official faction (again), and becomes Sigil's official city guard. Hashkar -466: The Law of the Loregiver is rediscovered. Hashkar -412: Jafar al-Samal becomes the first sha'ir. Hashkar -397. Geniekind is coverted to the Law of the Loregiver. Hashkar -374: Knights of Harmony found the Harmonium in Ortho. Hashkar -238: The Cataclysm in Krynn. Hashkar -230: First major dealings with the Dohwar. Hashkar -185: Cult of Ptah forced underground. Hashkar -167: Factol Molluus founds the Destroyer fraction of the Doomguard. Hashkar -97: First dealings with the K'r'r'r. Hashkar -92: Clockwork horrors plague the known spheres (and, briefly, Sigil itself). The Khen-Zai emerge from their long seclusion in the Ethereal Plane. Hashkar -74: Corwin of Anchor, the last survivor of Ortho's invasion of the Abyss, becomes the first Harmonium soldier to set foot in Sigil. Hashkar -67: Harmonium sets up shop in Sigil and wars with the Doomguard. At the end, the Harmonium are the city guard and the Doomguard in charge of the Armory. Hashkar -66: The Fated seizes control of Bigby's College in Sigil, citing overdue taxes. Hashkar -37: Founding of the Rock of Bral in its current incarnation. Hashkar 34: A mercane cartel known as the Great Trading House expands in Krynn, Toril, and Oerth simultaneously. Hashkar 54: First contact with the dracon. Hashkar 56: The mercane cartel known as the Union opens a planar metropolis to the public. Hashkar 60: First verified contact with the scro. Hashkar 77: Omar becomes factol of the Harmonium. Hashkar 106: The Geonomicon. Hashkar 112: Lolth invades the world of Oerth. Hashkar 115: Guide to the World of Greyhawk completed. Hashkar 116: First Edition of the Temporum Sphaera. Hashkar 117: Zuggtmoy is released from her prison in the world of Oerth, and the goddess Takhisis fails in her attempt to conquer the world of Krynn. Hashkar 120: The chaos lord Wartle is exiled from Limbo. Also this year, Orcus' wand is stolen by adventurers from Toril. Hashkar 121: The Time of Troubles on Toril. The gods Bane, Bhaal, Myrkul, Leira and others enter the Dead Book of the Gods. Orcus is killed by Kiaransalee. Hashkar 123: The world of Athas is added to Guvner's roster of worlds. New Tyr founded in Sigil. Hashkar 123-124: The Second Unhuman War consumes the spheres. The elven armadas are beaten badly by the orcish and goblin armies, causing the cube of Nishrek and Clangor in Acheron to expand greatly in size, while the realm of Arvandor withers and shrinks. Refugees from the war and from Arvandor flood Sigil. The Doomguard and tanar'ri begin work on the Ships of Chaos. Hashkar 124: The Wrath of the Immortals in Mystara. In the month of Catechism of this year, the god Rad disappears from his realm in the Quasielemental Plane of Radiance. Hashkar 126: Githyanki, led by a rogue knight daring to call herself queen, invade the Black Spine Mountains in the world of Athas. Hashkar 127: Planar travelers finally penetrate the Shadow World, enter the world of Aebrynis, and manage to make their way back to report their discovery to the Fraternity of Order. Also this year, the focrux is destroyed in Harbinger House. A'kin writes the Factol's Manifesto. Hashkar 128: The Summer of Chaos destablizes the world of Krynn, ultimately causing it to vanish entirely. Also this year, rumors begin that the fiends have lost their ability to teleport instantly across planes. Hashkar 129: The Great Modron March mysteriously comes early. Later this year, gods begin dying. A mysterious assailant able to kill with a word is blamed. Hashkar 130: Illithids begin dimming suns across hundreds of worlds in an attempt to create an Overmind. In the month of Tithing this year, a plague called the Iron Shadow devastates several prominent planar communities. In the month of the Pivot, the lich Acererak attempts to become one with the Negative Energy Plane. In the month of Nihilum, a war erupts between Sigil's factions. Not a good year for sunshine and light. On the positive side, the goddess of Waukeen is also freed in the month of Tithing from her imprisonment by Graz'zt. In Sacriligion of this year, the plane-crossing ship Demonwing is stolen. Postbellum 2: In Regula of this year, a githyanki knight declares herself Gith reincarnate. An entire Prime world is destroyed by something called the Apocalypse Stone and Moloch, exiled Lord of the Sixth, disappears in the month of Retributus of this year. In the month of the Pivot, the lich Vecna escapes from the Demiplane of Dread and temporarily sheds his divinity to enter Sigil; he causes a commotion by uttering the True Words. Postbellum 3: In the month of Catechism, the goddess Kiaransalee flees Thanatos for the Demonweb as the formally-dead god Orcus resurfaces. Postbellum 4: In the month of Accordant, a presence invades the Positive Energy Plane and begins devouring unborn souls. In the Pivot of this year the Codex of the Infinite Planes is recovered from Kerleth's Tower in the Elemental Plane of Fire. In Nihilum of this year, the demon queen Lolth mysteriously stops answering the prayers of her faithful. Postbellum 5: The War of Souls on Krynn ends in Retributus of this year. The gods Takhisis and Paladine vanish, causing chaos in Avernus and sorrow in Solania. Krynn is rediscovered by the dwarf Tarholt. In the month of the Pivot the githyanki Lich-Queen Vlaakith is reported dead after an aborted invasion of the world of Pharagos, though officials from Tu'narath are quick to deny this. Postbellum 6: In the month of Savorus, the existence of Eberron is confirmed by the Fraternity of Order. In the month of the Pivot, arguments rage in Mechanus as radical Doomguard scholars proclaim the extinction of the modrons. Postbellum 7: Arguments rage over the age of the illithid empire as radical Doomguard scholars claim to have evidence it actually existed in the far future. In Tithing of this year, Lolth emerges from her silence as a greater goddess. In Decadre of this year, certain exiled factions vow to return to the City of Doors. Postbellum 8: Regulus is penetrated, confirming the continued existence of modrons despite certain doomsayers' predictions. An unconventional conjurer manages to summon up a vestige of the being Tenebrous, confusing those who thought it had been resurrected as Orcus.
#2 kwint_pendick Mar 27, 2006 14:58:17	Pretty interesting read, Rip. I like the 1 year PS = 1 year real time = many years Krynn time. Did you figure that formula into Krynn's past (i.e. past events occured much closer to the 'now' than the official Krynn timeline would infer if 1 Krynn year = 1 PS year)? I like that you gave some of the dark, but not all of the dark. Kwint
#3 ripvanwormer Mar 27, 2006 17:23:49	Did you figure that formula into Krynn's past (i.e. past events occured much closer to the 'now' than the official Krynn timeline would infer if 1 Krynn year = 1 PS year)? No. 1 Krynn year = 1 PS year up to the gap between the War of the Lance and the Next Generation, then it starts acting weird. Blame the planar orrery causing Krynn to cycle into a more distant phase.