Appendix A: Ages of the World

Most events are listed in the order they occurred, but events in are approximate, their specific placement unclear. Did construction begin on the Makers' marshal before or after the Forest Folk disappeared? That's for you and your group to decide, if it matters.

The Primordial Age

  • Light fills the void; the Things Below
  • First Creators become aware of themselves

? The first of the great spirits arise

  • Things Below stoke the Creators' egos, urge war
  • First Creators forge the world and trap the Things Below inside
  • Tcaventes, Shackle and Key

? The gods do many legendary things

? The earliest peoples evolve or are created

Time of the Makers

  • Rise of the Tempest Lords' civilization
  • Tempest Lords establish their empire
  • Rise of other Maker groups
  • Tempest Lords found "Northernmost" (the
  • Tempest Lord homeland sinks, empire crumbles; other Makers grow in power

? Construction of the Makers' Roads begins

? Green Lords breed the Fae

? Manmarchers come from across the

  • Stormcatcher establishes her Tower in the Flats
  • Fae rebellion! the Green Lords call on the Things Below
  • Stone Lords what is now Ferrier's Fen
  • Siege of Vor Svetelik
  • Stone Lords' servants start to plot rebellion and embrace the Things Below

Were the civilizations of the South or even before? Or perhaps during the Time of the Barrow Builders?

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Roads before or after the Tempest Lords' capital sank? Did Brennan become Marshedge's Eons ago, over a span beyond reckoning.

The Things Below were already there, is set to guard the Utterwell Millennia ago, over a span of centuries (at least).

Ruins at Road's End, The Dread River)

The Makers' Roads Fae

Dread River Stone Lords destroy the heart of the Green Lord's territory, creating; Green Lords retreat, become Fomoraij Lygos and the South founded during the Time of the Makers,

Time of Cataclysm

  • Stone Lords' servants rebel, unleash the Things Below, sink Dulenn and create water Lake ? "Northernmost" overrun by horrors from the Dread River
  • Stone Lords hunted down by rebels
  • Teirstered falls, becomes Three Coven Lake
  • Refugees start heading to Stormcatcher's tower

? Howling Curse causes Rime Lord

? Volcanic eruptions, Moratia Rubra destroyed,

  • More refugees arrive at Stormcatcher's tower
  • Surviving Rime Lords sacrifice themselves to contain the Howling Curse
  • Stormcatcher's tower falls

Time of the Barrow Builders

  • First barrows built to honor freedom fighters
  • Emanations
  • Warlords/sorcerer-kings vie for power, build more elaborate barrows
  • Battles fought over Three Coven Lake, the Ruins at Road's End, etc.
  • Refugees, enslavement, human sacrifice, all-around bad times
  • Subjects of the Barrow Builders overthrow/abandon/imprison their tyrannical rulers
  • Certain bands of Barrow Builders flee into the

The Current Age

Starting a few centuries ago.

  • Power of the Things Below ebbs (reasons unclear)
  • Barrow Builder culture gives rise to Hillfolk

? Marshedge founded Marshedge ? Stonetop founded The Village of Stonetop

Recent memory

The last decade or so.

? Brennan and the Claws start raiding

? Brennan hired as Marshedge's marshal

  • Crinwin, nailadd Centuries ago, over a span of decades.

Black- civilization to nearly collapse Rime Lords

Forge Lord society collapses Forge Lords Centuries ago, over a span of generations.

The Things Below of the Things Below roam freely, are worshipped/appeased Labyrinth culture Marshedge The Great Wood, etc. grow in numbers