34,654
Years
Has the Sun risen over Cor'Terrae.
Timeline of Cor'Terrae
The timeline lists dates of major events according to the Camarian Calendar. If a date is given in other materials according to a different calendar, (such as the Royalian Calendar which dates Year 0 as the birth of Hovan Royale, which is year -103 in the Era of Kingdoms Old, or the Dirian Calendar which dates Year 0 as the exile of their ancestors to the north in year 1380 in the Age of Dance,) then the dates are adjusted to the Camarian Calendar. This is done by matching the other Calender dates against the founding of the Empire of Camar'a by Lukyan, (which is Year 0, Camarian Calendar.) The names of the various Eras and Ages are credited to the Vita S. ['The Books of Sacred Life.']
The Eras
Names and Meanings
Somnium: "The Dreaming."
Phantasma: "Illusionary Potential."
Igniculus: "Origin's Spark."
Rerum: "Reality Manifests."
Concieo: "The Awakening."
Perditus: "Era of the Lost."
Bellum: "Uncounted Wars."
Vindicta: "Era of Vengeance."
Exodus: "The Great Migrations."
Fallacitas: "Terrible Trickery."
Antiquis: "Kingdoms of Old."
Imperium: "Era of Empires."
Durations and Years
Somnium: Time is Meaningless.
Phantasma: Time is Meaningless.
Igniculus: Time-Span Unknown.
Rerum: Year -31,483 to -26,000 (Speculation)
Concieo: Year -25,999 to -22,122
Perditus: Year -22,121 to 15,032?
Bellum: Year -15,031 to 12,655?
Vindicta: Year -12,654 to 8,897?
Exodus: Year -8,896 to 5,680?
Fallacitas: Year -5,679 to 3,167?
Antiquis: Year -3,167 to -1.
Imperium: Year 0 to 3421. (Present)
Eras and Ages
An Era begins with an "epoch" which is an event or date in time chosen as the origin of a particular Era.
This "epoch" then serves as a reference point from which time is measured.
Within an Era there are time spans called "Ages", although not every Era will have its own "Ages."
These "Ages" do not have a predetermined amount of years, but they are named for what happens during this particular "Age".
The years before the birth of Lukyan in year 0 (Camarian Calender) are counted backwards and may have a negative sign beside them.
Duration: -32,633 down to -1.
The years after Lukyan's birth are counted forwards and will not have the negative sign.
Duration: 1 forward to 3421.
(Think of the Earth categories of B.C. and A.D.)
Somnium Era
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Events outside of time
'Era of Dreams'
*Detailed Article: Myths within the Dreaming
Chronology
Ӝ The Cosmos was in a primordial state of darkness and emptiness. This nothingness was where the Great Dreamer existed, alone, slumbering in the Void, without form or time in which the universe was set.
Ӝ The Dreamer would begin to dream, and in those dreams, it grew to desire, and great sorrow filled the Dreamer's heart. As the Dreamer shed the first tear, this loneliness would personify itself like smoke in the wind. These manifestations would be called the Divines, transmutable at the thought, further beings without form. From the Dreamer's misery the Divine of Compassion, who would come to be known as Naik'lea was born.
Ӝ As Naik'lea comforts the Dreamer with the pronouncement, "I am here," the Dreamer's aura of tender affection toward the first of its children creates another, the Divine of Love, Sila Vor.
Phantasma Era
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Events outside of time
'Era of Illusions'
*Detailed Article: Myths of all Possible Creations
Chronology
Ӝ The Dreamer fantasizes of unknown worlds, and in its dreams, thousands of such illusions are shown. This happening explains the concept of infinite, separate, and often alternate universes.
Ӝ From deep in these fantasies and imagery, the Divine of Illusions, Tin Du'hil, threads itself from the many strings of dreams, and settles beside the Dreamer to count the myriad universes. There are innumerable worlds, and galaxies split from each other by the smallest of differences. Yet, no two possible futures could know of one another, forever on, the universes are separated, and remain alone.
Ӝ The twins materialize, opposite to one another in substance. One is born of the Dreamer's hope and faith, while the other is born of regret and horror. The Divine of Hope, Reinn Anon, stems from the Dreamer's reverence of all possibility, finding glory in all creation. The Divine of Horror and Desire, Nanqa, stems from the Dreamer's negativity, and spite toward the possible destruction, and ruination of his creations. One Divine of purity and one of corruption, the Dreamers' thoughts, and emotions warped and amplified.
Ӝ Visions continue of other universes, all endless possibilities. The Dreamer is shown one future where the Divines have had children, and these Demi-Gods have brought terrible war. Brutal and hateful was the discord, and the Dreamer did not know how to respond, whilst Naik'lea raged and cried aloud at grievous fates and all the pain such horrors wrought.
Ӝ The war between the Gods, and Demi-Gods began as simple bickering, a buy for power. Enraged, The Dreamer kills this rebellious brood without mercy, and then declares that the Divines are never to have children between them. All attempts to do so will fail, and it is henceforth impossible for the Divines to do so in all future realities.
"No children would be suffered born between the Divinities,
For the lives lived in vain of all those devoured and torn away,
and pain endured of those children the Dreamer had to slay."
Ӝ Naik'lea in response to the endless misery, and limitless sorrows made possible by thousands of Universes, gouges out her own eyes in an attempt to avoid the dreadful events before her. But the Divine of Compassion now blind cannot escape the sounds, unable to further disfigure herself by the Dreamer's command, and begins to weep to save all of creation from suffering. From this point onwards the 'Lady of Mercy' has never stopped crying for the salvation of all her "Father's" creations.
Ӝ Shyr'Vaero, the Divine of Battle and Vengeance spawns from courage and the fury of the battleground in that war between the Gods and Demi Gods.
Ӝ From the war-torn shambles, and depraved excess of thousands of Universes, the Divine of Chaos and Anarchy, Jhes'Khasti emerges.
Ӝ In the Dreamer's need to Control the endless Universes, another being emerges from the Dreamer's essence, the Divine of Fate, Wan'an'iena, whom even the other Divines cannot comprehend.
Ӝ The Divine of Law, Meiva is spawned from Control, and Chaos as Law is but one potentiality of the infinite possibilities of Chaos. With the ability to Control the Universes now in the Dreamer's hand, order spreads throughout the Cosmos.
Igniculus Era
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Dates Unknown.
'Era of Origins'
*Detailed Article: Myths of the Spark of Origins
Chronology
Ӝ The Dreamer is made to realize by the Divine of Control, Wan'an'iena, that it had until now only been dreaming, making fantasies. With the guidance of the Divines hands to guide it, the Dreamer gathers the dust of creation, beginning to awaken, to create reality.
Ӝ Once the Dreamer awakens, matter begins to form. The Divine of Love, Sila Vor begins to dance and, the clinging particles of light would project outwards to create the brilliant hues that would conquer the night across the awakened Universe. She would then become the Queen of the Stars that she would originate.
Ӝ The Divine of Hope tries to gather the first bright particles, but unable to touch the light, they are aided by the Divine of Love. They grow in affection for each other and are bound, never to be parted. The Divine of Love, Sila Vor gives her power over light to Reinn Anon in good faith, and so the Divine of Hope becomes the Divine of Hope and Pure Light.
Ӝ Now able to take up the first particles in the Universe, those gases that created light, the Divine of Light, Reinn Anon crafts Alasse Cir, High Paradise. These brilliant particles create a halo of light that forms the top of the Universe, and as this is formed, Shadow, a self-created entity shelters the cosmos. This separates the Realm of Light from the Void by a guise, the Myr Veil, creating a sanctuary of Shadow where life would be protected from the two extremes.
Ӝ With the gathering of darker, and dense matter the Dreamer grows ambitious in its plans, and out of The Dreamer's ambitions the Divine of Ambition, Nau'ar forms.
Ӝ The planet takes on shape, and the Dreamer creates fire, making molten lava beneath the crust of the world to heat the terrene. The Fire is a gift to the Divine of Ambition and reveling in its newfound power this Divine becomes of three: Nau'ar Divine of Ambition, Fire, and Power.
Ӝ Needing to cool down the globe, the Dreamer makes it begin to rain from the atmosphere, liquid, forming the Divine of Water, Al'Shae Oaris. The Great Seas and Oceans are then created by the Divine of Water.
Ӝ The Divine of Hope, and Light is gifted the power of Storms, and it becomes of three: Reinn Anon, Divine of Hope, Light, and Storms.
Ӝ On the newly created planet, the light of Alasse Cir was not enough, and the world remained in darkness. The planet needed a source of light that the Void could not steal, and the Divines convened on what to do. The Divine of Chaos, Jhes'Khasti then tricks The Divine of Fire, Nau'ar into throwing its power into the Cosmos, and in doing so it creates the Sun that would feed the Shadow.
Ӝ Jhes'Khasti roars in laughter from its ploy as Nau'ar now may only use its powers during the night hours, when the Sun slept. It is from this selfish act that Jhes'Khasti would become a Divine of three: Jhes'Khasti, Divine of Chaos, Intrigue, and Trickery.
Ӝ The Moon was created so that Nau'ar's power could be returned for a few hours every day. The Moon would wax, and wane through the month so that the Divine of Illusions, and now the Moon, Tin Du'hil, would have their powers slowly returned at one point during the month, before they would lose that power once more.
Ӝ With the first rising of the Sun, Time begins to toll throughout the Universe. In the uncounted years that follow, the world of Cor'Terrae is fully formed with atmosphere, mountains, rivers, and seas. The only Divine who understands that time is now without end is the Divine of Control, Wan'an'iena. This leads to Wan'an'iena becoming the Divine of Control, and Time.
Rerum Era
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Dates Approximated.
'Era of Reality'
*Detailed Article: Myths of the Actual World
Chronology
→ ? - 31,483 Rerum: A succession of incredibly harsh ice ages wax and wan, glaciers having extended. and contracted in vast ice sheets, covering the sub-polar, and mountainous parts of the world. Constant glacier transgression, and regression cause high sea waters followed by low tides.
→ ? - 26,000 Rerum: Great pieces of land have since rifted apart, yet they commence a slowing of tectonic processes now. The plates quiet, though earthquakes shall always continue.
→ 27,500? Rerum: As the terrene stills and the plates rift less often, land-borne plants and coral reefs appear. Conifers spread, and the first representatives of many leafy trees, including figs, planes, and magnolias grew. Flowering plants, (angiosperms) flourish, and continue to spread across the world, diversifying based on climate, and geography.
→ 27,000? Rerum: As the world begins to teem with wilderness, The Divine of Nature, Enayla Eelm emerges from the woodlands. They would go on to bless all flora, and the first fauna is born, bees aiding in the evolution of all flowering greenery. In cultivating the land, the Dreamer created first, small mammals, reptiles, and birds.
→ 26,500? Rerum: The Divine of Nature promises to be the Dreamer's voice upon the world, and is named by the Dreamer as 'co-creator of the living terrene.' In this task, Enayla Eelm becomes the Divine of three: Flora, Life, and Fauna, the 'female' personification of the planet, and although they remained The Dreamer's child, they were yet too equal in joint-creation.
→ 26,250? Rerum: Sharks, Rays, and more Mammals evolve, adapt, and grow in the many climates and geographical locations of the planet.
→ 26,000? Rerum: In delight at all of Creation, The Dreamer expresses its deep joy and excitement by blessing all blossoms. From the Dreamer's gaiety and celebration, the Divine of Joy, and Music, Rina'Lin, emerges.
Concieo Era
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Dates Approximated.
'Era of Awakening'
*Detailed Article: Myths of the Awakenings
Chronology
→ 25,980--> Concieo: Volcanism progressively decreases in both the eruption rate of lava and the volume of sulfur dioxide output.
→ 25,670--> Concieo: Cor'terrae's temperature would begin to warm at this time, and the atmosphere would become drier. This overall increase in aridity would see the expansion of grasslands, and savannahs at the expanse of ancient forests.
→ 25,500 Concieo: Deep in the Ieldun cave system, the Dreamer fashions 'the first children' from the Ellearn, the Ancestor Trees. At the time they were only hollow timber, and it is Sila Vor who is dancing in the night sky, that gives each of them a kindled star to carry within their living breast. This awakens the Anak Detska, and they become the first sentient people. Becoming the bearers of stars makes the Ellearn species Astriferous.
Cont'd. As the Ellearn took shape, the Divine of Wisdom, Judgement, and Magic He'ar Namin, emerged. This Divine would take Ellearn form and give pieces of themselves to eat. To those that ate the flesh of He'ar Namin they inherited a spark that would come to be known as magic. In the eventide Sila Vor beneath the starry skies of Alasse Cir with Wan'an'iena Spirit of Mystery by her side would spin delicate webs upon her loom and together the Vil'or's would place at the heart of the gossamer lace a precious stone. Resting within this gem was a flicker of the soul of the Ellearn creating destinies for the First Born.
→ 25,420--> Concieo: The Ellearn begin to track and hunt animals with spears and blow darts using a coordinated signed language that all the First People know and use.
→ 24,500 Concieo: In the northern savannah, the Dreamer fashions 'the second children' from mud and clay. Reinn Anon, Spirit of Winds blew the first breath of life into their mouths and noses. Becoming the bearers of winds makes the human species Ventiferous. The second people would in time come to call themselves Ukomu.
→ 24,470 Concieo: The human Sjel is betrayed and murdered, the very first Human to die. As the Divines do not understand Death they made of him the Divine of Death. Sjel'Nharma curses mankind with mortality for his betrayal and becomes 'The Mortal's God.' Sjel Nn'harma creates an Outerplane called the 'Halls of Awakening' where he is chained to his throne for all time.
→ 24,000--> Concieo: The Divines choose how they will represent themselves on Cor'terrae. As Human or Ellearn. Male or Female. All choose a sex except He'ar Namin who will remain as neither for all time.
→ 23,470--> Concieo: Finding that the land beyond the immediate homes of the Ellearn and mankind is largely empty the Divines create elementals and a great many animals to fill the sky, sea, and lands.
→ 23,200 Concieo: The Eternal One, Corchorum spoke only one law to the First and Second Born, 'Love and Be Loved' and places its spiritual consciousness in the planet's center as the Heart that dances at the core to keep the world spinning.
→ 23,050 Concieo: In recompense for the loss of his powers Nau'ar ambushes Jhes'Khasti on the Mortal plane and disfigures the God of Trickery by carving out one of his eyes.
→ 22,978 Concieo: A plague spreads through the Ieldun caves killing countless Ellearn. More are killed as those responsible try to cover their crimes. The Ellearn are separated into different peoples, taken far from the caves to survive. All Ellearn are banished from the caves as punishment, taking them away from their Ancestor Trees. Once intersex people are now single-sexed and are given empathy for all living things so that such a catastrophe will never happen again.
→ 22,967 Concieo: Those Ellearn who had been sickened had learned to live with the illness in their veins as it steadily decreased their lifespan. Their birthrate had been cut in half and most babies died at birth. The first plague-born child that survived was seen as a miracle and a sign that they could live on as a people even with the illness. This child would be made King of the Murieael (Moon Ellearn).
→ 22,782 Concieo: Reinn Anon takes his very essence, his Mana, and creates six Arch Angels for himself and three Arch Angels for each Divine. However, Nau'ar Divine of Fire could not mingle his essence with Reinn Anon for his Mana was the very Sun itself far from Cor'terrae. It is also through this act that it was found by the Gods that Reinn Anon Spirit of Holy Light and Nanqa Spirit of Darkness could not create between them High Guardians. Their Mana could not be mixed, for they were true opposites. This disturbed the other Divines, and Reinn Anon began to look upon Nanqa with distrust and suspicion.
→ 22,433 Concieo: Nanqa returns from having traversed deep into the void to bring back some of Nau'ar's power so Reinn Anon can make the Fire God his Archangels, Fusixin (Phoenixes).
→ 22,400 Concieo: He'ar Namin, Divine of Knowledge would take up residence in their own Outerplane called Saape Morum. Here they would record history, apart from the other Divines, always watching, always writing.
→ 22,356 -- 22,338 Concieo: Humans travel south in need of land for the animals they have domesticated through the mountain pass into the southern wilderness. Mankind would divide themselves, by color, by language, by the Gods they put on high.
→ 22,312 -- 22,308 Concieo: The Ellearn who were banished from their caverns and now live in the valleys and forests above those same caverns. They began to spread out far through the lands they would come to call the Melimidisiel. Initially wandering hunter-gatherers, the Ellearn would find themselves driven back into the Mellimdisiel by sedentary human people. Lacking domesticated animals or the wheel, they were unable to win against the humans in combat. Groups of Ellearn flee back into the mountains.
Cont'd. But with battle came many more deaths, deaths before their time, and at Nanqa's behest Reinn Anon took the essence of those who died in honor to create more Guardians. Those humans who died an honorable death were taken up to become Telemnar, Angels, and those otherwise clean entered the Halls of Awakening to be reborn. But still, there remained those on the Material plane as ghosts, unable to reconcile their violent deaths, filled with rage and despair. Reinn Anon refused them. These crushed shades would fight Ashriel when the High Guardian tried to take them, so a Vil'or, the Spirit of Music played her violin for them so they would fall into a trance and follow her to the Halls of Awakening.
→ 22,256 Concieo: Naik'lea pleads for Nanqa to help those souls left behind and Nanqa creates his own separate Outerplane Kazcas, which will become known as Hell to prepare the lost souls for forgiveness.
→ 22,253 Concieo: Nanqa requires assistance in Hell, and so he creates his servants, Hen'ei who would come to be called Demons. From his Mana, his essence he created seven Devils, Lords of Hell, and he embodied within them each, one of the cornerstones of mortal sin; the reasons that mankind could not enter Paradise or be reborn.
→ 22,248 Concieo: Nanqa whispers in the ears of four of Reinn Anon's Archangels, 'Come to me,' Nanqa voiced, 'Use your powers to punish man so they can come to peace'. They are the first to Fall from Grace, their figures and wings twisting, as they descend into Hell becoming Zelamanara, 'Banish'ed'. Eirdandri, The Accursed, Tardraes, The Absolute, Amuburiel, The Slave, and Marthei, The Watcher.
→ 22,230 Concieo: In a wish to have creations like Reinn Anon's angels Nanqa decides to twist the souls of the First Born, pushing their fragile minds to the brink of insanity. Those whose minds did not shatter became monsters, spirits allowed to roam the surface world where the spirits possessed mankind, transforming them into vampires. A disease born of the blood of half-crazed Ellearns.
→ 22,167 Concieo: Demons are told to go to the surface of the Material plane by the Devils to learn more about mankind and em>Ellearns. They disguised themselves as surface dwellers and moved among them learning, sharing, and fighting with them. The first Hen'ei Paelil, HaHalf Demon, Half Human is born.
→ 22,154 Concieo: Reinn Anon proclaims in Alasse Cir that Nanqa has done enough wrong to the world and that he must be punished. All of the Divines except Nanqa and Nau'ar are summoned to convene and Reinn declares that the only fitting end for his twin is deep in the void.
→ 22,122 Concieo: Each Divine retreats to decide on their own if Nanqa should be banished. Naik'lea is the last to decide and does so with Reinn Anon's help. The Gods reconvene with all save He'ar Namin voting. It is unanimous. Nanqa is then summoned before the council and his punishment is told to him with a cry of betrayal Nanqa is chained so he cannot fight back. He'ar Namin takes the God of Darkness deep into the void making sure he knows he is unable to return until the day he is forgiven.
(WIP-To be continued.)
All Original names and references to the story they are from are Copyright of Nathanial Davidson