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History: Calendar History & Legend of Aleen-gha The histories of Aleen-gha are immense and varied, spanning over thousands of years and throughout the vast continents. Slowly, we are gathering what stories we can to provide the best, most robust collection never before seen in even the grandest libraries of the world. For now, we must humbly offer only a portion of what history is truly known to us. Below is a list of historic events that relate to the campaigns played in the world of Aleen-gha. While these events may not have actually happened in the time of the campaigns, they are still relevant to the overarching stories of said campaigns.

Timeline of Events
Shargas (SH 0 - 3549) Abstratia (AB 0 - 5296) Threnos (TH 0 - 10058)
 * SH 0 - The Creation of Nack
 * SH 10 - The Bloodletting of Sweetwater Island
 * SH 200 - The Establishment of Bandle City
 * SH 200 - The Creation of Boar Herpes Academy in Nack
 * SH 450 - Formation of the Nack Empire
 * SH 665 - The Divine Cataclysm of Canary Island in Nack
 * SH 670 - The Dawn of the Dragon War in Nack
 * SH 670 - The Fall of Boar Herpes Academy
 * SH 1026 - The (re)Building of Boar Herpes Academy
 * SH 1193 - The Establishment of Abrinax
 * SH 1262 - The Building of Evenhelm
 * SH 1310 - Creation of the Kings of Kor
 * SH 1310 - The Battle of Spearsdale
 * SH 1987 - The BUFD Wars Begin
 * SH 2497 - The Attacks of the Dog-Face Clan
 * AB 650 - The Splintered Scale War in Tochku
 * AB 1230 - The Beginning of the Hollow Plague in Tochku
 * TH 0 - The Great Freeze of Bottenhavet
 * TH 1179 - Founding of Taurenia
 * TH 1597 - Year of the Slaadi Invasion
 * TH 2541 - Founding of Sjobia
 * TH 5688 - Discovery of Daeza Ruins
 * TH 10057 - Beginning of the Deceiver's War

History from the Slaadi Invasion Campaign
Slaadi Invasion campaign page.

Founding of Taurenia
(TH 1179, October 22) The human bull tamer and shapeshifter Frin founds the first organization of bull tamers in the southwestern portion of the peninsula that would later become known as Taurenia. For more information on the story of Taurenia's beginning, see The Founder of Taurenia.

Slaadi Invasion
TH 1597, May 2 to September 28: Starting May 2, Elencia, Queen of Taurenia, is captured by Zgotar the Incorrigible (death slaad). Zgotar in turn pretends to be Elencia and allows for hordes of slaadi to invade all over the peninsula through gateways from Limbo. Ends September 28 when a group of adventurers travels to Limbo and defeats Zgotar in his own ruined temple at Zerth'ad'dat. June 15, Council of Ganthovin: Galanodel and Gethefre personally thank everyone who participated in the defense of Ganthovin. Kethlyral, brother to Taeral, joins the adventuring party in a mission to kill the death slaad Zgotar.

History from the Northern Strife Campaign
Northern Strife campaign page.

Threnalian Lineage
AB 4000 - TH 0: [more to come soon]

The Great Freeze
TH 0: The great freeze is a widely unheard of event since it supposedly happened over ten thousand years ago (from TH 10058). This cataclysmic event is what started the age of Threnos. Most believe that the northern continent of Bottenhavet has always been this way. Still, a few hope that the endless winter does indeed have an end simply because it had a beginning as well.

(The following information should remain hidden from all current characters.) (Hidden Information) Many of the records of this great cataclysm were lost in history when the ancient Threnalian Dynasty and the empire it ran died off. However, with great effort, we were able to obtain key clues to the events leading up to the Great Freeze. Rosdin Threnalia, emperor of the great unnamed empire, used a powerful and magical scepter passed down by his father Merdin for evil and unspeakable deeds. He plunged his empire into a hellish chaos and used the scepter, known as the Diamond Rose to sew discord all over Bottenhavet. At some point the landscape of Bottenhavet changed drastically. What was once a vast, blooming jungle with rolling hills, grasses and sunlight became a harsh, frigid, rocky and snowy wasteland.

Nobody knows for sure how this happened, but some theorize that the Diamond Rose acted on its own accord. Still others believe that Rosdin intentionally plunged the continent into a frigid doom. And a few argue that the gods themselves discarded the land, deeming it too hellish, too unfit for civilized peoples. Either way, the fact remains that Bottenhavet has never seen a summer for over ten thousand years. Almost all of its inhabitants have been locked into the continent due to the frozen shores that surround Bottenhavet. The crashing waves of the seas have frozen in place, creating a near impassable terrain of icy spires, hills, and crests. Any that do manage to escape the continent are never seen again.

The Founding of Sjobia
TH 2541: Once comprised of a group of barbarians led by a giant called Vartrynka, it is now the single greatest civilization of all of Bottenhavet, the northernmost continent of Aleen-gha. The stories say that Vartrynka had unified the rather disorganized tribes of Bottenhavet through the legendary martial practices of the Highlander. A great war broke out among the rival tribes who refused to join Vartrynka, and after several years of battle and strife, Vartrynka and his fellow Highlanders vanquished their opponents. At the end of the war in TH 2541, Vartrynka and his followers founded the city of Sjobo and subsequently founded the empire of Sjobia. Over the thousands of years since its founding, Sjobia had evolved into a more "civilized" empire, letting go almost entirely of its barbarian-like ways of the past. And as a consequence of this evolution, the ways of the Highlander are almost all but lost to history. However, Styrbjörn Starke, a lesser noble of Sjobo, is the unknown direct descendant of the giant Vartrynka, founder of Sjobia itself.

Discovery of Daeza Ruins
c. TH 5688: All that is known about this ancient city comes from the journals of famed archaeologist Suj Harrener, who determined at one point the ruins were surrounded with lush plant life, similar to a jungle, which was strange given that the area has endured an eternal winter for as long as anyone could remember.

Deceiver's War
TH 10057, September 4 and onward: The Deceiver's War raged on for an unknown amount of time between the Sjobian armies and the Draernic Dwarves. No known records indicate the result of the war.

September 4, Assassination of Lord Tagnar: No one truly knows who was behind the assassination of the great Lord Tagnar of the Draernic Dwarves but it is the undisputed cause of the Deceiver's War. While the assassin was caught, he was killed during his torture before he spoke of who employed him. Rumor has it that King Brostre of Sjobo hiring the assassin while others believe one or both of the Firebeards were behind the slaying of their uncle.

Rise of the Dog-Faces
SH 2497, June 23 and onward: June 23, the Dog-Face Clan (gnolls) pillage the Gala encampment and enslave the remaining survivors of the attack. A group of adventurers sent by Tergok of the Enduring Mountain Tribe reclaimed the encampment and drove off the surviving gnolls. Unfortunately, the historical records of these events end here, and no one knows for sure what happened to the Dog-Faces.

War of Two Vales
[more to come soon]

History from the Heroes & Traitors Campaign
Heroes & Traitors campaign page.

The Building of Boar Herpes Academy
SH 1026, October 2: After the fall of Boar Herpes, a handful of powerful mages and priests discovered the ruined site of an ancient battleground located on an island surrounded by a grand lake in the southern tip of the Beoric Mountains. Realizing its magical significance, the founders used the rubble of the ruins to build a grand Academy known as Boar Herpes.

SH 1310: It exists today as a thriving community of divine and arcane students and professors alike who strive toward mastery and a sense of unity. A handful of warforged, long forgotten from the ancient battlefield, were recommissioned into active duty when the Academy was founded. A few of note include A.D. 6464 and Memory.

The Establishment of Abrinax
SH 1193: The city of Abrinax was created by dwarves. (More information on the establishment of Abrinax will be available soon)

The Building of Evenhelm
(SH 1262) The first members of the Silver Scale built the fortress of Evenhelm in 1262 primarily to establish a base in the swamp of Vutha Valignat to defend against the Severed. It has since stood as the sole bastion of civilization in all of Vutha Valignat. Merchants traveling the Black Road from both Spearsdale and Augusthaven stop in Evenhelm to rest and gather whatever supplies they need for the rest of their journey.

Creation of the Kings of Kor
SH 1310, June: Ogther becomes the chief of the band of brigands once known as the Bal-sah Battlers. He changes their name to the Kings of Kor, after the orc clan he once belonged to.

The Battle of Spearsdale
SH 1310, July 11: After managing to gather all of the Orbs of the Archeron, a group of heroes used these artifacts to destroy the demi-god Archeron. However, the demi-god and his legions of demons managed to deal considerable damage to the city of Spearsdale and its inhabitants.

Participants: The Archeron, Aliyander Soel, Athena, Ogther, Golram Stormbearer, Raegina, Tesk'e Ro'sefer'e, Vysley Durjen.

History from the Hollows Campaign
Hollows campaign page.

Splintered Scale War
AB 650: This was the long and bloody civil war that broke out within the great dragonborn clan of the Umaresukeru in Tochku, causing the clan to divide into many smaller clans, including the Order of Fire and Scale.

Hollow Plague
AB 1230, August 27-unknown: Its source currently unknown, the sudden illness that has struck the empire of Tochku, quickly dubbed the "Hollow Plague," causes infected individuals to become horribly ill with fever that eventually kills them. Anywhere from seconds to hours after their death, they rise again as zombies (also known as "The Hollows") who seek only to feed on the flesh of any living being, and in turn spread the plague.

History from the Air Islands of Nack Campaign
Air Islands of Nack campaign page.

Creation of Nack
c. SH 0: Although historians put an easy date of "0" to this event, many elder dragons would argue that the dawn of time cannot be a number that is written down on an historical parchment. Rather, it is both a beginning and an end, an ageless time that knows no cycle except that of eternity. Beyond all the mumbo-jumbo of whatever this "forever" may be, Nack mythology suggests that the first dragons of the world created the realm of Nack using the same magic that allowed them to fly. For ages, the dragons ruled over this domain. Elves, known as the Svar-tu, lived in relative harmony with the dragons for many generations. Eventually, human surface-dwellers made airships and discovered this hidden realm. Humans and dwarves quickly colonized the area and set up their civilizations. One by one, the humans of Nack destroyed the dragons that created this realm until the dragons seemed to fade away into history and myth. The realm of Nack today is predominantly controlled by a human empire of the same name.

Formation of the Empire of Nack
c. SH 450: When the humans, led by the legendary Rustingard Nack I, first arrived to the region now known as Nack, the Svar-tu and the dragons resisted their presence once the humans revealed their colonization and manifest-destiny-like purposes. These humans were very magically and technologically advanced, as they were the first to arrive to the airborne region via airships. A war began between the humans and the elvish/draconic alliance which will come to be known as the War of Ascendancy.

SH 500:' The Empire of Nack is officially established after the defeat of the legendary dragon known then as Locqwerthalyn at the Battle of Locq. Her petrified body, which holds up the city-ship called the Judicature, is emblematic of the ushering in of a new human era in Nack.

War of Ascendancy
SH 495: After many years of minor skirmishes from Rustingard I, the Svar-tu pushed back in the first proper battle of the war. It was a massacre. The dragons of the region led by their goddess-queen Locqwerthalyn provided no support to the elves, the elves were no match against the airships that the humans primarily fought with. As the next five years unfolded, the Svar-tu lost at every turn, consistently desperate for the aid of their supposed allies, the dragons of the region. The dragons never banded together and instead were destroyed, one by one, by the humans.

Battle of Locq
SH 500, February 14th: The battles against the dragons eventually came to a head, and once Rustingard I found out their weaknesses, he decided to take his entire fleet to Locq, the supposed birthplace of dragonkind and the home of the goddess Locqwerthalyn herself. Many airships were destroyed in this massive and epic battle, but the now-famous Judicature, along with the help of a dozen other ships, managed to petrify Locqwerthalyn with powerful magicks. The rest of the dragons in the battle, absolutely terrified by the loss of their goddess and creator, either fled or died shortly thereafter. In the battle's aftermath, the fallen body of Locqwerthalyn was erected atop the Judicature as a grisly symbol of humanity's dominance over the dragons and elves of Nack.

SH 671, January 25th: After reading a note left within an historical text on the War of Ascendancy, Lilhani and her companions discover that an Admiral who was instrumental in winning the Battle of Locq was none other than Luciditus Diovax, comrade to Rustingard Nack I and one of the founding fathers of the Empire.

The Bloodletting of Sweetwater Island
c. SH 10: When Nack was still ruled by dragons and inhabited by the elves of Svar-tu, the elvish inhabitants of Sweetwater Island were inexplicably killed in massive numbers. The survivors of this mysterious massacre buried their dead at the Sweetwater Sepulcher within a cliff side. Dark, necromantic energies have since defiled the mass grave and have caused the dead to rise again to defend against any would-be intruders.

SH 670, December 17th: The warlock Ckodjr speaks in secret with an evil entity who calls himself Raz-Hindur who asks him to search for the legendary plate mail supposedly hidden deep within the sepulcher.

SH 670, December 18th: It is revealed in the room containing the spirit of Raz-Hindur that the vampire was the sole reason for the massacre that befell Sweetwater Island and why his spirit is imprisoned upon this idyllic yet sinister locale. Raz-Hindur also manages to convince the dwarf hero known as Poppy to don the armor his soul is trapped in so that he may escape the island.

Establishment of Bandle City
c. SH 100: The dwarves native to Runeterra had originated as a group of warring clans that were in constant civil strife. The now-mythological Giant's War gave these clans a common enemy and therefore allowed them to band together. After the giants were defeated, many of the dwarves had decided to relocate their clans and work together to build stronger defenses. Thus, Bandle City was established along the Bandle River.

Creation of Boar Herpes Academy
c. SH 200: Boar Herpes made a name for itself as a neutral place of knowledge, magic, and the gods. The school and surrounding campus exist as its own island and is separate from the empire's control, but is still somewhat influenced by Nack. The Half-Elf cleric called Halcyon has recently (SH 670) set out from Boar Herpes in search of new discoveries and knowledge. The High-Elf Silaqui also had ties to the libraries of Boar Herpes.

Cataclysm
SH 665: The remote Canary Island was once the home and study of the human sage named Elymas Auternus. A divine cataclysm of mysterious power destroyed the island and in the midst of it, Elymas was transformed into a dragonborn, now called Umer Deszeld. It is uncertain as to the causes or the reasons for this sudden destruction.

Dragon War
SH 670, October 30th: The Dragon War begins with a massive attack upon Boar Herpes Academy.

SH 670, November 16th: Boar Herpes falls. How this happened is uncertain.

SH 670, November 18th: The wizard Selubrius gives details to the adventurers concerning the true meanings of the Dragon War. The leaders of the Dragon Shipwright's Guild are amassing an army of dragons using their dragon ships (the ElectroZephyr is one such ship) and controlling them using an artifact known as the Orb of Dragon Command.

SH 670, November 30th: Bandle City falls under attack by a dragon army. It is assumed that Jayce Borgas summoned the dragons using the Orb of Dragon Command. Naïlo, after slaying a green dragon wyrmling in the attack, gained the ability to use the Orb and used it to repel the dragon army back into the skies.

The Fall of Boar Herpes Academy
SH 670, November 16: When the original Boar Herpes island was created in the region of Nack, nobody had ever thought to consider the possibility of the campus island falling. However, due to the Dragon War and the negation of some powerful dragon magicks, the island to the world below, landing in central Altha-Feor. For many years, the fall of the island had led nearby inhabitants to believe that a great battle had taken place. Water had filled the cavity which the island had created, leaving a large lake surrounding the ruins of the academy itself. After many centuries, great wizards and sages rebuilt the academy, naming it again Boar Herpes and restoring the school to its former glory. See The Building of Boar Herpes Academy for more information on this event.

The Great Fall
date unknown At some point, the entire region of Nack fell to the world below, crashing like meteors into the oceans and lands that created a catastrophe that essentially threw the world of Aleen-gha into a new age of darkness.

History from the BUFD Wars Campaign
Blessed United Front Duo campaign page.

BUFD Wars
When the mysterious creatures invaded from an extraplanar space, a new weapon technology was developed by powerful mortals within Boar Herpes Academy which was known as the Blessed United Front Duo program, in which trained heroes would transform into what are known as Blessed Regalia which would be wielded by others to combat the extraplanar creatures. The battles waged with the BUFD system were later known as the BUFD Wars.

SH 1987, June 20th: Without prior notice, many rifts tore into the fabric of the crust of Aleen-gha. These rifts, glowing with a crackling purple energy first appeared in clusters in the southern portion of the Beoric Mountains region, and from them poured monsters and humanoids alike that at first seemed to be no different from the earthly beings they impersonated. However, they quickly proved to be impervious to physical or magical attacks of all kinds and they wrought immense destruction to the peoples living in these areas and beyond. It was around this time that great and powerful heroes first developed the Blessed United Front Duo system by wielding the first forms of Blessed Regalia and fighting back the Rifters and closing the original rifts. These now legendary heroes were known as the Zero Squad. However, this proved to be only a temporary success, as more rifts began to appear in the area and more Rifters poured through. Thus, the BUFD Wars began. In response to these crises, Boar Herpes developed the BUFD program and promptly incorporated the training of new BUFD Soldiers into the overall academic curriculum.

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