Period
Cycle I · Edicts 0–2500
The Primordial Awakening & World-Canvas
The Genesis Council’s awakening marked the beginning of recorded time, and the opening 2,500 Edicts established the world’s matter, continents, oceans, and magical substrate.
Chronology
Aethelgard Timeline
Follow Aethelgard from its earliest recorded history through the Celestial Wars, the Silent Years, and the age of its published stories and games.
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Living Archive chronology
History arranged as a journey
The Timeline moves from age to age, pairing broad eras with the defining moments preserved within them. Exact dates, approximate dates, and historical ranges remain visibly distinct wherever the surviving record calls for that distinction.
Chronology at a glance
Key moments
Select a milestone to move directly to that point in the Timeline. The illuminated line follows your progress through Aethelgard’s recorded history.
Cycle I
The Cycle of Origin
The earliest known span of Aethelgard’s history, when the world and its first peoples emerged.
Event
Cycle I · Edicts 5001–8000
Sowing Mortal Sentience
Across Cycle I, Edicts 5001–8000, sentient peoples and Elemental Spirits emerged, establishing the living world that would later build Aethelgard’s civilisations.
Event
Cycle II · Edict 0
The Great Silence & the Second Cycle
At the close of the First Cycle, the Genesis Council withdrew from direct involvement and Cycle II began under the Great Silence, leaving mortal peoples to shape the age that followed.
Cycle II
Early Second Cycle
The opening centuries of Cycle II, when permanent cities rose and celestial divisions hardened.
Event
Cycle II · Edicts 101–300
Founding of Veridia, the First City
Between Cycle II, Edicts 101–300, Veridia emerged on the Veridian Shore as Aethelgard’s first great city, with early Aeterna influence becoming embedded in mortal civilisation.
Period
Cycle II · Edicts 301–1200
The Verdant Order & Xylos Crisis
The Verdant Accord formalised Aeterna-backed hierarchy; Xylos’s dissent, escalating repression, Lyra’s death during his attempted arrest, and his catastrophic Terraforming Edict then sundered part of Veridia before the Aeterna killed him.
Cycle II
First Celestial War
The first world-shaping celestial conflict, from the crisis around Veridia to the poisoned legacy left on the western coast.
Period
Cycle II · Edicts 1201–1450
The First Celestial War
The Khaotari declaration of war opened the conflict from Edict 1201 onward; full-scale hostilities ran through Edict 1450, devastating the mortal world before a costly Aeterna victory ended open fighting.
Event
Cycle II · Edicts 1451–1600
The Curse of the Veridian Shore
After open hostilities ended, the Khaotari placed a Plague Curse over the already-sundered Veridian Shore, completing its long-term transformation into the toxic, miasma-ridden Sunken Coast.
Cycle II
Between the Celestial Wars
An age of resettlement, new institutions, and changing celestial power between the two great wars.
Period
Cycle II · Edicts 1601–2000
Founding of Concordia & Post-War Resettlement
Across Edicts 1601–2000, survivors gathered at the strategic river delta and founded Concordia, governed by the Council of Four Voices and protected by major Chronicler works.
Event
Cycle II · Edicts 2001–2500
The Aeterna Schism
Between Edicts 2001–2500, moderate Aeterna led by Solara broke with increasingly interventionist hardliners, deepening the ideological divide that would later enable Valitra’s rise.
Within Between the Celestial Wars
The Shattering of Aethelgard: Farfound
A cooperative fantasy village-building experience set around Cycle II, Edict 2200 during Aethelgard's long interwar age.
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Event
Cycle II · Edicts 2601–2800
Forging of the Crystalforged Legion
Between Edicts 2601–2800, Valitra forged the Crystalforged Legion through world-shaping magic, creating an obedient force that marked a major escalation in Aeterna coercion.
Event
Cycle II · Edicts 3101–3105
Concordia Falls to Aeterna Rule
In Edicts 3101–3105, Valitra personally descended on Concordia; resistance collapsed, Council governance was replaced by Aeterna military rule, and the Chroniclers were driven into exile.
Event
Around Cycle II · Edict 3150
Founding of Arcanum
Around Edict 3150, oppression under the post-3101 regime drove a Magician exodus; exiled Chroniclers guided the refugees to establish Arcanum on the storm-ravaged Sunken Coast.
Cycle II
Second Celestial War
The later catastrophe that drew the wider world into conflict and brought the old Concordian order to an end.
Period
Cycle II · Edicts 3201–3350
The Second Celestial War
The wider Second Celestial War began with the Tier V rupture and Valitra’s fall from Edict 3201 onward, expanded into continent-wide total war in 3330, reached its decisive climax in 3347, and formally closed after cleanup in 3350.
Period
Cycle II · Edicts 3330–3347
War of All Species
From Edict 3330, the wider conflict became a full continental war across multiple fronts, drawing mortal peoples and their cities directly into the Second Celestial War until the decisive 3347 climax.
Event
Cycle II · Edict 3347
The Final Fall of Concordia
Already hollowed by internal division, Concordia was breached and sacked in Edict 3347, ending the City of Harmony and leaving the ruined delta that would later become Havenstone.
Cycle II
The Silent Years
An age of reconstruction in which survivors rebuilt cities, institutions, and shared life after the war.
Period
Cycle II · Edicts 3355–3500
Havenstone Rebuilds in the Silent Years
From around Edict 3355, survivors founded Havenstone on Concordia’s ruined river delta and a multispecies reconstruction transformed the new city; the New Council of Four was established in Edict 3380.
Within The Silent Years
The Shattering of Aethelgard: Silent Years
A peaceful fantasy life-sim set in Cycle II, Edict 3400 within Aethelgard's post-war Silent Years chronology.
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Cycle II
Current Era
The chronology reaches the age of the published stories and the present-day world explored across Aethelgard.
Event
Cycle II · Edict 3601
The Current Era Begins
The published story era begins in Aetheria at Cycle II, Edict 3601, marking the present boundary of this chronology.
Chronology guide
How the Timeline marks time
Periods frame long stretches of history, while events mark turning points within them. Where a date is approximate, the Timeline says so rather than forcing every moment onto an artificial exact date.
Period
A sustained age, conflict, reconstruction, or other historical span.
Event
A turning point placed at its known date or within its recorded range.
How dates are shown
Exact dates, approximate dates, and ranges remain visibly different whenever history preserves different levels of certainty.