User:Tissa/Sandbox

Timeline

Though Avlis as a world is only four thousand years old, it has a rich history. That history is detailed in the following sections. A brief overview can be gained from the timeline shown below:

2050-	Time period where online players are using the world.
2050 1000-	The Age of Darkness and Recent History.
1000 0 -	The Age of Complete Peace.
0 ~500 - BAoP	The Time of Dawning the Fairy War and the Great War.
~500 ~2000- BAoP	The Age of the Gods.

2000-	Time period where online players are using the world. Roughly the year 2140 (as of March 2005).
1950-2000	Time period of Avlis Campaign 1 & 2 notes (to be found in the General Information section of the forums at www.avlis.org). Valok tries to enter world and is foiled. The Equalizer and Champion orders are formed. Angadar is rumored to have taken on the mantle of Deceit & Trickery upon the death of the goddess Tianna, killed by Mikon. Andrinor becomes a deity and takes the mantle of Magic and starts his church.
1900-1950	Time period of the last PnP Avlis campaign where the players tried to get Angadar's daughter Jade away from Hell (not published online). The destruction of the Avariel city of Toostan, and most of the Avariel race. Drangonari elves take a portion of Drotid as their own.
1850-1900	Angadar's ascension to godhood.
1825-1850	Death of Kuras, collapse of the Kurathene Empire. Nemeril banishes O'Ma from the world with the "Godslayer". Angadar takes the Godslayer from Nemeril and rescues O'Ma, and returns the weapon to O'Ma for safe keeping.
1825 1000-	The Age of Darkness. Not much is known about this period. Legend has it that the all-powerful counterpart to the Eternal Spark, the Black Dagger, was found and a god was destroyed with it. This is rumored to have touched off a devastating war between the gods and their followers.
1000 0-	Beginning of Age of Peace.... many of the newer minor gods and minor races were created during this time. Immortals ran rampant.
0 1 - BAoP	Orc mages create the huge explosion that ends the Great War and kills nearly everyone on the planet. The remaining orcs found the nations of Brekon and Dubunat on the west coast.
1 50 - BAoP	Great War is just ending up. Mikon creates the evil dragons to enter the fray.
50 100 - BAoP	Great War begins when Orcs attack the warring fairy factions
100 200 - BAoP	The Fairy War.
500-200 BAoP	The nine major gods finish creating their races.
~500 BAoP	The Time of Dawning
600 BAoP	The Negerai is destroyed.
1000 1005- BAoP	The nine warriors and Negerai become greater gods and start fighting.
1005 1010- BAoP	The spirits roaming Avlis are being slowly wiped out by the Tanar'ri infestation. This angers The Supreme, and he decides to free the nine warriors in an effort to save the world.
1010 1500- BAoP	The nine warriors are captured by the Negerai and brought to Avlis. Their prisons are built and the Tanar'ri start to infest the planet.
1500 2000- BAoP	Avlis is at peace. Nature gods roam.
2000 BAoP	The Supreme creates Avlis.

Present: Time period where online players are using the world. Roughly the year 2140 (as of March 2005).

minus 50 years: Time period of Avlis Campaign 1 & 2 notes (to be found in the General Information section of the forums at www.avlis.org). Valok tries to enter world and is foiled. The Equalizer and Champion orders are formed. Angadar is rumored to have taken on the mantle of Deceit & Trickery upon the death of the goddess Tianna, killed by Mikon. Andrinor becomes a deity and takes the mantle of Magic and starts his church.

minus 100 years: Time period of the last PnP Avlis campaign where the players tried to get Angadar's daughter Jade away from Hell (not published online). The destruction of the Avariel city of Toostan, and most of the Avariel race. Drangonari elves take a portion of Drotid as their own.

minus 150 years: Angadar's ascension to godhood.

minus 175 years: Death of Kuras, collapse of the Kurathene Empire. Nemeril banishes O'Ma from the world with the "Godslayer". Angadar takes the Godslayer from Nemeril and rescues O'Ma, and returns the weapon to O'Ma for safe keeping.

minus 1000 years: The Age of Darkness. Not much is known about this period. Legend has it that the all-powerful counterpart to the Eternal Spark, the Black Dagger, was found and a god was destroyed with it. This is rumored to have touched off a devastating war between the gods and their followers.

minus 2000 years: Beginning of Age of Peace.... many of the newer minor gods and minor races were created during this time. Immortals ran rampant.

minus 2001 years: Orc mages create the huge explosion that ends the Great War and kills nearly everyone on the planet. The remaining orcs found the nations of Brekon and Dubunat on the west coast.

minus 2050 years: Great War is just ending up. Mikon creates the evil dragons to enter the fray.

minus 2100 years: Great War begins when Orcs attack the warring fairy factions

minus 2200 years: Fairy War Starts.

minus 2500 years: The nine major gods finish creating their races.

minus 2600 years: The Negerai is destroyed.

minus 3000 years: The nine warriors and Negerai become greater gods and start fighting.

minus 3005 years: The spirits roaming Avlis are being slowly wiped out by the Tanar'ri infestation. This angers The Supreme, and he decides to free the nine warriors in an effort to save the world.

minus 3010 years: The nine warriors are captured by the Negerai and brought to Avlis. Their prisons are built and the Tanar'ri start to infest the planet.

minus 3500 years: Avlis is at peace. Nature gods roam.

minus 4000 years: The Supreme creates Avlis.

The time we play in now is supposed to be roughly fifty years after the campaign. One of my characters has a quest reward from the great Sereg siege that says it's the year 2050.

Based off that, I would say that the time between the server first going up, the adventures of the 1%ers all the way to around January 2003, with the the Trial and the begining of a large influx of new players should be the first online "era" and take place between the years 2045 and 2050.

Then the next era would follow the Vortex plot (the most epic of plots so far) and many organizations sprouting up. This second era would be the years 2050-2055 and end with the closing of the vortex plot which was the end of July 2003.

The Third era would be 2055-2060, events of that era for example are the high mage council being formed, the Gentleman plot, Sereg becomming deconditioned. This Era would have begun at the end of summer 2003 and continues to the present.

This gives the feeling that time has actually passed since the server began, without making human characters ridiculously old.