Timeline

The Tirvien Archive has undertaken the task of gathering all of Mortal History in a single location. This archive being untethered in both time and space is able to observe all of time coherently, except periods near the beginning and end when due to outside influences the observation becomes imprecise. For context certain information outside of Mortal History, obtained from first hand accounts or scholarly conjecture, is included on occasion throughout. For ease of discourse and scholarly assignment Mortal History is divided into the Eras below.

All worlds record their history. On the world of Celestus, history has been intermittently recorded by its participants each with independent and sometimes overlapping calendars. Often these first hand histories are categorized in "Ages", the archive attempts to maintain these classifications and when documenting within them uses local date classifications. Below the dates are all listed in the archive standard Absolute Time (AT) to support cross period scholarship.

An age is generally only defined by historians, outside the archive, many years after it has ended though occasionally with perspective or perhaps simply excess pride contemporaries claim to understand the nature of the age they are living within. Often events of great upheaval bring about the end of an age. However, regularly small ideological shifts are later understood to have marked the changes of the cosmic tides.

Era Destroyed by Gods
The longest era as would have been perceived by any mortal race. Beginning with nothing and remaining that way perpetually until there was something. The spark of something became the gods who immediately began warring. In their struggle the gods planted the seeds of their own destruction: they created The Abyss and the mortal races.

The mortal races were created as the ultimate weapon; perceiving both the passage of Time and the true nature of the gods themselves. By creating that which could observe them the gods could no longer exist in superposition, where mortals could perceive them they were forced to act deterministically. While able to perceive all potentialities they could no longer simultaneously experience them; so the gods nearly destroyed themselves as that which they created reduced them.

Era Destroyed by Flood (-10,000 to 0 AT)
Beginning when mortal races were created. Marked by the proliferation of life for thousands of years as the gods sought to break free from their creation. Eventually, the four original kingdoms, Alkaria, Athedia, Empyria, and Valikorlia, would rise as the mortal races asserted their power over the gods' own chaos (-500 AT).

Early in the era mortals were still deeply influenced by the whims of deities and as such Absolute Time dates used in this archive are based on the known date of The Flood which marked the end of this era.

Era Destroyed by Fire (0 to 1,000 AT)
Despite the devastation of The Flood, mortal races rebounded quickly, rebuilding and exploring their newly reshaped world.

With distant memories of the four original kingdoms as their guides the mortal races started what would become known as Staghorn and Dalmar (35 AT).

This era saw its peak with the rise of Flanoir in Frost beginning in approximately 500 AT.

Era Destroyed by Pride (1,000 to 7,500 AT)
The tale of Senomar on Celestus is best told in seven parts: Some places, like Mithros, might have their own distinct calendar. In most cases this is what they recorded before the end of Antiquity.
 * The Age of Antiquity, a time marked by strife and the decline of the old world, 1,000 to 6,000 AT.
 * The Age Imperium, also known as The First Age, 6,000 to 6,150 AT.
 * The Age of Heroes, a time of great change when the cost of a life taken was known, 6,150 to 6,450 AT.
 * The Age of Exploration, when the saga of heroes spread far and wide, 6,450 to 6,680 AT.
 * The Age of War (The Fourth Age), marked by a bitter war between The Nine Kingdoms and The Young Kingdoms, its true cost forever unknown, as well as The Dragon Civil War; 6,680 to 6,844 AT.
 * The Age of Growth (The Fifth Age), recovering from war Senomar was ripe with opportunity and growth was rampant consuming everything in its path, 6,844 to 7,137 AT.
 * The Age of Pride, known contemporaneously as The Golden Age, resting on its laurels and remembering its history with an unwarranted fondness Senomar stagnated, 7,137 to 7,500 AT.