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--- history [2024/03/24 20:47] – quiddlesticks
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   * The Modern Age is marked by adventuring becoming a commonplace profession across Cahyali. Adventurers with various backgrounds, alliances, and motives have become a major driver in the course of history.
-**Mafia Era** (9800-10000 SF, [[settings:cahyali:arenti|Arenti]])
+**Mafia Era** (9900-10020 SF, [[settings:cahyali:arenti|Arenti]])
   * During this time, a variety of organized crime families ruled Arenti, bypassing all governmental attempts to curb their power. These groups have since spread out all over the world, now operating in all of Eastern Cahyali.
-**Violet Rain Plague** (8530-9540 SF, [[settings:cahyali:vervand|Vervand]])
+**Violet Rain Plague** (9735-9945 SF, [[settings:cahyali:vervand|Vervand]])
-  * A highly contagious disease hit Vervand during this time, greatly affecting the environment of the Alliance (economically and culturally) despite its relative localization to Vervand.
+  * A highly contagious disease hit Vervand during this time in three distinct waves, greatly affecting the environment of the Alliance (economically and culturally) despite its relative localization to Vervand.
-**Ley'Ork Occupation of Splint** (8530-9500 SF, [[settings:cahyali:splint|Splint]])
+**Ley'Ork Occupation of Splint** (9530-9800 SF, [[settings:cahyali:splint|Splint]])
   * Following the defeat of the Zinaparo Kingdom, Ley'Ork has held a tight grip over the Splintian peninsula and made persistent efforts to quash and assimilate local culture. In 9500, another front with Pthora diverted Ley'Orkian attention, resulting in Splint revolutionaries being able to throw off foreign control.
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   * Under the rule of Pharaoh Anpu-Khasti, Dahabu swept across the world and leveraged their immense arcane power to conquer ten out of the eleven modern-day countries of Cahyali. Pthora was the only one to resist. Every Cahyalian nation still bears the scars of Dahabi colonization to this day, though millennia of time has let them fade.
-**Founding of Dahabi Empire** (0 SF, [[settings:cahyali:dahabu|Dahabu]])
+**Shinnean Rule** (3010-4679 SF, [[settings:cahyali:shinneok|Shinneok]])
-  * Due to the sweeping colonization of Cahyali by ancient Dahabu, the Dahabi calendar is still used to this day. It uses a reckoning date of the Empire's founding.
+  * The Shinnean Kingdom invaded the rest of the Oxian subcontinent in antiquity, exerting control over the regions that have now become Vervand and Arenti. This occupation lasted until Dahabu's arrival. Remnants of Shinnean culture are pervasive across the Oxis Alliance.
-**Shinnean Rule** (15 BF-1779 SF, [[settings:cahyali:shinneok|Shinneok]])
+**Founding of Dahabi Empire** (1 SF, [[settings:cahyali:dahabu|Dahabu]])
-  * The Shinnean Kingdom invaded the rest of the Oxian subcontinent in antiquity, exerting control over the regions that have now become Vervand and Arenti. This occupation lasted until Dahabu's arrival. Remnants of Shinnean culture are pervasive across the Oxis Alliance.
+  * Due to the sweeping colonization of Cahyali by ancient Dahabu, the Dahabi calendar is still used to this day. It uses a reckoning date of the Empire's founding.
-**Rise of Mortalkind** (~3,000,000 BF~3000 BF, Worldwide)
+**Rise of Mortalkind** (~300,000 BF~3500 SF, Worldwide)
   * It is thought that the first mortals on Cahyali were **[[lore:races:humanoids#elves|elves,]]** originating on the Dahabu landmass. Scholarly consensus seems to follow that they arose from a form of primate touched by extraplanar energies, likely from the Kurago or Dreaming.
-  * **[[lore:races:humanoids#dwarves|Dwarves]]** were soon to follow, sailing in and alighting in the mountains of Pthora from the east. Little is known about the homeland of the dwarves from beyond Esrior's Fold, but some Pthoran historians have termed it "Nidaheim".
+  * **[[lore:races:humanoids#dwarves|Dwarves]]** were soon to follow, sailing in and alighting in the mountains of Pthora from the east in about 1000 SF. Little is known about the homeland of the dwarves from beyond Esrior's Fold, but some Pthoran historians have termed it "Nidaheim".
-  * **[[lore:races:humanoids#humans|Humans]]** are believed to have originated in a continent, now inaccessible due to Esrior's Fold, somewhere north of Shinneok. This place was connected to Shinneok by a land bridge in ancient times, and humanity has occupied known Cahyali for tens of thousands of years.
+  * **[[lore:races:humanoids#humans|Humans]]** are believed to have originated in a continent, now inaccessible due to Esrior's Fold, somewhere north of Shinneok. This place was connected to Shinneok by a land bridge in ancient times, and humanity has occupied known Cahyali since about 1500 SF.
-  * **[[lore:races:humanoids#halflings|Halflings]]** arose in the Ulos area following human migration southward. Humans and halflings gradually diverged, with halflings undergoing a phenomenon known as island dwarfism, which is believed to contribute to their small stature.
+  * **[[lore:races:humanoids#halflings|Halflings]]** arose in the Ulos area following human migration southward. Humans and halflings gradually diverged, with halflings undergoing a phenomenon known as island dwarfism, which is believed to contribute to their small stature. The oldest report of halflings being referred to as a distinct race is in about 3500 SF.
-  * A population of halflings is believed to have migrated into the Dreaming about 100,000 years ago, being touched by the plane's esoteric energies and eventually becoming **[[lore:races:humanoids#gnomes|gnomes.]]** Following a cataclysm in the Dreaming, many gnomes returned to Cahyali.
+  * A population of halflings is believed to have migrated into the Dreaming about 5,000 years ago, being touched by the plane's esoteric energies and eventually becoming **[[lore:races:humanoids#gnomes|gnomes.]]** Following a cataclysm in the Dreaming, many gnomes returned to Cahyali in about 8,000 SF.
-  * Most **[[lore:races:lizards|lizards]]** came to be underwater at an unknown date during this timespan. While Desert Sandtails evolved via migration inland to Dahabu and the Oxis Alliance and Draconics arose due to close contact with dragons, Kleemudor are believed to have crash-landed from the Onra system planet.
+  * Most **[[lore:races:lizards|lizards]]** came to be in the Dahabi deserts. From there, some were touched by draconic energies, becoming the Draconics we know today. Kleemudor are believed to have crash-landed from the Onra system planet around 4700 SF. Semi-Aquatics immigrated from Jaern shortly after first contact with the plane was established.
-  * **[[lore:races:orcish|Orcs]]** are believed to have first evolved from an extinct carnivorous mammal in the Heartlands area, with normal orcs being the first, followed by goblins and giantkin after centuries of isolation in the mountains and on the coasts, respectively. Beasthides insist they were divinely created by [[gods:osiris|Julius (Osiris)]], and scholars have failed to come to a consensus on their origin.
+  * **[[lore:races:orcish|Orcs]]** are believed to have first evolved from an extinct carnivorous mammal in the Heartlands area, with normal orcs being the first, followed by giantkin and goblins after centuries of isolation in the mountains and on the coasts, respectively. Beasthides insist they were divinely created by [[gods:osiris|Julius (Osiris)]], and scholars have failed to come to a consensus on their origin.
   * **[[lore:races:avians|Avians]]** migrated into the continent later on, arriving from the north. The name of their original homeland has been entirely lost, though upon arrival the mobile groups of Avians quickly spread out and assimilated with other extant communities.