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   * 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** (9530-9800 SF, [[settings:cahyali:splint|Splint]])
+**Splint Wars** (9515-9530 SF, [[settings:cahyali:splint|Splint]] & [[settings:cahyali:leyork|Ley'Ork]])
-  * 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.
+  * In 9514, a strike team of Ley'Orkian airships seized the northern regions of the Zinaparo Kingdom and killed a member of the royal family. This would kick off a short but extremely bloody conflict, up until the advent of Ley'Ork's weapon of mass destruction: the arcanosphere.
+  * Often referred to as an "arcane dirty bomb", arcanospheres contained both mundane explosives and devastating deferred spells, most often fire magic which would cause entire villages to go up in flames. The Zinaparan palace was destroyed, and Zinaparo would become Splint and fall under Ley'Orkian control.
 **The Fist of God Incident** (8518 SF, [[settings:cahyali:ruefang|Ruefang]])
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   * A guild of mysterious wizards in this time attempted to pry the Ruefang leyspring from the ground using an enigmatic ritual. This ritual went wrong in the last moments, resulting in the destruction of over half of the Ruefang continent and leading to intense magical corruption in the area. To Ruefangren and Raikoujin, the Fist of God is equal in its destruction to the Day of Solar Wrath.
   * This event also led to the splitting of the [[settings:cahyali:raikougan|Raikougan Archipelago]] from mainland Ruefang. An event known as the Cloudfall isolated the islands: an eternal, impassable storm. This storm would not be dispelled for 300 years.
+**Return of the Gnomes** (8009 SF, [[settings:cahyali:leyork|Ley'Ork]])
+  * In 8009, a portal mysteriously opened in the central parts of Ley'Ork, greatly surprising a nomadic goblin tribe which was passing through. It was then that gnomes would return to Cahyali, reporting a "great cataclysm" in their home plane of the Dreaming involving "terrible shapes" and "rootless flowers". Several more portals would open over the next two years in various parts of Cahyali and Jaern, with groups of gnomes running out and reporting the same general destruction each time.
 **Fall of Shuibian** (7892 SF, [[settings:cahyali:ruefang|Ruefang]])
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   * It is unclear how the invasions started, but leading up to the turn of the seventh millennium, demonic invasions from the [[settings:planes:beneath|Beneath]] ravaged Ruefang and eventually led to the fall of the Shuibian Dynasty. This invasion was only driven away with the help of the dragons. This marked the beginning of dragon worship and veneration in the Abundant Expanse.
   * Infernal energies, combined with runaway leyline radiation, sank into and altered orcish populations of Ruefang. This resulted in their eventual adaptation into a new [[lore:races:supernatural#infernal_origin|demonic race,]] known as the //Kijin.//((For more information on the Kijin, please contact Noah Kauffman (@bluekid) via Discord.)) In the thousands of years since, the Kijin have faded into nothing but fairytales and legend.
-**Dynastic Era** (7524-8518 SF, [[settings:cahyali:ruefang|Ruefang]])
-  * Following the fall of Dahabu, Ruefang passed hands between four dynasties, each leaving their distinct marks on the culture of the region.
 **[[settings:cahyali:dahabu:solarwrath|Day of Solar Wrath]]** (7524 SF, [[settings:cahyali:dahabu|Dahabu]])
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   * 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.
+**Evolution of Halflings** (~3500 SF, [[settings:cahyali:ulos|Ulos]])
+  * **[[lore:races:humanoids#halflings|Halflings]]** arose in the Ulos area following human migration southward from the modern-day Oxis Alliance. Humans and halflings gradually diverged, with halflings undergoing a phenomenon known as [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Insular_dwarfism|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.
+  * In about 4500-5000 SF, a small population of halflings migrated into the [[settings:planes:dreaming|Dreaming]] seeking knowledge or greater magical power - reports disagree on which. They would eventually become **[[lore:races:humanoids#gnomes|gnomes.]]** These gnomes, however, would not return to Cahyali until many years later.
 **Founding of Dahabi Empire** (1 SF, [[settings:cahyali:dahabu|Dahabu]])
   * 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 Stormwing Calamity** (~2,000-500 BF, Beyond Known Cahyali)
+  * This term refers to an ancient war fought between Cahyali's true dragons and the Strygarii, a primordial species of ancient and powerful bird-like creatures. Although it never touched the parts of Cahyali currently mapped, the conflict was so widespread it has made its way firmly into Cahyalian legend. Human and dwarven myths both include mention of a "great escape" from "the devastation of the god-beasts" or similar. The Stormwing Calamity is commonly accepted to be the reason why dragons are rarely seen nowadays.
+  *   * **[[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#dwarves|Dwarves]]** were the next to flee the Stormwing Calamity, 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".
 **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 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 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. 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 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 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 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.