Guilds & Warfare #001

A short description of the Xarnia timeline 
 

The Alchemy of the Universe 

1. -Seeding the astral tree
2. -Rooting and foundations of the planes
3. -Blooming of Xarnia; the creation of the planet

The Engineering of the Planes 

1. -The Astral machine
2. -Setting the rules
3. -Creating the original tablet of divine law

The primordial spark 

1. -The old gods
2. -Sharing the heaven
3. -Turning toward the mortal world

The Great Creation 

1. -Creating the landscape
2. -Creating the ocean and the biomes
3. -Seeding lesser animals/critters

The Elder god created the dragons 

1. -With the help of the dragon, they begin sculpting the biosphere
2. -Creation of the First Races (Elves / Dwarves / Gnomes / Centaurs / Giants / Orcs Naga / Goblins / Spiders)

The Eden Era 

1. -Creation of minor races (Human Horses Dolphins Dogs Bears Sharks ECT...)
2. -Apparition of minor gods and ascension of divine champions
3. -Everything is well, no major conflict, massive expansions as Xarnia ahs plenty of bountiful land to settle

The Lesser Song 

1. -First Religion founded amongst the ancient races
2. -First apparition of legal system and society as Xarnia's limits are slowly reached
3. -First apparition of centralized military power under the banner of greater tribes.

The First War 

1. -The gods start reaching the limits of heaven
2. -Mixing of race ideology with political ideology
3. -Most war are internal, so a major leader would emerge from each ancient races, bringing a sense of internal stability

The Old Age 

1. -The gods start banding together around good/evil divider
2. -Evil gods gain a lot of individual power but are disorganized while the good gods start unionizing to protect themselves from the evil god's greed for power
3. -As all races wishes for expansion for their own gods, inner wars start to seem less and less profitable, as both follower of a god would die from an internal war

The Age of Escalation 

1.  -At this point the races are looking at each other for war, but no one wants to be engaged in a race war only to be swept by another foreign race after all those year of war.
2. -Most of the inter-racial war at this point is done trough terrorism and subversion, making the evil/more ethically compromising races even more powerful
3. -The inaction of the "good" gods are decried by the innocent populace being caught in the crossfire as the evil gods are caught cheating the divine rule of heaven

The War in Heaven 

1. -This is where all hell break loose. Mortals, being deceived by their gods, realize they should be in power of their own destiny/fate
2. -All the good gods decide to take the side of mortals, accepting to abdicate their power at the end of the war
3. -The Evil gods, quite powerful in the beginning, were fighting the mortals, source of their power, it was only a matter of time until they would falter from attrition.

The Living Guildpact 

1.  -Final judgement against the old gods
2. -Reshaping Xarnia and founding of the council of elements
3. -Forging the Living Guildpact and the Central Command

The Age of Prosperity 

1. -Founding of the guild system
2. -First period of Peaceful expansion
3. 3-beggining of inter guild rivalry

The Age of Shadow 

1. -Guild wars for dominance and resources
2. -Return of Ugarn, god of the gnomes and the Golden Curse
3. -All out war against the Demonic forces

The Centaur Ascension 

1. -The rise of Grûhl'Khan
2. -The fight for the supremacy of the Centaur tribe
3. -The rest of the world shake in the wake of this war

The age of Rhuk'Tal, The revealer

1. -Consolidating Centaurs
2. -Colonizing the rest of the world
3. -Where the game begins / Blue trouble