Otkorion Timeline

257 ST: Mial Humathsson, guardian of the Deothaisel Temple to Humath, dies from natural causes.

312 ST: Maklamann Ironblade of the Dari Alliance defeats the Beast People of Otkorion, and Otkorion is taken in his tribes name.

314 ST: First temple to Orlanth built in Otkorion.

320 ST: The World Council send troops to Otkorion to fight in Zebra Wood against barbarians. They withdraw into defensive lines.

737 ST: The Return to Rightness Army liberates the people of Ralios from the rule of the Dark Empire, not that Otkorion gains much advantage from the Seshnelan rulers.

781 ST: The vampires of the Salantia ally themselves with the God Learners.

812 ST: War breaks out between the tribes of Otkorion and the God Learner Empire.

818 ST: The Ruam Clis form as a ruling council of Valantia. The Houses of Humath swear the Wolf Pledge of allegiance.

819 ST: The migration of Otkorioni north into Lankst to spare themselves the danger of trolls begins; only scant few settlements of Humathi, religiously forced to remain and protect their holy grounds, remain.

826 ST: The Wapensal become a House of Humath under the leadership of Hrothgar Blacksword.

832 ST: The vampires of the Salantia renege on their deal with the God Learners and devour their souls. The Vivamorti cult creates a barrier of darkness around the Salantia Forest which even the God Learners cannot penetrate at first.

840 ST: The Vivamorti Barrier of Darkness is dispelled, the God Learners invade the Tislif Forest and while they are repelled they take great losses.

894 ST: The God Learners build Tislif.

898 ST: Galini chaos killers sweep through Otkorion, ridding them of Uraini worshippers.

925 ST: The Ice Summer strikes.

956 ST: The Durani Arawac House of Humath forms.

972 ST: Two God Learners use rituals to begin the Uraini cult anew.

979 ST: Vampires reclaim the Salantia, destroying the God Learners in Tislif and taking it for themselves. A great wall of wood is created around the entire Salantia forest to stave off enemy forces.

1009 ST: The last Wolf Pledge is sworn, and it is cast aside in favour of other forms of ruling in Valantia.

1019 ST: The Great Plague of Lankst strikes an immigration begins into Otkorion. This period is called the Reclaimation.

1021 ST: The Rawson Family, led by Caoel Rawson, come to Otkorion.

1041 ST: Brankist Lands devastated by the Battle of Tornado Falls against God Learners.

1050 ST: The second immigration into Otkorion comes from Lankst called the Great Plague Rush.

1093 ST: The Houses of Dunfal and the Ruam Clis officially make treaties with the Otkorioni.

1106 ST: The Battle of Ainsbury.

1114 ST: Stormhearth Battle.

1126 ST: An Aldryami HeroQuest removes the Barrier of Wood from the Salantia.

1127 ST: The War We Lost begins.

1131 ST: The Middle Wind Pillar built by King Gunn Brankist, lord of Fiesive.

1134 ST: The War We Lost ends.

1140 ST: The Kingdom of Jorstland reaches Otkorion.

1150 ST: The "Uz Hate Humans War" begins.

1153 ST: The "Uz Hate Humans War" ends.

1157 ST: Construction of the arena in Valantia begins.

1169 ST: The Holy Sword Ring arena in Valantia is finished.

1174 ST: The Vivamorti civil war.

1179 ST: Humathi force King Saxel I of Fiesive to allow Lead Cross HeroQuests to take place against the Turral Family. The first stage of the Turral Wars begins.

1180 ST: The Kingdom of Jorstland declares war on Guhan.

1181 ST: King Saxel I's sister takes the palace of Fiesive, institutes the cult of Orlanth once again, and forces Saxel to come to peace, stop the civil war and stop the Lead Cross HeroQuests. She marries her brother and becomes Queen Amber I.

1184 ST: The Jorstlandi begin the Agyfhym against the trolls of Guhan, working out of Otkorion.

The Chaos Hawk-Demon starts ravaging the Shepher'd Half-Fields.

1188 ST: The Agyfhym ends.

1196 ST: The Battles of Gylehem, Harad Falls and the Battle of Halmar.

1197 ST: The Zebra Foray.

The Mythgor Defeat followed by the start of Mythgorwrath begins.

circa 1200 ST: Thanatari from Dorastor, fleeing the Temple of Heads, migrate into Otkorion territory.

1200 ST: Mythgorwrath ends.

1208 ST: The last Turral dies, and King Saxel I stakes claim to their land to the fury of his sister-wife. The civil war begins again.

1209 ST: King Saxel I is finally struck dead by a spirit of reprisal.

1211 ST: Ethlinn, son of Queen Amber, strikes dead his own mother, and claims the Turral Lands. Ethlinn takes the throne and civil unrest strikes the land.

1213 ST: The Battle of Augurn Weth.

1217 ST: Talesse, Heroine of Humakt, is Sainted by the Henotheistic Church known as Orlanth Humathbrother, in the Safelster region.

1223 ST: A trollkin horde sweeps out of Lalia. King Ethlinn of Fiesive is captured, escapes and soon after the horde disbands.

1224 ST: The Chaos Hawk-Demon destroys the Shepherd's Half Fields.

1227 ST: The Cursed Battle.

1228 ST: The period known as "We Sold Our Hearts" begins.

Ethlinn marries Shalya, his sister, and she bears him child.

1234 ST: Ethlinn rapes his other sister in front of his Iron Council. He is excommunicated from Orlanth, but continues to rule Fiesive.

1238 ST: Caer Rolymer organises an attack on Fiesive, and succeeds in slaying Ethlinn, taking the throne for himself. The period involving the inbred Brankist family becomes known as the Turral Wars. The entire Brankist family line is slain.

1239 ST: An entire family of Otkorioni rebel and turn to worship of Urain.

1242 ST: Caer Rolymer organises the Families together, and leads an army against Fiesive and it's corrupt royalty. He succeeds, and his family takes the throne.

1247 ST: The Red Moon rises into the heavens.

1267 ST: Majiki Kelaeth, a Hero of Urain, manages to prevent the Sacred Time HeroQuests of the Familes.

1268 ST: Majiki Kelaeth stops most Families from succeeding in the Sacred Time HeroQuests.

1269 ST: Majiki Kelaeth is slain.

1273 ST: The Dunmara HeroQuesters of Humath create their own House of Humath to guard their secrets.

1298 ST: Support for the Jorstlandi Kingdom begins to falter.

1300 ST: Most of Otkorion officially withdraws from the Kingdom of Jorstland, the remaining supporters either dwindle away to nothing in vain attempts to aid the dying Kingdom, or leave a year or two later.

The undead of Salantia become restless and plague the surrounding areas.

1306 ST: The "We Sold Our Hearts" period ends, resulting in the One Year Storm battles.

The worshippers of St. Talesse come to Otkorion and form a House of St. Humakt.

1307 ST: The War of Blood begins.

A Bagogi Hero breaks the temple grounds of Fiesive, but is slain.

1309 ST: The Uraini cult uses rituals to prevent initiations into the cult of Orlanth from taking place.

1312 ST: The War of Blood ends in being more or less of a draw.

1314 ST: The Middle Wind Pillar destroyed.

1319 ST: King Caer the long Lived takes the throne.

1323 ST: The Battle of Sorien.

1327 ST: Orlanthi from Otkorion discover the Granson Mor Death Spirits in Western Ralios, they are returned to the cult of Humath.

1343 ST: The War of Tears begins.

1345 ST: The War of Tears ends with Otkorioni retreating from Lalian territoris.

1353 ST: The Battle at Salantia occurs, with the Vivamorti vampires defeating the trolls in a surprise appearance.

1361 ST: The War of Spittle results in the Otkorioni reclaiming large portions of land lost to the Uz.

1364 ST: Datha Deokirk, Wind Lord and Sun Carl, leads a group of heroes into Guhan, to the troll city of Arkamal, to recover the Englestardt. The mission is successful, but Datha does not return.

The Daglabani battles occur.

A large number of Humathi sects renounce their previous allegiances and devote themselves to Humakt.

1373 ST: The Long Daggers Flight battles between the Dunmara House and the Zorak Zorani.

1379 ST: The War of 1380 takes place, with losses and gains on both sides.

1388 ST: The War of God begins against the trolls of Guhan.

1389 ST: the War of God ends, with the Otkorioni gaining a surprising victory attributed to the Creator and the Saints.

1396 ST: Intel Shak.

1398 ST: A barrier arises on the border of Lalia to protect the trolls from the Otkorioni.

The Galvosti of Valantia try and force the Humakti out to no avail, mainly due to the intercession of the Ruam Clis.

1408 ST: The magical barrier between Lalia and Otkorion vanishes.

1410 ST: The Coldstorm War begins.

1411 ST: King Caer the Long Lived finally dies.

1412 ST: The Coldstorm War ends, miraculously premature. This is followed by a counter-strike from Otkorion in the form of the Longsword's Campaign.

1413 ST: Balifies the Hammer sieges most of the Safelster, including southern Otkorion. He exacts numerous tributes.

The Coldstormers from Lalia attack again, and after two large battles they are defeated by the northern Otkorioni with aid from Galini fleeing Balifies rule.

1414 ST: The Red Circle is called into being.

1426 ST: The Votaries of St. Talesse embark on Lead Cross HeroQuests.

1434 ST: The Battle at Anaples Creek occurs.

1440 ST: King Ulianus III invades Valantia, killing the native Safelstran royalty.

1452 ST: The Battle of Coppers Field.

1455 ST: King Ulianus III conquers most of Ralios, including most of Southern Otkorion, although he has trouble moving up into the northern reaches.

1456 ST: Miles Buchanan forms the Golden Wand sect of St. Lhankor Mhy.

1457 ST: Queen Niall II, the child-queen is crowned and begins to institute her Fertility rituals in all sides of Otkorioni life.

1463 ST: Balifies orders the invasion of Guhan, ending in great defeat a year later.

1467 ST: Queen Niamh II converts Purity Tower from a prison to a convent dedicated to Voria and Ralia.

1470 ST: The Golden Wand sect mysteriously vanish.

1483 ST: The Great Holding of Abbot Fairhair begins.

1487 ST: The Great Holding of Abbot Fairhair ends.

1491 ST: The Secret Peace between the Seshnelan overlords of the Safelster and the Dark King of Lalia begins.

1494 ST: The Battle at Shalfal Falls takes place between native Orlanthi and the Seshnelans. Lebhorcham Rawson, Famly Head, dies.

1496 ST: Battle of Gyneth takes place of native Orlanthi against Seshnelans. Huabwy Rawson, Family Head, dies.

1506 ST: The Secret Peace ends as the Seshnelans power greatly wanes.

Abhar Delinn, to be one of the greatest Otkorioni Heroes, is born.

1507 ST: The Seventh Slime Invasion from Lalia occurs.

1508 ST: A plague occurs in mid-eastern Otkorion. It is stopped by Aneda marrghan.

1511 ST: Vikard's Grand Tournament is held, signalling the end of Ralian dominance for his family line.

1512 ST: The Seshnelans in Valantia leave and return home. The Otkorioni move back in.

1513 ST: A contest is held to determine who shall rule Valantia. The Finshad family win, and they ascend to become one of the seventeen major families of Otkorion.

The Cearnlinthor form when a group of Swords attach themselves to the Prelate of Valantia.

1518 ST: The precursors to the Inquisition lead the Inquisition Purges against suspected chaos nests in troll lands.

1519 ST: In the response to last year's raids, the Dark King of Lalia go to Valantia and carry out retribution, unveiling the High Priest of St. Lhankor Mhy as a worshipper of Thanatar. The whispers of Thanatari infiltration begin in the Cult of St. Urox.

1520 ST: The assassination of the Bishop Regaron from Azilos leads to an investigation which results in the discovery of unknown chaotic influences, later to be discovered to be the Thanatari.

1524 ST: The Battle at Synhelm.

1528 ST: The Dulkenwaeld war begins.

1531 ST: Queen Kristine I takes the throne, noted for her expunging of the Thanatari Heresy for thre years of her reign.

1533 ST: The Dulkenwaeld war ends, and the Black Arkati are forced from Lalia back to Guhan.

1536 ST: Valantian Swords travel to Hyfeat and try and reclaim the Granson Mor Death Spirits on the grounds htat they are not a gift from Humath, but a terror to be entombed.

The Thanatari Heresy is unveiled due to the efforts of Queen Kristine and the Arkati of the Destroyer sect. Nemed Phraman institutes the Holy Inquisition to root them out.

The Skirmish at Dearan.

1540 ST: The Lightbringer factions of the Stygian Church begin to become autonomous entities in their own right and begin to form Churches.

The Raids of 1540 begin against Lalia, led from Vanifral Fort, and last until the next year.

1541 ST: Ruavan Cearbhaill, Sword in the Cearnlinthor, joins the Galvosti Church.

1543 ST: The Dark King destroys Vanifral Fort.

1544 ST: The Gildune House of St. Humakt is at it's peek of power.

1547 ST: The Cradle of Fiesive burns down.

1549 ST: The Blueblade War begins.

1550 ST: Worship of Darkness Gods among Otkorioni becomes a problem. The numerous churches dedicated to the Lightbringers gather forces and make alliances to allow them to convert the Otkorioni back to the worship of more wholesome deities.

1552 ST: Abhar Delinn, famous Otkorioni Hero, dies.

1556 ST: The Anagoramith takes place.

1571 ST: The Not-Crusade takes place, resulting in disgrace for many Churches of Henotheism at that time.

1578 ST: The Battle at Dunauar takes place. This signals the first time that the Golems of Mentir come to Otkorion's aid.

1581 ST: Lunar merchants start making their way into Ralios.

1583 ST: The Galvosti Church ordered to stop associating with Humakti Dead Cultists.

1584 ST: Calantia Masonlord born.

1587 ST: The Conference of Henotheism is held, whereby the two Churches of Valantia and Fiesive meet and officially form the Henotheistic Church of Otkorion.

Later that year, the Lightbringer's are all added as Saints to the Creator.

1588 ST: Mysterious disasters befall the Priests of Tanier in the Otkorion region.

1590 ST: The Battle of Two Arkats takes place.

1593 ST: The Swords of Hyfeat join the Henotheistic Church so that the Granson Mor Death Spirits come under their power.

1594 ST: Urox is granted patronage of Valantia and raised to Sainthood.

1599 ST: Ralia and Vinga are Sainted in the Church.

1602 ST: Calantia vanishes in Sacred Time rituals.

1607 ST: Surantyr the Nonheretic becomes Archbishop.

Surantyr orders some minor military activities against Lalia to flex his military muscles - it becomes known as the Black War.

1608 ST: Garundyer of Lankst liberates Siglolf Cloudcrusher.

1609 ST: Calantia returns during the Sacred Time rituals, and is proclaimed Masonlord. He builds the King of Valantia a clock.

1610 ST: Calantia Masonlord builds Tempest Halls.

1611 ST: Otkorion sacks Valantia. The Twelve Thousand Pilgrimage occurs.

Calantia Masonlord constructs Calantia's Hut.

1612 ST: Calantia Masonlord builds the Stormwalk Road.

1614 ST: The Henotheistic Church of Otkorion officially beceoms the Church of Otkorion and divides the land into Bishoprics (called Cearghots in Otkori) with both the northern and southern cities officially allying themselves with the Archbishop.

1616 ST: Worship of Siglolf Cloudcrusher imported into Otkorion.

The Order of the Blade are formed as a House of St. Humakt. It is blessed by Bjarn Hellfire.

1618 ST: Bjarn Hellfire, Temporal Incarnation of St. Humakt, dies.

1619 ST: King Leoban III dies under mysterious circumstances. His son takes the throne and soon after uses ancient laws from the Brankist Family reign to marry his sister.