by Rob Summers
CHRONOLOGY OF THE FOLD
2400 B.C. The 10 Species of the Sarrs awake on Alishiya (Cyprus) in the Mediterranean Sea
2300 (Year 1 of Narvan Reckoning) The Sarrs journey to the Fold
2300-2255 Sarrs multiply and cross the continent
2255-1988 Territorial wars among the Sarrs
2234 First Vultlag
1988-1833 The Peace of the Narvash, begun by the Fijat Muzza
1833-1291 The Age of the Imposter (the false Sisska, the Dragon Zeel)
1291-1202 The Religious Wars.
1202-1100 Muzzite Revival restores peace
1100-1000 Era of Decay
1000-879 Age of the Tyrants
879-801 Muzzitism’s Third Revival
801-756 Tyrants overthrown
756 The Road Council
756-521 The Great Road partly built, and the resulting war, or Leblok, fought to an end; extinction of the Hagards
521 The Great Council
521 B.C.-225 A.D. The Time of Despair; advent of the Palleb movement
225 A.D. Quintus leads humans to the Fold’s west coast
285 Quintus’ death
288 First Fold Olympics
398 Tiras teaches his heresy
408 Destruction of the Silent City Korinthos
443 Birth of Howdan
448 The remaining Silent Cities at their height; the Great Olympics
500 Howdan leaves his home village of Kor
538 Howdan comes to the village of Purgos
547 The fall of the Silent City Perge (later called Farja)
548 Advent of the Perg Wars between Tiras’ states and the Silent Cities
585 Saldar founded
589 Invention of the printing press by the Fijats
602 Close of the Perg Wars, fought to a draw
631 Yoseph conquers Tiratos; settlers from the West begin entering Anatolia (the East)
676 Pergs retake Tiratos; door to the East closed
746 Notoschorians pass the Lonely Strait and return; Lithonia founded
747 Land of Unknown Kings founded
774 Baronia founded
948 Monophthalmos born
1020 The Anatolian Fijat eggs stolen
1022 Neckersof’s Rebellion in Anatolia
circa 1030 Bourasnia begins to supply the Blue Ulrigs with food and fuel
1384 Birth of Lila, Princess of Eschor
1400 The Egg-Loss Council, 3rd great council of the Sarrs; The Ulrig War: Blue Ulrigs overrun and burn Meschor
1403 Lila’s reported assassination (she secretly escapes to the Land of Unknown Kings and from thence to England)
1406 Birth of Prince Kuley, Lila’s half-brother
1436 Kuley’s Exit to Europe
1438 Kuley returns, touching off the Emperor’s Wars in which the Sarrs retake much of their lost lands from the humans; Kuley wakens the Vults, disappears mysteriously while on his travels; Genbas family rules Anatolia
1586 The Vults sleep—Second Vultlag
circa 1605 General Anton of Anatolia conquers the Areo-Phar, or War Valley
circa 1620 Anton II founds a new dynasty (replacing the Genbases)
1719-20 Sampson’s March—General Sampson of Anatolia marches an army all the way around the Perg lands
1760 Genbas dynasty restored in Anatolia
1783 Snill’s prophecy
1810 The Cerberi replace Genbas dynasty in Anatolia
circa 1850 and after War of the Eschor Mountains, humans against Ulrigs; the Silb Lazar writes in favor of depopulating the humans by war
1887 Death of Nero the great Dragon
1889 War of the South, or Ebrulok—young Dragons take Notoschor from the humans and establish Dragonland there
1890 Skirmishes begin on the Dragonland-Eschor border; humans begin the Order of the Dragonfighters
1894 Betelgeuse XIV and his sister Sophia come from Lithonia to Anatolia, claiming to be descendants of Lila
1914 Betelgeuse crowned Emperor at Colonia; peace with Dragonland
1954 Betelgeuse’s son Peter II is crowned; he loses Lithonia
1968 The Fijat Zatel comes to Indiana and observes Harry Tanner and his daughter Susan, heirs to the Empire
1974 Peter II’s son Samuel succeeds to the Anatolian throne
1990 The Misara Fijata Razabera visits Susan Tanner’s children Clay and Simone Gareth in Indiana
1992 Samuel abdicates the throne of Anatolia to his son Solomon; the Dragon Zeeba renews war against them, threatening a Fold-wide conflict
1995 Four noble Fijats journey to the White Mountain and learn the lore of the Six Doors of Kulismos, thus finding out about an easier way to reach Indiana; Razabera passes this Door, intent on persuading Clay and Simone to come to the Fold and make peace