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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

 

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