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− | History is incongruous and full of holes. This document will attempt to address it, but there are no guarantees of clarity. In this timeline, history is broken into eras, or Ages, each of which has its own sub-page. | + | History is incongruous and full of holes. This document will attempt to address it, but there are no guarantees of clarity. In this timeline, history is broken into eras, or Ages, each of which has its own sub-page. The complete timeline, with all events, can be found [[Complete Timeline|here]]. |
==Eras== | ==Eras== | ||
− | A basic list of the known or recognized eras of | + | A basic list of the known or recognized eras of historians, arranged from oldest to newest: |
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+ | *The [[Progenitors|Age of Legend]] | ||
+ | *The [[Mythical Age|Age of Myth]] | ||
+ | *The [[Antiquity|Age of Wonder]] | ||
+ | *The [[Age of Darkness]] | ||
+ | *The [[Mage Wars|Age of Mages]] | ||
+ | *The [[Ages|Ages of the Alliance]] | ||
+ | *The [[Age of the Dragon]] | ||
+ | *The [[Long Night|Age of Night]] | ||
+ | *The [[New Day|Age of the New Day]] | ||
==Recorded History== | ==Recorded History== |
Latest revision as of 22:10, 25 July 2019
History is incongruous and full of holes. This document will attempt to address it, but there are no guarantees of clarity. In this timeline, history is broken into eras, or Ages, each of which has its own sub-page. The complete timeline, with all events, can be found here.
Contents
Eras
A basic list of the known or recognized eras of historians, arranged from oldest to newest:
- The Age of Legend
- The Age of Myth
- The Age of Wonder
- The Age of Darkness
- The Age of Mages
- The Ages of the Alliance
- The Age of the Dragon
- The Age of Night
- The Age of the New Day
Recorded History
This table represents all of recorded history within the era where the Course Books take place.
Era | Length |
The Mage Wars | 3,800 Years |
Ages of the Alliance | 5,908 Years |
Age of the Dragon | 50 Years |
Long Night | 3,115 Years |
New Day | ??? |
Pre-History
There is, of course, considerably more to history than is recorded. These are described in detail in the book Where Ancients Dare Not Tread, by Hunter Jusenkyou (Note: this book does not actually exist; it's a book within a book, written by a character in a book;–– though 'excerpts' from it may appear in the future). Several eras, some more myth than fact, are known. This includes Antiquity, the era of the Progenitors, the Mythical Age (talk about more myth!), and of course the pesky Age of Darkness.
The length and exact order of these eras are not widely agreed upon. Up until the late Sixth Age, Antiquity was held to be the dawn of time and to have lasted only a few millennia at the most. This all changed when Jason Bur'I published a paper called Where Ancients Dare Not Tread, which eventually became a book published in Hunter Jusenkyou's name, and revised throughout the Age of the Dragon. The lengths and order are not accepted by all scholars, and many disagree with the published statements of the Gudersnipe Foundation, known as "Doctrine". While the Foundation is always revising its doctrine, they were somewhat miffed at Hunter and Jason's publication. Because Hunter and Jason are the heroes of the Course Books, their histories are nearly always right.
This table describes Pre-History according to the eras and the accepted length of each according to the different historians involved:
Key:
- H&J = Hunter and Jason
- DOC = Foundation Doctrine
- CP = Common Perception, as held before the publication of H&J's book
- DNH = Did Not Happen, according to Common Perception
- ~ = "about"
Era | H&J | DOC | CP |
Era of the Progenitors | ~7,500 | 10,000 | DNH |
Mythical Age | 12,000 | 10,000 | DNH |
Greater Antiquity | 25 or 35,000 | See Doctrine | DNH |
Classic Antiquity | 10,000 | 10,000 | ~3,000(inc Greater) |
Age of Darkness | ~2,000 | 2,000 | ~1,500-2,800 |
The only era not in dispute is the Age of Darkness, which everyone accepts happened, but no one will agree on the length of.
Timeline
The complete timeline of the verse, according to Jason Bur'I
Era | Length |
Era of the Progenitors | ~7,500 |
Mythical Age | 12,000 |
Greater Antiquity | 25 or 35,000 |
Classic Antiquity | 10,000 |
Age of Darkness | ~2,000 |
The Mage Wars | 3,800 Years |
Ages of the Alliance | 5,908 Years |
Age of the Dragon | 50 Years |
Long Night | 3,115 Years |
New Day | ??? |
Foundation Doctrine Interpretations
While not widely published before Jason's book, the Foundation did in fact acknowledge the existence of all of the aforementioned eras, but had severely wildly different interpretations of them.
- In one version, Classic Antiquity and Greater Antiquity happened concurrently, and together lasted only 25,000 years (making Classic 10,000 yrs., and Greater 15,000).
- Another version of events places the Progenitors and the Myth era within Greater Antiquity, but separates Classic. In this version, pre-history lasts 35,000 years.
- In a third version, there is no Progenitor civilization, only the Mythical Age, Antiquity, and modern recorded history.
Barondy Timeline
Barondy Calman was a historian who lived during the Golden Age and was the first scholar in recorded history to propose the age of Myth. In Barondy's account, a second age is added, the Age of Legend, & he ascribed ten thousand years to each age and thus listed: the Age of the Progenitors, the Age of Myth, the Age of Legend, the Age of Antiquity, and the Age of Mages. In Barondy's version of events, the Age of Darkness is part of the Mage Wars, and while the wars were over, he still counted the Golden Age as part of the Age of Mages.