Timeline

History is incongruous and full of holes. This document will attempt to address it, but there are no guarantees as to it's clarity. In this timeline, history is broken into eras, or Ages, each of which has it's own sub-page.

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, its a book within a book written by a character in a book). 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 absolute 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 open to revising it's doctrine, they were somewhat miffed at Hunter and Jason's publication.

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

	Length
Era	H&J	DOC	CP
Era of the Progenitors	3,800 Years