Timeline

Old Map of Oenklay: here

Major events in Oenklay's history (BP - years before present).

~4500 BP - Ancient Oenklay

The first recorded history of Oenklay. Ancient Oenklayan language known as of this time.

~4000-3300 BP - Rise of cities across Oenklay

Maande and Mybourdy trace their roots to this period.

~3300 BP - The Wilting

Epidemics run wild over Oenklay. Whole settlements, even cities, succumb to disease. Civilization collapses in what is now Einea and East Province as essentially every civic leader, even those of small villages, dies over a short time period. Society survives in the southern provinces, barely.

What few records survive suggest the diseases began in the north and west, suggesting the origin of the diseases are the Other Realms.

~3000 BP Bluwell Rises

Emergence of Bluwell in the north.

~2500 BP - The Furious Storms

Storms from beyond World’s Edge blow over Oenklay and as far as the Rettien Peninsula.

~1150 BP - The 70 years

Oenklay is beset by invasions from Praemmden and an upsurge in crossovers from the Other Realms. Maande and the rest of the southern city states, distant from the battlegrounds, forms under the war leader Aneale II. With the breadbasket of the new nation of Anealeas keeping her armies well supplied, she marches northward, pushing the invaders from the northeast out and establishing a system of forts throughout the new formed provinces to guard against Other Realms visitations.

1023 BP - Monarchy Day

The founding of the Monarchy of Oenklay at the coronation of Aneale III in Tendo, Romhai. The despotism of the monarchy increases with each subsequent descendant that takes the throne.

403-393 BP - The Shattering

The momentous years of the great cataclysm that destroyed the eastern end of East Province and formed the Shatterend, the extinction of the house of Aneale with the death of the last recognized Monarch, and the dissolution of the Monarchy into separate states centered on the five provinces. The time is so chaotic that the order of these events is still argued about.

Geographic and geologic effects of the Shattering extend far beyond the Shatterend. Massive landslides dammed the river Wem in Bluwell, forming today’s lake and drowning much of the city. Today’s urbanized islands once were Bluwell’s hilltops. The slums that fringe the lake to this day are the refugee camps of the Shattering turned into neighborhoods.

The Shattering sinks some land and raise other land along the border of Romhai and Anealeas, transforming the small Imsea Marsh into the massive wetland it is today and opening many more passages from the Imsea itself into . Unlike the slower rise of Lake Bluwell, surges of water from Lake Imsea inundate the new plain so quickly that two cities and several smaller settlements are lost with massive loss of life.

The number of people killed by the Shattering eludes scholars. The immediate death toll certainly pales in comparison to number lost in the famines and epidemics that followed. The only bright spot in the Shattering is the emergence of independent military orders in many of the wilderness forts established by Aneale II. As they consolidate over time, they do more and more to contain threats from the Other Realms and keep the worst of the constant minor warfare between provinces contained, limiting damage to non-combatants, farmland, and cities

187-182 BP - The Pestilence

Organized armies of lesser wyrmkin(kobolds) spill out of the underground and wilderness areas of Oenklay, laying waste to many rural areas and besieging towns and cities. In most cases, the besiegers give into infighting before the besieged fell and are then overwhelmed by their intended victims. The only major settlement to fall was lonely Joring. Kobolds are to this day viewed as enemies by most other Oenklayans, still live in wilderness and underground areas, and are universally held to be the worst of the uncivs by the civs. The Pestilence wore particularly hard on the military orders. What’s left are little more than mercenary companies with a penchant for brigandage and worse when times are lean.