The record

Timeline

91 entries across 1484 years, from 1193 to 2677.

Origins (1193–1228)

Told in the Chronicles as The Partnership

  1. 1193King Aldric of Lachsenhausen born.
  2. 1209Severin Falkenrath born in Old Darkwood to a family of minor merchants. Cast out by his parents at a young age.
  3. 1214Lucien Alvaro de Castillon born in Fatima to a very poor family.
  4. 1215Leopold von Lachsenhausen born. Groomed for military command.
  5. 1218Victor von Lachsenhausen born. Early aptitude for diplomacy and commerce.
  6. 1218Ava Montclair born.

The great tragedy (1228–1232)

Told in the Chronicles as The Partnership

  1. 1228King Aldric of Lachsenhausen instigates civil unrest in Fatima to manufacture justification for a military march-in. Soldiers annex the town. The Castillon family home is burned with Lucien's parents inside. He escapes with physical scars.
  2. 1229Armano Salvius, a travelling merchant, finds the wounded Lucien on the roads and takes him in.
  3. 1232Lucien convinces Armano Salvius to extend credit to a lord who proves bankrupt. Armano is ruined and dies that winter. Lucien flees to Bellum Castle.

The partnership forms (1233–1257)

Told in the Chronicles as The Partnership

  1. 1233Lucien meets Severin Falkenrath at Bellum Castle. A cautious alliance forms.
  2. 1238Lucien marries Ava Montclair.
  3. 1241The Bellum Castle Trade Route is established using Ava Montclair's family connections.
  4. 1243At the Glaceus Arena tournament, Lucien and Severin meet Leopold von Lachsenhausen and Victor von Lachsenhausen. A business arrangement becomes genuine friendship.
  5. 1249Ava Montclair dies in childbirth. Last words: *"You're becoming the very thing you hate."* Elias Castillon survives.
  6. 1251King Aldric of Lachsenhausen dies. Lucien Alvaro de Castillon had been poisoning his food supply through corrupted grain shipments for several years.
  7. 1257The four officially adopt the name *Avari*: "the greedy ones" in an ancient dialect.
  8. 1258–1264The Avari absorb Lachsenhausen into their empire through economic leverage and the brothers' rulership.

Severin's discovery (date unknown, pre-1282)

Told in the Chronicles as The Ritual

  1. date unknown, pre-1282Severin Falkenrath privately discovers the Ravana Ruins and tests the Curse of Ravana alone. The attempt nearly kills him, leaving permanent scarring. He understands the energy must be distributed first. He tells no one.

The ritual (1277–1282)

Told in the Chronicles as The Ritual

  1. 1277Severin, approaching 70, raises the subject of mortality with the group and introduces the Ravana Ruins.
  2. 1282Severin brings all five Avari to the Ravana Ruins, including Elias Castillon as Lucien's son. The Curse of Ravana distributes automatically, one share each. All five receive immortality. Severin's plan to kill the others begins from this moment.

The golden years and corruption (1283–1360)

Told in the Chronicles as The Golden Years and The Fall

  1. 1283–1320The Avari rule efficiently. Immortality inspires reverence and fear.
  2. 1321–1340Immortality begins to degrade them. Leopold grows violent. Victor grows detached. Lucien grows paranoid. Severin does not change, and keeps to the plan.
  3. 1341–1360Elias Castillon pleads with his father to end their rule. Lucien cannot imagine life without power.
  4. 1359Leopold von Lachsenhausen and Victor von Lachsenhausen withdraw to Mount Kings, apart from the rest of The Avari.

The fall (1361–1365)

Told in the Chronicles as The Fall and The Long Pursuit

  1. 1361Severin Falkenrath poisons Leopold von Lachsenhausen and Victor von Lachsenhausen with wine at Mount Kings. Both shares pass to him as the cause of their deaths. Their bodies are thrown from the cliffs and the mountain cracks where they fall. Share count: 3.
  2. 1362Villager revolt. Lucien and Severin flee through the tunnels beneath Bellum Castle. Severin stabs Lucien. Share count: 4. Lucien's body hollows the mountain and opens the great cliffs beside the castle. Elias Castillon flees to the Vulcan Islands.
  3. 1365Elias Castillon jumps from the Seaborrow Cliffs; the land causes the death, so the land takes the share. The impact forms the Castillon Rift. Severin Falkenrath arrives too late. The fifth share is lost to him. The volcanic cataclysm raises Chunk Err to the west of the Vulcan Islands.

Aftermath and the long pursuit (1365–1933)

Told in the Chronicles as The Fall and The Long Pursuit

  1. 1365–1400The Avari Empire splinters. Energy residue from the broken bond soaks into the land.
  2. After 1365Severin Falkenrath's name is struck from monuments and scrolls across the former empire.
  3. 1400–1600Fractured kingdoms coalesce. The Avari become legend, then myth.
  4. 1600–1701Successor kingdoms consolidate into Luxemburg. Capital established over the old Avari stronghold ruins.
  5. 1602Frank Limestealer born, a distant descendant of Ava Montclair.
  6. 1622Frank Limestealer founds Limestealer for mining and industrial technology research.
  7. 1647Frank Limestealer dies. Memorial statue erected.
  8. 1701Luxemburg formally unified.
  9. 1701–1933Luxemburg industrialises. Railways and infrastructure expand. Dead zones dismissed as geology.
  10. Late 18th c.Railway Brothers leads railway development. See The Rail Expansion.
  11. Mid 19th c.Calcite Industries and Skank Industries expand their own railway programmes. See The Rail Expansion.
  12. 1933Neutron NRG founded by *S. Falken* (Severin Falkenrath) in Cliffhanger.
  13. [PLACEHOLDER]Neutron NRG takes over Railway Brothers and its railways.

The industrial era and extraction (1933–21st century)

Told in the Chronicles as The Long Pursuit

  1. 1933–21st c.Each Neutron NRG extraction attempt causes progressive environmental damage. Calcite Industries and Skank Industries also conduct extraction attempts.
  2. 1994Neutron NRG Flight Crash: a failed aeronautic experiment using Curse of Ravana energy as propulsion. All aeronautic projects scrapped. Crash site: cliffs near Old Man's Consequences, south of Okinowa.

The final event (~21st century)

Told in the Chronicles as The Long Pursuit

  1. ~21st centurySeverin Falkenrath's final extraction attempt fails catastrophically. Rather than pulling the energy out of the ground, the attempt pulls Severin in. He fuses into the earth at the Vulcan Islands. His four shares merge with Elias Castillon's entrenched fifth share. All five shares of the Curse of Ravana are now in the ground.

The slow transformation (~21st century – 2300)

Told in the Chronicles as What Is Underneath

  1. ~21st century – 2300No single collapse. No clear before and after. Luxemburg's world unravels gradually: infrastructure fails, institutions dissolve, populations scatter. Small communities form around whatever still functions. Over roughly 300 years, the world reorganises itself around survival rather than ambition.

Lichdenstein (c. 2300)

Told in the Chronicles as What Is Underneath

  1. c. 2300The survivors have settled into something stable enough to name. Built on land that contains, somewhere beneath it, all five shares of an ancient energy and the remains of the man who spent centuries trying to claim them all.
  2. c. 2300See Lichdenstein
  3. c. 2300Lichdenstein forms across the ruins of Luxemburg. Settlements include New Cliffhanger, Floodhaven, Fumble, and Gon Long Island.
  4. [PLACEHOLDER]Lichdenstein collapses. Refugees scatter; Lon' Lon' and Sho't' Lon' of Gon Long Island leave for what will become Frangfurd.

Frangfurd (~c. 2500 onward)

Told in the Chronicles as The Obelisk, The Pioneers and The Same Appetite

  1. c. 2510Great Question, a village beside the Ravana Ruins, becomes the first community to contact the Curse of Ravana. An unnatural spread of disease nearly wipes it out.
  2. 2518The Obelisk erupts from the Frangfurder Sea near the former site of New Cliffhanger.
  3. [PLACEHOLDER]Lon' Lon' and Sho't' Lon' arrive at Long Island. Lon' Lon' names the island.
  4. [PLACEHOLDER]Sho't' Lon' killed by Lon' Lon' at Cheeky Sands.
  5. 2540A later generation of The Pioneers rebuilds Pioneers Outpost in Frangfurd.
  6. c. 2545The Pioneers drive the industrialisation of Belucho, south of Pioneers Outpost, the first town to industrialise since the collapse of Lichdenstein. They build the Church of the Glowing Cross there.
  7. 2561Andreas Azulmandio born in Cufefe, Frangfurd.
  8. [PLACEHOLDER]The Pioneers launch The First Flying Dumbfuck, the first man-made object to fly in Frangfurd. It crashes into the Frangfurder Sea just short of The Obelisk.
  9. 2563The Pioneers complete The Copper Maiden, an all-copper airship, at Pioneers Outpost.
  10. Pre-2565The Pioneers relocate ancient structures from across Frangfurd to the ground between Pioneers Outpost and Belucho and research them there. To carry them, the pioneers and the people of Long Island build the Orbenator Airship, a hot-air-balloon airship. Around the same time the pioneers lay out Sandstone Airfield in the north as a simple airfield.
  11. 2565The Copper Maiden crosses south over Mono Monte to the Wet Lands, the first recorded crossing. Camp 0 founded at the Ravana Ruins to study the Curse of Ravana. The Pioneers build the Pioneers Airstrip (later Citadel Airport) and use Great Question as a hub, rescuing surviving villagers. As the research moves south, the older ground between Pioneers Outpost and Belucho is restored and opens as the Open Air Museum of Belucho.
  12. 2566Kupfer Guild Inc. founded by Ulius Händlberg and Rajesh Masala to mine the newly opened Wet Lands.
  13. 2568Kupfer Guild Inc. begins funding Camp 0.
  14. c. 2575Kupfer Guild Inc. completes The Citadel as a hub and port for Camp 0.
  15. 2578Blue Ice Industries founded by Bob Winters.
  16. [PLACEHOLDER]Oiropa and Amärika establish Basis Oiropa and Basis Amärika in the Erak desert as military testing sites, near villages far older than the bases.
  17. [PLACEHOLDER]Locals of Erak form Ruslant to stop testing near their villages, and establish Basis Ruslant.
  18. [PLACEHOLDER]Ruslant builds the Tuff Tank. Large-scale testing in Erak declines, and Oiropa and Amärika back down.
  19. 2600Project Gigantico Crash: Blue Ice Industries' giant military walker fails in the Arctic Semicircle attempting a heavy ground route south. The wreck becomes the Frozen Giant.
  20. 2615Kyle Winters takes over Blue Ice Industries from his father Bob Winters.
  21. [PLACEHOLDER]Blue Ice Industries' prototype flying antenna crashes in the ice ocean of the Arctic mountains. The Copper Rocket follows.
  22. Pre-2623Andreas Azulmandio leads Los Azules, controlling drug trade and uranium mining on the Warzow Peninsula. Funds Cufefe's rise from an unstable logging town to a prosperous export hub.
  23. 2623Andreas Azulmandio founds Hotel Azul on the Warzow Peninsula.
  24. After 2623Andreas Azulmandio dies. Uran Inc. absorbs Los Azules' uranium-mining operations. NPW emerges as the peninsula's dominant political body. NPW and Uran Inc. co-found the WLC Arenal, including the Woodland Circuit, Woodland Colosseum, Woodland Airfield, and WLC Tower. Cufefe contributes to construction.
  25. c. 2630Blue Ice Industries buys the Cardan shaft from its inventor, Gerolamo Cardano, and first uses it on military mechs. Cardano retires and leaves Pichon for Lake Hermin.
  26. c. 2640Curse research at Camp 0 concludes; the site is left largely abandoned.
  27. 2644The Floating Cube descends north-east of The Obelisk and holds position for a few hours, disrupting machinery across Frangfurd. The Obelisk's radiation falls away for as long as it stays. It leaves and is not seen again.
  28. 2650Blue Ice Industries builds the Ice Berg Circuit beside the wreck of the Frozen Giant.
  29. 2654Blue Ice Industries opens the Blue Ice Bot Arena within the Frozen Giant.
  30. 2656NPW builds The Maglev across northern Jedersland, linking the WLC Arenal to the Ice Berg Circuit.
  31. [PLACEHOLDER]Stahlstern launches from Golden Starfront, the first jet-thruster rocket meant for other planets. It reaches the Moon, then Mars. On the descent onto the Moon, the pilot Miki Himmelfahrt is thrown out and lost in space. On the return from Mars, Maria Himmelfahrt is thrown out and badly injured.
  32. [PLACEHOLDER]Golden Starfront dismisses its head of engineering, Leonardo Blackstein, after the second Stahlstern accident.
  33. 2662Kupfer Guild Inc. upgrades the Pioneers Airstrip into Citadel Airport to commercialise the Wet Lands.
  34. 2665Kupfer Guild Inc. builds the Jungle Boat Circuit, converts the Camp 0 Old Laboratory into a nightclub and cafe, and opens the site as Kupfer Arenal.
  35. 2666NPW extends The Maglev west through Pichon to Belucho.
  36. 2668Pimber & Ton Real Estate founded by Pimber Green and Ton Green in the Mountain Meadow Region.
  37. 2669Two visitors to Kupfer Arenal hijack the Granite Guardian and use it to destroy half of Popel.
  38. 2672Uran Inc. builds FUN GUS Park on the FUN GUS Islands, competing with Kupfer Arenal. Gustavo Pilzenstern oversees its construction.
  39. [PLACEHOLDER]The Barco Azul, Andreas Azulmandio's yacht, passes to the Woodland Circuit, which runs it to FUN GUS Park on the FUN GUS Islands.
  40. [PLACEHOLDER]The expansion of FUN GUS Park takes over the village of Rotlingen on the FUN GUS Islands.
  41. 2676Pimber & Ton Real Estate opens the Pimber & Ton Timber Park.
  42. c. 2676Leonardo Blackstein builds the Firefly-1 in the Mountain Meadow Region.
  43. c. 2677Gerolamo Cardano builds the Cicada-1 with Leonardo Blackstein, on the design of the Firefly-1.

Source: Timeline.md in the vault.

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