Valinn timeline:
-1 Valinn created
-100 Eda creates the animals and Fey
-2300 Humans are created
-2325 Foden is exiled and Othor withdraws from the world
-2400 Humans begin to form tribes
-2459 Farming is utilized and humans begin creating crude permanent settlements
-2500 Magic is discovered
-2510 Humans discover the existence of the gods through dreams
-2512 Priestesses and priests are chosen by the Gods to be the only ones to receive said dreams
-2600 Kensh the Conquerer began uniting the northern tribes
-2605 The southern tribes begin banding together to fight the Hazanish
-2607 Fasan goes to war with Hazana
-1300 Varu and Fasan kingdoms begin to form.
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No one knows how the universe itself began. Mostly because no one was around to witness it. There was also no one around to ask where the Gods themselves originated from, though it is common knowledge that Eda and Ulish are the daughter and son respectively of Othor. Where Othor came from is the mystery, but one He has not cared to reveal.
As mentioned before, Othor has two children, Eda and Ulish. Whether He created them or He took a wife is yet another mystery. If He does have a wife, she's rather shy.
Anyways, Eda and Ulish are his two children which I think I've mentioned thrice now. Eda is the Goddess of the night, moon and magic along with otherwordly things and life, while Ulish is the God of the day, sun and combat, along with domain over the physical and death.
You could say that they controlled the elements that we understood. Othor was the ruler of everything that ever was and ever will be, along with the creator of the universe, time, and the world on which we reside.
It's also said that He has a plan for all mortals, which is mostly a load of horseshit if you ask me.
There are also the angels. Both Eda and Ulish have them- nine each, and they represent various elements. Othor has one angel, who the mightiest of all the angels. And below the angels are the patron saints, then the priests and priestess of Valinn, and then the rest of us.
Now where was I? Oh, yeah. Othor created the universe and time and all those other concepts physicists like to talk about, and then with his children he created the planet Valinn, which is where we all reside.
The forming of the planet was supposedly a very interesting event- I couldn't tell you for sure, because I wasn't there, but Othor created the rock from nothingness, and Eda instilled it with magic. Everything has magic- the sky, the earth, the wind and the trees. It's something the physicists don't like to talk about, because to them, magic doesn't make sense. In fact, to most people, magic doesn't make sense. But advanced physics doesn't make sense to most people, either. So it's a moot point.
After the planet was created, with all its valleys and lakes and mountains and oceans, I imagine the Gods looked at one another and sort of went 'Hmmm, what next?'
Well, Eda decided to bring forth the fey and animals, though the lines were blurred a bit between the two. But most of the animals were just normal... Creaturey things. Fish, mammals, birds, and those things that couldn't decide if they were birds or mammals and looked like they were result of a wild fling between an otter and a duck.
I think they're called platypi.
Then after Eda created the animals and fey of the world, Ulish decided he wanted to make something as well. But he was war-like in nature, and while the savagery of the predators and some of the fey Eda had created appealed to him, he wanted something different.
So he thought for a long while- at least for several thousand years, as far as anyone is concerned, time works different for gods- until Eda became restless as well and decided to help her brother.
They came together, and Ulish and Eda created creatures that resembled themselves. Creatures that could walk upright and had hands and feet and everything that made a human a human.
And Ulish gave them his love of war and his strength and cunning, and Eda gave them her compassion, intelligence and kindness. They were masterful creations. They weren't as fast as the horse or strong as the bear, but they were clever.
And there was one person amongst the gods who didn't like the humans at all.
Foden, Othor's only angel and the most powerful of all of the other angels, took an instant dislike to the creatures Ulish and Eda created. He went to Othor and proclaimed humans as too full of Ulish's blood lust and Eda's cunning to be allowed to reside on Valinn, and that they were a danger to the Gods, and that they should be... “removed” immediately.
But (thankfully), Othor didn't listen to his angel- he was loathe to destroy anything his children created, and He was also interested in these humans.
And here it is said that Foden took out his anger and frustration on Ulish, striking the God who, at the time, was holding the sun.
(For anyone confused, apparently holding large celestial bodies is something the Gods do when they want to. Yeah, it's strange.)
Anyways- again, lucky for us- Ulish managed to recover before the world became very toasty indeed, but the sun did scorch part of Valinn, causing it to become a burned and blackened wasteland and killing many innocents. It that would a wasteland for many years until it eventually became the Fasana desert.
Ulish handed the sun to one of his angels and advanced upon Foden and would have killed him had Othor not intervened.
Instead of killing the surly angel, he sent Tura, Ulish's angel of judgment, to hold Foden responsible for what he had done. He realized what he's done and begs forgiveness, but Tura didn't accept his apology, as it wouldn't bring back the lives of the innocents he killed in his rage.
Othor banished Foden to a barren and dark wasteland similar to the one he created on Valinn and condemned him to live there for eternity.
Filled with sorrow for what He had been forced to do, Othor withdrew from the world, leaving his children and their angels to watch over the world.
And for a long time, they did just that. Time went by, and the humans formed tribes and it was then that magic was discovered. I think this magic was more true to the earth- it was the magic of the earth and the animals, and the magic still used in the south today, hyped up to be something foul and despicable in the north.
There are dangers surrounding Earth Magic, yes, but I'm trying very hard to stay on topic.
Eventually they discovered the gift that one of Eda's angels had given them- farming. Most of the tribes stopped following the herds and created primitive settlements near basic water sources. If that sounds like I'm quoting a textbook, yeah, I am.
Sometimes they just lived in caves, and you can see where they pained pictures on the inside unless some idiot came by centuries later and messed 'em up.
It was around this time that the humans became dimly aware of the Gods existence. They dreamed, and through these dreams glimpsed Eda, Ulish and their angels. This surprised the Gods greatly, but they decided to take the initiative.
They made it so only a select few mortals received their dreams, and communicated with them through these visions, though they manifested in forms that made more sense to the people of that time. Even now, I don't think they've shown us their true forms yet.
Anyways, the people that received these dreams became the Priests and Priestesses of their society, though I'm fairly certain they were called other things at that time.
It was around this time that two very old kingdoms began. The blackened wasteland left by Fosen had turned into a dry and arid desert, and humans were once again beginning to settle there. A large river ran through it, and desert kingdom of Fasan was just beginning to take form, as was the eventual kingdom Varu in the north. Cities began to spring up as people learned more about themselves and the environments. And they questioned everything. It was in this time that people called “The Age of Learning”, where scientists and magi figured things out about the world that no one had even thought to consider before.
It was also a time of conflict. The Fasanas warred with the Hazani people of the swampy lands further south for territory. Varu was raising a vast (if vaguely primitive) kingdom, conquering all those who opposed it before setting its sights on the people of Fasan, who dwelt past the Upsila Thesa. It was that mountain range, though, that always made them hesitate.
The fey of Valinn lived up in those mountains, and had preyed on humans on both side of the mountain range for a long time.
But then the Varulians discovered the fey's weakness to cold iron, and the Iron Wars began. But even with iron, it took several wars over twenty five years to bring the fey to their knees. May of them died, and some species were wiped out entirely
A few escaped to the farthest reaches of the mountains, but those that were not killed were enslaved.
The Age of Learning came to an end, and the Fasana beat the Hazani back to their swamps. Varu prepared to invade the war-torn kingdom, but before they could do so strange foreigners came from a land called Caria across the sea, and the Varulian Kingdom found themselves having to turn their sights away from Fasan and fend off the raiders attacking their westernmost coastal villages.
But that was a war the Varulians were not destined to win, even with the forced assistance of the fey. The raiders took a large part of western Varu for their own, but it was the rocky and mountainous part that was largely uninhabited anyways. A land full of tall mountains and steep cliffs. Varu decided waging war over what they considered a wasteland was not worth the effort.
But as the years went by, the people who named the region 'Hinalia' adapted to the rocky landscape. They tamed the tough horses who lived in the steep valleys and founded their own largely clan-based culture. They became very good at guerrilla warfare, defeating any troops Varu sent to try and take its land back. They probably would have eventually succeeded, however, if the people of their eastern boarder hadn't rebelled.
The people of what would become Paraell had achieved their cherished independence by fighting. Violently. Town by town, territory by territory they regained control of the land taken from them by the Varulian Kingdom. The war was brief and bloody, but eventually they took back what had been taken from them and more.
They formed their own government, and having no intention of substituting one tyranny for another, they formed a democracy where the territories were united under one banner and all were considered equal.
Let Varu call them uncivilized bog-dwellers; their muddy swamps and marshlands were poor things, but, damn it all, they were their own.
It was during the war that the first Oros del Amo, the leader of a powerful merchant guild in Hinalia, sold supplies to both sides. Hinalia became a rich country, Paraell broke free of Varulian rule, and Varu struggled to recover from its losses.
However, brutally cold winters, extremely high taxes, the losses from the recent war and the royalty living in splendor led up to a vicious revolution in Varu's own capitol of Galent. The royal palace was besieged and the king and queen killed. Turmoiled ensued for a few years as Varu was effectively rendered leaderless. The leaders of the revolution ruled for a while, before they were assassinated. A democracy was established for a decade or two, and then a man calling himself Gaeten came forward. He said if Varu did not want a king, then he would be Emperor instead.
There were no major events for many years after that. Varu began to recover now that a new leader was firmly established, and Paraell elected their first President. Fasan dealt with the boarder skirmishes from Hazana and began trading with Hinalia. The fey Varu captured in the Iron Wars remained enslaved, and would so for a hundred years until Paraell banned slavery.
Many of the fey fled Paraell to find at least semi-freedom, until Varu was forced to ban slavery as well or lose all the fey that remained. The 'Unseelie' fey, or the city folk, were called such because to other fey they had lived among humans and in cities for so long they were now unseelie, or unholy. The seelie fey were those who were still free.
In a way, it was backwards. Before the Iron Wars, seelie fey were supposed to be the at least semi-friendly fey, and the unseelie were the kind that would hurt you for no reason other then they felt like it.
But now unseelie were unholy. Unpure. Tainted by humanity- and the most likely not to kill you. Seelie fey, those were the ones that you had to watch out for, because they were free, and in their minds their kin had become tainted beyond hope, and they were out for revenge.
About five years ago, the Empress moved the capitol from the old city of Galent, to the relatively newer city of Elania.
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