21st Century NC

Events

2012

• The Crimson Plague strikes in Neptaris, likely brought by traders from Gallorea. From Neptaris, the Plague spreads quickly to Koramia, Tamerynd and Zeth.

2062

• The Dark Times abruptly end with the return of the Old Gods.

Aurea

2002

• The only son of Emperor Publius Antonius dies. The Emperor's closest advisor, Lucius, is named heir.

2004

• The Imperial Governor of the [[Mabean Marches] dies and civil war erupts between loyalists to the Empire and local forces. By the end of the year, Tancorix, a Mabean member of the Imperial forces in the Mabean Marches, betrays and defeats Imperial forces. He is crowned King of Donnagh by the druids of Ywys. Ywys breaks its alliance with the Empire and allies with Donnagh.

2005

• Dracia declares independence from the Empire and Vladimir Vtalasav is crowned King.
• King Clovar V Tuepierre declares independence from the Empire and officially converts to the Koramian Heresy, wherein Vortumnus is viewed as King of the Gods. Civil war immediately erupts.

2006

• Mitaria is attacked by an armada of Valtang warships. Instead of merely raiding, the Valtang barbarians begin building forts and seem intent on taking the country. Mitaria requests assistance from the Empire. Still without an Emperor, the Empire sends no troops to Mitaria to defend it from the Valtang invaders. King Tostig the Red of the Valtang arrives in Mitaria to lead the invasion.

2007

• With most of the Imperial troops in Mitaria defeated, King Tostig the Red names his son, Aelfric the Bold, King of Mitaria and returns to Valtaan.

2009

• King Clovar V Tuepierre of Narbonne is slain in battle and his son, Dagaric, is crowned King by the Bishop of Grischamp. By the end of the season, Dagaric has quelled most of the fighting in the nation with the assistance of the Order of the Red Band, an order of Koramian Paladins.

2012

• The Fourth Succession War grinds to a stalemate as the Crimson Plague takes several prominent leaders and decimates the population.
• The Valtang barbarians of Mitaria march on Narbonne.

Duria

2001

• The assembled Imperial army, allied with Illyria and Cambrecia, attacks Koramia. By the end of the season, Illyria betrays the Empire and allies with Koramia, who grants her independence. An orcish army, led by a former prisoner of Illyria known as Gar'dun, joins Koramian effort. Later that year, civil war erupts in Illyria between those loyal to the crown and those who support the Empire.
• In Lun Dorak, the Mage-King Lucasa discovers the Magesword.
• Near Webwood Forest, Math Mathowny, villain of the Tuatha de Dannan, is slain by Cuchulain.

2002

• Lucius, now of House Zetar, leads the armies in Koramia and succeeds in taking Paeldain. King William Greysword I and his family are slain defending Paeldain. The Greysword's son-in-law, Gawyn Asheva, is crowned King and flees to a hidden stronghold in the Divian Mountains.
• Late in the year, the Emperor of Zeth dies and is succeeded by Lucius, who reveals himself to be the Mage-King, Lucasa of Lun Dorak. The Imperial capital is moved to the Sapphire City in Lun Dorak.

2003

• Gar'dun becomes Great Khan, uniting the orcish tribes of Vor Midal and attacks Lun Dorak.
• With the assistance of Gar'dun, the Dragonknights attack the Sapphire City and defeat the ailing Mage-King, who soon dies of an unknown illness. Without its Mage-King, the Dorakian Empire immediately crumbles.

2064

• The Potentate of Zelos, Gabriel I, announces the Edict of Absolution, which not only absolved all who had been condemned by the Church in the past (with the notable exceptions of Ditis Carnifex and the Mage King), but formally declared Cambrecia independent of any civilian government, beholden only to Zelos himself, with the Potentate as his ultimate agent in the mortal realm.

2070

• Potentate Gabriel I announces the Edict of One State, which embraces those worshipers of Zelos following the Koramian Heresy, the Aebasan Orthodoxy and the Imperial Ecclesia, with preference for none.

Gallorea

2001

• In the Dragonlands, the Order of the Brilliant Lance, the Dragonknights, are reformed. Later in the year, Imperial forces are dealt harsh defeat at the First Battle of Paeldain in Koramia when the Glorious Galley, of Vortumnian legend, appears with a Dragonknight at the helm.
• King Rudolf III Vercimanon of Adanar grants territory along his eastern border with Thet to the newly arrived dwarven traders there, founding the nation of Valduran.

2002

• In Adanar, the dwarves of the Janos mountains open an embassy and begin trade negotiations with humans in the region.

2011

• The Crimson Plague strikes in Lagorka and quickly spreads along trade routes westward. By the end of the year, the Plague has reached Aebasa, despite sometimes militant attempts to curb its spread.

2015

• Goren of House Orzaiz, remains monarch of Nadera despite the legally-required conclusion of his ten-year reign. Because of the turmoil and chaos ongoing in neighboring nations, the Naderan Chamber of Princes does not oppose him.

2059

• The Naderan Chamber of Princes meets in a closed session to depose the aging King Goren of House Orzaiz, but a fire breaks out in the Chamber, disrupting the proceedings and leaving five of the Princes dead. The secretive Saphracine Watch is generally believed to have been behind the attack.

2061

• The elderly King Goren of House Orzaiz of Nadera finally abdicates and Axil of House Varuna is elected monarch by the Chamber of Princes

2065

• After serving only five years, King Axil Varuna of Nadera retires at his appointed time, re-establishing the validity of the old Neptaran Royal Code, the law code that had been more-or-less in abeyance during the troubles of the Dark Times. The Chamber of Princes elects Prince Barand Gainza of Trivena to the royal seat.

2075

• Princess Anborxe Etxeleku is elected by the Chamber or Princes to the royal seat of Nadera. As Queen, Anborxe proves to be successful in expanding Nadera's economic influence by establishing counting houses in neighboring countries and improving their rising maritime power by establishing the Maritime Academy of Garza. She was so popular that she was elected to an unprecedented second term in 7960 A.T..

2083

• The Maritime Academy of Garza is established by Queen Anborxe Etxeleku in the Naderan capital city of Garza. The Academy trained navigators, mapmakers and shipwrights, most of whom were then funneled into work for the Neptaran Merchant houses and growing expeditionary fleet.

2085

• Queen Anborxe Etxeleku becomes the first elected monarch of Nadera to be re-elected to the royal seat by the Chamber of Princes.

2092

• The Warcaptains of the Pirate Isles meet in Deepberth on the island of Tamerynd for the first time in nearly a century to re-establish the Compact that attempts to manage their interactions for mutual benefit and profit.

2095

• Prince Goren II of House Orzaiz grandson of the King Goren that maintained relative stability in Nadera during the Dark Times, is elected to the royal seat by the Chamber of Princes. his rule is marked by an expansion of Nadera's expeditionary fleet and institution of licensed privateers that preyed on Nadera's enemies (which included any peoples that didn't have a trade agreement with the country).