The Following Document, Documents The Widely Known Events of Veppedin Before the Second Calamity and of the Expanse after the Second Great Calamity. Other things may have occurred during this time but are not known to the wide world as a whole. There may be large periods of nothing occurring during this timeline, this is likely due to information of events that took place during that time that is scarce or not known.
230 PSC - Soldiers from the Freelands of Veppedin march upon the Central Lands of Veppedin’s Capital successfully instating ‘Carac I’ as the King of both the Central lands and the Freelands. Carac I Declared himself Emperor of the Veppedin Empire at coronation.
First Great Calamity is prevented by an unnamed group of adventurers by slaying a creature known as the creator. In memoriam the great statue of the unknown adventurer is created in the capital.
229 PSC - Uprisings Begin throughout the Central Lands within the cities of ‘Everykeep’, ‘Wallowdale’ and ‘Moonveil’ in opposition to the new Emperor. Uprising ends days later in the ‘Day of Purging’ which saw the leaders of the uprising targeted by a series of assassinations by Emperor Carac I.
Reconstruction effort begins fixing the large-scale destruction caused by the First Great Calamity.
228 PSC - Second Dragon Kingdom declared within the Veppedin Farlands. Radagere, Slayer of the Hoard King Crowned King of the new kingdom.
226 PSC - Reconstruction efforts complete with a newly improved research city created in the place of the ‘Nova Academy’ created to research the Astral plane and what exactly the Creator was. Named Calacia after Emperor Calac I.
225 PSC - Dwarven King Deposed by Son. Makes declaration during coronation of expansionist desires
223 PSC - Dwarves of Snowspire Declare war on various free cities of the Frozen north. Heavy usage of warforged used to march upon each of the free cities.
Order of the Rose Intervenes in the Conflict in the north causing heavy casualties for the Dwarves.
221 PSC - Researchers from Calacia Begin research into the reanimation of a vegetative creator searching for answers.
220 PSC - Pyrrhic Victory for the Dwarves. The Free Dwarvic States declared a new nation within the frozen north.
Remaining members of the Order of the Rose disband and form the Church of the rose. Religious structures devoted to the rose spread across Veppedin. Their new Church declares that the old religious ways are wrong and that the same creator depicted as the creator of the world attempted to cause the First Great Calamity and places the Lady of the rose as the only God worthy of worship as she was not created by the creator.
Warforged declare freedom from dwarves as the Quilt Pact is signed as a result of the heavy loss of Warforged life during the War for the North.
218 PSC - Great Warforged Migration begins lead by the Constructed Hero Johnson wishing to leave the Free Dwarvic States and spreading the remaining warforged population across Veppedin
215 PSC - Church of the Rose grows exponentially across Veppedin becoming the #1 largest religion with the help The Empire as Emperor Calac declares the Church of the Rose to be the Only Religion allowed within the Veppedin Empire.
213 PSC - King Radagere Declares Alliance between The Free Dwarvic States and The Second Dragon Kingdom named the Northern Pact through mutual fear of the Veppedin Empire's size and power.
210 PSC - The Northern Pact Declares Joint research into storage of magical energy.
206 PSC - Gateway to the Feywild opens within Moonvale causing the emergence of a great army led by the Archfey Velavyre who take control of Moonvale Declaring it her property.
205 PSC - The Curse of Moonvale brought to light preventing an Army of the Empire from traversing the forest leading to moonvale. Aarakocra are used to fly over the forest and allow messages to be sent between Calac and Velavyre
204 PSC - Diplomacy Triumphs as Emperor Calac declares no conflict will take place between the Archfey and The Veppedin Empire.
The First Airship developed to run solely on magical power completes its maiden voyage from Snowspire to Last Light as a collaboration between the members of the Northern Pact.
202 PSC - Religious Fanatics of the ‘Cult of Hadar’ march upon the ‘Scholary of the Stars’ within Wallowdale due to Religious Differences and destroy the ‘Starchaser’ as collateral.
201 PSC - Emperor Calac I Dies of natural causes
200 PSC - During Coronation Empress Vell Declares an ‘Age of Exploration’ and creates the Explorers Guild Initiative with the aim of Paying adventurers for the exploring, clearing and mapping of the unknown areas of the world. In particular the Various Islands located around Veppedin.
199 PSC - First great expedition is sent to "Calamity Isles" with a force of 500 seasoned adventurers. The God of torture was located upon the island. Only 10 returned.
In retaliation to the deaths of the adventures Empress Vell commission's the northern pact to create an airship fleet capable of carrying a great force to eliminate the God of torture.
198 PSC - Second Great expedition is sent to the shattered isles with a much smaller turnout this time due to the first expedition's result. 300 seasoned adventurers go to the Isle and discover an artifact on the island. It is taken back to the capital for inspection.
195 PSC - The commissioned airship fleet is complete and a festival is held in the capital welcoming the new fleet to the veppedin empire. Every year from here on the 'festival to the downfall of evil' is held as a military parade showing off the might of the veppedin empire.
Within the same year the standing army of the veppedin empire is sent to Calamity isle to kill the god of torture. Through heavy losses the mission is a success.
192 PSC - Second dragon Kingdom begins to expand within the farlands with a great effort being made to pacify the region and exterminate the monsters located there.
191 PSC - King radagere announces the creation of the monster exterminators scheme. The scheme was created to hire adventurers as mercenaries to kill some of the great and powerful monsters that appear in the farlands to help with domestication efforts.
King Radagere goes to the Snowspire to request the establishment of outposts for the monster exterminators scheme within the north to help with the elimination of monsters and keeping the roads safe.
189 PSC - Empress Vell declares interest in integrating the monster exterminators scheme and the explorers guild to be an establishment for adventures to assist the realm as a whole.
The Summit on a Summit takes place in the mountains around Captivus rock as plans are made to combine the explorers guild and the monster exterminators scheme.
The establishment of the "Adventuring militia" is created and all explorers guild establishments and monster exterminators buildings are turned into Adventuring militia guild buildings as a hub for adventurers.
188 PSC - The true era of the adventurer began. Every city had an Adventuring militia guild with a thriving community of adventurer's to deal with odd jobs and issues that arose in the cities around.
187 PSC - a period of peace begins with the new Adventuring militia keeping the world unified and safe.
165 PSC - First major discovery made by Calaca. The first piece of a set of tablets that seemed to have some kind of message on them. These were later named the tablets of calamity
163 PSC - Calaca creates a device to search for the other parts of the tablets. The device sends them beyond the ocean that surrounds veppedin.
151 PSC - A surprise announcement from Empress Vell. To be the magnum opus of her reign. An expedition beyond veppedin over the ocean to search for the remaining tablet pieces.
Job spread throughout all of veppedin with thousands of adventurer's to be sent beyond.
150 PSC - The expedition is launched with the highest recorded number of airships at one location at a time in veppedin history. 2000 adventurers headed over the oceans.
First expedition finds a vast new continent. New continent is dubbed "The expanse"
Expedition creates an outpost on the coast of the expanse named "journeys start"
150 --> 122 PSC - Expedition begins to explore the new continent and creates a map that was sent back to Empress Vell.
127 PSC - First contact made with the Draconic Barons in the expanse. Friendly relationship established. The Commercial country wishes for a new trade network across the ocean to be established.
122 PSC - Empress Vell passes away and her grandson Emperor Garn 'the opulent' takes over announcing an end to the age of exploration and beginning of a new age of contempt with funding to the expedition to the expanse being completely cut.
120 PSC - King Radagere establishes a communication network with the dragon barons and begins trading with them.
113 PSC - Radageres connection to the dragon barons gets him access to the second tablet of calamity.
111 PSC - Calaca gains access to the second tablet and begins to locate the other tablets within the expanse. Emperor Garn 'the opulent' refuses to fund the expedition.
103 PSC - First major breakthrough made for magical storage. Allowing for the storage and reuse of magical energy within mundane equipment allowing for non Spellcasters to cast specific spells.
92 PSC - Cult of the Pale Flame makes its first appearance worshiping The First Lord of Flames Disciple and him who carried the Banner of Flame. Morciny Dordarian. It begins to take hold within the southern region of the Veppedin empire.
85 PSC - Holy war declared between the Cult of the Pale Flame and the church of the rose. Great war as Paladins from either side take part in various skirmishes along the border of the Central Continent and the Freelands.
82 PSC - Holy war ends with a reformation of the Church of the rose. Integrating the various Saints of the Rose. Individuals who have done great deeds who follow the faith devote themselves to the way that the Saint lived their life. The first of these saints was Saint Morciny 'The Selfless Saint'‘Saint of Sacrifice’
78 PSC - Emperor Garn 'the opulent' Is assassinated by an unknown force. Strangely, the authorities of the realm did not attempt much of an investigation.
New Emperor Calac II Makes announcement of desires of a unification of Veppedin.
76 PSC - Unification Summit Held in the Veppedin Empire Capital. Northern Pact invited. Emperor Calac II proposes unification of Veppedin under a council of the 3 leaders for unification and prosperity. Unanimous agreement allows for the Unification of Veppedin
45 PSC - Calaca Asks Emperor Calac II and the other 2 leaders of Veppedin to fund their second expedition to retrieve more of the tablets of calamity. This time they agree and another army of adventurers are sent to the expanse to collect the remaining Tablets of Calamity.
39 PSC - Multiple new regions are found beyond the Expanse. Each of the Tablets were located within unique regions each.
31 PSC - Emperor Calac II Passes away naturally in his sleep during the festival to the downfall of evil.
New Empress Vell II Is crowned and controversially does not declare intentions of rule upon appointment.
16 PSC - Empress Vell II finally declares intention of Colonialistic intentions within the New regions found beyond the expanse and within the expanse.
Great ships filled with those that wished for a new life were sent across the oceans to begin to construct new cities and create new settlements in a new unexplored frontier.
5 PSC - The Locations of the remaining 3 Tablets are found and Extraction and transportation begins. Letters are sent to Calaca to inform them of the news and preparations are made in the Empire to receive them in 5 years when they return home.
The Second Great Calamity
After being received back from their journey to the far reaches of the new world the Capital held a great celebration in which the whole of the Empire was to celebrate their success in such a long desired goal. The Parties raged throughout the day and nights to come until The Second great calamity occurred.
“We Glanced up to the Fireworks in the sky on our boat just outside of the capital. Bottle of wine in hand we drank the night away against the perfectly still water. We were still a little underage at the time to drink but we’d managed to procure some. We were to head to the new world tomorrow but we’d decided to just celebrate for one last time before our lives became one big manual labor job.
I Remember the image of it vividly in my mind. At first it was the lights, Flames snuffed out in a moment leaving us enveloped in an inky darkness. Then it was the spire, or as we call it now “The Dark Star”, A great Purple Pillar of starlight with hundreds… No thousands of eyes, buried into it, burst from the sky enveloping the land. Those that we could see on land burst into Purple flames… the screams were horrendous. Almost as an answer to those screams they then froze completely being left as almost eerie lifelike sculptures of ice… Dormant. The bizarre ‘eye starlight Mist’ stopped just before reaching us in the water. We got lucky… It began to collect itself and form into a tower filled with eyes watching us from afar. A Portal formed at the very top of this tower, dark tendrils and a great mouth watched us from it. My Brother caught its attention and the eyes locked with his. He met the same fate as the rest of them at the dock. I knew better, I looked away… Threw him overboard and got myself out of there and began to travel to the new world.
That’s why you don’t stare towards Veppedin. Unless you want the same fate as those in Veppedin.
~Everet Pender - Resident of Penilla
One of the only first hand accounts of The Second Great calamity as those that were there to see it soon succumbed to its effects. Even now from the new world those that stare at the Dark star at night can succumb to the same fate as those in Veppedin.
1 ASC - Total Destruction of the Veppedin Empire. Nobody who was on the mainland at the time of the calamity survived.
Colonies within the new world became completely independent from one another. Communications between settlements became non-existent. World enters what is known as ‘The Age of Collapse’ Little is known of the events within ‘The Age of the Collapse’ but a few things are widely known.
1ASC → 6ASC - Refugees left scattered migrate to the new Third Dragon Kingdom with others scattering out and finding or founding their own little colonies around the realm.
6 ASC - The Dragon Barons Declare the creation of the Third Dragon Kingdom. King Radagere miraculously appears and ascends to the throne.
16 ASC - Large Force of Lizardfolk claim the Reptile Jungle. Various settlements were created around the Jungle. Domestication of the Miisiks Volcano Begins.
27 ASC - Dwarven Refugee’s Find the “New Dwarven Range” A Series of mountains excavated to construct a mighty settlement of sprawling tunnels.
42 ASC - Third Dragon Kingdom Reintroduces The Adventuring militia. Commissions Adventurers to spread the Militia throughout the various colonies.
46 ASC - Settlements in ‘The Ice Sheet’ & ‘The Desolate Plains’ Reintroduce the Church of the Rose with the construction of ‘The Hellebores Cathedral’ within the Settlement of “Winter Rose”
65 ASC - Triton City of Atlantia appears within the Scaled Bay. The First Floating city of its kind that changes position upon the sea. A Branch of the Adventuring Militia is created upon the settlement.
As a Result of this worldly wonder being found King Radagere Announces a Second ‘Age of Exploration’. The aim of which is to begin to explore the world as stated within a Speech given within Vokra.
“As you all may have heard. The discovery of the floating wonder of Atlantia was a great shock to the Kingdom, such a place under all of our noses has spurred a great fire within my heart.
The Time has come for our Age of Collapse to End and for a new Age of Exploration to take hold within our kingdom. Peoples whose heritage is similar to ours still linger throughout the realm isolated and shattered… We must be the ones to strive out and explore the unknown. Like the adventurers of our past.
So I call upon the members of our Adventurers Militia new or seasoned to head forth into uncharted territory and reconnect us to our lost brothers and sisters who are still lost in the darkness left after the Calamity that brought us so close to extinction. May Great wealth come to those who aid me see my desires come to fruition. From Today I will work closely with the Adventurers Militia to send able adventurers out to the ”
68 ASC - First group of adventurers begin to set up outposts and make connections to the ‘Western Swampland’.
71 ASC - First Expeditions arrive in the ‘Reptilic Jungle’ and begin to make friendly relations with the Lizardfolk located there.
72 ASC - First Expeditions begin to make outposts and reconnect in ‘The Expanse’ Making contact with the first Colony sent to the new world. A Misunderstanding Causes a conflict to take place causing the ‘Massacre of Beachhead City’.
73 ASC - Diplomacy succeeds as ‘The Expanse’ accepts relations with the Third Dragon Kingdom.
76 ASC - First Expedition Sent to Frozen North and The Ice Sheet as outposts are created and reconnections are made with the settlements. The Church of the rose finds its way back to the realm as it begins to spread out around the settled realm.
80 ASC - Expeditions are sent to the ‘Octic Islands’ where they’re met with the 8 Pirate Lords. 4 of which agree to diplomacy. The other 4 refuse Diplomacy.
83 ASC - Fleet of Ships are sent to the ‘Octic Islands’ to deal with the 4 Undiplomatic Pirate lords. They’re subjugated and are replaced by veteran members of the Adventurer Militia.
87 ASC - Expedition is sent to ‘Sultan’s Bay’ where a culture similar to that of the freelands back on Veppedin was found. Diplomatic relations begin between the Third Dragon Kingdom and Sultan’s Bay.
90 ASC - Expedition is sent into the ‘Deathworms Desert’. Nobody Comes back. As a Result Expeditions are put on hold for a time.
99 ASC - Expeditions are Resumed this time into the ‘Desolate Plains’. No colonies were found but a few scarce outposts were created.
104 ASC - Expeditions are sent to the Pseudofae where a colony of Fae Creatures from Moonvale are found. Diplomatic relations were not successful however a single outpost was created.
110 ASC - Expedition is sent to ‘The Great Planes’ Large number of monsters were located allowing the creation of only 1 outpost. The Great Plains became a hotspot for Experienced Adventurers to earn Gold.
117 ASC - Expedition is sent to ‘The Reef’. Adventurers who arrived at the island located an abandoned colony of Humanoid Crystal forms absolutely dormant. Remnants of Calaca were sent to the Island to investigate the Anomaly.
121 ASC - Final Expedition is sent to the ‘New Dwarven Range’. While Originally unresponsive to diplomacy a branch of the Adventurers Militia was allowed to be constructed within the Settlement.
122 ASC - King Radagere announces the success of the ‘Second Age of Exploration’ and declares the Domestication of all Regions with the Adventurers Militia. Offering adventurers Gold for the in depth exploration and extermination of monsters from the mostly uncharted regions of the realm.
125 ASC - The Church of the rose announces a holy war against the Ice giants of the ‘Desolate Plains’. Offering Adventurers Gold in exchange for the head of every ice giant killed.
127 ASC - The Great Death Worm Hunt begins in the Deathworms Desert. Sponsored by the Sultanian's of Sultans Bay countless Riches are offered to adventurers who can slay a deathworm within the desert giving access to the Pyricite Ore Located within the Desert to Sultans Bay
128 ASC - Present Day