Post-Classical/ Medieval Period (480-1500)

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480 | GLOBAL | The Western division of the Roman Empire is formally abolished.
482 | ESTRELLA | A large group of refugees, once members of Roman high society, settle in Estrella. They bring with them a lot of treasure and gold that allow them to ingratiate themselves in the king's court. He takes great interest in their culture and stories, to the chagrin of some of his advisors. They follow Greco-Roman polytheism, having lost faith in Christianity due to the fact that it was mostly Christian barbarians who sacked Rome.
487 | ESTRELLA | A Roman noble marries the king's daughter, tying Roman influence to the Estrellan monarchy.
490 | ESTRELLA | The king begins a long campaign to conquer and integrate the barbarian tribes of Eitador.
495 | ESTRELLA | The Estrellans lose the battle of Smoke Desert with the northern tribes, and tensions are rising with their neighboring nation, Xhakhoro. They put an end to their campaign of conquest in order to fortify their existing borders.
505 | XHAKHORO | War begins with Estrella. It has very few big battles, with neither faction attempting to push forward with large armies. There are countless horseback raids and skirmishes.
520 | XHAKHORO | The war with Estrella ends after the leaders of the two nations decide a trade deal would be a more beneficial idea for the both of them.
566 | XHAKHORO | The second Xhakhoro-Estrellan war begins. Both sides take land and cities from each other. Xhahkoro's new borders extend to Korvaria, a small city in a mountainous desert region.
570 | XHAKHORO | The second Xhakhoro-Estrellan war ends with no clear winner. They decide to trade back the cities they took from one another, but relations sour again before this can happen.
600 | XHAKHORO | Xhahkoro win a war against a bandit confederacy to their north.

Map of Eitador circa 600 AD

630 | XHAKHORO | The first prophet of the Ascendency is born in Xhakhoro's capital. Read more about the first prophet in Whispering Unto Heaven.
673 | XHAKHORO | The prophet is exiled to Korvaria. He brings thousands of his followers with him, preaching a doctrine of stoicism and non-violence.
675 | XHAKHORO | Korvaria has grown significantly. Many people travel from nearby territories just to hear the prophet give his speeches, which always creates huge crowds. Local governors have mixed opinions on him as the influx of visitors brings in a lot of trade.
677 | XHAKHORO | The prophet passes away suddenly at the age of 47. His followers claim that his early death was a sign that he had merely surpassed the need for his physical body.
678 | XHAKHORO | A campaign of persecution against the followers of the Ascendency is started by the emperor of Xhakhoro. The prophet's family go into hiding, and are supported by a large network of followers.
679 | XHAKHORO | A few members of Korvaria's local government condemn the religious persecution and are swiftly dismissed from their posts. Ascendency followers are continuing to move to Korvaria.
690 | XHAKHORO | The nephew of the prophet declares that pacifism is sometimes a more violent option than fighting injustice, if the injustice will lead to more harm in the long run than destroying it would. He and his followers rise up to take over Korvaria.
691 | XHAKHORO | Ascendency followers are encouraged to rise up in other cities, and to spread the messages of the prophet and his nephew. Estrella are said to have provided Korvaria with food and coin that was vital to their survival.
692 | XHAKHORO | Xhakhoro clash with the followers of the Ascendency in several major battles in the desert. They are said to have reacted very slowly to the problem as they underestimated both the size of the Ascendency's armies as well as the level of popular support they would recieve.
696 | XHAKHORO | Xhakhoro's emperor is slain by the nephew of the prophet in Xhakhoro's ancient capital of Anshrahat. The nephew is named the second prophet of the Ascendency, which is now a new nation that exists in Xhakhoro's place.
698 | ASCENDENCY | The second prophet orders the construction of the Grand Temple of the Ascendency just outside of Korvaria.
700 | ASCENDENCY | The Ascendency enters its golden age. It has positive relations and fruitful trade with Estrella to the south, and pours a lot of resources into creating schools for art and science.
705 | ASCENDENCY | A tunnel is created through the mountain range north of Korvaria, allowing trade and religion to penetrate even the most remoteregions of the country.
720 | ESTRELLA | With the encouragement of their new allies in the Ascendency, a prohibition is declared on all Christian missionaries from Europe.
738 | ASCENDENCY | The Ascendency's second prophet is killed by an assassin at Thorne Hill.
740 | RAZENOVA | The northern tribes unite under a single banner to raid the Ascendency and Estrella, who no longer have armies prepared for war. This ends the Ascendency's golden age.
750 | ASCENDENCY | The Temple Council make Ascendency religious festivals and principles mandatory.
760 | ESTRELLA | Estrella's peasantry begin a mass revolt.
764 | ESTRELLA | A huge Razenovan invasion is stopped at the region known as North Avosnia. Estrella begins to build huge fortresses all over the region.
767 | ASCENDENCY | The new penal code makes the laws of the Ascendency the harshest in the continent.
770 | ASCENDENCY | Relations with Estrella fall into disarray after an Estrellan noble is executed in Karfor for the crime of "excess".
772 | RAZENOVA | Severe flooding in the Razenovan heartland puts plans for a new assault on Estrella on hold.
785 | RAZENOVA | Attention has been turned almost entirely towards the Ascendency instead of Estrella, whose northern defences are too strong.
788 | ASCENDENCY | A major coup forces the Temple Council to permit alternative religious beliefs in the Ascendency. The coup has popular support and is headed by a number of military generals and nobles who style themselves as reformists.
791 | ASCENDENCY | Appeals are made to Estrella for help against Razenova, but all attempts to normalize relations fail.
793 | ASCENDENCY | A major battle is won against Razenova that keeps the Ascendency alive, but one of the most beloved generals involved in the 788 coup is killed. Rumors are spread that this is because he 'betrayed' his religion and grew indulgent and lazy.
796 | ASCENDENCY | Ascendency Priests attempt a counter-coup to revert the 788 coup, but they fail. A number of priests are killed during the unrest, causing religious divides to grow deeper. Unrest swells.
798 | ASCENDENCY | A wave of high-profile assassinations take place. Ascendency 'Devouts' kill a number of the 788 leaders, priests of Eitadorian Polytheism, and Ascendency 'Moderates'. Polytheists and Ascendency Moderates kill a numer of Ascendency Devouts. Larger towns and cities fall into disarray as nobles fail to control the situation.
799 | ASCENDENCY | The Ascendency lose a series of pivotal battles in the north.
801 | RAZENOVA | The Ascendency collapses as it is quickly conquered by the northern tribes. Their warlords divide the territory up between them, and rule for the most part no more harshly than their predecessors.
802 | ESTRELLA | Estrella invade the collapsing Ascendency, taking roughly half of the Karforian coastline before Razenova can. They're less religiously fluid than the Razenovans and struggle to bridge cultural divides with Ascendency devouts.
803 | RAZENOVA | The Grand Temple is heavily damaged by the local lord after an attempted uprising by devout followers.
805 | RAZENOVA | Razenova frequently attack Estrella's area of Karfor. Estrella continue to control and fortify the grassland area.
810 | ESTRELLA | High-quality Karforian wood allows Estrella to build lots of ships very quickly. They use these ships to control Karfor's outlying islands.
817 | RAZENOVA | The Ascendency religion is briefly outlawed in Korvaria, but to little success.
820 | RAZENOVA | The great storyteller Ratetska Mastruil is born in the north east. He travels the land spreading tales of the land's heroes and villains. It later becomes unclear which of his stories were purely fiction and which had a historical basis, but knowledge of his characters spreads across the continent and makes a powerful cultural impact.
822 | ESTRELLA | Estrella send their navy along the western coast to blockade the major river in Karfor that belongs to Razenova. The Confederacy do not have many ships they can use in response, and cannot break the blockade.
823 | ESTRELLA | The land invasion of Razenovan Karfor begins and is successful.
834 | RAZENOVA | A counter-invasion returns northern Karfor to Razenova. Naval fighting insues and Razenova take heavy losses, but Estrella are not able to put the blockade back in place. The fighting eventually draws to a stalemate.
850 | RAZENOVA | Infighting between warlords becomes so bad that many believe Razenova is due to collapse. Estrella consider invading, but utlimately decide against it. This is referred to later as Razenova's 'Decade of Turmoil'.
860 | RAZENOVA | Razenova's 'Year of Weddings' ends the Decade of Turmoil. An unusual number of forced marriages take place between the nobility, especially between the exceptionally powerful houses that became known as Razenova's 'Great Houses'.
862 | RAZENOVA | Razenova's renewed ties result in extremely coordinated and successful raids against Estrella.
870 | RAZENOVA | Estrellan Karfor is conquered by the northern tribes. They build fortresses in the mountains along the border and construct a fleet of ships to help them solidify their control over the territory.
874 | RAZENOVA | Karfor's outlying islands are taken from Estrella by Razenova. One island simply defects without any fighting, and the nobles there are allowed to retain their land and privileges.
880 | RAZENOVA | The new local lord in Korvaria is rumored to have converted to the Ascendency. He provides funding to repair and maintain The Grand Temple.
924 | RAZENOVA | Lots of fighting occurs in the southern plains, which were known to the Estrellans as the northern plains. Areas of territory change hands here numerous times, and the populace start to get used to never knowing who their new ruler will be in a year's time.
934 | ESTRELLA | The Knights of Hale are founded to protect the 'religious integrity' of Eitadorian polytheism. Poems and songs including the Knightly Poem of Hale are written.
966 | BIVARA | Lord Ghier of Secara declares himself not only a king who is now independent from Razenova, but also the third prophet of the Ascendency. He names his new nation Bivara, an old Xhakhoran word meaning 'Dawn'. He then sends his armies towards Korvaria, expecting them to be welcomed, but very few people actually accept him as their prophet.
969 | RAZENOVA | The Confederacy work together in the Battle of Lugtar Pass to stop the advance of Bivara. The defeat is devastating for Bivara, whose army were already exhausted from marching through the desert on very low rations.
970 | BIVARA | Unrest swells as Bivara is afflicted by a terrible famine.
973 | BIVARA | The kingdom collapes. Razenovan warlords enter the territory and are welcomed by the people there. The reconquest is relatively smooth and involves minimal skirmishes and looting.
976 | RAZENOVA | North Avosnia is conquered from Estrella. Several generals and great warriors involved in fighting Bivara are key to the success of the invasion. The fight is still very difficult and Razenova take heavy losses.
982 | ESTRELLA | Rion Torrus, often referred to as Eitador's greatest swordsmith, is born.
996 | RAZENOVA | East Avosnia is conquered, making all of Avosnia Razenovan. A number of Avosnian lords defected to Razenova and made the invasion much easier, but not all of them retained their land after the conquest was complete and the warlords wanted to reward their friends and families. Other Estrellan nobles now think twice about switching sides or trusting Razenova, and their few Estrellan sympathizers become fewer.
1038 | ESTRELLA | Rion Torrus, swordsmith, quits the Estrellan court and disappears into the woods on the border with Razenova. Several peasants and minor knights later claim to have met him and convinced him to make weapons for them, but the king's men never uncover the location of his new home.
1083 | RAZENOVA | The Great House of Ratsuva relocate from Atrovia, in the north, to Karfor, in the west. Atrovia, the heartland of Razenova, has limited potential for expansion as all of the houses there are already very powerful and built-up. Karfor, by comparison, is an overlooked and partially desertified area full of minor houses.
1099 | RAZENOVA | The group known as 'Malkyr's Banner' is formed with the intention of uniting Razenovan nobles against Estrella with a series of raids.
1104 | RAZENOVA | House Ratsuva is widely criticized for aggressive and expansionist actions against its neighbors.
1128 | ESTRELLA | Estrella cause widespread devastation in Razenova's southern plains, looting many towns and villages. A number of very bloody battles occur, including one in which Lord Malkyr, the founder of Malkyr's Banner, is killed. Malkyr's Banner do not disbaned, but their attacks become less frequent and organized.
1129 | RAZENOVA | War breaks out between House Ratsuva and an alliance of Karforian lords.
1130 | ESTRELLA | Flooding drowns many fields and causes food shortages.
1133 | RAZENOVA | Fighting continues in Karfor after a brief stalemate, but this time the Karforian lords are supported by the Atrovian Great Houses.
1138 | RAZENOVA | Lord Gaskiev is captured and imprisoned when his Xhakhoran-style palace, Gashkev'ada Nuri, is stormed by a broad alliance of his enemies.
1140 | RAZENOVA | Razenova's Cloud Scribe Order cooperate with the Estrellan Guild of the Quill to survey the culture and geography of the continent and preserve various records of it. Their work from this period includes The Shipworm of Vanma Reef, The Mountain Dogs of The Wilderlands, Blue Oat Stem, Veruvan Gold, Karfori's Pine, The Drake Trade, and Edripe and Sarice. It also inspired the 2023 article, The Ants of Nashir, and a long biography of Gaskiev Ratsuva is written with the title The Rise and Fall of Gaskiev Ratsuva.
1148 | RAZENOVA | A battle involving Ramish of Jedna is recorded in Slaughter at the Oasis. A peasant organization known as The Red Palm create a pamphlet called 'RISE UP!' to propagandize for their cause. Vilyra Yahn'ik creates Vilyra's Song of Wanderlust.
1050 | RAZENOVA | The events of 'My Lady, My Leige' (Medieval Town Builder CYOA) take place here. Also see the related Pixel Art Banner Maker.
1160 | RAZENOVA | Numerous breakway kingdoms emerge. Most of them are in the south, and are supported by Estrella.
1206 | GLOBAL | Ghenghis Khan creates the largest land empire in history.
1212 | RAZENOVA | With too many cities and territories acting independently, with their own cultures, and all now competing with each other, Razenova collapses into a number of independent states and a number of major wars.
1300 | EITADOR | A new series of peasant revolts occur all across Eitador.
1420 | GLOBAL | The Italian Renaissance begins, marking the beginning of the transition into the modern era.
1430 | ESTRELLA | A prince, the king's brother, is killed by a street gang. His corpse is paraded as a symbol of proof that monarchy is not invincible or divine. Royalty despair, and hundreds are executed as a result. The prince was perhaps the favorite of his siblings.
1440 | ESTRELLA | Rumors spread that king of Estrella is not in his right mind. He is spending money on frivolous things, and being stubborn about decisions which do not make sense.
1444 | ESTRELLA | He bulk of the Estrellan army is sent west in order to wait for an imaginary war. The king believed that they would be invaded by a powerful enemy from across the ocean.
1446 | ESTRELLA | The king exiles his cousin and his family to Avosnia for claiming that his poor leadership would get them all killed by leaving the capital so undefended. The king believed that he was being blamed for his brother's death.
1448 | AVOSNIA | Valen I is born. He is the son of the Estrellan king's cousin.
1467 | AVOSNIA | Nobles from Estrella conspire to put Valen on the throne, believing that he will be easy to manipulate. He is known as a very quiet and meek teenager. They meet him in Avosnia and convince him that the Estrellan king must be stopped at any cost.
1468 | ESTRELLA | Valen I is proclaimed king of Estrella after a bloodless rebellion in the capital. The rest of the kingdom is very quick to recognize him as their rightful ruler.
1469 | ESTRELLA | The former king of Estrella is executed in a move orchestrated to appease the peasantry.
Valen also begins good relations with the rising Songhai empire, who conquered Timbuktu the year before. Estrella sees fairly immediate benefit from the new trade ties.
1472 | ESTRELLA | Valen shows no interest in the demands of the nobles, who want laws that will benefit their personal business interests. They begin to regret choosing him as king.
1475 | ESTRELLA | An assassin stabs the king during one of his speeches, but is then beaten to death by an angry mob. The stab wound is minor and the king survives, but it may have just been intended as a warning.
1477 | ESTRELLA | One of the king's own bodyguards is paid to kill him, but confesses to Valen instead. Many nobles are executed en masse, including those that helped the king gain power in the first place.
1480 | ESTRELLA | Avosnia and Vitaria are retaken by Estrella in Valen's first campaign of conquest. A large part of his army are equipped with arquebuses purchased from Spain.
1488 | ESTRELLA | Much of the region later known as Daybreak is conquered by Estrella, up to smoke desert.
1490 | ESTRELLA | Valen is asked by Christopher Columbus to finance an expediton to find a trade route to India, but he declines.
1495 | ESTRELLA | Valen II is born.
1500 | ESTRELLA | Valen I is poisoned, dying at the age of 52.

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