Previous: Gurutama Timeline Revising Part 1
I realized I didn’t like what I’d done in Part 1 much.
One of my goals with the revision was to give the timeline a consistent voice and right now the voice changes too much.
Sometimes there’s flowery prose and other times there’s informational text. Sometimes there’s even dialogue!
I’ve decided to edit it down to just informational text. That way it’ll be easier to find and recognize what we want to know later on when we use the new timeline as an information source.
So here’s the redo of the first section of the Timeline.
4121 BE: The merfolk came into existence with Drolfo Sitnalta, god of the sea, as their patron deity.
4037 BE: Drolfo told his followers to build a city between the islands of the Maw. The merfolk named the city Drolfo’s Cove in honor of their god.
3983 BE: On the island, Rontu-Aru, the great Egg Mother, Izquitl, created Cui-Xoloc, the tallest mountain in the world, to rest upon. The sheer faced mountain rose miles high, dividing the southern island-continent in two. An enormous waterfall sprung off the north side of the mountain, joining the river leading to the ocean.
3837 BE: Izquitl called up Hrududu, a vast rainforest covering the eastern half of Rontu-Aru. The Egg Mother started singing the first song of the world. The many birds of Hrududu listened and when she stopped her song the birds had taken on tall forms and gained intelligence not present in their lesser cousins. The avians took flight.
3734 BE: Into the world came humankind, timid and savage, knowing not from whence they came but living ever in decadent fear of the great fiery abyssal Najar Volcano, their own window into the beating heart of the world. The only thing greater than the humans fear of the Volcano was their fear of the outside world. Their fear manipulated the physical world and protecting mountains grew up around the Humans.
3654 BE: After the last cycle of the world ended the dwarves had buried themselves deep within the earth. Now they crawled up out of the dirt and rocks in the mountains in the west. The dwarves got out their picks and shovels to create a new home in the new world. They would venture out of the mountains once the world “ripened.” The writing in their Holy Books preserved between each generation would tell the dwarves when the world ripened.
-Mister Ed
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