This version of the timeline will give you a broad overview of Cimmerian history instead of a detailed account of seven centuries of events.
YEAR | EVENTS |
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1150BCE | The Olympians moved from Greece to Cimmeria and created new humans, elves, dwarves, halflings, and orcs imbued with magical powers. The Olympians started a war with the current inhabitants of Cimmeria, the goblins and their Goblin Pantheon. |
1140BCE | The mortal hero, Sadroston, vanquished the goblin god, Phoenix. |
1102BCE | King Karnafaust of the dwarves split his people off from the Conclave. |
1099BCE | The elves split from the Conclave. |
1091BCE | Hades set forth the Resurrection Pact to allow mortals to return to life for a price. |
1084BCE | The goblins were confined to Eastern Cimmeria. The decades of war for territory were effectively over. |
1072BCE | Orcs split from the Conclave to occupy goblin lands. |
1049BCE | The Olympians created many new monsters to spark heroic activity in their mortal supplicants. |
1046BCE | A dragon attacked the dwarven city of Fangaroot, killed King Karnafaust, and initiated the dwarven spread across Cimmeria. |
1035BCE | The Antenator came to the mortal plane along with necromantic magic. |
983BCE | King Cogard reunited most of the split dwarven people into a single nation. |
982BCE | The halflings split from the Conclave. |
975BCE | The dragons of Cimmeria conquered the region after Sadroston’s death. |
900BCE | The Heroes of the Dragon War united to end the oppressive rule of the dragons. |
884BCE | The Heroes of the Dragon War succeeded in binding the dragon primarchs within and to the Orbs of Dragonkind. The Dragon War was over. |
878BCE | King Cogard of the dwarves died. His quadruplet sons fought a civil war for the right to be Cogard’s successor. |
864BCE | The Dwarven Civil War ended without a victor. Each of the brothers now ruled an independent realm. |
859BCE | The Xorian dynasty began. |
829BCE | The githyanki broke the Blue Dragon Orb to secure an alliance with Bavastatner. Tracy was released to reforge the Orb. |
827BCE | The githyanki invaded Cimmeria. All powerful individuals were captured and taken for their souls to be devoured by the Lich-queen. Tracy and the Gish Trio led a resistance movement. |
822BCE | Bavastatner broke his oath to the Lich-queen and the Draco-Gith War began. |
819BCE | Tracy and the Gish Trio banished the Lich-queen, but Tracy died in the process. |
818BCE | Blendegad became the first vampire. |
811BCE | The Draco-Gith War concluded with a blue dragon victory. |
720BCE | The Xorian Kingdom came into control of its four main cities, Nox, Petar, Jeutontic, and Cecilia. |
701-695BCE | Kruk-Ma-Kali became Emperor of the Hobgoblins and led them on a campaign across Eastern Cimmeria. At the conclusion of the campaign, Kruk-Ma-Kali completely eradicated the Dominarie Dwarves. |
693BCE | Kruk-Ma-Kali died to an assassin’s dagger and his Empire collapsed without him. |
616BCE | Balin reclaimed Fangaroot from the kobolds. The city was renamed Balin’s Holt. |
468BCE | Willard united the cities of Aractrash and became King of Aractrash. |
458BCE | King Jevaninada began his conquest of Cimmeria. |
442BCE | Terroc formed his first adventuring party. |
439BCE | Amalgami formed the First Alliance to combat the rising Xorian Empire. King Jevaninada died in the fighting, but then Amalgami betrayed his allies. Queen Anajakaze gave birth to Jevaninada II and declared herself regent. She continued her husband’s wars of conquest. |
420BCE | Jevaninada II attempted to take the crown from his mother by force. Their fight was interrupted by Blendegad the Reaper. Blendegad bit Jevaninada II and turned him into the first dragovininan. Fearful of this new profane king of Xoria, Amalganus of Jipangu began forming a Second Alliance to resist Xorian expansion. The Dahak attacked Zeus and poisoned him. The Olympians patriarchal social order began to collapse without their leader. |
418BCE | The new religion of Dragoviniysm spread across the Xorian Empire. |
399BCE | King Jevaninada II invaded Eastern Cimmeria and the Second Alliance War began. |
396BCE | Amalius joined the Second Alliance setting off a chain of events that would end the Second Alliance War. |
395BCE | The Present Year. |