The Conclave was a governing body that ruled over the five main races of Cimmeria, humans, elves, halflings, dwarves, and orcs. The Conclave fought a war against the goblin tribes and pushed them into the eastern wastes of Cimmeria. Over time the Conclave fractured and each of the races split off to lead themselves.

1150BCE: The Olympians held a convocation. The Trojan War devastated the greatest heroes of Greece and now the oldest survivors had died. The gods wished to continue their philandering and fun, but the Fates decreed that no such business would occur in Greece. A decision was made to head east, to the land of the goblins.
The goblins had a pantheon of their own which the Olympians had to combat with before their rule of Cimmeria could be secure. The Olympians created many new mortal servants to war against the goblins while the Olympians engaged the Goblin gods themselves. These new mortals organized themselves into a governmental body known as the Conclave. Humans, elves, orcs, dwarves, halflings, and other races of Cimmeria all worked together in the Conclave.

1149BCE: Threatened as they were, the Goblin pantheon called upon a most terrible weapon, the Phoenix. The Olympians battled with the Phoenix. They defeated the great bird but found that it arose anew from the ashes, stronger than it was before.
Poseidon and the goblin god, Crayfish, fought in Lake Astacol. Their divine battle split the earth and the Long Pearl River in two. Tomak’nax split into two cities as well.

1147BCE: After many attempts to destroy the Phoenix, the Olympians turned to their mortal allies. They gave the mortals access to powerful magic and combat techniques in the hope that with their combined force they could vanquish the Phoenix for good.

1146BCE: The health of King Aeëtes of Colchis began to fail without his daughter Medea’s magic. He started feverishly studying to reclaim the arts she once used to extend their lifetimes.

1142BCE: Sadroston and the Phoenix engaged in a fight along the Long River. The Phoenix’s fire melted the ground along a section of the river into arcane glass.

1140BCE: Years of planning allowed the mortals, led by Sadroston the sorcerer, to defeat the Phoenix. A city named after the bird was built upon its ashes. This was the first Olympian city in Cimmeria.

1139BCE: The war with the goblins and the Goblin pantheon continued. King Aeëtes mastered the unruly magic of the Olympians to immortalize himself. Hades was furious that a subject escaped entrance to his realm. The God of the Underworld began preparations to reclaim the Aeëtes’s old soul.

1131BC: During a complete solar eclipse, Hades’s army emerged from the depths to attack Colchis. Aeëtes fought them off with his magical power, slaying every undead being that showed its face.

1124BCE: Another solar eclipse allowed Hades to attack Colchis once more. Aeëtes predicted the eclipse and ensured that one of Sadroston’s children was in Colchis at the time. Sadroston rushed to the child’s aid and helped defend the city from Hades. This blatant manipulation infuriated Sadroston. The old hero vowed to never help Aeëtes or allow a member of his family to go to Colchis again.

1118BCE: The Goblin War raged on. The Conclave pushed the goblins out of Western Cimmeria and founded the city of Nox as a center for people living in the west.

1115BCE: The Olympians recognized that the new toys they’d given their mortals were strong tools in the right hands and explosive mistakes in the wrong hands. To ensure the magical artifacts weren’t misused, Zeus created the Museum of Power in Nox. To guard the building, Poseidon set powerful enchantments around it and Hades brought Argus back from the dead to defend it.

1113BCE: Tensions rose between the dwarves and the humans over how to coordinate the actions of Phoenix, Nox, and smaller population centers against the goblins.

1110BCE: Shortrastor was born to a pair of common created dwarves.

1102BCE: Karnafaust, First High King of the Dwarves, stormed off with his army after a disagreement with the human leader, Drolofo. Karnafaust struck into goblin territory in Eastern Cimmeria, stopping only when he reached the Black River.

1101BCE: Karnafaust founded the city of Fangaroot upon the Black Mirror Lake. He declared an independent dwarven state from the Conclave of humans, elves, halflings, and orcs.

1099BCE: The elven leaders became jealous of the dwarves’ independence. Constant complaints by the humans about the dwarven traitors further frustrated the elves. The sylvan people left the Conclave and setup new societies in the forests of Cimmeria. Croshan the Honorable took his people to the Whitewood Forest. Rarventataa the Wary took her people to the Dry Woods (which would later be known as Bigby’s Forest). Valor the Boastful took his people to Valor’s Forest and promptly named the forest after himself. Kithania the Strong took her people to the Hardtop Forest (now known as the Robber’s Forest).

1098BCE: A series of cold winters caused by the Goblin gods strained the resources of the Conclave and the dwarves. They began fighting over sheep herds in the region between Phoenix and Fangaroot.

1097BCE: War broke out between the dwarves and the Conclave. In response the goblins reclaimed territory around the northern Caspian.

1092BCE: The elves negotiated a truce between the humans and the dwarves. Karnafaust insisted on honorable single combat with Drolofo to settle their personal issues. The duel commenced and Drolofo emerged victorious. Karnafaust’s subjects accepted the peace terms, but were unable to accept the death of their leader. Numerous sacrifices were offered to Hades in the hopes that he would return their king to them.

1091BCE: Hades set down the rules of the Resurrection Pact, allowing beings to return to life if the proper rituals were performed and the ritualist returned a portion Hades’s diamond wealth to the shadowy Olympian. High King Karnafaust was the first to come back to life. Hephaestus presented Karnafaust with a gift, the Fierce Axe of Dwarvish Lords. With the Axe came a promise, that the dwarves were Hephaestus’s favorite people, even beyond death. King Karnafaust adopted the Axe as the symbol of his right to rule.

1087BCE: Setting their animosity aside, the dwarves and elves united once more with the humans, halflings, and orcs of the Conclave to attack the goblins. They cleared the region around the Caspian and forays were made east across the Black River into the Goblin heartlands.

1084BCE: The Conclave and its allies successfully contained the goblins in Eastern Cimmeria. Attacks into the east no longer focused on taking and securing territory. Raids became commonplace. Groups of soldiers would head east and return with booty and a train of manacled goblin slaves.
A solar eclipse over Colchis allowed Hades to attack the city once more. Aeëtes had prepared by keeping a standing army to fight the undead hordes. These well-trained soldiers along with the king’s own magical prowess won the day for the Colchians.

1083BCE: Expeditions to the south discovered a separate community of savage godless humans living in the Aractrashan Jungle. The Conclave deemed these people primitives and elected to ignore them.

1082BCE: Trading villages were established on the edges of the elven forests to move valuable goods between the elves and the other communities of Cimmeria. Shalemstead served Valor’s Forest, Semanarie served the Dry Woods, Harbinston served Hardtop Forest, and Jeutontic served the Whitewood Forest. These villages were initially populated by humans, but in time their demographics changed into multi-racial communities.

1075BCE: Hades sent a larger force against Colchis as a solar eclipse occurred once more. Aeëtes had not prepared for the magnitude of this new challenge. The Colchians repelled the attack, but thousands of soldiers died in the battle.

1073BCE: Raids into Eastern Cimmeria continued. The orc faction of the Conclave demanded that more serious action be taken to permanently defeat the goblins, but their protests were blocked by the human leaders who profited from the goblin slave trade.

1072BCE: The orcs took matters into their own hands. They left the Conclave and elected a group of elders to lead them. This council is known as the Maglibarjil. The orcs went east and carved out a region of Cimmeria for themselves. The orcs integrated the goblins of that region into their new society instead of enslaving them.

1070BCE: Human raids into Eastern Cimmeria discovered that the orcs now staunchly defended the goblins.

1069BCE: The goblins of Tomak’nax built the Cableway to reconnect the twin cities.

1068BCE: The Conclave declared war against the orcs and their new goblin allies. Halfling slingers and humans riding chariots brought the Conclave victory in set-piece battles. The Conclave sold prisoners of war into slavery, both goblin and orc alike.
Hades marched upon Colchis once more. Aeëtes fought the undead off with a combined army of trained soldiers and goblin slaves used as shock troops.

1065BCE: The human attacks pushed the orcs and goblins further east. Meanwhile, the goblins integrated into the orc tribes and switched from their old pantheon to worshiping the Olympians alongside the orcs.

1050BCE: Time passed and the borders between the Conclave, the orcs, and the independent goblins stabilized. One hundred years of war resulted in the defeat of the Goblin gods and their absorption through syncretism into the Hellenic pantheon. The Olympians began to entertain themselves with their new sandbox full of people.