Editing Timeline (Polesia) (section)

==New Powers Rise==


'''1017-1019 CA:''' Avandor tries to expand its influence south of the Eastbight Mountains, targeting Lacaeta first. The city, long having been independent resists fiercely and sends for aid from its allied cities and even Lattanera. The emperor has no wish to have the young and obviously hungry Avandor as its neighbor and sends troops to cow Avandor into submission. Correctly surmising that they smiply don't have the might to battle both the Empire and the City States Avandor wisely backs off and searches for easier conquests.


'''1020 CA:''' The events that took place nearly a thousand years ago near Angor Sven are largely forgotten, and the records of the Obelisk’s location have been suppressed, destroyed, or lost. Helping this process along are a group of justicars founded in memory of Svartersson who stopped the Obelisk uprising. While these agents have little understanding of the Obelisk's power and no longer know where exactly it is located, they have busied themselves trying to thwart the Brotherhood of Unity, periodically sending agents to Angor Sven to spy and assassinate certain individuals. The people of Angor Sven are largely unaware of the sinister history near their town, though a few older families are adherents to the Brotherhood’s teachings and they suspect that the Obelisk is nearby.


'''1042-1045 CA:''' Avandor launches its first earnest conquest of the western Freedlands. They manage to secure a great deal of territory and nearly double the size of what they have come to call the Holy Erabisain Empire, however the cost of the war is staggering, losing them much manpower and a lot of money. It does however train a new generation of warriors and commanders, making their army an impressive spectacle.


'''1050 CA:''' The Obelisk spontaneously awakens and the sorcerer, Obrey Zerkin and his allies (Travor the dwarf cleric, and Levitz the human anarchist) help fight the threat as best as they are able. Along the way they find a ship from the stars in which they meet an Elan soulknife named Ryume from Asashiro. While battling their way through the ship they finally come across its masters, two androids in stasis who have been waiting for just such a time to try and destroy the Obelisk for good. With some help from the [[Android|androids]] the group embarks below ground and meet an Ashtran assassin named Grant Loreweaver. However, Obrey dies in the tunnels and it is up to his friends to save the town. They succeed but vanish afterward, none know where. 


'''1051 CA:''' In the city of Xyra, a strange halo of clouds forms about the sun and the city is thrown into chaos as they are beset from extraplanar monsters and the archmage commits suicide. In response one of the councilors, Thoster Viclannen calls on his old friend, [[Brekhan|Brekhan HéBrekhan]] a notable dwarven mercenary and outcast, to investigate the matter and also enlists the aid of Sir Anthony Cronqvist, a human paladin of the Rising Phoenix; Jack, a Zhonggese magus; and Shinta, a [[Kitsune in Polesia|kitsune]] mystic. The four discover that there is something strange going on in Xyra’s mystical vault and manage to journey inside. Within they find numerous horrors as well as the apprentice Williver who's gone quite mad. They defeat him as well as some of the vault’s more dangerous denizens and manage to get a good amount of loot in the process, but at the expense of Shinta’s life. Now in possession of the Staff of the Archmage and a copy of the Seven Tiered Celestial Calculations they return with Thoster to their hideout. However at that moment they are beset by an illithid paragon who memorizes the Celestial calculations and kills Thoster. Shinta is brought back to life via an idle wish by Jack and is now a deathless creature. The group retreats to the school buries Thoster and then pursues the illithid. Their pursuit takes them to Shahar-khet.


'''1055 CA:''' The disaster at Godsmeet. Ashtrans of the Midwife and Reaper Sects are at the throats of the Erabisian priests who declare that Erabis the lord of civilization is greater than Ashtra (held by many to be the Mother of Fate). The Judge Sect of the Ashtran faith agrees with the Erabisian belief and for the first time the three Sects are divided. The issue quickly escalates out of hand and several Erabisian priests are murdered in their quarters, the Inifinte Symbol of Ashtra carved into their foreheads. The Midwife and Reaper sects indignantly deny any involvement, blaming wayward Death Angels (Ashtran Assassins) for the crime. The Godsmeet disperses and news of the travesty reaches all corners of civilized Antanides. A few weeks later, Temecleus Valadrian (the half-orc ruler or Avandor) declares that Avandor will not stand for the atrocity and all but the Judge Sect of Ashtra's church are expelled from Avandor's borders. Emperor Felix Verenus Remelius responds to this by condemning the faith of Erabis for daring to declare themselves above the Mother of Fate and executes any priests in the Empire that do not submit to the supremacy of Ashtra. Avandor uses this crisis as a springboard for a holy crusade to expand their empire and bring the light of Erabis back to the south.