Editing Timeline of the pathwalker story (section)

==THE FIRST AGE==
===Year 5133, 1A===
====Arc of SHAREEL, 1A 5133    ''(spring)''====
:  The '''Battle of the Three Kingdoms''' begins!  Lasting 6 days, more than 5,000 elves, dwarves, and humans die. 40,000 Shadow minions are slain as the dark forces are broken and flee.  The kingdoms of Eredane are victorious!  And the 1st Age is at an end.


:  The Shadow's armies skirt the forest intending to enter at Althorin and force their way southwest to Caradul. Aradil and her generals do not give them the chance, marching defenders to meet the orc horde on the plains of Eris Aman. These allied forces of elf, dwarf and man rally about the standard of the Witch Queen and join in battle the likes of which had not been seen as yet in the history of Eredane. 
:  The cities of Nalford, Cale and Haldred are sacked - killing everything that did not flee before them.
:  In the first months of the invasion, the orc army floods out of the mountains and pours across the plains. With orc come goblin, ogres, trolls and giants with the foul demons trapped by the Sundering and enthralled by Izrador. Even corrupted humans and fouled elves come with dark magics wielding divine powers not seen since the time of the elder fey burn a path toward Erethor.
:  The attack comes out of the Highhorn Mountains, and the Enemy's army drives southward toward the heart of the Erethor, knowing the elves are the most powerful opposition - he intends to destroy them in the first assault.
:  The long peace is shattered as a vast orc army pours out of the north.  It is supported by goblin hordes and countless other foul creatures. The long quiet along the fronteir was only a time of spawning and preparation as the Enemy bred and armed his invasion force. 
:  The '''Whispering Wood''' is formed. 
:  The first rise of '''Izrador'''. 


===Year 4975, 1A===
:  A '''Dornish King, Sedrig the Sly''', founds an enlightened monastery of learning. It will eventually become '''the Scholar’s Academy at Highwall''', a great repository of knowledge.


===Year 4705, 1A===
:  The monastery of Bandilrin, a remote outpost and quiet place of learning and meditation, has one of its younger members (Beirial the Betrayer) begins hearing a quiet voice during his meditations.


===Year 4560, 1A===
:  The entire shoreline of the Ebon Sea (now called the Sea of Pelluria) has been settled by the Twelve Great Houses of the Dornish Kings and are carved up into small kingdoms, baronies, and manorial estates. Each kingdom as its own nation, bound to one another by a complex web of fealty oaths.


===Year 4410, 1A===
:  A series of diplomatic emissaries from the Witch Queen to the Dornish Kings lead the way to a final peace.


===Year 4397, 1A===
:  Packs of undead from the Dornish battlefield become a horrifying scourge as they learn to hide and move beneath the coastal waters of the '''Ebon Sea''', rising from the depths at night to stalk through shoreline villages.


===Year 4393, 1A===
:  Word of a new threat first reaches the elven court at the end of the last years of the Dornish War.  Initially the stories of battlefield dead rising to fight again are passed off as delusions suffered in the heat of battle. Then official reports claim that dead soldiers are returning to attack the living.  
:  The Order of Truth see it as a portent of the Enemy's growing influence and warn Aradil.


===Year 3951, 1A===
====Arc of SHAREEL, 1A 3951    ''(spring)''====
1.  "'''the Arc of the Sisters'''", the first thaws in the central plains usually come by the end of Shareel and the wild boro begin their migration north.
:  The Dorns war with the elves of Erethor and the dwarves of the Kaladruns.
:  The Dorns land their small ships in southern Eredane, coming from across the Pale Ocean, from the continent of Pelluria, fleeing a powerful empire that has conquered their homeland.


===Year 3893, 1A===
====Arc of SUTARA, 1A 3893    ''(winter)''====
10.   "'''Long Winter'''", this is still a time of bleak cold before the spring. Since the end of the Third Age, the long winters often seem to cling to the lands, a dread portent many attribute to the foul ways of Izrador.
:  ''''Ressial''', an old seer, comes to the court of the Witch Queen, bearing word that he promised was of dire importance and Aradil agrees to a private audience. Though it is not known what passed between them, or what proof he offered for his claims, the Queen emerges from the meeting in a black and terrible fury. Aradil orders Ressial to summon his brothers to Caradul where they are installed as secret advisors to the throne - the are called '''the Order of Truth''', beyond the walls of the elven court, they are blind prophets of lost gods now known as the Abandoned. Their portents claim a great darkness would rise and fall across the land. The prophecy speaks of a fallen god, a power from the ancient world, the incarnation of destruction, death, war, black magic, and evil. The portents names the darkness a true god and calls it Izrador, meaning the Shadow in the North in a lost elven dialect.


===Mid-1A===
:  Eredane was invaded from across the sea by barbarian raiders from the Dornland river valley on the continent of Pelluria in the middle of the First Age. 


===Year 2101, 1A===
:  '''Poedren of the Urthec Tribe''' becomes the first halfling to study magic with elven tutors in '''Caradul'''.


===The Year of the Queen,  Year 1, 1A=== 
:  The 1st Age, now 8,234+ years ago, begins with the coronation of Aradil.  '''Aradil the Witch Queen''' is crowned monarch of all the elves.
:  The scribe calendar begins with Aradil’s coronation. Events prior to the coronation are said to have occurred in '''the Time of Years, a vague and unreliable period of myths and legends'''.


===During the 1st Age===
:  During the First Age, the ancient kingdoms of the elves in Erethor and the dwarves in the Kaladruns were the greatest civilizations of Aryth. The heartland was home to scattered clans of nomadic halflings and gnome river folk, but much of it was untamed wilderness. 
:  The River Eren winds through central and southern Erenland from the Sea of Pelluria all the way to the Kasmael Sea. This verdant river valley has been the homeland of the gnomes since the First Age. Their river barges sail up and down the Eren and their raft towns are scattered all along the river and the shores of the great lake the gnomes call the Goil.
:  The 1st Age, ''now 8,077 years ago'', begins with the coronation of Aradil.
:  The Gnomes continue sailing the Goil and the River Eren, but are now most often transporting orc troops and supplies for the Shadow's war effort.
:  The great castles and keeps of the Dorns are razed, the last survivors of the Old Kings wage a desperate guerilla war against the ultimate triumph of the Shadow. 
:  Sarcosan nobility who do not turn to the Enemy are nearly exterminated. Only a few brave freeriders remain to oppose the minions of Izrador on the open plains.
:  The forces of the Night Kings - patrols of goblins and orcs roam the countryside, killing, looting and crushing any resistance.
:  The dwarven clanholds of the Kaladruns experience a time of great peace and achievement. Though skirmishes with the orcs continue, the dwarves' own often-contentious relations are peaceful, and they welcome the trade and culture exchange with other races. During this time mithral is first discovered and from it built keen weapons and stout armor.
:  Zardrix and her draconic cohorts are unable to mediate peace among the dragonkin and so they retreat to unknown lands far to the south of the Kasmael Sea. They find solace in the old ways and hoped that in time the animosity of their northern kin would wane. 
:  The crowning of Aradil ushers in a golden era for the elven people that becomes one of the highest points in the cultural history of Aryth.
:  During the First Age, the legates, led by Beirial the Betrayer, marshaled their forces in the secret places of the Highhorn Mountains and desolate wastes of the Northern Marches. They explored new vistas of power granted by the returning strength of their dark god, and their ranks were swollen with those who felt the call of evil in their blighted souls and followed its siren song into the north. In the war that ended the age, Izrador’s legates wielded his divine might to terrifying effect and the lands were scorched and defiled by black magics. Yet despite his dark power, their god was defeated at the Battle of Three Kingdoms and the order was fractured, the survivors fleeing into the hinterlands to rebuild their strength.
:  The Order of Shadow's beginnings in the First Age at the remote monastery of Bandilrin, the Order spreads like a poisonous cloud through the lands of Eredane, in its touch was corruption and where it passed suffering and death followed.


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