Ages of Avarra
The ages are not only a sequence of wars and crowns. They are the world-scale record of where people, peoples, and city networks multiplied, scattered, and endured.
An era does not begin and end on the same day everywhere. A sea route may open while a neighbouring basin closes; one state’s formal account may contradict another community’s oral memory. This index follows the large transformations that shaped Avarra rather than claiming one fixed, universal history.
Chronicle
The unfolding of Avarra
- 9000 BCSilent Start
The age when there were no written documents, when Avarra was formed and the first great beings left their mark.
Open record → - 9000–7000 BCDwarven Awakenings
With riches discovered underground, the dwarves attempted one of the first great hegemonies. It grew through the forced labour of Nimrûn, Myconids, Grung, and other deep communities. The structure ended amid the anger th
Open record → - 7000–6000 BCThe Eight Giants
Human records describe a population boom and nomadic plain alliances taking their share of trade between eight human empires. The alliances worked with Harengon and Hadozee to sell plunder to other continents and cities.
Open record → - 6500–6000 BCThe Age of Trading Companies
Human empires established colonies on other continents, opened trading companies within other states, and hunted Hadozee to preserve income and power. Hadozee populations, once said to approach half the human number, wer
Open record → - 6500–5000 BCThe Broken Tooth Freedoms
Human powers tried to tax deep peoples as inhabitants of their own territory. The broken tooth of a Nimrûn worker struck in a slave line became the revolt’s emblem. The rebellion broke the human empires into smaller king
Open record → - 5200 BCWidespread Mass Losses
At the age’s final threshold, communities vanished one after another. Witnesses spoke of strange tentacles emerging behind the heads of people they knew. States closed their borders and collectively killed those marked b
Open record → - 5200–4900 BCThe Sacred Cause
Pact negotiations continued after the mass losses, but no state wished to stand still. Some peoples under population pressure rejected the pact. Piracy increased on trade routes humans could no longer protect, making com
Open record → - 4900–4600 BCThieves and Faceless Unions
As great cities became denser, thief networks diversified. No people monopolized them, but records emphasize Bugbear organizations and the mafia networks their disproportionate power allowed inside empires. Giff, Loxodon
Open record → - 4600–4000 BCWar of Roses
High Elves established Astereth while Wood Elves split into three states and fought whenever they met in the forest. The division had become ungovernable. Other peoples exploited it, abducting Elves and selling them to t
Open record → - 4000–3200 BCThe Age of Veins
While the surface remained chaotic, dwarves completed and expanded the veins across continents. The network alarmed humans, Elves, and Irokuans, but gave Harengon immense employment. Dwarves employed Harpies in surface w
Open record → - 3200–2700 BCDamar Unions
Dwarven success created turmoil among human kingdoms. Autonomous small realms combined into four empires: Hun, Ottonian, Valois, and Stuart. Hun excelled at army order and strategy; Ottonian at trade, regulation, and tec
Open record → - 2700–2580 BCThe Veil Wars
As the Damar unions broke apart, their administrations sought new arenas of competition and treated Root Gates as roads, tax points, and military supply stations. Fey peoples called this a blasphemy. Few states wanted El
Open record → - 2700–2580 BCThe Veil Wars and the Root Closure
The Veil Wars were not a Fey invasion of Avarra. When the final Damar administrations began treating Root Gates as roads, tax points, and military supply stations, human villages, Fey houses, and gate keepers were pulled into war over who could own a passage.
Open record → - 2640–2350 BCThe Seven Lines
While these events unfolded, a great earthquake struck Asteron. It drove communities into seven fissures, now filled with water, and later understood as the place where Veyrans emerged and formed. Dwarves were blamed; ot
Open record → - 2640–2350 BCThe Seven Lines Refuge
The Seven Lines Refuge was not a laboratory that “created” the Veyrans, nor a military order. It was a chain of refuges built by many generations of human communities who shared water, grain, roads, and responsibility after a great earthquake.
Open record → - 2580–2000 BCSpice and Music
The pact was finally forced through by the Elven union. A High Council party of one hundred High Elves and Drow crossed toward the newly discovered desert state. They travelled only at night, then every other day near th
Open record → - 2000–1500 BCPopulation Scarcity
After war’s deaths came long diplomatic silence. A coup in the Black Anvil brought more radical Karadağ-born leaders to power. In Valois, the palace was burned by the public, many nobles died, unrest spread, and crime ro
Open record → - 1500–1370 BCCrowns from Ash
Hundreds of abandoned forts, fields, and towns were resettled. Old imperial centres still held their titles, but could not gather rural tax or command noble armies. Nareth replaced the imperial idea with hundreds of coun
Open record → - 1410–1180 BCRoot, Stone, and Water
The Thorn Crown made lasting law through a century of argument among Wood Elves, Thornbloods, Firbolgs, and Gnome settlements over land use. The forest was finally held not to be the monarch’s property. Firbolg funeral g
Open record → - 1220–900 BCSeasonal Oaths
The Veil Wars proved that even Eladrin were not one political people. Winter Eladrin gathered around the Frost Court and treated protection as preventing change and keeping old gates closed. Summer Eladrin, Satyrs, and F
Open record → - 1180–830 BCOdraka Road Oaths
Odraka’s roads became permanent before its states. Centaur migration routes, Leonin caravan families, Giff security, Tabaxi information traders, Orc fire farmers, and Lizardfolk delta communities made passage-right more
Open record → - 1040–560 BCHollow Crowns and Crownless Seas
Underground, some Nimrûn cities were abandoned while others learned to live apart from Damar trade. Nine cities joined common defence, communication, and misleading tunnels to found the Nine Lantern Union. Choldrith comm
Open record → - 1030–720 BCSecond Spread of Spice
Qasyrra traded but did not open its interior. Its real population, cities, and politics remained unknown outside for centuries. Qezh, Szaïr, and Ossai reached distant markets unevenly: Szaïr houses dominated trade, Qezh
Open record → - 760–430 BCFive Crowns and Measure Cities
Halvek, Ardel, Seressa, Vaun, and Kastar became the Five Human Crowns, yet hundreds of tiny duchies lay between them. Some nobles swore to two kings; some towns paid tax to one king, soldiers to another house, and funera
Open record → - 610–410 BCAsh Seal and false heirs
This was not an Avarra-wide anti-magic movement, but organized hatred first became permanent institution in some human kingdoms. In Kastar, two Changelings claimed to be the same prince, a person said to be Dhampir stole
Open record → - 520–350 BCThe final centuries
The world was richer and more populous than in the Breakage, but not quieter. The Thorn Crown made forest sovereignty permanent law; Kar-Dur held its hearths while retaining Damar claims; the River Throne argued that all
Open record → - 350–0 BCMeridian Age
The era when the record order turned into an intercontinental power with the planned rise of Ordan, the unification of Asteron and the Nareth expeditions.
Open record → - SS 0–83Age of Drift
Beginning with Pale Night; The contemporary era shaped by refugeeism, pockets of stagnation, slowing currents and simultaneous crises of succession.
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Silent Beginning
Pre-written traces and the First Separation.
First Awakenings
9000–5200 BC · First boundaries, extraction systems, and freedom networks.
Vein Civilizations
5200–2700 BC · Engineering, trade, and an unequal continental union.
Breakage & Refuges
2700–1500 BC · Closed gates, earthquake, migration, and local law.
Age of Crowns
1500–350 BC · Permanent states, road oaths, and measure cities.
Meridian Age
Ordan’s rise and concentrated Asteron.
Age of Drift
The present: Stagnation, refugees, and fragile networks.