D&D 4E 4e timeline

[rembrandtqeinstein]

I read over the Worlds and Monsters book and I'm trying to get a feel for the "official" 4e timeline. Please correct me if anything doesn't look right

pre-creation:
nothing -->
astral sea and elemental chaos spontaneously form -->
primordials ??and gods spontaneously form -->
primordials make world -->
feywild and shadowfell are side effects of creation of world -->
primordials make titans who make giants -->
gods mess with world -->
primordials get pissed and fight gods -->
abyss(and demon inhabitants) created from combination of elemental evil and elemental chaos, abyss possibly prison for corrupted god -->
ao is split into tiamat and bahamut -->
gods win and destroy/neutralize primordials -->
asmodeus rebels against master god, kills master, steals divinity, other gods seal devils in 9 hells dominion -->
?? happens and abyss forms in elemental chaos, demons are pissed off but contained -->
gods populate world after divine wars are over

post-creation:
ilithid empire -->
yuan-ti empire -->
dragonborn and ??demon-using devil-using/tiefling empire destroy each other -->
last great civilization was nerath(human?) broke down 100 years before present-->
now

edited with corrections from posts, thank you for responses

 

[malraux]

?? happens and abyss forms in elemental chaos, demons are pissed off but contained -->

This happened as part of the war between the gods and the primordial. Tharzdin found a piece of pure evil and used it to attack the elemental chaos. In the process though, he became fascinated with the elemental evil and became evil himself and turned on all creation. The other gods banded together to imprison him. The piece of elemental evil combined with the elemental chaos to form the abyss.

Though it is unspecified, I tend to think that Tharzdin was imprisoned at the bottom of the abyss, with the gods creating the abyss infinitely deep.

At least that's my impression of what I got from W&M.

 

[Gargazon]

dragonborn and ??demon-using empire destroy each other -->

It was a devil-worshipping empire, the upper-class of which became Tieflings through Infernal pacts. Demons were not involved.

 

[Cyronax]

The last step of that timeline is the human empire of nerath .... which crumbled a century or more ago. Present day civilization collapses leaving Points of Light.

C.I.D.

 

[Simplicity]

Wait... Illithid are no longer from the END of time?

 

[rembrandtqeinstein]

Wait... Illithid are no longer from the END of time?

I thought that in the new cosmology Illithid are immigrants native to Far Realm which is the area that is "outside" the normal universe where all of the aberrations come from.

Personally I think Far Realm is the coolest aspect of the new cosmology because it is really the only new piece where as the others (feywild, elemental chaos) polish or re-thinking of old ideas.

 

[Commonblade]

Wasn't there a mention of Dwarfs being made by Moradin and then enslaved by the Giants? Then when the gods fought back against the Titans they gained freedom? And the Slaves that didn't escape or sided with the Giants became the Azer? I think the war between the primordials and gods began becasue the gods made the mortals. So I think they existed before the war began.

On a related note, I think the Lady of Pain is a Primordial.

I could just be crazy.

 

[Nikosandros]

Personally I think Far Realm is the coolest aspect of the new cosmology because it is really the only new piece where as the others (feywild, elemental chaos) polish or re-thinking of old ideas.

Actually the Far Realm has been around since the days on 2nd edition. IIRC, this was its first official appearance.

 

[Thyrwyn]

My impressions regarding the Dwarves matches CommonBlade's.

 

[the Jester]

Wait... Illithid are no longer from the END of time?

Lords of Madness is the only source for that, and it really doesn't dovetail with ANY of the other illithid lore. This was my one and only beef with Lords of Madness.

Mind Flayers = Far Realms inhabitants.