Our other campaign (running since 1991) has a big timeline, as we filled in what was happening in recent games, versus backstory:
The History of Drasil
Compiled by Bovart Seeslom
What follows is a telling of the history of the world known as Drasil. It chronicles what happened in the past as recorded by historians, and the events as told to me by my master, Janx Jelantru. Many of the more recent years are much more detailed than the early years. I attribute this to the fact that Janx was involved and so I was able to get the history from someone who not only lived it, he made it. I humbly appologize for any inconsistencies that may appear, the older texts I gleaned this from were very cryptic in the battles that took place in the past. I believe Trigoth edited some of his books before he loaned them to me. There are a great many mysteries that remain unsolved in this history.
The Age of Birth
0 The gods create the world. The gods create the plants and animals. The gods create the races.
2156 The races grow restless, and petty rivalries threaten the peace.
The Age of Discord
0 The evil races emerge and seek to destroy the good races.
1019 A balance is achieved between the good and evil races.
The Age of Power
717 Barithium migrates to Latra through a gate from another world.
863 Lich Wrathar becomes known to the power figures on Drasil.
979 X'Ward defeats other warlords and starts building his empire.
1173 The Overlords begin the war against the gods for total control of Drasil.
The Age of Gods
0 Huge battles between good and evil are in their climax. Gods walk the world, ancient sorcerers fight great wyrms, high priests and demons contest, huge empires are burned to the ground and...Trigoth is born.
84 Trigoth (a very powerful wizard by now) convinces all the gods to leave Drasil by showing them how much more intresting it is to battle each other through pawns. All the gods but Lyr liked this idea. Lyr however was forced to leave by the others.
100 Morrolan Fenarian (a priest of Cronus) swears to defend the shrinking X'Ward empire to her last breath.
112 Last message is sent from the elven outpost in Latra to the Elven King in Nawpur.
200 Torg an impossibily ferocious ranger turned fighter wins a battle.
234 Trigoth writes the book of Nawpurian Humor.
267 Trigoth begins to get bored and starts working on spell that will relieve his boredom.
300 Shizaar a dextrous fighter from Chimu wins a battle.
378 Trigoth gets done with spell.
400 The evil mage/cleric Vanderghast Clertad defeats all challengers in a battle.
489 Trigoth is still debating whether he should use the incredibly powerful 9th level spell.
500 Rass Wucheria, the paladin, by luck defeats all in a battle.
504 Trigoth uses the spell.
507 Furaurghtia (Fury) is born and befriends a couple of humans.
600 Callisto the fighter/mage barely champions a battle.
689 Thurmas the Mad comes to power and takes total control of Votra
700 Earia (a skillful mage from a village in northern Latra) takes home her title.
745 Rass Wucheria is destroyed utterly by the artifacts carried by Thurmas the Mad
768 Thurmas the Mad joins forces with Fury and together they gain control of Chimu.
787 Thurmas the Mad attempts to take over Latra, but is stopped by a combined army under the control of Carpas, Earia, Trigoth and Callisto. This army drove Thurmas the Mad back to Votra and pinned Fury down in Chimu.
800 Gazaar Permont (alias Arzag, Haderas, Blacken,ect.,etc...) defeats all others by a combination of spells and his blade fighting capabilities.
821 After decades of fighting, Thurmas the Mad is destroyed(presumably) on the Isle of Light. The Artifacts he carried were lost to the world.
831 Trigoth and Earia retire from the war and get married. Callisto and Carpas continue to fight the army of Fury.
833 Callisto sets up a fort on the Island of Narct in case Fury tries to come back. Carpas locks himself in his laboratory and starts working on a magic item to destroy Fury's threat for ever.
853 The Dragon Crystal is created by Carpas and begins gaining power.
857 The Dragon Crystal becomes self-aware.
858 The Dragon Crystal takes control of Carpas.
900 Zerika Narvan a thief from Votra backstabs her way to victory.
945 Carpas, under control of Dragon Crystal tricks most of Good Dragons into going to Chimu. The Dragon Crystal transforms all the good dragons into evil green dragons. Bahumat is changed into the huge green mother dragon. Tiamat will not obey Carpas. Dragon Crystal banishes her and several other unruly creatures.
1000 Axeda Taltos a battle raging dwarf rips all others apart to claim his title.
1040 Trigoth and Earia trap the Dragon Crystal in Chimu.
1067 Dragon Crystal sends Carpas to build up an army on Latra and conquer the world.
1100 Aibynn Hej'du a hulking ogre chops all others down to win the championship.
1200 Savan Spiralis an elven fighter/thief wins the contest.
1258 Axeda Taltos attacks the dark lich Wrathar at his tower and Wrathar banishes him to another plane.
1300 Greenario Bancrofti last surviving human from the Ditos Clan wins the fight and swears revenge upon several families of elves.
1398 Priests of Lyr gain control of the ignorant peasants of Nawpur.
1400 Cawti Ferborg an adventuress from the heart of Hyndo wins the struggle by spell, sword and sneaking.
1401 Torg stalks Cawti Ferborg. Torg traps, rends, and eats her.
1472 Janx is born, dies, and is born again.
1500 Hexax Taplat, the last luck mage survives the battle without casting a spell.
1583 Janx leaves Stagheart Forest and begins adventuring.
1591 Janx returns to Stagheart Forest. Janx releases, then destroys the trapped vampire. Janx becomes a council member. Janx defeats the council conspiracy. The Council defeats the Dragon Lord's assault on Liosliath
1592 Janx starts the campaign against the Dragon Lord. Janx kills the Dragon Lord.
1593 Liosliath destroyed by orcs along with part of Stagheart Forest. The remains of the elven army go north and destroy the orcs' homeland. Battle of the Blood Foe, the elves destroy the orcs, barely.
1594 Wyliath is founded, at the site of Janx's castle. Stagheart Population=3500 elves,50 humans, 350 dwarves, 15 gnomes, 1 barbarian, 3 centaurs.
1595 Janx wins the Joust of the Golden Lance, Janx and Bovart research spells for the creation and control of artificial limbs.
1596 Janx researches, collects materials, and brews 2 Potions of Longevity
1597 An ancient dracolich and evil ultradaemon threaten Wyliath for the Horn of Gate Calling, but Janx tricks the Demon, rescues his father, and destroys the Dracolich.
1598 Work begins on the Sylvan Ward, a live Silver Tree enchanted to protect Stagheart Forest.
1599 Talis, Yarrow, and Aho discover the threat of drak'liosa vampires, Lyr, and Talis's wife is kidnapped by a crystal prisoner. Janx is hunted by Thri-Kreen and travels back in time to simultaneously travel to Trigoth's tower to meet Talis to discuss the new threat. 300 Sylvan elves immigrate to Stagheart. Janx travels to Chimu, Nawpur, and Hyndo for exploratory reasons. Janx establishes a base at the old castle in Chimu, discovers the homeland of the Elves and is charged with protecting one of its princesses, Telema Myrath for 10 years. Janx discovers that Curb was a prince of this kingdom. Talis's demon-child is born. Talis breaks the Great Diamond against a Shadow Dragon. Janx discovers that Loos Puissance has left a Great Diamond for Janx there.
1600 Janx arrives at Hyndo and his ship picks up a gnome cleric of war and a human bard that is following the gnome. The party travels to the northwest sector and gets involved in a political uprising. In the midst of a mountain-top chase, Janx releases a Crimson Death from a third Great Diamond against his foes, and then when it leaves, he chases after it. Savar Wallk arrives to help Janx. The group goes Chimu to get the other Great Diamond. Janx then releases it against the Crimson Death. Tiamat was trapped in the diamond, and offers to help destroy the mist in exchange for information on the realm of Drasil. Savar helps edit Janx's mind and then Tiamat reads Janx's mind, and is tricked into believing it as correct. The Death is destroyed, and Tiamat leaves. (only to be turned into a five-headed goose on Chimu). Janx wins the Joust of the Golden Lance. Janx studies two spells, while Savar installs portals to Chimu, and Talis' Castle. Janx wins his True Name, through cunning and skill. Talis sells Thornfest. 300 elves immigrate to Stagheart. Loos Puissance returns and tries to assasinate the entire Elven Council. He was paid by the Prince of the elves from Nawpur, and Tiamat gave him some dragons to help him. Loos killed all but 3 Council Members. He flees and is killed by Tiamat for failure. Savar insults Tiamat.
1601 Savar, in saving the King of Arcapan's butt, transported an artifact to the Isle of Cats(ie. Isle of Light). The king told Janx and Talis that Savar needed their help. The party then destroyed the device and killed the Torg. Lyr informs the party that thay have 15 days to live. Then Janx, Talis, Savar, Telima, Tanna, and Tarn in a gigantic battle just outside Trigoth's Tower, kill Lyr. Lyr then disperses and his power goes to Lord Shimmer, his highest ranking priest. The party then relaxes, and does some research for a few years.
1602 The situation on Nawpur settles down, as the elves seek peace, and the humans are in disorder from the loss of Lyr.
1603 The party finishes up its rest. Then they head toward Thornfest to destroy an evil overlord. Janx is defeated by Shazar. They then kill all the vampires in the castle. Then they go to Nawpur and visit the elven court there. Janx kills the Prince in a Blood Duel. Telima is disowned. Talis gets the party invited to Shazar's castle. The party then learns of the Neari. They then leave and found out later that Shazar has just been taken over by the evil Neari. The group then heads for Shazar's Castle and kill some Neari, Janx kills Shazar, and the castle is nearly destroyed.
1604 Vampires show up in Chimu, so the party heads down there to clean up. Shimmer shows up to help destroy Ymir's work. Through a bit of trickery, Shimmer gets the party to do most of the work.
1617 Savar does some research and creates a spelljamming vessel of 100 tons. Savar, Janx, and Talis take a trip on it. On the way off the planet, Savar angers a space dragon from the moon and destroys it with a energy blast that cracks the moon and creates a strange anti-magic field around Drasil so the party can not get home. The party travels to a few strange planets, including the homeworld of the drak'liosa. After destroying a large chunk of the capital, the party manages to flee using a wish and traveling to the future on Drasil. The party then gets back and defeats a plot by Shimmer, and destroys Professor, Savar's intelligent space station.
1652 Talis Wolfgang, acting on instructions from his book, kills the Aslymon, the Demi-God of Assassins. Talis absorbs his energy, and becomes the God of Fate.
1653 Rumors of a special gem in Arcapan arise, and many groups are seeking to get ahold of it. The gem ends up in an enigmatic elf's hands. That elf is named Carpas. He transforms into the god Carpasin, long forgotten by the people of Drasil. He battles the new god Talis, and they are both spirited away by Trigoth.
1697 The Royal Prince of Nawpur begins a plan to overtake the entire continent of Nawpur and to destroy Janx Jelantru. He uses the orcs to destroy Narct. He turns the sea-elves into trolls, and begins killing the giants of Latra. Janx begins covert operations to thwart the Nawpurian prince.
The History of Drasil
Compiled by Bovart Seeslom
What follows is a telling of the history of the world known as Drasil. It chronicles what happened in the past as recorded by historians, and the events as told to me by my master, Janx Jelantru. Many of the more recent years are much more detailed than the early years. I attribute this to the fact that Janx was involved and so I was able to get the history from someone who not only lived it, he made it. I humbly appologize for any inconsistencies that may appear, the older texts I gleaned this from were very cryptic in the battles that took place in the past. I believe Trigoth edited some of his books before he loaned them to me. There are a great many mysteries that remain unsolved in this history.
The Age of Birth
0 The gods create the world. The gods create the plants and animals. The gods create the races.
2156 The races grow restless, and petty rivalries threaten the peace.
The Age of Discord
0 The evil races emerge and seek to destroy the good races.
1019 A balance is achieved between the good and evil races.
The Age of Power
717 Barithium migrates to Latra through a gate from another world.
863 Lich Wrathar becomes known to the power figures on Drasil.
979 X'Ward defeats other warlords and starts building his empire.
1173 The Overlords begin the war against the gods for total control of Drasil.
The Age of Gods
0 Huge battles between good and evil are in their climax. Gods walk the world, ancient sorcerers fight great wyrms, high priests and demons contest, huge empires are burned to the ground and...Trigoth is born.
84 Trigoth (a very powerful wizard by now) convinces all the gods to leave Drasil by showing them how much more intresting it is to battle each other through pawns. All the gods but Lyr liked this idea. Lyr however was forced to leave by the others.
100 Morrolan Fenarian (a priest of Cronus) swears to defend the shrinking X'Ward empire to her last breath.
112 Last message is sent from the elven outpost in Latra to the Elven King in Nawpur.
200 Torg an impossibily ferocious ranger turned fighter wins a battle.
234 Trigoth writes the book of Nawpurian Humor.
267 Trigoth begins to get bored and starts working on spell that will relieve his boredom.
300 Shizaar a dextrous fighter from Chimu wins a battle.
378 Trigoth gets done with spell.
400 The evil mage/cleric Vanderghast Clertad defeats all challengers in a battle.
489 Trigoth is still debating whether he should use the incredibly powerful 9th level spell.
500 Rass Wucheria, the paladin, by luck defeats all in a battle.
504 Trigoth uses the spell.
507 Furaurghtia (Fury) is born and befriends a couple of humans.
600 Callisto the fighter/mage barely champions a battle.
689 Thurmas the Mad comes to power and takes total control of Votra
700 Earia (a skillful mage from a village in northern Latra) takes home her title.
745 Rass Wucheria is destroyed utterly by the artifacts carried by Thurmas the Mad
768 Thurmas the Mad joins forces with Fury and together they gain control of Chimu.
787 Thurmas the Mad attempts to take over Latra, but is stopped by a combined army under the control of Carpas, Earia, Trigoth and Callisto. This army drove Thurmas the Mad back to Votra and pinned Fury down in Chimu.
800 Gazaar Permont (alias Arzag, Haderas, Blacken,ect.,etc...) defeats all others by a combination of spells and his blade fighting capabilities.
821 After decades of fighting, Thurmas the Mad is destroyed(presumably) on the Isle of Light. The Artifacts he carried were lost to the world.
831 Trigoth and Earia retire from the war and get married. Callisto and Carpas continue to fight the army of Fury.
833 Callisto sets up a fort on the Island of Narct in case Fury tries to come back. Carpas locks himself in his laboratory and starts working on a magic item to destroy Fury's threat for ever.
853 The Dragon Crystal is created by Carpas and begins gaining power.
857 The Dragon Crystal becomes self-aware.
858 The Dragon Crystal takes control of Carpas.
900 Zerika Narvan a thief from Votra backstabs her way to victory.
945 Carpas, under control of Dragon Crystal tricks most of Good Dragons into going to Chimu. The Dragon Crystal transforms all the good dragons into evil green dragons. Bahumat is changed into the huge green mother dragon. Tiamat will not obey Carpas. Dragon Crystal banishes her and several other unruly creatures.
1000 Axeda Taltos a battle raging dwarf rips all others apart to claim his title.
1040 Trigoth and Earia trap the Dragon Crystal in Chimu.
1067 Dragon Crystal sends Carpas to build up an army on Latra and conquer the world.
1100 Aibynn Hej'du a hulking ogre chops all others down to win the championship.
1200 Savan Spiralis an elven fighter/thief wins the contest.
1258 Axeda Taltos attacks the dark lich Wrathar at his tower and Wrathar banishes him to another plane.
1300 Greenario Bancrofti last surviving human from the Ditos Clan wins the fight and swears revenge upon several families of elves.
1398 Priests of Lyr gain control of the ignorant peasants of Nawpur.
1400 Cawti Ferborg an adventuress from the heart of Hyndo wins the struggle by spell, sword and sneaking.
1401 Torg stalks Cawti Ferborg. Torg traps, rends, and eats her.
1472 Janx is born, dies, and is born again.
1500 Hexax Taplat, the last luck mage survives the battle without casting a spell.
1583 Janx leaves Stagheart Forest and begins adventuring.
1591 Janx returns to Stagheart Forest. Janx releases, then destroys the trapped vampire. Janx becomes a council member. Janx defeats the council conspiracy. The Council defeats the Dragon Lord's assault on Liosliath
1592 Janx starts the campaign against the Dragon Lord. Janx kills the Dragon Lord.
1593 Liosliath destroyed by orcs along with part of Stagheart Forest. The remains of the elven army go north and destroy the orcs' homeland. Battle of the Blood Foe, the elves destroy the orcs, barely.
1594 Wyliath is founded, at the site of Janx's castle. Stagheart Population=3500 elves,50 humans, 350 dwarves, 15 gnomes, 1 barbarian, 3 centaurs.
1595 Janx wins the Joust of the Golden Lance, Janx and Bovart research spells for the creation and control of artificial limbs.
1596 Janx researches, collects materials, and brews 2 Potions of Longevity
1597 An ancient dracolich and evil ultradaemon threaten Wyliath for the Horn of Gate Calling, but Janx tricks the Demon, rescues his father, and destroys the Dracolich.
1598 Work begins on the Sylvan Ward, a live Silver Tree enchanted to protect Stagheart Forest.
1599 Talis, Yarrow, and Aho discover the threat of drak'liosa vampires, Lyr, and Talis's wife is kidnapped by a crystal prisoner. Janx is hunted by Thri-Kreen and travels back in time to simultaneously travel to Trigoth's tower to meet Talis to discuss the new threat. 300 Sylvan elves immigrate to Stagheart. Janx travels to Chimu, Nawpur, and Hyndo for exploratory reasons. Janx establishes a base at the old castle in Chimu, discovers the homeland of the Elves and is charged with protecting one of its princesses, Telema Myrath for 10 years. Janx discovers that Curb was a prince of this kingdom. Talis's demon-child is born. Talis breaks the Great Diamond against a Shadow Dragon. Janx discovers that Loos Puissance has left a Great Diamond for Janx there.
1600 Janx arrives at Hyndo and his ship picks up a gnome cleric of war and a human bard that is following the gnome. The party travels to the northwest sector and gets involved in a political uprising. In the midst of a mountain-top chase, Janx releases a Crimson Death from a third Great Diamond against his foes, and then when it leaves, he chases after it. Savar Wallk arrives to help Janx. The group goes Chimu to get the other Great Diamond. Janx then releases it against the Crimson Death. Tiamat was trapped in the diamond, and offers to help destroy the mist in exchange for information on the realm of Drasil. Savar helps edit Janx's mind and then Tiamat reads Janx's mind, and is tricked into believing it as correct. The Death is destroyed, and Tiamat leaves. (only to be turned into a five-headed goose on Chimu). Janx wins the Joust of the Golden Lance. Janx studies two spells, while Savar installs portals to Chimu, and Talis' Castle. Janx wins his True Name, through cunning and skill. Talis sells Thornfest. 300 elves immigrate to Stagheart. Loos Puissance returns and tries to assasinate the entire Elven Council. He was paid by the Prince of the elves from Nawpur, and Tiamat gave him some dragons to help him. Loos killed all but 3 Council Members. He flees and is killed by Tiamat for failure. Savar insults Tiamat.
1601 Savar, in saving the King of Arcapan's butt, transported an artifact to the Isle of Cats(ie. Isle of Light). The king told Janx and Talis that Savar needed their help. The party then destroyed the device and killed the Torg. Lyr informs the party that thay have 15 days to live. Then Janx, Talis, Savar, Telima, Tanna, and Tarn in a gigantic battle just outside Trigoth's Tower, kill Lyr. Lyr then disperses and his power goes to Lord Shimmer, his highest ranking priest. The party then relaxes, and does some research for a few years.
1602 The situation on Nawpur settles down, as the elves seek peace, and the humans are in disorder from the loss of Lyr.
1603 The party finishes up its rest. Then they head toward Thornfest to destroy an evil overlord. Janx is defeated by Shazar. They then kill all the vampires in the castle. Then they go to Nawpur and visit the elven court there. Janx kills the Prince in a Blood Duel. Telima is disowned. Talis gets the party invited to Shazar's castle. The party then learns of the Neari. They then leave and found out later that Shazar has just been taken over by the evil Neari. The group then heads for Shazar's Castle and kill some Neari, Janx kills Shazar, and the castle is nearly destroyed.
1604 Vampires show up in Chimu, so the party heads down there to clean up. Shimmer shows up to help destroy Ymir's work. Through a bit of trickery, Shimmer gets the party to do most of the work.
1617 Savar does some research and creates a spelljamming vessel of 100 tons. Savar, Janx, and Talis take a trip on it. On the way off the planet, Savar angers a space dragon from the moon and destroys it with a energy blast that cracks the moon and creates a strange anti-magic field around Drasil so the party can not get home. The party travels to a few strange planets, including the homeworld of the drak'liosa. After destroying a large chunk of the capital, the party manages to flee using a wish and traveling to the future on Drasil. The party then gets back and defeats a plot by Shimmer, and destroys Professor, Savar's intelligent space station.
1652 Talis Wolfgang, acting on instructions from his book, kills the Aslymon, the Demi-God of Assassins. Talis absorbs his energy, and becomes the God of Fate.
1653 Rumors of a special gem in Arcapan arise, and many groups are seeking to get ahold of it. The gem ends up in an enigmatic elf's hands. That elf is named Carpas. He transforms into the god Carpasin, long forgotten by the people of Drasil. He battles the new god Talis, and they are both spirited away by Trigoth.
1697 The Royal Prince of Nawpur begins a plan to overtake the entire continent of Nawpur and to destroy Janx Jelantru. He uses the orcs to destroy Narct. He turns the sea-elves into trolls, and begins killing the giants of Latra. Janx begins covert operations to thwart the Nawpurian prince.
