Timeline of Balêth
This timeline represents only a few key events throughout the history of Balêth. It does not contain all key events, but it will be updated as time allows.
Present Age
- 498
- Present day
- c. 470
- Displacement of the Yeha-noha
- 462
- Gold mines dry up
- 461
- The monk Tamonten saves King Menalis from assasination, and is rewarded with County Bishamonten
- 458
- Menalis Gold Rush begins
- 446
- Gold discovered in Menalis
- 441
- King Menal VI assumes throne
- 436-441
- Menalis War of Succession
- 1056 AD/1 CE
- The Shoggoth is defeated, and the world enters a new age
Age of Darkness
- 978
- Thoth speaks through his High Vicar, and while he assures his followers that they will defeat the Shoggoth, he cannot intervene. This costs Thoth his position as the most revered god.
- c. 850
- Disease spread by the Shoggoth has wiped out 2/3 of the population.
- 749
- The Shoggoth appears, spreading pestilence
- 512-743
- Religious war between followers of Nizâmara and the Talian Knights
- 440-480
- Three major Nizâmaran cults gain prominence
- 319
- The Elven king Phata Nebenûmâ assembles the Holy Knighthood of Talia to defeat the barbarians
- c. 200
- The barbarian hordes ravish most of the civilized states
- 1
- The great city of Taernathos falls to the barbarian armies of the south, beginning a time of decline and barbarism
Age of Reason
- 500-700
- Religious cults thrive and become the most prominent aspect of culture.
- 1 Pax
- The great city of Taernathos is founded and becomes the political and arcane center of the known world.