Age of Beasts
The long age denoted by the Wizard's Court after the Elder Dragons slept: the five elder races ally against the dragons, the Seers forge the Shadowstone and the first Bloodstone, the mursaat slip into the Mists, and the centuries-long Seer–mursaat war nearly wipes out the Seers. Exact dates and order are unknown.
Events in this era
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Five elder races ally against the Elder Dragons
Central Tyria
As the Elder Dragons awoke and began consuming the world, the five elder races — dwarves, Forgotten, jotun, mursaat, and Seers — set aside their differences, formed an alliance, and shared their hoarded magic with one another.
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The assault on Zhaitan fails; the mursaat feel betrayed
Central Tyria
The mursaat and Forgotten throw armies of jade constructs and enchanted armors against the Elder Dragon Zhaitan, but the Seers withdraw their forces to forge magic-storing artifacts instead. The attack fails with heavy mursaat and Forgotten casualties.
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The Seers forge the Shadowstone and the first Bloodstone
Central Tyria
To hide the world's uncorrupted magic from the Elder Dragons, the Seers first create the Shadowstone, then refine the concept into the first Bloodstone — a great artifact that locks away the magic the dragons would otherwise consume.
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The mursaat slip beneath the skin of the world
The Mists
Refusing to surrender their magic into the Bloodstone after their allies' desertion, the mursaat use their shadowcraft to phase out of Tyria into a shadowed pocket between the world and the Mists, escaping the Elder Dragons.
- Age of Beasts (centuries; dates unknown)-8,490 CC-8,800 DRContested
The Seer–mursaat war nearly wipes out the Seers
Central Tyria
A centuries-long war erupts between the Seers and the mursaat, once allies of the elder-race alliance. Though heavily outnumbered, the mursaat triumph with the invention of Spectral Agony and decimate the Seers, leaving only a few survivors.
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The kodan weather the Dragonstorm in the far north
The Shiverpeaks · Far Shiverpeaks
The bear-like kodan take refuge in the far north against the reign of the Elder Dragons, weathering the Dragonstorm of the previous dragonrise; one kodan tribe flees south, migrating toward Janthir and Orr.
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Eparch reaches Tyria and is banished back to Nayos
Nayos
Eparch, the Midnight King of the Kryptis, briefly finds his way from Nayos to Tyria and encounters the Elder Dragon Mordremoth, before Isgarren saves the world and banishes him back to the Realm of Dreams.
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Isgarren founds the Wizard's Court
Central Tyria
The seer Isgarren, a survivor of the dragonrise and the Seer–mursaat war, parts from his kin, builds the World Spire, recruits gifted magic-users, and establishes the Wizard's Court to defend Tyria from threats out of the Mists.
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The Six Gods first set foot on Tyria at the Artesian Waters
Orr
Drawn by the powerful magic of the Artesian Waters in Orr, the Six Human Gods first set foot upon the world of Tyria. Human scriptures hold that Dwayna was the first to appear at the spring, which became a venerated place.
- ~1769 BE-1,259 CC-1,569 DRContested
The Forgotten arrive in Tyria from the Mists
Central Tyria
According to human legend the serpentine Forgotten come into the world from the Mists — servants of the gods who would shepherd Glint and, much later, withdraw into the Crystal Desert.
- ~1680 BE-1,170 CC-1,480 DRContested
The Forgotten free Glint from Kralkatorrik's control
Central Tyria
The Forgotten perform a ritual that strips the Elder Crystal Dragon Kralkatorrik's hold over his champion Glint, granting her free will at the cost of most of her memory — the first dragon minion ever to break free.