Reign of Humans
The post-Exodus age of human nations: Orr's independence, the first two Guild Wars over the scattered Bloodstones, the Scarab Plague and fall of Elona's Primeval Kings, Lord Odran's portals to the Mists, the Jade Wind, and Palawa Joko's first defeat at Jahai.
Events in this era
- 0 AE (Year 0)510 CC200 DRFirm date
The gods depart in the Exodus
Central Tyria
After warring against the fallen god Abaddon, the Six Gods withdraw from the physical world, an event that fixes Year 0 of the Mouvelian calendar and opens the long age of human nations.
- 1 AE511 CC201 DRFirm date
Chang Hai becomes the first Ascendant Emperor
Cantha
Prince Chang Hai, a warrior-monk who attained Weh no Su, ascends as the eleventh Emperor of Cantha — the first to be called Ascendant Emperor — opening the Age of the Bat.
- 1 AE511 CC201 DRFirm date
King's Watch is founded
Ascalon
King's Watch is established in the first year After the Exodus; its Historical Monument, inscribed on the 95th day of 1 AE, records the death of King Doric.
- 2 AE512 CC202 DRFirm date
Orr becomes an independent nation
Orr
Two years after the Exodus, the deeply spiritual peninsula nation of Orr — home to Arah, the deserted city of the gods — establishes itself as an independent human kingdom.
- 29 AE229 DR539 CCFirm date
The Primeval Kings expand into Vabbi
Elona · Vabbi
Elona’s first dynasty, the Primeval Kings, spread their rule into Vabbi and the Desolation and begin burying their dead rulers in tombs in the Crystal Desert.
- ~100 AE610 CC300 DRApproximate
The Bloodstones are scattered and the first Guild War begins
Central Tyria
The volcano Abaddon's Mouth erupts and flings the five Bloodstones across Tyria; the human kingdoms raise rival guilds and go to war over the recovered shards of magic in the first of the Guild Wars.
- 174 AE684 CC374 DRFirm date
The Forgotten withdraw to the Crystal Desert
The Crystal Desert · Crystal Desert
As humans become the dominant race of Tyria, the ancient serpentine Forgotten retreat from the lands of men and settle in the Crystal Desert.
- 221 AE731 CC421 DRFirm date
Cantha opens trade with the wider world
Cantha
The Empire of Cantha begins trading with Tyria, Elona, and the northern lands, as Shing Jea Island turns from logging to agricultural recovery and the Age of the Hedgehog begins.
- 272 AE782 CC472 DRFirm date
Glint compiles the Flameseeker Prophecies
The Crystal Desert · Crystal Desert
The ancient dragon-prophet Glint sets down the Flameseeker Prophecies, foretelling the destruction of Ascalon, the rise of an undead force, and the fall of the Mursaat at the hands of the Chosen.
- 300 AE810 CC500 DRFirm date
Kryta is founded as an Elonian colony
Kryta
Kryta is established as a colony of Elona, the first official settlement of the land that King Doric had only seen begin during his lifetime.
- 358 AE868 CC558 DRFirm date
Kryta becomes an independent nation
Kryta
Roughly six decades after its founding as an Elonian colony, Kryta breaks free and becomes an independent human nation in its own right.
- 452 AE652 DR962 CCFirm date
The Scarab Plague ends Elona's Primeval Dynasty
Elona · Istan
A plague of flesh-burrowing scarabs sweeps out of Fahranur across Elona, killing indiscriminately and wiping out the royal house — ending the Primeval Dynasty and emptying Istan for sixty-eight years.
- 851 AE1,361 CC1,051 DRFirm date
Lord Odran opens the first portals to the Mists
The Mists
Using a spell of his own devising and the sacrifice of countless souls, the arcanist Lord Odran tears open permanent portals into the Mists and becomes the first recorded living mortal to walk the Rift.
- 862 AE1,062 DR1,372 CCFirm date
Turai Ossa defeats Palawa Joko at the Battle of Jahai
Elona
After a hundred days of battle against Joko's undead host, the Elonian hero Turai Ossa defeats the lich-king in single combat; unable to kill him, his forces bind Joko deep in the earth and the Order of Whispers keeps the prison secret.
- 872 AE1,382 CC1,072 DRFirm date
Shiro Tagachi's death triggers the Jade Wind
Cantha
After assassinating Emperor Angsiyan at the Harvest Temple, the traitor Shiro Tagachi is cut down — and his dying wail unleashes the Jade Wind, turning the Jade Sea to solid jade and petrifying the Echovald Forest.