Rough Timeline
This timeline should cover most all of the stuff we talked about during our meeting on Wednesday, as well as a variety of new bullshit that came to me as I typed it all up. Feel free to edit/change/add to this as you like.
15,000 years ago
- Elves first come to Swordfish Island
- The Temple of Wyst and Dryad Grove were already there
- The Great City is founded
- Work begins on the Spire of the Sun
14,000 years ago
- Spire of the Sun has been shining for 750 years
- Work begins on the Northern and Southern Lighthouse
- War breaks out with indigenous inhabitants and concludes 5 years later. Elves victorious
- The Military City and Laketown are founded
13,000 years ago
- The southern volcano erupts, destroying Laketown
- Laketown is rebuilt and work begins on a giant magical colossus imbued with the power to protect the city from the volcano, should it erupt again
12,000 years ago
- The elven oracle "Alastaria" inhales fumes that emanate from vents on the slopes of the northern volcano.
- Foretells a great cataclysm
- Discovers a magical wonder nectar "Sipopa"
- Believes the powers it imbues upon use are the only thing that can save them
- Sipopa nectar cult founded
- Hot Springs resort town is built at the base of the northern volcano
- More war with the indigenous inhabitants
11,000 years ago
- Clerics of Wyst attempt to destroy all nectar plants and producers of Sipopa
- Temple sacked and defiled by tweaking elves
- Elven civilization descends into a decadent spiral of self destruction
5,000 years ago
- Cataclysm
- The Swordfish Island becomes the Swordfish Islands
- Elven population decimated
- Survivors take refuge on the two islands that contain the remnants of the great city
- Laketown colossus survives, but town destroyed
- Northern and Southern Lighthouses survive and continue to shine
- Temple of Wyst and Dryad Grove sink beneath the waves in some sort of protective bubble
- Survivors become even more reliant upon Sipopa
- Attack any "non-monsterous" humanoids on sight
3,500 years ago
- Blue and Green lizard men arrive
- Settle on island with the Northern Lighthouse
- Worship and protect the lighthouses for unknown reasons
- Have a civil war with each other
- Greens keep Northern light house
- Blues keep Southern light house
- A clan of ogres settle the northern volcanic island
1,500 years ago
- An Efreeti Prince discovers a portal between the Plane of Fire and the bowels of the northern volcano
- Efreet decides to stay and set up shop due to the abundance of some sort of mineral that's rare back home in the City of Brass
- Brings Flame Giants, Salamanders, and obsidian elementals in to extract the goods
- Attempts to enslave ogres (unsuccessful)
- Elves that still remain on the Swordfish Isles are almost feral from their constant consumption of Sipopa
50 years ago
- Tyr, having an army of elven men, and no women, comes to the Swordfish Isles in search of females
- Kills all the male elves on the islands, runs off with all the women
25 years ago
- Some crazy fucking illusionist hermit sets up shop on one of the small islands
- Discovers the recipe for Sipopa
- Plans to get rich by shipping it all to Kenwood/Riven/Crossroads
- Drinks too much to be as successful at his endeavor as he wants
- He is also being harassed by creatures from the deep. Likely due to his proximity to the Temple of Wyst
5 years ago
- Pirates set up a safe haven for themselves on the island with the southern volcano
2 years ago
- Pirate captain Jeremy Rand discovers the Serpent Stair in the dead volcano on the southern island
- Discovers phat l3wts including Fazool's decanter of endless water... and beer
- Decides to retire and become a respectable gentleman
- Begins laying the framework to set up a small town on this island
1 year ago
- Town of [SOMETHING] is beginning to take shape
- Contains so far:
- Docks
- Tiny warehouse (larger one planned)
- A Tavern (The Virgin Berth)
- A "brewery"
- A smattering of small beach front cottages for Jeremy's ex-crew
- A new "Adventurers Guild"
6 months ago
- The players heard about the new adventurer's guild and the phat l3wts coming from the Swordfish Islands and decided to join up and check it out.