This post will mostly be about the
general historical information. There's a few ideas I wanted to get
down before going any further with the setting factions and politics.
It's really rough, but it's just a start. I'll be refining and adding
more as I flesh out more of the setting. It's all still a work-in-progress, but I should be updating this section more in the next couple of days, along with some of the nations and other factions.
The Ancients
The Ancients lived thousands of years
ago. No one knows how long ago they lived or what happened to them.
They have ruins dotted all over Taladar, but most of the ruins are in
poor condition. Despite the sorry condition of most of the Ancients'
artifacts, skilled mages and archaeologists have been able to recover
some remarkable information from them. Chief among these is the
development of the voidships. A ruin was discovered deep in the
forests of the western continent of Taladar that contained a
nearly-intact voidship. Disassembled by a team of arcane researchers,
the secrets of its construction were unraveled over the course of
several years.
Voidships
Voidships are perhaps the most
revolutionary discovery in the past century, rivaled only by the
development of the Forged. Though airships had existed for several
decades before the discovery of the Ancients' ship, the first true
voidship changed the course of every sentient being on Taladar. Air
and void travel has become a way of life for captains who had grown
tired of the seas or those who simply sought a new way of life.
Airships and voidships exists in all
sizes, from the truly massive colony ships to single-person
reconnaissance ships. The most common are the galleon-sized ships,
built for trading and ferrying passengers around the system.
Timeline
The current age is measured from the
end of the saurian empire. The current year is 1129. Taladar's year
is 336 days long, with 12 months of 28 days each. The years of the
other planets differ, though time keeping devices based on the
Taladar scale exist on most voidships and colonies.
Year 1 – The talans overthrow the
saurian empire after more than a decade of war.
Year 8 – The talans found the nation
of Thesala.
Year 1047 – A team of archaeologists
stumbles upon an Ancient temple that has a chamber filled with the
shells of the Forged.
Year 1049 – The first modern Forged
is created by human mages and given the name of Prometheus.
Year 1078 – The talans discover the
Ancients' derelict voidship.
Year 1082 – The first flight of the
Phoenix occurs. It orbits Taladar and lands a small team on
the moon, Peralar, which is discovered to be uninhabitable.
Year 1083 – The Phoenix lands
on Vela and begins the first colony, Seklan.
Year 1084 – The first colony on
Athelas, Caron, is founded by saurian explorers.
Year 1129 – Current year.
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