Age of Dreams

9000-8500 PC: Choosing Homes
Ogres, first to awaken claim the mountains for their home. Elves move into the forests, leaving the humans with the plains, where they are battered by the elements, becoming savages.

8500-5000 PC: Birth of Civilization
Ogres enslave the humans to build their civilization while the Elves watch civilization form.

8700 PC: The Chosen of Reorx
Reorx gathers a group of humans into a northern land where they are safe from war, where he teaches them the ways of the smithy.

6320-5980 PC: Heresy of Igraine
Inspecting one of his mines, a governor named Igraine is almost killed by a cave-in. He orders the mine sealed, trapping his daughter inside. A human saves his daughter, which teaches Igraine compassion. He sentences the human to death, but does not carry out the sentence, and gives his human slaves more freedom. Other ogres learn of his heresy, they chase him out of the realm. Eadamm, the savior of Igraine's daughter, leads the humans in revolt and covers Igraine's escape. Igraine's followers become known as the Irda and vanish from the continent.

6000-5000 PC: Decline of Ogres
The ogre civilization falls as more and more ogres turn to cruelty and the humans rebel against their masters.

5000-3000 PC: Elves Ascendant
Elves look to build their own civilization in the forests. They settle on an island in central Silvanesti forest, home of the chromatic dragons.

4000 PC: House of Silvanos Rises
Elf leader Silvanos creates the Sinthal-Elish (Council of High Ones). He tells the elven assembly that they can create a civilization like the ogres' but without all the evils. Many houses of elves swear allegiance to him to protect themselves from the human barbarians. Balif , of an important elven family, becomes Silvanos 's lieutenant in the coming war on the dragons.

4000 PC: Reorx Angered
Reorx becomes angered at his chosen ones who have become too prideful. He curses them to spend their lives tinkering and shapes them into a short people—the birth of the gnomes.

3500-3350 PC: First Dragon War
The dragons refuse to leave the elves' chosen land. The gods of magic send three mages to give the elves five dragon stones with which to capture the dragons' spirits. The defeated dragons' bodies turn to stone, and their essences, entombed in dragon stones, are dropped into a bottomless pit in the Khalkist Mountains by the elves. The gods of magic are exiled from Krynn.

3500-3350 PC: Graystone Forged
The gods of magic convince Hiddukel to help them return to Krynn. Hiddukel speaks to Chislev, who in turn talks Reorx into forming the Graystone, which is set on the moon of Lunitari. The gods of magic fill the stone with their essences.

3350 PC: Building of Silvanesti
At the second Sinthal-Elish, the kingdom of Silvanesti is created, and the families receive lands.

3350 PC: Graystone Returns
The gods of magic, with the help of Hiddukel and Reorx, trick one of the Chosen Ones, Milgas Kadwar, into climbing up to Lunitari and stealing the Graystone from its hiding place. Milgas drops the stone onto Krynn, and so magic returned to the world.

3100 PC: Magic Returns
The Graystone releases chaotic magic into the world; Reorx orders his Chosen to retrieve it. The populace, terrified of the stone, threaten to kill the Chosen Ones, but the Graystone transformed them into Scions: golden-eyed, silver-bearded masters of wild magic.

3100-2900 PC: Kal-Thax Built
The Scions urge the remainder of the Chosen Ones to venture south, back to Ansalon. Many of the Chosen Ones die; the survivors throw all but thirteen Scions into the sea. The Scions spared by the Chosen Ones set sail, never to return. The Chosen Ones hide in the limestone caves along bluffs, but their craft fails them here. They receive a vision from Reorx, convincing them to leave their caves and find the Graystone.

3051-3050 PC: Graystone of Gargath
A human named Gargath captures the Graystone, using two stones given him by Zivilyn. He recruits mercenaries to defend his prize. The Chosen Ones contact Gargath and demand the gem, and lay siege to the tower with the help of Elves. The war machines of the Chosen Ones dislodged the god-gems and released the Graystone. The Graystone, now freed, transforms all those at the tower to reflect their natural inclinations, and the races of minotaurs, kender, dwarves and goblins are created. The Graystone escapes to the west, where it is pursued by the gnomes to Sancrist, where they settle. As it passes the oceans, the Graystone forms elven fishermen into the Dimernesti and elven sea merchants into the Dargonesti.

2900-2700 PC: Thorin Delved
To escape the Graystone, the dwarves make underground homes. They leave Kal-Thax, where the thane of the Calnar travels south to the Khalkist Mountains, where he names their new home Thorin (New Hope).

2900-2700 PC: Scions Land
The remaining Scions land once again on Ansalon and council the peoples changed by the Graystone in the disciplines of wild magic.

2750 PC: Balif Dies
The kender hero Balif , a close friend of Silvanos , dies. Balif , who might have been present at the siege of Castle Gargath, founded the kender nation in Balifor.

c.2700 PC: Minotaur Kingdom
A force of minotaurs founds Mithandrus, land of the bull.

2710 PC: Dragon Stones Discovered
The Calnar dwarves discover the dragon stones while delving Thorin. They bring the magical stones to the surface of Krynn.

2690-2645 PC: Second Dragon War
Takhisis' followers recover the dragon stones, release the spirits contained within, and reunite them with their stony forms. The dragons attack Silvanesti with armies of bakali. Three elf mages and a Scion order the ground to swallow the dragons—it does so, but thousands die as a result of the uncontrollable magic. The three mages, hiding in a tower, petition the gods of magic to help them. The gods transport the tower into the Beyond, where it becomes the Lost Citadel. The gods of magic fling the five dragon stones into the sky, where they become the heads of Takhisis' five-headed dragon. Silvanesti closes its borders to repair itself.

2645-2550 PC: Magic Defends Itself
The gods of magic help Ansalon's magic users hide for a century in the wilderness, where they are trained in the ways of magic. The three lost mages create laws to govern the three Orders of Magic. They return to Krynn and guide the other mages in building the five Towers of High Sorcery.

2645-2550 PC: Thorin Closed
The dwarves seal their "New Hope" for causing the Second Dragon War. They seal their doors to the world.

2600 PC: The Rise of Ergoth
Barbarian chieftain Ackal Ergot unites the Khalkist human tribes into a kingdom named Ergoth, founded with treasure from plundered ogre cities. He absorbs plains tribes into his nation if they will yield or destroys them if they will not. Ergoth's borders expand from the Kharolis Mountains in the south to the northern shore of Ansalon, halting only with the death of Ackal Ergot.

2600 PC: Hylo Founded
The second kender nation (sometimes called Highlo) is founded when a family of kender are trapped in the first floating citadel (one design for the Towers of High Sorcery) after it crashes into the Sentinel Mountains.

2500-2200 PC: Ergoth Dominant
Emperor Ackal Dermount expands Ergoth's borders and annexes Hylo in 2200. Trade begins with Silvanesti; some elves and humans marry and the first half-elves are born.

2500-2200 PC: Gully Dwarves Arise
The Aghar race of dwarves appear and are outcast by dwarvenkind.

2515 PC: Death of Silvanos
Silvanos dies and his body is placed in a crystal tomb. Sithel, his son, assumes the throne and orders the construction of the Palace of Quinari. Sithel does not have the patience of Silvanos , and so begins the elves' rejection of the other races of the world. Tensions along the Silvanesti-Ergothian border increase.

2150-2000 PC: Thorbardin Delved
Hylar dwarves migrate from Thorin to Thorbardin, in the southern Kharolis Mountains, near the supposed site of Kal-Thax. They meet the warring thanes of the Daewar, Daergar and Theiwar, and build a new kingdom under the mountain. Active trading with Ergoth is established. Thorbardin ("Best New Hope"), replaces the declining kingdom of Thorin, which is now known as Thoradin ("Lost Hope").

2308 PC: Royal Twins Born to the Elves
Nirakina, Sithel's wife, gives birth to Sithas and Kith-Kanan , twin sons.

2192-2140 PC: Kinslayer War
En route to sign a peace agreement, Sithel is slain while hunting in the presence of both Kith-Kanan and Sithas. Sithas becomes the Speaker of the Stars, naming < Kith-Kanan his general and declaring war on Ergoth. Ergothians, under General Giarna, resist the elves attempts to drive them from the borders of Silvanesti, while half-elves are forced to take sides. The battles are stopped for short times by starvation and wild storms. Kith-Kanan marries Suzine des Quevalin, a human relative of Ember Quevalin V of Ergoth, greatly angering Sithas. The forty year Siege of Sithelbec, which eventually destroys the elven city, is broken only when Suzine attempts to assassinate her former lover, General Giarna. He proves himself to be invulnerable to attack, she slays herself, causing both sides to be ravaged by fierce winds and fire storms, killing thousands. The elves and humans, negotiate a truce after being judged by the gods in such a way.

2140-2100 PC: Elf Lands Sundered
Kith-Kanan 's followers, the Western elves, move for social change. Sithas grants Kith-Kanan land to the west, where he and his Wildrunners may create their own kingdom.

2128-2073 PC: War of the Mountain
Thorbardin and Ergoth war over mineral rights on the borders of their two nations.

2073 PC: Swordsheath Scroll
Kith-Kanan negotiates the signing of the Swordsheath Scroll, a peace treaty between the elves, dwarves and Ergoth. A forest between dwarves and humans in the west, renamed Qualinesti, is given to Kith-Kanan and his followers. Ergoth stops mining the Kharolis Mountains, and dwarves relax their trade restrictions under their first king, Derkin Lawgiver .

2072 PC: The Hammer of Kharas
Dwarves from Thorbardin make a hammer in the image of the Hammer of Reorx, presenting it to Ergoth as a peace offering. The hammer is passed from nation to nation annually, reinforcing the peace agreement between them. Many years later, this hammer will forge the legendary Dragonlance of Huma Dragonbane. Eventually, it will be known as the Hammer of Kharas , a hero of the Dwarfgate War who protested the bloodshed and takes the Hammer from Thorbardin with the prophecy that only a righteous leader can reclaim it to reunite the divided dwarven thanedoms.

2050-2030 PC: The Great March
Western elves migrate from Silvanesti to Qualinesti, their new home.

2009 PC: Thoradin is Lost
Thoradin vanishes inexplicably—whether from a black flame which caused their deaths or from an earthquake which sealed the gates, none can be certain.

2000-1900 PC: Pax Tharkas
All nations prosper. Kith-Kanan convinces the elves, dwarves and humans to erect Pax Tharkas as a token of peace among the nations.

1900-1750 PC: Rebellion Comes
A military coup ends the just rule of Quevalin line of Ergoth, placing Emperor Macqui Hellmann on the throne. He and his successors exploit Ergoth's resources to the point where the East and North revolt, but without success.

1812 PC: Solamnus Promoted
Vinas Solamnus becomes Praetor, or head general, and commands all the guards in Ergoth's capital city.

1801 PC: Great Uprising
Solamnus marches east with an immense army to crush a rebellion in the Vingaard. He wins the initial battles.

1800 PC: Year of Waiting
While examining the Vingaard rebels' motivations for revolt, he and most of his forces join the rebels in their cause.

1799-1791 PC: The Rose Rebellion
Territories of Eastern Ergoth join Vinas Solamnus who trains his army in secret and defeats imperial forces. He marches to Daltigoth in 1791, outmaneuvering Ergoth's forces and laying siege to the city for the duration of the winter. In the spring, Emperor Emann Quisling grants independence to his subservient states. The majority of the western provinces remain loyal to the crown, but the northeastern states and Hylo declare independence and name Solamnus their leader. Solamnus signs the Swordsheath Scroll.

1775 PC: The Knights of Solamnia
During his quest, Solamnus receives a vision from Paladine, Kiri-Jolith and Habbakuk. He founds an Order of Knights to become the guardians of the world. The Knights of the Crown, Sword and Rose will fight for the cause of Good for the duration of their existence.

1750-1300 PC: The Birth of Nations
Sancrist, Solamnia and Istar rise, as well as the cities of Palanthas, Caergoth and Lemish. Solamnia prospers as Ergoth declines, and Silvanesti withdraws into its borders.

1600-1560 PC: Minotaur Dynasty
Ambeoutin, the minotaur hero, founds a nation of brutal honor in the northeastern part of Ansalon. Upon his death, his sons, Mithas and Kothas, divide the kingdom in two.

1480 PC: Istar Grows In Power
Istar becomes the center for world trade, while Solamnia remains the military power.

1399-1010 PC: The Dark Queen Plots
Takhisis' calls on the bakali to seed the mines of Thorbardin with dragon eggs. Miners find these "rare crystals" and sell them to merchants, who are devoured when the dragons hatch. Dragons return to Krynn.

1060-1018 PC: Third Dragon War
Scores of mature dragons, aided by bakali, ogre and minotaur ground troops, attack Ansalon. They conquer many small kingdoms, eventually turning their attention to Solamnia and Vingaard Keep, the Knights' stronghold. The forces seem evenly matched for a time. Mages of the Orders of High Sorcery (including Fistandantilus) unite at the Tower of High Sorcery in Palanthas, where they create the Dragon Orbs on the Night of the Eye. The orbs are imbued with a shadow spirit which calls the dragons to their doom.

1018 PC: Huma Dragonbane
Solamnic Knight of the Crown Huma Dragonbane falls in love with one of the Knights' healers, Gwynneth—the silver dragon, Heart. Paladine leads the pair to the Dragon Mountain where they discover the Dragonlances, forged with the Hammer of Kharas . These lances inflict heavy losses on the chromatic dragons and their armies. Using his slain friend Magius's staff, Huma destroys renegade mage Galan Dracos but not before he is able to bring the Dark Queen into the world. Huma and Gwynneth injure Takhisis with the Dragonlance in the final battle; she swears upon the High God to retreat from the world with her dragons if someone will only remove the lance. Kaz , Huma's minotaur companion, removes the lance from Takhisis and she and her dragons depart from the world; however, both Huma and Gwynneth die in the battle.

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