Book Building: Timeline Part 1

Alright, here's the first half or so of the player friendly timeline for the book, check it out, give some thoughts and love:


??? (Generations Ago): The Sorrow; Ashford Island and its companions take to the skies. Survivors fight the environment, predators, hunger, and sickness to survive.

ca. 1800 Years Ago: Goblins, owning to their quick reproduction, are the first to begin to spread throughout the Isles. They prey on the intelligent species of Ashford Island as well as settle under the hills of Isakova Island.

ca. 1200 Years Ago: The dwarves, avoiding most of the disaster by being underground begin to repopulate their home of Mitrovka and the surrounding hills of Isakova Island. The dwarves and goblins encounter one another and bloody conflict ensures.

ca. 1000 Years Ago: The lizard folk organize, they drive the goblins into the Bluestone Mountains on Ashford Island and settle into the remnants of what will become Ashford Bay.

ca. 1050 Years Ago: The lizard folk attempt to ally themselves with the surviving humans, some take up the alliance and move into the ruins of Ashford. Other groups of humans rebuke the offer and continue their ways of raiding and pillaging one another as well as the ruins of Ashford. The two groups clash several time, but Ashford, as a unified and defensible position beats back each group of raiders. Lizard folk begin observations of the other nearby islands.

ca. 1040 Years Ago: The raiding tribes of human unite under one ruler and once again set their sights on Ashford. Two humans, named Orial and Cannas gathered a small force that executed a preemptive strike deep into the heart of the raider territory, they successfully scatter and slaughter the raiders, but pay for it with their lives, they are forever more regaled as heroes.

1037 Years Ago: First observed eruption of Naythariruh. The eruption is spotted by a gnome explorer airship. The airship, crewed by kobolds and gnomes docks near the city of Ashford and the first diplomatic meetings between the gnomes, lizard folk, and humans take place. The gnomes agree to send a formal delegation to discuss further alliances. Several kobolds remain in Ashford. The humans and lizard folk begin the construction of several docks for the arriving gnomes.

1035 Years Ago: The Gnome delegation fleet arrives, talks between the groups end with the gnomes getting a section of the city for which they can conduct research in exchange for knowledge and technology involved in the construction and usage of airships.

1 ABR (1032 Years Ago): Gnome settlers (and scores of kobolds with them) arrive at Ashford as human and lizard folk begin the exploration of the surrounding islands. The first group sent to explore Lapis disappears within the ruins never to return. First contact between the dwarves with the humans and lizard folk of Ashford Island. The first Lords of Ashford Bay elected. Ashford renamed Ashford Bay, Ashford Island and the surrounding islands formally named. The Bluestone Isles officially adopted as the name of the island cluster. The beginning of Ashford Bay Reckoning.

4 ABR (1029 Years Ago): First attempt at constructing a settlement on the shores of The Marble Lake ends when the settlers mysteriously vanish.

8 ABR (1025 Years Ago): Two more attempts at settling along The Marble Lake fail when both colonies are attacked by elemental creatures that flood and demolish the settlements. Ashford Bay halts attempts to settle the area for the first time.

12 ABR (1021 Years Ago): Gnoll raiders discover the Bluestone Isles and launch daring raids on Ashford Bay, the people of Ashford are unprepared for such an assualt and suffer great losses of both life and supplies. Sir Tobias Calder leads a group of adventurers against the gnolls, ultimately driving them off, but at the loss of the entire adventuring group. Lands on the island of Iscarion are granted to his descendants who name the settlement they make there Calder's Promise. The town begins to transport water from Lake Maséy to Ashford Bay to help with the dwindling water supplies due to the growth in population and being unable to establish a permanent settlement along The Marble Lake.

26 ABR (1007 Years Ago): Gnomes become eligible for positions as Lords of Ashford Bay. The ever growing population calls for clear cutting cast swaths of the Garové Woods to make way for farmlands.

30 ABR (1003 Years Ago): The first permanent structures of the town of Sama are built.

31 ABR (1002 Years Ago): The dwarves finally agree to send delegates to Ashford Bay, they do not ask for aid in their campaign against the goblins, however they do agree to opening trade between the two islands.

35 ABR (998 Years Ago): A huge eruption of the Heart of Chasnor throws large amounts of dust and rock into the air, blocking off safe passage outside the island cluster.