NYBORIA - The Timeline (First 174 Years)

Undocumented Year(s) - Angels live in the vast darkness of a deserted realm, born from the “Ultimate Light of the Universe”. Demons live within the sand which covers this world, born from the darkness of the universe and spawned from the blood, sweat and tears of the angels above.

Undocumented Year(s) - These beings live in blackness for a time, unaware of their own origins.

Undocumented Year(s) - Nyboria is a realm of infinite sand and a black skies until ancient beings, in the form of dragons, pass over from their realm of Zantar. The dragons Melanthius, Galinthias and Rhadamanthus pass over and build vast oceans, continents, forests, mountains, islands, volcanos and open blue skies.

Year 1 - Nyboria is completed. The dragons return to their home realm to inform the others of their discovery.

Year 2 - In their absence angels descend from the skies and demons ascend from the ground. Only the demons are angered by their world’s transformation into a livable plane. Angels and demons engaged in the first war fought on Nyboria. The war will determine who keeps the new world.

Year 4 - The demons emerge victorious and begin to take the realm.

Year 6 - The dragons return with more of their kind and find the demons tarnishing Nyboria. The demons and dragons enter into a war.

Year 7 - The angels flee for a time, well aware that the dragons will defeat the demons. In their absence they travel the world and create animals of all kinds. Some of these include basilisks, snakes, wolves, birds, and countless other beasts.

Year 9 - The angels return. The dragons emerge victorious, drive the demons back under ground and befriend the angels to whom they give the skies.

Year 10 - The angels side with the dragons and begin to build vast cities across Nyboria, expanding the realm.

Year 12 - The cities of Heron, Doran, Cetus, Fedor, Nemos, Oles, Idas and Kyros are completed. The dragons retire to the mountains, to Doran. The angels take the city of Heron and begin to create beings to populate the other utopias.

Year 13 - The angels create mankind.

Year 20 - The humans take the cities of Cetus and Fedor. They advance quickly, branching into the wilderness and adapting to the many plains of the realm.

Year 25 - Conflicts and power struggles begin to erupt between Cetus and Fedor over which kingdom should lay claim to certain land. The angels attempt to create a race which will teach humility and peace to the humans.

Year 26 - Elves are created.

Year 27 - The elves live side by side with the humans and help them come to terms with their struggles. The laws of Nyboria are created. The elves move on to take the vacant city of Oles for themselves.

Year 34 - The elf population divides and some take the city of Nemos, believing themselves to be superior to those in Oles.

Year 37 - The elves of Nemos cannot carry out their work to support their society, as they are poverty stricken and each is incapable of physical labor. Their self-appointed superiority leads to Nemos’ destruction.

Year 38 - The angels attempt to create a race to teach the elves sacrifice and individual reliance. Angels create the dwarves. The dwarves believe they were born from the earth and refuse to believe otherwise.

Year 39 - The dwarves aid the elves in repairing their fallen city and help them to have Nemos and Oles thriving once again. The elves teach the dwarves of the angels, demons and dragons, but they only believe in the existence of dragons, as they are a stubborn, prideful race.

Year 42 - The dwarves take the cities of Idas and Kyros. The dwarves grow power hungry and attempt to attack the human cities, as they are allies with the elves. The elves and the dragons refuse to get involved with the war between the humans and the dwarves.

Year 43 - The angels secretly aid the humans who end up winning the war. The dwarves are taken to live amongst the humans and are taught compassion and patience. The dwarves return to their cities and all three mortal races live in peace for a time.

Year 48 - The dragons finally entrust Nyboria to the angels and take off to discover new realms. The dragon, Daedalus, secretly stays behind to look after Nyboria in secret, even to the angels.

Year 49 - With the dragons gone the demons form an uprising, corrupting the race of man and turning on the other two races.

Year 51 - The human race is dwindled to a devastatingly low populous as the elves and dwarves overtake the human cities.

Year 52 - The warlock, Hagon is born. 

Year 53 - The angels and the demons continue to fight over control of Nyboria.

Year 54 - The dwarves and elves assist the angels in the slaying of demons.

Year 57 - The human race thrives again, unaffected by the weakening power of demons. The demons invade Heron, but fail to take the city.

Year 59 - The archangels are formed and establish themselves in the new city of Midas. Hagon travels the planet and establishes himself in large forests to the east.

Year 62 - The demons attempt to take the human cities once more, but are repelled by the archangels, Chaelos, Phelias and Brelius.

Year 63 - Humans establish the First Church of Cetus. The demon forces set in on the dwarf cities.

Year 65 - Daedalus playfully helps the demon forces from a far. Not even the demons are aware of Daedalus’ aid. Daedalus create the demon spawn, Rothus.

Year 66 - Hagon is visited by Daedalus and granted the title of a warlock.

Year 67 - The efforts of the angels and the elves gives back the dwarves control of their cities.

Year 68 - Daedalus, in a jealous attempt to mimic he angels, creates trolls.

Year 70 - An elixir of immortality is engineered by the First Church of Cetus and the elves. Humans take credit for the panacea’s creation.

Year 71 - Before immortality runs rampant, elf forces steal all traces of the immortal elixir, sealing them away in an unknown location. The first legends of the fabled Emerald Dorm begin to circulate.

Year 72 - Daedalus’ second attempt to create humans results in the birth of trolls.

Year 75 - A small war is fought between the First Church of Cetus and the elves. During the war a new batch of elixirs and created.

Year 76 - Hagon creates goblins.

Year 77 - The elves win the war and the church agrees to let the elves decide upon the use of the panacea.

Year 78 - Wainfaust, the Mighty, is born.

Year 95 - Wainfaust establishes the Kingdom of Hygod.

Year 98 - The Elden Order is founded by the elves. Once again, the elves hid the second batch of the immortality elixir. A fraction of the Order leaves and creates the Kingdom of Elden to the far northeast.

Year 99 - Hygod pledges their allegiance to the angels. Daedalus, though bent on assuring the demons lose this war, aids their race against all the others to see if they could stand a chance.

Year 100 - Wainfaust, in the midst of the war between the angels and the demons, commissions a portion of his men to search for the fabled Emerald Dorm. He believes the dorm might contain a stone or enchanted mineral that can help the angels.

Year 101 - Humans begin to secretly worship demons under the spiritual protection of Daedalus.

Year 102 - Wainfaust’s men are killed by trolls while passing through Hagon’s land.

Year 103 - Hagon combines goblins with orcs and spawns ogres. He uses the ogres the build his fortress, taking domino over the eastern woodlands.

Year 107 - Wainfaust gives up hope that the dorm will ever be found.

Year 117 - The war ends as the angels drive the demons back under ground. Daedalus constructs the underworld and gives demons a home in an attempt to lessen their rebellions against the angels. The archangels, Chaelos, Phelias and Brelius create the Holy Trinity.

Year 118 - All three races pledge their allegiance to the angels of Heron. Angels are finally recognized by dwarves.

Year 122 - The events of the Rise of Ptula take place.

Year 132 - Wainfaust II is born.

Year 133 - The realm lives in peace for a time.

Year 141 - Wainfaust dies of natural causes.

Year 142 - The elves expand the Order of Elden and establish an eastern kingdom.

Year 143 - The angel, Tyrius, is born and is appointed lord of the seas. Tyrius creates the merfolk to aid him.

Year 145 - Wainfaust II meets Tyrius while away at sea. The two become allies when Wainfaust II is a young boy.

Year 146 - Daedalus revels himself to the demons and creates hordes of imps, devils, boggarts, redcaps and gremlins to plague small villages.

Year 147 - The humans are able to scare off Daedalus’ creatures.

Year 151 - Wainfaust II creates the Palace of Mytor in Tyrius’ honor. The palace is named after Tyrius’ father, who was the angel appointed to guarding the skies.

Year 154 - Daedalus collects the demons within the underworld and creates the Unholy Trinity, birthing the demons Astaroth, Beelzebub and Lucifer from his fiery breath.

Year 158 - The Kingdom of Elden discovers Hagon’s Fortress, but refuse to invade. Hagon chooses to not pursue war with Elden.

Year 164 - The human, Apollinaire, is born in Fedor.

Year 166 - The demons Sinon, Talos, Ladon and Petros establish kingdoms to the far southwest of Nyboria.

Year 167 - The City of Hades is constructed by Tyrius and taken by the merfolk.

Year 168 - The City of Hades is attacked by Daedalus’ demon hordes and the merfolk are driven out.

Year 169 - Tyrius sinks the city of Hades beneath the ocean, containing three Fates Daedalus had created to govern it. The immortal Fates dwell within the sunken city.

Year 170 - The dragon, Kaumph, comes from ZANTAR in an effort to explore other worlds. He decides to take residency in the Southern Mountains of Yo’ur.

Year 171 - The Fates learn how to access other realms through the teachings of Daedalus who visits them in the form of an avatar named ‘Haeos’.

Year 172 - Legions of demons resort to hiding on the planet’s surface.

Year 173 - Tyrius has the merfolk attempt to travel down into the ocean and create a new kingdom from the ashes of Hades. They fail when the Fates open portals to the realm of Arkhamdom and unleashed cosmic horrors beneath the deep sea.

Year 174 - Tyrius forces the horrors deep into the blackest depths of the ocean and seals off the depths, trapping them between the portal that brought them to NYBORIA.