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This is a consolidated timeline of the events in Creation, as best we can figure out. All years are by the Realm calendar.

First Age

Dates before the founding of the Realm are sketchy; however, certain events are not. In rough order:

  • Solars rule for a "timeless age". ( Exalted, p. 11)

circa RY -4,500

  • The end of the Primordial Wars.

RY -4,110

  • Autochthon withdraws from Creation, creating Autochthonia. Its calendar, which calculates years "in the same fashion as the Old Realm", begins and "the current year is 4878". This clearly occurred prior to the Usurpation, placing a limit on how far back that could have occurred. ( Autochthonians, pg. 24)

circa RY -3,900

  • Ascension Day, when the lesser elemental dragons were elevated to the status of gods.

circa RY -2,800

  • The Kukla becomes the first greater elemental dragon and is promptly bound by the Unconquered Sun.

circa RY -500

  • The Unconquered Sun gets angry at the Solar Deliberative and turns his face from the Solar Exalted.

circa RY -400

  • The Usurpation

Usurpation & Shogunate

  • The Usurpation, followed by "decades" of war to exterminate the Solars. ( Exalted, p. 11)
  • "The Dragon-Blooded" rule for "centuries". ( Exalted, p. 11) This refers to the Shogunate.
  • "...the Dragon-Blooded managed to hold everything together for seven centuries". (Manual of Exalted Power: The Sidereals, pg. 224)
  • Swan Dragon is Censor for the South from "345 years after the Usurpation up until the last days of the Contagion". His tenure is at least "a few hundred years". ( Houses of the Bull God, pg. 102)
  • The arrival of the Great Contagion. Based on the description events between this and the founding of the Realm ( Exalted, pp. 11-12), this probably happened only a few years before RY 0.

RY -1

RY 0

Also known as The Year of Seven Tigers.

RY 12

RY 20

RY 38

RY 40

RY 45

RY 47

  • First invasion of the Scavenger Lands by the Realm. The invading force is the Fourth Imperial Legion. ( Scavenger Sons, p. 66)

RY 52

RY 53

  • Fourth Imperial Legion withdraws from the Scavenger Lands to its allied cities on the coast. ( Scavenger Sons, p. 66)

RY 69

RY 75

  • Second Realm invasion of the Scavenger Lands begins, with four legions as the invasion force. ( Scavenger Sons, p. 66)
    • Lookshy besieged by Realm forces ( Scavenger Sons, p. 66)
    • Nexus occupied by Realm forces; Realm forces are pushed out after several weeks. ( Scavenger Sons, p. 66)

RY 76

  • Realm invasion of the Scavenger Lands continues. ( Scavenger Sons, p. 66)
    • Siege of Lookshy lifted by use of a First Age weapon. (This probably creates the shadowland of Mourning Field, in which case we know that Lookshy was besieged by the Sixth and Ninth Legions.) ( Scavenger Sons, p. 66)
    • Seventh Legion forces march to Great Forks -- or at least, to the conjunction of the Yellow River and the Rolling River where Great Forks will be founded in RY 278 -- and destroy the Fourth Imperial Legion there. ( Scavenger Sons, p. 66)
  • Realm forces withdraw from the Scavenger Lands. ( Scavenger Sons, p. 66)

RY 83

  • Realm ships raid merchant vessels of the Scavenger Lands, resulting in privateer campaigns against the Realm by those lands. ( Scavenger Sons, p. 66)


RY 88

  • Third and final invasion of the Scavenger Lands by the Realm, with seven legions. Seventh Legion forces are scattered, but units from Melevhil and Nathir tie up Realm forces. The invaders are harrassed by guerrilla forces. ( Scavenger Sons, p. 66)
  • Brem Marst stuck in the Lap, studies with the Counters. ( Manacle and Coin, p. 13)

RY 89

RY 95

RY 99

RY 103

RY 104-109

  • Coastal states of the Scavenger lands join the League of Many Rivers. ( Scavenger Sons, p. 67)

RY 114

RY 117

RY 139

RY 146

RY 174


RY 176

RY 179

RY 211

RY 223

  • By this year, most of the Threshold -- those nations on the shore of the Inland Sea -- is under Realm control. Exceptions include the Scavenger Lands and a few others. ( Exalted: The Dragon-Blooded, p. 25)

RY 244

RY 263

RY 265

  • Tensions between the Laris and Velen districts in the Scavenger Lands erupt into a brief war. ( Scavenger Sons, p. 67)

RY 270

RY 278

RY 281

RY 299

RY 301

  • The Realm sends an expedition into the Scavenger Lands, which is quickly crushed by Seventh Legion Forces. ( Scavenger Sons, p. 67)

RY 303

RY 318

  • The Outcaste DragonBlooded Summer Conflagration leads the Linowans in an attack on Halta and is miserably defeated. ( Kingdom of Halta, p. 37)

RY 326

RY 335

RY 364

RY 370

RY 371

RY 393

RY 416

RY 418

RY 435

RY 465

RY 547

  • Fair Folk invade the Hundred Kingdoms; the League of Many Rivers alliance collapses under the assault. ( Scavenger Sons, pp. 64-65, 67)

RY 554

  • Fair Folk are finally driven from the Hundred Kingdoms. ( Scavenger Sons, pp. 65, 67)

RY 557

  • The Confederation of Rivers is created by the major cities of the Scavenger Lands. ( Scavenger Sons, pp. 65, 67)

RY 563

  • Beginning of the war between the Fair Folk nobles Slulura and Yseult, in the Northeast. Lasts until RY 568. ( Kingdom of Halta, p. 60)

RY 568

  • Creation of the stone forest of the Proving Ground ends the war between Slulura and Yseult. ( Kingdom of Halta, p. 65)

RY 591

RY 707

RY 708

  • House V'neef is founded. V'neef may have been born this year, but it seems more likely that she was already an adult when the house was founded. ( Exalted: The Dragon-Blooded, pp. 27, 84-87)

RY 748

RY 750

RY 754

  • Thorns is defeated by the Confederation of Rivers at Mishaka. ( Scavenger Sons, pp. 65, 67)

RY 757

RY 761

Resplendent Air

  • The Bull of the North attacks the Rokan-jin and Talinin tribes, leading to the war between him and the Realm (specifically the Tepet legions). This war lasts until Ascending Earth RY 764. ( Kingdom of Halta, pp. 38-41)

RY 762

Ascending Water

  • War between the Bull of the North and northeastern tribes escalates; the Linowan enter the fray against the Bull. ( Kingdom of Halta, p. 38)

RY 763

Descending Earth

  • Linowans request aid from the Realm in their war with the Bull of the North. ( Kingdom of Halta, p. 38)

Descending Wood

  • The Tepet legions join the Linowan in their war with the Bull of the North. ( Kingdom of Halta, p. 38)

Resplendent Fire

  • The Bull of the North commits completely to the war between his forces and the Realm in the Northeast. ( Kingdom of Halta, p. 38)


Calibration

RY 764

Ascending Air

  • Battle of Krellen Ford ( Kingdom of Halta, p. 39)
  • The Bull of the North's forces retreat from Krellen Ford, but devastate their Tepet pursuers after receving reinforcements. ( Kingdom of Halta, p. 39)

Resplendent Air

Ascending Water

Resplendent Water

  • Tepet forces begin retreat from the Bull of the North. (Kingdom of Halt, p. 41)

Ascending Earth

  • Last of the Tepet legions in the Northeast are destroyed in the Battle of Futile Blood. ( Kingdom of Halta, p. 41)

RY 766

  • According to Scavenger Sons, p. 19, this is the earliest that the Bull of the North is mentioned, uniting the icewalker tribes. Obviously, this contradicts information in the Kingdom of Halta sourcebook, which has him waging war in the northeast, south of the Linowan Nation, between 761 and 764. See Discussions/BullOfTheNorth for more on this.

RY 768

Present year.


Comments

RY 76 marks the end of the second invasion of the Scavenger Lands, as the Seventh Legion marches to Great Forks to defeat the forces there. Yet, reading down, Great Forks is not founded for more than two hundred years hence (RY 278). Am I missing something? ...DeathBySurfeit

Maybe they mean that the modern city of Great Forks wasn't founded until later, and the previous mention of Great Forks simply refers to the area? Or maybe there was an old city that's separate from the new city? Or maybe it's just that <insert usual comment about White Wolf's editors here>.
~ Shataina
A thought on this particular problem: Does Exalted: The Abyssals give a date for when the Princess Magnificent was defeated by the three spirits of Great Forks? That would give us a ballpark for the city's founding. -- JesseLowe
My thoughts are not that the editing is done poorly, but rather that it is done as it is intended. Not everyone agrees on certain parts of our own history. So why should the 2nd Age be any different? Not to mention everyone tells history a little differently. Ever read how the British version about the American Revolution? Savare
The problem is this: Are the Exalted books written from an objective or subjective perspective? This has come up before with White Wolf, re: World of Darkness. As far as I can tell, all the books save the Caste / Aspect books are written from an objective point of view, i.e. what is written is true regardless of what the Scarlet Empress thinks; when material is either "from a certain point of view" or canonically left uncertain, that's usually made clear, as are in-character bits. Most of Scavenger Sons is written from the objective point of view, so I think that the timeline errors -- which are not confined to Scavenger Sons, by the way -- are just that: errors. -- JesseLowe
I believe it's been suggested that such errors can be reified by assuming that they are a result of tangles in the Loom of Fate. Thus, a battle can take place outside the walls of a city even though that city will not be founded for two hundred years. This is the sort of thing that gives Chejop Kejak heartburn. - Quendalon
That may have been suggested, but in my opinion, it sounds like a very thin attempt to rationalize poor editing. I agree with JesseLowe; the books are (and should be) written from an objective point of view, except in certain sections where they are clearly speaking in the voice of an in-character source known to be biased, such as a Realm Historian. Occam's Razor suggests that any other inconsistencies are, in fact, editing mistakes, and not part of an elaborate plot by the writers to deliberately cloud the facts. --Toram

The Outcaste and Alchemical books both make references to dates before the Realm calender began. Lookshy dates it's calander from the beginning of the Shogunate period, whilst the Authothonians have been counting the days since just after the Primordial War, I beleive. Maybe these two books would be useful in this instance? --Megapope

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