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This is the shortest section of history, so it gets to go up first.
What's The Same
The early history of this Creation dovetails rather perfectly with that of the Creation with which you are familiar. History begins with the Primordials, follows the revolt of the Gods and the war against the Primordials, their defeats and (in some cases) deaths, and the glory of the First Age. It moves alongside the other Creation as the Solars are overthrown and the Shogunate is established, as the Dragon-Blooded live their lives in their early Second Age.
It diverges with the Contagion.
As the Shongunate continued, unsuspecting, the Deathlords gathered together to enact a great ritual, creating a deadly disease that began to spread from shadowlands across the world into Creation. Slowly, the Great Contagion began to pick up steam, as it infected humans, animals, and plants, corrupting everything in the world.
It should have been the end of all things, a plague that would have killed nearly everyone in Creation. But it was not, thanks to the efforts of an old Twilight-Caste Solar by the name of Kallir Alaric.
Alaric lived on the borders of the world, where he had been hiding for over five hundred years after his Exaltation. It was a fluke chance that he had evaded frequent Wyld Hunts, and he had only escaped by faking his own death at the hands of a Fair Folk noble and escaping into the Wyld. He had left the Wyld over three hundred years earlier, and walked Creation, keeping his head down and avoiding the Hunt. Alaric, as it happened, was a skilled medic, and when he discovered the Contagion, he developed a Charm to fight it - sacrificing his life to spread a counter-Contagion through the world that would grant everyone immunity to it, carried within a few trusted mortal followers and spread to every living being that they came into contact with. No one knew why the disease stopped almost as soon as it started, least of all the extremely frustrated Deathlords, but it was clearly stopped, and it appeared that Creation had narrowly averted calamity. In the fringes of the world, entire towns were wiped out, but the overall death toll was barely 15%.
