[@BBeast] You know what? Sure, that'll work. I'll shove the Xos arc into year 5. Here's another draft: [hider][center][h2][i]The Blinding Purge and the Bronze Age[/i][/h2][/center] 0 PR: Logos' realta storm Galbar from all directions. Countless are caught in their indiscriminate fire, marking the largest planetwide massacre in existence. The attacks last for a few days before stopping. c. 0 PR: The ogre king Ommok invades and occupies hain tribal confederations between the Venomweald and the Shimmering Sea. c. 1 PR: Tauga the Blowfly, a Jvanic hain, unites a predominantly hain slave community in Xerxes to rebuild the city in Amartia's absence. Coinage is conceived. c. 1 PR: Amartia returns to Xerxes with the Fallen Victors and assumes control from Tauga in an apparently peaceful handover. c. 2 PR: Keriss visits Xerxes. Her reputation is recorded. c. 2 PR: Keriss and Tauga meet. c. 2 PR: After failed attempts to set the city back to order, Tauga evacuates Xerxes of the last sane inhabitants. Xerxes is bathed in Amartia's deluge of bloodlust a short time after. c. 2 PR: Under the guidance of Gerrik Far-Teacher, the tribe of Fibeslay build the world's first lighthouse to receive boats from the East. Chipper superstitions are shaken in the tribe. c. 3 PR: 'The Tragedy of the Scaled Goddess,' a ubiquitous oral hain story is spread following Keriss' tryst with a hain in a village near the Venomweald, resulting in the village's destruction. Versions of the story diverge wildly as to its final act. c. 3 PR: The battle for Xerxes. The armies of Alefpria and Xerxes meet to decide the ultimate fate of Amestris. Vestec abducts the city into a massive arena in his Realm of Madness. Lifprasil's cosmic knights win a pyrrhic victory and a hole in the ground remains the only trace of the great city of Xerxes. Tauga the Blowfly is named Marquis of Amestris by Lifprasil. c. 3 PR: Edda, the marked hain of Toun's will, lands at Loralom. c. 3 PR: The Loralom Spires burst out of the ground, rallying the hain of Yorum to the Marked Hain Edda and King Akol the Quickhatched. c. 3 PR: Gerrick the apprentice brings agriculture, flint and steel sparking, and cold forging to the hain community of Tallgrass in Mesathelassa. After a time, he also independently innovates agriculture, as it had not reached that part of the world by then. c. 3 PR: Xerxian refugees under Tauga inhabit the north-Metatic island of Axotal. c. 3 PR: Helvana, the Corvian Witch, saves a hain village from a trapped realta. c. 4 PR: Occult alchemy is spread through sculptors via Teknall's whispers. c. 4 PR: Stories of Farxus, the Deathbed Counsellor permeate through Hain folklore from those surviving near-death experiences. c. 4 PR: The Metera Valley community develop worship of the Painter Chiral Phi. c. 4 PR: Stories of Anthanasios, the half-beast healer, spread throughout Galbar. c. 4 PR: Urtelem are imparted with mathematically precise Belruarcian rune magic by Teknall. Hain communities previously unprotectable from powerful threats by Urtelem now find their rocky allies much more capable. c. 5 PR: Death of Kyre at the hands of Xos. c. 5 PR: The Celestial Citadel plummets into the Vetruvian Desert. Vizier Ventus' death causes worldwide instability in weather patterns. c. 5 PR: Legends of Aihtiraq the Wishdjinn spread. c. 5 PR: Teknall rebuilds the fallen and ruined Celestial Citadel into the Terrestrial Citadel, leaving it for any worthy inhabitants. Clockdog is always worthy. c. 5 PR: Vestec gathers and remakes Kyre's shattered sword, before granting it to Aeramen, the Djinni Lord of the Hilt, founding the Knight Protectors. c. 6 PR: The communities living on Axotal (including the refugees from Xerxes) develop great innovations in ship design, navigation, and metallurgy. c. 15 PR: The metera valley booms after advances in silk processing and masonry. [/hider]