Circa 1300 BC
Akashan expedition reaches Earth and comes into contact with the Olmec civilization.
Circa 1250 BC
The Gaunt Man defeats Dairoga, High Lord of Kantovia, wiping clean Dairoga's memory and turning him into the servant Kurst. The Kantovian Darkness Device, Tagharra, flees to Earth, pursued by Hekaton and the Gaunt Man. They are driven back by the sheer amount of possibility energy in this cosm.
Circa 1225 BC
Tagharra is found by the Olmecs near Teotihuacan. It begins to corrupt their civilization. A clandestine cult develops, worshiping this idol.
circa 1136 BC
On Terra, Sutenhotep is slain by a disgruntled peasant Assassin.
Circa 1000 BC
Because a schism has developed between the Akashans and the Olmecs, the Akashans move south and gather several tribes in Guatamala for protection against the increasingly aggressive Olmecs. The people who emerged from this union would call themselves Maya.
480 AD
Tagharra corrupts Mayan civiization.
550 AD
Tagharra corrupts Toltec civilization.
1112 AD
The Gaunt Man discovers Tharkold and makes a pact with Krinod, who becomes a lieutenant.
1200 AD
The Akashans move away from the Maya toward Peru and Bolivia, leaving a small band behind with the Maya (those Monitors are later slaughtered by the Mayans at the direction of their "War God" Tagharra). The southern branch applied their energies to Incan civilization and began sending emissaries to other peoples around the globe.
1206 AD
Krinod of Tharkold finds Melgast and becomes a High Lord in his own right.
1270 AD
The Gaunt Man discovers Tz'Ravok and the Ravagons.
1300 AD
Representatives of the Akashans visit the Aztec city of Tenochtitlan. Although rebuffed by the rulers of that budding empire, their splendid golden raiment contributed to the legend of Quetzacoatle, who would one day return.
1400 AD
Tagharra, now calling itself Huitzilopochtli, begins corrupting Aztec civilization.
1473
The forces of Uthorion invade Aysle across a bloody bridge, an army of Monsters. The great houses unite under Lady Pella Ardinay and sent their bravest Knights to serve under Tolwyn of House Tancred as a Knight Protector.
1474
Uthorion's forces have largely defeated the Ayslish forces. Lady Tolwyn of House Tancred is apparently slain.
Lady Ardinay apparently defeats Uthorion in single magical combat. Uthorion's forces scatter and disappear.
In the years to follow, Lady Ardinay reverses many of her earlier policies and life seems to be, in general, slowly becoming hell. Despite all this, Lady Ardinay remains free of Corruption, puzzling all those with the ability to see Corruption.
1519 AD
Spanish conquer Aztec civilization. Priests of the inquisition cast Huitzilopochtli into the lowest level of the temple and bring the temple down on top of it.
When news of the conquest reaches the Akashans, they feel responsible, send messengers home, and begin to withdraw from the affairs of the Incans. Until the High Council could come to a decision concerning how much contact should be applied, they would cease their contact with Earth. The Monitors place themselves in supsended animation.
Six years after the Akashans abandon the Incans, that empire begins to crumble.
1532
The Spanish arrive in Peru, and the end truly begins for the Incan civilization.
1597
Baruk Kaah discovers Rec Pakken and begins the domination of Tekta Ker.
1690
On Gaia, mysterious murders begin. The Gaunt Man begins to spread his evil from the Grand Canyon in the central plains of the Americas. The might of the Victorian Empire begins to fade.
1866
On Magna Verita, Jean Malreux gains his Darkness Device, the Ebon Cross. Within a few years, he will engineer the death of his own father and his own election to the Papacy.
1919
Pope Jean Malreaux, bored and restless, begins the Great Crusade, to bring the light of God to darkened cosms. Over half a dozen cosms will be destroyed and millions of souls will be heaped before the gates of heaven and hell and their cosms are cleansed of sin by fire and blood.
1931
On Tera, Sutenhotep is resurrected.
1932
Pope Jean Malreaux meets Uthorian. They ally and conquer another cosm, learning much from each other.
1941
On Terra, Sutenhotep names himseld Dr. Mobius and starts his career as a Criminal Mastermind.
1961
On Terra, Mobius finds the Kefirtiri Idol. He flees Terra and uses the darkness device to conquer his first empire. He uses his darkness device to remove Khem from Terra and to slow down the flow of time on Terra to one-third that going on elsewhere.
In the following years, Mobius conquers nine empires (destroying six in the process).
1969
On the cosm of Marketplace, 3327 comes into contact with the darkness device Daikoku. He calls a meeting of Marketplace's CEOs and establishes the Maelstrom Markets, charging each corporation a leasing fee and 40% of their profits.
1971 AD
Archaelogists working in Peru come dangerously close to unearthing Huitzilopochtli, but stop just short of its burial chamber.
1990
The Tharkold invasion of Kadandra is defeated.