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Time Line
1500 B.C. A race known as the Boreans established an empire over what is present day Anobora, Eventium, Lusatenia, Yhule, Suria, Eghan, Ruthania, Trabozan, and Rawmia. We would view this as approximate the equivalent of the Roman Empire.
430 A.D. The Rawmians revolt against the Borean Empire and are joined by the Ruthanians and Yhule who kill the Borean Empress and sack Educia, the Borean capital.
440 A.D. In the chaos that follows the collapse of the Empire a tribe of the human inhabitants of the Rawmian Islands, known as the Loterians, moved into the tottering Borean Empire.
487 A.D. The Lotarian King Almeric is crowned Emperor thus forming the Lotar-Borean Empire.
490 A.D. St. John the Schubber converts the Trabazonie to Christianity.
510 A.D. St. Schubert the Steeadfast converts the Rawmian to Christianity and suffers a most horrible mayterdom.
650 A.D. The Slavs begin invading the Lotar-Borean Empire .
702 A.D. The Slavs kill the Lotar Emperor Roderick the III and occupy Suria, Ruthania, and Mordavia. The Lotar-Borean Empire collapses.
703 A.D. St.. Anna of the Astonishingly Large Mallet converts the Surians to Christianity and blugons the rest with her cry "At lest this will get their attention!"
720 A.D. Mohammed declares himself a prophet of God and launches his first Jihad The Moslems conquering Chaldea, Barbary, and large sections of Lusatenia.
760 A.D. King Sigmund of Oldenia unites the Rawmian islands.
800 A.D. King Sigmund is crowned Emperor of Rawmia and Borea by the Pope.
830 A.D. Irene the Pious is declared Empress in Eventine as the Eventines swear never to obey to the "Barbarian rabbit put forth by the Anti-Christ in Euducia". This begins the schism between the Greek and the Educia church.
1000 A.D.-1300 A.D. Anobora is torn by civil between the Pope and the Emperor. Their respective parties are known as the Guelf (Papist) and Ghibellines (Imperialist). This breaks the peninsula into the various states that exist today.
1235 A.D. The Vulture Cult, a secretive, ill reputed Rawmian pagan cult, is banned by Emperor Frederick the IV of Rawmia.
1242 A.D. The Gora conquer Eghan.
1260 A.D. The Halfling crusade begins with the St. Jerome day massacre of the Halflings of the city of Luvie in Suria starting the great and terrible Calogisian Crusade. The Halflings had evolved their own peculiar form of Christianity after their conversion by St. James the Lesser By Half that the humans find revolting (that and can you really trust some who refuses to wear no shoes anyway?). Thousands die in the pogroms and purges that follow. The Halfling population is reduced by half.
1289 A.D. The Trabozan conquer Eghan.
1300 A.D. Emperor Ludwig the VI dies fighting the
Guelfits in Naples. His son Ludwig the V refuses the Anoborian
crown and the Empire ceases as a political body of real power and
the Emperor is only a shadow ruler of the Rawmian Islands. Abandoned
the Ghibelline party is smashed in many areas by the Guelfs. Not
ones to rest on past laurels the victorious Guelfs promptly split into
the White and Black parties and continue to
methodically murder each other.
(These three factions are still active in Anobora politics and
the cause of a considerable amount of bloodshed. However by the date of
the campaign the Pope Emperor conflict has been largely forgotten
by them.)
1311 A.D. The Surian King Jacob the Fair kidnaps the Pope and drags him off to Suria. The Anborians, jealous, elect another Pope and the process escalates until 1440 when all six Popes are forced to abdicate (the other three were considered too unimportant to notice).
1323 A.D. The Condiccians conquer Eghan.
1362 A.D. The black plague hits Anobora. Half the population dies.
1369 A.D. The Halfling Mark Polofoot returns from a long journey to the Orient with secrets of the Nijia.
1370 A.D. Albert of Ostphilia is Elected Emperor after defeating Charles of Meckleland. Albert, having forced very other Duke, Margrave , or Count of the Rawmian Islands to swear fealty to him becomes the first Emperor with real power.
1411 A.D. Duke Niccoli of Metosa conquers northern Anobora except for Condiccia attempting to create a kingdom out of the area. Just as he is about to attack Estiva he dies from the plague.
1412 A.D. The Condiccians reconquer Eghan.
1413 A.D. The Yhule Sultan purges the Red Yhule from the Yhule Empire. The Red Yhule claim it is because they were of a different Muslim sect. The Yhule say it is because the Red Yhule have taken up demon worship. Many of the exiled Red Yhule take as mercenaries and are imported as light cavalry as the Sradiotte.
1414 A.D. Jonathan Tabor, a theological professor in the Rawmian human Aluman population came up with new and austere version of Christianity that was name after him, Taborism.
1420 A.D. the Trabozan concede defeat by the Rawmians when Princess Clara of Trabozan marries Gunther the II of Rawmia in a bizarre, symbolic marriage .
1425 A.D. The Truce of Xanten is signed by the Emperor and the Rawmian nobility making the Tarborite religion tolerated in the Empire.
1458 A.D. King Stephen of Ruthania is killed at the battle of Nicolopius. The Yhule conquer Ruthania.
1459 A.D. The Lusitanians conquer Eghan.
1462 A.D. Emperor Gunther the II of Rawmia defeats the Yhule at Al-Jasmier and the Turkish Sultan Al-Kammier is killed.
1475 A.D. The Duchy of Mitosa conquers the Republic of Gora.
1481 A.D. Duke Erasmo of Fearro is poisoned by a courtier and civil war breaks out in the city between the Guelf and Giberlline fractions.
1483 A.D. Duke Fillipo Maria Marquis of Metosa crowns declares himself king of Lotar , thus following in his father’s foot steps.
1483 A.D. Ferdinand, King of Lusatenia, is Elected King of Suria by the Surian Parliament after Casmir the IX dies without a legal heir
1484 A.D. The city of Fearro invites the Emperor in to restore order and administer the city. While the Rawmian end the civil war Fearro finds itself the spring board for Imperial ambitions in Anonbora
1485 A.D. Metosa takes Mantue over after a Marquis inspired plot opens the city to them. Rawmia briefly conquers Eghan from the Lusitanians . Seeing what they got the Rawmian force it back on the Lusitanians as part of the Truce of Bologna in 1487.
1487 A.D. The renegade monk turned Taborite Salitorie leads the revolution of 1487, taking Estivia over form the De’ Meriggio dictatorship.
1486 A.D. The Estivan Taborites stage several raids of the Papal states.
1488 A.D. Present day.