The Years of Glory, aka the second half of the Age of Creation, is when most of the action took place. This is also the name for the first half of the Elder Days, those years before Sorrow entered the world.
Year | The Years of Glory |
1 | The Firstborn touch down at Jahar where the gods have assembled to greet them. Lillandra does most of the talking and forbids the Elder Races from mingling lest love go wrong and allow Sorrow to enter the world. |
3 | Nammoran, Firstborn of the Fair Folk, finds the Harnae and begins his education in the Grove of the Silver Birch |
17 | Dar Highfather, Firstborn of the Dwarves, finds the Halls of Ruling and awakens the Secondborn Forge Folk |
18 | The delving of Caradar begins, a task the Forge Folk never finish. From then until the end of the Elder Days, they delved and delved and delved. |
135 | Dar II, the son of Dar Highfather is born |
157 | Nammoran completes his training with the Harnae |
160 | Nammoran finds and awakens the Elven Secondborn. The Elven tribes settle the Elvetur. |
229 | Darig, son of Dar II, is born |
232 | Daladorn, son of Dar II, is born. |
248 | Haleya, Secondborn chief of the Wild Elves, leads his tribe to the northern reaches of the Elvetur. |
294 | Daladorn builds the Rune Forge bearing his name. It is one of the few artifacts to survive the end of the Elder Days. |
350 | Cerelim, Secondborn chief of the Sea Elves, leads his tribe to the islands of Orlos. They make their home on Jali, one of the larger islands in the chain. |
402 | Tildienne, daughter of Haleya is born. |
563 | Viranor, Secondborn chief of the Fair Elves marries Belynda. |
572 | Ylindelay, daughter of Viranor and Belynda is born. |
584 | Tildienne, the daughter of Haleya, is transformed into a deer by the god Sudnar |
600 | Nammoran the Elven Firstborn founds the city of Nammovalle on the banks of the Daraling River |
650 | The city of Nammovalle is completed |
650 | Nammoran weds Ylindelay |
680 | Elras, the eldest son of Nammoran and Ylindelay, is born |
683 | Nammydan, the middle of Nammoran and Ylindelay’s three sons, is born. |
685 | Elras and his friend Lindal, the son of Lindarelle, Queen of the Wood Elves, are saved from drowning by Sudnar. Elras makes his staff. |
687 | Indallar, the youngest son of Nammoran and Ylindelay, is born |
919 | Nammydan leaves Nammovalle to train with the Harnae in the Grove of the Silver Birch |
922 | Prince Sunome of the Dolforro visits Nammovalle. Elras awakens his Pearl. |
953 | Indallar heads down the Daraling on The River Runner with Harandal to begin his voyage |
956 | Indallar finishes construction on his ship, The Blue Horizon |
958 | Indallar sails up the eastern seaboard |
964 | Indallar navigates Umbar’s gauntlet in the Boiling Bay |
967 | Indallar finishes exploring the northern shores of Sangrar |
969 | Indallar bids the Halflings in the Westlands adieu |
970 | Indallar says farewell to the centaurs and arrives at the islands of Orlos where he meets Selenna, the daughter of Cerelim. |
971 | Nammydan ends his training with the Harnae prematurely to savee Elryssa from Ulgarja poison. They marry at Jahar, where the Earth Mother and Humak the Beast Lord witness their vows, and then return to Nammovalle. |
972 | Indallar and Selenna wed. Construction of Indalle, the terraced Elvenhome in the grotto of Indalle Cove, begins. |
1028 | Ilnaya the Swan Princess, the eldest child of Indallar and Selenna, is born. |
1031 | Indis and Andis, Indallar and Selenna’s twin son and daughter, are born. |
1038 | Elras leaves Nammovalle on a quest |
1041 | Elras says farewell to the Satyrs, with whom he’s been living. |
1042 | Nammath, son of Nammydan and Elryssa, is born in Nammovalle |
1046 | Kandol Elf Lord, the younger son of Nammydan and Elryssa, is born in Nammovalle. |
1049 | The Great Mural on the roof of Indalle Grotto is lit, signifying the city’s completion. |
1056 | Elras meets Prince Aeris of the Mist Elves and Terriance, the son of Lazerai the Pangral Queen. |
1056 | Elras vanishes from the face of Sangrar. Only the gods know where he is (and only some of them) and now you know as well. He was taking time off inside Belecontar, the Winking Star. |
1131 | Indallar and his family travel to Nammovalle and then Jahar for Andis’s Test. Andis trains with the Ravirs and then meets her cousin, Nammath, in the forest. The Stones proclaim her the eyes of the world. Nammath passes into the westlands to begin his service to the Beast Lord. |
1131 | Elras frees Tildienne from her curse and they wed. He makes his covenant with the trees and begins growing Elrasirre, the Living City. |
1135 | Lindal joins Elras in Elrasirre |
1151 | Kandol leaves Nammovalle to study sorcery with the Harnae in the Grove of the Silver Birch |
1182 | Elras makes contact with the Forge Folk, who have been delving in solitude since their Secondborn woke. |
1194 | Elnos, the son of Elras and Tildienne, is born in Elrasirre |
1197 | Elrasirre is deemed complete after construction finishes on the Tower of Sorcery (no relation to the towers Harnor erected during the Reckoning. The name is all the two have in common.) |
1199 | Elras forges Caerycal, the Sword of Heaven, the twice-forged sword foretold in the Prophecies of the Ages. |
1199 | Elnos is kidnapped. Elras rescues him but dies while doing so, the first death of the Elder Days, shattering the idyllic peace the Elder Races have always known. |
1200 | Tildienne, her brother Tyrin, Lindal and Haleya become regents of Elrasirre until Elnos is old enough to rule. |
1244 | Elnos is coronated King of Elrasirre. |
1244 | Elnos rescues Darig by defeating Karandal the Maldok lord |
1279 | Kandol returns to Nammovalle after completing his training with the Harnae |
1392 | Indis, Prince of Indalle, marries Jerylla, a Sea Elf |
1423 | Kandol leaves Nammovalle to study with the Light Elves in Alyrre |
1441 | Invar, the son of Indis and Jerylla, is born |
1445 | Embyrl, the daughter of Indis and Jerylla is born |
1488 | Kandol Elf Lord marries Velora, the daughter of Arethnal, the Secondborn chief of the Light Elves |
1506 | Kanlyth, the older son of Kandol and Velora is born |
1510 | Kandollan, the younger son of Kandol and Velora is born |
1562 | Kandol and his family returns to Nammovalle from Alyrre |
1602 | Embyrl and Sunome’s love is forbidden by Celetran, the Lady of Esel |
1602 | Prince Golvarn meets Caeryn the Mist Elf |
1809 | The Forest Elf kills Karg Rockhammer in the Westlands |
1944 | Dorn, the architect of Caradar and son of Dar Highfather is slain. |
2844 | Love gone wrong allows Sorrow to enter the world. The Dark Lord escapes and the Battle of Unending Night ensues. |