Sylvan Timeline
in Elanthian History
Compiled from
Official Simutronics Documentation
and
Logs of GM-sponsored Storyline Events
| YEAR | EVENT |
| ~ ANCIENT HISTORY ~ | |
| circa -130000 | Earliest existence of elves as a single unified race |
| circa -105000 to -104000 | "The Darkness" (the Ur-Daemon Wars) nearly wipes out the elven population |
| circa -104000 to -80000 | The Arkati Lumnis and Imaera aid the elven race to again thrive in the forests |
| circa -80000 to -60000 |
The elves begin to cultivate land and organize hamlets with "hard" dwellings of wood and stone Those elves choosing to keep to the "old ways" become commonly known as "sylvisterai", meaning "one who embraces -- or marries -- the forest" Imaera teaches these "sylvans" the ability to channel knowledge from one generation of councillors to the next as the high council of hierophants is born |
| circa -60000 | The "sylvisterai", the sylvankind, formally break with the rest of the elven race |
| circa -60000 to -45400 | The sylvans exist solely as a reclusive, seasonally migrating race within the forests east of the Dragonspine |
| ~ SECOND AGE ~ | |
| circa -50000 |
The sylvans make contact with a "short, hearty mountain people" (dwarves) and trade archery equipment, hides and pottery with the dwarves for metals Meetings between the two races happen on a semi-regular basis "at the distant western edge of the forest, where the boundary of the great wood meets the tumbled rock plain" and the dwarves teach the sylvans the basics of metal-working for arrowheads, knives and jewelry |
| circa -45400 | The sylvan high council of hierophants decides, after 10 days of deliberations, upon the creation of a permanent home city, and thus Ithnishmyn comes to be, along with the distinctive sylvan guild system |
| circa -45200 | The D'ahranal, as a governing body of the sylvan guild system, is created |
| circa -45000 | A group of Illistimi "stumble" upon Ithnishmyn and the Ransefel Map of Sylvia is created, making Ithnishmyn a spot where elves of the seven houses come for various purposes, much to the consternation of the sylvans |
| circa -42500 | An ascetic scholar named Raolawei Ly'Setta exchanges his knowledge of the written elven language for permission to remain among the sylvans for the remainder of his lifetime |
| circa -36600 |
Belief that their kind could well become "corrupted" by the ways of the "political elves", as well as continued disappearance of sylvan children into the black-market slave trade of the elven cities, prompts the high council to consider ways of dealing with "the elven problem"
Eislemar Nathlai proposes that the council allow no more emissaries into Ithnishmyn |
| -36567 |
Ithnishmyn is completely dismantled, leaving no trace of its existence within the forest Records of the race's early past, in the form of scrolls and illuminated hides, are buried in amphorae in a deep cavern nearby the dismantled Ithnishmyn The sylvans, divided into seven groups, slip away into the forest |
| -36,567 to -22,460 | The sylvans migrate westward on what becomes known as the "Trail of Ages" |
| circa -36,550 |
Eislemar leads the re-united sylvans through the "Golden Anvil" during the "Trail of Ages" migration Thousands of sylvans die in the process, decimating the population |
| circa -36500 to -15490 | The elves come to believe that sylvans died of some cataclysmic plague and exist no more as a race |
| -22460 | The sylvans settle in a forest still east of the Dragonspine, but far to the south of the seven elven cities, and there build their own city of Nevishrim |
| ~ AGE OF CHAOS ~ | |
| -15490 |
The Eranishal, an elite band of sylvan scouts and warriors, is formed under the command of Oriahn Delsechal to investigate the Despana threat Becoming convinced of the seriousness of that threat, Oriahn makes contact with the elven contingents fighting Despana, shocking the elves into the realization the syvlans still exist in force Oriahn pledges the aid of the sylvans to the elves fighting Despana's forces |
| -15490 to -15180 | The sylvans fight on the elven side during the Despana Wars as "The Wood Guard" |
| -15195 | Allied with a top-notch army of Faendryl elves, the Eranishal legions rout a significant portion of Despana's hordes at the Battle of Harradahn |
| -15188 |
The sylvan army join their Faendryl allies on the wooded slopes surrounding the valley on which stands Maelshyve Keep Almost all of the three companies of the Eranishal are engulfed in fire by two demons that escape the control of the Faendryl sorcerers |
| circa -15180 |
Oriahn and the small remainder of the sylvan army journey back to Nevishrim On the journey home, the sylvan army comes upon a "demon hill", caused by the one of the escaped demons from Maelshyve Oriahn and three companions confront the demon alone; only two of the four survive, with Oriahn gravely wounded in the battle, but the demon is vanquished At the gate of Nevishrim, Oriahn orders his litter be stopped beneath the arch, saying he cannot enter the city as he fears the shard of evil within him will destroy his people Oriahn tells the sylvans to leave Nevishrim, to seek seven great trees and there build a new home away from the "Cities of Elves and war and greed"; then he dies |
| circa -15180 to -2985 | Nevishrim is dismantled and sylvans return to a migrating lifestyle, moving west across the Dragonspine |
| ~ PRE-MODERN ERA ~ | |
| circa -2985 |
The sylvans come upon the "Silver Veil" and the seven great trees -- seven ancient modwirs -- of Oriahn's prophecy The sylvans settle in the Silver Veil and build the great city of Yuriqen, meaning "Trees of the Sky", pledging to Imaera to guard the Veil for all time and never to forsake this forest, no matter what the provocation |
| circa -2950 | The Lassaran D'Ahranal, a group primarily composed of individuals who embrace the habit of venturing away from the home forest in search of groups or family members who had been separated from the main host and lost in the past, is created |
| circa -2925 | The Ne'Yuscarl border guard is created to keep watch against intruders near Yuriqen |
| circa -2900 | The great sylvan mage Ranilyn Sigheart creates the magical "working" of Nanrithowan and its sister magic of Rithowan |
| ~ MODERN ERA ~ | |
| circa 0 | A group of Lassaran sylvan healers in a settlement in Upper Trollfang (Halycon Hills) aid dwarven miners afflicted with a plague, finding a cure for the dwarves but dying themselves as the cure proves ineffective for sylvankind |
| circa 750 |
The Paradis halflings wander into the Silver Veil and the sylvans become friends with them, teaching them magic The sylvan Kaithaire Si'Lariel decides to journey with the Paradis halflings and continues their instruction in magic |
| circa 1000 |
The Faendryl sorcerer Myrdanian lulls the sylvans into believing it is time for them to reconnect with the rest of the elven race The high councillor Alesanderie suspects Myrdanian's motives and uses a powerful herbal infusion to obtain the truth from the sorcerer as he sleeps Despite being attacked by Myrdanian, Alexanderie survives long enough to tell the other high councillors of the vision of the beast the infusion brought forth in the sorcerer Subsequently, Myrdanian is taken out from Yuriqen under the effects of a concentrated Nanrithowan, but the beliefs of the sylvans prevent them from killing the Faendryl outright |
| circa 1000 to 1010 | Myrdanian survives the disorientation of the Nanrithowan and launches years of siege via dark magic upon the city of Yuriqen and the Silver Veil |
| circa 1010 |
The high council decides to invoke an escalated version of Nanrithowan, a spell that would effectively seal off the city to any further attack by Myrdanian, but at the same time, seal in the residents, completely cutting them off from the rest of the world Groups of Lassaran are first sent from the city as emissaries to travel east and seek any lost kindred and to carry with them the history of Yuriqen The powerful Nanrithowan is invoked, the potent magic resulting in the deaths of seven of the high council, and Yuriqen is sealed away |
| circa 2000 | A half-elven necromancer desecrates the graveyard of the Halycon Hills, forcing the sylvans to protect the sanctity of the place via Nanrithowan |
| 4955 | The Illistimi archeologist Relian Degaloth discovers the cavern near the fabled location of Ithnishmyn and the amphorae containing the scrolls and illuminated hides that reveal for the first-time the ancient history of the sylvankind |
| circa 5050 | A journal is found by a young sylvan woman, verifying the existence and history of the Halycon Hill graveyard |
| 5098 | The legend of Yuriqen begins to spread to other races besides the sylvans, finally becoming fairly common knowledge through the stories of the merchant Filifor |
| 5100 | The lore of the "holy spirits of Yuriqen" is explained to other races by the traveling sylvan bardess Ghiani Jeunes |
| 5102 | Tyndrasi An'Rathis, a wandering Lassaran sylvan, reveals the historical lore of the sylvans to those gathered in Ta'Illistim |
| 5104 | With the aid of the forest gnomes in re-locating the grove hidden by magics, the sylvans re-open the Memorial Grove of Halcyon Hills via Rithowan magic |
