Mythic & Foundational Era

(Before 600 BH)

(Sparse legends, the world begins its transformation)

The Great Frost Descends

• The world undergoes the first stages of catastrophic magical cooling.

• The Dvergar seal their Under-Kingdoms and enter long magical hibernation.

The Age of First Heroes

(600–400 BH)

600 BH — The Life of Lorik the Unfrozen

• Survives the first apocalyptic blizzard.

• Builds the First Bridge across the Chasm of Howling Winds → spiritual foundation of the Stone-Wright Guild.

• Hunts the “Great-Fang” → forms the Solitary Pact, spiritual root of the Jötun-Bane Brotherhood.

• Becomes the first wanderer who unites shattered peoples.

• Vanishes into the ice.

The Awakening Era

(Approximately 100–0 BH)

c. 50 BH - 1 AH — The Age of Unity & The Burning of Sun-Ridge

• In the golden age before the War of Broken Oaths, the proto-Ashen Crest and the idealistic Free-Soul Collective jointly establish the Sun-Ridge Commune, a beacon of cooperation between giants and Lítillfólk.

• This dream is shattered in 1 AH by the proto-Frost-Fang warlord Skarl the Unbent, who triggers a geomantic ritual to erupt the land, burning the commune to ash and poisoning the valleys.

• The land is abandoned, becoming the Scarred Frontier.

c. 35 BH — Awakening of the Dvergar

• The First Thaw triggers the magical revival of the Under-Kingdoms.

• Dvergar emerge transformed into the first Iarn-Greppar (Dwarf-Giants).

• Founding division:

  • Stone-Shield Forge-Clans (communal duty)

  • Ashen Crest Smith-Clans (industrial ambition)

22 BH — The Code of Vigg

• First attempt at unified giant law.

• Twelve edicts regulate territory, hunting, and disputes.

• Fatal flaw: gives Lítillfólk no rights → seeds future civil wars.

The Burning & Collapse Era

(0–10 AH)

0 AH — The Burning of Haugaeldr

(Exact narrative distributed through text)

• Frost-Fang zealots use geomantic ritual to erupt the volcano.

• The library-fortress and the knowledge of rune-shrinking are destroyed.

• Mokkur and apprentices die defending the archive.

• The greatest loss of knowledge in giant history.

3–7 AH — The Great Famine (“Hollow Years”)

• 3 AH: Crop failures begin; frost-blight spreads.

• 4 AH: Food stores rot; giants visibly starve.

• 5–6 AH: Social collapse, raids, “Hearth-Betrayal” exiles.

• 7 AH: Jarl Bor Stone-Hand enforces Doctrine of the Common Pot → proto-Stone-Shield Commonwealth emerges.

The Early Nation-Founding Era

(10–200 AH)

18 AH — Pact of the Twin Jarls

• Jarl Brynja (proto-Stone-Shield) and Chieftain Mord (Frost-Fang) ally to kill the Glacier-Boar (Jökul-Sauðr).

• Unity collapses immediately after victory over division of spoils.

• Becomes a cautionary myth of cooperation undone.

c. 150 AH — The Theft of the Sun-Heart

• Stone-Shield Jarls poison Ivarsson clan and steal their forge-engine.

• Ivarsson Smith-Clan leaves the Commonwealth forever and becomes neutral power.

• Establishes The Three Prices (wealth, blood-debt, unbreakable oath).

150 AH — The Great Silence (founding of Aerie Sovereignty)

• Magical blizzard disrupts all winged messengers.

• Elf-Giant wind-callers retreat to the Cloud-Spine Mountains.

• Found the avian intelligence empire known as the Aerie Sovereignty.

200 AH — Great Migration Crisis

• Frost-Wyrms change migration path and devastate the giant nations.

• Gunnar Ghost-Sight leads survivors to form the Jötun-Bane Brotherhood.

220 AH — The Silent Rebellion

• Lítillfólk across cities refuse to work for one week.

• Infrastructure collapses.

• Giants forced to recognize Lítillfólk councils.

• First organized political resistance of the small folk.

The Age of Cataclysm & Discovery

(300–450 AH)

310 AH — First Sighting of the Hrímþursar

• Stone-Sword Patrol observes a glacier-giant of living frost.

• Reveals frost is sentient and has agents.

• Shifts the worldview: winter is an enemy with will and purpose.

422 AH — The Drowning of the Sun-Vein

• Subglacial volcano erupts beneath the Stone-Shield’s greatest Sun-Splinter mine.

• Megaflood (Jökulhlaup) wipes out three settlements.

• Creates new glacial wasteland: the Glass-Sheet Graveyard.

• Commonwealth never recovers economic dominance.

The Age of Rebellion & Rising Powers

(450–750 AH)

488 AH — The Sun-Queen’s Gambit

• Sun-Queen Anya forges a network of secret pacts:

  • Engineers of Ashen Crest

  • Frost-Fang shock troops

  • Jötun-Bane mercenaries

• Betrayed by all three.

• She sacrifices herself in ritual, creating the eternal Sun-Splinter within her tomb.

722 AH — Battle of the Frozen Gorge

• Einar One-Eye + Seven Swarmkeeper Rangers defend Frosthaven.

• Use animals, traps, ambush tactics to destroy Frost-Fang invasion.

• Torsten’s badgers collapse the canyon wall; Jarl Hakon dies.

• Einar founds The Gorge-Wardens.

The Modern Era

(750–867 AH)

1 AH - 797 AH — The Long Abandonment

• The Scarred Frontier remains a cursed buffer zone for nearly eight centuries.

• The Ashen Crest fortify their heartlands; the Free-Soul Collective becomes nomadic, wary of roots.

• The Frost-Fang Clans, however, come to use the harsh Frontier as a crucial migratory route, establishing their own claim through long use.

c. 800 AH onward — Rising Beast Aggression

• Jötun-Bane Brotherhood notes beasts growing more numerous and violent.

• Signs of deeper frost-magic awakening.

797 AH — Present 867 AH — The War of Great Reclamation

• Political landscape:

  • Stone-Shield Commonwealth: fortress-state, rationing, strict order

  • Ashen Crest Dynasty: industrial, utilitarian, ruthless

  • Frost-Fang Clans: strength-based, warlike, divided factions

  • Sun-Splinter Throne: paranoid, isolationist, caste-rigid

  • Aerie Sovereignty: information masters, secret power brokers

  • Jötun-Bane Brotherhood: neutral hunters, ecological guardians

  • Gorge-Wardens: defenders of small passes and small folk

• The frost grows stronger.

• The Ashen Crest Dynasty, with advanced technology, returns to the Scarred Frontier to heal the land and reclaim their stolen legacy

• The Hrímþursar stir.

• The world edges toward another great turning.