The Telus Chronicles
History of Telus
Calendars
Three calendars are in common use throughout Telus, and this may cause some confusion as different historians use different dates to refer to the same year. The southern nations tend to use the oldest system, marking dates “Ab Hadesh” or “from the Discovery.” These dates refer to the discovery of Telus by the gods, and by that reckoning the present date is 7513 AH.
The Imperium officially reckons its dates from the onset of the Rebellion, some 1,307 years after the Discovery. By that standard it is now 6206 AR.
Finally, the eastern nations mark the date in reference to the discovery of the Crystal Crown in 1693 AH. By a wide margin the youngest of the calendars, in the Shards it is now reckoned to be the year 5820 CC. Years are broken into twelve thirty-day months, with the remaining five or six days (depending upon when the oracles in Goston declare the new year begun) and falling “between” the two years known as the “Teriksnotte,” or “Trickster’s Night.” These months are known as:
- Donmun, the month of Dawn
- Kerismun, the month of Crystal
- Konismun, the Master’s month
- Doctemun, the Doctor’s month
- Branismun, Bran’s month
- Muttemun, the Mother’s month
- Duersimun, the month of Dwarves
- Smetismun, the Smith’s month
- Alsimun, the month of Elves
- Hersimun, the month of Harvest
- Ortesmun, the Artist’s month
- Doskemun, the month of Dusk
For clarity, the events recorded below are reckoned according to the Ab Hadesh calendar, but the accounts provided by various historians have been preserved in the reckoning used by the various authors.
Events
- 0 AH: The gods discover the portal from the Undying Realms to Telus
- 1307 AH: The Rebellion begins
- 1444 AH: The Worldscar is formed between Altreik and Morkal
- 1505 AH: The Maw is formed between the Imperium, Khariya, Llynariel, and Paecia
- 1567 AH: The Rebellion ends with the Passage of the gods from Telus
- 1693 AH: The Crystal Crown is discovered near Nen Hern
- 1700 AH: The Duchy of Tyre is formed as the seat of the High Kings
- 1923 AH: The Imperium is founded by the tribes of humans around the Mare Vitreum
- 1967 AH: The cities of Beleiring and Inngangsport form the nation of Perlereik in the Mountains of the First Men
- 2009 AH: Elven exiles form the southern nation of Llyntiroedd
- 2282 AH: The First War of Imperial Expansion begins
- 2309 AH: The High King Honar Knudssen forms Altreik from the dwarven baronies north of the Spine of Telus
- 2357 AH: The armies of the Imperium are defeated at the Battle of the Duskwood
- 2362 AH: The province of Khariya secedes from the Imperium
- 2380 AH: The Imperium concedes defeat in the First War of Imperial Expansion
- 2396 AH: The rulers of Llyntiroedd and Perlereik found the garrison at the Citadel
- 2467 AH: The War of the Abyss erupts underneath Perlereik, which is lost to the outside world
- 2576 AH: The First War of the Dreamwood begins in Llyntiroedd
- 2579 AH: The Imperium launches the Second War of Imperial Expansion
- 2588 AH: Llyntiroedd and the Greenwardens agree to a truce in the First War of the Dreamwood to counter the Imperium
- 2635 AH: The High King Glindorei the Quickened grants the Sylvanwood to the new nation of Llynveyl
- 2693 AH: The Second War of Imperial Expansion ends at the Battle of Numma.
- 3112 AH: The Second War of the Dreamwood begins in Llyntiroedd
- 3118 AH: The First Elven Civil War breaks out in Llynveyl
- 3121 AH: The Second War of the Dreamwood ends with the Greenwardens’ surrender
- 3132 AH: High King Glindorei II intercedes and ends the First Elven Civil War
- 3471 AH: Markedur rises in rebellion against Heyr Vigil in the War of the Chains
- 3486 AH: The War of the Chains ends with the foundation of Markedur
- 3854 AH: Perlereik emerges from the War of the Abyss and again makes contact with the outside world
- 4519 AH: The War of the Shards begins with the invasion of an undead horde from Boraea
- 4632 AH: High King Arn Fellsoul sunders the Crystal Crown and orders the shards hidden far apart from each other
- 4862 AH: Elven raiding parties from Llynveyl begin the War of the Tunnels against Altreik
- 4997 AH: Paecia claims nationhood apart from the High Kings’ rule, the first Shard to secede
- 5007 AH: Altreik closes the tunnels under the Spine of Telus, ending the War of the Tunnels
- 5490 AH: The Cullaghan Academy is founded in Palaestra as an institution of higher learning for the Imperium
- 5614 AH: The Second Elven Civil War breaks out in Llynveyl after a sacred copse of trees is burned by Rejectionist elves.
- 5984 AH: The Second Elven Civil War ends when the Rejectionist leaders are executed by the Elder Moot.
- 5986 AH: The Elder Moot votes to form the nation of Llynariel from the lands west of the Sylvanwood
- 6127 AH: Rogue elements within the Elder Moot attack Llynariel and the Third Elven Civil War begins
- 6185 AH: The Third Elven Civil War ends with the assassination of the entire Elder Moot at the winter solstice
- 6205 AH: The city of Llyntalesir is founded as a place of peace and harmony between Llynveyl and Llynariel
- 7361 AH: The first shard of the Crystal Crown is found in the tomb of High King Arn Fellsoul west of Tyrol
- 7511 AH: The War of the Heartsblood begins when orcs from Morkal attacks Fort Pitchfork
- 7513 AH: Present day