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=== Iobaria Timeline ===
{|Year || Event
|[[-5293 AR|-5293&nbsp;AR]] || [[Earthfall]]. End of the [[cyclops]] [[Koloran|Koloran Empire]]
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|[[-3923 AR|-3923&nbsp;AR]] || [[Pit of Gormuz]] opens in central [[Casmaron]]
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|[[-1281 AR|-1281&nbsp;AR]] || [[Taldor]] founded by [[Azlanti (human ethnicity)|Lost Azlanti]] and primitive native humans
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|[[-632 AR|-632&nbsp; AR]] || The [[Tarrasque]], [[Spawn of Rovagug]], destroys [[Ninshabur]]. Some hidden force turns the creature west across the [[Tovrus]] and into [[Avistan]].<ref>This is in the initial timeline. That implies that the Tarrasque had reached the Pharrus River before turning back.</ref>
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|700s AR || [[Ulfen]] explorers traverse eastward along the polar ice, founding settlements in northern Mendev and along the northern coast of the Lake of Mists and Veils.<ref>Iobaria would return to claim Mendev and Issia as colonies.{{Cite book/Campaign Setting|154}}</ref>
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|[[752 AR|752&nbsp;AR]] || Ulfens found [[Okormirr]].
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|[[753 AR|753&nbsp;AR]] || Okormirran explorers discover the [[Koloran Roads]] and begin building [[Orlov]] among an old ruined cyclops city.
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|[[764 AR|764&nbsp;AR]] || Orlov becomes larger than Okormirr.<ref>Initial timeline, concerning 753 AR.</ref>
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|[[780 AR|780&nbsp;AR]] || Founding of [[Orost]].
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|[[788 AR|788&nbsp;AR]] || Founding of [[Antoll]].
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|[[795 AR|795&nbsp;AR]] || Founding of [[Lenusya]].
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|[[809 AR|809&nbsp;AR]] || Founding of [[Mishkar]].
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|[[818 AR|818&nbsp;AR]] || Founding of [[Kirrosuli]].
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|[[846 AR|846&nbsp;AR]] || The Ulfen explorer [[Grenalf]] founds [[Kirya]] upon a cyclops ruin.
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|[[905 AR|905&nbsp;AR]] || [[Iobar]], son of [[Kjell]] of [[Orlov]], conquers all challengers. He unites all territories under his own banner, claiming as "Iobaria" all lands from the [[Icewall]] north of Mendev to the [[Castrovin Sea]]. The Issian shore of the Lake of Mists and Veils, also, had colonies which answered to Iobar.<ref>On Mendev's status as "colony": {{Cite book/Campaign Setting|154}}</ref> Kridorn founded on the [[Castrovin Sea]]; but at first stagnates as a minor fishing town, due to the pirates.<ref>The initial edition of this timeline asserted that, in 975 AR, it was "''not'' a minor fishing town".{{Cite book/Campaign Setting|154}}</ref>
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|[[937 AR]] || Iobar I fights the pirates at the [[Battle of Kridorn]], and is killed. Iobar's son [[Hrugil]] repels the pirate fleets from the east, spending the rest of his rule improving Iobaria's fleets, intent on eradicating the powerful mercenary pirate and corsair fleets of the northwestern Castrovin Sea.
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|[[975 AR]] || [[Kridorn]] rises to become a port city.
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|[[1080 AR]] || [[Hroran]] and [[Kridorthrost]] founded in this year of plenty.
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|[[1106 AR]] || The first recorded major plague, the [[Tearplague]], scours all settlements between the Norinor and Finadar.<ref>Did Orosknir flare up?{{cite book/The Varnhold Vanishing|62}}</ref>
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|[[1240 AR]] || Human settlers claim cyclops ruins in Caemorin, dubbing the settlement Mavradia.
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|[[1412 AR]] || Founding of [[Zradnirras]].
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|[[1442 AR]] || Struggle against [[Hoofwood]] natives.
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|[[1466 AR]] || Hoofwood subdued. Founding of [[Vurnirn]].<ref>Original timeline: "a 24 year struggle".</ref>
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|[[1528 AR]] || Founding of [[Mirnbay]].
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|[[1574 AR]] || Something exposed from logging in Orostgard kills all humans in Kirya.<ref>{{cite book/The Varnhold Vanishing|60}}</ref>
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|[[1634 AR]] || The necromancer [[Otyb the Undying]] sets loose the [[Chardeath]]. This sees many spontaneously combust in high fevers. The flames lead to the eradication of a third of all Iobarian settlements. At the time, none knew of Otyb's involvement.
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|[[1717 AR]] || The red and blue great wyrms, [[Shrodniar]] and [[Voldmannasein]], clash over [[Fangard]]. Some force from the forest depths strike [[Voldmannasein]] dead, while [[Shrodnair]] crashes near [[Antoll]]. Strange glyphs are discovered, burnt into the blue dragon, scarring even his bones.
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|[[1869 AR]] || The Chardeath discovered to be the work of Otyb.<ref>From initial timeline, on 1634 AR</ref>
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|[[1900 AR]] || The centaur tribes of the [[Caemorin]] unite under the banner of [[Errindayn the Seer]], sacking [[Mirnbay]] and destroying numerous humanoid settlements.
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|[[1986 AR]] || [[Errindayn the Seer]] dies mysteriously after an unnaturally long life. The centaurs of the region abandon their warlike ways.
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|[[2108 AR]] || [[Mirnbay]] refounded and defenses significantly reinforced. Centaurs barred from the city for more than 400 years.
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|2500s AR ||  Centaurs allowed back in Mirnbay.
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|[[2546 AR]] || [[Ohjar's Plague]] kills a third of all male centaurs, orcs, and humans across the land in a mere 8 months.
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|[[2602 AR]] || Humans and some native centaur tribes ally together to form the realm of [[Zastel]] in eastern Iobaria, its capital in [[Mavradia]].
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|[[2654 AR]] || Iobaria begins the [[Reclamation Wars]] against [[Zastel]].
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|[[2686 AR]] || [[Zastel]] reconquered and returned to Iobarian rule.
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|[[2742 AR]] || The [[Choking Death]]. A respiratory plague suffocates more than 40% of Iobaria's adult population over the course of 8 months. The plague spreads west out of Iobaria (carried to [[Avistan]] by refugees) and devastates human populations in northeastern Avistan over the next 6 years.
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|[[2767 AR]] || The [[Native Plaguestrife]]: Various druid sects, guilds, and politicians fan flames against those they deem "non-native Iobarians" by claiming no plagues ever happened until folk started coming east from Avistan. Skirmishes and vendettas weaken the power bases of many for decades.
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|[[2920 AR]] || Earthquake rocks Taldor, Qadira, and central Casmaron. Coastal settlements along the northwestern Castrovin all damaged or destroyed by tidal waves.
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|3000s || Exodus. At least three separate waves of refugees abandon Iobaria over this century to settle other colonial lands to the west and south (mostly Issia and Mendev) or new domains east of the Castrovin Sea.
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|[[3150 AR]] || The Pestilentropy infected many nomads and settlers in central Iobaria, causing fevers and madness ultimately leading to death by overexertion or by the blades of those its victims imagine to be their foes. The disease or its manic side effects destroy more than half of Iobaria's farms, villages, crops, and cattle, leading to a decade of lean harvests and starvation for the region. This devastation and the lack of support for the people leads to the final dissolution of Old Iobarian rule.
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|Late 3100s || Following the fall of Old Iobaria, the barbarian warlord [[Kostchtchie]] claims the northeastern [[Dvezda Marches]] as his personal kingdom. He seeks out [[Baba Yaga]], demanding she grant him immortality. She does so, at the cost of stealing part of his soul and transforming him into a deformed giant. In shame, Kostchtchie flees to the [[Abyss]] and supplants [[Sithhud]] as the [[demon lord]] of frost.<ref>{{cite book/Maiden, Mother, Crone|7}}</ref> Baba Yaga constructs the great monument of [[Artrosa]] to keep watch over Kostchtchie's former domain.<ref>{{cite book/Maiden, Mother, Crone|72}}</ref>{{conflict|Timeline}}
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|[[3212 AR]] || Three warlords (one of Issian descent) and their allies band together to restore the nation of Iobaria. Rallying to banners and flags of [[Old Iobaria]], support for [[New Iobaria]] rose quickly with their reclamation of Orlov from foreign factions and their local pawns. The Restoration War lasts for nearly a century before New Iobaria officially exists and rules its lands.
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|[[3283 AR]] || House Arjal and House Korya betray allied House Narkys, sacrificing its leaders and troops to dragons of the mountains and wilds, their newer allies.
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|[[3304 AR]] || The Restoration War over, King Irral I turns control and demesne of all the old cyclops ruins to their white and red dragon allies. Humans maintain a presence in some of the less-ruined constructions, notably the watchtower [[Fralros]].
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|[[3312 AR]] - [[3679 AR]]|| This era is generally regarded as the height of New Iobaria. The city of [[Antoll]] is capital during this period.
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|[[3679 AR|3679&nbsp;AR]] || [[The Great Horde]]. The cyclops [[Burlor]] retrieves the [[Crown of Mirim]] and the [[Perobov Maul]] from [[Dirrinir]].<ref>{{Cite book/The Varnhold Vanishing|58}}</ref> With these artifacts he gathers a collection of ogre, giant, and cyclops tribes, and rampages across Iobaria. Siege, and burning, of Fralros.<ref>{{Cite book/The Varnhold Vanishing|59}}</ref> These monsters remain a threat long after the death of Burlor beneath the hooves of more than 25 tribes of [[centaurs]].
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|[[3870 AR]] || The human rulers turn to treachery, leading to strife and the eventual rising of a single faction (really, clan) to dominate Iobaria, forcing many enemies and former allies to flee west into Brevoy. New Iobaria will last 800 more years.<ref>{{Cite book/The Varnhold Vanishing|56}}</ref> 
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|[[4000 AR|4000&nbsp;AR]] || Amid the blizzards of a long and particularly harsh winter, [[frost giants]] from the [[Ice Steppes]] invade [[New Iobaria]], pillaging and murdering. They reach [[Orlov]] before being repelled.
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|[[4388 AR|4388&nbsp;AR]] || Snowfall cuts Hroran off from communications. On spring, everyone is gone without trace.<ref>{{cite book/The Varnhold Vanishing|59}}</ref>
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|[[4400 AR|4400&nbsp;AR]] || Volod founded, to replace Hroran.<ref>{{cite book/The Varnhold Vanishing|61}}</ref>
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|[[4499 AR|4499&nbsp;AR]] || Iobarian [[Choral the Conqueror]] unites Rostland and Issia into Brevoy.
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|[[4519 AR|4519&nbsp;AR]] || The [[Drakeplague]] kills more than 60% of the dragon population within 3 months. Dragons enter Mavradia seeking a cure, and fight amongst themselves, ruining a third of the city.<ref>{{cite book/The Varnhold Vanishing|60}}</ref> The silver dragon [[Cithaythren]] and [[Finadar Forest|Finadar]] druids perform a ritual to end the plague before it spreads beyond Iobaria, at the cost of that dragon's life. This disaster is commonly credited with weakening New Iobaria until its end in the early 4600s.<ref>''Varnhold'' has the actual end "800 years" after 3870; but it associates the Drakeplague with the end, so the empire was likely a formality over the rest of the 4500s.</ref>
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|-late 4500s || Plague takes half Lenusya's children. The ghost-town becomes a refuge for transients, including bandits.<ref>{{cite book/The Varnhold Vanishing|60}}</ref>
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|[[4606 AR]] || Death of Aroden. [[Worldwound]] opens.
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|[[4606 AR]] - [[4622 AR]] || [[Sarkoria]]n barbarians flee the expanding Worldwound. Many native Mendevians of [[Iobarian (human ethnicity)|Iobarian]] and [[Issia|Issian]] ancestry flee before them back to Iobaria.<ref>This is a guess.</ref> A number of Sarkorian tribes cross the polar ice to Iobaria.
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|[[4607 AR|4607&nbsp;AR]] || Skirmishes and battles among Sarkorian refugees, native insurgents, and Iobarian troops begin the second fall of Iobaria with the loss of [[Mavradia]] to rebel forces.<ref>Perhaps aided by Fangard giants?{{cite book/The Varnhold Vanishing|60}}</ref>
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|[[4607 AR]] - [[4659 AR]] || Battles and rebellions continue.<ref>Initial timeline: "over the next five decades"</ref> An unnamed plague turns Mavradia's survivors into "mindless gelatinous creatures that preyed on all others".<ref>{{cite book/The Varnhold Vanishing|60}}</ref> Mishkar, abandoned by Iobarians, is refounded by Varisians and Taldans.<ref>Deduced from: {{cite book/The Varnhold Vanishing|60}}</ref>
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|[[4622 AR]] || The First Crusade. Mendev transforms from a cultural extension of Iobaria and Issia, into the Crusading Kingdom.
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|[[4651 AR|4651&nbsp;AR]] || "Plague of boils and bone-aches" hits Franax. In desperation the townsmen burn down 80% of their own town. The shipworks move to Orlov.<ref>{{cite book/The Varnhold Vanishing|59}}</ref>
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|[[4659 AR|4659&nbsp;AR]] || New Iobaria reduced to the now-isolated cities of [[Kridorn]], [[Mirnbay]], and [[Orlov]], each of whose rulers now claims to be the true ruler and heir of Iobaria due to blood ties to the dead kings.
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|[[4667 AR|4667&nbsp;AR]] || [[Red Revolution]] of [[Galt]]; many Galtan nobles flee north and eventually arrive in [[Kridorn]].
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|[[4699 AR|4699&nbsp;AR]] || Royal [[House Rogarvia]], descended from Iobarian warlords, disappears. [[House Surtova]] assumes power in [[Brevoy]].
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