4606 AR

Age of Lost Omens
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During the month of Arodus in 4606 AR, the god Aroden dies, marking the end of the Age of Enthronement and beginning of the Age of Lost Omens.

4606 AR in conflicts

The Sarkoris Scar, site of the Worldwound.

• Following the death of Aroden and the loss of the Chelaxian Emperor's divine mandate, certain noble houses begin to compete for the crown. This soon leads to a civil war in Cheliax.
  • Baron Grallus of Sargava throws his support behind House Davian in Cheliax's emerging civil war.
  • Governor Nedwin Kellon seizes upon Cheliax's instability to begin organizing Molthuni resistance groups against Chelaxian forces.
• The barbarian realm of Sarkoris is flooded with Abyssal energies when Areelu Vorlesh and the demon lord Deskari open a massive planar portal near the prison of Threshold, unleashing hordes of demons. The city of Iz is the first to fall to their onslaught, and the region is henceforth known as the Worldwound.
  • Demons raze the town of Dredarin in Sarkoris and kill the followers of Laktharis.
• Following the death of Aroden, the orcs of the Hold of Belkzen begin a 20-year period of constant warfare now remembered as the Culling.
• Maybe due to the death of Aroden, a plankta re-emerges and nearly destroys the underwater city of Talasantri. A hero, Wavewalker, saves the city.
• The collapse of Lung Wa leads to widespread unrest in Tian Xia.
  • Hobgoblins of northern Tian Xia begin what later becomes known as the War of the Widow Makers, in which they invade and eventually destroy six of the fledgling nations that succeed Lung Wa. This leads to their founding of Kaoling four years later.
  • Grandfather Pei leads the Pen Wa province's revolution and secession from Imperial Lung Wa, establishing a new nation named Bachuan.
  • Tengu rebels of Kwanlai, joined by clergy of Hei Feng and Desna, launch the Feather and Starlight Rebellion against their imperial overseers and secede from the empire, reforming Kwanlai as an independent nation.

4606 AR in deities

• The ancient Starfall Doctrine predicts that the god Aroden will return to Westcrown, become emperor of Cheliax, and lead Golarion into the Age of Glory.
• Aroden's clerics are cut off from their god after storms wrack Golarion for three weeks on the eve of his prophesied return. The connection is never reestablished, leading most to believe that Aroden is dead.
• The empyreal lords of the Great Beyond call the rarest of meetings to discuss the impact of Aroden's death: a Concordance.

4606 AR in environment

The Eye of Abendego.

• The death of Aroden is followed by tremendous storms across the face of Golarion.
  • At the very moment of Aroden's death, the most powerful hurricane the world has ever known forms off the western coast of Garund. It is known as the Eye of Abendego and has yet to die down.
  • The Eye of Abendego leads to massive storm surges which flood the low-lying land along the western coast of Garund, leading to the death of thousands. This destroys the nations of Lirgen and Yamasa, creating the Sodden Lands.
  • Within three days after Aroden's death, storms destroy Deng, a town on the southern coast of Cheliax. The town is never rebuilt, and the spirits of its dead residents live on as ghosts.
  • Storms devastate Hermea and disrupt the third generation of Mengkare's Glorious Endeavor, leading the gold dragon to delegate recruitment for his experiment to three trading groups.
  • Storms hammer the coast of Osirion in Garund and flood the Sphinx, Asp, and Crook rivers. The subsequent devastation leads to famine.
• The death of Aroden is followed by tremendous earthquakes across the face of Golarion.
  • Massive earthquakes rock the plains south of Mzali and destroy five cities, thus creating the Shatterfield.
  • Upon Aroden's death, five cities in the plains south of Mzali in Garund are destroyed by massive earthquakes. The land becomes known as the Shatterfield and remains prone to seismic activity.
• A terrible explosion (known as the Paroxsys) destroys much of Anuli, the capital city of Nwanyi in Holomog.
• The Veins of Creation originating from Tumbaja Mountain in the Arcadian nation of Xopatl go dark, and the kumaru tree that had powered it for millennia immediately withers away.
• The planets Aucturn and Golarion align in astrological conjunction during this year, an event that occurs every 56 years. The next conjunction occurs in 4662 AR.

Migrations in 4606 AR

• Refugees of Sarkoris flee the demonic invasion of the Worldwound and emigrate to Mendev, Numeria, Ustalav, and the Realm of the Mammoth Lords.

4606 AR in organizations

• The Silver Ravens are founded in Kintargo, Cheliax, by Jackdaw, Amyreid, Ba Brackenthorn, Kyda, and Brakisi.
• In the Varisian city of Magnimar, the organization known as the Wardens of the Eye disband, as their leader, Alcaydian Indros, a paladin of Aroden, has a crisis of faith.
• The Pathfinder Society, realizing the momentousness of current events, mobilizes all of its members to record the myriad of events transpiring throughout Golarion. Because of the chaos, the Society gains access to numerous sites and artifacts formerly inaccessible, moving to protect them or taking them to vaults of Skyreach in the Grand Lodge of Absalom for safekeeping.
• The Pathfinder Society is forced to abandon the traders' guildhouse they used as a Pathfinder lodge in Storasta, Sarkoris, in the face of demonic invasion from the newly opened Worldwound.
• Armies of Crusaders begin passing through Numeria to battle demonic hordes in the Worldwound.

4606 AR in politics

Imperial Lung Wa dissolves into the Successor States, of which Quain (southwest), Lingshen (northwest), and Po Li (southeast) are the largest.

• Imperial Lung Wa falls apart in Tian Xia.
  • Lung Wa's remnants split into three broad factions: military, religious, and traditional. The traditionalists settle in Quain, the religious in Po Li, and the militarists in Lingshen.
  • Military forces are diverted from the defense of Tianjing, leaving it vulnerable to bandits and qlippoth.
  • Officials in Shenmen lose contact with, and oversight from, their superiors in Lung Wa, beginning a period of corruption and abuse.
• Lord Arbust Arbasti begins his rule of the Varisian city of Korvosa.
• Taldor launches its Eighth Army of Exploration under the command of General Orphyrea Amanandar before the death of Aroden.

Births in 4606 AR

• Alysande Benedict, who would eventually earn the name Lady Liberty, is born in Augustana.

Deaths in 4606 AR

• The death of Aroden.
• The mayor of Westcrown, Norren Betevesk, is murdered during riots.
• Ilnerik Sivanshin, one of two Wiscrani Pathfinders to survive the Amber Privateers expedition to the lost city of Jaytirian, crosses into Nidal and dies on the first Wealday of Kuthona. Upon the next moon, he rises as a vampire.

Miscellaneous

Aroden.

• This marks the first year of the Age of Lost Omens, so named as it marks the end of effective prophecy.
• This is the year 7106 IC in the Imperial Calendar.
• In the Lands of the Linnorm Kings, oracles, seers, and witches die as the force of Aroden's death smashes their prophecies.
• Prophets in the Skyfire Mandate of Triaxus, some of whom go mad from the failure of prophecy, are exiled to the Isle of Dreams.
• Ardathanatus, the priest of Pharasma at Windsong Abbey on the northern Lost Coast, goes mad from the failure of prophecy and murders several other priests, including the Masked Abbess, and then flees into the woods.
• Six years after being launched from Golarion into space, Lirgen's Glory loses all contact with the Saoc Brethren.
• Prophecies of this year onward in the Book of 1,000 Whispers—page 37 in the original text—stop relating to reality.
• Students begin forgetting about the Absentia Archive in Absalom's Forae Logos.
• The Arodennama in Westcrown is completed in time for Aroden's expected arrival, and subsequently abandoned after his death.
• The Kashdrandan coven of sea hags in Tauxshann, Azlant, attempt but fail to sacrifice Helekhterie as part of an occult ritual.