The Dar Clans

A Timeline of Events in the History of the Dar Clans

For a full rendering of the game's timeline, start here with the Stone Age, or here for the Bronze Age.

Rounds 1 and 2: The Paleolithic Era
Year Zero:  The Earth Gathering.  The Dar tribe loses their leader and their medicine man as a result of an earthquake which destroys their cave.  The survivors seek answers, blaming a deformed six-fingered child of Uman, but the Great Spirits deny them justice.  In fact, the Great Spirits insist that the Dar offer up one of their women to Uman's deformed child as a bride when he comes of age.  A Dar midwife, their only remaining healer, attacks Uman in her rage and despair and is killed.

Year 30,000:  The Drim Acquire A Telepath.  The tradition of bridal exchange is interrupted when the Drim suspect a young healer to be possessed by evil spirits.  The Great Spirits demonstrate that her telepathy is actually beneficial, for young Temu is the equal of old Ral the Raven in a contest of skills.

Year 50,000:  The Thrian Telepath Chooses.  Bonna, the telepath of the Blue Water tribe, is told by the Four Heroes to use her best judgment.  She decides that her people of the Blue Water should not slaughter and kill the half-breed aguen people of Cold Cave.  Instead, her tribe slaughters the herds of the Big River.

Note:  The intervening years will be filled in as I have time.  Watch this space!

Year 105,618:  The Pharaoh Takes A Bride.  The female Pharaoh, first of the dynasty of Sathad-Zin, cannot take a bride; instead, she becomes one.  Volunteered as the father to produce an heir for the Sathad-Zin is Dave, the Fire God. 

Year 105,710:  A Conqueror is born.  The trial of Dytoclanes elevates his philosophical teachings on Truth and Goodness to the status of art.  His student, Attades, takes this a step further and declares that in order to do good, one must do harm.  The most prolific student of Attades is Celestrones the Conqueror.

Year 105,739:  The Celestrian Code of Laws.  Celestrones destroys the Great Temple and all but five of the statues of the gods.  In its place he builds a courthouse. 

Year 105,743:  The Conqueror Turns East.  Before the Conqueror left for his invasion of Zefar, he had to decide how to handle the Sathad-Zin giants at his back. 

Year 105,742:  War Between Celestria and Zefar.  The bronze-clad armies of Zefar are unprepared to meet the iron of the Conqueror.  A change of tactics is desperately called for, lest the Zefari be buried by the Celestrians.

Year 106,072:  The Abbadar Found Boladine.  In order to quell the fears of their Oracles, the Boladine leader's son Rolojer marries both of the twins, rather than just one.