Ordarian WIKI

The recorded history of the world goes back nine thousand years, though it is often accepted by many scholars that there is much more before this that has simply been lost.

Recorded time is currently split into five eras, or ages. 

The First Age - The Dawning
The Dawning encompasses the first pieces of human history. The elven race and dwarven race were already present on the world at this time, though as primitives as well. The Dawning is called such because it takes place after an event known as The Dawn Wars in which the gods and their soldiers battled on the world, and in which the current races rose after the gods left.

The Second Age - The Age of Daemons
After the gods departed the world, the next thousand years were wrought with strife and pain as the races of the world attempted to establish their own civilizations. It was during this age that the practice of daemon summoning was crafted and perfected by the elves and that daemon apostates ruled the elven kingdoms. These apostates controlled much of the civilized world, enslaving the other races, who fought back by summoning their own daemons.

The Third Age - The Age of Kings
Picking up from the ruins of the second age, the Age of Kings brought stout heroes of legend who led their races to glory. These paragons of virtue helped close the Aethyr gates which allowed the demons access to the world and led to the sanctioning of magic and to its supervision. During the Age of Kings, mages of any sort had to be licensed with certain institutions or else they were hunted and imprisoned.

During the Age of Kings, wondrous items were forged, to include the powerful Dragonlances which were used to control the dragons that were created by the daemons in the second age. Many artifacts and relics that exist in the modern day were created in the Third Age.

The Fourth Age - The Age of Chaos
The beginning of the Fourth Age began with the opening of the Baechalaqi Gate and the flood of chaos energy into the world. Daemonic entities once again marched forth, undoing the seals set forth by the Kings of the previous age. Chaos sorcery came into being, and tribes of warriors from several continents fell under the sway of their hellish masters. The daemons desire dominion over the world. During the two-thousand year reign of the Fourth Age, much war and blood was shed across every land as the armies of chaos marched forth...

The end of the Fourth Age came within the established empire of Ordar, when a Greater Rage Daemon was slain by a criminal forced into servitude in the Ordarion legion, and the Emperor himself died that day in Fort Perrigrin.

The Fifth Age - The Age of Reckoning
The current age is 429 years old. The Ordarian Empire is crumbling, beset by the Turtans who worship the chaos daemons. The twisted chaos magic has dominated the globe after a powerful rod of wonder was planted within the Temple of Erethas on the Isle of Cict. The world is teetering over this chaos.