[OOC] Mid/High Casual - Divinus: The Deity Roleplay Mk.II

[LokiLeo789]

@LokiLeo789 Naah, it'll be fine. Ain't no writing competition gonna make me breach Divinus' sacred IC xP they can disqualify me all they like!

@Kho

My network of super secret agent super spies will make sure that won’t happen. Don’t worry, you are protected....just send me your credit card number, expiration date, and security number as I am a Nigerian Prince who doesn’t work for free.

[Cyclone]

@Kho

Your odds of getting away with it have dropped precipitously now that you've mentioned it, lol. ALL THEY GOTTA DO IS CLICK YOUR PROFILE AND LOOK AT YOUR POST HISTORY TO SEE EVIDENCE OF YOUR CONSPIRACY TO AVOID JUSTICE, BRO

so gouge their eyes out

[Kho]

@Cyclone I changed the spelling of 'EXPUNGED' in the text, but I stupidly named the file 'EXPUNGED'. Now all they have to do is search 'EXPUNGED' and we are undone. We must expunge all mention of 'EXPUNGED' from the internet.

[Frettzo]

Historical footage of Reathos reacting to a girl scout knocking on his door to sell him cookies.

[Muttonhawk]

I decided to update this chunk of the hain timeline, now that we actually have a timeline reference point. Please feel free to help me out with specific orderings. Currently everything is marked 'c.' for circa, seeing as the order matters more than the timespan.

If people would like to help my sanity while this is being added to, please do add a circa year PR on your posts. It's not compulsory but I would be most appreciative.

Also keep in mind that with the new turn system, probably less is going to be crammed into a few years at a time.

Hider

The Blinding Purge and the Bronze Age

0 PR: Logos' realta storm Galbar from all directions. Countless are caught in their indiscriminate fire, marking the largest planetwide massacre in existence. The attacks last for between a few days and a few weeks before stopping.

c. 1 PR: Death of Kyre at the hands of Xos.

c. 1 PR: Tauga the Blowfly, a Jvannic hain, unites a predominantly hain slave community in Xerxes to rebuild the city in Amartia's absence. Coinage is conceived.

c. 1 PR: Amartia returns to Xerxes with the Fallen Victors and assumes control from Tauga in an apparently peaceful handover.

c. 2 PR: Keriss visits Xerxes. Her reputation is recorded.

c. 2 PR: Keriss and Tauga meet.

c. 2 PR: After failed attempts to set the city back to order, Tauga leaves Xerxes with the last sane emigrants. Xerxes is bathed in Amartia's deluge of bloodlust a short time after.

c. 2 PR: Under the guidance of Gerrik Far-Teacher, the tribe of Fibeslay build the world's first lighthouse to receive boats from the East. Chipper superstitions are shaken in the tribe.

c. 3 PR: The armies of Amestris and Xerxes meet to decide the ultimate fate of Amestris. Vestec abducts the city into a massive arena in his Realm of Madness. Lifprasil's cosmic knights win a pyrrhic victory and a hole in the ground remains the only trace of the great city of Xerxes. Tauga the Blowfly is named Marquis of Amestris by Lifprasil.

c. 3 PR: Edda, the marked hain of Toun's will, lands at Loralom.

c. 3 PR: The Loralom Spires burst out of the ground, rallying the hain of Yorum to the Marked Hain Edda and King Akol the Quickhatched.

c. 3 PR: 'The Tragedy of the Scaled Goddess,' a ubiquitous oral hain story is spread following Keriss' tryst with a hain in a village near the Venomweald, resulting in the village's destruction. Versions of the story diverge wildly as to its final act.

c. 3 PR: Gerrick the apprentice brings agriculture, flint and steel sparking, and cold forging to the hain community of Tallgrass in Mesathelassa. After a time, he also independently innovates agriculture, as it had not reached that part of the world by then.

c. 3 PR: The ogre king Ommok invades and occupies hain tribal confederations between the Venomweald and the Shimmering Sea.

c. 3 PR: Xerxian refugees under Tauga inhabit the north-Metatic island of Axotal.

c. 4 PR: Legends of Aihtiraq the Wishdjinn spread.

c. 4 PR: Occult alchemy is spread through sculptors via Teknall's whispers.

c. 4 PR: Stories of Farxus, the Deathbed Counsellor permeate through Hain folklore from those surviving near-death experiences.

c. 4 PR: The Metera Valley community develop worship of the Painter Chiral Phi.

c. 4 PR: Stories of Anthanasios, the half-beast healer, spread throughout Galbar.

c. 4 PR: Urtelem are imparted with mathematically precise Belruarcian rune magic by Teknall. Hain communities previously unprotectable from powerful threats by Urtelem now find their rocky allies much more capable.

c. 5 PR: The Celestial Citadel plummets into the Vetruvian Desert. Vizier Ventus' death causes worldwide instability in weather patterns.

c. 5 PR: Teknall rebuilds the fallen and ruined Celestial Citadel into the Terrestrial Citadel, leaving it for any worthy inhabitants. Clockdog is always worthy.

c. 5 PR: Vestec gathers and remakes Kyre's shattered sword, before granting it to Aeramen, the Djinni Lord of the Hilt, founding the Knight Protectors.

c. 5 PR: Helvana, the Corvian Witch, saves a hain village from a trapped realta.

c. 6 PR: The communities living on Axotal (including the refugees from Xerxes) develop great innovations in ship design, navigation, and metallurgy.

The reason Kyre's death is so early in the piece is basically due to Conata setting out soon after the realta attack and meeting Aeramen. Aeramen mentions that Kyre has been 'quiet' at the time, which was meant to hint that the god had died by that point. Why it took a few years for the current hullabaloo to come around can be put down to divine timescaling.

[Dawnscroll]

*gasps for air*

*is somehow still alive*

Is... not been fun lately. =w= Sup peeps?

[LokiLeo789]

*gasps for air*

*is somehow still alive*

Is... not been fun lately. =w= Sup peeps?

@Dawnscroll

hi

[Scarifar]

*corpse continues to rot*

[Slime]

@Muttonhawk PR being in what measure of time?

[Vec]

@Slime Post Realta I presume.

[Slime]

@Vec I get that, but is it years, months, weeks?

[Lauder]

c. 3 PR: 'The Tragedy of the Scaled Goddess,' a ubiquitous oral hain story is spread following Keriss' tryst with a hain in a village near the Venomweald, resulting in the village's destruction. Versions of the story diverge wildly as to its final act.

@Muttonhawk

I’m never going to live that terrible Post down am I?

[Slime]

@Lauder No, you won't. You monster.

[LokiLeo789]

<Snipped quote by Muttonhawk>

I’m never going to live that terrible Post down am I?

@Lauder

Even Ama was disgusted at what she did.

[Muttonhawk]

@Muttonhawk PR being in what measure of time?

@Slime

It's years post realta invasion, just like the turn post. Galbar has roughly Earth-like year lengths for simplicity.

<Snipped quote by Muttonhawk>

I’m never going to live that terrible Post down am I?

@Lauder

I have recorded everything relevant to the Hain ;)

*corpse continues to rot*

@Scarifar

*Casts gentle repose spell*

Need some inspiration?

[Slime]

@Muttonhawk Helvana saving the village should be placed a little while after the battle of Xerxes then. She was born before the battle, but after Vestec proposed it with Logos and only two months at most passed since then. I'm thinking about writing a small post of her finding the remains of the city in fact.

And I was thinking. I wanted to do a colab with Conata, but I didn't factor in them being two years apart from each other.

[Scarifar]

@Muttonhawk
Ehh, I have a vague idea of what to do next, but just haven't really had the motivation to develop it further.

And now comes new updates in TF2 and Dota 2, so that hasn't helped either.

[Cyclone]

@Muttonhawk

The ogre expansion into the Hain confederation was happening during and before the Realta attack. Not that it matters too much; the Realta invasion didn't impact the ogres much, it's just that whenever the ogres inevitably interact with nearby civilizations a few years down the line, those civilizations will have recovered somewhat from the Realta and the ogres will have had time to consolidate their holdings and begin looking for more.

That timestamp that you have for the beginning of the ogres' southwards expansion is probably closer to when Dargok's expedition tried to cross the Ironhearts and fought the battle against the organized urtelem and the sculptor.

I had envisioned Kyre's death having happened right around there, but it's odd for there to be such a large gap between that and him visiting the Celestial Citadel. Even by divine standards four years is a long time to do nothing, and I had imagined all the events concerning Xos on Galbar would happen within half a year. That'd be starting with him killing Kyre and ending with the inevitable confrontation between him and the trifecta that's plotting against him.

Edit: Oh, and Aihtiraq appears before all of this because he shows up in Shaqmar's story which entirely predates the Realta invasion. Though you did just say "rumors of Aihtiraq spread", so admittedly there's some leeway between the time of his actual appearance and his existence being common known among the Hain.

[Oraculum]

Placing Osveril's goings-about on this timeline might need some guesswork. In terms of major world events, the best points of reference I have are the Sculptors starting to gain knowledge of alchemy, which follows Teknall and Toun's visit to Jvan and presumably precedes his birth, and the Pronobii resurrection, which follows it by a moderate(?) spell (Termite doubtless knows better than me where it would go). Overall, though, I'd say the birth wouldn't have happened later than 5 PR, if only because it was still the last turn. This should currently put Osveril in late 5 to early 6 PR at most.

In short, Osveril and time still have a tense relationship. Do correct any blunders I may have made there.

[Muttonhawk]

@Muttonhawk Helvana saving the village should be placed a little while after the battle of Xerxes then. She was born before the battle, but after Vestec proposed it with Logos and only two months at most passed since then. I'm thinking about writing a small post of her finding the remains of the city in fact.

And I was thinking. I wanted to do a colab with Conata, but I didn't factor in them being two years apart from each other.

@Slime

Conata is possibly going to go through a short timeskip for a few years to catch up with the turn, so we may have the opportunity for a collab at some point. Especially if Helvana is still heading to Alefpria.

@Muttonhawk
Ehh, I have a vague idea of what to do next, but just haven't really had the motivation to develop it further.

And now comes new updates in TF2 and Dota 2, so that hasn't helped either.

@Scarifar

Gerd derm vidja gaems.

Tell you what. How about after your next Dota game, you tab out and write one paragraph. That ought to haunt you into it!

@Muttonhawk

The ogre expansion into the Hain confederation was happening during and before the Realta attack. Not that it matters too much; the Realta invasion didn't impact the ogres much, it's just that whenever the ogres inevitably interact with nearby civilizations a few years down the line, those civilizations will have recovered somewhat from the Realta and the ogres will have had time to consolidate their holdings and begin looking for more.

That timestamp that you have for the beginning of the ogres' southwards expansion is probably closer to when Dargok's expedition tried to cross the Ironhearts and fought the battle against the organized urtelem and the sculptor.

I had envisioned Kyre's death having happened right around there, but it's odd for there to be such a large gap between that and him visiting the Celestial Citadel. Even by divine standards four years is a long time to do nothing, and I had imagined all the events concerning Xos on Galbar would happen within half a year. That'd be starting with him killing Kyre and ending with the inevitable confrontation between him and the trifecta that's plotting against him.

Edit: Oh, and Aihtiraq appears before all of this because he shows up in Shaqmar's story which entirely predates the Realta invasion. Though you did just say "rumors of Aihtiraq spread", so admittedly there's some leeway between the time of his actual appearance and his existence being common known among the Hain.

@Cyclone

Yeah, some points on this timeline are on more of an archaeological basis. That meaning that points appear when there is evidence in the culture or artefacts of the hain. Aihtiraq was probably not seen as such a big deal until enough hain corroborated stories about him, hence his timepoint.

Anyway, I've shifted a few points around for everyone, so how's this?:

Hider

The Blinding Purge and the Bronze Age

0 PR: Logos' realta storm Galbar from all directions. Countless are caught in their indiscriminate fire, marking the largest planetwide massacre in existence. The attacks last for between a few days and a few weeks before stopping.

c. 0 PR: The ogre king Ommok invades and occupies hain tribal confederations between the Venomweald and the Shimmering Sea.

c. 1 PR: Death of Kyre at the hands of Xos.

c. 1 PR: Tauga the Blowfly, a Jvanic hain, unites a predominantly hain slave community in Xerxes to rebuild the city in Amartia's absence. Coinage is conceived.

c. 1 PR: Amartia returns to Xerxes with the Fallen Victors and assumes control from Tauga in an apparently peaceful handover.

c. 2 PR: Keriss visits Xerxes. Her reputation is recorded.

c. 2 PR: Keriss and Tauga meet.

c. 2 PR: After failed attempts to set the city back to order, Tauga leaves Xerxes with the last sane emigrants. Xerxes is bathed in Amartia's deluge of bloodlust a short time after.

c. 2 PR: Under the guidance of Gerrik Far-Teacher, the tribe of Fibeslay build the world's first lighthouse to receive boats from the East. Chipper superstitions are shaken in the tribe.

c. 2 PR: The Celestial Citadel plummets into the Vetruvian Desert. Vizier Ventus' death causes worldwide instability in weather patterns.

c. 3 PR: 'The Tragedy of the Scaled Goddess,' a ubiquitous oral hain story is spread following Keriss' tryst with a hain in a village near the Venomweald, resulting in the village's destruction. Versions of the story diverge wildly as to its final act.

c. 3 PR: The armies of Amestris and Xerxes meet to decide the ultimate fate of Amestris. Vestec abducts the city into a massive arena in his Realm of Madness. Lifprasil's cosmic knights win a pyrrhic victory and a hole in the ground remains the only trace of the great city of Xerxes. Tauga the Blowfly is named Marquis of Amestris by Lifprasil.

c. 3 PR: Edda, the marked hain of Toun's will, lands at Loralom.

c. 3 PR: The Loralom Spires burst out of the ground, rallying the hain of Yorum to the Marked Hain Edda and King Akol the Quickhatched.

c. 3 PR: Gerrick the apprentice brings agriculture, flint and steel sparking, and cold forging to the hain community of Tallgrass in Mesathelassa. After a time, he also independently innovates agriculture, as it had not reached that part of the world by then.

c. 3 PR: Xerxian refugees under Tauga inhabit the north-Metatic island of Axotal.

c. 3 PR: Helvana, the Corvian Witch, saves a hain village from a trapped realta.

c. 4 PR: Legends of Aihtiraq the Wishdjinn spread.

c. 4 PR: Occult alchemy is spread through sculptors via Teknall's whispers.

c. 4 PR: Stories of Farxus, the Deathbed Counsellor permeate through Hain folklore from those surviving near-death experiences.

c. 4 PR: The Metera Valley community develop worship of the Painter Chiral Phi.

c. 4 PR: Stories of Anthanasios, the half-beast healer, spread throughout Galbar.

c. 4 PR: Urtelem are imparted with mathematically precise Belruarcian rune magic by Teknall. Hain communities previously unprotectable from powerful threats by Urtelem now find their rocky allies much more capable.

c. 5 PR: Teknall rebuilds the fallen and ruined Celestial Citadel into the Terrestrial Citadel, leaving it for any worthy inhabitants. Clockdog is always worthy.

c. 5 PR: Vestec gathers and remakes Kyre's shattered sword, before granting it to Aeramen, the Djinni Lord of the Hilt, founding the Knight Protectors.

c. 6 PR: The communities living on Axotal (including the refugees from Xerxes) develop great innovations in ship design, navigation, and metallurgy.