Chronology of the world of Ethea, and some excerpts from the book "History of Ethea, from the Ancient Aeons to the Present Times", wrote by eminent and already late Professor Rennard Boronius. (Written by GuiaDeMinecraft)
“I delight in writing what will be the first modern synthesis of the Complete History of Ethea. An innovative work that goes far beyond kings and battles of the last millennium, and delves into the depths of our past to [...]”
Volume I, page 2.
Graphicus I: Timeline
-60.000.000 Gods War?
-25.000 Arrival of the Elves
-19.000 Arrival of the Dwarves
-14.000 Arrival of Humans and Halflings
-11.000 Great Deflagration
-9.000 First Human Empire
“All evidence suggests that the War of the Gods, in which Ulduhr and Fiur were defeated according to the common mythological tradition of all ethean races, was as real as life itself. Some iconoclastic scholars have proposed that these legends are just inventions orchestrated by religious to perpetuate, or at least allegories of natural forces and processes. […] But there exist Ruragir Tusk. There exists the Dolmen of Ur Tyr, and there is the Titans Causeway. There are all those Vestiges roaming free in the world. And there are all common legends found by archaeology of Native Peoples of Ethea. From one end of the world to another, in different languages and cultures, with other names, they tell the same divine battle.”
Volume I, page 23
“[…] After the devastation nothing was left that could bear fruit. Centuries would make land grow green again, but the sons and daughters of the gods, the creatures that They created to fight among themselves, had no greater purpose in life than that for which they were created. They were incapable of raising any civilization, and Vestiges remaining do not pass from tribal cultures doomed to extinction.
Ethea was growing green again, but it would be a dead world because it had no intelligence.”
Volume I, page 167
“It has been accepted the 25,306 before the Modern Era as the exact date of arrival of the Elves to Ethea. […] The problem was that the magic used to open the portal from their Homeworld to Ethea damaged the fabric of space and time around the world. They closed the portal, but around, everywhere, small cracks appeared connecting worlds. Many closed by themselves without [...] Other times, some creatures managed to cross.”
Volume II, pp. 79-83
“[...] But to the 19,000 b.M.E., a huge crack opened on that mountain, connecting with a similar one in a distant world. And it arrived at Ethea the Second Intelligent Race: Dwarves. [...] so the elf king Mannuvannary'l declared holy war against the Dwarfs, in a reckless attempt to expel or wipe off that race from Ethea, since that elven faction considered them degenerate and pernicious [...]”
Volume II, pp. 234-257
“New problems emerged toward the 14,000 b.M.E. According to astronomers and historical records, there were major changes in the sun over a decade that perhaps led to the opening of new and larger cracks. The fact is that before the elves could detect them and close them down, Ethea already had two new intelligent species to populate it: the Halflings, and we Humans. [...]”
Volume III, page 32.
“[...] But while the elves, dwarves, and even halflings, had arrived from their home worlds as developed species, it could hardly be said so of human [...] tribal and clannish organisations, dressed in skins and armed with rudimentary stone knives or bronze axes in the best [...] with a language based on grunts, snaps and belching, which we would replace by the Common (or more technically, Type C Clear Elvish) following the first contacts with the other species.”
Volume III, page 35.
“[...] There were calls for the annihilation of the newcomers, and even an unusual meeting happened between the ambassadors of the elves and dwarves, where a temporary alliance to this effect was discussed. But the dwarfs are not a dominating nature race, but independent and introspective, and preferred to trade with humans (and above all, teach them to trade according to dwarf rules) rather tan killing them. And finally, the elf king Riwonnyen'l could not forget the terrible consequences of the previous racial war declared by his father four millennia ago. So they let humans live. They taught and promoted them, gave them a common language, and found that they also shared the same gods, although with other names and some details changed. And humans evolved quickly.”
Volume III, page 98.
“[…] Towards the 12,000 b.M.E., we have already documented several human city-states of economic, demographic and cultural importance. And in the b.M.E. 11,900, the first human kingdom arose in the vast expanses of Karolis. [...]"
Volume III, p. 109.
“[…] Everything would change abruptly in the fateful year of 11,063 before Modern Era, the year of the Great Deflagration [...] Perhaps the more vivid chronicles are those of the Dwarves, whose telescopes surprisingly improve the elven telescopes [...] relate the horror of discovering that immense rock approaching from space [...] to know they were just weeks before the world disappear, and not able to do anything about it [...] victims of religious fanaticism, with three kingdoms at war, and looting and anarchy reigning in the streets [...] The most bitter undoubtedly were the elves: they felt unable to open portals to lead his people back to their old world for fear of completely tearing the fabric of space and time. They were trapped in what it was supposed to be their paradise, which had become a purgatory, and would end up in a Hell.”
Volume III, p. 211
“[…] The fireball hit the southern hemisphere. The impact went through the crust and shook the whole world. Entire cities crumbled in minutes, others sank into the sand or in the sea, and other rising into the sky as sharp edged mountains broke out from the bowels of flat squares and streets. The seas were removed; the continents collided with each other or separated. In M.E. 1105 we even discovered the small continent of Apteronia, ripped off the coast of Acalia by the cataclysm [...]”
Volume III, page 267
“[...] Millions died. Biologists estimate that 50% of the species that one day populated this world disappeared. The death toll among the dwarves was extremely high, hundreds of thousands were crushed and buried inside their mountains [...] It was left not a single human city on foot, all we have excavated are ruins [...] Subsequent evidence suggests that human culture retreated almost to the initial stage, as when they had just reached Ethea. And, beyond the cataclysm, were its consequences: decades of incessant rains turned the world into a quagmire of ash. Keeping alive the maximum possible plant specimens demanded all the magic of the elves, and the best alchemists the world (or those who remained alive) struggled to find better treatments for soil defenses and fertilisers [...] but they needed to generate light because for decades the smoke clouds barely let pass the sunlight [...], and the elves were decimated.”
Volume III, page 304.
“In any case, the elves were the ones who came out worse off. The problem was not so much that the explosion directly destroyed their largest cities, but that elves are not really a very "fornicator" race. These alien creatures usually live to be 5,000 years old, some venerable ones reach even 10,000 years. It is a static race, with a low breed rate, at a very slow pace, with an unfortunately high rate of infertility [...] They could compete with the dwarves, although they are not as long-lived and reproduce more often than they do[...] But they could not compete with humans who breed like rabbits.”
Volume III, page 327
“Before noticing, humans outnumbered elves by a ratio of 10,000 to 1. The Golden Age of the Elves had abruptly ended. And the Age of Humans was beginning.”
Volume III, page 331
