Timeline of Historical Events

🕰️ Timeline of Historical Events

A record of the known (and hidden) eras that shaped the world of Ember.

📚 Overview:

This timeline is a living document, its gaps filled with myth, hearsay, and dangerous truths. Different factions teach different versions, and no two timelines match completely. But the bones of history remain — charred, bloodstained, and whispering.

We break this into five major ages:

🌋 The Age of Flamekind

~Time Unknown–Earliest Memory
The world is wild. Flame reigns. Dragons soar freely.

Namsae dreams the world into being — flame births life, the Heartroot grows.
The iMoogi whispers to the first sentient beings — possibly dragons.
Magic is raw, primal, instinctive. No races are yet fully formed.
Ancient tunnels (like those beneath Ironspire) are born of dragonfire.
The twin moons rise — one to watch the sky, one to guard the land.

“All was fire and flight, and the sky hummed with wings.”

🪓 The Age of Splintering

~10,000–6,000 years before present
Lineages are born. Magic becomes mortal. Conflict ignites.

The Mythborn races emerge: Stoneborn, Vaelkin, Drakari, Myrran, and the Heartroot druids.
The Whispering Vale becomes a sacred druidic enclave.
Dragons retreat — some vanish, others hide in human form.
The Heartroot Prophecy is first spoken (and ignored).
Factions begin forming — cults, guilds, orders. The Ashen Path rises.

“From one flame, five embers. Some chose sky. Some chose stone. Some chose blood.”

🩸 The Age of Dominion

~6,000–1,000 years before present
Power concentrates. Vampires rise. The sky is broken.

The Noctari (vampires) first emerge — possibly from a corrupted dragonblooded line.
Vampires build empires in the shadows. The Nocturnal Rose blooms beneath the cities.
The Bloodspell is cast by the twin Vampire Kings:
- One moon is destroyed.
- The sun is bound into the ceiling of the underground.
- The sky is rewritten with illusion and bloodfall.
- Vampires ascend to near-equality with dragons.
The Forged system is created: criminals forced into gladiatorial servitude.
Dragons vanish entirely from public life.

“The sun forgot its name. The moon drowned in blood. And the kings drank deep of flame.”

⚖️ The Age of Chains

~1,000 years ago–Present Day
Rule is law. Secrets are buried. Dreams are fading.

Ironspire becomes the seat of modern civilization.
Guilds, courts, and crown factions rise in power.
The Crucible system is refined — slavery rebranded as justice.
Magic becomes rare and institutionalized.
Druidic orders fade, their tree desecrated.
Dragons become myth.
The Heartroot is desecrated to fuel the vampire spell.
Noctari now live as nobles, or hidden predators.
The Ashkind begin to rise (unnoticed): Ravyn and Talon are born.

“Freedom sold. Magic collared. The sky lied, and we forgot to dream.”

🔥 The Time of Ash and Embers

Now
The world is shifting. Fate begins to burn.

Ravyn and Talon unknowingly grow up on opposite sides of the law.
The prophecy begins activating — strange omens appear.
Ironhowl MC rebuilds from years of loss.
Irontide Syndicate grows in strength, unknowingly protecting the Flame.
The first vampire betrayal occurs — a hidden transformation.
The twins awaken their powers, though they don’t yet understand them.
The past begins to bleed into the present. The iMoogi stirs.

“Two sparks. One breath. When the flame mirrors itself, the world must choose.”