AGE OF DARKNESS

–5293 Earthfall. The Starstone tumbles to Golarion, creating the Inner Sea and kicking off a thousand
years of darkness. Azlant destroyed. Elves depart Golarion.
-King Taargick founds the Kingdom of Tar Taargadth, uniting dwarves in a common cause to abandon the
subterranean Darklands.
-Orcs first emerge onto the surface world, fleeing vicious pogroms by righteous dwarves tunneling
toward a prophesied land of the open sky.
-Dwarves fulfill the Quest for Sky, emerging for the first time upon the surface of Golarion.

AGE OF ANGUISH
–4294 The veil of dust and darkness lifts from Golarion. Primitive peoples grasp and claw for power in a
broken world.
-Founding of the Jistka Imperium.

AGE OF DESTINY
c. –3470 Founding of Ancient Osirion.
– Jistka Imperium collapses.
– Shory aeromancers establish Kho as the first of their legendary flying cities.
–1281 Taldor founded by descendants of Lost Azlant and indigenous primitive humans.

AGE OF ENTHRONEMENT
1 Absalom founded. Aroden, the Last Azlanti, raises the Starstone from the depths of the Inner Sea and
becomes a living god.
37 Taldor’s First Army of Exploration destroys the Goroth Lodge in the Verduran Wood and charts the
Sellen River as far north as Sevenarches.
- Aroden mortally wounds the wizard king Tar-Baphon on the Isle of Terror at the center of Lake
Encarthan.
- Artokus Kirran formulates the sun orchid elixir.
- The Glorious Empire of Tar Taargadth collapses when orcish raiders launch massive assaults against the
Sky Citadels, conquering several and throwing dwarves into uncharacteristic chaos for several years.
- The First Five Kings War erupts, engulfing all of the Five Kings Mountains and many of the surrounding
human settlements.
1707 Andoran founded as western border of Taldor when General Khastalus of Corentyn clears the
Arthfell Forest and establishes Augustana.
- Norgorber passes the Test of the Starstone, following Aroden’s path to divinity.
2133 Taldor’s Seventh Army of Exploration pacifies the Isgeri tribe of Kellids inhabiting the valleys
between the Menador and Five King Mountains, forming the protectorate of Isger to capitalize on trade
from Druma and inner Avistan.
- Elves return en masse to Golarion via the Sovyrian Stone in Kyonin.
- The Choking Death spreads west from Iobaria, decimating human populations in northeast Avistan.
- Cayden Cailean drunkenly survives the Test of the Starstone.
- Cheliax founded as western frontier of Taldor.
- Tar-Baphon returns to life as the Whispering Tyrant. The lich king unifies the orc hordes of Belkzen and
terrorizes central Avistan.
- Arthfell Forest trampled by the Slohr.
3754 Taldor launches the Shining Crusade against the Whispering Tyrant.
- The Knights of Ozem summon Arazni, the warrior goddess Herald of Aroden.
- Tar-Baphon humiliates and kills Arazni.
- The Whispering Tyrant imprisoned in Gallowspire.
3828 The Shining Crusade officially comes to an end with the founding of Lastwall, a holding of Taldor
tasked with watching over the prison of the Whispering Tyrant.
3832 Iomedae, heroine of the Shining Crusade, successfully attempts the Test of the Starstone and
becomes Aroden’s Herald.
3980 The Rending. Droskar’s Crag erupts, rocking much of southern Avistan and causing widespread
destruction in Darkmoon Vale. Sections of Almas wash away in massive flooding.
4081 Chelish King Aspex the Even-Tongued breaks from Taldor, claiming Andoran and the winged folk of
the Devil’s Perch by diplomacy and Galt and Isger by force. The decade-long power grab becomes known
as the Even-Tongued Conquest, and greatly undermines Taldorian influence throughout western
Avistan.
4113 Karas “the Falcon” Novotnian enters Darkmoon Vale and begins pacifying the region.
4217 The Yellowtongue Sickness ravages Avistan.
4305 King Haliad III of Cheliax launches the Wars of Expansion to broaden the empire’s northern borders
by claiming land in Molthune and Varisia. This struggle lasts more than a century and spans the reign of
five Chelish monarchs, eventually becoming known as the Everwar.
4307 Foundation of the Pathfinder Society in Absalom.
4410 Cheliax cedes territorial ambitions in Varisia and Belkzen, officially ending the Everwar.
4508 The Forest King Narven dies in the Arthfell Forest.
4552 Mengkare, the great gold dragon, begins his grand experiment on the Isle of Hermea.
4576 First Hellknight order, the Order of the Rack, founded in Westcrown.
4605 King Gaspodar of Cheliax prepares for prophesied manifestation of Aroden, foretold to mark the
advent of the Age of Glory.

AGE OF LOST OMENS

4606 Aroden dies, leaving the Empire of Cheliax without a divine mandate.
4609 Osirians overthrow their Keleshite masters and Prince Khemet I takes control, citing a bloodline
that dates back to the ancient pharaohs. Ulizmila, reportedly the granddaughter of Baba Yaga, arrives
in Darkmoon Wood.
4622 The faltering Church of Aroden launches the First Mendevian Crusade.
4632 The province of Molthune declares its independence from Cheliax.
4638 Drezen falls to Worldwound demons. Second Mendevian Crusade begins.
4640 Diabolists of the House of Thrune wrest control of Cheliax, brutally ending three decades of vicious
civil war. A dark shadow envelops the empire.
4648 The northern half of Molthune rebels against the avaricious nobles in Canorate.
4655 The conflict in Molthune ends with the founding of Nirmathas.
4667 Red Revolution begins in Galt.
4669 The People’s Revolt transforms Andoran.
4674 The pirates of the Shackles unite under one banner to harass the fleets and merchants of the
north.
4680 Alkenstar completes the Bridge of the Gods, one of modern world’s most impressive engineering
wonders.
4697 The Goblinblood Wars shake Isger.
4698 A terrible earthquake rocks Absalom.
4703 The Night Terror, a Chelish merchant ship thought lost to the Eye of Abendego years ago, is found
adrift off the Andoren coast in pristine condition but with its entire crew missing.
4704 AR - Codwin I of Augustana elected Supreme Elect of Andoran. Codwin is reelected to a second
term four years later
4705 The Gray Corsairs sink three Katapeshi slave galleons in the Inner Sea.
4707 The current year.