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This timeline chronicles the known events of the Eternal Multiversal Canon. All dates are based on those used by the Eternals, and use the designations that the Eternals have given them.
- OG stands for Time of the Old Gods, and is used for the billions of cycles that existed before the Eternals came into being. Like the BC designation used on Earth in many realities, OG denotes the number of years before the Prime Eternal was created. There is no cycle 0; 1 OG is immediately followed by 1 AC.
- AC stands for Age of the Creator, and is used for the millions of relative cycles when the Eternals worked under the guidance of the Creator. For the majority of this era, the Eternal City was enclosed within a Demiplane where the local flow of time was a hundred times slower than normal Continuity; this can make dates during this era hard to reconcile with the events of the Continuous.
- RAC, short for Revised Age of the Creator, is a newer movement in Eternal society to revise the calendars of the Eternals to more accurately reflect the cycles when events occurred as observed by the Continuous. Many older Eternals have difficulty letting go of the timescale they have used for millions of relative cycles, and will often still use the older AC numbering when they refer to a date. Whenever possible in this timeline, dates are given in both AC and RAC format.
- ED means Era of the Daughter, and is used for the cycles since the passing of the Creator and the birth of Yume. As the passing of the Creator forced the Eternals' demiplane back into a flow of time identical to that of continuity, cycles in the ED era correspond correctly with those in the greater Continuous.
A loose timeline of known major milestones in Multiversal history. The "current" time in the Continuous is Era of the Daughter 4319.
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Time of the Old Gods (OG)
20B OG
- The first universe is formed out of the Void by the Creator, and the other Old Gods take various roles in maintaining it.
18B OG
- A group of shugenja use "old magic" to awaken the Void and draw it to the first universe; the Creator and her allies alter it so that it begins to create lesser copies as a buffer against the Void. This is successful, and a "frothing edge" of existence and Void forms along the new multiverse's border.
17.9B OG
- The first of the gods rebel against the Creator and attempt to create new universes, using their own power to try to ward off the Void; but they are destroyed and absorbed into it. Phaetheon and his allies use this energy to create a barrier between the lost universes and still-existing ones, called aether.
17.89B OG
- Believing their cause to be hopeless, an Old God willingly merges with the Void, enhancing its knowledge and power.
17.2B OG
- Contemplative gods create the first of the "outer planes," higher realities compared to physical universes, and give up some of their power to create bonds to connect these planes to certain universes. Most of the remaining creator gods follow suit, creating the first non-elemental religions.
17B OG
16.9B OG
- The planes begin to create their own life-forms and "iterations" (in the form of lesser planes spread out over more of the multiverse). Old gods such as Aniishvara begin to examine the planes, the first true "evolution" outside of their control.
16.6B OG
- Aniishvara discovers life in the Far Realms that predates the planes, although the monstrosities prove impossible to accurately study.
16.5B OG
- One of the gods tries to create "blank" copies to seed new universes. Several of these are created before the Void mysteriously adapts and begins to focus on universes with less matter and energy first.
16B OG
- Their numbers reduced, one old god creates lesser deities to maintain the universes split from his iterations. Others begin to follow suit, and soon almost every core universe has its varying sets of lesser gods.
15B OG
- One god joins with agents from the Void to attempt to kill the Creator; Phaetheon defeats them and begins to learn to use Void energy himself.
14B OG
- The Creator and her remaining allies create the Continuous, a new, non-iterative universe in the center of the multiverse itself. They slowly populate it with life, keeping it hidden from the Void.
10B OG
- The first multiversal Void War begins as an "Emperor" arises, using the twisted essences of victims of the Void as an army to destroy many universes in an attempt to get to the Continuous, before an alliance of the remaining gods and the lords of the first Planes defeat them. Losses range in the billions.
9B OG
- One Old God creates an advanced, quasi-deific true breeding race known as the "sentinels" to battle against the Void.
8B OG
- The "sentinels" rebel, weakening their patron dramatically, who is then assassinated. The sentinels, possessing the power to cross realities, scatter; their bloodlines lead to the first Transcendents.
4B OG
- Another old god creates a race based on the sentinels, called the Guardians; and separated them among various universes along the Far Realms to battle Void incursions. This god is also mysteriously assassinated shortly afterward.
2B OG
- The Void perfects another trick, using certain types of creatures to absorb the energies of worlds into the Void. No Old Gods were left with large-scale influence over the Continuous aside from the Creator, who was unwilling to sacrifice her own creation to stop the Void. Eventually, she gives up her powers of anti-creation and part of her self, which results in Vante. Her "brother" uses his Void power to utterly destroy the tainted worlds, thus preventing another Void war.
1.6B OG
- One god of order separates most of his essence in the form of specialized multiversal beings called Auditors, whose goal is to sustain the multiverse through compiling and organizing universes instead of directly combating it. This god is also killed, though some time after the Auditors were safely established.
400M OG
- Members of the deities of Erynmere gather warriors from other universes to fight on their world.
80M OG
- Aniishvara chooses the world of Thallien to create her own sentinel race, developing a line of creatures named the Endless.
Age of the Creator (AC)
75M AC
- Following the victory of the An'ven and beings they recruited to assist them against the Void, the Creator ordains Anko and others as the first Eternals, and charges them to build a society to help protect the Continuous against the Void. They adopt a massive, magical fortress as their new home.
70M AC
- Seeing that her Eternals were progressing slowly, the Creator shows them how to control passages to the Plane of Creation to transcend into and even re-create other universes. Using the Memory Pools, the population slowly grows as the first Eternals find suitable warriors to join them.
65M AC
- As the demiplane the Memory Pools are hidden in expands, the Eternals gradually begin to build houses and infrastructure inside it. This growth is extremely slow, and the construction takes millions of cycles.
63M AC
- Phaetheon mortally wounds Aniishvara in a close battle, and swears to the Creator that he will undo her "mistakes".
62M AC
- The Endless wage a war against a race of Voidwarped creatures known as the Azshmaradi, driving them from their homeworld and nearly pushing their species to the brink of extinction, it would be millions of years before the Azshmradi claimed vengeance.
61M AC
- The Old God Fudo confronts Phaetheon for his crimes against their fellow gods and defeats him; although Void Mage's use of Void-powered spells leaves him permanently scarred.
60M AC
- The Void attacks unexpectedly, routing the Eternals and making inroads into the Continuous. The first Eternal Void War ends when veterans of the first Void War arrive from the planes to assist. Several of them swear allegiance to the Creator and stay, hiding their identities from the new Eternals.
59M AC
- The Eternals re-organize into a caste-based society, including positions for arts and sciences not related to warfare. Some Eternals protest and leave in the bitterest infighting since their inception; Anko withdraws from the public eye and the Creator herself has to intervene.
- The Knights Arcana form, taking the dual duties of honing Eternals against future Void incursions and ousting traitorous Eternals.
58M AC
- Construction begins on a dedicated home for the Eternals, and they enchant a floating continent in the Continuous as a site for their city.
55M AC
- A minor Void attack in one of the ERH clusters prompts an overreaction that leads to a war between the Eternals and one of the races allied with the Void. The Eternals accept millions of refugees and begin to place them into the Echelon as the population explodes.
52M AC
- Eternal Lambdas unearth the Titanicus, a golem unaffected by nearly all supernatural powers, which begins a slow rampage toward the center of the Continuous.
51M AC
- In an emergency meeting, the Eternal High Council agrees to move the nearly-finished city and all Eternals into the demiplane, and the Titanicus passes by without incident.
49M AC
- The Titanicus is destroyed by a massive team of bounty hunters, representing nearly all the established races in the Continuous. Its creator was never identified.
46M AC
- A civil war raging among the Endless culminates on a battle on the world of Isarau where the lover of Anuthi was killed by an Endless airstrike against rebel forces. Anuthi was driven to madness by this event and slaughtered his own soldiers to the man. Anuthi was later captured and tried for his crimes by the Lunarian Council and exiled to the fringes of the Continuous to die a solitary death.
- Years later Anuthi would return to the homeworld of Thallien with an army of Azshmaradi and wage a war to destroy his own kind, manipulated all the while by the Azshmaradi. The sword given to him by the Azshmaradi, the Sword of the Betrayed took in the souls of the Lunarian Council, and during this battle, the Azshmaradi utilized a weapon that destroyed Thallien, sucking it into a localized black hole, hoping to destroy their enemies, Anuthi with them. This, however, jettisoned the Endless' souls into the plane of creation, scattering them across the multiverse.
40M AC
- Cronimus joins the Eternals as an advisor to the Delta. Though disliked he proves to be an invaluable asset.
26M AC
- The Void attacks once again, this time striking with a smaller force to trick their enemies. After minor skirmishing, the leader of this Void force, a powerful necromancer similar to the being who attacked the An'ven, animates the beings slain by the Void into wraiths and more powerful creatures. The exponentially increasing army is finally defeated by the Eternal military's fighting to the last man, each having orders to sacrifice themselves if necessary to kill large numbers of the enemy.
- The terrible losses and brutal nature of the war demoralized many Eternals, some running away and others transferring to other castes. The Knights Arcana in particular see a large influx of potential members due to the aftershock of the war, and several smaller-scale combat-oriented organizations form during this period.
25M AC
25.9 AC
- Fabian is personally revived and chosen by the Creator to become an Eternal, and joins the scattered forces returning to the city.
25.8M AC
After reviewing the second Void War, the current Delta steps down, appointing Cronimus to succeed him.
19.5M AC
- Agents hostile to the Eternals, including many Vagrants, begin the "Epidemics War," using engineered nanites to start a plague throughout the Continuous. A reprisal team of Xis assassinate those responsible, but the plague ends up out of control; and rival groups continued to attack and harass Eternal attempts to study and cure the plague. When Cronimus's wife dies in a rescue operation, he and other scientists complete a weapon to eradicate the nano-worms and those infected.
12M AC
- The Void launches an all-out assault against the Multiverse, beginning in the Far Realms and cutting a swath toward the Continuous. The attack is so sudden and from so many different locations that by the time the Eternals react, the Void's numbers had already multiplied far beyond initial estimates. The planes again join the battle, but this time the leaders of the Void defeat them, absorbing the majority of the planar regions of the universes they consume as well.
11.95M AC
- The Eternals, realizing that fighting on their own would be ineffective, learn about previous events where groups had recruited other warriors in the Multiverse as shock troops. With Miracle, newly recruited by Septerra, serving as a figurehead for other "mortals," the Eternals and their allies amass an army even as the Void closed in, thousands of universes already lost. Miracle is secretly made an Eternal by the Creator for his pivotal role in the conflict.
11.9M AC
- Committing the bulk of their forces in a feint, the Eternals send Senares, Miracle, and other volunteers on a mission to defeat the most problematic part of the invasion, a "hive" of sorts hidden within a region of the encroaching Void discharging countless swarms of void-beasts. Miracle defeats a Shapeshifter within while Fabian stopped the growth of the swarm, and despite devastating losses the Eternals drive the Void out of the Continuous.
11.89M AC
- Fabian becomes the next Beta, as his predecessor had fallen and been added to the ranks of the Vicers. In a plot known only to the High Council, Cronimus banishes Miracle to the new edges of the Void rather than allowing him to join the Eternals.
11.5M AC
- At Fabian's urging, the current Alpha agrees to abolish the strict caste system and streamline the roles of those in the Echelon. The lowest rank of Zeta was altered to reflect those without another title.
4.5M AC
- An unassuming member of the Celestial Choir named Septerra is appointed Gamma.
4M AC
- Mishnu backs the current Sigma in a dispute with Cronimus and Vante over the existence of a world unusually attuned to the Memory Pools. Their rivals promote Mishnu to Epsilon of Recruitment.
3.8M AC
- Using her new authority as Epsilon of Recruitment, Mishnu helps a mortal friend named Saint hold a tournament to oppose Cronimus, who continues to threaten the world in question. Shortly afterward, Saint is led to the Creator and made into an Eternal; Mishnu promotes him to the third Sigma.
3M AC
- The Void launches another invasion of the Multiverse, but compared to the two previous assaults, this one is comparatively straightforward; and the Void is defeated once more by the actions of the Eternals and the warriors gathered via the Memory Pools. However, the lack of any large-scale support from the planes leads to casualties still being high, although nowhere near the devastation of the second or third Void Wars.
1.4M AC
- Mishnu becomes the next Alpha, succeeding the previous one, who had been assassinated following a dispute with Vante that led him to pursue Saint to the planet the Sigma was overseeing. The assassin was never found.
200 AC
- Saint directly opposes Vante over a significant Earth universe, using a forbidden "entropy sphere" to save it from his influence. Unknown to Saint, this drastically affects Vante, and in turn the Creator.
1 AC
- The Creator's separation from Vante has eventually cost her most of her essence, and she asks Mishnu to assist her. Saint holds his last tournament to save her, but ultimately she rejects it; and she and Vante pass on, leaving behind the last of their essence in an Eternal infant, who becomes Yume's shell.
Era of the Daughter (ED)
2 ED
- Recoiling from the Creator's loss, Cronimus and many other scientists begin immediate research on attempting to find other sources of immortality. Necromancy, robotics, magical possession, and more are all considered practical options during this time.
5 ED
- Ayin and Keir cause mischief in the Eternal City, who are hesitant to confront them with the recent loss of the Creator. Eventually, Ayin is killed and a repentant Keir is accepted into Eternal society.
8 ED
- Saint secretly takes Yume to Mishnu, who gives her a place in the city and enrolls her in the Academy.
13 ED
- After accidentally killing a classmate, Yume is accosted by Phaetheon, who begins teaching her to use her powers, and then removing her memory of it afterward.
15 ED
- Yume holds a tournament with the ultimate goal being to give up her powers, but after confronting and defeating that Shapeshifter she changes her mind, accepting her role as the new Creator and returning to the Eternals' city.
100 ED
- An advanced construct calling itself Krizak holds a tournament with the goal of becoming a god, and succeeds.
500 ED
- One of the few remaining old gods known as the Watcher returns from his meditations to find the Creator dead and his allied murdered by Phaetheon. After a short time of reflection, he attempts to split his essence into parts as other gods had done, but his lack of will caused them to die. The state of divine undeath lasted a week, drawing beings from across the multiverse to him; before it ended.
1000 ED
- Fabian tracks his old friend Halcyon to the unusual universe of Crystara, where he had been found by an agent of Cronimus's. A brief tournament held there resulted in the uncovering of the legendary Forever Sin, which vanished for a time in a battle against the "children of terror" that were endangering that world.
3467 ED
- Two enigmatic yet extremely powerful beings named Onyx and Crusader gather warriors to defeat an ancient menace named Anno in a Continuous-less copy of the Multiverse.
3503 ED
- Adam Reeve is hired to track down those responsible for stealing one of the old Sigma controllers for the Memory Pools, in the form of a gauntlet. Miracle takes advantage of the ensuing chaos to strike against Cronimus. During the confusion, Yuo takes control of the Pools to ostensibly help Miracle's plot for revenge against the Eternals. Cronimus is killed in the eventual attack on the City, which is cut free from the demiplane the Eternals had been using; and Miracle flees.
3506 ED
- Portica orchestrates a tournament to attempt to settle the conflict on her homeworld of Nusuth, complicated by the arrival of the Muses (on a rescue mission for Septerra, who had unbeknownst to her subordinates been kidnapped by Portica). Eventually Portica aligned herself with the Void and attempted to destroy the world, but was killed before the process could be brought to completion.
3507 ED
- A Vagrant Eternal named Foxglove attempts to use another tournament to strike at the Eternals, but was captured and exiled to Agamemnon.
3508 ED
- Void-King Vire launches the fifth Void War, consolidating his forces for several cycles before using artifacts to transport them directly to Arcadia to attack the Eternals. The fighting lasts for one brutal day before he is defeated by several of the warriors he brought with him, and retreats back through Carpasia to the Void.
3509 ED
- AEGIS forms in order to investigate and analyze dimensional anomalies within the Continuous and beyond.
- Anuthi is awakened from his dormant slumber inside the heart of the Plane of Creation and seeks to draw his siblings the Endless back together, in a plot that draws in warriors from the multiverse as well as the Eternal members of AEGIS. He is ultimately killed, and Aniishvara uses the last of her power to bring those drawn into the Plane of Creation home, in the world of New Thallien where the old Endless homeworld once was.
4319 ED
- Phaetheon attacks the Eternals directly in a bid for the Multiverse, but is drawn out by Yume's appearance in the tournament hosted by Sasurai. Eventually, he is defeated in the Void itself, although he manages to partially succeed in his goals; he destroys the part of Yume's essence that could have been used to reset the Multiverse in the "final option."
- "Current day" in the EMC timeline.
