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Authors: Jim Grimsley

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The Sisters refuse to teach Cunavastar any of the Wyyvisar that they know

 

Cunavastar withdraws from Arthen and builds Cunevadrim with the help of the Other and the Orloc, who are friendly to him for a time

 

Cunavastar learns Ildaruen from the Other

 

Cunavastar builds the first stone circle on the foundation rock of what will become Yruminast

 

Cunavastar woos Commyna in Arthen

 

V. The First War

 

The Two Sisters make Sister Mountain

 

Commyna conceives a child by Cunavastar

 

The Two Sisters fight Cunavastar and southern Arthen dies

 

Commyna bears a child, Falamar

 

Cunavastar tries to steal the child but YY takes Falamar into the Deeps of Inniscaudra

 

Commyna and the Two Sisters defeat and bind Cunavastar but cannot destroy Cunevadrim

 

YY banishes the Sisters from Arthen and they cross the mountains to Zaeyn.

 

VI. The Forty Thousand

 

YY creates Forty Thousand humans and sets them on the hills around Inniscaudra

 

The Forty Thousand waken. A language has already been made for them.

 

They live in Inniscaudra for seven generations

 

Jisraegen writing is developed, Clans arise, and the Jisraegen meet the Uncreated Peoples

 

Early Jisraegen begin to move in nomadic groups throughout Aeryn

 

Of the Forty Thousand who awaken, Twelve do not die

 

VII. The Clans and the Evaenym

 

Clans arise as groups of extended family, but all persons have two Clan affiliations of equal importance, the Mother-Line and the Father-Line Clans

 

The first priests learn the worship of YY from the Sisters, among them Curaeth Curaesyn

 

Jurel Durassa leads a group of Jisraegen into the eastern mountains at the site of a river gorge

 

The Twelve Who Did Not Die gradually emerge as leaders among the Jisraegen

 

Falamar finds his father’s house, Cunevadrim, and lives there with his followers

 

Falamar learns Ildaruen

 

The Sisters teach Wyyvisar to Jurel Durassa and Edenna Morthul

 

VIII. Mountain and Forest

 

The Jisraegen settle either in the mountains or in Arthen

 

Jisraegen explorers reach the shore of the Bay of Anyn and explore east as far as Keikilla Bay

 

Jurel Durassa provides aid to the Orloc who are at war with the Untherverthen and the Orloc build Chalianthrothe

 

Edenna Morthul settles in Inniscaudra and becomes the first Keeper of the Keys

 

The Tervan complete work on Halobar, the last of the main halls to be completed

 

Falamar and his Clans settle along the banks of the Isar in Arthen

 

IX. Cities

 

The Praeven and Falamar organize the Clans in Arthen

 

Cunuduerum is founded and the Jisraegen in Arthen begin to organize a style of life that floats between the urban center and a nomadic existence in the forest

 

The Praeven build the first Library in Cunuduerum

 

Falamar and Itheil Coorbahl go south to live in Cunevadrim, dissatisfied with the Praeven’s control of the city

 

Jurel Durassa and the Orloc build Montajhena in the mountains, intended only as a ceremonial center, though soon the mountaineers all build homes of stone in the city

 

X. The People of Drii

 

The Drii appear and ask Jurel Durassa for shelter in Montajhena

 

He and the Jisraegen welcome them after the long trek under the mountains

 

Jurel and Evynar explore Cundruen all the way to the end

 

Evynar and his people found a city at the end of the passes

 

Falamar is suspicious of the friendship between the mountain Jisraegen and the Drii and returns with Itheil to Cunuduerum

 

XI. The Good Age

 

The cities grow and prosper

 

The Praeven and Edenna Morthul begin the deriving of the akana alphabet and the Maleikarte

 

The tradition of the kyyvi begins as a result of this

 

Jisraegen weaving and glass-working become increasingly advanced

 

Jisraegen abandon the study of astronomy

 

Jisraegen literature, theatre, opera and visual arts flourish in Cunuduerum, Montajhena, and Genfynnel

 

XII. Falamar

 

Falamar begins to teach Ildaruen to a small set of followers

 

Cunuduerum is dominated by his faction and, it is thought, by magic

 

The forest Jisraegen become less nomadic and settle in or near Cunuduerum through much of the year

 

The forest-folk become estranged from the mountain Jisraegen

 

Edenna Morthul and the Praeven begin the construction of the first akana chant

 

The Orloc complete work on Chalianthrothe, finishing the room of three circles

 

XIII. The War of the Towers

 

Falamar enlists the Tervan to build Seumren

 

The Praeven begin the first of the Immorthraeguls of Power

 

Falamar uses Seumren to destroy the Praeven though Edenna and the last of the Praeven adepts manage to close and seal the Library

 

Falamar spreads the story that the Praeven were singing the Breaking Song that will end the universe as we know it

 

Jurel builds Yrunvurst and places the Tervan muuren-stone in the summit

 

Edenna Morthul retires to Inniscaudra and begins work on the base of Ellebren on Thrath Rock

 

XIV. The Massacre in the Hills of Slaughter

 

In Cunevadrim, Falamar broods, hires Tervan builders, begins work on Yruminast, over the foundations of Cunavastar’s ritual circle

 

Falamar marries and fathers a child, when it was thought that the Evaenym were barren. The child is Drudaen, who learns his father’s arts

 

The Anyn land on the north shore of the Bay of Anyn at the present-day site of Charnos

 

Settlers from Montajhena found Ivyssa along the river delta to the south and Cordyssa in the mountains

 

Itheil Coorbahl is killed in southern Aeryn by an Anyn scout party

 

Falamar leads an army against the Anynae and several thousand, or more, are massacred in the Hills of Slaughter

 

Falamar enslaves the Anynae, though some escape to eastern Arthen, where the mountain Jisraegen give them shelter

 

Jurel and Falamar go to war

 

Charnos is founded and the Tervan build the Great Wall to protect the Anynae from Falamar

 

Arroth is founded, and later Teliar and other southern cities

 

XV. The Hundred Years War

 

Falamar and the largest army of Jisraegen ever assembled besiege Montajhena

 

Jurel and his folk continue to be supplied from Drii

 

Jurel and Falamar are matched powers of the Fourth Level and neither can gain the advantage for nearly a century

 

Jurel goes to Chalianthrothe, is absent for a long time, and for the first time uses the room of three circles

 

Jurel builds the room in Yrunvurst that allows him to travel to Seumren instantly

 

Jurel drives Falamar out of Seumren

 

Falamar besieges Montajhena, and Jurel defeats his army

 

Falamar, in fighting Jurel, understands how Jurel is moving third-level power and does so himself

 

The ensuing force destroys Yrunvurst Tower and kills both Falamar and Jurel

 

XVI. YY intervenes

 

A time of chaos ensues

 

YY intervenes in the affairs of Aeryn for the sake of Arthen

 

She gives the Law of Change and names Kirith Kirin and Athryn Ardfalla as King and Queen

 

When Queen Athryn I was old, she summoned Kirith Kirin and he came to Aerfax and took the Crown from her, and he became King, and she rode to Arthen and became young again, and the cycle was established

 

Some of the Twelve who had been immortal were now taken with YY to Zaeyn and others were named

 

The lives of the Twelve were merely prolonged and they would no longer be immortal in Aeryn

 

The Tervan build Senecaur, the Tower of Change, over Aerfax, and place an Eyestone there attuned to the Karnost gems in the possession of Kirith Kirin and Athryn Ardfalla; the rune-work is completed by Edenna Morthul, and later Drudaen is allowed to add Ildaruen lines to the kirilidur as well

 

XVII. The Rule of Law

 

Athryn Ardfalla and Kirith Kirin reign in peaceful succession

 

Kentha Nurysem learns Wyyvisar at Illyn Water, though this knowledge is hidden

 

Edenna Morthul completes the building of Laeredon and begins a shenesoeniis in Ivyssa, called Karomast

 

Settlers go to Novris and found a city there, the first jointly made by Anynae and Jisraegen

 

Edenna Morthul retires to Laeredon when Kentha Nurysem attains the Fourth Circle of magic

 

Kentha Nurysem takes over building of Karomast and Ellebren

 

Drudaen builds Thoem and also begins a Tower in Arroth, but there only lays the foundation

 

Drudaen builds Goerast and Kentha rebuilds Yrunvurst in Montajhena

 

XVIII. Discontent

 

Drudaen and Kentha become lovers in secret

 

They exchange gifts. Drudaen gives Kentha a sapphire he has kissed

 

They explore the ruins in Montajhena and Kentha shows him the room in Yrunvurst, which Edenna showed her

 

They go in secret to the Library of the Praeven in Cunuduerum

 

They part for a while

 

Kentha is troubled that she has taken Drudaen to the Library and withdraws to Inniscaudra

 

She works intently on Ellebren Tower and guards that part of Inniscaudra from Drudaen; she refuses to leave Arthen even when Kirith Kirin is King

 

IXX. Aretaeo

 

In the thirty-third change, when Kirith Kirin was King, Kentha returned to Inniscaudra and Drudaen and she became lovers again

 

Near the time of the summons, Drudaen convinced her to return to Cunuduerum, and she did

 

They remain in Arthen and returned to Cunuduerum many times after the thirty-fourth Change, when Athryn Ardfalla became Queen

 

In some manner they conceive a child, though the Jhinuuserret were rarely able to engender or bear children

 

Drudaen attempts to force the secret of the Praeven magic from Kentha and she uses the Gem he has given her to read his thoughts

 

Drudaen attempts to kill Kentha

 

They contest one another to no conclusion and Kentha goes to work completing Ellebren Tower

 

She seals the Praeven Library and locks him out of Yrunvurst, and thus out of Cunuduerum as well

 

Kentha foresees the Long War

 

Drudaen attacks her while she is completing Ellebren Tower and Kirith Kirin and Athryn Ardfalla use the Karnost Gems together to force them to make peace

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