Okayyyyyy brief timeline go!
Gonna be a long one.
Beginning...
Kaosu was there.
Got bored.
Created chrona and Karma.
Then started creating the other four of the first gen godds- Dracora, dradvow, Anahita, and lapis.
Stopped creating and laid back, no longer bored.
First gen godds started creating more godds, including life and death, good and evil, sun and moon, reincarnation, etc etc. Eventually leading to the creation of the people godds, but we aren't there just yet.
^Creation of Godds era
The goddess of life, Vitalis, decided to create a mortal group that had extended life spans and incredible intelligence- the Drakons.
Drakons started worshipping the Godds.
Godds flattered.
Godds create a new godd, just for the Drakons- Monarch.
Drakons eventually start abusing their power over monarch (who was, technically, created to be subservient to them)
Monarch went apeshit and caused the Drakons to flee, making them disappear forever.
Godds found out. Monarch (now called Ruler) gets shattered. First shattering of a godd in history.
Gets split into the guardian of all knowledge- Librarian, and the scum of corruption- originally unnamed, but eventually named Quicksilver.
^Age of the Drakons
The old godds enter a depressive state, world goes into an ice age of sorts.
The people godds- ved'ma, Shaytan, Malaikat, Zmeya, and Volk come up with a new idea.
Creation of nightmares commences.
Cat Nightmares first, by ved'ma. Then bat nightmares by Zmeya. Then wolf nightmares by Volk. Then snake nightmares by Shaytan. And finally owl nightmares by Malaikat.
Efiriya, goddess of the Wilderness, creates humans.
Ved'ma puts it upon the nightmares to protect the humans.
Ehhhhhhhhhhh. They tried.
Eventually, a group of nightmares arise that don't follow the command to protect the humans.
Out of respect of the godds, a cat nightmare named Mercury banishes the group and hides them away so they'll never be found again.
After this, Mercury also finds a way to make the nightmares not forcefully transform at night. Over time, this causes the nightmares to become: the Demons (snake), Angels (owl), Vampires (bat), Werewolves (wolf), and Witches (cat).
^Nightmare Era.
Over time, the new versions of these groups formed different societies.
Polynavyk, a new goddess, also arises and creates her own groups- the Halflings- and grants them their very own continent named after her.
The halflings are largely unknown or ignored by the others during this time though.
The Demons create the Empire. The Angels create their Kingdom. The Werewolves have their Tribes, the Vampires have their Colonies, and the Witches have, and keep, their covens.
They split up, staying to their respective continents and generally staying out of each other's business unless they go to war.
The Demons and angels did a lot of that during this time. The war was ongoing and only stopped during peace negotiations that never went anywhere.
The Werewolves joined with the humans and started hunting vampire colonies.
Witches. States on their continent, studying and mastering their crafts in peace. The halflings also led peaceful lives.
Eventually, an accident happened during a meeting between the empress of the demons and the king of the angels, leading to both dying and there being a power vacuum.
Humans discovered the continent of Polynavyk and shifted their focus from the vampires to the halfings. The Werewolves, after having helped break up the majority of the vampire colonies, broke their tribes apart back into the smaller packs.
The power vacuum for the demons and angels left chaos behind and far more brutal wars with zero peace. Many angels fled to the sky islands shrouded in thick fog that demons couldn't navigate. Demons fled to the Underground, laying in the dark in case an angel is stupid enough to wander in blindly.
The vampires, with their decimated population, hid among the trees and caves of their continent, hiding at the slightest hint of danger. The Werewolves stayed to their packs, rarely venturing out alone or meeting other packs.
The witches started traveling. To share their knowledge and their magic. They were shocked to find so much ruin among the other peoples.
The halflings were being hunted. Whether it was to take their land or use their flesh for any sliver of magic a human could wield, humans were hunting them down.
But, it got harder after Polynavyk noticed and split her continent in two. Not in half. She was hoping her halflings could take the bigger piece, but there were too little left to occupy it. So they were forced to the smaller piece. Humans renamed the larger half to Efiriya. Despite the chasm of churning waves between the split continent's pieces, the humans continued trying to take the rest of the land the halflings had left.
^Era of War
After the dust finally settled- in Shaytan and Malaikat, at least- an industrial boom started. The knowledge the witches had gained from their years of peace during the Era of War, they had discovered new ways to do things and create things through the use of natural resources (fossil fuels, sunlight, wind, and water) but also through magic. And magic was the big part.
(I'm not well versed in the industrial revolution for our world, so I'ma just skip over most of this. Just know that things progressed very quickly in both good and bad ways)
They went through different stages of technology that our world had, leading to different types popping up all over- normal industrial revolution, modern, steampunk, etc.
The only problem was that, for those who communed with the godds, it was getting harder and harder. Magic was draining from the world and things were dying.
So. When people took notice of this, they thought. They slowed down. And most places gave up this amazing technology. The stuff that allowed them to do so much in so little time. The stuff that was killing their godds.
Some places still have these technological periods. Most of the advanced (modern and cyberpunk especially) places are in Efiriya- humans found it hard to give up this power.
Most places reverted back to a mostly middle ages type style.
(yes, this is an excuse to have stories set in different types of crap and also to shoo away any "but that didn't exist during that time period..." Comments) (>:P)
^Technology Boom
Now, to the "modern day".
Most people still keep to their continents, but there's a bit more mixing.
Humans and Halflings are still. In conflict.
It's a time of peace, you could say.
^modern day
Hope you guys enjoyed this somewhat brief timeline. :3
I'm so tired.