Timeline

THE BEGINNING
??? - The Ten True Gods awake in void, and craft the spark of light that would spread throughout the cosmos.

??? - The Shaping - Over ten days, the Gods shape Aleria, molding mortal life in their image. This monumental exertion of their divinity lulls them into untold millennia of slumber.

THE FIRST AGE
??? - The First Age covered a period of several centuries between the rise of early civilization and the reawakening of the Gods. Corroborated surviving records indicate that early humans and orcs unified together under shared banners, although border skirmishes and civil wars seem to have been common. It is believed that the Precursors lived and died in this era, taking their secrets of unimaginably advanced technology with them.

??? - Velthon (Darkness, Conquest, Purity), is first of his kin to awake. He finds himself sickened with what mortals have reduced themselves too, and sees fit to forge a superior being of his own to scour Aleria of life and start anew. Allying himself with Surtr (Fire, Life, Emotion), Deimal (Bloodshed, Beasts, Freedom), and Nox (Decay, Pestilence, Immortality), he creates the first dragons and unleashes them upon the realm.

??? - The Aptera - The remaining five Gods awake to an Aleria on the brick of calamity. Tyrius (Justice, Honor, Retribution) and Balthazar (Fire, Valor, War) forge the three Aptera, dragonslaying weapons of immense power, and bestow them upon three human kings. This undertaking is coupled with the release of vast amounts of magic by the Gods, saturating the realms with mana and allowing lesser beings to manipulate it for the first time. This release subsequently brings about the birth of thousands of lesser deities, populating the stars with their spheres of influence.

The three Dragonlords lead mortals in the mass-hunting and subsequent extinction of dragonkind. Following these events, the Ten True Gods name humanity their chosen, and begin to walk amongst them once more. The Dragonlords are named High-Kings and found the united Holy Kingdom, leading Aleria into the second age and the dawn of recorded history. Velthon ruminates on his failure, and bides his time.