The following is an account of the history of Gönd (the World).

Note: Dates are marked by days following the beginning of Spring. Seasons (the usual four) are recognised, but months are not. There are approximately 360 days in the year…. but this varies depending upon when Spring is considered to have started (usually the first melt). Years are recorded as SC, “Since Creation”.

0 SC This is the year that the Gods are said to have created Gönd. This is not, as is the norm, the beginning of records – no records exist from this time. 0 SC may in fact be an accurate date for the beginning of all creation, as direct communion with the Gods is not unheard of.
100 SC One hundred years after the creation of Gönd, the Gods descended from the Heavenly Plane to dwell upon their newly moulded world. For millenia, they lived there alone and in peace.
10,000 SC
The Time of Strife		 The War of Gods begins. The children and grand children of the Elder Gods demand the right to shape the World. They are led by Molkai, the Trickster God, who was first among the Second Generation of Gods. The war rages for 500 years. The blood spilled would, much later, develop a life of its own, and populate the planet anew.

Finally, an accord is reached: For 100 years, all Gods may shape the world as they see fit and the Elder Gods will populate it. Directly following this time, the Gods must depart once more to the Heavenly Plane and leave the world be.
10,500 SC Gönd, as it is known today, was formed. Great mountains, vast forests, icy plains, bottomless caverns – all of these were created by the Gods.
10,590 SC Molkai betrays his fellows and uses his newly granted powers to mount an attack on the Elder Gods. Molkai succeeds in trapping the Elder Gods beneath the Icy Wastelands to the far north of Gönd. When he returns, victorious, to his siblings, Molkai is shocked to find they disapprove of his actions. The Gods attack Molkai and eventually destroy his body, preventing him from taking on corporeal form ever again. Alas, though victorious, the Gods lacked the craft to locate and free their forefathers from an icy prison. The Elder Gods remain buried to this day.
10,600 SC The Gods honour their agreement, and depart Gönd.
10,600 – 15,000 SC Over the next 4,000 or more years, life on Gönd springs anew. The departure of the Gods sees the rise of the four great races: Dragons, Elves, Dwarves and Men. Other races, too numerous to list, are also born into existence from the long ago spilled blood of the Gods. Alas for them all, Molkai the trickster perverted the process where he could. War and hatred were again seen upon the surface of Gönd. The other Gods do what they can, to this day, to ensure Molkai’s influence is held at bay. Creatures who are weak of will – or those who desire power above all else – are most susceptible to Molkai’s ways. After 15,000 SC, life has more or less stabalised.
15,100 SC
The Age of Civilisation		 The first Great Kingdom of the Elves, Ellôria, is founded. The vast forest city of Nyl’Doren is named its capital.
15,900 SC The Dwarves colonise to the western rim of the Palir mountain range and crown their first King, Svarten, to rule over the newly founded Dwarven Kingdom – so named, in part, due to a lack of inventiveness, but primarily to show that while a Dwarf’s home may be carved in stone, his People are wherever he may find them.
19,200 SC The Humans, previously a nomadic people, found the Kingdom of Leyira – which will eventually stretch as far north as the Palir Mountains, as far south as the Zolian Sea and as far west as the Great Forest of Niamür and as far east as the Hatorran Mountain Range.
22,500 – 22,515 SC The reign of the Dragon, Salizarr. His reign is ended by the heroic Hugh Kade, youngest son of the Duke of Otraxis. Read more here.
22,523 SC The War of Kadian Succession. Read more here.
23,100 SC Present day.