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Brian Ruckley
BRIAN RUCKLEY was born and raised in Scotland. After studying at Edinburgh and Stirling Universities, he worked for a series of organizations dealing with environmental, nature conservation, and youth development issues. He lives in Edinburgh. Find out more about Brian Ruckley at www. brianruckley. com. the passage of time
Began when the Gods made the world and put the One Race in it to inhabit it.
Ended when the One Race rose up against the Gods and was destroyed.
Began when the Gods made the Five Races: Huanin, Kyrinin, Whreinin, Saolin and Anain.
The Huanin and Kyrinin made war upon the Whreinin and destroyed that race, and were thereafter named the Tainted Races for their sin, and forfeited the love of the Gods.
Ended when the Gods departed from the world.
Began with the absence of the Gods, and with chaos.
Year
280 The Adravane and Aygll Kingships arose
398 Marain the Stonemason began the construction of Highfast, at the behest of the Aygll King
451 The Alsire Kingship arose, and the era of the Three Kingships began
775 The three Huanin Kingships united against the Kyrinin clans and the War of the Tainted began
787 Tarcene, the Aygll King, was bound, his mind enslaved, by the na’kyrim Orlane; his own daughter, in despair, killed him
788 Tane, the Kyrinin’s Shining City, was captured by the Huanin armies, the Deep Rove was raised by the Anain, and the War of the Tainted ended
792 Morvain’s Revolt, a rising against the faltering Aygll Kingship, culminated in a failed siege of Highfast
793 The last Aygll monarch – Lerr, the Boy King – was slain at In’Vay, and the era of the Three Kingships ended; Aygll lands descended into chaos and the Storm Years began
847 The Bloods – Kilkry, Haig, Gyre, Ayth and Taral – were founded in Aygll lands, and Kulkain oc Kilkry became the first Thane of Thanes; the end of the Storm Years
849 Kulkain oc Kilkry bade Lorryn the na’kyrim establish at Highfast a library for the preservation of learning and knowledge
852 The last Alsire King was slain, and the first King of the Dornach line took his throne in Evaness
922 The Black Road heresy arose in Kilvale; Amanath the Fisherwoman, its originator, was executed and the creed outlawed by the Bloods
939 Avann oc Gyre-Kilkry, Thane of the Gyre Blood, adopted the creed of the Black Road
940 Civil war broke out amongst the Kilkry Bloods, between the adherents of the Black Road and those opposed to the creed
942 Following their defeat in battle at Kan Avor, the Gyre Blood and all adherents of the Black Road were exiled beyond the Vale of Stones, and founded there the Bloods of the Black Road: Gyre, Horin, Gaven, Wyn and Fane
945 The Lore and Battle Inkalls were founded by the Bloods of the Black Road
948 The last attempt by the Kilkry Bloods to crush the fledgling Bloods of the Black Road in the north ended in failure; their armies retired south of the Vale of Stones and the fortification of Tanwrye began
959 The Hunt Inkall was founded by the Bloods of the Black Road
973 The Lannis Blood was founded, in reward for Sirian Lannis dar Kilkry’s defeat of the invading forces of the Black Road at Kolglas
997 Haig replaced Kilkry as first amongst the True Bloods
1052 The Dargannan Blood was founded
1069 The Lannis-Haig Blood defeated Horin-Gyre in the Battle of the Stone Vale, near Tanwrye
1070 Tavan oc Lannis-Haig died, and his son Croesan succeeded him as Thane of the Lannis Blood
1097 The Lannis-Haig Blood was afflicted by the Heart Fever, which killed almost one in six
1102 The Dargannan Blood rebelled against the authority of Haig, and Gryvan oc Haig, Thane of Thanes, summoned the armies of the True Bloods to march against them introducing
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