Timeline of the Holy Country

The Gods Age

I use localized myths where possible, and I try to reconstruct the situation before First Council or God Learner meddling forcing all local colour into a less colourful monomyth. Therefore some deities appear with the more familiar names used by the God Learners in brackets.

Note that I use an aggressive reinterpretation of the Footprint myth, assigning names to various anonymous figures, and trying to get Caladril's history straightened out.

I haven't reproduced the Kerofinelan myths described among others in KoS.

Period	Event	Source
Creation	Esrola (Ernalda?) is awakened in the soil by Earth Mother	RQC 16
Early Storm Age (?)	The Seas invade the Earth after Umath pushed down the Earth Cube to make place for his Air (?, compare Pelandan creation myth). Esrola becomes sundered from the Spike by the Raging Sea.	RQC 16
Early Storm Age (?)	The Blue Dragon leads the Oslir Sea across Esrola's land into Peloria. Esrola and Faralinthor fall in love.	RQC 16, 18 (Box), KoS 56
Early Storm Age	Umath catches Esrola and Faralinthor making love and slays both of them, along with a couple of lesser deities.	RQC 16, 18 (Box)
Early Lesser Darkness	Troll refugees on the Backhill Path, led by Gore and Gash and accompanied by Argan Argar, chance upon Esrola (Asrelia) and Caladril (Lodril) making love ("deeply engaged in a terrible struggle", UL 5 - the fiery embrace of the volcano god must have seemed a terrible punishment to the trolls who had just fled from bright fire invading their Wonderhome). The trolls chose to intervene, and Argan Argar and Caladril began to wrestle for hand and body of Esrola.	RQC 16, Uz Lore 5, Troll Cults Book 17
Early Lesser Darkness	Argan Argar sets up a camp atop Esrola (atop the volcano rump whose top he has shorn off in combat with Caladril). He offers friendship, and from their marriage springs the Only Old One, who becomes king of the land. Argan Argar forces Caladril to craft the Obsidian Castle.	Troll Cults Book 17
Middle Golden Age	Caladril enters the Earth from the Sky (?) and wrestles with a being of Darkness or Predark. They join their essences and become the Volcano god. Caladril becomes the husband of Esrola and builds his home in the north of her land, just south of Dragon Pass (the Shadow Plateau, then a sky-high volcano overtowering the Vent by far). Caladril and Esrola have many children (the mountain gods), the mightiest of whom are Stormwalk (the original name was forgotten after Storm Bull wrestled his head off) and Caladra.	Wyrm's Footprints 56
Late pre-Imperial Godtime	Larnste the Wanderer encounters a squirming thing of the Predark twisting its way through the world while walking about sowing the mountains. He stamps on it, leaving a great impression (the Footprint, in Heortland), and giving rise to a chain of mountains (the Storm Mountains). The Predark thing however bit into Larnste's foot and wounded him, injecting some foul sap into the leg. The wound festered at once, and poisoned ichor spilled onto the earth, mixed with the all-eating acid of the Predark-thing, burning sores into the land inside the Footprint and warped all the life it touched.	KoS 55
Middle Golden Age (?)	A god looking down on the writhing horror took "Lodril's (Caladril's ?) Spear" and drove it and the monster deep into the earth. Compare Caladril's wrestling match with the predark thing above. This spearman might have been Argan Argar (which would either predate his appearance in the surface world or postdate this event), but may as well remain anonymous.	RQC 17
Late Golden Age	Where the spear struck down the monster, Caladril (Lodril) breaks free and erupts, spreading molten rock, poisonous ashes and burnt-out earth all over the being and the land.	RQC 17
Early Storm Age	An Air God (most likely Kolat, a god known to have stalked the Storm Mountains) takes offence at both the poisonous ash cloud polluting the air and the festering chaos on the ground, and blows the ashes and dust onto the forest surrounding the sore. By a mighty magic invoking the Law of the Celestial Court he solidifies the ashes and dust and everything they cover, except those parts of the forest already warped by the Predark. This warped forest is known as Foulblood Forest by the peoples of the surrounding lands, or as Forest of First Reward by its chaotic denizens or their allies.	RQC 17
Late Green Age (?)	The Goddess Kethaa tamed the wild earth giant (=god) Entru and took him as her husband. Their children are known as the Entruli. This people later wanders off into the west, where they settle in Wenelia, under the lead of Wendel. This makes me believe that Kethaela in its original meaning was the land west of the plain which became the Mirrorsea Bay, i.e. most of modern Esrolia. The Harandings would have been settling in Kethaela, and the Vingkotlings in Kerofinela, which would have included the Storm Mountains and most of the Heortland plateau.	RQC 17, Nick Brooke, wild speculation
?	The Mostali occupy many workshops, including that of Gemborg, where Martaler of the Blazing Forge melts his alloys and collects his gems.	RQC 17

The Footprint myth combines two or more separate mythical events into one myth. The God Learners failed to reconcile their story of Lodril merging with the Thing of Disorder with the Krarsht myth. The use of Lodril's Spear by some other god might be connected to Lodril's captivity in Argan Argar's basement, and his exultance upon his release seems to support this theory.

The Hungry Maw (Krarsht) is often regarded as a chaos being which made its way into the world independently from the main invasion. These myths about the Predark - chaos making its way into the yet unfinished world - are abundant, like Yelm's battle with Jokbazi, or the ancient Heortling myths about the Predark in KoS 59f.

The Greater Darkness and the Silver Age