Copyright c1997 Peter Metcalfe, save for the copyright bits quoted from other credited sources which is (ha ha) at least 90% of the document. But then that's them Great Poets for ya... Written 21 Jan 1998
Commentary:: This chronology contains events limited to the lands which it describes. For instance, the fact that the Battle of Tanian's victory was fought in 718 ST is common knowledge yet it is not recorded here due to it having occurred outside the area. I have stuck mainly to published material and have shied away from interpretations and interpolations. If you have any questions, corrections and/or mindless trivia that you feel compelled to share with me upon reading this, then please do not hesitate to contact me. Lastly I should acknowledge that this article is largely a reworking of a similar article by Mark Sabulaskas that appeared in Codex #2.
Revisions: Given the scanty knowledge about some periods in history, this document will almost certainly be revised. If I get some more dates, then I will add them dates in. In such a case, this section will contain a brief precis of the revisions to date.
15/2 Added entry for 695 ST.
25/1 New entries for 437 ST and 947 ST. Following discussions with Nick Brooke, entries for 922 ST, 1384, 1388 ST, 1396 ST and 1500 ST have been revised. Added Notes on Arrolian Cities.
0 ST The Dawn [G:CotHW#1]
33 ST Hrestol martyred in Sog City [USC] Comment: Codex#2 claims that the first Hrestoli Churches were set up in Akem as early as 1 ST but I feel this is Hrestoli propaganda given that Hrestol does not set foot in Sog City before 33 ST - PHM.
100 ST Silver Empire Colonies have expanded along the entire Fronelan Coastline [C#2].
128 ST The Count of Northpoint is enobled as the Prince of Norans [C#2].
300 ST The World Council and the Kingdom of Beasts fight at the Battle of the Eleven Beasts [BCG]
375 ST Sunstop. Fronelan Wizards defeat a heathen god. [G:CotHW#1] Garanian Auroch ties Arachne Solara to her net [D:LoD].
385 ST Scattered holdings of Fronelan Monotheists begin the process of political integration [C#2]. Comment: I take this to indicate that the Silver Empire has just disintegrated following a failed attack on Brithos (possibly brought about by Nysaloran ideals?). This explains the Brithini attack on Arolanit.
390 ST Dwarves destroy a troll center at Oral-Ta [C#2].
402 ST The people of the Janube Valley unite into the Kingdom of Akem [C#2].
414 ST Varganthar the Unconquerable Knight unites the barbarians of Fronela against Akem. Lopasar and other settlements along the Janube are destroyed [C#2].
418 ST Sir Talor leads the defense of Akem against the horde of Varganthar [C#2].
419 ST Sir Talor begins his war against the Gbaji worshippers who infiltrated Akem [C#2].
420 ST Sir Talor meets up with Heroes from other lands. Great Oaths are sworn against the Gbaji Cult [C#2].
421 ST The Telmori controlling the High Llama Pass are driven into Fronela by Arkat [C#2].
428 ST Prince Fortiar of Northpoint marries Queen Karemli of Tarins uniting the Principalities and founding the Kingdom of Loskalm [C#2].
435 ST Talor and his companions defeat Arinsor and close the Gate of Banir. This cleanses Fronela of Gbaji's taint. [C#2].
437 ST The Kingdom of Akem sends emmissaries to Brithos asking if the Empire of the Decievers marked the Hero Wars [ToTRM#13]
475 ST Agria and Tawars join the Kingdom of Loskalm [C#2].
525 ST Easval joins the Kingdom of Loskalm [C#2].
534 ST Jorri is conquered by the Kingdom of Loskalm [C#2].
650 ST The Kingdom of Akem dissolves and Pomons joins the Kingdom of Loskalm [C#2].
690 ST The Kingdom of Loskalm begins campaigns and settlements in Junora [C#2].
695 ST Kyrmon's Scroll is written, containing a prophecy about the coming Hero Age [G:CotHW#2]
700 ST The Loskalmi Wars of Succession begin [C#2].
719 ST Syranthir of Jorri rebels against the God-learners in support of the Ecclesiarch. He is betrayed at Acrisan [C#2].
725 ST The God-learners backed by the Jrusteli Confederation and the Nidan Decamony gain control of the Kingdom of Loskalm. The last claimant, Syranthir is forced to migrate to Peloria with his army [C#2].
727 ST Loskalm joins the Jrusteli Confederation [C#2].
735 ST Galastar founds his City [C#2].
750 ST Galastar assasinated by God Learners [C#2].
758 ST God Learners steal the bones of Galastar and prevent his saintly succession [C#2].
785 ST The Confederation of Mortasor is formed to resist the growing power of the Jrusteli and Eastpoint [C#2].
789 ST The Empire of Land and Sea is created with King Svagad of Seshnela as Emperor [G:CotHW#1]
790 ST Under direction from Svagad, Loskalm begins a haphazard campaign of conquest up the Janube River [C#2].
826 ST Loskalmi expansion reaches its greatest extent with the conquest of Eastpoint [C#2].
852 ST Riots in Morian are ruthlessly put down by the God Learners. The cruelty of the suppression sparks a rebellion against Jrustela [C#2].
855 ST Loskalmi troops are withdrawn from the rest of Fronela in an attempt to restore order. The Soldiers refuse to attack their countrymen and join the rebellion. Soon the whole of Fronela rises in general revolt against the God Learners [C#2].
859 ST The Confederation of Mortasor sacks Eastpoint's Low Quarter but fails to penetrate the City's sacred sites. The Confederation dissolves over arguements about shares of loot [C#2].
865 ST The last strongholds of the God Learners in Fronela are cast down. Loskalm enters a period of internal debate, barbarian invasion and religious reform [C#2].
891 ST Hrestolism reinstitued throughout Loskalm with the crowning of Gwainric the Good [C#2]. Comment: Take with heaps of salt up the nose. What religion Gwainric established was probably markedly different from the religion Loskalm has today - PHM.
901 ST Galastari knights rescue the bones of their Founder from Eastpoint sorcerers [C#2].
919 ST Shah Nadar the Avenger of Carmania leads troops on an extensive raid of eastern fronela as far as Eastpoint [C#2].
920 ST The Closing radiates from Brithos, striking hundreds of merchant ships simultaneously and sending them out to sea. The few ships which escaped brought terrible news across the Neolimi sea. A Loskalmi Fleet confirmed that an invisible wall was slowly moving out from Brithos at 300 kilometres per year [G:CotHW#1].
922 ST The Closing reaches Fronela pushing everything right up Ozur's bay so that the river of Sog City was clogged with wreckage [G:CotHW#1]. The Waertagi Cityship berthed in the Drydock is wrecked and its crew marooned. These crew were the ancestors of the Blues of Sog City.[USG]
929 ST The army of Shah Nadar of Carmania returns home [C#2].
947 ST The first crossings of Ozur's Bay since the Closing is attempted [G:CotHW#1].
975 ST Jonat leaves his home in Eastern Fronela and seeks the Secrets of Kingship in Seshnela [C#2].
993 ST Jonat returns and unites many small counties and tribes into the Kingdom of Jonatela [C#2].
1247 ST A Red Orb rises into the Heavens [G:CotHW#1].
1384 ST Lunar refugees are permitted to settle in Holvburg by the King of Valmark [H1#5] Comment: see notes - PHM.
1388 ST Lunar refugees are permitted to enter Starvdyke by the King of Valmark [H1#5].
1392 ST Eastpoint is seized by the Lunar Empire [G:CotHW#2].
1396 ST Jarl Norri Spliteye marries a refugee lunar priestess and founds Norri's Hill [H1#5].
1443 ST Barbarians under Black Hralf the Weasal invade Loskalm and drive Prince Snodal into the land of the Altinae [G:CotHW#2].
1462 ST Riverjoin converts to the Lunar Way [G:CotHW#2]. Comment: Making sense of this is impossible without any indication where Valmark was. My guess was that it was located around Eastpoint. The conquest of Eastpoint would then be a Carmanian expansion down the Janube against the despised Arrolians. Riverjoin would then have converted to owing to an influx of refugees from Eastpoint.
1470 ST Eastpoint self-liberates itself from the Lunar Empire [G:CotHW#2]. Comment: The cause of this self-liberation appears to have been the White Bear Empire which was active at this time according to the Lunar Wane Chronicle. Presumably an army just got mulched - PHM.
1480 ST Pagan resistance to Malkioni teachings increases in Eastern Fronela. Many peasant revolts occur [C#2].
1483 ST Prince Snodal returns from Altinae and kills Black Hralf the Weasal, Son of the Devil [G:CotHW#2].
1495 ST Barbarians expelled from Loskalm by Prince Snodal besiege many cities in Mortasor [C#2].
1499 ST In the Sacred Time King Snodal and his companions assassinate the God of Silver Feet causing the Syndics Ban to descend on Fronela [G:CotHW#2].
1500 ST Siglat, son of Snodal crowned King of Loskalm. Later in his reign, he recieves a vision of Saint Hrestol called Siglat's Dream which led to the institution of New Hrestoli Idealism as the state religion of Losklam -- and also to the canonisation of that saintly monarch. [G:CotHW#2].
1559 ST King Siglat the Good of Loskalm dies [G:CotHW#2].
1582 ST Dormal then sails from Laufol and up the coast to Fronela. He landed at Sog City beginning the Opening of the Oceans there and the Thaw of the Syndic's Ban. Dormal wintered in Loskalm after befriending the King [G:CotHW#2].
1583 ST A Hunter reported in Sog City that he had killed a Spring Deer which usually is found around the Maidstone Mountains and had not been seen since the Ban. He led a party into the north and returned. Dormal sets sails from Loskalm heading Northwards. He finds the Ygg Isles where one of his ships was wrecked and teaches the Yggites his secrets. He then set off for Luathaela despite Yggite warnings. From there he sailed into immortality and godhead according to his priests [G:CotHW#2].
1585 ST The Ban disappears from Loskalm's borders [G:CotHW#2].
1589 ST The Ban disappears from Eastpoint as it becomes able to contact the Lunar Empire. It is unable to contact its neighbours [G:CotHW#2].
1593 ST The area around the City of Southbank is free of the Ban. The City itself remains inaccessible [G:CotHW#2].
1594 ST The first Wakeup occurs among the Rathori [G:CotHW#2].
1597 ST Riverjoin is freed from the Ban by fishermen working down the Janube from the Dona. Eastpoint is free to contact its neighbours [G:CotHW#2].
1599 ST Galastar and Zoria are freed from the Ban [G:CotHW#2].
1603 ST The City of Southbank is freed from the Ban [G:CotHW#2].
1607 ST The second Wakeup occurs among the Rathori [G:CotHW#2].
1609 ST At the Rathori High Holy Day, Harrek interfered with the sacrifice, slew the Polar Bear God and bound it within its skin. When he returned he slew all witnesses. Alone he left Rathorela [G:CotHW#2].
1612 ST The Kingdom of War is discovered and begins its conquests [G:CotHW#2].
1613 ST Explorers reach the end of Valind's Glacier in Porent [G:CotHW#2].
1614 ST Corostis Jumps Like A Salmon rows a small boat from Galastar to the Sweet Sea lifting the Ban from the Mortasor [G:CotHW#2]. The Greenleaf rebellion occurs against Loskalm. Meriatan leads a mighty counterattck but Mallowmere wins the peace when he quests along into Winterwood and signs the Axe Treaty with the High King Elf [C#2].
1615 ST Harrek the Berserk leads an army to plunder Sog City [G:CotHW#2].
1616 ST The Kingdom of Jonatela is freed from the Ban [G:CotHW#2].
1617 ST Harrek the Berserk is made Champion of Ygg. He leads half the population of the Ygg's Isles southwards plundering the coasts of south and western Genertela before settling at the Three Step Isles [G:CotHW#2].
1618 ST The Kingdom of War begins demanding loyalty from its conquered people and seizing goods as taxes. It keeps its murderous raiding elsewhere [G:CotHW#2].
1619 ST The Third Wakeup occurs among the Rathori. The King of Jonatela begins seizing Land from the Count of Timms [G:CotHW#2].
1620 ST The City of Perfe is captured by the Kingdom of War who slew its population or carried them off to slavery [G:CotHW#2].
BCG: Broken Council Guidebook.
C#2: Codex
#2.
D:LoD: Dorastor: Land of Doom.
G:CotHW#1: The Glorantha
Book of the Genertela: Crucible of the Hero Wars boxed
set.
G:CotHW#2: The Genertela Book of the Genertela: Crucible of
the Hero Wars boxed set.
H1#5: Heroes volume 1 number
5.
USG: The University of Sog City Conference Guide.
The quasi-nordic names of the Arrolian cities settled by the Lunars are unsatisfactory as 'Dolebury' (the Carmanian Capital). It seems probable that these cities are intended to be the modern Arrolian Cities (ie Eastpoint, Galastar, Southbank and Riverjoin). Since Galastar is stated to a henotheistic Orlanthi city (ignoring questions on whether it worshipped Orlanth or another God with a similar name), it cannot be one of the Lunar Cities. My guess is that it was the capital of 'Valmark' although Codex #2 makes no mention of this possibility, although it is silent on historical events between the return of Galastar's bones and the Ban.
We know that two out the three cities were entered into and the third was founded. It seems probable that the pattern of settlements was progressively downriver from Galastar. Thus Holvburg which was entered in 1384 ST is probably Eastpoint and Starvdyke which was entered in 1388 ST is the City of Southbank.
RIverjoin would then logically be Norri's Hill but there exists a problem. The description of Riverjoin states that it converted to the Lunar religion in 1462 which conflicts with its alleged founding by refugee lunars in 1396 ST. My solution is that the original city was a mixture of Orlanthi/Lunar settlers. Much later, a second wave of lunar refugees (fleeing Carmanian oppression following the seizure of Eastpoint) managed to swamp the city and the Lunar Way became the official creed soon afterwards.
Legal bits: Glorantha is a creation of Greg Stafford. Runequest (TM) is the Avalon Hill Game Company's trademark for its fantasy roleplaying game.
Comments, praise and criticisms to Peter Metcalfe.
Back to my glorantha page
Back to my homepage