Timeline of Events

The Empire of T'Saleth exists on a small peninsula, inhabited by four Kingdoms.  The four Kingdoms are inhabited by distinct races, who are ruled over and kept in a state of temporary peace by a fifth race known as the Keepers.  Each of the four races have their own long histories, with affinities for and enmity against some of their neighbors.

Timeline (Measured by the Kol'E'Thay Calendar)

350 - United now against the unliving, the four races of T'Saleth are fighting a losing battle against the unliving.  As they lose more and more land to the invading army, the Keepers have called for the Diggers, Kol'E'Thay, Blaggal, and Minden to send representatives to them in order to discuss  how the undead threat can be defeated.

The Keepers call for a conference of the four races to determine a way to fight against the Unliving. At the meeting, the Keepers reveal that they, in fact, are sentient members of the Unliving army who were created centuries before by the Kol'E'Thay. The Keepers attempt to kill the representatives and use a powerful artifact called the Abyssal Orb to curse and doom the four races. The representatives are able to escape with the Orb.

349 - Despite the warnings of the Keepers, the Kol'E'Thay and Minden have done little to prepare for the coming of the unliving army that attacks T'Saleth. Still focused on one another, both races are caught off guard by the sudden attack of the unliving.  The attack comes in from the southern, land-side, border of the peninsula and quickly takes over large pieces of lands previously controlled by the Kol'E'Thay and Minden.

347 - An unsteady truce exists between the Kol'E'Thay and Minden.   Raiding between the two sides continues, but all of it is not condoned by either side.  The Keepers react quickly to many of these intrusions, trying to bring them to an abrupt end.  The Blaggal and Diggers remain mostly separate from these raiding activities, though they each entrench more firmly in their support of their respective allies.  The Keepers warn of the coming of a new threat to the lands, an unliving army that will threaten to take over all of T'Saleth.

346 - Shortly after the new year, with the war fully in action once more, a new force arrives in the Empire of T'Saleth.  Wingless like Minden, they wear masks that obscure their features.  The magic of the Keepers is too much for the Kol'E'Thay or the Minden to deal with.  Instead of attacking either side, however, the Keepers demand an end to the fighting.  Unable to stand against the Keepers, the two forces stand down and the war comes to an abrupt end.

345 - Though the rebellion has been over for years, this does not stop ongoing conflict from happening between the newly formed Minden nation and the Kol'E'Thay.  The Diggers stay out of these conflicts, particularly when the Minden are found to be at fault for the offensive incursions into Kol'E'Thay lands.  In the winter of 345, the Kol'E'Thay attempt a massive assault to bring the Minden back under their sway. The surprise assault deals a mighty blow to the Minden people and they lose a substantial portion of their lands.

340 - After three more long years of war, a truce is finally reached between the Minden and Kol'E'Thay.  All of the labor camps are disbanded and the Minden are granted a large portion of former Kol'E'Thay land to settle.  The Blaggal retain their lands, despite the part that some of them played in the Minden uprising.  With the Minden no longer working for the Kol'E'Thay, the Blaggal become an even more important part of Kol'E'Thay society.  The Diggers withdraw back to their underground tunnels and the Kol'E'Thay take extensive efforts to close off the tunnel entrances.

337 - The Minden in a labor camp within the Kol'E'Thay capitol city of T'Reyen rise up in sudden revolt, aided by a large force of rebel spider-riders.  They hold the city for a week before the arrival of the main force of the Kol'E'Thay army.  Retreating from the city, the Minden fight a perilous retreat.  Within days, they are trapped within the Afareth valley.  A final victory over the rebels seems sure for the Kol'E'Thay when a Digger force rises up from beneath the surface to aid the Minden.  With the Diggers' support, the Minden push back the Kol'E'Thay army and strike an important blow.

335 - Blaggal sympathizers begin to join with the rebel army of Minden.  Though the Minden are still drastically over-matched by the organized armies of the Kol'E'Thay, they manage to stay safe by remaining in motion and making small attacks on outlying communities of the Kol'E'Thay.  With each small victory, their strength grows as they free more of their subjugated people.

334 - The first spider-rider appears within the ranks of the Minden.  She is a ranger named Thallis who inspires the downtrodden people to rise up against their Kol'E'Thay overlords.  She teaches others of her people to bond with the spiders as well and begins to create a growing army of rebellious former slaves and servants.

323 - The Diggers make their first appearance with the Empire.  How long they have existed below the lands is unknown, but at the first meeting, extensive tunnels already exist beneath the Empire.  At first, the sudden appearance of the rat-like Diggers from beneath the Kol'E'Thay is met with armed resistance.  After a few skirmishes, however, the fighting quickly came to an end when the Kol'E'Thay discovered that the Diggers had no aims toward conquest in the surface world.

312 - The Kol'E'Thay have ruled the Empire of T'Saleth for centuries.  The Blaggal control a large area of bogs and swamps.  There is a symbiotic relationship between the Blaggal and the Kol'E'Thay, whereby the frogs are left to themselves so long as they supply warriors to serve the pixies.  The Minden exist as a subculture within the Kol'E'Thay society, working as indentured servants or forced into slavery by the Kol'E'Thay ruling class.  Occasional uprisings by the Minden occur, but are easily dealt with by the armed forces of Kol'E'Thay and Blaggal.