User:AJF3876/FanFic Timeline

Mythos
-145,000
 * It is around this time that the Champion of the Titan's Pantheon, Sargeras, is corrupted and becomes the demonic overlord and ruler of the Burning Legion. Since then, Sargeras and his fel armies have annihilated countless worlds shaped by the Titans, undoing their work to create Chaos.

-140,000
 * The Titans discover Azeroth around this time. They begin their millennia long task of shaping and crafting the young world and seeding it with life. During this process, the Titans discover large numbers of hostile elemental beings. Vowing to drive the Titans away in the name of their masters, the elementals attack the Titans under the command of their malefic overlords, the Old Gods'. The Titan Pantheon, deeply disturbed the Old Gods' penchant for evil, wage a war upon the elementals and their dark masters.

-135,000
 * After five millennia of battling, the seemingly endless elemental forces and their monstrously powerful leaders are finally defeated by the Titans. Having defeated their primary troops, the Old Gods' themselves were defeated by the Titans and chained below the surface of Azeroth. The elementals, without the power of the Old Gods' to command them, are banished to the Abyssal Plane to contend with one another for eternity. With the Old Gods' defeat and the elementals departure, the Titans saw that the threat was contained and began to work on sculpting the world.

-120,000
 * The Titans create the first of their seed races, the sea giants, at this time. The sea giants are created to help lift land from under the waves for the Titans to sculpt.

-115,000
 * The Titans create the second of their seed races, the Tol'vir at this time. The Tol'vir go on to create powerful city-states in Silithus and Northrend which are eventually conquered by the aqir.

-110,000
 * The Titans create the third of their seed races, the earthen, at this time to help them shape the earth. The earthen are creatures made of magical stone wielding great power over the earth. This variant of earthen is later more famously known for evolving into the fleshly dwarves.

-105,000
 * The Titans create the stone vrykul at this time to act as guardians and protectors for the other seed races and of the Titan's facilities. The stone vrykul are later turned into flesh, and then several give birth to a smaller, also fleshy race which will become known as humans.

-100,000
 * The last of the Titans seed races are created, the Mechagnomes, to act as custodians of the Titan's vast technological and literary libraries. The Mechagnomes eventually evolve into the fleshy gnomes known today.

-95,000
 * The Titans create the Well of Eternity at the center of the supercontinent that they are sculpting. The Well of Eternity is a large well which contains enchanted waters which are the heart of Azeroth's magic and natural power. Drawing its energies from the Great Dark beyond the world, the Well comes to act as a natural font to nourish all forms of life.

-75,000
 * The Old Gods, still active beneath the world, create the Curse of Flesh to attempt to "assimilate" the Titans seed races. The Curse is responsible for turning the original stony/metallic forms of the seed races into the fleshy forms we know today, and as a side effect is also responsible for the birth of humans.

-65,000
 * The Titans discover the Curse of Flesh and attempt to remove the Curse and the Old Gods, but found that the Old God infestation had grown too severe to remove without completely destroying Azeroth. Instead of doing so, the Titans create new earthen in Northrend at the Forge of Wills and implement safeguards and protectors, known as the Aesir and Vanir under the leadership of Loken.
 * The Titans, before they finally depart the world, charge the leaders of the five most powerful flights of the most powerful race in the world with the safeguarding and keeping of Azeroth. To Malygos, the great blue dragon, is entrusted the keeping of magic and hidden arcanum. Alexstrasza, the great red dragon, is tasked with safeguarding all living creatures within' the world and becomes the leader of all of her race. Ysera, the green dragon, is give vast powers over nature and the Emerald Dream. Nozdormu, the bronze dragon, becomes entrusted with the keeping of the ever-winding passageways of space and time. Lastly, Neltharion the black dragon, is given domain over the earth and deep places of Azeroth. With the Aspects so charged, the Titans finally depart Azeroth.

-60,000
 * The Azj'Aqir civilization of the xenophobic insectoid aqir rises about this time. Centered upon a massive hive in the modern day Feralas, the Azj'Aqir civilization goes on to take control of much of southwestern Kalimdor. Greatly expansionistic and incredibly evil, the aqir were obsessed with eradicating all non-insectoid life from the lands of Kalimdor.

-45,000
 * According to troll legends, this is the approximate time when the Amani tribe, the Gurubashi tribe, and the Drakkari tribe split off from the main Zandalari tribe and came to establish their own civilizations.
 * The Amani tribe settle in the north-eastern reaches of Old Kalimdor, gradually changing to have green skin and a thin moss covering on their bodies. The Amani establish the city of Zul'Aman and establish the Amani Empire, which grows to cover much of north-eastern Old Kalimdor until their defeat by the high elves and humans.
 * The Gurubashi tribe settle in the south-eastern reaches of Old Kalimdor, and maintain much of the same physical appearances as the Zandalari, though they are slightly shorter. Founding the city of Zul'Gurub, the Gurubashi forge the Gurubashi Empire, which expands westwards to encompass most of southern Old Kalimdor.
 * The Drakkari tribe settles in the frozen north of Old Kalimdor, in what is today known as Northrend. Establishing the city of Gun'Drak, the Drakkari found the nation of Zul'Drak, and begin to change appearance to as they become more lanky and their skin turns a shade of icy blue. The Drakkari will never see the success of their southern relatives, though they do still manage to make a name for themselves in the northern wastes.
 * The Frostmane Tribe settles in the mountains of Dun Morogh, taking on a similar physical change as the Drakkari and eventually becoming the major nuisance to the dwarves and gnomes of Khaz Modan.
 * The Shadowtooth Tribe moves to the west of Zandalar and comes to inhabit the region today known as Tel Abim for a period of time. Gaining maroon glowing eyes and grey skin, the Shadowtooth Tribe grow to become the only tribe of dark trolls, eventually evolving into the night elves.

-21,000
 * The millennia long war between the two twin troll empires (The Amani and Gurubashi empires) and the Azj'Aqir starts around this time. As the Azj'Aqir and trolls expand towards each other and encounter each other. Though they harbor no love for each other and have infact been fighting each other for the past twenty-thousand years, the Amani and Gurubashi empires fight together against the evil aqir.

-16,000
 * As a severe side-effect of the curse of flesh, the Vrykul, having already themselves turned into fleshy and non-metallic forms, begin to give birth to off-spring who are smaller and completely fleshy. These being the first humans, King Ymirion describes them as "weak and ugly" and orders any Vrykul parents who birth them to kill them. While some parents follow this order, many others care too much for their children and disobey King Ymirion's orders. Instead, they hide their children far away from Northrend to grow up in the lands that will eventually become the Lordaeron sub-continent of the Eastern Kingdoms, and these children go on to become the humans we know today.

-15,000
 * With their home being in the middle of the fighting between the forest and jungle trolls and the aqir, the dark trolls migrate towards a new home: The banks of the Well of Eternity.

-14,000
 * The first "night elves" or Kaldorei as they call themselves appear on the banks of the Well of Eternity and found their civilization, having evolved from dark trolls. The Kaldorei go on to become one of the most influential races in the world.

-13,784
 * Traditional beginning date of the Kaldorei calendar.
 * The date is based on when the Kaldorei discover the arcane arts and begin to first wield them. The Kaldorei use these amazing new-found powers to build beautiful cities, craft great artifacts, and reshape the land. Some of the Kaldorei resist the lure of this tainting and warn the others, but these warnings go unheeded.

-13,600
 * The upper class Kaldorei who regularly practice arcane arts begin referring to themselves as the "Highborne" around now, and are part of a small elite in power in the night elven civilization.

-13,204
 * Azshara becomes the queen of the night elves and the most beloved one in their history. She will rule the night elves until the Sundering, when she betrays her people.

-13,143
 * The night elves record this date as the end of the Aqir-Troll wars, with the trolls having broken much of the main aqir forces. The aqir split into two groups, one which heads south and establishes a colony in Silithus, later evolving into the qiraji, and one which heads north to establish a colony in the Dragonblight, later becoming the nerubians. Both the qiraji and the nerubians establish their colonies in or under Tol'vir city-states, conquering the Tol'vir and enslaving them in the nerubians case.
 * Despite their victory, the trolls are badly scarred from the war. The Amani Empire loses its grip on much of its westernmost lands and so does the Gurubashi. The loosening of Amani and Gurubashi hold on these lands allows the night elves to move in and fill the power vacuum.

-13,098
 * The city of Vashj'ir is established on the eastern banks of the Well of Eternity, becoming the easternmost night elven settlement of significant size over time. Though modern day Vashj'ir is sunken, the ruins are located to the east of the Maelstrom just west of Khaz Modan.

-13,000
 * By this time, the night elves rule over a vast empire stretching from the Veiled Sea in the west and the nation of Zul'Drak in the north to the eastern bank of the Well of Eternity in the east and Zandalar to the south. This empire will last for three thousand more years, until the Sundering.

-12,900
 * A group of furbolg who settle on the southern banks of the Well of Eternity evolve into the pandaren at about this time. Migrating south, they eventually come upon the lands now known as Pandaria.

-12,818
 * The beginning of the pandaren calendar, starting with the date of their enslavement by the mogu already making Pandaria their home.

-12,603
 * The pandaren begin a revolt against their mogu overlords. The revolt lasts for a millennia and despite the mogu not allowing the pandaren to wield weapons of any sorts, the pandaren eventually win through sheer mastery of unarmed combat.

-12,459
 * The Zandalari begin to support the mogu against the pandaren. In response, the night elves begin to support the revolting pandaren against the mogu. This is done by the night elves in an attempt to counter any combined Zandalari-mogu threat.

-11,794
 * The pandaren, with night elven support, defeat the mogu at this time and establish their own nation, occupying most of Pandaria. The pandaren become close allies of the night elves and support them in many punitive actions taken by the night elves against other threatening races in old Kalimdor.

-11,200
 * Jungle trolls arrive in modern day Kezan around this time, and enslave the goblins living there, forcing them to work in the mines of mountainous southern Kezan.

-10,026
 * Queen Azshara falls victim to Sargeras' undeniable power and agrees to grant him access to to the world of Azeroth. Even many of her Highborne servitors gave themselves over to the inevitable corruption of magic and began to worship Sargeras as their god. The first part of Sargeras' plan was in motion.

-10,013
 * Once all of Sargeras' plans were in motion, Sargeras began his catastrophic invasion of Azeroth. The demon-warriors of the Burning Legion stormed through the Well of Eternity and began to lay siege to the sleeping night elf cities. Led by Archimonde and Mannoroth, the Legion swamped the lands of Old Kalimdor, leaving only ash, sorrow and misery in their terrible wake. Though the brave night elven warriors rushed to defend their lands against the Legion's onslaught, they were forced to give ground, inch by inch, before the Legion's awful onslaught. It fell to Malfurion Stormrage to give aid to his people, convincing his brother Illidan to forsake his Highborne roots and help him in his quest. Setting out to find Cenarius to muster a resistance force, they came across the beautiful young priestess Tyrande who agreed to help them find Cenarius.

-10,011
 * After two years of searching, the trio come across Cenarius within' the Moonglade of northern Kalimdor. Cenarius agreed to help the Kaldorei by finding the ancient dragons and enlisting their aid. The dragons, led by the red leviathan Alexstrasza, agreed to send their mighty flights to aid the night elves.

-10,010
 * As the titanic battle continued to rage on across Kalimdor, Queen Azshara waited in anticipation for Sargeras' arrival. The lord of the Burning Legion was preparing to enter Azeroth via the Well of Eternity, and Queen Azshara gathered her closest and most powerful Highborne followers. Only by linking their vast magic together in a powerful spell that would takes months or years to finish could they summon the immensely powerful demon lord to the world.

-10,009
 * As the battle continued on across the burning fields of Kalimdor, a terrible turn of events occurred. Neltharion, the dragon aspect of earth, went mad during a crucial battle with the Burning Legion after years of suffering through whisperings and corruption from the Old Gods'. He began to split apart as flame and rage began to erupt from his dark hide. Renaming himself Deathwing, the burning dragon turned on his brethren and drove the five flights from the field of battle. Deathwing's sudden betrayal was so destructive that the dragonflights never truly recovered. Wounded and shocked, Alexstrasza and the other dragons were forced to abandon their mortal allies. Malfurion and his allies, now hopelessly outnumbered, barely survived the ensuing onslaught and became convinced that the only way to stop it was to destroy the Well of Eternity.
 * Knowing that the Well's destruction would forever stop him from wielding magic again, Illidan betrayed his companions and sided with Azshara and her ilk. Malfurion led his companions into the halls of the Well, discovering Azshara and her followers in the last stages of their dark incantations. As Sargeras drew ever closer to the world, Malfurion and his followers rushed to attack. Azshara, having been warned by Illidan, was more prepared than ever to face them. Nearly every one of Malfurion's followers fell before Azshara. Tyrande was almost killed by Azshara's elite guardsmen, driving Malfurion into a rage where he resolved to end Azshara's life. As the battle raged on both inside and outside the temple, Illidan appeared and filled seven specially crafted vials with waters from the Well of Eternity, knowing full well that it must be done to keep magic intact after the Well's destruction.
 * As Malfurion and Azshara did battle, the carefully crafted spellwork of the Highborne was thrown into chaos. The unstable vortex in the Well's depths exploded and ignited a catastrophic chain of events that would change the world forever. The resulting explosion rocked the temple and sent earthquakes throughout of the world. As the horrific battle between the Legion and the Kaldorei and their allies was being waged outside, the temple buckled in on itself and collapsed. The resultant catastrophic explosion shattered the earth and blotted out the skies.
 * As the aftershocks from the Well's implosion rattled the bones of the world, the seas rushed to fill in the enormous gaping wound left in the earth. Nearly eighty percent of Kalimdor's landmass had been blasted apart, leaving only a handful of continents and island surrounding a new, raging sea. At the sea's center, where the Well of Eternity once stood, was a tumultuous storm of tidal fury and chaotic energies. This terrible scar, known as the Maelstrom, ran down to Azeroth's very core and has never ceased spinning. Against all odds, Azshara and her Highborne elite survived, but were dragged down beneath the sea by the Well's explosion, and were cursed and transformed, into the vengeful serpentine naga. There, at the bottom of the sea, the naga would build a city and civilization for themselves, Nazjatar.

The New World
-10,008
 * Early in the next year, the few surviving night elves that outlived the horrific explosion rallied together on crudely made rafts and slowly headed towards the only landmass in sight: (New) Kalimdor, the western parts of the continent of Old Kalimdor. Somehow, with the night elves believing in Elune's hand holding a part in this, Malfurion, Cenarius, and Tyrande survived the explosion. The weary trio agreed to lead their fellow survivors and establish a new home for their people. As they journeyed, they surveyed the wreckage of the world and realized it was they who had caused it. Many Highborne also survived the explosion unscathed, and made their way to the shore of the new land alongside their fellow night elves. Though they were mistrusted by the other night elves, he was satisfied enough that they could cause no real mischief without the Well's energies.
 * The night elves made landfall upon the shores of Kalimdor and discovered that their holy mountain Hyjal was still intact. Leading a small group to the top, Malfurion discovered, too his horror, the presence of a small lake fouled with the arcane waters of the Well of Eternity. It appeared that Illidan had survived the Sundering as well, and had made it to the top of the mountain before Malfurion and his group. Illidan had poured six of his seven vials into the lake, seeking to maintain his magical powers. Though he lost the last one, he still had enough to completely taint the lake. Malfurion hunted Illidan down and imprisoned him in a vast underground barrow prison, appointing Maiev Shadowsong to be Illidan's jailor.

-10,007
 * Concerned that destroying the new well might cause another further disaster, the night elves resolved to leave it alone. However, Malfurion made it clear that they would never practice the arcane arts again, and under Cenarius' watchful eye, they began to study the ancient arts of druidism that would enable them to regrow their beloved forests at the base of Mount Hyjal.

-9,916
 * For many years, the night elves had worked tirelessly to rebuild their ancient homeland. Leaving their roads and ancient temples to be overgrown, they constructed their new homes and civilization amidst the verdant trees and shadowed hills of Hyjal's base. Over time, the dragons who had survived the Great Sundering came forth.
 * Alexstrasza the red, Nozdormu the bronze, and Ysera the green descended upon the druid's tranquil glades and surveyed the night elves labors. Malfurion, who had by this time become an archdruid of immense power, greeted the dragons and told them about the creation of a new Well of Eternity. The great dragons were alarmed to hear the news and the three dragons and Malfurion made a pact to keep the Well safe and ensure that the agents of the Burning Legion would never make their way to the world again.
 * Alexstrasza, the Lifebinder, placed a single, enchanted acorn within' the heart of the Well of Eternity. The acorn, activated by the potent, magical waters of the lake, sprung to life as a colossal tree. The Mighty Tree's roots grew from the Well's waters, and it's verdant canopy seemed to almost scrape the roof of the sky. The immense tree would become a symbol of the night elves' everlasting bond with nature, and its life giving energies would extend to heal the rest of the world over time. The night elves gave the new tree the name "Nordrassil" which meant "crown of the heavens" in their native tongue of Darnassian. Nozdormu, the Timeless, placed an enchantment on the tree to ensure that as long as it stood, the night elves would never age or fall prey to sickness or disease. Ysera, the Dreamer, also placed an enchantment upon the tree by linking it to her own realm, the Emerald Dream. From the Dream, Ysera regulated the ebb and flow of nature and the evolutionary path of the world itself, and she bound the night elf druids to the Dream. As part of the mystical pact, the druids agreed to sleep for centuries at a time so that their spirits could roam the infinite path's of Ysera's dreamway. Though the druids were grieved at the prospect of losing so many years to hibernation, they selflessly agreed to uphold their bargain with Ysera.

-9,900
 * From all records, we can assume that the night elves living in what is now Northrend died off around this time after their seperation from the rest of night elven society.