Dates in Myrvand are never exact. The Skeldr keep their past in sagas, the Hearthkin in village stories, the Stonebound in archives, and many Aethyr records were destroyed in their own civil war.
The Unlit Before and the Making Choir
Before time, a lone witness woke in a darkness without distance or light and shaped the first dust. From that dust the Veyndra, the first god-folk, sang the ordered universe into being: boundary, stars, matter, choice and ending.
The War of the First Dawn
One of the makers turned against creation and began to erase true names. The struggle fixed time, scattered the stars and broke the Veyndra as a folk. From their legacy rose the younger gods.
The Age of Roots
Before counted history, the oldest Eilvaren memories already call Avarr, the Deep Root, ancient. Stonebound miners find worked materials older than any known maker, and tales place a gray wanderer beside the first forests.
The Age of Oars
The Skeldr spread across the northern seas by trade, settlement and raiding. The Burning of Veyrwood becomes the defining Eilvaren wound. During a great famine, the Hearthkin secretly feed the Skeldr in the Hidden Harvest.
The Age of Falling Light
The Aethyr descend through the Aurora Veil, warning that a catastrophic winter threatens the world. Among the first are Vaelra, Eirvald, Serathiel and Lysara.
The Age of Bright Works
Aethyr and mortals build together: healing, bridges, gentler weather, restored harvests. But knowledge outruns those meant to guard it, and a misused design destroys the city of Arkenfall.
Schism and Civil War
The Aethyr split over rule, guardianship and departure. An experiment kills Stonebound workers in the Broken Bell Incident, and civilians die at Harth Ford. In the War of the Burned Constellations, the Ember Crown is fused to glass, the Veil is damaged, and Vaelra survives only through a star-heart.
The Crown of Ash
Vaelra takes the Black Throne and accepts mortal sovereignty. Crown roads, garrisons and law spread in the Raven Marches, bringing protection to some and occupation to others. In the north, captains swear the Oath of Seven Oars and refuse Crown rule.
The Greenfold Resistance
Crown surveyors arrive in the Greenfold after the Brindle Flood, offering roads and order while counting every household. A search for couriers becomes the atrocity of Bramble Night, and the valley's resistance is tested from within. At last an open moot refuses every kind of throne, and the Crown's road is taken apart before dawn. The Greenfold stays free, for now.