Rift: Lore Timeline And Gods
By: Laochan
(Dates and events taken from the lore section of the rift website only)
---------------------------Pantheon--------------------------
THE DREAD GODS - (Dragon form) - Destroyed worlds for food
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1) Name
2) Plane
3) Cult
4) Champion or leader
5) Dungeons owned or fighting for/in
5) Notes
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1) Regulos - (The Destructor) - black/undead
2) Death
3) The endless court
4) Alsbeth, Alekor, Mahr
5) DsM, IT, KB, RD
5) Leader/ wants the end everything
1) Laethys - (Queen of Avarice) - yellow
2) Earth
3) The golden maw
4) ----
5) ----
5) Strength/ wants control and power
1) Maelforge - (The Flame Sire) - red
2) Fire
3) The wanton
4) Emberlord Ereetu
5) DD,LH
5) Aggression/chaos eternally
1) Greenscale - (The Primeval) - green
2) Life
3) House of Aelfwar
4) Hylas (high elf)
5) KB, RotF
5) Evasive destruction by taking over
1) Crucia - (The Broodmother)- white
2) Air
3) The storm legion
4) Caelia
5) CC
5) Mind control/ demands obedience
1) Akylios - (The Profane) - blue
2) Water
3) The abyssal
4) Tidelords (once the faceless man)
5) AP
5) Mad need for knowledge at all cost
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THE CREATION GODS - (Vigil)
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1) Name
2) Domain
3) Notes
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1) Tavril (female)
2) of the wild, of the land (fields)
3) Created elves
1) Bahralt
2) of crafting, of the city of Ardenburg
3) Created dwarves
1) Thedeor
2) of righteousness (The sword)
3) Most like Northmen (Mathosians)
1) Thontic
2) of travel and commerce, of the sea
1) Mariel-Taun (female)
2) of peace and love (The heart)
Believe in all gods: Southern Nomads (Eth of Shimmersand)
Humans were created by all the Vigil
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---------------------------Timeline--------------------------
A long time ago...
- Gods create Telara from a mass of soucestone in the center of the cosmos. It is the only planet made of pure sourcestone. Sourcestone makes the real disappear and the imagined and elemental energies take shape.
- Tavril creates elves (magic wood creatures) and Bahralt creates dwarves (earthen crafters)
- Humans are created by all the gods
------------AGE OF THE DRAGON (Lasts for centuries)---------
- Eth build technological cities
- Mostly nomadic and made up of 13 tribes
- Major cites were Fortune shore and "Charmed" Eboni
- Eboni taken over by the golden maw
- Mkhai: (eth tribe) uses sourcestone to start the technological war machine revolution
--------------------------BLOOD STORM------------------------
- Dread gods use the planes to try to destroy Telara
- Humans join up with the dread gods
- Regulos wants to destroy everything other dragons want to make it their own
- Dragons fight Regulos and among themselves
- Dwarves come up from their strongholds, northmen, nomads,and elves fight the dread gods
- Crafting (dwarves) and magic taught to the Mathosians
- Heroes imprison the dragons and send Regulos back to the plane of death
- Mathos: hero of the Mathosians who claims to have sealed the most dragons
---------------------------THE WARD-------------------------
- Vigil help create a Ward around Telara to protect it from the planes and Regulos
- Dwarves open their doors to the public
- Eth builds more technology and an empire
- Each tribe settles in cities ruled by sorcerer-kings and all sorcerer-kings were equal
- Mkhai - Sourcestone masters
- Khaliti - Craftsmen even better than the dwarves in some cases
- Arkeen- Life masters
- Catari- Highest of all tribes - Lineage of Asha Catari
- Dragon cults infiltrate the cities
- Sorcerer-kings cast "Convocation" to try to become gods
- All technology stops working and eth tribes take shelter with the Bahmi
- Eth empire crumbles- once mighty machines left to be buried in the sands
- Mathosians take over most of the world claiming they are protecting it from the dragons
- Elves take sides (High elves and Kelari)
- Asha Catari born and becomes a great but controversial mage for the southern dragonslayer covenant over the next 20 some years
---------------------MATHOSIAN CIVIL WAR---------------------
- Port Scion Built by the Mathosians
- King Jostir (Alsbeth becomes a great mage)
- Jostir dies and leaves 2 sons (Zareph and Aedraxis)
- Zareph takes the throne
- Alsbeth fights for both sides unknown to either
- Knowing that Aedraxis will fight him he slowly empties the city of any man able to travel
- Aedraxis sieges port scion to take it from Zareph
- Zareph flees with the remainder of his army and nobles
- Aedraxis takes the city after 2 weeks of fighting and finds it mostly empty
- Aedraxis kills all the wives of the old nobles
- Aedraxis finds hidden gold in the shrines to Thedeor and hires Orphiel to build him warmachines
- Ardraxis cuts down the elven Granitewood for the warmachines
- Aedraxis plans to use Orphiel to open the planes to beat his brother once and for all
- Aedraxis plans to show his superiority by defeating the planes
("over a century ago")
- Zareph is found in the castle of Ulfrid of gloamwood (Shadefallen Keep) and Aedraxis sends his army
- Aedraxis turns his army into undead and then goes to his love, Alsbeth.
- Zareph and hero Cyril beat the undead army
- Aided by Corwin of Jostir's Mathosians
- Aided by Shyla of the elves
- Aided by Borrin of the dwarves
- Aided and hindered by Alsbeth
- Warned by Asha Catari of Aedraxis' connections to the plane of death and killed
- Aedraxis is at Ardenburgh.
(80 yrs ago)--------------THE SHADE----------------------
- Aedraxis uses Orphiel's machines to crack the Ward and open the planes on Telara.
- Alsbeth dies and becomes ascended
- Shyla dies and becomes ascended
- Borrin dies and becomes ascended??
- Cyril dies and becomes ascended
- Aedraxis becomes Regulos' body for the plane of Telara
- Cyril and others destroy the body of Regulos
- Hammerknell falls to death magic and is sealed
- Refuges go to Port Scion with Zareph and Cyril
- Asha is brought back to life by Orphiel
- Alsbeth lowers the city's defenses so it is taken over by death forces
- Zareph vanishes with the defiants
- Cyril establishes Sanctum with Borrin
- Shyla officially joins the guardians with the high elves as her ex-lover joins the Aelfwar
- Orphiel and Asha establish Meridian and time machines
(Future) -----Defiant Ascended----
- Svyler Valis creates ascended
- Orphiel tries his own version of ascension out on himself and disappears