Timeline

This is an attempt to establish a timeline for TDDC, so as to help keep track of the world's rich backstory. It is very much a work in progress.

Time	Event
The most ancient of antiquity	The world is created by unspecified means (not by the gods).
An indeterminate point afterward, but still very much antiquity	The first life appears (again, not created by the gods).
Probably after life developed	Ioun discovers The Source, deep in the Astral Sea
Directly after the above	Vecna begins gathering power to steal The Source from Ioun.
Some time after the above	Vecna ascends to the Astral Sea from his sanctuary in what is now the black sand patch in the Urruk desert.
At some point before Pelor's death	Pelor teaches Mount Pillar to generate a humanoid avatar. Balvan the Millstone is "born".
At some point after Vecna ascends	Tiamat purchases knowledge of The Death Equation from Vecna for some unknown price.
Shortly after the above	Tiamat ambushes and murders Pelor, stealing his domains
Shortly after the above	Delvash captures the Weakened Tiamat and tortures knowledge of The Death Equation from her. He uses this knowledge to kill both Lolth and Tiamat.
Some time before Swayne sires Alyssa	Swayne becomes a Vampire King.
After Lolth's death	The Spider Empress of the Drow has a group of wizards teach her and her disciples arcane magic so that they can cover up their loss of divine power.
Centuries after Lolth's death	The Drow learn of the Spider Empress's deception and she is killed. The Drow Republic is formed.
After Pelor's death but before the Dead Wars	Swayne sires Balvan's daughter Alice, turning her into the Vampire King Alyssa.
Some time before Vladimir's death (based on the nameplate under the special crossbow bolts)	The Dead Wars occur between the Ytaran Empire and the Vampire Kings. The Warforged are created.
A few decades/centuries ago	The Vampire King Vladimir is deposed/killed by a coalition of largely unknown entities, one of whom is the Shepherd Rygax.
Probably after Vladimir's death	Cornello rises as the new Vampire King in Vladimir's former territory.
After the Dead Wars but before the Shatterwar	The Ytarans are wiped out by the Astral Plague
1300 years ago	The Blood Whip ravishes the Three Brother Nations. It is eventually contained, but not before Vecna cultists destroy many of the libraries in Vistria and Verandi.
1317 years ago	The Adar, tired of the interference of the gods, take their crystal ball and leave. Nobody knows where.
A little over 1000 years ago	Devonas seizes power in Korstraad, but is deposed by The Red Sash.
1158 years ago	The Shatterwar (as it will later be known) begins. Warlord Varharran leads the orcs to victory for the first time, seizing rich farmland from Verandi, which the orcs name Gruel. Holding this rich source of food, combined with the glory of victory over the humans allows the warlord to cement his control of the tribes, and their birth rates triple over the following decade. Write something here about the Charlie/Jasmine incident.
During the Shatterwar, but before the destructuion of Egregor and Zarafheim	The Battle of Drem's Error, in which one thousand knights are completely routed by Orcs. Bloodied, the Kingdoms need years to recover their strength for another try.
1143 years ago	Varharan's orcs breach the Dwarfholds of Egregor and Zarafheim in the Iron Mountains, thought to have been impregnable. The few survivors claim they were assaulted first by demonic creatures from the depths of the earth, and only as their forces were drawn away from the entrances did the orcs lay seige. Even then, it seems impossible that the raiders could have broken the Doors of Adamant, for it was told that: "Only a God could break them".
1139 years ago	Orc hordes advanced on the Morduras (thenceforth known as the Battle Plains), making war on the Elves of Talaras. The watchposts were quickly overcome by elite regiments of orcs whose 'piecemeal' armor included mithril chain and even the occasional adamantine helm or plate or shield, and their dwarven swords cut through elven shields and even stone walls as though they were paper.
1138 years ago	King Monoril VI of Korstraad refuses the elves' call for aid, stating that if, as they claim, his kingdom is next in the path of the orcs, he must concentrate his forces in defense, rather than "leave [his] lands open".
1137 years ago	Hara-zay, heir to Hin-zay and leader of the free tribes of Korstraad, sends messengers to the Elves, the Eladrin, the Vistrians and the Verandi. No messenger can reach the remaining Dwarfhold of Maghargrig, surrounded now by orc territory. Hara-zay makes clear that the tribes will join the Alliance in the war whether or not the King's armies come forth, and King Monoril VI is shamed into sending aid, though he warns (prophetically) that "Win or lose my Kingdom may not survive".
1093 years ago	King Kelvoras is slain by the Orcish champion Jamargar, Bloody Hand of the Warlord Varharran, at the Battle of Red Rock. The sky was torn by the cries of the Eladrin King's "mistress" Dialia, and in her fury, she cursed the orcs, declaring that for a thousand years nothing would survive in their footsteps. Though her countenance was terrible, many orcs actually took this as a blessing or at least a prophecy - that no enemy could withstand their passing. It was only later that the true implication became clear.
1092 years ago	In the Final Battle of The Shatterwar, King Monoril VI of Korstraad and his forces are isolated when Warlord Varharan spearheads a charge, blasting past the Elven cavalry to destroy the Eladrin Arrow regiment on Korstraad's flank (archers who had inflicted unimaginable casualties upon the Orc 'Eavies) and to assault their Royal Standard. Orcs swarmed the men from three sides, their dead rising as zombies to continue fighting such that each of their number had to be doubly slain, and they eventually kill Monoril, the last King of Korstraad. No aid was able to reach the Korstraad flag, for the greatest heroes and leaders of the Alliance were all embroiled elsewhere in the epic battle between Varharan and the Eladrin Prince Kelvoras (son of the slain King). When Elven King Dietrich and King Vosmith III of Vistria broke through to assist him, the Prince was able to slay the Orc Warlord. Though the battle drew on for hours and many more good men and elves died that day, the fall of Varharan ensured the destruction of the Orc Warbands, finally ending the Shatterwar.
At some point before Auric joined them (which was 400 years ago)	The Organisation is founded.
400 years ago	Auric Sturmgewehr joins The Organisation after his family are killed by Kua Toa.
300 years ago	The Kua Toa Civil War begins after the breakaway Illud faction is founded.
Probably more than 31 years before the start of the campaign	Black is born.
About 31 years before the start of the campaign	Draven is born.
Approximately five to twelve years after Black is born	Black's father mysteriously disappears in possible Vampire-related circumstances.
About 15 years before the start of the campaign	Little One is born.
About 16 years before the start of the campaign	Tobin is born.
Before her master died	Angel joins The Organisation
Probably less than 16 years ago	Angel's Master is killed by a Blood Mountain deathfin. Angel's war against the Deluvians goes from professional to personal.
A few months before the start of the campaign	Lady Vasarus is murdered by Deluvian monitors; Little One somehow escapes
Some time between the events immediately above and immediately below	Angel and Little One meet and begin travelling together.
A few hours to a few days before Episode 1	Angel and Little One meet Black and Draven when both groups come to the aid of a caravan being attacked by bears.