This timeline presents the full history of Voxana in two columns: what the world believes (common knowledge) and what actually happened (DM truth). The common knowledge column is what NPCs, scholars, and history books record. The DM truth column is the actual sequence of events, known to no living person.
| Era | Common Knowledge | DM Truth |
|---|---|---|
| The Beginning | The gods created Voxana and the continent of Etherea. | The Loom spins reality into existence. Twelve divine threads emerge as the Twelve Gods. |
| Age of Unity | The gods walked among mortals, guiding and nurturing. | The gods shape Etherea. Runeswick rises at the continent’s heart. Gods walk openly. |
| The Divine Concord | The gods voluntarily withdrew behind the Divine Veil. They never returned. | The gods weave the Divine Veil and withdraw to preserve mortal free will. Communication continues through dreams, omens, and champions. |
| Erruuth’s Rise | Not in public memory. | A mortal named Erruuth, born in Threndor, joins the Arcanum Divinorum. Becomes corrupted by ambition. Seeks godhood. |
| The Split (~1,000 years ago) | A catastrophic natural disaster of unknown cause tore Etherea apart, creating Volaxia, Osan, and the Great Sea. | Erruuth attempts to breach the Divine Veil. The act tears the Loom and ruptures Etherea. Runeswick splits in half. The Sea of Lament fills the rift. |
| The Divine War | Not in public memory. (500 years missing from timeline.) | The gods break the Concord and re-emerge. They empower the Arcanum Divinorum to forge the Arcane Stones. 500 years of war across physical and metaphysical realms. |
| The Banishment | Not in public memory. | The gods channel combined power through the Arcane Stones. Erruuth banished via five gates. Stones shatter. Fragments become Glowstone. |
| The Gods Retreat | The gods continued their silence, communicating only through dreams and miracles. | Exhausted and weakened, the Twelve withdraw behind the Veil to recover. Their silence is exhaustion, not choice. |
| Galmir’s Final Act | Not in public memory. | Galmir Lothiren erases the Divine War from mortal memory. Founds the Elder Sage Council. Erases his own memories. |
| The Rebuilding (~1,000 yrs) | The people rebuilt. Volaxia under Runeswick monarchy. Osan forms Council of Lords. Trade resumes. | Same. Glowstone rediscovered as a natural mineral. The true history lies buried. |
| Present Day | Glowstone has reactivated for unknown reasons. Scholars are investigating. | The Cult of the Veiled One opened the First Gate beneath Wyndmoore, triggering the reactivation. The prison weakens. The Loom degrades. |
Not in public memory: Erruuth. The Divine War. The Arcane Stones. The Arcanum Divinorum. The gods’ re-emergence. The fact that the Split was caused by a mortal. The fact that Glowstone is shattered divine weaponry. The fact that 500 years are missing from the timeline.