Faerie History

The history of Faerie is almost the history of the world, as the oldest sentient races on the planet live there and the recordings of their histories stretch back into myth. Recent history is a little more reliable, but mostly dependent on oral traditions of storytelling. So a pinch of salt is always recommended the further back you go.

Age of the Ancients

33,690 BC - 18, 689 BC

Age of the Alfar, a Utopian culture, very advanced in the ways of magic and 'arcane science'.

A war with the Horrors begins.

Portal travel to other Shards discovered.

Vampires created by Horrors

Brotherhood of Souls created to combat the Vampires, but fall.

Werewolves created to combat Vampires and Horrors

Many Alfar sacrifice themselves to create stabilising Shard Stones causing the first Age of Darkness.

First Age of Darkness

18,690 BC - 16,689 BC

Vampires and Werewolves run amok

Vampires eventually settle in what will become Salem and dominate it.

Werewolves form Werewolf Nation

Age of the Immortals

16,690 BC - 11,689 BC

Remaining tribes of Alfar group together on Atlantis

The rise of The Monarchs

Empire of the Monarchy spans the Shard worlds

Creation of the Heart Stones

The Monarchy become corrupt and begins to use the Horrors as a power source.

The Age of Rebellion begins.

Age of Rebellion

11,690 BC - 11,189 BC

The Rebellion begins, with the Monarchs fighting the Dark Monarchs,

The fall of the Monarchy

Atlantis sunk and Faerie is plunged into yet another Dark Age

Second Age of Darkness

11,190 BC - 8689 BC

Arrival of Domnu and the true Fomorii

In turn The Partholanians, The Nemedians, the Firbolg and the Tuatha De Danaan fight against the Fomorii.

Age of the Young

8690 BC - 4689 BC

Creation of the Jacks

The Forest Sidhe leave for Frontier whilst The Water Sidhe leave for Archipelago.

The Golden Age

4690 BC - 1813

Seelie and Unseelie courts founded

The longest period of peace and calm in Faerie history, lasting thousands of years from the moment the then young Fae and Sidhe races took custodianship of the then Shard of Faerie from the Elder Races. The Courts were founded and Faerie society was an idyll. Gradually however, the networks of deals, obligations and favours began to occupy more and more of the day-to-day business of the Shard and the Dance began in earnest.

Whenever you have those grasping for advantage, others are pushed aside or humiliated. Some started to rebel against this and the courts began to cast out those who disagreed with the established order. These Formori found a willing ally in the Goddess Domnu, who took them for her own. War began between the peoples of the Fae.

The Union Eye Opens

Faerie’s problems were only just starting. The portal network that allowed swift travel across the shard found Union. An entirely separate Shard-world that in turn opened up the existence of five other, populated, Shards. Movement between the humans and the Fae began and almost immediately tensions between the various races began. The dogmatic fanaticism of Salem was especially offended by the Fae and several abortive invasions had to be repelled. 

The Flooding & The Monarch Wars

It was at this time that some members of the Elder Races re-emerged. These beings, terming themselves Monarchs had taken within themselves aspects of the Gods themselves and were their earthly avatars. Their land of Atlantis arose from the seas of Faerie causing catastrophic flooding, hundreds of thousands lost their lives and millions lost their lands. The Monarch leader, Mortanus, declared the Shards his to rule. A small band of rebel Monarchs rejected this plan and vowed to stop him. With Mortanus and the Monarchs on one side and the Rebels allied with the peoples of the Shards on the other, battle was joined across the Shards.

The Joined Courts of Night and Day

At the height of the Monarch Wars, the political landscape of Faerie changed dramatically. A wizard of the Courts, “Compo the Everliving” (may he rest in peace), had manipulated two puppets into the thrones of Faerie. The Child-Queen Jessandra ruled the Seelie and once Queen Morgana was overthrown, Queen Blue distractedly ruled the Unseelie. Compo was the power behind both thrones and ruled in truth. Under his direction, the courts gradually ceased to dance against one another and eventually merged into the Court of Night and Day.

The Monarch Wars End and a World is Born

As a desperate gambit to cut the Monarchs off from the source of their power, the peoples of the Shards decided to merge the isolated Shards into one world. Cut off from their power the Monarchs were defeated. Atlantis sank once more and the waters receded leaving the devastated former lands of the Fae exposed once more in their wake.

The High King

Many of the peoples of Faerie resented the new structure of their society. A new power arose in opposition to the Joined Courts. The Ard-Ri (high king) Finlay welcomed all those marginalised and rejected by the Courts to his Silver Unicorn banner and set himself up as the High King of Faerie. Many of the Fomorii who were not Domnu’s slaves flocked to his new Court and for a time it seemed as though Faerie was moving to a new form of rule.

The Dark Rider

Shortly after the world was rejoined a strange Portal was located in the far North of Faerie. Strange creatures poured through this Portal from another realm, led by one called the Dark Rider. These creatures were warped and chaotic, stabilised by the unusual material in their armour. A number of Fomori also joined with this new force, being known as the Red Stripe Fomori. The Dark Rider attempted to take over Faerie but was eventually defeated by the combined armies of the Fae and their allies from across the world. 

The Courts Reborn

At the dawning of the Demon Wars, Faerie herself, sickened by the death of the Dance, incarnated and demanded that the true Courts and the Dance be restored. She charged the band known as the Wanderers to elect new Queens of Faerie. They chose Athwyn to rule the Day and Morgan to rule the Night and thus it has been since.

The Demon Wars

Faerie was seemingly only lightly touched by the events of the Demon invasion. Attempts to destroy or overtake the Hive Mind of the Fae by the Demons in the Nightmare forest were thwarted and the Demons eventually driven off at enormous cost to the world. Most painfully for Faerie, the Seat of the High Mage and Galconda, current High Mage and source of all then known magic were utterly destroyed. Faerie is now in a transitional period while all adapt to the new magics and factions quieted by the Demon wars rear their heads again. Not least, the Formori have found their Goddess again and openly march to war against the Courts.