The Great Flight and After the Chaos
The Chaos Event The Chaos The Chaos was a continent-wide civilisation-collapse spanning approximately ninety-eight years, beginning around year 1700 of the Inarin Calendar when the Iru Parliament of the... ended not with a treaty but with a disappearance. The Iru People Iru The progenitors, and the only naturally evolved people of Elshore. chose hibernation over surrender, sealing themselves into stasis capsules across the crumbling cities of their empire. Most never reached the moon they were promised. The rebellion succeeded; the Maan People Maan The most numerous people of Elshore and the baseline cultural reference of the age. empire rose from the ruins; and a new calendar began, After the Chaos, Year One. The present age of the world is AC 50.
Key traits
- Chaos Year 98: the last Serton of Inarin initiates the Great Flight Event The Great Flight The Great Flight was the Iru civilisation's deliberate collective retreat into hibernation, initiated in the ninety-eighth year of the Chaos by Ilissir, the last Serton of Inarin.; the Iru seal themselves into stasis capsules, destined for storage on Liir Cosmology The Two Moons Two moons attend Elshore: Liir, the near and swift one, and Ressor, the far and slow one., but capacity is limited, and many remain locked in cold sleep amid crumbling cities.
- Rebel forces storm the ISEMH Technology ISEMH System The Infrastructure for Synthetic Emergence and Matter Hosting, the planet-scale Inarin-era system that underlies the fallen world: an identity, logistics, fabrication, and senso... control centre in Udhafa Place Udhafa The old capital of the Maan empire and one of the great inhabited ruins of the world, an ancient Iru-founded city in eastern Tarkdaara, carved into the bedrock below the Claw Pe... and kill most of its Annil People Annil Small, scaled, and easy to overlook, the Annil were the earliest of the engineered lines, made as household aides and keepers of the systems that kept the world running. defenders; a handful of loyal Annil survive and hide a single pair of capsules deep beneath the ruins.
- AC 1: the Maan empire is founded on the ruins of the Inarin; a war council decrees the phase-out of Iru technology and the resettlement of the servant races, the Erg to Rafadin, the Bar People Bar Towering, massively built, and engineered for high-load work and vertical terrain, the Bar are the strength line. to Baramma Place Baramma The great jungle island east of Tarkdaara, separated from the mainland by the Bram Sea and home to the Bar., the Annil ordered to the Endless Desert (they refuse and go underground).
- AC 6: the Maan empire hunts down the sleeping Iru; their capsules are shattered and their bodies dragged into mass graves; one pair of capsules hidden by the Annil survives, and a secret order forms to guard it.
- AC 36 (Ressor Day, Month of Life Event The Month of Life The Month of Life was a twenty-day pogrom against the Annil people of the Maan empire carried out in year 36 After the Chaos, escalating from state-authorised citizen safety pat..., Day 20): the Edict of Eradication Event The Edict of Eradication The Edict of Eradication was the Maan empire's formal decree of Ressor Day, the twentieth day of the Month of Life, year 36 After the Chaos, issued from Udhafa and described off... is declared; the Annil are made officially non-persons; a pogrom begins against the hidden keepers of Iru heritage.
- AC 50, the present age: the empire is ruled from Udhafa; Iru technology is officially illegal; living Iru are almost entirely absent from the world they built; and the hidden chamber beneath the ruins still holds its sleeping occupants.