The Age of Artifice Arcana

The First Age of intelligent mortals. Regarded as an age of high magic, as the latent raw energies of the Days of Fury still permeated most of the world.
 * Period of Time: 7000 B.C.E. - 4000 B.C.E.
 * Also referred to as: The First Age, the Golden Era of Altheris

This era saw the dawn, proliferation, and high advancement of civilization from multiple races, and is regarded as the period of initial learning and application of the natural and magical forces of the world following the chaotic Days of Fury. With this knowledge, the intelligent races of the world harnessed the leyline energy of the planet itself to craft mana into magic. This energy fueled countless developments and devices of magic and natural sciences, leading to greater proliferation and mastery of the planet and its resources across the millennia. This highly advanced development and its consequential opulence eventually came to a head in the first mortal world war, where the ingenuity of the different races was used to create weapons of catastrophic devastation that sent the world hurtling into the ice age known as the Cold Dark.

= The Ordering = The intelligent races begin to learn and better understand the principles of the world and magic.

Following the Days of Fury and the Kenosis of Altheris, the mortal races of the world suddenly found themselves deprived of their gods, and the divinity they had granted to their children. Instilled with new and individualized purpose, the races began to learn from the world around them, learning the basic methods of survival, crafting, and communication. These burgeoning civilizations quickly grew, free of the direct will of their former divine guardians, and developed new and brilliant means of using the forces naturally and magically afforded them.

Civilizations Develop Tech
= The Enlightening = The races, now armed with an understanding of the world, begin to move outward and claim land and resources to better improve their own nations. Alliances are forged, and resentments build, leading to darker uses of power from certain nations. This will be a very long stretch of time, relatively.

The Expanse
= The Sundering = ''The cataclysmic series of events that ended the Golden Age of Altheris - now referred to as the Age of Artifice Arcana - and plunged the world into an ice age that lasted four millennia (the Cold Dark). The Sundering also splintered the planet's links to its elemental planes, causing what few dimensional access points remain to behave erratically and violently. The consequences of the Sundering are continuing to be felt into the current age, where civilizations recovering from the Cold Dark are beginning to find the great relics and ruins that have been largely left alone these past four thousand years. After the Sundering, the Elves referred to the planet as Talusethra - "the broken plane" - and other races began to mimic their melancholy, rebranding the world "Talus". The Sketta Isles are the remnants of a landmass that was utterly eradicated by the events of the Sundering, the Cinderstorm that rages over it a magical byproduct of a devastating weapon.''