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A timeline of events along the Zola Fel based on what you have heard.

300 years ago                                                                                                                                                   

• The Pure Horse People begin their walk from their ancestral lands to the breeding lands of the golden-eyed mares they learned horsemanship from. They defeat a united front of united Praxian barbarians in the Battle of Necklace Horse and then settle in Prax.
• A magic cradle of the giants is stolen from the mouth of the Zola Fel by God Learners. The infant giant and its guardians are slain; the bodies are used to fuel several magical warships. God Learner ships and adventurers start turning up.

200 years ago 

• God Learners build the settlement of Feroda at the mouth of the Zola Fel.
• The Pure Horse People start exploring east due to prophecies surrounding a stillborn golden-eyed mare that will supposedly lead to their doom.

More than 100 years ago 

• The God Learners sign a treaty with Firegleam, The King of the Pure Horse People to build the settlement of Robcradle on what is now called Cradlesnatch Island.
• At least three giant cradles captured at Robcradle. Massive amount of treasure and loot are liberated, some of which is said still to be buried around Pavis area.

About 100 years ago

• The northern giant Paragua, some of his brethren and the forces of Waha siege Robcradle and smash it to the ground. The remaining Pure Horse People are killed or forced to flee.
• Pavis is born from a union of human and aldryami. Shortly afterwards he flees the wreckage of Adari as it is sacked by Waha, and finds sanctuary with the Empire of Wyrm’s Friends. He quickly rises to become one of the most powerful mystics in the empire.

The last 100 years or so 

• Around 830 Lord Pavis animates the Faceless Statue of Stone at Shadows Dance. Pavis rides the titanic statue (it is about 3km high) at the front of Joraz Kyrem’s (Zebra) clan to lay siege to Paragua and Waha in the Too Tall Battle. Paragua is killed and Waha is wounded badly. The Faceless Statue collapses under the stress of battle.
• Pavis heals Waha’s wounds and begins to help settlers build homesteads around the Faceless Statue’s remains and around Robcradle.
• Around 840 Openhandist dwarfs under Flintnail Hardeye arrive to aid Pavis with the dissembling of the Faceless Statue and the formation of the city foundation. The organstones surface and Flintnail’s masons build much of the city using the Statue’s remains.
• Around 850 The central city of Pavis, Free City, is declared finished and Lord Pavis dismisses the dwarfs from further service. They decline and choose to continue work for themselves.
• Around 860 Pavis retires to his palace temple grounds. He claims to be watching through his twelve-headed idol atop the palace, seeing through its twenty-four eyestones. Joraz Kyrem is named ruler of the city and given the mantle of leadership. The Zebra Clan has ruled Pavis ever since.
• 870 Thog the Giant leads a small force of trolls and gnomes against Pavis. The Mostali walls held against the force and Kyrem’s barbarian warriors repelled the attack, but at great cost.
• 873 Joraz Kyrem rides away on the same path as the Pure Horse People to replenish the ranks of his loyal riders.
• 875 Thog returns with a larger force of trolls and barbarians of Waha, catching the city with reduced guard. Much of the population of Pavis is killed, enslaved or eaten. The priests and leaders go into hiding, sealing themselves up in the All Eyes Inward Palace with Lord Pavis.
• 877 Joraz Kyrem returns from abroad with many Horse peoples and Sun Dome Templars. With the aid of the Empire of Wyrm’s Friends, Thog is defeated and the Praxians sent fleeing from the city’s walls. The Sun Dome Templars are granted lands down river of Pavis - "Sun Dome County."
• 880's  The Aldryami arrive and start growing the Garden.
• 900's God Learners return and start rebuilding Robcradle under the leadership of Rathimus Purejoy. He is supposed to be a friend of the Emperor’s son.
• 902 The crystal walls of the All Eyes Inward Palace take on a sheen they have not shown before.
• 908 A cradle – the first for many years – appears on the Zola Fel sailing towards the city. Much excitement ensues but the cradle disappears before it can reach Pavis’s walls.
• 908 The Empire of Wyrm’s Friends are pushed out of Dara Happa. Labygyron arrives in Pavis walking on top of the Zola Fel, presumed to be a refugee from Dara Happa. You help expel the EWF from northern Heortland.
• 909 Droves of wyrmfriends and dragonewts leaving Dara Happan lands come to Pavis for safety. The city’s human population centralise in Real City, creating the area known as Manside around the All Eyes Inward Palace.
• 909. Larad and Maralis arrive Pavis.
• 910. You arrive at Pavis.