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The FallYear 0Year 2
Year 0

The Great Drowning

The sentient sea awakens and consumes the Deep Empire in a single tide cycle. Ninety percent of the population perishes.

Defines Year Zero. All of Everhold's history is measured from this moment.
After RiseYear 3Year 11
Year 8

The Veilborn Emergence

The first Veilborn appear at the surface, revealing that a population survived by descending into the deep. They bring salvaged relics and knowledge.

Transforms understanding of the Drowning and creates a new social class.
Ledger AgeYear 12Year 25
Year 19

Discovery of the Drowned Codex

A Veilborn diving team recovers a sealed tome from the upper ruins — the Deep Empire's final administrative records, written in pressure-script.

Reveals the existence of still-functional infrastructure beneath Everhold.
Tidal ExpansionYear 26Year 29
Year 28

The Whispering Accord

The Tide Council, Red Choir, and Veilborn elders meet in secret to discuss the Tide Crown. No agreement is reached. Each faction begins independent operations to find it.

Ends the fragile peace. A three-way cold war begins.
Present DayYear 30Now
Year 30 (present)

Orin's First Communion

Sixteen-year-old Orin Tidecaller communicates with the sentient sea in a way never before recorded. The sea responds by surfacing an object from the drowned capital — the first fragment of the Tide Crown.

Everything changes. The race for the Crown is no longer theoretical.