The Days Of Light |
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"a far vision, strangely
hallowed with peacefulness and light"
Nature is conquered, utopia achieved. |
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Three separate spacefaring
civilisations pass. Encounter with the Eaters,
between the stars, and flight back to Manhome. |
The
Door in the Wall |
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The Sun cools and the
Earth's rotation slows by tidal drag |
Narcissus
(starts) |
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Earth's rotation slows to 1
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The time when the Cities move
always Westward |
Cities move round the world
on fixed roads, staying in the light |
6 million AD |
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Red Giant's
Race |
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Sun cools, darkens |
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The Cataclysm |
A vast explosion bursts the
world "along a great curve where it had
weakness"
An ocean falls into the rift and bursts
into a super-Krakatoa. A great Valley,
comparable to the Valles
Marineris on Mars
Massive dieoff and volcanic "nuclear
winter".
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8 million AD
Narcissus
(ends)
Salvage |
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Earth's rotation synchronous
with orbit. One hemisphere in eternal night. |
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The Valley cools and becomes
habitable.
The Valley has two branches, each 1000
miles long, with sides 100 miles deep. The
first, from the West, heads in a South-East
direction for 1000 miles, with the sun fixed
at the western end, lighting it up with a "red
gloom". The second, beginning where the first
turned due North at the Bight, continues for
1000 miles as the "Valley of Shadows".
The nation known as the Road Makers
abandons technological sealed habitats and
descends into the Valley.
The descent takes thousands of years,
perhaps because they must allow themselves to
adapt to the Valley's denser and more toxic
atmosphere.
They spend many generations, slowly
descending and adapting, and always building
the Road from which they get their name
downwards into the Valley.
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8,500,000 AD?
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Children Of
The Hive (starts) |
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Low the
Ascomycotan Sky |
The Days Of The Darkening |
The sun begins to die.
The upward Earth grows quiet, cold and
"not good to live upon". Humanity cannot
survive without protective clothing anywhere.
Last domesticated birds and mammals
become extinct. Insects survive.
Humans ake over the floor of the Valley,
displacing the dominant species there. They
build cities along the Valley to the Bight
where it turns Northward and continue their
colonisation Northward into the Shadow: but
are repelled by the inhabitants of the Shadow,
who are intelligent, though not human.
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9 million AD? |
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The Last Road
Maker |
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All biological life on the
Earth's upper surface ends |
10 million AD |
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The Road Makers increase their population
and come to a time of ease and some decadence.
They investigate the Forces which hold them in a
stalemate at the Bight. Exploration into time
and other dimensions allows disasterous
irruptions of other Outer forces |
Eve of Evil |
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The decadent consort with Outside forces
and with beast-men. The first Giants appear. |
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The Road Makers are attacked by the
inhabitants of the Shadow, and driven back from
the Bight. Pandemonaeum, and despair among the
cities of the Valley. |
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Telepathic gifts ("Sensitives") start to
show up in humanity at moderate frequency.
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The Second History Of The World |
The Road Makers repel their
enemies and construct a great arcology at the
Bight, the Redoubt, drawing its power from
geoelectricity
Humanity retires within the Redoubt,
continuing to tunnel down into the Earth to
construct the Underground Fields.
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12 million AD
THE
FOUNDING
Red Twilight
Ex Machina
Devices
Founder
GOLD
The Sky Is Full of Eyes
Delight
(multiple stories)
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Outside the Redoubt, the Unforgiven and
the Hybrids continue to mix with Outside
entities |
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A rebellious sub-faction builds a second
Redoubt, only 0.5% of the volume of the Great
Redoubt, located far to the North. |
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The Master-Word is encoded & fixed in
human genetics |
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Great Redoubt completed: the
last of the Underground Fields hollowed and
litten.
Human population reaches 500 million
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13 million AD |
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Age of the Flying Ships. Humanity turns
outward again and explores the unknown and
forgotten world beyond the two Redoubts. |
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Delight |
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Unprecedented developments within the
Night Land bring an end to the age of
exploration.
The first appearance of Pneumavores and
other Dark Forces.
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The Wreck
of the Aetherwing |
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The ability to project the Master-Word
telepathically is now considered the major
criterion of true humanity |
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Sundeath |
End of Light. The Sun no
longer visible to human eyes |
16 million AD |
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The Watching |
The North-West Watcher appears. The
Redoubt is henceforth under seige. |
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Foundation of the Guild of Monstruwacans |
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Appearance of other Watchers |
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Monsters and Forces multiply within the
Night Land. The Great Redoubt is attacked many
times. The lower half-mile is abandoned and the
The Air Clog (force-field) is put in place
around the Redoubt at ground level.
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The Siege of
Humanity |
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South Watcher first sighted |
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Embrace The
Night |
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Catharsis |
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17 million AD |
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South Watcher halted by the Glowing Dome |
Children Of
The Hive (ends) |
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An
Exhalation of Butterflies |
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Imago |
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A Mouse in the
Walls of the Lesser Redoubt |
The Dream Of X |
Lesser Redoubt falls.
X journeys out into the Night Land and
rescues one woman.
From X, the inhabitants of the Redoubt
learn of habitable "Land of Seas and
Volcanoes" in the old sea bed to the North.
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20 million AD
The Testament
of Andros |
The Rebirth |
A new shaft is driven to tap
the Earth Current, striking West under the
ancient city of Usire. Circle rekindled,
defences of the Redoubt greatly strengthened. |
Awake
In The Night |
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The
Cry of the Night Hound |
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Meanwhile, She
Dreams |
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Some humans attempt to colonise the Land
of Seas and Volcanoes |
The
Guild of the Last Migration |
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Slope |
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The Scream |
The heresy of Scyrr: the redoubt rejects
the Land |
Out
Kiss
Marks |
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The Inward
Seer |
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Eater |
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Jewel |
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The Earth Current weakens
The Watchers advance upon the Redoubt
Glowing Dome broken
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The
Astronomer
Minotaur
Little Watcher
Eikon |
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Heaven
Sent
Beyond |
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Silence
of the Night |
Fall of the Redoubt |
The Earth Current fails
Almost all the Millions suicide to avoid
the Pneumavores.
A few humans survive (as wild folk?) in
the land of Seas and Volcanoes
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25 million AD?? |
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Unknown years? |
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Last True Human dies |
30 million AD?? |
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End of all life on Earth |
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(Billions of years pass, far more time
than has been accounted for up till now) |
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The End Of The Earth |
Earth falls into the dead
Sun (from: The House On The Borderland) |
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(Many hundreds of billions of years pass) |
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The End Of Eternity |
The Sun falls into the great Central
Star of the Universe. (from: The House On
The Borderland) |
The Last of
all Suns |
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All lovers are reunited.
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