Eras

Era	Abbreviation	Raveni Standard Date	Length (Years)	Length	Major Events	Timeline	Real-World Allegory
Hollow Era	HE	-11,700,606,300	150,000,000	~150 million years	- The Aethyr Explosion - Aethyr Afterglow - The Dark Ages - Aethyr Miasma - Ends when the first Astral Bodies are formed (Aethyr Stars)	Genesis Timeline	Big Bang, Creation of the Universe, the Dark Ages
Formation Era	FE	-11,550,606,300	450,000,000	~450 million years	- Massive Aethyr Stars quickly burning out - Aethyr Void & Rifts form from fallen Aethyr Stars - Universe heats up (a lot) - End when the first Aethyr Galaxies form	Genesis Timeline	Reionization, Galaxy Formation
Propagation Era	PE	-11,100,606,300	500,000,000	~500 million years	- Aethyr stars are smaller, longer lived, more stable - Aethyr galaxies consolidate and stabilize - Ends when the first Astral Exoplanet is formed	Genesis Timeline	Matter-dominated Era
Inception Era	ICE	-10,600,606,300	5,830,000,000	~5.83 billion years	- Astral Star formation rate peaks - Universe cools down - Many Astral Star Systems exist with exoplanets - Potentially habitable astral systems form - Ends when Geminaea’s Astral System is formed more	Genesis Timeline	Matter-dominated Era
Conception Era	CCE	-4,770,606,300	670,000,000	~670 million years	- Proto-Geminaea is bombarded by astral debris - The Proto-Geminaean Moon is formed (Anevar) - Conditions on Geminaea begin to settle - Ends when the first life emerges on Geminaea (single-cells) more	Genesis Timeline	Pre-Cambrian Era
Evolution Era	EVE	-4,100,606,300	4,100,000,000	~4.1 billion years	- Cells evolve from single-cell to complex organisms - First fish, plants, land animals, etc. evolve - Several extinction events with major changes in weather + composition of the land - Ends when the first sapient Geminaeans appear (Proma) more	Genesis Timeline	Paleozoic Era, Mesozoic Era
Investigation Era	INE	-606,300	300,000	~300 thousand years	- Early Proma begin spreading across Geminaea, forming primitive cultures - First belief systems emerge - Proma begin to wield magic - Ends when the first gods are created	Divergence Timeline	Cenozoic Era, Human Prehistory, The Stone Age
Discord Era	DE	-306,300	1100	~1100 years	- Proma civilizations form - More established religions and structured belief emerge - The relationship between the power of a god and mortal belief begins to be understood by some - Many Proma civilizations begin expanding, conflicts arise between neighbors - Civilizations become increasingly global and foxed on converting others to their belief to empower their gods - Ends when the global War of Belief began more	Divergence Timeline	The Stone Age, The Bronze Age, Classical Era
Annihilation Era	ANE	-305,200	100	~100 years	- The differing civilizations of Geminaea war over their different views of the world - Gods become increasingly warlike and cruel as the mortal experience grows harsher in war - Major civilizations and empires are conquered or annihilated - Ends when the conflict has risen to the point of global war and the Battle of the Beast cleaves Geminaea in two more	Divergence Timeline	Classical Era
Reconstruction Era	RCE	-305,100	1000	~1000 years	- Ola’Vandyr and their followers are the only mortal beings remaining in Geminaea - Ola’Vandyr’s followers create a new pantheon of gods bound by a pact of balance - The new pantheon of gods work to rebuild the world as 2 halves of a whole, creating Aradaea and Vitaea - The gods recreate the conditions for life and restored the animals to the land - The gods recreated the Proma at their most primitive stage of development on Aradaea and recreated the Sylvari World Tree on Vitaea - Ends when the gods complete their work and Ola’Vandyr seals the Divine Pact, causing the gods to leave through the divine gate and create their own planes of existence (The Eldaari and Wataari are left behind to watch over Geminaea and preserve the Divine Pact) more	Recovery Timeline	None
Regrowth Era	RGE	-304,100	300,000	~ 300 thousand years	- The re-established primitive Proma (known as Haku) begin to spread across Aradaea like they once did on Proto-Geminaea (but this time without any gods walking amongst them) - The reborn Sylvari (possessing no memories of their past) begin to learn and understand the natural world of Vitaea - Vitaea’s wildlife evolves rapidly, gaining huge diversity and spreading across the planet - The Great Awakening occurs on Vitaea over several thousand years, causing many of Vitaea’s wildlife to gradually become sapient and humanoid - The Haku begin to adapt to the harsh conditions across Aradaea, causing changes to their bodies and start to magically accommodate their surroundings - Ends when the Haku and the Awakened Vitaeans begin to create settlements and agriculture starts more	Recovery Timeline	Cenozoic Era, The Stone Age
Resurgence Era	RSE	-4100	1100	~1100 years	- Haku-descendent races on Aradaea develop into more advanced civilizations, learning early technologies and the existence of magic - Awakened Vitaean races develop into more advanced civilizations, learning early technologies and the existence of magic - Ends when the largely isolated peoples of Aradaea and Vitaea begin to write down their history more	Recovery Timeline	Human Pre-History, The Bronze Age, The Iron Age
Exploration Era	EE	-3000	1000	1000 years	- The sapient races of Aradaea and Vitaea form kingdoms and empires and begin to explore the world and the nature of existence - Conflicts of expansion, resources, and politics occur between kingdoms and empires - Several technological advancements are made in war and civilization - Distinct cultures and racial identities begin to solidify - Aradaea and Vitaea become widely settled across both planets - Ends when the Archons of the Gods begin to contact various mortals across Geminaea and the first Prophets of the Pantheon are created more	Discovery Timeline	Classical Era
Inquiry Era	IQE	-2000	1000	1000 years	- Shared identities began to form between the disparate races of Geminaea based on shared belief inspired by the Prophets of the Pantheon - The “Old World” religions began to be abandoned or adapt to the new insights brought by the Prophets of the Pantheon - Structured research and study of the world began to develop in earnest - Magic was beginning to be understood with more scientific, less superstitious methods of inquiry - New political and social structures emerged, including the concept of “Mortal Rights” - Wars and conflict were less common than in the age of Exploration - Ends when the discovery is made that all creatures of Geminaea possess the ability to influence magic more	Discovery Timeline	The Middle Ages
Arcane Era	ACE	-1000	800	800 years	- Continuous advancement in understanding and control of magic by the various civilizations of Geminaea (motivated by competition) - Magical technologies develop and rapidly change life for Geminaeans - Several magical catastrophes cause concerns among many, a divide develops between Geminaeans who trust or distrust magic - The existence of Aethyr is discovered and research into chaos begins - Geminaeans begin to look upward and seek to understand what lies beyond their skies - Vitaeans and Aradaeans become aware of one another by observing magical phenomena on the other’s planet caused by their arcane studies - Aradaeans make the first contact with Vitaeans via magical communication - Ends when Aradaeans and Vitaeans collaboratively determine that their planets are slowly approaching one another on an eventual collision course more	Discovery Timeline	The Renaissance Era
Convergence Era	CVE	-200	200	200 years	- A coalition is formed between the most magically advanced civilizations of Geminaea of both planets with the goal of solving the Convergence Crisis - Life is generally overshadowed by a feeling of doom and desperate optimism - Some conflicts arise due to a rise in anarchic / destruction cults - Some civilizations who are less magically advanced become more insular - Some believe that mortal’s control of magic has caused the convergence to occur and the anti-magic movement grows - Some believe the convergence to be a test sent by the Gods of the Pantheon to determine if they are worthy and religious belief in the Geminaean Pantheon increases - Aradaean and Vitaean Arcane Researchers eventually determine a possible solution to the Convergence Crisis by amassing large amounts of mineral magic (Lyrium) from each planet and hurling the chunks at each other to produce a highly magically active “moon” between the two planets - Ends when the Lunar Solution to the Convergence Crisis is executed and Ravena is created, stabilizing the distance between the twinned planets more	Neoteric (Modern) Timeline	The Renaissance Era
Lunar Era	LE	0	2367	2367 years	- Shortly after the creation of Ravena, Aradaean and Vitaean arcanists began to endeavor to travel to the moon and a “space race” began - This space race shifted the previously collaborative relationship between the people of Geminaea into a more competitive, antagonistic one but increased planetary cohesion and union - Aradaean arcanists were the first to reach the Moon and began to establish claims where they could harness Ravena’s strong magical energies - Vitaeans and other Aradaean civilizations arrived on the moon shortly after and a land-grab frenzy began - Tensions built between the settlers of Ravena until a chaotic war broke out over control of the moon - The conflict on the moon began to cause instability in Ravena’s core and some arcanists determined that if not stopped, the moon could be destroyed - A coalition effort lead by Shaimyra of Dragar joined the war with the goal of ending the conflict as quickly as possible - Shaimyra’s coalition of Geminaeans were able to persuade or overcome the belligerents in the war and a treaty was made that established general Geminaean Sovereignty of Ravena with governance by a consortium of guilds - Following the signing of the Guildpact, Geminaea saw nearly 2 millennia of connectivity through Ravena - Travel between Aradaea and Vitaea was possible & trade and commerce began to expand rapidly - Southern Aradaean civilizations and Northern Vitaean civilizations steadily lost influence and power over time due to their distance from the Raveni shuttle sites. Many struggled to remain relevant while others became entirely insular — eventually all faded into history - Racial and planetary identity became an prevalent topic as Raveni culture grew and became dominant as a ‘mixing pot’ of Geminaean cultures - Many racially-aligned civilizations consolidated in the Ravena-accessible sides of the planets, leaving the opposite hemispheres largely uninhabited and disconnected - During this period, unknown to Geminaeans, the Eldaari began executing a plan to take control of the collective belief of mortals which Ola’Vandyr organized into their Pantheon (believing that Ola’Vandyr’s concept of balance was misguided and can be improved) - The Wataari discovered the Eldaari plot and a war between the two broke out over centuries, resulting in the defeat and scattering of the Wataari across the Astral Sea and the destruction of Anevar - Unfettered by the defeated Wataari, the Eldaari secretly establish deep control of Geminaea through replacing its political leaders (including Shaimyra) and establishing magical conduits across Ravena to control the strength of its arcane core - The Eldaari executed the final stage of their plan by causing Vitaea and Aradaea to rapidly hurdle toward Ravena sending Geminaea into chaos and despair at the sudden onset of armageddon - Ended when the Eldaari ‘miraculously’ appeared, sent by their ‘god’ Eldaar to ‘save’ the people from their ‘annihilation’ and beseached them all to forsake the false gods that abandoned them more	Neoteric (Modern) Timeline	Modern Era
Ascendant Era	AE	2367	23	23 years	- The Eldaari have established control over all major civilizations across Geminaea and Eldaar will soon wield the full collective power of Geminaean belief and emerge to cause the Eldaari Ascendancy - A small group of Geminaeans (known as the Phoenix Chryseum) managed to uncover the truth behind the Eldaari plot using an artifact of Kyzandra that guided them to Shaimyra’s true form and forced the Eldaari to execute the final stage of their plan ahead of schedule - The Eldaari leader, Kadophet, turned out to be a mutated Eldaari who did not possess a connection to the collective mind of Eldaar but found a way to reconnect and was working within the Eldaari with their own motives - The Phoenix Chryseum’s existence and threat to the Eldaari was kept secret by Kadophet while they worked to challenge Eldaar - The Phoenix Chryseum managed to reach the Divine Temple and speak with the gods of the Pantheon before they faded from the shifting belief of Geminaeans and the gods told them of the Runes of Creation which could be used to stop Eldaar - The Phoenix Chryseum recovered three runes of creation from the Beast which once cut Geminaea in two and traveled to Anevar to confront Eldaar more	Neoteric (Modern) Timeline	None (Future, Post-Global Society)