Kingmaker: Iobarian Timeline
Thursday, May 27, 2010
An ancient land of half-forgotten empires and untold savagery, Iobaria sprawls beyond the frontiers of
northern Avistan. History scars and shapes the people of this rugged land, the ruins of sprawling
civilizations standing testament to ages of glories long lost, but which might rise again. Supplementing
the "Iobaria Gazetteer" by Steven Schend in Pathfinder Adventure Path #33, the following timeline
(also by Steven) presents an overview of the land's long history, laying bare the wonders and terrors
that rule that rugged realm even today.
Iobaria Timeline
Year Event
–5293 Earthfall. End of the cyclops Koloran Empire
–3923 Pit of Gormuz opens in central Casmaron
–1281 Taldor founded by Lost Azlanti and primitive native humans
The Tarrasque, Spawn of Rovagug, destroys Ninshabur. Some hidden force turns the creature
–632
west across the Tovrus and into Avistan.
Ulfen explorers traverse the polar ice and settle into the taiga of northern Casmaron, founding
752
Okormirr.
Okormirran explorers discover the Koloran Roads and begin building Orlov among an old ruined
753
cyclops city. Orlov becomes larger than Okormirr by 764.
780 Founding of Orost.
788 Founding of Antoll.
795 Founding of Lenusya.
809 Founding of Mishkar.
818 Founding of Kirrosuli.
846 Founding of Kirya.
Iobar, son of Kjell of Orlov, conquers all challengers. He unites all territories under his own
905
banner, claiming all lands from the Icewall to the Castrovin Sea as Iobaria.
Death of Iobar I at the Battle of Kridorn. Iobar's son Hrugil repels the pirate fleets from the east,
937 spending the rest of his rule improving Iobaria's fleets, intent on eradicating the powerful
mercenary pirate and corsair fleets of the northwestern Castrovin Sea.
975 Kridorn rises to become a port city, not a minor fishing town.
1080 Hroran and Kridorthrost founded in this year of plenty.
1106 The Tearplague scours all settlements between the Norinor and Finadar.
1240 Human settlers claim cyclops ruins in Caemorin, dubbing the settlement Mavradia.
1412 Founding of Zradnirras.
1466 Founding of Vurnirn after a 24-year-long struggle against Hoofwood natives.
1528 Founding of Mirnbay.
The Chardeath sees many spontaneously combust in high fevers. The flames lead to the
1634 eradication of a third of all Iobarian settlements. This plague's source is revealed in 1869 as the
necromancer Otyb the Undying.
The red and blue great wyrms, Shrodniar and Voldmannasein, clash over Fangard. Some force
1717 from the forest depths strike Voldmannasein dead, while Shrodnair crashes near Antoll. Strange
glyphs are discovered, burnt into the blue dragon, scarring even his bones.
The centaur tribes of the Caemorin unite under the banner of Errindayn the Seer, sacking
1900
Mirnbay and destroying numerous humanoid settlements.
Errindayn the Seer dies mysteriously after an unnaturally long life. The centaurs of the region
1986
abandon their warlike ways.
Mirnbay refounded and defenses significantly reinforced. Centaurs barred from the city for more
2108
than 400 years.
Ohjar's Plague kills a third of all male centaurs, orcs, and humans across the land in a mere 8
2546
months.
Humans and some native centaur tribes ally together to form the realm of Zastel in eastern
2602
Iobaria, its capital in Mavradia.
2654 Iobaria begins the Reclamation Wars against Zastel.
2686 Zastel reconquered and returned to Iobarian rule.
The Choking Death. A respiratory plague suffocates more than 40% of Iobaria's adult population
2742 over the course of 8 months. The plague spreads west out of Iobaria (carried to Avistan by
refugees) and devastates human populations in northeastern Avistan over the next 6 years.
The Native Plaguestrife: Various druid sects, guilds, and politicians fan flames against those they
2767 deem "non-native Iobarians" by claiming no plagues ever happened until folk started coming
east from Avistan. Skirmishes and vendettas weaken the power bases of many for decades.
Earthquake rocks Taldor, Qadira, and central Casmaron. Coastal settlements along the
2920
northwestern Castrovin all damaged or destroyed by tidal waves.
Exodus. At least three separate waves of refugees abandon Iobaria over this century to settle
3000s
other colonial lands to the west and south or new domains east of the Castrovin Sea.
The Pestilentropy infected many nomads and settlers in central Iobaria, causing fevers and
madness ultimately leading to death by overexertion or by the blades of those its victims
imagine to be their foes. The disease or its manic side effects destroy more than half of Iobaria's
3150
farms, villages, crops, and cattle, leading to a decade of lean harvests and starvation for the
region. This devastation and the lack of support for the people leads to the final dissolution of
Old Iobarian rule.
Three warlords (one of Issian descent) and their allies band together to restore the nation of
Iobaria. Rallying to banners and flags of Old Iobaria, support for New Iobaria rose quickly with
3212
their reclamation of Orlov from foreign factions and their local pawns. The Restoration War lasts
for nearly a century before New Iobaria officially exists and rules its lands.
House Arjal and House Korya betray allied House Narkys, sacrificing its leaders and troops to
3283
dragons of the mountains and wilds, their newer allies.
The Restoration War over, King Irral I turns control and demesne of all the old cyclops ruins to
3304
their white and red dragon allies.
The Great Horde. A collection of ogre, giant, and cyclops tribes rampage across Iobaria under the
command of Burlor, a cyclops wearing the Crown of Mirim and wielding the Perobov Maul. These
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monsters remain a threat long after the death of Burlor beneath the hooves of more than 25
tribes of centaurs.
Amid the blizzards of a long and particularly harsh winter, frost giants from the Ice Steppes
4000
invade New Iobaria, pillaging and murdering. They reach Orlov before being repelled.
4499 Iobarian Choral the Conqueror unites Rostland and Issia into Brevoy.
The Drakeplague kills more than 60% of the dragon population within 3 months. The silver
4519 dragon Cithaythren and Finadar druids perform a ritual to end the plague before it spreads
beyond Iobaria at the cost of that dragon's life.
Sarkorian barbarians flee the expanding Worldwound, a number of tribes crossing the polar ice to
4600s
Iobaria.
Skirmishes and battles among Sarkorian refugees, native insurgents, and Iobarian troops begin
4607 the second fall of Iobaria with the loss of Mavradia to rebel forces. Battles and rebellions
continue over the next 5 decades.
New Iobaria reduced to the now-isolated cities of Kridorn, Mirnbay, and Orlov, each of whose
4659
rulers now claims to be the true ruler and heir of Iobaria due to blood ties to the dead kings.
4667 Red Revolution of Galt; many Galtan nobles flee north and eventually arrive in Kridorn.
Royal House Rogarvia, descended from Iobarian warlords, disappears. House Surtova assumes
4699
power in Brevoy.
4710 The current year.
