-4000		It is believed that the earliest forms of metalworking and the forging of iron are developed by the Dwarves of the northern lands at this time.

-1600		A genocidal war against all Dwarves begins in Shaya’Nor, one that leaves no dwarf alive in the Shadow Lands to this day.  Many of the refugees flee southward into the mountains and hills of the Bloody Pikes, Gorgons, and Fangs, creating many of the Clanhomes known there now.

-600		The Age of Darkness descends across Shaintar as the armies of Shaya’Nor dominate almost all of the lands.  Only the Dwarves of the Hellstorm Mountains, the Dregordians, and a mix of races in the area now known as the Freelands stand against their might.

-500		Plagues, pestilence, and famine ravage all of Shaintar, further devastating the populations of every race.

387-		The Fang Wars-Squeezed between Shaya’Nor to the north and the Wolfhead Mountains to the south, hundreds of Goblinesh tribes band together and strike against the heavily decimated Dwarves in the latter region.  Ultimately they drive the dwarves out and take the former Clanhomes there for themselves, thus beginning an enmity between the two races in that region that continues to this day.

1132-		A massive volcano erupts in the southeast corner of Shaintar, causing great destruction and taking hundreds of lives.  Many druids (mostly Elvish and Dwarvish) gather to use their gifts to calm it.  When the crisis is abated, these gathered druids begin discussions that eventually lead to the formation of the Druidic Council later that year.  They select the oldest and most powerful among them, Mindoth, as the First Speaker.

1741-		The Battle of Aralon-Tavrin O’Ndori leads a combined force of Fae, Goblinesh, Humans, Dwarves, and Brinchie against an army sent by Jolokas ki Grilnas to pursue the refugees fleeing the Empire.  They meet in a bloody conflict that lasts for 8 days near the Aralon Forest.  Finally, reinforcements for Tavrin’s forces arrive in the form of hundreds of Youlin Aradi cavalry and thousands of Avanar, turning the tide and sending the Kal back north.

The Battle is not without cost, and the greatest is paid by the Avanar, who (never numerous to begin with) are decimated by the Empire’s necromancers and their summoned Nether creatures.  As most of their people participated in the battle, their elders decide to split up those that remain and “leave the world of Walkers and their wars” to find safe havens to try and rebuild their species.

1748-		The Stand on the Forge-Pursued by yet another army sent by the Kal, Banrick Olar, Chieftain of the Stone Bear Tribe, makes camp in the area east of the Forges now known as Bearheart and declares that he “will run no more.”  Various other tribes join him, and there they make their stand against the forces of the Empire.  Even as the Kal forces threaten to overwhelm them, Dwarves from the Forges and Elves from the Crystal Forest join the battle and break the Kal army.

This is marked as the founding of the Kingdom of Olara.

2200-		White Silver and Blood Steel are discovered.  The former is first mined by the Dwarves of the Stoneheart Mountains (although it later appears in other southern ranges), while the latter is first discovered in the Thunder Peaks deep inside the Empire (and later found throughout many of the northern ranges).  As Black Iron is of Darkness, so is White Silver of Light (though no one of that time recognized Light for what it is, they well understood it as anathema to Darkness and Flame) and Blood Steel of Flame.