This is a time line for Ocean.
Like every thing else here on this vanity site it is a work in progress and is subject to change at my whim.
It is written form the point of view of one of Father's priest.
It is written form the point of view of one of Father's priest.
Stay tune as I complete it.
-65 million years
Protector arrives on Ocean being
pursued by Father and Mother.
All three are attacked by Tsaurus a
soul eating god of the Saurens, which they manage to destroy. The
form the first Pact.
Because of the belief of the Saurens,
Tsaurus reappears 7 more times.
After destroying Tsaurus for the 8th
time, Protector and Mother pull down the small second moon and hammer
the great city of the Saurens destroying all the dinosaur like life
on Plow.
Mother finds the small mammals that
survived the destruction and the long wait begins as Mother evolves
the animals into Humanity.
-10,000 Years
Mother gives birth to the Son.
-9,999
Mother gives birth to the two great
souls, which Father place in the first two witches.
-9,998
Mother gives birth to 1,000 souls,
which Fathers places in the remaining Humans.
-9,997
Mother gives birth to 1,000,000 souls,
which Fathers places in the animals.
-9,900
The first two witches die and become
the first ascended gods the Friends.
-9,000
On Mother's urging the friends pass
through the gate.
-8,900
The original Raven becomes a god.
-8,850
Storyteller ascends to godhood.
-8,825- -8,700
Protector, Storyteller and Raven begin
their great wondering and works.
Creation of the Great Totem Gods:Wolf,
Panther, Lion, Orca, Catfish, Kraken and Bull.
Creation of the Protector's great
system of roads.
-8,700
The birth of Snake woman the first
witch in born in 1100 years.
-8,600
Snake Woman ascends to god hood.
-8,500
Protector starts the great
search to bring those that carry the witch gene together.
Snake Woman's decedents become the
great shamans of the Bison peoples.
-8,400
Some of the great witch lines
are established, Star Eye one of Snake Woman's decedents Marries
Darius a witch from the city that is now called Remus, the line of
the Caesars is started.
-8,400- 4000
The long peace. The witches have
returned. The great lines are established. The people have spread
over the continue of the plow. The Ravens and the Krakens with the
help of their gods start to explore and fish the great ocean.
There are some minor conflicts but
Protector, the other gods and the Protector's priest usual manage to
contain and defuse them.
-7000
The population reaches 1 Billion
people. Protector through his priest and his god eyes make birth
control available to all. Priest preach replacement level birthrate
one child per person. It is necessary because almost all children
born reach adulthood and reproduce, thanks to the witch healers and
the Protectors priest causing a runaway population boom.
-4000
Father and Mother return from
their long journey beyond the gate of paradise.
Storyteller and Raven pass through the
gate. Odin and Raven find their regenerating but soulless bodies.
-3900
Protector discovers Temptress, a
soul devouring demon/imaged goddess during one of his hunts. Since
the loss of Storyteller to the gate and Mother no longer visits. He
falls in love with Temptress and does not destroy her. He takes her
to the gate to the void and builds her a home/prison by the gate. One
time she follows him into the void and survives.
-3800
Temptress escapes the void and
stepping through to reality eats a witch, Protector catches her and
brings her back to the void where he plans to destroy her to free the
soul but Temptress temps him once more and he falls. Twister is
conceived . Mother demands that Protector destroy Temptress. He
refuses as Temptress is now carrying his child. Mother declares the
Pact is broken and leaves.
-3770
Twister is born.
-3600
Father and Mother bring Son
through the gate. The three as they are now know form active
priesthoods. Mothers priest start perform much the same task as
Protector's priest, healing the sick, blessing the crops, freeing
them from weeds and pest, and aiding the poor. Father and Sons
priest are more militant preach that the Protector is not a true
great god but was a soul devouring demon that lived in the void, and
he had fallen he had failed in his one duty, the duty that he had
accepted when the first Pact was made the duty to protect the souls
of humanity. He had let Temptress live and worse yet he had had a
demon child by her.
-3500
Odin becomes the god of the forest
people who call themselves Norse in his honor, Brun begins to be seen among the Norse. The priest of the three begin building Temples in
all of the lands except the Norse lands, Odin will not let them pass
the Western Fork of the Great River because to him all they preach are
lies and hate.
-3400
The great breaking the Priest of
Son and Father preach holy war against the Protector, his Priest and
all of his works. Son appears in the great temple in Portus preaches
holy war. The night of the cleansing, Son and his followers sweep
from the temples and kill all of the protectors priest that they can
find. Protector confronts Son but father arrives with a great ballista
that shoots bolts that bring the fires of the Sun to Earth. Protector
flees Portus but through his Gods Eyes manages to save many of
his priest and brings them to the lands of the Norse.
-3399
Son declares that all of
Protectors works must be destroyed because he had fallen and was now
the Evil One and the works of evil must be evil. Starting in Portus
Son leads his priest on a crusade of destruction. He lead them north
along the great road destroying the road, bridges and Protector's
roadside shrines. Protector confronted him on the road between Portus
and what is now Remus. Son used one of his diamond arrows to drive
off Evil One the resulting fire ball destroyed 2 miles of road and a
small village after that Evil One never tried to to confront the son
again.
Many of the people despised what Son
and his priest had done to Protectors Priest and the destruction of
his works and stood against Son. But Son was not afraid to use his
arrows on those he called the unrighteous and many died in the flames
of the sun brought to earth.
Still many of the unrighteous fought
against his priest and followers when he was not present and there
was war and destruction through out the land.
During this time the Totems, stood
neutral.
-3997
Son and his army of 200,000 priest
reach the Western Fork of the Great River. Odin puts an arrow in his
eye and Son dies for the first time. His army is destroyed, 160,000
of his priest die. Son no longer leads the great crusade but the wars
and destruction still continued, only the lands of the Ravens and the
Norse were spared.
-3900
The uneasy peace. Son returns
from the gate, but can no longer manifest for an extend time in
reality. Calls upon the Totems to help restore order. They agree to
do so, if he will stop his priest from preaching of cleansing the
land. He finally agrees and the Totems manage to bring and uneasy
peace to the land. But the peoples are broken into small tribes and
clans that raid and fight with one another.
-2500
Krakens unite on their Island under
King Aecenus, began to call themselves the Aecenens.
-2400
Aecenens cross the Shallow Sea and
conquer Portus.
The Five Chieftains unite the Panther
Tribes in a loose confederation, ruling from Vig.
Bridget becomes the first Witch
Chieftain of Lars.
-2350
Remus and Romulus born to a Caesar
witch in Portus. Aecenens capture and kill the mother and Wolf saves
then and fosters them in the Spirit Lands at her home in the hills of
Remus.
-2320
Remus and Romulus with the help of Wolf
unite the tribes around the area of whats now Remus. They fight over
the layout of the new city that they were building over the ruins of
an old city destroyed during the Breaking,
Romulus dies. Remus founds the first legion.
-2321 - -2300
Remus through
diplomacy and war unites the Stomach with the help of Wolf. As he
expands he forms more and more legions from the small farmers and
tradesmen breaking the hold of the warring warlords that then ruled
the south.
-2299
Remus now leading
20 Legions Marches on Portus. He is aided in this by Wolf, Snake
Woman and Witch Girl. He defeats the Aecenen phalanxes and drive them back across
the sea. Wolf, Snake Woman and Witch Girl defeat Kraken.
-2298
Witch Girl passes through the Gate.
-2290
Remus establish
Remus as his capitol. He sets his first son Remus II as crown prince
to rule over Portus. He sends his second son Darius north to Tall Rock
to create a great fortress and become the first Count of the Rubicon.
-2250
Remus dies and
because of his fame ascends to godhood.
-2200
Brun makes her
great journey, restores the great road from Great River to Lars.
Panther's first death. She with the help of the multitude that had
formed and then followed her on her journey, revives Panther and
raises Rac to godhood. Brun becomes leader of the Great Hunt.
-2150
Twister comes to
Vig, Destroys the Mothers temple and puts out the Mother's Coals, Rac
and Panther convince Ganius and Roxxanna to combind forces and march
on Vig. The Remen legions and southern Panther Tribesmen defeat the
Army of the 5 Chiefs. Son battles Twister and drives her off. Son
destroys 80,000 of the corrupted of Vig with the fire of the sun.
-2149
Twister tries to
temp Ganius and Roxxanna and fails. Twister approaches the Totems
because Brun will no longer come west for the hunt. The Totems accept
her as the leader of the great hunt.
-2025
Ganius and
Roxxanna died in their sleep on the same night, they ascend to
godhood that same night and take up residence in the Villa that
Twister built for them on Rac's Volcano, where Panther had his cave
and Rac his Great Hollow Tree. Ganius and Roxxanna join the Hunt and
ride the Great Hunt with the Totems and Twister.
-1900
Remus V,
reorganizes the governance of the Reme, instead of the three
administrative areas controlled by the King in Remus, the crown prince
in Portus and the Northern Count in Tall Rock, he establishes 12
more counties one for each city in Reme and appoints Counts as
administrators.
-1800
Under Remus IX,
the Counts go from appointed to hereditary rulers.
-1750
Remus begins visiting Ganius and Roxxxanna. He is tempted and falls
for Twister.
-1740
The Counts start meeting every year to share experiences and advise
the king.
-1700
The Counts begin to call themselves Senators and begin to collect the
taxes from their cities directly taking over from the Royal tax
collectors. Cities are governed by the Counts, now called Senators
and never develop separate administrations free of the nobility. The
creeping corruption of Reme begins as the Senators take more power
into their hands.
-1670
The Senators start meeting twice a year, and the Senate gains the
power of the purse and the right to make laws. The King is reduced to
a figure head. His only true power lies in his right to call up the
legions. The Senators start to recruit their own private armies,
expanding their household guards and taking over the duties of the
Kings Sheriffs bringing them under local control. The great debtor
law was past. The Senators start using their power as the tax
collectors and law enforcers to begin to force the small free framers
off the land. The first great plantations begin to form.
-1600
The Senators now control enough land and capitol that they begin to
grant land and titles to their retainers, the knights are created.
The Senators, forestalling the king's attempt to work against them
with the great businesses, open their ranks to the wealthy merchants
and manufacturers creating 7 more Senators three from Remus and four
from Portus, these Senators are granted monopolies in their areas of
trade. Also to forestall opposition from the church they all so make
the heads of the Father's, Mother's and Son's priesthoods Senators
excluding the priesthoods of Wolf and Remus because of their support
for the king.
-1550
The first rebellion. The Senators gathered their personal armies and
marched on Remus planning to over throw the king.
Remus XI called the legions, 10 legions answered the call and they
drove the six senators of Remus from the City. Tiberius, the Count
of the North, the kings cousin, marched south with 5 veteran
legions. The Great Hunt lead by Twister came with him.
Twister remade the road using the power of the multitude.
The legions over took the Senator from Balor and overran and killed
him and his retainers
The Northern Legions swept into Remus. Twister destroyed the Temple
of the Three and tempted Remus XI her first steps, in her fathers long
range plans.
Remus XI and Tiberius met in the square and agreed to move quickly.
Next morning the legions marched south. They marched for two days to
Xexes On the third day the legions meet the Senators army. Twister
of Souls led the legions with Tiberius and Remus XI, her corrupted
lovers. She trapped and killed Son and blasted the knights with her
magic and the legions with her help defeated the Knights.
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