Xaeyruudh's Index

Timeline of the Great Glacier

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This information is intended for use with the Dungeons & Dragons role-playing game.


At a Glance

The following events in the nearly-4000-year history of the Great Glacier are noteworthy.


Events

UC DR Events
1 -2550 Ulutiu sinks into the sea, and the glacier begins to form.
75 -2476 The glacier encroaches into what will later be known as Damara and Vaasa.
276 -2275 A clan of shield dwarves from the Tortured Land is exiled to the glacier, and become the progenitors of the Innugaakalikurit.
902 -1649 Some human hunters from Sossal become lost in the glacier. They make their new home on the ice, and their descendants will be the first Ulutiuns.
1188 -1363 The Ulutiuns discover the Glacier of Ulutiu. Some of them believe Ulutiu to be a god, and devote themselves to his teachings; they declare themselves Nakulutiuns and move northward, founding the settlements of Nakvaligach. The remainder return to Alpuk, thereafter calling themselves Iulutiuns.
1364 -1187 One group of Iulutiuns settle the eastern portion of the glacier, taking up a nomadic life following the large herds of caribou. These are the first of the Angulutiuns, and they call their land Angalpuk.
1587 -964 The Keryjek Wars begin, sparked by Iulutiun settlements poaching caribou in Angalpuk.
1637 -914 The Keryjek Wars end with a treaty between Iulutiun and Angulutiun leaders. The first koatulit is held to commemmorate the treaty, and has been held every year since to facilitate peace.
1649 -902 Iulutiuns reach out to the Innugaakalikurit by inviting them to participate in the koatulit. The dwarves decline, but a cordial relationship begins.
1790 -761 An unusually warm summer results in extensive flooding around the Lugalpgotak and Nakalpgotak seas. Several villages are washed away, and hundreds of Ulutiuns drown.
1952 -599 A small group of Innugaakalikurit provoke the frost giants of Novularond by discovering and stealing a giant-built catapult. The elders of Gronne offer to arbitrate the dispute, eventually finding the dwarves guilty of theft; the thieves are given to the giants as slaves. Descendants of those dwarves remain enslaved by the giants to the present day.
2338 -213 Nakulutiuns inadvertently awaken a monster in the Olyniak Crevasse. They call it Ufloq.
3010 460 Treasure hunters from Sossal enter Angalpuk, bringing with them a strange disease which becomes a plague before the victims are isolated and exiled to the Ibelgrak Valley. The survivors remain exiled to this day, due to fears that the disease is merely dormant rather than extinguished.
3588 1038 A rotational shift of Toril causes temperatures to rise and the glacier to recede, uncovering the the lands of Vaasa and Damara.
3691 1141 A cabal of wizards from Vaasa construct a castle of ice at the base of Mount Okk, and use the castle as a base for developing new cold-based magic.
3698 1148 A massive earthquake rocks the Lugsaas Chain; the ice castle and its wizards are swallowed by a fissure and presumed dead.
3777 1227 Palus Frohm, an explorer from Vaasa, begins his twenty-year journey across the glacier. He writes Blood and Ice: Survival in the Great Glacier, which becomes popular among would-be adventurers in the north.
3836 1286 Work begins on the Shistak Pass.
3889 1339 Sharra Frohm, a descendant of Palus Frohm, enters the glacier intending to write volume two of Blood and Ice about the Nakvaligach region, which her ancestor was unable to fully explore. She entered the glacier, alone, 100 miles northeast of the Frozen Forest. She has not been heard from since.

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