A Broken Paradise (The Windows of Heaven Book 3) (43 page)

1209
Adiyuri is born to Iyared and Baraqa at Salaam-Surupag.

1210
The Oath of Samyaza on Mt. Ardis. Flying lights appear more frequently, as women mysteriously disappear in Lumekkor and Balimar. The Iya’Baalim first report strange cattle mutilations in Y’Raddu.

1211-1225
Q’Enukki supervises the construction of the Gate of the Rising Sun on the large island north of Zhri’Nikkor.

1213
Aenusi, desiring to strengthen ties with Balimar, admits Ardisu Glory
supporters into the Upper Family Council.

1215
Tubaal-qayin secretly forges iron at Bab’Tubila.

1218
The Watchers Samyaza and Uzaaz’El declare themselves openly over Ayur L’Mekku, and visit L’Mekku and Tubaal-qayin. L’Mekku refuses to treat with them, but Uzaaz’El shows Tubaal-qayin how to build a hotter forge and alloy carbon steel without his father’s knowledge.

1221
Tubaal-qayin II ‘Lu’Anaq’ is born at Bab’Tubila.

1226
Q’Enukki returns to Sa-utar to find Priesthood and Council divided between “Orthodox” and Ardisu Glory factions. He prophesies the doom of Seti, and warns that a great shadow spreads from the heights of Ardis. Aenusi repents, and purges the First Council. Balimar revolts.

1227
Aenusi dispatches an army to Balimar under Khae’Nani, but Balimar routs the superior numbers of the Archon’s army using iron swords supplied by Tubaal-qayin. Diplomatic relations with Lumekkor strained.

1234-1258
Q’Enukki constructs the Gate of the Setting Sun. He leaves Fasturi son of Seti there as steward
.
Lumekkor rises as a world power as Seti begins to decline.

1260
L’Mekku calls Tubaal-qayin’s sons the
Dynasty of Steel
. Iron forged at Sa-utar, but of poorer quality. An arms race begins, although relations remain outwardly cordial. Balimar becomes a vassal of Lumekkor.

1270
Q’Enukki returns to Salaam-Surupag, and weds Aedana.

1287
Muhet’Usalaq born at Salaam-Surupag to Q’Enukki and Aedana. Q’Enukki declares the name of his son as his first public prophecy.

1318
Birth of Urugim and Guidad to Q’Enukki and Aedana.

1323-1339
Birth of Q’Enukki and Aedana’s remaining children.

1330-1340
Lumekkor colonizes the eastern seaboard of the Northwest Subcontinent. The Archon’s Channel Fleet clashes with Lumekkorim raiders. Aenusi forced to surrender the Central Channel ports when Lumekkor’s army pushes southwest.

1340
Aenusi dies; Khae’Nani becomes Archon. He begins a naval campaign to restore Seti’s control of the Central Channels and inland seas.

1353
Birth of Kunyari to the house of Adiyuri.

1357
Q’Enukki dwells in Aeden 3 months before the Sacred Tree.

1360
Uzaaz’El inspires the Temple of Ardis. Fathers in Lumekkor first offer their daughters willingly there to the sons of A’Nu.

C.
1375 on
Hairy, deformed giants appear in the vales of the
Kharir Ardisu.
Although shunned as monsters at first, by 1420 it becomes clear that the Temple of Ardis is the source of the strange creatures. By 1450, the giants gain public acceptance in remote parts of Balimar and Lumekkor as local legends, and then heroes. The Watchers begin to fan out.

1400 on
The Watcher Samyaza leaves Ardis, and penetrates Assuri.

1440
Q’Enukki retreats with his sons to the Valley of Akh’Uzan, and builds the monastery. Muhet’Usalaq marries Edina.

1460
Birth of Isha’Tahar in Assuri.

1462
The Temple of Ardis openly advances its claims of divine-human inter-breeding with the birth of the titan Uggu to one of the priestess-wives of Uzaaz’El.

1474
Lumekki born at Akh’Uzan to Muhet’Usalaq and Edina.

1480
Q’Enukki’s heavenly journey. Guidad invents printing press.

1487
Q’Enukki vanishes into the heavens and does not return. Muhet’Usalaq and the sons of Q’Enukki become seers and continue their father’s work. They and their descendants, the “Seer Clan,” abandon Akh’Uzan for less secluded places like Salaam-Surupag, Kush, and Sa-utar.

148
8-1889
Q’Enukkian Renewal
: The sons of Q’Enukki spread their father’s teachings across much of the world, winning multitudes in far off places, but also increased opposition from the Watcher cults and their servants. Eventually persecution becomes universal and more violent, until it forces the Seer Clan to retreat into various enclaves that are then rooted out and destroyed, one by one, until a remnant returns to Akh’Uzan in 1923.

1500
Samyaza seduces Isha’Tahar and makes her his Queen.

1535
Death of Khae’Nani, Maha’Lahl-aey’El becomes Archon. He reverses his father’s foreign policy, and begins to fritter away Seti’s strategic holdings on the advice of Adiyuri’s “Moderate Orthodox Bloc.” Seti’s Civilization fades substantially as a world power.

1541
Rakhau is born in the house of Kunyari at Sa-utar.

1554
Avarnon-Set is born to one of Uzaaz’El’s priestess “wives.”

1655
Lumekki marries Bhat’Aenusa of Balimar. Corsairs take the Gates of the Rising Sun and start the Zhri’Nikkor War. Lumekki is called up.

1655-1680
Lumekki fights in the Zhri’Nikkor Campaign off and on. The Archon sporadically suppresses the teachings of the sons of Q’Enukki.

1656
A’Nu-Ahki born at Salaam-Surupag. Lumekki prophesies that his son is the Comforter
of E’Yahavah A’Nu.

1664
Birth of Tubaal-qayin V ‘Dumuzi.’ Q’Enukkians massacred in Lumekkor and Y’Raddu. Empire of the Warlord Queen Aertimissa begins.

1671
Na’Amiha born at Ayur L’Mekku to L’Mekku the Conqueror and Tzuillaeha, who dies in childbirth.

1680
The Archon’s forces permanently pulled out of Zhri’Nikkor. Assuri abandoned to the Samyaza Cult.

1681
Death of L’Mekku, Tubaal-qayin I “Iron-hand” becomes Emperor of Lumekkor. He has a vision of Uzaaz’El, saying that, “Kingship has now moved to Bab’Tubila according to the divine pattern that began in Y’Raddu.” Uzaaz’El slowly moves Lumekkor’s culture away from the influence of Seti’s Code, back toward the bitter roots that began in Nhod.

1690
Maha’Lahl-aey’El dies; Iyared moves to Sa-utar and becomes Archon. Muhet’Usalaq becomes Salaam-Surupag’s Prime Zaqen.

1690-1922
Iyared reverses the policies of his father, but finds the Council and people evenly divided between the Orthodox and pro-Ardis “Enlightened Coalition” centered in Khavilakki and Balimar.

1703
Death of Udaha. Q’Enukkians purged from Dudael.

1705
Tarbet born at Sa-utar to the house of Rakhau.

1717
A’Nu-Ahki marries Emzara of Sa-utar.

1718
Iyared censures the “Enlightened Coalition” for promoting fertility worship in Khavilakki. The Coalition breaks ties with Sa-utar, and begins to build a new Temple at Ayar Adi’In. The Temple of Ardis secretly throws in its technical support. High Priest Gununi of Ardis appoints his son Duruvanu to advise the new Temple in a propaganda war against Iyared.

1728
Tubaal-qayin I builds a wood-burning steam engine without Watcher aid. Aertimissa gains hegemony on the southern landmass.

1743-1785
Lumekkor—Y’Raddu War
: Tubaal-qayin I, seeking to restore Lumekkor’s roots in Y’Raddu at the urging of Uzaaz’El, invades Mataq despite his half-brother Iya’Baalu’s warning not to destabilize the region. Tubaal-qayin I killed in battle at Unicorn Pass in 1756. His successors, Tubaal-qayin II ‘Lu’Anaq’ and Tubaal-qayin III ‘Gal’Anaq’ die in battle in 1764 and 1777 respectively. Q’Enukkians massacred in Y’Raddu.

1785
Na’Amiha the sister of Tubaal-qayin betrothed to Tarbet of Sa-utar. Defeat of the Y’Raddu city-states at the Battle of Lake Mataq.

1786
Na’Amiha goes to Sa-utar under supervised betrothal, where Tarbet rapes her. Rakhau and Kunyari pay her a large sum, and allow her to break off the engagement. Knowing that Lumekkor is depleted after its war with Y’Raddu, Na’Amiha stays silent to keep the peace.

1813
Tubaal-qayin V ‘Dumuzi’ harnesses quickfire. 2
nd
Battle of the Central Channels: Sa-utar is cut off from its Far West Colonies when it loses its last strategic ports in Far Kush. Near and Far Kush, with the Kush Islands, cease paying tribute to the Archon, and become Lumekkor’s vassals.

1839
Tubaal-qayin Dumuzi
creates the first self-propelled chariot.

1846
Prometu steals the secret of quickfire for the Far West.

1853
Tubaal-qayin IV assassinated. Tubaal-qayin V ‘Dumuzi’ becomes Emperor of Lumekkor, and last of the Dynasty of Steel.

1889
Massacre of Regati for refusing Samyaza’s Law. Guidad killed. Urugim escapes. Q’Enukkians retreat to Salaam-Surupag and Sa-utar.

1921
Council of Ayar Adi’In:
Khavilakki openly joins the Temple Alliance of Uzaaz’El. Muhet’Usalaq and A’Nu-Ahki go to Sa-utar. Riots break out at Sa-utar when Iyared refuses to treat with them. Muhet’Usalaq orders Lumekki to execute Plan Leviathan.

1922
Iyared splits the inheritance on his deathbed between Adiyuri and Muhet’Usalaq, and confirms A’Nu-Ahki as the Comforter
from
E’Yahavah A’Nu. Adiyuri swears the Oath of Iyared, and becomes Archon. Samyaza invades Salaam-Surupag, and sparks off the Century War (1922-2136). The Leviathan debacle causes Emzara’s death, and the taking of Uranna and Tylurnis into captivity by Samyaza. Death of Urugim at Paru’Ainu. Haunted Lands exodus. A’Nu-Ahki kills the great wurm.

1923
A’Nu-Ahki is married to Na’Amiha of Bab’Tubila.

1959
Birth of Pandura to Gununi by Qora at Ayar Adi’In.

1989-2041
Pandura is a novice priestess at Ayar Adi’In, where she becomes acquainted with Tarbet during his secret visits and with Epymetu during his advanced training under Gununi and Duruvanu.

1993
Samyaza’s Truce: A’Nu-Ahki meets Isha’Tahar.

2001
Epymetu goes to the Western Colonies to construct new Temple laboratories. Prometu rehabilitated and sent with him.

2017
Firefall raids on Akh’Uzan. Lumekkor develops aerodrones.

2041
Epymetu completes Temple City with support of Watcher Tse’Us-Psydonu. He foments a rift with Ayar Adi’In and seduces Pandura into joining him. Klyeto recruited from the Gate of the Setting Sun. Tse’Us-Psydonu names Klyeto High Priestess. Slaughter of Far West patriarchs.

2042
Birth of the titan Psydonu at Epymetu’s Temple City.

2083
Klyeto seduces her titan son, and becomes pregnant by him. She bears At’Lahazh, and renames the Western Colonies
Aztlan
after him.

2086
A’Nu-Ahki goes to Iglat-Meldur. Capture of Inguska.

2102
Death of Adiyuri. Kunyari becomes Archon.

2123-2135
Psydonu builds the Polar Tower of Thulae.

2133
Battle of the Haunted Lands Passes: Lumekkor makes a massive armored assault across the southern Haunted Lands passes into central Assuri using new glakka oil-burning
Pentacorn
all-terrain armored chariots. Uggu encircles Satyurati, while Samyaza Cult forces retreat to the inner fortresses. Iya’Baallim tricorn cavalry invade from Nhod.

2136
Meldur and Assur’Ayur besieged. Sons of Samyaza surrender to Tubaal-qayin Dumuzi, who establishes the garrison fortress of Dumuzida. Century War ends. Apocalypse of A’Nu-Ahki on Mt. N’Zar.

2148
Psydonu completes construction of Psydonis for Klyeto.

2156
Birth of Iyapeti. Astras invented in Lumekkor.

2158
U’Sumi born at Akh’Uzan. Birth of Sutara to Galkuna.

2176
Birth of Pyra T’Qinna at Epymetu’s Temple City in Aztlan.

2179
Birth of Khumi.

2185
Tiva born in the house of Henumil.

2190
Aztlan engineers plagues against Aertimissa with disastrous results. Conquest of Aertimikkor by Aztlan’s proxies.

2193-2202
Aztlan Revolt
: Epymetu, Prometu, Psydonu, and At’Lahazh form consortium of industrial, Temple, mining, and military cartels. Troops loyal to Lumekkor disarmed. Prometu captured by Uggu and tormented to death at Kaukis Ardis (2195-2205). Mnemosynae joins Council in 2200.

2195
Kunyari excommunicates sons of Q’Enukki over the literal World-end
dispute. Kunyari falls sick and dies. Rakhau becomes Archon.