Calendar of the New Age

Adopted after the War of the Mages (942-947, Calendar of the Kings)
0NA The new calendar is adopted
36NA The Gifted begin to feel free to practice again, taking up crafts such as healing and wayfinding, avoiding the title "Mage."
174NA The first "pets" are created. These creatures, crosses of other animals, are bought by the noblemen of Estanyn. The "pets" are created from the best parts of other animals: the pelt of a feline, the loyalty of a dog, and the strength of a horse.
179NA The Gifted make a formal protest to the kings and dukes that the so-called Daansi are violating the code of the Gifted - to only use magic to help those in need, not for finacial gain. Their protest is noted but ignored.
184NA By this year, every nobleman has a pet of the Daansi's making.
189NA A new fad develops, for sentient pets that could have conversation with their owners. The Daansi make a public proclamation that the High King of Estanyn would have the first pet that they perfect.
190NA The Daansi report that their first pets are completed, but are not perfect. Reports indicate that the creatures are too intelligent to be happy as pets. The Daansi have experimented on wolves and foxes.
191NA The Daansi create a sentient feline. But the creature is very fierce and untrainable - unsuitable for a pet.
193NA Faced with numerous setbacks and failures, the Daansi resolve to try one more time. The use an already domesticated and docile animal - the horse. Unfortunatly, the horses kept their memories of "enslavement" by the humans: being forced to pull heavy carts, being whipped to go fasted even when they could no longer carry on, and their males being castrated to make them more docile. The horse men revolted against the Daansi, killing them all while they slept. The felines, upon being freed, fled into the mountains. The wolves and the foxes, however, stayed to fight alongside the humans whenever the horse men returned to exact their revenge upon the humans.
199NA The anthropomorphic animals are given race names by the humans. The wolves are called Lupani, the foxes are called Vulponi, the felines are called Acini, and the horse men are called Equani. A slang term for the Equani arises, Demoni.
250NA The foxes and the wolves begin to set up towns of their own as their numbers grow.
In general, these stories take place in the 4th century NA.


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