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| 856

| The [[Cataclysm]] happens.{{Bookref|WorldInside|Page 244: Chronology}}{{Gameref|DOD3}}{{Gameref|DOD3|Loading Screen}}

A [[Cathedral City|huge city]] appears overnight on the [[Iberian Peninsula]].{{Bookref|WorldInside|Page 244: Chronology}}{{Gameref|DOD3|Loading Screen}}

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| 858

| The Byzantine Empire falls.{{Bookref|WorldInside|Page 244: Chronology}}{{Note|name="byzantineempire"|In our world, the Byzantine Empire collapsed with the [[wikipedia:fall of Constantinople|fall of Constantinople]] in 1453.}}

| Oral tradition says that swarms of huge dragons flew in and reduced the [[Constantinople|empire's capital]] to ashes overnight.{{Bookref|WorldInside|Page 244: Chronology}}

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| 862

| The monarchies of the [[West Frankish Kingdom|West]], [[Middle Frankish Kingdom|Middle]] and [[East Frankish Kingdom]]s fall one after another.{{Bookref|WorldInside|Page 244: Chronology}}

| Riots begin spreading to other countries after [[Louis II]] of Middle Francia is murdered by a mob.{{Bookref|WorldInside|Page 244: Chronology}}{{Note|name="louisii"|In our world, Louis II was not murdered, and died in the year 875 instead.}}

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| 865

| The concept of [[Midgard]] begins to form.{{Bookref|WorldInside|Page 244: Chronology}}

Rumours of the [[Cathedral City]] begin to spread.{{Bookref|WorldInside|Page 244: Chronology}}

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| 867

| The [[Pythagorean Institute]] is found.{{Bookref|WorldInside|Page 244: Chronology}}

| Nobles and intellectuals who fled to the Cathedral City from their former kingdoms found the Pythagorean Institute, a research institute dedicated to the study of disasters, calamities and the rising occurence of abnormalities across the world.{{Bookref|WorldInside|Page 244: Chronology}}

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| 868

| The [[Chaldean Gate]] is built.{{Bookref|WorldInside|Page 244: Chronology}}

The [[Ten Nights of Tragedy]] occur.{{Bookref|WorldInside|Page 244: Chronology}}

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| 869

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| One after another, people arise from the general populace who can perform "[[miracles]]", such as superhuman destruction and the ability to detect water underground.{{Bookref|WorldInside|Page 244: Chronology}}

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| 870

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| The Pythagorean Institute confirms the existence of "[[magic]]."{{Bookref|WorldInside|Page 244: Chronology}}

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| 872

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| People who perform "miracles" establish a strict order and social hierarchy in the Cathedral City.{{Bookref|WorldInside|Page 244: Chronology}}

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| 875

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| The Pythagorean Institute create a system for the registration and authorisation of people who perform miracles. The Pythagorean Institute thus begins to dictate social status.{{Bookref|WorldInside|Page 244: Chronology}}

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| 878

| The Chaldean Gate opens.{{Bookref|WorldInside|Page 244: Chronology}}

| The Chaldean Gate is opened for the first time in ten years, and the city expands. A Performers' district is established, and the religions of the past begin to transform. Belief in the "Performers and Miracles of the Pythagorean Institute", or simply the "[[Church]]", begins to spread.{{Bookref|WorldInside|Page 244: Chronology}}

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| 882

| The [[Council of Chaldea]] takes place.{{Bookref|WorldInside|Page 244: Chronology}}

| The first council between the [[Catholic Church]], who held power even before the Cataclysm, and the Pythagorean Institute, is held. Together they establish a new organisation known as the [[Church]] in order to bring peace to the chaotic world. The Pythagorean Institute becomes a secret organisation under the direct command of the Church, and its name eventually disappears from the historical record.{{Bookref|WorldInside|Page 244: Chronology}}

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| 885

| A [[Magic Surge Accident]] happens.{{Bookref|WorldInside|Page 245: Chronology}}

| Due to a wizard's out of control magic, a third of the city vanishes. The Church announces that this was suppressed only due to their research into [[Sealing Magic]]. (In truth, a Sealing Magic experiment failed, resulting in the wizard's body enlarging until he was only a giant foot. The foot proceeded to trample the city's slums, killing 2000 people in a single night. The official announcement by the Church is as above.){{Bookref|WorldInside|Page 245: Chronology}}

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| 888

| The Fourth Cathedral City Expansion Plan is underway.{{Bookref|WorldInside|Page 245: Chronology}}

| Progress is made on expanding the city.{{Bookref|WorldInside|Page 245: Chronology}}

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| 890

| The [[Church Survey Brigade]] is found.{{Bookref|WorldInside|Page 245: Chronology}}

| The Church Survey Brigade is found in order to recruit volunteers who will help the Church take control of the surrounding self-governing territories.{{Bookref|WorldInside|Page 245: Chronology}}

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| 892

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| The Church Survey Brigade, armed with large-scale magical weapons approved by their attending wizards, goes on to conquer each self-governing territory around the Cathedral City. They begin to function as the Church's armed forces.{{Bookref|WorldInside|Page 245: Chronology}}

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| 895

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| The power of the Church continues to expand to more territories.{{Bookref|WorldInside|Page 245: Chronology}}

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| 904

| The Church takes control of the entire Iberian Peninsula.{{Bookref|WorldInside|Page 245: Chronology}}

| It becomes common practice for members of the Church Survey Brigade to stay in conquered areas after a successful expedition. They establish self-governing regions and become known as [[Lords]].{{Bookref|WorldInside|Page 245: Chronology}}

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| 907

| The [[wikipedia:Tang dynasty|Tang dynasty]] in [[wikipedia:East Asia|East Asia]] falls.{{Bookref|WorldInside|Page 245: Chronology}}{{Note|name="same"|Despite taking place post-Cataclysm, this is the same as in our world.}}

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| 910

| [[Magic Academies]] are created.{{Bookref|WorldInside|Page 245: Chronology}}

| The Church actively pursues magical research. To facilitate this, Magic Academies are set up in various places.{{Bookref|WorldInside|Page 245: Chronology}}

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| 912

| Another [[Magic Surge Accident]] happens.{{Bookref|WorldInside|Page 245: Chronology}}

| Another Magic Surge Accident occurred during the construction of a Magic Academy. However, the damage was contained using Sealing Magic and only resulted in the death of two people: the wizard whose magic caused the surge and the wizard who cast the sealing spell.{{Bookref|WorldInside|Page 245: Chronology}}

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| 930

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| Magic Academies unravel the fundamentals of magic. From then on, magic begins to spread among the populace, and becomes a commonly used technology.{{Bookref|WorldInside|Page 245: Chronology}}

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| 938

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| In order to further expand and stabilise its power, the Church begins to form mutually beneficial relationships with [[Lords of the Land]] by means of profit sharing.{{Bookref|WorldInside|Page 245: Chronology}}

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| 951

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| Bribing powerful people within the Church becomes common practice for the Lords of the Land. It is also common for the Lords to fight amongst themselves. The lands the Lords govern become known as the "[[Land of Mountains]]" and the "[[Land of Forests]]."{{Bookref|WorldInside|Page 245: Chronology}}

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| 960

| The [[wikipedia:Song dynasty|Song dynasty]] is found in East Asia.{{Bookref|WorldInside|Page 245: Chronology}}{{Note|name="same"}}

Issues within the Church begin to surface.{{Bookref|WorldInside|Page 245: Chronology}}

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| 971

|The [[White Revolt]] takes place.{{Bookref|WorldInside|Page 245: Chronology}}

|Some young wizards become fiercely opposed to the continued election of Lords of the Land as Directors of the Magic Academies. They surround the Central Magic Academy in the Cathedral City and demand that the current Directors resign, but they are suppressed overnight. (White Revolt){{Bookref|WorldInside|Page 245: Chronology}}

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| c. 980

| [[Rose]], who will go on to become a [[singularity]], is born around this time.{{Bookref|RecordOfFlower}}{{Bookref|RecordOfFlower|Page 034: Record of Flower, #2: Concerning the Singularity and Others Involved}}{{Note|name="inferredbirthyear"|This person's year of birth is inferred from information about their age.}}

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| 985

| Famine breaks out.{{Bookref|WorldInside|Page 245: Chronology}}

| A large-scale famine breaks out. The food supply chain from the countryside into the city was severely disrupted for several years. As a result, it became commonplace for the local government and the upper echelons of the Church to trade money, weapons, women, and children to the Lords of the Land in exchange for food.{{Bookref|WorldInside|Page 245: Chronology}}

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| 986

| The [[Blue Order]] is formed.{{Bookref|WorldInside|Page 245: Chronology}}

| The poor, who are dissatisfied due to the food shortages, and the wizards, dissatisfied with the corruption within the Magic Academies, form an underground revolutionary group known as the "Blue Order."{{Bookref|WorldInside|Page 245: Chronology}}

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| 990

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| The Blue Order begins to gain traction. Many young wizards and lords who are dissatisfied with the Church support their cause. The Cathedral City's weaknesses are exposed; specifically their lack of military equipment and human resources due to years of food shortages and bribery.{{Bookref|WorldInside|Page 245: Chronology}}

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| 991

| The [[Blue Revolt]] takes place.{{Bookref|WorldInside|Page 245: Chronology}}

The Cathedral City announces and begins working on a large-scale renovation of the city's waterways.{{Bookref|WorldInside|Page 245: Chronology}}

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| 993

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| Following the Blue Revolt, the number of wizard applicants approved by the Magic Academies decreases sharply. The local government and Church become more and more dependent on the military might of the Lords of the Land. Independent magical research and original magical research funded by the Lords of the Land becomes widespread. This leaves the Magic Academy and the Church in an uncertain position.{{Bookref|WorldInside|Page 245: Chronology}}

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| 994

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| Finally, not a single Magic Academy Director across all the Magic Academies is a Lord of the Land. Although the Magic Academies found their independence, they also lost all support from Lords of the Land, leading to their somewhat ironic decline.{{Bookref|WorldInside|Page 245: Chronology}}

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| 995

| The Cathedral City becomes a ghost town.{{Bookref|WorldInside|Page 245: Chronology}}{{Gameref|DOD3|Loading Screen}}

| An accident of unprecedented magnitude occurs at the Central Magic Academy in the Cathedral City. The specifics of the accident, which allegedly involved a chanting error during the casting witch's use of a secret art, are unknown. The dust from the resultant explosion was later described as a giant flower blotting out the night sky. The impact of the accident that engulfed the city was severe, with people vanishing from the city overnight, rendering it a ghost town. However, there was no major impact on the buildings and the like.{{Bookref|WorldInside|Page 245: Chronology}}