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Game History/Timeline

1 Year Before the first Pulse
After an unknown calamity, the Aspects Halcyn and Athony were brought into being and tasked with reforming the world of Aterat from what fragments could be gathered from the remains of the world. Through their concerted effort, the City as it's experienced when the first arrivals came was brought into being as well as the inhabitants that are "native" to this new Aterat. (As reveals through various threads with Halcyn and Athony.)

July 8, 2020: After taking their first stumbling steps into this strange, new, and fragmented world, new arrivals were invited to join the Aspects at the Fountain Square and were even given the chance to speak with them.

August 2020: The first celebration of Remembrance was held in the city, and arrivals were introduced to Captain Orson Khannar, who claims to have fragmented memories of the time before the world's destruction.

September 2020: Toward the end of the month, there was a violent explosion of psychic and arcane energies that remained a mystery for much of October.

October 2020: Many things changed:

The nightmares got worse and the culprit seemed to be a large, demonic bear.
Captain Khannar alerted the city to the fact that the Aspects had gone missing.
Two ordinary citizens entered the forest to determine the source of the earlier explosion and met some unexpected people.
While the Aspects were still absent, five citizens took it upon themselves to end the nightmare plague caused by the demon bear and were successful.

November 2020: Things quieted down after the death of the demon bear, and the world seemed to have stabilized. During this lull, the Gullwings moved to do something about the lich that had occupied the cemetery since their arrival. Toward the end of the month, Halcyn and Athony announced their return and explained what had happened to the world, at least in part.

December 2020: Winter has come to Aterat, complete with offerings to the departed, a Winter's Ball, and the punishment of the wicked.

January 2021: After an expedition by Thomas and Shalimar, she returned to reveal things might not be as they seem. In fact, it sounds like there are people who live out in the forest, though they are very loathed to deal with outsiders. After a large earthquake many things changed including the arrival of an Arena and Circus Complex, and several chocobo farms. Not only that, but natives seem to believe they've always been around? That's...normal, right?

February in Aterat was fairly uneventful, but in March a ship rolled into port, bringing with it mystery, mayhem, and fog. Villagers started disappearing, people were dying, and things were generally Not Good. It lasted for a while, too.

April and May saw not abatement to the fog, several earthquakes thought brought a lot of new (or is that old) people to the city, as well as ended up with several of the previously damaged buildings repaired.

May 2021 also played host to an invasion of imps from Illyana's version of Limbo.

June 2021 began with Athony, your resident Aspect of Death, doing his best to eliminate the fog, the lich in the cemetery, and a lot of other things that had been plaguing the city. The good news? He pulled it off. The bad news? He broke the Directory in the Historium, releasing a horde of very angry spirits on everyone. ...oops?

July 2021 saw an upgrade to the Tell Phones, a new custodian for the Historium, and quite a bit of pollen. It's probably nothing, right?

August-September 2021 saw an infestation of intelligent plant life that affected peoples' thoughts and minds and culminated in a fight against the mother of them all, a giant plant monster. There were hints that the influx was intentional and that maybe not everyone in Aterat or its environs is happy about the city or the people who live there.

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