Timeline

A full timeline of AquilaPRJ. Condensed History.

Era Nova; Year One

It has been thousands of years since the Cataclysm. Nations have risen and fallen, civilizations have flourished and vanished, and countless generations have built new lives upon the ruins of the world that came before them. Yet for all those centuries, the world remained a fragmented thing, known only in pieces, its distant lands separated by oceans, mountains, and uncertainty.

Then came Era Nova.

In the first year of the new age, Percival van der Berg of the Technate of Koperdam set forth upon an expedition unlike any that had come before. Over the course of several months, he crossed oceans, traversed unfamiliar lands, and encountered countless nations and peoples. He recorded their locations, coastlines, territories, settlements, and the geography that surrounded them, gradually transforming scattered observations into something far greater.

By the year's end, Percival had completed the first comprehensive survey of the globe in the modern age. His rough survey was returned to Koperdam, where Henry Westcroft refined the work into an official world map. For the first time since the Cataclysm, the peoples of the modern world possessed a clearer understanding of the world they inhabited.

And so, Era Nova became the year in which the world was finally mapped.