Timeline

A full timeline of AquilaPRJ. Condensed History.

Era Nova; Year One

It had been thousands of years since the Cataclysm. In the centuries that followed, new nations rose from the ruins of the old world, civilizations developed in isolation, and countless peoples established their own cultures, traditions, and ways of life. Yet much of Aquila remained divided by vast oceans, unfamiliar lands, and limited knowledge of what lay beyond the borders of each civilization.

Then came Era Nova.

The first year of the new age marked the beginning of a period of rapid change across Aquila. New nations were established, old settlements expanded, explorers ventured into unfamiliar territories, and civilizations that had long existed apart from one another began to encounter each other. Trade, migration, diplomacy, conflict, discovery, and the exchange of ideas began to connect distant parts of the world.

Among the year's most significant developments was the expedition of Percival van der Berg of the Technate of Koperdam. Over several months, Percival travelled across oceans and unfamiliar lands, recording the geography, settlements, territories, and civilizations he encountered. His observations provided one of the most extensive geographical records yet assembled in the modern age.

Upon his return, the information gathered during the expedition was refined by Henry Westcroft into the first comprehensive survey of the known world. Copies of the resulting map were distributed to nations across Aquila, providing peoples who had previously known the world only through fragments, rumours, and local knowledge with a far clearer picture of the lands beyond their own.

Yet the map was only one part of a much larger transformation.

Across Aquila, nations continued to establish themselves, communities developed their identities, discoveries raised new questions, and relationships between civilizations began to take shape. Some encounters brought cooperation and understanding, while others introduced tensions that would continue into the years ahead.

Era Nova, Year One was therefore not simply the year in which the world was mapped. It was the year in which the peoples of Aquila began to discover how closely connected their separate worlds truly were.

The age had begun. What came next would shape the world that followed.