UNDERSEA TIMELINE (AC1001-1009)

By Aaron E Nowack

 

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Summer 1001: Attacks Rise

 

Description: Throughout Undersea, attacks by devilfish, undead, and weresharks continue to rise in frequency.

 

What This Means: This is the natural countinuation of Saasaks' plans.

 

Winter 1001: Tension Rises

 

Description: Tensions between Undersea over Kna piracy continue to rise as pirate attacks continue to increase in frequency.

 

Spring 1002: Saasaks Joins Brotherhood of the Shadow

 

Description: Hel approaches Saasaks with an offer of membership in the Brotherhood of the Shadow. After some deliberation, she accepts.

 

What This Means: Saasaks has gained three powerful allies. With their help, she believes that Undersea could fall before the decade ends. The Brotherhood has gained a way to spread war and chaos across Ierendi, Minrothad, and Undersea.

 

Spring 1003: Minothrad Issues Ultimatum

 

Description: The Minrothad ambassador to Undersea informs Queen Tarovra that Minrothad expects her to end all Kna pirate attacks by AC 1004, ...or else.

 

What This Means: The Guilds have had it with Kna piracy. This is due in part to the efforts of the Cult of the Far Sea, one of Hel's false cults.

 

Summer 1003: Shark-kin Vanish

 

Description: All contact between the Sharkkin and the other races of Undersea is lost. Queen Tarovra begins an investigation of this occurence.

 

What This Means: Concerned Immortals (Protius and Ka) transported the Shark-kin to the Merry Pirate Seas in the Hollow World to prevent the utter disappearence of their race.

 

Spring 1004: War Begins

 

Description: Minrothaddan elite units (equiped with water breathing potions et al) begin hit and run attacks on Undersea. Undersea declares war on Minothrad. The nomadic merrow offer to assist Undersea. The Sea Giants report that they are hard pressed by a huge devilfish army, and that they have no spare troops available to help Undersea.

 

What This Means: This is the continuation of the Brotherhood of the Shadow's attempts to spread chaos across the Sea of Dread.

 

Spring 1005: Devilfish Rites

 

Description: The devilfish capture Hamish McGregor. They attempt to use his life energy to summon and control a kraken. Fourtunatly, a band of adventurers foil their plans.

 

What This Means: This is a major setback for Saasaks.

DM's Note: This is the adventure Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea (from PC3). The rest of this timeline assumes that the PCs (if you play the adventure) succeed.

 

Spring 1005: Smaar Besieged

 

Description: Minrothad troops move to besiege Smaar, as they receive reinforcements from the surface. They destroy the kelp forests and fish schools near Smaar, and set themselves in a position from which they can attack anything entering or exiting Smaar.

 

What This Means: This is a natural progression of the war with Minrothad.

 

Summer 1005: The Sea Giants Are Coming

 

Description: A wounded messanger makes his way past the Minrothad positions and into Smaar, bearing news that the Sea Giants have defeated the devilfish army and are sending help.

 

What This Means: The Sea Giants have defeated the devilfish... for now.

 

Winter 1005: Siege of Smaar Broken

 

Description: Combined Sea Giant and triton forces succeed in destroying the Minrothad emplacements around Smaar. Baron Marcus of Souedge dies in the fighting. He leaves no heir.

 

What This Means: This is a natural continuation of the war.

 

Winter 1005: The War Ends

 

Description: A peace treaty is signed between Minothrad and Undersea. Minothrad agrees to recognize the fact that Undersea has no control over the Kna pirates.

 

What This Means: A group of adventurers discovered that the Cult of The Far Sea was, unknowingly, a Cult of Hel. With the Cult's influence diminished, calmer heads prevailed in Minothrad.

 

Spring 1006: Undersea Rebuilds

 

Description: Undersea begins the long process of rebuilding. As the people of Soudege cannot agree on a successor for Baron Marcus, they ask Queen Tarovra to appoint someone to temporarily fill the position. She chooses her brother, Juliast.

 

Fall 1006 Sea Giant Refugees Arrive

 

Description: Sea Giants arrive in Undersea bearing news of a devilfish army larger than the first which overwhelmed the weakened Sea Giant forces and conquered the Sea Giant territories.

 

What This Means: Saasaks is recovering from the setbacks dealt to her in AC 1005.

 

Spring 1007: Devilfish Invade

 

Description: The devilfish invade Undersea in force. Undead rise up and cause trouble all over Undersea, adding to the confusion. During an important battle, the forces of Baron Kitas of Nortens and Baron Caxctiou of Calitar switch sides, and Baron Kitas' forces reveal themselves to be weresharks. Baron Kitas and his personal guard remain loyal to Undersea and are slain by their former friends.

 

What This Means: Saasaks is launching her final assault

 

Fall 1007: Werea and Easa Fall

 

Description: The Baronies of Werea and Easa fall to the devilfish. Their respective rulers, Claudia and Autalanus are slain

 

Summer 1008: Front Stabilizes

 

Description: The tritons, with help from the merrow, manage to set up a fairly stable front, as the war drags into a stalemate.

 

Winter 1008: Tritons Vanish

 

Description: Queen Tarovra, the survivng barons (except Juliast), and many tritons vanish. When the news reach Juliast, he reasons that the missing tritons have been slain during the last attacks and he immediately assumes the position of King.

 

What This Means: Manwara (Protius) transported them to the Merry Pirate Seas in the Hollow World.

 

Spring 1009: Triton Exodus

 

Description: Juliast, understanding the war is now lost, leads the surviving tritons and merrow on a mass exodus. Their destination: Aquas in Alphatia.

 

What This Means: Juliast is acting on visions sent to him from Manwara.

  

Summer 1009: Devilfish Take Over the Sea of Dread

 

Description: After the tritons' exodus, the Saaskaas and her followers claim all the lands of Undersea for themselves. A devilfish cleric discovers a spell that protects devilfishes from the sun's harmful effects.

 

What this means: The few sea people still living in the Sea of Dread will now have a hard time trying to escape the devilfishes unchallenged rule. Devilfishes using the new spell will also begin to sink ships sailing through the Sea of Dread.

 

Winter 1009: Exodus Ends

 

Description: After a long, hard journey the triton arrive in Aquas. They are suprised to find that Alphatia has recently sunk. Some settle in Aquas, while others follow King Juliast north into the newly formed Alphatian Sea to found a new nation, Underocean.

 

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