History

Proto-Civilization (1,000 years ago) (0 OH)
Early humans had settled the occipandal through mass sleighs for various reasons ranging from nomadic pasture farming to ecological catastrophes. For any reason a large number of primitive humans had settled Occipan. Occipandal is a relatively large isolette compared to its neighbors. It is 1,384 miles wide and 31 miles high. These early settlers discovered wheat farming and utilized bread and wine as a way to replace the hunter gatherer lifestyle. These early farms developed into cities and those cities developed into the first nations.

These first nations were city states, large metropolises that hated their neighboring cities. These first cities were breeding grounds for religions and magic circles. An additional side effect of cities is mass disease which were prevalent during the first 1,000 years of development. Through the advice of magi and prophets the early kings mined for iron and silver, forming the silver age.

The Silver Age (400 years ago)
The silver age is one of great upheaval and disorientation. Due to the continued efforts of the prophet wars, mass conflicts were common in the plains where most people lived. The prophet wars were caused by the wine hall debate where multiple religious philosophers debated which god should rule mankind.

These conflicts coincide with the war of five kingdoms. The war of five kingdoms concerned the 5 major city states and developing nation states. These nations fought over a mix of land rights and religious debates. The conflict lasted almost 53 years. After the war the five kingdoms orindia from echos appeared. Thus ending the silver age.

The Prophet Wars (300 years ago)
150 years after the wine hall debate the prophet wars still raged on. Hundreds of warrior monk cliques worshiping the many many different gods and energies that existed in the void fought each other over who should rule mankind. Only 43 religions remained, either hiding in their grand fortresses or wandering the countryside regulating the peasants.

During the year 238 a period of intellectual discovery occurred with many new technologies and philosophies were created. Guns, semi-rigid dirigibles, and new thoughts about how magic and the void operate. The church of the oversoul (militarized atheists) fought all other religions flowing to purge their rival churches. The conflict ended with a series of large scale sieges burning and destroying the rival religions with the church of the oversouls only remaining, becoming the world religion.

The Industrial Revolution (200 years ago)
Due to the advancements by natural philosophers and paranatural philosophers, large-scale development into industrial and machines became viable and profitable. These large scale industries also coincided with the adoption of dirigibles who’s sailing allowed for the crossing of the void and the exploration of neighboring isolettes. The first isolette explored was Eievry a small archipelago. After this the nations of the mondonal set off to colonize and settle the neighboring isolettes.

Coinciding with this era was the introduction of a prominent plague derived from void travel. It is a varied form of neurotoxin that also influences the infected’s processing of information making them suicidal and violent leading to the virus to feed off of the person’s soul and body with large black cysts forming on the lungs and eyes. The church of the oversoul took over handling the virus with large hospitals and churches turned field hospitals. The plague lasted around 24 years with it only being stopped by the first antibiotic. (3 new failed colonies)

The Colonial age (100 years ago)
After the plague a baby boom allowed for larger families to settle or colonize the neighboring isolettes. These new colonies allowed for large scale farming, mining and harvesting operations making the nations extremely wealthy. During this time many bands of settlers just left their homes to settle new nations in the fringe isolettes far away from occipandal. (17 new isolettes colonized)

The Revolutions of 848 (52 years ago)
The effects of the industrial revolution were felt through every facet of society, from the humble farmer to the high orator. This drastic change left many in whiplash from the industrial revolution, a period of madness and ideological strife allowed for extreme philosophies and ideologies to develop from the madness. These ideologies bonded by spirits, like religions, this lead to a series of revolutions, civil wars & counter revolutions within the isolettes

The Rainbow Spring (contemporary)
After the violent revolutions of 848 a new period of détente within the developing nations with many of these nations having to rebuild from their blood crazed births. In the frontier worlds and new revolutionary states new religions developed within these new countries. Mega projects and technological innovations are on the horizon as well as troubled void calls. (900)