Ceraxis is the continent on the eastern edge of the Reach of the Imperium. It is divided into Upper and Lower Ceraxis Sub-Continents, with Humans, Gnolls and Goblins on the upper, and Humans and Orcs on the lower. Ceraxis is the origin of humans and site of the first human civilizations.

The continent is split between several nations: Punja and Gigaplax (human territories), a Gnoll-Controlled desert, the Orcix Lands, and the Broken Kingdoms. The continent stretches on, but few expeditions are able to cross or sail around the dessert of the Gnollway.

Year of the Imperial Calendar Ceraxis

-5000 QA Humans appear in the world on the continent of Ceraxis

-4900 QA Human invent writing on Ceraxis. Human-Imperium Wars Begin when Elven colonists are killed by territorial Muh’Shüns.

-4800 QA

-4700 QA Human City State Muh’Shü is formed, under direction from Muh'Shü, a warlord who declares himself a God-King, becoming insular and totalitarian.

-4680 QA Human City State Tia Jhon is founded: a peaceful culture, without weapons or understanding of war. They worship the god of their river, a gentle, bull-headed man named Jhon.

-4660 QA Human City State Gigaplax is founded in the hills and mountains south of the Jhon River Valley. They worship the wind Sphinx Aeo, and Gigaplax is considered the birthplace of the modern Sphinx religions.

-4655 QA The story of the Tantarus and Tiamat is written in the poem History of Creation by the poet Way’Share Kop; worship of Tartarus and the Sphinxes spreads throughout the region.

-4640 QA May’Fajar in Muh'Shü institutes the Fajar Law, placing many restrictions on the Muh’Shü people.

-4570 QA Temple to Tartarus is completed in Tia Jhon, the largest temple ever constructed at the time.

-4550 QA Mernix, the first human wizard, arives at the academy in the Homeland.

-4500 QA Tia Jhon prospers as Muh'Shü withers; satirist Wai’Fayer publishes My Time as a God in Tia Jhon as a parody of Fajar Law.

-4400 QA Human City Paqk is founded up river by Muh’Shün pacifists, exiled for their desire to remain peaceful with Tia Jhon.

-4380 QA Muh’Shü attacks Tia Jhon under the direction of May’Punja. Muh’Shü wins in a slaughter, beginning the Shü Empire, also called Punja. Tia Jhonians are enslaved, beginning slavery on the continent; Temple to Tartarus is converted to a temple to Shü.

-4330 QA Human City of Nod is founded, based on metal working, in an area unreachable by marching armies.

-4320 QA Human City-State Xiathan is founded by Gigaplaxians, now down from the mountains, worshiping the Sphinx Terr. The cities remain allied by religion.

-4200 QA the Great Temple to Aeo is built in Gigaplax, considered to be one of the Wonders of the Ancient World.

-4100 QA Nod adopts the Gigaplaxian Sphinx goddess Frit after frequent trade across the bay, inviting her into their great forge; The Great Forge becomes the largest temple to Frit in the world, and a center for craftsmen everywhere.

-4050 QA The first contact between the Orcix and Humans. Orix traders arrive in Xiathan. Xiathenian officials refuse to allow them to enter the gates, declaring them “agents of nothing.”

-4035 QA Punja continues expansion, attacking Gigaplax. Xiathan, and Nod come to the aid of their fellow Sphinx Nation. The war, called the War of the World, engulfs all of humanity. So many are killed, the bay is renamed the Bay of Blood.

-4025 QA Orcix invaders attack Xiathan, but too late to aid Muh’Shü.

-4000 QA Punja retreats, defeated, and suffers a major collapse due to the strain on the already withering economy.

-3990 QA Xiathan falls to the Orcix.

-3800 QA The Isle Abraxis vanishes off the coast of Punja, leaving no trace.

-3700 QA The city Zür in former central Punja, along the Nor’Muh’Ver River begins worship of Lunam; is renamed Lunaria.

-3600 QA Kai’Rit Shara is granted incredible strength by the Goddess Terr, and is able to begin rebuilding the city of Xiathan.

-3570 QA Kai'Rit Shara is denied queenship of newly-rebuilt Xiathan; usurped by Kay’Baing Xo. Xiathan flourishes and expands influence in the region.

-3500 QA Lunaria’s influence spreads to much of former Punja (Paqk and Tia Jhon); Muh’Shü remains independent.

-3420 QA Lunaria and Muh’Shü go to war.

-3400 QA Steelmakers in Nod develop a new forging process which will become known as Nodish Steel.

-3300 QA Xiathan and Orcix Nmwoulax Clan leaders form an alliance; form the nation of Territia, extending down Lower Ceraxis to Hi-Sur, up to and including Gigaplax, north of the Boon River.

-3275 QA Tia Jhon revolts from Lunaria, aiding Muh’Shü, and restoring worship of their ancient Jhon deity.

-3225 QA Tia Jhon and Muh’Shü are victorious against Lunaria; faith in Lunam is greatly shaken

-3150 QA Lunaria collapses as their faith collapses. The High Priest is cast down from the Ziggurat in Lunaria.

-3000 QA Xiathan falls to Orcix raiders, taking Territia with it.

-2500 QA Gigaplax hosts a conference of Sphinx-aligned cities, called the Gathering of Three. Nod, Gigaplax, and Xiathan agree to align into a single nation, called Gigaplaxia after the nation that hosted the conference.

-2400 QA Muh’Ftag rises to power in Tia Jhon; claims the valley region, calling it the Imperium of Man; begins work to become immortal.

-2370 QA Muh’Ftag institutes brutal policies across the region, outlawing many forms of worship.

-2360 QA The Imperium of Man tries to extend its borders out against Nod and Gigaplax.

-2320 QA Heros from Gigaplaxia depart to defeat Muh’Ftag from gaining his immortality; they strike him down.

-2315 QA Gigaplaxia absorbs the Imperium of Man; Gigaplax controls the entire bay, beginning the period of Imperial Gigaplaxia.

-2288 QA Tia Jhon is converted to worship of Auk after many bloody revolutions.

-2200 QA Wizard May’Targ is the first to complete planar travel.

-2000 QA Imperial Gigaplaxia declines because of widespread corruption at its highest political levels. Kay’Orb the Redeemer vows to dismantle the ailing empire into more manageable parts.

-1990 QA Imperial Gigaplax is disbanded along historical divisions of Punja and Gigaplax.

-1000 QA Tia Jhon witnesses a Night of a Thousand Blasts great naval battle in the bay as great explosions rock two massive vessels.

-150 QA Kuh’Rayep the Conqueror begins his conquest from Xiathane

-125 QA Kuh'Rayep conquerors Gigaplax, followed by Tia Jhon and Muh’Shü.

-100 QA Kuh'Rayep conquerors Nod, unifying the coast, beginning the Oceanic Empire, or Oceania.

-33 QA Ah Dahm is born in Nod, Oceania

0 AL Ah Dahm self-imolates.

300 AL Kuh'Restatok the Flamekissed Kuh’Restatok converts to worship of Ah Dham

500 AL Shreiking Sickness first recorded in Xiathan

600 AL Shreiking Sickness Decimates human population in Oceania

650 AL Oceanic Empire collapses, erupting in civil war.

670 AL Three states emerge from the civil war: Nu’Punja, Nu’Oceania, and the Independant Nation of Nod.

800 AL The Gold Dragon Abraxian arrives in Tia Jhon; vows to rebuild the Oceania, now called Abraxia

857 AL Abraxian creates economic policies designed to develop economic prosperity. Great public works are developed, vastly improving the lives of the people, many taking several generations to complete; life if Abraxia is the envy of the world

900 AL Nu’Oceania joins Abraxia

935 AL Nod joins Abraxia

1200 AL Ozydaxus departs from Nod

1272 AL Aerop family revolts from Gigaplax, sparking the Aerop War

1300 AL Abraxian exiles the Aerop family to the far continent later to be called Aeron.

1300 AL The Pyramid to Ozydaxus is constructed in Nod to mark the 100th anniversary of his voyage.

1800 AL Abraxian announces the new year with the promise of a new technology that will change the world. A massive contingency of Birdmen arrive, battling Abraxian and the Abraxian army for three days, killing the ancient Dragon before mysteriously departing.

1802 AL Abraxia collapses as his lieutenants battle to claim the throne; Abraxia splits up into several smaller states.

1818 AL Abraxia invaded by Orcix invaders.

1877 AL Abraxian Empire dissolves.

1907 AL Nod, Tia Jhon, Xiathane, and Gigaplax hold a conference in Gigaplax to negotiate a reestablishment of a Sphinx Nation; Sphinx Gigaplaxia is reformed

2014 AL The light of the Ruined Pyramid at Lunaria is mysteriously lit