The Heldannic Order - Vaults of Pandius

HISTORY AS THE IMMORTALS KNOW IT
Haldisvall.
300 AC: Darganites appeared in southern
Heldann and northern Vestland.
313-318 AC: The Hattians rebelled
against Emperor Alexian II.
400 AC: Ostland raiders hit Heldann.
410 AC: Modern lycanthropy was spread
by Minrothad traders.
478 AC: Rise of King Cnute of Ostland.
495 AC: Dragons destroyed many
western Nordurlander settlements.
571 AC: The Soldiers of the Storm
formed among Hattians incarcerated
on Ierendi prison isles.
585 AC: Ethengar raiders bothered
western Heldann and the Flaemish.
600 AC: Ierendi prisoner revolt. Some
ex-prisoners returned to their homes.
604 -14 AC: Ottar the Just won Vestland
independence.
617 AC: Ottar was coronated with the
Sorona at the Stones of Sky.
645 AC: Another Great Khan threatened
Nordurlanders and Vestlanders.
700 AC: Clan warfare decimated the
Sudorn region of Vestland. The last
of the Darganites were run out.
707 AC: Heldann the Great unified the
Nordurland tribes into a single nation.
710 AC Heldann the Great broke the
back of the troll nation at Feuerhals.
He was later poisoned, leaving no
heirs. The kingdom collapsed into
quarrelling anarchy – the Freeholds
era.
716 AC: The Landquist godar
commissioned a permanent keeper of
the Stones of Sky in Vestland.
730 AC: Glantri frictions occasionally
spilled over into western Heldann.
Individual Heldanners joined the
chaos of that region.
765 AC: The Haldis clan unified the
Haldisvall region.
784 AC: War erupted in Glantri.
800 AC: Orcwars. Humanoids plagued
Known World travel lanes, including
those in Heldann.
808 AC Ledeia, a Hattian leper, began to
preach the word of Vanya.
818 AC Ledeia defeated a bandit leader,
and his troop became her followers
dedicated to defending the weak and
rooting out corruption through force
of arms.
829 AC: Vanya Cultists attacked wealthy
Thyatians. The sect was outlawed.
835 AC: After a spectacular gladiatorial
bout, Vanya fascination infected the
Empire and revitalized the nation.
The Cult of Vanya was legalized.
841 AC: The Landquist Prior burned
down.
849 AC: A Thyatian landowner killed
Ledeia. The Brotherhood of the Grey
Lady spread in Thyatis City.
853 AC: Creation of the Church of
Vanya.
859 AC: Illegal nobles were expelled
from Glantri. The polymathic Lokena
returned to Heldann.
875 AC: Soldiers of the Storm
radicalized. Creation of the Gylgarid
Cult in Heldann.
881 AC: Soldiers of the Storm rioted in
the capital, but they were dispersed by
the Brotherhood of the Grey Lady.
892 AC: The Church of Vanya harbored
an increasing number of current or
ex-Stormers.
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900 AC: Revitalized Thyatian expansion.
913 AC: The Church of Vanya sponsored
the armed Order of Vanya.
914 AC: Toktai Khan invaded Heldann,
was repulsed at Hayavik.
919 AC: The Ethengar Horde was again
repulsed at Hayavik.
926 AC: The Ethengars destroyed
Hayavik, but withdrew following the
death of Toktai Khan.
941-951 AC: Quest for the grave of
Vanya.
945 AC Klaus Stamhoffer planned the
invasion of the Heldann Freeholds.
948 AC: The Emperor granted the Order
of Vanya the right to emigrate for
purposes of conquest.
950 AC: The Order invaded Heldann and
massacred the ruling Haldis clan. The
capital was renamed Freiburg.
Halvard, last male of the Haldis clan
was born in the Altenwald.
952 AC: The Order captured the town of
Ynvarhöfn (Altendorf). The Order of
Vanya was recast as the Heldannic
Order. The Heldannic fleet fortified
the area around Vanya’s grave.
953 AC: Vanya's telekinetic artifact was
discovered beneath her grave.
954 AC: The first Heldannic warbird
flew to Freiburg.
956-957 AC: The Knights captured
Torgsdal (Hockstein) despite brutal
winter and Wendarian support.
958 AC: Completion of the Holy Citadel
of Vanya’s Rest. A warbird survived
flying through a Skyshield breach.
959 AC: Skolgrim (Grauenberg) was
taken by subterfuge, and the town fell
amid appalling butchery.
960 AC: The Altenwald marked the