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Greeting Cutters!
I am finally getting around to posting something that I've been working on for a while, a visual timeline of the history of Golarion. I have a history degree and am a major amateur history buff, but I have always found visuals help me immensely, especially when drawing on multiple sources to compare relative dates. I'm hoping some other people will find it useful too. If we are really lucky, maybe we can tease out some of the facts in the Directorsuarus' hidden folder of unrevealed secrets!
As I said, I've been working on this for a while, but I was stymied by the fact that there is one nation critical to the development of nations in the Inner Sea who's military has touched every corner of the region, yet the geographic and temporal range of its Armies of Exploration have remained vague. This left a giant uncertainty in the early histories of many nations until recently, when we were given definitive dates for most of the campaigns, as well as a nice map showing where they went.
I give you the timeline for Taldor, the First Empire!
Now I know that this timeline is still fairly incomplete, as I have only used the table of dates in the Inner Sea World Guide and Taldor, the First Empire to date. Taldor isn't one of the nations I am personally focused on, but I felt that it was a necessary starting point given how many nations ended up being born out the empire. If you're knowledge of Taldor is better than mine, I would graciously accept guidance on where I can find data I missed. Especially if you can find the birthdates, reign dates, or ages of NPCs.
Since there is a time limit on how long posts can be edited on the Paizo boards, I'm also giving you a link to a Google Drive Doc. As I create new timelines, I will add them to this doc so that if you want to find something quickly, you don't have to thread diving to find it, they will all be accessible from the first post.
The program I use to make these timelines is Aeon Timeline. If anyone else uses it, I am happy to email the raw files to you.
If you would like to help out with this project, I would be most appreciative. I want this to a community resource, both in its use and creation. Plus my knowledge of Golarion is far from all-encompassing and lots of APs and non-nation campaign books include little historical details that are easy to miss. If you making note of a particular date to be added to the timeline, please include the book you found the date in and (if possible) the page number so that I can track it down myself. I also will take Word of God from Paizo directors, so if James answers a date related question in his AMA thread, I'm calling fair game for the timeline (indeed, I have included some facts from Eric Mona's thread in this very timeline). Just please link to the post you are referencing.
Thanks for any help you can give! I'm planning on working on Qadira's timeline next, but I will probably drift thorugh Golarian's history as things catch my interest. If you like to see a particular nation (or historical arc) be featured, I will take requests and suggestions. Please let me know if you find this to be a useful excercise!
Oh hey, someone doing the timeline stuff. Maybe you can use my old timeline stuff I did?
https://www.dropbox.com/s/5gwq90umyhpp8vy/Golarion%20Timeline.aeon2?dl=0
A lot of these are estimated. I used a range to determine "generations" and I made "eons" equal 1,000,000,000 years, but I don't think that's quite accurate. I also include a few novels, adventures, and comics, assuming release date or release month as the starting time, unless it is otherwise noted.
Ooooo... thank you! I'll stick a copy in my drive to share once I've added yours in.
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Good to have some free fanmade Golarion timeliney stuff out there. ;)