“Walk the road from memory into myth.”
The Hall of Epochs serves as the central spine of the Royal Museum of History & Antiquities. It presents a chronological journey through the major historical eras of the Kingdom of Eyehasseen and the lands that came before it. Each gallery along the corridor is devoted to a distinct age—its conflicts, customs, monarchs, and moments of revelation or ruin.
🪨 I. The Era of Broken Roads
ca. 2200–1700 Before the Reckoning (BR)
“Scattered tribes, shattered stone, and a sky that watched but gave no answer.”
The oldest known era, and the least understood. Following the collapse of the “First Builders,” this was a time of scattered peoples and the fading remnants of a once-great civilization. Roads led to nowhere, cities crumbled, and memory became myth.
Life in the Era:
People lived in nomadic or semi-settled bands, often in fear of forgotten machines or haunted ruins. Disease, famine, and the loss of language marked the age. Oral memory was the sole historian.
Notable Figures:
None known by name, though some artifacts are attributed to the legendary “Seers of Stone.”
Featured Artifacts:
- The Map of Vanished Rivers – etched onto bone, showing waterways that no longer exist.
- Mask of the Silent Oracle – a ceramic visage with sealed lips, worn during ancient vigils.
- Fragment of the Clock-Tower City – a gear encrusted with quartz, its use unknown.
- Chalk Totem of the Flame Tribes – believed to protect from the wandering dead.
- Scratched Tablet of the Thirteenth Glyph – contains a single symbol found nowhere else in the Realm.
🛖 II. The First Unification
ca. 1700–1300 BR
“From scattered camps came a single fire.”
As survivors of the broken age coalesced into stable settlements, the first true alliances emerged. Led by the matriarch-queen Haluna of Vaskor, ten tribes formed a loose confederation—sharing language, worship, and law.
Life in the Era:
Agriculture returned. Writing was rediscovered. Communities built around ritual circles, shared water rights, and complex oaths.
Notable Figures:
- Haluna of Vaskor – the Oathmother, signed the Pact of Shared Fire
- Marshal Nethen – defender of the Northern Roads
- Seer-Mason Beruin – built the first Sun Calendar Tower
Featured Artifacts:
- The First Oathstone – carved with the ten sigils of the Founding Tribes.
- Ritual Sandcloak of Haluna – woven with fire motifs and ochre dyes.
- Horn of the South Gate Alarm – used to rally scattered defenders.
- Charred remnants of the Library of Stoneshore – destroyed in the Drought Riots.
- Field Journal of an Unknown Scribe – describing the solar alignment rituals of midsummer.
⚔️ III. The Rule of the Three Crowns
ca. 1300–400 BR
“Three thrones, three laws, and eventually, three wars.”
A prosperous but divided age, when the lands were ruled by three competing monarchies: the Crown of the Vale, the Crown of the Hills, and the Crown of the Eastern Shore. Alliances shifted, cities flourished, and the arts blossomed… until they didn’t.
Life in the Era:
Urbanization rose. Universities and guilds formed. So did secret police, dynastic marriages, and assassination guilds. The first documented census appears. So do plagues.
Notable Figures:
- King Roderin of the Hills – builder of the Tower Gardens
- Queen Selva the Twice-Veiled – master of diplomacy and debt
- General Quarn – almost united the Realm by force
Featured Artifacts:
- The Silver Quill of Queen Selva – used in over 1,000 signed treaties.
- Crown of Roderin – adorned with granite and river pearl.
- The Three-Faced Mask of the Council of Balance – symbol of the tripartite pact.
- A poisoned chalice with rotating stopper – ceremonial, or maybe not.
- Tapestry Fragment from the Siege of Windvault – shows both battle and wedding feast.
🕯️ IV. The Silent Century
ca. 400–300 BR
“A century unspoken, but not unwritten.”
A period of plague, climate catastrophe, and cultural erasure. Many cities were abandoned. Records were sealed, languages collapsed, and entire lineages vanished. It is called “silent” because of the lack of surviving contemporary sources—but whispers suggest that silence was enforced.
Life in the Era:
Populations fled inland or underground. Symbolic language replaced formal script. Many turned to mysticism, prophecy, or silence itself as sacred practice.
Notable Figures:
- The Pale Hermit – author of The Book of Names No Longer Given
- Eira the Listener – carried oral history from one dying town to the next
- Unrecorded King – a monarch erased from all official rolls
Featured Artifacts:
- Cloak of the Voicekeepers – embroidered with untranslatable sigils.
- The Red Wax Tablets – a burned archive partially restored through chemical shadowing.
- Fungal Mask of the Marsh Orders – worn in ritual to preserve anonymity.
- Burial bell with broken chain – from a mass grave site marked “Only Us.”
- Sealed Jar of Forgotten Ink – lid inscribed “DO NOT UNSEAL.”
🌅 V. The Foundation of Eyehasseen
ca. 0–Present Reckoning (R)
“A Kingdom formed not from victory, but from vision.”
With the crowning of King Edmund the First, disparate peoples and scattered traditions unified under a single banner. The Kingdom of Eyehasseen was founded on principles of stewardship, wonder, and cultural synthesis. The Reckoning Calendar begins here.
Life in the Era:
A flowering of law, art, and infrastructure. While hardship still exists, there is peace among the provinces, and a reverence for the past. This is a time of remembering, restoring, and reaching outward.
Notable Figures:
- King Edmund I – founder, philosopher-king
- Prime Minister Thalia of the Fifth Path – first modern archivist
- Brother Tern of the Blackhill Observatory – catalogued the stars anew
Featured Artifacts:
- The Founding Quill of King Edmund – oak-handled, still ink-stained.
- First Charter Scroll – the original declaration of the Realm’s unification.
- One of Seven Coronation Robes – deep green with silver-thread sigils.
- Architect’s Plan of the Royal Palace Grounds – annotated in verse.
- The First Flag of Eyehasseen – weathered, stitched, and still proud.