history
the Years of Silver
The remotest part of written history, and the period of the Old Empire.
the Years of Salt
An age of principalities, galleys and caravans, beginning with the Chaldean Dissolution[1] and ending with contact with and the colonization of the Western Isle.
the Years of Gold
An age of gunpowder, galleons and dashing buccaneers, in which the world becomes a bit smaller.
the Years of Sun
An age of Enlightenment, revolution and “dark Satanic mills”, which sees the beginnings of bourgeois revolution and the end of the Empire of the White Sea.
the Days of Wine and Roses
A transitional period, “de tranvía y vino tinto”, in which industry and imperialism crystallize. Espary and Myringia take over the world.
the Years of Iron
An age of troubles following the Great War: “things fall apart, the center cannot hold”.
See also
This world’s rough equivalent of the Umayyad conquests: the dissolution of whatever was left of the Classical world, leaving the Middle Ages in their wake.↩︎