The Fulcrum: Timeline
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paradoxcaseMain timeline for all events related to The Fulcrum. All dates are in the epoch used by the priesthood; dates after 2307 are additionally in the epoch used after 2307, that Cusäfä is familiar with. This only documents the main timeline that Setsiana, Qhoroali, Liselye, and Cusäfä are native to; Sohanke timelines are not shown here. Contains spoilers for currently posted story.
Globally relevant cultural/political events
Cultural/political events relevant in NoraCheanya
Technological advances
Character backstories
Globally relevant cultural/political events
Cultural/political events relevant in NoraCheanya
Technological advances
Character backstories
| -13,000 to -12,000 | First warm period, North Shayansee people cross the pole |
| -12,000 to -10,000 | Glacial period, Sohanke ancestors cross from Meandhshen to northeastern NoraCheanya across land bridge, North Shayansee people move north, Cusäfä's tribe crosses to northwestern NoraCheanya on rafts |
| -10,000 (approximately) | Second part of Before Rice, First part of After the End |
| -10,000 to -8,000 | Second warm period, South Shayansee people cross the pole, Sohanke ancestors spread out to the south in NoraCheanya |
| -9,500 | South Shayansee people cross into southwestern NoraCheanya |
| -9,500 (approximately) | Second part of A Secret Place, First part of Lost in Time |
| -8,000 | Slight global cooling, South Shayansee spread north and enter into conflict with North Shayansee people, first people cross the ocean to Ádeya-Shuznzyon, Cheanya ancestors spread north and enter into conflict with Sohanke ancestors |
| -2,000 | Cheanya ancestors begin teaching worship of Sapfita rather than soulwrights |
| -480 | T'arse established |
| -200 | Cheanya time travelers from the Ancient Kingdom arrive from the year 0 |
| -36 | Yesora's Grammar |
| 0 | Confrontation between Cheanya and Sohanke, Cheanya escape to -200 |
| 198 | Yesora's Grammar is printed in the original language for the final time and brought back to -36 |
| 200 | First offensive T'arsi war |
| 389 | Same-sex marriage allowed for laypeople by priesthood, junior priestesses and public education are established |
| 500 | Public health class added to public school curriculum at the behest of time travelers |
| 600 | League of Meandhshen forms to protect itself from T'arsi aggression |
| 950 | Capital Dialect mandated as a public school subject by Emperor, Cheanya writing systems are standardized |
| 1056 | T'arsi mandated as a public school subject by Emperor |
| 1090 | First weight-driven clocks installed in temples |
| 1280 | Public school extended to age 16 |
| Summer 1431 | Second part of Ghlídrow Week |
| 1459.4.4.6 | First part of The Rip in Time |
| 1623.3.3.5 | Setsiana's birth |
| 1630 | Potato is thrown at ceramics stall in T'arsi Fair |
| 1633 | Setsiana is selected for the priesthood, but her mother forbids her |
| 1636 | Setsiana becomes certain she is a lesbian |
| 1637 | Mázghwent begins writing plays |
| 1639 | Setsiana convinces her mother to allow her to join the junior priestess track |
| 1640 | T'arse burns down Fojheik, Mázghwent writes Princess Khr'adi |
| 1641 | Setsiana discovers Personalist heresy, Personalist heresy in Syarhrít is removed by the priesthood |
| 1643 | Setsiana becomes a junior priestess |
| 1645 | Mázghwent writes The King of Vrel |
| 1647.6.2.1 | The Last Day of History, Waiting for Yeimicha, Conversation Class, Garden of Regrets, Ultimatum |
| 1647.6.2.2 | Theory Class, Priestess Fyäccheira's Review, Fool Me Twice, Shame on Me, Second part of Return to Syarhrít, Repairing Bridges |
| 1700 | Last active practice of soulwright religion ceases |
| 1705 | Spring-driven clocks invented, T'arsi clocks come to NoraCheanya |
| 1706-1711 | Setsiana dies of old age in timelines where she stayed with the priesthood |
| 1780-1800 | Accurate portable clocks invented, longitude solved, long ocean journeys now viable, Ádeya-Shuznzyon discovered by Northern Kingdoms explorers, increased trade and interaction between T'arse/Northern Kingdoms and NoraCheanya/Shayansee, gunpowder recipe makes its way from Shayansee to T'arse and is used in warfare in Meandhshen |
| 1789 | Second of part Liberation |
| 1800 | First public lay universities run by priestesses appear in large cities, public schooling now possible and common through age 20 and beyond in major population centers |
| 1850 | Local counter-clockwise clocks completely replace clockwise T'arsi clocks in NoraCheanya |
| 1855 | Qhoroali's mother is born |
| 1857 | Qhoroali's father is born in the Capital |
| 1858 | Liselye's father is born in Dlesta |
| 1859-1862 | T'arsi invasion of Soanghi |
| 1860 | Liselye's grandmother is widowed, immigrates to NoraCheanya with Liselye's father |
| 1870 | Handguns developed and spread through trade |
| 1872 | Mosetai is born in Dlesta |
| 1877 | Qhoroali's grandmother dies, leaving the Egalitarian temple to Qhoroali's mother |
| 1879 | Qhoroali's father finds and joins Qhoroali's mother's temple |
| 1883 | Qhoroali's parents get married |
| 1884.5.1.3 | Liselye's birth |
| 1884.8.5.1 | Qhoroali's birth |
| 1887 | Mosetai immigrates to NoraCheanya with her parents |
| 1888 | Mosetai begins selling street food to help her parents with money |
| 1890 | Mosetai is hired by café owner |
| 1898 | Mosetai's employers falls ill, delegates the business to her, Mosetai gets married to Reitsia |
| 1899 | Mosetai's employer dies and leaves her the café |
| 1901 | Mosetai purchases new buildings to rent |
| 1902 | Qhoroali is made a junior priestess two years early |
| 1903 | Qhoroali learns to time travel, time travels to Sohanke timeline and meets Cyaru, confronts her mother, runs away to Nwórza, rents an apartment from Mosetai in exchange for helping at the café |
| Spring 1904 | Qhoroali and Cyaru begin dating |
| Summer 1904 | Second part of The Way to the Fair, The Rules of War, Qhoroali Versus Qhoroali, First part of Mental Block |
| Spring 1905 | Qhoroali time travels to 2431 and meets Cusäfä, he returns to 1905 and rents an apartment from Mosetai |
| Winter 1905 | Qhoroali and Cyaru break up, Qhoroali kicks Liselye and Cyaru out of her apartment |
| 1906 | Peatäro returns with Cyaru at age 24 from 2200s Sohanke timeline, introduces solar hubs and copy machine, Cusäfä is able to go back to -10,000 with nanosynthesizer |
| Spring 1909 | Liselye and Cyaru begin dating |
| Winter 1909 | Peatäro helps Cyaru and Liselye rescue her 16-year-old self |
| 1910.8.5.1 | Qhoroali goes to the 1904 T'arsi Fair and asks 1911 self about Setsiana |
| 1911.3 | Qhoroali returns to 1904 Fair, is told to kidnap Setsiana by Setsiana |
| 1911.7.5.4 | An Unknown Future |
| 1911.7.5.5 | Clockwork and Heresy, The Legacy of Setsiana of Taleinyo, Directly Connected |
| 1911.7.5.6 | In Search of a Plan, Technical Support, The Dreams of Mureiyo |
| 1911.8.1.1 | Eavesdropping, Ox for Potatoes |
| 1911.8.3.6 | A Small Dinner Party |
| 1911.8.3.7 | Creative Tailoring |
| 1911.8.5.1 | First part of The Way to the Fair, Second part of Mental Block |
| 1911.9.2.2 | First part of Escape, Second part of Renewed Conviction |
| 1911.9.5.6 | First part of A New Year |
| 1912.1.1.1 | Second part of A New Year, The Timeline You Want to Live In |
| 1912.1.1.2 | First part of Return to Syarhrít, A Final Return, Clarification |
| 1912.1.1 | First part of Lost |
| 1912.1.3.1 | Second part of Lost |
| 1912.1.4.5 | A Return to Research |
| 1912.2.1.3 | First part of An Alternate Timeline |
| 1912.2.2.5 | First part of Ghlídrow Week |
| 1912.2.4.2 | Peatäro's Story |
| 1912.3.1.2 | First part of A Secret Place, Second part of Lost in Time |
| 1912.3.1.6 | A Suggestion, Recording in Progress |
| 1912.3.2.1 | A Strange Dreamreading |
| 1912.3.2.6 | Chonea |
| 1912.3.3.5 | Nyufeisyälye Ciria |
| 1912.3.3.8 | Dreamstuff |
| 1912.3.4.5 | First part of Déjà Vu |
| 1912.3.4.6 | Second part of Déjà Vu, First part of Transtimeline Whispers |
| 1912.3.5.1 | Second part of Transtimeline Whispers |
| 1912.3.5.3 | Quantification of Time Travel |
| 1912.4.1.2 | The Liberator, A Dream of Past Misunderstandings |
| 1912.4.1.3 | Mothers |
| 1912.4.2.5 | A Discovery |
| 1912.4.2.6 | Second part of The Rip in Time |
| 1912.4.3.2 | First part of Unconscious Desires |
| 1912.4.3.3 | Second part of Unconscious Desires, Experiments |
| 1912.4.3.8 | First part of Liberation |
| 1998 | First steam engines appear |
| 2050 | Second part of Escape, The Train to Duqhora, First part of Before Rice |
| 2080 | Electricity enters everyday use |
| 2110 | First radio broadcast |
| 2120 | First internal combustion cars appear |
| 2150 | First airlines appear |
| 2215 | First computers appear |
| 2307.9.2.6 | Mirrors stop working across all timelines, priestesses are arrested, end of priesthood, new epoch and writing system, private universities established |
| 2380 | 73 | Nanosynthesizers enter common use |
| 2398 | 91 | Cusäfä is born |
| 2418 | 111 | Cusäfä finishes basic schooling and enters higher education |
| 2418-2428 | Cusäfä's academic career |
| 2428 | 121 | Cusäfä enters industry as a nanotech engineer |
| 2431 | 124 | Cusäfä meets Qhoroali, time travels back to 1905 with her |
| 2434 | 127 | Second part of After the End |
