The history of the Pheonix River, and it's habitations, stretches far beyond oral tradition and memory. DMs must be familiar with this information, because it is rife with possible adventure hooks. What if the Psionic Lich King Lycurgus were to rise again?
The history of the world stretches pretty far. But it's probably best to start in the New Stone Age, which is about 10,000 BC on our planet. The information presented here are from a Romance of the Stone Age perspective, instead of what actually happened.
Olympiad Calender[]
The Ancient Greeks used the Olympiads to count the roll of years. So Alexander Reckoning is replaced by Olympiad Reckoning. The first Olympiad began in 776 B.C. according to our calendar, so that would be abbreviated Ol. 1,1, followed by the second year (Ol. 1,2), and the third (Ol. 1,3), and the fourth (Ol. 1,4). The next year (772 B.C.) is the first year of the second Olympiad (Ol. 2,1). Alexander was born on the 21st day of July in 356 A.D. That would make Ol 104,4 his birth year. This is because, instead of using Yahweh's starting date of the year (which is the Vernal Equinox), the Ancient Greeks used the latter part of August, using the eighth full Moon after the Winter Solstice to mark the Games.
Romancing the Stone Age[]
Before the romance of the Stone Age:
Stories from the Stone Age[]
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The Olympic Games Marks the Roll of Years[]
The start of the Olympic Games is the start of a new Greek Reckoning of the Years. The First Olympiad takes place in 776 B.C.
| Olympiad | Before Christ | Event |
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| Ol. 1,1 | 776 B.C. | First Olympic Games on Record. The Games honored Zeus, King of the Gods. |
Age of the Hellenic City State[]
| Olympiad | Before Christ | Event |
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Age of the Hellenic League[]
| Olympiad | Before Christ | Event |
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Age of Alexander[]
| Olympiad | Before Christ | Event |
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| Ol 104,4 | 356 | Alexander is born in Hellas (Macedonia). His father is headstrong, and his mother Olympias is strange. He is named after his Grandfather, Alexander the First. |
| Ol 116,1 | 340 | Alexander is taught by the master of the Peripatetic school at the time, being taught all manner of natural philosophy. The philosopher was hired by his father. Alexander knows politics, culture, and how to play the harp as well. |
| Ol 116,2 | 339 | Alexander destroys a city, but commands a city to be built to be named after him. His father remarks that his own kingdom is too small for Alexander's ambitions and ego. |
| Ol 116,3 | 338 | The Draconikos family realizes Alexander's success and the ancient family allies itself with Alexander through a marriage with his sister, Penelope. Hellas is unified under Alexander's father. Philip builds the Hermaeum Arcanologica for the teaching of all eight schools of Arcane Magic. |
| Ol 116,4 | 337 | Philip of Macedon is murdered and Alexander takes the throne. He blames the murder on agents of the Archemeniad Empire and begins his conquest of the hated Ariyans. He crosses over into Aisha. |
| Ol 116,4 | 337 |
Alexander crosses into Amazon territory. The Amazons, riding on great and powerful lizards (Ceratosaurus nasicornis ) do battle against Alexander's forces and it results in a win with little loss on both sides. The Amazon queen Meriope marries Alexander and she gives him a son and a daughter. Alexander enters Gordiana. He is presented with a knot that has a prophecy that if anyone shall untie through the knot, they will conquer all of Aisha. Alexander examines the knot, and then he cuts through the knot with his sword. Penelope becomes pregnant. |
| Ol 116,4 | 337 | Alexander comes to Salamais and attacks. He conquers the Ariyans there and take most of the Ariyan population and the Hellenic population that stood against him into slavery, sending them back to Hellas. Alexander crosses beyond the land of Lybia into Phoenicia. |
| Ol 116,4 | 337 |
At the border of Phoenicia on the Pheonix River, Alexander faces off the might against the Ariyan Army led by Darius the Great. Using the Phalanx to great effect, and his Cavalry to better effect, Alexander destroys Darius' Army and the King flees from the field of battle. Alexander conquers the Ariyan City of Phoenicia, razes it to the ground and founds Phaeselis. He also founds Alexandria on the Phoenix as a garrison town. Half of the family of Draconikos settle in Phaeselis. |
| Ol. 116,4 | 337 | Alexander faces off against the city of Tyrus and lays siege in order to get to the temple of Hercules. Alexander manages to conquer Tyrus, sell the survivors into slavery, and make obeisiance to Hercules. |
| Ol 116,4 | 337 | Alexander marches into Salemas (Lemurias' version of Jerusalem). He enters the Temple of the Creator, and declares: "There's absolutely nothing in there." He allows the Phoenicians to continue to worship the Creator according to their statutes. |
| Ol 117,1 | 338 | Alexander crosses into Khemet. The people of Khemet runs to Alexander with open arms, hailing him as a great liberator from the hated Ariyans. Alexander journeys to the Shrine of Amun. |
B.A. = Before Alexander, A.A. = After Alexander, MC = Mundi Calendar
| A.A. 1 | Alexander is born in Hellas during the Iron Age of Planet Lemurias. He has a headstrong father and a strange mother. He is named after his grandfather. |
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| A.A. 16 | Alexander is taught by the master of the Peripetic School at the time, being taught all manner of natural philosophy. The philosopher was hired by his father. Alexander knows politics, culture, and how to play the harp as well. |
| A.A. 17 | Alexander destroys a city, but commands that the survivors of his assault name the city Alexandros. His father remarks that his own kingdom is too small for Alexander's ambitions and ego. |
| A.A.18. | The Draconikos family realizes Alexander's success and the ancient family allies itself with Alexander through a marriage with his sister, Penelope. Hellas is unified under Alexander's father. |
| A.A._19.4 | Alexander's father is murdered, and Alexander takes the throne of his country. He blames the murder on agents of the Archemeniad Empire and begins his conquest of the hated Ariyans. He crosses over into Aisha. |
| A.A._19.5 |
Alexander crosses into Amazon territory. The Amazons, riding on great and powerful lizards (Ceratosaurus nasicornis ) do battle against Alexander's forces and it results in a win with little loss on both sides. The Amazon queen Meriope marries Alexander and she gives him a son and a daughter. Alexander enters Gordiana. He is presented with a knot that has a prophecy that if anyone shall untie through the knot, they will conquer all of Aisha. Alexander examines the knot, and then he cuts through the knot with his sword. Penelope becomes pregnant. |
| A.A._19.6 |
Alexander comes to Salamais and attacks. He conquers the Ariyans there and take most of the Ariyan population and the Hellenic population that stood against him into slavery, sending them back to Hellas. Alexander crosses beyond the land of Lybia into Phoenicia. |
| A.A._19.9 |
At the border of Phoenicia on the Pheonix River, Alexander faces off the might against the Ariyan Army led by Darius the Great. Using the Phalanx to great effect, and his Cavalry to better effect, Alexander destroys Darius' Army and the King flees from the field of battle. Alexander conquers the Ariyan City of Phoenicia, razes it to the ground and founds Phaeselis. He also founds Alexandria on the Phoenix as a garrison town. Half of the family of Draconikos settle in Phaeselis. |
| A.A.19.11 | Alexander faces off against the city of Tyrus and lays siege in order to get to the temple of Hercules. Alexander manages to conquer Tyrus, sell the survivors into slavery, and make obeisiance to Hercules. |
| A.A.19.12 | Alexander marches into Salemas (Lemurias' version of Jerusalem). He enters the Temple of the Creator, and declares: "There's absolutely nothing in there." He allows the Phoenicians to continue to worship the Creator according to their statutes. |
| A.A._20.2 | Alexander crosses into Khemet. The people of Khemet runs to Alexander with open arms, hailing him as a great liberator from the hated Ariyans. Alexander journeys to the Shrine of Amun. |
| A.A._20.3 | Darius retaliates while Alexander's army is in Khemet. Seeking to reclaim the territory of Phoenicia, Darius seeks to conquer back both Phaeselis and Salemas. Darius invades Phaeselis, but his army of 1,000 Immortals are soundly defeated by the city's psionic army. Then they are taken into slavery.
Half the army are "reconditioned" while the other half are spread through out the known world in the West through the slave trade. Darius becomes "the Not So Great" and flees. |
| A.A._20.4 | Alexander completes his Homage to Amun and is declared to be Pharaoh by the priests. Alexander then turns back on the Ariyan Empire. |
| A.A._21.1 | Alexander crosses into Elven territory, and do battle naked with the barbarian elves of the Pelagasiri. The battle turns out to be a draw, and the elves withdraw their support of the Ariyans. |
| A.A._21.4 | Alexander receives a letter from Darius that he is willing to concede to Alexander Phoenicia, Libya, and Khemet to the Hellenic Military Genius. Parmenio quips that he should take the offer, Alexander doesn't.
The two powers meet in the valley of Sidereon. The Battle lasts for four days, but the Ariyan forces are routed and Alexander wins the day. Darius flees and Alexander continues. |
| A.A._22.7 | Alexander marches into Shinar, and into the principle city of the plain, Babylon. He conquers the city and starts rebuilding the tower of Babel. However, it's too expensive a project to restore, and Alexander gives that up to march on Susanna. He conquers Susanna with little resistance and starts his march on Ariyanopolis. |
| A.A._23.6 | Alexander marches into Ariyanopolis after a difficult battle with the Archemeniad forces. He settles in the Palace as King of all Ariya. His men, in a drunken orgy, burn the palace to the ground -- but not after Alexander rescues the precious Royal Treasury of Airya. He uses the treasury to fund his warmaking. |
| A.A._23.10 | Alexander starts to give chase to Darius. Darius' attendants and royal court murder the king, but the King is stalwart enough to be caught by Alexander before he dies. Incensed with a new sense of Justice, Alexander gives chase to the royal court. |
| A.A._24 | Alexander walks into the city of Kalamais, and finds the city to be settled by Hellenes. Finding out that the Kalamoi ancestors participated in a war against their homeland, he pays blood for blood by killing every last traitorous Hellene. Even as they were suing for peace. |
| A.A._25 | Alexander continues his conquest by chasing the Airyan Royal Court. He enters Orc Lands for the first time. The Orcs want nothing to do with the Airyans or the Hellenes, but they give him aid as to where to find the traitorous Ariyan Royal Court. He gives harder chase. |
| A.A._26.3 | Alexander catches up to the Royal Court, and they do battle on the Oxus River. The Battle lasted only and hour, and Alexander has them all crucified. The leader, Darius the Eighth, is tied between two young trees and the trees are allowed to let go. As a result he is drawn and quartered, and his head is cut off and put on a pike. |
| A.A._26.7 | Alexander makes it to the Fergana Valley and the land of the Sakkas. He reaches Samarkhand, and founds Alexandria Eschate after doing battle with the Bird People. He then turns his army towards the Middle Kingdom. |
| A.A._26.9 | Alexander enters the Middle Kingdom of Qin'ae and conquers the ancient states of Wei and Xayshang, razing the last to the ground. However, the people of the Middle Kingdom rally and force Alexander and his forces back to Alexandria Eschate. Alexander resigns never to go into Qin'ae again. He leaves garrisons at Wa and Erlitou and builds two cities: Alexandria of Wa, and Alexandros on The Yellow. |
| A.A._27.3 | Alexander returns to the conquered lands of Aisha and marries Roxanne. He leads his army deeper into Orc and Lizard man territory. |
| A.A._27.7 | Recieving word that the lands of Aryavarta are having trouble and need his help, Alexander plumbs into Aryavarta. He marches his men south into the Indus and the Hindu Cush. |
| A.A._28.3 | Alexander does battle in Aryavarta. However, he resolves not to be manipulated by the Brahmins. He does want to see the Sea. He wants to conquer all of the land of Aryavarta just for cultural exchange, but his men stop him. |
| A.A._28.5 | Alexander founds Alexandria on the Indus and Baccephlas, and turns south. He moves along the coast. Alexander catches malaria and has liver problems. |
| A.A._29.2 | Alexander returns to Babylon and the plain of Shinar. He gives Roxanne a child. He begins to make plans of conquering the Araby people, but his sickness becomes worse. |
| A.A._29.4 | Alexander dies in Babylon. As he dies, he said that he will leave his empire to the strongest of his generals, but makes a request that Phaeselis would be autonomous. And the wars for dominance begin. |
The Wars of the Diaodachi[]
| A.A._30 | Parmenio, Anaxamander, Cassander, and Phillip divide the Alexandrian Empire with wars. Parmenio takes Khem, Phillip takes Hellas, Cassander claims Lybia, and Anaxamander claims Phoenicia, Syria, Shinar, Ariya, and Bactria. |
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| A.A._31 | Parmenio attacks Phoenicia and takes Salemas. Anaxamander retaliates by taking Gaza. Cassander makes an invasion of Hellas, but is routed by Phillip. |
| A.A._33 | Anaxamander takes Salemas and goes as far as the Great River of Khemet before he is routed by Parmenio. Parmenio starts a march eastwards. Phillip takes Troas and Gordias from Cassander, but the Cassandrans attack and take back Gordias. |
| A.A._34 | Parmenio invades Shinar, but is quickly routed by Anaxamander. Cassander consolidates power in Ephesus, while Phillip consolidates his power in the city of Argolis. |
| A.A._35 | Anaxamander expands his Aryavartan holdings. He founds three centers of power as Helleno-Aryan Kingdoms. |
| A.A._39 | Anaxamander consolidates his power at Antiochus, some fifty miles away from Phaeselis. This makes the council at Phaeselis nervous. |
| A.A._40 | The Helleno-Aryan Kingdoms become Autonomous, and face invasions from the Naga Empire. They ask Anaxamandras and Phaeselis for help. |
| A.A._45 | A joint action is undertaken by Anaxamander and the people of Phaeselis to go into Aryavarta. |
| A.A._47 | While the majority of Anaxamander's army is in Aryavarta, Parmenio takes advantage of the weakness and invades Pheonicia. |
| A.A._48 | Parmenio sacks Salemas and Antiochus, and annexes Phoenicia into his territory. He respectfully leaves Phaeselis alone. |
Consolidation[]
| A.A._49 | The Wars in Aryavarta proves a success, and the Naga Empire is destroyed. A total of ten thousand Nagaji are taken as slaves by Phaeselis. |
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| A.A._50 | All contact is lost with Alexandria of Wa and Alexandros on the Yellow. Anaxamander is forced to retake his capital and Phoenicia from Parmenio. He reconsolidates at Antiochus, but sacks Salemas. |
| A.A._51 | Phillip is murdered by Theseus, Alexander's son by Meriope. Theseus takes the Hellenic Throne and leads Hellas into new prosperity. Cassander develops boils all over his body. |
| A.A._52 | Phaeselis forces Anaxamander into a Treaty, allowing them to define 50 miles around Phaeselis as the territory of Phaeselis. |
| A.A._55 | Cassander is not seen in court, and his favored eromenos, a 12 year old boy, runs things with great saavy. The borders become stable for another 60 years. |
The Present[]
| A.A._57 | Parmenio dies and his son Parmenio the Second becomes Pharaoh. His daughter, Cleopatra, marries into house Psyche. |
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| A.A._60 | Cassander is getting worse. His boils erupt and worms crawl out of his wounds. He is much more obese, and many of his eromenoi abandon him. |
| A..A._61 | Anaxamander faces weakness in his realm, with Bactria threatening to rebel and split his kingdom. In a fit of rage, he invades Khemet, but is routed and so he sacks Salemas. |
| A.A._64 | Cassander's palace catches fire, and Cassander burns alive before they could get him out. |
| A.A._65 | Golden treasure is discovered in the caverns and catacombs of Phaeselis, and soon there is a gold rush. The Age of Adventure begins. |
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