• Modules
• Zothiqband
• Timeline

This is the basic timeline for Zothiqband. The dates are VERY VERY VERY approximate.

• 15,000,000,000 BC The beginning of time. The Hounds of Tindalos.

• 4,000,000,000 BC Ubbo-Sathla originates the life on Earth.

• 3,000,000,000 BC Various beings from space and other dimensions colonize Earth in several waves. Some of them die out over the aeons.

• 1,000,000 BC The stars stop being right. Dead Cthulhu lies dreaming in R'lyeh.

• 20,000 BC Human civilization flourishes in Hyperborea (modern Greenland).

• 15,000 BC Hyperborea falls under glaciation.

• 12,000 BC Human civilization flourishes in Atlantis.

• 7,000 BC Atlantis sinks. Its civilization continues for a while on Poseidonis.

• 0 AD Various better-known antique civilizations.

• 1000 AD Middle-ages in Europe. Averoigne, France has a lot of mysterious and un-Christian goings-on over the years. Jirel of Joiry also lives in France.

• 1900 AD Renaissance and later the Industrial Revolution push magic and superstition into shadows. Various inexplicable events are laughed at by people of reason. Great Cthulhu very nearly returns.

• 2000 AD The space age. Humans visit Mars, Venus, and other places. Contacts with inhabitants of said planets.

• 2300 AD Human civilization falls to a dark age.

• 7000 AD Human civilization recovers with India as the leading civilization. Later another and worse dark age follows.

• 40,000 AD Venusians invade Earth, where science has again started to develop but space travel is not yet invented. A terrible and prolonged war takes place. Humans end up victorious but the widespread atomic devastation brings about a dark age.

• 45,000 AD Human civilization gradually recovers. Space travel is reinvented but the Venusians and Martians are no more and their planets are uninhabitable.

• 50,000 AD The sun undergoes a mystical failure. Humans manage to move Earth's orbit much closer to the sun but that is not enough to prevent the oncoming total glaciation.

• 70,000 AD Humans surviving underground find a way to use old atomic bombs to relit the sun. Earth becomes habitable once again.

• (A lot of history happens.)

• 1,000,000,000 AD The time of Zothique, the last continent. The sun is red and slowly dying, but nobody has the science to understand that it isn't supposed to do so. Magic has been rediscovered and gods have come back. This is the primary setting of Zothiqband but some time travel will be involved.

• 1,000,500,000 AD Earth rotates very slowly. Cities move ever west to follow the dying sun. All the oceans have dried up. Technology has been rediscovered.

• 1,001,000,000 AD The surface of Earth gradually becomes uninhabitable, cold and airless. Humans settle in a great rift valley where conditions are more suitable to life due to low altitude and volcanism.

• 1,001,100,000 AD Humans make peaceful contact with aetheric beings.

• 1,001,120,000 AD Humans build the Great Redoubt, a huge pyramid-shaped arcology, to keep them safe both from the soul-eating aetheric beings and the steadily worsening conditions outside. The sun stops emitting visible light and eventually becomes a myth. The rift valley comes to be known as the Night Land and is populated by monsters.

• 2,000,000,000 AD The Great (a.k.a Last) Redoubt falls. Humans become extinct.

• 100,000,000,000 AD The Central Sun of the Universe swallows the husk of Earth. All lovers are reunited. The end of time.

Sources:

• Clark Ashton Smith (Zothique stories and most of the other things he wrote)
• H. P. Lovecraft (Cthulhu Mythos, except where contradicted by above)
• William Hope Hodgson (The Night Land etc.)
• C. L. Moore (Jirel of Joiry)
• Frank Bellknap Long (The Hounds of Tindalos)

The following Clark Ashton Smith stories are scheduled to eventually have quests more or less closely based on them (change is always possible):

• The Charnel God
• The Dark Eidolon
• The Death of Ilalotha
• The Isle of the Torturers
• The Master of the Crabs
• Necromancy in Naat
• Phoenix
• The Tomb-Spawn
• The Weaver in the Vault
• Xeethra

Notes:

• The early Clark Ashton Smith story The Abominations of Yondo is treated as near-canonical. I have decided to equate Yondo with the haunted desert of Dluth from The Weaver in the Vault. The name Dluth will be used, as it seems to be the more final version.