Overview: Species Baselines and Foundings

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Overview

This subdirectory contains the earliest species baselines and first major civilizational foundings on Caeldon.

Use it for the point where long planetary differentiation turns into recognizable species continuity, and then into the first named heartland and founding sequences for those peoples. This layer should establish stabilized baselines and first durable orders, not every later branch, lifeway, or vanished historical form.

Later branch histories, secondary formations, and absorbed or hardened successor orders usually belong in Overview: Divergences and Secondary Formations, unless the branch is inseparable from a species’ first stabilization or first founding.

Current Documents

The First Elven Stabilization: rough date range: c. 500,000-c. 450,000 BR.
The Rooting of the Elderweald: rough date range: c. 490,000-c. 1,880,000 BR.
The Founding of the Rootcrown Concord: rough date range: c. 490,000-c. 460,000 BR.
The First Dwarven Stabilization: rough date range: c. 475,000-c. 425,000 BR.
The Holdmaking of the Ironspine: rough date range: c. 465,000-c. 445,000 BR.
The Founding of the Ironspine Holds: rough date range: c. 460,000-c. 438,000 BR.
The First Human Emergence on Caeldon: rough date range: c. 300,000-c. 220,000 BR.
The Rise of the Upland Colossal Civilization: rough date range: c. 260,000-c. 195,000 BR.
The Rise of the Archive-Law Civilization: rough date range: c. 235,000-c. 175,000 BR.
The Fall of the Ash-Furnace Civilization: rough date range: c. 225,000-c. 168,000 BR.
The Shaping of the Confluence-Headwater World: rough date range: c. 220,000-c. 90,000 BR.
The Founding of the Floodkeeper Houses: rough date range: c. 210,000-c. 182,000 BR.
The Founding of the Windscar Pacts: rough date range: c. 180,000-c. 150,000 BR.
The Founding of the Foldward Commons: rough date range: c. 170,000-c. 152,000 BR.
The Founding of the Gaugeward Leagues: rough date range: c. 165,000-c. 146,000 BR.
The Gathering of the Confluence: rough date range: c. 120,000-c. 50,000 BR.
The Founding of the Confluence Marches: rough date range: c. 40,000-c. 20,000 BR.