I'm setting a new release version, and I'm getting closer to where I want to be fore a full format and "official release" now that we can do that using the open license (thanks Atlas!).
I want to shoutout another call to my sodales for some feedback on what still needs to be fixed (or would be nice to fix) before that!
Also, as an optional add-on this update has one of my new favorite entries. It's not in the main timeline, as it's not specifically canon - but this is what could happen if you follow the seed in Guardians of the Forest (it happened in my own saga, as well as another I played in):
1227 Rhine Tribunal: The summer of 1227 marks the greatest disaster of the Order of Hermes since the Schism War. What begins as a regular tribunal at Durenmar ends in catastrophe when faerie forces overwhelm the Domus Magna, consuming it into a regio of their own making.
By dawn, Durenmar is gone. Its towers shimmer within an unreachable glade, a beacon of faerie dominion in the heart of the Order. Those who escape bring only fragmented accounts of the fall, their memories distorted by glamour and grief. With the loss of Durenmar, the stability of the Rhine Tribunal shatters, and the Order teeters on the brink of chaos.
Rumours have it that a coalition of ancient faerie sovereigns, long thought to be myths of the Rhine, breach the walls with an otherworldly surge of power. The Aegis of the Hearth collapses in a cascade of silver light, and almost in an instant, the battle is lost.
OM version 2.41 update 2025-04-06
- A few slight improvements on the chapter abstracts.
- Minor language edits and fixes. Combined a handful of entries.
- Added page numbers in footer
- Cleaned up inconsistent use of various length dashes throughout the entire document.
- Uneven use of smart quotation marks (“”) and straight quotation marks (") throughout the document have been resolved to only use straight.
- Enhanced Trojan War, Founding of Rome, Moses, King Solomon.
- Added Lindisfarne (793) as it’s an event with significant impact on Christianity.
- Clarified some of Friedrich II’s actions in the late history.
- Reintroduced Birna. Actually only mentioned by name in two Arm5e products (Houses of Hermes - Mystery Cults and Through the Aegis) - but it’s canon that Birna was Bjornaers actual name.
- Astrological comments on auspice of the day of the Founding (see 767 entry).
- Upgraded entries 845-847 of Viking and Saracen raiding and its implications.
- Again readjustments on the timeline of Hibernian pre-history based on comments from the forum. Thanks in particular to Gary Barber.
- Added section of "Optional non-canon events" for interesting entries not on the default timeline that I have used for my own campaign. Including the 1227 "Fall of Durenmar".