3000 BCE – First Breach Attempt, Wounded Anchors
3000 BCE – The Shattering of the Watchfire & the Warning of the Third Seal
"When Gilgamesh refused the Embrace, the stars trembled. But in Teejop, they screamed."
— Whisper of Silence, Croatan Lorekeeper
World Context (3000–2000 BCE)
- The Concord is reached (in some timelines), ending the Impergium and beginning the Age of Man.
- Gilgamesh rises to power in Uruk and defies the Kindred, guided by Siduri Sabitu, a Child of Gaia who sees the curse of Caine for what it is.
- The Mokolé thrive in Egypt, openly worshipped and buried with divine honors in Crocodilopolis.
- Imhotep, honored by both Daedaleans and Celestial Choristers, builds the pyramids by blending sacred geometry with spiritual medicine.
- Proto-Void Engineers, Daedalean philosophers, and early Syndicate forerunners appear alongside rising city-states and symbolic writing systems.
- Babylonian priest-scientists begin harnessing geometry and astrology to shape will into reality—laying the groundwork for early Hermetic Principles.
- In India and East Asia, early Traditions like the Euthanatos, Cult of Ecstasy, and Akashic Brotherhood fully coalesce.
🜃 Madtown Event — The Watchfire Shatters: The Third Seal Cracks
As spiritual tides shift across the globe, the third cycle of the Nameless’ 1,000-year Curse nears critical mass. In Teejop (Madison), the sacred Hollow Promise—weakened by previous cycles—begins to fail again.
A Croatan Lorekeeper, known only as Whisper of Silence, returns to the site of the first Pact made by the Three Brothers. She carries with her a solar seed, a fetish gifted by the Simba Sakhmet during the Week of the Midnight Sun. The seed was meant to strengthen the Caern and ensure another 1,000 years of stability.
But it is too late.
Events in Teejop:
- The ancient Watchfire Caern, burning spiritually beneath what will one day become the center of the Capitol Node, flickers and shatters as paradox resonance spikes.
- The third of seven seals tied to the Nameless begins to fracture, not through battle—but through neglect and disbelief. Human minds, now becoming more rational and abstract, cease honoring the spirits of the land.
- An unnamed Kindred of the 4th Generation, possibly a child of Saulot or Arikel, arrives via dream-mirror from the Underworld. They claim to be "the memory of Enoch given flesh." After speaking three names, they burst into ash, leaving behind a burning silver spiral etched into stone.
- Dreamspeakers and Uktena both receive visions of a meteor of shadow and crystal, impacting the Earth "elsewhere" (some believe this correlates with the rumored Middle Eastern impact of this age).
The Response:
- A proto-Tradition Circle, consisting of:
- A Verbena plant-weaver,
- A proto-Euthanatos death-singer,
- And a Star-Gazer seer trained in the Tibetan Cray lines — come together in Teejop to perform the Triform Binding, reinforcing the third seal but at a steep cost: one of them is bound into the Hollow Promise itself.
- Children of Gaia from distant tribes send emissaries to protect the Caern. In honor of Siduri Sabitu’s example, they reaffirm the Pact of Balance, choosing to avoid the Wyrm's trap of dominance, and instead strengthen the land through memory, song, and empathy.
Long-Term Echoes in Madtown:
- A shimmering glyph, believed to be from Gilgamesh’s own rejected Embrace, manifests once every 1,000 years at the nexus of the Capitol Node, during eclipses.
- Geomancers and Hermetics centuries later discover that the resonance map of Madison mimics ancient Uruk’s sacred geometry, suggesting the Capitol Node is not only a prison—but also a mirror of the First City.
- One Elder Mokolé, mummified and placed in the Dreamtime near Lake Mendota, begins to stir in his torpor… but dreams only of the black spiral sun.
🔮 Prehistoric & Mythic Eras
10–20 Billion BCE – The Big Bang and the Triat Begins
3.5–4 Billion BCE – Emergence of Life and Spirits on Earth
400 Million BCE – Ananasa Diversifies Insects
360 Million BCE – The Spider Spirit is Born
150 Million BCE – Age of Kings and Mokole Civilization
65 Million BCE – Fall of the Drachid Form and Age of Kings
2.5–1.75 Million BCE – Humanity Adopted by Weaver, Creation of Garou
100,000–10,000 BCE – Diaspora, Banestorm, War of Shame
🏺 Ancient History
6000 BCE – Sealing of the Nameless (First Binding)
5000 BCE – Fracture of the First Seal
4000 BCE – Rise of Babylon, Druidic Magick, First Shadow Tensions
3000 BCE – First Breach Attempt, Wounded Anchors
2000 BCE – Nephandi Almost Free the Nameless
1000 BCE – Third Fire Renewal by Croatan
🏛️ Classical to Early Medieval
1 CE – Dream of the Hollow Mask, Sentinel Appears
1000 CE – Silent Confluence and Renewal of the Third Seal
1634–1836 CE – Indigenous Stewardship, Colonial Spiritual War
🏙️ Modern Madison Founded
1836 – Madison Founded atop the Third Anchor
1860s – Civil War, Camp Randall Necromantic Spillover
1890s – Technocratic Assaults, Gahara Pact Forms
🔥 20th Century Events
1900–1915 – Capitol Fire, Fall of the Lords of Madison
1914–1920 – WWI, New Avalon Echo, Sabbat Probes
1920–1939 – Prohibition, Syndicate Rise, Madtown Mage Cabal Forms
1940–1949 – WWII, Truax Field Founded, Nephandi Rituals
1950–1959 – Kindred–Garou War, Cold War Occult Espionage
1960–1969 – Civil Rights Awakening, Hollow One Expansion, Malkavian Prophecy
1970–1979 – Olbrich Alliance, Sabbat Incursion, Eclipse Ritual
1980–1985 – Digital Web War, Capitol Murders, Nameless Awakens
🎭 Current Campaign Start
February 1985 – Opening Night: Madtown by Night Begins