4000 BCE – Rise of Babylon, Druidic Magick, First Shadow Tensions
4000 BCE — The Nameless Whisper & the Shaping of the Sacred Geometry
“Before there were kings, there were patterns. And before there were patterns, there was the silence between names.”
— Jay Dee, Keeper of the Broken Spiral
Global World of Darkness Context (4000–3000 BCE)
- The Thanatoic and Ecstatic Cults rise in India, laying groundwork for the Euthanatos and Cult of Ecstasy Traditions.
- The Akashic Brotherhood emerges in China and Tibet, shaping Qi, discipline, and will into the spiritual martial arts that transcend reality.
- Babylonian priest-scientists map the stars, discovering that numbers hold power—foundations for Hermetic correspondences and Celestial Chorister harmonics.
- Druidic magi construct Stonehenge and other megalithic sites, aligning ley lines and Nodes with the arc of the stars.
- In Egypt, Set’s cult begins to grow, but the Osirian League begins countermeasures, culminating in the Week of the Midnight Sun.
- In Sumer, civilization begins with the Uruk period, and the first abstract writing systems emerge through pictographic trade-tokens.
- Across the world, human settlements evolve into urban centers, developing economics, language, and conceptual thought—tools the Weaver will come to exploit.
🜃 Madtown by Night – The Echo Spiral Reawakens
As cultures rise across the world, a great convergence occurs once more beneath the sacred lakes of Teejop. The 1,000-year cycle tied to the Nameless’ imprisonment nears another peak. Though the seal holds, the resonance distortion begins to manifest in new ways.
Spiritual Event: The Spiral's Echo Returns
A forgotten layer of the original binding—a spiral made of bone, dream, and prime resonance—begins to shift. Though the Nameless cannot act directly, it speaks through geometry. Mage scholars from the future will later call this phenomenon the Echo Spiral, a spiraling disturbance in local spatial-temporal alignments.
Consequences in Teejop:
- A proto-Hermetic mathemancer receives visions of numerical patterns while fasting in what will become Lake Monona. He constructs the first non-Euclidean altar, a place later buried beneath a glacier.
- Uktena Garou experience dreams of red stars falling upward, spiraling into the sky like reversed blood tears. These visions seed the Myth of the Broken Wolf, a local oral tradition foretelling a Garou whose memory will fracture to preserve the land.
- Fae spirits emerge around the lake system, confused and disoriented. Some vanish into forgotten trods, others begin to whisper of a “City Beneath the Stone.”
- A gathering of Ratkin attempt to purge a corrupted Veil-thin area near the Capitol Node, believing it to be a Weaver experiment—but instead encounter fragments of the Nameless’ psychic presence. Only one survives, scrawling spirals into clay walls with poisoned claws before going mad.
The Hollow Promise Reactivates
The Hollow Promise, a weakened binding site created in 5000 BCE, flares with power once again. Local shifters report that silver becomes warm, and that those who speak lies find their reflections warped.
An Echoed Caern briefly manifests, and is mistaken by Fera for a Wyrm trick, though no Bane can cross into it. It vanishes within three nights, leaving behind a single feather of obsidian—later recovered by Jay Dee’s order and housed in Doissetep.
Additional Notes & Tie-Ins
- Bubasti and Mokolé in Egypt engage in sacred rites of preservation and solar geometry—mirrored (unknowingly) by proto-Verbena and Dreamspeakers along Teejop's ley lines.
- The Cult of Seshat, founded by mystic Isis Samshen, records a prophecy of a city with Four Lakes and Three Anchors—which Hermetics centuries later interpret as a hidden reference to New Avalon, New Eden, and Madtown.
- The first proto-Technocratic cabals emerge in Mesopotamia and the Indus Valley, tracking the use of written symbols as data magic and monitoring ley-line interference from the Capitol Node region.
- 3000 BCE may mark the first subtle weakening of the Nameless seal, when the Impergium begins in earnest in other parts of the world. However, in Madison, Garou leadership doubles down on spiritual warding and avoids participating in the mass cullings—thus preserving the area’s multi-faction sanctity longer than most other regions.
🔮 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