2000 BCE – Nephandi Almost Free the Nameless

2000 BCE — The Shattering Attempt: Nephandi, the Neverborn, and the Near Awakening of the Nameless

“Three anchors. One nearly undone. The wound bled into time itself.”

— Jay Dee, writing in the Book of Fractures

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Global Context (2000 BCE – World of Darkness)

• The Concord is reached: the Garou end the Impergium, formally beginning the Age of Man.
• Gilgamesh defies the Kindred and chooses mortality, aided by the Child of Gaia Siduri Sabitu. The Sumerian rejection of the Kindred spreads through the mortal psyche.
• Imhotep arises in Egypt: a legendary Daedalean figure, combining medicine, architecture, and metaphysical science.
• The Mokolé exist openly with humans in Crocodilopolis, mummified and revered by the Hem-ka-Sobk, and aligned with the Bubasti and Silent Striders.
• Nagah, serpentine assassins and spiritual judges, begin spreading from the Indus Valley.
• The Thothian Cult is at its height, and early iterations of the Wu Lung and Ahl-i-Batin rise in the East.
• In Mesopotamia, geomantic instability spreads, coinciding with reports of a “star beneath the earth.”

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🜃 Madtown Event — The Siege of the Third Anchor: The Nameless Nearly Freed

In Teejop (modern-day Madison), the Capitol Node, one of the three great anchors sealing the Nameless, comes under coordinated assault for the first time in recorded magical history.

A Nephandus of the Call of the Void, corrupted by a whispering dream from the Neverborn beneath the city, enacts a multi-realm ritual from deep within the Hollow Promise. The ritual involves:

• The sacrifice of 13 Awakened souls, whose echoes still linger in the Dreaming.
• A forced alignment of the Capitol Node with its Underworld reflection, weakening the fabric of the seal.
• The summoning of a chthonic wyrm spirit—not of Gaia or the Wyrm, but something older, from the Dreamless Depths.

The Nephandi’s actions nearly free the Nameless, and cause a chain reaction:

• New Eden experiences an umbro-tectonic rupture, severing ties between node networks in Mesopotamia.
• New Avalon’s resonance lens fractures, redirecting its ley flow south for the next 4,000 years.
• Malkav's own psychic bindings begin to ripple, causing episodes of mass madness in Babylon and parts of pre-Druidic Europe.

The seal in Madtown holds, but is severely compromised. Jay Dee and a surviving proto-Tradition coalition rebind the third anchor using living memory, sacrificing a Dreamspeaker’s entire ancestral line to hold the barrier.

The Nameless whispers to the Neverborn beneath the stone layers of Teejop. Their bond becomes fused. This is the first time the Nameless and a Neverborn are psychically entangled—creating a rot point in the Gauntlet that will not be fully sealed until Madison, Wisconsin is founded millennia later.

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Long-Term Consequences

• The Madtown Node becomes unstable, its resonance fraying across layers of the Umbra, Deep Dreaming, and even the Underworld.
• New Avalon and New Eden will remain fractured—imperfect in their resonance—until the Three Anchors are restored by the geopattern convergence that occurs with the founding of Madison.
• The site of the ritual—the deepest point beneath Lake Mendota—is known to some Choristers and Dreamspeakers as the Stone Maw, and to certain Wraiths as the Threshold of the Thirteenth Bell.
• A prophecy is etched in the Capitol Node's stonework by an unknown hand: “When the city rises, so too will the scar. The third fire must burn again, or all shall dream in silence.”

🔮 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

1883 – Baali Capitol Collapse

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

🗂️ See Also

Major Characters

Supernatural Factions of Madison

Capitol Node History

New Avalon (Horizon Realm)

Nameless – Entity File

Gahara Pact – Founding Accord