====== Timeline ======
  * **AV 0** - Appearance of [[..:Races:Dragoon|Dragoons]] during the climactic battles of the [[polemos:3rd_age:main|Great War]]. Assumed start of the 4th Age.

  * **AV 424** - Founding of the [[polemos:4th_age:factions:39_shards|39 Shards]].

  * **AV 460** - First Shard War between [[polemos:4th_age:factions:39_shards|39 Shards]] and [[polemos:4th_age:factions:agothos|Agothos]].

  * **AV 951** - Fourth Shard War, ending in humiliating peace for [[polemos:4th_age:factions:agothos|Agothos]] and the dissolution of the [[.:factions:Free Alliance]].

  * **AV 974** - Events of the [[polemos:campaigns:drakonheart:main|Drakonheart]] campaign begin.

  * **AV 1255** - The [[polemos:4th_age:events:rise_of_the_mu|Mu Crisis]] (and the events of the [[polemos:campaigns:alpha_and_omega:main|Alpha and Omega]] campaign) begins.