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Reignac Timeline

My campaign setting is inspired by a recent trip to the Perigord where Sam bought me a Maison Fort de Reignac notebook. We also first got onto the idea of D&D during this trip, and I started using the notebook to keep track of ideas. I thought I'd pay homage by naming my campaign after the notebook. The region in general has a rich history and seemed like a good place to base a campaign setting on. It's also riddled with limestone caves so is already well-stocked with dungeons.

The following timeline is almost, but not completely, factual.

  • 20,000 BCE Prehistoric man roams the frozen tundra, hunting mammoth and smaller goblins. Record of their activity is left in cave paintings and buried in the ground. Drawings of goblins are all erased during the great purge of 10,000 BCE.
  • 1200 BCE Egyptian colony established at Cargegnac during the late Bronze Age collapse. Some time later, a rogue priest of Anubis tries to open a portal to A Bad Place. The priest is defeated and Cargegnac is hidden behind an Illusionary Veil of 2000 years. Or was it 2500 years?
  • 50 BCE Caesar conquers Gual. Roman presence is light in the Perigord, probably due to the dragons.
  • 407 CE Visigoths sweep across Gual. Rome becomes a distant memory.
  • 481 CE Clovis crowned king of the Franks
  • 844 CE Viking/lizardmen raids up the Garonne. In subsequent years raiding occurs up all major rivers in the southwest. A series of forts and watch stations are established to warn inhabitants of raids and given them time to prepare, or run. Examples include La Roque St Christophe.
  • 1095 CE The first Crusade. European knights start exporting mayhem.
  • 1209 CE The Albigensian Crusade. The rich Occitane kingdoms are conquered by the greedy kings of Northern France under the guise of a religious crusade. Simon de Monfort is one of its leaders.
  • 1218 CE During the siege of Toulouse, a catapult scores a critical hit on Simon de Monfort.
  • 1337 CE The Hundred Years' War begins. Plague follows. The prosperous middle ages come to an end and France becomes post-apocalyptic.
  • 1401 CE The Maison Fort de Reignac is besieged by a combined army of English irregulars and kobolds.
  • 1562 CE French Wars of Religion. Persecution and War.
  • 2006 CE The English complete their occupation of the Dordogne region.

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