PE 309 The Holy Basilica is completed in Florenta, and work continues to build a small, fortress-style walled city around this sacred place. Cardinal Pax III performs the consecration ceremonies of the Basilica.

PE 280 In the many scattered kingdoms of Seville (current day Castille) a secret religious movement begins to break away from the Holy Church, claiming that Cuthbert was most certainly the mortal founder of the Church, but was simply a man. They claim it was his mother, the Blessed Virgin, who was divine and that she is the true deity.

PE 265 - IC 300 The Church mounts a four-century-plus campaign of fear, bloodshed, torture and burnings on "The Heretics of The Blessed Virgin." It is the time when Grand Inquisitors came into being, and is without a doubt the darkest period for The Church. Despite the ruthless campaign, faith in the Blessed Virgin grows in the west, and early feelings of national identity begin to grow in the western lands.

PE 250 - IC 0 A series of human kings, all taking the name of Hax to give themselves credibility with Church followers, begin solidifying and centralizing rule through widespread warfare among the scattered kingdoms and warlords. The Church, seeing a strong personal benefit to a centralized government, supports the two and a half centuries of war, and in return the war against the Heretics is supported by the Hax Kings. This time of political centralization and war is known as "The Forging." It is also the beginning of the Imperial Bloodline of Hax.

PE 225 The Abbey of San Marin is completed in The Grimme.

PE 125 Cardinal Giovanni IV canonizes Rosalyn as St. Rosalyn of Madrigal, and renames San Marin as the Abbey of Saint Rose.

IC 0 Official birth year of the Empire, and start of the Imperial Calendar. All known lands come under Imperial rule (Madrigal, Seville, all the Island Cultures,

the Great Province of Florenta (the boot), the Grand Province of Fertilium (a lush, green land of agricultural bounty - current day Hardlands) and a 300 mile semi-circle extending into the Grimme from Hax. It is declared the Florentian Empire by Hax VIII, first emperor of Florenta. Llhona and Delmharven are not part of the empire, and as an acknowledgement to avoiding war with this large, violent human culture, the Elves and Dwarves officially recognize Florenta and her Emperor.

IC 05 Hax VIII renames Seville as Castille, and continues Imperial support of the Church's purge of Heretics in the western lands. Imperial support of this heretic hunt will continue for the next three centuries.

IC 05 - IC 300 The city of Florenta grows into the Capital, the center of the Empire.

IC 201 Mithril is discovered in Viletta. The Imperium immediately annexes the mining village and transforms it into a fortified city.

IC 300 Emperor Victorius I moves the Imperial Court to the southernmost town of Seapoint, renames it Victorius and orders the town developed into a mighty fortress city. Also in this year, the Church officially stops its persecution of "Blessed Virgin Heretics." An enlightened Cardinal Alphonse IV officially recognizes it as an independent faith, with mutual foundations in the teachings of Cuthbert, and a time of religious reconciliation and healing begins.

IC 400 - IC 700 This 300 year period is known as the "Age of Serenity," a time of peace and development. The Imperial seat returns to Florenta, where a series of Imperial rulers - with Church support - begin developing the empire's towns into cities, building roads and infrastructure, developing ports and sea lanes and of course, building churches. A feudal-style government with titles and hereditary governorship of cities is established;