The Five Ages of Krynn | DragonLance Saga

Learn all about the five Ages of Krynn and how the Dragonlance timeline is truly just a great river with many branches.
Time Stamps:
0:00 Intro
3:19 Age of Starbirth
5:15 Age of Dreams
7:58 Age of Might
9:03 Age of Despair
11:26 Age of Mortals
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We begin with the Age of Starbirth. It is when the gods first created Krynn and populated it with its original species. The high god awakens and records the plans for this new creation in the Tobril, the book of all truth. He calls out to his children for aid in creating this world and brother and Sister, Paladine and Takhisis answer. The high god summons Gliean to be the bearer of the Tobril and maintain neutrality in this new creation. Each god of Good, Evil and Neutrality summon their own supporters and together embody the pantheon of deities and begin creation.
Reorx shapes the world into being, the other gods begin to populate it, Paladine and Takhisis have Reorx forge five rulers of the world, the five metallic dragons, takhisis corrupts them and creates the five chromatic dragons. This begins the All Dragons war, causing the gods to withdraw into the Beyond, creating the Dome of the Heavens, The Hidden Vale and The Abyss where they can each exist in privacy.
This time of peace would not last and when the gods discovered the sparks of reorx’s forge were alive, they fought over them for control, until ultimately the High God was forced to return and force the gods to bless the sparks. Thus the three races of Krynn were born, elves, ogres, and humans. The gods had children to act as a barrier between creator and creation and the three moons of Krynn were born. Solinari, Lunitari and Nuitari. Hiddukel tricked Reorx into crafting the greygem, which reorx accidentally trapped Chaos within and placed it on lunitary to create change and chaos on krynn from a distance. The three moons create magic with the power of the gem.
Thus begins the Age of Dreams. We can divide the age of dreams into three distinct times, 9000-5000pc known as the foundation. Ogres claim mountains, Elves claim the forests and man claims the plains. This age is defined by the rise and fall of the ogre nation and the split of the decadent ogres and the enlightened Irda orges. It also delineates the enslavement of humans to build the ogre nation and their eventual freedom.
5000-2000pc is called the Time of light. Reorx creates gnomes from the Ogres, and one is tricked by the god Hiddukel, travels to Lunitary to claim the graygem, and loses his grip on it so it falls to krynn, creating wild magic and change to all it comes into contact with. From the gnomes sprang Kender and dwarves. From the elves it creates the sea elves.
The elves convene the first High Elven council, Sinthal-Elish. They claim land of forests inhabited by the chromatic dragons and the moon gods craft the dragon stones for the elves to win the first dragon war and the stones are buried in the khalkist mountains.
Minotaurs sail to Ansalon and war with and are enslaved by dwarves of Kal-Thax. THe dwarves split into two nations, and minotaurs escaped slavery founding their own nation. The dwarves discovered the dragon stones and returned them to the surface. Now the dragons are free and begin the second dragon war with their lizard men against the elves. The elves win at great cost and the three moon gods create the orders of high sorcery to control magic on Krynn.
Elves wage war on the humans, and the half-elf species. Social change creates war and eventually the elves, humans and dwarves would find an uneasy peace with the formation of Qualinesti and the hammer of reorx being gifted to humans.
The Time of Knights comes at 2000-960pc. Pax Tharkas is built as a monument of peace between the elves, dwarves and humans. The humans war with each other and the Knights of Solumnia are formed. The High Clerists tower is built to protect Palanthus and the Great Library of the Ages appears overnight and Astinus begins chronicling history for the first time. The Dark Queen plants dragon eggs around Krynn and when hatched and grown, they ravage the land and the third dragon war begins. The Order of High Sorcery created Dragon Orbs to protect their towers and one is placed in the High Clerists tower. Paladine directs Huma Dragonbane to forge the dragonlance and defeat the dark queen. And the Age of Might begins.
The Age of might is about a thousand years and is defined by the rise and fall of Istar. Regional war and skirmishes over trade routes leads most nations to sign the swordsheath scroll...