Overside Calendar

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The Calendar of Overside is the defacto timekeeping method of Overside, which has been in use since the Machine Dominion. The world-disk of Overside spins on a north/south axis, which is what creates its days. These days are roughly as long as Earth days, and 25 days make up one month. Each year on Overside is five months long, which means they are about a third of the length of an Earth year.

An Age, in the calendar, is a collection of years, usually around a thousand or so, that is given a name based on a (somewhat) arbitrary color. There have been four Ages since the fall of the Dominion. Only one Age is known before the Dominion, although there may have been more between it and the Machines' rule.^[1]

Contents 1 List of Ages 1.1 White Age 1.2 Unknown 1.3 "Age of Machines" 1.4 Grey Age 1.4.1 First Century 1.4.2 Fourth Century 1.5 Green Age 1.5.1 Fourth Century 1.5.2 Fifth Century 1.5.3 Sixth Century 1.6 Blue Age 1.6.1 Early Blue Age 1.6.2 Ninth Century 1.6.3 Middle Blue Age 1.6.4 Seventeenth Century 1.6.5 Nineteenth Century 1.6.6 Twentieth Century 1.6.7 Late Blue Age 1.7 Red Age 1.7.1 Early Red Age 1.7.2 First Century 1.7.3 Second Century 1.7.4 Third Century 1.7.5 Fourth Century 1.7.6 Fifth Century 1.7.7 Sixth Century 1.7.8 Seventh Century 1.7.9 Eighth Century 1.7.10 Ninth Century 2 References

List of Ages

White Age

• The creation of the world: God creates Overside, Underside, and the three Avatars. God later creates eight Giants, who shape the lands of the disk.
• The Giant Äm makes Omem, the first Machine Man,^[2] who in turn creates the four Machine Sons.^[3]

Unknown

At some point between the White Age and the Age of Machines (or possibly during the White Age), the "New People" of Overside appear from seas and caverns. These are all of the peoples and species of Overside that are organic and mortal. Obilik Blacksword is one of the New People kings of this era.

"Age of Machines"

Duration: Over 500 years

The time of the Machine Dominion has sometimes been referred to as the Age of Machines, although it is unknown if this name is meant to be considered alongside the others (as it does not have a color).

Grey Age

Duration: 930 years

First Century

• 1: As recounted in Rog, the Machine Men were driven to the "North" (likely the Black Teeth) by the new kings and warriors of Overside.^[4] Machine Lord Omirm himself was killed by one of his slaves, who called himself Rog. This creature wore Omirm's body as armor, and took control of the magic he had hidden.^[5]. Among all the warlords of the Grey Age, Rog is the only one who is remembered, as his reign was the bloodiest and most lengthy.
• Omo, son of Omem,^[6] survived to escape to the Teeth, and it was his curse that caused the Machine Men to live lives of only a few centuries, as opposed to their previous quasi-immortality.^[7] His intention was for the Machines to never become arrogant enough to rule the world again. The gates of the Black Teeth read "Omo's Spawn", likely in reference to this curse.
• 23: An Offering to Rog.

Fourth Century

• 362: Taragi established.

Green Age

Duration: 575 years

The Green Age was one of the most prosperous Ages of Overside. While much of its specific timeline is unknown, many noteworthy events occurred in this Age:^[8]

• Old Suntown was built.
• The Dorlish Wood was planted, and with it began the line of Tree Keepers.
• The Machine Men built their fortress in the Black Teeth.
• Underside was first discovered by the denizens of Overside, and the two populations mingled and built numerous "Linking Cities", such as Seen.
• The events of The Tusks of Wusterim (which extend throughout the Green Age)

Fourth Century

• 321: Kazoot established.

Fifth Century

• 444: The One Electronic is born, assuming that he was exactly 3000 years old during the events of Rice Boy. Otherwise, he was born somewhere around this year.

Sixth Century

• 537: The Tusks Fall

Blue Age

Duration: 2015 years

While many Blue Age events do not have dates, they are nonetheless arranged roughly chronologically:^[9]

Early Blue Age

• The Plague: Underside is decimated, and the Avatar of Mind disappears. The Linking Cities are shut to contain the Plague, and Old Suntown (built above one of the cities) is destroyed.
• Ridrom's Prophecy is delivered, and the three Searchers are chosen. The lineage of the Heirs of Ridrom begins after Ridrom's death.

Ninth Century

• 840: War-Man on the Seam.
• 855: The beginning of Vattu; Vattu is born.
• 869: T-O-E turns 1000 (assuming birthdate of Green 444).

Middle Blue Age

• The Order of Tales is formed in Wusterim.
• The explorer Kom plants the first seeds of Kom's Wood on the banks of the Sunk River.
• The Cloud War of Wusterim occurs, causing the Order of Tales to move to Acirca.
• Slent is born.

Seventeenth Century

• 1625: Shade-kin first discover the Crater that will become Shadow Monument.

Nineteenth Century

• 1833: Shade-Kin Soldiers.
• 1869: T-O-E turns 2000 (assuming birthdate of Green 444).

Twentieth Century

• 1989: Slent orders the construction of Tenshells, and, possibly, Shell River.

Late Blue Age

• Teller Speneng records Negat the Tall.

Red Age

Duration: Ongoing, "currently" at year 870

The Red Age is the most developed of the Ages of Overside, mainly because most of Evan Dahm's comics have been set in this time period. Some of the events in this time period have exact dates; if that is the case they have been noted. All others are approximate:^[10]

Early Red Age

• Suntown rebuilt.

First Century

• 13: Kingdom of Sunk founded by Frog-King Flutch.
• 50: Migration of Hornèds to Stonepalm.^[11]
• Tenshells is the largest and most powerful city-state in south Acirca.^[12]

Second Century

• 115: The Treaty of Tenshells.
• 143: Gorrk established.
• 148: T-O-E visits the Black Teeth for the last time until Order of Tales.
• 150: Last record of contact between Lowland and Mountain Hornèds.
• 194: Terassir Patrollers.
• Baroness Esnurz writes A History of the King of Trees^[13]

Third Century

• 203: Themb's Castle constructed.^[14]
• 219: Chapter 1 of Order of Tales, Themb's Castle is partially destroyed.
• 231: Artika of Imfort.
• 234: Chapter 2 onward of Order of Tales, as well as The Reach of the Torch.
• 244: Death of Caprillo, Machine Exile and historian of the Hornspine.^[15]
• The Torch comes to Tenshells.

Fourth Century

• 330: The Walls of Tulim-Kazoot.

Fifth Century

• Kerküsk begins reading books in the Seen Library.^[16]

Sixth Century

• 560: Warden of Surya.

Seventh Century

• The Revolution of Tsùn occurs in Wusterim.
• T-O-E is emperor of the Gorrkans for much of this century.
• The events of Waiting in Surya.
• The war between Whetton and Suntown over the Tree of Thought occurs around this century (according to Arctaur).
• 690: Gorrkan Bog-Squad.

Eighth Century

• Gortch is King of Sunk.
• 794 (roughly): Spatch is born.

Ninth Century

• Spatch is King of Sunk.
• 854: The events of Rice Boy.
  • Events of The Jewel of Brambool occur after Rice Boy Chapter 32.

References

1. ↑ Rice Boy (First Edition), History
2. ↑ http://www.rice-boy.com/order/index.php?c=430
3. ↑ http://www.rice-boy.com/order/index.php?c=431
4. ↑ http://www.rice-boy.com/order/index.php?c=277
5. ↑ http://www.rice-boy.com/order/index.php?c=280
6. ↑ http://www.rice-boy.com/order/index.php?c=431
7. ↑ Rice Boy (First Edition), History: "The Grey Age"
8. ↑ Rice Boy (First Edition), History: "The Green Age"
9. ↑ Rice Boy (First Edition), History: "The Blue Age"
10. ↑ Rice Boy (First Edition), History: "The Red Age"
11. ↑ Portraits of Overside: Warriors, Timeline: "The Red Age"
12. ↑ Order of Tales (Book I), Appendix: "Tenshells", p222-3
13. ↑ Order of Tales (Book I), Appendix: "Dorl", p222
14. ↑ Order of Tales (Book I), Appendix: "The Castle at Skystem", p221
15. ↑ Order of Tales (Book II), Appendix: "Stonepalm", p276
16. ↑ http://www.rice-boy.com/see/index.php?c=325