Norfverse History



The history of the Norfverse.

Formation of the Solar System and Before (gorillion BYA)
The beginning of the Universe starts 13 billion years ago, when atoms collide causing the Big Bang, and giving birth to gorillions of stars, galaxies, and other bodies in the universe. Initially, Earth never existed, and was only specks of dust around a newly birthed star that is the Sun. After the Sun began it's protoplanetary disc phase, asteroids, dust, etc. collided to form spheres that would form the Solar System and later Earth. The status of Earth back then wasn't like today, instead a giant ball of asteroids, hell, lava among other things. It was inhospitable to life initially, and soon would pave it's pathway for merely a hundred thousand years of prosperity and later stupidity.

The two moons of Earth began to form shortly after when Theia crashed into Earth, causing rocks to spew everywhere and collide to form the two moons. Cruithne's presence is unknown. Even then, scientists are baffled about it's contents and how it still exists, but it was a sight nonetheless for whatever was somehow alive on "Earth" nearly four billion years early into Earth's history. Most of Earth existed as it's inhospitable state, but it soon calmed down due to the Sun's cooling. It soon became just a slate orbiting around a ball of plasma, and water first began to exist on Earth, including an atmosphere among other conditions suitable for the soon-to-be Blue Marble.

First Life (4.54 BYA to 100,000 BC)
The first life on Earth began shortly after Earth's history, and initially it was microbes, who soon began to conquer the seas one by one. When the Earth dried up giving way to continents, and microbes evolved into funky-looking things, the formation of oxygen destroyed nearly everything Earth had to offer, and it was years before everything could adapt. Ultimately, life found a way, and the planet teemed. The first land-related lifeforms soon conquered the only continent on Earth at the time, which split up into many more which in turn gave birth to more and you get the picture. The Americas, Atlantica, among others initially began as mountains and plains surrounded by the world ocean, of which all life soon attacked each other for control of.

Sentience made it's way into the lives of many creatures which soon began to brawl for dominance over land that constantly changed. Creatures evolved to bite each other to death, fly, and grab biting creatures with flying abilities. Creatures soon gained arms to beat each other to death, grab trees, you get the picture. It would be millions of years before apes became the semi dominant life form on Earth, and soon they evolved to become the first type of the homo. Initially, they were all just apes with special capabilities, nothing much. But as their brains wrinkled, their neurons activated, their mitosis grew stronger and they lost their body hair, and soon the neanderthals and humans formed.

Growing Spines (100,000 BC to 3100 BC)
Humans formed in North Africa (if bones are to say anything) and made their way across the world around one hundred thousand years ago. They were hunter-gatherers, grabbing and killing anything they could to sate themselves. In the green Africa, humanity wandered the Libyan Sea, the Egyptian Pathways, the New Arabia and across Eurasia. Although it was hundreds of thousands of years before they could find their way to the Americas via the lost area of Beringia, they were also unable to get their way to mainland Australia, as the humans there completely burned down most forests to scare off creatures. If it wasn't the case, they did something that completely destroyed most of Australia making it the mass-scale furnace it is today.

Although many things happened between some ninety thousand to three thousand BC, it wasn't really much to list. But we know that humanity changed drastically inbetweeen then.

The First Civilizations (3100 BC to 27 BC)
Humanity soon shedded their hunter-gatherer status and tried to form civilizations, as many say. The first cities were built in areas such as the Middle East, the Indus Valley and Egypt as the practice of fending off animals for fur mostly died out. In the Giza River among other areas, small homes and landmarks were built. Non-existent jazz music stopped as the Ancient Egyptian workers for the Great Pyramids didn't know that nearly thousands of years later people would think that aliens and slaves worked hard to build their giant slabs. However, as civilizations rose and fell, one major city would rise up and become one of the most well known nation states ever created. To those in Europe, not many people thought of Rome. But as they say, all romes lead to Road or all roads lead to Rome and one of the first nations began their reign on Europe.

Imperium Romanum (27 BC to 1 AD)
Like we said, all the roads of Rome led people to roam to roads to Rome and an empire awakened. The Roman Empire began it's legacy by invading uncolonized land across Europe. First in Italy, then in the soon-to-be Balkans, then France and you get the picture. They fought lengthy and loud battles for control over nonexistent territory and built their gigantic road network across the world (by world we mean Eurasia.) The SPQR flew over nearly five million squared kilometers and the Empire rose. As the nation's legacy lived on, many people hailed the country as the most suitable placed to live since deserts in Africa and the yet-to-exist New World. Everything happened in Rome, but that all went to hell after the unthinkable happened.

Meet Jesus of Nazareth. A preacher from a town in soon-to-be Israel, he claims to be the embodiment of the Holy Spirit. Many people believed Jesus and he gained a major following on both sides. The citizens of Rome beloved Jesus, while the leaders of Rome despised his preachings. And thus, Jesus was soon crucified in both zero BC and one AD. And on that day, a solar eclipse supposedly happened, scaring the hell out of many people. And three days afterward, reports came in that his body came back from the dead, again scaring the hell out of many people. As his death ended the "BC" timeframe, we soon move on to the AD era.