Timeline (RPG)

The civilization in the world of Hyrule is relatively young, and recorded history even younger, as peoples, particularly Hylians, preferred to transmit history orally. Regardless, historians have put together what they believe is a coherent history of the world.

Creation of the World
Very little is known about the world's creation, as there don't seem to exist any coherent documents. Various religions and mythologies describe this era as a time of chaos being formed into order by deities, such as the Golden Goddesses, as well as the world being devoured and remade by dragons.

The Many Ages
Hylian eschatology and myths concerning the primordial world describe the nature of creation as cyclical. Many races would come to rule the world, sometimes creating great civilizations, before falling and going extinct, being replaced by different peoples.

Age of the Gohma
The Gohma, whom survive well into the next age are claimed to have been the dominant species during its time. Uplifted by the First Sage Sulkaris, the demon Immanis and his spawn came to rule the majority of the known world. After an undisclosed time (commonly believed to be an eon), the human peoples were uplifted by the Oocca, with the Hero of Men personally slaying Sulkaris and ushering in the Age of the Hylians.

Ancient Age (Unknown thousands of years to c. 1BKoH)
In the undisclosed time following the fall of Immanis and the Gohma, tribes of human peoples spread across the world, diversifying into different cultures such as the Hylians, Gerudo, Sheikah, the Wind Tribe, Horonians and Labrynnians. Recorded information at this time was still a relatively unthought concept, and history was transmitted orally. The lives of men would allegedly come to slowly shorten in this time, going from hundreds of years only about a hundred. Petty kingdoms and confederations would come to form near the end of this age.

Era of Origin (1 - 100KoH)
The end of the Ancient Age would come to be marked by a cataclysmic invasion of Blins, led by King Ganon. With his armies, he would swiftly conquer much of the Hylian and Gerudo tribes in the span of only a few years. His brutal but short reign would be cut down by King Link and Queen Zelda I, leading to the formation of the Kingdom of Hyrule, which would become a dominant power for the following century. The Sheikah tribes ceased to be an independent power, becoming instead a part of the Kingdom, as their members whom had sided with Ganon were exiled into the Realm of Twilight. Unbenownst to most at the time, Kokiri bandits were subjugated by the Deku Trees, and the Kokiri Forest was closed off to the world by the spreading Lost Woods. Lastly, the Kingdom of Ikana, which had formed a century beforehand exterminated itself in a civil war.

The reign of Link and Zelda I following Ganon's invasion would be marked by a significant unification of Hylian tribes into the first Kingdom, leading to unprecedented cultural and technological developement that would ensure prosperity. This unification would prompt Hyrule's neighbours to do the same, leading to the creation of the Zora Dominion from the petty kingdom it had been, unification of the Gerudo tribes, who had begun experiencing effects of Ganon's curse, slow unification of the Goron tribes, and eventually the creation of the Kingdom of Lanayru triggered by ethnic and cultural differences. Eastwards, the tribes of Labrynna had formed their own Kingdom. Lives would shorten from a hundred years to mere half, but life would get quicker.

First Decline (100 - 120KoH)
After nearly a century of relative prosperity, rising tensions ignited a series of conflicts which would threaten the stability of the world. Originally just skirmishes and embargoes, the fifteen year struggles would lead to the Gerudo Wars, the worst armed conflict since the invasion of Ganon at the end of the Ancient Age. The Gerudo Wars resulted in significant population decrease for the Hylians and Gerudo, the total collapse of the Zora Dominion at the hands of Twili amies, near extinction of the Kokiri peoples and total extinction of the Gorons caused by the eruption of their homeland, Death Mountain. The Sheikah ceased to be an active power at the end of this conflict, with their numbers falling below replacement level and leaving only dozens alive.

Second Decline (121 - 142KoH)
Though the Kingdom of Hyrule returned from the conflict alive, it did so weaker than before, and struggled to maintain its military and prosperity. The Gerudo civilization collapsed back into tribalism, leaving only a remnant of its former empire maintained by empress Nabooru. The Kokiri and Huskus both exterminated themselves in a series of conflicts reaching into 140KoH, while the Kingdom of Labrynna would experience an industrial revolution.

In the spring of 140KoH, an alliance of Stalfos, Gohma and traitorous Hylian soldiers conducted a coup in Castle Town, leaving the King dead and his daughter imprisoned. A series of circumstances leading to the formation of an order would put an end to this coup at the cost of the entire capital city, nearly bringing ruin to the Hylian civilization again. A year after, the Kingdom would bring the battle to the Gohma, exterminating every single one of them in a battle at Immanis' mound. One year later, it would ally with the Kingdom of Lanayru to defend against an invasion of the Oocca, who had deemed the age to be at an end and the uplifting of man to have been a mistake.