Astral and Umbral Eras

• Calamity aspected towards Wind.
• Said to be the end of the age of gods.
• Little is known of this era, with only legends such as Good King Moggle Mog XII giving some clue. Midgardsormr arrives to the Source, having escaped the destruction of his home planet by Omega with the seven eggs from which the first brood, or great wyrms, would hatch and establish the dragon race, while their father enters a deep rest at what in the future becomes known as Silvertear Falls.
• Considered the beginning of modern history.

• Described as the age of man.
• The invention of tools allows civilization to abandon hunter-gatherer lifestyle.
• Towns and villages are established that soon develop into kingdoms.
• Basic sciences and simple metallurgy are born.
• Ends as the development of tools is abandoned in favor of forging weapons, causing the era to descend into bloodstained madness.

• Calamity aspected to Lightning.
• Despite the wars, mankind thrives, their numbers multiplying every summer.
• Forests are felled and fields planted for housing and feeding. To forge the weapons, mountains are gutted and the skies darken.
• As the scales of balance tip, a volcano erupts, casting the world into eternal darkness, followed by massive thunderstorms that raze the land.
• Mankind flees into caves where pestilence and plague dwindle their numbers.
• First forms of magick are believed to have been born from human prayers.

• Calamity aspected to Fire.
• The age of holy wars, witch hunts, and cleansing, as religions fight one another.
• With fields left unattended, those who do not march to war are left to starve.
• The sun grows larger, parching the earth and sapping the life from all creation. Fields and forests are reduced to dust-choked wastelands, causing famine.

• The great earthquake caused by the energy surge from Syrcus Tower destroys all ground-based areas in the Allagan Empire. Their civilization rapidly disintegrates with much of its knowledge scattered or lost.
• Only Azys Lla, being skybound, remains, as its automated functions continue. Dalamud goes dormant and remains in orbit for millennia. Later generations would know it as a lesser moon, or "Menphina's loyal hound", due to its location near the moon.

• The period begins when the Eorzean people discover magick.
• A talented thaumaturge named Shatotto, on a whim, uses the magick of Meteor to call down a star containing dark matter. She crafts Stardust Rods out of it and pioneers the art of "black magic".
• In Yafaem, the nation of black magic known as Mhach becomes a dominant power due to their voidmages being able to control the voidsent.
• On Vylbrand, the city-state of Nym prospers. Though small, their military is reinforced by scholars that summon arcanima fairies, enabling them to defend the land against greater foes.
• In the Black Shroud, a kingdom called Amdapor flourishes and develops white magick to counter the black mages of Mhach.

• The War of the Magi breaks out as Mhach declares war on Amdapor and Nym. The Mhachi High Voidmage Cessair opposed the summoning of a great voidsent known as Diabolos and was imprisoned when she attempts to stop the other voidmages from carrying out the ritual. Diabolos provides Mhach with the means to summon and imprison numerous voidsent along with their leader: Scathach, the Shadow Queen. Diabolos is sent to destroy Amdapor, only to be sealed within the ruined city by its White Mages.
• The voidmages of Mhach covertly send a voidsent called Bitoso to Nym where the entity causes a mysterious plague that transforms citizens into Tonberries.
• Excessive misuse of white magick results in the Great Flood by the Elementals, which wipes Eorzea clean, paving the way for the modern city-states. A Roegadyn scholar, Nyunkrepf Nyunkrepfsyn, foresaw the Great Flood and constructed a giant magical Ark to save as many Eorzeans as he can, taking to one of the uninhabited islands of the Old World where he establishes Sharlayan.
  • The Mhachi voidmages, having anticipated the calamity, created the Void Ark for their people to escape. The ship is powered by a thousand imprisoned voidsent, including Scathach whose captivity was overseen by Cessair. However, Diabolos deliberately gave the Mhachi a flawed sealing spell as Scathach breaks free and undoes the seals on the other voidsent. Cessair and her fellow 53 voidmages are forced to sacrifice themselves to rebind the voidsent and the ark drifts in the Sea of Clouds for centuries under the watch of Cessair's familiar, Cait Sith, to ensure the ship is not disturbed.
• In the aftermath of the Sixth Umbral Era, the secrets of void magick are lost with the Mhachi and both white and black magick became labeled forbidden arts. Only the Padjal sanctioned by the Elementals to use the full power of white magick are spared, while allowing a select few to use a portion of that power as white mages under the guidance of a Padjal.
• Nym is ruined by a surge of aetheric wind energy (possibly in an attempt to escape the rising waters).

Lewphon of Sharlayan writes "The Five Ages - An Eorzean Chronology"

A group of Elezen settle in Coerthas. They end up in a bloody war with the dragons of Dravania until learning that one of their own, Shiva, allowed herself to be devoured by the great wyrm Hraesvelgr so their souls would be bound. This inspires a truce between the two races that would last two centuries.

• In Coerthas, an Elezen king named Thordan I covets the dragons' source of power: their eyes. Thordan, his son Haldrath, and his twelve knights, ambush the great wyrm Ratatoskr and devour her eyes after killing her. Infused with Ratatoskr's power, Thordan seeks to build the city that would become Ishgard. The enraged wyrmking Nidhogg attacks the group to avenge his sister's death.
• Thordan and some of his men are killed in the week-long altercation before his son, Haldrath, stabs out Nidhogg's eyes with his father's spear and allows the dying dragon to escape out of mercy. Remorseful of how their actions led to his father's death and the breaking of the truce, Haldrath renounces his right to lead and leaves four of his father's surviving knights, the founders of the High Houses, to rule Ishgard in his place while he becomes the first Azure Dragoon to fend off Nidhogg's followers.
• As the four knights fabricate the events into what would become scripture for the Ishgard Orthodox Church that would serve as Ishgard's center of government, Nidhogg forces his brother Hraesvelgr to relinquishing one of his eyes so Nidhogg can remain among the living to exact revenge on the founding Ishgardians' descendants as they would all bear a spark of Ratatoskr's essence in them. This begins the thousand-year Dragonsong War in the Northlands.

• The ship Galadion runs aground in Vylbrand. The city-state of Limsa Lominsa is founded at the site of its wreckage using parts of the ship.
• The two helmsmen of Galadion, Jean De Nevelle and Guy La Thagran, are tasked with exploring the island. Their routes become the main thoroughfares of La Noscea.

The Sharlayan researcher Coinach discovers historic proof of ancient Allag's existence, demonstrating they were more than myth.

"The Seven Tribes" come together and forge the Republic of Garlemald.

• The Ixal settle in the Black Shroud.
• The people of Gelmorra gradually gain permission from the Elementals to emerge and settle the city-state of Gridania.

The Hecatoncheirs, enslaved to do labor in the Copperbell Mines, revolt during the Thorne dynasty of Ul'dah. They are sealed in the mines and thought to have died out.