History of Qal-Id

Ages: Wood → Bronze, Copper, Tin → Steel and Steam

• First major agricultural field
• Wood totems constructed, later forming a model for steam buoys
• Formation of first city, constructed of wood
• During a devastating drought, the wooden city burns to the ground
• Having discovered a abundant quarry nearby, a stone city is built around Qal-Id's major western lake
• Copper smelting discovered
• First metal farming tools employed
• Earthquake occurs, exposing expansive iron caves
• First steam-powered engine created
• Schelluminaut declares the stone city obsolete and decrees the construction of the City of Steam powered by heaters on the lake shore
• Lake shows signs of evaporating; investigation uncovers this evaporation present in other lakes
• Second major drought occurs; western lake continues to be depleted
• Heaters overheat; steam-powered objects explode and lake evaporates
• People move east toward region with greater rainfall
• A city of steel is constructed and technologies continue to improve