3rd Age: Schisms – Once Upon A TTRPG

Event	Summary
Grimm: Fortinbras & Five Sons	Astor’s descendant King Fortinbras and Queen Mische have five sons: Hammond (eldest and heir), Horace, Haggard, Harold, and Hubert.
Grimm: Hammond’s Bastard	Hammond’s brothers marry well and raise sons of their own. When Hammond—now King—dies without a legitimate heir, he wills the throne to his bastard son Stephan. The brothers immediately contest the claim.
Grimm: The 500-Year Civil War	War ravages Grimm for five centuries. Distant cousins eventually call a truce and divide the kingdom: the Hinterlands, Corona, Enchancia, Germonia, and the Enchanted Forest. One member of the line that becomes Germonia secretly bargains with Dagon, Prince of the Darkened Deep, trading the promise of a daughter of the bloodline for future dominion over all of Grimm. The deal is soon forgotten—but Dagon does not forget.
Frosted Wing: The Great Division	Balzar’s heirs fracture the Frosted Crown into Arendelle (eldest heir, icy fjords), Tirulia (second heir, eastern coastline), Wildwoods (youngest heir, western forests), and Folly (southern reaches). Three regions—Longago, Fantasia, and Wonderland—resist partition and declare independence.
Frosted Wing: Tirulia’s Sea Bargains	Tirulia’s rulers strike deals with sea deities, trading mortal lives for maritime prosperity. This leaves a lasting dread among the people, who rely on ancient charms against the ocean’s wrath.
Oz: War of the Witches	Rivalries among Glinda’s descendants spark wars across Oz’s regions. Eden’s sacred grove vanishes from mortal maps. Gillikin Country militarises; Munchkinland turns isolationist.
Oz: Elphaba & Jadis	Elphaba, third of Mal’s daughters, lives a solitary life in Oz until she falls in love with a Quadling man named Fiyero Tigelaar. Together they have a daughter: Jadis. When conflict erupts between Elphaba and her sister Glinda, Fiyero is killed. Elphaba attempts to destroy Glinda but is instead killed by a stranger named Dorothy. Jadis, parentless and furious, escapes Oz.
Provinces: Aslan & Narnia	The divine lion Aslan—son of Shedra (a Lion) and Kinich Ahau (the Mayan Sun God)—arrives in the north of the Dragon’s Neck, claiming it as Narnia. He builds the Great Stone Table and gathers followers. A quiet First Division separates his devotees from the old fey, who refuse to abandon magic for faith.
Provinces: Jadis Comes North	Jadis, daughter of Elphaba, arrives in Narnia—then called Charn—initially acclaimed as a heroine among the Talking Animals she helped escape from Oz. She rises quickly to power and is declared Queen of Charn. Her rule is harsh: her valued commanders include dwarves Nikabrik and Ginarrbrik, a minotaur named Otrim, and wolves Maugrim and Vardan. When Aslan leads the Winter Revolution against her, he corners her at the Battle of Charn and exiles her to the Lantern Waste. She builds the Frozen Citadel in the north and wages eternal war on Aslan’s Narnia.
Provinces: Theadora & Sithean	Jadis’ aunt Theadora—eldest of Mal’s daughters—settles in Sithean with as many Talking Animals as she could gather from Oz. She becomes Sithean’s patron and is later credited as the creator of Mother Goose.
Provinces: Highlands & Lowlands	The Highlands emerge as a kingdom of sorcerer-kings and queens who defy Aslan’s decrees against magic. In the south, Beldam—youngest daughter of Lilith and Samael—corrupts the land into the Lowlands. The Veil falls: villages become twisted mirror-images, people are replaced by hollow doppelgängers with button eyes, and dissenters vanish.
Provinces: Ellis the Unraveled	The first person escapes the Beldam’s grasp by tearing stitches from her own shadow. She brings terrifying warnings to Narnia and the Highlands. Aslan declares the Lowlands ‘a place beyond saving’ but refuses to invade, fearing war would only spread Beldam’s influence.
Provinces: The Stiched King	Highland warlord King Eldric the Stalwart leads an army into the Lowlands. His soldiers lose their minds, his captains see their loved ones in the enemy’s faces, and Eldric himself is ‘remade’ by the Beldam. He returns with black button eyes and a sweet, empty voice, ruling as her puppet—the Stitched King.
Wonderland: Crimson Rebellion	Wonderland is ruled by the Chimeric Council and five noble houses: Cards (governance), Chess (strategy), Rabbits (timekeeping), Mirrors (illusions), and Hats (creativity). The Queen of Hearts is a minor, temperamental noble.
Rekai: The First Visitors	During the long age of wars and schisms, Rekai begins to accrete its first non-spirit permanent residents. Kitsune establish a shrine to Inari at the heart of Koriko. River kami take up residence beneath the stilted homes of Sen. The Elderbark Forest outside Lochwood becomes home to ancient tree-spirits. Crucially, Rekai begins to select its visitors: the desperate, the lost, and those with unfinished business tend to find it. Those who come merely for conquest do not. Several armies have marched toward Rekai’s coast and turned around without knowing why.
Nicnevin’s Midnight Twins	The Courtly Fey hag Nicnevin—rival of Grimhild and self-declared Witch Queen—summons Dagon and has him impregnate her. She bears twins: Tynan and Tinuviel, the Midnight Twins. Unable to control them and fearing Dagon’s wrath if she kills them, she banishes them to the mortal world as changelings. Beldam and Jadis both watch the twins, hoping to harness them.

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