The Age of Craggus spans 45,000–~33,400 years ago. It began when Craggus, a young man, survived a journey to Celestia with an avid group of devotees who remained alive in their tribe back on the material realm. The Long Winter had wiped out the old pantheon — no daemon of the Golden Age survived the collapse of faith — so Craggus rose into an empty Celestia as the first daemon of the reborn world, god of all men.
The Rise of the King: ~45,000 years ago
The tribe began spreading the word of Craggus, who grew in power and slowly began to lift civilization out of despair. Over the next thousand years, Craggus' name became more and more known. With magnificent effort, he pushed back the ice age, ending millions of years of desolation. He was seen as a hero and became the sole god of the material realm.
Craggus' Reign: 45,000–~33,400 years ago
The long millennia that followed were marked by Craggus' kingship among the daemons of Celestia. Although society returned to its state of frequent war and conflict, and others joined Craggus in Celestia, Craggus remained king of all, and Alaria remained relatively stable. For a brief span, craft recovered some of the lost height of the older world, as people relearned how to harness the power of aetherium without ever fully grasping what they handled. The recovery was real and it did not last. What the age built in aetherium would be burned, and then forgotten, in the Lost Ages that followed, and the knowledge to raise such works again has never been recovered — the ruins still stand across Alaria, but the means to rebuild them is gone. The killing moon remained dormant for the duration of his reign — a fortunate circumstance that allowed civilization to consolidate.
Craggus' reign came to an end with the start of the Laughing Plague, which destroyed much of the progress made up to this point and ultimately collapsed the faith that sustained him. He did not survive the age that bears his name.