Timeline

The KindlersKindlersThe singers who made Aetheria, then went down into it and sleep there, holding it together. sing AetheriaAetheriaThe Ember of the Aether: the world. out of the AetherAetherThe shoreless sea of light the world was sung out of.. NhalNhalThe hunger in the Hollow, "the mouth that is never full". It eats the stars, and it ate a moon. stirs in the HollowHollowWhat lies beyond the edge of the Aether: not darkness, but the absence of anything to be dark., and hungers.

SerenSerenThe Watcher. She set the stars as watchfires on the walls of the world, and alone stayed in the sky. sets the stars as watchfires on the walls of the world, and hangs the Sun and the twin moons, IlunIlunThe silver moon, Seren’s daughter, who draws the tides. The only moon left. and MorrowMorrowThe dark moon, whose moonshadow grew hidden things. Nhal took it on the Night of the Missing Moon..

The going-down of the Kindlers. A drop of OrunOrunKindler of fire and stone. He sleeps curled around the fire under the mountains.’s fire lives: IgnarothIgnarothEldest of dragons, born of a drop of Orun’s fire. Bound atop the Wyrmspire, and back every week., the Wyrm Eternal, is born in the root.

The firstborn peoples wake: elves in WhisperwoodWhisperwoodThe first forest, where the elves woke and the trees gossip., dwarves under FrostspireFrostspireThe northern peaks over Hammerdeep, with the Wyrmspire on the highest crag., trolls at SunscarSunscarThe smoking atoll where Orun’s fire breaks the sea; home of the trolls., minotaurs on the StormreachStormreachThe highlands under a veil of storms that has not lifted in nine hundred years., orcs on the eastern plains, the TidekinTidekinThe dream-born of the Corsair Reaches, children of Thal’s sleep before it soured. in the sea.

The elves raise VaelmereVaelmereThe elves’ city of a hundred white towers in the sea, drowned in a single night. of the Hundred Towers. The dwarves cut HammerdeepHammerdeepThe dwarves’ kingdom of nine halls under Frostspire, burned in a night., and swear the first oath: take heat, never take flame.

A star goes out and its splinter falls into the southern sea. The ListenersListenersThe loremasters of Vaelmere, who heard Thal dreaming under the sea. build the SanctumAbyssal SanctumThe Order of the Hush’s cathedral over the trench, sunk in the Drowning. It opens when the Wyrm falls.; the Order of the HushOrder of the HushThe Sanctum’s order of monks, who sang the Lullaby every night for two thousand years. begins the LullabyLullabyThe endless hymn that kept the Dreamer asleep, until it was stopped mid-verse..

The DrowningDrowningThe night the Lullaby stopped and Vaelmere sank, about 3,200 years before the Crown.. AelthirAelthirFirst Listener of Vaelmere, who silenced the Lullaby to wake a god, and drowned a kingdom. silences the ChoirChoir of WhispersThe three voices of the Lullaby, drowned mid-verse, still trying to sing the next line.; Vaelmere sinks in a night; the Sanctum falls into the trench; the MawMawThe storm-belt round the Drowned Caldera, born in the Drowning: the Dreamer’s breathing. is born. SeraphelSeraphelLast queen of Vaelmere, who lives among the reflections of her drowned city in the Mirrorhall. flees to Whisperwood.

Seraphel builds the MirrorhallMirrorhallSeraphel’s palace of mirrors in Whisperwood, holding the reflection of drowned Vaelmere.. The gnomes leave Hammerdeep over a pump, and go up to the high places.

Vel'ThuranVel'ThuranThe greatest magister of his age, who raised the Wyrmspire to bind Ignaroth, and was bound to him instead. raises the WyrmspireWyrmspireVel’Thuran’s tower of black stone above Frostspire, with a dragon on top. above FrostspireFrostspireThe northern peaks over Hammerdeep, with the Wyrmspire on the highest crag. and binds the twins SolaraSolaraVel’Thuran’s apprentices, who gave half a soul each to the binding and share one still. and Nocturne into one soul. GrukkGrukkThe ogre who keeps the Wyrmspire’s gate. Paid a year in advance, twelve hundred years ago. is hired, and paid a year in advance.

The BurningBurningIgnaroth’s passage up through Hammerdeep, twelve years before the Crown. of HammerdeepHammerdeepThe dwarves’ kingdom of nine halls under Frostspire, burned in a night.. IgnarothIgnarothEldest of dragons, born of a drop of Orun’s fire. Bound atop the Wyrmspire, and back every week. comes up through the nine halls; the oath-stonesoath-stonesThe pillars of Hammerdeep on which every oath was cut. They cracked in the Burning. crack; ThrainThrainLast king of Hammerdeep, turned to ash at his anvil in the Burning. He is still working. becomes the Ashen King. The Wyrm is bound to the tower, and the archmage to the Wyrm.

The Hundred KeelsHundred KeelsThe fleet that brought Men to Aetheria from a land the sea took. land on the SaltwindSaltwindThe coast where the Hundred Keels came ashore: wrecks, smugglers and crabs the size of carts. Coast. AldricAldricCaptain of the Hundred Keels and first king of Highcrest. The years are counted from his crown. is crowned on the crest above GreenmeadowGreenmeadowRolling hills, farms, and an alarming number of boars. Every guild starts here.; HighcrestHighcrestThe city on the crest above Greenmeadow, seat of the Crown and of a thousand guild halls. is founded; the years of the Crown begin.

The Rent of BreadRent of BreadA loaf per household per year, owed to the goblins of the Warrens forever. They now want butter. is agreed with the goblins of the Warrens. The scattered dwarves are given the StonegateStonegateThe dwarven quarter of Highcrest, given to the kingless dwarves after the Burning..

The Siren of the HoldSiren of the HoldThe prisoner who sang Tidegrave Hold under the sea, and is singing still. sings TidegraveTidegraveThe Admiralty fortress the Siren sang under the sea. under the sea at the edge of the MawMawThe storm-belt round the Drowned Caldera, born in the Drowning: the Dreamer’s breathing..

The Order of the Dawn LampOrder of the Dawn LampThe Crown’s holy knights, the paladins, who carry Seren’s light in the oath. is founded in Highcrest.

The Night of the Missing MoonNight of the Missing MoonThe night Nhal took Morrow, about 290 YC, and a piece of it fell on Starfall.. NhalNhalThe hunger in the Hollow, "the mouth that is never full". It eats the stars, and it ate a moon. devours MorrowMorrowThe dark moon, whose moonshadow grew hidden things. Nhal took it on the Night of the Missing Moon.; a piece of it falls on the Starfall ObservatoryStarfall ObservatoryThe gnomes’ observatory on the highest peak, where something fell out of the sky and stayed.. Kel and VorKel and VorTwo guardians of Starfall sworn to one oath and one life, holding the fallen thing in its crater. swear the one oath. The moonwell sours and the AshfenAshfenOnce the orcs’ grassland, now marsh, since the moonwell soured. becomes marsh.

VeyraVeyraHigh Stormcaller of the Stormspire, who raised the veil of storms over the Stormreach. and the storm-callers raise the veil of storms over the StormreachStormreachThe highlands under a veil of storms that has not lifted in nine hundred years.. It has not lifted since.

YsmeraYsmeraSenior Observer of Starfall, who foresaw the Missing Moon, was disbelieved, and went into the crater. writes her last letter and goes down into the crater.

The three Tusk WarsTusk WarsThree wars between the Crown and the orc clans and their troll allies, won by nobody. between the Crown and the orc clans and their troll allies.

Captain MorvaneMorvaneThe marine captain who went into the Sunken Crypt and came out a lich, bringing the Grey Tithe. enters the Sunken CryptSunken CryptThe bog-crypt in the Ashfen where the Grey Tithe began. Bring a towel.. The Grey TitheGrey TitheThe plague of 389 YC that took one in five, and raised many of them again. begins.

The UnquietUnquietThe dead of the Grey Tithe who woke with their own minds and broke the Lich-Captain at the Leechwater. break the Lich-Captain’s army at the LeechwaterLeechwaterThe ford where the Unquiet broke the Lich-Captain’s army in 391 YC. ford.

The Concord of HighcrestConcord of HighcrestThe pact of 412 YC that made every people who signed it free folk of the realm. is signed by the peoples of the realm.

The Unquiet are admitted to the Concord.

Lord VarricVarricLord of Ravenhold, who bargained to hold the wood until it was quiet, and holds it still, a century dead. RavenholdRavenholdThe keep on the Whisperwood March where every guild learns to raid. makes his bargain with the RavenmotherRavenmotherA raven the size of a woman, or a woman the colour of a raven, who keeps Ravenhold’s rookery..

Lord Varric dies in his bed, and gets up the next morning.

Queen ElspethElspethThe practical queen who gave the Charter of Banners in 1102 YC. II gives the Charter of BannersCharter of BannersQueen Elspeth’s decree of 1102 YC that handed the realm’s old wars to the guilds.. The Age of Banners begins.

The kobolds break into Hollowbrook CellarHollowbrook CellarA farmhouse cellar near Highcrest, full of kobolds and stolen candles. Every new guild’s first job. for its candles. The Widow Hollowbrook hires one of the first guilds of the Charter, and pays in pie.

The present day. A new banner goes up over a rented basement in HighcrestHighcrestThe city on the crest above Greenmeadow, seat of the Crown and of a thousand guild halls..