The Timeline of the Rosewar Chronicle: Terra Prima

238-2002 C.E.

238

• The Age of the Devil-Kings begins, as Magi are seduced into the service of the demons and spirits of the Empty Quarter.

756

• Death of Al-Malek Al-Majun Ibn Iblis, last of the Devil-Kings.

783

• Astarte ni’Fiona renounces her house and joins the Midnight Circus as the Autumn Queen.

812     

·        A lone hunter is killed while hunting for his family.   As a result, his family dies.

936

• The last of the White Priests attempts to retain control over the Midnight Circus.

1267

• The Benedanti break off from the Maladonti family, creating their own shadow society.

1310-1324

• The duchies of Taranor and Radnor have numerous skirmishes over the location of the border between them.  
• Fighting stops when Duke Owein Ap’Tirwys of Taranor is killed.

1324

·        Bleddyn Ap’Augwyr becomes the sheriff for the new Duke of Taranor, Arddur Ap’Owein.

1325

• The Order of Reason is founded.

·        Arddur Ap’Owein weds Gwendolyn Ni’Augwyr, sister of Bleddyn.

·        Aeron Owein, the duke’s brother, is ordained a priest.

1327

• Mynyddog Ap’Bleddyn & Colin Owein are born within days of each other.

1328   

·        Colin Owein is kidnapped and held ransom.  

o       The sheriff, Bleddyn Ap’Augwyr, is killed while trying to save the child.   The child is never seen again.

·        David Worthington is given the duties of Sheriff, but not title.

·        Auvry  & Caitlet Owein is born         

1330

• March 20.  Cynric ap Owein, Firstborn of Herne's Brood, is born. 

1331

• Brendan Cæwys is killed while defending his family from an unknown adversary.  
• His wife, Kathryn flees with their only child. 

1332

• Meigan Owein is born.

1337

• Father Aeron Owein is made a bishop.

1340

• Meigan Owein enters her Chrysalis and emerges as Ellwylw ni’Cyrian, A Sidhe of House Gwydion.

1341

• Sarra Owein is born.

1347

·        Father Andre DeMeurin is sent to Hanegorn.

1348

• Mynyddog Ap’Bleddyn is made sheriff.
• Matthew Huxley is knighted into the Order of the Garter.

1349

• The Black Plague comes to Britain.
• Cynric is dispatched by Herne to Candelwyck.
• The Flooding of Gwaelod.
• The Death of Gwyddno Garanhir, last High King to sit upon the Ivy Throne.
• Kithain fleeing the Drowned Land found refuge in the realm of the Awakened Kings, two Kinain mages of incredible power whose realm are in the upper reaches of Snowdonia.

• House Beaumayn is imprisoned in an Arcadian prison for their experiments with Cold Iron.

1353

·        The town of Hanegorn is devastated by fire.  Much of the town is destroyed.

1369

• Dwyrch transfers his Anchor into a new sapling and is transported by agreement with Lord Tamlin ap Fiona to the future site of High Eirias Upon the Hill.
• A Sea Bishop appears in Britain and announces what he calls, “The Age of Tears.”

1393

• Bai'Dala enters the Autumn World.

1440

• January 1.  First Mistridge Convocation.  Key players meet along with their fae allies and decide to form the Council of Nine.

1456

• Horizon is opened to the magus public.  Several pacts with the Kithain are made.

1472

• Iolanthe ni’Scathach is betrayed by Astarte to the Midnight Circus, wherein Astarte molds her into her opposite as one of the Heteræ.

1495

• The Fall of High Eirias Upon the Hill. 
• The Binding of Lord Tamlin.

1500

• Ellylw Ni’Cyrain’s chronicle is placed in the hands of Eshu nobles to carry to safety.

1509

• An earthquake destroys Constantinople.

1547

• First Prophecies of Nostradamus. 
• Moscow is destroyed by fire.

1589

• The Croatan sacrifice themselves to banish Eater-of-Souls from the physical world.

1607

• The first Kitsune are born.

1836

• The Midnight Circus takes on its modern form of a traveling circus.

1852

• Presumed birth year of Benjamen Holmscroft, founder of the Arcanum.

1885

• November 24.  Founding of the Arcanum.
• December 25.  The Arcanum conducts its first Ritual.

1910

• July 7.  The Arcanum Chapter House in Boston is destroyed by the Children of Hecate.

1914

• Presumed year of death for Benjamen Holmscroft.

1952

• Geichin Okamoto and his family form an elite covert action and espionage team backed by the Japanese government.  They use the profits of the sale of stolen technological secrets to fund what will become DTI and Strike Force 0.
• Dr. Emil Zotos and Charles Horner create SAD by manipulating then FBI-President Herbert Hoover.

1955

• Gen Corp. is created as an international conglomerate.

1969

• The First Resurgence

1970

• May 1.  The Beltaine Massacre.
• July 31.  Æterna, Inc. is incorporated.

1973

• January 22.  Charlie Babbit is born in Chicago, Illinois. 
• February 19.  Lorio Munn is born in Boston, Massachussettes.

1974

• January 1.  David Ardry claims Caliburn.  He flees Manhattan under the protection of the Glomes.
• May 1.  Founding of the Galacian Federation.

1975

• October 23.  Commoners meet with David Ardry.
• December 2.  Treaty of Accord is signed.

1976

• February 26. Jacob Smith is born mute.
• March 23.  Joram of the Blade is born.
• July 17.  Dr. Mitchell Howak and Alan Kenchlow found DNA, setting up operations in the Research Triangle.
• October 30.  Adalyr Turjin is born.

1978

• Katharina von Nymphenburg is born. 
• Anne Gwish is born in London, England.
• Nathan Embry is born in Manchester, England.

1979 

• September 13.  Randy and Timothy Kurtz, identical twins, are born.

1980

• Arcanum Chapter House is built in Nabiscoding, Michigan.

1981

• April 1.  Dinah Starr is born.

1982

• Michael White is born.
• Iolanthe ni’Scathach breaks free of the Midnight Circus and returns to the Dreaming to recuperate.
• Iolanthe later rejoins her House in the Autumn World, and gains a position as a key investigator in SAD.

1983

• When her parents die, Katharina von Nymphenburg is taken to live with her Uncle.  Later that year, she enters her Chrysalis and emerges Lady Rina ap Liam.

1984

• Dinah Starr's firefighter father perishes in a blaze.
• Arienh, Cianan, Harley, Fletcher, and Lairdie re-awaken High Castle.

1985

• Alan Kenchlow leaves DNA on friendly terms to take a position at the FBI Special Affairs Division (SAD).

1986

• Charlie Babbit's parents die in a car crash.

1989

• Geichin Okamoto becomes president of Dynamic Technologies International, and creates Strike Force 0.

1990

• Baba Yaga awakens and overwhelms the supernatural denizens of Russia, slamming down a supernatural barrier preventing those trapped from leaving.
• Jimmy Kimball is born.
• The Brotherhood of Sleep is founded.

1991

• Dinah Starr begins to read Tarot and divine the future alongside her mother.
• Nathan Embry enters his Chrysalis and emerges as a Ghille Dhu

1992

• DNA captures a young Glass Walker Garou and begins their quest for a cure for GLS.  Alan Kenchlow ends their friendship over Mitchell’s treatment of the beast.

1993

• April 3.  George Thomasson, head of SAD, suffers a psychotic break and is institutionalized.
• December 17.  SAD finds an ally, as well as a client, in Sen. Jesse T. Grubbholb.

1994

• Jacob Smith enters his Chrysalis and emerges as a Nocker.

1995

• September 9.  DNA discovers the Garou anathema to silver, and the use of mirrors for stepping sideways.
• November 2.  A motley opens Silver’s Gate and frees Yrtalien, the Foresworn Prince.
• December 2-22.  In Hawaii, Yrtalien attempts to create a Shadow Court to hide his plans for Arcadia.
• December 22.  Yrtalien plans to sacrifice Kanani, a local Hawaiian fae.
• December 30.  Yrtalien arrives in Ireland, Co. Sligo.

1996

• January 2.  Joram of the Blade vanishes from his mortal family without a trace.
• January 6.  Yrtalien raises his army of Kithain and Thallain to breach Silver’s Gate.
• January 7.  A lengthy battle secures Silver’s Gate and spreads Yrtalien’s body throughout the Dreaming. 
• The Selkies regain control of Silver’s Gate.

1997

• Dinah Starr enters her Chrysalis and emerges as an Eshu named Henna.
• August 3.  Charles Babbit enters his Chrysalis and emerges as a Troll.  He is Sained by Ishmael, and is recognized as a Knight of House Gwydion.
• He is given to Lord Jared ap’Eiluned for fosterage.
• August 22.  Randy Kurtz enters the University of Newford to pursue a degree in Political Science.
• August 23.  Mitchell Howak vanishes from his Miami apartment after a particularly strong breakthrough period. Despite Kenchlow’s assistance, SAD and the FBI yielded no leads.
• August 24.  Timothy Kurtz enters the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor to pursue a degree in Business Administration.
• September 1.  Dr. Ruben Sendlar is elected C.E.O. of DNA.

1998

• Baba Yaga meets Final Death.
• January. Faerlyith visits Tara-Nar.  David and Faerlyith meet and fall in love.
• February.  Morwen recruits nobles to watch Faerlyith.
• May 2.  Faerlyith and David’s Beltaine marriage.
• May 3.  David proclaims Faerlyith co-ruler and High Queen; Faerlyith is crowned.
• May 4.  Grand Tour is announced.
• May 5.  Meilge commissions a cold iron cage and weapons.
• May 16.  Nathan Embry’s parents are killed in a drive-by shooting.
• Nathan is warned by the Dauntain to desist or die.
• June 6.  Masquerade ball to welcome the King and Queen is held. 
• David Ardry disappears. 
• Seif receives Caliburn.
• Lleu offers himself as Faerlyith’s Champion.
• Faerlyith and Morwen declare enmity.
• June 28.  Public disagreements between Lenore and Morwen make the further appearance of a United Front impossible.
• July 5.  Lenore moves to Queen Mab’s court.
• Faerlyith decides to continue the Grand Tour.

• August.  The Parliament of Dreams fractures into chaos.
• October 3.  Randy Kurtz enters his chrysalis during hazing at Lamda Alpha Sigma (LAS) and emerges as a Satyr.
• November 9.  Joram of the Blade arrives in High Castle.

1999

• February 2.  The Red Branch fractures into four rival factions.
• March 16.  Marina of Beacon Hills becomes allies with Alexis Cruithne.
• April 5. Rina ap'Liam enters High Castle and join High Lady Suramon's "knitting circle".
• May 29.  Henna arrives in High Castle.
• June 18.  Jin Kai Wai dies and re-enters the Great Cycle. 
• His Final Testament is disseminated among the shen of Asia.

• June 6.  Jacob arrives in High Castle.

• June 23 (Midsummer).  Anton Sullivan awakens in a dumpster with amnesia.
• Anton enters his Chrysalis and emerges as a Rabbit Pooka.
• Charlie, Randy, and Anton are collected by Ishmael to bring before the Duke.
• The Duke lays a Geasa on Randy to never enter another freehold without first asking permission of the owner.
• Randy receives his first visions.
• Auggie plays with Anton and introduces himself.
• Anton is given to Charlie to foster.
• Randy is placed in Charlie’s care.
• Anton is slipped a note amidst the crowd during their departure from court.

• June 24.  Anton, Randy, and Charlie witness the murder of the Sea Bishop.
• Anton, in a trance, opens the Duke’s freehold and meets a disguised Milt.
• Milt sends word to High King Daffyd’s court regarding the death.
• Milt opens a trod to send them to the Mountain Kingdom.
• June 27.  Anton, Randy and Charlie battle Rohan on the Silver Path.
• Rohan’s dying word was “Liam.”
• They exit the trod into the Scarlet Letter, meeting Andreas at the bar.
• They meet Lorio, who cautions Charlie about Willow leading Randy into danger.
• The battle with the Man in White and the Quicksilver Spiders.
• Lorio takes Anton, Randy, and Charlie to Sophie’s apartment, where they meet Sophie and Jilly.

• June 28.  Bai’Dala joins Anton, Lorio, Randy, and Charlie at Sophie’s apartment.
• June 29.  Sophie, Lorio, Bai’Dala, Anton, Randy, and Charlie go to Haven, and meet Anne Gwish, its owner.
• Sophie’s apartment is trashed.
• As people break down the door, Sophie ushers them through her Ladder.
• June 30-July 6.  The Week of Nightmares.

• Ravana awakens and devours his childer.
• Soothsayers and seers fall into trances that describe the escalating conflict.
• Worldwalls collapse as denizens do battle with the maddened Antediluvian.
• Ravana is slain by the Technocracy using spiritual nuclear weapons.
• Ravana’s death shatters bindings with the Unseelie Court, and the Dark Paths open.
• Naraka are at Ground Zero for detonation and are reborn in service to Kali.
• The Red Star, Anthelios, appears in the Umbral Sky.
• Osiris flees Amenti as it is destroyed by the Sixth Great Maelstrom.
• He Fuses himself with the Web of Faith, thus scattering his body across its lands.

• July 8.  Anne, Charlie, Bai’Dala, Anton, Randy, and Lorio arrive at High Castle, unaware they’ve lost over a week in Sophie’s Ladder.
• July 14.  Anne, Charlie, Bai’Dala, Anton, Randy, and Lorio encounter Henna, Rina and Jacob.
• August 23.  Nathan Embry arrives in Newford, beginning his studies at the University of Newford in Horticulture, Botany, and Urban Planning.

• October 5-6. A Temporal Rift occurs in the vicinity of High Castle.
• October 11.  Lenore begins correspondence with Milt.

• November 9.  Word reaches Morwen of Valeris’ death.
• November 15.  The Battle of the Blight.
• Adalyr Turjin appears and offer crucial aid in forcing the Blight to flee.
• November 16-18.  The Freeing of Lord Tamlin ap’Fiona.
• Restoration of High Eirias upon the Hill.
• Anton, Bai’Dala, Randy, Henna, Rina, Charlie and Jacob are sent to Newford by Tamlin and Adalyr Turjin.

2000

• February 26.  Gwilym, Seneschal of Gwynedd, arrives in New York City to begin his Concordian search for a member of House Gwydion worthy of the Ivy Throne.
• March 17.  The Boston Harbor Revels.
• April 4.  Princess Jessamy ap’Ailil is crowned the Green Child in the Greening Ceremony in Atlanta.
• April 14.  Brock Thompson is Imbued and allies himself with Daniel DeFoe, a Glasswalker Garou.
• April 25.  The Battle of Coldfort.
• July 17.  The appearance of Danwyn ap Gwydion.
• July 30.  DNA opens up a Research and Development branch in Bangor, Wales.
• August 24.  Sophie Etoile is repeatedly stabbed to death in her own Freehold apartment.

• September 11.  Anton, Rina, Lorio, Henna, Jacob, Charlie, and Randy arrive in Newford.
• Unbeknownst to his compatriots, Bai’Dala arrives in Newford separately, by alternate means.
• September 12.  Jilly Coppercorn vanishes without a trace.
• September 18.  Jacob and Grahame witness the climax of the Battle of Lahk’ghrjui, in which Elek’s forces defeat and devour Demetrios.
• September 30.  Nathan Embry feels Devon, his younger twin, die calling his name in warning through the strange link they share.
• Black Ice Caern is destroyed by an unknown force, believed by Dean Jones to be tied to Gen Corp.

• October.  Osiris awakens in the Web of Faith and creates the Amenti from the soul shards of his followers.
• October 26.  Anton Sullivan opens a gate by means of the Ulunsuti.
• The Book is stolen from Lord Jarod ap’Eiluned’s demesne.
• October 29.  Mount Granite Massacre.
• Ocotober 30.  Adalyr Turjin enters the Great Serpent Mound.
• October 31-November 1.  (Coming Soon)
• November 2.  (Coming Soon)
• December 22.  Daniel DeFoe goes missing during his internship in London at a well-reputed law firm.

2002

• August 13.  Elek reappears in the Autumn World in London, England, at the behest of a Kitsune named Toshi.  After destroying a Wyrm-tainted mortal (One of Anne Gwish’s sisters), he vanishes yet again.
• Dean Jones appears in London due to Toshi’s summoning.
• August 15.  An unknown man with strange abilities steals several valuable spiritually significant objects from Toshi's grandfather's estate. 
• Toshi and his ursine companion enter the strange gay nightlife of London.
• August 16.  Geoffrey Weaver encounters Oterro Perez. 
• Oterro is attacked by Men in Black in his home. 
• August 17.  Dean Jones is kidnapped and drugged by scientists in a white van. 
• Oterro, Toshi, Geoffrey, and Dean himself aid in his escape.