All dates per the Malconti Calendar (MCY), devised 1731 by the scholar Bartholomeo Malconti. Current year: 1739.
Historical Timeline
| MCY | Event |
|---|---|
| 1 | The Wrath |
| 273 | Triumph of the First Crusade |
| 275 | First Book of Light written; the Church is formed |
| 280 | The Holy City founded |
| 325 | Iuz appears and begins preaching heresy |
| 333 | Unmasking of Iuz; Second Crusade begins |
| 347 | Triumph of the Second Crusade |
| 583 | Founding of the Empire; coronation of Emperor Appius I |
| 601 | Construction of the City begins |
| Imperial era (undated) | The “Holy Orders of the Five Courts” receive donations from emperors — Appius III notably, a patron of the order of the moon and the order of the dusk. By ~Appius VI’s day a book can call the Phoenix “once founded as the order of the day” (S7, library books — dating loose). See The Orders of the Five Courts |
| 755 | Subjugation of the Morschatti tribes complete |
| 825 | Assassination of Appius XIII |
| 827 | Western provinces claim independence |
| 934 | Emperor Caius III dies without a clear successor |
| 950 | ”The Dissolution” — the unified empire is abandoned |
| by the Interregnum | The order of the moon is declared anathema by the Most Holy — with its head, Aurelius Balventius, a kinsman of House Balventia (S7, an Interregnum-era heresy compilation; the ruling itself may be earlier) |
| 1420 | Hakim the Great launches conquest of what is now Hazad |
| 1430 | Conquest complete; Hakim crowned Sultan |
| 1441 | Third Crusade declared against the Empire of Iuz |
| 1446 | The Great Betrayal — the Queen of Morrschatten, also head of the Order of the Raven (GM), defects to Iuz; failure of the Third Crusade |
| ~1539 | Kraus begins his castle above Halwa; the clans unite and poison him — Kraus’s Folly (S4, GM) |
| ~1639 | The Monastery of the Dawn is stormed: doors battered in, ~two dozen monks killed, the altar smashed, and below it the chains and the gem broken at the Sanctum of Sethariel. The Red Star had risen. Only The Abbot remains, in some fashion (S5) |
| 1693 | Sultan Azzam rejects the Most Holy; Fourth Crusade launched |
| 1699 | Fourth Crusade ends in stalemate; church permanently split. The Order of the Phoenix is remembered as having used divination magic during this war (S6) |
| 1699→ | With direct east–west trade prohibited, The Free Cities become the intermediary ports; Halwa grows from ~5,000 to ~15,000 over the following four decades (GM) |
| ~1709 | Khazak Dol rediscovered (“thirty years ago”) |
| ~1710 | Benedicto Malipiero — younger brother of the future Most Holy Pious III — is convicted of heresy for dealing with the infernal and condemned by his own family. A master of both the divine and logos arts; officially executed, though Uncle and Ismad doubt it (S6, GM) |
| 1715 | Fifth Crusade against Corrupted outbreak in northern Morrschatten — preceded by an appearance of The Red Star (S4) |
| 1721 | Alessandro Falieri elected Doge of Cardacci — a compromise candidate; still reigning in 1739 (GM) |
| 1720 | House Bethlen, lords of Krenau, are murdered — the whole family, supposedly including the infant Constanza Bethlen. Kristof Gruben takes the city; the Bethlens’ court magician Amalricht von-Haup survives into Matthias Melnich’s service (S6) |
| ~1721 | Isabel d’Allais born — daughter of Jehanne d’Allais (S6, from “13 when she arrived” in Fall 1734) |
| 1731 | The year everything starts — see that page for the full dated sequence (GM) |
| Spring 1731 | The red sun rises. Owl knights find a Sanctum in northern Averoigne (GM) |
| Spr/Sum 1731 | Owl knights assess the Morschatti princes and extract Constanza Bethlen, charge of Matthias Melnich, to Vyones (GM) |
| Summer 1731 | Melnich’s priest and Phoenix knights accuse Constanza of witchcraft; Madeline Foussard takes the case and imprisons rather than executes her (GM) |
| Summer 1731 | Skirmishes begin the War of the Three Princes in Morrschatten (GM) |
| Summer 1731 | King Etienne de la Courcel dies naming Marie-Celeste de la Courcel heir and Marc Abayante of the Owl as Regent (GM) |
| Summer 1731 | The Night in the Royal Castle — assassins kill Marie-Celeste, Marc, and a fifth of the Order of the Owl; Constanza escapes, four Phoenix knights die (GM) |
| Late Sum 1731 | Michel d’Envers takes Vyones unopposed, is crowned by Louis d’Allissy, and installs Jehanne d’Allais over the Owl. Guillaume de Fausseflammes counter-claims and accuses him of the murders (GM) |
| Fall 1731 | Owl knights researching sanctums are at the University of Krenau when Prince Udo sacks the city; the university burns. d’Allais confirmed by Most Holy Boniface III (GM) |
| Spring 1732 | Rangers out of The Holy City note increased Corrupted activity (GM) |
| Spring 1732 | Madeline Foussard is captured at Kraus’s Folly — she had tracked Constanza from Vyones in under a year. Seven years of imprisonment and blood ritual begin; the swordsman lord is already established there (GM) |
| Summer 1732 | Plague first appears at Weissbaden (GM) |
| Fall 1732 | Owl knights kill an unformed demon of warped white radiance in southern Morrschatten, summoned from On the Summoning of Guardian Spirits by Benedicto Malipiero. Fausseflammes slain; the War of the Three Princes goes to stalemate (GM) |
| Fall 1732 | The Owl party that kills the demon in southern Morrschatten includes an Agaddum dwarf — the older cousin of Marin, who would die at Halwa two years later (GM, S6) |
| Spring 1733 | Fausseflammes forces besieged in Touraine (GM) |
| Summer 1733 | Owl knights find the sanctum at the Monastery of the Dawn — the expedition Mamud guided, back nervous, leaving pitons and a torn-open wall (GM; matches S4/S5) |
| Fall 1733 | d’Envers falls suddenly ill and dies; Rincon succeeds and the surrender talks collapse (GM) |
| Winter 1733 | Most Holy Boniface III dies of old age (GM) |
| ~1734 | The Red Star manifests, coinciding with the worst of the Troubles (S4) — see the note below |
| Spring 1734 | Matthias Melnich murdered; Gunter succeeds in Strelitz (GM) |
| Summer 1734 | Baldessare Malipiero elected Most Holy as Pious III (GM) |
| Fall 1734 | Owl/Eagle confrontation in Halwa — heavy damage and local casualties; Owl knights captured, among their hosts the Cardacci merchant who had housed the sanctum expedition (GM; S4 hearsay said “~4 years ago”). The Owl party was escorting Isabel d’Allais, the knight commander’s daughter, into Hazad to hide her heretical gift. Jean-Marie, Marin of Clan Agaddum and Elysant Peppin are killed; Visenne de Tarrand and Isabel are taken to the Citadel of Gazra, where they remain (S6) |
| after Fall 1734 | The Order of the Eagle draws down its Halwa presence to an observational posture — “after the incident with the Order of the Owl a few years back”; no date given (S5) |
| ~1735–36 | Someone attempts a cremation of the monks’ remains at the sanctum and runs out of fuel (“a few years ago”, S5) |
| Summer 1735 | A snake demon at a party in Stoccarda kills nobles; slain by the Order of the Gull and visiting Owl knights (GM) |
| Sum/Fall 1735 | Owl knights find the third sanctum, south of Cardacci in the lands of the Corrupted (GM) |
| Winter 1735 | The Comtesse de Touraine’s daughters escape the siege (GM) |
| Spring 1736 | The Order of the Phoenix accuses the Order of the Owl of falling to the Deceiver. The order is dissolved; its members questioned and executed (GM) |
| Summer 1736 | Touraine falls; the Comtesse kills herself; her daughters surface as guests of the Doge. Averoigne’s civil war technically ends (GM) |
| ~1736 | Amalricht von-Haup dies (“three years ago”) — the Bethlens’ court magician, later Matthias Melnich’s, whom Uncle and Ismad speculate might have been capable of the Kraus’s Folly warp-circle ritual — nothing confirms it (S6, GM) |
| ~1736 | Kristof Gruben dies (“about three years ago”) — lord mayor of Krenau since the 1720 Bethlen massacre (S6). Two Krenau men, one year — the same year the Owl was purged |
| 1739 | Current year |
Unresolved: when did the star rise?
The GM’s timeline opens with “Spring 1731 — the red sun rises.” Haroun recalled The Red Star appearing ~5 years ago (~1734), “when a bunch of bad stuff happened, especially in the west” (S4). These may be the same event remembered imprecisely, or two separate risings. The 1731 date fits far better: the sanctum discoveries, both civil wars, the plague, the Corrupted, and the false-angel summonings all begin within eighteen months of it. Left unreconciled deliberately.
Campaign Timeline
| When | Event | Session |
|---|---|---|
| Campaign start −(a few months) | The party comes together in service of Uncle; first mission escorts a diplomatic mission to the Aman Highlands | (S1) |
| Campaign start | Smuggler-watch at the coast; Knight-Confessor Gandolfini killed, Ari and coded documents recovered | Session 1 |
| +1 day | News breaks: Crown Prince Awad is dead | Session 1 |
| Following weeks | Party moves to Isbi’liyyah; pre-funeral social season; dockside assassination attempt on Baahir | Session 2 |
| ~1 month in | State funeral of Awad; gatherings with Princess Ensah’s set | Session 3 |
| +1–2 weeks | Journey to Al-Hakim University; bandit ambush avoided; university research | Session 3 |
| next | Return via Uryula and the capital; 19-day voyage to Halwa | Session 4 |
| next | In Halwa: ambushes, Father Ignazio’s stonewall, and the flight from Kraus’s Folly with Lindse | Session 4 |
| +several days | Halwa intelligence work; Haroun finally reaches Sister Alasia in the street | Session 5 |
| +2 days out, 2 back | The desert crossing with Mamud; the Sanctum of Sethariel entered; The Abbot wakes, curses Titus, and drives the party out. That night, something calls to Haroun | Session 5 |
| back in Halwa | Madeline Foussard tells her story; the name Constanza Bethlen surfaces; gang leaders keep dying | Session 5 |
| next | At sea, ~16+ days and counting on a storm-slowed galley. Estelle visits Farraj’s dreams three times and leaves an orrery in his hands | Session 5 |
| en route | The party studies the orrery — dwarven, recent, a working instrument — and Haroun tells them about the call | Session 6 |
| midsummer 1739 | Home to Isbi’liyyah in the heat. Two debriefs with Ismad: Estelle as a suspected Phoenix agent, Ritual Magic, the 1720 Bethlen massacre, Benedicto Malipiero as the Most Holy’s brother, a letter to House Balventia. Titus cured by Father Jamar. Haroun meets Sadiq and learns how Naqi died | Session 6 |
| +2 days out | The Citadel of Gazra: Visenne de Tarrand and Isabel d’Allais, the last two Owl knights, and why the Owl came back to Halwa | Session 6 |
| now | Back in the capital, hotter still. The city riots; a mob storms the Ulpia estate and unlocated snipers work the rooftops. The fight ends; nobody knows if the riots have | Session 6 |
| the next day | Fires out of the elven quarter; ~24 hours of magical firefighting; Eagle cavalry under Zahir ibn-Zahir clears the streets; the estate sweep | Session 7 |
| +5 days | ~100 “leaders of the rioters” publicly executed. The toll emerges: roughly half the capital’s ~10,000 elves dead, most of the rest homeless | Session 7 |
| +1.5 weeks | After coordinating recovery and the noble district’s defense, the party travels (slowly) to Karven | Session 7 |
| 4 days | The Balventia library: True Divination, the Orders of the Five Courts, the Third Crusade shelf | Session 7 |
| late summer 1739 | Briefly back through the capital (bodies still being cleared against plague), then Uryula: the house staff, and Abbess Zafara at the Monastery of Blessed Ensah | Session 7 |
| +a few days | Rest in Uryula; then to Al-Hakim University: Master Bahadir’s equations, Master Najlad on the orrery’s rings, maps copied — Ari’s three candidate lines | Session 8 |
| back in Uryula | Estelle returns to Farraj’s dreams: an apology; the orrery is a copy | Session 8 |
| +a few days, by sea | Via Ankarata to Castromar; four days with House Menenia — the courtship, and the mirror lake found on a map | Session 8 |
| ~early autumn 1739 (confirmed plausible) | Lindse and the servants sent home by ship. South on the pilgrim’s road: a week in Menenia lands, a week of forest past the border into the old Imperial lands, and a ruined town being dug over — diggers sent by Gaius | Session 8 |
| +a few weeks | An old Imperial road south, in the rain: surviving bridges, old campsites, ruined settlements matching the pilgrim’s account. A 300-ft river with a dead bridge; about a week east along its north bank | Session 9 |
| ~mid-to-late autumn 1739 (derived; confirmed plausible — Aaron) | A surviving bridge and a lake that mirrors the hills — The Mirror Lake (confirmed — Aaron). A ruined fort, a walled town, and a landslide-buried religious complex; two days of mapping | Session 9 |
| day 3 on site | In the domed hall below: five masked Corrupted demand a “pilgrim’s sign” in the Black Speech and attack. Titus is killed; all five die | Session 9 |
| day 4 | The tunnels (fort storeroom, hills, gully); the camp rooms and shrines; a hidden floor panel. Titus is cremated with Farraj’s fire; a ceremony is held and his ashes kept (Aaron) | Session 9 |
| day 5 | Under the trapped hatch: Mirriam and an old-style shrine to the Maker. Below it, in the cold: the Moon sanctum (Aaron) — an octagon like the Dawn sanctum’s, with six crystal shards laid out in a star — overwhelming evil, overwhelming magic | Session 9 |
Other Calendar Systems
- Augustinian Calendar — solar; year 1 = founding of the Church.
- Revised Augustinian — adds leap years.
- Imperial Calendar — reign years from Appius I; post–Caius III years are “interregnum years.”
- Hazadi Calendar — traditional lunar calendar.
- The Hisil — traditional Elven lunar calendar, said to predate the Wrath.