TIMELINE OF VELGARTH

1490 BF (Before Founding)
500 years before the Eclipse

The Murasa Emperor Shelass accepts kestra'chern into the Haighlei Empire. Their rules, customs, roles and ranks become fixed at that time, as is true of everything in the change-resistant Haighlei Empire
  📖 The White Gryphon: Chapter Three

Around 1300 BF

Magic work is what modern-day mages would classify as journeyman-level. There are few mentors, and spellwork is mostly experimentation: frequently lethal. Mage careers often end in a flash of embers. Some wizards keep notes, and pass them on. They collect information, develop theories, and build skills approaching Adept level
  📖 Under the Vale: Under the Vale

Around 1200 BF

Adept Mages can be more powerful than royalty or warlords. They are strategic weapons; their diplomatic alliances and manipulations shape entire nations. They can intimidate a rival or turn the tide of battle. Everyone, from the highest to the lowest, knows that Mages are to be respected
  📖 Under the Vale: Under the Vale

Around 1100 BF

Adepts swiftly learn to combine the work of multiple mages. The first Great Work occurs when magic is “used to enrich an eroded floodplain, while the baron's men built levees to make use of the renewed soil.” This involves less than 60 supporting Mages and a single Adept
  📖 Under the Vale: Under the Vale

One of the supporting journeymen is a very young Mage named Urtho
  📖 Under the Vale: Under the Vale

Kiyamvir Ma'ar is born in Predain. Also known as Mage of Black Fire
Though his true date of birth has been lost to time, it is hypothesized that Ma'ar was born around this time, giving him time to grow in power and become an Adept, but still be younger and not as experienced as Urtho
  📖 The Black Gryphon: Chapter One

1090 BF
In the years after the salons

Urtho develops a set of "weights and measures" for magic use
  📖 Under the Vale: Under the Vale

Around 1080 BF

When Khal Herta dies, some bands of his followers bring his notes and all of the hertasi to Urtho at Ka'venusho to save them from certain subjugation by the unified Kyamvir tribes. With the semi-sentient hertasi, Urtho takes the approach of increasing the intelligence of hertasi social leaders, and encouraging them to breed with their subordinates, and then increasing the intelligence of their offspring. It creates a surprisingly seamless acceptance among the hertasi, for those who are far smarter than any had been before were their own children
☼ Assumption: The unified Kyamvir tribes are not the same as the "dozens of warring tribes" that Ma'ar unites later, when Amberdrake is at school, age 13-14
  📖 Under the Vale: Under the Vale

Urtho's greatest work, the gryphons, will take 40 years of work by 300 mages and their assistant staff
  📖 Under the Vale: Under the Vale

1070 BF

The Mage Wars Era Begins

"Native magic fields have been harnessed like never before by cabals and individuals"
♘ ☼ Historical documents dating to this time are not clear as to the extent Ma'ar was involved in the Mage Wars before rising to power in Predain. It is hypothesized that Ma'ar is roughly 30 years old at this time and therefore is not suspected of being in any prominent position as yet. Further research is required.
  📖 Under the Vale: Under the Vale

Urtho intends to plant independent groups of gryphons "in little aeries in some of the wilder parts of the mountains, creating yet another population of non-human intelligences, as [his] predecessors had done with the hertasi and the kyree." This plan falls apart with the advent of "war among the Great Mages."
  📖 The Black Gryphon: Chapter Two

Firebirds are deliberately bred as weapons for the Mage Wars
☼ From a history of the Mage Wars purportedly written by Wizard Gervase
  📖 Oathblood: Wings of Fire

1040 BF

Urtho's team finally produces gryphons. Under Urtho's direction they continue to design more gryphons based on various types of raptors: broadwings, goshawks, suntails, etc.
☼ If creating gryphons took 40 years. Start date is hypothetical
  📖 The Black Gryphon: Chapter Nine

Urtho controls the natural reproduction of the gryphons by keeping the requirements secret, and exaggerating the spell that must be cast. He only grants fertility to gryphons who have proven themselves, wanting to ensure that they will make good parents
  📖 The Black Gryphon: Chapter Eleven

Gryphons are born alive. Gryphon nestlings benefit from mage energies, an early source of power. They are instinctive mages, using the power about them for defense and for mating flights
  📖 Winds of Fate: Chapter Eight

1026 BF

Amberdrake is born to a Kaled'a'in family that has lived in the city of Therium, in Tantara, for generations, as agents for the Kaled'a'in
♘ ☼ Hypothetical: Drake leaves school when he is 15. He should be at least 16 when Silver Veil leaves and Ma'ar attacks Tantara in 1010 BF. This makes him at least 26 at the Cataclysm
  📖 The Black Gryphon: Chapter Six

1012 BF

Amberdrake is fourteen years old
♘ ☼ Hypothetical date

Ma'ar has united dozens of warring tribes and touts them as part of his Superior Breed. Ma'ar raises an army of followers and supporters in his quest for power. Students cite Ma'ar's sayings as an excuse for persecuting Amberdrake. Ma'ar is made Prime Minister of Predain
  📖 The Black Gryphon: Chapter Six

1010 BF

Twenty years before the Eclipse Ceremony
☼ At the start of the war with Ma'ar, she (Silver Veil) had been heading south
  📖 The White Gryphon: Chapter Two

Spring

Silver Veil's entourage finally reaches friendly lands. Amberdrake's goal diverges from hers at this point: he needs to go to the Kaled’a’in Clans at Ka'venusho to seek his family, but her safest destination is south to a "promised position" in the Haighlei Empire
  📖 The Black Gryphon: Chapter Six
  📖 The White Gryphon: Chapter Two

Silver Veil finds a new master for Amberdrake to continue his apprenticeship, an older man named Lorshallan, who teaches him to Heal and to use his Empathy as they journey towards Ka'venusho
  📖 The Black Gryphon: Chapter Six

Amberdrake and Lorshallan reach the Clans at Ka'venusho
  📖 The Black Gryphon: Chapter Six

Amberdrake completes his kestra'chern apprenticeship under Lorshallan as a gryphon feather-painter
  📖 The Black Gryphon: Chapter Four

Urtho sends Amberdrake a glossy red and silver satin cover as a graduation gift
  📖 The Black Gryphon: Chapter Five

The conflict between Urtho and Ma'ar begins when Ma'ar's conquests of lands beyond Predain reach the border of Tantara. Ma'ar detonates a fear spell in the palace of High King Leodhan of Tantara, but Lady Cinnabar is shielded and is able to contact Urtho for aid. The king and nobles flee due to the spell
  📖 Under the Vale: Under the Vale
  📖 The Black Gryphon: Chapter Six

Urtho summons Skandranon to use his Mage-Sight to search the palace's secret passages for the source of the fear spell: a dyrstaf
  📖 The Black Gryphon: Chapter Seventeen

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Urtho takes command of Tantara and its armies to fight Ma'ar. He puts out a call for volunteers
  📖 The Black Gryphon: Chapter Five
  📖 The Black Gryphon: Chapter Six
  📖 The Black Gryphon: Chapter Thirteen

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Amberdrake joins Urtho right away
  📖 The Black Gryphon: Chapter Six
  📖 The Black Gryphon: Chapter Thirteen

"All the Clans came as fast as they could."
  📖 The Black Gryphon: Chapter Thirteen

"Eventually, all of the Clans came to settle at the base of Urtho's Tower, but by then (Amberdrake) had already carved his place among the kestra'chern"
  📖 The Black Gryphon: Chapter Six

Some kestra'chern help Heal the wounded but do not use their special skills outside of the Kaled'a'in. Amberdrake and non-Kaled'a'in kestra'cherns treat all races. He has had the most training and becomes their unofficial leader
  📖 The Black Gryphon: Chapter Four

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Urtho's army starts losing land in the Mage Wars
Chapter One, circa the Cataclysm, states that Urtho's armies have been losing border towns for half a generation. A human generation is 20-30 years. As stated above, at the time of the Eclipse, the war with Ma'ar began "twenty years ago"
  📖 The Black Gryphon: Chapter One

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Urtho doesn't have enough mages to fight Ma'ar's, so he is forced to hire mercenaries like Conn Levas
  📖 The Black Gryphon: Chapter Two

1002 BF

Skandranon Rashkae faces Adept Kiyamvir Ma'ar for the first time. Ma'ar peels the skin off Skan's wingmates, and Skan is unable to counterspell him. He limps home broken-winged and full of nightmares
  📖 The Black Gryphon: Chapter One

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Skan sees some fledglings bullying a "small, awkward, adolescent" (Zhaneel) and breaks up the noisy altercation
 Hypothetical date based on being "a year or two" before the Cataclysm
  📖 The Black Gryphon: Chapter Three

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Zhaneel wants to fly for Urtho's army, but she is not selected since she is seen as misborn. She simply moves into a wing and starts flying back patrols that are usually assigned to fledglings or as punishment
 Speculation: Specific age and date are unknown
  📖 The Black Gryphon: Chapter Four

1000 BF

  ♘☼ Hypothesis: Unknown if the date 1000 BF is the actual date when Urtho and Ma'ar's Towers were destroyed. Although mage Ponu jokes in Beyond: Chapter Four that it is always “a thousand years,” it really is as good a number as any

General Corani had been assigned at Stelvi Pass until now
  📖 The Black Gryphon: Chapter One

Six Days Later

Skan volunteers to scout out the enemy army and to try and capture the new magical weapon. His magical senses are enhanced by Urtho
  📖 The Black Gryphon: Chapter One

Five Days Later

Premonitions and nightmares among the more sensitive and marginally Gifted among the Healers and kestra'chern awaken them to the knowledge that Urtho's army had lost Stelvi Pass
  📖 The Black Gryphon: Chapter One

One Day Later

Skan arrives at the Pass of Stelvi spying on the enemy
  📖 The Black Gryphon: Chapter One

Hertasi and tervardi are mentioned as having been in Urtho's Army. Tervardi are another creation of Urtho's
  📖 The Black Gryphon: Chapter One

Tervardi serve as scouts ☼
  📖 The Black Gryphon: Chapter Seventeen

Laisfaar is now the enemy army's quarters
  📖 The Black Gryphon: Chapter One

Skan infiltrates the camp and kills the Weaponsmaster. He captures a new weapon that had been used to take Stelvi Pass earlier
  📖 The Black Gryphon: Chapter One

Skan is chased by 6 makaar and the makaar leader, Kili
  📖 The Black Gryphon: Chapter One

General Corani is being treated by kestra'chern Amberdrake. He is usually treated by Riannon Silkedre
  📖 The Black Gryphon: Chapter One

Healer Tamsin and Lady Cinnabar are on night duty for the next 10 days
  📖 The Black Gryphon: Chapter Two

Next Day

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Skan makes it back to camp badly injured & having swallowed the magical weapon. It is pre-dawn. Healer Tamsin, Lady Cinnabar and all of his friends work to save his life
  📖 The Black Gryphon: Chapter Two

Several Hours Later

Amberdrake wakes up after helping heal Skan and goes to see him
  📖 The Black Gryphon: Chapter Two

Later in the Afternoon

Drake seems to wonder why he's thinking of Winterhart even though he's never met her
  📖 The Black Gryphon: Chapter Three

At Sunset

Urtho comes to visit a convalescing Skan
  📖 The Black Gryphon: Chapter Three

Skan thinks that no one knows Urtho's race or age. He could be sixty (60) or six hundred (600). Skan thinks there might be Kaled'a'in blood in Urtho's veins.
  📖 The Black Gryphon: Chapter Three

Zhaneel kills three makaar all by herself. Commander Loren asks Urtho to reward the gryphon
  📖 The Black Gryphon: Chapter Three

Urtho awards Zhaneel with a Gold Token. Observing her insecurity, Skan suggests she use it for a session with Amberdrake
  📖 The Black Gryphon: Chapter Three

The Next Day

Amberdrake visits Skan. Urtho's forces are unable to retake Stelvi Pass, so Skan predicts another retreat. Eventually they will have to abandon the Tower
  📖 The Black Gryphon: Chapter Four

Artis Camlodon is the Chief Healer of Urtho's army
  📖 The Black Gryphon: Chapter Four

Urtho assigns Zhaneel to carry a weapon he has designed to destroy Ma'ar's latest weapons used by the troops at Stelvi Pass
  📖 The Black Gryphon: Chapter Eleven

The Next Day

General Farle is assassinated
"Ma'ar himself has moved into the Palace and made it his headquarters."
  📖 The Black Gryphon: Chapter Sixteen

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Urtho orders evacuations of non-combatants, assigning six permanent Gates, under the pretense of spreading out targets. He gives Shaiknam his command back, but assigns all of the mages and non-humans to other commanders
  📖 The Black Gryphon: Chapter Sixteen

A Few Days Later

Shaiknam betrays Urtho by letting Ma'ar's forces through his lines
  📖 The Black Gryphon: Chapter Seventeen

Conn Levas throws poisonous miranda thorns at Urtho, dooming him to die
  📖 The Black Gryphon: Chapter Seventeen

Urtho's magical equipment is set to self-destruct upon his death, so he orders immediate evacuation
  📖 The Black Gryphon: Chapter Seventeen

Half-a-Day Later

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300 people, plus Errold and Master Thomas, Gate away
  📖 Sun In Glory: Errold's Journey

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Melysatra and Need escape through a Gate, but get dumped in a wilderness alone
  ☼ Note: Need has also told a conflicting story, in which she was packed into a shielded casket and survived the Cataclysm protected in a shielded temple to Bestet. There are multiple possible reasons why Need may have chosen to tell different stories about her survival: her own amusement, keeping Pol's story private, confusion due to her weakness, etc.
  📖 Choices: Woman’s Need Calls Me
  📖 Storm Breaking: Chapter Four

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The Third and Sixth armies are cut off from retreat and have to fend for themselves
  📖 The Black Gryphon: Chapter Seventeen

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Mages with the remnants of Urtho's Third Army create a Gate which throws them far to the North. They will eventually found the nation of Iftel
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Some of Urtho's people and mercenaries (very likely the Sixth Army) use a Gate but are flung far, far out east, to a territory that will eventually become "the heart of" the Eastern Empire. (The modern Empire's official histories do not mention the Gate, stating that the Empire was founded by mercenaries who "marched off" to conquer land of their own.)
  ☼ Speculation. It is possible that this group merged with the High King of eight county-sized kingdoms who became Emperor of the east, as described by Kordas Valdemar in Beyond: Chapter Four. Or perhaps merged with or conquered it any time in the Empire's subsequent years.
  📖 Storm Warning: Chapter Fourteen

Next Day

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Urtho tries to lure Ma'ar through a Gate to his Tower, hoping the destruction upon Urtho's death will kill Ma'ar. Instead, Skandranon delivers Urtho's ultimate weapon, which will dissolve the bonds of spells, to Ma'ar. Ma'ar responds by killing himself, saying he will live forever
  📖 The Black Gryphon: Chapter Seventeen

Skandranon, Kechara and Aubri dive through Urtho's Gate back to the Tower. Aubri suggests that Urtho purpose the gate for a new destination ☼
  📖 The Black Gryphon: Chapter Seventeen

At the k'Leshya site, Amberdrake sees a great flash of light in the East, turning “night into full day for one long, horrible moment.” Everyone assumes it is Urtho's Tower, not knowing about the destruction of Ma'ar's Palace. Urtho redirects the last-minute gate to the k'Leshya site, and Kechara, Aubri and Skandranon tumble through it. Then “the Eastern horizon erupted with fire - again” as Urtho's Tower self-destructs upon his death ☼
  📖 The Black Gryphon: Chapter Seventeen

Master Thomas & Errold see the flash and assume it was Urtho's Tower, which was what they expected
  ♘ ☼ According to the official maps, Errold's Grove is in the northern part of Valdemar. This means the flash they see is actually that of Ma'ar's Citadel and not Urtho's Tower. But as the traveling party had no knowledge of Urtho's weapon, it is understandable how they were mistaken in what they saw
  📖 Sun In Glory: Errold's Journey

Half-an-Hour Later

The Mage Storms hit the shields and change magic forever
  📖 Sun In Glory: Errold's Journey

The Mage Storm lasts for a day
  📖 Sun In Glory: Errold's Journey

Half a Day After the Towers Explode

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Far to the east, the first wave of Mage Storms sweeps across the eight county-sized kingdoms ruled by High King Sonat the First in what will later become the Eastern Empire. He shields his mage equipment, expending the lives of half of his mages and, after the Storms, has the only magical power left, paving the way to crown himself Emperor
  📖 Beyond: Chapter Four
  📖 Beyond: Chapter Nine

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Changecircles appear randomly throughout the land, places charged with magic, containing strange plants and animals that have been merged together. Other displacement circles occur, where no magic lingers but a foreign circular area of land has appeared in a place it doesn’t belong, such as a circular section of forest in the middle of a meadow. The original area of land has vanished, presumably swapped with the area that has replaced it, so there might be a circular meadow in the middle of a forest
  📖 Choices: Woman’s Need Calls Me

Several Days Later

Errold meets Proouw, a change-cat of human intelligence
  📖 Sun In Glory: Errold's Journey

Two Days Later

Master Thomas & Errold find the spot where they build Errold's Grove
  📖 Sun In Glory: Errold's Journey

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Melysatra and Need travel away from the epicenter of the Mage Storms, because the ongoing effects are weaker with distance. They assist people with troubles, using her mage powers and Need’s combat skills. But Melysatra has borne Need for forty-five (45) years and is ready to settle down, maybe open a tavern
  📖 Choices: Woman’s Need Calls Me

Weeks or months after the Cataclysm

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Melysatra and Need come to a tall, ancient forest, and find a village threatened by a Beast. Three of Urtho’s soldiers, from Warrik’s Wolves, are there for the same reason. They camp for the night in a ten to fifteen acre field, a perfect circle that also cuts into nearby trees, obviously displaced. The village tavern and inn was formerly in the area, and vanished in the displacement
  ♘ The mystery now is, where did the tavern and inn go? Somewhere, a large circle of tall, ancient trees, including a village tavern and inn and the tavernkeeper, has appeared in someone's field
  📖 Choices: Woman’s Need Calls Me

The Next Day

The group follows a tracker to the Beast, which was clearly a victim of a circle, being a terrible mesh of a colddrake and a makaar, but is unable to re-enter the circle to change back. It charges the team, knocking out two of the soldiers. Suddenly Need demands to be given to Pol. Melysatra is confused as Pol is clearly male, but she hands over the sword. The three of them kill the Beast, and Melysatra realizes that Pol was born in the wrong body. Need offers to use the magic of the changecircle to transform Pol to female, but it is a terrible risk. Pol agrees wholeheartedly, and carries Need into the circle. Melysatra gathers up the unconscious men and they make camp ☼
  📖 Choices: Woman’s Need Calls Me

The Following Day

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Pol, transformed, emerges from the circle bearing an exhausted Need. The village is amazed at Pol’s “sacrifice” to save them. They throw a feast for the team
  📖 Choices: Woman’s Need Calls Me

The Next Day

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Pol’s fellow soldiers are bewildered by the change, and Pol and Melysatra realize that Pol needs to make her own way. Need explains that Pol should simply exert her will for whatever magic she needs, as Need is exhausted and may sleep for a long time. As Pol departs at Need’s silent beckoning, Melysatra arranges to build the tavern she has wanted
  📖 Choices: Woman’s Need Calls Me

996 BF

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The other nine tribes of the Kaled'a'in return to the site of Urtho's Tower, finding only a vast blackened crater. They meet to discuss their next move. Contentions arise over the continued use of magic
  📖 Winds of Fate: Chapter Sixteen

The Next Day

The four remaining cans shunning magic plan to pray to the Star-Eyed, but calling her requires the lives of an elder from each clan: the First Sacrifice
  📖 Winds of Fate: Chapter Sixteen

A Month Later

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The elders sacrifice themselves, and the Goddess answers. She agrees to provide a homeland, but obligates the clans to forever guard Urtho's magical artifacts from those who might use them. She creates the Dhorisha Plains
  📖 Winds of Fate: Chapter Sixteen

In the north, the Taylesederas Clans soon find themselves in trouble. Beleaguered by strange beasts and hostile plant life, they have no time to hunt or grow food. Like their brethren, they pray to the Goddess. She gives them the knowledge they need, but charges them to cleanse the lands, destroying evil creatures and any mage weapons they find, helping the innocent, and finding shelter for animals. When an area is cleansed, the clan must move on and repeat the process
  📖 Winds of Change: Chapter One

990 BF

It has been ten (10) years since the magical Cataclysm
  📖 The White Gryphon: Chapter One

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A ship from the Haighlei Empire arrives at White Gryphon, claiming ownership of the land and directing the clan to leave. Judeth refuses on the city's behalf, and offers to make an alliance
  📖 The White Gryphon: Chapter One

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Windsong, daughter of Amberdrake and Winterhart, is two (2) years old
  📖 The White Gryphon: Chapter One

Two weeks later

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The delegation from White Gryphon arrives at King Shalaman's capital city of Khimbata
  📖 The White Gryphon: Chapter Three

During the Eclipse Ceremony, the Emperor makes multiple changes to Haighlei society, which foster connections to White Gryphon and allow him to marry Silver Veil
  📖 The White Gryphon

980 BF

Windsong announces she wants to be called Silverblade from now on
  📖 The Silver Gryphon: Chapter One

Pre-Founding Era

All dates here are offset from 2 BF, a guesstimate date for the evacuation from the Eastern Empire. They will be adjusted when new source material indicates the actual Founding date

110 BF

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Mages of the Eastern Empire trap a young Greater Earth Elemental. They bind it and magically conceal it from other Elementals searching for it. A Greater Elemental cannot be forced to give anything, but if it is wounded it will emit magical energy to heal. So the captive young elemental is tortured and allowed to heal, over and over again. It supplies all of the mage energy used in the Palace and most of what is used by the Imperial mages.The heat it emits is used to warm the palace, heat water supplies, and cook food. This continues for over a century
  📖 Beyond: Chapter Seventeen

50 BF

Soferu is Emperor of the Eastern Empire and resides in the Empire's capital city, High Ashuel
  ♘ ☼  Thus far no official documents have been found that give the name of the Emperor or the Capital of the Eastern Empire at this time. The only known recording found is from the journal of Navar in his account For Want of a Nail. As the official accounts found in Beyond do not name the Capital or Emperor, this entry remains
  📖 Changing the World: For Want of a Nail

40 BF

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Duke Erik, of the Duchy of Valdemar in the Eastern Empire, marries Lady Lyantha
  📖 Beyond: Chapter Three

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Hakkon Indal is born out of wedlock to Lady Lyantha's runaway sister
  📖 Beyond: Chapter Two

38 BF

Lady Lyantha's sister appears and gives her illegitimate toddler, Hakkon, to Erik and Lyantha to raise. She is never seen again ☼
  📖 Beyond: Chapter Three

30 BF

The Eastern Empire's mages accidentally discover a way to capture air elementals - vrondi. Once trapped, an elemental is given a choice of death or captive servitude
  📖 Beyond: Chapter Nine
  📖 Beyond: Chapter Fifteen

The first Doll construct is made by the Eastern Emperor's mages in the Imperial City
  📖 Beyond: Chapter Fifteen

A Doll has a canvas body over a skeleton, and a face with only a hint of eyes, nose and mouth. Its "brain" is an enslaved vrondi, imprisoned in a breakable bottle and inserted into the construct
  📖 Beyond: Chapter Nine

Kordas is born to the Duke Erik and Lady Lyantha of Valdemar
  📖 Beyond: Chapter Three

Isla and her twin brother, Idor, are born to the Baron of Sterngal
  ☼ Discrepancy: Delia's (Fidelia) personal journals claim that Idor is a year older than Isla. Since she was born when Isla was 12, presumably she is mistaken. Kordas says Isla and Idor were twins, and he is the same age, so he would know
  📖 Beyond: Chapter Two
  📖 Beyond: Chapter Five

18 BF

As more Dolls are created, a "critical mass" is reached where the air elementals' simple individual intelligences combine into clusters, and then into a great hive mind, each knowing what the others know, to cope with their enslavement as well as possible ☼
  📖 Beyond: Chapter Fifteen

The human Imperial Secretaries in the Office of Records realize that their jobs are just stamping and filing, which can be done by Dolls. They create documents awarding themselves noble titles, manors and incomes, and quietly leave. The Dolls now perform every paperwork function that runs the Empire ☼
  📖 Beyond: Chapter Fifteen

Fidelia (Delia) is born to the Baron of Sterngal. She is the younger sister of twins Isla and Idor ☼
  📖 Beyond: Chapter One

14 BF

Kordas and Hakkon seek Lord Idor of Sterngal when they realize he has not been seen for several days. They find him and his bodyservant severely ill in their room at the Emperor's Court. Idor and his bodyservant die within hours of being found ☼
  📖 Beyond: Chapter Two

12 BF

Kordas and Hakkon return from the Emperor's Court when Duke Erik is dying
  📖 Beyond: Chapter Three

Kordas marries Isla of Sterngal. The two of them are eighteen (18) years old. They vow they will never allow a child of theirs to be taken as a royal hostage. When she becomes pregnant, Kordas, Hakkon and their Healer Cestin conceal it from everyone
  📖 Beyond: Chapter Two

8 BF

All of the human servants and staff at the Emperor's Court are replaced by Dolls. Only the courtiers, officials, soldiers and guards remain. The displaced humans are sent to the war front
  📖 Beyond: Chapter Nine

2 BF

Cestin is Healer for the Duke of Valdemar
  📖 Beyond: Chapter One

Delia helps Cestin and Kordas with the birth of a Valdemaran Gold by using her Fetching Gift to turn the foal within the mother. She is sixteen (16) at this time
  📖 Beyond: Chapter One

Stafngrimr (Grim) is the stablemaster for the Duke of Valdemar
  📖 Beyond: Chapter One

Soferu is Emperor of the Eastern Empire and wears the Wolf Crown while sitting on the Iron Throne in the Eastern Empire's capital city, High Ashuel
  ♘ ☼ Thus far no official documents have been found that give the name of the Emperor or the Capital of the Eastern Empire. The only known recording found is from the journal of Navar in his account For Want of a Nail. As the official accounts found in Beyond do not name the Capital or Emperor, this entry remains
  📖 Changing the World: For Want of a Nail

Hakkon serves as Seneschal to Duke Kordas, being cousin to Kordas. All the servants and the lords of the fourteen (14) manors report to him. He is also in charge of the Exchequer, Housekeeper, Head Cook, and all the pages and squires ☼
  📖 Beyond: Chapter Three

Squire Brianta is assigned to Hakkon for knighthood and Seneschal training
  📖 Beyond: Chapter Three

Hakkon agrees to assign Restil to be Isla’s personal page
  📖 Beyond: Chapter Three

Jonaton is a powerful mage and is one of eight living at Valdemar Manor. He has the most seniority and is Hakkon's partner. He is suddenly inspired by a brilliant new theory for a way to escape the Empire. He will use a splinter from a tree segment that arrived in the Empire in a changecircle centuries ago, knowing it will still have a magical connection to the original tree far to the West
  📖 Beyond: Chapter Three

Pelias and Siman are two more mages who live in the rooms just below Jonaton
  📖 Beyond: Chapter Three

The Circle of mages hiding in Valdemar are Ponu, Dole, Wis, Koto, Ceri and Sai. They agree that Jonaton’s theory will work with their magical support ☼
  📖 Beyond: Chapter Three

Juuso Beltran serves as Herald to Duke Kordas of Valdemar ☼
  ♘ ☼ Thus far no official documents have been found that give the full name of Beltran. The only known recording found is from the journal of Navar in his account For Want of a Nail. As the official accounts found in Beyond do not give the full name of Beltran, this entry remains
  📖 Beyond: Chapter Three
  📖 Changing the World: For Want of a Nail

Beltran is about Ivar’s age ☼
  📖 Beyond: Chapter Seven

Beltran receives a low-priority Imperial message, a summons from the Emperor to deliver the Duchy’s tribute: strings of horses. Kordas’ family is appalled. Kordas makes it clear that The Plan is not about him: the people of the Duchy must escape ☼
  📖 Beyond: Chapter Seven

Kordas orders Hakkon to stay at the Duchy to support Isla. Kordas will take Beltran, who is “high enough in rank to go anywhere with [Kordas], but low enough to be ignored on his own” ☼
  📖 Beyond: Chapter Seven

When Ceri Foresees that Kordas will be “invited” to stay, Isla brings out formal Court wear for Kordas, and Beltran dons “his formal tabard with the winged white horse device that marked him as the Valdemar Herald on it” ☼
  📖 Beyond: Chapter Seven

The Dolls, surprised by Kordas’ respectful treatment, become his friends. Kordas is shocked to discover that they are enslaved air elementals called vrondi ☼
  📖 Beyond:

As the Emperor plays his usual mindgames, Kordas’ stay at Court extends longer and longer. He stays in contact with the Duchy as The Plan progresses ☼
  📖 Beyond:

Kordas tours the foster-hostage area of the Court to see how the children are doing ☼
  📖 Beyond: Chapter Eleven

0 AF (After Founding)

Founding of Valdemar

  ♘ According to all official known accounts of this event, the year is always marked as Zero (0). It is believed that the inhabitants and founders of Valdemar wished to start over and no longer count their time in the Eastern Empire

The first city, a haven from their travels and the evils they left behind, becomes the capital of the new kingdom, and is named Haven
  📖 Changing the World: For Want of a Nail

The river banks that Haven is built upon is named Terilee
  📖 Changing the World: For Want of a Nail

Baron Kordas becomes King of Valdemar
  📖 Arrows of the Queen: Chapter Five

♔ Reign of Kordas ♔

Spring

Captain Arwulf, who is in charge of the scouts, sends Navar, Doladan (a mapmaker), and a dozen chosen soldiers on an expedition to map the neighboring lands
  📖 Changing the World: For Want of a Nail

Doladan, roughly fifteen (15) years old, was the former Chief Assistant to the Master Gardener in the Valdemar Barony
  ♘ Navar says that Doladan is "hardly older than Prince Restil" putting him at roughly 15 years old
  📖 Changing the World: For Want of a Nail

Mistress Karilgrass is mentioned as someone who knows herbology. She is the Master Gardener whom Doladan mentioned
  📖 Changing the World: For Want of a Nail

Torimund, Felara and Senard are mentioned as names of soldiers
  📖 Changing the World: For Want of a Nail

One Spring Night

King Kordas decided that Valdemar needed to have a permanent way to choose good leadership after he died. So he prays to all the gods and goddesses
  ♘ ☼ According to Exile’s Honor, Elcarth “unearthed a dusty account” claiming that, in regards to the gods Valdemar prayed to, “One of them had been Vkandis Sunlord...”
  📖 Arrows of the Queen: Chapter Five
  📖 Exile’s Honor: Chapter Six
  📖 Changing the World: For Want of a Nail

The first Companions are Grove-born
  📖 Arrows of the Queen: Chapter Five

King Kordas is Chosen by Companion Ardatha
  📖 Arrows of the Queen: Chapter Five

Chief Herald Beltran is second to be Chosen, by Companion Kyrith
  📖 Arrows of the Queen: Chapter Five ☼
  📖 Changing the World: For Want of a Nail ☼

King Kordas's son, Prince Restil, is Chosen by Companion Steladar
  📖 Arrows of the Queen: Chapter Five

King Valdemar “decided that the title of Herald should be made to mean more than it did, since only one person can be King or Heir, but there could be lots of Heralds ☼
  📖 Arrows of the Queen: Chapter Five

General Peralas Harleth is Chosen
  📖 Changing the World: For Want of a Nail

Chief Herald Beltran becomes Chancellor to King Kordas
  📖 Arrows of the Queen: Chapter Five ☼
  📖 Changing the World: For Want of a Nail ☼

Just After High Summer

Torimund dies, prompting Doladan to name the forest Pelagiris Forest
  ♘ "Pelagir" is a word in the Old Tongue that means "danger", making the literal translation as: Forest of Danger
  📖 Changing the World: For Want of a Nail

Late Autumn Early Winter

Five more soldiers die before Navar, Doladan and the others make it back to Haven, which has greatly improved in size and construction
  📖 Changing the World: For Want of a Nail

Master Rilbard is mentioned for the first time
  📖 Changing the World: For Want of a Nail

A Herald's Council is mentioned for the first time
  📖 Changing the World: For Want of a Nail

Prince Restil, who sits on the Herald's Council, has just turned twelve (12) years old
  ♘ Restil's age is based on Beyond: Chapter Two
  📖 Changing the World: For Want of a Nail

Mistress Emolde, former wetnurse to Restil and Dethwyn sits on the Herald's Council
  ♘ It is possible Emolde has been Chosen and is a Herald. Also, Beyond does not give a name for the other two boys born to Kordas and Isla. It is possible one is named Dethwyn. Hopefully, further documents will be found to confirm or correct this information found in the journal of Navar
  📖 Changing the World: For Want of a Nail

Journeyman-Mage Lorton sits on the Herald's Council
  ♘ It is possible Lorton has been Chosen and is a Herald
  📖 Changing the World: For Want of a Nail

Blydel and Imryn are named as journeyman-mages
  📖 Changing the World: For Want of a Nail

Mistress Karilgrass, the Chief Gardener, sits on the Heralds' Council
  ♘ It is possible Karilgrass has been Chosen and is a Herald
  📖 Changing the World: For Want of a Nail

There are now nearly twenty Companions in Valdemar
  📖 Changing the World: For Want of a Nail

The Journey's End is one of four taverns in Haven
  📖 Changing the World: For Want of a Nail

Navar meets Companion Ardatha for the first time
  📖 Changing the World: For Want of a Nail

Navar is Chosen by Companion Tisarand
  📖 Changing the World: For Want of a Nail

627 AF

♕ Reign of Queen Leshia ♕

Elspeth, future Queen of Valdemar, is born
  📖 Magic’s Promise: Chapter Two

726 AF

♔ Reign of King Tyrdel ♔

728 AF

Savil Ashkevron is born
  📖 Magic’s Pawn: Chapter Eight

Lancir is born
  ♘ Hypothesis: Magic’s Pawn claims that Lancir is feeling his age like Savil in Chapter Eight. Assumption is that he is Savil’s age
  📖 Magic’s Pawn: Chapter Eight

742 AF

Savil Ashkevron is fourteen years old. She packs up and leaves home for Haven
  📖 Magic’s Pawn

Savil Ashkevron is Chosen by Companion Kellan
  📖 Magic’s Pawn

748 AF

Kilchas is born
  📖 Magic’s Pawn: Chapter Four ☼

750 AF

King Tyrdel dies
  📖 Intrigues: Chapter Two

♕ Reign of Queen Elspeth the Peacemaker ♕

Elspeth, Queen of Valdemar, is twenty-eight (28) years old
  ☼ Age based on being seventy-six (76) when she died in 798 AF
  📖 Magic’s Pawn: Chapter Two

752 AF

Darvi is born to Queen Elspeth and her Consort
  ♘ Assuming Darvi's birth within a year of the marriage
  📖 Magic’s Pawn

766 AF

Herald-Mage-in-training Kilchas graduates to full Herald-Mage

Herald-Mage Lancir is Chosen by Companion Taver and becomes Monarch’s Own
  ☼ He is thirty-eight (38) years old
  📖 Magic’s Pawn: Chapter Eight

768 AF

Joserlin Corveau is born

Lissa Ashkevron is born to Lord Withen Ashkevron and Lady Treesa Ileana Brendywhin-Ashkevron of Forst Reach
  📖 Magic's Pawn: Chapter One

770 AF

Staven Frelennye is born
  📖 Magic’s Pawn: Chapter Six

One Hour Later

Tylendel Frelennye is born. Tylendel and his twin brother, Staven, share a mental link
  📖 Magic’s Pawn: Chapter Six

Olias is confronted while robbing a house, and sprains his ankle escaping. He and his horse run far into the night to evade pursuit. Just as he settles into a camp off the side of the road, he sees a horse approaching. A large boy is tied up in the saddle, and has obviously been brutally beaten, sliced, whipped, deliberately burned and half-scalped. Olias frees the boy, who speaks in a foreign language. Olias breaks his own ankle taking the boy down from the horse. The boy heals him and then heals his own wounds. He is mentally disabled and has trouble communicating. They share a meal
  📖 Sword of Ice: A Song for No One’s Mourning

774 AF

Randale is born to Herald-Mage Darvi, son of Queen Elspeth of Valdemar
  ♘ Darvi is twenty-two (22) years old

Shavri is born

782 AF

Summer

At the age of twelve (12), Staven Frelennye is as tall as a fifteen-year-old, when he is at a tournament and is propositioned by a woman ☼
  📖 Magic’s Pawn: Chapter Six

Tylendel, is mentally linked with his twin brother while Staven is having sex, and has all of his Gifts explosively triggered ☼
  📖 Magic’s Pawn: Chapter Six

The Next Day

Tylendel wakes up to a destroyed room along with Mage-Gift, Fetching, Thought-Sensing, and Empathy. He is twelve (12) years old
  📖 Magic’s Pawn: Chapter Six

Lady Cedrys, at Briary Holding, pushes her oldest son, Liaven, to be more scholarly, nearly forcing him to read day and night, until Liaven leaves and joins a mercenary-company
  📖 Magic’s Pawn: Chapter Two

784 AF

Tylendel Frelennye is Chosen by Companion Gala. He is fourteen (14) years old and has been experiencing fits of unconscious mage violence, terrifying everyone around him. Only Staven stands by him
  📖 Magic’s Pawn: Chapter Six

Lord Withen Ashkevron receives a marriage proposal for his daughter, Lissa Ashkevron. It is rejected
  ☼ Lissa is sixteen (16) years old
  📖 Magic’s Pawn: Chapter One

787 AF

Late Winter/Early Spring

Radevel, cousin of Vanyel Ashkevron, is fifteen (15) years old and is willing to help Vanyel practice a new fighting technique
  📖 Magic’s Pawn: Chapter One

Vanyel Ashkevron, at fifteen (15) years old, is one of the best horseback riders at Forst Reach
  📖 Magic’s Pawn: Chapter One

Armsmaster Jervis is a blond, crag-faced mercenary and he is angry at Vanyel for trying to learn a new style of fighting
  📖 Magic’s Pawn: Chapter One

Mekeal Ashkevron is thirteen (13) years old
  📖 Magic’s Pawn: Chapter One

Lissa Ashkevron is eighteen (18) years old, having been raised by Grandmother Ashkevron, and was going to the Guard in three days
  📖 Magic’s Pawn: Chapter One

Jervis mentions a hero named Veth Krethen ☼
  📖 Magic’s Pawn: Chapter One

Vanyel Ashkevron is beaten down six times by Armsmaster Jervis, who refused to honor Vanyel’s call of surrender. Vanyel’s left arm is broken in half, both bones in his lower arm had snapped
  📖 Magic’s Pawn: Chapter One

Aunt Serina is visiting her sister here, at Forst Reach, and had come with her own Healer as there had already been three miscarriages. The Healer is summoned to tend to Vanyel’s wounds
  📖 Magic’s Pawn: Chapter One

Lord Withen Ashkevron visits an injured Vanyel, raging from the report from Jervis that Vanyel had been cheating in practice
  📖 Magic’s Pawn: Chapter One

Vanyel mentions a Herald Seldasen, who had written a treatise on warfare and tactics that was assigned to Vanyel for study, by his tutor, Istal
  📖 Magic’s Pawn: Chapter One

Mekeal Ashkevron is moved out of the room he shares with Vanyel
  📖 Magic’s Pawn: Chapter One

Several Weeks Later

Melenna, one of Lady Treesa’s handmaidens, tries to seduce Vanyel and is rejected
  📖 Magic’s Pawn: Chapter One

Lissa Ashkevron, having delayed her joining the Guard as long as possible, says good-bye to her brother, Vanyel. She is almost eighteen (18) years old
  📖 Magic’s Pawn: Chapter One

Late Spring

Joserlin Corveau is eighteen (18) years old and fostered at Forst Reach. He shares a room with Mekeal
  📖 Magic’s Pawn: Chapter Two

Early Summer

Vanyel has been riding with his father on Lord Withen’s rounds through the countryside
  📖 Magic’s Pawn: Chapter One

Vanyel’s arm is almost completely healed, still lacking some feeling, when Trevor Corey’s page hands him a letter from his sister, Lissa
  📖 Magic’s Pawn: Chapter One

Father Leren is the assigned priest to Forst Reach and often lectures Vanyel on "proper masculine behavior"
  📖 Magic’s Pawn: Chapter One

Vanyel overhears his father and mother discuss plans to send Vanyel away to Haven to be the ward of Herald-Mage Savil Ashkevron, Lord Withen’s sister
  📖 Magic’s Pawn: Chapter One

That evening, after dinner, Lord Withen Ashkevron announces that Vanyel will be leaving the next day for Haven to be under the guardianship of Herald-Mage Savil
  📖 Magic’s Pawn: Chapter Two

That night Vanyel dreams of a plain of ice and snow. In the dream he is numb with cold. He feels no pain, no anguish. He is safe in isolation. Nobody can hurt him, as long as he doesn’t care ☼
  📖 Magic’s Pawn: Chapter Two

The Next Morning At Dawn

Deliberately thinking of the dream helps Vanyel numb his emotional pain ☼
  📖 Magic’s Pawn: Chapter Three

Withen Ashkevron bursts into Vanyel’s room to find Vanyel already packed, dressed, and strumming his lute ☼
  📖 Magic’s Pawn: Chapter Three

Vanyel and his two escorts stop for the night at an inn ☼
  📖 Magic’s Pawn: Chapter Three

Mid-Morning Next Day

Vanyel, along with his guards Erik and Garth, finally leave the inn, all with hangovers
  📖 Magic’s Pawn: Chapter Three

Tylendel is described as a tall, strikingly attractive, dark blond Herald-trainee of about sixteen (16) with brown eyes
  📖 Magic’s Pawn: Chapter Four

Savil mentions that five years ago Heralds and Herald-Mages were all crammed four to a room. Now the Herald’s quarters are brand new and have numerous empty rooms for new trainees
  📖 Magic’s Pawn: Chapter Four ☼

Savil keeps a collection of Hawkbrother featherwork masks on the wall above the couch in the outer room of her quarters
  📖 Magic’s Pawn: Chapter Four

Savil is second in rank only to the Queen's Own Herald, Seneschal's Herald, and Lord-Marshal's Herald
  📖 Magic’s Pawn: Chapter Four

Vanyel is introduced to Donni, Mardic and Tylendel by Savil. He is told that Margaret is the servant who brings them food and cleans up. Savil also instructs Donni to take Vanyel to Kayla for weapons work
  ♘ Kayla is Weaponsmaster
  📖 Magic’s Pawn: Chapter Four

Donni and Mardic are already lifebonded
  📖 Magic’s Pawn: Chapter Four

Next Morning

Vanyel is taken by Donni to meet Kayla at the new salle for weapons practice. The salle is a plain, rawly new wooden building with high clerestory windows. The structure was one single large room, with a mirrored wall and a carefully sanded wooden floor
  📖 Magic’s Pawn: Chapter Four

Vanyel meets Weaponsmaster Kayla who sets him to train under Duke Oden and alongside Lord Redel
  📖 Magic’s Pawn: Chapter Four

For the first time in his life, Vanyel is praised for his weapons work
  📖 Magic’s Pawn: Chapter Four

Just Before Noon

Savil takes Vanyel to the Throne Room to meet Queen Elspeth (a thin, dark-haired woman)
  📖 Magic’s Pawn: Chapter Four

An Hour Later

Mardic takes Vanyel to Bardic Collegium where he is taught History by Bard Chadran
  📖 Magic’s Pawn: Chapter Four

After History, Vanyel has a class on Religions (plural), which surprised him. In that day’s class he learned of the "People of the One" who had settled about Crescent Lake ☼
  📖 Magic’s Pawn: Chapter Four

After Religions, Vanyel attends a class on Literature where, just before it began, he overhears Chadran and Breda discuss the fact that Vanyel does not have the Bardic Gift
  📖 Magic’s Pawn: Chapter Four

After dinner, where Savil tells Vanyel that he does not have the Bardic Gift and cannot become even a minstrel, Vanyel decides to go to the Great Hall where all the young people gather for festivities
  📖 Magic’s Pawn: Chapter Four

Vanyel meets Liers in the Great Hall and listens to him wax eloquently about his older brother
  📖 Magic’s Pawn: Chapter Four

Bard Breda visits Savil in her chambers where she gets drunk with wine, as she feels regret and sadness for destroying Vanyel’s dreams of being a Bard. While “in her cups” Breda tells Tylendel “there are times when the Gift gets in the way of the music” and that if Vanyel was not heir to Forst Reach, she would snatch him up for training
  📖 Magic’s Pawn: Chapter Seven

At the Great Hall festivities, Vanyel learns from a small group of girls named Tashi, Reva and Cress; that Tylendel is shay’a’chern which means he likes boys and not girls
  📖 Magic’s Pawn: Chapter Four

Vanyel dreams again of the ice mountain pass
  📖 Magic’s Pawn: Chapter Four

Days Later

Savil speaks with Tylendel about his family ties and how Heralds cannot choose sides. Tylendel mentions Evan Leshara being in Court spreading lies about Tylendel’s twin brother, Lord Holder Staven Frelennye ☼
  📖 Magic’s Pawn: Chapter Five

Wester Leshara is mentioned by Savil as she berates Tylendel in an effort to test his strength of will as suggested by Herald-Mage Jaysen, Seneschal and Chosen by Companion Felar
  ♘ Wester Leshara is the head of the Leshara clan, blood enemies of the Frelennyes
  📖 Magic’s Pawn: Chapter Five

Savil mentions that Tylendel is a marginal Empath when he is not thinking of it
  📖 Magic’s Pawn: Chapter Five

Savil admits that she is a bad Field Herald because of her lack of ability to read people or how to handle them in a crisis
  📖 Magic’s Pawn: Chapter Five

When asked if Tylendel thought Vanyel was suicidal, Tylendel said no and that Vanyel is not the type, but that he, Tylendel, could be
  ♘ This remark from Tylendel did not age well
  📖 Magic’s Pawn: Chapter Five

Donni and Mardic are out on a Field trial with Shallan and her brood for a fortnight
  📖 Magic’s Pawn: Chapter Five

Savil attends a Council meeting with the Queen’s Own
  📖 Magic’s Pawn: Chapter Five

Vanyel dreams of the ice pass again and is awoken by Tylendel who had heard Vanyel crying out from his nightmare
  📖 Magic’s Pawn: Chapter Five

Vanyel and Tylendel sleep together for the first time
  📖 Magic’s Pawn: Chapter Five

Just Before Dawn the Next Day

Savil is finally returning from the Council session and discovers Tylendel is sleeping with Vanyel. After mind-speaking with Tylendel, Savil goes to sleep knowing that Vanyel, who had arrived a month before, will be okay now
  📖 Magic’s Pawn: Chapter Five

Later That Day

Vanyel, Tylendel and Savil talk about how to keep Withen Ashkevron from finding out about Vanyel being shay’a’chern
  📖 Magic’s Pawn: Chapter Five

After talking with Savil and Tylendel, Vanyel is about to head out to Companion’s Field when some of his female admirers come around the corner to speak with him. Their names are Jillian, Kertire, Jesalis, and Wendi whose sister, Ratha, was fostered with Lady Treesa, Vanyel’s mother
  📖 Magic’s Pawn: Chapter Six

Vanyel meets Gala, Tylendel’s Companion. This is also the first time Vanyel meets a Companion
  📖 Magic’s Pawn: Chapter Six

For just a moment, when looking at Companion Gala, Vanyel has “a disconcerting double vision image of the prancing Companion and an equally mischievous young woman of about Tylendel's age, laughing soundlessly”
  ♘ Hypothesis: For a brief moment Vanyel’s Mage-Sight activates, allowing him to see what may have been Gala in her human form before she died and was reincarnated as a Companion
  📖 Magic’s Pawn: Chapter Six

The Next Day Noon

After playing for the girls as he had promised, Vanyel returns to his room with bleeding fingers and a cramped hand. He still has no feeling in some fingers from when his arm was broken
  📖 Magic’s Pawn: Chapter Six

Tylendel calls Vanyel “ashke” for the first time and explains what it means: beloved. He tells Vanyel of how Savil had been trained in her abilities by a Tayledras Hawkbrother Adept named Starwind k’Treva who made her Wingsister ☼
  📖 Magic’s Pawn: Chapter Six

A Week Later

Savil notes that Tylenedel’s voice is more of a tenor and Vanyel’s voice is deeper
  📖 Magic’s Pawn: Chapter Six

Tylendel tells Savil that he and Vanyel have been planning a moment when Tylendel will pretend to be insulted by all the backstabbing comments Vanyel has been making about him, and the two of them will get into a very public fight. The public feuding is to mislead Withen Ashkevron if any rumors reach him about their relationship ☼
  📖 Magic’s Pawn: Chapter Six

Savil notes that Vanyel is becoming dependent on Tylendel, but Tylendel thinks Vanyel will grow out of it ☼
  📖 Magic’s Pawn: Chapter Six

A Fortnight Later Afternoon

Savil, Mardic and Donni are interrupted during mage practice by a member of the Guard telling them that Tylendel and Vanyel are fighting in the mud caused by a soaking rain
  📖 Magic’s Pawn: Chapter Six

Savil confronts Tylendel and Vanyel who have been fighting, and berates them in front of a large crowd. Vanyel and Tylendel are both injured and sent back to their individual quarters to await further punishment
  📖 Magic’s Pawn: Chapter Six

Late Autumn Afternoon

Vanyel reads a letter from his mother that says Melenna is pregnant with Mekeal Ashkevron’s child
  📖 Magic’s Pawn: Chapter Seven

It is Vanyel Ashkevrons birthday. He is sixteen (16) years old
  📖 Magic’s Pawn: Chapter Seven

Lissa Ashkevron is a member of Seven Corey Swordsmaids
  📖 Magic’s Pawn: Chapter Seven

Vanyel receives a letter from Evan Leshara asking for a meeting
  📖 Magic’s Pawn: Chapter Seven

Hot Autumn Night

Staven Frelennye, Tylendel’s twin brother, is killed
  📖 Magic’s Pawn: Chapter Seven

Autumn Sovvan-night

Herald-Mage-in-training Tylendel Frelennye is repudiated by his Companion Gala
  📖 Magic’s Pawn: Chapter Eight

Companion Gala dies fighting against wyrsa
  📖 Magic’s Pawn: Chapter Eight

Vanyel’s mental channels are blasted wide open when the Gate he was powering collapses and the Gate energy surges back through him ☼
  📖 Magic’s Pawn: Chapter Eight

Herald-Mage-in-training Tylendel Frelennye commits suicide by jumping off the Bell Tower of the Grove Temple. He was seventeen (17) years old
  📖 Magic’s Pawn: Chapter Eight

Vanyel Ashkevron is Chosen by Companion Yfandes. He is sixteen (16) years old
  📖 Magic’s Pawn: Chapter Nine

Randale, son of Herald-Mage Darvi and grandson of Queen Elspeth, is Chosen by Companion Esten

In Karse, the man who will one day be known as The Prophet, is born

788 AF

Medren, nephew of Vanyel Ashkevron, is born to Melenna and Mekeal Ashkevron out of wedlock, in Forst Reach

790 AF

Treven is born

792 AF

Jisa, biological daughter of Herald-Mage Vanyel Ashkevron, is born to Healer Shavri and her lifebonded Randale, grandson of Queen Elspeth of Valdemar ☼

Randale and Shavri are eighteen (18) years old

Herald-Mage Darvi, Heir to the throne of Valdemar, dies after slipping on the staircase

796 AF

Vanyel has an affair with a guard while at the Karse Border War. It lasts two or three months ☼
  📖 Magic’s Promise: Chapter One
  📖 Sword of Ice: Chance

Gifted twins Milla and Orun are Chosen on their tenth birthday. As they journey towards Haven, they tell their Companions Sorcha and Torin that their foresight has shown them that they have two possible futures: service to Valdemar, or Darkness. The Darkness is systematically killing everyone with the “spark,” a gift they are about to manifest, "what the songs say Herald Vanyel does on the Karsite border.” The Companions recognize it as the mage-gift, and say the continuing deaths explain why there are fewer mages being found and chosen. They increase their speed towards Haven to notify the Circle ☼
  📖 No True Way: Written in the Wind

Two Days Later

While resting on the road, they are attacked by demons disguised as wyrsa, which savage Orun’s arm ☼
  📖 No True Way: Written in the Wind

Three Days Later

After recovering for a night at a Waystation, they sense a large attacker tracking them. They flee the road and enter the woods. Orun thinks they are tracking his wound, and they separate hoping that one of them will make it to Haven. Torin and Orun are killed, and when the monster catches up and wounds Milla, Sorcha sends her on ahead and defends their rear. Milla continues afoot, but Sorcha soon realizes the monster is too strong for her to defeat. Milla hears a loud noise behind her, and suddenly the forest is silent. She eventually reaches the road, and trudges on towards Haven. She passes out, and wakes when a tinker picks her up and treats her wounds. Milla is relieved and pours out her tale as he consoles her. Suddenly his tone of voice changes, and she realizes he is the Darkness. He kills her ☼
  ☼ Assumption: Sorcha has used a Final Strike to kill the monster, at the cost of her own life
  📖 No True Way: Written in the Wind

798 AF

♔ Reign of King Randale ♔

Herald Randale, Heir to the Throne, becomes King of Valdemar

Heralds Mardic and Donni are both dead

King Randale and his lifebonded, Monarch’s Own Herald-Healer Shavri are twenty-four (24) years old

Jisa is six (6) years old

Vanyel Ashkevron is twenty-seven (27) years old

Medren, son of Mekeal Ashkevron and Melenna is ten (10) years old

Herald-Mage Savil Ashkevron is seventy (70) years old

802 AF

Stefen is thirteen years old and now fully aware that he is shaych
  📖 Magic’s Price: Chapter Two

804 AF

Jisa confronts Vanyel Ashkevron about who her biological father is and is happy to find out that Vanyel is her biological father
  ♘ Jisa is twelve (12) years old
  📖 Magic’s Price: Chapter One

806 AF

Herald Joshel becomes the Seneschal’s Herald of Valdemar
  📖 Magic’s Price: Chapter One

Medren begins his Journeyman trial in the north
  📖 Magic’s Price: Chapter Two

Stefen graduates to Journeyman status and begins training
  📖 Magic’s Price: Chapter Five

808 AF

Herald-in-training Treven is promoted to full Herald two years ahead of time due to the illness of King Randale
  📖 Magic’s Price: Chapter Thirteen

Herald-Mage Kilchas is killed. He is sixty (60) years old
  📖 Magic’s Price: Chapter Fourteen

Herald-Mage Adept Lissandra and her Companion, Shonsea, are killed
  📖 Magic’s Price: Chapter Fifteen

Herald-Mage Adept Savil Ashkevron and her Companion Kellan are killed by a magical construct. She is eighty (80) years old
  📖 Magic’s Price: Chapter Fifteen

Herald-Mage Adept Vanyel Ashkevron is backed by ALL the Companions to go hunting for the mage who killed Kilchas, Lissandra, and Savil Ashkevron
  📖 Magic’s Price: Chapter Sixteen

Vanyel Ashkevron and Stefen head north in search of the mage who killed three Herald-Mages and attacked Vanyel Ashkevron
  📖 Magic’s Price: Chapter Sixteen

A Week Later

In the lawless territory north of Valdemar, multiple groups of bandits hired by “Master Dark” go out every day hunting for a Herald
  📖 Magic’s Price: Chapter Seventeen

Two Weeks Later

Vanyel and Stefen reach Valdemar’s last guardpost at the edge of unclaimed territory, having plowed through continual snowstorms, camping at the side of the road. The snowstorms didn’t have the earmarks of wizard weather, but when the Guardpost Captain remarks on the unusual snowfall, Vanyel realized that the storms were created and sent from the north
  📖 Magic’s Price: Chapter Seventeen

The Next Day

Vanyel and Stefen are ambushed by dozens of bandits. Stefen’s horse bucks him off and he flees the melee on foot until he drops from exhaustion. He is overwhelmed by guilt for abandoning Vanyel and heads back
  📖 Magic’s Price: Chapter Seventeen

Late Afternoon

Stefen reaches the ambush site and finds Yfandes’ motionless, tail-less body. There is no sign of Vanyel amongst the carnage. Stefen collapses with grief
  📖 Magic’s Price: Chapter Seventeen

A bespelled powder provided by Master Dark was used to block Vanyel’s powers. At Lord Rendan’s bandit lair, Vanyel is brutally beaten and then horrifically assaulted by the bandits. After they are through, Rendan realizes that Vanyel is nearly dead, and sends for a healer to keep him alive for Master Dark
  📖 Magic’s Price: Chapter Seventeen

Past Sunset

Old Man Brodie has the Healing Gift but his fears interfered with his training. He gave up and moved north out of Valdemar, and now treats only animals, using his Gift covertly, concealing it by also applying ordinary treatments. However, three years ago the bandits discovered his secret and blackmailed him, regularly requiring him to treat their combat injuries. Today when he returns from healing a colt, a bandit is waiting to fetch him
  📖 Magic’s Price: Chapter Seventeen

Brodie is outraged at Vanyel’s condition. In addition to the assault, he is bleeding internally in a dozen places. Rendan orders him to do whatever it takes, on penalty of death for failure
  📖 Magic’s Price: Chapter Eighteen

Stefen realizes that Vanyel may still be alive elsewhere. He notices that Yfandes’ tail stump is bleeding, which means she is still alive. He searches her body for something magical that is holding her unconscious
  📖 Magic’s Price: Chapter Eighteen

A Candlemark Later

Stefen finds a dart under Yfandes’ mane, tingling with magic. When he removes it, she jumps to her feet
  📖 Magic’s Price: Chapter Eighteen

Brodie discovers that Vanyel’s Healing Magic is keeping him alive. Vanyel’s vast storehouse of magic power is there for Brodie to use, but the spell blocking his Mage Gift is also blocking his Healing. Brodie finds that the spell is unbreakable from the inside, but clumsily constructed on the outside. He finds a point where it is giving Vanyel synesthesia, a physical connection that Brodie can reach. He gleefully sets to work to crack its’ shell, knowing this will allow Vanyel to free himself entirely
  📖 Magic’s Price: Chapter Eighteen

Yfandes takes charge of Stefen and they set out to rescue Vanyel
  📖 Magic’s Price: Chapter Eighteen

Vanyel prowls around inside his own mind, enraged. He periodically tests the confining spell, and at last it cracks. He breaks out in a wild fury, looking for any target
  📖 Magic’s Price: Chapter Eighteen

Near Dawn

Yfandes and Stefen find the bandits’ lair. As they look it over, flames burst out of the building in an explosion of Magic power. They rush in, and find many bodies burning, but others still alive. Stefen stops Vanyel from torturing the survivors. Vanyel is struck with guilt from the massacre, which included the innocent Healer. Yfandes and Stefen surround him with love, but know that the torment has broken him
  📖 Magic’s Price: Chapter Eighteen

They leave but don’t know where to go. They are approached by a kyree, Aroon, who was attracted by the magic. He offers them shelter with the Hot Springs Clan
  📖 Magic’s Price: Chapter Eighteen

Sunset

They enter the kyrees’ cave complex in the foothills of the mountains where Vanyel had been heading. The kyree shaman Hyrryl cannot mindheal Vanyel but encourages Stefen to just give Vanyel his love
  📖 Magic’s Price: Chapter Eighteen

Time Passes

Vanyel’s emotional recovery takes time, but it is necessary so that he will not be weak against Master Dark
  📖 Magic’s Price: Chapter Eighteen

When he is ready to face the world again, he explains what he learned from probing Rendan’s mind. Master Dark has been operating a long time, since before Elspeth the Peacemaker was born. He wants Valdemar. For years he has been killing Herald-Mages and trainees from a distance, including children first manifesting their Mage Gift
  📖 Magic’s Price: Chapter Eighteen

Herald-Mage Adept Vanyel Ashkevron and his Companion, Yfandes, die while preventing Leareth and his army from invading Valdemar. Vanyel Ashkevron was thirty-eight (38) when he died
  📖 Magic’s Price: Chapter Nineteen

The Forest of Wendwinter becomes known as the Forest of Sorrows
  📖 Magic’s Price: Chapter Nineteen

Autumn

Herald-King Randale and his lifebonded, King’s Own Herald-Healer Shavri die. They were both thirty-four (34) years old
  📖 Magic’s Price: Chapter Nineteen

Herald-Heir Treven is crowned King of Valdemar
  📖 Magic’s Price: Chapter Nineteen

Jisa is Chosen by Taver and becomes Monarch’s Own
  📖 Magic’s Price: Chapter Nineteen

♔ Reign of King Treven & Queen Jisa ♕

Bard Stefen tries to commit suicide in the Forest of Sorrows, but is stopped by the ghost of Vanyel Ashkevron. He is given a task to perform before he can come join Vanyel Ashkevron as a ghost in the Forest of Sorrows. Stefen is nineteen (19) at this time

812 AF

Bard Rhiannon and her twin, Healer Dionne come across a strange walled-in town that initially denies them admittance. There are no women and children around, and when they find them in hiding, they are bruised and have been abused. After Rhiannon is poisoned and Dionne exhausts herself healing her, Rhiannon has to flee to bring back help ☼
  📖 Finding the Way: Songs of a Certain Sort

832 AF

A Companion on search tries to Choose a mistreated boy, the heir to substantial wealth but completely controlled by his uncle ☼
  📖 Pathways: Reborn

834 AF

Aging twins Bard Rhiannon and Healer Dionne are at a loss when a traumatized young Herald is assigned to them ☼
  📖 Changing the World: The Last Part of the Way

838 AF

Thirty years after Vanyel's death, a young bandit enters the Forest of Sorrows. A bloodthirsty mage is seeking him, and he receives help from an unimaginable source
  📖 Sword of Ice: In the Forest of Sorrows

842 AF

♔ Reign of King Chalinel ♔

  ♘ ☼ Hypothesis: Chalinel may be the son of King Teren and Queen Jisa, as well as father of Tanivel, Lavenna, Alain, Alara, Kristen, Kole and Katen and 5 more. Elspeth is specified as Alain’s great-great grandmother, so she’s Chalinel’s great-grandmother, Treven’s unnamed dad is his grandfather, Treven is Chalinel’s father. Chalinel has 12 kids, any brother could never get the throne off him. So Kyril would have to be one of his unnamed children, and Chalinel’s Heir Tanivel (Vel) would have to die (and possibly his twin sister Vixen as well?) in order for Kyril to inherit, also assuming he is the next-oldest son.. In this scenario, Jisa might have had Chalinel as early as 809-810. By 828 he is old enough to start fathering children. Felice pops them out in multiples so she has only 5 pregnancies. If her youngest, Alain, was born in 833 (yikes), he could be 16 in 849, while Chalinel still reigns
The only issue with this scenario is it leaves Kyril with 10 siblings running around, unless they all went off and died at a Karse war

♔ Reign of King Kiril ♔

852 AF

942 AF

♔ Reign of Chalinel ♔

Herald Alain, youngest son of King Chalinel, is on his internship circuit around Lake Evendim. While working to defend fishing villages against raiders, he is captured. Using his gift of Animal Mindspeech he calls for help, and the denizens of the deep save the day
  ♘ At this time, Chalinel is King of Valdemar alongside his Consort, Felice. Some of their children include: Crown Prince Tanivel "Vel" and his twin, Princess Lavenna "Vixen"; Princess Alara and her twin brother Prince Alain, and the triplets Princess Kristen, Katen and Prince Kole. There are five other children, unnamed: a set of triplets and a set of twins
  📖 Masters of Fantasy: Out of the Deep

1034 AF

♔ Reign of Unknown Ruler ♕

Pol is born

1052 AF

Herald Pol completes his year-and-a-half internship. He is nineteen (19), almost twenty (20), years old

1060 AF

Theran, heir to the throne of Valdemar, is born

Fyllis, daughter of the Duke of Brendan, is born

Amaly is born to Herald Pol and Healer Ilea
  ♘ Herald Pol is twenty-seven (27) years old

1068 AF

Lavan Chitward is born to Archer Chitward and Nelda Hardcrider Chitward
  📖 Brightly Burning: Chapter Five

1070 AF

Elenor is born to Herald Pol and Healer Ilea
  ♘ Herald Pol is thirty-six (36) years old
  📖 Brightly Burning: Chapter Five

1076 AF

The Monarch of Valdemar dies leaving Herald-trainee and Heir, Theran, to assume the Throne upon graduating to full Herald. The court is run by the Monarch’s Own and the Council

1078 AF

Amaly receives her full Healer Greens. She is eighteen (18) years old
  ♘ Hypothesis: That you have to be eighteen before receiving full Greens
  📖 Brightly Burning: Chapter Five

Healer Amaly marries Ranolf

1084 AF

Malken is Chosen by Companion Hayka. He is nine (9) years old
  📖 Brightly Burning: Chapter Six

Fall

Lavan Chitward receives cloth-merchant tools from Guildmaster Howell. Lavan Chitward is sixteen (16) years old at this time
  📖📖  Brightly Burning: Chapter One

Samael Chitward, Lavan Chitward’s older brother is already apprenticed to Master Guildsman Iresh
  📖📖  Brightly Burning: Chapter One

The Next Day

Lavan Chitward is told he will be starting school the next day
  📖📖  Brightly Burning: Chapter One

The Next Day

Lavan Chitward and his father, Archer Chitward, go to the school where they meet Master Keileth
  📖  Brightly Burning: Chapter Two

Master Keileth places Lavan Chitward in the Third Form
  📖  Brightly Burning: Chapter Two

Upon arriving in the classroom, Lavan Chitward is introduced to the Third Form instructor, Herewan
  📖  Brightly Burning: Chapter Two

Lavan Chitward meets Owyn Kittlekine (called Owly by the Sixth Form students), a fourteen year old student who is assigned to show Lavan Chitward around
  📖  Brightly Burning: Chapter Two

At lunch time Lavan Chitward meets a sixteen year old girl called “Froggy” and Lavan Chitward is bullied by students in Sixth Form. Two of the main leaders of Sixth Form are Tyron and Derwit
  📖  Brightly Burning: Chapter Two

One Week Later

Lavan Chitward tries to speak with a Fifth Form girl only to be turned down. He avoids all girls after this only to find the Sixth Form students have started calling him shaych
  📖  Brightly Burning: Chapter Three

Two Weeks Later

Lavan Chitward is sent home for being ill because his head was pounding and causing him pain
  📖  Brightly Burning: Chapter Three

Ten Days Later

Lavan Chitward is better and is sent back to school. It is now closer to winter
  📖  Brightly Burning: Chapter Three

Lavan Chitward is struck again by a blinding headache that causes him to pass out twice at school. A Healer takes him home to explain things to Nelda Hardcrider Chitward
  📖  Brightly Burning: Chapter Four

Next Day

Herald Pol, Chosen by Companion Satiran, turns fifty years old this month
  📖  Brightly Burning: Chapter Five

MindHealer-trainee, Elenor, is fourteen years old
  📖  Brightly Burning: Chapter Five

Healer Ilea is in service on the Southern Border
  📖  Brightly Burning: Chapter Ten

King Theran has one son named Clevis, who is five years old, a two year old, and another baby
  📖  Brightly Burning: Chapter Five

Queen Fyllis is two months pregnant with another baby
  📖  Brightly Burning: Chapter Five

King Theran and Queen Fyllis are both twenty-four years old
  📖  Brightly Burning: Chapter Five

Herald Pol gets a boost from Satiran to scan Haven for the traces of a Gift he felt the night before
  📖  Brightly Burning: Chapter Five

Next Day

Herald Pol plays cards at lunch with Herald Damina, Herald Tevar (youngest brother of King Theran), and Herald Melly
  📖  Brightly Burning: Chapter Six

Herald Pol has dinner with Heralds Jonotan, Kiela, Lerrys, Wernar, and Charis
  📖  Brightly Burning: Chapter Six

Herald Charis tells the others that she has just finished reporting to the King that they have found out that Karse will be starting a full-blown war by Midwinter, or next summer at the latest
  📖  Brightly Burning: Chapter Six

Herald-trainee Malken has his Gift of Foresight fully awaken and he has a vision of thousands of people burning and somehow Herald Pol is in the middle of all of it
  📖  Brightly Burning: Chapter Six

Herald Pol goes back to his room to find Herald-trainee Malken crying in his room
  📖  Brightly Burning: Chapter Six

Herald-trainee Malken is almost ten years old
  📖  Brightly Burning: Chapter Six

Next Day

Lavan Chitward is sent back to school
  📖  Brightly Burning: Chapter Four

Lavan Chitward stays in his classroom during lunch thinking it a good way of avoiding Tyron and the other Sixth Form students
  📖  Brightly Burning: Chapter Four

Four Days Later

Owyn asks Lavan Chitward if he can join him in staying in the classrooms during lunch to avoid the Sixth Form students
  📖  Brightly Burning: Chapter Seven

Next Day

Lavan Chitward and Owyn are joined in the classroom during lunch by Liss
  📖  Brightly Burning: Chapter Seven

Companion Lada, with two moons left in her pregnancy leaves to go find her Chosen
  📖  Brightly Burning: Chapter Eleven

Several Weeks Later

Herald Pol is riding Companion Satiran when a tree falls on the two of them
  📖  Brightly Burning: Chapter Seven

Wrenlet is Chosen by Companion Lada
  ♘ Hypothesis: Wrenlet is thirteen years old

One Day Later

Lavan Chitward is caught by Tyron, Derwit, and the other Sixth Form bullies and is taken to a dark room to be whipped and beaten
  📖  Brightly Burning: Chapter Seven

Lavan Chitward is caned by Tyron and the fear and anger burst from Lavan Chitward and he manifests his Firestarting Gift, igniting Tyron, Loman, and Derwit instantly. Another boy gets instantly burned when he tries to escape. The other boys simply cower and when Lavan Chitward tries to control the flame it starts to burn him. Lavan Chitward passes out and the fires are extinguished
  📖  Brightly Burning: Chapter Seven

Three Days Later

Herald Pol wakes up and discusses with his Healer about his injury and the news of the fire at the school. The Healer mentions that the supposed victim is in his care and hasn’t woken up yet. Herald Pol asks the Healer to quickly heal him so that he can go talk to this boy (Lavan Chitward)
  📖  Brightly Burning: Chapter Eight

A Day & A Half Later

Herald Pol is healed
  📖  Brightly Burning: Chapter Eight

Herald Pol goes to the Captain of the Guard, Captain Telamaine, to discuss the case of the fire at the school
  📖  Brightly Burning: Chapter Eight

Captain Telamaine asks Herald Pol to take over the whole investigation. Herald Pol agrees
  📖  Brightly Burning: Chapter Eight

Herald Pol goes to speak with Owyn Kittlekine
  📖  Brightly Burning: Chapter Eight

Owyn opens up to Herald Pol and tells him all that he knew about what had gone on at the school
  📖  Brightly Burning: Chapter Eight

Herald Pol interviews several more students regarding the school and becomes very angry
  📖  Brightly Burning: Chapter Eight

Herald Pol returns to Captain Telamaine and gives him the bare-bones facts of the interviews. The Captain of the Guard closes down the school
  📖  Brightly Burning: Chapter Eight

Herald Pol returns to the Palace to bring his notes of the interviews to the Seneschal’s Herald, Trevor. Herald Trevor tells Herald Pol to interview Lavan Chitward as soon as possible
  📖  Brightly Burning: Chapter Eight

Three Days Later False Summer

Lavan Chitward wakes up and after eating is approached by Herald Pol
  📖  Brightly Burning: Chapter Nine

Lavan Chitward gets angry at the questioning and the memories and ignites some torches and a few bushes. Just when he is about to give up Lavan Chitward is Chosen by Companion Kalira, daughter of Satiran, Companion of Herald Pol
  📖  Brightly Burning: Chapter Nine

Herald trainee Lavan Chitward is sixteen years old
  📖  Brightly Burning: Chapter Nine

Companion Satiran tells Herald Pol that he believes the bond between Lavan Chitward and Kalira is more than a bond between a Herald and his Companion. He believes that the bond is a lifebond
  📖  Brightly Burning: Chapter Nine

Upon entering Heralds Collegium Herald Pol is accosted by Captain Telamaine, the Lord Marshal and his Herald, Marak – Seneschal Greely and his Herald, Trevor – and the King’s Own, Herald Jedin. They begin to argue until Herald Pol tells them to shut up and go to the Lesser Council Chamber
  📖  Brightly Burning: Chapter Ten

King Theran enters the Council Room to help calm the situation
  📖  Brightly Burning: Chapter Ten

Companion Lada brings her newly Chosen, Wrenlet, to the Herald’s Collegium
  📖  Brightly Burning: Chapter Eleven

The Next Day

Herald-trainee Lavan Chitward meets Healer-trainee Elenor for the first time
  📖  Brightly Burning: Chapter Ten

Lavan Chitward meets up with Herald Pol, Companion Satiran, Companion Kalira and Healer-trainee Elenor in the gardens
  📖  Brightly Burning: Chapter Ten

Lavan Chitward learns that his parents have been there every day checking on him and waiting to see him well
  📖  Brightly Burning: Chapter Ten

Archer Chitward and Nelda Hardcrider Chitward arrive that moment to see Lavan Chitward
  📖  Brightly Burning: Chapter Ten

Lavan Chitward walks with his parents in the Royal Gardens after his mother apologizes for not believing him about the bullies at school
  📖  Brightly Burning: Chapter Ten

Six Days Later

False Summer ends and Autumn returns with a vengeance
  📖  Brightly Burning: Chapter Eleven

Several Days Later

Pol helps Lavan Chitward move from the Healers Wing to his own room in the Herald’s Collegium
  📖  Brightly Burning: Chapter Eleven

At lunch Lavan Chitward meets Herald-trainee Tuck Chester, who was Chosen by Companion Dacerie, and Herald-trainee Fyllia
  📖  Brightly Burning: Chapter Eleven

After lunch Lavan Chitward sees Companions Field for the first time and rides Kalira for the first time as well
  📖  Brightly Burning: Chapter Eleven

During their ride, Lavan Chitward meets Companion Rolan for the first time
  📖  Brightly Burning: Chapter Eleven

After Rolan examines Lavan Chitward’s memories Lavan Chitward meets King’s Own Herald Jedin for the first time
  📖  Brightly Burning: Chapter Eleven

Companion Lada is in foal and probably will drop tonight. Herald-trainee Wrenlet has only been here a fortnight
  📖  Brightly Burning: Chapter Eleven

Next Day

Lavan Chitward starts classes at the Herald’s Collegium
  📖  Brightly Burning: Chapter Eleven

In Field’s Investigation class, taught by Herald Artero, Lavan Chitward correctly guesses the answer to a difficult problem
  📖  Brightly Burning: Chapter Twelve

Odo is the Weaponsmaster at the Collegium
  📖  Brightly Burning: Chapter Twelve

Three Days Later Morning

Tori is the Housekeeper of the Collegium
  📖  Brightly Burning: Chapter Thirteen

Tuck and Lan leave to spend Midwinter Holiday at Tuck’s parents
  📖  Brightly Burning: Chapter Thirteen

Tuck mentions that his dream is to one day become Herald Chronicler
  📖  Brightly Burning: Chapter Thirteen

Sunset

Tuck and Lavan reach the Chester Farm
  📖  Brightly Burning: Chapter Thirteen

Midwinter Holiday

Lan arrives at his parents for Midwinter Feast
  📖  Brightly Burning: Chapter Fourteen

Macy Chitward gives Lan a beautiful piece of embroidery that she had done. “It was very much a miniature tapestry; a perfect copy of the crest of Valdemar, with every star in the background picked out in silver, every link in the Windrider’s broken chains delineated completely.”
  📖  Brightly Burning: Chapter Fourteen

Jisette Jelnack attacks Lan and Kalira, accusing Lavan of murdering her son, Tyron. Her husband tries to stop her, though not very well, and fails. Before Lavan could lose control of his Gift, Kalira slips loose and runs away
  📖  Brightly Burning: Chapter Fourteen

Next Morning

Herald Pol calls for an emergency meeting with the Seneschal, Greeley; Captain Telamaine, and King’s Own Jedin. The Captain assigns two Guardsmen to escort Pol to retrieve the bridle stolen from Kalira by Jisette Jelnack
  📖  Brightly Burning: Chapter Fifteen

Herald Pol and two Guardsmen confront the Jelnacks at their residence and demand the bridle back
  📖  Brightly Burning: Chapter Fifteen

Lan is already en route back to Chester Farm. He arrived later that evening
  📖  Brightly Burning: Chapter Fifteen

Lan learns from Pa Chester how to milk a cow
  📖  Brightly Burning: Chapter Fifteen

1158 AF

A Shin’a’in Swordsworn dies. One hundred and four years from now he will train Tarma in a two-handed pattern-dance
  📖  Oathbound: Chapter Six
  📖  Oathblood: Keys

1254 AF

Idra, princess of Rethwellan, forms a mercenary company called Idra’s Sunhawks

1258 AF

Tarma shena Tale’sedrin is born on the Plains to the Clan Tale’sedrin
  ♘ Hypothesis: This is based on Tarma being two years away from being bonded when her Clan is massacred
  ♘ Hypothesis: You have to be eighteen to be bonded to a mate

Warrl, the kyree, is born
  ♘ Hypothesis: Tarma says Warrl might be as old as her
  📖 By the Sword: Chapter Four

1260 AF

Kethry’s mother dies
  📖  Oathbound: Chapter One

1270 AF

♔ Reign of King Arden & Queen Leesa ♕

1272 AF

Mara Yveda tries to take magic by stealing Master Loren’s staff. Realizing that it held no magic itself she broke it in half and runs away
  📖  Oathblood: The Talisman

1274 AF

End of Summer

In two years Tarma will have finished her sword training and will also be bonded to Dharin
  ♘ Hypothetical: Tarma is probably sixteen years old
  📖  Oathblood: Sword Sworn

Tarmas brother-uncle Kefta finishes his sword-dance and chooses Tarma to sing next in the celebration of a successful horse trading. In the middle of Tarmas song at the celebration her Clan was having, a group of bandits attack and kill all in her Clan but her. Tarmas voice is ruined when she is nearly strangled to death by a bandit
  📖  Oathblood: Sword Sworn

Seven Days & Nights Later

Tarma stays with Clan Lih’eirden to heal
  📖  Oathblood: Sword Sworn

On the morning of the eighth day Tarma cries blood-feud and takes Oath to be a Sword Sworn
  📖  Oathblood: Sword Sworn

The Morning After Becoming Swordsworn

Tarma leaves at dawn to begin her search for the bandits
  📖  Oathblood: Sword Sworn

At Midnight

Tarma gets her first training session from a dead male Shin’a’in swordsworn
  📖  Oathblood: Sword Sworn

Four Nights Later

Tarma gets trained from a woman Swordsworn
  📖  Oathblood: Sword Sworn

Kethry gets Need, when she is leaving the White Winds School, from an old mercenary named Baryl Longarm
  📖  Oathbound: Chapter One

1276 AF

Tarma and Kethry have been partners for six months
  📖  Oathbound: Chapter One

Kethry is nineteen years old
  ♘ Hypothetical: Kethry mentions it has been seven years since she escaped her marriage
  📖  Oathbound: Chapter Two

Tarma is eighteen years old

Kavinestral is twenty-seven years old
  📖  Oathbound: Chapter Two

Tarma meets Justin Twoblade and Ikan Dryvale for the first time in Mournedealth, Jkatha
  📖  Oathbound: Chapter Two

Tarma, Kethry, Justin and Ikan Dryvale manage to disgrace Kavin and Wethes before heading to the Plains
  📖  Oathbound: Chapter Three

Two Days Later

Tarma and Kethry arrive in Potter and meet Master Egan Potter, Guildmaster of Wrightguild
  📖  Oathblood: The Talisman

Mara Yveda dies being shot with arrows by Tarma when Mara tries to kill Kethry by taking on the form of a bear
  📖  Oathblood: The Talisman

Several Weeks Later

Tarma and Kethry arrive on the Plains. They spend spring and summer there

Early Fall

Tarma and Kethry leave the Plains
  📖  Oathbound: Chapter Five

Deep in the Pelagir Hills Kethry summons a familiar and a kyree named Warrl arrives and bonds with Tarma instead of Kethry
  📖  Oathbound: Chapter Five

Late Fall

Tarma and Kethry sign on with the Mercenary’s Guild and almost immediately get hired by Sir Skolte to escort his bride, Darthela from Lythecare to Fromish
  📖  Oathbound: Chapter Six

Beginning of Winter

Tarma and Kethry meet-up with Justin and Ikan Dryvale in Fromish
  📖  Oathbound: Chapter Six

Tarma and Kethry sign on with Justin and Ikan Dryvale to escort some jewel merchants from Fromish to Mournedealth. Tarma and Kethry leave the caravan before getting to Mournedealth
  📖  Oathbound: Chapter Six

1278 AF

Tarma is trained by a male Swordsworn who teaches her a two-handed pattern-dance
  📖  Oathbound: Chapter Six
  📖  Oathblood: Keys

Captain Idra of the Sunhawks formed the mercenary Sunhawks twenty-five years before meeting Tarma and Kethry

It has been four or five years since they found out that Bard Leslac has been creating ballads about them
  📖  Oathbreakers: Chapter One

Lady Idra, Captain of the Sunhawks and Princess of Rethwellan is murdered by her brother King Raschar of Rethwellan

Tarma and Kethry meet Herald Roald, heir to the throne of Valdemar and son of King Arden and Queen Leesa

King Raschar of Rethwellan is killed

Prince Stefansen is made king of Rethwellan. He is married to Metris and has a son named Megrarthon

Bard Leslac is forced to marry Countess Reine of Valdemar

1304 AF

Estrel is born
  📖  Oathblood: Oathblood

1306 AF

Bard Lauren arrives at Forst Reach where he will be stationed for a while
  📖  Oathblood: Spring Plowing At Forst Reach

1314 AF

Jadrek is born to Kethryveris and Archivist Jadrek
  📖  Oathblood: Wings of Fire

Kira and Merili begin training with a retired acrobat and contortionist
  📖  Oathblood: Oathblood

1316 AF

Winter

Kemoc Ashkevron is Lord of Forst Reach
  📖  Oathblood: Spring Plowing At Forst Reach

Bard Lauren is still stationed at Forst Reach
  📖  Oathblood: Spring Plowing At Forst Reach

The weather changes and the landscape begins to thaw
  📖  Oathblood: Spring Plowing At Forst Reach

Two Days Later

Lord Kemoc introduces Lauren to plowing with war horses
  📖  Oathblood: Spring Plowing At Forst Reach

Bard Lauren leaves for Haven
  📖  Oathblood: Spring Plowing At Forst Reach

Beginning of Summer/End of Spring

Jadrie is 7 years old
  📖  Oathblood: Spring Plowing At Forst Reach

Kira and Merili begin training in dancing
  📖  Oathblood: Oathblood

Jadrie correctly gentles her first horse and completes a sort of rite of passage
  📖  Oathblood: Spring Plowing At Forst Reach

Tarma receives a message from King Stefansen
  📖  Oathblood: Spring Plowing At Forst Reach

Jodi - formerly Scout in the Sunhawks
  📖  Oathblood: Spring Plowing At Forst Reach

Beaker - former Sunhawk
  📖  Oathblood: Spring Plowing At Forst Reach

Both are looking for business as horsetalkers
  📖  Oathblood: Spring Plowing At Forst Reach

Kyra - former Sunhawk

Archivist Jadrek is still alive
  📖  Oathblood: Spring Plowing At Forst Reach

Bard Lauren asks Tarma to help in training horses. He had been sent by King Roald to Stefansen and Stef sent him to Tarma
  📖  Oathblood: Spring Plowing At Forst Reach

Captain Idra, leader of the Mercenary Guild Company Idra's Sunhawks
  📖  Oathblood: Spring Plowing At Forst Reach

Tarma was Scoutleader and Kethry was Company Mage
  📖  Oathblood: Spring Plowing At Forst Reach

Tarma and Bard Lauren get Stormwing to Gate them to a Vale on the northern border of Valdemar, along with Beaker and Jodi
  📖  Oathblood: Spring Plowing At Forst Reach

1318 AF

Kira and Merili begin training with their fathers Weaponsmaster
  📖  Oathblood: Oathblood

1332 AF

Talamir is born

Priest Henrick is ordered to Cleanse three children, but instead kidnaps them and escapes across the Border. He is met with a Herald there and is taken to a Temple of the Lord of Light
  📖  Exile’s Honor: Chapter One

1356 AF

Herald-in-training Elcarth graduates to full Herald. Herald Jadus was counselor to Elcarth during internship

Prince Darenthallis of Rethwellan is born to King Megrarthon of Rethwellan
  📖 By the Sword: Chapter Ten

Shallan, scout for the Skybolts, is born. Her mother is a member of Idra's Sunhawks mercenary company
  📖 By the Sword: Chapter Eleven

1364 AF

Alberich was thirteen when he was chosen to be schooled in the Karse military
  📖 Exile’s Honor: Prologue

1366 AF

Dierna, daughter of Lord Orsen Brodey, is sent to the Sisters of Agnetha cloister to learn the "womanly arts." She is eight years old
  📖 By the Sword: Chapter One

1368 AF

Dirk is born

1370 AF

Tarma shena Talesedrin, Kalenedral warrior of the Shin'a'in Clan of the Hawk, leaves her old mare with her Clan and takes a younger beast, the fourth warsteed to be called "Hells-bane"
  📖 By the Sword: Chapter Four

Sherrill is born near Lake Evendim

Shallan becomes a mercenary. Her mother had been a member of the mercenary Company, The Sunhawks. She is fourteen years old
  📖 By the Sword: Chapter Eleven

Selenay, daughter of King Sendar, becomes Heir to the throne when she is Chosen by Companion Caryo and begins her training in the Herald Collegium
  ♘ Hypothesis: She is about thirteen at this time

Nerrissa is born

1372 AF

Kerowyn is seventeen years old
  📖  By the Sword: Chapter One

Alberich was given a horse as promotion gift that turns out later to be Companion, Kantor
  📖  Exile’s Honor: Prologue

Derk is a scullion working at prepping the High Feast
  📖 By the Sword: Chapter One

Perry, a cooks helper, gets whacked by Kerowyn for trying to eat icing off the wedding cake
  📖 By the Sword: Chapter One

Ami is the dishwasher in the kitchen
  📖 By the Sword: Chapter One

Wendar is the Seneschal for Lord Rathgar, Kerowyn's father
  📖 By the Sword: Chapter One

Kerowyn mentions having learned how to fight with a knife from Armsmaster Dent
  📖 By the Sword: Chapter One

Dierna is almost fifteen and about to be married to Lordan (Kerowyn’s brother and son of Rathgar and Lenore, daughter of Kethryveris and Jadrek, the Archivist)
  📖 By the Sword: Chapter One

Seneschal Wendar and Kerowyn find Armsmaster Dent, along with many others, had been killed by the wedding crashers
  📖 By the Sword: Chapter Two

Guardsman Hewerd manages to live long enough to tell Kerowyn that there was a mage with the invaders and that they kidnapped Dierna
  📖 By the Sword: Chapter Two

Dierna's uncle is Lord Baron Reichert, who has used the pretext of familial insult to add to his lands more than once
  📖 By the Sword: Chapter Two

Kerowyn, riding her Shin'a'in mare, Verenna, goes off to ask her grandmother, Kethryveris, for help
  📖 By the Sword: Chapter Two

Kerowyn meets Tarma for the first time
  📖 By the Sword: Chapter Three

Kethryveris offers Need to Kerowyn, who sees the writing on the blade, "Womans Need calls me, as Womans Need made me. Her Need will I answer as my maker bade me"
  📖 By the Sword: Chapter Three

Tarma, with kyree Warrl, decide to follow Kerowyn, while Kethryveris goes to the Keep to tend to Lordan's wounds
  📖 By the Sword: Chapter Three

Late Night/Early Morning

Need takes over Kerowyn's body and Kerowyn kills a man for the first time
  📖 By the Sword: Chapter Four

With the help of Tarma, Warrla and Need, Kerowyn fights through the bandits, and manages to kill the mage as well as the demon that had been called up to feed on Dierna
  📖 By the Sword: Chapter Four

After collecting her wedding presents, Dierna thanks Kerowyn and the two of them ride back to the Keep
  📖 By the Sword: Chapter Four

Skif is born

Several Days Later

Lord Rathgar has been buried
  📖 By the Sword: Chapter Five

Tarma and Kerowyn are training children and young adults in archery and defense
  📖 By the Sword: Chapter Five

One of the thirty seasoned fighters Tarma was able to hire for Lordan was Lyla Stormcloud. A tall, golden-skinned daughter of a Shin'a'in and a Full Bard-Assassin
  📖 By the Sword: Chapter Five

Jadrek, son of Kethryveris and Jadrek the Archivist, is the shaman of Talesedrin
  📖 By the Sword: Chapter Five

Several Days Later

Captain Alberich of Karse is Chosen after being rescued by Companion Kantor from a burning shed in Sunsdale, Karse
  📖  Exile’s Honor: Prologue

Kerowyn's rescue of Dierna is a story that has now been turned into a song simply called "The Ride"
  📖 By the Sword: Chapter Five

During the wedding feast Kerowyn decides to leave and go join her grandmother, Kethryveris' and Tarma's school for training
  📖 By the Sword: Chapter Five

Four Days Later

Heraldic Trainee and Heir Selenay is half-way through her Herald training. She is almost sixteen years old at this time
  📖  Exile’s Honor: Chapter One

Kerowyn has been chopping wood for three days now in an effort to build muscles and strengthen her arms, back, shoulders and aim
  📖 By the Sword: Chapter Six

One Week Later

Herald Joyeaus, is the Lord Marshal’s Herald
  📖  Exile’s Honor: Chapter One

One Week Later

Kerowyn is told about her family history
  📖 By the Sword: Chapter Six

Warrl begins training Kerowyn in the use of her Mindspeech
  📖 By the Sword: Chapter Seven

Alberich meets King’s Own Talamir for the first time
  📖  Exile’s Honor: Chapter One

King’s Own Herald Talamir is forty years old
  ♘ Hypothesis: Exile’s Honor: Chapter One places Talamirs age between forty and fifty years old. Therefore I’m placing his age at forty years old. This may change later with more information
  📖  Exile’s Honor: Chapter One

Alberich meets Father Henrick and Acolyte Gerichen for the first time. Father Henrick has been in Valdemar for forty years. He is sixty-one years old at this time
  📖  Exile’s Honor: Chapter One

Heraldic Trainee Alberich meets Herald Jadus for the first time
  📖  Exile’s Honor: Chapter Three

Herald Jadus is thirty-six years old
  ♘ Hypothesis: In Exile’s Honor: Chapter Three, Alberich places Jadus at middle age. Supposing that Jadus was twenty when he was Elcarth’s Counselor during internship, this places him at about thirty-six years old

Alberich meets Weaponsmaster Dethor for the first time and becomes an Internee to become the new Weaponsmaster
  📖  Exile’s Honor: Chapter Three

Alberich has spent the last seven years fighting after training
  📖  Exile’s Honor: Chapter Four

Alberich is surrounded by angry Companions who may be intent on hurting him, led by Companion Jasker, until Kantor and Taver come to his rescue
  📖  Exile’s Honor: Chapter Five

One Week Later

Alberich meets Herald Elcarth for the first time
  📖  Exile’s Honor: Chapter Six

Ortrech is King of Karse at this time
  📖  Exile’s Honor: Chapter Six

Alberich meets Selenay for the first time
  📖  Exile’s Honor: Chapter Six

Princess Selenay is on an extended Internship that has already started and will go until she graduates to full Whites
  📖  Exile’s Honor: Chapter Six

One Week Later

Word reaches Valdemar that the Karsite Sunpriests are planning on hiring all the Tedrel Companies
  📖 Exile’s Honor: Chapter Seven

Alberich is asked to be an agent for the King on the streets of Haven
  📖 Exile’s Honor: Chapter Seven

Companion Taver shows only Alberich that he is Grove-born and what exactly that means
  📖 Exile’s Honor: Chapter Seven

The Tedrel Wars begin when the Tedrel Companies take Menmellith and then begin attacking Valdemar, using Karse as a staging ground
  ♘ Discrepancy: According to Jadus in Arrows of the Queen, when he says, “It has been about fifteen years since the Tedrel Wars when King Sendar, father of Selenay, died.
It is possible he was talking about the start of the wars that would kill Sendar in the end
  📖 Exile’s Honor: Chapter Eight
  📖 Exile’s Honor: Chapter Sixteen

1376 AF

Herald-Princess Selenay turns nineteen

Late Winter

Alberich begins teaching a cross-class, with the Horsemanship teacher, in the art of combat
  📖 Exile’s Honor: Chapter Twelve

Ten Days Later Early Spring/Late Winter

Talamir tells Alberich that this is the year the agents in Karse say the Tedrels will be making their final push into Valdemar
  📖 Exile’s Honor: Chapter Twelve

Alberich chooses Herald Keren and Ylsa, City Guard Locasti Perken, Berda Lunge, and Haydee Dallas, and Palace Guardswoman Lotte as bodyguards for Princess Selenay
  📖 Exile’s Honor: Chapter Twelve

Herald Jadus and Mindhealer Crathach volunteer to be bodyguards for King Sendar
  📖 Exile’s Honor: Chapter Thirteen

Midsummer

The final push of the Tedrel Companies begins
  📖 Exile’s Honor: Chapter Sixteen

King Sendar throws himself into the fight in order to distract the Tedrels while half of the Valdemar army rushes to protect the villages under attack by the Tedrel Infantry
  📖 Exile’s Honor: Chapter Seventeen

Alberich saves the life of Princess Selenay when he keeps her from fighting alongside her father
  📖 Exile’s Honor: Chapter Seventeen

A Tedrel mercenary strikes and kills Companion Taver
  ♘ Hypothesis: Companion Taver is five hundred and seventy-eight years old [see 807 AF]
  📖 Exile’s Honor: Chapter Seventeen

Herald Jadus throws himself between the King and a Tedrel mercenary and gets an axe in the leg and goes down
  📖 Exile’s Honor: Chapter Seventeen

King Sendar of Valdemar and his Companion, Lorenil, are killed by an overwhelming group of Tedrel mercenaries. The mercenaries are almost immediately decimated by the surrounding Valdemaran army in retaliation
  📖 Exile’s Honor: Chapter Seventeen

Grove-born Companion Rolan arrives and brings Talamir back from the dead in order to continue being Monarch’s Own
  📖 Exile’s Honor: Chapter Seventeen

Herald Alberich and Herald Laika lead a rescue mission to rescue all the children from the camp of the Tedrel Companies
  📖 Exile’s Honor: Chapter Eighteen

While en route to find the children the rescuers are found by the children themselves and Herald Alberich hears of the child Kantis who told the children of the Prophecy that says the White Riders will save the children
  📖 Exile’s Honor: Chapter Eighteen

King Sendar of Valdemar is buried
  📖 Exile’s Honor: Chapter Nineteen

Dethor retires as Weaponsmaster and Alberich is named Weaponsmaster
  📖 Exile’s Honor: Chapter Twenty

Two Weeks Later

Alberich is caught making his second public joke since being a Herald
  📖 Exile’s Honor: Chapter Twenty

Princess Selenay is crowned Queen of Valdemar at the age of nineteen years old
  📖 Exile’s Honor: Chapter Twenty

♕ Reign of Selenay ♕

Alberich goes down to the Temple of the Lord of Light and meets the young boy, Kantis. Kantis acts and speaks like the incarnation of Sunlord Vykandis. He tells Alberich that one day he will meet Kantis’s daughter, “or should I say, my daughter who will be my Son.’”
  📖 Exile’s Honor: Epilogue

Beginning of Winter

Herald Elcarth is the Acting Dean of Herald’s Collegium
  📖 Exile’s Valor: Chapter Two

Midwinter

Queen Selenay announces an Ice Festival
  📖 Exile’s Valor: Chapter Five

Herald Alberich invents an “ice war” for his students that turns into a sport called, “Hurlee” that is played on frozen bodies of water
  ♘ Hypothesis: Alberich just invented ice hockey
  📖 Exile’s Valor: Chapter Seven

1378 AF

Budding Moon

Beginning of Spring

Elspeth is born to Queen Selenay and Prince Karathanelan of Rethwellan
  📖 Exile’s Valor: Chapter Twenty-One

Mead Moon

Two Months Later

Queen Selenay is starting to have doubts about her husband, who she has begun to realize is a spoiled, selfish man. She leaves the palace grounds to get away, but Karathanelan and his friends follow and try to kill her. Weaponsmaster Herald Alberich and his combat team are alerted and rush to the scene
  📖 Exile’s Valor: Chapter Twenty-One

Heraldic-trainee Mical, Chosen by Companion Eloran, is fifteen years old when he saves Queen Selenay’s life by toppling her closest attacker to the ground, breaking the man’s neck and fracturing his own arm. The team fights on until all of the attackers are dead, and Alberich realizes he has slain Karathanelan
  📖 Exile’s Valor: Chapter Twenty

Midsummer's Eve

Talia Sensholding turns five years old

Karsite bandits murder every man in Feldar’s Teeth after they had surrendered
  📖 By the Sword: Chapter Eleven

1380 AF

Prince Daren becomes Lord Martial for his brother King Faramentha of Rethwellan

Kerowyn gets drunk for the first time in public, and frightens a tavern full of hard-bitten soldiers into sobriety, as her mental shields come down and she is able to read their thoughts
  📖 By the Sword: Chapter Eleven

Next Day

Using some fancy verbal footwork, Kerowyn is able to convince those that heard her at the tavern, that she had misheard a lot of the information she spewed as having got from them. After this Kerowyn vows to not get drunk again nor to drink alcohol at all
  📖 By the Sword: Chapter Eleven

Karsite bandits overrun the winter quarters of the mercenary company, The Hooters, killing all the civilians. The Hooters were out putting down a rebellion in Ruvan and were not even near Karse
  📖 By the Sword: Chapter Eleven

1382 AF

Skif is ten years old when he begins training with Bazie

Spring

Shallan, Kerowyn, Gies and his twin brother, Tre, are heading back from a scouting foray along the Karsite/Menmellith border
  📖 By the Sword: Chapter Eleven

The Skybolts are working with three other mercenary companies, all hired by the Menmellith Council: Bornams Bastards, Jeffrey's Wolflings, and
  📖 By the Sword: Chapter Eleven

Shallan mentions that Captain Lerryn Two-Blades refuses to put green recruits into the field
  📖 By the Sword: Chapter Eleven

Captain Lerryn announces that the companies will be making a push on the Karsite bandits and the SKybolts are to pack up and be ready to leave
  📖 By the Sword: Chapter Eleven

Panic ensues as word reaches the Skybolts that the bandits were Karsite regular army and that Karse had sent a real army to close in behind the mercenaries and catch them in a pincer move
  📖 By the Sword: Chapter Eleven

Sunset

Lerryn divides the Skybolts in half in order to throw pursuers off the trail. Shallan, hedge-wizard Tarres, and Relli go with Lerryn while Kerowyn the second in command, Icolan Ar Perdin.
  📖 By the Sword: Chapter Twelve

Kerowyn theorizes that those born with a Gift in Karse are not really killed but are brought into the Priesthood
  📖 By the Sword: Chapter Twelve

Later that night Kerowyn's group split twice more during the night trek along the Karsite border. The leader of the twenty Skybolts left in Kerowyns group is a colorless woman known as Lyr. Another member of the group is a man named Tobe. They decide to cross the border into Karse in the hopes the army will think they are Karsite bandits and leave them alone
  📖 By the Sword: Chapter Twelve

Next Day

After crossing the border and getting some rest and water, Kerowyn's group is attacked. During the skirmish Kero is separated from her group, who were far downstream
  📖 By the Sword: Chapter Twelve

Hellsbane and Kerowyn fling themselves into the river whose powerful current sweeps them downstream, to the south, and the opposite direction of her Company
  📖 By the Sword: Chapter Twelve

Next Day

Kerowyn comes across a village that is being used for military camp
  📖 By the Sword: Chapter Twelve

Three Days Later

Kerowyn has been dreaming every night of an old woman and a girl barely in her teens and seemed to be so far in the past that they bordered on incomprehensible
  📖 By the Sword: Chapter Twelve

Kerowyn is watching another village when she notices the priest is a woman
  📖 By the Sword: Chapter Twelve

Each day, after dreaming of the old woman, Kero will find a female priest wearing a sword in the next village who seemed to either see her or sense the sword, Need
  📖 By the Sword: Chapter Twelve

Several Days Later

Herald Eldan is captured by Karsite villagers and handed over to a priestess
  📖 By the Sword: Chapter Thirteen

Kerowyn watches as Karsite troops and a priestess escort a prisoner to a nearby canyon. The prisoner is a Herald
  📖 By the Sword: Chapter Thirteen

Kerowyn sees a Companion and recalls that they are spirits, or leshya
  📖 By the Sword: Chapter Thirteen

Kerowyn meets and rescues Herald Eldan
  📖 By the Sword: Chapter Thirteen

More Than A Candlemark Later

Kerowyn finds a cave to hide in, by falling into it, and learns that Eldan has Animal Mindspeech
  📖 By the Sword: Chapter Thirteen

Two Candlemarks Later

Kerowyn and Eldan have sex for the first time
  📖 By the Sword: Chapter Thirteen

The Next Day

Kerowyn tells Eldan of how she came to be there, starting from Kerowyn's Ride, which Eldan admits to have heard about even in Valdemar
  📖 By the Sword: Chapter Thirteen

About a Week Later

Kerowyn and Eldan leave their hiding place, traveling by night. As they make camp just before dawn, Kerowyn realizes that she thinks she is falling in love with Eldan
  📖 By the Sword: Chapter Thirteen

Several Days Later

It has been a month since Eldan was captured
  📖 By the Sword: Chapter Thirteen

Companion Ratha almost suggests that if Kerowyn were to go to Valdemar she might get Chosen
  📖 By the Sword: Chapter Thirteen

Several Days Later

Kerowyn and Eldan are near the Valdemar border when they find a small village with a enormous Sunpriest temple. They decide to stop for the day (since they travel at night) and camp under some low-hanging pine trees
  📖 By the Sword: Chapter Fourteen

So far at least three priestesses have passed their position. Kerowyn is sure they are tracking Need
  📖 By the Sword: Chapter Fourteen

Kerowyn and Eldan have sex for one last time so she can tire him out
  📖 By the Sword: Chapter Fourteen

Kerowyn wakes up at sunset and manages to pack up and prep to leave Eldan behind without waking him. She gets stopped by Ratha who questions her motives but concedes her decision to sacrifice herself as a target for Eldan to cross the border unharmed is respectable and allows her to pass
  📖 By the Sword: Chapter Fourteen

The Karsite hunters found Kerowyn's trail in the middle of the night causing her to crisscross the river several times in order to hide from their searches. But by the time dawn bloomed the hunters were still hot on her trail
  📖 By the Sword: Chapter Fourteen

A seemingly supernatural storm pours so heavily as to make it impoosible for the hunters to see her, and it washes away her trail, making it impossible for them to follow her
  📖 By the Sword: Chapter Fourteen

Five Days Later

Kerowyn rides into a Menmellith borderpost
  📖 By the Sword: Chapter Fifteen

Two Days Later

Kerowyn rides into the Skybolts camp
  📖 By the Sword: Chapter Fifteen

Shallan tells Kero that Lerryn and his second in command, Icolan, are dead. Worse is that Ardana Flinteyes is now Captain of the Skybolts
  📖 By the Sword: Chapter Fifteen

Relli mentions that the Skybolts will not be in Winter Camp because they have a possible job in Seejay. He says he got his information from the Company accountant, Willi
  📖 By the Sword: Chapter Fifteen

1384 AF

Jeri is Chosen. She is thirteen years old
  📖 Take a Thief: Chapter (?)

1386 AF

Monarch’s Own Herald Talamir is murdered. His Companion, Rolan, goes on a search for the next Queen’s Own that lasts two months

One Month Later

Herald-in-training Kris, nephew of Lord Orthallen, becomes full Herald
  ♘ Hypothesis: He is seventeen at this time

Herald-in-training Dirk graduates to full Herald
  ♘ Hypothesis: Dirk is eighteen at the time

Kris and Dirk intern together with counselor Herald Gerick
  📖 Arrow's Flight: Chapter (?)

1388 AF

Talia turns fourteen

Herald-in-training Sherrill, Chosen by Companion Silkswift, becomes a full Herald

Herald-in-training Nerrissa, Chosen by Companion (?), becomes a full Herald

Herald Beryl and Companion die

Herald Gerick and Companion die

Herald Jadus and Companion die

1390 AF

Talia seventeen years old when she becomes a Herald
  ♘ Talia mentions that it has been two years since she had been carried to her room after helping retrieve Ylsa’s Arrows. She also mentions that her birthing day is on Midsummers Eve

Weaponsmaster Herald Alberich is in his mid-forties

Elspeth is thirteen years old when she is Chosen by Grove-born Companion Gwena
  ♘ Discrepancy: Talia is thirteen when she arrives at Collegium. Elspeth is seven. If Elspeth is fifteen (As The Valdemar Companion states) than it has been eight years that Talia has been in school.
Since Elspeth’s birthday is in the spring I am placing her age at just turning thirteen years old

Heralds Keren and Sherrill are senior Heralds and instructors at the Collegium

1392 AF

Kerowyn has been Captain of the Skybolts for roughly ten years.
  ♘ Kerowyn mentions it has been ten years since she met Herald Eldan
  📖 By the Sword: Chapter Eighteen

Early Winter

It is winter time when the Skybolts leave for Valdemar to fight Ancar
  ♘ Hypothesis: It is the beginning of the year, just after Midwinter
  📖 By the Sword: Chapter Twenty

Kerowyn is forty-two years old
  ♘ Kerowyn believes she is two or three years older than Selenay
  ♘ Hypothesis: For continuity I am placing Kerowyn’s age as two years older than Selenay
  📖 By the Sword: Chapter Twenty-One

Queen Selenay is forty years old

Ancar is beaten back again by the Valdemar army, Captain Kerowyn’s Skybolts, and the army of Rethwellan led by Lord-Martial Prince Daren of Rethwellan
  ♘ By the Sword places this two years after the rescue of Talia

Lord-Martial Prince Daren is Chosen by Companion Jasen. He also falls instantly in love with Queen Selenay of Valdemar

Captain Kerowyn of the Skybolts is Chosen by Companion Sayvil
  ♘ Hypothesis: Prince Daren and Queen Selenay are married within a month
  ♘ Hypothesis: Companion Sayvil is the reincarnation of Herald-Mage Savil Ashkevron

1402 AF

Summer Time
  ♘ It has been seven years since Prince Daren and Captain Kerowyn were Chosen

In lieu of normal Herald Circuit, Elspeth was assigned to Herald Captain Kerowyn
  📖 Winds of Fate: Chapter One

Elspeth is attacked in the salle. Her attacker turns out to be Herald Skif on orders from Herald-Captain Kerowyn for training purposes
  ♘ Discrepancy: Winds of Fate: Chapter One states that Skif “had apprenticed himself to a thieving uncle, and when that worthy was caught, set up shop on his own.” and that he could have suffered “death at the hands of a competitor, like his mother”
It is possible that this tale about Skif is one of many rumors he started himself, regarding his origins, in order to gain sympathy among possible suitors
  📖 Winds of Fate: Chapter One

Alberich is instructing Queen Selenay in the lowest forms of fighting
  📖 Winds of Fate: Chapter One

  ♘ Companion Gwena mentions that the twins will be Chosen in a couple of years
  ♘ Hypothesis: The twins are almost seven years old
  ♘ Elspeth mentions that Talia and Dirk have a son named Jemmie

After her lesson, Elspeth heads to her potting shed where she is “attacked” once more by Skif
  📖 Winds of Fate: Chapter One

Elspeth is attacked for real by an assassin, who is a follower of the Cold God. Elspeth kills the Cold Blade by slitting his throat with a piece of broken pottery
  ♘ Hypothesis: Kerowyn mentions that the Cold Blades come from far South. She mentions that the Cold Blades have the ability, due to a magic spell, to be nearly invisible to sight or mind-probes. Could these Cold Blades be the descendants of Bey from the House of the Sleepgivers?
  📖 Winds of Fate: Chapter One

Herald Griffon is the Lord Marshals Herald

Elspeth is twenty-four years old

Early Afternoon

Herald-Messenger Selwin arrives from the Eastern Border to give a report from Shallan, one of Herald-Captain Kerowyn’ lieutenants
  📖 Winds of Fate: Chapter Five

Late Afternoon

During an intense workout with Kerowyn, Elspeth is summoned to meet with the full Council

Herald Selwin admits that the Skybolts have been engaging in some covert activities sanctioned by the Queen and Consort. One of them is smuggling people and information out of Hardorn and supplies into Hardorn. Selwin goes on to report that after the arrival of Lieutenant Rojer Klinseinem, a swarm of tiny insects with a poisonous bite, arrived within the Valdemar border to attack the Skybolt garrison town. After evacuating the town, the Skybolts were able to kill off most of the insects
  📖 Winds of Fate: Chapter Five

Shortly Before Midnight

The Council agrees that Elspeth must go, but not alone. All in attendance agree to let Skif go with her
  📖 Winds of Fate: Chapter Five

1404 AF

Herald-Mage Elspeth is twenty-six years old

  ♘ Chapter One, Companion Gwena almost called Vanyel’s aunt, “Sayvil”, but quickly changed it to the proper “Savil”. This could be confirmation of the above Hypothesis that Companion Sayvil is the re-incarnation of Herald-Mage Savil Ashkevron

1406 AF

Snowfire and Nightwind are pledged to each other

Darian Firkin is fourteen years old

1408 AF

Darian Firkin is now eighteen years old

Keisha Alder is eighteen years old

Shandi Alder is Chosen

1434 AF

Bard Jeriko is fifty years old after the war with Hardorn and when he is commissioned by Queen Selenay to write a travel book
  📖 A Traveler's Guide to Valdemar & The Surrounding Kingdoms

Bard Jeriko journeys through the Northern lands
  📖 A Traveler's Guide to Valdemar & The Surrounding Kingdoms

Bard Jeriko mentions it has been more than three centuries since the battle involving Lavan Firestorm
  📖 A Traveler's Guide to Valdemar & The Surrounding Kingdoms

Bard Jeriko mentions that Prince Lothar of Ruvan allows prostitution and slavery along with Dark Magic and narcotics
  📖 A Traveler's Guide to Valdemar & The Surrounding Kingdoms

Bard Jeriko mentions that Queen Sursha is still Queen of Jkatha
  📖 A Traveler's Guide to Valdemar & The Surrounding Kingdoms

Housekeeper Gaytha is replaced by Seshel
  📖 A Herald’s Journey: Directions

Tafri Tallyman is ten years old

Winter

Tafri Tallyman is twelve years old when he is Chosen by Companion Andelayan
  📖 A Herald’s Journey: A Journey Begins

Seven Days Later

Tafri and Andelayan arrive in Haven
  📖 A Herald’s Journey: On The Road

The Next Day

Tafri meets sixteen year old Heraldic Trainee Adan
  📖 A Herald’s Journey: Directions

Adan mentions that Heraldic Trainee Lerek is fifteen years old
  📖 A Herald’s Journey: Directions

The Housekeeper for the Herald Collegium is named Seshel
  📖 A Herald’s Journey: Directions

Herald Teren has taken over as Dean of the Collegium
  📖 A Herald’s Journey: Directions

Adan mentions that the teachers of Mages Collegium are: old man from the Eastern Empire (could be Selenjay), the gryphons (Treyvan, Hydona and their twin children), a couple of Sun-Priests from Karse (Karal is mentioned later as being one of them), some mage that used to be with Herald Kerowyn (later mentioned as Shoshonna, and Hawkbrother Darkwind
  📖 A Herald’s Journey: Directions

Tafri meets Dean Teren for the first time
  📖 A Herald’s Journey: Directions

Tafri meets Holly and her twin brother Hadrin who are from Hunsted
  📖 A Herald’s Journey: Directions

1438 AF

Early Spring

Tafri meets Rojek who had just been Chosen at the age of thirteen by Companion Civera
  📖 A Herald’s Journey: Trying the Paces

Herald Chronicler Myste Willenger is also a History teacher at the Collegium
  ♘ ☼ Hypothesis: If Myste was thirty-five in 1375, she would be ninety-eight at this time
  📖 A Herald’s Journey: Trying the Paces

Herald Alberich is semi-retired as Weaponsmaster
  ♘ ☼ Hypothesis: Alberich is ninety-five years old
  📖 A Herald’s Journey: Trying the Paces

Herald-Captain Kerowyn is Weaponsmaster
  ♘ ☼ Hypothesis: Kerowyn is eighty-one years old
  📖 A Herald’s Journey: Trying the Paces

Hawkbrother Darkwind, Ambassador Karal, and White Winds Mage Shoshonna teach “Magic or Fakery” class at the Mages Collegium for all students
  📖 A Herald’s Journey: Trying the Paces