Zog casts Armageddon.  The ancient world, which will one day be known as Sosaria, becomes barren and lifeless. The races, their history, and the name of the ancient world is forgotten and lost for all time.

[25,000 P.B]
Barbaric human tribes and animal species, along with other races, arrive on the ancient world. The method of their arrival is unknown, possibly moongates or some shamanistic portals.

[6000 P.B.]
The first human encounters with dragons occur around this era.

[5000 P.B]
It is around this era that the world is given the name of 'Sosaria'. Civilizations begin to form, magic is discovered, and the Cult of Runes is established. Ancient Towns are built. A group of powerful rune cult mages build the landmarks of The Tower of Knowledge and the Pillars of Protection.

[3000 P.B]
An order of mystic healers called the Cult of Truth is founded; their powers of healing come from a mystic being, which did not originate from the ether. Their headquarters are built into the depths of the Stygian Abyss, where they oversee the training of the Cult of Runes initiates.  Members of their order travel among the ancient towns, offering their powers of healing to the townsfolk.

[1500 P.B]
The island of Ambrosia is battered to pieces by "rocks from the sky". It is thought to be destroyed.

[1000 P.B]
Humans drive the cyclops race underground.

[700 P.B]
Humans leave their ancient homeland continent, which will one day be called the Lands of Lord British, and spread across the globe. One of the kingdoms in Sosaria abandoned having using the name of its ruler in favour of a tradition of having the king�s heirs being called 'The Lost King�. These kings would rule the future Lands of Lord British along with the Kingdom of Akalabeth. The world of Sosaria now consisted of four continents, each dominated by two kingdoms:

The Lands of Akalabeth, which would be later on called the Lands of Lord British, were dominated by the Kingdom of Akalabeth and the realm of the Lost King.

The Lands of the Dark Unknown were divided into the Kingdom of the Black Dragon and the Kingdom of Olympus.  

The Lands of Danger and Despair were ruled solely by the Kingdom of the White Dragon.

The Lands of the Feudal Lords were divided into the Kingdom of Barataria and the Kingdom of Rondorin.

[350 P.B]
The towns of Yew, Grey, Fawn, Dextron, and Paws are founded, along with the twin cities of Montor.

[306 P.B.]
Mondain's father, Wolfgang, is born.

[280 P.B.]
Wolfgang becomes King of Akalabeth and allies himself with the Lost King.

[278 P.B.]
Wolfgang's first son, Gerarn (Menton), is born.

[273 P.B.]
Wolfgang's second son, Mondain, is born.

[271 P.B.]
On Earth, somewhere in the British Isles, Richard Cantabrigian finds the Silver Serpent amulet. As he holds it, a blue moongate opens before him.

Richard Cantabrigian arrives in Sosaria through the blue moongate and meets Shamino. Shamino gives him the nickname 'British'.  They become the best of friends and in time Shamino introduces British to various court advisors, who are very impressed with the teenager�s understanding of justice, government, and law.

[270 P.B.]
Richard "British" Cantabrigian's advice and knowledge of government and law impress King Wolfgang so much that he takes him on as a royal court advisor for the kingdom of Akalabeth.

[258 P.B.]
At age 15, Mondain begins to slay animals and leaves their carcasses to rot in the nearby woods. This warped behavior reinforces his belief that he has power over life and death.

Mondain's ways become a cause for worry for his father, Wolfgang, and he tells the youth that he must take a year off from studying magic to instead spend this time studying at an Abbey to learn compassion and humility. He promises Mondain the Ruby Sun Gem as his reward if he learns his lessons well at the Abbey. The next night, Mondain kills his father, and takes the Ruby Sun gem. Mondain's elder brother, Gerarn, or 'Menton' as he now calls himself, returns from studying at the Tower of Knowledge and is horrified over his father�s cold-blooded murder.  He confronts Mondain, but through the, albeit untrained, use of the Ruby Sun Gem, Mondain banishes Menton offworld.

Mondain uses the Ruby Sun Gem against itself, to set it off unto a course that would corrupt it into the Gem of Immortality. He retreats to Barataria, a kingdom in the Lands of the Dark Unknown.

With the death of Wolfgang and the disappearance of his two sons, his advisors looked for a successor to the kingdom of Akalabeth. A decision could not be reached. Richard Cantabrigian, now more commonly known as 'Lord British', along with other advisors and council members, maintain the Kingdom of Akalabeth under the direction of The Lost King.

[256 P.B.]
A failed assassination attempt against Lord British and several other advisors prompts the Lost King to combine his realm and Akalabeth into one kingdom.

[255 P.B.]
In the kingdom of Barataria, Mondain crosses some of the finest warriors with Baratarian bulls via magical means, and minotaurs are the result.

The Ruby Sun Gem is corrupted more and more with each passing year towards becoming the Gem of Immortality.

Mondain returns from Barataria with a combined army of men and minotaurs. He leads this army against Akalabeth.

[254 P.B.]
British unites the armies of Akalabeth with those of the Lost King into a sizeable enough force to withstand Mondain's horde. He drives Mondain from Akalabeth.

[252 P.B.]
For his services and bravery in ridding the land of Mondain and his army, the Lands of Akalabeth are renamed the Lands of Lord British, and the capital of  Akalabeth is dubbed 'Britain', both actions were decreed by the Lost King. Various heroes enter the service of Lord British at this time, ridding the local realm of the remnants of Mondain's initial force and, in the process, each earning the title of Knight.

Continuing his vile experiments, Mondain crosses his own servants with reptiles and creates the Thepa, also known as lizardmen in the common tongue.

Shamino returns to the Lands of Danger and Despair and establishes his own kingdom in alliance with the King of the Kingdom of the White Dragon. He meets and falls in love with Beatrix, the daughter of the White Dragon king.

[251 P.B.]
Mondain's use of magic to perform vile things causes the various kings of Sosaria to come together at a council and agree to outlaw the practice of magic. The Cult of Truth and the Cult of Runes, seeing this act as tyrannical, go underground to continue their practices.

The presence of sea monsters was confirmed as the frigate Pembroke is sunk by one in plain sight of a small armada.

Lord British brings over several friends from his homeworld of Earth: Gwenno, Iolo, Dupre, Chuckles, and Geoffrey.

Mondain completes the transformation of the Ruby Sun Gem into the Gem of Immortality and he becomes immortal in the process.

Mondain recruits help from �starwalking monsters of unparalleled savagery�.

Minax is born in this year.

Mondain discovers a method of breaching time and space and sends his stronghold into a timeless void known as 'The Time of Legends'. It is from here he controls his growing armies and Sosarian lieutenants.

Three powerful mages enter Mondain's service and bind themselves to the Gem of Immortality. They forsake their life and become the three infamous liche-kings for Mondain.

[240 P.B.]
At age eleven, Minax is apprenticed to Mondain.  At this age, Minax wields terrible powers, powers she can not yet understand nor control. Mondain takes her away before she is discovered by anybody else and teaches her to control and harness her magical abilities.

[235 P.B.]
In the Lands of the Feudal Lords, a bloodthirsty warlord known as Belo Ondariva ascends to power, along with his house, and threatens to conquer all the lands. After several battles, the Ondarivas are defeated by the short-lived alliance of Rondorin and Barataria. Belo and the other bloodthirsty Ondarivan's are slain by a still-noble faction within their own family. Some survivors of the good Ondarivan faction flee to the Lands of Lord British.

[215 P.B.]
Mondain and Minax bind the psyche of a powerful daemon into a dark cylinder of a mystic substance and begin using their combined powers to bring the hybrid of metal and spirit to life, thus, the device known as �Exodus the Destroyer� is "conceived".

The Stranger from Earth, the destined-to-be Avatar, appears in Sosaria for the first time, entering through the moongate known as the "Siege Perilous".

With the imminent threat of Mondain hanging over his head, Lord British overrules the banning of magic by the Sosarian kings in previous decades, so that their own mages may be trained to help in the coming battle against Mondain. The Cult of Runes and the Cult of Truth both emerge from hiding.

After a visit from the stranger, and after receiving an update as to the status of the Lands of Lord British, Shamino leaves the Lands of Danger and Despair. He leaves behind Beatrix, his betrothed, to assist British with the forthcoming battle with Mondain.

The Stranger uses a time machine to step outside of natural time to penetrate Mondain's stronghold. In the ensuing battle, the Stranger shatters Mondain's Gem of Immortality and then slays Mondain. The Gem, now shattered into three separate shards, is scattered amongst the crumbling ruins of Mondain�s castle as the stranger makes his escape.

The release of magic at Mondain's death causes great upheaval, rending time and space as his stronghold is thrust back unto the natural world of Sosaria and into the ocean off the coast of the Lands of Lord British. The other three continents vanish entirely.

In the Lands of Danger and Despair, now their own separate world, the Ophidian Orders are established after the enlightenment that came from being contacted by the Great Earth Serpent. The name of the world is changed to Serpent Isle. A hideous race of previously unknown beings descend from the mountains� they were called goblins. The goblins destroy both Shamino's Kingdom and the Kingdom of the White Dragon. Beatrix, Shamino's betrothed, dies during the siege on Shamino�s Castle.

Shamino is trapped in the Lands of Lord British. Nobody knows of the Serpent Pillars at this time.

The three liche-kings who bound themselves to Mondain's gem somehow maintain their immortality despite the destruction of the gem, mayhaps due to the fact that they were already dead and, thus, were not affected by its destruction. A large band of knights and powerful mages led by Sir Verynor, of the lands of Olympus, tracks down the three liche-kings and one by one entombs them for all time, for they knew not how to destroy them.

[210 P.B.]
The first orc appears in a farmer's field, despite the fact that only a malevolent wizard would have created the orc and not stepped forward to claim it. The people refuse to admit that a new, evil power is growing.

[200 P.B.]
Ten years pass since the appearance of the first orc. Minax, now grown up and most competent in the use of time traversing, begins her plans by traveling through the Silver Moongates to the era outside of time known as "Legends". She attacks the homeworld of Lord British and the Stranger who slew her lover and master, Mondain. Thus, the Earth�s timeline is altered for the worst.

The Stranger returns to Sosaria, barely able to escape Earth's timeline change, thanks to Lord British's intervention. As Lord British prepares to make a stand before the might of Minax�s orcen armies of vengeance, the Stranger returns to the altered timeline of Earth to restore his world to the way it was before Minax�s meddling:

[[[The following events take place upon Earth, outside the normal Earth timeline.]]]

In New San Antonio, the Stranger purchases Enilno, the Quicksword, from Sentri, the Swashbuckler

With the help of strangers known as Antos, the hero finds a way to breach the place of legends and confronts Minax.

In the place of legends, outside of time itself and armed with the Quicksword, Minax is defeated by the Stranger inside the castle Shadowguard. As with her master's castle, Shadowguard is hurtled back from the time of legends unto the physical world of Sosaria.

The Stranger returns to Earth a moment after the timeline was changed; yet, now time was back to its normal flow. Nobody on Earth, besides the Stranger, was aware of what had happened, as such is the nature of time restoration.

[[[ Timeline resumes its normal flow upon Earth. ]]]

With the death of Minax, her armies upon Sosaria scatter mindlessly. The majority of her orcs are hunted down and destroyed.

[180 P.B.]
Twenty years pass...

The diary of Minax is found in the wreckage of castle Shadowguard. In her diary, there were hints at the fact that Minax and Mondain had been lovers and had produced an 'offspring', yet, little else is discovered.

The 'offspring', Exodus as it is called, sets out to expand its power by collecting knowledge and information on a range of subjects for a 100 years. "Much of the information is trivial, such as the detailed description of the color of the sky on a particular day� while other bits give instructions for the manipulation of the world."   Exodus remains safely hidden at the bottom of the ocean.

[160 P.B.]
The city of Moon is founded by the young wizard, Erstam.  Erstam begins studying the means of extending mortals� lifespan.

[80 P.B.]
120 years have passed since the death of Minax. The generations that witnessed the terror of Mondain and Minax have passed away and a new generation now enjoys the prosperity of this age, which was dearly paid for by the blood of their grandfathers.

�Comets flashed across the sky and rumbles were heard deep in the ground.  Then one day, in a fiery display of molten lava, an island rose up in the middle of the ocean.� Castle Death, the fortress of Exodus, is built by Exodus� servants upon the Isle of Fire.

Monsters begin attacking Sosarian settlements.

A Pirate fleet appears at sea, sweeping all other commerce ships before it.

Exodus summons the Balance Serpent, which is also known as the Great Earth Serpent, from its home in the Ethereal Void, and it takes a position at the harbour entrance to the Isle of Fire.

Upon Serpent Isle, which was once called the Lands of Danger and Despair, the War of Imbalance breaks out due to the fact that the Earth Serpent, or Balance Serpent, was taken out of the void by Exodus� doing. Without the Balance Serpent to keep the balance between the Order and Chaos serpents, the two serpents begin to fight.  It is at this time that the Silver Tree of Life, currently present in the Lands of Danger and Despair, is destroyed. The Avatar, traveling back in time from the future Serpent Isle back to the time where the War of Imbalance was at its height, restores the Silver Tree of Life and then returns to the future.

[74 P.B.]
A ship is found sailing, devoid of crew, with the word "Exodus" scrawled in blood on its deck.

Lord British commissions several people to map out the land in preparation for whatever evil onslaught Exodus is preparing to bring forth.

[73 P.B.]
Sentri crosses over from Earth to Sosaria.

[72 P.B.]
The cartographer Hawkwind discovers the inner workings of the moongates, yet, before he can communicate this knowledge, he is attacked and gravely wounded outside Castle Britannia.

Shamino returns from his mission of mapping the interior of Castle Death, on the Isle of Fire. The experience renders him temporarily insane.

The last in the long line of Lost Kings perishes. With no heir to claim the throne, the Lands of Lord British begin to splinter off into bickering city-states.

[71 P.B.]
The Stranger reappears in Sosaria and journeys with a party of adventurers on a quest to vanquish Exodus.

The lost island of Ambrosia is rediscovered.

The Stranger consults with the Time Lord for the first time and gleans the means by which he might destroy Exodus.

The Stranger and his companions destroy Exodus in his Castle. This triggers a violent series of cataclysms that rearrange much of the land, destroying several cities in the process. The destruction is likely the result of Exodus losing control over his transformation mechanisms, which he used to raise the Isle of Fire to the surface with earlier on. Due to his interface with the natural world being destroyed, most of the towns of the Lands of Lord British are utterly destroyed in this cataclysm, except for Fawn, Montor East, Moon, Yew, Paws and the capital town of Britain. The Tower of Knowledge and the Pillars of Protection are both destroyed. The cult of Truth disappears from history altogether from this point on.

General Jakher, commander of Lord British's army, defeats the forces of Exodus in a massive battle on the Bloody Plains. Thousands of soldiers die on both sides, including General Jakher.  Large catacombs are built beneath the Bloody plains to contain the fallen soldiers of both sides.

Nearly seventy years pass as the world recovers from the devastation and anarchy that Exodus had brought. Famine, plagues, rioting, and wars divide the city-states for decades. Lord British keeps the city-states together as best as he can.

It is noted that Lord British and many of his offworld associates do not seem to age.

Moon has become a despicable city full of unscrupulous wizards and dishonest mages. Erstam's experiments have met with some success. He has barely aged since searching for the secrets of immortality. Erstam conducts shady deals with contacts in Montor East and Fawn. Both of these cities are crumbling economically and physically.

City-states band together and form Britannia, electing Lord British as Sovereign ruler and Monarch. The Kingdom of Britannia is thus formed.

The system of virtues is established. Yew is given the representation of Justice, and Britain the representation of Compassion. Moon is cleansed of the corrupt mages inhabiting it, much to the dismay of Erstam, and the city is renamed to Moonglow, representing Honesty. Construction on five towns, representing a virtue each, commences.

The Council of Wizards is established, made up of surviving mages from the old Cult of Runes. The mages do away with the old system of magicka levels based on jewel types and embrace the eight circles of magic, expanding the usage of magery to its fullest extent.

Construction on the eight shrines of virtue begins by order of the Council of Wizards.

Azure, first of the great tinkers of Minoc, crafts the eight runes of virtue.

The Council of Wizards creates the eight coloured stones of virtue. Each stone is placed within one of the great dungeons. The wizards hope to stem the evil within the dungeons through the use of these magical stones.

Lord British commissions three Shrines of Principle to be built on the Isle of Fire, the former abode of Exodus.

"The Quest of the Avatar" is announced by Lord British. The quest is meant to offer a new way of life to the citizens of Britannia to find happiness through spiritual fulfillment.

Magincia loses sight of its embodiment of the virtue of humility and the city turns to decadence, materialism, and pride.

[0005 A.B.]
Fawn and Montor East are in near ruin and are abandoned. Erstam and the people of Montor East, Fawn, and many residents of Moon that lived there before its cleansing, protest Lord British's system of virtues and leave Britannia for Serpent Isle after discovering the Serpent Pillars.

The three great keeps of the principles are erected: Empath Abbey, the Lycaeum, and Serpent's Hold. Serpent�s Hold is built upon the ruins of Montor East.

Meanwhile, on the other side of the world, the gargoyles summon the spirits of Mondain, Minax, and Exodus to inhabit their three Shrines of Principle. Exodus' summoning causes the Isle of Fire to sink under the sea, not to be seen again for over three centuries.

Sir Percy rids the islands near the Cape of Heroes of evil dragons and becomes the first member of the Order of the Silver Serpent. The Order of the Silver Serpent is officially established by Lord British, with Serpent's Hold serving as the order's headquarters.

Sentri is given the title of Baron and oversees Serpent's Hold.

[0045 A.B.]
The town of Magincia is destroyed by daemons under the leadership of a powerful daemon known as 'Virtuebane', presumably due to the pride of its inhabitants.

[0057 A.B.]
A master shipwright, Hawkins, builds a grand vessel named the H.M.S. Cape.  The Cape is fitted with a magical wheel that strengthens the hull, while the rigging is designed in such a way that it becomes the fastest ship on the seas.  Shortly before Master Hawkins� death, the plans for the H.M.S. Cape are lost and his son takes over the family trade. Rumours abound that the plans are not lost, but are indeed kept safe by Hawkins� son.

[0079 A.B.]
The H.M.S. Cape sinks beneath the waters of the Cape of Heroes.

A Minoc tinker invents a "lighter than air device" that makes use of a big balloon filled with hot air. It is stolen by thieves and is anchored down near the dungeon Hythloth.

[0080 A.B.]
The stranger, the hero who vanquished Mondain, Minax, and Exodus, returns to Britannia.

The stranger gathers eight companions to represent the eight virtues. They were: Geoffrey, Mariah, Katrina, Jaana, Julia, Shamino, Iolo, and Dupre.   Most of them are friends of Lord British from Earth. It is possible Lord British commanded these persons to accompany the stranger when he began the Quest of the Avatar.

Lord Simon and Lady Tessa disclose to the hero the location of the mystic arms and armour. They are recovered and put to great use, since they were crucial in their role in allowing the hero to survive the lava of the Great Stygian Abyss.

The stranger recovers the magical wheel from the sunken wreck of the H.M.S. Cape, beneath the Cape of Heroes.

The stranger and his party recover the �lighter than air device� from the mountains around the dungeon Hythloth.

The stranger retrieves the artifact known as the "skull of Mondain" from the ruins of Mondain's sunken abode, at Sorcerer's Peaks. This is the location of the castle of Mondain that returned to the world after Mondain was vanquished in the Time of Legends. Three volcanic plumes are nearby, a consequence brought about by the three shards. (The removal of the skull caused two things to happen: To begin with, a volcanic island arose on Sorcerer's Peaks, which Blackthorn's castle will be built upon later on, and the Shards were knocked loose. Later on, when the raising of the Codex caused the Underworld to be formed, the Shards were carried from that location to a resting place directly beneath Empath Abbey, where they were later found by Captain Johne.)

The stranger throws the skull of Mondain into the lava of the Abyss, opening the Abyss permanently and destroying the skull at the same time.

The stranger descends into the Abyss with eight companions, and enters the Chamber of Virtue at the bottom. The Codex is found, at which point the stranger reads from it and officially becomes "The Avatar".

The Avatar returns to Earth.

[0086 A.B.]
Lord British forms the Great Council. The government changes from a monarchy, with a sovereign ruler, to a monarchic republic governed by both Lord British and the Great Council. Lord British still holds veto power, however.

Monks of Empath Abbey begin making their own brands of wine. The taste becomes the stuff of legend.

[0089 A.B.]
Monsieur Loubet crosses over from his homeworld, bringing with him a magical flying carpet. Shortly after his arrival in Britannia, Loubet sells the magic carpet to a mage named Bandaii.

[0097 A.B.]
The Great Council raises the Codex from the Great Stygian Abyss and enshrines it on the Isle of the Avatar. Two great magical guardians of sentient power are erected to guard the entryway into the Shrine of the Codex. Only those sanctioned by a shrine of virtue as being on a sacred quest may pass the guardians and enter the Shrine of the Codex.

Geological instability induced by the raising of the Codex causes the formation of the Underworld.  Creatures begin pouring out of the dungeons once again.

[0098 A.B.]
The Council of Wizards, under the direction of the Great Council, magically seals the eight dungeons.

A great drought engulfs the northeastern quadrant of Britannia, drying up Britannia's third-largest lake, Lake Generosity, and creating the desert known as the Drylands.

The village of Vesper is abandoned and is reclaimed by the desert.

[0101 A.B.]
Blackthorn is born.

[0102 A.B]
The knight Seggalion inadvertently leaves his homeland of Ashtalarea through a blue moongate, and becomes a sailor and pirate in Britannia.

Lord British and the Great Council commission the building of several lighthouses around Britannia, thus, making sea travel safer.

[0103 A.B.]
The monks of Empath Abbey stop taking vows of silence for good.

[0109 A.B.]
The fortress of Bordermarch begins to be constructed upon an isle in the seas north to northwest of the Valarian Isles.

[0115 A.B]
Seggalion retires from his career as a pirate and builds Farthing on an Island to the southeast of Jhelom from the booty from his old profession.

[0124 A.B.]
Bandaii, the mage, presents Lord British with the magical flying carpet he bought from Monsieur Loubet, as a gift.

[0127 A.B.]
Lord British commissions the writing of the Book of Lore "at the dawn of the Fifth Age."

[0131 A.B.]
Blackthorn, now a mature noble, is introduced to Lord British and from that day forth the two become close friends.  Blackthorn's deeds of virtue and his exemplary knowledge of politics impress Lord British so much that he makes Blackthorn a personal court advisor and bestows upon him the title of 'Lord'.

[0136 A.B.]

***

***

Two powerful mages, by the names of Flain and Elistaria, turn their backs on the virtuous path lead by the honest mages of Moonglow and dabble heavily in Daemonism and the dark arts. Elistaria commissions the construction of the Keep of Windmere in the seas north of the Drylands, whilst Flain constructs a small tower in Skara Brae.

Perhaps as a safeguard whilst planning the journey into the Underworld, Lord British magically locks his Orb of the Moons within a sandalwood box in his castle before the descent. He knew that the Avatar would know to recover it and rescue him in case something went awry in this journey.

[0137 A.B.]

***

Sutek escapes from the underworld through a labyrinth of old abandoned mineshafts beneath the dungeon Despise, taking with him the knowledge of the shards and the Shadowlords. He remains in hiding, scrying for a means to destroy the evil of the Shadowlords.

***

Lord Blackthorn comes under the influence of the Shadowlords, declares martial law, and enacts his repressive code of virtue. Just before the Book of Lore goes to print, the regent orders his code of virtue added to the book. Blackthorn seizes the crown of Lord British as a symbol of his new authority. Blackthorn commissions Toede, an architect, to construct for him a castle upon the island where Mondain's abode once stood.

Iolo, Shamino, and the other companions of the Avatar are declared outlaws. The companions form the resistance against Blackthorn�s oppressive regime.

Learning of this resistance, Lord Blackthorn creates the 'Oppression', an organization devoted to destroying this resistance. Blackthorn calls many dark-hearted fellows into his service including Flain, Elistaria, and Judge Dryden. Judge Dryden is appointed inquisitor, and the Court of Justice becomes the Court of Inquisition.

In an attempt to save one of the crown jewels, the jester Chuckles has the sceptre of Lord British transferred by courier to Lord Malone of Serpent Hold. Unfortunately, the courier passes through Trinsic while a Shadowlord is present and the Shadowlord steals the sceptre and disappears.

[0138 A.B.]
Lord British befriends the gargoyle Sin'Vraal, believing him to be a daemon. Sin'Vraal is a gargoyle thrall in service to the Shadowlord Astaroth. Lord British convinces Sin'Vraal to turn from his evil ways and flee. Sin'Vraal flees the service of Astaroth in the Underworld for the Drylands of Britannia, near the buried ruins of Vesper.

[0139 A.B.]
Iolo and Shamino anonymously commission Sir Arbuthnot, the royal minter, to mint a magical coin in the image of the symbol of the Codex to use in summoning the Avatar back to Britannia.

***

***

[0140 A.B.]
The Avatar recovers the magical flying carpet and the Orb of the Moons from Castle Britannia.

The Avatar meets with the wizard Sutek, who has scryed the nature of the Shadowlords and the gem shards.

The Avatar destroys the remaining Shards of Mondain's Gem and the three Shadowlords in the process.

The Avatar rescues Lord British from the Underworld by means of the Orb of the Moons.

The Avatar returns to Earth.

Blackthorn, by the usurper's own choice, chooses the option of banishment by Lord British to an unknown land, by means of the Orb of the Moons. (It is later discovered that Serpent Isle was the place of Blackthorn's exile.)  Back on Earth, the Avatar sees the banishment of Lord Blackthorn in a dream.

[0141 A.B.]
The bones of Zog are discovered. It is discerned through magical divination by the Council of Wizards to be the oldest Britannian fossil.

The Underworld collapses. The gargoyle lands on the other side of the world begin to disappear, bit by bit. Pockets of Ethereal Void can be seen about the place, suggesting that the Void is tearing the place apart. Speculation on why these pockets of Ethereal Void went on to suggest that they were created as a result of magics that the gargoyles used to bind the Codex to this world that clashed with the magics used by the Great Council to raise the Codex.

Flain, the dark wizard of Skara Brae takes up a very young apprentice by the name of Horance.

[0146 A.B.]
Hawkins, the great grandson of Master Hawkins, who built the H.M.S. Cape, turns to piracy. It is believed his ship, the Empire, has similarly masterful rigging as the H.M.S. Cape. He becomes the most bloodthirsty and feared pirate to ever sail the waters of Britannia.

[0153 A.B.]
Captain Hawkins' ship, the Empire, is destroyed when its crew mutinies. Their treasure is buried on the island later known as Spektran, and a map is created and split among nine pirates.

Sutek, perhaps disturbed by the intrusions of the pirates, takes up abode in the former castle of Blackthorn. He begins experiments for mysterious reasons.

[0154 A.B.]
Horance is now a fully fledged mage. His beautiful sonnets and poetry are loved by all in Skara Brae and unlike his dark Master, Flain, Horance is good and kindly.

Flain discovers the location of a dark and ancient tome dating back to the days of Mondain. He uses Horance to retrieve the tome from its resting place.  Shortly after, Flain is mysteriously killed by supernatural forces and Horance falls ill for some time. Upon awakening, Horance inherits the tower at Skara Brae.

Not long after Flain's death, Horance begins to lose his mind, and his beautiful sonnets turn to "rhyming doggerel".

[0155 A.B.]
The cyclops Iskander Ironheart is born.

[0156  A.B.]
Captain Johne sets out to explore the dungeon Hythloth, and befriends the gargoyle Beh Lem.

In a massive earthquake, the island of Bordermarch sinks beneath the ocean and is lost. Lord Simon and Lady Tessa barely escape the island in time. A similar fate befalls Windmere, Farthing, and the lighthouses of Britannia.

gargoyles begin attacking Britannia, capturing the shrines one by one.

Quenton of Skara Brae is murdered by Michael, aka Blade.

[0161 A.B.]
The knight Gertan and several others are heavily wounded in an attempt to retake the Shrine of Compassion from the gargoyles.

***

4th day of the 7th Month of the year 161

The Avatar is called through a red moongate by the gargoyles, who attempt to sacrifice him. He is saved by Iolo, Shamino, and Dupre and escapes via a moongate to Lord British's throne room.

***

[0163 A.B.]
The Avatar returns the Codex to the Void, thus, restoring peace between humans and gargoyles. The Avatar returns to Earth.

Penumbra enters a magical sleep, waiting for the Avatar to reappear and awaken her.

A small group of self-righteous knights, mages, and paladins set out for Terfin after hearing rumours of an 'evil wizard� within. Sutek defends himself but is turned to stone by his own hand. His statue is cast into the ocean, several miles northwest of the Island, and Blackthorn's old abode is torched.

Terfin is founded on the island where Blackthorn's castle originally stood. Lord British offers the survivors of the gargoyle race lands on this island to use as a new home; the land is given to the gargoyles to rule as they see fit.

[0165 A.B.]
Sir Geoffrey learns of the existence of a secret assassin's guild known as 'The Black Circle', an underground organization with a print on every facet of Britannian society.  Their deadliest rank of assassin is the feared 'slayer'. With the help of a reformed and repentant ex-slayer, Sir Geoffrey and the Great Council prepared to bring to justice many a corrupt noble and politician with links to the Black Circle.

The very next night, the entire guild of the Black Circle forays a desperate coup against Lord British in Castle Britannia. Yet, they are beaten and destroyed by the Order of the Silver Serpent and the elite castle guards. The ex-slayer who assisted the Order is pardoned for his assistance in destroying the Black Circle.

[0166 A.B.]
The ex-slayer, who assisted Sir Geoffrey in the previous year, gathers a party of unusual companions and leaves Britannia on a quest to destroy a powerful being upon another world.

[0167 A.B.]
Various companions of the Avatar foil a scheme that revolved around the theft of the runes of virtue and kidnapping the mayors of the eight towns by one who calls himself 'The Black Knight'

[0172 A.B.]
Iskander Ironheart slays the seven gazer princes that stole the eye from the cyclops tribal leader. After this, he is embarrassingly known as "Wonder Boy".

[0173 A.B.]
Sir Cabirus obtains permission from Lord British to found a new town of virtue on the Isle of the Avatar. He sends calls out throughout the land for anyone who would join him. Goodhearted and intelligent representatives of five races answer the call: trolls, lizardmen, goblins, gargoyles, and humans. The humans consisted of three factions; the knights of the Crux Ansata, formed from a group of Jhelom fighters; the seers of the Illuminated Moonstone, formed from mages of Moonglow; and finally, Baron Almric and his colonists.

Mordra crosses from Pagan to Britannia.

Horance begins to turn dark and violent, and the townsfolk of Skara Brae begin to fear him.  It is not known at this time that Horance became possessed with the first of Mondain's liche-kings. It may have been Flain who released the liche-king, but the full circumstances of those events remain a mystery.

Horance abandons Flain's old tower and builds his new dark tower on an island north of Skara Brae.

Horance sends his minions to capture Trent's wife, Rowena, but ended up killing her in the process.

Caine attempts to mix a potion that can trap Horance. Due to Mayor Trent's ineptitude, however, the formula explodes, destroying the entire town and killing all its inhabitants instantly.

[0174 A.B.]
Lord British sends an expedition of knights and mages to restore Skara Brae and cleanse the evil therein. All are lost in the attempt.

[0178 A.B.]
Sir Cabirus establishes the Abyssal colony within the Great Stygian Abyss. Balron Alrmic begins construction of a small keep and village upon the Isle of the Avatar, near the entrance to the Great Stygian Abyss.

[0179 A.B.]
Five dark druids enter Spiritwood and perform a ritual to envoke the dark half of nature, hoping to take its power for themselves. Unfortunately, the dark energy takes on a sentient form and devours the souls of the five druids. It calls itself 'Silas'. After possessing the body of a ranger of the Kal'Luura line, and several other murders later, Shamino and a band of rangers drive the creature back into Spiritwood where they believed that they destroyed it.

[0181 A.B.]
Lord British leads a second expedition to cleanse Skara Brae of the liche infestation, but it is forced to retreat. The power of the liche is beyond anything encountered in Britannia before. Skara Brae is declared lost and people are forbidden from entering it by decree of Lord British.

Baron Almric's fortress is completed.

[0193 A.B.]
Stonegate is occupied by a small colony of wingless gargoyles.

[0195 A.B.]
Lord Vemelon, mayor of Jhelom, and a party of warriors invade Stonegate, slaughter the occupying gargoyles, and claim the keep as Vemelon's private estate.

[0207 A.B.]
An infamous peeping-tom case leads to the outlawing of white, so called X-ray, potions. Eventually, however, an even whiter "light" potion takes its place in the market and is even more popular than the previous potion.

Sir Cabirus dies in the abyss. It is rumoured he was poisoned.

The Abyssal colonists begin to quarrel and the colony falls apart. All of the gargoyles die.

Baron Almric seals the Great Stygian Abyss� doors and turns the colony into a prison.

[0227 A.B.]

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Tyball allows an extremely powerful demon known as the Slasher of Veils to kill Garamon, accidentally trapping it within the Great Stygian Abyss' Chamber of Virtue.

Baron Almric, who was quite possibly the grandson of the original Baron, had a daughter, Arial, who was kidnapped.

The Avatar is summoned by Garamon, and appears in Arial's bedroom during the kidnapping. Being accused of the crime, the Avatar is sent into the Abyss to either rescue Arial or die trying.

Deep within the Stygian Abyss, the Avatar kills the wizard Tyball and rescues Arial.

With the help of Garamon, the Avatar releases enough power to open a dimensional gate at the base of the Abyss, which the Avatar uses to banish the Slasher of Veils from Britannia.

The volcano within the Stygian Abyss erupts, destroying the remnants of the settlement. The inhabitants escape with Garamon�s help as the lizardmen flee down underground rivers to a new site.

With its reason for existence, and most of its settlements and settlers, gone, Baron Almric's townsfolk abandon the Isle of the Avatar.

[0296 A.B.]
Lord British contacts the Avatar in a dream, sending him from Earth to Eodon for a brief time. In the valley of Eodon, a place which was once part of Earth, but is now its own world, the Avatar defeats the evil ant-men creatures known as the Myrmidex. Along the way, he also destroys a gigantic corrupt moonstone, which was threatening the stability of reality itself.

[0320 A.B.]
Several "minor wars" among feuding nobles break out. Batlin fights in these wars after training in Minoc.

[0329 A.B.]
The "minor wars" of Britannia end. Batlin moves to Britain and becomes a bard for a while.

[0331 A.B.]
Batlin meets Abraham and Elizabeth, fellow adventure-seekers, in Britain. They agree to split up and search the world for their destinies for 10 years, then return to Britain after that time had passed and meet up again.

[0335 A.B.]
Felcrodon, a theoretical metaparaphilosopher, proposes in his theory that there are *not* any rays of undetectable, invisible energy bombarding Britannia. The populace breathes a sigh of relief at this news.

[0339 A.B.]
Batlin visits Skara Brae, and has an encounter with Horance and Caine where he learns that there are no answers to his questions on life and death. This profound spiritual experience renders him temporarily insane. Once this passes, he comes to the conclusion that because life and death are without meaning, then it means that ethics, morals, and virtues are meaningless. Afterwards, Batlin begins to hear the Guardian's voice, two years before founding the Fellowship.

[0340 A.B.]
Burnside becomes Mayor of Minoc.

[0341 A.B.]
Batlin, Abraham, and Elizabeth gain permission from Lord British to found the Fellowship. The first branch hall is established in Britain.

The Britannian Mining Company (BMC) is founded. The town of Vesper is rebuilt as a small colony to provide housing for the miners working for the Britannian Mining Company.

The Britannian Mining Company petitions Lord British for permission to reopen the door to Dungeon Covetous.

The Britannian Mining Company begins supplying blackrock ore to Batlin.

The construction of the three generators and the Black Gate commences.
 

[0343 A.B.]
The Tetrahedron Generator goes online.

Kalideth, a mage, who is slowly going mad because of the Tetrahedron Generator, is killed by the cyclops Iskander Ironheart in an act of self-defense.

[0347 A.B.]
Spark is born.

[0350 A.B.]
The Seven Year Drought begins.

[0356 A.B.]
The Fellowship branch in Moonglow is founded by Rankin.

[0357 A.B.]
Finster, an outspoken candidate for political office in Britain, is murdered.

The Seven Year Drought ends.

[0358 A.B.]

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Finnegan is elected Mayor of Trinsic.

Several ships built by Owen of Minoc sink, including one with Korl's brother on board.

[0359 A.B.]

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Patterson is elected Mayor of Britain, defeating the farmer Brownie in a landslide victory.

The Time Lord is trapped by the Guardian in the Shrine of Spirituality.

Christopher and Inamo are killed around 2 am. The Avatar appears the next morning through a red moongate, after being called by the Time Lord.

At that same moment, the Isle of Fire rises from the sea again, due to Erethian's magical interference.

Spark joins the Avatar's party at age fourteen. He wishes to avenge his father's death.

The Avatar meets the toddler, Kristy, an orphan in Castle Britannia.

Lord British, knowing beyond any doubt that the child Nell bears belongs to him, writes a secret will that will make the child's true heritage known to all, should he ever die. He decides though that the boy should not know who his true father is ... yet.

[0362 A.B.]
The Avatar destroys the liche-king inhabiting Horance. The ghosts of Skara Brae are freed and Horance, though dead, vows to rebuild Skara Brae.

The Avatar meets the cyclops Iskander Ironheart and learns of Eiko and her sister, the daughters of the mage Kalineth.

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At a final confrontation, Hook, Abraham, and Elizabeth are killed by the Avatar and his party, while Batlin escapes. The Black Gate is destroyed at the moment of the astronomical alignment, just as the Guardian is attempting to pass through.

***

This leads to the banning of the Fellowship by Lord British and their Fellowship halls are destroyed or converted for other uses.

Blackrock is outlawed. Both the mining of the substance and its possession is strictly forbidden. All known mines containing Blackrock are collapsed and sealed. The Kingdom of Britannia offers rewards for the handing over of any remaining Blackrock.

[0363 A.B.]

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Rikey, son of Lady Tory, is raised by Sir Richter at Serpent's Hold.

Sir Geoffrey, having suffered a sparring defeat at the hands of Master Syria during the castle confinement, reflects on his ability to protect Lord British. Over the next ten tears, Sir Geoffrey relentlessly trains and studies with every master of every weapon type in the land, until he becomes a master of all combat fighting styles.

It is at this time that the Guardian recalls Commander Bane Tirrilius from an offworld campaign. Commander Bane Tirrilius is known as being a seasoned and long-lived veteran responsible for capturing nine of the Guardian's sixteen worlds in thrall. Bane is sent to the pits of carnage, to prove he still possesses his battle prowess of old, and defeats four of the best pit-fighters single-handedly in one battle. The Guardian offers Bane the mantle of 'Gotha'.

After learning of the death of Mors, Bane willingly takes up the mantle of Gotha and is henceforth known as 'Bane Gotha', taking up a personal vow of vengeance against the Avatar for the death of Mors Gotha.  Bane Gotha is granted extraordinary powers from the Guardian, powers that no mortal has ever received from the Guardian before or since.

With the original Scintillus mages dead, the Scintillus Academy is taken over by the Guardian and their knowledge is stolen. The Guardian allows his Cabal of mages to control the Scintillus Academy, rebuilding it into a training facility solely for those mages who serve the Guardian. Branches of the Scintillus Academy are built upon all worlds controlled by the Guardian.
 

[0363 A.B.]

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Imbalance storms begin on Serpent Isle a few months before the Avatar's arrival.

Imbalance storms begin on Britannia. The Royal Mint is teleported and exchanged with a building from Serpent Isle.

The Great Earth Serpent contacts the Avatar, reminding him of his liberation by the Avatar's hand in the days of Exodus, the destroyer. He asks, once again, for the Avatar's help to restore him to the void.

The party meets Erstam, the mage from the old city of Moon in Britannia, who left Britannia in protest against Lord British and his virtues.

Batlin is killed at the Wall of Lights whilst trying to control the power of the banes for himself. The banes are released, possessing Iolo, Shamino, and Dupre, who go on a murdering spree across the three major towns of Serpent Isle.  The Avatar tracks his possessed companions to the ruins of the castle of the White King, where he liberates them from their bondage.

Mortegro, the necromancer, is struck by imbalance lightning outside an ophidian temple and is believed to have been killed.  He is transported to Britannia, a deed, which is later speculated on, that came about due to his proximity to the Avatar, which may have saved his life and determined the destination.

Dupre sacrifices his own life to restore the Chaos Serpent. His soul becomes one with the Chaos Serpent.