History

A difficult subject at the best of times.

Known or basically known dates

BP: Before present ~100 BP: **Penderghast territory is annexed by the Duchy of Thring **~70 BP: **A Pirate King crashes his cloud castle into a mountain (04.00) **~20 BP: Bergolasti Reformation **20 BP: **Old Black attacks 09.24 **15 BP: **Naros falls; dryads transplanted **10 BP: **Ser Gareth Lemarr disappears **Several years ago: **The most recent Doge is elected; Ettiennes transformed **0.5 BP: **Huntsman Lorenzo DiMarr discovers that the flying fish can fly; later an expedition brings them to 29.14

Long, long ago

**Far to the South, a City is Built and is the Capital of a Great Empire: **When the aboleths (fossilised in the Grey Mountains) still swam
**The City Falls: **The towers erode at the time that the first dragons broke the world like an egg with their birth
The Sand is Gathered as Mortar for the Forgotten City-State
**The Forgotten City-State is Mysteriously Abandoned: **And is ancient.

Andara is Drowned beneath the Keening Sea Serpantia (and Beyond the World’s Edge) Was beneath the Waves but Now is Not The Hammer of Bronze is Forged for the First Time The Traitor Prince (Perhaps the Prince of Man) Did Something

Alberon against Tiamat and Chimalia

Alberon Rules the City Before it Merges with the Shrouded Lands: According to the Reluctant Temple of Alberon
Dwarves and Giants Contribute to Building of the City’s Walls: “Far, far in the past”
Alberon Becomes a God
Alberon Appears Frequently to His Citizens, and to Jarmond Eleven Times: Bergolast is a land of eternal ice in these days. Jarmond sent to Bergolast; is debased and fed Tarrasque blood.
Jarmond of the Knife is Thrown Down the Tarrasque’s Gullet: Then it “came to pass” that Tiamat was slain.
The Death of Tiamat; Alberon Scatters her Heads
**Alberon casts off She Who Waits: **At some point after slaying Tiamat. He also woos the Green Lady (whom he later divorces).
Bergolast Aflame: Jarmond is stabbed eleven times with eleven spears, sees Tarrasque, sees Bergolast burn, stabs self.
Verdant Bergolast is Scorched, the Ground Shakes, the Keening Sea Shifts: Melnir’s Mount is created (51.12). This happened “long ago”.
The People of the Claw Refuse to Evacuate from the Lava of Melnir’s Mount, Beginning their Separate Society
**The red head of Tiamat heats the south, turning icy Bergolast to the Burning Lands: **The gnolls disagree, attribute the scorching to their matrons copulating with efreet.
The Gnolls Come to the Shrouded Lands: Gnolls ruled by Great Chieftain, the Defiler. This occurred soon after the fall of Bergolast. Before this, the Defiler travelled to the Grey Mountains and ate some strange heart. (May have happened after the Shuttering)
The Chimeric Siege of the City
Blackhorn’s Maze is Built, May House Red Head of Tiamat
The City is Shuttered, Begins Sinking
Gnomes Betray Contract, Let the Walls Crumble
Dwarven Quarter Hit Hardest; Dwarven King Daram Os Mortally Wounded, Curses Gnomes; Men of Shuttered Butcher Gnomes; Gnome Ghosts Trapped in Walls
The Soiled Champion Repels the Attack
Accord with Chimalia is Struck
The Southern Marches (i.e. Burning Lands) are Claimed by the City
The Gnawbone Wars are Waged: The Defiler is dead by this point.
An Entire Thringish Army is Routed by a Glance from the Skull of the Defiler
The Gnollish Army is Drowned by the Waterworks: Saves the City from siege. Happened before the gnolls had a matriarchy.
Southern Dwarves Cut off from the North; Battle of Khannah’s Leap: Happens after the Gnawbone Wars resulted in the expulsion of Shuttered from the Burning Lands, but may pre-date the drowning of the gnollish army
The Brothers of the Spear are formed: “Not long after” the Gnawbone Wars. They do battle for centuries with the Whispering Sisters. Then the Brothers realise that worship of the King in Splendour is a necessary step in their mission
The Time of Schisms
The Brothers split into the Temple of Alberon and the Temple Invisible; The Keepers of the Sainted Foot are Expelled: “Many years ago”

Lost nations

The mountain men of Mt Scorshia become a lost race

**The minotaur nation falls: **A couple of generations ago
Naros falls: Soon after. There are still dryads who lived in Naros.

Ninbolm

**Hierophant Rule Begins: **Over 20 years ago (09.24)

The Tree of Nilbog is Turned to Stone by the Bloodied King (rumoured)
The Tree topples (assumed)
**The Gnomes Found Ninbolm on the Stump: **Happened longer ago than the gnomes can remember

The Moon

**Rebellion Breaks out and is Quashed: **Recently; convicts are arriving currently.

The dwarves

The Drinker of Iron Kills the Speaker to Bronze
The Dwarves Settle Titan’s Skull
The King of the Mountains Tortures the Nameless
An Earthquake Tears the Walls of Hoth Achaar in Twain
The King of the Mountains is Killed; Dwarven Monarchy Ends
**The Nameless Preaches to the Orcs; the Nameless Leaves; the Nameless Dies and her Tomb is Built: **‘Hundreds of years ago’

The elves

The Elven Court Splits
**The Exiled Elves Called all Horses to Depart with Them: **Occurred during the time of kings in Gore, as the king’s stallion remained. However, Duke Ulthar had a horse (may be a sack child
The line of the mules of Gore begins

The Duchy of Thring and the Hills of Gore

**The Sack Man was Benevolent: **A long time ago **The Lords Sanguine Withdraw from Southern Gore: **Over 20 years ago (09.24)

**Ancient Pact between the High Kings and the Pirate Kings: **To spare Castle Ravenscraig from destruction.
The Fall of the High King of Gore: This happened at least two generations ago, as it says that Turien and his son and grandson served at Castle Tarengael. Does this mean that the Jester Prince is Turien’s grandson, or are we meant to assume that great-grandsons and so on served as well? Occurred before the founding of the Duchy of Thring.
**The Sack of Castle Ravenscraig: **Soon after the fall of the High King.
**Some Lords Sanguine Quest for the Iron Crown: **Soon after the sack.
The End of Maddlow Rule over the Witch Clans: Was brought about by Ban the Clever
Penderghasts Cooperate with the Duchy of Thring: Filling a power vacuum left by the end of Maddlwow rule.
**Penderghast Land is Annexed by the Duchy of Thring: **Nearly a century ago.

**The Founding of the Duchy: **By Ulthar the Loved. Occurred well over a hundred years ago, because the Penderghast land was ‘finally’ annexed by the Duchy almost a hundred years ago.

Yaegha Marries The Collector
Yaegha Six-Kidneys Rampages through Gore: The damage has only just begun to heal
**Lady Natala Becomes Ruler of Maratan: **So she was presumably not one of the original Lords Sanguine
Lady Natala Comes Across the Current Duke of Thring, Stricken
Romance Between the Duke of Thring and allegedly between the Lady-in-Waiting and the Jester Prince
Natala Uses Stirge to Draw Blood from Lady-in Waiting, Potentially Draws Jester Prince’s child too
Natala Gives Birth to a Young Lad, now Old Enough to Run

The City

**Dormond of the Crooked Oak Disappears: **‘Some years ago’

The Conquest of the Hallovers by the Dungers The Haverlies Abduct the Cransom Children and Kill the Adults: **Very recent - they’re still children **The Wrannows are Wiped Out **The Birls are Wiped Out: **By the first Spellknight **Most of the Penderghasts are Wiped Out: **Honorious Penderghast at least, and perhaps also his son, were alive during this event (and are still alive today).

Ban the Clever Co-Founds Blind Midshotgatepool: May pre-date his ending Maddlow rule.
Loguiso’s Wall is Built: And maintained by “doge after doge”
War between the August City and the Shuttered City
Witch Queen Interferes with Thringish Army; Sign the Treaty Savage
Loguiso’s Wall Claimed by the Canes Sanguis: Gnomes cause it to collapse.