Timeline of Wesnoth

Timeline of Wesnothian History

Historian's notes: Portions of entries surrounded by parentheses and containing a question mark are assumed or unconfirmed information: for instance, "BLAH BLABITY BLAH ( the king of the BLAH ?)". Also, BW=before wesnoth, YW=years wesnoth. They function the same way as BC and AD do in our timekeeping system.

Prehistory - 20 YW: The Founding of Wesnoth

Prehistory

• Birth of the world.
• Elves and Dwarves inhabit the Great Continent.
• Humans inhabit the distant West.
• Haldric's people colonise the Green Isle from a continent further to the west.

200 BW

• The Lich-Lords arrive on the Green Isle after losing a war in the distant West.
• After a long war Haldric's people come to dominate the Green Isle.
• The 'Wesfolk' and their Lich-Lords are pushed onto marginal lands.

12 BW

• The Great Continent is discovered by the Crown Prince of Southbay.

11-7 BW

• The Crown Prince makes several voyages between the Green Isle and the Great Continent.

6 BW

• After these voyages the Great Continent, the elder Crown Prince falls ill and dies
• His younger brother is implicated in a plot to kill him.
• As a distraction the younger Prince starts a war with the Wesfolk and their Lich-Lords.
• The Lich-Lords sense they will be destroyed and open gates to the homeland of the Orcs in the West.

6-2 BW

• The Green Isle is overrun with Orcs.
• The Wesfolk desert their Lich-Lords as they fear becoming prey for the Orcs.
• Prince Haldric leads the evacuation of the survivors to the Great Continent.

1 BW

• Human settlers, led by Prince Haldric, arrive at the Great Continent in large numbers.
• Humans arrive in the middle of a simmering dispute between the Elves and Dwarves.
• The Elves and Dwarves are distrustful of humans, and there is a small skirmish.
• Messengers from Wesmere Forest come and ask Haldric to come before the Ka'lian.
• Prince Haldric asks the Four Elvish Lords (Dionli, Logalmier, Aryad, and El'Isomithir) for help and land.
• They set before him four quests to prove his worth, which he completes.

0 YW

• Haldric is granted the plains north and south of the Great River.
• Haldric agrees to a Pact of Mutual Defence with the Elves.
• Haldric founds the country of Wesnoth in these lands.
• Reign of Haldric I begins.

1 YW

• Orcs, following the ships fleeing from the Green Isle, begin to arrive on the Great Continent.
• These Orcs are defeated by Haldric's forces.
• Some of the Orcish survivors flee back to the Green Isle, others move to attack the Elves.
• King Haldric helps the Elves fight the surviving Orcs.

7 YW

• A second wave of Orcs arrive from the Green Isle; these Orcs start claiming large portions of the Great Continent for themselves.
• Haldric I dishonors the Pact he spoke with the Elves and refuses to give aid.

8-10 YW

• Many Elves are killed in battle by the Orcs.
• Elvish emissaries are turned away from Wesnoth.

11 YW

• Orcs fail to take the Wesmere Forest and instead march against the farmlands of Wesnoth.
• Elves refuse to aid the Humans in confronting the Orcs.
• Orcs attack the lands north of the great river from the mountains, then owned by Wesnoth.
• Humans are forced back to the great river and are able to hold it against Orcish attacks.

20 YW

• Haldric I dies.
• Haldric II ascends to the throne.
• King Haldric II allows emissaries of the Elves to return to Wesnoth.

23 YW

• • Haldric sends General Aldar west with a portion of the Wesnoth army, to aid the Elves.
  • The Orcs in the eastern lands are defeated.

20-130 YW: The Taming of the Wild

Alternate History Regarding the Sceptre of Fire

• 25 YW
  • Haldric II commissions a dwarven tribe to build the Sceptre and recieve the ruby from Haldric II.
  • Elves attack the dwarves as Haldric II is giving them the ruby.
• 25-37 YW:
  • The dwarves gather materials to make the sceptre.
• 38 YW:
  • The dwarves, searching for supplies, attack another dwarvish clan, the Shorbears.
  • Elves siege the citadel of the Dwarves.
• 40 YW:
  • The dwarves break the siege and head underground, into the depths of the volcano where Khrakrahs the Dragon lives.
  • The dwarves fortify their position inside the caves and create the sceptre.
  • The volcano erupts, killing the dwarves and the elves who followed them.
  • A human messenger escapes to report to Haldric II that the Sceptre was created.

122 YW

• City of Elensefar is sacked by orcs.
• Meneldur, a sailor of Elensefar, sets out on a quest to regain the city.

123 YW

• Elensefar is retaken by Meneldur along with Undead from the Green Isle.
• Elensefar becomes an independent city-state for the first time.

200-350 YW: The Golden Age of Wesnoth

230 YW

• The wizards of Wesnoth construct the massive fortress Halstead to protect the west.
• Elensefar is united with the Kingdom of Wesnoth.

250 YW

• Urug-Telfar attacks the lake atop mount Eregonor and pillages the surounding areas.
• The Elvish Heroes Kalenz and Glatrid are sent to defeat Urug-Telfar.
• Kalenz and Glatrid are successful in destroying the encamped Orcish forces.

350 YW

• Fractioning of kingdom caused by death of Haldric IV.
• Elensefar remains a province of Wesnoth but exerts increasing independence due to isolation.
• Treaty between lord of Elensefar and king of Wesnoth signed.

350-440 YW: The First Dark Age of Wesnoth

• Events unknown

440-530 YW: The Turmoil of Asheviere

440 YW

• Garard I becomes king of Wesnoth.

442 YW

• Dark hordes of undead are reported in the plains of the East, terrorising the inhabitants.
• Garard sends a battle group to defeat the undead.
• Soldiers return from the battle reporting a crushing defeat.
• Garard asks the council of mages for help and is advised to send more troops.
• The young mage Delfador asks the King for permission to lead a force of mages instead.
• Garard agrees to let Delfador confront the undead.
• Delfador is successful and becomes a trusted advisor to King Garard.

442-445 YW

• Three outposts are built on eastern border to repel local orcs.

447 YW

• Crown Prince Garard II is born.
• Dwarves agree to craft the Sceptre of Fire for King Garard.

450 YW

• Prince Arand is born.

473 YW

• The Sceptre of Fire is completed.
• Orcs besiege Knalga, and the Sceptre is lost.
• Garard I dies.

474 YW

• Garard II rises to throne of Wesnoth.

478 YW

• Garard marries Asheviere.
• Garard II issues the Sceptre Edict of Royal Succession

480 YW

• Crown Prince Eldred is born.

498 YW

• Princess Li'sar is born.

500 YW

• Prince Konrad is born, the youngest of several sons of of Prince Arand.
• Wesnoth and the Orcs of the north go to war.
• Garard leads his army to orc encampment at Galcadar by the Ford of Abez.
• Garard's forces split into two groups, one led by himself and the other by his son Eldred.
• Eldred betrays his father and attacks him with the troops under his control; King Garard is slain in battle along

with his brother Prince Arand and his other sons.

• Delfador escapes the battle and heads to Weldyn.
• Eldred bribes the Orcish king into peace.
• Delfador gathers a force of Loyalists to avenge Garard's Death.
• Eldred's forces confront Delfador's Loyalists at Weldyn.
• The Loyalists are defeated, but Eldred is slain by Delfador in the fight.
• Delfador escapes the battle.

501 YW

• Asheviere orders the execution of Garard's nephews and declares herself Queen of Wesnoth.
• Hearing of the news Delfador infiltrates the palace.
• Delfador finds the youngest prince Konrad as he is slain.
• Delfador flees, taking Konrad's body for burial to the land of the Elves.
• While traveling through Wesnoth Elf Lady Parandra finds an orphaned human child.
• Parandra and Delfador agree to give the orphan the identity of Prince Konrad.
• Delfador and Konrad flee to live in refuge with the Southwestern Elves.
• Elensefar refuses to submit to Asheviere and declares itself an independent city-state.
• Western Wesnoth border recedes, is fixed, and remains heavily defended.
• As a result the Elves flourish to the Southwest of Wesnoth.
• A band of humans inhabits the Isle of the Damned.

502-517 YW

• Delfador raises Konrad under the protection of the Elves.

517 YW

• Asheviere hires Orcish forces to hunt down her nephew-in-law Konrad.
• Orcish forces converge on Delfador's refuge.
• Konrad flees his home with the elves and embark upon a quest to regain the throne of Wesnoth.

518 YW

• Konrad crosses the Great River into the Northlands on a search for the Sceptre of Fire.
• They enter the Caves of Knalga, ally with Princess Li'sar, and find it.

519 YW

• They return to Wesnoth and claim the throne.

522 YW

• Birth of Princess Ana'sar.

530-630 YW: The Age of Fear

533 YW

• Delfador sucumbs to old age and dies, his body is entombed alongside his staff in Eregonor.
• The next great sage of Wesnoth, Dacyn, is born.

589 YW

• Konrad dies after an extraordinarily long reign.
• Haldric VII becomes king of Wesnoth.
• Dacyn the White Mage and Ravanal, an eastern wizard, compete to be the king's advisor.
• The king chooses Dacyn, Ravanal flees Wesnoth and becomes a lich.

592 YW =

• Konrad II is born.

612 YW

• Konrad II becomes King of Wesnoth.
• Dacyn continues his duties as advisor with Konrad.

625 YW

• Mysterious disappearances of livestock and peasants along the eastern border of Wesnoth.
• Konrad II sends the Dacyn and three officers (Owaec, Sudoc and Gweddry) to man the old eastern outposts.

626 YW

• Mal-Ravanal attacks the middle outpost where Gweddry and Dacyn are stationed.
• Dacyn and Gweddry travel to the northern outpost, and, with Owaec, retreat into the northlands.

627 YW

• Wesnoth's last defences are broken and the undead march on Wesnoth
• In the northlands, the orcs drive Gweddry's army back across the river.
• Weldyn is besieged.
• Gweddry breaks through undead lines to reach Weldyn.
• A council is held.
• Gweddry's army kills Mal-Ravanal through sheer luck.
• Wesnoth is saved, but has been turned by the undead into a barren wasteland.

630-700: The Restoration of Wesnoth

• Events unknown

History Credits

• Timelined by Kamahawk and Turin.
• History derived from:
  • The Challenges
  • The Rise of Wesnoth
  • Heir to the Throne
  • Eastern Invasion
  • Liberty
• Alternate history derived from:
  • The Sceptre of Fire campaign, by Turin
  • The Legend of Wesmere campaign, by Santi

See Also

• WesnothStoryline
• WesnothGeography
• WesnothPoetry
• RaceDescriptions