Timeline of Wesnoth

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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

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