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A brief summary and timeline of the interconnected contributions made for Ravenloft by Rock.

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Other Worlds

The Abyss

• ???^[1]: The evil goddess Shar^[2] breeds the first Devoratrices out of Succubus stock to serve as her Shadow Inquisitors.
• ???: Succubus Slap, having disappointed her master or masters by failing to corrupt Evanar, is subjected to punishments horrific even unto a demon.
• ???: A portal to the Demiplane of Dread opens onto a certain layer of the Abyss. Succubus Slap is released from her punishment so she can be forced to go through the portal and report back on what she finds. The portal closes with Slap on the other side.

Gothic Earth

• 1798 A.D.^[3]: Students at the University of Cambridge in England, having partaken of forbidden texts, found a qabal they name the Brightwell Coven. Desiring power through knowledge, they create a grimoire known as the Libre des Ombres Sécrètes, in which they record lore from various university libraries throughout Europe, as well as information which comes to light due to archaeological explorations. The qabal soon falls under the influence of the Red Death, but the members do not care: their motto is that Evil is 'not a burden to bear nor an enemy to fight, but a gift', reflecting their complete lack of morals and ethics in their pursuit of power, as well as their willingness to accept dubious gifts from vile sources.
• 1852 A.D.: The Brightwell Coven's headquarters in London come under assault by unidentified troops. The qabal's leadership sends a group of novices to Amsterdam with the Libre des Ombres Sécrètes as a decoy, only for the last elder to walk into a trap set in their Alexandria hideaway.
• 1998 A.D.: The woman who shall come to be known as Mu is born in the Netherlands.
• 2001 A.D.: The woman who shall come to be known as Slice is born in the state of Massachusetts in New England to a middle-class family. From early youth, she is troubled by grotesque visions; actually echoes of the Red Death's interference with Gothic Earth's Weave of Magic.
• 2008 A.D.: Young Mu is inducted into the Brightwell Coven in Amsterdam, which has divined her nascent skills as a linguist and code-breaker, as well as her magical potential. She decodes and translates a considerable amount of the Libre des Ombres Sécrètes before she realizes what she has been tampering with and flees the qabal.
• 2017 A.D.: Acting on a combination of visions shown to her by the Red Death and her own investigation, Slice kills an up-and-coming politician, for whom she had been working as a campaign staffer. She is promptly arrested and confined to the Maine Correctional Institute for Women. Amid huge media attention, Slice is tried in absentia, never receiving an opportunity to defend herself before the court.
• 2019 A.D.: Slice is convicted of murder and sentenced to execution by means of cyanide gas. The Mists fill the place of execution instead and whisk her away.
• 2028 A.D.: Witnessing a fire in the home base of the Brightwell Coven in Amsterdam, Mu unwisely plunges into the fire - either to save the old people who inducted her or to take the Libre des Ombres Sécrètes for herself. The fire's smoke transforms into the Mists, which steal her away.

Krynn

• 963 IA^[4]: The Cataclysm^[5] strikes Krynn.
• 13 AC^[6]: Evanar first appears on Krynn. She wanders the devastation of the post-Cataclysm world, recording her findings in a new journal before she is pulled back to Toril.
• 93 AC: Evanar's second visit to Krynn. Hoping that the joint power of Solinari, Lunitari and Nuitari might suppress the silver fire of Mystra, she presents herself at the Tower of Wayreth and demands the right to take the Test of High Sorcery. She is allowed to, on the condition that she not throw the test, but give her best effort. To Evanar's appalled chagrin, she passes the Test and is inducted into the Order of the White Robes. She receives a gift - the Shawl of Truth - that at least allows her to shed the appearance 'gifted' to her by Mystra.
• 313 C: Fraternal twins Arcael (girl) and Valael (boy) are born to an Elven family in the city of Qualinost.^[7]
• 333 AC: The young Elf Valael first starts showing symptoms of a recurring lung disease. His father, a minor Wizard of the White Robes nevertheless forces him to study arcane magic instead of engaging in exercizes that might have improved his health. When Valael's twin sister Arcael asks to be taught as well, her father brusquely rebuffs her, claiming she lacks the right temperament.
• 337 AC: Wick is born on the continent of Ansalon to a married couple of mercenaries.
• 338 AC: Elven twins Arcael and Valael defy their father's wishes, with Arcael helping her brother to get exercize in the fresh air to improve his physical health, and Valael teaching his sister arcane magic from his own instruction books.
• 347 AC: Wick and his parents are travelling the continent, doing mercenary work to put food on the table, when they encounter a Wizard. The old man tests Wick on a whim, and announces that he has the talent to become a Wizard of High Sorcery - provided he receives the necessary education and applies himself. Wick's parents start saving up as much money as they can so they can put their son through wizard school. Although he always wished to become a swordsman like his parents, Wick studies to honour their wishes.
• 348 AC: Beginning of the War of the Lance^[8].
• 350 AC: (Spring) Wick's parents deliver their son to the Tower of Wayreth^[9] so he can continue his studies in relative safety. They leave to continue their own mercenary work.
• 352 AC: Arcael saves her family and several people from their home city from an enemy attack by skillful application of Enchantment and Illusion magic, turning their enemies against each other. Instead of congratulating her, Valael's father disowns her on the spot and denounces her as a Dark Elf^[10] for turning to magic that belongs to the Black and Red Robes. Valael is banished from her community.
• 352 AC: The daughter of Traven, a human Wizard of the Red Robes, dies due to the ongoing war, and his wife commits suicide. Unnoticed by his friends and colleagues, Traven goes mad and resolves to bring back his family through magic.
• 353 AC: Official end of the War of the Lance.
• 354 AC: Dark Elf Arcael formally apprentices with Traven, human Wizard of the Red Robes. As he is unable to study or cast higher-level Necromancy spells, Traven deliberately nurtures Arcael's resentment towards her father and people, steering her towards the Order of the Black Robes.
• 360 AC: Wick passes the grueling Test of High Sorcery at the Tower of Wayreth and is inducted into the Order of the Red Robes. He receives the silver dagger Silverwolf as a graduation gift. His wish to go see his parents for the first time in over a decade is denied, as the Order wants him to stay at the Tower and conduct research into Conjuration magic, for which he has a knack.
• 367 AC: Arcael, now an Enchanter, passes the Test of High Sorcery and joins the Order of the Black Robes. For the first time in fifteen years, she reunites with her twin brother Valael at the Wizards' Conclave. Although Valael is now a White Robe, and in spite of their father's rage, the twins get along as well as ever. Arcael does note with some concern that her brother's health has deteriorated.
• 367 AC: Arcael and Traven step up their clandestine and blasphemous research into ways to transfer and create life through arcane magic, with Traven supplying Transmutation and Arcael Necromancy. The Elf wishes to save her brother, whereas Traven still wants to revive his wife and child.
• 368 AC: Wick encounters a member of the Black Robes, wearing a necklace that belonged to Wick's father. The Black Robe gleefully confesses to having murdered both of Wick's parents. In defiance of the laws of the Wizards of High Sorcery, Wick stabs the Black Robe to death, using the magical dagger Silverwolf. Rather than face the judgment of his fellow Wizards, he next uses a Conjuration spell he had been developing to flee to another world: Toril.
• 373 AC: Valael succumbs to his lung disease. His father hides the fact that he refused to get his child treatment, having expected him to overcome the frailties of the flesh through willpower. He gives a speech before the Conclave, praising his son and denouncing his daughter Arcael as a 'pointless existence' that stole his heir's health in the womb.
• 375 AC: Still grief-stricken over her brother's death, Arcael ends her private research with Traven and seemingly defects to the Knights of Takhisis^[11]. In truth, she wants to prove her father wrong by helping her fellow Wizards of High Sorcery destroy the Knights' Order of the Thorn as a double agent. Unfortunately for her, Arcael is not as accomplished at deception as she thinks she is; her ruse is seen through and she is fed disinformation, which she passes on to the Wizards of High Sorcery.
• 381 AC: The Orders of High Sorcery attack the Knights of Takhisis. Arcael is caught in the middle, with the Wizards of High Sorcery convinced she has betrayed them, and the Knights knowing she came to destroy them. Seeing no recourse, Arcael attacks everyone around her, finally conjuring a mist to cover her escape. When the fog clears, the Elf mage has been drawn into the Demiplane of Dread.
• 382 AC: Traven conducts his most ambitious experiment to date, believing he can make up for the loss of Arcael by reciting scrolls she left behind. The experiment fails disastrously, destroying the body of Traven's wife and most of his laboratory and notes. As Traven cries out for any power capable of granting him his heart's desire to do so, the Mists come for him.

Toril

• -339 DR^[12]: The Netherese^[13] archmage Karsus^[14] casts an epic-level spell that leads to the destruction of Netheril and the death of the first incarnation of Mystra.
• -338 DR: The second incarnation of Mystra prophesies a need for champions to meet future calamities. Her visions lead her to abduct a young human woman from an old and dying world. She renames the woman Evanar and appoints her as 'Mother of Champions', forcefully making her a Chosen and infusing her with silver fire so she may not die. When the woman tries to refuse and begs to be released to her home, Mystra showers her with 'gifts', including an inhumanly aesthetic appearance. None of these gifts manage to win Evanar's agreement or her cooperation, and she soon flees the care of Mystra's priesthood, seeking seclusion in the wilderness.
• 241 DR: While Mystra's attention is partially diverted by her new favourite Elminster, the Succubus Slap approaches Evanar in her seclusion and offers her the power and freedom of the Abyss in return for turning her considerable power to the cause of Evil. Evanar considers the offers for less than five seconds before telling the demonic temptress that if she were willing to vent her anger and sorrow on innocents, she would have been razing Toril for a long time now. She effortlessly banishes the fiend from her presence and back to the Abyss.
• 1321 DR: Wick appears on Toril after his mad flight from Krynn, by ways of the Demiplane of Time^[15] due to flaws in his Conjuration spell. Unaware that his brief brush with the Demiplane has catapulted him backward in time relative to Krynn, the Wizard of High Sorcery establishes himself in Beregost^[16].
• 1330 DR: Wick completes construction of his home in Beregost, the House of the Red Moon. He invites his lover, the swordsman Chadrezzan Ilmiskir, to live in the house with him.
• 1340 DR: Chadrezzan Ilmiskir, disappointed by the way Wick spends little time with him in the House of the Red Moon, being more occupied with travelling and learning - and how he treats him more as a sparring partner than a lover when he is home - leaves to continue on his own training journey.
• 1350 DR: Wick receives an invitation from the Simbul^[17] to come to Aglarond^[18]. When he does, the Simbul communicates an offer from Mystra to become one of her Chosen^[19] and devote himself to magic forever. Wick grows both panicked and enraged, curses Mystra for what he perceives as an attempt to take his freedom to study both arcane magic and the sword as he chooses, and again casts his flawed Conjuration spell to escape from Toril.
• 1358 DR: The Time of Troubles^[20] strikes Toril.
• 1359 DR: Chadrezzan Ilmiskir, crippled during the Time of Troubles, returns to the House of the Red Moon to make sure Wick is alright. He finds the House abandoned. As he is unable to continue as a swordsman, he cleans up the House and starts studying Wick's abandoned library in an effort to find his former lover.
• 1360 DR: Evanar petitions the latest incarnation of Mystra to release her so she may finally die. The Lady of Mysteries, having learned of the prophecies of her predecessor, regretfully declines. She offers Evanar succor, but the Mother of Champions rejects the offer and returns to her isolation.
• 1362 DR: Chadrezzan Ilmiskir tries to cast a self-designed spell, a combination of Wick's Conjuration and a Divination, in an effort to find his former lover. The spell proves to be too much for the self-taught wizard and he dies of a heart attack mid-casting. The spell goes haywire and drags the House of the Red Moon to the Demiplane of Dread.
• 1371 DR: Rock Gnome Bard and Harper[1] Agent[2] Colmarr Greatorm is sent to gladden the heart of Evanar, unwilling Mother of Champions for Mystra. Instead, having learned of Evanar's past and her anguish, he flees her home in horror and abandons the mission.
• 1372 DR: Colmarr Greatorm founds the Sevenstrings due to having learned of the many-worlds interpretation[3] from Evanar during his stay with her; he wishes to end all conflict on Toril by allowing every faction to gain access to a world of its own. He gathers followers from many species without any regard to alignment and petitions several gods for support. The group begins research into the creation of a technomagical portal as prototype.
• 1372 DR: The Devoratrix who will become known as the Red Haunt is dispatched to test the loyalty of Mulan Red Wizard and Shadow Adept Girin. Surprisingly, the two villains grow close emotionally and romantically, even as they plumb the depths of the Shadow Weave together.
• 1374 DR: Girin and her Devoratrix companion (who will one day become the Red Haunt) decide to flee Toril in hopes of freeing themselves from Shar. They are attacked on the Plane of Shadow, and Girin suffers mortal wounds. The two villains channel Girin's soul into a magic ring in hopes of restoring her to life later, but the Devoratrix is caught by the Mists before she can leave the Plane of Shadows.
• 1377 DR: The Harpers[4] and Moonstars[5] become aware of the Sevenstrings' activities, but wildly misinterpret these, believing them to be a debased cult that wishes to open a gateway to an as-yet unknown layer of the Lower Planes. A joint taskforce attacks the Sevenstrings' base, the 'factory'. The weaker members of the Sevenstrings are slaughtered, the stronger are apparently vaporized when an errant spell causes their prototype portal to explode.
• 1385 DR: The Spellplague^[21] strikes Toril in the wake of an assassination attempt upon the third incarnation of Mystra.

The Demiplane of Dread

5th Century

• 459 BC: Vampyre Daniel Spicui, who has rejected a hunter's lifestyle in favour of enslaving vulnerable girls, rejects the chance to earn his family's forgiveness and purify himself of his sins, and has them murdered by his charmed slaves. He is drawn into the Mists and the wretched domain of Lack-Light forms around him as an Island of Terror.

6th Century

• 581 BC: The Devoratrix that will come to be known as the Red Haunt arrives in Darkon and curses herself to prevent her memory from being overwritten. She loses all memories of her past and sets off to fill the void in her memory with knowledge. She develops multiple personalities over time due to the wording of her curse.
• 582 BC: The undead warmonger and deluded visionary Tressac arrives in Arak.
• 583 BC: (Spring) Mordentish aristocrat Robert Gauldamon and his fraternal twin sister Roberta Gauldamon have a falling-out due to his superior skill as a singer. Unknown to Robert, his sister joins a demonic cult to gain what she desires.
• 583 BC: (Summer) The Leanan sidhe Lisette thrice seduces, drains, and almost kills Robert Gauldamon in Mordent. A band of mercenaries barely manages to save his life after she claws him in the throat, destroying his beautiful singing voice.
• 584 BC: Robert Gauldamon witnesses his fraternal twin sister Roberta Gauldamon and the Leanan Sidhe Lisette worship a Fiend in the woods of Mordent. He learns his sister sicced Lisette on him, and the Fiend has been transferring Robert's drained singing prowess to her. Robert goes mad and runs into the Mists.
• 585 BC: The Red Haunt finds Robert Gauldamon lost in the Mists. Intrigued, she takes him in and nurtures his madness and hate. When Robert leaves, he is a transformed man, ready to sow terror by the creation of cursed musical instruments.
• 587 BC: Ciphramir and Federlin depart Arak. Charissa Schlosser (a persona of the Red Haunt) accosts them on the road, scarring Federlin before being repelled by Ciphramir. This will be the start of a long-standing feud between the Devoratrix and the Rakshasa.
• 588 BC: The Scourge of Arak wipes the domain of Arak clean of all surface life, extinguishing the Arakians.
• 593 BC: Boyce Vinctus, an aristocratic student at the University of Il Aluk, is shamed by his classmate Imogen Schlosser (a persona of the Red Haunt), and exposed as a thief. He flees into the Boglands and studies arcane magic under the tutelage of fell beings, eventually becoming partially undead.

7th Century

• 613 BC: The insane vampire Camille Churnstone murders her last remaining living relatives. She becomes Darklady of the new domain Lilliend. At some point during her reign, she develops the spell Artificial Hibernation and starts forcing her spawn into prolonged sleep, allowing her to keep turning victims without losing control over preceding slaves.
• 622 BC The Red Haunt meets Tressac in Forlorn. The two villains lay the groundwork for the foundation of the Scions of Irul.
• 626 BC: First assembly of the Scions of Irul.
• 644 BC: The Krinnish Dark Elf Arcael appears in Keening. She flees north into Darkon, where she settles in Nevuchar Springs and succumbs to the Claiming.
• 648 BC: The Red Haunt finds the Kalidnay grimoire in an abandoned house in the slums of Artan-Ak.
• 669 BC: Daniel Spicui finally masters enough arcane magic to permanently cloud the skies of Lack-Light, either not anticipating or not caring that this will damage his domain's ecology and negatively impact the human population, as he is finally able to go out by day again.
• 682 BC: The Succubus Slap emerges from a portal to the Abyss in Darkon. As she is grievously wounded, she retreats to the Mountains of Misery and spends several years recuperating while mostly avoiding the locals.
• 691 BC: The Devoratrix known as the Red Haunt meets the Succubus Slap in the Mountains of Misery in Darkon. They have a surprisingly civil conversation, with the Devoratrix explaining some things about the Demiplane of Dread and Power Rituals to the Succubus, and extending an invitation to work together sometime. Slap resolves to avoid the Red Haunt, but starts preparing for a Power Ritual to reduce her chances of ever returning to the Abyss.
• 693 BC: Boyce Vinctus confronts Katia Schlosser, a persona of the Red Haunt, at her hospital in Leidenheim. The Devoratrix overpowers him and transplants his undead brain into the skull of a bull seal.
• 693 BC: The Red Haunt gives birth to Succubus Clementine Schlosser. Mother and daughter get along very well, with persona Charissa Schlosser teaching the young demon the ways of seduction and murder.
• 693 BC: The Succubus Slap descends to the Boglands of Darkon to perform a Power Ritual. While the ritual is successful, Kargat agents start tracking her. Slap flees across the border to Tepest.
• 694 BC: The Succubus Slap assumes a human guise in order to seduce a Tepestani Ranger. Instead of draining the man, she becomes his apprentice, feeling the need to strengthen herself. The two of them soon become infamous bandits, slaughtering humans and goblins alike.

8th Century

• 7?? BC: A Zherisian Cleric of the Divinity of Mankind, Simon Keysmith, barely survives an attack by a dread doppelganger. His life is saved by a Caliban where his fellow humans are content to let him die, and Simon has an epiphany which causes him to found the Divinity in All.
• 7?? BC: Zherisian dread doppelganger Cleric of the Divinity of the Masters Paloma falls into despair when she sees her adoptive human parents mourn for the loss of the child she used to be. She is abducted by the Red Haunt, but saved by Victor Gagné. During the course of their escape from the demon's lair, Paloma realizes she has turned to the Divinity in All. After Paloma is separated from Victor, she comes to meet Simon Keysmith.
• 702 BC: The House of the Red Moon appears in the Ulvskoven of Kartakass. A band of adventurers stumbles upon the house and destroys the animated corpse of Chadrezzan Ilmiskir, mistakenly congratulating themselves on the slaying of a lich. When they try to loot and burn the House, a combination of wards left behind by both Chadrezzan and Wick activates, slaying them.
• 704 BC: The Succubus Slap performs a Power Ritual in Tepest. In retaliation, the Three Hags devour Slap's Ranger teacher and lover, making it clear that her options are obedience, departure or death. Slap flees Tepest and settles in the House of the Sages in Richemulot, occasionally hunting animals and people if they draw too close to her lair.
• 714 BC: The Succubus Slap grows bored with the wilderness and assumes a new human guise. She opens a brothel in Pont-a-Museau with money she looted from her victims, allowing her to make a profit and feed shallowly.
• 714 BC: (Winter) Tressac chances upon the House of the Red Moon in the Ulvskoven in Kartakass. Suffering from a dark mood, he adds the Study to the House and spends the winter there, writing a surprisingly honest memoir of all his crimes, mistakes and thwarted dreams in a private journal. He hides the book inside the House when spring comes.
• 715 BC: Julio Huevo is born in Karina in Invidia. From a young age, he demonstrates a voracious intellect and a love of the arts, especially painting and the violin.
• 716 BC: The Succubus Slap, having grown overconfident once again, performs a Power Ritual in her brothel in Pont-a-Museau, Richemulot. Claude Renier causes rats, dire rats and wererats to surge up from the sewers beneath the building. Slap flees, the only survivor of the massacre and heavily wounded. She eventually crashes in Levkarest in Borca, where she goes to ground.
• 720 BC: Aleister Smythe is born in Dementlieu. He is the son of a family strongly involved with the Fraternity of Shadows.
• 720 BC: (Winter) Tressac returns to the House of the Red Moon and places additional wards on the journal he left behind, so it will be less likely to be found. He writes a new memoir during the winter, this one full of his usual bluster, zeal and lies. Tressac takes this second journal with him when spring comes.
• 722 BC: In Levkarest, the Succubus Slap meets Mordentish artist and musician Robert Gauldamon, who is plying his own brand of Evil in Borca. She takes on the persona of his mistress, creating the fiction of a highly-skilled courtesan who was scarred by a jealous customer. This gives Robert a thin veneer of normalcy and allows Slap to keep out of the public eye and to continue healing.
• 728 BC: The House of the Red Moon mysteriously relocates from Kartakass to the woods of Arkandale.
• 729 BC: Signing of the Treaty of Four Towers.
• 729 BC: Robert Gauldamon and the Succubus Slap have a falling-out when she discovers he has been using her knowledge and hair to create his newest range of cursed violins. Finding Robert to be too well-protected to kill, Slap performs a Power Ritual in the town house in Levkarest they have been sharing, expecting Ivana Boritsi's wrath to fall on Robert. The Succubus flees to Nova Vaasa. Robert flees for parts unknown.
• 732 BC: Diedrich von Hochstatt is born in Leidenheim, Lamordia, to an aristocratic bloodline. His father is a member of both the Schultebott of Leidenheim and the Syndicate of Enlightened Citizens.
• 733 BC: Julio Huevo enrolls at the Karina College d'Art.
• 733 BC: In order to relieve a sense of ennui - and perhaps influenced by her meeting with the Red Haunt in 691 BC - the Succubus Slap starts attending classes in history, philosophy and religion at the University in Kantora.
• 736 BC: Julio Huevo graduates from the College d'Art, having skipped a full year. He enrolls in the University of Dementlieu later that same year.
• 738 BC: Aleister Smythe is inducted into the Fraternity of Shadows.
• 740 BC: The Grand Conjunction rocks the Core.
• 740 BC: Various previously obscure domains assemble into the Wartorn Cluster in the Mists.
• 740 BC: The Devoratrix Roe arrives in Ghastria. She moves to the Core.
• 740 BC: Tressac seizes control of the Scions of Irul.
• 741 BC: The Succubus Slap converts to the faith of Mytteri in Nova Vaasa.
• 744 BC: Caliban Ooglie is born in Darkon. His parents abandon him at an orphanage.
• 745 BC: The last surviving Sevenstrings - including Colmarr Greatorm - arrive on the Lamordian shore of the Sea of Sorrows, following the attack on their headquarters on Toril that lead to the malfunction and destruction of their portal. Before the portal exploded, it accidentally connected to, and dragged its creators into, the Demiplane of Dread. Over the following years, the Sevenstrings will start gathering magical and scientific lore around the Core, and establish a new base under one of the abandoned Lamordian temples. Here they begin construction on a new portal. Their intention is to eventually use the Demiplane of Dread as a hub for planar and interdimensional travel. They start to recruit new members, preferring fellow Outlanders, but also pick up the occasional native.
• 746 BC: Julio Huevo graduates summa cum laude from the University of Dementlieu. Later this same year, he moves to Lamordia for advanced education in the formal and natural sciences.
• 747 BC: Out of boredom and curiosity, the Succubus Slap spends a year at the Clinic for the Mentally Distressed in Egertus, disguised as an employee. She learns basic aspects of alienism and psychology before leaving - curiously having done no harm to anyone during her stay.
• 748 BC: The Clinic for the Mentally Distressed in Egertus, Nova Vaasa, and its staff and patients are drawn into the Nightmare Lands.
• 748 BC: Giomorgo Comoară is born in Barovia to a Vistana cast out of her tribe due to a power struggle and a local peddler. She grows up dreaming of adventure and heroism, much to her parents' distress.
• 750 BC: The Requiem strikes Darkon and Azalin Rex disappears.
• 750 BC: Rudolph van Richten disappears in Richten Haus.
• 750 BC: The witch who will come to be known as Mu arrives in Barovia from Gothic Earth. She is badly traumatised in a local asylum before she manages to escape. She fails a Powers Check and enters the Path of the Concubine.
• 750 BC: Diedrich von Hochstatt encounters Colmarr Greatorm in his favourite bookshop, and is eventually inducted into the Sevenstrings.
• 751 BC: The Red Haunt and Aleister Smythe co-found the Centurions of the Night during a special meeting of the surviving Scions of Irul who opposed Tressac in Cortton.
• 751 BC: The Red Haunt strikes down Tressac, who appears to die, but is actually trapped as Darklord of his own domain.
• 751 BC: Clementine Schlosser becomes a Centurion of the Night and takes up a position as spy and recruiter in Paridon.
• 75? BC: The Devoratrix Roe, wishing to establish dominance over the Red Haunt, enslaves an agent of the Centurions of the Night and earns their wrath. Scarred by battle and afraid for her life, she eventually returns to Ghastria and resolves to grow stronger.
• 752 BC: The Hour of Screaming Shadows takes place in Sithicus. Lord Soth disappears.
• 752 BC: Julio Huevo completes his studies in Lamordia and returns to Karina in Invidia, planning to bring about a scientific revolution of his homeland. His ambitions are met with a mixture of apathy and confusion, and Julio is forced to start a simple doctor's practice and proof the articles of more well-known scientists in order to feed himself. He sinks into quiet despair.
• 752 BC: (Spring) Diedrich von Hochstatt makes the acquaintance of the scholar Mu while she is trying to find sponsors for her research into planar travel in Leidenheim, and falls head over heels in love with her. He is hesitant to express his affections and tries to find a way to earn her love in turn.
• 752 BC: (Late autumn) Diedrich von Hochstatt tries to persuade the Schultebott of Leidenheim to sponsor Mu's research. As the organisation is firmly in the grasp of the Syndicate of Enlightened Citizens, they instead destroy Mu's notes and molest her before handing her over to a brothel. Diedrich saves Mu with the unexpected aid of Amourette Schlosser (a persona of the Red Haunt), and they take Mu to Schloss von Brandthofen to treat her injuries.
• 752 BC: (Midwinter) Amourette Schlosser (a persona of the Red Haunt), Mu, Diedrich von Hochstatt and Victor Mordenheim join together at Schloss von Brandthofen to work together on a technomagical project that should prove the validity of Mu's research.
• 753 BC: (Spring solstice) The qabal gathered at Schloss von Brandthofen completes and activates the World Engine, but they come to blows and go their separate ways. Mu fails another Powers Check. The World Engine does something, but no one knows what.
• 753 BC: The Sevenstrings find Mu's incomplete notes on the World Engine at Schloss von Brandthofen and incorporate them into their own portal design. They also find Diedrich von Hochstatt, barely clinging to life after his fall from the castle's battlements, and take him back to their base to hook him up to a life-support system.
• 753 BC: Outraged after the apparent death of his son, Diedrich von Hochstatt's father becomes even more rabid in his hatred of the supernatural. He joins the Cornerstone Foundation, hoping to use their funding to create actual death-squads. Neither the Syndicate of Enlightened Citizens nor the Cornerstone Foundation is charmed by his frenzied fervor.
• 754 BC: (Summer) Mu commits murder in Hazlan. She fails a third Powers Check.
• 754 BC: (Autumn) The House of the Red Moon relocates from its location in former Arkandale to Mourning Ridge in southern Verbrek.
• 754 BC: (Winter) Mu stumbles on the House of the Red Moon in Mourning Ridge, Verbrek, and takes it over. She adds her own spells to the House's defenses, and creates the Laboratory in the cellars beneath the House as her own crafting-area. She studies the House's Library of lore from both Toril and Krynn and adds her own arcane and scientific knowledge drawn from Gothic Earth and the Demiplane of Dread to it.
• 755 BC: (Summer) Azalin Rex returns to the throne of Darkon.
• 755 BC: Mu clashes with an opponent known only as the Mystery Benefactor in Richemulot over the Libre des Ombres Sécrètes. Mu loses the book when she opts to save a life, rather than claim the tome for herself. Perhaps tellingly, she does not fail another Powers Check.
• 756 BC: Caliban Ooglie is kicked out of the orphanage. He starts working as first a day labourer and later a mercenary. He falls in love with the art of fencing and commissions the creation of the rapier Lancet; this wipes out what few savings he had to his name.
• 760 BC: Agents of the mysterious spellcaster who will come to be known as Ciska's Master find the Kalidnay grimoire in an abandoned house in Artan-Ak - just like the Red Haunt did in 648 BC...
• 764 BC: (Spring) Barovian Giomorgo Comoară robs the tax-gatherers of Strahd von Zarovich and tries to give the money they gathered back to the people. The Barovian peasants betray her to spare themselves from Strahd's wrath, and Comoară's family is forced to flee. Separated from her parents, Comoară meets the Outlanders Slice and Wick (respectively from Gothic Earth and Krynn) as they appear from the Mists, and they fight off the tax-gatherers together. Comoară manages to cajole the two Outlanders into joining her in a new adventurer party: the Chibiloft Crew.
• 764 BC: (Spring) Slice unwittingly snaps a branch from an oak tree once sacred to the faith of Andral to create the quarterstaff Twist.
• 764 BC: (Spring) Discovering that Silverwolf has shattered in the sheath, Wick obtains an amount of black mithral and blends it with the dagger's magical silver. From the resulting alloy, he forges the longsword Leadenwolf. The spirit of Silverwolf is alive within the sword and gives up completely on Wick.
• 764 BC: (Spring) The House of the Red Moon disappears from Mourning Ridge, Verbrek, only to reappear in the Ziyden Woods in what used to be Dorvinia and is now Borca.
• 764 BC: (Autumn) Slice and Wick meet and hire the Darkonese Caliban Ooglie while hunting vampires in Barovia. Afterwards, the young Caliban asks to join them long-term; Ooglie is inducted into the Chibiloft Crew.
• 765 BC: A mysterious individual who will come to be known as Ciska's Master has made enemies of both King Azalin and the Fraternity of Shadows. Kargat agents set his home in Port-a-Lucine on fire. Ciska saves his life - barely.
• 765 BC: Under the effect of magical compulsions laid on her by her Master, Ciska follows instructions laid out in the Kalidnay grimoire and travels to the Wartorn Cluster. Her mission is to survey its lands with an eye to conquest.
• 765 BC: (Summer) Heroes of Chibiloft Comoară and Wick rescue one of Daniel Spicui's intended victims. When the Darklord closes the borders of his domain of Lack-Light on them and darkness begins to fall, the two Heroes turn to the Succubus Slap for help. The demoness helps them to escape, but claims a spot on the Chibiloft Crew in payment. The Heroes grudgingly accept.
• 765 BC: (Autumn) Aubert encounters the Heroes of Chibiloft Wick and Slap in Sithicus, and hires on with them for a job. Aubert and Wick become romantically attracted to each other, and Wick invites Aubert to join the 'Crew.
• 765 BC: (Winter) The Chibiloft Crew accepts a contract to track down and neutralize a murderous doppelganger. The trail leads them to Karina in Invidia, where they enlist the aid of local scientist and alchemist Dr. Julio Huevo. The Doctor soon proves enthusiastic for the work. After Dr. Huevo's medical practice explodes due to a battle with the doppelganger, the Chibiloft Crew and Dr. Huevo are chased out of Karina by the town guard. The scientist half-bullies the 'Crew into letting him join as 'scientific consultant'. He soon proves himself a valuable asset.
• 766 BC: Ciska battles Camille Churnstone in Lilliend, and manages to survive her defeat.
• 766 BC: The Chibiloft Crew stumbles across the House of the Red Moon in Ziyden Woods in former Dorvinia. The group manages to acquire the deed to the derelict building from Ivan Dilisnya and moves in. Wick learns of the efforts of his former lover, Chadrezzan Ilmiskir, to find him - but not of his death. He manages to unravel the mysterious effect that causes the House to relocate, ending its travels.
• 768 BC: When Caliban Ooglie takes his rapier Lancet in for repairs, his fellow adventurers surprise him by paying for additional upgrades. Dr. Julio Huevo creates a special silver alloy for the blade, which Wick permanently enchants, turning Lancet into a magic weapon.
• 768 BC: Dr. Julio Huevo starts writing the Cosmonomicon, collecting most of his knowledge and scientific prowess in the book purely for his own satisfaction, calling upon the help of many of his correspondents and contacts. The Doctor is either unaware or does not care that the book might prove to be revolutionary in scope and impact.
• 770 BC: Acharistos appears in the Mists.

Cross-Reference

This timeline crosses paths in places with Wolfglide's Timeline.

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