Category:Rock's Timeline
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A brief summary and timeline of the interconnected contributions made for Ravenloft by Rock.
Other Worlds
The Abyss
- ???[1]: 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.[2]: 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
- 13 AC[3]: 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.
- 337 AC: Wick is born on the continent of Ansalon to a married couple of mercenaries.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
Toril
- -338 DR[4]: 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
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.
- 720 BC: Aleister Smythe is born in Dementlieu. He is the son of a family strongly involved with the Fraternity of Shadows.
- 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.
- 738 BC: Aleister Smythe is inducted into the Fraternity of Shadows.
- 740 BC: While the Grand Conjunction rocks the Core, the Wartorn Cluster takes form 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.
- 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.
- 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 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: 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: Amourette Schlosser (a persona of the Red Haunt), Mu, Diedrich von Hochstatt and Victor Mordenheim gather at Schloss von Brandthofen to work together on a technomagical project.
- 753 BC: 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: Mu commits murder in Hazlan. She fails a third Powers Check.
- 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.
- 764 BC: The Chibiloft Crew is founded as Barovian Giomorgo Comoară meets the Outlanders Slice and Wick (respectively from Gothic Earth and Krynn) while fleeing the tax gatherers of the Devil Strahd. Over time, other recruits will come to include Invidian scientist Dr. Julio Huevo, Souragnien Cleric/Voodan Aubert, Darkonese Caliban Ooglie and the Succubus Slap.
- 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: 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.
- 766 BC: Ciska battles Camille Churnstone in Lilliend, and manages to survive her defeat.
- 770 BC: Acharistos appears in the Mists.
Cross-Reference
This timeline crosses paths in places with Wolfglide's Timeline.
References
Subcategories
This category has the following 11 subcategories, out of 11 total.
C
- Chibiloft (29 P)
- Church of Brightwell (8 P)
D
- Divinity in All (4 P)
L
- Lilliender Vampire (1 P)
P
- Persona of the Red Haunt (6 P)
S
- Silver Blade of Ezra (1 P)
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Pages in category "Rock's Timeline"
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