672 BC

Events

• Howard Lumley is warned by the Order of the Guardians not to utilize the Notes on Animation. He disregards this warning and has an Automatic Man up and running three months later. After it runs amok, the townspeople demand it destroyed. When Lumley tries to prevent them, the Automatic Man thinks its creator has betrayed it and kills him. The townspeople attack it and the Lumley House, ultimately taking down the dread mechanical golem before abandoning the House. As the year passes, flooding partially submerges the House into the earth.
• The Graben Family Massacre In Nebligtode, Colin Graben murders his his Brynna Graben and Danar Graben (his aunt and uncle, respectively), but then Meredoth massacres him along with the rest of the Graben Family. Meredoth reanimates the lot of them as lebendtod and commands them to gather subjects for his vile experiments.