World Timeline

  • 960 — The first Dark Knight is born. (story)
  • 1311 — A Werlytian noble is born — Mores Gwydion’s lineage. (blackram)
  • 1462 — [PARTIALLY LEGIBLE — confirm] (partial)
  • 1472 — Technology advances and harmonizes across the Five Forces. (xiv)
  • 1498 — First expeditions to Ilsabard. (xiv)
  • 1520[Blackram] Mores Gwydion leaves his city to stop Nidhogg’s advance. Severely wounded, enters stasis for two years. Believed dead — Woeborn is forged from a Nidhogg scale in his honour. He did not forge it himself. (blackram)
  • 1521[XIV] Garleans use Magitek to conquer Ilsabard and Othard. [Blackram] Mores’ family is slaughtered. His daughter Mari (age 19) is captured by the Garleans and used in early Oversoul experiments. Mores recovers from stasis to find everything gone. (xiv, blackram)
  • 1522 — Mores resolves to find a way to resurrect Mari. Begins searching for a path. (blackram)
  • 1528 — Mores begins studying Oversoul — the forbidden technique of soul transference. (blackram)
  • 1537Mores, now 75, has studied Oversoul for 35 years. Performs his first soul transfer to avoid dying before his goal is achieved. (blackram)
  • 1552 — Garlemald established as an empire. Cailean Arda born. Lexus Ovicula born. (xiv, story)
  • 1555 — Namazu rise in prominence. Lexus’s sister born. (story)
  • 1558 — Mores, in a new host, encounters Geciro Teciro (Lociro’s brother). (blackram)
  • 1559 — Mores meets Nunuwa Nuwa — Geciro’s wife. Tells her the truth. She becomes an ally. (blackram)
  • 1561 — Mores creates the Mari mammet using her soul imprint. Calls it a success, though it is not a true resurrection. (blackram)
  • 1562 — Geciro dies from Blackram disease — a consequence of hosting Mores’ soul. The Mari mammet passes to Nunuwa’s care. (blackram)
  • 1563 — Mores’ chimera core experiments — attempts to stabilize Mari’s soul signature for future resurrection. Results prove insufficient. (blackram)
  • 1576 — [Blackram] Mores takes Galene Didanc’s mother as his next host body. [Story] Auria Van Varus raids Luvsan’s settlement, taking his sister. Luvsan spends years hunting her operations. Mores (in a host body) attempts to Oversoul into Luvsan — rejected. Luvsan becomes a cursed shade. (blackram, story)
  • 1578[XIV] The Dragonsong War ends. [Story] Liraz Laskaris, age 23, picks up Luvsan’s Dark Knight soul crystal. Through the crystal, Luvsan’s shade begins to witness what Auria has been doing to her. (xiv, story)
  • 1579Zekito Silverblood arrives in Hydaelyn. His soul dissonance begins. First priority: clothes. Method: theft. (story)
  • 1580 — Zekito is implicated in an incident in Ishgard. [Partially confirm] (story, partial)
  • 1582[XIV] Garlemald is destroyed. The Final Days begin. The Scions of the Seventh Dawn disband. [Story] Zekito and Nimvaei fall in love. Auria Van Varus is killed. The Lambs of Dalamud are destroyed. Shizu is freed. [Blackram] Mores Gwydion Oversouls into Orraux Clauvier — his vessel at the start of Runes of Chimera. (xiv, story, blackram)