Timeline

World Timeline

• 960 — The first Dark Knight is born. (story)
• 1311 — A Sharlayan colony forms in Dravania. A Werlytian noble is born — Mores Gwydion’s lineage. (xiv, blackram)
• 1462 — Mores Gwydion is born. (blackram)
• 1472 — Nidhogg awakens and rampages across the Northlands. Technology advances and harmonizes across the Five Forces. (xiv)
• 1498 — First Expedition to Tural. (xiv)
• 1502 — Mari Gwydion is born. (blackram)
• 1520 — [Blackram] Mores Gwydion leaves his city to stop Nidhogg’s advance. Severely wounded, he 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 — [Blackram] Mores returns to Werlyt. He launches an onslaught on the Garlean forces and recovers Mari’s soul. With no other option, he infuses her soul into the sword forged from Nidhogg’s scale — Woeborn. He resolves to find a way to truly resurrect her. (blackram)
• 1526 — Mores continues studying Oversoul — the forbidden technique of soul transference — seeking a way to undo what was done to Mari. (blackram)
• 1531 — Orraux Clauvier is born. Geciro Teciro is born. (blackram)
• 1536 — Lociro Teciro is born. Nunuwa is born. (blackram)
• 1537 — Mores, now 75, having studied Oversoul for 15 years, is struck by illness. Refusing to die before his goal is achieved, he performs his first soul transfer. (blackram)
• 1538 — Auria Van Varus is born. (story)
• 1541 — Amelia Graves is born. (story)
• 1543 — Krystabyl is born. Galene is born. (blackram)
• 1552 — Garlemald is established as an empire and captures Doma. Cailean Arda is born. Lunair is born. (xiv, story)
• 1555 — Nimvaei Tumet is born. Maya Takagi is born. Lexus’s sister is born. (story)
• 1556 — Lociro and Orraux join the studium in Dravania. Mores also joins, seeking to further his study of Oversoul — he is disallowed from continuing, the art deemed too dangerous. Nyobu is born. (blackram)
• 1558 — Mores, in a new host, Oversouls into Geciro Teciro (Lociro’s brother). Kiku Kha is born. (blackram, story)
• 1559 — Mores meets Nunuwa Nuwa — Geciro’s wife. Tells her the truth. She becomes an ally. Sol is born. (blackram, story)
• 1561 — Mores crafts a mammet to host Mari’s soul. He tries to infuse her soul into it but it fails. He calls it a success — it is not a true resurrection. Mores Oversouls into a new body. (blackram)
• 1562 — Geciro Teciro dies from Blackram disease — a consequence of hosting Mores’ soul. The Mari mammet passes to Nunuwa’s care. Sharlayan exodus from Dravania. Garleans attack Mor Dhona. Ririna is born. (blackram, xiv)
• 1563 — Mores infuses Mari’s soul into a chimera, hoping the process could stabilize her soul signature. Results prove insufficient. (blackram)
• 1564 — Mores Oversouls into a new body. Amelia Graves is subjected to the Neo-Garlean project. Ordette Du’Flaya is born. (blackram, story)
• 1565 — Nimvaei fails her tribal trial. (story)
• 1566 — Shizu is born. Nimvaei meets Auria Van Varus and is renamed Liraz Laskaris. *Black Rose Production begins. Mores infuses Mari’s soul into a tree. (story, blackram)
• 1567 — Liraz is subjected to the Neo-Garlean project (age 12). Krystabyl joins the Ruby Reavers. Mores infuses Mari’s soul into the waters of Oschon. (story, blackram)
• 1570 — Mores Oversouls into Luvsan. The attempt partially succeeds — Luvsan’s will cannot be displaced, but the damage is total. His body is left puppeteered by rage and duty, wandering Coerthas as a shade still hunting Auria’s operations. This is his first death. (blackram)
• 1572 — Dalamud Fell. Ser Barrentwig begins to exist. Orraux and Lociro open their clinic after the fall of Dalamud. Nyobu flees Yanxia and meets Krystabyl. (xiv, story, blackram)
• 1573 — Mores Oversouls into a new host. (blackram)
• 1574 — The last of what Luvsan was expires. He persists as a wandering shade — still a genuine thorn in Auria’s operations, still hunting her men. (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 in retaliation. (blackram, story)
• 1578 — [XIV] The Dragonsong War ends. [Story] Liraz Laskaris kills Luvsan’s wandering shade during one of Auria’s trafficking operations — this is his second death. She takes his Dark Knight soul crystal as proof of kill (and because she liked how it looked). Through the crystal, what remains of him witnesses what Auria has been doing to her. His rage at that injustice becomes her courage. (xiv, story)
• 1579 — Zekito Silverblood lands in Eorzea. His soul dissonance begins. First priority: clothes. Method: theft. Doma is liberated. Nyobu and Krystabyl join Orraux’s clinic. Galene brings her mother to Orraux’s clinic. (story, xiv, blackram)
• 1580 — Zekito is branded a heretic in Ishgard. Ala Mhigo is liberated. Galene’s mother dies. Blackram research is formed. Mores Oversouls into Edrette’s body. (story, xiv, blackram)
• 1581 — Zekito joins Lunar Rose Academy. The events of Shadowbringers take place. Garlemald faces Civil War. *Black Rose restarted. (story, xiv, blackram)
• 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. Liraz defeats Luvsan’s shade inside Woeborn — his third and final death. He passes the torch and goes dormant. [Blackram] Mores Gwydion Oversouls into Orraux Clauvier — his vessel at the start of Runes of Chimera. (xiv, story, blackram)
• 1584 — A new Dawnservant is chosen. (xiv)