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Historian's notes: Portions of entries surrounded by parentheses
and containing a question mark are assumed or unconfirmed
information: for instance, "BLAH BLABITY BLAH ( the king of the BLAH ?)"
[Ages Before Wesnoth]
-Birth of the world
-Elves and Dwarves inhabit the Great Continent.
-Humans inhabit ????
-Haldric's people colonise the Green Isle from a continent further to the west.
[Centuries later]
[The fall of the Green Isle]
-The Lich-Lords arrive on the Green Isle after losing a war in the distant
West.
-After a long war Haldric's people come to dominate the Green Isle.
-The 'Wesfolk' and their Lich-Lords are pushed onto marginal lands.
- [A couple of centuries pass]
-The Great Continent is discovered by the eldest Prince of Southbay.
-After several voyages to the Great Continent, the elder Crown Prince falls
ill and dies.
-His younger brother is implicated in a plot to kill him.
-As a distraction the younger Prince starts a war with the Wesfolk and their
Lich-Lords.
-The Lich-Lords sense they will be destroyed and
open gates to the homeland of the Orcs in the West.
-The Green Isle is overrun with Orcs.
-The Wesfolk desert their Lich-Lords as they fear becoming prey for the Orcs.
-Prince Haldric leads the evacuation of the survivors to the Great Continent.
[The Arrival of Man]
-The elder Crown Prince of Southbay discovers the Great Continent.
- [10 years later]
-Human settlers, led by Prince Haldric, arrive at the Great Continent in large
numbers.
-Humans arrive in the middle of a simmering dispute between the Elves and
Dwarves.
-The Elves and Dwarves are distrustful of humans, and there is a small
skirmish.
-Messengers from Wesmere Forest come and ask Haldric to come before the
Ka'lian.
-Prince Haldric asks the Four Elvish Lords
(Dionli, Logalmier, Aryad, and El'Isomithir) for help and land.
-They set before him four quests to prove his worth, which he completes.
-Haldric is granted the plains north and south of the Great River.
-Haldric agrees to a Pact of Mutual Defence with the Elves.
-Haldric founds the country of Wesnoth in these lands.
[Reign of Haldric I] http://wesnoth.slack.it/wesnoth-images/noble-lord.png
-Orcs, following the ships fleeing from the Green Isle, begin to arrive
on the Great Continent.
-These Orcs are defeated by Haldric's forces.
-Some of the Orcish survivors flee back to the Green Isle, others move to
attack the Elves.
-King Haldric I is established as first King of Wesnoth.
-King Haldric helps the Elves fight the surviving Orcs.
-In the eighth year of Haldric's reign a second wave of Orcs arrive from the
Green Isle.
-These Orcs start claiming large portions of the Great Continent for
themselves.
-Haldric I dishonors the Pact he spoke with the Elves and refuses to give aid.
-Many Elves are killed in battle by the Orcs.
-Elvish emissaries are turned away from Wesnoth.
-Orcs fail to take the Wesmere Forest and instead march against the farmlands
of Wesnoth.
-Elves refuse to aid the Humans in confronting the Orcs.
-Orcs attack the lands north of the great river from the mountains, then owned
by Wesnoth.
-Humans are forced back to the great river and are able to hold it against
Orcish attacks.
-Haldric I dies.
[Reign of Haldric II]
-Prince Haldric II ascends to the throne of Wesnoth.
-King Haldric II allows emissaries of the Elves to return to Wesnoth.
-Haldric sends General Aldar west with a portion of the Wesnoth army, to aid
the Elves.
-The Orcs in the eastern lands are defeated.
[LONG time later]
[The Lich-Lords have been forgoten by this age, the undead are thought to be
myths or old wives tales]
[The Time of the Great Kings of Wesnoth, a golden age approximately 500 years
before the reign of Asheviere]
-The wizards of Wesnoth construct the massive fortress Halstead to protect the
west
http://wesnoth.slack.it/wesnoth-images/elvish-lord.png
http://wesnoth.slack.it/wesnoth-images/elvish-champion.png
-Urug-Telfar attacks the lake atop mount Eregonor and pillages the surounding
areas.
-The Elvish Heroes Kalenz and Glatrid are sent to defeat Urug-Telfar.
-Kalenz and Glatrid are successful in destroying the encamped Orcish forces.
[about 500 years latter (8 human kings (and a queen))]
[Reign of Garard I]
-Garard the first becomes king of Wesnoth.
- [Two years later]
-Dark hordes of undead are reported in the plains of the East, terrorising the
inhabitants.
-Garard sends a battle group to defeat the undead.
-Soldiers retern from the battle reporting a crushing defeat.
-Garard asks the council of mages for help and is advised to send more troops.
-The young mage Delfador asks the King for permission to lead a force of mages
instead.
-Garard agrees to let Delfador confront the undead.
-Delfador is successful.
-Delfador becomes a trusted advisor to King Garard.
-Three outposts are built on eastern border to repel local orcs.
-Crown Prince Garard II is born (some time during his fathers reign)
-Prince ????? is born (after Garard II)
-Garard I dies.
[Reign of Garard II]
-Garard II rises to throne of Wesnoth.
-Garard marries Asheviere.
-Crown Prince Eldred is Born.
-Princess Li'sar is born.
-Other princes are born.
-Prince ????? has several sons, the youngest is Konrad.
- [27 years after Garard II's coronation]
-Wesnoth and the Orcs of the north go to war.
-Garard leads his army to orc encampment at Calcadar by the Ford of Abez.
-Garard's forces split into two groups, one led by himself and the other by
his son Eldred.
-Eldred betrays his father and attacks him with the troops under his control.
-King Garard is slain in battle along with his brother and his other sons.
-Delfador escapes the battle and heads to capital of Wesnoth, Weldyn.
-Eldred bribes the Orcish king into peace.
[Reign of Eldred the Traitor]
-A band of humans inhabits the Isle of the Damned.
-Elensefar regains it status as an independent city-state.
-Western Wesnoth border recedes, is fixed, and remains heavily defended.
-As a result the Elves flourish to the SW of Wesnoth.
-Delfador gathers a force of Loyalists to avenge Garard's Death.
-Eldred's forces confront Delfador's Loyalists at Weldyn.
-The Loyalists are defeated, but Eldred is slain by Delfador in the fight.
-Delfador escapes the battle.
[Reign of Queen Asheviere]
http://wesnoth.slack.it/wesnoth-images/human-queen.png
-Asheviere orders the execution of Garard's nephews and declares herself Queen
of Wesnoth.
-Hearing of the news Delfador infiltrates the palace.
- [Mild spoilers beyond this point]
-Delfador finds the youngest prince Konrad as he is slain.
-Delfador flees, taking Konrad's body for burial to the land of the Elves.
-Elf Lady Parandra finds an orphaned human child.
-Parandra and Delfador agree to give the orphan the identity of Prince Konrad.
-Delfador and Konrad flee to live in refuge with the Elves (in Wesmere Forest
?).
- [Seventeen years pass]
-Delfador raises Konrad under the protection of the Elves.
- [The tutorial fits in here]
- [More time passes]
-Asheviere hires Orcish forces to hunt down her nephew-in-law Konrad.
-Orcish forces converge on Delfador's refuge.
- ["Heir to the Throne" Campaign begins here]
[Reign of Queen Li'sar and King Konrad I]
http://wesnoth.slack.it/wesnoth-images/konrad-lord.png
http://wesnoth.slack.it/wesnoth-images/human-battleprincess.png
-Delfador sucumbs to old age and dies, his body is entombed alongside his
staff in Eregonor.
-Birth of Princess Ana'sar
[Reign of Haldric VII]
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[Reign of Konrad II]
-Konrad II becomes King of Wesnoth.
- [13 years later]
-Mysterious disappearances of livestock and peasants along the eastern border
of Wesnoth.
-Konrad II sends the White Mage Daycn and three officers (Oweac, Sudroc and
Gweddry)
to man the old eastern outposts.
-Mal-Ravanal attacks the middle outpost where Gweddry and Daycn are stationed.
-(more stuff here)
-Wesnoth's last defences are broken and the undead march on Wesnoth.
-Weldyn is besieged.
-Gweddry breaks through undead lines to reach Weldyn.
-A council is held.
-(more stuff here)
*(Elvish Council ?)
History derived from:
-The Challenges
-The Rise of Wesnoth
-Heir to the Throne
-Eastern Invasion
-Liberty
Timelined by Kamahawk.
||See Also||
* WesnothStoryline
* WesnothGeography
* WesnothPoetry
* RaceDescriptions
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