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[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
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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] 
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 -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] 
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 -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