History Timeline / TheElderScrolls

* 1E 423: Jurgen Windcaller finishes his Seven Year Meditation, as he comes to the conclusion that the Nords had grown arrogant with their use of the Thu'um, much like the Dragons before them did. The Gods granted them the power of the Thu'um for use in self-defense, not for conquest, and their defeat against the Chimer and Dwemer was a punishment for misusing the gift. Windcaller instead positits that the Thu'um should only be used as a means to honor the gods and as way of attaining knowledge, enlightenment, and inner peace, not of attaining power, and he names his new doctrine the Way of the Voice. Windcaller then returns to his fellow Tongues in order to convince them of this way of thinking. This is not an easy task, however, and according to the legend, Windcaller has to engage seventeen Tongues at once in a fierce duel with the Thu'um that lasts three days in order to make his point. Exhausted from their long duel and with Windcaller still standing tall, the other Tongues finally acknowledge the superiority of the Way of the Voice. They agree to follow Windcaller to the old fortress of High Hrothgar on the Throat of the World, where he founds the monastic order of Greybeards in order to teach his philosophy.

* 1E 2243: Baron-Admiral Bendu Olo and his navy makes landfall at the Systres Archipelago. Colovian engineers, assisted by Breton and Orcish laborers, immediately set to work assembling what will become the Systres Shipyards in Gonfalon Bay. Olo would spare no expense in the construction of his shipyard and navy, and later scholars estimate that his project fully employed as much as three-fourths of Tamriel's shipbuilders.

* 1E 2243: Baron-Admiral Bendu Olo and his navy makes landfall at the Systres Archipelago. Colovian engineers, and assisted assisted by Breton and Orcish laborers, immediately set to work assembling what will become the Systres Shipyards in Gonfalon Bay. Olo would spare no expense in the construction of his shipyard and navy, and later scholars estimate that his project fully employed as much as three-fourths of Tamriel's shipbuilders.

* 1E 423: Jurgen Windcaller founds the Greybeards, a monastic order dedicated to the use and knowledge of the Thu'um as a means to honor the gods, at High Hrothgar on the Throat of the World.

** Crown Prince Juliek Cyrodiil compromises the Dunmer defenses of Morrowind. Under the leadership of the Tribunal, the Dunmer negotiate to sue for peace and bring an end to the Four-Score War. However, Juliek is assassinated by the [[MurderInc Morag Tong]].

** House Dorell, and by extension, Northpoint, is granted the status of Barony by Empress Hestra. Northpoint has shaped the trading industry in the northwest coast route of High Rock ever since.

* 1E 2305: A united High Rock declares its secession from the Alessian Empire. The Alessian Emperor sends out the Legion of Faith and Piety lead by Abbot-General Priscus Mactator in an attempt to suppress the Breton uprising, but the Legion end up being soundly defeated by the Bretons in battle at Bangkorai.

* 1E 2484: The long dormant vulcano, Mount Firesong, errupts for the second time in recorded history, causing a catastrophic explosion, with eyewitness as far away as Lillandril on the Summerset Isles reporting the sight of smoke and the smell of brimstone and while vibrations can be felt in Hegathe in Hammerfell. The explosion brings with it a wave of destruction upon the Systres Isles, as it shatters the ancient shipyards of High Isle, completely destroys a burgeoning settlement on Amenos, cracks the All Flags monument, and claims the lives of nearly one-third of the archipelago's inhabitants, including the vast majority of the local nobility. In the aftermath, the survivors desperately petitions the High Rock mainland for help, but with the death of nearly all local nobles, most meaningful connections between the people of the archipelago and High Rock's ruling class have been servered, and so the inhabitants only recieve little in the way of material aid. In the years that follow, mass starvation and waterborne illnesses are allowed to run more or less rampant, causing the deaths of thousands more Bretons on High Isle. Only due to the efforts of the local Druids of the Stonelore Circle who tirelessly work to provide clean food and water and healthcare to the desperate masses is a complete collapse of the Systrean society narrowly adverted. This prompts a short, but significant renaissance of the local druidic faith known as "the Green Years". While the druidic orders do not formally reestablish their rule over the islands, they do earn a place of respect in the local society and their ranks are significantly bolstered.

* 1E 2484: The long dormant vulcano, Mount Firesong, errupts for the second time in recorded history, causing a catastrophic explosion, with eyewitness reporting the sight smoke and the smell of brimstone being reported as far away as Lillandril on the Summerset Isles and vibrations that can be felt in Hegathe in Hammerfell. The explosion brings with it a wave of destruction upon the nearby Systres Isles, as it shatters the ancient shipyards of High Isle, completely destroys a burgeoning settlement on Amenos, cracks the All Flags monument, and claims the lives of nearly one-third of the archipelago's inhabitants, including the vast majority of the local nobility. In the aftermath, the survivors desperately petitions the High Rock mainland for help, but with the death of nearly all local nobles, most meaningful connections between the people of the archipelago and High Rock's ruling class have been servered, and so the inhabitants only recieve little in the way of material aid. In the years that follow, mass starvation and waterborne illnesses are allowed to run more or less rampant, causing the deaths of thousands more Bretons on High Isle. Only due to the efforts of the local Druids of the Stonelore Circle who tirelessly work to provide clean food and water and healthcare to the desperate masses is a complete collapse of the Systrean society narrowly adverted. This prompts a short, but significant renaissance of the local druidic faith known as "the Green Years". While the druidic orders do not formally reestablish their rule over the islands, they do earn a place of respect in the local society and their ranks are significantly bolstered.

* 1E 2484: The long dormant vulcano, Mount Firesong, errupts for the second time in recorded history, causing a catastrophic explosion, with eyewitness reporting the sight smoke and the smell of brimstone being reported as far away as Lillandril on the Summerset Isles and vibrations that can be felt in Hegathe in Hammerfell. The explosion brings with it a wave of destruction upon the nearby Systres Isles, as it shatters the ancient shipyards of High Isle, completely destroys a burgeoning settlement on Amenos, cracks the All Flags monument, and claims the lives of nearly one-third of the archipelago's inhabitants, including the vast majority of the local nobility. In the aftermath, the survivors desperately petitions the High Rock mainland for help, but with the death of nearly all local nobles, most meaningful connections between the people of the archipelago and High Rock's ruling class have been servered, and so the inhabitants only recieve little in the way of material aid. In the years that follow, mass starvation and waterborne illnesses are allowed to run more or less rampant, causing the deaths of thousands more Bretons on High Isle. Only due to the efforts of the local Druids of the Stonelore Circle who tirelessly work to provide clean food and water and healthcare to the desperate masses is a complete collapse of the Systrean society narrowly adverted.

** On the 11th of Sun's Dusk, emissaries of the Reman Empire arrives in the waters of the shores of Systres Archipelago. They make landfall on the shores of Gonfalon Bay, where they decree to the local populace that the Isles are once again the lawful property of Cyrodiil. Along with the heralds, a coterie of Breton coin-barons also arrive, who swiftly seizes the reins and steers the Systres Archipelago back to their feudal roots, albeit in the name of Emperor Reman.

* 1E 665: The Druids of the Systres Archipelago are attacked by an invasion of would-be conquers of Yokudan origin. The identity of the invaders are somewhat of a historical mystery, with some theories pointing towards political dissidents fleeing a purge at the hands of Randic Torn and others claim that the invaders are a surviving group of Left-Hand Elves. Under any circumstances, the attack throws the local Druids of the True Way into disarray and the vast majority of the order's records are destroyed in the invasion, causing much of the early history of the Systres and the True Way's history to be lost to time. In the climax of the short war, the local vulcano, Mount Firesong, erupts consuming a large number of both the local Druids and the invaders in a destructive cataclysm. Though weakened by the event the invaders are still able to take formal control over the isles, while the Druids, defeated, are forced into exile either in hidden enclaves on the Systres themselves, or on barren rocks nearby.

* 1E 2484: The long dormant vulcano, Mount Firesong, errupts for the second time in recorded history, causing a catastrophic explosion, with eyewitness reporting the sight smoke and the smell of brimstone being reported as far away as Lillandril on the Summerset Isles and vibrations that can be felt in Hegathe in Hammerfell. The explosion brings with it a wave of destruction upon the nearby Systres Isles, as it shatters the ancient shipyards of High Isle, completely destroys a burgeoning settlement on Amenos, cracks the All Flags monument, and claims the lives of nearly one-third of the archipelago's inhabitants, including the vast majority of the local nobility. In the aftermath, the survivors desperately petitions the High Rock mainland for help, but with the death of the local nobility, most meaningful connections between the people of the archipelago and High Rock's ruling class have been servered, and so the inhabitants only recieve little in the way of material aid. In the years that follow, mass starvation and waterborne illnesses are allowed to run more or less rampant, causing the deaths of thousands more Bretons on High Isle. Only due to the efforts of the local Druids of the Stonelore Circle who tirelessly work to provide clean food and water and healthcare to the desperate masses is a complete collapse of the Systrean society narrowly adverted.

** In response to the Knahaten Flu ravaging the Systres Archipelago, Duke Avrippe Mornard orders the Isles sealed off entirely, barring anyone from leaving or entering the archipelago. As a land dependent on trade, the Systres falls into total destitution.

** Never having gotten along with King Emeric, Duke Avrippe Mornard of the Systres sees the outbreak of war as an oppunity to claim greater independence. He forsakes his ties of vassalage to Wayrest and throws his lot in with King Ranser instead.

** Following his victory the war against Ranser, King Emeric turns his eyes towards the Systres and the traitorous Duke Avrippe Mornard. The King's punishment is swift, and to the point: Duke Avrippe is stripped of his title and exiled to Cyrodiil, and a full two-thirds of the house's holdings are seized and instead granted to the Mornard's eternal foe, House Dufort. While Emeric ultimately grants House Mornard a minor concession in allow them to keep the holding of the isle of Gale by letting it pass on to Avrippe's son, Leonard, he also removes the Mornards as the rulers of the Systres, instead granting the dukedom itself to House Dufort.

* 2E 478: Using forged documents and forced testimonies Duke Ruffe Mornard of the Systres accuses House Dufort, his house most significant local rivals, of conspiracy and sedition against the crown of Wayrest. This is, however, very balantly just an excuse for Duke Mornard to take his old enemies down a peck, as he quickly condems much of the Dufort family's leadership to exile on the isle of Amenos, while ceasing a third of their lands. Though King Gardner of Waytest is very well aware that Duke Mornard's claims of a plot doesn't hold up to scrutiny, he finds himself unable to intervene as he is busy try to outmanover the ascendant Kingdom of Camlorn, and as such the the matter unresolved is left.

* ca. 2E 110-280: By using their close personal connections to Potenetate Versidue-Shaie, the Breton House Mornard is able to gain control over a majority of the Sytres Archipelago. To the point where a large part of the Isles becomes a de facto private feifdom under the noble family. The Mornards only have one signficiant local rivial also vivying control over control over the Archipelago, the barons of House Dufort, who are able to remain a power player in the rather small pound, due to their holdings being the most valuable land on High Isle.

** Greatly offended by King Emeric's rejection of his daughter, King Ranser instigates Ranser's War by laying siege to Wayrest. Early in the conflict, Ranser's half-brother, Baron Phylgeon, tries to broker a peace between both sides. While Emeric's response to Phylgeon's attempt at diplomacy has since been lost to history, Ranser angrily refuses it, insisting on continuing the war. Emeric uses his marriage to Princess Maraya to leverage the Redguards of Sentinel into joining the war as allies. He also contacts the several Orc clans, promising to restore Orsinium in exchange for their help; the clan of Orc chief Kurog gro-Bagrakh answers his call and joins the fray on Wayrest's side. While the combined onslaught of Wayrest and Sentinel's armies forces Ranser and his troops to retreat back into Rivenspire, the host of Orcs lead by cheif Kurog gro-Bagrakh raid Shornhelm and set it ablaze. The three allied armies then meet up at the Battle of Markwasten Moor, where they descively crush Ranser's remaining army. Ranser himself is persumed killed in action, but in actuality, he manages to flee the battlefield with a small troop of his most loyal soldiers, vowing revenge.

* 2E 568: King Blaise of Evermore dies, and is succeed by his son King Eamond.

* 1E 2305: A united High Rock declares its secession from the Alessian Empire. The Alessian Emperor sends out the Legion of Faith and Piety in an attempt to stop the secessionists, but the Legion end up being soundly defeated by the Bretons.

** Victorious in his campaign against the Sload, despite the loss of half his fleet, Bendu Olo and along with the surviving captains of the All-Flags Navy sail back to the Systres Archipelago. At All Flags Islet, they write up and sign the Concordat of Fraternity, in which they all pledge themselves to further the cause of "peace and cooperation" between their peoples. After this, the surviving captains and crews return to their respective home, while Bendu Olo himself goes back to Anvil, where he spends the next couple of decades renovating his fortress at Anvil, turning it into a proper castle.

* 1E 2260: The [[TheAlliance All-Flags Navy]] is formed in a coalition of the navies from every nation in Tamriel. The Navy sails to Thras and uses powerful magics to sink it beneath the sea in retribution for the plague.

* 1E 2305: High Rock secedes from the Alessian Empire and then defeats the forces sent to reclaim it for the Empire.
* 1E 2321: The War of Righteousness breaks out between the Alessian Empire and its quickly fragmenting provinces, most notably the Kingdom of Colovia in western Cyrodiil. This follows years of internal strife within the Alessian Order's bloated priesthood and territorial movements to curtail or outlaw the Order's religion.

* 1E 2704: In an attempt to weaken the threat of the Reachmen, Reman Cyrodiil divides the Reach between the provinces of High Rock and Skyrim. The Reachmen do, of course, resist this decision fiercely, and from here on out there is never a single decade when the troops of either Solitude or Evermore won't be sent in an attempt to pacify them.

Veloth, a prophet born into a wealthy Aldmeri family, receives visions from the Daedric Princes [[TheChessmaster Azura]], [[ChronicBackstabbingDisorder Boethiah]], and [[ManipulativeBastard Mephala]], urging him to [[DefectorFromDecadence lead his people away from the ambition, greed, and decadence]] of Aldmeri society. Trinimac, champion of Auri-El and an [[GodNeedsPrayerBadly Aldmeri ancestor spirit]], urges against this. Eventually, Trinimac challenges Boethiah to a duel over the issue. During the duel, Trinimac, being an expierenced warrior, has the clear upperhand, but just as he is about to defeat Boethiah, another Daedric Prince, Mephala, interferes and stabs Trinimac {{in the back}}. Exploiting the fact Trinimac is severely wounded, Boethiah "[[GodEating consumes]]" him in order to "[[HijackingCthulhu speak with his voice]]", using it to convince many of Trinimac's followers to join Veloth. Veloth leads his followers, now known as the Chimer ("Changed Elves"), to the promised land of modern day Morrowind.\\

Veloth, a prophet born into a wealthy Aldmeri family, receives visions from the Daedric Princes [[TheChessmaster Azura]], [[ChronicBackstabbingDisorder Boethiah]], and [[ManipulativeBastard Mephala]], urging him to [[DefectorFromDecadence lead his people away from the ambition, greed, and decadence]] of Aldmeri society. Trinimac, champion of Auri-El and an [[GodNeedsPrayerBadly Aldmeri ancestor spirit]], urges against this. Eventually, Trinimac challenges Boethiah to a duel over the issue. During the duel, Trinimac, being an expierenced warrior, has the clear upperhand, but just as he is about to defeat Boethiah, another Daedric Prince, Mephala, interferes and stabs Trinimac {{in the back}}. Exploiting the fact that Trinimac is distracted, Boethiah "[[GodEating consumes]]" him in order to "[[HijackingCthulhu speak with his voice]]", using it to convince many of Trinimac's followers to join Veloth. Veloth leads his followers, now known as the Chimer ("Changed Elves"), to the promised land of modern day Morrowind.\\

Veloth, a prophet born into a wealthy Aldmeri family, receives visions from the Daedric Princes [[TheChessmaster Azura]], [[ChronicBackstabbingDisorder Boethiah]], and [[ManipulativeBastard Mephala]], urging him to [[DefectorFromDecadence lead his people away from the ambition, greed, and decadence]] of Aldmeri society. Trinimac, champion of Auri-El and an [[GodNeedsPrayerBadly Aldmeri ancestor spirit]], urges against this. Boethiah "[[GodEating consumes]]" Trinimac in order to "[[HijackingCthulhu speak with his voice]]", using it to convince many of Trinimac's followers to join Veloth. Veloth leads his followers, now known as the Chimer ("Changed Elves"), to the promised land of modern day Morrowind.\\

* 3E 0: Emperor Tiber Septim delcares the beginning of the Third Era at the end of the year 2E 896.

* 1E 970: Twenty years into the siege of Orsinium, Gaiden Shinji challenges the Orc hero Baloth Bloodtusk to a duel. As the combatants meet for their showdown, however, King Joile [[CavalryBetrayal betrays]] Shinji, and by collaborating with the Reachman leader, General Mercedene of the Winterborn, he has both Shinji and Bloodtusk assassinated. The distraction caused by this event allows the invaders to break through Hammer, the second gate.

** With Orsinium gone, Wayrest flourishes and grows into a mighty center of trade for the entire Iliac Bay.

** Tiber Steptim activates the Numidium for the first time in northeastern Elsweyr, near the city of Rimmen. Possibly testing the Numidium's abilities on the Khajiit populace, Steptim wroughts great trauma upon the region and the locals and even causes local temporal distortions. Appearently satisfied with the results, Steptim then marches the Numidium towards the Aldmeri Dominion's terrority.
** Septim starts his assault on the Aldmeri Dominion with the Numidium by using it to violently overthrow the Thalmor-lead government in Valenwood. In the aftermath, Steptim allows the Camoran dynasty to reign over Valenwood once again and agrees to lift many of the restrictions the Thalmor had imposed upon them, as long as they pledge loyalty to the Empire in return.

* ca. 1E 948: Gaiden Shinji comes to the Imperial City to oversee the construction and establisment of the new Arena, becoming its first Blademaster.

** After a thirty year siege of Orsinium, the gate of Temper falls and the Orc leader King Golkarr is killed in the ensuing battle, which proves to be Orsinium's final stand. With this, the Orcs are defeated and Orsinium is sacked and mostly raised.

** As they explore Hammerfell, the Ra Gada finally reach the mountainous Craglorn region in the southeast of the province. Here they encounter the last bastion of the old Nedic civilization, but after a brief bit of warfare, this area too is conquered and annexed by them. This is considered the final end of any real influrence of the Nedes had as a seperate race of Men, and the beginning of the point where they were completely subsumed into other human populations.

** According to tales considered heretical by Imperial historians, Talos conspires with the assassin(s) to have Cuhlecain killed so that he may ascend to the throne instead. Having taken the Ruby Throne, the newly crowned Tiber Septim finds his new position as the head administrator of a fully united Cyrodiil to be a very time-consuming task. He therefore sends the Underking in his stead to aid the Imperial expansion into Skyrim and High Rock. Being careful to maintain the public perception that there is only one Tiber Septim, the Underking resolves to keep a very low profile and works behind the scenes to spread the Empire's power and influrence over the various Nordic and Bretic kingdoms mostly through acts of levelheaded statesmanship and diplomacy.

** According to tales considered heretical by Imperial historians, Talos conspires with the assassin(s) to have Cuhlecain killed so that he may ascend to the throne instead.

* 3E 288: Emperor Uriel V sets sail with four legions and the largest fleet in recorded history to invade Akavir. They land in Tsaesci six weeks later, capturing the port city of Septimia and the nearby settlement of Ionith which becomes the Imperial headquarters for the invasion. The Tsaesci are said to have been taken by surprise by the invasion, and their forces are in disarray. However, despite initial successes, Uriel V wastes time sending messengers to Tsaesci leadership seeking to negotiate, none of whom seen again, instead of advancing and taking advantage of the Tsaesci disarray.

** Emperor Uriel VI dies after falling from his horse. His sister Morihatha is crowned Empress. She quickly distinguishes herself as a ruler, proving to be well-learned, vivacious, and a well-practiced politician.

* 3E 368: Carolyna, future Queen of Wayrest, is born.
** Emperor Pelagius IV dies. He leaves behind a Tamriel that is stable, prosperous, and closer to unity than it had been since the days of Uriel I. He is succeeded by his son, Uriel VII.

* 3E 289: Uriel V's invasion of Akavir is bogged down by seemingly [[WeatherManipulation supernatural bad weather]] which also badly disrupts Uriel V's oceanic supply lines. The decision to leave many of his army's specialists behind due to space restrictions on the fleet, particularly cavarly, becomes detrimental as his infantry is vulnerable to attacks by mounted Tsaesci raiders. His [[MilitaryMage Battle]][[MagicKnight mages]] are also overextended, spending more of their time as healers. Uriel V survives an assassination attempt by the Tsaesci.

* 3E 55: Prince Antiochus, future emperor, is born to the Imperial crown prince Pelagius Septim II.

* 3E 67: Princess Potema Septim, future Queen of Solitude, is born as the only daughter of Pelagius Septim II.

* 3E 79: Price Magnus Septim is born as the second son and youngest child of Emperor Pelagius II and his second wife, Quintilla of Camlorn.

** Both Queen Mother and court sorceress Medora Direnni petention King Lysandus to find a peaceful solution to the conflict over Betony, having forseen doom for both the Kingdom of Daggerfall and the king himself if it should come to war. Lysandus ultimately ignore their advice, and the attempts at diplomacy between the two kingdom fail, triggering the War of Betony between Daggerfall and the Kingdom of Sentinel. The War of Betony quickly turns out poorly for Sentinel, with the kingdom only winning a few skirmishes and ends up suffering defeat in several major battles.

* 3E 401: Queen Mother Nulfaga of Daggerfall discovers the location of the Mantella, the power source of [[HumongousMecha Numidium]], within a realm of [[SpiritWorld Aetherius]].

** Lord Mogref, the ruler of the independent island Betony in the Iliac Bay, [[VoluntaryVassal agrees to become a vassal]] of King Lysandus of Daggerfall in exchange for protection against pirates and brigands. This offends King Camaron of Sentinel, who cites a [[BindingAncientTreaty two hundred year old agreement]] that lists Betony as a traditional holding of his kingdom. Attempts at diplomacy between the two kingdom fails, triggering the War of Betony between the Kingdom of Daggerfall and the Kingdom of Sentinel. The war quickly turns out poorly for Sentinel, with the kingdom only winning a few skirmishes and ends up suffering defeat in several major battles.

** King Lysandus of Daggerfall suddenly sues for peace in the War of Betony; something that is considered a very strange move, as the High Rock kingdom clearly has the upper hand in the conflict and Sentinel is on the ropes, being only one lost battle away from having to concede defeat. The two sides meet on neutral ground in the small High Rock fiefdom of Reich Gradkeep, with the local ruler, Lord Graddock, appointed as their mediator. The two kings manage to negotitate a compromise, with Camaron making some concessions, cheifly of which is surrendering Sentinel's old claims on Betony pro forma, and the kingdoms agreeing to jointly rule Betony and that they both have equal and open access to the island. Vanech, an Arch-Priest of Kynareth from Daggerfall and the scribe in charge of drafting up the treaty, does, however, have an agenda of his own, fervently believing Betony to be a holy realm of Kynareth and considering any idea of ceding it to Hammerfell unthinkable. Instead, he gives the two kings a fake treaty with offensive wording to sign. King Camaron discovers the ruse, and flies into a rage, slaying Vanech on the spot, which causes the negotations to turn into a confused bloodbath, which ends up costing the lives of Lord Graddock and all but one member of his family. Sentinel's forces start sporatially sacking the city surrounding Graddock's keep, but Daggerfall's forces quickly intervene, turning the city into a chaotic battlefield for several hours, until Lysandus and Camaron are finally able to regain control of their armies and both sides exhaustedly withdraw. The forces of Sentinel eventually retreat to the Yeorth Burrowland and Daggerfall to the Ravennian Forest, their positions separated by the flowering meadowlands of Cryngaine Field.

** Nulfaga is driven to madness by her son's death and retreats to a fortress in the Wrothgarian Mountains along with her knowledge of the Mantella's location.