UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050610 Firefox/1.0.4 (Debian package 1.0.4-3) IP: 64.81.113.168 URI: http://wesnoth.slack.it/?WesnothHistory - - - - - Index: WesnothHistory =================================================================== RCS file: /home/wesnoth/cvsroot/wikiroot/WesnothHistory,v retrieving revision 1.74 diff -u -r1.74 WesnothHistory --- WesnothHistory 10 Jul 2005 03:37:57 -0000 1.74 +++ WesnothHistory 10 Jul 2005 13:40:44 -0000 @@ -4,244 +4,213 @@ unconfirmed information: for instance, "BLAH BLABITY BLAH ( the king of the BLAH ?)". Also, BW=before wesnoth, YW=years wesnoth. They function the same way as BC and AD do in our timekeeping system. -Prehistory: - -Birth of the world - -Elves and Dwarves inhabit the Great Continent. - -Humans inhabit the distant West [From the perspective of a person of HttT Era Wesnoth. Since the World is probably - round this could even be the Eastern shore of The Great Continent.] - -Haldric's people colonise the Green Isle from a continent further to the west. - - -200 BW: - -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. - - -12 BW: - -The Great Continent is discovered by the Crown Prince of Southbay. - -11-7 BW: - -The Crown Prince makes several voyages to and fro. - -6 BW: - -After these voyages 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. - -6-2 BW: - -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. - -1 BW: - -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. - -0 YW: - -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 begins. - -1 YW: - -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 helps the Elves fight the surviving Orcs. - -7-11 YW: - -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. - -20 YW: - -Haldric I dies. - -Haldric II ascends to the throne. - -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. - -110-120 YW: - -The Taming of the Wild. - -122 YW: - -City of Elensefar is sacked by orcs. - -Meneldur, a sailor of Elensefar, sets out on a quest to regain the city. - -123 YW: - -Elensefar is retaken by Meneldur along with Undead from the Green Isle. - -Elensefar becomes an independent city-state for the first time. - -200-350 YW: - -The time of the Great Kings, the Golden Age of Wesnoth. - -The wizards of Wesnoth construct the massive fortress Halstead to protect the west. - -Elensefar is united with the Kingdom of Wesnoth. - -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. - -350 YW: - -Fractioning of kingdom caused by death of Haldric IV. - -Elensefar remains a province of Wesnoth but exerts increasing independence due to isolation. - -Treaty between lord of Elensefar and king of Wesnoth signed. - -440 YW: - -Garard I becomes king of Wesnoth. - -442 YW: - -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 return 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 and becomes a trusted advisor to King Garard. - -Three outposts are built on eastern border to repel local orcs. - -447 YW: - -Crown Prince Garard II is born. - -Dwarves agree to craft the Sceptre of Fire for King Garard. - -450 YW: - -Prince Arand is born. - -473 YW: - -The Sceptre of Fire is completed. - -Orcs besiege Knalga, and the Sceptre is lost. - -Garard I dies. - -474 YW: - -Garard II rises to throne of Wesnoth. - -478 YW: - -Garard marries Asheviere. - -Garard II issues the Sceptre Edict of Royal Succession - -480 YW: - -Crown Prince Eldred is Born. - -498 YW: - -Princess Li'sar is born. - -500 YW: - -Prince Konrad is born, the youngest of several sons of of Prince Arand. - -Wesnoth and the Orcs of the north go to war. - -Garard leads his army to orc encampment at Galcadar 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 Prince Arand and his other sons. - -Delfador escapes the battle and heads to Weldyn. - -Eldred bribes the Orcish king into peace. - -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. - -501 YW: - -Asheviere orders the execution of Garard's nephews and declares herself Queen of Wesnoth. - -Hearing of the news Delfador infiltrates the palace. - -Delfador finds the youngest prince Konrad as he is slain. - -Delfador flees, taking Konrad's body for burial to the land of the Elves. - -While traveling through Wesnoth 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 Southwestern Elves. - -Elensefar refuses to submit to Asheviere and declares itself an independent city-state. - -Western Wesnoth border recedes, is fixed, and remains heavily defended. - -As a result the Elves flourish to the Southwest of Wesnoth. - -A band of humans inhabits the Isle of the Damned. - -502-517 YW: - -Delfador raises Konrad under the protection of the Elves. - -517 YW: - -Asheviere hires Orcish forces to hunt down her nephew-in-law Konrad. - -Orcish forces converge on Delfador's refuge. - -Konrad flees his home with the elves and embark upon a quest to regain the throne of Wesnoth. - -518 YW: - -Konrad crosses the Great River into the Northlands on a search for the Sceptre of Fire. - -They enter the Caves of Knalga, ally with Princess Li'sar, and find it. - -519 YW: - -They return to Wesnoth and claim the throne. - -522 YW: - -Birth of Princess Ana'sar - -533 YW: - -Delfador sucumbs to old age and dies, his body is entombed alongside his staff in Eregonor. - -The next great sage of Wesnoth, Dacyn, is born. - -589 YW: - -Haldric VII becomes king of Wesnoth. - -Dacyn the White Mage and Ravanal, an eastern wizard, compete to be the king's advisor. - -The king chooses Dacyn, Ravanal flees Wesnoth and becomes a lich. - -592 YW: - -Konrad II is born. - -612 YW: - -Konrad II becomes King of Wesnoth. - -Dacyn continues his duties as advisor with Konrad. - -625 YW: - -Mysterious disappearances of livestock and peasants along the eastern border of Wesnoth. - -Konrad II sends the Dacyn and three officers (Owaec, Sudoc and Gweddry) to man the old eastern outposts. - -626 YW: - -Mal-Ravanal attacks the middle outpost where Gweddry and Dacyn are stationed. - -Dacyn and Gweddry travel to the northern outpost, and, with Owaec, retreat into the northlands. - -627 YW: - -Wesnoth's last defences are broken and the undead march on Wesnoth - -In the northlands, the orcs drive Gweddry's army back across the river. - -Weldyn is besieged. - -Gweddry breaks through undead lines to reach Weldyn. - -A council is held. - -Gweddry's army kills Mal-Ravanal through sheer luck. - -Wesnoth is saved, but has been turned by the undead into a barren wasteland, and the 100 years that follow are - considered the dark ages of Wesnoth. - -History derived from: - -The Challenges - -The Rise of Wesnoth - -Heir to the Throne - -Eastern Invasion - -Liberty - -Timelined by Kamahawk. - -||Alternate History Regarding the Sceptre of Fire|| - -25 YW: - - Haldric II commissions a dwarven tribe to build the Sceptre and recieve the ruby from Haldric II. - - Elves attack the dwarves as Haldric II is giving them the ruby. - -26 YW: - - The dwarves, searching for supplies, attack another dwarvish clan, the Shorbears. - - The Elves siege the dwarves in the Shorbears' citadel for a year, during which time the sceptre is made. - - The dwarves break the siege and head underground, into the depths of the volcano where Khrakrahs the Dragon lives. - - One of Khrakrahs' teeth is incorporated into the sceptre, adding to its magical power. - - The volcano erupts, killing the dwarves and the elves who followed them. - - A human messenger escapes to report to Haldric II that the Sceptre was created. - -Alternate history derived from: - -The Sceptre of Fire campaign, by Turin - -The Legend of Wesmere campaign, by Santi - +Prehistory - 20 YW: The Founding of Wesnoth +* Birth of the world. +* Elves and Dwarves inhabit the Great Continent. +* Humans inhabit the distant West. +* Haldric's people colonise the Green Isle from a continent further to the west. +* 200 BW: + * 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. +* 12 BW: + * The Great Continent is discovered by the Crown Prince of Southbay. +* 11-7 BW: + * The Crown Prince makes several voyages between the Green Isle and the Great Continent. +* 6 BW: + * After these voyages 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. +* 6-2 BW: + * 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. +* 1 BW: + * 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. +* 0 YW: + * 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 begins. +* 1 YW: + * 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 helps the Elves fight the surviving Orcs. +* 7 YW: + * 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. +* 8-10 YW: + * Many Elves are killed in battle by the Orcs. + * Elvish emissaries are turned away from Wesnoth. +* 11 YW: + * 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. +* 20 YW: + * Haldric I dies. + * Haldric II ascends to the throne. + * King Haldric II allows emissaries of the Elves to return to Wesnoth. +* 23 YW: + * Haldric sends General Aldar west with a portion of the Wesnoth army, to aid the Elves. + * The Orcs in the eastern lands are defeated. + + +20-130 YW: The Taming of the Wild +* ||Alternate History Regarding the Sceptre of Fire|| +* 25 YW: + * Haldric II commissions a dwarven tribe to build the Sceptre and recieve the ruby from Haldric II. + * Elves attack the dwarves as Haldric II is giving them the ruby. +* 26 YW: + * The dwarves, searching for supplies, attack another dwarvish clan, the Shorbears. + * The Elves siege the dwarves in the Shorbears' citadel for a year, during which time the sceptre is made. + * The dwarves break the siege and head underground, into the depths of the volcano where Khrakrahs the Dragon lives. + * One of Khrakrahs' teeth is incorporated into the sceptre, adding to its magical power. + * The volcano erupts, killing the dwarves and the elves who followed them. + * A human messenger escapes to report to Haldric II that the Sceptre was created. +* ||End Alternate History|| +* 122 YW: + * City of Elensefar is sacked by orcs. + * Meneldur, a sailor of Elensefar, sets out on a quest to regain the city. +* 123 YW: + * Elensefar is retaken by Meneldur along with Undead from the Green Isle. + * Elensefar becomes an independent city-state for the first time. + +200-350 YW: The Golden Age of Wesnoth +* 230 YW: + * The wizards of Wesnoth construct the massive fortress Halstead to protect the west. + * Elensefar is united with the Kingdom of Wesnoth. +* 250 YW: + * 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. +* 350 YW: + * Fractioning of kingdom caused by death of Haldric IV. + * Elensefar remains a province of Wesnoth but exerts increasing independence due to isolation. + * Treaty between lord of Elensefar and king of Wesnoth signed. + +350-440 YW: The First Dark Age of Wesnoth + +440-530 YW: The Turmoil of Asheviere +* 440 YW: + * Garard I becomes king of Wesnoth. +* 442 YW: + * 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 return 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 and becomes a trusted advisor to King Garard. +* 442-445 YW: + * Three outposts are built on eastern border to repel local orcs. +* 447 YW: + * Crown Prince Garard II is born. + * Dwarves agree to craft the Sceptre of Fire for King Garard. +* 450 YW: + * Prince Arand is born. +* 473 YW: + * The Sceptre of Fire is completed. + * Orcs besiege Knalga, and the Sceptre is lost. + * Garard I dies. +* 474 YW: + * Garard II rises to throne of Wesnoth. +* 478 YW: + * Garard marries Asheviere. + * Garard II issues the Sceptre Edict of Royal Succession +* 480 YW: + * Crown Prince Eldred is born. +* 498 YW: + * Princess Li'sar is born. +* 500 YW: + * Prince Konrad is born, the youngest of several sons of of Prince Arand. + * Wesnoth and the Orcs of the north go to war. + * Garard leads his army to orc encampment at Galcadar 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 Prince Arand and his other sons. + * Delfador escapes the battle and heads to Weldyn. + * Eldred bribes the Orcish king into peace. + * 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. +* 501 YW: + * Asheviere orders the execution of Garard's nephews and declares herself Queen of Wesnoth. + * Hearing of the news Delfador infiltrates the palace. + * Delfador finds the youngest prince Konrad as he is slain. + * Delfador flees, taking Konrad's body for burial to the land of the Elves. + * While traveling through Wesnoth 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 Southwestern Elves. + * Elensefar refuses to submit to Asheviere and declares itself an independent city-state. + * Western Wesnoth border recedes, is fixed, and remains heavily defended. + * As a result the Elves flourish to the Southwest of Wesnoth. + * A band of humans inhabits the Isle of the Damned. +* 502-517 YW: + * Delfador raises Konrad under the protection of the Elves. +* 517 YW: + * Asheviere hires Orcish forces to hunt down her nephew-in-law Konrad. + * Orcish forces converge on Delfador's refuge. + * Konrad flees his home with the elves and embark upon a quest to regain the throne of Wesnoth. +* 518 YW: + * Konrad crosses the Great River into the Northlands on a search for the Sceptre of Fire. + * They enter the Caves of Knalga, ally with Princess Li'sar, and find it. +* 519 YW: + * They return to Wesnoth and claim the throne. +* 522 YW: + * Birth of Princess Ana'sar + +530-630 YW: The Age of Fear +* 533 YW: + * Delfador sucumbs to old age and dies, his body is entombed alongside his staff in Eregonor. + * The next great sage of Wesnoth, Dacyn, is born. +* 589 YW: + * Haldric VII becomes king of Wesnoth. + * Dacyn the White Mage and Ravanal, an eastern wizard, compete to be the king's advisor. + * The king chooses Dacyn, Ravanal flees Wesnoth and becomes a lich. +* 592 YW: + * Konrad II is born. +* 612 YW: + * Konrad II becomes King of Wesnoth. + * Dacyn continues his duties as advisor with Konrad. +* 625 YW: + * Mysterious disappearances of livestock and peasants along the eastern border of Wesnoth. + * Konrad II sends the Dacyn and three officers (Owaec, Sudoc and Gweddry) to man the old eastern outposts. +* 626 YW: + * Mal-Ravanal attacks the middle outpost where Gweddry and Dacyn are stationed. + * Dacyn and Gweddry travel to the northern outpost, and, with Owaec, retreat into the northlands. +* 627 YW: + * Wesnoth's last defences are broken and the undead march on Wesnoth + * In the northlands, the orcs drive Gweddry's army back across the river. + * Weldyn is besieged. + * Gweddry breaks through undead lines to reach Weldyn. + * A council is held. + * Gweddry's army kills Mal-Ravanal through sheer luck. + * Wesnoth is saved, but has been turned by the undead into a barren wasteland. + +630-700: The Restoration of Wesnoth + +||------|| + +* Timelined by Kamahawk and Turin. +* History derived from: + * The Challenges + * The Rise of Wesnoth + * Heir to the Throne + * Eastern Invasion + * Liberty +* Alternate history derived from: + * The Sceptre of Fire campaign, by Turin + * The Legend of Wesmere campaign, by Santi ||See Also||
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