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TIMELINE

290–300:

•The Scarlet Guard is formed in the Lakelands. Gradually, its influence and power will grow throughout the kingdom and bleed across its borders to Norta.

SUMMER 296:

•Tiberias VI is crowned King of Norta following the passing of his father, Tiberias V.

FALL 300:

•Crown Prince Tiberias is born to Tiberias VI and his wife, Coriane, of House Jacos. He is nicknamed Cal.

LATE FALL 302:

•Mare Barrow is born in the Stilts to Daniel and Ruth Barrow.

FALL 301:

•After the death of his first wife, King Tiberias VI marries Elara of House Merandus.

WINTER 302:

•Prince Maven Calore is born to King Tiberias VI and Queen Elara.

SUMMER 320:

•Queenstrial is held. While working as a servant, the Red girl Mare Barrow displays an impossible Silverlike ability. She is disguised in the court as a Silver woman to hide this new power.

LATE SUMMER 320:

•After weeks of aggression, the Scarlet Guard attempts to seize Whitefire Palace in Archeon, but fails. Betrayed by Maven, Mare is exposed as a Scarlet Guard operative and Cal is forced to kill his own father. Mare and the crown prince are arrested and sentenced to death. They narrowly escape with the help of the Scarlet Guard.

•With his brother in exile, Maven is crowned King of Norta.

FALL 320:

•Mare and the Scarlet Guard travel throughout Norta, looking for more Reds with Silver abilities to join their army. They are called newbloods.

LATE FALL 320:

•After their team is cornered, Mare trades herself to King Maven in exchange for their lives. She is imprisoned in Whitefire Palace.

WINTER–SPRING 321:

•King Maven undertakes a coronation tour of Norta and negotiates an end to the Lakelander War. He breaks his betrothal to Evangeline of House Samos to cement the peace treaty with a marriage to Princess Iris of the Lakelands.

•The Scarlet Guard pushes the fortress city Corvium into riots and chaos. Led by the exiled Cal, they conquer the city.

SPRING 321:

•After months as Maven’s prisoner and political puppet, Mare escapes with the help of Evangeline during a Scarlet Guard uprising at Maven’s wedding.

•The Kingdom of the Rift is formed by House Samos.

•The democratic Free Republic of Montfort allies with the Scarlet Guard, hoping to remake the Silver kingdoms of the east into blood-equal democracies. They forge a shaky alliance with Piedmont, based on blackmail, but have many resources and troops.

EARLY SUMMER 321:

•Together with the Lakelands, Maven attempts to win back Corvium, but his army is defeated by an alliance of the Scarlet Guard, Montfort, the Rift, and rebelling Silver houses led by Tiberias VI’s mother, Anabel Lerolan.

•The king of the Lakelands is killed in the attempt on Corvium.

•After the battle, the Red and Silver alliance proclaims Cal as Tiberias VII, the true King of Norta.

SUMMER 321:

•The alliance of Tiberias VII, the Scarlet Guard, and the Rift petition and win aid from Montfort’s government.

•Acting on behalf of her husband, Queen Iris of Norta removes the leverage Montfort has over Prince Bracken of Piedmont. The Silvers overtake the Montfort base in Piedmont.

LATE SUMMER 321:

•The Red and Silver alliance strikes the tech slum New Town and Harbor Bay at the same time, winning both from King Maven. The two sides agree to a parley.

• Queen Iris turns on her husband and trades him over to the alliance in exchange for the man who killed her father.

•Maven is stripped of his crown and sentenced to execution by his brother. The war for the throne is won, and the undisputed king refuses to step down. The Scarlet Guard and Montfort dissolve their alliance with Norta, and kidnap Maven before he can be killed.

•The Lakelands return in full force to assault the weakened Norta, striking the capital at Archeon. Evangeline and Ptolemus of House Samos flee the city, forsaking their royal house. Their father, King Volo Samos, dies in the battle. The Nortan forces are almost overrun, until the Scarlet Guard and Montfort infiltrate the city with Maven’s guidance. When he tries to escape in the battle, Mare Barrow is forced to kill the fallen king.

•King Tiberias VII abdicates his throne in favor of a new Norta and reconstruction into the Nortan States begins.