0 AY: Fuyutsuki draws the Pattern. He begins to explore the infinite shadow which results.
100 AY: Fuyutsuki returns from his journeys with his young son, Gendo, who becomes the first to walk the Pattern. Gendo vanishes into Shadow. Fuyutsuki begins to build Amber. Who helped him build it is unknown.
112 AY: Dios, son of Anno, defeats the Aboleth, and crafts its remains into the Black House, the Plaza of the Serpent, the Chapel of the Serpent, a large hill, House Gainax, and a fortified plain around all of the above.
114 AY: Dios weds Minalia.
116 AY: Ishmael is born to King Dios and Queen Minalia.
119 AY: Saul is born to King Dios and Queen Minalia.
200 AY: Gendo returns from Shadow, leading an army of followers. They settle in the Vale of Garnath, amazed by the wonderful city waiting for them. Fuyutsuki proclaims Gendo King of Amber, hops onto the Unicorn's back, and rides off into shadow. The Chapel of the Unicorn stands at this spot.
200-300 AY: Amber thrives and its sailors begin to explore up and down the coast. It is at this time that Rebma is discovered. The plains and hills of Sethfore are covered with city states at this time, while Harad is divided into dozens of petty kingdoms and city states. In the plains of future Talma/Uila/Singh, various cities arise along the rivers and begin to expand and make war on each other.
225 AY: Cronos is born to King Dios and Queen Minalia. Amberite traders push up the Barimen river into what is now Begma and Talma. They discover many squabbling city states united into loose leagues.
251 AY: Queen Minalia of Chaos is assassinated. Cronos heads out into Shadow.
258 AY: Dios marries Queen Lini. Sargon I becomes King of Wanecki, capital of the Wanecki League. He immediately attacks the Talmor league.
263 AY: Dios snaps after one too many 'clever' sayings, and divorces Queen Lini.
271 AY: Dios marries Moiraine.
276 AY: Queen Moiraine gives birth to David and Rehoboam; Rehoboam is said to have been clutching David's heel as David came out.
288 AY: Sargon II finally forces the Talmor league to submit and
become part of the Wanecki League.
290 AY: Around this time, the Theran peoples begin to invade the regions of modern Therin.
296-306 AY: Ashur I makes war on the Rikidi League and conquers
it. In 305 AY, he sacks Rikidi and slays every living person in the
place after it refuses to surrender.
300-450 AY: Trade contact with Amber enables the coastal state of Catala to begin to expand, conquering its neighbors and pushing inland. Amber draws the city states of Sethfore into a league, dominated by herself, which becomes a great sea-going commercial empire. The city of Korch unites many others to form the Kingdom of Korch in the Talma/Uila/Singh region.
305 AY: At an assembly of the Therin Tribes, Louis of the Red Wolf tribe is elected High King of the Theran Peoples.
306 AY: Queen Moiraine falls into the Cave of Worlds while fighting an old enemy and is never seen again.
311 AY: King Dios of Chaos marries Aviendha.
312 AY: Rehoboam heads into shadow.
312-325 AY: The Rising of All. The remaining leagues of the future Begman region rise up together to try to destroy the Wanecki League. They are not successful, but both sides fight each other to exhaustion.
327 AY: Hoping to secure the High Kingship of Therin in his dynastic line, Louis I secures the election of his son, Louis II, as joint High King. This becomes a custom of the Theran Dynasty.
332 AY: Queen Aviendha gives birth to Suroth.
350 AY: Amberite traders found Milesia on the Isle of Emeralds.
376 AY: Queen Aviendha gives birth to Alars. Cronos returns from Shadow and builds Olympusways.
376-413 AY: Rule of King Juro of the Catala. Juro consolidates Catalan control of the future Eregnor and begins to gobble up some of the weaker states of the future Begman region.
390 AY: The Monde invade Korch and conquer it, founding the Kingdom of Monde.
400-408 AY: The Reaver War. Chaos is invaded from another universe after an accident involving Abyss Monks and Primal Chaos opens a rift to another universe.
401 AY: Rehoboam returns with what becomes the Red Fleet and pitches in to assist in the war.
406 AY: Queen Aviendha is slain during a sneak attack by Reaver forces.
413-450 AY: King Taiki rules in Catala. He continues to expand west and southwest in a series of wars. Only the Wanecki manage to hold out.
419 AY: Louis III builds Roncesvalles to serve as a capital for the League of Theran Peoples.
420 AY: Gendo marries Sakura of Catala, daughter to Taiki, King of Catala.
430 AY: After several stillbirths, Sakura gives birth to Tylor.
432 AY: King Clovis II of Monde forms trade ties with Amber and begins trying to civilize his kingdom.
435 AY: Touga is born.
438 AY: At the death of Marc I, disgruntled Therans who fear the High Kings are consolidating too much power try to disregard the 435 election of Theresa II as joint-High Queen, electing Alphonse of the Long Runners. Both sides rally their supporters and civil war erupts.
438-446 AY: Civil War in Therin between the Theran Dynasty and the traditionalist clans.
440 AY: Drake is born.
442 AY: Captured by Alphonse, Queen Theresa II manages to escape her cell and kill Alphonse, before being killed by Alphonse's guards. With his death, the traditionalists are unable to decide on another joint leader, and fighting seperately, are swiftly crushed by Theresa's son Jacques II.
445 AY: Shinji, Gendo's first bastard son, is born to Miri of Florence.
446 AY: The Sanction of Bourges: Jacques II declares the crown hereditary in his family. The kings of the losing clans are stripped of their titles and replaced with royally appointed governors. The kings of the clans who backed the king are appointed as hereditary governors of the provinces where their clans live.
450 AY: Taiki dies and is succeeded by his son Ura, who crushes the Wanecki kingdom in what is now Begma in only three years.
452 AY: King Dios of Chaos marries Asuka.
453 AY: King Ura of Catala overruns Shalomar.
454 AY: A league of Haradian states is crushed by King Ura at Norost.
455 AY: Gendo has King Ura assassinated. His kingdom dissolves in civil war as his brothers fight over the regency, then kill his heir and fight for the throne. Sakura curses Gendo and leaves the court, apparently forever. Gendo responds by marrying his mistress, Yvette of Monde.
Yvette to the Cimbri Wars (456 AY-605 AY)
456 AY: Van is born.
In Chaos, Ymir and Magnus are born as twins to Queen Asuka.
459 AY: Yvette of Monde dies in childbirth, but Saionji survives. Content with five sons, Gendo does not marry again for quite a while, taking mistresses instead.
460 AY: Tylor walks the Pattern and vanishes into Shadow for a time.
465 AY: Touga walks the Pattern and vanishes into Shadow for a time.
466 AY: Shinji trips during his Pattern walk and dies.
468 AY: The peace of Alsace divides Catala among three kings: Kashfa, Eregna, and Begma, under the nominal leadership of Eregna. However, his kingdom soon finds itself squeezed between the others.
471 AY: The Pecheneg tear through Eregnor, then push on into the Plains of Harad, which they begin to conquer.
472 AY: The various Harad states call on Amber for help. Gendo appoints Drake commander of the relief force sent to help them.
472-82 AY: The war against the Pecheneg drags on and on; most of Harad north of the River Harad is lost to them. The remaining Haradian states unite and choose a High King, Taruka, to lead them.
482-90 AY: The Pecheneg are pushed into western Harad, then turn and invade Begma, conquering it. Harad emerges as a powerful state with a traditional feud with Begma's new rulers.
486-521 AY: Ludovicus I the Cunning rules as King of the Pechenegs.
490 AY: The Pecheneg are defeated by Harad's forces and push west into Begma.
491 AY: Drake walks the Pattern and vanishes into Shadow for a time. Van does likewise. Gendo forbids Saionji to do this, which angers him. Ymir builds his great fortress, Aesirways.
495 AY: King Tethin of Begma is defeated and slain. Begma collapses before the Pecheneg onslaught.
500 AY: Fuyutsuki returns from Shadow and settles down at the castle.
510 AY: Decline of Monde begins, as repeated assaults from Begma devastate it.
515 AY: Touga returns from Shadow.
521-545 AY: Ludovicus II the Lucky rules as King of the Pechenegs, controlling Begma and pushing into Eregnor, which he takes away from Kashfa.
531 AY: Ludovicus II narrowly escapes assassination when he slips in a puddle of ale spilled by one of his vassals, causing him to fall out of the path of arrows fired by assassins in the hire of Kashfa.
532 AY: Lady Suroth's daughter, the future Suroth II, is born to Suroth by her husband, Tarlock.
536-542 AY: The Ghost Riders of Khos assail Chaos.
539 AY: Queen Asuka dies fighting the Ghost Riders of Khos.
543 AY: Van returns from Shadow, then rides forth to battle a dragon threatening the Golden Circle. He never returns.
545-547 AY: Gaulicus the Unlucky rules the Pecheneg nation.
547 AY: Gaulicus chokes on a pomegranate, leaving his 3 year old son Albanus as King.
547-558 AY: Unrest and periodic strife in the Pecheneg lands (Begma + Eregnor) as the nobility and the King's widow, Lucillia, fight over the regency during the minority of King Albanus.
550-600 AY: The Pecheneg state (Begma) gradually declines.
558-591 AY: King Albanus the Peacemaker rules the Pecheneg (Begma + Eregnor). He manages to restore peace in his lands, but loses a lot of his authority.
560s-610s: The Therins crush the Mystarans and come into contact with Amber. The Mystara river becomes the border.
573 AY: The Linkha invade and conquer much of the Kingdom of Monde.
582 AY: King Dios of Chaos marries Moghedien
583 AY: Saionji finally sneaks off and walks the Pattern in defiance of Gendo, vanishing into Shadow. The same day, Tylor sails out of Shadow with a fleet into the Gulf of Amber, right in time to intercept an invasion fleet from Euboea which hoped to conquer Amber and its trade by a surprise attack. He defeats the invasion and is named Admiral of the Fleet of Amber by Gendo. The Euboean War begins.
Nuada is born to Queen Moghedien and King Dios.
583-593 AY: The First Euboean War. This is largely a naval war. Amber successfully forces the Euboeans to abandon their colonies in the Shalomar Islands.
584 AY: Belshazzar is born to Queen Moghedien and King Dios.
588 AY: Haruka of Harad is born.
591-643 AY: King Ludovicus III the Drunken theoretically rules the Pecheneg (Begma + Eregnor). In practice, he spends his time drinking while his mayors of the palace run affairs.
598-604 AY: Cimbri attacks destroy Kashfa and overrun Eregnor.
604 AY: The Pecheneg state (Begma) begins paying a tribute yearly to the Cimbri to avoid being invaded.
605 AY: Darien of Harad dies, willing his kingdom to Amber in the hopes they can save it from the Cimbri. Gendo marries the heiress, Haruka. The Cimbri pour across the border and the Cimbri Wars begin. Tylor commands the Fleets of the League of Amber, while Touga takes command of the Amberite forces fighting in Harad. General Marduk commands Harad's armies.
605-638 AY: Pepin (I) the Short serves as Mayor of the Palace in Begma.
605-624 AY: The war consists of repeated Cimbri raids along the coast and into the interior. The navy holds off the coastal raids, but Harad and Amber's forces are unable to prevent the Cimbri devastating much of the area north of the Harad River, although the Cimbri are unable to hold any ground.
606 AY: Eowyn is born
608 AY: Juri is born
612 AY: Catherine is born.
616 AY: Corinne is born
617 AY: Haruka minor is born.
623 AY: After a stillbirth, Haruka never becomes pregnant again.
In Chaos, Queen Moghedien has the last of her famous fights with Dios and storms off into Shadow. She never returns, and is declared dead 3 years later.
624 AY: Eowyn dies during a battle on Lake Harad, which has frozen over.
General Marduk is slain and the armies of Harad collapse in the west.
Cimbri swarm south and begin to occupy Harad west of Salisbury.
625 AY: Drake returns from Shadow and assumes command of the
war against the Cimbri.
627 AY: Catherine tires of being held safe behind the lines in
Amber, slips out of the city, gathers a war party, and tries to raid the
Cimbri to avenge Eowyn's death. She is defeated, captured, raped,
and killed by Arovisticus, one of the major Cimbri war leaders. After
this incident, Haruka steps up the combat training of her children,but
also keeps pretty strict reins on them, wanting to avoid a repeat disaster.
630 AY: Cimbri attempt to bring a major fleet down the coast
against Amber, but Tylor defeats them.
631-639 AY: First major truce period in the war; both sides are exhausted. Gendo sends Juri to walk the Pattern and go into shadow on a mission during this time. The Cimbri build their empire in other directions during this time. Tylor sails off into Shadow to buy Queen Haruka a birthday present and does not return for many years.
635 AY: Pepin the Short (of Begma) defeated the Cimbri at the battle of Karest, driving them out of Begma.
636 AY: King Dios of Chaos marries Graendel
638-651 AY: Carlo (I) the Brave serves as Mayor of the Palace in Begma.
639 AY: A Cimbri warchief tries to challenge Gendo to a duel. Gendo refuses, so the man kidnaps Haruka, forces her to 'marry' him, then tries to claim the throne of Amber. (In Cimbri culture, women rule over land, men rule over the people who live on it. Thus, to become king, you have to either convince or force the heiress to marry you, and build up a body of followers for yourself) Gendo says he'll admit the man's claim if the man walks the Pattern. Foolishly, the man tries to do so and is consumed by it. The chief (Garicus) has many relatives, however, who declare a blood feud, and the war repopens.
640-660: Second Cimbri
War.
The Cimbri put forth a great effort to destroy Amber, sending forth
multiple fleets and trying to overrun and settle the conquered areas.
640 AY: Jetta is born to Dios and Graendel
643-672 AY: Mericivus the Lustful theoretically rules the Pecheneg (Begma + Eregnor). In practice, he spends his time wenching while his mayors of the palace run affairs.
645 AY: Skippy the Logrus Squid attacks and devastates Ember.
646 AY: Tremere of Chaos is born to Dios and Graendel.
650 AY: The Dorian federation overthrows the kingdom of Linkha, and begins to overrun modern Uila and Singh.
651 AY: Haruka Minor is murdered during a truce negotiation, along with most of the officer corps of her army. It is crushed and central Harad is overrun.
651-678 AY: Pepin (II) the Tall serves as Mayor of the Palace in Begma.
656 AY: By this point, the Cimbri control most of the plains, except for isolated strong holds, and they make their first failed attempt to break through the Kolvir pass into Amber proper.
657 AY: Touga appears to betray the garrison of the pass, letting the Cimbri into it. They flood through the pass towards Castle Amber itself, putting it under seige and bringing up every single Cimbri warrior they can. However, they are unable to force their way past the Castle into Amber itself.
It is then revealed that Touga 'betrayed' Amber at Gendo's command, when Juri rides into the far end of the pass with a vast army of mercenaries from Shadow, making her triumphant reappearance. Trapped in the pass, the Cimbri are slaughtered to the last man at Gendo's command, and their heads are sent back to the Cimbri who remain in Harad.
660 AY: Battle of the Plains of Harad. The last major field force of the Cimbri does battle for four days with the armies of Amber and are crushed. Gendo forces the remaining Cimbri to submit and sells every Cimbri he can get his hands on into slavery. However, Amber lacks the resources to conquer the Cimbri in the areas north and west of Harad. Their confederation breaks up and splits into a dozen or so petty kingdoms in what is now Begma, Eregnor, and Kashfa.
664 AY: Amber's league of allies, exhausted after years of war they see as largely intended to benefit Amber, attempt to greatly reduce Amber's power in the league and to force Gendo to seperate the crowns of Harad and Amber, so that different children will inherit them, instead of Harad becoming permanently part of Amber, for they know this will lead to Amber gaining an unshakable ascendency over them. Saionji urges Gendo to refuse, hoping to eventually hold both crowns, until Gendo points out that Saionji has no rightful claim on Harad, as the claim descends through Haruka. Saionji then irritates Gendo greatly by throwing his support to the rebellious members of the league's proposals. Gendo responds by having the High Priest of the Unicorn declare his marriage to Yvette annuled due to him having had sex with her while married to someone else. (Yvette having been his mistress while he was still married to Sakura). Saionji tries to kill the high priest in a rage, fails, and is forced to flee into Shadow.
War then breaks out. Portions of Harad revolt, supposedly in favor of Haradian independence, but mostly as a result of the desire of various Harad nobles to gain independence for themselves. Haruka, who in some unknown fashion seems to have gained the longevity of Amberites proper, puts on her armor and leads the army against them herself, while Drake and Juri move south against the league. It is at this time that Corinne is sent to secure control of Arden, which eventually leads to her serving as its warden. Touga suffers repeated defeats at sea, for the league provided Amber with most of its naval strength before this, while Drake and Juri methodically conquer the hinterlands. They are unable to conquer the cities proper, however, which are reinforced by sea.
670 AY: Jetta, daughter of King Dios, walks the Logrus and heads into Shadow.
672-682 AY: King Antonius the Bastard rules the Pecheneg (Begma + Eregnor). He struggles to reassert royal authority, but is militarily incompetent, though he tries hard.
673-706 AY: Reign of Queen Theresa III of Therin. This is usually considered the height of Therin's power and of the Theran dynasty. It was a time of peace and prosperity, but with stormclouds on the horizon, as the country had filled up its agricultural lands and hit the limits of its ability to expand. In the following century, population pressures began to undercut the country's prosperity and bread unrest. Theresa herself was able to make quite a bit of money by renting a large chunk of the Therinese army to Amber as mercenaries in the Social War and the Last Cimbri War. She also seizes the area around Chalcedon from the Dorians after their defeat on the Day of Darkness.
674 AY: The Euboeans become involved, dispatching their navies to aid the cities of the league. The Dorian federation begains to attack Arden from the west. However, Haruka suppresses the last of the rebels in Harad in this year and begins building a fleet in the Harad ports.
676 AY: The league crushes the fleet from Harad and raids Amber Port. Graendel is killed by Abyssal monsters. Setsuna of Chaos throws herself into the Abyss.
676-743 AY: Dios appoints Ishmael Regent and vanishes into Shadow.
678 AY: Corrinne is defeated by the Dorians west of Arden and forced to fall back into the forest.
678-682 AY: Pepin (III) the Strong serves as Mayor of the Palace.
679-684: The Last Cimbri war.
A charismatic chieftan, Vercintegorix arises and reunites the Cimbri
for one last throw of the dice. The Cimbri are succesful at first because
Amber is preoccupied by the Social War. Juri eventually crushes the
Cimbri and drives thembefore her, then forces them all into a tributary
position to Amber. The Cimbri henceforth fade as a power, assimilate
into the populations they conquered,and eventually are overrun by the next
major wave of barbarians, the Alans, many years later
680 AY: The Day of Darkness. Dorian forces break through Arden and march against Amber City. Drake attempts to march his forces north from the southern front, but can't arrive in time. The League's fleet, strengthened by the Euboeans, crushes Touga's fleet in the Gulf of Amber, captures Touga, and moves in to seize Amberport. The city of Amber goes under siege. Attacked by the Cimbri, Juri and Haruka are unable to bring help from the North. But Tylor finally reappears, sailing out of shadow with a fleet of ships who, as he put it 'keep following me around through Shadow because they keep getting to fight things and get rich'. The invading fleet is crushed, Amber is resupplied, and Drake arrives with the main army to drive off and crush the Dorians.
680-682 AY: With the defeat of the Cimbri, King Antonius tries to depose Pepin the Strong with a man of his own chosing. Pepin marches the army of Pecheneg veterans against King Antonius and overthrows him.
681-82 AY: With the help of Tylor's fleet, the league's forces are crushed. Gendo offers them a deal, letting the cities govern themselves in return for an annual tribute payment, while their nobles titles will be recognized and they all will become Amber citizens, with the full trading privleges in Amber itself of such citizens. The cities accept, and the war ends.
682-703 AY: Pepin III the Strong founds the Silesian Dynasty and rules over Begma. Pepin abolishes the position of Mayor of the Palace, being aware it might be used to overthrow his own line one day if it survives, and divides its responsibility among many different royally appointed ministers.
Peace under Gendo and Haruka (684-914 AY)
684 AY: Corrine walks the Pattern for the first time and vanishes into Shadow for a time.
685 AY: Lord Ymir of Aesir towed Jotunheim through Shadow and anchored it next to Aesirways to provide a testing ground for Aesir's warriors to grow strong.
686 AY: The great dragon Nifflinar rose from the Abyss, and Ymir perished fighting it.
688-701 AY: Third Euboean War. Euboea is defeated and forced to cede some of its colonies.
692 AY: Bargle the Infamous of Darinstar tries to conquer the City of Brass with the Heart of Flame, but is defeated and turned into a coatrack.
695-703 AY: Civil War in House Olympus. Lord Zeus and his brothers overthrow Lord Cronus and take over.
703-751 AY: Carlo II the Builder rules in Begma and Eregnor. He becomes reknowned for building many beautiful castles and churches and roads. He also runs up massive debts.
743 AY: Dios returns from Shadow.
751-783 AY: Pepin IV the Unlucky rules in Begma and Eregnor. His financial difficulties lead to embarrassing defeats at the hands of the Cimbri states and Talma.
754 AY: Corrine returns from Shadow.
755 AY: Dios abdicates and vanishes into Shadow, never to be seen again...as Dios, anyway. Ishmael becomes King of Chaos. Jetta resurfaces briefly to attend the coronation and pledge allegiance to him, then returns to Shadow.
758-771 AY: Civil war in Euboea permanently cripples its ability to threaten Amber. There is reason to believe Touga was involved in this.
766 AY: Pepin IV of Begma faces major uprisings by the greater nobles, who force him to accept a hereditary council as a check on his power.
768 AY: Jetta returns from Shadow permanently, and begins to build Nurgalways.
783-825 AY: Pepin V the Lazy rules in Begma and Eregnor. After a few initial attempts at active policy, he soon finds himself hemmed in by the unwillingness of the nobles to pay for anything, and turns to hunting and art instead.
797 AY: The Theran nation cheers as the degenerate and profligate Louis VII dies. His daughter, Marie I, proves not much better, with a harem of lovers and a tendency to spend water like wine.
798 AY: Jetta announces the completion of Nurgalways and throws one of the greatest parties of Chaosian history to celebrate its completion.
800 AY: Various disgruntled Theran nobles convince Marie I of Therin's cousin, Anton, to raise the flag of rebellion against her. Civil war now erupts in Therin.
800-814 AY: The War of Cousins. Anton Theran fights his cousin, Queen Marie I, for the throne. Eventually, she dies at the battle of Angiers and he takes the throne, but her son Louis escapes to Amber.
800-970 AY: One by one, Ishmael's seven children by his three previous wives die off.
824-840 AY: The Second War of Cousins: Louis (VIII) Theran raises an army of mercenaries in Amber and descends into Therin. Various disgruntled nobles join him, and he manages to capture and execute King Anton in 826 AY. But Anton's son Marc escapes and keeps up resistance until 832 AY, when he is captured and executed. His sister, Yvette, marries Duc Georges of Touraine, who keeps up the fight, eventually capturing and executing Louis VIII in 836. Yvette and Georges, who becomes Georges III, takes the throne. Louis VIII's two infant children (Pierre and Hugh) are saved by Marshal Henri d'Soulette, who tries to fight on in their name with some success, slaying Georges III in 838 at the battle of Toulon. However, Yvette's prime minister (and later lover), Stephen of Anjou, defeats Marshal Henri d'Soulette at Vingtiemes and captures the two infants, who vanish into the Tower of Sorrows, never to be seen again. Yvette now rules as regent for her young son, Louis (IX).
825-856 AY: Pepin VI the Cunning of Begma and Eregnor proves adept at dividing the nobility against itself and building political support within it. He is able to make effective war against the Talmans and Cimbri as a result.
856-891 AY: Carlo III Weaksword of Begma and Eregnor loses the ground his father gained when he is repeatedly beaten by the Talmans and Cimbri. In his later years, he turns obsessively to the playing of chess. It is in his reign that the Minister of the Treasury, elected by the Begman Council from its ranks, begin to be referred to as 'Prime Minister'.
868-881 AY: The Chamberlain's War. By this time, many in Therin hate the house of Anjou, which has gained ascendency over the weaklings of the line of Touraine, and a rebellion breaks out, lead by the Dauphin family. Jacques V shocks many by rising to the occassion and taking swift action to suppress the rebellion, only to take an unlucky arrow to the eye in 870 and die. His Lord High Chamberlain, Pierre of Anjou, is also his cousin, descended of Yvette and Stephen of Anjou. He now claims the throne, and even more families rise up. He eventually wins, but much of the country remains in anarchy, with him able to really only assert any effective control over about half of it.
880 AY: The House of Malablin takes control of the City of Brass.
884 AY: Gendo appoints Juri regent and vanishes into Shadow.
889 AY: Gendo returns from Shadow with a band of Elves who he allows to settle in Arden. He appoints Corinne Warden of Arden formally and has the elves swear fealty to her. One of them, however, a woman named Findulias, has clearly become Gendo's lover and is set up at court, causing some scandal.
890 AY: Gil-Galad is born to Findulias.
891-932 AY: Carlo IV the Well-Beloved of Begma and Eregnor lives life as one giant party. He makes the monarchy very popular. He also expends a lot of its remaining resources and does nothing to prepare for the menace of the Alans.
897 AY: Around this time, there is a minor crisis, as the new High Priest of the Unicorn becomes suspicious as to why Haruka hasn't had any children in over 270 years, and why all of them were girls. He also tries to argue the heir to the throne of Amber must be male, and therefore Gendo should set aside Haruka and marry Findulias and proclaim Gil-Galad his heir.
This provokes a several month crisis, which Gendo resolves much to everyone's surprise (they all assumed he was using the High Priest as a lever to enable himself to get rid of Haruka in favor of Findulias) by bringing up the previous annulment of his marriage to Yvette and showing how that would forbid his marriage to Findulias. High Priest Talio then tries to argue that he, as the Unicorn's sacred representative, has the authority to release Gendo from that law. Gendo browbeats him into attempting to walk the Pattern to prove it. He is consumed by fire.
Gendo then declares the Temple of the Unicorn was defiled by its former high priest, plunders it, burns it to the ground, and builds a new, larger and more elaborate one on the ruins. He appoints Lady Michiru of Kaioh (rumored to be Haruka's lesbian lover), as High Priestess of the Unicorn. He also attempts to change the laws of succession and inheritance in Amber to explicitly include female succession. He breaks off his affair with Findulias at this time.
900 AY: By this time, the Silesian dynasty in Begma is in decline and the Prime Ministers begin to rise to control the Begman state.
901 AY: Lady Daria of House Salisbury is born.
912 AY: Gil-Galad walks the Pattern and Vanishes into shadow. He never returns.
912-927 AY: Queen Marie's War. The accession of Marie III kicks off another civil war as Duc Hugh Capet, descended of Louis VII Theran, argues that his male line claim is better than hers, and that women shouldn't sit on the throne of Therin. Most of his supporters simply see their chance to exploit another burst of anarchy. Duc Hugh defeats Queen Marie's forces repeatedly, then crowns himself at Roncesvalles in 920 AY. He spends another 7 years suppressing the anarchy in the provinces and restoring central authority.
913 AY: Findulias dies in a hunting accident that many suspect is no accident. Three more of Gendo's former lovers die in the same year.
914 AY: While attending the meeting of the Parliament of Harad in Harad City, Haruka is murdered one night by a band of young Cimbri, who years later, are found to have been put up to it by Sakura, who soon after returns in the identity of 'Charlotte of Belgalad'.
Gendo and "Charlotte" the Traitor Queen (915 AY-954 AY)
915-919 AY: Gendo personally leads the armies of Amber against the Cimbri, ignoring their protests that they had nothing to do with the murder. He sells every noble in the Cimbri lands into slavery, leaving them defenseless and disorganized. It is at this time that he meets 'Charlotte', who leads one of the major mercenary bands in his service, and falls for her, beginning the romance that leads to their marriage and eventually her betrayal of Amber. Corrine mostly vanishes from sight during this period; rumor has it she had some sort of nervous breakdown after her mother's death.
920 AY: Gendo marries Charlotte.
921 AY: Makoto is born. Charlotte somehow convinces Gendo that Juri and Corinne are plotting against her and her baby boy, aided by the grumblings of some among the populace who want a male heir to the throne and by the efforts of the Haradian nobility to ensure that Juri will inherit both Amber and Harad. Gendo begins watching them carefully.
924-934 AY: The devastation of the Cimbri opens the way for the Alans to overrun the Cimbri lands. They then turn their eyes on Amber.
926 AY: Gendo's bastard son Corey is born. He is raised at court by his mother, Lady Daria of House Salisbury.
932-985 AY: Pepin VII the Poor rules Begma and Eregnor. Bereft of funds, he is largely unable to do very much.
935-957 AY: The first Alan war.
935 AY: Juri is caught by surprise while inspecting one of the
border fortresses by the Alans and captured. The Alans proclaim her
the rightful Queen of Harad and claim to be fighting to enforce her claim.
Some Haradian patriots hear this and rally to the Alans, causing Harad
to be torn by Civil War.
'Charlotte' now takes this chance to convince Gendo that Juri planned this and really is a traitor. Gendo declares Juri a traitor. He and Corrinne have a bitter argument over this during a full court session, so he exiles Corrine, declares Makoto his heir and appoints Drake to lead the war against the Alans. To everyone's surprise, Touga resigns his offices in protest of the exiling of Corrine and departs into Shadow.
935-954 AY: The war goes against Amber, as the Alans seem to always know what Amber is planning. They conquer most of Harad. Juri is forced to marry the Alan war chief, Ludovicus, and gets pregnant six times, but all six are still-births. All attempts by Juri to escape fail as Ludovicus seems to be able to somehow predict them.
953 AY: Towards the end of the year, Nanami is born. Touga returns from Shadow. In Chaos, Nurgalways has the misfortune to be caught in the forefront of the invasion of the Gibberlings. Lady Jetta is slain.
953-963 AY: The Gibberlings War in Chaos. The war finally ends after a huge battle on the plains around Brandenburg.
953-1132 AY: Lady Geahavi leads House Nurgal.
954 AY: After the celebration of Ludovicus' birthday with much drunken revelry, he passes out after raping Juri again, and she drives a tent peg through his head and escapes to the army of Amber. Drake, at her advice, launches an attack during the bitter winter and crushes the main Alan field army. The news arrives in Amber, shortly after which 'Charlotte' makes her attempt to destroy the Pattern using Nanami and is killed by Touga and Gendo. Gendo refuses to apologize to Juri, although he does drop the charges of treason and restores her titles. He also has his marriage to 'Charlotte' annuled, making Makoto and Nanami bastards.
This left Juri and Corrinne once more as the only two legitimate children of Gendo, but neither of them really wanting the job. To make matters worse, Juri soon left to go into Shadow to blow off steam, and Corrine had yet to be notified that her exile had been revoked; efforts to contact her failed.
Gendo invoked various arcane laws to undo his annulment of his marriage to Yvette, relegitimated Saionji, designated him heir, and soon after further clouded matters by marrying Rei of Rebma and engaging in more legitimacy games.
Gendo Between Wives (955 AY-993 AY)
955 AY: Gendo legitimizes Corey, but does not marry Lady Daria, who had married shortly before.
962 AY: Grand Caliph Fahram ibn-Alshuana comes to power in the City of Brass.
968 AY: Gendo visits the city of Brass and traps Grand Caliph Fahram ibn-Alshuana in a bottle and carries him back to Amber.
974 AY: Corey insults the Theran ambassador and is cut in half in a duel. Gendo demands Therin hand him over for punishment after he flees to Therin. The Therans, pointing out it was a legitimate duel, refuse. Gendo declares war on Therin.
974-985 AY: First Theran War
Drake leads Amber's armies south, and repeatedly crushes Theran field
forces. Gendo returns the conquered lands to Therin, in return for
Therin ceding independence to several of its outlying provinces which had
been recently rebellious. This began a process of disintegration.
In the wake of the war, Marc II creates the Estates General as a concession
in return for help paying the monarchy's war-induced debts.
977-992: Second Alan War
The Alans try to invade Harad again while Amber is busy fighting the
Therans. Gendo appoints Saionji commander of the northern armies
with Makoto as second in command. The army mutinies, forcing Makoto
to go home. Saionji goes on to crush the Alans repeatedly, then invades
their home territories and pounds them into rubble. They are scattered
forever.
978 AY: Makoto walks the Pattern and vanishes into shadow for a time. So does Nanami.
979 AY: Grand Caliph Fahram ibn-Alshuana escapes by setting Gendo's quarters on fire. He returns to the City of Brass.
980 AY: King Ishmael marries Laura of Coruscant (one of the Nine Free Cities). Over the next 420 years, they have 8 kids, none of whom makes it to a century in age. They also fight like rabid weasels, but seem devoted to each other when not fighting.
982 AY: Suroth abdicates and heads into Shadow, not to be reliably sighted since. Suroth II now heads House Suroth.
983 AY: Siam demands cession of the cities controlled in Siam by Amberite trading companies. Gendo abandons them to their fate.
985-1036 AY: Pepin VIII of the Eight Wives rules Begma and Eregnor, spending most of his time chasing women, getting married, then losing them and getting married again. During his reign, the Orkuz family directs a series of wars against the Alans and successfully turns the position into a hereditary one.
990 AY: Corrine returns from exile. She is given command of some of the forces fighting the Alans in support of Saionji, and performs her duties with an unusual amount of relish. She then begins studying Trump Artistry with Fuyutsuki
Gendo and Rei of Rebma (993-998 AY)
990s-1020s AY: In the wake of the collapse of the Alans, the Begmans expand into Eregnor, and the Prime Ministerial Orkuz family consolidates its power over the Begman state.
993 AY: Gendo marries Rei of Rebma to strengthen relations with
Rebma. He soon finds her not to his taste.
994 AY: Rei gives birth to twins: Miki and Kozue.
995 AY: Rei gives birth to Derith.
998 AY: After protests from Rei and Queen Moire, Gendo creates
the official office of 'King's Mistress' This leads to more protests,
so he divorces Rei and sends her back to Rebma, creating a breach that
leads to decades of bad relations. He also finds an excuse to fire,
then later execute the Lord High Chamberlain, Thomas Cromwell, who talked
him into the marriage in the first place. He appoints Drake as the
new Lord High Chamberlain.
Squabbles with Rebma (998-1063 AY)
998-1063 AY: This whole period is marked by a series of disputes between Rebma and Amber which nearly lead to war several times. During this time, Derith, Miki, and Kozue all walk the Pattern and vanish into shadow. Miki returns in 1063 and succeeds in defusing the last crisis. Gendo names him Ambassador to Rebma, and better relations resume.
This period also saw the rise of modern Begma and Kashfa, and the resumption of struggles over Eregnor.
1000 AY: Grand Caliph Fahram ibn-Alshuana leads the forces of the City of Brass against Amber, but is defeated at Yig. The State of Jidrash begins to rise out of the rubble of the Alans in the North.
1008 AY: The plot of the Five Wizards to take over Amber is foiled when Touga, approached by them to betray Amber, betrays them instead.
1050-1075 AY: King Louis XII, the last Capetian, rules in Therin.
1055 AY: Juri returns from Shadow.
Gendo and Lorelei (1064 AY-1111 AY)
1065-1075 AY: Second Theran War
In 1060-3, King Louis XII had exploited Rebman/Amber disputes to quietly
overrun and reannex the provinces his ancestor had been forced by Gendo
to grant independence to. Gendo now ordered him to release them,
and he refused. The result was the Second Theran war. Juri,
having returned from Shadow, resumed the office of Marshal of Amber and
marched south, crushing the Therans repeatedly. She forced the conquered
lands to be released and carried back the King of Therin to Amber herself.
The Therin Estates General tried to declare her Queen, but she refused
the offer, convincing them to elevate the House of Valois to the throne
instead. Therin became a Golden Circle Shadow.
1075-1125 AY: Francis I Valois rules in Therin.
1076 AY: Gendo marries Lorelei, sister of King Francis I of Therin.
1080 AY: Princess Mara is born.
1092 AY: Lorelei and Mara drown in a boating accident. Gendo now relegitimizes all of Sakura and Rei's children, then appoints Makoto regent much to everyone's surprise and vanishes into shadow.
1100 AY: Jidrash controls all of modern Kashfa and proclaims itself New Kashfa. It begins to expand into Eregnor, gobbling up the petty states there, and comes into conflict with Begma, beginning the first of a dozen wars over the area.
1112 AY: Gendo returns from Shadow with Anthy and marries her. There is much whispering and speculation as to where she came from. Derith becomes Warden of Nedra for Rebma in this year. Kozue becomes Ambassador to Rebma and Miki returns to Amber, becoming Master of the Revels.
1115 AY: Utena is born.
1120 AY: Wakaba is born.
1125-1186 AY: John I Valois rules in Therin.
1132 AY: Lady Geahavi of House Nurgal blows herself to tiny bits in a lab accident.
1132-1297 AY: Lord Anglese rules House Nurgal.
1137 AY: Tsuwabuki of House Swansea is born.
1145 AY: Utena walks the Pattern and vanishes into Shadow.
1150 AY: Wakaba walks the Pattern and vanishes into Shadow.
1150-1165 AY: The Uilans conquer the various Dorian city states, integrating them into Uila, except for Singh, which Gendo takes under Amber's protection.
1156 AY: Perri the Swift comes to the throne of House Jesby.
1165-1178 AY: Begma and Kashfa fight a crippling war over Eregnor. Amber remains neutral..
1166 AY: Tylor wanders off into Shadow again.
1167-1180 AY: The Uilan War
Uila attempts to conquer Singh; Marshal Juri leads Amber's armies against
the Uila and repeatedly crushes them. They are forced to acknowledge
Singh's independence. Misato gets her first military experience in
this war. Tsuwabuki gains his first military experience leading a
brigade of the Trained Bands of the City of Amber.
1180s AY: Yumi and Loewen have an affair for a time, before she leaves to follow her destiny and he gets married.
1181 AY: Misato joins the Castle Guard of Amber
1185 AY: Loewen marries Ataria of Darios.
1186-1223 AY: Francis II Valois rules in Therin.
1188 AY: Loewen and Ataria have their first child, Minaria.
1203 AY: Utena returns from Shadow and becomes Royal Bodyguard.
1206 AY: Loewen and Ataria have their second child, Malcom.
1207 AY: Yumi becomes Royal Mistress in Amber.
1212 AY: Beowulf is born. Tsuwabuki becomes a division commander of the Amber Trained bands.
1220 AY: Tylor returns from Shadow.
1222 AY: John Valois II is born. Rumor has it Drake is his father.
1223-1271 AY: Louis XIII Valois rules in Therin.
1225 AY: Wakaba returns from Shadow.
1226-34 AY: Gendo appoints Drake regent and vanishes into Shadow for a time.
1227 AY: The new king of Uila manages to join the Golden Circle.
1232 AY: Davros is born. Loewen and Ataria have their third child, Cydno.
1240 AY: Gendo exiles Touga for reasons which remain unclear. Makoto appoints Misato as commander of the Castle Guards.
1241 AY: Ruka is born in Florence.
1252 AY: The Kashmir Trading Collective begins its conquest of Sind. Tsuwabuki becomes commander of the Amber Trained Bands. Davros joins the Stylite Order.
1257 AY: Juri retires from being Marshal of Amber. Drake is appointed in her place. Ruka enters the Amberite Navy.
1262 AY: Gendo dies of old age, setting off the Succession Crisis. Forces from Chaos attempt to put a false Touga on the Throne of Amber, but the crisis ends with King Tylor's elevation to the throne in accordance with Gendo's will. Derith becomes Admiral of Mystara, Kozue is Admiral of Shalomar. Nanami becomes Steward of Amber City. Keiko is born.
King Tylor I's Early Reign (1262-1292 AY)
1263 AY: Tsuwabuki and Nanami begin seeing each other seriously, after coming to know each other better through work. In Chaos, in the aftermath of the failure of the intervention in Amber, Helgram's enemies descend upon it, seeing it vulnerable. A short, sharp war follows, in which Minaria, daughter of Ataria and Loewen, is killed. Helgram's allies manage to help it drive off its foes.
1264 AY: Ramon is born.
1265-1273 AY: The Sea Peoples attack Amber
Hordes of shadow-travelling sea nomads assault Amber repeatedly, managing
to land forces in the south and seize several cities. Tylor fires
Drake as Marshal because he is off in his fortress shadow and was not successfully
contacted in time to do his duties in the first days of crisis. Saionji
becomes Marshal and drives the Sea Peoples off the land, then Kozue and
Derith crush them at sea. Ruka serves on the Farwanderer.
1266 AY: Michelle is born.
1267 AY: Tashlan, Lord Helgram (Father of Lord Loewen) holds Wakaba captive and uses her for breeding experiments before Anno, Utena, and Ishmael put an end to it. Wakaba acquires a Lion Spikard and she and Utena fall under Annadil's control. This incident leads to Malcom's involvement in Outsider Worship being revealed, and Loewen, now Lord of Helgram, has him burned. Cydno and Loewen fall out, but for the moment, Cydno remains the heir. Ota "Shaft" Tenjou is born.
1268 AY: Akito of House Souma is born to Lord Hayao of House Souma and Meiko, his consort (of House Ivy).
1270 AY: Tylor marries Yuriko of Rebma. Shinobu Major is born. Lord Misel of House Souma is born to Lord Hayao and Lady Meiko, the heads of the House.
1271-1293 AY: John II Valois rules in Therin.
1272-74 AY: The Alexandrine War: King Alexander II of Uila tries to conquer Singh while Amber is distracted. Saionji crushes him and forces him to commit suicide for his breach of treaty violations. Berenice, the Queen Mother, becomes regent for Demetrius IV, his two month old son.
1275 AY: Keiko is apprenticed to a Lipunese wise woman.
1280 AY: Ruka becomes Quartermaster at Shalomar Naval Base. Keiko signs onto a trading vessel as a sorceress.
1284 AY: Keiko joins the City Watch of Amber. Soon after, Keiko has her first clash with Makoto the Mad.
1285 AY: Lord Tallis of House Souma is born to Lord Hayao and Lady Meiko, the heads of the House.
1290 AY: Keiko becomes head of the Sorcery Division of the City Watch of Amber.
1291 AY: Ruka becomes second in command at Shalomar Naval Base
1292 AY: The Annadil Crisis. You can Jump to the TAMD Timeline Page for details. Nausicaa is born. Lian is born. Things finally explode in Helgram after Loewen's maiming. He can no longer tolerate Cydno's increasing heresies. Ataria talks him into exiling Cydno instead.
1293 AY: Jacqueline Tenjou is born. Sumire is born. Wakaba gives birth to Kentaro. Shinobu marries Inaba. Kanna is born. Morgan is born. Thoric is born. Pacification of Uila, Wroland, Therin, Kashfa, and Lipun. John II abdicates, walks the Pattern, and vanishes into shadow with a lot of the Therinese nobility.
1293 AY-(The Present circa F9R): Henri I Bourbon rules Therin as King.
1294 AY: Keiko and Ramon get married.
1295 AY: The Lighthouse of Cabra is finished and begins operation.
1296 AY: Motoko is born. Ataria is assassinated by agents of House Jesby.
1297 AY: Lord Anglese of Nurgal decides to conquer the Shadow Kingdom of Blackmoor, being interested by the technomagics they weild. The conquest is abandoned after some unknown fool in the house manages to accidentally set off a chain reaction in one of the conquered cities technomagical reactors that results in an explosion which blows Lord Anglese into a fine spray of atomic particles. Her two eldest daughters die with her, so her son Anabaxius takes the throne.
1302 AY: Moriya is born. Lily is born. Jacqueline Tenjou vanishes into shadow for a time, triggering massive panic among her family. Vice is 'born'.
1304-1312 AY: War Against the Sea Peoples
The Sea Peoples came in force against the Lighthouse of Cabra and the
Isle of Emeralds, but Utena and Kozue defeated them.
1305-1311 AY: Kentaro, Lian, Thoric attend Ohtori Academy.
1312 AY: Keitaro is born. Mutsumi is born. Battle of Clontarf. The Sea Peoples land a massive army on the Isle of Emeralds which is destroyed. Motoko runs away to Lipun.
1313 AY: Mitsune is born.
1314 AY: Naru is born.
1314-1320 AY: Countess Lily attends Ohtori
1317 AY: Keitaro is sent to Amber to be fostered.
1319 AY: Shinobu Minor is born.
1321 AY: Motoko returns to Amber and walks the Pattern. She then enters the army of Amber, under Saionji.
1322 AY: Jacqueline Tenjou is finally located, stuck in a slow-time shadow. She's hardly aged at all, though she's been missing 20 years.
1322-26 AY: The Melnibonean War
A huge army erupted out of shadow, landing in Harad and striking south.
It had a wing of dragons and vast legions of black armored infantry.
Four years of bloody war followed until the destruction of their fleet
and Prince Kentaro leading a Kashfan army south to assault them from behind
finally enabled Amber's forces to finish them off.
1325-1331 AY: Mitsune attends Ohtori.
1326-1332 AY: Naru attends Ohtori. She and Mitsune become good friends.
1326 AY: Battle of Dorcas. Shinobu Major, Shaft, and Kentaro lead the attack which traps the Melnibonean army in the fork of the river after Nanami blew up all the bridges and Nagisa raised the river level to wash out the fords. The last of the Melniboneans surrender after hours of slaughter.
1326 AY: After the war is over, Motoko vanishes into shadow, founding Kenshi at this time.
1332 AY: The setting of Unicorn no Seishi. The events of this game are detailed on the time line page. Jewel, Random, and Nanami Minor are born in this year. Kozue and Saionji resign as Admirals and are replaced by Utena and Sumire. Kozue becomes Admiral of Rebma's Pearl Fleet. Saionji moves to Arcadia and becomes its Marshal. Demetrius was given an MVP award by King Tylor and appointed President of the Amber City Naval Academy by King Tylor. Lord Loewen and Lady Kodachi become engaged and announce they plan to marry as soon as Talia comes to majority and assumes rulership of House Alars. Kitiara and Pirotess become involved in helping Beowulf to set up his Museum of Shadow near Yig, while Morrigan returns home to Chaos and the Abyss.
Ex-Wu-Drake founds House Drake in New Chaos, and becomes Marshal of Chaos. Ex-Wu-Juri and Ex-Wu-Corrine find the shrivelled Yig of Arcadia/New Chaos, and begin nursing it back to health. Ex-Wu-Corey starts dating Edith, who becomes High Priestess of the Turtle. Saionji moves to Arcadia and becomes Marsha of Arcadia. Ex-Wu-Van becomes Warden of Uberwald. Kanna and Ruka marry rather hastily. (six months from first date to marriage...) Tsuwabuki and Nanami get married.
A Century of Peace (1332-1432 AY)
1332-8 AY: Orien spends his early years in Jade.
1333 AY: Early in March, Minako is born. On March 20, Hanajima is born. Asuka, Deirdre, Kurz, Melissa, Miroku, Sousuke, and Allen von Munchausen are all born on the same day, the spring equinox. Lady Talia marries Xaemyl of House Suroth. Beowulf marries Lily. Shiori is born in Ember, several months after the 'High Summer' wave of children. Kanna buys a house in Shalomar for herself, Ruka, and Shiori to live in, near the Shalomar Naval Base. Juri plays a part in Shiori's upbringing, even with her duties as Marshal of Rebma.
The Great Rain of Taylor Terror: Princess Motoko and her companions hunt down and slay all known surviving Taylor blood creatures. Rumors persist of a few which may have evaded destruction somehow.
1333-1353 AY: Juri serves as Marshal of Rebma.
1333-1345 AY: Naru attends Panopticon, eventually earning a Doctorate.
1333-1336 AY: Mutsumi and Jacqui travel around the Arcadian Discworld and negotiate alliances and form the Green Circle.
1334 AY: Telemain is born. Makoto Minor is born.
1334-1347 AY: Telemain grows up in his father's Museum of Shadow, though the family's frequent visits to Amber let him get to know some of the other family members. Beowulf gives him some introductory training in Conjuration, while Lily works him through mind-strengthening exercises and Aeris teaches him about music and the fundamentals of Trump.
1335 AY: Mogli Khan invades Cathay, but is defeated and slain by Emperor Chou III. The tribes of the steppes fall apart again. Certain lunatics within the Stylite order hit upon the idea of starting a band, to try to tap into the wave of public interest in the Stylite Order aroused by the rise of Davros to fame. Working with Morgenstern, Millard Fillmore, and Mataka Fillmore, they create the band N'Stylite, a collection of hunky young monks who dance and sing from the top of their pillars. This proves to be a massive out of control phenomenon.
In Amber City, the Ward of the Dead Monkey and the Ward of the Dead Unicorn declare war on each other after a Dead Unicorner is killed in a brawl at Mungo's Junk Pile in the Dead Monkey. A massive riot erupts which spreads into six wards, killing hundreds. The Trained Bands are called out, and Tsuwabuki, Nanami, and Prince Ramon prepare to put down the rioting. Before they can intervene, Bumpy the Pimp and his bouncers and whores restore order in the Dead Unicorn, to the surprise of many. This marks the first known appearance of 'Bust Rimururu', who turns the tide of battle in the Dead Unicorn when she causes a sewer line to explode under a major street, dispersing many of the rioters. The remaining wards have to be pacified by force.
Touga celebrates his 900th birthday in a very large party.
Shigure is born in House Souma.
1336-1343: A Dwarf/Troll war erupts in the Ramtops, and Arcadia is drawn into it. Saionji wins the war (possibly to his own surprise) without much trouble, though it's slow work.
1336-1344: Suu attends the Great School of Magic. She graduates with honors.
1336-40: Kasumi attends Panopticon and gets a medical degree.
1336 AY: Drake spends a lot of time with Beowulf and Moonshade for reasons never revealed, but suspected to be related to the events of 1340... In 1336 AY, the Munchausen estates suffered the 'Great Collapsing Hrung Disaster'. It remains unclear what a Great Hrung is or why it chose to collapse on the Munchausen estates, but the result was that the Munchausen estates experienced time dilation, and two years passed in one day.
Ota Minor is born in Arcadia.
1337 AY: Drake begins a series of long expeditions into Shadow.
1338-46 AY: Orien moves to live with his 'aunt' Kanna and learning the ways of the nobility and the Royal Family of Amber and Ember, as well as aquiring an education.
1338 AY: Deirdre gets to go to Dworkinland for her birthday.
Lady Talia comes into her majority and assumes direct rule over House Alars. Motoko and Loewen perform a rite in the Sacred Flame of Helgram which leads to Loewen being fully healed of his injuries. Nine Helgramites turn up dead shortly before the rite; all are later revealed to be Outsider Cultists. Lady Kodachi and Lord Loewen now get married.
Shinobu Minor and Keitaro get married.
1339 AY: Kanako, Nanbara, Yomiko, and Violet are born.
1339-1349 AY: Kozue Destroys the Sea Peoples, Followed by the
War of Jenkin's Head (1350-1362)
In 1339, Kozue decided it was time to deal with the Sea Peoples once
and for all. Leading a mixture of Rebman and Amberite forces, in
conjunction with Princess Sumire, Admiral of Amber's Southern Fleet, she
swept out into shadow, found the homeland of the Sea Peoples, and crushed
them like bugs. Then she came back every year for a decade, until
nothing was left but rubble.
This was good for the Isles, but bad for High King Ian O'Connel, who had been using the Sea People threat to build up his authority. The result was the War of Jenkin's Head (so named for Prince Jenkin of Connaught, who was killed by Ian's son Douglas, who then dipped Prince Jenkin's head in lime and used it for bowling). The result was a decade of civil war which ended with the O'Connels wiped out, and the High Kingship passing to King Sean McDiarmad of Ulster.
1340 AY: Tomos is born in Castle Amber.
Drake returns from a trip into shadow bearing a new Greyswandir. Drake then celebrates his 900th birthday by riding with Shinobu Major into shadow, finding a Flawed Amber where Derith rules Rebma and has Amber as a tributary state, and destroying it down to the foundations. He then takes the rubble and has Gabrielle burn it, then burn it in the machine for burning things which have already been burned. He then reconstructs the entire shadow into the 'Derith Was An Idiot' museum. Rumor has it that he then calls up a Derith P-ghost and taunts him. King Miki chides Drake for being childish.
That Hogswatchnight, the Hogfather showed up at Castle Arcadia, revealed
himself to be Makoto the Mad, then exploded, showering Random, Makoto Minor,
Ota Minor, and Minako with yummy candy.
1341-1348 AY: The N'Stylite War
1341 AY: By this point in time, the band N'Stylite is
pretty much out of control, breaking their oaths with abandon. The
order formally repudiates them. High Priest Taltos leads a Stylite
attack squad when the band refuses to shut down, leading to the legendary
Altamont Logrusway riot. The end result is a five way war between
the Stylite order, House Danaani, House Formorian, Snoop Mo G Records,
and the United States of Chaos (a Black Zone Kingdom, led by Millard Fillmore).
The end result of the war is that when the Five Years' War ends, Motoko came back and kicked everyone in the head repeatedly until they made peace and stopped being idiots. The band N'Stylite now broke up for the first time.
1342-1347 AY: The Five Years' War
In 1342, Prime Minister Asuma Shinohara of Lipun died. To the
surprise of many, the Emperor appointed his daughter, Ryoko, to the job.
This set off the Five Years' War, as various houses rose up against the
Nagai Government. Unfortunately for them, Princess Shinobu Major
raised a mercenary army, and accompanied by Princess Motoko, Princess Moonshade,
Countess Mitsune, and Duke Davros, came down on the rebels like a hammer.
To her disappointment, Motoko restrained her from wiping out the rebel
houses, although Shinobu Major did get to kill the rebel leader, Lord Takai,
in single combat, along with all eight of his sons. At the same time.
(Okay, not so single combat). During the war, a Lipunese ninja nearly
assassinates Mitsune, but then panics and runs away, leaving her dazed.
Mitsune begins a program of sword training.
1342 AY: Random (at ten years of age), walks the Arcadia air pattern late one night, much to the surprise of eveyone. Reason she gives is, 'I was bored'. Unfortunately this unlocks the spells that bound her shapeshifting ability and her biting habits. Goes on a wild fanged biting spree for days after. During a visit to Amber-Chaos, Random meets the children of Motoko's harem. Seems to like Deirdre easily. Claims Miroku tries to look up her skirt, she bites him on the nose. Why the nose, nobody's sure. Sign of things to come.
Yomiko is found reading a book, without having actually been taught
to read yet. She demonstrates the reading skills of an eight year
old.
1343-1348 AY: The War of Demetrius' Son
In 1343, Demetrius IV finally snapped. He executed his daughter,
Princess Alexandra, who had been seeing Prince Kentaro. Kentaro responded
by calling out Prince Alexander, Demetrius' favorite son, to a duel.
Too proud to refuse, Alexander went to the duel, and Kentaro chopped him
into bits. Demetrius IV demanded Kentaro be turned over. Tylor
replied that while he extremely disliked duels, they were, unfortunately,
legal under both Amberite and Uilan law, and that perhaps he shouldn't
have executed Kentaro's lover for no good reason. Finally, someone
shot and killed Demetrius' favorite pet dog.
Demetrius responded by turning loose the Uilan military to invade Singh. The Singh league crumpled under the onslaught, being overrun. The forces of Amber marched under the leadership of Marshal Tsuwabuki. Demetrius was crushed in a series of battles.
In 1347, the three-day battle of Megalopolis happened, which combined riverine, aerial, and land combat. At the end, the Uilan military lay in flaming ruins, and Demetrius IV had a heart attack from frustration and died.
Enraged, Demetrius V, eldest surviving child of Demetrius IV (who had killed off 4 more of his kids for failing him in the war), decided to continue the war. Until his younger brother Perseus, quietly poisoned him, took the throne, and grovelled at Amber's feet.
Fortunately for Perseus, Tylor is basically an old softie, and he simply stripped Uila of some more land, but left him his kingdom mostly intact.
1343-47: In Arcadia, the Blue Turbans conquer Klatch.
1343 AY: Drake attempts to sail to the Isle of Emeralds to go help Kozue fight the Sea Peoples. His boat mysteriously sinks, he is attacked by roughly two billion mermen, a shark bites his ass off, but he finally manages to escape alive (largely considered due to his Pattern skills). Shiori begins her magical training with Yumi and Nagisa at age 10.
Kaname is born to Miki and Madoka.
Kuonji completes his prison sentence in Ember, and leaves, vanishing into shadow.
1344-1352 AY: Bagok's War.
King-Priest Bagok of Siam, allied with the KTC, opened a war on Sind
in 1344, hoping to exploit Amber's preoccupation with the War of Demetrius'
Son. The conquest was going well until 1349, when the war of Demetrius'
Son was over, and Amber demanded the KTC and Siam give up their conquests.
The Siamese refused, so Tylor ordered the nationalization of the KTC, and
turned Kozue loose on their shipping, while sending Tsuwabuki and Shinobu
Major (commanding the Mercenaries she had just used in the 5 Years War)
to reinforce Sind and invade Siam respectively.
Shinobu Major burned the rice fields, then let the Siamese starve until they rioted and killed King-Priest Bagok. She then installed the lunatic mystic Dogok as King-Priest, and forced various changes which crippled his power.
Tsuwabuki drove the KTC forces out of Sind and conquered Kashmir, turning it into a formal colony of Amber. Horatio Walpole committed suicide before he could be arrested. He also turned Bengal into an independent state.
1344-1350 AY: Nanami Minor attends Ohtori. She does well until her final year, when she seems to go into total 'teenage moron' mode and makes a mess of things.
1344 AY: Kanako, uncharacteristically for her, wanders off into the Courts when on an outing with her family and gets lost for an entire day. A frantic search ensues, ending when Blackie, of all things, goes and finds her and leads her back home. Kanako refuses to answer questions about this, despite being sent to her room for a week.
One night, Travis finds Yomiko in the library, making the books dance. Yomiko's training in sorcery begins the next day.
1345-1350 AY: Suu moves into the Amber Embassy and begins intense magical studies with Davros and Motoko.
1345-1351 AY: Shiori attends Ohtori Academy. She joins both the fencing club and choir, and eventually rises to the presidency of both before she finishes her high school years there. She also continues her sorcerous training.
1345-1355 AY: Naru returns from Panopticon, then vanishes into shadow.
1345 AY: Allen von Munchausen, Telemain, and 5 other children all win golden tickets and visit Willy Wonka's Chocolate factory. Things went horribly wrong, and Vermicious Knids overran Loompaland (Or so Munchausen claims. Telemain fell in a taffy vat and missed the whole thing). Munchausen drew on the skills taught him by his mother and managed to rally the Oompa-Loompas and drive off the Vermicious Knids, who swore revenge. Or so he claims. His parents had gone off to a restaurant and left him at the factory, and there was no SIGN of a massive battle. Willy Wonka refuses to comment, but will no longer allow Munchausen in one of his stores, let alone his factory...
Telemain, though disappointed at missing the rest of the tour, finds the factory -- especially the marvellous Chocolate Room -- an inspiration, and buckles down harder on his Conjuration studies. He also comes into the museum one day, a few months after the factory visit, followed by a band of Oompa-Loompas. "They followed me home, Mom," he tells Lily; "Can they stay with us?" Lily gently dissuades them all and has Beowulf take the Oompa-Loompas back home to Loompaland.
Motoko, Davros, Moonshade, and Mitsune go to Yig, where Davros and Motoko both hang from the tree for a week. They then consult with Anno, Fuyutsuki, Corrine and Lady Kodachi, and Lady Kodachi joins them on a trip into Shadow, carrying Hummingbird. They are gone for about six months, then return sans Hummingbird, bearing the blades Shinjin and Covenant. Motoko gives Covenant to House Alars in return for Withywindle, which she then gives to Corrine, who gives it to Miki. The Quartet keeps Shinjin for themselves.
Hordes of creatures descend from Shadow, attacking House Souma.
Its allies come to its aid, but not fast enough to save Lord Hayao, the
head of the house, who dies fighting the invaders. Lord Akito, his
eldest son, takes the throne.
1346-50 AY: Orien enters the academy and goes through the required
courses in 4 years, spending most of his free time on increasing his knowledge
and
skills so he can actually get a decent posting once he graduates.
Despite relatively low scores in his fencing classes he graduates
with honors, his ability as a commander and tactician being considered
far more important.
1346 AY: Random finally gets that biting thing under control. Yomiko is attacked by one of the castle dogs and mauled; the dog drops dead before it can finish her off. Yomiko develops an intense fear of dogs.
1347-1351 AY: Asuka attends the HCWA. After crushing the Senior Tactics Instructor in the senior year wargames, she graduates at the top of her class, being the sole student to go straight to Captain. At the age of 18. Many boggle, others complain.
1347-1354 AY: Sousuke is fostered in House Alars. He is placed under the care of Lady Yuki and Lord Atleby, who Kodachi hopes will be able to soften his stiffness. They don't have much luck, but he does learn quite a bit about how to handle complete disasters and about combat. He also becomes friends with Allen von Munchausen.
1347-1355 AY: Miroku and Deirdre attend the Great School of Magic.
1347-1360 AY: Beowulf takes Telemain with him to Arcadia; Telemain helps Beowulf create the Arcadian Patternblades.
1347-1353 AY: Telemain spends his teenage years in Arcadia, taking further
training in Trump and music from Mutsumi. As he grows older, he spends
increasing amounts of time with his father and Dr. Jacqueline as they work
on the Patternblades, and finally ends up helping them with their work.
He also develops a strong 'favorite aunt' admiration for Dr. Jacqueline.
1347 AY: Uotani and Hanajima form a girl gang in the City of Amber. Random puts out her first album, "One", filled with sugarpop tunes infused with a distinctly Morgensternish flavor of funk and rave. Is a dud in Arcadia.
Jewel walks the Logrus.
1348-52 AY: Random is sent to the Amber universe for a proper education, which starts with walking the metal pattern of Amber, followed by attending the Amber City Naval Academy for four years. Would have graduated with top honors except for the debacle at the final exam war games, where she had sabotaged the other team's equipment beforehand. She claims it a legitmate tactic in real military situations. The other team, and her instructors, are not amused. Graduates as Salutatorian despite this. Dates Orien in an on-again off-again relationship.
1348 AY: Minako applies to enter Unseen University. She is rejected because she is a woman. The Bride of the Jewel shows up and turns everyone at Unseen University into a woman until they relent and let her in.
Makoto Minor attends the Iron Chef competition while her parents are busy trying to get Minako into Unseen University. Fascinated by their skills, she runs away from home to travel and study with one for the next twelve years.
1349-1353: Allen von Munchausen attends the Hisame-Monde Finishing School for Young Sorcerors. He graduates with honors in 1353, despite not having learned even a single power word, let alone any spells, and being proven to be magically inept. He claims to have lost his virginity with Michelle and Atsuko at the same time during this period. This may, for once, be actually true.
1349 AY: The Quartet bring their children to Amber for the Spring Equinox. While the kids are being taken round the castle by Moonshade, Davros, and Mitsune, Motoko, Keiko, and Anthy go shopping, taking Ramon and Demetrius along as porters. What happened next remains unclear to most people, as those involved won't talk about it much. Apparently, Ramon went to the bathroom at a boutique, and returned to find the others all unconscious with a sixteen year old girl (Uotani) standing over them, looking terrified, having apparently punched them all out. She ran and he chased her down. For reasons which also remain unclear, he recruits the girl for the castle guards despite the fact that this rather angers his wife and Demetrius.
Uo and Hanajima and several members of their gang join the Castle Guards. Ramon begins intensely training Uotani, who proves a natural study. Hanajima stuns her initial swordmaster by beating him in combat the first time he spars with her. Tested for psychic strength, she gives Keiko a good fight before Keiko wins. Keiko tutors her briefly, but then Anthy takes an interest in Hanajima, and begins to train her personally.
Nanami Minor blows up for reasons which remain unknown during the summer of this year, and goes into 'stupid teenager mode' very intensely. She also beats up Uotani regularly and begins hanging around drunkenly with Corey.
Random's album "One" released in Amber and the Golden Circle, becomes a big hit, proving to be the springboard for a long and varied musical career for her. Grandmother Michelle decides to make sure Random has The Talk before going through a decade surrounded by military men. Rumor is that she let Random learn about sex via her harem and Lady Atsuko. All parties concerned decline to comment, though Random is said to have been 'extra-perky' for weeks after her stay with Michelle.
In another instance of 'Kanako wanders off and does something foolish,'
she somehow makes her way into House Gainax and walks the Logrus, almost
but not quite beating the youth record formerly established by Jacqueline.
She then spends three weeks curled up in a ball inside a sphere of solid
logrus energy in the corner of House Gainax's courtyard before emerging,
apparently sane. Anno advises her simultaneously angry and relieved
parents that she has amazing potential before they drag her home.
1350-52 AY: Orien enters the army as a Lieutenant, and is posted
to Shinobu Major's army, where he assumes the position of liaison officer
with one of the mercenary companies under her command, the Black Dragon
Company. The company specializes in irregular warfare, hit-and-run tactics,
ambushes, and other less than honorable but highly effective methods of
warfare. All their skills are of much use in ending Bagok's War. When the
unit's captain is killed late in '51, Orien receives a field promotion
to captain and command of the unit, as their contract gives Amber a right
to choose a new commander if the old one dies during service to the crown.
1350 AY: Suu leaves the Embassy, and together with Anno, vanishes into shadow. Nanami Minor graduates from Ohtori (barely), but skips graduation ceremony to go drinking and brawling with Corey.
Kanako shows signs of being restive. In an attempt to forestall Part III of 'Kanako Wanders Off,' Motoko suggests that she attend Ohtori Academy, on the Order side of the universe, where her as-yet-untrained logrus abilities are unlikely to work. Kanako, bored with her Father's boring religious tutors, takes well to this, and moves to Ohtori just in time to catch Minor's final year of teenage stupidity. Blackie, curiously, stows away in her luggage; Kanako takes to decorating everybodies favorite Abyss Kitten with ribbons and bells.
In his first experiment with his Trump Theramin, Telemain manages to
send himself (and Minako, who insisted on 'helping') to the Shadow Where
The Addams Family Is Real. Fortunately, Mutsumi is able to track them and
pull them back out, before Minako levels the shadow in a fit of panic
when Lurch asks to have her for dinner.
1351-1357 AY: Setsuna attends Panopticon, earning a B.A. in History. His years are rather mixed; while he becomes captain of the Fencing Club and does well within his major, he struggles with most of his coursework for his first two years, and he also is suspended for six months after getting in a vicious fight with another student, who he nearly kills. His father (mother?) Kuonji appears and investigates, producing evidence which shows the student in question: was guilty of three counts of date-rape using various drugs, had threatened Setsuna with a knife for 'looking at him funny', and was, in fact, the leader of an Outsider cult inside his fraternity. The student in question ends up in jail, and Setsuna returns, but remains under rather a cloud for his remaining time.
1351-1355 AY : Shiori enters the ACNA, with her immediate family's sponsorship. She is extremely driven during this period, and manages through hard work and a little luck (and a rather remarkable display of piloting and naval tactics), to graduate with top honors and a Captaincy, at the age of 22. While not quite as remarkable as Asuka's performance in the HCWA four years prior, there is some grumbling as to wether both colleges were being biased towards Princesses of the Blood. Shiori largely ignores them.
1351-55 AY: Nanami Minor attends Harad City Military Academy. Awards in Unarmed Combat and Military Band.
1351-2 AY: Asuka serves under Tsuwabuki in the final years of
Bagok's War. She serves with distinction, recieves a battlefield
promotion to Major, and Tsuwabuki takes her onto his general staff.
1351 AY: Minako begins performing the rite of AshKente every few days, repeatedly trying to fix Death up on a date with her female friends. Death is forced to ask the Bride of the Jewel to change the rite so that it no longer works if you are named Minako.
1352-53 AY: The quiet year. The Black Dragon Company remains in Siam to make sure everything remains as quiet and peaceful as Shinobu Major left it. Orien consolidates his command, being quite popular with 'his' men.
1352-56 AY: Random immediately begins her education at the Harad City War Academy. Proving that she hasn't grasped the concept of learning by history so that one is not doomed to repeat it, she once again sabotages the other team's equipment before the final exam, once again earns the ire of her instructors and classmates, once again manages to graduate Salutitorian despite this.
1352 AY: Bust Rimururu and Rimururu (Who Bustie refers to as 'Slash' Rimururu) have it out in the middle of the Dead Unicorn in a six hour battle of water versus ice. For those watching, it is the first time anyone can remember seeing Rimururu actually use her swords in a fight. Prince Corey is first on the scene, and prevents other members of the family from interveing, saying '1. It's a personal duel, not our business, 2. It's a damn hot catfight, and maybe they'll get naked'. After six hours of combat, Bustie triumphs over Rimururu when Mitsune arrives, and apparently mistakes Rimururu for Bustie and vice versa, causing Rimururu to pause and yell at her, then get clobbered by Bustie. Bustie quietly vanishes into shadow for a while after this anyway.
Shortly after this, Uotani gets in a brawl at the Iron Pot with Corey, and meets Rally Vincent and begins training with her.
Allysia of House Darios was assassinated by her best friend, Jeane, at the ball given for Allysia's sixteenth birthday. Jeane then vanishes without a trace. House Darios blames Amber, and Darios forces attack the Amber embassy. The embassy burns to the ground, but they fail to slay any of their chosen targets. The result is a disaster for House Darios, as Houses Nurgal, Alars, and Helgram declare Private War on House Darios. Darios backs down, and hands over certain leaders involved in organizing the assault.
The Great Reign of Furry Terror commences in Chaos at the same time as the Darios Crisis. 53 Chaosians with anthromorphic animal appearances and five members of House Souma are brutally slain over the course of two weeks. A deranged Tremere noble is arrested and convicted of being the Furry Ripper. He is handed over to House Souma, who lock him into some sort of elaborate torture device hand-designed by Lord Akito; as far as anyone knows, he is still there.
Under circumstances neither have ever made clear, Suu and Touga meet in shadow during her travels with Anno.
Hearing about the extensive system of pyramids in Djelibeybi -- currently being disassembled -- Beowulf asks his son to pay a visit and document them for posterity's sake. Thoric sends Ota Minor along with Telemain, in another attempt to interest him in something beyond the latest weapon designs. This proves to have been a mistake, as Telemain's Trump skills are barely enough to keep them one step ahead of the hordes of angry camels, not to mention the irate queen and her assassin husband/brother. Ota keeps protesting, "Hey, *my* Mom and Dad were related, why is it such a big deal for you?" Telemain just groans. He also reconsiders his plan for telling Ota about the airguns his father makes...
1353-9 AY: Allen von Munchausen serves as Fencing Master at the Hisame-Monde School for Young Sorcerors. In 1359, his parents find out what the school actually is and force him to resign.
1353-1357 AY: Yomiko attends Ohtori, and graduates with honors. She excells in history (straight As) and literature, where she gets straight A+s.
1353-55 AY: The Black Dragon Company sees action once again when Navy high command requests their services from the army for anti-pirate action. For several decades now, the Black Fleet of the Dread Pirate Flynn has terrorized Golden Circle shipping, coming out of the mists and vanishing into the night before the navy can intercept them, and so far none of their searches have resulted in even the slightest clue to the whereabouts of Flynn's base. It is hoped that the ecclectic skill set of the Company will succeed where more traditional minds have failed. Indeed, after almost a year of gathering intelligence, Orien and a hand-picked group of Dragons manage to infiltrate the organization and discover the base, a relatively small shadow Flynn has total control over. Over the next few months, Orien and the Dragons fight and intrigue their way up to command of one of the black ships. On the next trip, the remaining company ambushes the pirate fleet and kills the pirates. Taking over the ships, they sail into Flynn's fortress and massacre the remaining pirates, including Flynn himself, who apparently was a blood creature. His remains are sent to Amber in a bottle.
1353 AY: Juri resigns as Marshal of Rebma and vanishes into shadow with Queen Corrine, who leaves Kanna as Regent for the interregnum. In Chaos, N'Stylite reforms. (It's assumed there's no connection between these events, but...) Kurz becomes one of the founding members of 'Generation 2'.
Random releases second album, "Sugarpop". Leans more towards rave and electronica influences than previous album, earning a slightly bigger market audience. Sells big in Amber and the Golden Circle again. Is introduced to Chaos, where it makes the top 50.
Yumi reluctantly sends Violet down to the Embassy in Chaos to learn
more of Chaos and diplomacy at Violet's request. Moonshade takes
Violet under her wing and begins training her in combat.
1354 AY: Suu returns from Shadow with Anno and Touga, now bearing the new Hoard of the Dragon. She's also dating Touga.
Sousuke returns to House Helgram, and walks the Logrus, as does Melissa. They head into Shadow together.
Uotani makes Corporal, as does Hanajima. Prince Ramon throws a small party for them, which is ruined when Corey unleashes rabid ferrets into the party room. This results in Ramon snapping for the first time in decades and he and Corey proceed to have the brawl from hell. In the process, Demetrius, Michelle, Makoto, and Vash all get caught in the middle of it and are pounded flat. It only ends when Edith shows up, mindblasts both of them, and then drags Corey back to Arcadia for a while.
Random was kicked out of the Harad Academy Band for her continuing tendancies
to have the military band play un-military music, such as 'I'm A Believer',
'Hard Day's Night' and 'I'm Too Sexy'.
1355-1360 AY: Shiori serves competantly, but not particluarly standing out, in the Amber Navy, mostly due to the fact that there weren't any major naval wars taking place at the time. This continues to provide grist for the rumor mill, but again Shiori ignores them, instead dealing with shipping lane protection and the occasional pirate raid. This also gives her ample time to practice her magical and guitar skills during long voyages.
1355 AY: Kanako, having milked the Thaumauturgy school of Ohtori for all it's worth despite extremely mediocre grades, arranges for a transfer to the Great School of Magic. In what is probably her rebellious period, she spends her first year there using her own Shapeshifting abilities and Blackie to utterly confound Miroku on a regular basis, much to Deirdre's delight. It is at this time her profound talent and prediliction for impersonating people surfaces. Blackie also begins to talk sometimes, though whether he actually -can- talk or if Kanako is merely a good ventriloquist is uncertain.
Naru returns from Shadow and becomes an instructor at the Harad City War Academy. Orien resigns from the military and forms a mercenary company, the Black Dragons, which becomes involved in the War of Jenkin's Head on the Isle of Emeralds. Miroku and Deirdre walk the Logrus together, racing to see who will come out first. Since both go stark raving mad, the issue is never settled.
Miroku and Deirdre then decide to enter the Stylite Order, and see which of them will be rewarded by the Serpent with a harem first, and who will get the better one. Motoko and Davros seem somewhat non-plussed by their motivation.
Telemain returns to Amber, to walk the Pattern and study the various Elemental Patterns, as part of helping his father with the Arcadian Patternblades.
1356-61 AY: Random serves out five years in the navy. Is promoted to Captain by the end of her stint. Was mostly an uneventful tour of duty, marked by a few raids on pirate dens and clusters of Sea People hideouts, and the occasional infamous Sea Raves hosted on her ship. During this time she keeps an apartment in the ward of the Dead Unicorn, not far from where her grandfather used to live. Got to know the neighbors. Started helping to fund the orphanages. Apparently met Pimp lord Bumpy and got along quite well. Rumor is that she got to know the ladies of Chez Bumpy quite well as well, though Random declines to comment and the ladies just deny it with a giggle. During this term of service she also took the opportunity to train under various family members.
1356 AY: Nanami Minor joins the Army of Amber.
Desperate to find Ota Minor a job where he can let out his aggressive instincts, Thoric sends him to Ankh-Morpork to train with the City Watch. It is later agreed by all and sundry that this was probably not the optimal solution.
Minako graduates from Unseen University. There is a great sigh of relief.
Tomos joins the castle guards. He, Uo, and Hanajima become friends.
The Black Dragon Company's ten-year contract ends. Orien leaves the army and joins the Dragons as their Captain.
At the end of his Pattern studies, something happens to Telemain that leaves him a broken wreck. He refuses to talk to anyone about it, not even his grandmothers, and retreats into his rooms for a month. When he comes out, instead of returning to Arcadia, he goes directly to Panopticon and enrolls.
1356-57 AY: The Black Dragon Mercenary Company becomes briefly involved in the war of Jenkin's Head. Their contract ends with the death of their employer.
1356-1361: Telemain, with a devotion that some might call 'monomaniacal',
manages to get a Masters degree in Sidar Lore (admittedly building on what
he learned from his father) from Panopticon in only five years. He supports
himself by working at CAFAM in the summers, which leaves him with interesting
twitches at the words 'Blue Light Special,' but also leaves him with a
detailed knowledge of how CAFAM works. He also becomes fairly skilled at
dealing with Idiots On Patrol.
1357-1363 AY: Kaname is fostered at the Court of Amber, where she spends much time with Queen Yuriko, Anthy, Naru, and Yumi. She tries to punch out Corey after he wanders into the women's baths, but fails miserably, leading her to work on her strength.
1357-61 AY: An uprising of the forest tribes threatens Ashante as a charismatic warrior (Hunta He) unites several of them under his command. A panicked king hires the Black Dragon Mercenary Company when it becomes clear that the best his army can do is keep them back from the coastal lands, and sooner or later the tribal warriors will break through -somewhere-. The Dragons end up going into the jungle to take the fight to the tribes. Several years of jungle fighting wear the company down, but they finally manage to corner the largest tribal army with (Hunta He) himself at its head. What exactly happened next remains unclear, but the Black Dragons seem to have been largely wiped out, but took the forest tribes with them. Several thousand heads of tribesmen rain down on the palace in a single night, and the trademark dragons of the company are seen flying out to sea with the few survivors. The Black Dragons now vanish into Shadow.
In this same period, Yomiko attends Panopticon, getting a Batchelor's in Literature.
1357-1359 AY: Setsuna earns a Masters in Shadow History at Panopticon, working under Dr. Watson.
1357 AY: Suu and Touga get married. Asuka is almost promoted to the rank of Colonel, until it's pointed out that she's simply too young, except in case of battlefield promotion. Ota Minor burns the Assassin's Guild of Ankh-Morpork to the ground. The remaining members try to assassinate him. They fail spectacularly. The survivors hit on the idea of renaming the Guild the 'Honorable Society of Assisted Death'. Ota Minor pays them no more mind.
In an incident that will, in many ways, set the tone for Tomos' career, he is assigned to accompany Mikage to Siam as part of a diplomatic missions to deal with the aftermath of the KTC/Siam war. An inadvertant comment gets him mistaken for the reincarnation of a Siam Death Goddess, touching off a mass of kidnapping attempts, assassinations, and masses of shaven-headed monks in robes trying to worship him. The confusion ranges through several ancient temples and nearly levels a small town, but in the end Mikage seems more pleased than irritated, leading many to believe he orchastrated the whole thing in the first place.
Random releases third album, 'Oceans Apart'. This proves to be the breakthrough album for her success in Chaos, as it hits top ten, holding the number one spot for a week. Somehow managed to sneak off to Chaos to do a number of shows as the opening act for M^2. Rumors begin that she is dating Ian.
1358-83 AY: Nanbara serves as first assistant to, then as Helgram representative at the Black House. He greatly enjoys the social scene, and engages in many disastrous romances, none of which break his will to keep trying. He also studies law and becomes certified to practice law in the Chaosian courts.
1358-1360 AY: Kanna grabs Ruka, and the two of them go and take their
-own- vacation out in Shadow.
1358 AY: Juri returns from shadow and becomes Amber's Ambassador to Ember. Corrine returns and resumes her queenly duties. The band N'Stylite: Generation 2, breaks up after one of its members, Tamblin, is eaten by the legendary beast, Yoko Ono. Kurz begins a solo career, destroying the band, who no longer has anyone who actually knows how to sing or play an instrument. Another member, Marko, swears vengeance on him.
Deirdre gets bored and quits the Stylite Order. She forgets to tell Miroku. She then heads to Amber. She walked the Pattern and bummed around for a while, training with Naru, Countess Haruka, Utena, Ramon, and Kanna.
Nanbara walks the Logrus. Rumor has it that he does not go mad after his Logruswalk; the truth of this, if anything, is unknown.
Shiori walks the Fire Pattern for the first time on her 25th birthday,
as she wanted to wait for her Aunt and Grandmother to get back from their
travels.
1359 AY: Allen von Munchausen walks the Logrus and vanishes into shadow. According to his claims, he rides the White Ship to Cathuria and becomes the knight and champion and lover of the White Queen who now rules Cathuria for the next decade or so. He also supposedly beats Ithiqua in a wrestling match, best three out of five rounds.
Telemain, Yomiko and Setsuna defeat the invasion of the Mole People on the Feast of Saint Swivin at Panopticon. The next day, no one remembers the Mole People existed except the three of them, and the cause of the invasion is never explained, in part because no one else remembers it.
Aburatsubo and Haru are born. Haru is slightly older by twelve minutes. There is probably no link to the Mole People. They may, however wish you to BELIEVE that.
1359-1361: After meeting Setsuna for the first time at the events of the Feast of Saint Swivin, Telemain strikes up a cautious friendship with him. (It is not known what Kuonji thinks of this; fortunately, Beowulf is away in Arcadia when this starts, and seems to accept it as a fait accompli when he returns.) While Telemain is not a fighter by any stretch of the imagination, he is fairly creative and resourceful during the Mole People invasion, using conjured actinic flares and trump gates to good effect, and this seems to impress Setsuna. Telemain is impressed over the years by how often Setsuna seems to be *right* in the end, against all logic and common sense, and decides the matter merits further study.
1359-1369 AY: Setsuna works on his Doctorate in Pre-Logrus Studies at Panopticon under Dr. Watson. It is interrupted by several long research trips into shadow, twelve alien invasions, and the discovery that the Chancellor of the University was planning to sacrifice the entire graduating class to Moloch in order to obtain godhood. The Chancellor discovered to his horror that magic does not in fact work at Panopticon, but students with lasers do.
1359-1373 AY: Haru and Aburatsubo are raised in both Chaos and Amber, shuttling between Castle Amber, Alarsways, and Suu's private workshop shadow owing to Touga's various activities as an agent of the crown and Suu's propensity to get lost in her projects.
1360-1372 AY: The Blue Turban War (Arcadia)
1360 AY: A month after Beowulf leaves Arcadia and returns to
Amber, Sultan Dabi of the Blue Turbans sweeps into the Sto Plains.
Ankh-Morpork calls on Arcadia for aid, not expecting to get it. To
their surprise, Arcadia mobilizes and the forces of the Green Circle move
into the Sto Plains.
Twelve years of war ensue, as Saionji leads fleets down the coast and Thoric lead field forces across the plains and into Klatch in a series of battles. Minako assists Saionji, while Ota Minor and Makoto Minor join Thoric in the field armies. By 1368, Thoric secures control of Omnia, while Saionji seizes control of the capital of the empire, Al Khali. Four years of indecisive warfare follows, at the end of which, the Sultan gets killed in battle by Ota Minor and the Blue Turbans collapse.
1360-1362 AY: Shiori 'temporarily' resigns from the navy, and begins Pattern training with Juri over the the coming years. Shiori enrolls in a technical college in Shadow in fast-time to earn an Enginnering degree, as she has some ideas for improving the design of Amber naval ships.
1360 AY: Miroku finally gets actually told that his sister quit the Stylite Order two years earlier when Melissa and Sousuke stumble on his pillar. . He decides to stick it out longer, in hopes of a destiny harem.
Sick of getting his ass handed to him by Uo during sparring matches, Tomos begins looking for someone to train with to increase his toughness. He picks Corey, who seems to be one of the few who can take what Uo dishes out, and hoping to be able to help his friend by smoothing over relations between them. The latter fails, but he does become fairly good friends with Corey himself, and the two of them begin regularly getting together to drink, party, wench and otherwise enjoy life.
Random's apartment robbed. One week later a local gang's house is burned to the ground, no survivors within. Random says she was fishing by the docks during the fire. When asked, the other citizens of the neighborhood 'didn't see nuthin'.
1361-1372 AY: Random finally hears of the Blue Turban wars and makes arrangements to delay her service to the Amber military until the conflict is over. Serves in the Arcadia Armed Forces from 61 to 72, where she displays an uncanny knack for military tactics and having an uncannily low rate of casualties, earning the loyalty of her troops. Makes the rank of Lieutenant General of Arcadia at tour's end. Produces enough material for six albums, which are in fact sent back to Amber and Chaos during the war. Her continued unprecedented musical success in Chaos and Amber continues.
1361-65 AY: Yomiko, by very hard work, earns first a master's, then a Ph.D in Literature, specializing in Amberite Literature, at Panopticon, studying under Dr. Tess Chaucer.
1361 AY: Traumatized by years of war, Orien disbands his mercenary company. He also is rumored to see Bust Rimururu intimately frequently in this period.
Upon graduating from Panoption, Telemain decides to test himself by building a gondola for the Gondola Games in Venetia. (The year's tuition at the Sea College of Magi is merely frosting on the cake.) After much internal debate, he sets his teeth and asks Shiori (as the noted naval expert of his generation) to pilot his design for that year's games; much to his surprise and chagrin, she turns to have a better naval design sense than he does, though without his skills in engine design and construction. After some argument (and some very startled respect from Telemain), they decide on a partnership to enter next year's games. Omninous thunder rolls in the distance.
Tomos' mother, Louise and her lover from Therin, Yves, marry, with Tomos'
blessing. Uo and Hana accompany Tomos to the wedding in Therin.
A drunken Uo manages to punch out one of Yves' brothers, to the applause
of his whole family. Hana fends off the drunken advances of several
minor Theran noblemen, mostly by calmly talking about their mistresses
where their wives can overhear. Tomos nearly seduces the maid of
honor. Louise, however, laughs and takes it all in stride, while
Yves just shakes his head and is pleasantly cheerful despite it all.
1362 AY: Orien vanishes into shadow. Deirdre enters the HCWA.
Telemain and Shiori work on their gondola design. Their final design
wins, much to everyone's surprise; Telemain collapses as the gondola crosses
the finish line, but manages to revive in time for the awards ceremony.
A giant black dragon rises up out of the canals and attempts to destroy
the judges' platform in the middle of the ceremony, but Telemain manages
to open a trump gate and dump the dragon into Der Heimat von Pukenheim
before collapsing again. "They deserve each other," he was heard to mumble
as Shiori shook him awake.
1362-1364 AY: Telemain and Shiori study together at the Sea College
of Magi. Beowulf goes to visit him down there, after hearing news through
the grapevine from Kanna, and the two reconcile; Telemain explains that
it wasn't anything to do with his father, and that he had to get away for
a while, but still refuses to say anything about what caused him to run
off in the first place.
1363 AY: The first of a series of royal bankruptcies in Therin. Yuki and Kyou are born in House Souma. Asuka is now promoted to the rank of Major. She is transferred to the HCWA, where she becomes Senior Tactics Instructor, running the annual wargames.
Kaname enters the ACNA.
Tomos makes Corporal in the Guard. He begins working closely with
Keiko as part of the Magical Crime investigation unit. Despite this
he picks up only the most rudimentary magical skills himself.
1364 AY: Miroku finally snaps, and leaves the Stylite Order, giving up on Destiny Nookie. He joins the Priests of Kundali.
Telemain returns to Amber after his time at the Sea College of Magi,
and begins studying with his grandmother Wakaba to improve his conjuration
skills.
1365-75 AY: The Jesby/Darios War
Houses Jesby and Darios have feuded for centuries; the feuding finally
erupts into open private war, which drags on inconclusively for a decade.
Things finally culminate at the Battle of Breaker's Reef, in which Darios
forces manage to drive the Jesby forces onto a reef, crushing them.
Peace is then made.
1365-1373 AY: Shiori enters Panopticon University on Telemain's recommendation. She goes on to earn a Master's degree under Professor Morrison.
1365-1400 AY:
Kanako leaves the Great School of Magic with extremely high honors
in 1365 AY, having stayed two extra years for post-graduate work. Despite
no formal training in the Logrus, she has acquired a potent mastery
of Logrus Sorcery. She returns to Chaos proper.Anno of Gainax
agrees to take Kanako under his wing as an Apprentice/Assistant Keeper
of the Logrus. She spends eight to ten hours a day intensively training
with him and Jack, then comes home and trains more with her parents and
various of their friends and lovers.
1365 AY: Drake takes a pleasure cruise with Nabiki and Sumire. Things go horribly wrong, as a shadow storm hits and blows them into a shadow where Pattern and Magic and Trump do not work. They are trapped on a small tropical island with seven castaways. Everyone assumes Drake is off burning more Rebmas and didn't want anyone to know, so no rescue is mounted at first...
Hatsuharu is born.
Melissa and Sousuke return to Helgram.
Minako annhilates both fleets at the battle of Minako's Folly; she gets heavily chewed out by Saionji.
Setsuna returns with Dr. Watson from a field trip into shadow, bearing a black blade which disturbs all who see it, and an owl who becomes his constant companion.
Yumi sends Yomiko to live with Motoko and her spouses for a time, to learn about the Chaosian side of her heritage. Yomiko spends a lot of time with Mitsune and Moonshade, working out and overcoming her childhood frailty, and with Motoko and Davros, delving into Chaosian lore. She and Davros have many late night discussions of books. She also becomes very friendly with Kanako and Nanbara.
Late at night, one of Telemain's experiments in self-replicating semi-autonomous devices manages to escape from Wakaba's lab. He is awakened the next morning with the news that his device has spawned dozens of times over, forming a near-perfect copy of the capital city of Pinata in the fields outside of Castle Amber. Mortified, he rushes down to try and clean up the mess, only to find that Deirdre has taken up residence and refuses to let anyone tear it down. She is finally talked into leaving when Telemain promises to relocate everything to Beleriand. Aule was reportedly not amused. Or was sniggering into his ale, depending on who you ask.
He makes sure to break from the moving long enough to attend Yomiko's
graduation from Panopticon, and to get Shiori settled in there.
1366-1370 AY: Telemain shuttles back and forth between Amber and the
Smoke Ring, working on research and training with various family members,
including polishing his Trump skills with Corrine. It's at this point that
Wakaba, after pointing him futilely at several of her young female magic
students, pushes him into training with Kentaro, with Beowulf's full support.
While it fails to achieve Wakaba's goal of getting Telemain to loosen up
and spend some time on dalliance, he does learn a great deal about conjuration,
as well as a certain amount of semi-conscious charm. He returns to Panopticon
to attend Setsuna's graduation in 1369.
1366-68 AY: Nanami Minor goes to Arcadia to train with Saionji.
1366 AY: The graduating Cadet class at the HCWA (which includes Deirdre), unable to graduate without Drake's signature, goes looking for Drake, under Asuka's leadership.
Lord Loewen discovers Yomiko's fear of dogs, and attempts to 'cure' it. The end result is that Yomiko goes from running away from dogs to tending to create twin paper blades and hacking to death any dogs she encounters. There is also a notable rise in Yomiko's swordfighting skills. She also begins training with Kodachi in wood and plant magics.
1367 AY: Early in the year, the Senior Cadets of the HCWA, with the help of Davros (dragged into things by Deirdre), manage to find Drake and bring him back. Drake decides to avoid all ships in the future.
Deirdre now becomes the head of the 7th Military Mage Company, 'The Blue Jayhawks', at the rank of lieutenant.
Kaname graduates and is assigned to the 'Swallow', in the Southern fleet as a member of the Amberite Naval Mage Corps.
After he takes a dagger in the chest to prevent a mystical serial killer from getting to her, Keiko takes Tomos shopping as a reward. While picking out several very nice items, they bump into the Logrus, who is out looking for a birthday present of Jewel. They join forces and proceed to more or less rampage across several dedicated shopping shadows. However, the Logrus' casual disregard for minor trivialties such as monetary exchange leads to a misunderstanding involving the combined CAFAM/Wal-mart/Beebo's Discount Beverages Reserve Anti-Loss Army.
When the dust settles, the accounts are cleared, but some hard feelings remain. Keiko's Ultra-Supreme-Trestone-and-Real-Platinum card is downgraded to merely Supreme-Trestone-and-Real-Platinum, causing her to sulk for 3 weeks until she finds a new dress she has seen but not yet bought.
1368-1372: Anthy takes Hanajima into shadow; no one is sure what they do, other than that Hanajima was initiated into a Broken Pattern and returned with very potent wind powers.
1368 AY: After nearly being killed when a groupie turns out to be a cannibal vampire, Kurz leaves the music industry and joins Helgram's army, where he's assigned to work under Sousuke and Melissa Fillmore, his childhood friends.
Kanako ill-advisedly mindshifts to Motoko as part of her 'I must
impersonate everybody' agenda. Things go horribly, horribly wrong, but
at least Davros hasn't yet gotten her top off when Motoko walks in and
dumps the mother of all Resume True Forms on her. Things calm down again
after several months, although Davros never looks at Kanako the same way
again.
1370 AY: Violet enters the Amber Diplomatic Corps.
Setsuna comes to Amber. In the middle of a howling rainstorm by climbing over the walls, knocking out several guards who try to stop him, and slipping stealthfully into the castle. He almost manages to slip past Ramon into the King's chambers, but Ramon grabs him. He then asks why Ramon is guarding the Pattern Chamber. Setsuna claims he just wanted to walk the Pattern, so Ramon wakes up Makoto and Keiko, gathers a squad of guards, and hauls Setsuna down to the Pattern. Setsuna walks it with ease, then salutes them and has the Pattern send him... somewhere. He is not seen again for some years, but Kuonji comes by a day later and explains that Setsuna is, in fact, his son. Kuonji does not name the other parent.
Telemain vanishes off into Shadow for a decade or so. He spends the
time cataloging a number of shadows that have interesting or unusual sources
of power, including but not limited to still-functioning Sidar artifacts
and various Elemental sources.
1371-73 AY: Orien returns to Amber, and promptly moves on to Rebma, where he lives for a while with the Miki and Madoka, learning to play the sax from her. He also meets Basara, Rebma's court bard, whose pacifist ideals are a strong influence on Orien.
1371 AY: In Sailoon, the Cult of Shuma-Gorath nearly frees their dark god. Ambassador Amelia assembles a strike force of Beowulf, Kanna, Nausicaa, Kaede, Naru, Kentaro, and Sumire. They arrive in time to discover that someone has already slaughtered the cultists and prevented the ritual. They spend some time rampaging through Sailoon, slaughtering monsters, just to make the trip not a complete waste. This leads to the infamous 'tea with goblins' disaster, of which none of them will speak (though there are rumors of Kentaro having been stuffed in Beowulf's bag and used as a club. Most discount these, as Beowulf wouldn't be so cruel). Gourry makes his first appearance in over a century, rescuing them all with the help of Naga the White Serpent, Kitiara, and Pirotess. Much embarrassment ensues. Beowulf hires Gourry as head guard for the Museum of Shadow.
In Chaos, the entire House of Malkier, a minor house of Chaos allied to Alars, was slaughtered in a single night. The vast majority of them were killed by a single stab to the brain with silver knives. Fardred, Lord Malkier, was found dead in his quarters along with his wife and young children, an infant daughter among them. He died in combat of multiple wounds. Fardred was a noted swordsmaster. A young son, al'Lan, was absent from the house at the time and survived the massacre.
Allen von Munchausen resurfaces at the Gondola Games in 1371, which he won in one of the most spectacular victories ever, driving a Swan Gondola of his own design. Even an assault by Deep Ones and Vermicious Knids (who, oddly enough, hate each other on sight...) couldn't stop his victory. He attended the College of Sea Magics, where he once again discovered his deep inability to get even the simplest spell to work right.
Telemain hears rumors of a shadow where a pre-Logrus race -- known as the Jjaro -- apparently had and used a great deal of Sidar technology, if they weren't Sidar themselves. Technology that still operates. Telemain goes to Panopticon to research the shadow before heading out there, and runs into Shiori getting ready to leave on summer break. She dragoons him into taking her along, saying "Hey, that sounds like fun!"
The following months involve them getting trapped by enslaving alien races, fencing verbally with rampant AI's, helping a paranoid but determined cyborg, and discovering the legacy of the UESC Marathon. In the end, they escape from the shadow alive, and Telemain manages to bring with him the core of an artificial intelligence known as 'Leela.' After getting his father's help in checking her out and adapting her to computer systems he had access to, Telemain gives her a home in his lab.
1372-1400 AY: Beowulf goes to Arcadia, and works with Thoric, Mutsumi, Jacqui, Dr. Jacqueline, Minako, and the Bride of the Jewel in forging the Turtle Spikards.
1372-1382 AY: The Wagnerian Jyhad
Lord Loewen decides it's time for a war, in order to keep his army
in shape. House Helgram's forces move into shadow and attack six
variations of the high-tech shadow of Wagner in a row, gradually refining
various strategies through experiment.
Kurz, Melissa, and Sousuke acquire experience in high-tech warfare from this.
1372-1382 AY: Makoto Minor spends a decade in Uberwald, helping out Van, learning from Dryads, and punching out amorous werewolves and vampires.
1372 AY: Fuyutsuki, Anthy, Nausicaa, Eowyn, Yumi, Motoko, Hanajima, and Davros rebuild the Shadow Theatre. Rumors circulate of a massive sex rite held by them there, but the rumors are squashed when Fuyutsuki 'accidentally' leads a herd of rampaging elephants through the streets of Amber City, squashing the eight bookstalls selling supposedly true accounts of the rite, then publishes his own book, 'The True Story of How We Rebuilt the Shadow Theatre'. While no one who reads the book seems to remember anything it said, they all come away convinced it was completely innocent.
Baron von Munchausen somehow manages to fling the entire College of Sea Magics to Rebma, and is thrown out of the Sea College and told he will blasted on sight if they ever see him again. The College of Sea Magics officially dubs him 'The Human Typhoon'. It takes nearly a year to get everything moved back to Venetia. Shiori hears of the flinging of the Sea College, and is reportedly both ticked off and amused by the affair, as while the place shouldn't have been flung, its nearness to New Rebma is nice.
Random gets flung to the Ward of the Dead Unicorn. Morgenstern pleads innocence. Disappears from public view for a while.
Kanako walks the Pattern, but shows no real interest in it afterwards.
She returns to Amber at fairly frequent intervals over the next forty-three
years to walk it repeatedly, though.
1373-77 AY: Aburatsubo attends Ohtori Academy.
1373-75 AY: Haru attends Ohtori. He does well initially, but suffers a lack of focus and attention starting in the high school. Studying with Naru improves his grades, but he continues to show a lack of direction.
1373 AY: Asuka is considered for promotion to Colonel, but manages to mouth off at the promotion committee, who shoot her down.
Rally Vincent ends up in the drunk tank, (along with Princess Random, who is there for other reasons), much to her embarrasment, after being in some sort of hideous brawl with her boyfriend of the time, a fellow named Randall. Randall then disappears, leading to a murder investigation. No body can be found, however. Randall then shows up, weeks later, having gone to Begma in the interval, and makes sure the charges are dropped. He and Rally try to reconcile and fail, and he leaves to become a golden circle merchant. Rally swears off men.
Orien returns to Amber once again and moves into a nice townhouse in the city. Frequent parties and constantly changing women seen in public with him give rise to a reputation as a playboy. He also meets King, and becomes friends with her. Her bar is his favorite quiet place for a drink.
Random later returns to the drunk tank after a night of partying at Orien's gets out of control.
Tomos is transferred to Castle Amber interior defense to help Mario beat off a combined invasion of firebreathing turtles and ambulatory sentient fungus. They do so successfully and afterwards, spend the better part of several months in the sewers and pipes of the Castle, attempting to clear out any signs of the infestation, in hopes it doesn't come back. This of course fails, though the firebreathing turtle activity does dwindle dramatically for quite some time. As a result of his actions, Tomos is promoted to Sergeant.
Telemain returns to Panopticon to attend Shiori's graduation.
1374-1386 AY: Shiori spends the next 12 years as a 'Goodwill Ambassador'
from Ember to Chaos, not serving in any offical capacity, but spending
time at both the Amberite Embassy and at House Alars to show to the populace
that not -all- descendants of Haruka of Harad were out to annihilate the
Great Houses. In fact, she manages to convince Kodachi of Alars to
train her in sorcery, and transplants several forms of Emberite and Rebman
plantlife to the House Alars gardens. She also trains with Davros
and Motoko during this time. She manages to avoid the Second N'Stylite
War, mostly by playing good rock (and putting on mini-concerts in the Embassy
and Alarsways) during the entire period. Yomiko attends several of
Shiori's concerts and becomes rather a fan of her music.
1374 AY: Valentine's Day, aka The Night of Death by a Thousand Kisses (Arcadia): Thoric finds Jacqui, Dr. Jacqueline, The Bride of the Jewel, The Hostess, and Mutsumi all waiting for him, wanting to have a romantic evening with him. Without a mob. Just as Thoric calms everyone down, the Sign of the Logrus shows up, with Jack trying desperately to restrain it. It is drunk and bitter, and has been watching movies about romantic suicide.
The result is a humongous riot, which only ends when Jewel makes her first appearance in Arcadia, and shows everyone that Morgenstern has been broadcasting the entire thing on Pay-Per-Trump. They all team up to kick Morgenstern's ass and force him to listen to Abba until High Summer.
1374 AY: Violet is assigned to the embassy in Melnibone.
Random Tenjou, in service to Sarantium, one of the Nine Free Cities, leads a massive mercenary army into shadow to destroy a ravening horde of ABBA clones which are preying on their coastlines because 'I owe Uncle Mo one.' This culminates is a masterful twelve-month campaign in which she crushes their home shadow into rubble. At this point, it is revealed that Random has actually spent the entire year in a drugged-out haze, and Kanako has pulled off the one of the most spectacular long-term impersonations ever. Nanbara forks over practically his entire life savings in tre-stone, dances on top of the Amber Embassy wearing a five-year-old's sailor suit while singing 'I'm a Little Teapot,' and agrees to be Mitsune's personal slave for three months. Kanako walks around looking really damn smug for an entire year, and takes Xaemyl, Mitsune, and Davros (her Shapeshifting mentors) out for an expensive dinner. Loewen is effusive in his praise; Motoko, less so.
While visiting Amber on spring break, Washyu volunteers Haru to do some experiments. He survives, mostly unscathed, as does Washyu. However, a significant part of Washyu's lab shadow does not.
Telemain encounters rumors that the 'Cone People' are going to attack
the Munchausen estates. Feeling a certain obligation to investigate, given
the tenuous connection they share from the Wonka factory tour, he sets
off, only to run into von Munchausen himself. The two surprise a small
but vicious group of Cone People when they try to scout, and get chased
by them across Shadow and right into the base camp of one of Professor
Watson's expeditions. Chaos ensues.
1375-7 AY: There is unrest in Melnibone, as intrigues and attempted coups unfold as Moorcock I lies dying. His eldest son, Moorcock Minor, is killed by the other six claimants, who then fight each other for two years. One by one, the brothers die, until Moorcock Minor emerges from hiding and wipes out the last other claimant, Leiber, and takes the throne, marrying his sister Michia.
1375 AY: Uotani and Hanajima make sergeant.
Rally Vincent briefly dates Vash. A trip to Calendar World ends this, although neither will speak of everything that happened. (An entire city in Calendar World is known to have become an endless row of waffle houses at this time, though...)
Random and Miroku begin seeing each other off and on.
Later in the year, Random throws the now infamous 'Highway to Hell' concert in the Black Zone. By this time her style has decidedly swung towards punk, industrial techno and heavy metal bizzarely fused with taints of pop. Said concert results in a mosh pit that fills an entire shadow and carnage that is topped only by the infamous Second Altamont concert. At the end of said concert gets thrown into a drunk tank. While there, gets a surprise visit from Jewel. The following day, Random drops out of sight, does not surface again for several months.
Haru drops out of Ohtori, walks the Pattern, and disappears into Shadow.
Upon hearing, Suu is somewhat irritated, but Touga just smiles.
1376 AY: Night of the Soul Cake Duck (Arcadia)
In one of her many experiments, Dr. Jacqueline transforms the Soul
Cake Duck into the Soul Bake Duke due to her bad spelling. It goes
on a rampage, baking people's souls, until finally Ota Minor, Makoto Minor
and Minako hunt it down and bring it back to be fixed.
Setsuna surfaces at House Helgram, bringing Loewen several dead dogs as a greeting present. Loewen seems pleased, and employs Setsuna for the next thirteen years.
To the shock and surprise of her fans everywhere, Random resurfaces as a Stylite. She puts out her first Elven-themed album out. Much to the relief of Amber and Chaos, her fans seem agreeable to the new style and, by and large, become a kinder, gentler horde of fans. Pillar sales increase. The Stylite order fears another incident along the lines of N'Stylite, but to their relief Random does no such thing. The Stylite order gains recruits at a level unprecedented since the first N'Stylite outbreak.
Juri, Eowyn, Kanna, Wakaba, Utena, and Naru go off into shadow together.
They return a month later, looking satisfied. After this, Naru has
the giant butter knife Kanna used to tote around.
1377-83 AY: Aburatsubo attends the Great School of Magic.
1377 AY: Yuki is sent to House Helgram for fostering. He falls under Anji's influence. Kyou is sent to House Olympus and falls under Hercules' influence.
1378 AY: Tomos opens the Valois School of Fence in Amber City,
teaching the combined style of swordplay and martial arts he developed
based on the traditional Therin styles he learned as a child. Interest
is minimal at first, until an ex-student Tomos barred from the school manages
to defeat a largish gang single-handedly in the Ward of the Dead Unicorn.
This is not particularly due to the teachings of Tomos, but despite that
attendence skyrockets for a short period, then settles down to a small
but constant level. It proves particularly popular among the young
men of the lesser noble houses of Amber, due to the combination of brutal
effectiveness, fairly graceful movements, and Tomos' own panache.
1379 AY: The Red Death (Arcadia) On a particularly dark and stormy night, the Bride of the Jewel somehow mistakes Rincewind for Thoric and beds him. In the morning, she realizes her mistake and tries to annhilate him. 'The Red Death' ensues, as she chases him across the Discworld for six months, finally giving up after Dr. Jacqueline explains that Rincewind is, in his own way, an integral part of the new Pattern, and cannot be easily removed from it.
Haru returns from Shadow, showing a profound interest in philosophy.
He begins training more intensely with Naru, who quickly sends him on to
Juri.
1380 AY: Orien begins to hang out with Vash, occasionally vanishing on week-long trips into shadow with him. When asked, they claim to visit interesting bars in shadow.
One of Tomos and Corey's semi-regular binges of excessive social behavior gets out of control when they manage to hook up with Cho and Allen von Munchausen, who are out for the same. The resulting mayhem is legendary in best Munchausen style, fueled by Corey and Cho's mouths and Tomos' utter inability to say no to the idea of a good adventure. After the fight with the Red Dragon Tong, the group managed to accidentally disrupt the plans of Wan Lung, evil Chaos undead sorceror, when Corey tried to seduce his virgin sacrifice and Munchausen snuck into his harem, while Cho and Tomos fought the Red Dragon goons trying to come through the door. The resulting magical explosion was visible several shadows away, and the group was on the run through the Black Zone for almost 3 days before they finally managed to trick the several angry mobs after them into fighting each other. All four vow to never to speak of it again, which lasts exactly 37 minutes before they find another bar and begin telling the story with even further embellishments.
Random gets kicked out of the Stylite order. Official explanation is this was a result of many offenses through the past four years. Rumor is that Miroku came by and did too good a job of tempting her off her pillar. The Stylite order experiences an unprecedented exodus of members. Random takes this opportunity to disappear into shadow for a number of years, still sending out new albums to her record company every year. Style drifts to more of an accoustic, down-to-earth tone. Fans become tree-hugging freaks that like to go sa