Timeline/Lorien Era

This article is a subpage of Timeline. It details the events happening in the Lorien Era, before Lorien faces its doom during the Mogadorian invasion, at a time when its land and inhabitants still thrive.
==Era==
Codes to the novels / novellas are appended in the table below. Brackets, where applicable, direct to the specific chapter of the book. For consistency purposes, the Garde's names are all represented in their numbers.
For the derivation of dates, refer to the relevant section of the main article.
No.	Era 	Timeframe (Earth year)	Timeframe (Earth year)	Novels under this era
1 	The Lorien Era 	 	1999, Quartermoon 	
*TLF5 - The Last Days of Lorien
*TLF11 - The Navigator
2 	The Post-Lorien Era	1999, Quartermoon 	2011, January 10 	
*TLF3 - The Fallen Legacies
*TLF1 - Six's Legacy
*TLF7 - Five's Legacy
*TLF2 - Nine's Legacy
*LL1 - I am Number Four
*TLF4 - The Search for Sam
*TLF9 - Five's Betrayal
3 	The Rebellion Era 	2011, January 10 	2011, March 26 	
*TLF2 - Nine's Legacy (cont'd)
*TLF4 - The Search for Sam (cont'd)
*TLF9 - Five's Betrayal (cont'd)
*TLF8 - Return to Paradise
*LL2 - The Power of Six
*LL3 - The Rise of Nine
*LL4 - The Fall of Five
*TLF6 - The Forgotten Ones
*TLF10 - The Fugitive
*LL5 - The Revenge of Seven
4 	The Revolution Era 	2011, March 26 	 	
*LL6 - The Fate of Ten
==Timeline of the Lorien Era==
Earth Year 	Date 	Main events	References
Centuries prior to the Fall of Lorien 	 	
*Pittacus Lore befriends Setrákus Ra.
*Pittacus successfully persuades Setrákus to date and marry Celwe, a fellow Loric Cêpan.
*Setrákus dwelves into forbidden mining of Loralite and development of its technology, and is later exposed.
**The Elders agree upon letting Pittacus execute him during Quartermoon.
**Setrákus escapes, and flees to Mogadore with his wife Celwe.
*Celwe revisits Lorien several decades later in a Mogadorian ship, placing her daughter Parrwyn under Pittacus' care, and warns him of Setrákus' impending revenge.	LL6(20)
Decades prior to the Fall of Lorien 	 	
*Birth of Raylan to Parrwyn and her husband on Lorien.	LL6(20)
c.1940s 	 	
*Birth of Albert on Lorien. Number Five mentioned in LL4 that his Cêpan was older than all the other known Cêpan, putting Albert in his late 50s or early 60s when he died.	LL4(16,34)
c.1950s 	 	
*Birth of Hilde on Lorien.	TLF3(9)
1960 	 	
*Birth of Three's Cêpan and Brandon on Lorien.	LL1(1)
1969 	 	
*Birth of Adelina on Lorien.	LL2(5)
c.1970s 	 	
*Birth of Sandor and Lexa on Lorien. It is unknown what the Loric age of majority is, so Sandor's age cannot be confirmed; it is known, however, that he is the youngest among the nine Cêpan, thus younger than Adelina and hence at most in his 20s when Lorien fell. 
*Birth of Ethan.	TLF5(1); TLF7(7); TLF11(15)
c.1981 	 	
*Birth of Lexa's brother Zane on Lorien.	TLF11(15)
1990 	 	
*Birth of Number One on Lorien.	TLF3(4)
1991 	 	
*Birth of Adamus Sutekh.	TLF3(1)
1993 	 	
*Birth of Ivanick Shu-Ra. His mother dies in childbirth.
*Birth of Mark James on Earth. In Return to Paradise Mark mentions that he is in the final semester of High School. Thus making him a High School Senior and 17 or 18 years old.	TLF3(1); TLF8(1)
1993 	June 	
*Birth of Number Seven on Lorien.	LL2(12)
1994 	 	
*Birth of Number Six to Arun and Lyn on Lorien.
*Birth of Number Five on Lorien.
*Zane, Lexa's brother, is killed after colliding with a Kabarak supply ship during extreme-speed flight training. According to Lexa, this occured five Loric years before the Fall of Lorien. This article assumes that the duration of a year is approximately equal on both planets.	TLF1(1); TLF7(1); TLF11(6)
1995 	January 4 	
*Birth of Sam Goode to Malcolm Goode and his wife.	LL2(21)
1995 	c. February 14 This date is taken from The Power of Six's estimation of a full moon in February 2011 and the recounts of Four during his travels. See relevant section in year 2011.	
*Birth of Number Four to Lara and Liren on Lorien.	LL1(22), LL2(14)
1995 	 	
*Birth of Number Two and Number Nine on Lorien.	TLF3(15); LL2(31)
1996 	 	
*Birth of Number Three on Lorien.
*Birth of Kelly Sutekh.
*The Greeters, humans on Earth who are allies with the Loric, are given a transmission device that would turn on in the presence of a Loric ship.	TLF3(23); TLF4(10); LL2(18)
1998 	 	
*Number Four's grandfather first introduces Number Four's Cêpan, Brandon, to him.	LL1(34)
1999Four was 4 years old during the Fall of Lorien. See LL1(1,23).	1 month before Quartermoon 	
*Sandor, an undergraduate from Lorien Academy, sneaks into the nightclub The Chimæra.
**Sandor meets and befriends the singer Devektra while hiding from his professor Endym.
**Sandor is expelled from the academy after being caught by Endym, charged of truancy and tampering with the school ID system.
*Sandor takes an engineering apprenticeship at the Lorien Defense Academy to put his technology skills to better use after being persuaded by Brandon, a Mentor Cêpan, to do so.
*The Mogadorians arrive near Lorien and test with its defense system, The Grid.
**Sandor and his classmate Rapp are tasked to repair The Grid after sights of violet beams penetrating them.
*Pittacus Lore prophesises about the impending doom of Lorien and the would-be arrival of two Loric ships on Earth.
**Pittacus is injured on the way to his destination on Earth due to an unknown cause.
**Pittacus arrives at Malcolm Goode's house on Earth to request him to gather the Greeters and help the Loric assimilate Earth culture, before succumbing to his death. The recount by Malcolm explains the presence of the Loric skeleton in his backyard bunker, as well as Sandor's observations of the Elders in TLF5.
**Malcolm hastily assembles the Greeters from his team of trusted engineers and scientists. The date of formation of the Greeters is debatable, for LL2(18) suggests that the Greeters had been given a transmission device as early as 1996.	TLF5; LL4(17)
1999Four was 4 years old during the Fall of Lorien. See LL1(1,23).	Quartermoon 	
*The Loric celebrate Quartermoon on Lorien.
**Sandor steals an Identity Band from Daxin, the Mentor Cêpan of Number Nine, so as to sneak into the The Chimæra to watch Devektra perform.
**Sandor ignores beeping security warnings from Daxin's Identity Band during the performance.
**Birth of Ella on Lorien.
*Fall of Lorien:
**The Mogadorians invade Lorien.
**A great war between the Loric and the Mogadorians result in the Loric's defeat and massacre by the Mogadorians, henceforth known as the First Great Expansion.
**The Lorien Defense Academy is razed to the ground, killing Daxin, Rapp and most of the Garde and Cêpan in it.
**Sandor picks up Number Nine and assumes the role of Mentor Cêpan of Number Nine, despite being untrained.
**The Elder Loridas bless the nine protected Garde in numerical order.
**A ship in an undamaged airstrip piloted by Janus carrying the nine Garde, their Cêpan and Hadley, depart Lorien and stay in orbit for a week to escape from the Mogadorians.
**A white rocket piloted by Lexa, carrying Cêpan Crayton, Zophie, newborn Garde Ella and at least 15 Chimæras, is launched from the Loric Museum of Exploration away from Lorien.	LL1(23), LL2(27), TLF5; TLF11
==Notes==
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