Proposed Timeline of 'Uprooted'

This is an estimated **timeline** of all the events mentioned in the novel *Uprooted*.

As there were only brief, vague mentions of when events took place, the order of some events are estimated to make a believable, concrete timeline. The timeline is canon-compliant as far as it can be.

## Timeline

### Pre-series

* Before 1214
	+ The Valley is settled by the ancestors of the current human population.
* 1214
	+ The cornerstone of the church in Olshanka is engraved with the year. A logical assumption is that this is the date of completion.
* Before 1267
	+ Maria Olshankina is born
* 1267
	+ Maria Olshankina writes her book of spells, which is later discovered by Agnieszka in the Charovnikov.
* 1438
	+ Sarkan is born in the city of Varsha.
* Winter, 1441
	+ Sarkan, now an orphan, accidentally burns down the city of Varsha with magically summoned fire while trying to warm himself. It is unknown whether the city was destroyed by this.
	+ Sarkan is taken to Kralia to be trained as a wizard.
* 1472
	+ Countess Ludmila is born.
* 1489
	+ Countess Ludmila's first husband returns from Rosya, corrupted by the Wood. He is locked in the cellar and the court is told that he is ailing from a sickness of old age.
	+ Sarkan is seduced into trying to purge the corruption from the Count.
* 1491
	+ Sarkan visits the Valley to find a cure for the Count. The Raven, the witch responsible for holding back the Wood begs him to take her place but he refuses and leaves for Kralia.
	+ The Wood takes over Porosna. The Raven manages to fling a few children to the neighbouring town of Zatochek before being taken by the Wood as well.
	+ Sarkan returns to the Valley to hold back the Wood. Presumably, the first girl is taken this same year
	+ Countess Ludmila's first husband dies.
* 1494
	+ Countess Ludmila remarries a 'lesser duke'. This marriage results in three sons and a daughter.
* 22 October, 1531
	+ Jadwiga Bach is chosen by the Dragon
* 1541
	+ Jadwiga Bach leaves the Valley. She becomes a successful courtesan in Kralia, and even manages to become the mistress of a Baron and Duke.
* 1548
	+ Countess Ludmila dies at age seventy-six, a leading matron of the Kralian court.
* October 1573 - October 1574
	+ Eleven or more Dragon-born girls are born in the Valley
		- Agnieszka, born to Andrey and Galinda of Dvernik
		- Kasia, born to Wensa of Dvernik and her husband
		- Marta, born to Borys of Olshanka and his wife
		- At least eight more unnamed girls (accounting for infant mortality)
* Summer, 1581
	+ The Green Summer. The Wood makes an attempt to overwhelm the Valley.
		- Agnieszka finds a crop of blackberries, miraculously uncorrupted.
		- The Dragon razes all the fields in the Valley to rid it of any sign of corruption
* Winter (presumably), 1582
	+ Snow Mares from the Wood reach Dvernik
		- The Dvernik beacon is lit and the Dragon deals with the threat of the Wood
* 1586
	+ Kasia learns to make senkach from the baker in Smolnik in order to 'cook for a lord'
		- She has to walk two hours each way for the lessons
		- Her mother, Wensa, sold her lace wedding veil to pay for the lessons
* 22 October, 1581
	+ Agnieszka's predecessor is chosen by the Dragon at the Harvest Festival
* Summer, 1588
	+ The Wood swallows four houses at the edge of Dvernik
		- The Dvernik beacon is lit
		- The Dragon comes down from the Tower to push back the Wood
* 1589
	+ Trina, a friend of Agnieszka and Kasia, is corrupted by a 'silver-grey pollen' while doing laundry by the Spindle
		- The Dragon comes down from the Tower and purges her with a 'cold blue light'
		- A well is built near Trina's house by her father

### Series

* 1 October, 1591
	+ The Harvest Festival is held in Dvernik
		- The Dragon chooses Agnieszka out of the eleven Dragon-born girls present and takes her to the Tower
* late January 1592
	+ Midwinter Celebration
* two days later, late January or early February, 1592
	+ A rider delivers a message to the Dragon about a chimaera in the Yellow Marshes
		- The Dragon departs to deal with the threat
	+ The Dvernik beacon is lit, signaling an attack from the Wood
		- Agnieszka escapes the Tower and pushes back the Wood from Dvernik
		- Jerzy, a cowherder from Dvernik, is corrupted. Agnieszka doses him with stone-skin to suspend him in case a cure can be found for his corruption.

## References

1. ↑ Chapter 20: "Not long after the valley had been settled: the big corner-stone on Olshanka’s stone church, the oldest building in the valley, was engraved with the year 1214."
2. ↑ Chapter 20: "... then I looked at the inside of the front cover. In that same neat hand was written, Maria Olshankina, 1267." ... "This witch had lived in my valley more than three hundred years ago."
3. ↑ Chapter 1: "Tomorrow was the first of October, and the great feast would be held to show honor to our patron and lord. Tomorrow, the Dragon would come."
4. ↑ Chapter 4: "I was even able to settle into a kind of contentment, until the days rolled past and Midwinter came."
5. ↑ Chapter 4, two days after midwinter celebration: "I was still heavy-eyed and grieving, more awkward even than usual, two days later. That was when the rider came, an urgent scramble of hooves and a pounding on the gates."
6. ↑ Chapter 5: "And I had been taken not four months ago, and here I was already unrecognizable."