Official Timeline

The official timeline for the Sorrowverse will be completed by the end of 2023.

**This section is currently undergoing extensive evaluation for accuracy within the story’s canon and is not yet complete.**

**This timeline will show every event in the history of the Sorrowverse. Spoilers are abundant. Read with caution,**

## Genesis Phase

1663 - Valterius is born to a noble Dutch family.

1671 - Kara is born, the only sibling of Valterius and the only Duchess in their family.

1672 - Siblings shipped to new home. (Kara-6 months old and Val-8 years old) *\*Dutch-Franco War started in May.*

1686 - Adopter of siblings dies in accident. (Kara-15 years old, Val-22 years old, and Sonya-16 years old) Group attacked; Kara and Sonya hurt, Val fends off unscathed. Val bribes fisherman for passage, girls recover after 30 days. Girls have feedings, Val finds the group an escape to America. Val uses the rest of their money to bribe into a family. Sails on the *Jeffries* under names Peter, Elizabeth, and Mary. PA landing, head for Salem, Massachusetts. Arrive in Salem late 1686. Val applies for an apprenticeship, mainly due to his strength, and the girls become seamstresses.

1691 - Abilities start to manifest unexpectedly: Kara showed first, preventing a man from hitting her.

1692 - Sonya accidently explodes a campfire. Salem Witch Trials begin. All 3 bounce around to avoid persecution but ultimately ended up in Boston. (Kara-21 years old, Sonya-22 years old, and Val-29 years old)

1695 - (Kara-24, Sonya-25, and Val-32) Kara notices Val aging while the girls look 20 and perfect. Kara turns Val to prevent him from aging and dying. Val doesn't want it at first but accepts it in the end.

1699 - Rumors of pirate Captain Kidd, bringing "sick men" ashore. Sounds like the Vampyre infection, explains his success. Group moves to PA to avoid Pyrates after encounter with Creature.

1775 - All 3 worked around/in politics to keep track of Creature and news of further "sickness". Worked to use immortality to help create a great nation over time. REFERENCE VAL'S PAGE HERE

1776 - Heavily involved in the American Revolution; also used as an excuse to feed as well. Kara notes her combat prowess, as well as Sonya's.

1777 - The group meets Alice (18) and Krystal, "Catherine" at the time (16), both dying of Typhoid. Alice was in the late stages of the disease but still maintained Krystal using periwinkle and mycelium. The medicine prolonged their condition, but a decision was made from the group to convert them, saving their lives.

1778- Catherine and Alice struggle to find a healthy mindset in the wake of their powers developing. Core 3 question why Pyrates haven't shown abilities but Alice and Krystal did.

1798- Sonya and Kara contemplate leaving West, start allowing Val to train Alice to keep under control (powers came naturally) and honing Krystal's hormones/abilities

1811 - Sonya and Kara leave Val after another run-in with Creature, heading west along the fringes. Tried using animal blood but became sick shortly after. Went back to human blood out of necessity in the end. Krystal, meanwhile, using Kara's training to become assassin, righteous figure, and provider for family.

1859 - Girls go back to Philadelphia to find Val and the sisters. Benjamin Franklin contacts them via courier; went back to Salem after several attacks.

1861 - Val finds the girls, explains that he lived by hunting Pyrates, who had become a major problem. Vicente sisters helped. Civil War kicks off. Val tells the girls that Creature tracked him down, which led to a tough fight. Creature was now more man than beast and discussed taking his own slice of the country (instigated the Civil War). The Vicente sisters' powers were exposed during the fighting.

1862 - Construction of Aerael begins as a safe haven in case of Creature's success of his plan

1899 - Krystal "Catharine" acquires wealth from Andrew Carnegie

1912- Pyrate attack and messenger provides message that a "new empire" is coming and "profligates" must be "cleansed." First sign of a master plan from Creature, hadn't been sighted in decades. Political movements in Europe inspire Kara, Sonya, Krystal, to travel to Europe while Val and Alice work on Aerael and saving people (converting).

1914- World War I starts. Krystal sent home due to spat with Kara over feelings. Krystal continues to acquire wealth from Rockefeller after retreating to the States (providing for sister/city/Kara). Val and Alice ordered to start actively hunting for life-or-death cases for more conversions since city had been expanded in case army was needed to go up against Creature. Val running city while Alice working on fake blood. Sonya and Kara hunting Creature based on rumors, myth, and sudden political movements.

1918- No luck in finding Creature, but Sonya and Kara return to Aerael to be regarded as legends. Accidental, but serves a purpose.

1919- Sonya, Kara evaluate Aerael and decide to use civilians as workforce to create further expansion. predicted exponential growth, told Alice and Val to taper off and look for moral/ethical situations as well as those more dire. Kara takes reigns as leader.

1939- World War 2 breaks out, Vampyre doomsday expected. All 5 head to Europe to find creature and hunt Vampyre Nazis. Krystal assigned to politics due to monetary and manufacturing influence for war. Creates overseas connections and network.

1943- Hunt culminates in lead with message from Alice and Val in Dachau; had been touring various camps to find leadership. Alice finds out about fake blood research and Rascher experiments. Alice recommends "termination," guiding Kara toward conclusion. Affliction flashback events occur and the 4 escape.

1955- Kilkovf instigates Vietnam War to feed new troops; not known to Aerael and believed to be human-centric conflict.

1964- Word from Krystal's network reached Aerael exposing Schillinger and Kilkovf using Vietnam to test new combat tactics, war profits, and food. Kara, Sonya, and Krystal snuck in with 1964 offensive as Marines.

1965- Krystal's injury occurs: SEE KRYSTALS PAGE

1984- Jalix is born

1987- Gorbachev's "restructuring" of USSR business into private sector profits prompts suspicions of Schillinger and Kilkovf's involvement. Alice, Sonya, Kara get into Russia undercover to find rumored "Tranformation Company" (Shift Company)

1988- All 3 captured and imprisoned in supposedly shut-down Gulag. Kara forced to conceive and carry Schillinger's twins, etc. Alice cares for Kara in Russia due to PTSD while Sonya gets Violet back to U.S. and places her in monitored foster care. Directly stated that Ava and Anna (Raven and Violet) born on XX day.

1989- Kara returns home but issues new "rotations" directive, planned to give Kara time for recovery while others scour the globe for Schillinger. Val and Krystal swap and go to Russia, but overlap a little bit and have the "Vodka with Ice" story. Callsigns implemented due to increased need for long-distance comms.

1991- Desert storm begins and Kara uses it as an excuse to get "back into the hunt." Alice reluctantly agrees that she needs to resume normalcy, which unfortunately has become hunting and chasing Schillinger. Schillinger nowhere to be found, essentially a ghost, but tracked through Kilkovf as his movements and sales of Russian weapons are easier to follow.

1994- Krystal invests heavily in Microsoft and Apple, bringing in massive finances that are split between personal and city funding.

2000- Jalix graduates high school (USE JALIX PAGE)

2001- Jalix suffers through 9/11 and the tragedies that ensued. Use his page for college info. Krystal seeks to attend flight school, seeing the dangers of trusting commercial airlines.

2002- Jalix enlists as 11B, attends Ranger/Airborne (use his page). Assigned to 3rd bat 75th.

2003- Jalix distinguishes himself in Objective serpent and earns ARCOM, the eye of CIA and other agencies for potential recruitment.

2004- Sonya catches wind of Violet's abusive past, passes information on to Kara and has long talk with Alice. Violet adopted at 16 for both safekeeping and protection. Remains human, was told about Vampyres but since not in dire need, was not converted until old enough to consent. Mention stutter and reasoning, as well as kept in Counsel quarters for safeguarding/trauma protection. Jalix distinguishes himself during 2nd battle of fallujah (use page). Awarded first purple heart and BSM w/V.

2005- Eric and Tony brought on board (use their pages)

2007- Jalix attends OCS after interviews, use page. Violet converted at 19 after Kara's deliberation.

2008- Jalix applies for and passes SFAS as 1LT and assigned to 5th SFG, deployed to Afghanistan shortly thereafter with first ODA. Counsel baffled at silence in spite of GWOT, realizes how close they had gotten to Kilkovf/Schillinger before and had turned into proxy war to stay hidden. Concerns are addressed about larger scale implications of leaving them to their own devices during this time; no one has better leads and rotations are discontinued. Jared converted and brought to city December of '08.

2010- First fight and massive fight between Kara and Counsel after outburst against Krystal turned into huge argument in public. Counsel confronts Kara about change in personality, but family accepts changes as a result of being a huntress and from her past traumas (unspecified and only mentioned as tortured in Gulag). Kara reaffirms secret about Ava and Violet with Sonya and Alice. Discussion prompts dialogue on Violet. Jared "assigned" as friend and helps Violet move into residential quarters to enhance social skills.

2011- Kara and Sonya get in with a private military contractor to spend time in the Middle East, scouring for the source of Russian weapons the Taliban and Al-Qaeda are using. Work their way through Pyrate chain of command and find out Schillinger is now in U.S. Krystal's network and friends in armed forces confirm that there may be inside agents with USSOCOM and FBI from the Pyrates.

2013- Val begins to track down and eliminate Pyrate hierarchy within United States. Schillinger surfaces via paper trail picked up by Eric, but vague and locked behind walls. Raven mentioned, group shocked that he has a daughter; Kara and friends have to play cool and pass it off as irrelevant info. Krystal gifts Violet's "Love and Sorrow" painting to museum. Jalix begins working with ODA 3141 from 19th SFG in Rhode Island National Guard; starts more senior work with Syndicomp/lives in Boston.

## Affliction Phase

September 20, 2014- Affliction begins with Sonya and Kara embedded with 19th SFG to search and rescue Jalix (suspected to be the Pyrate mole considering the odd circumstances of their mission and his disappearance. Sonya injured but Jalix recovered. Raven invests into MayVax and both her and Schillinger are brought into spotlight.

September 21, 2014- Val and Alice sneak into conference hosted by Raven, confirm that she's still human, and steal Schillinger's data. Alice reveals that her smaller "booster shot" blood substitute is ready to roll out for those who need a pick-me-up rather than traditional weekly nutrition.

September 22, 2014- Sonya's condition is confirmed critical, suggested that she may have brain damage. Eric reveals Project Cerberus based on info found from Schillinger's data. Kara remains with Sonya at Walter Reed hospital, bumps into Jalix at bar.

September 23, 2014- Tony, Val, Alice, Krystal, Jared, Violet all depart for suspected locations that Schillinger would order strikes on and release his virus. Kara angry, but in the absence of being able to pursue any one group of friends, is encouraged to take time to herself. Meets with Jalix and has first date.

November 1, 2014- Val and Tony discover a hard drive being transported to a data company in New York. Hard drive is intercepted and Tony and Val narrowly escape law enforcement to bring the drive back to Aerael.

November 15th, 2014- Jalix attends the last funeral for the service members killed under the command of his replacement. (ODA 3141). Kara visits Walter Reed hospital and major brain damage along with amnesia is revealed in Sonya. Jalix and Kara get into argument, leaving the hospital separately. Kara addresses a town hall meeting, quelling the gossip surrounding Sonya and the Pyrates and reaffirms her position as leader. Kara calls Jalix and apologizes.

December 23rd, 2014- Alice and Krystal visit the clinic of a doctor in Miami suspected of working for Schillinger and Shift Company. After revealing that the doctor is holding canisters of the contagious variant of the Vampyre Virus, Krystal kills the doctor and Alice sets the building on fire, leaving no traces of the existence of the clinic. After narrowly avoiding law enforcement, the pair get tacos. Krystal purchases tickets for Alice to spend time with Kara out of concern while she remains in Miami to detox and rehabilitate her morphine addiction.

February 23, 2015- Jared and Violet are prepared to leave Los Angeles, having no word of a credible threat before being contacted by Eric. Eric confirms that a low-risk warehouse had recent activity, and the pair could travel home after investigating. Both Violet and Jared were caught by Schillinger, who was using the warehouse to manufacture missile launcher components to be used in dispersing the virus. Kara, being only a few miles away with Jalix, receives a text from Violet that they are in imminent danger and Kara obliterates the warehouse, the Pyrates within, and Schillinger escapes. An injured Jared and Violet are recovered and sent back to Aerael.

March 8, 2015- Krystal returns to Aerael after several attempts at discontinuing her drug abuse. Jalix has interview with Raven and convinces her to donate significant sums of money and vaccinations to Africa out of charity. Kara and Krystal discuss the sexual tension between them and Kara solidifies her position as Jalix's soulmate. Krystal is disappointed, but believes that further efforts may merit Jalix being scared away by their lifestyle. Eric finishes decrypting hard drive acquired by Val and Tony in New York, revealing part of a plan Schillinger was executing to spread the Vampyre Virus in Washington, D.C. With no time to spare, everyone but Violet and Jared move with haste and disrupt the plan. The staging area and dozens of Pyrates are killed in the process, with Kara chasing after Kilkovf (leading the mission himself) and Krystal following after Kara. Krystal, injured, visits an old friend (Rachel) to purchase drugs to help with her pain. The two argue and leave on poor terms. Krystal continues her chase and follows Kara back to Boston.

March 9, 2015- Kara intercepts a former escort - Kilkovf’s girlfriend - who knows nothing of him or his Vampyrism. Now having an innocent hostage, Kara reassures the woman no harm will come to her and blackmails Kilkovf into leaving Schillinger's side. Before she move to kill Schillinger at the Raven HQ, Krystal shows up and kills the girlfriend out of fear that she would expose them to humans. Kara is disgusted with Krystal for the needless loss of life and leaves her behind, creating an insurmountable tension and significant anger in Krystal. Kara tries to use explosives provided by Krystal at the hotel to blow up the Raven HQ, but is stopped by Schillinger before he threatens Jalix's life. Schillinger is allowed to leave in exchange to Jalix's life, having his security eliminated via Alice and Val's daring rescue. After deliberation, Kara agrees to convert Jalix to maintain his safety. Kara has an inability to express this to Jalix and the two end the evening without the discussing being had. Sonya is told her entire backstory and history by Violet at the command of Alice, who believed Sonya may be ready to return to Aerael after some additional recovery.

## Sorrow Phase

March 9, 2015- Jalix is promoted to CFO of Syndicomp via majority board vote due to predecessor stepping down. Kilkovf attempts to murder Jalix via hit-and-run, but is unsuccessful and flees scene. Jalix conducts interview with Raven and Schillinger regarding their company, Raven Biopharmeceuticals, acquiring MayVax. As Jalix attempts to leave, Kilkovf tries to finish the job. Kara and Val protect Jalix, driving him to Aerael while drugged to unconsciousness.

March 17, 2015- Jalix awakens after being unconscious for a week. Jalix meets Violet while Val and Kara explain how and why she converted him. Jalix struggles with the concept of being a Vampyre, but is shown the city, meeting its influential figures and a majority of Kara’s Counsel. Kara gets into a fight with Krystal at Archangel, prevailing while managing to embarrass Krystal in front of Jalix. While still making her best effort to convince Jalix that he’s now safer because of her decision, she and Tony stop a husband and wife couple from publicly shooting the citizens of Aerael. After an interrogation of the survivor, the husband, he describes his own life as someone else’s and exposes Raven as the mastermind behind the attempted attack. Jalix, reeling from shock that he had been involved with the Vampyre War for several months by unknowingly funding the enemy, struggles with his own emotions while Kara orders that Aerael be emptied in case there would be another attack. Krystal silently leaves the city, who should have remained as a member of the Counsel, but Kara pursues her after proposing to Jalix. Kara fights with Krystal over her antics and inappropriate behavior while Jalix celebrates his engagement with Val and several members of the city who volunteered to stay behind. In a drunken haze, Jalix sets up an elaborate plan to disguise Alice and Val as investors while Jalix uses his job as leverage to tour what Raven Biopharmaceuticals is working on, searching for anything that could have caused the brainwashing-like effects the city’s attacker had suffered.

March 18, 2015- Jalix attends the laboratory tour with Kara, Alice, and Val, finally experiencing and enjoying the full range of physical enhancements that the Vampyre Virus brings. Delighted to see that he holds no ill will against her despite the forced change, she is quickly disheartened to see Schillinger awaiting the group alongside his daughter. Raven allows Alice and Jalix to see the inner workings of the facility while Kara and Val are engaged directly by Schillinger in a private conversation away from their respective partners. While Kara and Val make an unsuccessful attempt to dissuade him from his mission, Alice and Jalix are shown Project Catalyst: a two-part experiment designed to keep Schillinger’s army in power and invulnerable to fatal injury. While the first part is a strain of the Vampyre Virus that can reanimate dead cells, the second is a device that can read and write the memories and experiences of an individual into someone else’s brain. This discovery is discussed with Krystal and Violet after the group leaves the facility. Knowing the weight of what he had just seen, Jalix vows to remain in Aerael permanently an join their war after some time alone to pack his belongings and settle his affairs. On the drive back to his apartment, Jalix is struck by a vehicle once again, abducted by Pyrates working as mercenaries for Shift Company.

March 21, 2015-