Timeline

***(Spoiler alert for future books and unmentioned history.)***

This is a timeline meant to put the events that happened on Volki and in the *Claws of Light* books in chronological order.

If you're looking for detailed summaries of the books, go to their individual pages instead. This is just an overview of main events.

Overall, Volki has been colonized by wolves for 7,000 years.

*Headers in Italic mean mythological events that are thought to have happened.*

## The Old Continent

7,000 years ago, from an unknown land bridge connecting Misfortune Dunes and Ferocity together, many animals, including wolf packs, bears, and smaller animals, migrated there, due to unknown reasons and pressures. They began to settle in the territories most similar to theirs, continuing to hunt prey for their siblings and defending their dens from bears and foxes. 6,100 saw massive growth spurts in pack size and populations. 1,100 years later every piece of unclaimed land had been claimed by all the packs. Around this time, packs started to be divided by which territory they primarily occupied. These were: Sky Pack, Fire Pack, Ice Pack, Water Pack, and Nature Pack. It wouldn't be until close to a hundred years before the Battles of Defense before all the packs united would form the actual theoretical packs.

## The Volnega Period

The Volnega Period started around 5500 years ago *(Year 0000)*, and was a period recognized by drastic changes and improvements in technology, culture, language, and general knowledge. This period first started when Volnega of Ice Pack and Truptitsa of Fire Pack became the alphas of their respective packs. Even when the War of Devastation ended or when Volnega died of old age, it still continued. The Volnega Period ended when a monarchy was established in Fire Pack, and later spread to all the tribes.

The Volnega Period lasted for 800 years, starting at *year 0000* and ending 0*249.*

### War of Devastation

The War of Devastation happened when the borders of Ice Pack and Fire Pack were still not set. At the time, the fertile lands between the two packs was much smaller, and they both unofficially stole territory before a full-blown war was declared. Thousands of soldiers and innocent wolves died, and cities and towns were turned into rubble, later becoming ancient ruins. A landslide fell on a Fire Pack town and a flash flood flooded while a battle was going on, raising the death toll. Eventually, Truptitsa died due to illness, and a week after he died, Fire Pack surrendered. Volnega then used the opportunity to expand her borders farther east than where they were.

### Developing technology

One of the key characteristics of the Volnega Period is it's development in technology and behaviour, and it is similar to the Victorian Era. Many famous wolves were born during this time. Houses, accessories, and weapons began to improve, silver was discovered and made into both jewellery and weaponry, and art, plays, and music were immortalized. The Volnega Period is when the idea of a calender was created.

## Between the Volnega Period and the Battles of Defense

### Discovery of Iron and precious metals

Sky Pack discovered iron, around 3,300 years ago, in the mountains while they were going through a minor war. The Sky miners kept it a secret, and only spread the information to the royals, giving their pack a massive advantage. Iron was only discovered by other packs when Fire Pack looted one of their military camps and stole it. A hundred years later, various colourful metals were discovered by Sky Pack and Nature Pack while they were trying to find iron to trade with the rest of the packs. They were later called: Emerald, Gold, Ruby, and Sapphire. Iron is still used in modern Volki, mostly being made into armour and weapons, while the colourful metals would later be fashioned into decorations on various accessories.

## Battles of Defense

### Crowning of Princess Harpy

After Queen Alpaca died from old age and King Summit died from an unknown disease, Princess Harpy, the eldest of the sisters, took over the throne *(42 years ago)*. Her husband, Peak, a rich noble, became the king of Sky Pack due to this. Queen Harpy quickly become greedy for more gold and power, which prompted her to train a suspicious amount of soldiers.

### Invasion from Sky Pack

During early autumn, Queen Harpy's troops crossed the Unseeing Border and attacked Ice Pack, the latter eventually losing and surrending to Harpy. Sky Pack tried to invade Fire Pack a few months before, however, King Magma saw that Queen Harpy wanted nothing but power, and had prepared previously. After suffering a defeat, Queen Harpy convinced King Magma to make an alliance with her, with the promise they'll take over Volki together. The two packs from the west, Nature Pack and Water Pack, had also predicted that Queen Harpy would attack them later, and so they invaded Sky Pack first, trashing Oakkind Market, GreatPine City, and several other Sky towns and cities. This caused a war, of which was named 'Battles of Defense', named after how Nature and Water Pack need to defend themselves against Sky Pack, Fire Pack, and Ice Pack.

Shortly after, a storm started to churn, eventually becoming strong enough to destroy several cities, thousands of wolves, and last many decades.

### The Storm Prophecy

Thirty years later, after a group called Aurora Borealis was established by Knowing Hailstorm of Ice Pack, she created a prophecy with The Speaker that stated that thirty years after the war had started, five wolves known as 'Saviors', that were destined to kill Queen Harpy and end the Storm, will save Volki. Aurora Borealis sent a spy to Valley's Howl, and after they had located the secret hideout of Valley's Howl, they invaded them, kidnapping 6 wolves with them. These wolves would later be known as 'Guardians', who were supposed to take care of the Saviors. The Guardians would later be sent to their new home somewhere next to the Unseeing Border, along with a few 'Valley's Howl' soldiers, to make sure that they don't run away.

### The Saviors and Guardians

The Guardians would be: Blast, a Fire Pack shop keeper, Blizzard, an Ice Pack citizen, Dull, a loner, Mushroom, a Nature Pack craftswolf, Parrot, a Sky Pack general, and Seastar, a Water Pack Wolf Latin teacher. After they settled in their cave with reluctance, they went to go search for the pups needed for the prophecy.

Blizzard found Hailstone the quickest, and she found her at a fake sacrifice, made by Hailstorm to see to test something about them. Blizzard took Hailstone and scratched Hailstorm across the face, before the Aurora Borealis guards started to chase her. After a while, the guards got tired out surprisingly quickly, and she continued to bring Hailstone to the cave.

Blast found both Stone and Resource in Misfortune Dunes. He let Stone hide underneath the rocks of Mount Prickly, as he went to go get Resource. Blast found him in the middle of a circle of Fire soldiers, who were deciding what to with a lone pup, who's parents were traitors to Fire Pack. He quickly took Resource and fled. Once he got to Mount Prickly, he managed to scare the soldiers with a vulture flying overhead. He then brought both Stone and Resource to the cave.

Seastar found River the slowest, as he had to travel across the mountains, swim in Shelter Bay, and find River, only to go back the same way he came. He swam up to his sister's house, and after a bit of hesitance, he managed to convince her to give him his niece for the prophecy. That was the last time he saw his sister, as he swam away with one of her pups.

## Trivia

* Volkark does not have a word for 'timeline', only 'history'.
* The Volkian calender begins when the Volnega Period starts. Currently, the year is 5563.