Recent Timeline

WIP. Unlike the canonical timeline, this is the main timeline from 1272 and the end of W3, to the modern day anchor year of 1322 in the RP.

## Between 1255 and 1260

* After repeated failures in contracts, namely destroying a cabal of vampires, frustration and anti-witcher sentiment towards the Bear witchers grew amongst the people in neighboring provinces and they broke into several riots. Not particularly attached to their keep nor eager to pointlessly die in defending it, the Bears abandoned Haern Cadvch, which endured severe disrepair over the years due to the harsh winters and elements.

## 1264 - 1265 (Winter)

* The Griffin School, Kaer Seren, was buried in an avalanche during the winter, killing several of their witchers and severely damaging their keep. It was magically induced, the Griffons attacked by irate mages hellbent on revenge after being refused access to the Witcher’s extensive library of books on magic.

## 1272 (Events of W3)

* Yennefer subjected Uma to one of the stages of the Witcher Trial of the Grasses to lift his curse, reconfiguring impure transformative grasses and elixir concoctions.
* The Wild Hunt is defeated.
* Ciri stops the apocalyptic White Frost from consuming the world and manages to close the second Conjunction of Spheres, prematurely ending it, but not before numerous new monsters, creatures, and a few races are released into the world.
* Nilfgaard wins the war and conquers the North after Radovid V’s assassination, and Emperor Emhyr makes a deal and restores the country of Temeria, making it a vassal state of Nilfgaard.
* Ciri leaves for Nilfgaard to go under the tutelage of her biological father and the court in order to prepare herself to assume leadership in the future.

## 1273

* While the war has ended and there is relative peace, there is an enormous influx of monster attacks and it is quickly apparent to many that the dwindling number of Witchers remaining is not enough to handle them.
* After some discussion, a small few decide that new Witchers will soon become necessary and Yennefer preemptively sets out to find suitable and trustworthy mage candidates to work with her on purifying and perfecting the alchemical and mutagenic concoctions and processes in creating Witchers. She has the base, but there is plenty more work to be done.
* She first seeks out the famed mage inventor and world-traveler Calder of Oxenfurt, convincing him to leave Ofir and joining the cause, entertaining his curiosity and intellect.
* Eager to prove herself and assist the cause, the half-elf sorceress Éibhleann Ó Súileabháin answers Yennefer's call.
* Despite reservations from a few, namely Geralt and Yennefer, it is decided that the sorceress Keira Metz will help with the process due to her experience and expertise after curing the Catriona Plague.

## 1273 - 1281

* Ciri continues training extensively to become a suitable Empress, preparing to take over when Emperor Emhyr either steps down or dies.
* The small handful of mages gathered work on how to once again create Witchers and conduct further experiments on the matter. The Wolves and Griffins both agree on aiding them when needed and offer their services.
* Knowing that Ciri intends to have as many Witchers and subsequent schools as needed, Geralt and Botolfe succeed in contacting Marik, a now-wandering mercenary who was part of the Bear School before its abandonment, and convince him to serve as the head of the Bear School for when their new Witchers are created. Marik agrees and returns to Haern Cadvch to begin preparations.

## 1282

* Emhyr steps down and Ciri becomes Empress.
* With the Trial of the Grasses perfected, newly appointed Empress Ciri funds the Witcher project, providing financial aid and resources towards repairing the Witcher strongholds and recruiting new Witchers. Ciri pushes for not only recruitment, but also ethics, decreeing that while the Witcher Trials are of course necessary, past acts of barbarism to train young recruits will not be tolerated.
* The first new generation of Witchers are created, with the Wolf, Griffin, and Bear Schools being the participants. The first newly created Witchers include Uadrik of the Bear School and Niamh of the Griffin School, the first ever successful attempt at creating a female Witcher.

## 1287

* After years of fervent arguing and making the case of necessity of a predominately nonhuman (elven) Witcher caste, mage advisor Éibhleann convinces the powers that be to rebuild the Cat School. The first intended Cat Witchers are made and trained at Kaer Morhen and/or Kaer Seren while Kaer Kotka is undergoing construction.

## 1290

* Kaer Kotka reaches suitable stages of construction for the Cat Witchers to inhabit the keep and make their own. As all old Cat Witchers are either dead or crazed and unsuitable, Éibhleann heads the school, with willing ‘outside’ Witchers paid to train them.

## 1303

* Empress Ciri starts to show signs of weariness and lethargy beyond normal for her age. The matter is looked into but nothing conclusive is found and it is passed off as the result of her Royal duties.

## 1306

* Nilfgaard receives and delivers among its ruling society that the same symptoms Ciri has been displaying have been affecting many across the land, and now seem to have evolved into numerous suffers developing sores and fevers. An investigation is once more launched into the mysterious illness, but nothing is found as to a linking factor.

## 1311

* Nilfgaard is thrown further into panic when it is reported that not only are people of a normal disposition suffering from this illness, dubbed 'The Grey Death' for its causing of its victims' skin to go pale, but also mages are reported to be suffering, a feat many would have thought impossible with their sorceries to protect themselves from illness. A Continent-wide epidemic is declared.

## 1322

* Ciri is close to death and steps down as the Empress of Nilfgaard, with her predecessor named as Jaestus Vorrhis, son of the late Morvran Voorhis, Nilfgaard's Second-In-Command and Ciri's most trusted advisor.
* **[Unknown as of now]** An up-and-coming young sorceress, Selena Ó Súileabháin, discovers witchers, too, are contracting the Grey Death, despite their immunity to disease. She is currently preparing a presentation to present her startling findings to boards and propose a theory.