Jorstadt's Journals

**Jorstadt's Journals** is an Expanded Universe project principally focused around the character Jorstadt the Owl and his adventures throughout the Northern Realms and beyond. It was created as a standalone universe both to establish a timeline reflecting the creator's preferred choices for the *Witcher* world, and as an example for other users to model their own Expanded Universe projects from. Its focus is on characters who live their whole lives on the Continent and its surrounding lands and isles, sometimes swept up in the repercussions of decisions made in the books or games.

This Expanded Universe primarily follows the canon established by Andrzej Sapkowski's original books and CD Projekt Red's games, ignoring the canon of Netflix's *Witcher* TV series. This extends to canon established by spin-off media from CDPR affiliates such as *Monster Slayer*, *Thronebreaker*, and R. Talsorian Games' {*The Witcher Role-Playing Game*. This does not extend, however, to all details from the *Witcher* comics produced by Dark Horse, nor non-canon writings by Sapkowski such as the short story *Something Ends, Something Begins*.

All articles included in Jorstadt's Journals use the Jorstadt's Journals template below the Writer template to mark their inclusion, and are categorized as such. A list of all included pages can be found here on said category page. Other articles might be referenced by pages included in Jorstadt's Journals, but are not themselves exclusive to the project, such as species like the Bluebeard.

Jorstadt's Journals is open to collaboration, but all contributions must be approved by the project's creator, User:Ahalosniper. This may include articles by other authors created entirely within Jorstadt's Journals, or characters from other Expanded Universe projects making appearances in stories or articles without those characters' entire story being canon to Jorstadt's Journals.

## Timeline

Since the CDPR games include potentially world-altering decisions the player can make as Geralt of Rivia, the Jorstadt's Journals timeline opts to follow a canon in which certain specified decisions were made. Not every possible choice has been decided, and those not specified will remain largely untouched or interacted with until such time as a potential choice would effect a story or character biography in Jorstadt's journals, at which point it will be updated. Also given are details such as inferred dates for specific events in the *Witcher* canon universe that haven't been tied down with a specific date as yet, such as the fall of Kaer y Seren sometime in the 1170s.

### Established Details

* 1110s
	+ An unnamed witcher visits Dol Tirthana and explores its elven ruins, rescues a young Vesemir, breaks the curse of a liho, and saves the village of Darach Dearg from a Frightener.
* 1170s
	+ The witcher School of the Griffin is destroyed by mages at an unspecified date.
* 1272
	+ Cerys an Craite is crowned the first Queen of Skellige.
	+ Ciri gives up the witchering life to eventually take up the crown as Empress of Nilfgaard.
* 1275
	+ The Crimson Curse is enacted in Toussaint by Dettlaff van der Eretein, in turn setting off magical phenomena prophesied in other parts of the world, including Skellige.

### References

1. ↑ This is inferred from the R. Talsorian Games supplement *A Witcher's Journal*, where the Griffin grandmaster Erland of Larvik records the end of the Golden Age of Witchers occurred in the late 1160s, earlier than his writing of the account.