Timothy Wimbledon/Chronology

## Chronology

Sometime after the meritocracy given by the fake Wimbledon III, it was confirmed that Timothy sent "Groundhog" to Border Town, in order to spy on Roland. He was captured not by Roland or his officials, but his citizens, who was enticed by the 25 silver royal bounties of possible spies. It was unknown whether Timothy has sent any more spies before he became king.

Timothy tricked Gerald into his trap, making the latter look like a traitor who killed Wimbledon III for the throne. After executing Gerald, Timothy claimed the throne and the name Wimbledon IV. He gave the announcement to recall the rest of his siblings.

He started witch hunting being sure only witch could make his father kill himself despite Stone's protection. At the royal assembly he criticized Langley for capturing innocent women and their cruel treatment in prison. He dictated that his chief witch hunter was required to verify if an accused woman was a witch before interrogation could begin. Any disobedience to the royal decree would warrant the offender being thrown into the moat from the wall, likely with weight attached. He asked Lauren Moore to pay compensations to any and all harmed women or their families. News that none of his siblings had returned displeased him greatly. He had counted upon at least Tilly, and her superior intelligence, being the one sibling that would have returned. The news of Roland's decision to stay in Border Town Timothy viewed as his another stupidity. As for Garcia, her lack of response he considered direct refusal and asked premier minister to send orders to the Duke of Southern Region to capture her. At this moment "The Frostwind Knight" Naim Moor delivered news of duke's defeat and Garcia's declaring herself the Queen of Clearwater.

Following this, Timothy and Garcia entered into a series of conflicts, eventually resulting in the frequent use of the Pill of Madness to supplement depleting manpower. Whilst Timothy initially suffered several setbacks against Garcia, he finally managed to push her back after suppressing several revolts and mustering his power. This led to the burning of Clearwater City and Garcia's flight from the Kingdom. The conflict between the two led to vast amounts of refugees as many of the Eastern and Southern territories had been left in ruins, with most population centers razed by the end of the fighting. Garcia's extensive raiding along the coastline following her flight only furthered the damage.

Following his victory over Garcia, Timothy spends much of his time consolidating power. He makes several overtures to Roland to surrender himself, yet is noted to not have the intent to kill him so long as he surrenders himself. Though, after the defeat of the Duke and his brother's ignoring of his generous mercy, Timothy makes several efforts to finish his brother once and for all.

By this point, Timothy has deeply ingrained the use of berserk soldiers induced by the Pill of Madness to fight for him. This was doubly to reduce the burden of refugees brought about by his and Garcia's conflict, and to avoid expending precious manpower and knights. Timothy strongly believed that a force of several thousand maddened soldiers would be more than enough to eliminate Roland's fighting force. Thus, he was all the more surprised when the force was completely annihilated by his previously incompetent brother. This led to Timothy growing partially paranoid over Roland's sudden development.

After a period of time consolidating his throne and stabilizing the seat of his power, Timothy eventually devised a plan to slowly drain Roland's fighting power through the use of more maddened soldiers. His plan was meant to dispatch a strong force of refugees under the control of knights to bypass Longsong Stronghold and directly attack Roland's seat of power in waves via the waterway. When this force was obliterated by the overwhelming power of Roland's First Army, Roland allowed survivors to return and spread the word of their defeat and a looming attack by Roland. Timothy largely dismissed the latter threat and focused on the idea of Roland's new weapons that allowed him to destroy the fleet he had dispatched.

Around this time, the secret of blackpowder made its way into Timothy's possession, leading him to believe that this weapon was what led to Roland's string of victories. This all the more frustrated Timothy as his city's blacksmiths were unable to produce effective models of the weapon and he frequently lamented over the weapon's dangers and inefficiency. Yet, convinced that this technology was what gave Roland such an edge in warfare, Timothy wisely invested into blackpowder technology and forced the Alchemist Guild to continue and expand producing and research into blackpowder and its uses.

Timothy's confidence was dealt a near fatal blow, however, as Roland's threat to attack the heart of King's City came to fruition with the destruction of King City's dome. Whilst Timothy's investigation eventually led to the discovery Roland had means to attack from the air, he was left in the dark as to how his brother had achieved this as well as how his brother had such destructive weaponry at his disposal. This attack firmly led to Timothy believing his brother had sold his soul to the demons in exchange for their aid in destroying the Kingdom, and this reasoning was supported by Roland's employment and open support of Witches.

Seeing that a direct confrontation was unwise until he had managed to close the technological gap between himself and Roland, Timothy devised a tactic of attrition with his younger brother. He dispatched a force of raiders and pirates to blockade the Western region from imports in order to cripple their highly import-dependent economy and quite literally starve them into submission. This tactic would, in all hindsight, hasten his downfall as Roland would expedite his plans to topple Timothy upon the realization of his brother's ploy via his intelligence network.

Timothy made plans to muster his full forces and destroy his brother when he was fully prepared, however, Roland would attack during the middle of the planting season. This would catch Timothy nearly defenseless as his blockading forces were annihilated and most of his soldiers were disbanded to sow the harvest. As Roland's economical structure let the First Army be independent of the harvest, he was able to strike Timothy when his defenses were at their lowest.

King's City had critically few defenders to sustain a siege against Roland's highly advanced weaponry. Whilst Timothy showed remarkable ingenuity with the use of blackpowder warfare and booby traps, including the use of landmines which reflected his great intelligence and cunning, Roland's use of vastly more modern weaponry and employment of witches completely negated Timothy's efforts. A critical strike from the air breached the castle walls less than a full hour into the siege, and the castle itself fell within less than a day.

Whilst Timothy managed to temporarily escape, planning to conspire with the Church to bring Roland to ruin, Roland's use of witches allowed him to locate Timothy before the latter could escape and imprison him.

Roland would go on to imprison Timothy in the very cell that Timothy had imprisoned Roland in all those years ago. The realization that he had been defeated and Roland's extreme and dramatic changes led him to accuse Roland of selling his soul to the devil until the very end. Whilst Timothy had made very logical arguments and had access to rare information that would have normally saved his life until he could formulate an escape, Roland's vastly superior information network had already uncovered more information than Timothy due greatly in part due to the discovery of the ancient witch Agatha.

Timothy broke down greatly as his pride and ambition, which had largely allowed him to withstand the shock and stress of rulership, and he is depicted in desperation in his final moments.

It is largely considered 'fan-canon' that Timothy wept sorrowfully as he was executed by hanging before the gathered crowds of King's City for his many crimes against humanity by his brother Roland.

## References

1. ↑ Chapters 45 and 46
2. ↑ Chapter 54
3. ↑ Chapter 72