IC Timeline

**IMPORTANT NOTE:**

*This is a general timeline of In Character events on the server. Events are noted if it's reasonable to think that any commoner NPC would have heard of them and would gossip about them, i.e. what your character could find out at the local tavern. Please try to use the past tense, not the present tense; for the NPCs who are gossiping about these, these events are long past, not on-going.*

*If in doubt, do not be too specific; don't worry too much about specific dates or the names of any characters involved, details should be found out In Character.*

## 777 (RL 2022)

**January**

**Barovia:** Aldous Hargreaves' body was left outside Castle Ravenloft with a notice stating it was an example of those who defy the will of Count Strahd von Zarovich XI.

**March**

**Barovia:** The Southern Balinoks around the village of Krofburg become insufferably cold after an excavation of the Mordentshire Cartographic Society led to increased tremors in the region. Over the next few months with normalcy returning in June after rumors spread of a demonic cult attempting to usher in an 'Eternal Winter' in Barovia.

### May

**Dementlieu:** The career of the de Bellavance sisters was brought to a close when the elder sister was executed, and the younger sister brought down at the execution by an elven woman in red and black.

### July

**Hazlan:** On the night of July 24th 777 the city of Ramulai was raided by a platoon of undead soldiers lead by the death knight Kaazimir Dvornikov. Additionally the Red Academy was assaulted resulting in the death of many Rashemi guardsmen and Mulani academy students. It was announced by Mentalos that he alone trapped Kaazimir and destroyed the small force. Though the details of Kaazimirs escape are mysterious...

**Barovia:** The Brotherhood of the Whip and the Black Duke become active, beginning a reign of chaos and low-level war amongst the various domains, the hardest affected seems to be Barovia.

### December

**Dementlieu:** On the 10th of December, Sieur Regnier Chaboteaux, Councillor of Culture, is wed to the young Geneviève Ambroiseux within the D'Honaire Estate. The celebration is attended by many, yet the reception is brief and stiff. Both the bride and groom abscond promptly.

Baudouin de Courcillon is elected to the position of Captaincy for the Silent Fields expedition.

## 778 (RL 2023)

### January

**Barovia:** The Black Duke after a ritual by the efforts of the Wayfarer Kinship, Christian Orders, Archondum, and various other groups and individuals is fought and sealed. The Brotherhood of the Whip effectively goes into hiding.

**Barovia:** The first official sightings of "Onyx", a large spider-like creature near Degannwy, however earlier sightings are likely.

**(778) Vallaki Riots**: On the morning of January 3rd, a Barovian mob pooled into the western outskirts of Vallaki. Torches and pitchfork wielding peasants demanded the Vallaki Garda remove all outlanders. Unclear who struck the first blow, the enraged mob of twenty-odd people fruitlessly clashed with the Garda and nearly all of the peasantry were slain, while the rest were hanged.

**Richemulot:** The Silent Fields campaign took place over about two weeks and a half. Dementlieuse and Borcan forces engage Falkovnian soldiers and their mercenary proxies. Rumours spread of devastating battles, and ultimately the might of Dementlieuse quality and artillery triumphing over Falkovnian quantity and shady arcane engineering. The Borcan Consul, the Baronessa di Falsonno Roxana Barozzi, is slain in a final act of treachery by Captain Voiculet, leader of the Bitter Flame mercenary company. The two allied nations suffer heavy casualties, and though victorious, their march home is marked by an exhausted and battered silence.

### February

**Dementlieu:** The murderous axeman Daidriann Valstahd, in a bid to intimidate the nobility into supporting his personal campaign against Falkovnia, invaded the Governor's Hotel and massacred several members of the nobility as well as the Falkovnian ambassador with bodies impaled out in the Publique as a means of antagonising the state, the events that became known as the Penthouse Massacre. A few days later, during the execution of Sacha Frelon, he and his supporters attacked the Quartier Savant, killing over half-a-dozen Gendarmes and numerous gentry, eventually being driven off by a squadron of mounted cavalrymen who took to the streets. A cannon malfunctioned and exploded behind the Opera House as it oversaw the execution site, killing four Gendarmes and one of Valstahd's co-conspirators.

### March

**Dementlieu:** Daidriann Valstahd's reign of terror over the Eastern half of Port-a-Lucine was ended, slain in combat. His soul weapon, Eclipsis Finalis, is disposed of through an arcane ritual which unbinds all the souls within, and releases Valstahd from knighthood in death.

**Barovia:** "Onyx" was slain, however a mutated Blight was released, aided by a traitor, infecting some adventurers.

### April

**Dementlieu:** After only a brief lull following Valstahd's death, a spree of killings began throughout the city, once more shattering its fragile peace.

### May

**Barovia:** The traitor who released the spore, Avalan, was defeated and destroyed. Most of those affected by the Spore were cured.

**Dementlieu:** The arsonist known as "la Flambeuse" claims responsibility for a number of the deaths about the city, though many murders do not fit her pattern. Some people start calling the season "Bloody Summer".

### June

**Dementlieu:** La Flambeuse's short reign of destruction was brought to a swift and violent end alongside that of the rogue Roderick Blacksdale. Their deaths do little to change the status quo in Dementlieu, however.

### August

**Barovia:** Valentin von Zarovich started hunting the rebel Gundarakites; to try and force their submission, he held several Gundarakite children hostage, killing one. Despite -- or more accurately, because of -- his actions, discontent spreads across the land, shocked and dismayed by the harm done to children.

### September

**Barovia:** A convoy of von Zarovich troops was ambushed and assaulted as it left Vallaki. Subsequently, the Wayfarer Kinship house in Vallaki is assaulted and burned down by a Barovian mob of peasants and garda. The Wayfarer Kinship are exiled and banished forevermore from Barovia.