Timeline

A timeline for all the events that occurred prior to and during the campaign. Additional details on important events can be found on the linked event pages.

Figma timeline for longer timeline: https://www.figma.com/file/9Q3mUSqFZjIyf3dSlNiL2h/Timeline?node-id=0%3A1

## Pre-Campaign Events

* **1697:** Orc aggression increases drastically
* **1698:** Protectorate formed under Chancellor Oddleifus
* **1701:** Official war declaration by protectorate on Orcs
* **1706:** Bureau of Magic Defense (BMD) magic experimentation on POW's exposed
* **1707:** Chancellor Valdar Shahd ousts Chancellor Oddleifus
* **1709:** War ends in ceasefire after the battle at Silverhearth.
* **1711:** Versatile Vials, a Court of Owls shell company, is created
* **1713:** Eldon, Wildsper, and her partner Wallace Wainwright investigate Versatile Vials. Wainwright is killed during the investigation and Eldon leaves Sirex.
* **1714:** Sirex temporarily becomes an energetic hotspot
* **1718:** Ina disappears. Versatile Vials closes.
* **1724:** Present year

## A Mystery in Norbury

*See Norbury Mystery Recap for detailed summary*

* **Day 1:** The original party members (Soleste, Yazmin, Ivan, Grog, Eli, and Sarovar) arrive in Norbury and investigate Kippir's disappearance.
* **Day 3 - 4:** Eldon leaves Norbury. The party decides to head back to Sirex.

## To the Capital

Estimated traveling time: 1 month

* **Road to Esterfast:** The party rides from Norbury to Esterfast. They find that the Protectorate is attacking local Orc tribes and pretending it is self-defense.
* **Esterfast:** The party stays in Esterfast. There's a protest against the Protectorate government over lack of protection and representation.
* **Road to Oakheart (3 weeks):**
	+ The party goes through border control into Sirex at Ren's Fork. Yazmin is detained but escapes into Sirex and reunites with the paty.
	+ A metal panther appears and attacks the party. The party believes that Yazmin summoned the metal panther and interrogate her.
* **Oakheart:** Commodore Norrington calls the military to take Yazmin away. Grog receives medical attention. The party continues to Sirex.

## Events in Sirex

### Settling In

* **Yazmin**: is being "interrogated"; but the Shadh administration's covert ops division (represented by Vigilance) strikes a deal with her, providing amnesty under the condition that she track down her former employers under the Oddleifus administration
* **Sarovar**: infiltrates the high society social circles by posing as Chestington's nephew.
* **Ivan**: kills six people at the docks under the influence of the cursed sword.
* **Soleste, Grog, and Eli**: go to the Felm Institute hoping that they will be able to help Grog. An Elder Oblex has taken over the hospital and captures Grog and Soleste. Eli, Sarovar, Yazmin, and Detective Gil fight the Elder Oblex and manage to save the hospital victims.

### Uncovering the Court

* **Eli**: finds an abandoned Versatile Vials warehouse at the edge of the city, is almost assassinated, and decodes Ina's notes to find that an organization called the Court of Owls has been re-appropriating BMD resources.
* **Ivan**: gets an exorcism, finds his son Alexei, and joins the Court of Owls.
* **Sarovar**: is almost killed at the Panther Club talking to Dewey Fields.
* **Soleste**: confesses to Selasi that she has been having visions of Asmodeus and has her faith tested.
* **Grog**: falls in love with a nun at the Church of Dol Arrah
* **Yazmin**: is not having a good time.
* The party (minus Ivan, plus Franz) goes to the abandoned Versatile Vials warehouse, which turns out to be a Court of Owls training area. They fight through the dungeon and learn about the Court's beliefs and activities. They find and fail to defuse a bomb, resulting in a huge explosion that collapses the warehouse.
	+ Grog sacrifices himself to buy time for Soleste and Sarovar to escape.
	+ Soleste accepts Asmodeus's help in order to survive. She is presumed dead by rest of the party.
	+ The metal panther appears and attacks the party, but they manage to hold it off long enough for government griffins to arrive. Eli and Yazmin are brought into police custody.