Character throughline

Aurene

9 moments on the timeline — from Heart of Thorns to Secrets of the Obscure.

Appearances, in order

  1. 1329 AE1,839 CC1,529 DRFirm date

    Aurene, Glint's second scion, is born

    The Maguuma Jungle · Tarir

    Glint's last egg hatches in the Inner Chamber of Tarir into Aurene, a young dragon who bonds at once with the Commander as her champion.

  2. 1330 AE1,840 CC1,530 DRFirm date

    The fallen God of War burns the Crystal Desert

    The Crystal Desert · Crystal Desert

    Stripped of divinity and escaped from the Mists, Balthazar raises a Forged army across the Crystal Desert and Elona to gather power to slay the Elder Dragons, until Dragon’s Watch and the dragon Aurene destroy him.

  3. 1330 AE–1331 AE1,530–1,531 DR1,840–1,841 CCFirm date

    Palawa Joko’s war on Tyria ends in his jaws

    Elona

    The undead lich-king of Elona declares war on Central Tyria, but after his Scarab Plague gambit unravels he is devoured by the dragon Aurene in 1331 AE.

  4. 1331 AE1,841 CC1,531 DRFirm date

    The Crystal Dragon rampages through the Mists

    The Mists

    Maddened and bloated with stolen magic, Kralkatorrik tears into the Mists, and the spirit of his former scion Glint rallies an army of spirits to resist him.

  5. 1332 AE1,842 CC1,532 DRFirm date

    Kralkatorrik falls and Aurene rises as an Elder Dragon

    The Mists · Dragonfall

    After ravaging the Mists, the Elder Crystal Dragon Kralkatorrik is slain, and his granddaughter Aurene ascends as the Elder Dragon of Crystal and Light.

  6. 1334 AE1,844 CC1,534 DRFirm date

    Fire and ice annihilate one another

    The Shiverpeaks · Shiverpeak Mountains

    In the Dragonstorm, the Elder Dragons Primordus and Jormag destroy each other, and the immense magic released by their deaths flows south across Tyria.

  7. 1335 AE (1845 CC)1,845 CC1,535 DRFirm date

    Soo-Won is corrupted at Dragon's End

    Cantha · Dragon's End

    The Deep Sea Dragon Soo-Won — the One Elder Dragon and mother of the rest — is freed and begins to corrupt from Void magic, threatening a catastrophe should she die with that corruption unextracted.

  8. 1335 AE (1845 CC)1,845 CC1,535 DRFirm date

    Soo-Won falls and the Elder Dragon cycle ends

    Cantha · Dragon's End

    Lured to the Harvest Temple, the Void-corrupted Soo-Won is drained of her corruption and slain; Aurene absorbs the last of her power, ending the Elder Dragon cycle and becoming the sole conduit of Tyria's magic.

  9. 1336 AE1,846 CC1,536 DRFirm date

    Aurene becomes the world's conduit for magic

    Central Tyria

    With the Elder Dragon cycle ended, Aurene departs to take her place as the conduit for the magical balance of the world, succeeding the fallen Elder Dragons as the anchor that holds Tyria's magic in equilibrium.

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