Character throughline
Charr
12 moments on the timeline, from The Coming of Humanity to The Icebrood Saga.
Appearances, in order
- 100 BE410 CC100 DR
Humans settle Ascalon and King Doric is crowned
Ascalon
Humans settle the high plains that become Ascalon, driving the charr north out of their lands, and Doric is crowned the first king of the Tyrian human kingdoms.
- 1 BE509 CC199 DR
Abaddon gifts magic to the races of Tyria
Central Tyria
In 1 BE the God of Water and Secrets, Abaddon, spreads the knowledge of magic to humans, charr, dwarves, tengu and all the sentient races, but the gift is given too freely.
- ~100 AE610 CC300 DRApproximate
The Bloodstones are scattered and the first Guild War begins
Central Tyria
The volcano Abaddon's Mouth erupts and flings four of the five Bloodstones across Tyria, one remaining at the Ring of Fire caldera; the human kingdoms raise rival guilds and go to war over the recovered shards of magic in the first of the Guild Wars.
- ~1067 AE1,577 CC1,267 DRApproximate
Saul D'Alessio founds the White Mantle after meeting the Mursaat
Kryta
An exiled Krytan gambler, Saul D'Alessio, is saved in the wilds by godlike beings (the Mursaat) and returns to found the White Mantle, whose followers rally a Kryta beset by the Charr and the human guilds.
- 1070 AE1,580 CC1,270 DR
The Searing devastates Ascalon
Ascalon
The Charr invasion culminates in the Searing, a rain of fire that scorches the kingdom of Ascalon to ash and abruptly ends the Third Guild War.
- 1078 AE1,588 CC1,278 DR
The Great Destroyer rises beneath the north
The Shiverpeaks · Far Shiverpeaks
Earthquakes herald the Great Destroyer as the Elder Fire Dragon stirs underground; the asura surface, the Charr fall into civil war, and the dwarves undergo their Transformation.
- 1080 AE1,590 CC1,280 DR
Ebonhawke is established
Ascalon
King Adelbern of Ascalon recalls the Ebon Vanguard, who found the Stronghold of Ebonhawke, a fortified human outpost that will outlast the kingdom itself.
- 1090 AE1,600 CC1,290 DR
The Foefire ends Ascalon
Ascalon
As the charr High Legions storm Ascalon City, King Adelbern unleashes the Foefire, a spell that destroys the city and binds its people as Ascalonian ghosts.
- 1112 AE1,622 CC1,312 DR
The charr raise the Black Citadel
Ascalon
The charr erect the Black Citadel over the ruins of Rin, the old Ascalonian capital, making the conquered land the heart of charr power in the region.
- 1116 AE1,626 CC1,316 DR
Kalla Scorchrazor leads the charr rebellion
Ascalon
Kalla Scorchrazor leads the charr in casting down the Flame Legion's shaman caste, breaking its grip on false gods and restoring charr females to their place on the battlefield.
- 1324 AE1,834 CC1,524 DR
The Claw of the Khan-Ur returns, opening peace talks
Ascalon
In the events of the novel Ghosts of Ascalon, the human adventurer Dougal Keane leads a mixed company to recover the charr's sacred Claw of the Khan-Ur from the ghost-haunted ruins of Ascalon City: the price the legions demand before they will agree to a truce.
- 1332 AE1,842 CC1,532 DR
A charr rally becomes the spark of civil war
Ascalon · Grothmar Valley
Imperator Bangar Ruinbringer hosts an All-Legion Rally in Grothmar Valley that turns into the opening move of a charr civil war, even as the Elder Dragon Jormag begins to stir again in the Far Shiverpeaks.