Character throughline

King Doric

6 moments on the timeline — from The Coming of Humanity to Reign of Humans.

Appearances, in order

  1. 100 BE410 CC100 DRFirm date

    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.

  2. 1 BE509 CC199 DRFirm date

    King Doric pleads with the gods at Arah

    Orr · Arah, Orr

    King Doric, ruler of the united human tribes, makes the long trek to Arah, the city of the gods on the Orrian peninsula, and begs the Six to end the wars and take back their gift of magic.

  3. 1 BE509 CC199 DRFirm date

    The gods seal magic in the Bloodstones

    Ring of Fire Islands

    Answering Doric, the gods gather magic back into a single great stone, shatter it into five pieces sealed with the king's blood, and cast them into the volcano Abaddon's Mouth on the Ring of Fire.

  4. ~0 AE510 CC200 DRContested

    King Doric dies; his line guards the Bloodstones

    Central Tyria

    King Doric dies around the time of the Exodus; the Historical Monument of King's Watch, written on the 95th day of 1 AE, records his death, and his descendants — all modern Tyrian royalty — inherit the charge of guarding the Bloodstones.

  5. 1 AE511 CC201 DRFirm date

    King's Watch is founded

    Ascalon

    King's Watch is established in the first year After the Exodus; its Historical Monument, inscribed on the 95th day of 1 AE, records the death of King Doric.

  6. ~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.

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