Character throughline

Seers

6 moments on the timeline — from Age of Beasts to Visions of Eternity.

Appearances, in order

  1. UndatedContested

    Five elder races ally against the Elder Dragons

    Central Tyria

    As the Elder Dragons awoke and began consuming the world, the five elder races — dwarves, Forgotten, jotun, mursaat, and Seers — set aside their differences, formed an alliance, and shared their hoarded magic with one another.

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    The assault on Zhaitan fails; the mursaat feel betrayed

    Central Tyria

    The mursaat and Forgotten throw armies of jade constructs and enchanted armors against the Elder Dragon Zhaitan, but the Seers withdraw their forces to forge magic-storing artifacts instead. The attack fails with heavy mursaat and Forgotten casualties.

  3. UndatedContested

    The Seers forge the Shadowstone and the first Bloodstone

    Central Tyria

    To hide the world's uncorrupted magic from the Elder Dragons, the Seers first create the Shadowstone, then refine the concept into the first Bloodstone — a great artifact that locks away the magic the dragons would otherwise consume.

  4. Age of Beasts (centuries; dates unknown)-8,490 CC-8,800 DRContested

    The Seer–mursaat war nearly wipes out the Seers

    Central Tyria

    A centuries-long war erupts between the Seers and the mursaat, once allies of the elder-race alliance. Though heavily outnumbered, the mursaat triumph with the invention of Spectral Agony and decimate the Seers, leaving only a few survivors.

  5. UndatedContested

    Isgarren founds the Wizard's Court

    Central Tyria

    The seer Isgarren, a survivor of the dragonrise and the Seer–mursaat war, parts from his kin, builds the World Spire, recruits gifted magic-users, and establishes the Wizard's Court to defend Tyria from threats out of the Mists.

  6. 1338 AE1,848 CC1,538 DRFirm date

    The Tyrian Alliance follows the Inquest to the lost island of Castora

    Castora

    In 1338 AE the Tyrian Alliance pursues the Inquest to Castora — a remote, ley-soaked island continent long dismissed as a sailors' myth — to stop them harnessing its abundant ley energy. The island lies behind a magical barrier the Seers raised in ages past.

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