Character throughline
Sylvari
8 moments on the timeline, from The Elder Dragons Awaken to Visions of Eternity.
Appearances, in order
- 1180 AE1,690 CC1,380 DR
Ventari dies by the Pale Tree, leaving the Ventari Tablet
The Maguuma Jungle · Tarnished Coast
The aged centaur Ventari, who tended the young Pale Tree with the human Ronan, dies at its roots, leaving a carved tablet of peaceful values that will become the founding philosophy of the sylvari.
- 1302 AE1,812 CC1,502 DR
The first sylvari sprout from the Pale Tree
The Maguuma Jungle · Tarnished Coast
The Pale Tree awakens her Firstborn (the first twelve sylvari, among them Trahearne and Caithe), bringing an entirely new sapient race into Tyria, raised on the values of the Ventari Tablet.
- 1304 AE1,814 CC1,504 DR
The sylvari Secondborn awaken
The Maguuma Jungle · Tarnished Coast
Two years after the Firstborn, the Pale Tree brings forth her second generation of sylvari, the Secondborn (among them Canach and Cadeyrn, the future founder of the Nightmare Court).
- 1319 AE1,829 CC1,519 DR
Destiny's Edge forms and slays the Dragonspawn
The Shiverpeaks
In 1319 AE the norn huntress Eir Stegalkin unites a band of heroes into the guild Destiny's Edge, which kills the Dragonspawn, a champion of the Elder Dragon Jormag, along with several other dragon champions.
- 1321 AE1,831 CC1,521 DR
Ceara emerges from the machine as Scarlet Briar
The Maguuma Jungle · Maguuma Jungle
The brilliant, empathy-starved sylvari Ceara enters Headmaster Omadd's experimental isolation module to probe the Eternal Alchemy; she emerges shattered by what she sees, takes the name Scarlet Briar, and kills Omadd.
- 1328 AE1,838 CC1,528 DR
The Pact Fleet is torn from the sky
The Maguuma Jungle · Heart of Maguuma
The Pact's great aerial assault on Mordremoth ends in disaster as Mordrem and corrupted sylvari sabotage the airships from within; the fleet falls into the Heart of Maguuma with catastrophic losses.
- 1328 AE1,838 CC1,528 DR
The Jungle Dragon falls and Trahearne is slain
The Maguuma Jungle · Heart of Maguuma
After a 43-day campaign the Pact slays Mordremoth (the Commander destroying the dragon's mind within the Dream while allies break its body), but Marshal Trahearne, made the dragon's vessel, must die by the sword Caladbolg to end it for good.
- 1338 AE1,848 CC1,538 DR
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.