The Elder Dragons Awaken
The years between the games: the Foefire ends Ascalon (1090), Primordus fully awakens (1120), Jormag freezes the north and drives the norn exodus (1165), Zhaitan lifts drowned Orr in the Rising of Orr (1219), the sylvari are born (1302), and Destiny's Edge is forged (1319).
Events in this era
- 1080 AE1,590 CC1,280 DRFirm date
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.
- 1088 AE1,598 CC1,288 DRFirm date
Kryta unifies behind Queen Salma
Kryta
Queen Salma consolidates the Krytan throne, uniting the kingdom that will become the foremost human nation of Tyria for centuries to come.
- 1090 AE1,600 CC1,290 DRFirm date
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.
- 1093 AE1,293 DR1,603 CCFirm date
Palawa Joko raids the Vabbian border
Elona · Vabbi
Palawa Joko raids along the Vabbian border to strengthen his army; a Sunspear strike force under Koss Dejarin and Lonai attacks the lich-king and fails.
- 1105 AE1,615 CC1,305 DRFirm date
The Durmand Priory is founded
The Shiverpeaks · Shiverpeak Mountains
The Durmand Priory, an order of scholars dedicated to gathering and preserving knowledge, is established in the Shiverpeaks; New Krytan is set down as a shared written language.
- 1112 AE1,622 CC1,312 DRFirm date
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 DRFirm date
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.
- 1120 AE1,630 CC1,320 DRFirm date
Primordus awakens in the depths
Central Tyria
The Elder Fire Dragon Primordus fully awakens deep beneath Tyria, forcing the remaining subterranean races to the surface and loosing its destroyer minions on the world.
- 1125 AE1,635 CC1,325 DRFirm date
The dwarves become stone
The Shiverpeaks · Shiverpeak Mountains
The last of the dwarves invoke a ritual that turns their entire race to immortal stone, sacrificing their flesh to fight Primordus's destroyers below the world.
- 1127 AE1,637 CC1,327 DRFirm date
Emperor Usoku unifies Cantha
Cantha
Emperor Usoku launches his campaign against the Kurzicks and Luxons, unifying Cantha under imperial rule and beginning a purge of non-humans and political rivals.
- 1128 AE1,638 CC1,328 DRFirm date
Construction of Tarir begins
The Maguuma Jungle · Maguuma Jungle
Work begins on Tarir, the Forgotten City, built to house and protect the second scion destined to be raised against an Elder Dragon.
- 1135 AE1,335 DR1,645 CCFirm date
Palawa Joko invades Elona
Elona
Palawa Joko launches his invasion of Elona, redirecting the River Elon to bend the land to his will; the city of Kesho is swallowed by the encroaching desert.
- 1165 AE1,675 CC1,365 DRFirm date
Jormag awakens in the north
The Shiverpeaks · Far Shiverpeaks
The Elder Ice Dragon Jormag arises beyond the Far Shiverpeaks, raising a bitter four-year blizzard and marching south on the norn, killing them by the hundreds.
- 1169 AE1,679 CC1,369 DRFirm date
The norn flee south and found Hoelbrak
The Shiverpeaks · Shiverpeak Mountains
After hundreds die fighting Jormag's forces, the norn abandon their northern homeland and migrate south, establishing the city of Hoelbrak.
- 1175 AE1,375 DR1,685 CCFirm date
Elona falls to Palawa Joko and the Sunspears are destroyed
Elona
Four decades after returning to conquer Vabbi, the lich-king Palawa Joko completes his conquest of Elona, wiping out the Order of the Sunspears and sealing the land under his undead rule for a century and a half.
- 1180 AE1,690 CC1,380 DRFirm date
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.
- 1219 AE1,729 CC1,419 DRFirm date
Zhaitan awakens and raises drowned Orr — the Rising of Orr
Orr
The Elder Undead Dragon Zhaitan stirs and hauls sunken Orr back to the surface; the Great Tsunami floods Lion's Arch and drowns Old Kaineng, and the dead of Orr rise as Zhaitan's Risen.
- 1220 AE1,730 CC1,420 DRFirm date
Divinity's Reach is founded as Kryta's new capital
Kryta · Shaemoor
In the year after the Rising of Orr, humanity raises Divinity's Reach in the Krytan province of Shaemoor — a great walled city honoring the Six Gods that becomes the heart of the last strong human kingdom.
- 1230 AE1,740 CC1,430 DRFirm date
Cobiah Marriner refounds Lion's Arch on the ruins of the old city
Kryta
A decade after the Great Tsunami drowned it, corsairs and refugees settle the drying ruins of Lion's Arch, and Cobiah Marriner begins rebuilding it into the free port that becomes Tyria's great crossroads.
- 1302 AE1,812 CC1,502 DRFirm date
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.