Central Tyria
Scarlet's War
Living World Season 1: Scarlet Briar's alliances — Aetherblades, Toxic and Molten — and her Clockwork invasions ravage Tyria, climaxing in the Battle for Lion's Arch where she is killed.
Events in this era
- 1326 AE1,836 CC1,526 DRFirm date
The Molten Alliance burns the north
The Shiverpeaks · Shiverpeak Mountains
Dredge and Flame Legion — unlikely enemies welded into the Molten Alliance — raid the Shiverpeaks and northern Ascalon, driving refugees south, until the heroes destroy their weapons facility.
- 1326 AE1,836 CC1,526 DRFirm date
Karka swarm Lion's Arch and Southsun Cove is found
Kryta · Lion's Arch
A migration of monstrous karka assaults Lion's Arch, and in driving them back Tyria's adventurers discover the new island of Southsun Cove — exposing the Consortium's schemes there.
- 1326 AE1,836 CC1,526 DRFirm date
The Aetherblade sky pirates are exposed
Central Tyria
A deadly bombing exposes the Aetherblades, sky pirates backed by Inquest technology; the heroes storm their hideout and capture their leader, Captain Mai Trin.
- 1326 AE1,836 CC1,526 DRFirm date
Ellen Kiel wins a seat on the Captain's Council
Kryta · Lion's Arch
A populist election pits Lionguard officer Ellen Kiel against the Black Lion Trading Company's Evon Gnashblade; Kiel wins a seat on Lion's Arch's Captain's Council.
- 1326 AE1,836 CC1,526 DRFirm date
Scarlet Briar reveals herself at the Queen's Jubilee
Kryta · Divinity's Reach
During Queen Jennah's jubilee, the sylvari Scarlet Briar subverts the Watchknight guardians and unleashes her Twisted Watchwork minions, announcing herself to Tyria for the first time.
- 1326 AE1,836 CC1,526 DRFirm date
The Toxic Alliance raises a tower of poison
Kryta · Kessex Hills
Scarlet's Toxic Alliance of krait and Nightmare Court erects a towering structure in Kessex Hills that floods the land with toxic miasma, until the heroes brew an antitoxin and destroy it from within.
- 1327 AE1,837 CC1,527 DRFirm date
Lion's Arch falls and Scarlet Briar is slain
Kryta · Lion's Arch
Scarlet drives her drill-airship, the Breachmaker, into the heart of Lion's Arch; the heroes evacuate the city and kill her, but the free port is left in ruins.