Central Tyria
Rise of Zhaitan
Kralkatorrik awakens and breaks Destiny's Edge (1320); the Pact forms under Trahearne and the Commander (1325) and defeats the undead Elder Dragon Zhaitan, ending the Rising of Orr (1326) — the core Guild Wars 2 personal story.
Events in this era
- 1320 AE1,830 CC1,520 DRFirm date
Kralkatorrik wakes and burns the Dragonbrand
Ascalon
The Elder Crystal Dragon Kralkatorrik awakens and flies south over the charr territory of Ascalon to hunt down his treacherous scion Glint, scorching a swath of crystalline corruption — the Dragonbrand — across the land.
- 1320 AE1,830 CC1,520 DRFirm date
Destiny's Edge breaks against Kralkatorrik
The Crystal Desert · Crystal Desert
The hero-guild Destiny's Edge confronts the waking Kralkatorrik alongside Glint, but the plan collapses: Glint and the asura Snaff are slain, the dragon escapes, and the embittered guild disbands.
- 1320 AE1,830 CC1,520 DRFirm date
Almorra founds the Vigil from a Branded tragedy
Ascalon
When Kralkatorrik's passage Brands her entire warband, the Blood Legion Legionnaire Almorra Soulkeeper is forced to cut them down, then channels her grief into founding the Vigil — a multiracial order sworn to destroy the Elder Dragons.
- 1320 AE1,830 CC1,520 DRFirm date
Branded ogres besiege Ebonhawke
Ascalon · Ebonhawke
Newly Branded ogres and hyenas under Chief Kronon storm the human stronghold of Ebonhawke during a celebration for Queen Jennah; the shared threat of Kralkatorrik's corruption begins to turn old human and charr enemies toward fighting side by side.
- 1321 AE1,831 CC1,521 DRFirm date
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.
- 1323 AE (1833 CC)1,833 CC1,523 DRFirm date
Chul-Moo founds the new Jade Brotherhood in Cantha
Cantha
Park Chul-Moo splits from his Xunlai Jade partner Joon over her objections to his unethical methods and establishes the modern Jade Brotherhood, a Canthan order of tinkerers scavenging and reselling cheap jade technology.
- 1324 AE1,834 CC1,524 DRFirm date
The Claw of the Khan-Ur returns, opening peace talks
Ascalon
In the events of the novel Ghosts of Ascalon, the human adventurer Dougal Keane leads a mixed company to recover the charr's sacred Claw of the Khan-Ur from the ghost-haunted ruins of Ascalon City — the price the legions demand before they will agree to a truce.
- 1324 AE1,834 CC1,524 DRFirm date
The Thaumanova Reactor explodes over a ley-line nexus
The Maguuma Jungle · Metrica Province
An Inquest reactor built on a ley-line intersection is destroyed when a draconic energy source — slipped in under the urging of consultant Scarlet Briar — is mixed into a chaos-magic experiment, tearing reality open and spawning rifts and elementals.
- 1325 AE1,835 CC1,525 DRFirm date
Claw Island falls — and the Pact is born
Kryta · Claw Island
Zhaitan's dragon champion Blightghast the Plaguebringer leads a Risen fleet against Claw Island, overrunning the Lionguard and threatening Lion's Arch; in response, Tyria's three great orders bury their rivalries and form the Pact under Trahearne and the Pact Commander.
- 1326 AE1,836 CC1,526 DRFirm date
The Pact destroys Zhaitan above Arah
Orr
After a grinding campaign through Orr that severs Zhaitan's supply lines and starves it of magic, the Pact airship The Glory of Tyria engages the weakened Elder Dragon above the ruined city of Arah and brings it crashing down — the first Elder Dragon ever slain.