The complete Guild Wars timeline

Earliest recorded risings of the Elder Dragons, culminating around 10,000 BE in the extinction of the giganticus lupicus Great Giants during the dragons' last awakening.

A jotun legend of an age after the last dragonrise, when the giant races — the jotun, the norn, and other giants — ruled Tyria wielding magic the likes of which will never be seen again. By the jotun telling it ended when the Six Gods stripped that magic away, though scholars credit the giants' own civil wars; either way it is an unconfirmed legend, not a dated era.

The long age denoted by the Wizard's Court after the Elder Dragons slept: the five elder races ally against the dragons, the Seers forge the Shadowstone and the first Bloodstone, the mursaat slip into the Mists, and the centuries-long Seer–mursaat war nearly wipes out the Seers. Exact dates and order are unknown.

Humanity arrives and builds its first civilizations before the gods depart: the earliest known human settlement rises in Cantha (~786 BE), Kaineng Tah unites the Empire of the Dragon (510 BE, the start of the Canthan calendar), the Primeval Kings rule Elona from Fahranur (200 BE, the start of Dynastic Reckoning), and King Doric is crowned in Ascalon (100 BE).

Abaddon floods Tyria with magic and wars on the gods; the Five Gods seal magic in the Bloodstones, cast down Abaddon into the Realm of Torment (forming the Crystal Desert), and depart in the Exodus that anchors the Mouvelian calendar.

The post-Exodus age of human nations: Orr's independence, the first two Guild Wars over the scattered Bloodstones, the Scarab Plague and fall of Elona's Primeval Kings, Lord Odran's portals to the Mists, the Jade Wind, and Palawa Joko's first defeat at Jahai.

The chronicled era of the Wizard's Court remembered for Eparch's incursions, whose last push during this century devastated the Astral Ward. The wiki never states its precise boundaries, which are inferred from the adjacent Century of Prophecy (1000–1100 AE).

The turbulent decade of the original Guild Wars campaigns: the Searing shatters Ascalon, Orr is drowned in the Cataclysm, and the threats of Tyria, Cantha, and Elona come to a head within a few short years.

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).

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.

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.

Mordremoth wakes beneath Lion's Arch and destroys the Pact fleet over the Maguuma jungle; across Season 2, Heart of Thorns, and Season 3 the Jungle Dragon is slain, Aurene is born, and the White Mantle's resurgence is crushed.

Balthazar's hunt for the Elder Dragons ends in his defeat in the Crystal Desert; Palawa Joko is destroyed (1331), and Kralkatorrik is slain in the Mists as Aurene ascends as the Elder Dragon of Crystal and Light (1332).

Bangar Ruinbringer's All-Legion Rally splits the charr into civil war over the Elder Dragon Jormag; the war ends, Jormag and Primordus reawaken, and the dragons of Ice and Fire destroy each other at the Dragonstorm (1334).

Cantha reopens its borders after centuries of isolation; the eldest Elder Dragon, Soo-Won, is corrupted and slain, ending the Elder Dragon cycle, and with her death the Age of Aurene begins.

The Kryptis of Nayos breach Tyria as the Wizard's Tower and Amnytas are revealed; the wizard Mabon falls holding the wards, and Peitha overthrows the Midnight King Eparch and takes his place as Nayos's Midnight King.

The Tyrian Alliance turns toward the Janthir Wilds, where the ancient titans resurface from the Foundry of Failed Creations and are defeated at Mount Balrior.

The Inquest, led by Director Vloxx, sends an expedition to the lost island of Castora in search of Ancora, and the Tyrian Alliance follows — the present day of Guild Wars 2 lore.