Timeline
This is a compilation of events in the setting. No one will individually know all events here, but it will be filled out as the story continues. All dating is based on the opening of the Dark Portal, but this is not necessarily how people within the setting would view the world.
Before the Dark Portal
- -10,000 — War of the Ancients: the Kaldorei Empire versus the Burning Legion.
- -10,000 — The Sundering breaks Kalimdor into separate land masses, sinking large stretches of the Kaldorei Empire. Queen Azshara and her Highborne are lost beneath the waves, while the resistance escaped northwest toward Hyjal.
- -10,000 — Illidan recreates the Well of Eternity at the summit of Hyjal.
- circa -5,000 — Draenei begin working the fields of Draenor.[1]
- -24 (559 King's Calendar) — Aegwynn gives birth to Medivh in the Fall.[2] He is raised in the court of Stormwind by his father, Nielas Aran.[3]
- -19 (564 King's Calendar) — Prince Llane of Stormwind, son of King Wrynn III and Queen Varia, is born.[4]
- -12 (571 King's Calendar) — Medivh reaches his Age of Ascension. His powers awaken, the effects of which reach Northshire Abbey; over one hundred clerics soon arrive. The clerics' abilities and the power of Nielas Aran barely contain Medivh. At the end of the onslaught, Aran lay dead and Medivh was unconscious, barely breathing. Medivh is moved to the Abbey for the safety of both him and the kingdom.[5] During this battle, Medivh inadvertently opened a gateway to Draenor.[6]
- -6 (577 King's Calendar) — Prince Llane reaches his Age of Ascension. Medivh awakens and flies to the keep, giving the prince an hourglass that would never run out until the reign of King Wrynn III failed.[7]
After the Dark Portal
- 1 (583 King's Calendar) — Medivh opens the Dark Portal and the Orcish Horde begins its slow invasion.[8] The land has grown sick over the preceding six years.[9] King Wrynn III is slain after the orcs invade Stormwind Keep.
- 2 (584 King's Calendar) — Llane is crowned the King of Stormwind at the age of 20. The orcs have made encampments in the Black Morass to the east.[10]
- 12 (594 King's Calendar) — Aegwynn returns to Medivh, but realises that he is insane. The two battle, but he defeats his mother and banishes her, leaving her unable to help against him in the future. Two weeks later she informs King Llane that Medivh was responsible for the coming of the orcs.[11] Blackhand becomes Warchief of the Horde and brings proper organisation to the orcs. The First War begins.[12]
- 13 (595 King's Calendar) — Anduin Lothar is freed from the Deadmines after twenty months of captivity.[13]
- 17 (599 King's Calendar) — Orgrim Doomhammer slays Blackhand and becomes Warchief.[14][15] Medivh is killed by Anduin Lothar and a band of warriors within his tower[16], leaving the orc warlock Gul'dan comatose from the psychic backlash.[17] King Llane is killed by Garona Halforcen shortly before Stormwind Keep itself falls[18], effectively ending the First War.
Endnotes
- ↑ Warcraft II: Tides of War manual, pg. 59
- ↑ Warcraft II: Tides of War manual, pg. 36
- ↑ Warcraft: Orcs & Humans manual, pg. 17
- ↑ Warcraft: Orcs & Humans manual, pg. 17
- ↑ Warcraft: Orcs & Humans manual, pp. 17–18
- ↑ Warcraft: Orcs & Humans manual, pg. 20
- ↑ Warcraft: Orcs & Humans manual, pg. 18
- ↑ Warcraft II: Tides of War manual, pg. 37
- ↑ Warcraft: Orcs & Humans manual, pg. 18
- ↑ Warcraft: Orcs & Humans manual, pg. 19
- ↑ Warcraft: Orcs & Humans manual, pp. 19–20
- ↑ Warcraft: Orcs & Humans manual, pg. 20
- ↑ Warcraft: Orcs & Humans, The Deadmines (WC1 Human)
- ↑ Warcraft: Orcs & Humans, The Black Morass (WC1 Orc)
- ↑ Warcraft II: Tides of War manual, pg. 64, but this event takes place after deaths of Medivh and King Llane
- ↑ Warcraft: Orcs & Humans, Medivh (WC1 Human)
- ↑ Warcraft II: Tides of War manual, pg. 64
- ↑ Warcraft II: Tides of War manual, pp. 38 and 64