Wolfshead: The David Gemmell Fansite, was a long-running fan-created website dedicated to the works of David Gemmell, active primarily during the late 1990s and early 2000s. At a time before wikis and social media, Wolfshead served as a hub for Gemmell readers, offering background material on his novels, characters, and fictional worlds—particularly the Drenai saga.
One of Wolfshead’s most enduring and influential contributions was the Drenai Timeline, a comprehensive chronological reconstruction of events across the Drenai novels. This timeline became a widely referenced resource within the Gemmell fan community and later informed other fan projects, including community-run reference sites and wikis.
The Drenai Timeline was compiled by Gareth Wilson, who is also known within the fandom as DrosDelnoch. Gareth’s work involved careful synthesis of events across multiple novels to create a coherent and readable chronology of the Drenai world. Gareth has kindly granted permission for this timeline to be reused and preserved on this new website. We are proud to host and continue his work here, ensuring this important piece of David Gemmell fan scholarship remains available to current and future readers. All credit for the original compilation of the Drenai Timeline belongs to Gareth Wilson.
DATE: -8804
BOOK: The Legend of Deathwalker.
EVENTS: The founding of Chiatze.
DATE: -4439
BOOK: Waylander 3: Hero in the Shadows.
EVENTS: The founding of Kuan Hador. The Illohir are powerful, immortal beings, whose sole vulnerabilities are direct sunlight and running water. They are ruled by the twin brothers, Emsharas and Anharat. Anharat gathers an army and seeks to subjugate all humankind but his brother decides to aid mortals in the conflict, with the forces at his disposal. A great and terrible war ensues. To help mortals combat Anharat’s deadly Illohir legions, Emsharas creates the Storm Swords: enchanted ebony weapons that can destroy the material forms of even the most lethal Illohir, the Krayakin, who possess immense strength, speed and agility; and the ability to heal themselves of almost any wound.
DATE: -2451
BOOK: Morningstar.
EVENTS: Golgoleth embarks from the city of his birth, on a quest to discover esoteric knowledge.
Drenai Timeline With Summaries
DATE: -2439
BOOKS: Waylander 3: Morningstar. Winter Warriors. Hero in the Shadows.
EVENTS: Golgoleth consults with Demons and Spirits. The birth of Horga the Enchantress. The end of the First Great War, after the Battle of the Four Valleys. With the Krayakin, 10,000 of the Illohir’s greatest warriors smashed the right flank of The Armies of the Three Kings. Above the battlefield, Emsharas and his twin, Anrahat, fought on the world of spirit. Bakilas, leader of the Krayakin had fought his way through to the human King Darlic when Anrahat fell. The ash clouds that had been protecting the Illohir dissipated and the sunlight caused the bodies of all the Illohir, save the Krayakin, to wither and die, becoming Windborn again. Surrounded by The Armies of the Three Kings, the Krayakin were overwhelmed and only 200 survived the battle. Over the following weeks, they were hunted down and killed until only ten remained. Emsharas then worked the Great Spell and sent all the remaining Illohir to the Void, to await the completion of his prophecy.
DATE: -2438
BOOK: Morningstar.
EVENTS: Golgoleth returns to the city of his birth and the reign of the Vampyre Kings begins.
DATE: -1899
BOOK: Waylander 3: Hero in the Shadows.
EVENTS: The fall of Kuan Hador after the Second Great War. Kuan Hador allied with Anrahat’s demons, creating bridging spells that allowed them to cross into the mortal world. The descendants of Emsharas aided the rest of mankind against this great evil by creating Kriaz Nor, (meld legions), known as the Raij Nor. The Rajnee order descended from these warriors.
DATE: -1438
BOOK: Morningstar.
EVENTS: After the Battle of Coulin, on the fabled Night of the Seventh Star, Rabain and the Knights storm the Grey Keep, lair of the evil Vampyre Kings. Jerain the Bowman kills one with a silver shaft through the eye, Boras the Cyclops catches another on the battlements and hurls him onto the rocks below, Horga holds back the hordes of undead while Rabain battles Golgoleth and wins.
The Guardians of the Skulls are appointed: three noble families keep the skulls apart and pass the title and duty down through the generations, to maintain the sacred oath given to Rabain and Horga.
DATE: -1428
BOOK: Morningstar.
Drenai Timeline With Summaries
EVENTS: Horga travels forward in time to bring a friend of Rabain’s back to him.
After 10 years together, Rabain and Horga part, as he seeks to fulfill a promise given to an old bard, who Horga thinks is closer to Rabain the she ever could be. Rabain leaves to appear in the final battle.
DATE: -1083
BOOK: Knights of Dark Renown.
EVENTS: The Gabalans start their civilisation.
DATE: -989
BOOK: Knights of Dark Renown.
EVENTS: The Knights of the Gabala are formed by King Albaras.
DATE: -940
BOOK: Knights of Dark Renown.
EVENTS: The Knights spirit the king away during the War of the Rebellion.
DATE: -934
BOOK: Knights of Dark Renown
EVENTS: The king returns and frees the knightly order from the juristiction of the Monarchs.
DATE: -912
BOOK: Knights of Dark Renown.
EVENTS: A new Dagda, Guardian of the Colours of Magic, is chosen.
DATE: -825
BOOK: Knights of Dark Renown.
EVENTS: A new Dagda, Guardian of the Colours of Magic, is chosen.
DATE: -813
BOOK: Knights of Dark Renown.
EVENTS: The King of Gabala rules the whole continent. His area of rule decreases over the next 30 years.
DATE: -809
BOOK: Knights of Dark Renown.
EVENTS: Ollithir, son of Cabal, (14th Armourer), becomes the 15th Armourer of the Knights of the Gabala.
DATE: -798
BOOK: Knights of Dark Renown.
EVENTS: The birth of Lug, who choses the name Lamfada on reaching his majority, and who is destined to become the last Armourer for the Knights of the Gabala, as well as becoming the Dagda, Guardian of the Colours of Magic.
DATE: -789
BOOK: Knights of Dark Renown.
EVENTS: The Knights of the Gabala are sent through a gateway to help a civilization fight evil. They disappear, unheard of for years. Only Manannan fails to go through, due to childhood fears; he roams for six years, seeking Ollathir, Armourer of the Knights.
DATE: -788
BOOK: Knights of Dark Renown.
EVENTS: The King captures Ollathair, demanding that he make him magical weapons but Ollathair refuses and his eye is burned from its socket. He appears to die and escapes.
DATE: -784
BOOK: Knights of Dark Renown.
EVENTS: The Knights of Crimson appear and are supported by the King.
DATE: -783
BOOK: Knights of Dark Renown.
EVENTS: The escape of Llaw Gyffes, a former blacksmith accused of murdering his wife. The crime was committed by the Duke’s cousin, whom Llaw killed.
The New Knights of the Gabala,(destined to become known as The Knights of Dark Renown), are formed by an apprentice named Lamfada. The origin of the Knights of Crimson is revealed: they were the Knights of the Gabala who rode through the gateway six years earlier.
DATE: -782
BOOK: Knights of Dark Renown.
EVENTS: Nuada Silverhand is killed by The Crimson Knights but his death brings a dead tree to life and the tale lives on in legend.
Lamfada becomes the new Dagda and renounces his title as Armourer of the Knights of the Gabala. Elodan and Manannan, the last knights of the Gabala, ride through the gate to end the world of the Vyre; they are never heard of again.
DATE: -689
BOOK: Knights of Dark Renown.
EVENTS: A new Dagda, Guardian of the Colours of Magic, is chosen.
DATE: -638
BOOK: Morningstar.
EVENTS: The North is conquered by Angostins.
DATE: -463
BOOK: Morningstar.
EVENTS: Birth of Owen Odell, Companion of the Morningstar and magic-weaving storyteller, also called the Sorcerer of the Morningstar.
Drenai Timeline With Summaries
DATE: -462
BOOK: Morningstar.
EVENTS: Birth of Jarek Mace, thief and philanderer destined to become The Morningstar.
DATE: -458
BOOK: Morningstar.
EVENTS: Horga the Enchantress adopts the name Megan and moves to Jarek Mace’s village in the forest.
DATE: -453
BOOK: Morningstar.
EVENTS: Owen apprenticed to Cataplas to learn the craft of storytelling and how to weave magic.
DATE: -443
BOOK: Morningstar.
EVENTS: Cataplas shows Owen some of his dissecting experiments. Owen and Catalplas split after a final perfomance, as Owen is now skilled and knowledgable enough to pursue his art alone.
DATE: -440
BOOK: Morningstar.
EVENTS: Oversea War fought by the Angostins.
DATE: -438
BOOK: Morningstar.
EVENTS: Owen Odell meets Jarek Mace, a robber, sneak-thief and alleged rapist.
Owen leaves Ziraccu after midwinter, when it becomes clear that the war is coming and the price of food has become extortionate.
DATE: -437
BOOK: Morningstar.
EVENTS: Ziraccu is sacked by the Army of Edmund, the Hammer of the Highlands, its citizens massacred. Owen travels with Jarek Mace to a village and meets Megan, who intrigues him. The Morningstar myth begins. The Vampyre Kings return and take control of Ziraccu, turning many of its inhabitants into undead. Directly threatened by Golgoleth, Jarek Mace seeks out and fights them. He is accompanied by Owen, Wulf, Piercollo, Megan, Ilka and Raul Roberts. Megan is killed by a poisoned blade wielded by an undead assassin. Horga summons Mace, Piercollo and Wulf to the past, to battle the Vampyre Kings. Mace becomes The Summoned One, Ra-He-Borain: Rabain. Rabain/The Morningstar returns from the past to fight for the Highlands against the Angostin army. He kills King Edmund, before succumbing to his wounds.
DATE: -379
BOOK: Morningstar.
EVENTS: Death of Wulf.
DATE: -369
BOOK: Morningstar.
EVENTS: A young Noble seeks out Owen Odell to find the truth of The Morningstar. Owen refuses to tell him and magically fashions a phantom to tell the tale to. Horga travels forward in time and takes Owen back to Jarek Mace.
DATE: 183
BOOK: The First Chronicles of Druss the Legend.
EVENTS: Pashtar Sen works the miracle of the hunting horn in a temple in Ventria.
DATE: 185
BOOK: The Legend of Deathwalker.
EVENTS: After his father is killed in battle by an army from Chien Po, Oshikai takes on the mantle of his father’s position, becoming Lord of the North of Chiatze. His first act is to lead an army against Chien Po and raze the city to the ground in vengeance.
DATE: 189
BOOK: The Legend of Deathwalker.
EVENTS: With one of the villages in his lands under attack from a black lion, Oshikai sets out to kill the menace. After a great many days stalking the beast, it turns and shows remarkable intelligence, leading many to believe it a demon.
With many of his hunting party killed, Oshikai settles down for the night to finish the battle, believing the beast trapped, only for it to attack. After a great battle, Oshikai emerges victorius, carrying the lion’s head and skin as proof of his deeds.
DATE: 191
BOOK: The Legend of Deathwalker.
EVENTS: Conspiring against Oshikai, due to the power he is gaining in court, his enemies send a false message from the emperor, requesting that he bring his army to defend the capital. The plotters tell the emperor that Oshikai is marching on the capital to take power. The emperor orders three of his armies to converge on Oshikai and crush him, naming him a traitor. Oshikai learns of the armies coming to meet him and is forced to flee, only to be trapped by one of the armies on the plains of Chu-Chien, with the others moving swiftly to intercept. Oshikai has no option but to fight or be trapped and see his army massacred. After defeating the first army, Oshikai and his people flee into the Mountains of Ice, with the two other armies in close pursuit. Hundreds die and many lose hands and feet to frostbite.
DATE: 192
BOOK: The Legend of Deathwalker.
EVENTS: After surviving the Mountains of Ice, a bit of merriment is required to increase the morale of the people. To this end Oshikai and Shulsen plan to marry but Oshikai must first complete three tasks set by Shulsen’s father. The first involves marksmanship, the second, a test of his intelligence and the third requires him to make a sacrifice. Given to great rages, Oshikai must, “kill a demon who had been a friend,” the “demon” being the dark, wild and dangerous side of his personality. Once Oshikai passes these trials, the wedding goes ahead.
After the wedding, he adresses his people, telling them that they had met their Nadir, (Crossroads of Death in Chiatze, Point of Great Hopelessness, when translated into the southern tongue from Nadir), and that Shulsen would lead them to water. From this they took the name of their people and the song of the Nadir was born: Nadir We, Youth Born, Blood Letters, Axe Weilders, Victors Still.
DATE: 195
BOOK: The Legend of Deathwalker.
EVENTS: The Nadir reach the Steppes and claim them as their own. Fearing that, once their position has been consolidated, Oshikai and his people will attack Chiatze, the Emperor formulates plans to eliminate Oshikai.
DATE: 196
BOOK: The Legend of Deathwalker.
EVENTS: Oshikai Demonbane, Father of the Nadir, dies at The Battle of Five Armies (Nadir name); The Battle of the Vale (Chiatze name.) His remains are buried upon the battlefield now known as The Valley of Shulsen’s Tears.
Death of Shulsen, wife of Oshikai. Chained in a hidden chamber within a mountainside, she had her eyes, ears and tongue pierced with golden spikes by Chakata, a former ally of Oshikai, and was left to die. During her life, she was a great sorceress and the only good that she did was in the company of Oshikai.
DATE: 408
BOOK: Quest for Lost Heroes.
EVENTS: The Tattooed People are forced back through the gateway by the warlike nomadic tribe that becomes the Drenai.
DATE: 626
BOOK: Legend.
EVENTS: The Drenai begin to stamp civilization onto the world.
DATE: 672
BOOKS: Waylander 2: In the Realm of the Wolf. White Wolf. The Swords of Night and Day.
EVENTS: Birth of Hewla, Abbess of the Temple of the Ressurection, witch and ancestor of Jianna, The Witch Queen of Naashan.
DATE: 696
BOOK: The Legend of Deathwalker.
EVENTS: Three Nadir Shaman forge the Stone Wolf and create the Eyes of Alchazzar. The Eyes are stolen by one of their creators, a shaman known as Shaoshad, who is caught and killed without the magical jewels on him, (he was trying to bring about the rise of the Uniter, by bringing Oshikai back to life), on his way to the grave site of Shulsen, who Oshikai refused to return to the flesh without.
DATE: 783
BOOK: Waylander 2: In the Realm of the Wolf.
EVENTS: Founding of the first Temple of The Dark Brotherhood/The Knights of Blood by Zhi Zhen in the lands of the Chiatze. Zhi Zhen was captured after many battles and impaled on a golden spike. The order then spread west, to be used by Kaem in the Vagrian War.
Following the words of an ancient prophet, the Sathuli people travel from the deserts of Ventria to the land of the Drenai, settling in the Delnoch mountains.
DATE: 990
BOOK: The First Chronicles of Druss the Legend.
EVENTS: Rebellion of Vuspash, general of the Ventrian legion, The Immortals; his defeat caused the legion to be disbanded.
DATE: 996
BOOK: The Legend of Deathwalker.
EVENTS: Bodacus, the famed Gothir general, pursues the campaign that makes his name.
DATE: 1023
BOOK: Waylander.
EVENTS: Birth of Dakeyras, who becomes Waylander the Slayer, saviour and hero of the Drenai, after assassinating King Niallad, son of Orien of the Two Blades, the first Drenai battle-king, under commission from General Kaem, leader of Vagria’s armies.
DATE: 1030
BOOK: Waylander.
EVENTS: Birth of King Niallad, son of Orien of the Two Blades.
DATE: 1033
BOOK: Waylander.
EVENTS: Thieves arrive at Kar Barzac and start to strip away the gold that prevents the magical crystal in an underground chamber from mutating the world above. They soon merge into a giant beast that dies of dehydration.
DATE: 1040
BOOK: Waylander.
EVENTS: Birth of Karnak, regarded by many as the greatest Drenai hero.
DATE: 1047
BOOK: Waylander.
EVENTS: Birth of Dardalion, founder and first Abbot of The Thirty.
DATE: 1048
BOOK: Waylander.
EVENTS: Dakeyras takes a year-long sabbatical from his position in the Drenai army. He leaves his farm one morning to go hunting. While he is absent, a band of raiders arrive and they kill his wife, Tanya, seven-year-old son Gellan and twin baby girls. Dakeyras becomes Waylander the Slayer, spending the next 20 years hunting down his family’s murderers, committing assassinations for money to fund his quest for vengeance.
DATE: 1050
BOOK: Waylander 3: Hero in the Shadows.
EVENTS: Birth of Elphons, Future Duke of Kydor
DATE: 1052
BOOK: Waylander.
EVENTS: Birth of Danyal.
DATE: 1062
BOOK: Waylander.
EVENTS: Cadoras the Stalker begins his career as an assassin.
DATE: 1065
BOOK: Waylander.
EVENTS: Birth of Miriel and Krylla, the twin daughters adopted by Waylander and Danyal after the Vagrian War.
DATE: 1070
BOOK: Waylander.
EVENTS: Gellan becomes the first man to win the Silver Sabre competition six times and is awarded a jeweled dagger. Hewla warns Waylander about Kaem and mentions the death of kings.
DATE: 1071
BOOK: Waylander.
EVENTS: Plague in the Lands of the Drenai. Egel forms the Legion.
DATE: 1072
BOOK: Waylander.
EVENTS: With the War coming to its end seemingly in favour of the Vagrians led by their General Kaem, Waylander is asked to recover the armour of Bronze by King Orien of the Two Blades, warned that only the Chosen One can claim it. The Dark Brotherhood seek him, (under orders from Kaem, after he tried to cheat Waylander and he killed his son,) as do some Nadir joinings, after he killed the leader of the Wolfshead for betraying an agreement with Durmast. The first temple of The Thirty is founded. Durmast is discovered to be the Chosen One and helps Waylander kill the last of the Dark Brotherhood who are hunting him, before succumbing to his wounds. Danyal takes the Armour to the Drenai and presents it to Egel, who then goes to the besieged fortress of Dros Purdol that Karnak is defending. With Kaem found dead, with many believing it to be suicide, the war against the Vagrians ends. Karnak and Egel emerge as heroes. Death of the First Thirty, led by Dardalion, who lives although seriously wounded. Death of Cadoras the Stalker, who dies saving Waylander.
DATE: 1073
BOOK: Waylander.
EVENTS: Karnak leads the invasion of Vagria and topples the emperor. Drenai Republic instituted. Egel begins construction of Dros Delnoch after Dardalion has a vision. (Probably the architect).
DATE: 1078
BOOK: Waylander 2: In the Realm of the Wolf.
EVENTS: Egel is assassinated, under Karnak’s orders. Death of Danyal, wife of Waylander.
DATE: 1079
BOOK: Waylander 3: Hero in the Shadows.
EVENTS: Marriage of Aldania, (daughter of King Oriens of the Two Blades, sister to King Niallad), to Elphons, Duke of Kydor. (She was forced into exile by Karnak, leader of the Drenai).
DATE: 1083
BOOK: Waylander 2: In the Realm of the Wolf.
EVENTS: Death of Krylla, killed by Bodasen, son of Karnak. Assassins seek Waylander to collect the bounty offered by Karnak for his head and crossbow. stified why people would search for him after so long, Waylander seeks to stay and die on the mountain where Danyal is buried, until the reason for the hunt is revealed to him by Hewla The Dark Brotherhood also hunts Waylander, under the orders of Zhu Chao, who seeks to rule the whole continent. Waylander seeks to kill him to get to Bodasen. Miriel, Angel, Senta and Belash accompany Waylander to defend their future and are joined by Shia. Dardalion and the Thirty ride to assist Waylander against the Brotherhood. Miriel becomes pregnant by Senta. Death of the second Temple of the Thirty, save two survivors, Ekodas, (who leaves to marry Shia) and Vishna, who is sent to Ventria to become the next Abbot of Swords for the Third Temple of the Thirty. Hewla stabs herself to prevent a demon killing her. She is taken to the Temple of Ustarte and healed.
DATE: 1084
BOOK: Waylander 2: In the Realm of the Wolf.
EVENTS: Birth of Miriel and Senta’s son. The War with Ventria is renewed and the Ventrian king is slain at the battle of Erekban.
DATE: 1085
BOOK: Waylander 2: In the Realm of the Wolf.
EVENTS: Karnak renews the contract on Waylander. A skull, purported to be Waylander the Slayer’s, is put on display at the museum in Drenan, along with his legendary crossbow.
DATE: 1086
BOOK: Waylander 2: In the Realm of the Wolf.
EVENTS: Birth of Angel and Miriel’s son. Birth of Niallad, son of Elphons and Aldania.
DATE: 1088
BOOK: Waylander 2: In the Realm of the Wolf.
EVENTS: Waylander’s crossbow and skull are stolen from the museum in Drenan and Karnak is assassinated by Miriel.
DATE: 1093
BOOK: Waylander 2: In the Realm of the Wolf.
EVENTS: Waylander’s skull is bought in auction by Matze Chai on behalf of a client, who prefers to make his own fate. The Lands of the Cresent in Kydor leased by Waylander from Lord Aric.
DATE: 1097
BOOK: Waylander 3: Hero in the Shadows.
Drenai Timeline With Summaries
EVENTS: The Great Famine in Chiatze.
DATE: 1100
BOOK: Waylander 3: Hero in the Shadows.
EVENTS: Crop shortage in Kydor.
DATE: 1101
BOOK: Waylander 3: Hero in the Shadows.
EVENTS: The magic is failing that entrapped the rulers of Kuan Hador and they seek to bring their rule back to the mortal world. Aided by their allies, they cause a massacre of the ruling class of Kydor; Elphons and Aldania are among the many who are murdered. They make an enemy of Waylander, who seeks to thwart them. Waylander is killed by Niallad, who accidently shoots him with his own crossbow, when his horse is spooked by the Priestess Ustarte, who is also fighting against the evils of Kuan Hador and Daresh Karany. When Daresh Karany and Waylander meet, he summons Anharat to kill him. With Waylander having been revived by Ustarte, he is already dead, so the demon takes Daresh instead and promises to make his death lasting. Waylander leaves the realm through a portal opened by Ustarte, who sends him to an alternate world where he can save his family before dying.
DATE: 1111
BOOK: The First Chronicles of Druss the Legend.
EVENTS: Birth of Bardan the Slayer, grandson of Angel and Miriel, grandfather of Druss.
DATE: 1130
BOOK: The First Chronicles of Druss the Legend.
EVENTS: Bardan aquires Snaga from the burial mound of Caras the Axeman during the second Vagrian War.
DATE: 1133
BOOK: The First Chronicles of Druss the Legend.
EVENTS: Death of the King of Gothir, who invades the Drenai lands. Bardan beheads him, leaving his head on a spike for his army to find in the morning.
DATE: 1138
BOOK: The First Chronicles of Druss the Legend.
EVENTS: Birth of Gorben’s father, Emperor of Ventria.
DATE: 1141
BOOK: The First Chronicles of Druss the Legend.
EVENTS: Birth of Shadak The Hunter.
DATE: 1144
BOOK: The First Chronicles of Druss the Legend.
EVENTS: Birth of Borcha, fist-fighting champion of Mashrapur.
DATE: 1146
BOOK: The First Chronicles of Druss the Legend.
EVENTS: Birth of Bress, father of Druss the Legend.
DATE: 1149
BOOK: The Legend of Deathwalker.
EVENTS: Birth of Gargan, Lord of Larness, Gothir hero.
DATE: 1154
BOOK: The Legend of Deathwalker.
EVENTS: Gargan’s mother is killed by the Nadir, which instils in him a lifelong hatred of them.
DATE: 1158
BOOK: The First Chronicles of Druss the Legend.
EVENTS: Birth of Michanek, Champion of Naashan.
DATE: 1160
BOOK: The First Chronicles of Druss the Legend.
EVENTS: Death of Bardan the Slayer.
DATE: 1162
BOOK: The Legend of Deathwalker.
EVENTS: Birth of Sieben the Saga Master, friend to Druss the Legend and creator of the Saga.
DATE: 1163
BOOK: The First Chronicles of Druss the Legend.
EVENTS: Birth of Gorben, future Emperor of Ventria.
Shadak fights the Sathuli Champion and the peace talks between the Gothir and Sathuli fail. With his miltary career in ruins, Shadak becomes a hunter of men.
DATE: 1165
BOOK: The First Chronicles of Druss the Legend.
EVENTS: Marriage of Bress and Alithae.
DATE: 1166
BOOK: The First Chronicles of Druss the Legend.
EVENTS: The birth of Druss the Legend to Bress and Alithae. Death of Alithae.
DATE: 1171
BOOK: The Legend of Deathwalker.
EVENTS: End of the Gothir Civil War, when Gargan leads what appeared to be a suicidal charge and kills Barin in single combat.
DATE: 1176
BOOK: White Wolf.
EVENTS: A great drought strikes the nations of Cadia, Matapesh, Panthia and causes crop shortages, with Panthia being the hardest hit and thousands dying.
DATE: 1177
BOOK: The Legend of Deathwalker.
EVENTS: Birth of Okai, known as Talisman; later Ulric, First Uniter of the Nadir.
DATE: 1179
BOOK: The Legend of Deathwalker.
EVENTS: Birth of Zhusai, future wife of Ulric.
DATE: 1182
BOOK: The First Chronicles of Druss the Legend.
EVENTS: The War of Ventria against Naashan begins. Death of Gorben’s Father, Emperor of Ventria. Four women burned for Witchcraft in Drenan by the Priests of Missael.
DATE: 1183
BOOK: The First Chronicles of Druss the Legend.
EVENTS: Marriage of Druss and Rowena. The raid on Druss’s village sees the capture of the women by slavers. Tracking the slavers is Shadak, who is after Collan, as he killed Shadak’s son a week before. Druss sets off to save his wife, Rowena, and Shadak helps him free the captured women. With Rowena not amongst them, he travels to Mashrapur, where he is told that Collan will have taken her and on the way he enlists the aid of Sieben the poet. After fighting in the sand circle and being severely wounded, when he is told where she is, Druss sails to Ventria to seek her. When he believes her slain after a report from one of the captured pirates, Druss enlists in Gorben’s army. Battle of Ectanis, when the renegade Satrap is killed and the war turns in favour of Gorben’s Ventria. Vintar, (future Abbot of Swords for the Delnoch Thirty), saves Rowena from the sharks, which await when the pirate ship attacks the ship she is on, forcing herself and her current owner to jump into the water.
DATE: 1208
BOOK: White Wolf
EVENTS: Gorben, Emperor of Ventria, celebrates the defeat of Jianna’s father, the Emperor of Naashan, (slain by Gorben’s Immortals), after a two-year war, aided by the disgraced noble, Bokram, who was stripped of his titles a year before. Entering Gorben’s service, Gorben installs him as his puppet ruler. Boranius, cousin to Bokram, becomes Captain of the Lancers. Skilgannon meets Jianna, heiress to the Naashan throne, who escaped with her mother, the emperor’s favourite concubine. Hidden by Greavas, Skilgannon hatches a plan to sneak Jianna and her mother out of the city by having them taken separately. Jianna is moved to Skilgannon’s home, under the guise of being a whore. When betrayed, Greavas is tortured to reveal Jianna’s location, finally revealing all. Skilgannon aids Jianna’s escape from the capital city of Naashan and the two become fugitives. Raising an army to fight the civil war, Jianna’s first two years are little more than hit-and-run raids to supply her troops. In the third year, another couple of tribal leaders join her side, which allows her to effectively liberate a region in the West of Naashan containing two cities, and a score of silver mines.
DATE: 1211
BOOKS: The First Chronicles of Druss the Legend, White Wolf.
EVENTS: The Battle of Skeln Pass, where a few Drenai face the might of the Ventrian Empire. Death of Emperor Gorben and General Bodasen. Also the death of Druss’s friend Sieben and his beloved wife, Rowena. Plague in the lands of Naashan. Final battle in the civil war for Naashan, which became known as the Battle of Carsis. The battle nearly ended in disaster, when the left flank was routed and her center began crumbling. Urged to flee by her generals, Jianna took up position in the center of her troops, where her foes could see her. Bokram ordered his troops to capture her, giving Skilgannon the chance to rally the left flank and turn the tide of battle. Meeting Boranius, Skilgannon kills him, despite being told that should the two meet, he would die. Unbeknownst to Jianna or Skilgannon, Boranius’ body is taken from the field by six loyal retainers and transported to Ustarte’s temple, where he is healed.
DATE: 1213
BOOK: White Wolf.
EVENTS: Skilgannon the Damned becomes Brother Lantern and hides for three years as a priest of the Source. Jianna becomes Queen of Naashan. Ironmask turns up in Tantria, as advisor to the king.
DATE: 1215
BOOK: White Wolf.
EVENTS: Plague strikes the land of Tantria. Shadak is slain by three robbers in an alley, two are killed but one escapes and joins a group of outlaws. Hired to protect a village from the outlaws, Druss meets Garianne and twin brothers, Jared and Nian. When the outlaws attack, just before dawn, Druss charges into their centre and starts hacking. Nian and Jared, with some of the other mercenaries, charge in to back Druss up, whilst Garianne, who is sick with fever, comes out and shoots the leader through the forehead with Waylander’s bow, which she had stolen from Ustarte’s temple many years before.
DATE: 1216
BOOK: White Wolf.
EVENTS: Druss is on a quest to rescue the Earl of Dros Purdol and his daughter. Skilgannon, on the run from the Witch Queen, meets Druss, joins him on his quest and fights an old enemy. End of the quest is the last time that Skilgannon and the Witch Queen see each other. Druss and Skilgannon meet Ustarte at a hidden temple that they believe is the Temple of Ressurection. Final death of Hewla, killed by her descendent, Jianna, when Hewla threatens to kill Skilgannon.
DATE: 1218
BOOK: The Swords of Night and Day.
EVENTS: After rescuing a priest in the Deserts of Namib, Skilgannon is taken to the Temple of Resurrectionists, where they agree to bring Dayan back to life for him, although she won’t be the same girl, she will have a chance of life. Skilgannon last sees her when she is sixteen and talks about her falling in love.
DATE: 1221
BOOK: The Legend of Deathwalker.
EVENTS: Death of Niobe, wife of Sieben the Saga Master.
DATE: 1226
BOOK: Legend.
EVENTS: Gulgothir is captured by Ulric and the defenders sold into slavery, many losing hands under Ulric’s revenge for resisting his conquest. Ulric then leads the Nadir against the Drenai, after having the omens cast by his Shaman, Nosta Khan. The Siege of Dros Delnoch. The Death of Druss the Legend and the Delnoch Thirty led by Serbitar, except for Arbedark, who is sent to find and train the next Temple of the Thirty. Abalayn retires from public life as leader of the Drenai. Orien retires from army life and becomes Magnus Woundweaver’s deputy, after he is elected to lead the Drenai. One of his first acts is to form The Dragon, to protect the Drenai from future threats.
DATE: 1227
BOOK: Legend.
EVENTS: Death of Ulric, First Uniter of the Nadir, also likely the death of Joachim Sathuli, due to wounds inflicted in Dros Delnoch and then by the Sathuli for leading them against the Nadir for the Drenai.
DATE: 1236
BOOK: The Swords of Night and Day.
EVENTS: Skilgannon puts aside the Swords of Night and Day.
DATE: 1238
BOOK: The Swords of Night and Day.
EVENTS: Skilgannon leads a coalition force against Bakila, the Zharn King. The force is made up of men from Angostin, Kydor, Chiatze and Varnii Nomads. The battle sees 30,000 Zharns slain, for the loss of 12,000 allied forces. During the night, Bakila flees with the rest of his surviving force but Skilgannon is refused permission to follow and destroy them by the Angostin King, due to the huge losses on their side. The king assures Skilgannon that Bakila has been taught his lesson.
DATE: 1239
BOOK: The Swords of Night and Day.
EVENTS: Bakila leads a new army southwest against the Varnii Nomads, crushing them.
DATE: 1240
BOOK: The Swords of Night and Day.
EVENTS: Bakila leads his army against Kydor, sacking the cities and pillaging the capital.
DATE: 1242
BOOK: The Swords of Night and Day.
EVENTS: With an alliance with Sechuin on the Eastern Coast, Bakila leads his army against the Chiatze, crushing their armies in two battles. Chiatze then agrees to pay a huge annual tribute.
DATE: 1243
BOOK: The Swords of Night and Day.
EVENTS: To prevent an invasion, the Angostin King agrees to pay an annual tribute of 700 pounds of gold to Bakila.
DATE: 1244
BOOK: The Swords of Night and Day.
EVENTS: Upon receiving the first year’s tribute from the Angostin King, Bakila raises the amount to 1000 pounds of gold.
DATE: 1245
BOOK: The Swords of Night and Day.
EVENTS: Upon receiving the second year’s tribute from the Angostin King, Bakila raises the amount to 2000 pounds of gold.
DATE: 1246
BOOK: The Swords of Night and Day.
EVENTS: With the Angostin treasury nearing bankruptcy, Skilgannon is forced to lead an army of 4000 infantry and 2000 cavalry against the Zharn’s 20000 infantry and 8000 cavalry. The whole battle hinges on one objective: to kill Bakila, King of the Zharns. Prior to the Battle, Ustarte comes to Skilgannon and makes two requests: that she conduct his funeral and that he wield the Swords of Night and Day. Skilgannon cedes to both requests and leaves for battle, during which he fights his way to the Zharn King and, although mortally wounded, kills Bakila with the last of his strength. Death of Jianna, Empress of Naashan. Having heard about Skilgannon forming a force to fight the Zharns, she leads her army to destroy two of the Zharns’s armies. After the destruction of the second, she sickens and dies of a heart attack.
DATE: 1296
BOOK: The Swords of Night and Day.
EVENTS: The fall of the Naashanite Empire.
DATE: 1308
BOOK: The King Beyond the Gate.
EVENTS: Birth of Abaddon, future Abbot of Swords. There has been no Temple of the Thirty since his father’s time.
DATE: 1326
BOOK: The King Beyond the Gate.
EVENTS: End of Second Nadir War. Shillat, daughter of the Nadir ruler, Jongir, marries Hogun, son of Orrin, as part of the peace treaty between the Drenai and Nadir.
DATE: 1327
BOOK: The King Beyond the Gate.
EVENTS: Birth of Tenaka Khan, second Uniter of the Nadir.
DATE: 1329
BOOK: The King Beyond the Gate.
EVENTS: Death of Tenaka’s father, Hogun.
DATE: 1337
BOOK: The King Beyond the Gate.
EVENTS: Birth of Arvan/Scaler, future Earl of Bronze.
DATE: 1343
BOOK: The King Beyond the Gate.
EVENTS: Tenaka begins his Drenai life serving in The Dragon. He also saves Arvan from an assassin.
DATE: 1344
BOOK: The King Beyond the Gate.
EVENTS: The Great Drought in the Lands of the Drenai
DATE: 1346
BOOK: The King Beyond the Gate.
EVENTS: Decado begins his service in The Dragon under Tenaka Khan
DATE: 1348
BOOK: Quest for Lost Heroes.
EVENTS: Birth of Finn, hero of Bel-azar.
DATE: 1349
BOOK: The King Beyond the Gate.
EVENTS: Tenaka Khan writes improvements to the Legion’s Operational Manual.
DATE: 1352
BOOK: The King Beyond the Gate.
EVENTS: Disbanding of The Dragon.
DATE: 1357
BOOK: The King Beyond the Gate.
EVENTS: Tenaka purchases Illae for 1,000 silver pieces in a Ventrian slave market and they wed.
DATE: 1359
BOOK: Quest for Lost Heroes.
EVENTS: Birth of Beltzer, hero of Bel-azar.
DATE: 1361
BOOK: The King Beyond the Gate.
EVENTS: After running out of opponents to fight, Decado seeks the one man who could give him a worthy battle: Tenaka Khan. He becomes trapped in a sandstorm, has time to think his decision through and changes his mind. After praying for guidance, he walks to a monastery, where he swears to forsake his life of violence and do as instructed by the abbot.
DATE: 1366
BOOK: The King Beyond the Gate.
EVENTS: The Day of Death in the village of the father of Pagan/Kataskicana, King of the Opal Throne, near White Gold Bay in the land of Opal. Drenai soldiers sent by Ceska to find gold kill hundreds of people, including members of the royal family. Leaving his son, Katasi, to rule in his place, Pagan sets off to kill Ceska, telling Katasi to let his wives live, should he not return.
DATE: 1367
BOOK: The King Beyond the Gate.
EVENTS: Death of Illae from lung blight, which makes Tenaka Khan take stock of his life and return to the lands of the Drenai to kill Ceska. He meets up with some old comrades: Darkmask, formerly known as Ananais the Golden One, and Decado the Ice Killer, (great grandson of Skilgannon). In order to achieve his goal, Tenaka returns to the Nadir and becomes Khan, after the death of his grandfather, Jongir. His cousin, Arvan/Scaler, is ordered to retake Dros Delnoch, which he does. Tenaka leads the Nadir to help defend the rebel Drenai gathered in Skoda against the forces of Ceska. Death of Ananais, Decado and Pagan, who joins the group when they meet him on the road. The Armour worn by Decado’s Thirty is that worn by the Delnoch Thirty. Death of Decado’s Thirty, with Katan sent to become the new Abbot of Swords, recruiting the ten-year-old, Ceorl, who was saved by Pagan and is gifted with eldritch powers. Destruction of the machines beneath Graven Forest. Beginning of Rayvan’s ten-year tenure as leader of the Drenai. The Dragon reformed by Rayvan’s surviving son, Lake.
DATE: 1368
BOOK: The King Beyond the Gate. Quest for Lost Heroes.
EVENTS: Birth of Jongir, firstborn son of Tenaka Khan and Renya, future Khan of the Nadir. Birth of Chareos, son of Arvan, future Earl of Bronze and hero of Bel-azar.
DATE: 1371
BOOK: Quest for Lost Heroes.
EVENTS: Birth of Magrigg, hero of Bel-azar
DATE: 1377
BOOK: The King Beyond the Gate.
EVENTS: Birth of Tanaki, daughter of Tenaka Khan and Renya, who dies in childbirth. Tenaka, Khan of the Wolves, leads the united Nadir against Dros Delnoch and defeats the Drenai. Chareos is taken away, with orders to avenge his father’s death.
DATE: 1383
BOOK: The King Beyond the Gate.
EVENTS: The forming of the Royal Wolves by Tenaka Khan.
DATE: 1385
BOOK: Quest for Lost Heroes.
EVENTS: Chareos is accepted into the elite Gothir Lancers.
Death of Chareos’s guardian, Attalis, after an argument with the Gothir Regent’s Champion, Targon, leads to a duel. Chaeros avenges him by challenging and killing Targon. Marriage of Chareos and Tura.
DATE: 1387
BOOK: Quest for Lost Heroes.
EVENTS: The Battle of Bel-azar, a technical victory for the Gothir against Tenaka Khan and his only defeat. The four survivors of the Gothir force are Chareos, Beltzer, Finn and Magrigg, the Heroes of Bel-azar.
DATE: 1388
BOOK: Quest for Lost Heroes.
EVENTS: Birth of Kiall, whose future quest leads the Heroes of Bel-azar to their destiny.
DATE: 1391
BOOK: Quest for Lost Heroes.
EVENTS: Tenaka takes his daughter Tanaki to Ulricham.
DATE: 1404
BOOK: Quest for Lost Heroes.
EVENTS: Death of Tenaka Khan, poisoned by his eldest son and heir, Jungir, at the Feast of Long Knives. After Tenaka’s death, Jungir kills his brothers to rule as Khan but not Tanaki, because his generals refuse to eradicate the Great Khan’s line. Tanaki is banished and moves to a fortress, where she organizes the trade in slaves. Haunted for years about why Tenaka allowed he and his comrades to live at Bel-azar, Chareos journeys to Ulric and Tenaka’s tomb, where a Nadir shaman tells him that they are the ghosts-yet-to-be, (Shio-Kas-Atra in Nadir).
DATE: 1405
BOOK: Quest for Lost Heroes.
EVENTS: Chareos settles in Talgithir, southernmost city of Gothir, which realm was split in two after the hordes of Ulric destroyed Gulgothir, during the Drenai War. Chareos agrees to teach the Earl of Talgithir the finer points of swordsmanship.
DATE: 1406
BOOK: Quest for Lost Heroes.
EVENTS: Jungir weds Mai Syn, youngest daughter of the Emperor of Kiatze. She is brutally used and thrown to his soldiers, after which she cuts her throat with a pair of scissors, in accordance with Kiatze custom.
DATE: 1407
BOOK: Quest for Lost Heroes.
EVENTS: After the Earl of Talgithir’s eldest son contradicts Chareos, he discontinues lessons for the young lordling and his friends. Raid on Kiall’s village, forseen by Paccus, the village seer. Villagers send to the Earl of Talgithir for aid and the officer sent, Logar, was playing dice with his men while the raid occurred, having been paid off by the Nadren raiders. Ravenna, loved by Kiall, is among the young women abducted. Kiall goes to the earl’s court on petition day and demands to be heard. Earl claims that there is no sign of the raiders and nothing can be done. Kiall’s insubordination at this point earns him twenty lashes. Chareos continues in his duties to the earl and prepares to engage in an exhibition match with him, only to find that the earl has Logar standing in for him, under orders to kill Chareos. Chareos defeats Logar but is ordered to leave the earl’s juristiction. As he departs, Chareos sees Kiall undergoing his punishment and saves the villager from the ordeal, taking him to the Grey Owl Tavern and patching his wounds up. Logar, angry at having been beaten in their duel, fights Chareos with three of his soldiers. After killing them, Chareos leaves Talgithir with Kiall. Kiall tells Chareos about his quest to save the captured women and Chareos agrees to help. They travel to Tent Town, which is then attacked by Nadren, seeking the wages of the timber workers. After defeating the raiders, Chareos and Kiall encounter the other heroes of Bel-azar: Finn, Maggrig and Beltzer. Beltzer joins Charoes and Kiall, with Finn and Maggrig agreeing to guide them to their destination: the gateway used by the Tattooed People.
DATE: 1408
BOOK: Quest for Lost Heroes.
EVENTS: The quest continues with the addition of Okas the Tattooed Man, who had been with the heroes of Bel-azar for months before the battle that made them famous. During one of his spirit journeys, Okas is asked to help Asta Khan, Tenaka’s shaman. The group comes to his aid during the Night of Demons that Shotza, Jungir’s shaman, paid for by sacrificing forty of Asta’s blood kin. Asta and the heroes repel the attack and he then kills Shotza’s acolytes, before slaying the shaman. Starting in Kiall’s village, the group follow Ravenna’s spirit trail to Tanaki’s outpost, where they find she was sold to Jungir. After leaving the meeting, the group see one of Jungir’s generals, Tsudai, ride to the fortress and seek to capture Tanaki, to answer to charges in the capital, stating that Ravenna, who is now the Khan’s wife, is pregnant. Okas announces that Taniki is part of the quest and needs to be rescued. After the rescue, the strain is too much on Okas, who dies. The group discovers that Maggrig was captured and tortured to death. Finn walks into the Nadir camp to retrieve the body and is slain. Travelling to the caves of Asta Khan in the Mountains of the Moon, the group finds the Kiatze Ambassador, Chien Tsu. Having uncovered the truth about Mai-Syn’s fate, he seeks to avenge her by killing Jungir. As they rest, a group of Nadir attack Asta’s home. Beltzer holds them off in the tunnel, while the others escape through a portal into the Void created by Asta Khan. Beltzer kills eighteen Nadir and dies.
Stealing into the palace, Tanaki and Chien rescue the heavily-pregnant Ravenna and the group flees the pursuing Nadir, until they reach Bel-azar. Asta retrieves the skull of Tenaka Khan, which he hid after the Great Khan’s death, and prepares to transfer Tenaka’s spirit into the child’s body. When Chareos discovers this, Asta poisons him, sending his spirit to the Void, where Asta, his demons and Tenaka Khan await. There, Finn, Maggrig and Beltzer join him to defy Tenaka, who agrees to let the child have his time beneath the sky. Unbenownst to Asta, Ravenna has twins and Chareos agrees to let one be raised by Asta to be Khan, the other he will raise with Ravenna himself. In order to prevent a war, Kiall challenges Jungir to battle for the fate of Ravenna. Asta tells him to repeat the Nadir Chant, which allows Tenaka Khan to take over his body and kill Jungir. Tenaka’s spirit flees Kiall’s body, to search for Jungir in the Void. Chareos gives one of the twins to Asta to raise and the war is averted.
DATE: 1415
BOOK: Quest for Lost Heroes.
EVENTS: Chareos with his adopted son, Aradan, and Ravenna stand before Castle Tenaka and tell him its true name, Dros Delnoch, and that he will one day inherit the fortress and Chareos’s title, the Earl of Bronze. Thousands of miles away, Aradan’s Nadir twin brother senses him and marks him as his mortal enemy.
DATE: 1433
BOOK: The Swords of Night and Day, (specifics supplied by David Gemmell, in conversation with Deborah Miller).
EVENTS: The War of the Twins, also the eradication of the Sathuli by the Nadir.
DATE: 1518
BOOK: Winter Warriors.
EVENTS: With their army destroyed, the Drenai face extermination at the hands of the Ventrians. With the aid of Banelion the White Wolf, Skanda’s father rallies the Drenai in one last defence of the realm and leads them to victory. The Drenai begin to reclaim their lands from the Emperor of Ventria and his armies. The War continues for the next 43 years, until the death of Skanda.
DATE: 1526
BOOK: Winter Warriors.
EVENTS: Birth of Skanda, Battle King of the Drenai.
DATE: 1541
BOOK: Winter Warriors.
EVENTS: Skanda becomes king and continues leading the Drenai in the pursuit of conquest.
DATE: 1560
BOOK: Winter Warriors.
EVENTS: After the Battle of the River, the Drenai take the Ventrian capital of Usa.
DATE: 1561
BOOK: Winter Warriors.
EVENTS: The Emperor of Ventria is defeated in battle by King Skanda, who then marries his daughter, Axiana, to rightfully claim the Ventrian throne. The previous Ventrian Emperor is given in Sacrifice to Anrahat, to fulfill Emsharas’s prophecy concerning the death of three kings. Death of King Skanda of the Drenai, who is betrayed by Prince Malikada and sacrificed as part of the ritual, making him the second of the prophesised three kings. Persuaded by his brother Emsharas, Anrahat becomes the third sacrifice and frees the Illohir to have their own lands. Also the death of Nogusta, Bison and Dagoras, as they save the newborn son of King Skanda and Axiana.
DATE: 1722
BOOK: The Swords of Night and Day.
EVENTS: The discovery of Jianna, Queen of Naashan’s bones under a sculpture of her in the ruins of her Royal Garden. The finder, Landis Kan, a student of the Temple of Ressurection, falls in love with her and seeks to bring her back.
DATE: 1746
BOOK: The Swords of Night and Day.
EVENTS: The rebirth of Jianna, Witch Queen of Naashan. Temple of the Resurection disappears.
DATE: 1933
BOOK: The Swords of Night and Day.
EVENTS: Beginning of the Drenai Civil War, surrounding Dros Delnoch and the Armour of Bronze.
DATE: 1942
BOOK: The Swords of Night and Day.
EVENTS: Ascarin the Thief steals the Armour of Bronze and hides it. The armour is later be found by Alahir. A great earthquake rips the walls of Dros Delnoch asunder. After the civil war, the Drenai leave their ancestral homeland and inhabit the lands around Siccus.
DATE: 2160
BOOK: The Swords of Night and Day.
EVENTS: Another earthquake hits Dros Delnoch, causing greater damage and the keep collapses.
DATE: 2196
BOOK: The Swords of Night and Day.
EVENTS: In the company of Kilaven, an Arcanist who seeks to uncover the secrets of the Elders, Jianna finds the legendary Armour of Bronze. She leaves it where it is and Kilaven dies three weeks later, poisoned on Jianna’s orders.
DATE: 2218
BOOK: The Swords of Night and Day.
EVENTS: Birth of Alahir, Earl of Bronze and Legend Rider.
DATE: 2222
BOOK: The Swords of Night and Day.
EVENTS: The Four Year War between the Drenai and the Gothir. The Drenai win and free themselves from their Gothir oppressors.
DATE: 2226
BOOK: The Swords of Night and Day.
EVENTS: Harad is born, a reborn grown from the bones of Druss the Legend discovered in Skilgannon’s Tomb. After Druss’s death, prior to his body being immolated on a funeral pyre, Skilgannon rode into Ulric’s camp and requested a sliver of bone, some hair and Druss’s axe, Snaga. The Great Khan gave these to Skilgannon, for having saved his life. The hair and bone were then put into Skilgannon’s tomb, to be kept until he could find the Temple of Resurrection again but he never did. The Siege of Draspartha, (Dros Purdol), during which the Drenai are defeated by Jianna the Witch Queen, known as The Eternal. The Drenai are forced to accept her as their ruler.
DATE: 2228
BOOK: The Swords of Night and Day.
EVENTS: The beginning of a new Temple War, which rages for more than 18 years.
DATE: 2246
BOOK: The Swords of Night and Day.
EVENTS: Skilgannon returns as a reborn, his soul inhabiting the body grown from his bones and hair. He seeks to fulfil the prophecy of Ustarte and meets a reborn of Jianna the Witch Queen known as Askari. Given time to reorientate himself around the palace of Landis Kan he meets one of the Eternal’s Generals, Unwallis, and the reborn of one of Skilgannon’s descendants, Decado, (The Ice Killer from The King Beyond the Gate). Taking time to go to the mountains and see the ruins of Dros Delnoch with his guide, Harad, a reborn Druss the Legend, Skilgannon on his return to Landis’s Palace, sees the smoke and finds that the town surrounding the palace has been attacked by Decado and the joinings that he brought with him. Discovering the reason for the attack, he and Harad set out to find the woman and discover that she is another reborn, the shock clearly registering on Skilgannon’s face when he looks and sees Askari, (a reborn Jianna). Seeking to fulfil the prophecy set down by Ustarte, the small group head to the location of the Temple of the Resurrection. Pursued by the Eternal’s army, they encounter The Legend Riders, (whose leader, Alahir, had discovered the Armour of Bronze after an earthquake), the last few free Drenai, who seek to hold the pass whilst Skilgannon once and for all ends the magic of the Eternal.