Timeline

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Darkness Comes to Kurald Galain Edit

Lord of Hate dissolves Jaghut civilization^[1]
Mother Dark assumes leadership of the Tiste^[2]
Anomander Rake named First Son of Darkness^[3]
Caladan Brood and Anomander Rake trade oaths, binding them together^[4]
Birth of the Tiste Andii and Tiste Liosan^[5]
Draconus opens the Gate of Darkness in Kharkanas^[6]
Tiste civil war^[7]

The First Days of the Sundering of Emurlahn Edit

The K'Chain Che'Malle civilisation is dying out in the Malazan world. The Forkrul Assail are becoming fewer in number. The Jaghut and Imass are present.^[8]
Anomander Rake leads the first Tiste Andii settlers to the Malazan world.^[8]
The combined forces of Silchas Ruin's Tiste Andii and Scabandari's Tiste Edur invade the Malazan world defeating the armies of the K'Chain Che'Malle on Lether and seizing the gate between worlds.^[8] Sandalath Drukorlat falls in battle with the K'Chain Che'Malle.^[9]
Scabandari Bloodeye betrays Silchas Ruin, slays his entire force, and leaves him imprisoned within an Azath House.^[8]
At the behest of Mael, Gothos conducts an Omtose Phellack ritual over the Tiste battlefield sealing it in ice and accidentally closing the pathways of the dead in Lether.^[10]^[11]
The K'Chain Che'Malle's sole remaining city is Morn where the K'Chain Nah'ruk plot rebellion.^[8]
Menandore and Sukul Ankhadu imprison Sheltatha Lore in the Azath Tower.^[12]
In revenge for the Tiste invasion, the K'Chain Che'Malle send their sorcery into Kurald Galain like a plague. All gates in Kurald Galain are sealed and Mother Dark is driven into The Abyss.^[13]
Scabandari is tracked down and slain by Kilmandaros. His spirit is placed in a prison of eternal pain.^[14]

K'Chain Che'Malle civil warEdit

The short-tailed K'Chain Nah'ruk turn on the Matrons. The Matrons may have created the rent at Morn in an attempt to defend themselves.^[15]^[16]

298,665 years before Burn's Sleep Edit

Maeth'ki Im (Pogrom of the Rotted Flower), 33rd Jaghut War^[17]
Pran Chole, Onos T'oolan, and Kilava Onass are still mortal^[18]
The chaining of the Jaghut Tyrant Raest by a temporary alliance of Jaghut and Imass^[19]
Onrack T'emlava betrays his mate to have an affair with Kilava Onass. He breaks Imass law by painting her image.^[20]
Four Jaghut Tyrants on Seven Cities raise a compact to destroy the land putting in motion the events leading to the Ritual of Tellann.^[21]
A Jaghut mother, hunted by Imass gives her son and daughter to Kilava, who then places them in the Rent^[22]
Kilava slays all of her kin except for her brother, Onos T'oolan^[23]
The First Gathering of the Imass and the Ritual of Tellann^[24]

119,739 years before Burn's Sleep Edit

Fall of the Crippled God^[25]
The continent of Korel is devastated^[26]
Togg is separated from Fanderay^[27]
The birth of the Great Ravens^[28]

119,736 years before Burn's Sleep Edit

Time of Dying^[29]
High King Kallor destroys the entire continent of Jacuruku^[30]
K'rul, Draconus and Sister of Cold Nights curse Kallor to immortality, he in turn curses each of them.^[31]
K'rul creates the Imperial Warren by sweeping the devastation from the land into the new Warren so that the land might heal^[32]
Togg disappears into the Warren of Chaos looking for Fanderay^[33]

92,836 years before Burn's Sleep Edit

Icarium makes an offering of a timepiece to a city of the First Empire in the coastal area that would later become Raraku^[34]

33,421 years before Burn's Sleep Edit

Seventh century of the 12th Lamatath campaign of the Jaghut War^[35]

6,031 years before Burn's Sleep Edit

Hel'eth Jal Im (Pogrom of the White Stag), 51st Jaghut War^[36]

3,411 years before Burn's Sleep Edit

Temal begins constructing the Stormwall^[37]

3,011 years before Burn's Sleep Edit

The Stormwall is completed, the beginning of the Korel calendar^[38]

837 years before Burn's Sleep Edit

The city of Darujhistan is founded^[39]

835 years before Burn's Sleep Edit

Approximate year of Seti expulsion from Fenn lands. Nightchill somehow involved.^[40]

1st year of Burn's Sleep Edit

Sensing the coming battle against the Crippled God's infection within her flesh, Burn sleeps. She makes of herself a weapon, placing all of her spirit and power into a hammer capable of breaking the chains poisoning her.^[41]
After several thousand years on his "solitary path", Caladan Brood returns around this time bearing the hammer of Burn. He, Rake, Hood, and the Queen of Dreams agree that the hammer should not be used.^[42]^[43]

263rd year of Burn's Sleep Edit

Gas is first used to light one of the quarters of Darujhistan^[44]

264th year of Burn's Sleep Edit

Approximate year of the liberation of Karakarang. Nightchill somehow involved.^[45]

363rd year of Burn's Sleep Edit

Approximate year Anomander Rake was last visited by Icarium who was in the company of Mappo Runt and Osseric. Caladan Brood was also present.^[46]

758th year of Burn's Sleep Edit

Approximate period that The Unbound swore fealty to the Crippled God^[47]
Approximate period of Pahlk Orlong's raid on Silver Lake.^[48]

764th year of Burn's Sleep Edit

Approximate year that the River Catlin reroutes itself away from Saltoan. The city attempts to recapture river traffic by constructing Korselan's Canal, but is unable to halt its inevitable decline.^[49]

1012th year of Burn's SleepEdit

The Nathii Expedition identifies Buryd Fissure in the Laederon Plateau as the site of the seventeenth or eighteenth Kron T'lan Imass Jaghut War. The expedition's Adept determines that the Kron's Jaghut nemesis still survives within the glacier.^[50]

Path to AscendancyEdit

Wu and Dorin Rav meet in a cavern under the Seti Plains and form an unlikely partnership.^[51]
King Chulalorn the Third of Itko Kan sends his army to seize the city of Li Heng. The Protectress successfully resists his forces at great cost.
Wu rediscovers the way to Kurald Emurlahn.
A young Dassem Ultor founds a temple to Hood at Li Heng.
Wu and Dorin Rav (now named Dancer) are expelled from Li Heng after their attempt to organise the criminal elements there.^[52]
Tarel seizes control of the Napan Isles and becomes king. His sister, Sureth, and those Napans loyal to her are driven into exile on Malaz Island. These include Hawl, Choss, Grinner, Tocaras, and Cartheron and Urko Crust.^[53]
Wu and Dancer establish themselves in Malaz City, purchasing Smiley's to serve as their base of operations. Sureth and her Napans become their employees at the tavern.^[54] They go to war with the city's ruler, Mock, ultimately taking control of the pirate-king's Hold and his city.^[55]
The death of Demidrek Ithell leads to political turmoil in Kartool. Tayschrenn, a high-ranking priest of D'rek, is put on trial and forced to flee to Malaz City.

1058th year of Burn's Sleep Edit

Malazan Empire is founded

1061th year of Burn's Sleep Edit

Approximate year when Itko Kan becomes part of the Malazan Empire^[56]

1066th year of Burn's Sleep Edit

The Crimson Guard vow to defeat the Malazan Empire^[57]
Approximate year Li Heng and The Protectress fall to the Malazans at the hands of the T'lan Imass.^[58]^[59]

1067th year of Burn's Sleep Edit

Approximate year of the Malazan invasion of the Crimson Guard lands on Stratem^[60]
Approximate year of the start of the Crimson Guard Diaspora^[60]
Approximate year of Ryllandaras' captivity at Li Heng^[61]

1080th year of Burn's Sleep Edit

Likely year of Karsa Orlong's birth.^[62]

1084th year of Burn's Sleep Edit

Year(+/- 1) of Dujek Onearm's birth according to a reference in Gardens of the Moon.^[63] Go to Talk:Timeline for discussion of possible timeline inconsistency.

1085th year of Burn's Sleep Edit

Approximate year of Icarium and Mappo Runt's travel to the ancient ruined city of Trebur on Seven Cities.^[64]

1099th year of Burn's SleepEdit

The ice filling Buryd Fissure in the Teblor lands of the Laederon Plateau suddenly melts. It reveals the preserved bodies of countless beasts and the bodies and broken stone weapons of an ancient T'lan Imass battle much to the Teblor elders' puzzlement.^[65]

1101st year of Burn's Sleep Edit

Approximate year the Letherii Empire conquers Bluerose.^[66]

1104th year of Burn's Sleep Edit

Approximate year of the Seti pacification on Quon Tali.^[67]

1123rd year of Burn's Sleep Edit

Malaz City overflows with sewage^[68]

1134th year of Burn's Sleep Edit

Likely year of Itkovian's birth^[69]

1135th year of Burn's Sleep Edit

(Probable) Start of the occupation of the Lands of Fist by the 6th Army^[70]

1141st year of Burn's SleepEdit

Birth of Toc the Younger^[71]

1142nd year of Burn's Sleep Edit

Ganoes Paran born in Unta^[72]

1143rd year of Burn's Sleep Edit

Probable year of Tavore Paran's birth^[73]
Probable year of Lorn's birth^[74]

1144th year of Burn's Sleep Edit

Construction begins on the Eternal Domicile in Letheras^[75]

1145th year of Burn's Sleep Edit

Korelri year 4156 SW (Since the Wall)^[76]
Year 11 of the Malazan Occupation of the Lands of Fist^[76]

1147th year of Burn's Sleep Edit

His small army facing nightly maulings from three tribal nations, Dassem Ultor develops a Malazan strategy that will still be known and practiced as 'Dassem's answer' decades later^[77]
Crusade of 1147 - The Nathii call for the obliteration of the Teblor of the Laederon Plateau^[78]

1148th year of Burn's Sleep Edit

Udinaas is enslaved by the Hiroth after the whaling vessel, the Brunt, is captured by Tiste Edur^[79]

1149th year of Burn's Sleep Edit

Fiddler joins the Malazan Army^[80]
Probable year of Felisin Paran's birth^[81]^[82]^[83]
Start of the Tiste Edur War of Unification that will ultimately bring together the five tribes under Hannan Mosag's leadership^[84]
Hull Beddict is promoted to Sentinel and sent to study the Nerek, Tarthenal, and Faraed tribes on the Letherii Empire's northern frontier^[85]

1150th year of Burn's Sleep Edit

The Pannion Seer returns from the Mountain to Bastion speaking the Words of Truth. Accepting the first Embrasure, the citizens murder a passing caravan from Elingarth. Nine months later, Anaster, the First Child of the Dead Seed, is born.^[86]

1151st year of Burn's Sleep Edit

Gerun Eberict's brother Harlest dies in a fall.^[87]
Birth of historian Imrygyn Tallobant.^[88]

1152nd year of Burn's Sleep Edit

The Malazan Empire begins its conquest of Genabackis^[89]^[90]
Kellanved and Dancer disappear on a mysterious two year journey^[91]

1152/1153 Burn's Sleep Edit

Slaughter in Aren by the Logros T'lan Imass as they put down rebellion^[92]

1153rd year of Burn's Sleep Edit

Karakarang, the Holy City of the Tanno cult surrenders peacefully after negotiations between Kimloc and Dujek.^[93]
Seren Pedac discovers former Letherii Sentinel, Hull Beddict, living like an animal near High Fort. She works to bring him back to his senses and they fall in love.^[94]

1154th year of Burn's Sleep Edit

Dassem Ultor is presumed dead at Y'Ghatan^[95]
Riots in the Mouse Quarter of Malaz City are put down by forces under Whiskeyjack^[96]
Last year of Emperor Kellanved's reign^[97]
Night of the Shadow Moon in Malaz City. The Shadow Throne receives its new master.^[98]
First year of Empress Laseen's reign.^[99] Laseen begins purge of Quon Tali noble families and the Empire is rocked by riots and mass executions.^[100]
Empress Laseen roots out and exterminates the warlocks of the Wickans, leaving them to die hanging from iron spikes on the walls of Unta^[101]
The Warren of Shadow is open to humans again^[102]

1155th year of Burn's Sleep Edit

Approximate time of Crimson Guard's Second Induction^[103]

1156th year of Burn's Sleep Edit

The Malazan Empire allies with the Moranth and acquires Moranth munitions^[104]
The Malazan 2nd and 3rd Armies march on Mott sparking the twin nightmares of Mott Wood and Blackdog Swamp.^[105]
Buruk the Pale contracts Acquitor Seren Pedac to serve him for a period of ten years^[106]

1157th year of Burn's Sleep Edit

Gerun Eberict, Finadd of the Letherii Royal Guard, stops an assassination attempt on King Ezgara Diskanar. In reward, the king grants him the King's Leave.^[107]

1158th year of Burn's Sleep Edit

First of the Seven Years of Dryjhna, the Apocalyptic
Approximate year the Malazan Empire loses contact with the 6th Army on the Lands of Fist^[108]
Shurq Elalle drowns in Quillas Canal during The Drownings^[109]

1159th year of Burn's Sleep Edit

Year of the White Veins in the Ebony^[110]
Trull Sengar is Shorn and left to die in the Nascent on his brother Rhulad's order.^[111](see also Talk:Timeline for discussion on timeline inconsistencies)
The Free Cities establish contracts with the Crimson Guard and the Tiste Andii regiments of Moon's Spawn. The Malazan 5th Army is pushed back and bogged down in Blackdog Forest for the next four years.^[112]^[113]
Urugal the Woven's Year^[114]
Karsa Orlong leaves his village^[114] (see Talk:Timeline for discussion on timeline inconsistencies)
The Third Meckros city is destroyed from below by a surfacing mountain of ice. Twenty thousand Meckros perish. The lone survivor is Withal, who is rescued by the Crippled God and brought to his warren. Withal is enslaved until such time as he crafts a sword of the god's design.^[115]
Iron Bars, Corlo, and the rest of the Crimson Guard Second Blade become stranded in the Letherii Empire after escaping Assail.^[116]

1160th year of Burn's Sleep Edit

First year of the Pannion Domin^[117]
Pormqual succeeds Cartheron Crust as High Fist of Seven Cities^[118]
Season of Rot in Unta
The Siege of Pale begins

1161st year of Burn's Sleep Edit

Year of the Late Frost^[119]
103rd year of the Malazan Empire^[120]
7th year of Empress Laseen's rule^[120]
The Ascension of the Empty Hold^[119]
Itko Kan massacre by the Hounds of Shadow^[121]
Sorry is possessed by Cotillion^[122]
Bauchelain and Korbal Broach leave Lamentable Moll aboard the Suncurl with their new manservant Emancipor Reese. They ply the waters of Laughter's End before wrecking near Spendrugle.^[123]
The War of Unification ends bringing the Tiste Edur tribes of northwestern Lether under Hannan Mosag's rule.^[124]
The Warlock King comes to an arrangement with the Crippled God. He is granted the ability to channel Chaos magic and given the services of a forgotten Demon spirit-god. The Crippled God gives him a vision of a gift awaiting on the ice fields of Lether.
Elements of the government of the Kingdom of Lether send a fleet of ships to hunt Tusked seals in Edur waters to violate treaty and push towards war.
Rhulad Sengar takes possession of the Crippled God's sword and pushes the Warlock King aside to become emperor of the Tiste Edur.^[125]^[126]
The Great Meeting between the Letherii and the Edur is a failure. Emperor Rhulad launches a war to satisfy the Crippled God's desire for conquest.^[127]^[128]
Rhulad opens a rent to drown the warren fragment known as the Nascent. (see also Talk:Timeline for discussion on timeline inconsistencies)

1162nd year of Burn's Sleep Edit

Letherii Seventh Closure^[129] (see Talk:Timeline for discussion on timeline inconsistencies)
Rhulad Sengar and the Tiste Edur conquer Letheras and Rhulad becomes emperor of the Letherii Empire. The Errant manipulates the death of Brys Beddict.
Bugg recruits Iron Bars and his Crimson Guard to slay The Pack.
Silchas Ruin escapes from the now dead Azath Tower. Ruin, Iron Bars, and Ublala Pung slay the Seregahl. The Hold of Death manifests in the tower's place.
Trull Sengar is likely Shorn. (see also Talk:Timeline for discussion on timeline inconsistencies)

1163rd year of Burn's Sleep Edit

907th year in the Third Millennium^[39]
105th year of the Malazan Empire^[130]
9th year of Empress Laseen's rule^[130]
Year of the Cull^[131]
Season of Rot in Unta^[131]
Year of the Shattered Moon^[132]
End of the Siege of Pale^[104] Go to Siege of Pale for detailed timeline of siege and events soon after
The Year of the Five Tusks^[39]^[133]
The Jaghut Tyrant Raest is released
Death of Adjunct Lorn
Felisin Paran is sent to the Otataral mines by her sister, Adjunct Tavore^[134]

1164th year of Burn's Sleep Edit

Year of the Moon's Tears^[133]
10th year of Empress Laseen's rule^[135]
The Sixth in the Seven Years of Dryjhna, the Apocalyptic^[135]
Tellann year of the Second Gathering of the T'lan Imass^[136]
Istral’fennidahn, the season of D’rek, Worm of Autumn^[137]
The Master of the Deck is chosen
Bauchelain, Korbal Broach, and Emancipor Reese travel to Darujhistan, Saltoan, and Capustan
The Crippled God forms High House Chains and begins filling its members
The population of Callows is wiped out by sea raiders
Siege of Capustan
The Whirlwind rebellion begins on Seven Cities
Fener is pulled into the mortal realm
Many Soletaken and D'ivers follow the Path of Hands on Seven Cities
Fist Coltaine leads the Chain of Dogs across Seven Cities
The Grey Swords rededicate themselves to Togg and Fanderay
Siege of Coral
Kallor's betrayal
Togg and Fanderay are reunited and take the Beast Throne
The failing Moon's Spawn is set adrift populated only by the dead
The Tiste Andii settle in Black Coral
Adjunct Tavore leads the Malaz 14th Army on a punitive expedition to Seven Cities
Treach replaces Fener as the preeminent god of war^[138]
K'rul's Bar is founded in Darujhistan in the remains of K'rul's Temple^[139]
Tiste Edur assail the Throne of Shadow on Drift Avalii killing Andarist^[140]
Karsa Orlong frees The Unbound^[141]
Korbolo Dom betrays Sha'ik Reborn and the self-declared Master of the Talon's assassins slay the Whirlwind Goddess^[142]
The Master of the Deck sanctions High House Chains^[143]
Korbolo Dom captured and delivered to Adjunct Tavore^[144]
The Bridgeburners ascend^[145]
Adjunct Tavore kills Sha'ik Reborn^[146]
Raraku floods forming an inland sea^[147]
The Bonehunters are born in fire at the Last Siege of Y'Ghatan^[148]^[149]

1165th year of Burn's Sleep Edit

Kyle is conscripted into the Crimson Guard^[57]
11th year of Empress Laseen's reign^[57]
99th year of the Crimson Guard's Vow^[57]
Bauchelain, Korbal Broach, and Emancipor Reese overthrow the health-based regime of Quaint.^[150]

1166th year of Burn's Sleep Edit

Malazan civil war - many of the remaining Old Guard form the Talian League and attempt to sieze control of Quon Tali from Laseen
The end of the Crimson Guard diaspora. The Guard reunites on Stratem before returning to Quon Tali to seek vengeance against the Malazan Empire.
Battle of the Plains
Last year of Empress Laseen's reign
K'azz D'Avore returns to take control of the Crimson Guard
Anomander Rake faces Traveller at Darujhistan

1167th year of Burn's Sleep Edit

First year of Emperor Mallick Rel's reign^[151]
Korelri year 4178 SW (Since the Wall)^[152]
Year 33 of the Malazan Occupation of the Lands of Fist^[152]
Malazan Expeditionary Force sent to Korel to bring the renegade 6th Army to heel
The Jourilan Army of Reform topples Jourilan's monarchy^[153]^[154]
Fall of the Stormwall

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Bonehunters battle against K'Chain Nah'ruk
Six days later, Tavore's parley with allies^[155]
Battle of the Spire
Gallan tells Fisher kel Tath the story of Anomandaris and ancient Kharkanas^[156]

Significant plot details end here. Spoiler warning: The following section contains significant plot details about Gardens of the Moon and Deadhouse Gates.

Speculations on the start of Burn's Sleep calendar yearEdit

The first day of the Burn's Sleep calendar year may be tied to be the first day of Spring instead of the Malazan equivalent of our January 1st. In Gardens of the Moon the changeover from the Year of the Tusk to the Year of the Moon's Tears was tied to the Gedderone Fête celebrating the first day of Spring.^[157]^[158] It is unclear if the Burn's Sleep calendar followed the same convention. The majority of events covered in Gardens of the Moon leading to the Gedderone Fete were recorded as occurring in 1163 BS.^[159] The events of Memories of Ice were recorded as occurring two months after the Fete in 1164 BS.^[160] But the Prologue of Deadhouse Gates begins in 1163 BS with the events of the Gedderone Fête already known.^[161] Assuming the date is not an error by Erikson, Tavore Paran's ascension to Adjunct was either near instantaneous with Lorn's death or the Burn's Sleep year actually began some time in the two month window between the Fête and the start of Memories of Ice.

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Speculations on the length of a yearEdit

A comment made in Midnight Tides seemed to indicate a year in the Malazan world may only have been around 200 days long.

Spoiler warning: The following section contains significant plot details about Midnight Tides.

After being told Gerun Eberict had killed two to three thousand people in the past year,^[162] Bugg estimated that the Finadd was killing ten to fifteen people a day. ^[163] (Using those numbers: 10x200=2000 and 15x200=3000).