TIMELINE OF VELGARTH

What To Know

Below is a monumental effort to record every event within the lands of Velgarth.

As each new chronicle is written, new events will appear and old events may be adjusted.

In a world of poets and historians, there will be many different viewpoints and histories.

Not all will line up with reality.

Therefore, it is the effort of the Herald-Chronicler, the Guard Archivist, the Collegium Historian, the Rethwellan Royal Archivist, a kyree historian, and their assistants, to find the truth and pinpoint, to the best of their ability, the exact moment of these events.

Those moments in history that are not yet verified (non-canon) are clearly marked as are the locations of the manuscripts and histories where each event can be found, should further research be required.

During this process, Collegium Historian Assistant Trica, is updating the Rolls over on the Valdemar Wiki.

Check it out to stay updated.


Legend

📖 ↣ Title of Book: Chapter of Book

📜 ↣ Special Notes from Herald-Chronicler Assistant, Joshuah

📚 ↣ Special Notes from Collegium Historian Assistant, Trica

Green Font ↣ Possible Non-Canon Story

All entries are the combined efforts of Collegium Historian Assistant Trica and Herald-Chronicler Assistant, Joshuah (when he's not off on Circuit).

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Calendar

According to Foundation the months are named based on the season and the moon: Midwinters Moon, Ice Moon, Thawing Moon, Budding Moon, and Flowering Moon.

Mercedes Lackey has stated that New Years begins on the 1st day of the Midwinter Moon.

Using these names and a 30-day moon cycle, the following Calendar has been officially approved by Mercedes Lackey and can be used for reference.

Moons Modern Dates Known Events During This Moon
🌑 Midwinters Moon (January 1st to January 30th)
  • ♞ The New Year begins on the 1st day of Midwinters Moon (January 1st).
🌒 Ice Moon (January 31st to February 29th)
  • ♞ Candlemas occurs on the 2nd day of Ice Moon (February 1st).
  • ♞ The 3rd day of Ice Moon (February 2nd) is usually when weather-witches are able to predict how good or bad the weather will be for the rest of the season.
  • ♞ Winter ends on the last day of Ice Moon (February 29th).
🌒 Thawing Moon (March 1st to March 30th)
  • ♞ Spring officially begins on the 1st day of Thawing Moon (March 1st).
  • ♞ Herald-Chronicler Assistant, Joshuah's birthing day is the 1st day of Thawing Moon (March 1st).
  • ♞ Planting Season begins with the start of Thawing Moon.
🌓 Budding Moon (March 31st to April 29th)
  • ♞ Spring Equinox is on the 1st day of Budding Moon (March 31st).
  • ♞ Crops are either being planted or already planted and growing.
  • ♞ Growing season continues until Harvest and Wine Moons.
🌔 Flowering Moon (April 30th to May 29th)
  • ♞ Beltane occurs on the 15th day of Flowering Moon.
  • ♞ Spring ends on the 5th day of Flowering Moon.
  • ♞ Summer begins on the 6th day of Flowering Moon.
🌔 Mead Moon (May 30th to June 28th)
  • ♞ Herald-Chronicler Myste Williger's (Mercedes Lackey) birthing day is the 25th day of Mead Moon.
  • ♞ Midsummer's Eve occurs on the last day of Mead Moon.
  • ♞ Queen's Own, Talia Sensholding's birthing day is the last day of Mead Moon.
🌕 Midsummer Moon (June 29th to July 28th)
  • ♞ Kyree Historian (Larry Dixon)'s birthing day is the last day of Midsummer Moon (July 28th).
🌖 Foaling Moon (July 29th to August 27th)
  • ♞ Summer ends on the 3rd day of Foaling Moon (July 31st).
  • ♞ Autumn begins on the 4th day of Foaling Moon (August 1st). Also known as Autumn's Eve.
🌖 Harvest Moon (August 28th to September 26th)
  • ♞ Autumnal Equinox occurs on the 26th day of Harvest Moon (September 23rd).
🌗 Wine Moon (September 27th to October 26th)
  • ♞ Typical harvest time for wine ends mid-Wine Moon.
  • ♞ Autumn ends on the last day of Wine Moon (October 26th).
🌘 Mourning Moon (October 27th to November 25th)
  • ♞ Winter begins on the 1st day of Mourning Moon (October 27th) and is celebrated with Winterfinding.
  • ♞ Sovvan-Night occurs on the 6th day of Mourning Moon (November 1st).
  • ♞ Harvestfest is a celebration of memorial festivities held in the evenings on this day.
  • ♞ Sovvan is considered by some as a time to celebrate the lives of ancestors, family members, elders of the faith, friends, pets, and other loved ones who have died.
🌘 Dying Moon (November 26th to December 25th)
  • ♞ Midwinter's six days of Festivities begins on the last day of the Dying Moon (December 25th).
  • ♞ Feasting, and gift giving are common elements of Midwinter festivities.
  • ♞ Bringing sprigs and wreaths of evergreenery (such as holly, ivy, mistletoe, yew, and pine) into the home and tree decorating are also common during this time.
  • ♞ Traditionally Valdemar celebrates with additional festivities taking place during the six days leading up to Midwinter's Eve.
  • ♞ On the 6th day of Midwinter's Festival, is Midwinter's Eve, the last day of the year (December 31st).

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History of Velgarth

1034 AF

---♔ Reign of Unknown Ruler ♕---

    Pol is born

1047 AF

    Pol is Chosen by Companion Satiran. Pol is thirteen (13) years old and has a little bit of every minor Gift.
    • Brightly Burning: Chapter Five

1051 AF

    Herald-trainee Pol, Chosen of Companion Satiran, graduates to full Herald status. He is eighteen (18) years old

1052 AF

    Herald Pol completes his year-and-a-half internship. He is nineteen (19), almost twenty (20), years old

1060 AF

    Theran, heir to the throne of Valdemar, is born
    Fyllis, daughter of the Duke of Brendan, is born
    Amaly is born to Herald Pol and Healer Ilea.
    • Herald Pol is twenty-seven (27) years old.

1063 AF

    Kaika is born to Herald Pol and Healer Ilea.
    • Herald Pol is thirty (30) years old.

1068 AF

    Lavan Chitward is born to Archer Chitward and Nelda Hardcrider Chitward.
    • Brightly Burning: Chapter Five

1070 AF

    Elenor is born to Herald Pol and Healer Ilea.
    • Herald Pol is thirty-six (36) years old.
    • Brightly Burning: Chapter Five

1073 AF

    Herald-trainee Theran, Heir to the Throne is Chosen at the age of thirteen (13).
    • Brightly Burning mentions that Herald Pol remembers when both Theran and Fyllis were Chosen.
    • Brightly Burning: Chapter Five
    Fyllis, daughter of the Duke of Brendan, is Chosen at the age of thirteen (13).
    • Brightly Burning mentions that Herald Pol remembers when both Theran and Fyllis were Chosen.
    • Brightly Burning: Chapter Five
    Fyllis begins training for Empathy with Herald Pol.
    • Herald Pol is forty-one (41) years old.
    • Brightly Burning: Chapter Five

1075 AF

    Malken is born.
    • Brightly Burning: Chapter Six

1076 AF

    The Monarch of Valdemar dies leaving Herald-trainee and Heir, Theran, to assume the Throne upon graduating to full Herald.
    The court is run by the Monarch’s Own and the Council

1077 AF

---♔ Reign of King Theran ♔---

    Herald-Heir Theran becomes King upon graduating into a full Herald, having waited to finish training before assuming the throne
    King Theran marries Herald Fyllis, daughter of the Duke of Brendan. Theran and Fyllis are eighteen (18) years old

1078 AF

    Amaly receives her full Healer Greens. She is eighteen (18) years old.
    • Hypothesis: That you have to be eighteen before receiving full Greens.
    • Brightly Burning: Chapter Five
    Healer Amaly marries Ranolf

1079 AF

    Elenor begins training as a MindHealer.
    • Brightly Burning: Chapter Ten
    Clevis, future king of Valdemar, is born to King Theran and Queen Fyllis

1081 AF

    Kaika, daughter of Herald Pol and Healer Ilea receives her full Bard Reds. She is eighteen (18) years old.
    • Hypothesis: That you have to be eighteen before receiving full Reds.
    • Brightly Burning: Chapter Five

1084 AF

    Malken is Chosen by Companion Hayka. He is nine (9) years old.
    • Brightly Burning: Chapter Six

Fall

    Lavan Chitward receives cloth-merchant tools from Guildmaster Howell. Lavan Chitward is sixteen (16) years old at this time.
    • Brightly Burning: Chapter One
    Samael Chitward, Lavan Chitward’s older brother is already apprenticed to Master Guildsman Iresh.
    • Brightly Burning: Chapter One

The Next Day

    Lavan Chitward is told he will be starting school the next day.
    • Brightly Burning: Chapter One

The Next Day

    Lavan Chitward and his father, Archer Chitward, go to the school where they meet Master Keileth.
    • Brightly Burning: Chapter Two
    Master Keileth places Lavan Chitward in the Third Form.
    • Brightly Burning: Chapter Two
    Upon arriving in the classroom, Lavan Chitward is introduced to the Third Form instructor, Herewan.
    • Brightly Burning: Chapter Two
    Lavan Chitward meets Owyn Kittlekine (called Owly by the Sixth Form students), a fourteen year old student who is assigned to show Lavan Chitward around.
    • Brightly Burning: Chapter Two
    At lunch time Lavan Chitward meets a sixteen year old girl called “Froggy” and Lavan Chitward is bullied by students in Sixth Form. Two of the main leaders of Sixth Form are Tyron and Derwit.
    • Brightly Burning: Chapter Two

One Week Later

    Lavan Chitward tries to speak with a Fifth Form girl only to be turned down. He avoids all girls after this only to find the Sixth Form students have started calling him shaych.
    • Brightly Burning: Chapter Three

Two Weeks Later

    Lavan Chitward is sent home for being ill because his head was pounding and causing him pain.
    • Brightly Burning: Chapter Three

Ten Days Later

    Lavan Chitward is better and is sent back to school. It is now closer to winter.
    • Brightly Burning: Chapter Three
    Lavan Chitward is struck again by a blinding headache that causes him to pass out twice at school. A Healer takes him home to explain things to Nelda Hardcrider Chitward.
    • Brightly Burning: Chapter Four

Next Day

    Herald Pol, Chosen by Companion Satiran, turns fifty years old this month.
    • Brightly Burning: Chapter Five
    MindHealer-trainee, Elenor, is fourteen years old.
    • Brightly Burning: Chapter Five
    Healer Ilea is in service on the Southern Border.
    • Brightly Burning: Chapter Ten
    King Theran has one son named Clevis, who is five years old, a two year old, and another baby.
    • Brightly Burning: Chapter Five
    Queen Fyllis is two months pregnant with another baby.
    • Brightly Burning: Chapter Five
    King Theran and Queen Fyllis are both twenty-four years old.
    • Brightly Burning: Chapter Five
    Herald Pol gets a boost from Satiran to scan Haven for the traces of a Gift he felt the night before.
    • Brightly Burning: Chapter Five

Next Day

    Herald Pol plays cards at lunch with Herald Damina, Herald Tevar (youngest brother of King Theran), and Herald Melly.
    • Brightly Burning: Chapter Six
    Herald Pol has dinner with Heralds Jonotan, Kiela, Lerrys, Wernar, and Charis.
    • Brightly Burning: Chapter Six
    Herald Charis tells the others that she has just finished reporting to the King that they have found out that Karse will be starting a full-blown war by Midwinter, or next summer at the latest.
    • Brightly Burning: Chapter Six
    Herald-trainee Malken has his Gift of Foresight fully awaken and he has a vision of thousands of people burning and somehow Herald Pol is in the middle of all of it.
    • Brightly Burning: Chapter Six
    Herald Pol goes back to his room to find Herald-trainee Malken crying in his room.
    • Brightly Burning: Chapter Six
    Herald-trainee Malken is almost ten years old.
    • Brightly Burning: Chapter Six

Next Day

    Lavan Chitward is sent back to school.
    • Brightly Burning: Chapter Four
    Lavan Chitward stays in his classroom during lunch thinking it a good way of avoiding Tyron and the other Sixth Form students.
    • Brightly Burning: Chapter Four

Four Days Later

    Owyn asks Lavan Chitward if he can join him in staying in the classrooms during lunch to avoid the Sixth Form students.
    • Brightly Burning: Chapter Seven

Next Day

    Lavan Chitward and Owyn are joined in the classroom during lunch by Liss.
    • Brightly Burning: Chapter Seven
    Companion Lada, with two moons left in her pregnancy leaves to go find her Chosen.
    • Brightly Burning: Chapter Eleven

Several Weeks Later

    Herald Pol is riding Companion Satiran when a tree falls on the two of them.
    • Brightly Burning: Chapter Seven
    Wrenlet is Chosen by Companion Lada.
    • Hypothesis: Wrenlet is thirteen years old

One Day Later

    Lavan Chitward is caught by Tyron, Derwit, and the other Sixth Form bullies and is taken to a dark room to be whipped and beaten.
    • Brightly Burning: Chapter Seven
    Lavan Chitward is caned by Tyron and the fear and anger burst from Lavan Chitward and he manifests his Firestarting Gift, igniting Tyron, Loman, and Derwit instantly. Another boy gets instantly burned when he tries to escape. The other boys simply cower and when Lavan Chitward tries to control the flame it starts to burn him. Lavan Chitward passes out and the fires are extinguished.
    • Brightly Burning: Chapter Seven

Three Days Later

    Herald Pol wakes up and discusses with his Healer about his injury and the news of the fire at the school. The Healer mentions that the supposed victim is in his care and hasn’t woken up yet. Herald Pol asks the Healer to quickly heal him so that he can go talk to this boy (Lavan Chitward).
    • Brightly Burning: Chapter Eight

A Day & A Half Later

    Herald Pol is healed.
    • Brightly Burning: Chapter Eight
    Herald Pol goes to the Captain of the Guard, Captain Telamaine, to discuss the case of the fire at the school.
    • Brightly Burning: Chapter Eight
    Captain Telamaine asks Herald Pol to take over the whole investigation. Herald Pol agrees.
    • Brightly Burning: Chapter Eight
    Herald Pol goes to speak with Owyn Kittlekine.
    • Brightly Burning: Chapter Eight
    Owyn opens up to Herald Pol and tells him all that he knew about what had gone on at the school.
    • Brightly Burning: Chapter Eight
    Herald Pol interviews several more students regarding the school and becomes very angry.
    • Brightly Burning: Chapter Eight
    Herald Pol returns to Captain Telamaine and gives him the bare-bones facts of the interviews. The Captain of the Guard closes down the school.
    • Brightly Burning: Chapter Eight
    Herald Pol returns to the Palace to bring his notes of the interviews to the Seneschal’s Herald, Trevor. Herald Trevor tells Herald Pol to interview Lavan Chitward as soon as possible.
    • Brightly Burning: Chapter Eight

Three Days Later

False Summer

    Lavan Chitward wakes up and after eating is approached by Herald Pol.
    • Brightly Burning: Chapter Nine
    Lavan Chitward gets angry at the questioning and the memories and ignites some torches and a few bushes. Just when he is about to give up Lavan Chitward is Chosen by Companion Kalira, daughter of Satiran, Companion of Herald Pol.
    • Brightly Burning: Chapter Nine
    Herald trainee Lavan Chitward is sixteen years old.
    • Brightly Burning: Chapter Nine
    Companion Satiran tells Herald Pol that he believes the bond between Lavan Chitward and Kalira is more than a bond between a Herald and his Companion. He believes that the bond is a lifebond.
    • Brightly Burning: Chapter Nine
    Upon entering Heralds Collegium Herald Pol is accosted by Captain Telamaine, the Lord Marshal and his Herald, Marak – Seneschal Greely and his Herald, Trevor – and the King’s Own, Herald Jedin. They begin to argue until Herald Pol tells them to shut up and go to the Lesser Council Chamber.
    • Brightly Burning: Chapter Ten
    King Theran enters the Council Room to help calm the situation.
    • Brightly Burning: Chapter Ten
    Companion Lada brings her newly Chosen, Wrenlet, to the Herald’s Collegium.
    • Brightly Burning: Chapter Eleven

The Next Day

    Herald-trainee Lavan Chitward meets Healer-trainee Elenor for the first time.
    • Brightly Burning: Chapter Ten
    Lavan Chitward meets up with Herald Pol, Companion Satiran, Companion Kalira and Healer-trainee Elenor in the gardens.
    • Brightly Burning: Chapter Ten
    Lavan Chitward learns that his parents have been there every day checking on him and waiting to see him well.
    • Brightly Burning: Chapter Ten
    Archer Chitward and Nelda Hardcrider Chitward arrive that moment to see Lavan Chitward.
    • Brightly Burning: Chapter Ten
    Lavan Chitward walks with his parents in the Royal Gardens after his mother apologizes for not believing him about the bullies at school.
    • Brightly Burning: Chapter Ten

Six Days Later

    False Summer ends and Autumn returns with a vengeance.
    • Brightly Burning: Chapter Eleven

Several Days Later

    Pol helps Lavan Chitward move from the Healers Wing to his own room in the Herald’s Collegium.
    • Brightly Burning: Chapter Eleven
    At lunch Lavan Chitward meets Herald-trainee Tuck Chester, who was Chosen by Companion Dacerie, and Herald-trainee Fyllia.
    • Brightly Burning: Chapter Eleven
    After lunch Lavan Chitward sees Companions Field for the first time and rides Kalira for the first time as well.
    • Brightly Burning: Chapter Eleven
    During their ride, Lavan Chitward meets Companion Rolan for the first time.
    • Brightly Burning: Chapter Eleven
    After Rolan examines Lavan Chitward’s memories Lavan Chitward meets King’s Own Herald Jedin for the first time.
    • Brightly Burning: Chapter Eleven
    Companion Lada is in foal and probably will drop tonight. Herald-trainee Wrenlet has only been here a fortnight.
    • Brightly Burning: Chapter Eleven

Next Day

    Lavan Chitward starts classes at the Herald’s Collegium.
    • Brightly Burning: Chapter Eleven
    In Field’s Investigation class, taught by Herald Artero, Lavan Chitward correctly guesses the answer to a difficult problem.
    • Brightly Burning: Chapter Twelve
    Odo is the Weaponsmaster at the Collegium.
    • Brightly Burning: Chapter Twelve

Three Days Later

Morning

    Tori is the Housekeeper of the Collegium.
    • Brightly Burning: Chapter Thirteen
    Tuck and Lan leave to spend Midwinter Holiday at Tuck’s parents.
    • Brightly Burning: Chapter Thirteen
    Tuck mentions that his dream is to one day become Herald Chronicler.
    • Brightly Burning: Chapter Thirteen

Sunset

    Tuck and Lavan reach the Chester Farm.
    • Brightly Burning: Chapter Thirteen

Midwinter Holiday

    Lan arrives at his parents for Midwinter Feast.
    • Brightly Burning: Chapter Fourteen
    Macy Chitward gives Lan a beautiful piece of embroidery that she had done. “It was very much a miniature tapestry; a perfect copy of the crest of Valdemar, with every star in the background picked out in silver, every link in the Windrider’s broken chains delineated completely.”.
    • Brightly Burning: Chapter Fourteen
    Jisette Jelnack attacks Lan and Kalira, accusing Lavan of murdering her son, Tyron. Her husband tries to stop her, though not very well, and fails. Before Lavan could lose control of his Gift, Kalira slips loose and runs away.
    • Brightly Burning: Chapter Fourteen

Next Morning

    Herald Pol calls for an emergency meeting with the Seneschal, Greeley; Captain Telamaine, and King’s Own Jedin. The Captain assigns two Guardsmen to escort Pol to retrieve the bridle stolen from Kalira by Jisette Jelnack.
    • Brightly Burning: Chapter Fifteen
    Herald Pol and two Guardsmen confront the Jelnacks at their residence and demand the bridle back.
    • Brightly Burning: Chapter Fifteen
    Lan is already en route back to Chester Farm. He arrived later that evening.
    • Brightly Burning: Chapter Fifteen
    Lan learns from Pa Chester how to milk a cow.
    • Brightly Burning: Chapter Fifteen

1085 AF

Third Week After Midwinter

    Lan gets a note from his sister, Macy, asking if she can come visit.
    • Brightly Burning: Chapter Sixteen

2 Days Later

    Macy arrives for her visit with Lan and Tuck goes with them on their tour of the Collegium.
    • Brightly Burning: Chapter Sixteen
    Macy meets Elenor for the first time at the Healers Collegium.
    • Brightly Burning: Chapter Sixteen
    Lan receives his first lesson from Herald Pol on controlling his Gift.
    • Brightly Burning: Chapter Sixteen
    Kalira reveals that Companions are “born in energy and live in it all the time…” and that is why they are white.
    • Hypothesis: Companion Satiran mentions that he has always known how the Weaponsmaster felt, in regards to training someone to be sent out to battle. This alludes to him possibly being a Weaponsmaster in his previous life.
    • Brightly Burning: Chapter Sixteen

Several Days Later

    Pol is now a member of the Privy Council.
    • Brightly Burning: Chapter Seventeen
    Pol tells Elenor about Lan being lifebonded to Kalira.
    • Brightly Burning: Chapter Seventeen
    Lan is practicing setting fire to arrows singly and in volleys.
    • Brightly Burning: Chapter Seventeen
    A note is found, by Lan, under his door stating that Macy would like to talk to him that evening and to come straight to the house.
    • Brightly Burning: Chapter Seventeen
    Lan and Kalira are attacked in a blocked alley! Kalira is shot with an arrow in her hind quarters. The pain and danger activate Lans Gift. Lan confines the attackers between walls of fire until the Guardsmen and another Herald arrive to take over.
    • Brightly Burning: Chapter Seventeen
    Lan meets Herald Sharissa who helps escort him and Kalira back to the Collegium.
    • Brightly Burning: Chapter Seventeen
    Halfway to the Collegium, they meet with Pol and Satiran who use a weight bearing device to help take pressure off of Kalira.
    • Brightly Burning: Chapter Seventeen

2 Days Later

    For the first time in 50 years, maybe even a hundred, a King of Valdemar is holding an open Judgement, in the Great Square, in front of City Hall, for all to see, on the seven hired thugs, and Jisette Jelnack, who had attempted to murder Lavan.
    • Brightly Burning: Chapter Eighteen
    King Theran publicly names Lavan Chitward as Firestarter.
    • Brightly Burning: Chapter Eighteen
    Lan is placed under Truth Spell by King’s Own Jedin, in front of everyone in the Great Square, to answer questions regarding the school fire.
    • Brightly Burning: Chapter Eighteen
    Jisette Jelnack is condemned and sentenced to “imprisonment” in the cells of the Cloistered Order of Kernos-Sequestered.
    • Brightly Burning: Chapter Eighteen
    After passing Judgement, King Theran announces to all that Karse is attacking Valdemars borders and that Valdemar was now at war!.
    • Brightly Burning: Chapter Eighteen

Next Day

    Ten Trainees are hustled into their Whites and sent to the South. They will finish their training in the old way, as it was in Vanyels time, each paired with a Herald with the same Gift.
    • Brightly Burning: Chapter Nineteen
    That same week twelve Companions present themselves to be tacked-up to go make their Choices.
    • Brightly Burning: Chapter Nineteen
    That same week Lan gets a letter of apology from his uncle who had disparaged Heralds and the Collegium at Midwinter.
    • Brightly Burning: Chapter Nineteen

One Week After King’s Judgement

    During more practice, Pol believes that one day, due to Lavan’s vast power, Lan will be known as Firestorm.
    • Brightly Burning: Chapter Nineteen
    Tuck is studying Karsite in order to be prepared to go with Lan when they are sent to the frontlines of the war between Karse and Valdemar.
    • Brightly Burning: Chapter Nineteen
    Pol attends another Privy Council meeting, this time to discuss the reports from the frontlines and how the new Trainees that were sent out are helping.
    • Brightly Burning: Chapter Nineteen
    During the meeting King Theran decides that it is about time to send Lan and his friend Tuck, along with Pol’s daughter Elenor, to the frontlines where Lan might be able to turn the tide of the war.
    • Brightly Burning: Chapter Nineteen

One Week Later

    Lavan, Tuck, Pol, and Elenor leave at dawn to make their way to the frontlines of the war.
    • Brightly Burning: Chapter Twenty
    Lavan and Tuck have graduated to their Whites. Elenor is now a full MindHealer.
    • Brightly Burning: Chapter Twenty

Two Days Later

    New Sun-priests, called the Dark Servants, arrive at the frontlines and during the night, they call upon demons that cross to the Valdemar side and take/kill people right in/from their tents.
    • Brightly Burning: Chapter Twenty-One

Two Days Later

    Lavan meets Herald Pols wife, Healer Ilea, for the first time.
    • Brightly Burning: Chapter Twenty

Next Day

    The small party is attacked by a lone assassin from Karse. He jumps from a tree to land behind Pol, pulling him down onto the ground. Lan freezes until the man slices across Pol’s eyes. Then Lan lets loose and burns the attacker to ash.
    • Brightly Burning: Chapter Twenty-One

Midafternoon the Next Day

    Pol has revived enough to force the group to continue their journey to the battlezone.
    • Brightly Burning: Chapter Twenty-One
    After communicating to others about the attack, Pol and Satiran get notified that there is trouble on the frontlines and they need to hurry there.
    • Brightly Burning: Chapter Twenty-One
    The group gallops into camp at sunset.
    • Brightly Burning: Chapter Twenty-One
    Herald Turag is the Lord Marshalls Herald. He has replaced Herald Marak, who had been one of the first non-fatal casualties and would be months in recovery, though he may lose a leg.
    • Brightly Burning: Chapter Twenty-One
    The Lord Marshall is named Weldon.
    • Brightly Burning: Chapter Twenty-One
    Lan calls down the fire and causes the bonfires of the Dark Servants to erupt and sweep across to other fires on the Karsite side, engulfing the priests. Soon the wall of fire began to slowly push the Karsites back towards their own border, burning everything in its path.
    • Brightly Burning: Chapter Twenty-One
    Lord Marshalls Herald Turags’ Companion is named Adan.
    • Brightly Burning: Chapter Twenty-One

The Next Morning

    Herald Turag requests and is granted permission to resign as Lord Marshalls Herald and be placed back on duty with the army. He is replaced by Herald Pol, who becomes the new Lord Marshalls Herald.
    • Brightly Burning: Chapter Twenty-Two

Next Day

    After finally waking, Lavan is approached by member so of the army, picked up and carried to the Lord Marshall where, among cheers, he is proclaimed Lavan Firestorm.
    • Brightly Burning: Chapter Twenty-Two
    Among those to go over maps and plan strategy are Lavan, Pol, the Lord Marshall, Herald Fedor, and Commander Releigh. Lavan is assigned to work with Herald Fedor, Scout Calum, and Herald Tuck.
    • Brightly Burning: Chapter Twenty-Two
    Lavan meets Diera Ashkevron and Ben Dotes, the retired Horsemaster of Forst Reach. Ben notes that Barnebin is the name of the new Horsemaster.
    • Brightly Burning: Chapter Twenty-Two

Several Days Later

    Lavan has been travelling with a scouting party to find and root out nests of Karsite troops hidden in the hills.
    • Brightly Burning: Chapter Twenty-Three
    Lavan destroys an entire farm and part of a mountain when he tries to burn a silo and ignites the grain chaff and fumes inside.
    • Brightly Burning: Chapter Twenty-Three
    New orders come in and the scouts must now find a spot for Lavan so he can see around the area and hold back the Karsite army, giving the Valdemar army time to get to them.
    • Brightly Burning: Chapter Twenty-Three

Next Morning

    The scouts and Tuck find the perfect spot for Lan to be where he can see the pass and be able to block the Karsites as they approach.
    • Brightly Burning: Chapter Twenty-Three
    Lavan stops the advance, for the time being, with a wall of fire.
    • Brightly Burning: Chapter Twenty-Three
    Heralds with archers on Companion-back arrive to help hold the pass from any Karsites Lan lets through.
    • Brightly Burning: Chapter Twenty-Four
    As the Valdemar army arrives and Lan lets the fire-curtain down, he changes tactics and starts bursting fire from out of the snow at random locations. This slows the Karsite advance allowing the Valdemar army to handle the rush from the enemy.
    • Brightly Burning: Chapter Twenty-Four
    Pol and Satiran look up to where Lan is and notice movement from behind them.
    • Brightly Burning: Chapter Twenty-Four
    Heralds with Foresight begin calling for retreat. Suddenly the whole Valdemar army is scrambling in fear as fast as they can away from the battle. A premonition of impending doom sweeps the Heralds and soon the army is retreating as fast as it can.
    • Brightly Burning: Chapter Twenty-Four
    An assassins crossbow bolt slams into Kalira’s chest killing her within moments.
    • Brightly Burning: Chapter Twenty-Four
    Lavan Firestorm lets loose with a mental howl of anguish just before he lets loose the dragon within him. “Fire, elemental, unstoppable, came to earth. It exploded down out of the sky and drove down on the Karsites like the very hammer of the gods. It spewed up out of the snow to meet the down-rushing flames of the sky-fires. In a single moment, it transformed the entire side of the mountain to a furnace, an inferno, and it spread from there faster than a man could run.”.
    • Brightly Burning: Chapter Twenty-Four
    The Death Bell tolls for Lavan Chitward, known as Firestorm.
    • Brightly Burning: Chapter Twenty-Four

Two Candlemarks Later

    The firestorm comes to an end having destroyed everything on the mountain and in the pass below it.
    • Brightly Burning: Chapter Twenty-Four

Five Days Later

    Pol and Satiran have recovered enough from their grief to slowly get back to their duties.
    • Brightly Burning: Chapter Twenty-Four
    The Valdemaran army has finally finished piecing itself back together after a hasty retreat from the inferno.
    • Brightly Burning: Chapter Twenty-Four
    Tuck, Fedor, Elenor, Ilea, Pol, Satiran, and Wulaf, their guide, all make the journey to the spot where Lavan died to see what is left. They find the path to the spot is too blocked for further travel, though Wurlaf is able to scramble up and recover some ashes.
    • Brightly Burning: Chapter Twenty-Four

One Month Later

    Elenor recovers from the loss of Lan and begins to move on.
    • Brightly Burning: Epilogue
    Tuck and Macy help each other and Macy moves into the Palace as a member of the Queen’s household.
    • Brightly Burning: Epilogue
    Thanks to the efforts of the Healers and Ilea, Pol is able to see again, though not as well as he used to.
    • Brightly Burning: Epilogue

Two Months Later

Spring

    Pol, Ilea, Satiran, Tuck, Macy, Elenor and Wurlaf all go back to the now cleared spot on the mountain where Lavan and Kalira died. There they discover a firecone growing in the ashes of the fires.
    • Brightly Burning: Epilogue
    Each of them say their goodbyes to Lavan and Kalira, in their own way.
    • Side Note: If my math is correct, the events within Brightly Burning took place in roughly 2 years.
    • Brightly Burning: Epilogue

1137 AF

    King Theran dies. He is seventy-seven years old

---♔ Reign of King Clevis ♔---

    King Clevis, of Valdemar is fifty-eight years old.









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