One hundred twenty years before the present
The Infernal Bargain
Maltraxis promises Asmodeus the souls of his kingdom for a century of peace, prosperity, and absolute power.
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Master Timeline
Filter the record by world history, the golden age, or the present-day campaign. History is easier to understand when it stops pretending to be three unrelated catastrophes.
Golden age · Record 01
The Gathering at Sunspire
King Maltraxis summons tribute and representatives from the allied nations. The capital is prosperous, orderly, and untouched by hardship—but Stormurinn overhears a visitor remind the ageless king that only ninety-five years remain.
Open the full record →Golden age · Record 02
The Gauntlet of Kingsguard
Svetlana subjects the recruits to a lethal teamwork trial. Magic, improvised sabotage, airborne dwarven vomiting, and petty illusions carry them through. The real test comes afterward, when starving prisoners who spoke against Maltraxis are placed before them and the new Kingsguard is ordered to execute them.
Open the full record →Golden age · Record 03
The Cost of Defiance
Maltraxis forces the recruits to confront the prisoners again. Stormurinn, Hamdik, and Rish Rash obey. Wilfred refuses, denounces the king, and dies for it. Months later, Lucien Dorian joins what remains of the Kingsguard.
Open the full record →Golden age · Record 04
The Road to Eastmarch
With Lucien now among them, the Kingsguard rides east beside Maltraxis. Prosperous Breecaster celebrates beneath neglected temples, roadside shrines stand empty, and the land grows quieter as the royal column approaches Eastmarch.
Open the full record →Golden age · Record 05
The Fall of Eastmarch
The Kingsguard breaks Eastmarch through sabotage, artillery, dragonborn shock troops, and merciless discipline. When the keep falls, Maltraxis orders annihilation—not merely victory.
Open the full record →Golden age · Record 06
The Ashes of Rebellion
The Kingsguard hunts the surviving royal line. At a rebel-struck caravan, Lucien transforms Stormurinn into a Tyrannosaurus Rex—and the battle becomes a massacre with a wounded child at its center.
Open the full record →Golden age · Record 07
The Prince’s Submission
Rise Lightstar saves Jeremy and joins the company. The Kingsguard destroys a blockade, teaches the rescued boy to execute prisoners, and reaches Prince Halric beneath a line of torches.
Open the full record →Golden age · Record 08
The Court of Submission and the Fool’s Reprieve
Prince Halric kneels and Valador passes to the Sun Throne. Then the Kingsguard celebrates history by chasing a squealing Elric, banishing one another, turning Hamdik into a giraffe, and horrifying Svetlana.
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The Bargain Comes Due
Asmodeus collects. Old Sunspire becomes the Tower of Damnation, the surrounding kingdom burns into the Deadlands, and the perfect century becomes a warning.
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The Eight Champions Seal the Breach
Arabelle, Elyndor, Thragar, Krivahn, Merribelle, Gorrath, Grizzik, and Vaelith prevent the invasion from consuming every surviving nation. Old Sunspire remains lost.
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Festival of Flame
A celebration becomes a riot, and four strangers leave Eldenhold as fugitives.
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Fear, Flight, and the Girl Named Susie
The fugitives escape the city and find one little girl waiting in an empty town.
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Little Susie and Mruno’s Soiled Pants
Susie loses her disguise, Ashenvale wakes up, and Mruno loses considerably more.
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Of Banjos, Bards, and Billy Bumblers
Roland joins the hunt while the others prepare the least subtle undercover performance imaginable.
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Battle of the Bards
Mruno faces his replacement, wins the crowd, and helps start the campaign’s second civic disturbance.
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The Spy in the Road
A roadside alarm brings the Black Talons, a spy warning, and absolutely no increase in trust.
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Portside Promises and Big Titty Demons
The party hires an airship and unknowingly shares a tavern with the person sent to capture them.
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Crystals, Chaos, and the Hinge
A reconstructed account of the lost session at Crystal Hinge.
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The Sky Burns Red
A talking skull provides directions shortly before the cargo opens a portal to Hell.
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Last Gourd, First Hangover
Krivahn points toward the corruption; the party points itself toward a tavern and a hydra.
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Shrine of the Three Hungers
The shrine takes Reese, the mimics lose patience, and Rhogar arrives at exactly the dramatic moment he wanted.
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Echoes of Towerheart
The party enters a world where truth is power and still attempts to defeat a bargain with wordplay.
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Stormwraith Under Fire
The Golden Minotaur Guild attacks from two ships and discovers the Storm Wraith is crewed by lunatics.
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Mead, Mutton, and Misinformation
The party reaches Sylvara, discovers that red-crystal questions are politically dangerous, and drinks its way to a meeting with Elyndor.
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The Hartwood Archives Heist
Elyndor connects Towerheart to the old infernal war, and Roland answers a restricted-access policy by stealing the relevant book.
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The Crystal Mine and the Red Dome
The party fights through a failing crystal facility and discovers a dark-red dome covering all of Sylvara.
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The Broken Sigil and the Voice in the Mine
A broken protective sigil lets something push through reality while a voice offers the party answers beyond a newly opened red portal.
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