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The heraldry of Tilea

This Tilean Timeline represents a chronology of the events that occurred in the lands of Tilea, located in the southern reaches of the Old World. The history of the quarrelsome city-states of Tilea is recorded in many separate chronicles, compiled over the centuries since the distant past. Such are the ancient feuds and rivalries between cities that the various chronicles frequently contradict each other, with both sides often claiming victory in the same battle![1a]

Sometimes, when a tyrannical ruling prince was overthrown and a republic declared in his place, or when a mercenary warlord seized power and made himself prince of a city, the chronicles would be "amended" in favour of the new regime. For these reasons, Tilean history is a complicated and confusing subject to say the least.[1a]

All dates below are given in the Imperial Calendar of the Empire as is common among Old World historians.[1a]

Prehistory (ca. -4419 to ca. -701 IC)[]

  • ca. -2500 to -2000 IC - A Tilean account states that Tylos was founded sometime between -2500 and -2000 IC. Dwarfen chronicles contradict this and provide a more precise date.[26b][26c][1a]
  • -2000 IC - Dwarf accounts state that the first tribes of Men known as Belthani, migrate to the Old World from the Southlands. They were few in number, used tools and weapons made from wood and stone, and settled initially in the southern lands of the Old World that would become Tilea and Estalia.[26b][26c][1a]
  • –1997 IC - The War of the Beard begins, with Dwarfs attacking High Elf colonies in what will one day be called the Old World. During the war the armies of Ekrund joined those of Barak Varr and Karak Azgal to battle the High Elves in the land that Humans would later call Tilea, destroying several towns and trading posts including two close to the present-day cities of Luccini and Tobaro.[26a]
  • -1950 IC - Looking for ore, a wandering Dwarf clan from the Black Mountains settle in the Human city of Tylos and establish trade with the locals, between what are now called the Irrana Mountains and the Tilean Sea. The city grows even faster with their help and many advances in architecture and engineering are achieved.[3a][26b]
  • -1880 IC - Humans begin construction of their great temple in Tylos. Dwarfs are recruited as Human gold helps offset the poor quality of ore in the nearby mountains. Work goes on continuously for the next 100 years. Battle of Black Gulf ends in Dwarf victory as triremes from Barak Varr outmaneuver the Elven fleet in the narrow waters near the Dwarf hold.[4a][26b]
  • -1780 IC - Tilean legends give this estimate date for the destruction of the ancient city of Tylos in the Blighted Marshes.[1a][31a] Also Dwarf accounts state that the Temple of Tylos is completed and that warpstone starts to rain down on the city from Morrslieb. Within a year the city is overrun by swarms of giant rats and disappears in the Blighted Marshes.[26b]
  • ca. -1600 IC - The first true Skaven claw their way at the ruins of Tylos already obsessed with acquiring warpstone.[2a]
  • –1500 to -1000 IC - Fleeing more powerful adversaries, agrarian Human tribes cross into the lands between the World's Edge and Grey Mountains. The ancestors of the founding tribes of the Empire arrived, bringing with them the knowledge of bronze and the wheel. These tribes come into contact with those of the south, starting what will be a long process of civilization, the Tilean tribes spread their religious beliefs and the Classical language, then mastered only by the cultural elite of the southern tribes.[2a]
  • ca. -1500 IC - The Elves abandon their colonies around the Tilean Sea and return to Ulthuan.[1a][31a] The first tribes of Men migrate to the Old World from the Southlands. They were few in number, used tools and weapons made from wood and stone, and settled initially in the southern lands that would become Tilea and Estalia.[26c]
  • -1500 IC - The Slann Lord Quex enacts a minor shift in continents. The worst hit of all was the Worlds Edge Mountains, for beneath this range was to be found the great Underway of the Dwarf Empire. Lava surged up from the world's depths to flood the halls of the Dwarfs, and untold numbers were incinerated in an instant or destroyed by the earthquakes. The Dwarf empire falls into decline. In the rest of the world the Skycastles tumbled in the Mountains of Mourn and a ragged breach appeared in the Great Bastion of Cathay, through which a hundred thousand vengeful Hung Marauders swarmed. The lands of ancient Tylos were blasted apart, before being drowned by the sea. As far as the Mage-Priests are concerned, the alignment is carried out according to the will of the Old Ones, as described on the Plaque of Otzli-Potec.[53a][54a] Disaster at Skavenblight. The Great Machine of the Seer Order explodes. The Slann, ignorant of the newly emerged race, registered the energy and attributed it solely to their own powerful spells. To this day they have failed to make any connection. The Great Migration out of Skavenblight begins.[2a]
  • ca. -1200 IC - Hailing from Nehekhara, grand armies swept north over the Great Ocean, seizing territory in Tilea, Estalia, and even into the fertile lands that would one day become the Empire.[56a] The region that would become known as Tilea is conquered by Amenemhetum the Great and becomes part of the Nehekharan empire just as the different civilizations that inhabited the area.[16a]That glorious empire would not last for, as is the Human way, ambition and greed undid their great works with time.[56a]
  • -1146 IC - The port of Sartosa is set aflame as the druchii raiders ravage the city, looking for loot and slaves. They end up fighting against Neferata and her minions.[33a]
  • -1020 IC - Abruzzi of Sartosa makes a deal with Neferata in the guise of a woman from Cathay, in exchange for a seat in the Senate for a protege of hers, Neferata would help the island of Sartosa break free from Dark Elf raids and consolidate her position against Araby, the second maritime power of the time, all without having to shed Sartosan blood. Shortly after Neferata, respecting the pact taken, raids a village on the coast of Tilea, ordering its ghouls to take the commoners as hostages without eating them. They should then have been used as a gift for the Druchii corsairs in exchange for respite and logistical support.[33c]
  • -850 IC - The Tomb-Fleets of Settra the Imperishable raid Sartosa, carrying the vengeance of Nehekhara against the villa of Neferata, Khalida Neferher challenges her cousin in a duel. Neferata flees the fight leaving the city once and for all.[33d]

Archaic Age (ca. -700 to -1 IC)[]

  • ca. -700 IC - Elf seafarers report Tilean shepherds grazing their flocks amid the tumbled colonnades of former Elven cities.[1a][31a]
  • ca. -500 IC - Dwarf accounts report of the rise of new Human city-states in the area around the southern end of the Apuccini Mountains. The Dwarfs of Barak Varr reports the emergence of Human cities in the lands around the southern tip of the Apuccini Mountains, the Dwarfs begin to slowly engage in trade with these Humans of the land.[26b][56a] Spread of the Classical language, the first recorded Human language of the Old World. It is allegedly gifted to them by Verena, the goddess of winsdom.[11a]
  • ca. -25 IC - According to legend, the twins Lucan and Luccina become lost in the wilderness and take refuge in a cave on a great rock. There they are guarded by a monstrous leopard with two heads and three tails. Shepherds come across the cave, surrounded by the bones of Orcs, wolves and Trolls, and are confronted by the leopard. From one head, the leopard prophesies that the twins will establish a great city — but the other head offers a warning: there shall be strife between the twins’ descendants.[31a]

Classic Age (1 to 474 IC)[]

  • 1 IC - Lucan and Luccina found Luccini among the ruins of an ancient Elf city. True to the leopard’s warning, the descendants of Lucan often struggle with the descendants of Luccina for control of Luccini. In the following centuries, Remas, Sartosa, and Tobaro also arise on the ruins of former Elf colonies.[1a][31a]
  • 20 to 60 IC - According to certain schools of Myrmidian thought, the warrior goddess manifests as a mortal woman. After suffering great hardships, she rises to the head of a force that sweeps across Tilea and Estalia and forges a great southern empire. Theologians and scholars of history vigorously debate the details and factuality of these claims.[31a] The vast and powerful Tilean empire centred on the ancient city of Remas spread across most of the present-day lands of Tilea, Estalia, the Border Princes and southern Bretonnia.[31d]
  • 101 IC - Settra seeks to restore his dominance of the oceans as well as the lands, and he instructs that his war fleets be raised and made sea worthy once more.[17a]
  • 451 IC - The Black Ark Ultimate Oblivion and an Undead fleet under the command of Settra the Tomb King mount a combined raid on Tilea. The Tilean city of Sartosa is besieged and captured, and every single inhabitant, man, woman and child, is taken off by the attackers. This is the first in a long series of allied raids by Dark Elf and Undead fleets on the Tilean Sea and other human kingdoms of the Old World.[1a][31a][35a]

Tilean Dark Age (475 to 1239 IC)[]

  • 475 IC - A massive Orc horde invades Tilea. Many cities are sacked. Tileans discover the value of hiring soldiers when they convince portions of the Orc army to defect and turn on their former masters for payment.[31a] Meanwhile another Greenskin horde slowly gathers to sweep into Tilea from the Border Princes. The desperate Tileans, with no standing armies to speak of, swiftly gather as many mercenaries as they can from across the Old World, including many Ogre bands. At the fabled Battle of Pugno, the mercenaries rout the Greenskin horde, changing Tilea's makeup, and its future military doctrine, forever.[20a]
  • 475 to 978 IC - During the invasion in the Battle of The Victory of Justine for the first time a Tilean commander named Justintine of Varenna make use of paychests. In a different battle a mercenary general hires half of a Greenskin army to fight the other half this event marks the first time that Tileans hire mercenaries of another race, a custom they have practiced often ever since.[1a] Tileans gradually drive the Orcs from the lands of Tilea, though some tribes remain within the depths of the Apuccini mountains. The fortress of Monte Castello is erected to the south of the Apuccinis to stand guard against future invasions.[31a]
  • 522 IC - Cultists from Tilea flee to the Border Princes and establish a colony in an area of verdant hills in Masserschloss.[39a]
  • ca. 800 IC - Norscans begin raiding the coast of Tilea, the pragmatic Tilean ending up employing many of these barbarians instead of expelling them. Trade is quickly established between the two peoples, and to this day a great deal of Norscan traders and mercenaries regularly make their way to Tilea to find their fortune.[1a]
  • 1017 IC - Norscan raiders establish a stronghold on Sartosa.[1a][31a] They ravage the Tilean coast until defeated at the battle of Cappo Cinno. The surviving Norse are employed by Luccini to guard the island.[31a]
  • 1204 IC - Famed Tilean scholar, Cosimo Baldacci invents the cipher disc, however, its use is still limited outside Tilea even in modern days.[34a]

Era of the Araby Wars (1240 to 1491 IC)[]

  • 1240 IC - Sartosa is invaded by corsairs from the coasts of Araby. The corsairs remain a menace in the Tilean Sea for the next two hundred and fifty years.[1a][31a]
  • 1382 to 1420 IC - A series of indecisive conflicts arises between Bretonnian barons and mercenaries in the pay of the Prince of Miragliano. The skirmishes take place in the foothills of the Irrana Mountains, near the small town of Ravola which is famed for its vineyards.[31a]
  • 1448 IC - Tilean mercenaries from the mainland and Sartosa participate in the reconquest of Estalia and the subsequent Arabyan crusade, but for less altruistic reasons than most of the other participants, as a result a Tilean quarter is established in the Arabyan city of Copher, granting access to a great deal of exotic goods and establishing a permanent trade route to and from Araby. The Sultan Jaffar sends several fleets to besiege the city of Tobaro, but each one is repulsed.[1a][31a][51a]
  • 1487 IC - Unseasonal mists descend on Remas and result in their fleet of galleys having to remain at sea. A Dark Elf raiding fleet penetrates the harbour. They are beaten back at the Battle of the Bridge, but not before they have inflicted great damage on the city and absconded with many captives.[1a]

Age of Exploration (1492 to 1999 IC)[]

  • 1492 IC - On the eve of the Day of the Spear, Marco Colombo becomes the first Tilean to visit Lustria and is enlisted by the Lizardmen. He witnesses the defeat of the same Dark Elf pirates who had plundered the city of Remas during the Battle of the Bridge.[1a][31a][Note 4]
  • ca. 1493 IC - Marco Colombo returns to Tilea, then assumes command of the men of the exiled prince of Trantio Orlando on his recommendation, and captures the city of Trantio itself. The ruling clique is overthrown. Marco marries Orlando's daughter and sole heir. After getting even with Orlando's old enemies, Marco is in position to restore the Principality of Trantio, with himself as Prince. Marco uses the rest of his wealth to monopolise the trade with Lustria. Trantio goes on to enjoy many years of prosperity in trade and supremacy in warfare.[1a][31a]
  • ca. 1500 IC - Scholars indicate that nearly at this point in history the first bolt throwers, gastraphetes and bellybows, made their appearance in the Old World in Tilea. Several hundred years later, after the emergence of stone castles, primitive bolt throwers, and stonethrowers went through even more advances. Two descendants were developed. The first was the modern bolt thrower or ballista. With unmatched precision and range, these weapons were used against troops and supply trains, sowing confusion among the enemy from long distances. Capable of hurling a spear over 300 yards, they became the terror of the fields of war. The second type was the scorpion, a smaller, lighter version.[57a]
  • ca. 1500 to 1600 IC - Tilea begins to lose technological supremacy over the Empire.[10a]
  • 1500 IC - Religious war between Tilea/Estalia and Araby. Great Sultan Daryus-e Qabir launches a series of religious wars against the Old World. His intention was to maintain his positions beyond the sea, as well as avenge the Crusades and quell the wrath of the spirits, though he did not achieve any lasting success. After several defeats, the Arabyan Wars ended, and although the legends of this era have strained Old World attitudes towards the inhabitants of Araby, constant trade has restored a certain stability in diplomatic relations.[30a][32a]
  • 1501 IC - Sartosa is recaptured from corsairs of Araby by the mercenary army of Luciano Catena, Prince of Luccini. Surviving corsairs are allowed to stay and serve Luciano as mercenaries in his fleet. The island becomes a principality of Luccini and home of their fleet.[1a]
  • ca. 1547 IC - Tilean merchants gather to Marienburg to gain access to the collected goods of the war-torn Empire. Of all the foreign visitors, natives discover that the most advanced Old World people were the Tileans, skilled with ship-building and black powder, a substance at that time, only known to the Empire through the Dwarfs.[10a]
  • 1563 IC - Skaven forces attack the city of Tobaro from below in a series of raids, razing large parts of the city, forcing its ruler, Prince Meldo Marcelli, to evacuate. After the attack it is discovered that much of civilian populace have been spirited away, never to be seen again.[1a][31a][Note 1]
  • 1565 IC - Tobaro is saved by the arrival of the merchant prince Meldo Marcelli at the head of a mercenary army reinforced by Sea Elf allies. Meldo Marcelli is summarily elected as prince of the city and his family remain the rulers of Tobaro for many years after.[2b][31a]
  • 1601 IC - The village of Escantos in Southern Tilea is completely devoured by swarms of rats.[3b]
  • 1681 IC - The Night of the Living Dead. Throughout Tilea, the dead stir and walk the land. Entire towns and villages are destroyed by the shambling forces of the undead. The cult of Morr is well established in Tilea, and their priests help to ensure that the skeletal hordes do not overrun Tilea’s cities.[31a]
  • 1699 to 1714 IC - Tilean merchants Ricco and Robbio trek east across what will be known as the Silk Road, hoping to discover an eastern route to Ulthuan. They are received at the court of the Dragon Emperor of Cathay and trade begins to flow along the Silk Road from the Old World to the Celestial Empire. They come back to Verezzo in 1714, managing to establish the trade route between Tilea and the far east known as today as the Silk Road.[1a][31a]
  • 1722 IC - The plague fleet of the Chaos Champion Egarl Bloodhard besieges the Tilean town of Zorastra, but is kept at bay by the excellent sea defences protecting the port. Inspired by Nurgle, the fleet’s shamans feed plague-ridden meat to seabirds that nest in the city, and soon Zorastra suffers an outbreak of disease. Refugees fleeing the city undo the chain gates that kept the reavers at bay, and Zorastra is sacked by the followers of Chaos and their murderous fleet. Zorastra falls within the hour.[4a][31a]
  • 1757 IC - In Sartosa, rebellions against the Prince of Luccini grow increasingly frequent. He finally loses control of the island when the crews of a flotilla of mercenary galleys mutiny. The island rapidly falls into anarchy and becomes a pirate lair.[1a][31a]
  • 1772 IC - The Hermitic Order of Nahmud's Peace is founded by Leoric Monpelitti, a misanthropic Myrmidian friar, upon the slopes of the Apuccini Mountains. There, Monpelitti had discovered four crocks containing well-preserved scrolls, all marked with esoteric designs of a noble, black-skinned female. Convinced that he had uncovered a lost testament of Nahmud the Dark Maiden, he immediately contacted his cult. After many years of political wrangling and failed attempts to decipher the scrolls, the High Temple in Remas granted Monpelitti permission to form a monastic order dedicated to their translation. He named his founding monastery the Eremitaggio di Nahmud ("Hermitage of Nahmud"), and attracted many Myrmidian scholars, all sure they could succeed where others had failed. However, the language was too complex, and negligible progress was made.[11d]
  • 1801 IC - The ousted Pirate Prince of Sartosa, Lucciano Soprania, founds Port Reaver in Lustria. Despite numerous Lizardmen attacks, it manages to turn into a flourishing trading port, though it is notorious as a den of cutthroats and raiders as well as a haven for adventurers and treasure seekers.[6a]
  • 1812 IC - The Red Pox spread in northern Tilea from Bretonnia.[60a] In Miragliano, nearly one in three citizens are laid low by the disease and the Skaven invasion.[3b] Large rats are blamed for spreading the pox, and Miragliano begins to employ a standing force of Rat Catchers among their mercenary troops.[1a][31a] Skaven armies emerged in the wake of the pox, expecting to find Bretonnia and Tilea weaker targets than the Empire. However, the people of both countries put up a desperate defence, and the Skaven force was defeated.[60a]
  • 1877 IC - In Tobaro, the rule of the Marcellis comes to an end when a secession squabble erupts following the death of Antonio Marcelli III. Civil war is averted when the court seer prophesies that the next prince is doomed to meet an unpleasant fate. Suddenly, no one wants the post. To ward off the prophecy, a pig, Piggalo I is made Prince of Tobaro.[1a][31a]
  • 1890 IC - After 12 years, Piggalo I of Tobaro dies when he falls over the cliff edge and into the sea during an inspection of his guard. Rumours abound of an assassination and several courtiers are arrested on suspicion of treason.[1a][31a]
  • ca. 1970 IC - The Siege of Trantio. Corentin of Brionne distinguishes himself as a standard bearer cutting down the heretic traitors under the lead of the pernicious mercenary-princes of Tilea, as they turned against the River Tarano, the crossing was suddenly impossible thanks to the blessings of the Lady of the Lake.[49]
  • ca. 1999 IC - A small area in downtown Miragliano is overrun by vermin. All of the citizens have fled or died in these disease-ridden streets and the Governor Maximo anxious to rid the city of the vile and diseased terror before it spreads to other districts throughout the city hires many different warbands as ratcatchers with the perspective of a rich reward, five gold crowns for every full bag of rats.[37a]

Era of Enlightenment (2000 IC to Present)[]

  • 2000 IC - A new age of art, culture, and prosperity flourishes in Tilea. In Miragliano, a city that had developed in a rambling way over many centuries, a bold redevelopment plan is implemented by Prince Cosimo. He employs Leonardo da Miragliano to redesign the city’s streets and plazas. Leonardo builds many towers that list in the marshy ground. Rather than being regarded as a liability, the towers spark a fashion of leaning structures that goes on to characterise many of Tilea’s cities.[1a][31a]
  • 2006 IC - In the great city of Remas in Tilea, the brilliant Leonardo da Miragliano directs a reconstruction of the Grand Coliseum. Leonardo builds dozens of innovative devices into the massive structure inspired by conversations with the legendary Ogre gladiator, Brognal Bullsmiter.[20a]
  • 2104 IC - The classicist Marcelli Verdallo publishes in the Trantine Press his book Forma di Malevola, this text has yet to be published in the Empire due to its assumptions concerning the nature of Ratmen.[18]
  • 2132 to 2139 IC - A dying Asur ranger is dragged to the Hermitage of Nahmud by fearful locals. Not sharing the peasant's superstitious fears, the Leoricans took the High Elf in. After a month with the order she translated the Dark Maiden's Testament to thank the priests who took care of her. With the dire words of the Dark Maiden’s Testament seared into their minds, the order abbandoned its isolazionism to begin an aggressive campaign of expansion, founding seven monasteries in as many years. Leoricans arrived in all of the Tilean city-states, and offered the order's services as tutors and lecturers, especially in the areas of history and strategy.[11d]
  • ca. 2145 IC - Belardo one of the greatest of the Tilean master painters is burned alive on top of a pyre made of his own works by a ferocious mob in Talabheim after the Battle of Hel Fenn. His death sentence was having painted personal portraits of the Von Carstein family.[30a]
  • 2150 IC - Sea Elves return to the Old World.[30a]
  • 2192 IC - Duke Alfonzo of Miragliano mounts a massive offense into the Zombie Swamps in a conflict known as the Battle of the Blight. While suffering heavy casualties the Tileans manage to push back the Skaven deeper into the Blighted Marshes and expel the Ratmen from the areas surrounding Miragliano. This allows the principality to expand into territory that was previously uninhabitable thanks to the Skaven.[24][31a]
  • 2236 IC - Grottio paints two thousand naked nymphs on the ceiling of the palazzo Verezzo instead of a battle scene and is exiled to the island of Nonucci as punishment.[1a]
  • 2283 IC - Smarra Udolpho invites the household of Isabelle di Lumbrusco to visit the Udolpho estate to celebrate their impending nuptials. Isabelle’s jealous brother murders her on the eve of the wedding. She returns from the grave to haunt the estate as the Spectre Bride.[31a]
  • ca. 2302 IC - After the defeat of the Witch King Malekith in Ulthuan at the Battle of Finuval Plain, Asarnil begin his self-exile with Deathfang in the city of Remas and is hired by the Prince of the city-state against Miragliano. In the naval battle of the Siren's Rocks, Asarnil and Deathfang destroy Miragliano's entire fleet, and end the city's supremacy at sea.[1c]
  • 2302 to 2303 IC - The Great War against Chaos begins, as the forces of Chaos march across Kislev and Magnus the Pious moved to free Praag many mercenary bands and generals from Tilea made their fortune by aiding the northern nations. Meanwhile, in Tilea the Leoricans were suddenly attacked. In the space of a month, more than half of their monasteries are assaulted by hostile mercenaries. Although most had no concept why anyone would single out the Leoricans for an attack, the abbots understood that the goal of the mercenaries was taking possession of the Dark Maiden’s Testament. Without asking for help from the cult of Myrmidia the scrolls were carryied away and hidden in the Monastery of the Dark Maiden in Wissenland.[11d]
  • 2302-2320 IC - Terror in Tilea. In the years that follow the Great Summoning, a number of attacks are made on the Tilean city-states. Many small towns bordering on the Blighted Marshes are razed or simply disappeared.[2b][14a][31a]
  • 2309 IC - During the summer, the Imperial scholar Wilhelm Leiber visits Miragliano. With great stupor, he discovers that Tileans don't deny the existence of the Skaven and to the contrary are eager to share their knowledge on the matter and seek new allies against their menace. Once back in his homeland, the man wrote his magnum opus, The Loathsome Ratmen and All Their Vile Kin, to alert the Empire about the incoming danger, but his book was destroyed by the church of Altdorf and Wilhelm spent his last days in an asylum.[2b]
  • 2321 IC - Skaven warships are spotted in the Tilean Sea. Many coastal raids begin at this time.[2b] During the winter, Clan Eshin Gutter Runners make a number of raids on Imperial, Bretonnian, Tilean and Estalian warfleets at anchor in their respective ports.[3b] The Gutter Runners use firepots and naptha to burn the fleets with varying levels of success. In the end the Dwarfs of Barak-Varr destroyed the Skaven fleet.[14a] To date the perpetrators of these attacks are still unknown to the Tileans which only have seen flotillas of strange ramshackle craft near Tobaro.[31a] The Prince of Luccini is the least troubled by the great uprisings of 2321, restoring control in that same year.[1b]
  • 2321 to 2399 IC - Tilea is gripped by recurrent famines caused by plagues of mice eating the grain. In Remas a group of merchants sponsor the raising of a regiment called the Republican Guard. They slay the tyrannical merchant prince Omilio Mondo and parade his decapitated head around the city on a pike. The merchant families of Remas form a council of fifty from whom a ruling triumvirate is chosen to govern the city. The Prince of Verezzo greedily hoards grain and sells it to his citizens at extortionate prices. He is also toppled from power and a republic is proclaimed. The system in Verezzo is more democratic than that of Remas; the merchant families are divided into factions distinguished by voting colours: reds, greens, blues, and yellows.[1a][31a] The town of Vedenza rebels again against the Prince of Tobaro establishing the Second Republic of Vedenza.[14b][47a][31e]
  • 2335 IC - Following a warning from the Elven Mages that protect Lothern, a Tilean vessel is stopped and boarded. The search by the Sea Guard turns into a battle. Rumours persist that several Ratmen escaped the ship, leaping overboard and disappearing into the city.[2b]
  • 2379 IC - Corsairs from Karond Kar are shipwrecked close to the pirate isle of Sartosa. They steal several ships including the flagship of the pirate lord Ernezio Porcurio to escape. The Elves hire a crew of pirate sellswords and raid the coasts near Remas and Luccini. They are betrayed by the mercenaries and become the captives of the pirate captains from whom they stole the ships.[5a][31a]
  • 2393 IC - A huge consignment of grain travelling by ship from Araby to Tilea fails to arrive. Skaven piracy is suspected but never proven.[36a]
  • 2401 IC - At the siege of Monte Castello, five hundred mercenaries hold out against ten thousand Orcs. The troops are inspired by the example of the formidable Mona Lissa, daughter of their general. Upon her father’s death she donned his armour and vowed to fight the Orcs to the last, preventing them from scrawling on the Castello’s magnificent frescos.[1a][31a]
  • 2411 IC - Rumors of a new prophet in Araby spread in the Old World, the signs of a new holy war ignite the hearts of many mercenaries. The Duke of Organza offers to make peace with Duke Fabriano and in secret meetings the two dukes agree that Ennio Mordini must be killed. Duke Fabriano orders Mordini to attack Organza via a mountain pass, and Ennio walks into an ambush and is slain along with his troops.[52][31a]
  • 2416 IC - An army of skeletons flying the tattered banner of Ennio Mordini march from the Appucini mountains. They lay siege to the city of Lumbrusco, overrun it, and fortify it.[52][31a]
  • 2418 IC - Otranto Udolpho, a maverick sorcerer, tries to conquer the Udolpho estate at the head of an army consisting of undead troops and a regiment of Daemonettes.[31a] The corpse of Ernezio Porcurio, mercenary captain of Luccini, is found inside a windowless basement beneath his castle, the cellar firmly locked from the inside. No trace of the killer is found.[5a][1a]
  • 2440-2445 IC - Heinrich Kemmler is captured by the Liche Crovan when he attempts to raid cursed Castle Vermisace for one of the Nine Books of Nagash. Crovan keeps the necromancer as a prisoner for five years until Kemmler manages to free himself and defeat the Liche and his acolytes, taking the title "Lichemaster" after the battle.[21]
  • 2460 IC - The construction of Kemmler fortress, Krinal, within the Vaults is completed, from where Kemmler will terrorize the northern lands of Tilea.[21]
  • 2470 IC - The dukes of several Tilean cities secretly pledge allegiance to the necromancer Heinrich Kemmler to spare themselves the worst of his raids. Instead, the Lichemaster turns his attention to the Bretonnian province of Carcassonne. He's cast out from his lair in 2479, and moves even deeper into the Vaults.[21]
  • 2478 IC - The Pirate Wars. Sea reavers assault Westerland's enclaves and burn many of them down after looting them of every valuable.[41a] After this rampant destruction, the Cult of Manann in Marienburg declared a crusade against the piratical followers of Stromfels. Hundreds of devout Manannites sailed from ports around the Old World to engage with the enemy. An unsuccessful expedition even set sail to Sartosa to strike at the pirate lords themselves. The Pirate Wars did eliminate several notorious pirates, but there was no lasting effect on the levels of piracy afflicting the states of the Old World. The adversary was not a unified navy that could be defeated.[40a][40b]
  • 2485 IC - Borgio makes himself Prince of Miragliano. He executes so many of his enemies by hanging them from Miragliano’s leaning towers that the buildings are said to lean more during his reign than at any other time.[1a][31a]
  • ca. 2485 IC - The Reman General Mandalari the Magnificent siege the city of Miragliano. Thanks to a stratagem plotted by Prince Borgio, the Miraglianese army manages to disrupt the attack, routed by the timely counter-assault the Reman host is forced to flee.[19a]
  • 2489 IC - At the battle of Villa Vennia, Borgio the Besieger defeats a mercenary army from the Republic of Remas.[1a][31a]
  • 2494 IC - Pavona is defeated by a mercenary army from the Principality of Verezzo. Prince Borso is wounded in the battle but swears by the healing arts of his new wife, Lucrezzia Belladonna. He dies a few days later. Later during the Battle of Etobrutti, the mercenary captain Donato took over the command of the troops of Pavona and defeated Verezzo's army, he saved the city and subsequently married Lucrezzia Belladonna.[31a]
  • 2495 IC - At the battle of Via Veddia, Borgio the Besieger defeats a mercenary army from the Republic of Verezzo.[1a][31a]
  • 2497 IC - Prince Donato of Pavona brokers an alliance with Trantio but perishes after consuming a meal of poisonous mushrooms. His widow, Lucrezzia Belladonna, soon remarries, choosing the dashing captain Ranuccio for her husband. At the battle of Vittoria Viccia, Borgio the Besieger defeats a mercenary army from the Principality of Trantio, assisted by the last minute betrayal of the mercenaries from Pavona who attack their Trantine allies in the rear. Miragliano is established as the most powerful principality in Tilea.[1a][31a]
  • Between 2497 and ca. 2503 IC - Bensario one of the most influential merchant princes of Pavona set a marriage of convenience between his daughter Juliana and one of the Triumvirs of Remas, Prince Umberto Gambini. In this way, he hoped to cement the alliance between the two cities against the Principality of Trantio, strongly weakened by the defeats suffered due to the war with Miragliano. Just some days later Remas suffers the second coming of the Mardagg, the Greater Daemon of Khorne vanishing the same day without leaving a trace, but not before creating panic and hysteria in the population, and a high death toll.[19a]
  • 2503 IC - Borgio the Besieger is murdered in his bath with a toasting fork. Street fighting breaks out in Miragliano as various factions vie for power, and Borgio’s excellent mercenary army fragments as captains lead their regiments away from the city in the hope of new employment. Braganza’s Besiegers, Vespero’s Vendetta, and Bronzino’s Galloper Guns are just a few of these regiments of renown.[1a][31a]
  • 2505 IC - Leopold di Lucano, who claims descent from Lucan, and Lorenzo Lupo, who claims descent from both Lucan and Luccina, vie for control of Luccini. Priests at the Temple of Lucan and Luccina support Leopold but switch sides after receiving a vision foretelling victory for Lorenzo. The temple guard, who are loyal to Leopold, throw the priests into the sea. Lorenzo holds most of the city — but Leopold holds the acropolis. Lorenzo offers Leopold amnesty if he and the temple guard leave Luccini and promise never to return. Leopold considers the offer, loots the acropolis, and departs. Lorenzo becomes Prince of Luccini.[1a][31a]
  • 2506 IC - Ysidro d’Amato, styling himself ‘The Water Wizard’, becomes one of the richest merchants in Miragliano after monopolising the city’s supplies of potable water.[31a] Tilean raid Nehekhara seeking to despoil the necropolis and carry off gold. They despoil tombs in Zandri. King Behedesh and King Memnesh fight against them many times, desisting not in the attack while they remained in the Land of the Dead.[17a]
  • 2509 IC - After several defeats and humiliations, the benighted regiment formed by Leopold di Lucano and the temple guard from Luccini decide to send a generous portion of all their earnings back to the temple of Lucan and Luccina. Upon doing so their fortunes change and they win the first of many victories. Leopold is renamed ‘Leopold di Lucci’ by his troops, the Leopard Company.[31a]
  • ca. 2510 IC - Grey Seer Thanquol plots one of his evil schemes. At the cost of a few hundred clan warriors, the seer had unleash a horde of the Orcs into Tilean territories from the Badlands, most Tileans of an age to fight were sent out in the Badlands hoping to repel the supposed marauders. While Orcs and Tileans slaughtered each other in the fields for months, Lesskreep leader of the Skaven in Under-Sartosa leads the assault on the city of Sartosa putting it to fire and sword in search of a powerful talisman. After a bloody defense the Skaven are finally defeated and forced to flee without having set a hand on their objective, also thanks to the intervention of the two adventurers Gotrek and Felix.[46]
  • 2513 IC - Poggio, Prince of Pavona and seventh husband of Lucrezzia Belladonna, dies after consuming three bottles of dubious quality wine leaving Lucrezzia as the city's sole ruler.[1a][31a]

The End Times (2519 to 2528 IC)[]

  • 2518 IC - Archaon's fleet after raiding the seaport of Barak Varr pivoted his attention on the pirate fleets of Sartosa and sacked Tilean cities, ransacking libraries and private collections of antiquities in search of answers to dread questions.[43a]
  • 2519 IC - Trantio fell in the early days of the End Times. The city was engulfed for three days and three nights into a swirl of perfumed murk. No two stones lay together when the storm lifted; the Daemon-wrought destruction was so complete not a single building survived and every trapped within now served, in manners both horrific and diverse, before Slaanesh's silken throne.[28a]
  • 2520 to 2523 IC - The Great Uprising of the Skaven begins. Skaven hordes surge from underground around the mortal world. Clan Eshin and their most elite of agents, the Black 13, were responsible for a shock wave of assassination and ruthless sabotage that resulted in the deaths of hundreds of important generals, governors, nobles and leading officials. Leaderless, the lands of Tilea and her various fractious republics became torn with confusion and civil strife, making their petty kingdoms ripe for the slaughter. The Skaven lost a great many of their warriors but ultimately Tilea and Sartosa fell under the assault of their overwhelming numbers.[15a][27a]

Other Events (-2500 to 2513 IC)[]

To avoid giving arbitrary dates to critical events in Tilea's history, those events without a specific date are collected here:


  • Unknown date between -2500 and 1780 IC - The leader Tyleus makes a covenant with the war goddess Myrmidia to build a great city. He ordered his people to build a tall tower, one to humble even the Elves. Myrmidia was appalled at this pointless toil, and, after many warnings, abandoned the city of Tylos, claiming she would return only when his people knew honour again.[11c]
  • Unknown date after 100 IC - Long ago, during the reign of Emperor Gunthar II "the Faithful," the Empire ruled much of northern Tilea.[12b] How long this dominion lasted or how it was broken by the Tileans is not known.

Storm of Chaos Timeline (2521 to 2522 IC)[]

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  • 2522 IC - Albertalli leads the charge against the Kurgan line at Mazhorod. Later, alongside the armies of Stirland, Talabecland, and the Ice Queen, Albertalli fights at Urszebya against the hordes of Aelfric Cyenwulf, both him and his men slain to a man to stall the enemy for Tzarina Katarin to cast her spell and achieve victory.[7b] Formation of the Alliance, Miragliano and other Tilean cities prepare a great army to defeat the capital of Remas. Some villages near the Blighted Marshes are wiped out by the ratmen, just a few days later the town of Tramaglino and the city of Miragliano are lost at the hands of the Skaven in The Fall of Miragliano battle.[48a]

Notes[]

  • Note 4: The discovery of Lustria of 1492 IC is a clear reference of the discovery of the America in 1492 AD.

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