| Year -12 | A golden comet leads Tarna to the archangels Gabrielle and Michael, and she becomes the First Paladin. |
| Year 1 | The Martyrdom of Saint Tarna, who saved the world from the madness of sorcerer-king Xandor XIII. After her martyrdom, her followers share how to channel The Sacred Flame and war against the sorcerer-kings. |
| Circa 300 | Rule of the sorcerer-kings finally crumbles. More learn to wield the Light of The Sacred Flame. These faithful clerics organize the early religion. |
| Year 381 | Vowing tyrannical mage-lords will never rule again, the newly-established Divine Matriarch of The Sacred Flame endorses persecution against arcane spellcasters. |
| Circa 500 | Following a century of persecution, a group of surviving mages form the Amethyst Academy as a secret society to protect themselves. |
| Circa 600 | House von Drakken establishes a petty kingdom along the Drann River, where they lay the foundations of Castle Drakken. |
| Year 678 | The Knights of the Silver Order are ordained to hunt down the Amethyst Academy. |
| Circa 700 | Bloody wars break out between noble houses supported by the Amethyst Academy and houses supported by the Faith of the Sacred Flame. |
| Year 743 | The Edicts of Lumen bring an end to the wars by establishing a clear separation between mages, clergy, and nobles. |
| Circa 800 | House von Drakken goes extinct, setting off 150 years of succession crises. |
| Year 965 | House von Kessel claims the throne of Drakkenheim and establishes the Kingdom of Westemär. |
| Circa 1000 | The monarchy of Elyria crumbles; the Divine Matriarch appoints a Lord Regent. |
| Year 1,015 | The Clocktower of Drakkenheim mysteriously stops. |
| Year 1,093 | Lucretia Mathias pens an essay predicting the early return of Tarna’s Comet, and that its earthly arrival heralds the dawn of a new age for the faithful of the Divine Light. Her apocalyptic predictions are extremely unpopular within the mainstream clergy and her writings are suppressed. |
| Year 1,111 | The meteor strikes Drakkenheim on September 16th at 8:13 PM. |
| Year 1,112 | A failed attempt to reclaim Drakkenheim results in thousands of soldiers dying in The Haze. The few who return are stricken with madness. |
| Year 1,113 | Lucretia Mathias greatly expands her original work and publishes The Testament of the Falling Fire. The accuracy of her early prediction garners her a significant following, and she plans a personal pilgrimage to Drakkenheim. |
| Year 1,114 | After two more military expeditions to reclaim Drakkenheim fail disastrously, the succession crisis between the surviving members of House von Kessel boils over, setting off the Westemär civil war. |
| Year 1,115 | As the civil war rages, several groups of adventurers investigate the ruins of Drakkenheim for plunder. Unexpectedly, some return alive. They speak of horrible monsters within, and bring strange samples of a dangerous crystal. |
| Year 1,116 | Lucretia Mathias completes her pilgrimage to Drakkenheim, personally reaching the Crater’s Edge. She returns to Elyria to spread her teachings. |
| Year 1,117 | The Amethyst Academy starts hiring adventurers to collect the meteor shards for study. They name the strange crystals delerium. |
| Year 1,119 | Mannfred von Kessel is assassinated. Cecilia von Kessel dies mysteriously. The civil war fizzles out with no clear successor. |
| Year 1,120 | Lucretia Mathias is branded a heretic and excommunicated by the Divine Matriarch of the Faith of the Sacred Flame. She returns to Drakkenheim. |
| Year 1,121 | More adventurers venture into the ruins of Drakkenheim. Emberwood Village becomes a hub for treasure-seekers and cutthroats alike. |
| Year 1,122 | Belief in the Falling Fire spreads rapidly, and more pilgrims make the dangerous voyage to Drakkenheim. Few are successful. |
| Year 1,123 | The 4th Provisional Expeditionary Force to Reclaim the Capital, the Hooded Lanterns, are established and make their first forays into Drakkenheim. |
| Year 1,124 | The Hooded Lanterns finally establish a base of operations at the old Shepherd’s Gate and then the Drakkenheim Garrison, but cannot make further progress into the city. |
| Year 1,125 | A small group of the Followers of the Falling Fire established a foothold in Saint Selina’s Monastery to aid future pilgrims to the crater. |
| Year 1,126 March 4 | Dungeon of Drakkenheim begins. |