Timeline

[Arcane]

End of the 6th Pass

1600-1608

• The first white flit hatches and Impresses to Weyrleader D'kor. All memory of the event is quickly lost for want of proper record keeping.
• A time of rampant colorism across Pern and for some reason, tunnelsnakes grew larger and more aggressive before reverting back to their customary size and behavior. Some oversized tunnelsnake skeletons can still be found.
• Weyrleader D’kor became the first northerner to encounter spotties on Ierne’s island and was promptly attacked.
• Weyrleader D’kor discovered technologically advanced remnants of Pern’s first settlers at Fort Hold. For some reason, he never reported the find. Artifacts were sold off and soon forgotten and the entryway was built over a mere half-century later.
• Weyrwoman Nalaya of Gold Morath was poisoned and there was an ill-conceived scheme to similarly poison her gold's final clutch after the shells have already hardened.
• Fort weyr was a mess of mismanagement with only a single wing.
• The Harpers were too busy running an underground spy network to maintain a proper historical record.
• The whole decade was lost to history because the only written record was Weyrleader D’kor’s journal which he dropped in the lake at some point.
• Gold Coranth Impresses to Janifer. A few rather implausible and likely self-authored odes to their beauty are among the only documents to have survived.

9th Pass

2508 - 2557

• First white dragon (White Ruth, of C'lene)
• Whites become increasingly common.

9th Interval

2558

9th INTERVAL BEGINS

2670

• Brown dragon Impresses to woman for the first time.

2726 - 2729

• Major crop failures for several turns in a row.
• Crop blight spreads eastwards from Tillek towards Benden.

2730

• Illness in wherry herds requires large culls.
• High Reaches annexes a minor Hold on the edge of Fort Weyr territory.

INTERVAL WAR BEGINS

2731

• [R] Golre and Gold Vizeth become Senior Weyrwoman. They are called the "Mad Golds."

2736
Autumn

• [Igen] First mutation dragon hatched (Steel Anderoth).

2740
Autumn

• [Ista] Mutation dragon hatched (Alamandine Cabadath).
  • Cabadath is often referred to as the "first mutation."

2742
Winter

• [Ista] Clutch - Gold Glycinth x Alamandine Cabadath
  • First mutation-sired clutch.
  • Mutation dragon hatched (Atacamite Zoranth)
  • Gold hatched (Gold Imorith)

2749

• Mutation wher hatched (Beryl Rickesk)

2752

• [Telgar] Mutation dragon hatched (Sunstone Persith)

2754
Summer

• [Fort] Mutation wher hatched (Polyhalite Patisk)

2755
Autumn

THREAD RETURNS - ARMISTICE DECLARED

INTERVAL WAR ENDS

2757

• [Fort] First mutation fire-lizard (Bone Otani)
• [R] Mutation fire-lizard hatched (Jarosite Tien)

10th Pass

2758

10th PASS BEGINS

2760
Summer

PEACEKEEPER'S AGE BEGINS

Autumn

• [R] Golre declares High Reaches the Peacekeepers.
• [R] Refugees flee from High Reaches to Telgar and Fort.
• Weyrwoman Flauros of Gold Ekkettoth is poisoned.
• Golden Ghost is spotted near Fort Hold.
• First garnet fire-lizards.

Winter

• First bronze Impressions to female riders.
• First garnet wher (Garnet Kelsk).
• High Reaches Ambassador N'ik of Brown Oticath arrives at Fort.
• Ambassador starts brawl ("Battle of the Weyrbowl") and is imprisoned.
• Istan Weyrwoman, Kallia of Gold Imorith, sent to Fort for assistance.
• Mutation fire-lizard hatched (Silver Bit).
• Mutation fire-lizard hatched (Spinel Puzzle).

2761
Spring

• Iirla and Gold Izanycorth disappear.
• Conclave of All Weyrs.
  • High Reaches denounces their ambassador.
  • Dragonless Icrono assassinates High Reaches Weyrleader X'tir.
  • Golre declares war on Fort Weyr.

Summer

• First garnet dragons hatched.
• Mutation wher hatched (Ammolite Susk).
• High Reaches attacks Fort Weyr.
  • Led by D'go of Bronze Elizerth.
  • High Reaches loses, with losses of ~2 full Wings.
  • Green- and blueriders surrender.
• Lexien of Green Quth fired as Weyrlingmaster.
  • Weyrling revolt against Kallia & Imorith to support Lexien.

Autumn

• [R] Dragonriders flee High Reaches.
  • Unknown gold betweens into Threadfall and later dies.
  • Identified as Tysam of Gold Rhunith.
• Wher clutch by mutation dam.
• Final attack on Fort Weyr led by Golre and the bronzes.
  • Golre and Vizeth are killed, along with the bronzes.
• Fort takes charge of rebuilding High Reaches.
• [R] Chromatic dragonriders from Fort sent to lead High Reaches.

Winter

• Mutation dragon hatched (Kyanite Felisanth)
• Gold dragon, Serapheth, Impresses to transwoman; murders Candidate after Hatching.
• Attacks on Lord Evander lead to an isolationist policy at Fort Hold.
• [R] Green dragons are allowed to abstain from firestone.
• [R] Candidacy age limit raised to 30.

2762
Spring

• Clutch laid by Green Quth Hatches successfully
  • Dam had chewed firestone.
  • Mutation dragon hatched (Vivianite Asmiath)
• Kallia of Gold Imorith poisoned.
• Fort Hold 'attacked' by Golden Ghost.
• [R] Telgar provided aid during Threadfall
• Unique wher (Seafoam Xesk) hatched at Telgar Weyr

Summer

• First clutch laid by a garnet wher.
• Unique wher hatched (Moonstone Aresk)
• Wingleader E'li is murdered.
• Fort Hold withholds tithes.

Autumn

• Fort Hold continues withholding tithes.
• [R] Gold dragon, Otohith, Impresses non-binary Candidate.

Winter

• Fort Hold rebellion.
  • Lord Holder Evander killed by Garnet Kelsk.
  • Lady Ellaren goes missing.
• [R] First clutch laid by a garnet dragon.

2763
Spring

• Clutch laid by mutation dragon is successful.
• Danse of Gold Macath transfers from Benden to Fort.

Summer

• Mutation dragon hatches (Opal Doukajth).
• Mutation wher hatches (Ametrine Kask).
• Fight between Golds Macath and Serapheth.
• Former Fort Hold Steward, Daegarethe, becomes Lord Holder.
• [R] Wild gold wher kills a Candidate.

Autumn

• Garnet Georsath has successful clutch
  • Dam had chewed firestone.
  • Chimeric dragon hatched (Blue Venturith, garnet markings).
• [R] Na'ri of Green Kasheth becomes Senior Weyrwoman.
• Conclave of All Weyrs.
  • Weyrs discuss leadership.
  • Benden offers to donate clutch to High Reaches.
• [R] Wild gold bonds to High Reaches Candidate.

Winter

• Mutation dragon hatches (Carnelian Tianth).
• Mutation fire-lizard hatches (Fluorite Kitten).

2764
Spring

• Severe Threadfall.
  • Danse of Gold Macath killed.
  • 5 riders pulled between to a mysterious land.
• Mutation wher hatched (Amethyst Vartisk).
• [R] Mutation wher hatched (Obsidian Taisk).
• [R] Benden donates dragon clutch.

Summer

• [R] Mutation fire-lizard hatches (Tourmaline Lovely).
• Mutation fire-lizard hatches (Labradorite Artesia).
• Mutation wher hatched (Alexandrite Hesk).
• A severe plague hits Pern, causing many deaths.
  • Fort Lady Holder Daegarethe dies.
  • Lain of Gold Otohith dies.
• Vellaren becomes the Fort Lady Holder, styling herself Lord Vellaren.
• Threadfall injuries high due to plague.
  • Several riders left dragonless.
• The lost riders return to the Weyrs from the summerlands.
• Unique dragon (Charoite Arellath) hatched at Telgar Weyr.

Autumn

• [R] Mutation dragon hatched (Agate Rekkuzath).
• [R] Elections are held to form a new Weyr Council.
• Serapheth Rises as senior queen of Fort Weyr.
  • Brown Vaugnairth attacks Bronze Keramerth after the end of the Flight.
  • Vaugnairth is grounded by Serapheth.
• Vaugnairth and Keramerth fight on the Hatching Sands.
  • Gold egg is cracked.
  • Vaugnairth is banished by Serapheth.
• Several riders become renegades in protest of Vaugnairth's banishment.
• Calling themselves the Titans, the renegades establish an encampment in the summerlands.

Winter

• Joint surveys of the summerlands begin.
• Benden riders attack Serapheth during the Touching.
  • Two riders are kidnapped.
  • Mutation blue with golden eyes hatched (Blue Seieith).
• [R] Fort Weyr pleads for assistance; the Weyrleaders offer diplomatic aid only.
• Severe Threadfall due to weather events.
  • Senior Weyrleader's dragon and several others slain.
  • [R] Senior gold wher is killed, along with others.
  • Chimera wher (Green-Blue Khersk) hatched at Igen.

2765
Spring

• Benden Weyr threatens to execute Pia of White Ryodath.
• Tuckal of Gold Serapheth and several others attack Benden to rescue the kidnapped riders.
• [R] The delegation arrives at Benden Weyr just before Fort Weyr attacks.
• [SU] Semaca Weyr, established by the Titans in the Summerlands, is officially recognized.
  • Garnet Caesurath's clutch, laid before Weyr recognition, is the first Semaca dragon clutch.
  • Ista Weyr donates a gold wher clutch.
• Fort Weyr and Hold re-establish a dragon residency rotation at the Hold and Halls.

Summer

• The Trailblazers hatch in an unusually violent manner. The clutch includes a gold, green and two twin browns that far exceed the normal size for their respective colors.
• A searchrider from Fort Weyr attacks a hold guard, exacerbating tensions between weyr and hold.

Autumn

• The young Trailblazers are poisoned with fellis in retribution for the deaths and injuries at their hatching. One green dies and several dragons face permanent disability. The culprit is sussed out- Pellay of Blue Qth, who vanishes before she can be punished.
• [R] A High Reaches rider whose brown killed a candidate upon hatching is murdered by a holdless man. The murderer claims to have been hired by Pellay.
• Ista Weyr, with the agreement of Igen and Benden, sends a delegation to Fort where they install Negan as weyrleader in Monty's place and declare themselves the new Peacekeepers.
• Lord Vellaren of Fort hosts a successful gather where she distributes a clutch of wher eggs. She begins receiving suitors for her hand from other major holds.

Winter

• [R] Garnet Ariath and Gold Midath rise at High Reaches on the same day. Midath is killed and Ariath is permanently grounded.
• [R] Zeresh, the Junior Weyrleader of High Reaches, is assassinated. The former holder Xander is blamed and imprisoned, where he too falls victim to an attack.
• Mysterious eggs begin appearing across Pern. One of these eggs hatches a new queen for Semaca.
• [R] Gold Terminath's maiden clutch hatches, including many dragons with strange mutations.
• [SU] Weyrs across Pern come together to donate a clutch to Semaca, the dams including greens, garnets and Benden's gold Nuuth.
• Unique wher (Quartz Chirrusk) hatched at Fort

2766
Spring

• Fort's dragonless Angelo and bronzerider A'lin rescue Alayna of Gold Wyzeth from her captivity in Benden weyr. It is revealed that Benden has held her captive and drugged for five turns.
• The Istan delegation leaves Fort and Tuckal resumes control over the weyr.
• [SU] Semaca's donated clutch includes a mutation (Void Oscamith) and a chimera (Blue-Bronze Isith). The sands fall into chaos as gold Nuuth rejects her children and the Semacan dragons try to drive her out.
• Chimera wher (Garnet-Green Esk) hatched at Fort.
• Chimera wher (Garnet-White Varsk) hatched at Fort.
• [R] High Reaches elects a new council led by Xander, the former holder.

Fall

• Serapheth's clutch hatches, including a unique (Jasper Izanagith), and a chimera (Bronze-Garnet Magasuth).
• [SU] Unique wher hatches (Magma Vesk).

Winter

• [R] Xander and many other of High Reaches council members are reelected.

2767
Spring

• [R] A conclave is hosted at High Reaches where Fort's peacekeeper status is restored and Benden is placed under sanctions.
• Tuckal, Fort's weyrwoman, falls victim to an attempted kidnapping.
• The Fortian weyrling blue Hinokath rises early revealing her to be biologically female. She lays a single egg that hatches and Impresses without difficulty.

Summer/Autumn

• Gold Nornth rises for her maiden flight. She kills a bronze from Benden and orders three others murdered by her chasers before being caught by Steel Anderoth.
• Blaze is forced to step down as Junior Weyrwoman.
• Lord Vellaren of Fort Hold marries Lord Corleon of Ruatha.
• Fort Hold loses most of its food supplies and several of its surrounding cotholds to a wildfire.
• [R] High Reaches takes heavy losses during threadfall.
• [R] An assassination attempt is made at Junior Weyrleader Schneizel.
• [SU] Gold Nebulaeth is caught by Cabadath on her maiden flight and lays a healthy clutch.

Winter

• The first black white, Varelsith, hatches.
• Blaze of Gold Nornth is poisoned and dies
• Benden's entire leadership decide to step down following official sanctions from the conclave and...less official pressure from Majima of Brown Majimask. A goldpair is sent from Telgar to repair all the damage the old guard did to their weyr.
• [R] A vehemently anti-gold greenrider is elected Senior Weyrleader
• [SU] Semaca's longtime weyrleader O'tlan steps down.

2768
Spring/Summer

• Serapheth is caught by Wireth, and Negan becomes the Weyrleader
• Serapheth's clutch contains only ten eggs, many of them small, and none gave much reaction at the Touching.
• [HR] Heavy Threadfall losses at High Reaches
• [SU] Cornelia of Garnet Guiloth is elected Weyrleader
• Chimera wher (Garnet-Blue Relsk) hatches at Fort.

Fall/Winter

• Fort Hold's stability improves with the new plantings leading to a good harvest.
• Serapheth's clutch contains one chimera (Bronze-White Louicyth)
• Unique dragon (Porcelain Lillyth) hatched at Telgar.
• [HR] Lelouch of Blue Isith and Schneizel of Bronze Damocleth secretly work with other Weyrs in order to attempt to secure the donation of a gold egg.
• [SU] Extensive flooding at Semaca due to storms threatens the Weyr. The damage is severe, and some even begin to suggest that they should ask the northern Weyrs for aid.

2769
Spring/Summer

• Fort Hold rises up in rebellion, overthrowing Lord Vellaren and banishing all wherhandlers. A new democracy is founded.
• The events at Fort Hold give the Weyr's traditionalists a cause to rally around. They manage to successfully install a bronzerider leader of an upper wing.
• [HR] Schneizel of Bronze Damocleth is once again elected Weyrleader
• [HR] Schneizel and Lelouch's plans finally bear fruit, and Telgar donates a clutch with a gold egg.
• [SU] Semaca Weyr continues rebuilding after the floods, without aid from the north after all... though a trader ship does appear nearby.

Fall/Winter

• Serapheth rises, and is caught by Diyarth. The new Weryleader, Z'osh, is a staunch traditionalist; the rift between traditionalists and progressives grows ever wider.
• [HR] The gold egg does not, in fact, contain gold, but a bronze.
• [SU] The traders appear to be pirates?! And they seem to be here to stay, having establishede trade agreements with the Weyr.

2770
Spring

• Serapheth's clutch hatches, all of the dragons healthy, including the unique (Tanzanite Yharnath).
• Soon after Serapheth's clutch hatches, garnet Neozeoth lays a small clutch. The clutch, however, is stolen by an unknown party soon after the eggs harden, and disappears entirely.
• [HR] Out of nowhere, two eggs appear right as they're about to hatch. These are presumed to be Fort's missing eggs.
• Relations between Fort and High Reaches are immediately strained; the Candidate share program between the two immediately ceases, and many riders flee back to their Weyrs of origin.

Summer

• [HR] High Reaches holds emergency elections, hope in the Council having been shattered. Anaiya of Green Adasheth is Weyrleader once more.
• [HR] Ista donates a clutch to High Reaches... including a gold egg!
• [SU] Unique wher (Goldstone Ollisk) hatches.

Fall

• [HR] The donated eggs hatch, including a gold! Aldoeith is the first presumably-clutching gold High Reaches has had in a long while; will she actually be accepted?
• [HR] In response to the gold's hatching, Anaiya decides to take a sabbatical, leaving for Semaca. Her junior, Har'et of Green Kisinateth, temporarily takes over leadership.
• [SU] Spotties attack a pair of riders, showing more coordination than usual.

Winter

• Gold Ryosk lays a clutch containing six eggs, hatching Gold Salihsk.
• [SU] Gold Nebulaeth is caught by Blue Rauseth.
• [SU] Unique wher (Pietersite Felisk) hatches.

2771

Spring

• B'rent of Blue Charlith killed in Threadfall.
• [R] Har'et of Green Kisinateth elected as Weyrleader.
• [SU] Nebulaeth's clutch hatches healthy, with three eggs containing twins. The weyrlings were later attacked by the spotties during a lesson, the injuries excessive, one losing a hand.

Summer

• Weyrleader Z'osh stages a coup against Tuckal, placing her, all garnets, all mutations, all female bronzeriders, Blue Hinokath, and Banagher of White Unicoth (for allegedly attacking him during Threadfall) under house arrest. Despite this, Garnet Temporaeth still rose and clutched during this time.
• A fight ensues in the Weyrbowl between traditionalists and progressives, eventually quelled by the Weyrwoman. Z'osh is exiled to Semaca, and removed from his position as Weyrleader. Lanec of Brown Tobith is instilled as interim Weyrleader until Serapheth is able to rise again. New positions are added, including Assistant Weyrleader and Wherleader.

Fall

• [R] A clutch from the Golden Ghost is laid, hatching seven eggs including Gold Nhelisk.
• [SU] Pirates are now allowed to be candidates, provided they remain at the Weyr.

Winter

• [R] Toki of Gold Aldoeith decides she would rather be at a Weyr wherein she can be Weyrwoman, and thus is allowed to leave for Benden Weyr, with the caveat that she will allow Aldoeith to have her clutch at High Reaches.
• [SU] Mutation dragon (Opal Rebelioth) hatches.

2772

Spring

• [R] Aldoeith, caught by Bronze Morriseth, lays her maiden clutch. All eggs are large, gold eggs.
• Candidate age limit raised from 25 to 30 all across Pern.

Summer

• [R] Xander elected as Weyrleader. Aldoeith's clutch hatches healthy; Gold Galdeneth hatches and impresses to Zagreus, a male candidate! After this, Toki of Gold Aldoeith took her leave for Benden.
• [R] N'ell of Garnet Pamith, as well as Bronze Zalth during Garnet Rozeth's flight accidentally revealed the true thieves of Neozeoth's eggs; Majima of Brown Majimask and his network had convinced Renatus of Bronze Zalth to steal the eggs; as well as this, former Weyrleader Schneizel of Bronze Damocleth was outed as part of Majima's network. N'ell has been exiled to Fort, and Renatus, Majima, and Schneizel have been exiled to Semaca for their crimes. Transfers between Fort and High Reaches open up once more.
• [SU] Weyrleader Cornelia decides she wants Semacan weyrlings to stay at the Weyr for at least five turns after graduating, other Weyrs follow suit.
• [R] Unique wher (Hemimorphite Connosk) hatches.

Fall

• [SU] Mutation wher (Bloodstone Dask) hatches. First pirate-candidate impresses (Teleka of Blue Tesk)
• [SU] Dragon Day established as a holiday wherein those travelling to Semaca can be Searched. Some newcomers attacked and/or killed by spotties.

Winter

• Serapheth rises and is caught by Brown Jitteboth, instilling Artoirel as Weyrleader. She lays sixteen eggs.

2773

Spring

• Serapheth's clutch hatches, including her second gold daughter, Ustreilith, impressing to Katelline.Summer

Summer

• [R] Connor of Blue Andorsk and Hemimorphite Connosk elected as Weyrleader

Fall

• [R] Mutation dragon hatches (Moonstone Asberyth)
• [R] Crop blight strikes High Reaches Hold, meaning food supplies would be scarce for a while

Winter

• [SU] Gold Nebulaeth lays first gold daughter, Xialath, impressing to a male, ex-pirate candidate

2774

Spring

• [HR] Gold Galdeneth lays her maiden clutch, sired by Garnet Eith, laying only male dragons
• [HR] Threadfall leads to multiple deaths, including Candidatemaster Clovis
• [HR] Jae of Blue Zappath elected as new Weyrleader
  Riders from previous Passes show up all over Pern, with multiple riders landing in both Fort and Semaca while High Reaches retrieves a single rider and a candidate

Summer

• [SU] Pirate hold becomes officially recognised hold, named Lominsa Hold, Captain Merlwyb established as leader
• [SU] Squads discover that they can solve the High Reaches blight problem with bat poop, further strengthening the Weyrs' relationship
• Ustreilith rises, choosing Blue Eseath as her sire, causing upset among traditionalists - Kreta becomes the first bluerider Junior Weyrleader
• Katelline graduates, becoming Junior Weyrwoman

Fall

• Ustreilith's clutch hatches, one green impressing to a dragonless man in the stands whose bronze had previously been killed by Nornth
• [SU] A prank by Deir of Bronze Rollieth causes a firestone lesson to be delayed and thus Green Vranath's early rise ended in her laying three eggs
• [SU] Mutation dragon hatches (Brimstone Privagaith)
• [R] A mudslide hits High Reaches Hold, causing holders to overcrowd the Weyr for the time being

Winter

• [SU] Pirates discover a new cavern, debating on what to do with it

2775

Spring

• [HR] Elections end in a tie, leading to a Weyrleader coalition between Rene of Green Jurith and the re-elected Connor
• [HR] Nhelisk lays huge wher clutch, including golds Morsk and Lancesk