Timeline of Helderbourgh

The Timeline of Helderbourgh is a schematic historical overview of the Grand Duchy of Helderbourgh and its predecessors.

Timeline of Treisenberg

The founding of Treisenberg is attributed to the date of 1965 ASC (Dec 22, 2004) by Franz-Josef I.

In 2290 ASC (Nov 12, 2005), Treisenberg passed into the hands of Stormark.

In 4775 ASC (Sept 2012) the Rossheimers and Rhaetians met and agreed upon a basic outline for the reformation of the United Principalities; the addition of Kujirashi-Wahlstadt was made a few weeks later and rounded out the confederation.

Timeline of Rossheim

2113: Ruler of Treisenberg grants eastern Cibola to Viscount Christoph von Rossheim, who becomes first Duke of Slavonia (Voivode od Slavonija).

2164: Slavonia renamed Duchy of Rossheim as part of the process of Germanisation.

2190s: Central government collapses in Treisenberg. Rossheim, Rhaetia and Morovina form a new confederation, the United Principalities of Treisenberg, with the prince of Morovina as Grand Prince. Rossheim proclaimed a sovereign principality in 2196.

2290: The grand prince cedes the home islands to Stormark, prompting the collapse of the Grand Principality. The Duchy of Rossheim lingers on for a few years before its territory is overrun and its last ruling Prince is killed in battle. Refugees flee to the Corumese Kingdom of Sangun, where another branch of the Rossheim family have ruled the since 2049. The Kings of Sangun subsequently style themselves Prince of Rossheim and Duke of Slavonia.

Timeline of Sangun

4546: Descendents of the refugees (known as Cibolan Saxons) petition the King of Sangun, Sadamara Aptrgangr, to help them establish a new homeland on Cibola.

4547: Sangunese forces occupy the former Holzer colony of Volksburg and found the Duchy of Rossheim-Slavonia-Volksburg as a self-governing state within the Kingdom of Sangun, Riskai and the Idunn Isles.

4683: Sadamara, by now Emperor of Greater Sangun, gives the Duchy its independence. A relative of the Emperor, Max von Rossheim becomes duke.

4779: The Duke’s health collapses. His chief minister, Karl Drosselmeyer asks the Duchess of Lichbrook (another member of the Rossheim family) for assistance. The Duchess’ daughter, Marie Dolores, Marchioness of Modania, informs Drosselmayer that the Duke can only be saved if he is made a lich, with his soul bound to the land. Exploiting his unwillingness to have the ritual performed locally, she persuades the minister to support an expedition into the heart of the continent; her real aim is to secure the rich gold mines rumoured to be in the area.

The expedition arrives at the mountains and performs the ritual. The Duke’s soul is successfully made a lich, but Marie Dolores arranges that her soul is also bound to the land. The Duke and marchioness declare the region the Duchy of Rossheim-Leichenberg.

The new Duchess brings in necromechanical miners from her mother’s duchy to work the gold mines.

4795: Duke Max proclaims the union of the Duchies of Rossheim-Slavonia-Volksburg and Rossheim-Leichenberg.

4816: The ruined cities of Eisenstadt and Swak Steer are annexed and resettled with Cibolan Saxon colonists. The Duke announces his intention to rule jointly with his wife and grants a new constitution.

Timeline of Tiěyá

3113 (Zhímín 1): The Commonwealth of Batavia expands into Cibola. The southern border of the Deelstaat of Aragon extends a short distance beyond what is now the northern border of Tiěyá into Héchéng and Huī'àn Provinces. At the same time, Stormark's Vaduz enclave, a former territory of ancient Treisenberg, occupies most of what are now Héchéng and Chóngjiànróng Provinces. This year is reckoned as the first of the Zhímín, or Colonial, Era.

At this time, the territory of what is now Tiěyá was almost entirely inhabited by Cibolan Saxons.

3193 (Zhímín 81): The Cibolan Saxons of the Green form their first organized state in millennia, the Imperial State of Germania.

3445 (Zhímín 333): Germania collapses into chaos following the extinction of its ruling house.

3658 (Zhímín 546): As part of an apparent Storish-izing campaign by the government of Stormark, the former lands of Treisenberg under its rule are combined with other other Cibolan possessions and reorganized as the Thanedom of Inri Havid o Ytri Eyjarnar; Vaduz is renamed Skirup.

3700 (Zhímín 588): Batavia, as part of an effort to revitalize and expand its overseas dominions, extends its borders southward; the new boundaries include nearly all of what is now Huī'àn Province, and new parts of modern Ānshuǐ and Héchéng Provinces. The new territory becomes part of Laguarres, which is split off from Aragon. Meanwhile, the Thanedom of Inri Havid o Ytri Eyjarnar is split and reorganized once again, with the former Treisenbergish territories becoming the Thanedom of Sicilia; Skirup is renamed Venosa.

4646 (Zhímín 1534): After a nearly thousand-year period of regional stability, South Batavia is reorganized, with most of the provinces being merged into larger units. The exception is the new province of Barbarije, which consists of those lands south of the Barbary Strait.

4769 (Zhímín 1657): Arvidsudde is founded at the northern tip of Barbarije, on the south side of the Barbary Strait.

4774 (Zhímín 1662): Leichenberg is founded to the southeast of modern Tiěyá as a protectorate of Greater Sangun.

4778 (Zhímín 1666): The last year of the Zhímín Era.

4779 (Jìngdào 1): The territories of South Batavia declare independence as the Empire of Jingdao and South Batavia. Its desire to expand to the south put it into conflict with Stormark, which, in an attempt to circumvent the Batavian-controlled Barbary Strait, had recently declared plans to expand Sicilia to the opposite coast (the claim occupied what is now the Tieyanese heartland) and construct a canal through the new territory. The resulting Barbary Strait Crisis threatened to draw the entire continent into war, touching as it did upon effective control of access to the Cibola Sea. This year is reckoned as the first of the Jìngdào Era, that of the Pure Path.

4781 (Jìngdào 3): Treisenberg is resurrected as part of the dual monarchy of Sangun-Treisenberg.

4814 (Jìngdào 36): The Treaty of the Inner Sea is concluded between Jingdao and Stormark, leading to the southward expansion of Jingdao; the new territory south of Barbarije is named Shanglu. The treaty also lays the basis for the building of the Canale di Tancredo d'Adraisio between the new Storish city of Castellamare del Golfo (modern Àigǎng) and Cefalù (southeast of modern Héchéng) in the Venosa enclave, crossing Jingdaoese territory.

The economic impact of canal traffic and the waves of Jingdaoese settlers moving south to occupy the new lands tilt the ethnic makeup of the modern territory of Tiěyá toward its current composition. In Treisenberg, the territory of Rossheim-Slavonia (formerly Leichenberg) expands southward toward what is now the Steerian heartland.

4852 (Jìngdào 74): Barbarije and Shanglu, together with Basella north of the Strait, attempt to secede from Jingdao and South Batavia, beginning a long-running civil war.

4927 (Jìngdào 149): Within Treisenberg, Treisengarten and Rossheim-Slavonia merge and reorganize into Leichenberg.

4935 (Jìngdào 157): The civil war in Jingdao ends. The victorious imperial army celebrates by pushing further south into the new territory of Wadonstol. The lands around Essen are administratively separated from Shanglu.

4942 (Jìngdào 164): The Cibolan portions of Sangun-Treisenberg separate from Sangun and become the Cibolan Confederation; as part of the Confederation, Leichenberg expands southward parallel to Jingdao, reaching the southern shores of the continent.

4966 (Jìngdào 188): In preparation for the construction of a new capital, Jingdao temporarily relocates its government to the Strait. Naval and Arvinsudde are subsumed into the new city of Zhongjing.

4976 (Jìngdào 198): Central authority collapses in Bluelight, resulting in the dissolution of the Cibolan Confederation; Bluelight is absorbed into an independent Leichenberg.

5027 (Jìngdào 249): With the same necrarch on the thrones of both Leichenberg (as King Max I) and Greater Sangun (as the Taishi Emperor), the two unify as a double monarchy, the Sanguno-Leichenbergish Union. The former territories of Bluelight are given a special status as Rossheim-Wladischofen.

5059 (Jìngdào 281): The Empire of Jingdao and South Batavia changes its name to the Territory of the Heavenly Light.

5081 (Jìngdào 303): The last year of the Jìngdào Era.

5082 (Hùnluàn 1): The Territory of the Heavenly Light collapses, with the last independent remnants reduced to the area around Zhongjing on the Barbary Strait. Shanglu and Wadonstol, along with a number of overseas Jingdaoese possessions, pass to Batavian control, including most of modern Tiěyá south of the canal (most of Qīshān, Àigǎng and Ānshuǐ Provinces, and part of Chóngjiànróng) save for the Storish Sicilian enclaves. North of the canal, government authority collapses entirely. This year is reckoned as the first of the Hùnluàn Era, that of Disorder.

5109 (Hùnluàn 28): Any plans for redevelopment in Cibola are cut short by a fracture within Batavia, with the nation split between rival governments. The successor government in control of metropolitan Batavia divests itself of its remaining territories in Maraguo (which becomes independent) and in Cibola, where Shanglu and Wadonstol are consumed by the Green.

5152 (Hùnluàn 71): Leichenberg abandons many of its sparsely populated southern territories to claim the former lands of Shanglu. The new Bailiwick of Essen is created in an area which, with relatively minor adjustments, corresponds closely with that of modern Qīshān, Àigǎng, and Ānshuǐ Provinces, with a portion of Chóngjiànróng. Nonetheless, the rugged terrain and the sparseness of the population make effective control difficult.

5160 (Hùnluàn 79): The remnant population of Zhongjing, after searching for a new home, departs the city to found the distant Kingdom of the Six Islands.

5175 (Hùnluàn 94): After a almost a hundred years of turmoil in the area, the Canal begins to fall into disrepair and become unnavigable. Partly because of this, and partly because of the abandonment of Zhongjing's claims to the Barbary Strait, Stormark in turn abandons the Venosa enclave to claim the newly vacated territory, to which most of the inhabitants depart. Cefalù, formerly the eastern terminus of the Canal, is refounded on the site of Zhongjing.

5226 (Hùnluàn 145): Leichenberg, unwilling or unable to maintain control of the sparsely populated hinterlands of its newer western territories, withdraws its control to a group of designated "fortress cities". The along with most of modern Steeria, the territory of Tiěyá is almost entirely unoccupied save for the remaining Storish port at Castellamare del Golfo.

5232 (Hùnluàn 151): Stormark almost entirely departs from Cibola; Sicilia is abandoned entirely, including Cefalù and Castellamare del Golfo. Tiěyá is left entirely to the Green.

5299 (Hùnluàn 218): The descendants of Jingdao return from overseas to reestablish their empire far to the north. The mere sight of them is evidently sufficient to cause neighboring Alexandria to withdraw to a safe distance over the subsequent decade.

5331 (Hùnluàn 250): After several decades, much of the Jingdaoese homeland is reclaimed. Although the reconquest has not reached modern Tiěyá, some of the inhabitants, encouraged by trade and clinging to memories of the days of imperial glory, hope for a reunification. Others, aware that their religion has drifted considerably apart from that of their kin, are not so sanguine. One of the more flourishing ports, Àigǎng, is founded on the ruins of Castellamare del Golfo.

5409 (Hùnluàn 328): Hopes of reunification are abruptly dashed when the Holy Empire of Jingdao contracts, establishing itself behind an inland ring of fortresses and walls. Any signs of a revival in Tiěyá are swiftly reversed.

5489 (Hùnluàn 408): Jingdao departs once more over the sea and out of the sight of their southern cousins, migrating en masse under the cover of darkness to evade their enemies.

5494 (Hùnluàn 412): By his own later account, the Man of Death took up his wanderings in this year.

5518 (Hùnluàn 436): Emboldened by the evident disappearance of Jingdao, Alexandria resumes its ancient borders in Cibola, and establishes the Imperial Colony of St. John in and around the Barbary Strait for good measure.

5533 (Hùnluàn 451): Approximate date of birth, or possibly creation, of Pàn Shuānghuā, daughter of the Man of Death. Whether a mother was involved and what the circumstances were are unknown.

5541 (Hùnluàn 459): The Man of Death, a revenant in black armor, and his daughter sail from the distant north into the Cibola Sea bound for Leichenhafen. During a storm, the ship is wrecked in shallows near the Tieyanese fishing village of Mò, at the present site of Héchéng; the two are the only survivors. The villagers, disturbed by the undead man, debate whether to drive him away; but several weeks after the wreck, when Mò is attacked by a neighboring village, the Man of Death walks out alone to meet the attackers and drives them away, earning the awe and fear of those he saved. The following day, he travels to the attackers' village and proceeds to start destroying buildings until they agree to stop attacking Mò. At his insistence, the two villages make peace.

5543 (Hùnluàn 461): An alliance of inland raiders attacks both villages. The Man of Death organizes a defense that fends off multiple attacks, but is unable to stop them at their source. At the Man's direction, other victimized villages and towns in the region are contacted and drawn toward an alliance to oppose the raiders. Those that are reluctant to join are visited personally by the Man of Death, who persuades them of the wisdom of banding together.

5546 (Hùnluàn 464): After several years of assembling troops and leading them against raiding parties in the hills, the Man of Death feels them to be disciplined enough to attack the raiders' home towns. At the Battle of Hǒugāoyuán, in which the raiders attempt to stop the counterattacking force, his personal participation in battle helps defeat an ambush, contributing to the raiders' defeat. The army proceeds to conquer a large portion of central Tiěyá in the name of restoring order. Though nominally under the joint occupation of the allies, the Man of Death is the de facto ruler of the conquered region. Many of the former raiders are drafted into the army.

5547 (Hùnluàn 465): The Man of Death begins establishing a functioning government in his territory. Through a combination of threats and bribes, he convinces the city of Àigǎng and its hinterlands to submit to his rule; he uses its relative wealth to finance his schemes for governance.

5548 (Hùnluàn 466): Several of the alliance's cities, nervous of the Man of Death's influence, attempt to withdraw from the alliance, on the grounds that the raiders are no longer a threat; but several of their contributed units, with the tacit support of the Man of Death, return home to protest. When civil unrest erupts in Xiǎomù during a confrontation between the town's elders and militia and its returning soldiers, the Man of Death uses this as a pretext to march on the town with his army. It surrenders to the approaching forces without bloodshed.

5549 (Hùnluàn 467): The alliance fractures as its members differ as to the proper response to the Man of Death's actions. Though unwilling or unable to contest his control of the inlands, many of them determine that he should stay there, and that he has no place in the territory of the allies. After sending him a demand to this effect, which goes unanswered, they raise troops to expel the Man from Xiǎomù, and are soundly defeated in the resulting battle. The sixteen-year-old Pàn Shuānghuā, daughter of the Man of Death, is present and active at the battle.

5550 (Hùnluàn 468): The Man of Death, busy with consolidating his holdings, does not immediately retaliate against the belligerents of Xiǎomù, but notifies them in general that retaliation will be forthcoming to those who supported the attack. Those who did not, as well as many who had been noncommittal, seek to appease him by declaring their submission. The others gear up their defenses, and denounce the appeasers. The alliance-controlled eastern coast of Tiěyá dissolves into two opposing camps, each a patchwork of city-states.

5551 (Hùnluàn 469): Establishing his field headquarters at Mò, which had already declared for him, the Man of Death begins his march down the east coast. Shuānghuā is placed in command of a mobile skirmishing unit, which gains a certain amount of infamy for its use of ambushes and psychological warfare. When several officers of the Man's army protest against a young teenage girl being given such a task, he recommends that they ask her to prove her worth; the results are widely known as the Tale of the Tests. Opposition to her command is extremely muted thereafter.

5552 (Hùnluàn 470): The Man of Death declares his need to depart Tiěyá. His daughter Shuānghuā remains behind to complete the campaign. The army is commanded by a group several higher officers; though militarily competent, the air of invincibility lent by the Man of Death begins to fade.

5553 (Hùnluàn 471): The army moves toward the border of Leichenberg, and begins subduing the remaining alliance cities there. However, control of the inlands has become shaky in the absence of the Man's leadership, and becomes more so when Àigǎng on the west coast declares independence. With the bulk of the army tied down, Shuānghuā and her more mobile forces are sent to the opposite coast to restore control. Passing through her father's domain, her presence appears to calm the situation there. Continuing through to Àigǎng, she cuts off land access, but does not have the forces to directly assault the city.

Sustaining a life-threatening wound during a sortie by the city, Shuānghuā consents to be made a lich on the advice of her father's attendant, Quán Sǐzhǔ, who further advises her to publicize her undead state.

5554 (Hùnluàn 472): Àigǎng remains able to receive supplies by sea, prolonging the siege. Shuānghuā has no navy at her disposal; she arranges for coastal artillery to cover some approaches, but this too proves to be an incomplete solution. She eventually takes advantage of her lack of need to breathe by repeatedly entering the harbor underwater over several nights, carrying mines and explosives on each trip and attaching them to the docks and other facilities. One the setup is complete and Shuānghuā is out of range, the explosives are triggered simultaneously, wrecking the harbor and clogging it with debris. The city surrenders several months later.

5555 (Hùnluàn 473): Shuānghuā returns to her father's dominion to restore proper governance there. Her descent, her undead status, and her actions at Àigǎng inspire enough awe and respect that her authority is accepted with little debate there. She is rejoined by the leading officers of her father's army, as well as those portions of it not engaged in occupied the conquered cities. After a conference with the officers, she appears with them in public in the main square of Ānshuǐ, proclaiming herself her father's heir, and announcing her intent to unify all the lands of Tiěyá as one state under one government, whether willingly or not. Copies of the speech are made and sent throughout the entire region.

5557 (Hùnluàn 475): Many of those towns not already loyal to, or conquered by, Shuānghuā's forces swear fealty to her, cowed by the threat of invasion. Members of compliant town governments are rewarded by being incorporated into the emerging bureaucracy of the state. Despite the hopes of Ānshuǐ that it might serve as the new capital, Shuānghuā instead chooses Mò, as the site where she first entered Tiěyá, as a loyalist stronghold, and as her father's field headquarters; Ānshuǐ is promised a role as a provincial capital as compensation.

5558 (Hùnluàn 476): Construction of the capital begins. Mò becomes the center of the new city's harbor district. Further afield, the borders and capitals of the various provinces are fixed; In the case of the sparsely populated Qīshān Province, this requires some building of infrastructure, as the namesake city is at the time only slightly more than a mining outpost.

5564 (Hùnluàn 482): The last year of the Hùnluàn Era. The palace of the new capital is, if not complete, then in a livable state; Shuānghuā takes up official residence there, and names the city Héchéng.

5565 (Sàohuáng 1): Pàn Shuānghuā is enthroned as Queen of Tiěyá; in commemoration of this and of the unification, she proclaims a new era, Sàohuáng (Eminent Phoenix). In the same year, the Sanguno-Leichenbergish Union is refounded as the Empire of Sangun and South Cibola, and some of its former territory reclaimed.

5569 (Sàohuáng 5): The Queen petitions the Empire to be admitted as a constituent state, resulting in negotiations to revise the Imperial Charter.

5571 (Sàohuáng 7): Tiěyá ratifies the revised charter.

5573 (Sàohuáng 9): The Queen proclaims the new Basic Law of the Kingdom via royal edict.

5577 (Sàohuáng 13): Planning begins for the Grand Canal, a reconstruction and upgrade of the Canale di Tancredo d'Adraisio of over 750 years earlier.

5706 (Sàohuáng 142): Dà Wáng Yùnhé, the Great Royal Canal, is completed. In recognition of his role in the project, the Queen grants the Minister of Works, Liáng Biàntōng, the honor of being the genetic father of her first daughter and heir, Pàn Tiǎomín, the Royal Princess Guāngmíng, who is also decanted in this year.

Timeline of Leichenberg

4779 ASC (5 September 2012): The Duchy of Rossheim-Leichenberg is founded by Max, Duke of Rossheim-Slavonia-Volksburg and his fiancée Marie Dolores, Marchioness of Modania.

4795 ASC (21 September 2012): Rossheim-Leichenberg is united with Rossheim-Slavonia-Volksburg to form the Duchy of Rossheim, which subsequently becomes a founding member of the United Trincipalities of Treisenberg along with the Principalities of Rhaetia and Kujirashi-Wahlstadt. The capital of the united duchy is moved to Neurossheim.

4801 ASC (27 September 2012): The Duchy of Rossheim is renamed the Duchy of Rossheim-Slavonia.

4816 ASC (12 Oct 2012): The Eisenmark (Westmark) and Steermark (Stiermark) are annexed and the cities of Eisenstadt (Eisenburg) and Swak Steer (Stierburg) refounded. A new basic law is promulgated, in which authority is vested jointly in the Duke and Duchess.

4927 ASC (31 Jan 2013): Volksburg is ceded back to the Emperor of Greater Sangun. The United Principalities ofTreisenberg is dissolved; the province of Treisengart is annexed to Rossheim-Slavonia, which is proclaimed the Kingdom of Leichenberg. The city of Neutreisen is renamed Kronstadt and becomes the capital of the new kingdom.

4933 ASC (6 Feb 2013): The Cibolan Confederation is established by Leichenberg, the Sovereign Order of Bluelight, the re-established Duchy of Rossheim-Slavonia-Volksburg and the Principality of Kujirashi-Wahlstadt.

4944 ASC (17 Feb 2013) - South Leichenberg and the Wadonstol Military Frontier are annexed to the Kingdom. The city of Moorheim is refounded and the capital of the kingdom is tranferred to Leichenberg.

4956 ASC (1 Mar 2013): South Leichenberg, the Wadonstol Military Frontier and the greater part of the Steermark are erected into an autonomous Duchy of Stiermark, intended for the King and Queen's newborn children, Igor Viktor and Viktoria Adelheid. The Duchy is to be ruled by their parents until they come of age. Eisenburg is renamed Waldenburg and the rest of the Kingdom is divided into three new territories: the Crownland (Kronland), which remains under direct royal control, and the provinces of Kronstadt and Rossheim.

4966 ASC (11 Mar 2013): The port city of Leichenhafen is founded. The Crownland and Provinces of Kronstadt and Rossheim are abolished and replaced by the Provinces of Kronstadt, Leichenhafen and Neurossheim and the Bailichdoms of Leichenberg, the Oberland and the Westmark. Living citizens are permitted to settle anywhere in the three provinces, but only in certain designated cities within the three bailichdoms. The remainder of the territory to the south of the Leichenberg mountains is transferred to the Duchy of Stiermark.

4973 ASC (18 Mar 2013): The Order of the Golden Skull is founded as the Kingdom's premier award.

4976 ASC (21 Mar 2013): The Emperor of Greater Sangun abdicates in favour of Igor Viktor and Viktoria Adelheid: the Duchy of Rossheim-Slavonia-Volksburg is ceded to Leichenberg, becoming the Province of Volksburg, while the Grand Duchy of Stiermark and Südmoorland is reintegrated into the Kingdom as two new crown lands. The territories of the former Bluelight are also annexed to the Kingdom, becoming part of the Grand Duchy of Südmoorland. The city of New Light is renamed Eiswig and a new fortress and research base is constructed at Südkap.

4981 ASC (26 Mar 2013): The Bailichdom of Südkap is formed out of Südmoorland. Its administrative centre is the new city of Wladischofen, founded on the ruins of Old Vladishopnuu.

5027 ASC (11 May 2013): Igor Viktor and Viktoria Adelheid abdicate as Emperor and Empress of Sangun in favour of their father. The Bailichdom of Südkap is erected into the Duchy of Rossheim-Wladischofen for Igor Viktor and the Province of Volksburg is erected into the Duchy of Rossheim-Volksburg for Viktoria Adelheid. Leichenberg and Sangun form the Sanguno-Leichenbergish Union under the rule of Max von Rossheim.

5065 ASC (18 Jun 2013): Igor Viktor and Viktoria Adelheid die at the age of 109, having refused unlife.

5080 ASC (3 Jul 2013): Having lost control of Shirekeep to insurgents and facing mounting opposition, Mira Raynora the Younger (the former Marie Dolores) abdicates as Kaiseress of Shireroth and hours later is accidentally blown up crossing the River Elwynn. Although expected to rematerialise, she fails to do so and in her absence, Max becomes increasingly reclusive and neglectful of his duties.

5130 ASC (22 Aug 2013): The continued absence of the king leads to a constitutional crisis. Senior lich-lords enter the royal apartments to issue Max with an ultimatum, only to find him gone: a golden crown atop a small pile of dust is all that remains of the king.

5130 ASC (22 Aug 2013): A Regency Council of senior lich lords is formed to administer the realm in the absence of a necrarch.

5131 ASC (23 Aug 2013): the Regency Council announces the creation of an heir to the throne, Max Viktor Raynor, using genetic samples taken from Igor Viktor and Viktoria Adelheid after their deaths. The Council intends for the prince, who is styled Duke of Rossheim, to assume power when he comes of age.

5144 ASC (5 Sep 2013): The Queen of Lichbrook claims the Leichenbergish throne, as the only descendent of King Max in existence at the time of his disappearance. The Regency Council plays asks for time to consider her claims.

5149 ASC (10 Sep 2013): The Duke of Rossheim comes of age and proclaims himself king as Max II; however, he also offers to reign as co-necrarch alongside his aunt.

5152 ASC (13 Sep 2013): King Max II annexes the Duchies of Rossheim-Wladischofen and Rossheim-Volksburg to the kingdom; they become crown lands: the Duchy of Wadenstuhl and the Duchy of Volksburg. Max also replaces the three bailichdoms and three provinces with six bailiwicks. The living are once again restricted from settling outside of the cities.

Timeline of Minarboria

The Kingdom of Minarboria was proclaimed in 800 AF (5884 ASC, September 15th, 2015) from the Shrubbery, a fortified hill adjacent to the ruined Ashkenatzan city of Mikrashot. In time the city around this Shrubbery would grow to become the Minarborian capital, Sansabury.

In 887 AF (5971 ASC, December 11th 2015) Minarboria expanded its territory to include land previously occupied by the Ashkenatzan province of Merenia. Five days later, the newly acquired territory was decreed into existence as the Lichgraviate of Lachmeren. In 932 AF (6021 ASC, January 24th 2016) this gain was extended into the Royal Forest of Litel as part of the Treaty of Gloomburg agreed with Tellia and Shireroth, which also brought the Principality of Highbloom under Minarborian rule.

In 1016 AF (6105 ASC, April 18th 2016) the ailing Empire of Sangun and South Cibola decided to form an Empire under the Minarborian flag. The event represented a doubling of Minarboria's territorial holdings with Sangun, Treisenberg, Leichenberg, Steeria, Riskai, Tiěyá and Karalakh all joining the Empire. The rulers of these territories established their presence in Sansabury as the Council of Necrarchs, with Lyssansa at its head. The consolidation brought a short period of confusion on Cibola which led to the withdrawal of governance from Eastern Highfield. The area was duly occupied by authorities from the Natopian province of Walstadt until an uprising in the province was put down by the Natopian government, who by way of retribution stripped Walstadt of most of its new-found territory and returned half of it to Minarboria in 1088 AF (6172 ASC, June 29th 2016).

In 1100 AF (6184 ASC, July 11th 2016) began the Jollification of the Kossars, a drive to secure the western frontier of the Imperial Shrublands in response to a surprise expansion by Shireroth into Western Benacia. This expansion gained the ancient Ashkenatzan heartlands of Volhyria and Porolia, including the ruins of its capital Kolmenitzkiy. These territories, renamed Vollity and Poroly, would eventually become the Shophate of Siyachia.

in 1175 AF (6259 ASC, September 24th 2016) Empress Lyssansa went missing along with most of the Empire's necrarchs, leaving her designated Regent Shyriath Farstrider to assume power. In 1227 AF (6310 ASC, November 14th 2016) he fell gravely ill after a particularly enthusiastic Amaretto binge, leaving all Minarboria without governance. The necromantic ley lines which sustained Minarboria's undead population quickly withered and order began to break down, culminating in a series of events known as the Harvestfall Revolution, whereby a movement of student liches took the university city of &zeter hostage and demanded reform of the failed state. The situation was briefly resolved by Regent Shyriath's recovery from illness and his resumption of power in 1284 AF (6367 ASC, January 10th 2017), whereupon he conspired with the Saohuang Queen of Tiěyá to reform the Imperial Root Law independently of the absent Empress and restore the Empire to a limited period of function in 1305 AF (6388 ASC, January 31st 2017).