The Fivefold Chronology

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The Fivefold Chronology strives to include every narrative entry, arranged in fictional-chronology order, independent of when they were actually authored.

Anything that could conceivably have happened before the Battle at the Glass Canyon has been lumped in the "Backstory" section, with no particular sense of ordering.

When there are multiple overlapping many-part stories involving PCs and their servants, I've mixed them together in an attempt to highlight the closeness of back-to-back episodes (e.g. Reforging the Promise/Rededicating the Promise), and to separate episodes that have substantial travel or downtime between them (most Daybringers chapters, with the notable exception of Chapter 4 and Chapter 5).

When the timing of entries are ambiguous, the entries are clustered in the following order: Circle activities come first, followed by Tier-2 (DBs and gods), then Tier-3(Saga of the Daybringers, Servants of the Righteous), then Tier-4 activities (Other non-SotD, non-SoR amalgam groups). Finally, groups of chronologically-ambiguous links concerning the activities of the party's foes tend to be grouped towards the end of a session. Regarding dates: These become increasingly inaccurate towards the beginning.

Occasionally, a link will be located at or near the end of a session for no other reason than that it provides an appropriate note of closure (as in The Price You Pay), or because the entry directly foreshadows the events of a subsequent session (as in Something to Break).




Storyline tags:

DB: Chronicles of the Daybringers

GC: God Crossing

IC: Infinite City

MFL: Marukan First Legion

NRW: Nameless Ravine's Wanderings

SCS: Solar Circle Sorcery

SoR: Servants of the Righteous

SRaM: Sapphire River at Midnight

SSE: Second Southern Expedition

SSW: Seven Seasons Widow

TK: Tea and Karma

ToW: Nameless Ravine's Nightmare - the Torrent of Woe

TP: The Promise



-- Backstory - in no particular order--

Leaf Shakes the Wind

Mayhiros Tesos - first part

Rhianna

Mayhiros Ruja

The Mourning Field

Shouting With Iron

Soft the Valley's Song

Virra Amalia

Lun Kuai's Letter

Third-Arm Glaive

Chokhan Fifteenth Son Shatters the River (TaK)

Recollections of Tea and Karma (TaK)

Rivers Between Us

Part One: When the Student Is Ready... (SRaM)

Part Two: Tea and Sympathy (SRaM)

Part Three: Walls and Tall Shadows (SRaM)

Storm of Amber



-- Dawn of the Third Age (from Game Start through Breaking Iron)--


Nameless Ravine (TaK)

Hiparkes' Mirror

The Xuan Wu Academy

Pagoda of Infinite Strategy

The Dryads

Amilar Amaki

Othoclase

God Crossing - first part (GC)

The Well of Roots




--The Battle of Breaking Iron: Circa Descending Fire, RY 768--


The Plan For The Promise (TP)

The Gathering of The Promise (TP)

The Forging of The Promise (TP)

The Tempering of the Promise (TP)

Farewell to the Promise (TP)

Battle of Breaking Iron (MFL)

Special Training for the Marukan First Legion (MFL)

Clearfield (MFL)




--Failure and Intrigue: Circa Ascending Water, RY 769--


Kena - Part 1 (SSW)

The Divisions

Allat




--The Halls of Venus: Circa Resplendant Water, RY 769--


The Halls of Venus (IC)

Flying Pearl Lake (first part)




--The City Mastered: Circa Resplendant Water, RY 769--


Sohei Reinforcement Armor (IC)

Ma-Ha-Suchi (IC)

A School For All (GC)

Serpent Swords (IC)

Spring Market (GC)

Tokaki Kui

The First Generation (GC, DB)

Abbot of Hunger and Dust

V'Neef Pahul

The Qinglong Alliance - The Living Voice of Ami Kang




--Lookshy Strikes Back...er... First: Circa Resplendent Wood, RY 769--


Iselsi Augus

Kena - Part 2 (SSW)

Pai and Pei

Chapter 1 (DB)

Lyssa (IC, SSW)




--Civil War Averted: Circa Descending Wood, RY 769--


Storm's Eye Hill - first part

Chapter 2 (DB)

Blood Like Sparks (DB)

Chapter 3 (DB)

The Southern Expedition - first two parts

A Lesson In Humility

God Crossing - Rivers' Day Off (GC)

Subaru Mao

Fenghuang Temple

Deren's Ford

Puyo

Varsi




--Usurpation and Betrayal: Bloody Roots, Bloody Lips: Circa Descending Wood, RY 769--


A Tea Ceremony, Interrupted (TK)

Crossroads of Tea and Karma (TK)

An Early Departure (SCS, SSW)

The Reprimand (SCS, TK)

Site 1: Firewander (SCS)

Unexpected Theology Lesson (TK, MFL)

Site 2: Rathess (SCS, SoR)

Bones Like Jade (SCS, SoR)

Gaiden 3.5 (DB, SoR)

The Bureaucrat and the Deity (TK)

Site 3: Diamond Hearth (SCS)

Site 4: An Teng (SCS)

Sun-Blackened Pinions

Chapter 4 (DB)

Chapter 5 (DB)

Gatehouse of the Five Winds (GB)




--Insults Answered: Circa Ascending Fire, RY 769--


The Trials of Righteous Judgement (GC)

Perfected Vigilance of Stone

Nexus

War Games (MFL)

Alabaster Sunset

The Marukan Alliance

Crumbling Pillar




--Oops.: Circa Ascending Fire, RY 769--


Act 1: Curtain Call (ToW)

Act 2: Boameth and the Fox (ToW)

Intermission: Rivers and Spoilers (ToW)

Act 3: Darkest Before the Dawn (ToW)

Act 4: Torrent of Woe (ToW)

Act 5: Fifteenth Son Shatters the River (ToW)

Cerulean Sage

Marta, second part (SSW)

Prince Resplendent in the Ruin of Ages

Weeping Jade

Perfected Tears Upon Alabaster Sorrow (SSW)



--Servants of the Righteous: Parts 1-3: Circa Ascending Fire, RY 769--


Gaiden 5.5 (SoR, DB)

Gaiden 5.6 (SoR)

Lu Fei - First Part (SoR)

Shai Mei (SoR)

Lu Fei - A Letter from a Most Unworthy Brush (SoR)

Sha Yan Shi (SoR)

Raging Panda

The Halls of Venus - second part (SSW, IC)

Unity of Dreams (SCS, SSW)

Seven Season's Widow (SSW, IC)

Chapter 6 (DB)

Reforging the Promise (TP)

Rededicating the Promise (SSW, TP)




--Messages and their Bearers: 3rd Day of Resplendent Fire, RY 769--


The Qilin Fellowship

Flame-bond Forge - The Forge's New Master (SoR)

Choshu Ishi (SoR)

Gaiden 6.5 (SoR)

Flying Pearl Lake - Soho's tour (SoR)

Agathon's Findings (SoR)

Amilar Agathon (SoR)

Mayhiros Tesos - second part

Typhon

The Price You Pay



--A Trial of Valor: 12th Day of Resplendent Fire, RY 769--


Crucible of Celestial Portion (SSW, IC)

Nama Bi (SoR)




--The Consequences of Action: 23rd Day of Resplendent Fire, RY 769--


Storm's Eye Hill - "In the Dragon's Wake" (SSW)

The Southern Expedition - The End and the Beginning

Thorns

Juggernaut (SSW)

Four Farewells (NRW)

Amilar Vondy

Hope in Varsi (NRW)

Chapter 7 (DB)

Soho (SoR)

Red the Sage's Roots (SoR)

Something to Break




--The Righteous Strike Back: 1st Day of Calibration, between RY 769 and 770--


Scattered Hoof-beats Sound

Open Skies Above (SSW)

Storm's Eye Hill - "Singular Geomancy"

Sha Yan Shi and the Wayward Eye of Ma-Ha-Suchi (NRW)

House of Courage

Putting Out Fires (SSW)

Falling Bridges

The Five Changes of Fire

Three Visits For the Brass Lady

The Crow and Cloud Formation

A Gift of Blades (SoR)

Thirsty Soku and the Righteous Man (NRW)

Shadow of a Different Sun

Responsibility and Authority (SSW)

The Prison of Oaken Rebuke (ToW, NRW)

Rivers Between Us - Epilogue




--Distant Peals of Thunder: 28th Day of Resplendent Water, RY 770--


Sha Yan Shi and the Monkey-Picked Messenger (TK, ToW, SoR)

The Righteous Stair



--Wind in the Doorway: 29th Day of Resplendant Water, RY 770--


Choshu Aya (SoR)

Strategies For Mountains and Valleys (SoR)




--Darkening Skies--


Tactics For Hosts and Guests (SoR)

Not One Tiger Warrior (SSE)

A Conspiracy of Virtue (SSE, SoR)

Secret Avalanche

Root of the East




--Sapphire's Bad Day--


Sapphire's Bad Day

Sha Yan Shi and the Mandate of Heaven (SSE, SoR)

Powder Kegs (and other delicate matters) (SSE, SoR)

Divine Intervention (SSE, SoR)

Sha Yan Shi and the Law of the Pack (SSE, SoR)

Hurry Home, Sweet Voice (SSE, SoR)

Sha Yan Shi and the Long Dark Night (SSE, SoR)

Voices Prophesying War



Heaven's Mandate