Wildstar Timeline Lore

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Long Before 207 BE

• Cassians are not originally from Cassus, but it is not know where they came from.
  
  
• A disease ravages the early Cassian settlers, it came to be known as the Shades.
  
  
• The disease is cured by the blood of a child that was immune to the disease, but it results in her death.
  
  
• A holiday begins in remembrance of this event, known as Shade's Eve. The girl becomes known as Angel, the disease as Jack Shade. Celebrated every October.
  
  
• A verse was written on it: "Jack Shade's comin'/Sure as death/To lay you down/And steal your breath/Put on your mask/Hide with care/And pray the Angel/Finds you there/Salvation's near/We'll carry on/But first survive/Until the dawn"

207 - 107 BE: The Nomad

• Around 207 BE, Cassus is united and forms the Cassian Commonwealth. The newly unified world begins to look to the stars.
  
  
• Construction begins on the Nomad in 207 BE, as well as looking for the best Cassians to breed together to pass down preferred traits for space exploration and diplomacy.
  
  
• It takes a century for everything to be prepared and the world celebrates its launch in 107 BE.
  
  
• Captain Sonada leads the expedition with a crew of 402, including himself.
  
  
• Sonada prioritizes the mission over lives, killing a crew member in order to go investigate an unusual energy signal which turns out to be Nexus, gaining the attention of the Eldan.
  
  
• The Nomad is thought to have disappeared by the Cassians.

32 BE: Arrival of the Mechari

• In the years following the launch of the Nomad, the Commonwealth settles several planets and begin to grow, but faces strife from the poor conditions, constantly kept in check by its soldiers.
  
  
• The greatest of these warriors is Tresayne Toria, a member of the Swordmaidens of Cassus.
  
  
• The Mechari, led by Axis Pheydra, arrive on the capital of Cassus, Meridia, and demand that Tresayne Toria come with them.
  
  
• Axis Pheydra offers the Cassians the universe if they bring her Toria, eradication if they do not.
  
  
• Tresayne Toria agrees to go and joins the Mechari to Nexus, along with a large amount of loyal Swordmaidens, but also some men.

32 BE - 1 AE Dominus The Half-blood

• When Tresayne Toria arrives, she is taken to a lab where her primal pattern is extracted to be merged with the primal pattern of an Eldan.
  
  
• Dominus the half Eldan, half Cassian hybrid is created, and Tresayne Toria helps raise him to be as capable as her with a mind fit to be a leader.
  
  
• Some who had come with Toria attempt to leave, but the Eldan shoot down their ship. The majority of the victims were male.
  
  
• In the year 1AE, Dominus arrives on Cassus, bearing abilities and objects that astound the Cassians, including nanites, weather manipulating spheres, and a blade forged of Exanite. They are not shown how to smelt Exanite, however.
  
  
• The Dominion is formed under the reign of Emperor Dominus.
  
  
• Dominus marries a Cassian named Olyssia and has several children with her, Azrion, Korol, Tristan, Galen, Bronos, Evindra, and Chaul.
  
  
• The Dominion expands to many more planets, becoming a very powerful empire.

352 AE: The Draken Are Conquered

• The Mechari require stronger shock troops for the Dominion military and decide the Draken would suit this role best.
  
  
• They study High Clanlord Zhur, who had united all of Mikros, for his strengths, weaknesses, habits, and fighting style, but assumed he would be easily manipulated.
  
  
• Azrion had become Emperor, after being trained his whole life for the fight against the High Clanlord, but knew that he would have to use the Draken's sense of honor to truly gain their loyalty.
  
  
• Azrion challenges High Clanlord Zhur in the ancient language of the Draken to a duel to the
  death for command of both Draken and Cassians.
  
  
• The duel lasts ten hours and both are greatly wounded, but Azrion shatters Zhur's blade with a decisive strike, breaks off a horn to stab him with, decapitates him, and shows his head for all to see.
  
  
• Every Draken kneels before Azrion, who welcomes them to the Dominion.

538 - 638 AE: Chua Uplifted

• Axis Pheydra searches for more sapient species to bring into the Dominion to increase its power and encounteres the Chua of Bezgelor.
  
  
• Despite their primitiveness, she notices they had a talent for mechanical engineering and generally lacked morals. This impresses her and makes them prime candidates for strengthening the Dominion.
  
  
• She approaches the chieftan of the most powerful Chua tribe and presents them with technologies that would teach them the basics of physics and eventually metalworking. The Chua gift her a box with a tar beetle in it, which explodes when exposed to the oxygen in her ship covering her and other Mechari in a corrosive black ooze. She was disappointed in the Chua and left instead of eliminating them as suggested by her envoy.
  
  
• A century later, Axis Pheydra is ordered to return to Bezgelor and finds that the planet had been completely harvested of resources by Chua industry. It had turned into a world of toxins, which the Chua had built a sort of immunity to.
  
  
• The Chua wished to join the Dominion to continue to have resources for their industry and offers a gift to cement the alliance.
  
  
• The Chua join the Dominion, but not before the Mechari envoy are pranked again with another tar beetle.

1221 AE: War of Gnox

• The Mechari find the Granok to be prime candidates for the Dominion with their immense strength and durability.
  
  
• The Granok had followed the Way of the Stone for eons, which shunned advanced technology and the use of it, believing things are fine as they are.
  
  
• The Mechari try to convince the Granok to join through flattery, technology, and a bit of intimidation. The latter two are an insult to the Granok, so they smash the diplomats, inciting a war between them and the Dominion.
  
  
• The war lasts for months due to the Granok's martial prowess, but the Dominion's technology is proving too much to bear.
  
  
• Durek, a Granok warlord, begins to steal Dominion tech and arm others of his kind willing to use it and manages to beat back the Dominion.
  
  
• Durek is brought before the tribal leaders of the Seven Nations and banished by his father, the High Elder, from Gnox.
  
  
• The Dominion experiences its first defeat and the exiled Granok wander the stars as mercenaries. The defeat drives the current emperor, Tyrani, insane.
  
  
• The Dominion never returns to Gnox.

1376 AE: The Apparent Eldan Ascencion

• The last message ever given to the Mechari by the Eldan is heard, claiming they will soon achieve the power of the gods.
  
  
• The Mechari and Luminai decide that they have truly become gods. The Vigilant Codex is written, containing writings of the emperors, Dominus' children, and Cassian scholars.
  
  
• Jarec announces to the Dominion that the Eldan have become gods and the Vigilant Church is formed.
  
  
• The Eldan are worshipped.
  
  
• Dominus' children are referred to as the Scions, each embodying a specific virtue.
  
  
• Luminai are seen as the children of gods and so they are seen as the best people to lead the Dominion.
  
  
• A class divide between those with the blood of Luminai and those without begins to form due to Jarec's Ancestral Decree.

1378 AE: Serrick Brightland and the Lowborn Rebellion

• As a result of Jarec's ancestral decree, the Highborn and Lowborn castes are formed. Highborn are Cassians descended from Luminai and Cassian pairings, however far back, and Lowborn are those without.
  
  
• The Lowborn are initially treated extremely poorly by the Highborn.
  
  
• Chronicle houses, a staple of Cassian culture, are replaced by Vigilant churches.
  
  
• What starts as wage gaps soon become battles.
  
  
• Serrick Brightland, the commander of the flagship The Star of Dominus and the most highly decorated Cassian soldier in Dominion military history defies an order to shoot civilians. He is arrested for treason and sentenced to death.
  
  
• Brightland escapes and takes the Star of Dominus, leading a rebellion against the Dominion. He achieves several victories against them before being betrayed and ambushed by his former protege, Aurelius, crippling his fleet and ruining their chance at victory.
  
  
• Brightland's fleet is found by Aurelius while hiding in the gravity well of a gas giant. Brightland feigns surrender to buy his fleet time to escape before opening fire and charging directly towards Aurelius' flagship, Radiant.
  
  
• As the ships collide, Brightland gives the order for the ship to jump into hyperspace, saving the ship, but leaving him mortally wounded.
  
  
• Brightland's final command is to call the ship the Gambler's Ruin before blacking out from his injuries. He is placed into cryo-stasis until technology advances enough to save him from his injuries.

1579 - est 1630 AE: The Everlife Elixir, Fall of Grismara, and The Long Night

• The Dominion invite the Mordesh to join them due to their mastery over alchemy and they accept the offer. They were on the edge of being brought in.
  
  
• Victor Lazarin creates the Everlife Elixir after working in his lab for decades due to being crushed by the death of his wife. Shortly after he announced it, it is rapidly mass produced and billions submitted themselves to the injection, but some refuse. It protects against disease and aging, effectively making one biologically immortal.
  
  
• Within weeks, those who were injected begin to rot and are afflicted with mindless cannibalistic rage. Eventually, even those that rejected the elixir are killed or infected by the condition that would become known as the Contagion. The Grismaran civilization collapses. Avra and Kuryin, two married nobles, step up to care for those still sane.
  
  
• Lazarin creates the Vitalus serum alongside his daughter and is saved from an angry mob by Avra, who tells him that he will work for a cure for the rest of his days or she will hand him to the angry mob. Avra and Kuryin distribute the serum to millions of Mordesh, establishing the two as their leaders.
  
  
• Kuryin boards a diplomatic ship to ask for help from the Dominion fleet that formed over Grismara. He calls for help, but is promptly blasted. The Mordesh realize they are quarantined.
  
  
• Around 1630, ships begin to smuggle the Mordesh who yet live to the Exile fleet.
  
  
• The Mordesh join the Exiles in gratitude, Avra beomes a spymistress using her multitude of contacts she made during her days as a noble.

1640 - 1658 AE Arboria and the Aurin

• Myala Everstar becomes queen around this time, and is prophesized to lead the Aurin through a time of great darkness.
  
  
• The Exiles arrive on Arboria in 1640, and are greeted by the recently coronated Queen Myala Everstar. They give the Aurin technology and news from the galaxy in exchange for supplies.
  
  
• Fearing endangering the Aurin, the Exiles quickly leave Arboria.
  
  
• The Dominion finds out that the Exiles were on Arboria in the year 1656. Mondo Zax lies on reports to current Emperor, Myrcalus, saying that Arboria lacks sapient life. Myrcalus gifts the planet to the Chua.
  
  
• The Chua begin to strip the planet of its resources using gigantic Planet Reapers, the Aurin attempt to fight back with primitive weaponry, as war is not well known to them.
  
  
• In 1658, the Exiles arrive to evacuate many Aurin, including Queen Myala and her consort Arwick Redleaf. Some are left behind.

1658 - 1665 AE: Dorian Walker and Nexus

• Dorian Walker steals a ship, the Blue Horizon, in 1658, after learning of the nebula Nexus was located in and goes off in search of it using the Book of Dominus.
  
  
• The search lasts a week before he runs out of supplies. The ship begins to run out of air and he almost falls unconscious.
  
  
• A ghostly woman appears to him in a vision, pointing him towards the trinary star system Nexus is located in. He fires up the ship's hyperdrive once more before passing out.
  
  
• He awakes on Nexus after crash landing in Galeras. He repairs the ship and sends a message to the Exile fleet stating that Nexus has been found and soon sends coordinates.
  
  
• Throughout the next seven years, ships begin to flood Nexus, both from the Dominion and the Exiles. The Exiles settle in Thayd and the Dominion constructs Illium. Additional settlements are constructed. By 1665, the largest arkships and flagships, the Exile's Gambler's Ruin and the Dominion's The Destiny arrive..

(Possible Spoilers) 1665 AE and Beyond: Current Events

Wildstar's years progress as the years in real life do. The game launched in 2014 (1665 ingame).

1665:

• Sadie Brightland, Deadeye Brightland's pregnant wife, killed by Dominion.
  
  
• Elderoot destroyed by Dominion.
  
  
• Ascendency founded by Calidor Antevian in Ellevar.
  
  
• Laveka begins to dabble in necromancy, becoming Necroshaman Laveka.
  
  
• Black Hoods release a plague upon the civilians of Auroria, killing many. Cured soon after.
  
  
• Agent Lex kills a Luminai from House Chaul that plotted treason in Deradune.
  
  
• The Strain is first encountered in Wilderrun.
  
  
• The Caretaker is encountered.
  
  
• Artemis Zin absorbs the Elder Cube in Malgrave, granting her unusual memories.
  
  
• Belle Walker is given special augmentations, giving her the ability to interact with important eldan computers. Unspecified negative side effects.
  
  
• Tresayne Toria is found to be alive in Wilderrun, leading the Torine Sisterhood, made immortal
  by a lake infused with primal life.
  
  
• Ikthians begin to conduct experiments on Nexus.
  
  
• Drusera reveals herself.
  
  
• The Entity reveals himself.
  
  
• Blighthaven is discovered, showing Drusera's origins.
  
  
• Lucy Lazarin is infected by the Strain and killed.
  
  
• The fate of the Eldan is revealed.

1666:

• The Defile is discovered. The Exiles and the Dominion begin to defend the Lightspire from the Strain's forces.
  
  
• Drusera's secret is revealed. The Entity is the manifestation of the madness of the Eldan who sabotaged the machine used to create her.
  
  
• Drusera's physical form is found contained within the Lightspire.
  
  
• The Entity is revealed to have been trapped in the Lightspire for centuries, slowly weakening Drusera.
  
  
• Axis Pheydra and Belle Walker enter Omnicore-1. Avatus is defeated, the Caretaker regains
  full control of himself, and it is discovered that Nexus was created by the Eldan. The Vault of the Archon is mentioned.
  
  
• Exile meeting of leaders occurs. All except Avra agree to help Drusera, but Avra assists anyway due to the majority vote.
  
  
• Dominion meeting of leaders occurs. Myrcalus orders them to assist Drusera.
  
  
• Many beings landed on Nexus before the Dominion and the Exiles, all were destroyed.
  
  
• The Megadroids are revealed to have landed on Nexus to collect information on it, only to fight the Eldan constructs that remained. All were destroyed, but the last one crashed into Farside, creating a gigantic crater and forming the Halon Ring. The ring was to warn other Megadroids to stay away from the planet.

1667:

• Arcterra is discovered by Dorian Walker and Artemis Zin.
  
  
• Vault of the Archon is discovered.
  
  
• It is revealed that the plans for the device used to create Drusera was given to Archon Jariel by Omnichron, the Primal of Logic.
  
  
• The different Marauder crews come together for a parley, Necroshaman Laveka turns them into her undead minions. Mordechai Redmoon is revived. They are defeated by a group of heroes.

1668:

• A ship from Grismara that was lost in hyperspace during the escape appeared over Nexus, but was filled dead Mordesh, Ravenous Mordesh, and those possessed by an interdimensional entity, but was destroyed.
  
  1669:
  
  CARBINE'S GONE STORY CANCELLED.

References

http://wildstaronline.wikia.com/wiki/Luminai

http://wildstar-roleplay.com/forum/m/11410152/viewthread/17408115-new-interactive-timeline-from-carbine

https://www.wildstar-online.com/en/game/loremageddon/

https://www.wildstar-online.com/uk/stories/

[sauce]

COMING SOON IF CARBINE ACTUALLY PROGRESSES THE STORY.

[Failed Experiment]

Thanks for reply!
Now this makes 100% sense. When I saw that point, that said, that Mondo lied, I knew immidiately, that this is the only version, that makes sense. Destruction of the nature on habitable planet full of forests animals and beautiful places is illogical and, if ordered by government this can start another revolution on Cassus, beause every Cassian will disagree with that and I also think that the Draken will probably find something against it in their laws. I thinked that government of the Dominion will most likely solve the situation with Aurin by diplomacy, not by senseless war (Meet the Dominion trailer is strange, because I never found any example of those three ways of expansion described there) and if Mechari find any useful quality it can potencially result in alliance, or inviting to join the Dominion.
So the real enemy of the Aurin isn't Dominion, just that old crazy Zax!

[Cosmic Shark]

@Combater CZ Unfortunately this was so long ago that I can't exactly remember where it was from, but it was most likely an old twitter post. It would make sense, however, because Kezrek Warbringer shows dislike for Mondo because Kezrek wanted to recruit the Aurin as scouts.

[Failed Experiment]

Can I ask where is the information about Mondo's report about Arboria's life from? I want to have this information confirmed, because it is the most realistic version of Arboria's destruction and I don't believe, that anyone expect the Zax can just attack whole planet just because of personal profit, but I am missing the source ( or mayabe I missed the information in sources used for this article).