Archie Hackett Canon

Timeline
(BD stands for before darkening and AD stands for after darkening)

BD1000

The race of Aughrians is created by Thra to teach and guide the creatures of Thra

The race known as the dalogeons begin to hyper-evolve into early gelflings

BD990

The race of Aughrians begin to disapear due to unknown causes leaving the one survivor Aughra as the last of the teachers of Thra

BD989

The Gelfling, Lightholders, Oceanians and Gruenaks begin to develop their independant cultures.

BD980

Tales of myth say that the race known as Oceanians engaged in a short war against the Gruenaks, who at the time had developed empires both in the mountains and the ocean. This war would cause the devastion of the Oceanian society leading to the race disapearing into myth and legend.

Another myth suggests that this is the time Aughra gifted Gelfling woman wings

BD880

The gelfling develop their own empire, leading to the formation of the syndicate, which would start of as a peaceful society before descending into chaos.

BD879

The syndicate would descend into chaos, with many tribes practising slavery and other forms of criminal intent.

The lightholders would continue to hyper develop into an early extinction.

BD870 The tyrants in charge of the syndicate would face a massive rebellion against them. The leaders of the rebellion (nine sisters) would then lead the gelfling race into an age of peace and prosperity. The nine sisters would find the nine wishing stones who grant the user imortality

BD700

A group of Urskek criminals would be banished by their kin to Thra, Aughra who had been in deep hibernation for the past hundred trine would welcome them to her home.

BD699

The Urskek criminals would attempt to better themselves over the three trine in order to be welcomed back into their own society.

The Urskeks would create a castle in order to house the crystal of truth.

BD601

The splitting of the Urskeks into two different races.

BD600

The Makrak raids, the makraks who had developed untouched by the world above would be forced out of their home and would force the nine Gelfling sisters to split apart and each would take with them a portion of the Gelfling population. The Skeksis would put their efforts towards bewitching Aughra (who had claimed the title of guardian of Thra) in order to stop her interfering with their conquest of Thra. The skeksis would also discover a way of draining the crystal of truth.

The first Skeksis death and the first Skeksis emperor would start his rule.

BD501

The nine sisters would establish a heiarchy under Skeksis rule. The first and second sister would establish the vapra clan, The third and fourth sister would establish the rockwood clan, The fifth sister would establish the Sifa clan, the sixth the Drechen, The seventh the Dousan, the eighth the Spriton and finally the ninth sister would establish the Fireling clan.The Skeksis would also take away the wishing stones from the nine sisters therefor taking away their immortality.

segregation of the clans, as Skeksis begin to plant racial seeds in gelfling culture

BD500

The Fireling clan would disapear and the decendants of the first and second sister would fall out, leading to the second sister taking away a quarter of the population of H'rar with her to form the Grotton clan.

The Skeksis would come across the race of Garthim who would be in slaved and mechanically augmented every few trine to the point of nothing remaining of what they used to be.

BD400

Two new sentient races would emerge the Arathim and The Podlings.

BD299

The Grottan clan would engage the Arathim in a small scale conflict for the caves of Amra, The Grottan would just about win this conflict but with heavy casualties, The caves would be renamed the Caves of Grot.

BD201

The Arathim would attempt three unseccessful attacks on the Grottan in order to reclaim their home.

BD112

The rockwood clan would fall apart into two factions the rockwyn and the stonewyn due to the death of the Maudra and her two daughters unable to decide upon who should be the next maudra, this would lead into a small scale conflict between them. Of which after weeks of fighting they would realise the error of their ways and come together again as The Stonewood

SkekGra would overthrow the first emperor, take his life and become the second emperor.

Doanael Bishoan's song of unity between the gelfling clans

BD100

The first gelfling rebellion against the Skeksis.

BD98

Jarra-jen and other mythological stories would be established during this time.

BD80

The Skeksis would lead a crusade into another country in which the Gruenaks had been peacefully developing their society. This crusade would led the the extinction of the Gruenaks bare ten survivors.

BD70

SkeSo would overthrow the deranged SkekGra, banishing both him and his followers from the castle.

BD6

The last of the ten surviving Gruenaks would be found dead therefor making the species extinct.

BD0

SkekSo would begin his experiments on the crystal of truth, releasing a new energy, the darkening.

AD1

The second Gelfling rebellion, fixed by an offical alliance between the skeksis, podlings and gelflings.

AD???

The Arathim join the alliance

AD4

The disappearance of several Podling settlements

AD18

The discovery of huge tombstones and fossils found by Dousan wanderers suggest an ancient civilisation known as the Gipifigans suffered a severe drought which bought about the races extinction.

The vanishing of several gelfling elders from various tribes.

AD20

The darkening has began to spread, taking the lives of many animals

The punishment system is put in place by SkekSo in order to insure that he is not usurped.

AD21

The age of Sifans

AD22

The Arathim are tried and found guilty for the disapearances

AD23-27

The Arathim wars

AD???

More talk of rebellion spreads throughout the gelfling clans after the inhabitants of Jackswool are all executed for crimes against the Skeksis

The species known as miners rebel against the Spriton, causing the skeksis Garthim master to deposit an army of Garthim troops to eradicate them.

AD30

The banishment of SkekEer

SkekSo orders SkekMal to hunt down the banished Skeksis, so that they do not return

A method of draining Gelfling is discovered by SkekTek

The third rebellion, a new rebellion is formed around the edges of the dark forest and the travel docks of H'rar

SkekSa, betrays the emperor, kills SkekVar and forms her own rebellion with fellow SkekHak, SkekYi, SkekEer and SkekLi, planning to overthrow the emperor.

SkekEer and SkekLi are both assassinated by the hunters guild, a group of the best hunters in all of Thra

Garthim are dispatched by SkekSo to investigate the population decrease in Arathim

The Sifan, Grottan and Vapran join the gelfling alliance after the emperor orders the maudras from every clan to the castle in order to use them as hostages

SkekSa forms her own gelfling clan nicknaming them The sea-surgers

SkekSa, SkekYi and SkekHak are all located by the hunter who poisons SKekYi and SkekHaks soup before engaging SkekSa in a fight to the death (both die)

The emperor is found dead on his throne

AD31

A new emperor appears and leads the Skeksis, Garthim, Spriton, Dousan and Stonewood into war against the Gelfling

AD32-160

over one hundred trine of fighting ensues until finally the Gelfling on this Skeksis side realise that they where on the wrong side of history and join the rebellion.

AD120-150

Two gelfling are born, Jen in a hidden villiage, and kira in a bunker

The extinction of the gelfling

Jen is found by the Mystics and Kira is adopted by the podlings

undated events

The blene crusades (if the myths are true)

The nine failures of faiwn

Grugru's conquest of Thra

The tenth sister

The cult of lightfold

King Helion

The rebirth of the Lightholders

The second syndicate

Sightings of Mystics emerging all over Thra

The banishment of SkekHak and SkekYi

Creation of the Crystal bats

Creation of the Crystal ears