An expanding timeline recording Yves’ and Midnight’s lives.

As the story progresses, the chronology will be expanded.

CHILDHOOD

EMERY THURM

ARTEFACT HUNTERS

CHILDHOOD

620
Yves is born

EMERY THURM

631
Gazing upon an elf

Travelling within the Veridian forests, Yves and Midnight get involved in the battle between Master Raidenbarl and an elf. Academy masters find them gravely injured. For two months, healers treat their injuries and restore Yves' eyes. Nonetheless, his second and first sight continue to deteriorate ever since he gazed upon the elf through second sight. During the battle, the Jabarrah merged with Yves.

632
Hidden chambers

Yves, Prayan and the Prince Regent find one of Emery Thurm's concealed chambers. Within, they find a runed portal. For three years, they work on deciphering the runes and fulfilling their demands.

635
Hidden passages

After three years, Yves, Prayan and the Prince Regent master the runic challenge posed within the concealed chamber they found in 632. They gain access to a web of hidden passageways.

637
Expelled

Yves is expelled from Emery Thurm, taking with him the knowledge to forge ethereal mirrors.

EVENTS WITH YET UNSPECIFIED DATES

  • Yves encounters and makes a deal with the Witch Mother who promises to restore his eyes.

ARTEFACT HUNTERS

“He set out in pursuit of knowledge, seeking tomes and tools that extended beyond the academy’s resources. Conventional teachings and methods had failed him, all that was taught and done offered no salvation, so he ventured into the realms of the lost, the forbidden and the unknown. He sought travellers who had witnessed the obscure and mythical, wizards whose arcane wisdom stemmed from unconventional sources, and other peoples who honed unique skills. He was granted audiences with esteemed healers like The Wizard With Six Arms, oracles, shamans, and, in his most desperate and darkest moments, even witches.”   [B1.C9]

Yves and Midnight travel the Midlands and the rugged heart of the Western Mountain Ranges as artefact hunters, visiting ancient and lost places, and studying the magic and history of different cultures. Over the years, they encounter and amass an assortment of items and artefacts.

637
Ethereal Mirrors

As Emery Thurm expellants, Yves and Midnight begin to travel the Continent in their pursuit to remain hidden from the academy. They also gather the components for creating two ethereal mirrors, as demanded by the witch mother.

639
Barnstream Settlements

Yves seeks audience with The Wizard With Six Arms. Staying in the north-eastern Barnstream settlements (Bertellems) for a year, he and Midnight work as couriers (during the time the Barnstreams are unaccessible by boat) and hunt paigen.

641
Ethereal Mirrors: Completion

Yves crafts two ethereal mirrors.

642
Bahatu Moors

Yves and Midnight had a devaststing experience, where their messenger strings with crucial information never reached their intended recipients.

644
Dimensional Plane of Shards: Access

After three years of learning how to handle his Mirror World form, Yves is able to traverse the Dimensional Plane of Shards consciously.

646
TGW BOOK ONE

"A flicker of movement crossed his reflection."
[B1.C1] starts with Yves recognising the Mirror World Stalker in one of his ethereal mirrors.

646
Dimensional Plane of Shards: Magic

For the first time, Yves is able to impact the MIrror Dimension, reshaping a fragmented tunnel structure [B1.C3]. He lateron realises that these alterations had also impacted the Material Dimension. Shortly after, he undergoes several transformations, changing from a fractured creature into a being of ashen light, and then into an (almost) ethereal existence of light.

646
Darkness: Midnight becomes a shadowbound

Within the vast expanse of the Albweiss Mountain tunnnels, Midnight transforms into a being of darkness [B1.C8].

646
Darkness: The sky is lost to Yves

After shifting the Vicha into the Mirror Dimension, Yves' sight decreases drastically. He cannot see further than 2 km anymore. The moons and stars are lost to him. [B1.C9]

EVENTS WITH YET UNSPECIFIED DATES

  • Yves has visited a human habitat [prior to 646].
  • Yves spent weeks “when he did little more than sleep and eat and waste away”  [B1.C4] [prior to 646].
  • Prior to the start of Book One, Yves crossed Bahatu, the Whispering Moors, where a coven of witches cursed him with his second Vicha.
  • Before [B1.C13], Yves has suffered from the scorchborn’s disease.
  • Yves fought giants [prior to 646].
  • Yves consulted Oracle Faroah [between 637 and 641].