758 BC

Events

• The Ste. Ronges Cell of the Fraternity of Shadows assembles.
  
• A build up of Nova Vaasan royal forces within easy reach of the Tepestani border is interpreted variously as a warning to the Tepestani to stop sabotaging the road or as a prelude to an invasion to civilize the domain by force.
• Illyana Hiregaard is institutionalized at the recently reopened Clinic of the Mentally Distressed outside of Egertus and kills an orderly. There are rumors that she is Malken. (If one ascribes to the Dread Possibility that the clinic serves once a month as a Mistway to the Nightmare Lands, then the doctors and the patients vanish once more.
• An agent of Azalin known as S interviews Sir Tristen Hiregaard and finds him to be “smug and self-satisfied” and unforthcoming about his struggle with Malken. (Fall)
• "S" investigates Tepest. There she encounters the Gentleman Caller.
• Narana Hiregaard is to lead the crew of the Waveprowler, an effort sponsored by her family to fight the growing piracy on the Nocturnal Sea. The ship is to be captained by Onid Rhelarian.
• Intending to kidnap Lord Kaspar Von Brausch, Jean Audric ambushes and kidnaps Marcellus Von Brausch on a hunting expedition. Jean infects Marcellus with lycanthropy, but the latter escapes.
• Le Ballet National du Dementlieu goes on tour in Darkon performing Raven Field. En route to Viaki, the majority of the ballet troop vanish.
• Winter Kristoff Lutemmi assaults the Midway Haven Observatory and murders three Celestines. Fritz Winterboone is nearly slain himself, but Katyarna Ivanova-Rudenko intervenes.