Timeline of Events

The Timeline of Events is a recording of all major occurrences throughout the history of the world of Red Nights.

Prehistoric Era
50,000 BCE: The first Awakening occurs, and magic is discovered by humanity.

7,754 BCE: Oshtek is Embraced by the Amaros Antediluvian, becoming the first member of the Fourth Generation. Shortly thereafter, his sire gifts him to the Vetala Antediluvian.

7,226 BCE: Oshtek abandons the Vetala Antediluvian after threatening to commit suicide if she does not allow him to go free.

5,601 BCE: Oshtek happens upon a great ziggurat encircled by a small village upon the eastern bank of the Tigris River. Over the next few decades, he guides the mortals there into building a great city, drawing more and more inhabitants and constructing a religion around himself.

Ancient Era
April 21, 753 BCE: Latinus happens upon the hamlet that will one day become Rome. Over the next few years, he fashions its citizens into one of the greatest fighting forces the world has ever known.

506 BCE: Latinus maneuvers the Romans into defeating their Etruscan conquerors, allowing them to establish their own republic. Furthermore, Latinus, along with several members of his brood, invites his fellow Torvic to the newly formed Eternal Senate, a senatorial group of vampires who share Latinus's rule of Rome. Latinus cleverly designs the senate to cause constant squabbling, playing on the petty rivalries between senators, but so that he can always find a small group to support his movements. In this way, he subtly controls the senate completely, maintaining total power in Rome.

472 BCE: A group of conspirators within the Eternal Senate conspire to murder and usurp Latinus, led by his eldest childe. In this event known as the Bitter Hour, the Senators, and several of Latinus's personal guards, all converge upon him, attempting to take his unlife, as his childe tries to diablerize him. Latinus, however, manages to cow many of them with his combined powers of Dominate and Presence, allowing him to slay his childe and several attackers, almost on the verge of collapse, until he is relieved by his childe Antonius and his forces. After recovering, Latinus executes all surviving conspirators, and eradicates all descendants of his traitor childe, save those few who fought against their sire to protect Latinus himself. However, unable to trust them, or even to look upon them without being reminded of the painful betrayal of his firstborn, Latinus exiles them all.

417 BCE: Alaric, a Veismar elder, is driven out of his territory in northwestern Gaul by the combined forces of the Torvic Cacitorix and Erik Steinfaust. He seeks refuge in Rome, finding an ally in Latinus.

206 BCE: Latinus maneuvers the Roman republic into beginning an invasion of Spain via the Iberian Peninsula. The Amaros Methuselah, Refias, and his brood halt the Roman conquest, prompting Alaric and Latinus to travel there to treat with him.

Post Classical Era
1371 CE: The Anarch revolt begins, as the neophytes of Europe rebel against their elders.

1480 CE: The period known to vampires as the Burning Times is initiated, as the Anarch Revolt exposes vampires to hunters, leading to massive amounts of vampiric deaths.

Early Modern Era
1548 CE: The vampiric community of Europe holds a great convention in response to the Inquisition and the Anarch Revolt. Terms are given to the Anarch revolutionaries by the cabal of elders who had established the sect known as the Camarilla. The Camarilla offered a chance for all present to become members, and under its authority, they would adhere to a set of Traditions in order to secure the survival of the vampiric race and maintain the status quo within vampire society. Anarchs who did not wish to join the Camarilla would still be granted amnesty, so long as they ceased the war against their elders and adhered to the newly established Masquerade, and would have no further attacks made on them. However, a group of revolutionaries refused to back down, declaring that they would never cower in fear from the kine, and went on to form the Sabbat. The Al-Shavar, as punishment for their rampant diablerie of European vampires, are subjected to a ritual which prevents them from diablerizing vampires not of their own clan.