Timeline

For History of Rivellon written by Larian Studios for Divinity: Original Sin Kickstarter, see The History of Rivellon.

For brief technical information about the Divinity series, see Series.

• AR: Anno Rivellonis. The ancient way of identifying specific years.
• AD: Anno Deorum. How we count years now, in honour of the Seven Gods.

Undated events, AR

The eight Eternals, Chaos, Rhalic, Tir-Cendelius, Duna, Zorl-Stissa, Vrogir, Xantezza and Amadia sought to acquire the power of Source. Utilizing the knowledge of Fane, they overthrew the God King and sealed the majority of their kind beyond the Void.

The Wizarding Wars took place throughout Rivellon, Behrlihn is sealed away below Aleroth as a result.

Bellegar, in his youth summoned 4 demons and was unable to control them. Maxos answered his pleas for assistance and sealed Bellegar in the primodial cave until such a time that a brave adventurer would set him free.

The first recorded instance of tainted Source occurs, following a darkness sweeping the land, those who could wield its power no long able to heal, now find themselves as destroyers. As a result of this change the Order of the Source Hunters is established to contain the threat from Sourcerer's.

One such Sourcerer, Braccus Rex, used Source to rule his lands with an iron fist and saw others, his sister included as nothing but pawns to his plans. Ruling from Fort Joy on Reapers' Eye, the tyrant developed tools for containing and purging source from others, enabling his position as the monarch of these land to go unchallenged by those who may oppose him.

His time of tyranny was eventually brought to an end by the Order of the Source Hunters. Defeated by them, he was taken to the mainland to face trial, hung and thrown into a well below Cyseal. His corpse was retrieved by his disciples and buried in the Church to the Seven.

8800 AR

Rivellon's first emperor, Sigurd is murdered by three of his own children and a war for the throne begins, each of them being unknowingly manipulated by the demon Corvus; who although bound within the airship, the Raven, by the wizard Maxos can still enter their thoughts. Maxos, in his desire to ensure the legacy of Sigurd is sustained seeks out the emperor's love child with the dragon Aurora.

Although his own armies were also influenced by Corvus, through the dreams of the commander's imp mechanic Grumio, he prevailed against his half siblings and reunified the lands.

4 AR

Two Source Hunters, Scarlett and Roderick are sent to Cyseal to investigate the murder of the local councilor, Jake. As part of their investigations they discover a Star Stone, discovering a much greater threat on the horizon; the Void Dragon consuming all of time.

The two hunter's initial task is intertwined with their destiny, for Jake's death was part of a wider plan by the Immaculates to assist the dragon in its personal mission. Furthermore, as the hunters obtain the Star Stones (and their tainted form, the blood stone), their true identity and history as the guardians of the Godbox and their deviation from duties resulting in the dragon's release and corruption of Astarte become apparent.

Even their smaller acts have had an effect on the events of time, surpassing their own lives on Rivellon. Bellegar, sealed in the primordial cave by Maxos was released by them. His freedom would effect events across the world for over 1300 years.

As part of the Immaculates plans, Braccus was resurrected; for brief time, only to be taken down again by the Order of the Source Hunters.

100 AD

The Lord of Chaos exacted his first attempt to render the demon race the dominant species of Rivellon. His plans were thwarted by the dwarves and he returned to hell.

611 AD

Chaos launched his second assault on Rivellon, with the backing of not only demons, but also the Legion of the Damned, wizards of which many had been cast out due their performance in dark magics and necromancy. They managed to force the armies of the League of Seven, lead by Ruben Ferol back to Rivertown and after a drawn out skirmish in the semi-abandoned town, drove the forces into Stormfist Castle, just east of the town proper. It was at this time that Ruben formulated a plan from a dream delivered prophecy to exile Chaos back to hell for good. By sacrificing the lives of the Council of Seven (Ruben himself, Dylan Ferol, Jemthorn, Ulf Twohut, Grondtha, Zakx and Go-Dar) a divine act was performed. The legion, now leaderless fled the battlefield in the face of the freshly moralised opposition force and the small number of survivors fell into hiding. The Sword of Lies carrying the seed of Chaos' life essence, carried into battle by the dark lord's general Ulthring was taken by Ralph, squire to Ruben.

Unknown date 611-1200 AD

Ralph became the leader of the wizard race following the battle and found his time divided between carrying out the duties of his role as the chief battlemage of Rai'alor, spokesperson of the wizards and battling the Sword of Lies. As Ralph's strength to resist the swords strength dwindled, his servants, sensing something was direly wrong petitioned Morreck Ferol, Ralph's childhood friend to visit him. Seeing the state of his friend and learning of the urgency of the situation, Morreck assisted his childhood friend in sealing the sword between the walls of Stormfist itself. However before this could be completed, Chaos finally took control of Ralph and he too was sealed within the walls.

The passing of the last surviving member of the Legion of the Damned, Zenfar Blutsporn occurs; taking his own life at Brokentooth Crag. At this time the Black Ring, descendants of the Damned are in their infancy as a faction, committing comparatively minor hate magics and storm gathering. Zenfar passes on his knowledge of the Sword of Lies to the Ring through his death letter.

1218 AD

The Sword of Lies is retrieved by the young Duke Janus, from the vault in Stormfist Castle's treasure room. Manipulated by the Black Ring, seeking to reviving Chaos, Janus proclaims to be the Divine One.

Zandalor finds three Marked Ones, those with the ability to become Divine. They are targets by the Black Ring, to prevent ascension. Wouter and Joris are killed by the Ring, however Lucian survives multiple attempts on his life. Finding the newly appointed council members, Lucian ascends to Divinity; however, the majority of the council is killed during the ritual by Janus, with a team of orcs in his stead.

Assisted by the Patriarch, Lucian travels to Yuthul Gor to eliminate the Demon of Lies. Although able to remove the demon, its plans have reach fruition, with a young babe now infused with the Chaos lord's soul infused within him. Unable to kill the child, Lucian takes him as his own son and names him Damian, with the hope that the child can grow up unaware of his potential and origin.

C. 1219/20 AD

Damian's demonic abilities make their first appearance after placing his hand in a fire but coming out unscathed.

C. 1228/29 AD

Damian doesn't return home after taking his horse for a ride. Lucian sets out in search of him, eventually discovering the boy in Oakland Woods, legs curled up to his chest and in a state of shock, surrounded by three dead orcs, heads severed from the torsos and hearts burnt out. On coming to, Damian had no recollection of the events and on Lucian's return to the woods, no trace of the orcs could be found.

1230 AD

Buadrim Venomclaw relocates to Broken Valley village with an offcut of Abanayabar.

1231 AD

Lucian enrolls Damian into the Paladins on his thirteenth birthday. The paladins themselves take to the enthusiastic young boy. Damian is allowed to move out of the cottage into the paladin's quarters.

1233 AD

Damian excelled at his studies and can best any of the young paladins in combat and was called upon by the villagers for his strong divination abilities. Lucian, satisfied that Damian was progressing well in his new role, embarked on a personal journey, in part to enjoy a flagon of ale and stew without being disturbed and in part to hunt the Black Ring agent Kalin, The father of Ygerna. Discovering his cottage and the malformed children contained within its walls, Lucian burnt the property down as an act of grace. Kalin was discovered the next day by the paladins and thoroughly interrogated. Kalin in his refusal to answer their questions, bit off his tongue before being executed by Lucian once the interrogations has been completed.

Lucian discovered a rift temple beyond the mountains of Tanoroth, after Goliath threw a horse shoe. The act itself seemingly normal was undertaken by the lizard god Trogda. Exploring the temple, Lucian falls through a rift, assisted by the gods, (who removed his coin purse from his belt) landing on Earth. Returning to Rivellon, Lucian arranged for the temple to be secured, posting paladins a distance from the perimeter; sensing the temple would have a role of great importance in the future.

Damian meets and enters a relationship with Ygerna. Lucian is initially receptive to the relationship however later discovers that Ygerna is a Black Ring operative. Damian arrives at the point of her execution and soul forges himself to her and they subsequently escape.

Damian becomes the leader of the Ring and mounts and attack on Lucian at the rift temple. Lucian traps and him in Nemesis, erasing his memory.

Damian is taken in by the raanaar, who attempt find and return him to his world. After discovering that he is blocked from passing through the rift, the high elder travelled through themselves and discovered the reality of the situation from Lucian.

Damian, becoming aware of who he is and his predicament from the high elder, murders the high elder. Confronted by Anlokar their battle ends with Damian fleeing. Anlokar replaces her father as the high elder and enforces additional patrols to search for Damian. Patrols are reduced back to once a day as the patrols grow bored of the heightened searches produce nothing of interest.

Damian steals the holy crystal of protection from the temple via the imps on cleaning duty, lifting the seal between the demon plane and Nemesis. As the demons push the Raan back to the academy, Anlokar sends an imp with a message to find the demon commander to negotiate.

Asmodheus breaks into Anlokar's chambers, taking her to his lair he confirms her suspicions of Damian's role in the theft of the crystal. He offers Anlokar the opportunity to drive the demons back in exchange for enslavement. Anlokar accepts and the demons are driven back, however, the Ranaar were exterminated.

Lucian discovers the reality of how the gods came to be and attempts to restore the status quo by firstly draining them of their Source which he would use to seal the hole in the Veil, from which the Seven Gods stole the Source in the first place, and secondly by ensuring no other Divine One arises by eliminating or banishing all Godwoken, by secretly hiring mercenaries known as the Lone Wolves. .

During the war with the Black Ring, the paladin Dallis found a tomb wherein lay the imprisoned daughter of Fane who had purged the startled paladin upon her awakening. By taking on the guise of late Dallis, Fanes daughter had met with Lucian and told him the truth behind the Seven Gods. Already displeased with how the Seven treated the souls of the races they had made, he and Dallis allied to ensure the fall of the Seven Gods.

During his scouting trip, Ifan ben-Mezd discovers a lone scout of the Black Ring army, whom he catches by suprise and switfly kills. Later on he and the Divine discover that they were too late to prevent a large Black Ring force from wiping out a nearby elven village. Swearing revenge on the Black Ring, the Divine commands Ifan to return with him to the camp and warn other paladins. Hours later Lucian calls a meeting as two ambassadors from House of War. The ambassadors arrive with the advice provided to them from the Red Prince that would ensure the downfall of the Black Ring by using the Deathfog to destroy the overwhelming Black Ring army in one large blow. The Divine summons Ifan ben-Mezd and tells him about the plan, however the latter protests claiming that the Deathfog would do the job for the Black Ring in wiping out the elves. The Divine, much to Alexandars displeasure, agrees with Ifan but argues that they are running out of time and tasks Ifan with evacuating the elves so that they do not succumb to the Deathfog. However, Alexandar rigs the rift scroll to deploy deathfog upon opening whilst promising that he personally will oversee the release after the evacuation. Ifan reaches the elves as the first soldiers reach their lands. The elves agree to evacuate, but as the open the scroll the deathfog is released, wiping most elves out and placing them on the path to extinction.

Ifan manages to escape on his soul wolf and swears to never work for the Divine Order again, eventually joining a mercenary band called the Lone Wolves where he earned the alias 'Silver Claw'. With few souls from which to draw Source from, Tir-Cendelius is no longer able to assist in holding the tear in Source veil closed. This wearing of the seal allows the voidwoken, the remnants of the eternal race to return to the mortal plane.

1234 AD

Lucian the Divine is proclaimed dead by the Divine Order and an annual feast day, called Lucian's Day, is declared in order to remember his deeds. Each year onward pilgrims flock to Arx to celebrate this holiday and recite the Endless Prayer in hopes that the late Divine will return.

First Voidwoken begin to emerge from the ruins of the elven lands, stirring up fear and sowing discord amongst the races and prompting Alexandar to summon the Quorum, a meeting between the leaders of humans, dwarves, elves and lizards, to discuss this new threat. During this discussion Alexandar, on advice of Dallis and Vredeman, insisted on rounding and locking up Sourcerers who were the primary targets of the source-depraved Voidwoken. However due to heavy role of the source in either history and culture, the elder races declined Alexandars proposal. Whilst the Elder races disagreed and openly resisted giving up Sourcerers, Alexandar enforced his plan through the Magisters. A sub-faction of the Divine Order that was by this time growing larger than the older sub-faction of Paladins that disliked banning the use of Source.

1235 AD

With no apparent leader within the Divine Order, the faction begins to fracture which culminates in near bloodshed upon the streets of Arx, as followers of the Divine argued over the custody of Lucian's body. The bloodshed was stopped by Alexandar himself, however this conflict marked the first schism of the Divine Order into three separate factions.

The first faction known as Paladins, were the first followers of the Divine, hailing most notably from aristocracy and various guilds. Paladins were led by lord Linder Kemm and Arhu who oversaw the construction of the Cathedral where Lucian's body would be buried.

The second and largest faction were the Magisters, who were mostly from common folk. The Magisters were led by Lucian's biological son Alexandar and his advisor Dallis, the Hammer. The third faction were known as Seekers who were led by ex-paladin Gareth Pryce and Meistr Siva. The goal of the Seekers was to find more Godwoken like Alexandar, until Karon, known as the Mistake went on rampage in Arx Cathedral. This undated event marked the disbanding of Seekers on Alexandars orders.

1238 AD

Damian, under the guise of a Death Knight is soul forged to one of Lucian's paladins who fell through a rift into Nemesis, by the arch demon Samuel. Together they work to make their escape from Nemesis. Years later Damian takes advantage of his freedom and the element of surprise, initially overrunning the Rivellonian forces.

1242 AD

In order to maintain the plan Lucian had made with Dallis he had himself entombed beneath the Cathedral of Arx and protections put in place in order to convince both the Seven Gods and the Black Ring of his death. Dallis tasked with gathering as much Source as possible, forced Tarquin a captured Black Ring necromancer, to secretly resurrect Braccus Rex. Dallis presented Braccus Rex as Vredeman to the Order, a scholar and teacher for Alexandar who was struggling to master his source.

In the meantime Alexandar, has assumed full leadership of the Divine Order and was rounding up Sourcerers and shipping them to Fort Joy under the pretense of protecting the people from voidwoken attacks. Due to his inexperience and urgency for the new Divine to rise up however, he left direct control of the Order in hands of Dallis while he was working to unlock his powers under Vredeman. Unbeknownst to the common people and Paladin branch of the Order, Dallis along with High Judge Orivand has Sourcerers drained of all their Source, thus turning them effectively into mindless slaves known as Silent Monks. The Silent Monks were afterwards used by the Magisters as guards in villages and as soldiers on the front lines of the skirmishes with the Ancient Empire.

The Seven Gods growing weaker with each day passed, elect new Godwoken candidates as more and more Godwoken are being killed or purged. The current chosen champions of the Seven Gods: Fane, Lohse, Ifan ben-Mezd, Sebille Kaleran, Marcus Miles (known also as the Beast) and the Red Prince escape from Fort Joy and under the command of their respective deity (or in case of Lohse the archdemon Adramahlihk) master their powers and eventually arrive at the Academy of the Seven that lay deep in the volcano on the sacred Nameless Isle. Upon arriving, the Godwoken discover the island to be besieged by the Black Ring army led by the Sallow Man and the survivors of the assault hiding at the Temple of Tir-Cendelius where also Alexandar took refuge after surviving an assassination attempt from Dallis and Vredeman themselves. Finding the way to unlock the gates of the Academy of the Seven, the Godwoken reach the Arena of the One where lies the Wellspring, the last reservoire of Source the Seven Gods have left on Rivellon. However as they were about to reach the spring they were ambushed by Dallis and Vredeman who drain the Source well using the Aeteran, killing Alexandar in the process. Disappointed and angered by the Godwoken's failure to ascend, the Seven Gods return to the mortal plane in spirit form and are summarily defeated by their chosen.

Due to the death of the Seven Gods, the Nameless Isle crumbles and sinks into the ocean. The Godwoken, with help from Malady, flee the island into the Hall of Echoes and subsequently crash unto a mountain in Stormdale, leaving Deathfog in the valley beneath it. Knowing that the final goal of Dallis was to purge the late Divine himself, the Godwoken arrive at the gates of Arx where they are forced to help the Paladins as they are besieged by a large wave of Voidwoken. Killing them and earning the respect of the Paladins, the Godwoken enter the city to discover that Magisters have been overthrown and massively executed due to rumours of Black Ring cooperation that further escalated the bitter rivalry between the two factions.

In order to bypass the Path of Blood and other various traps within the Crypt of Lucian, the Godwoken search and save lord Arhu from the Black Ring who, under the command of sworn Linder Kemm, tortured him for information. With his and Toyseller Sanders help the Godwoken succesfully enter the Tomb of Lucian.

Within the Tomb the Godwoken discover that Lucian was in fact alive and working with Dallis. During the meeting Dallis, on Lucians request, reveals her true identity and tells Godwoken the truth behind their plans. Hearing Lucian's plight and plan, the godwoken side with the Divine as Vredeman, breaks the leash binding him to Dallis and reveals his identity as the Source King Braccus Rex. Defeating Braccus and the summoned undead Sworn, Godwoken alongside Lucian, seal the Veil. This act transforms Godwoken into Silent Monks.

The Divine returns to Rivellon and proclaims the Godwoken as heroes responsible for stopping the Voidwoken as Dallis takes care of their bodies. Later Malady takes Godwoken into Hall of Echoes where she restores their souls and mind effectively resurrecting them. Afterwards the Godwoken go their separate ways.

1244 AD

Malady betrays the Divine Order, Ifan and Lohse are tasked with hunting down and capturing their former ally, a task which they complete successfully.

1244 - 1250 AD

Damian attacks Rivellon with his demonic armies, nearly overpowering the suprised Rivellonian forces. The battles between the Divine and Damian change the face of the planet permanently, leaving jagged cliffs in place of farmlands and flattening mountain ranges, where they clash. The Dragon Knights, alerted by Damians threat to the world, are sought out by the Divine and together they form an alliance in order to combat the Black Ring. This alliance balances the odds of winning the war.

During a climatic battle between the Divine and Damian, Lucian is seemingly killed by a dragon knight in an act of betrayal. The Divine Order as a result turns against both demons and dragons in the ensuing chaos until Zandalor reorganises the troops. Damian withdraws from the battle field, his revenge attained.

1250 - 1300 AD

The Order of Dragon Slayers is formed by knights of the realm for the sole purpose of hunting the dragon knights to extinction. The early structure itself was that of chapters, rather than a single unified group.

Due to apocalyptic wars that ravaged the lands and humanity bend on exterminating the Dragon Knights, the races of elves, lizards, dwarves, imps and orcs went into hiding, fleeing their lands and hiding in order to avoid even greater looses. Elves in particular, suffering major looses on their already dwindling race, are assumed to be extinct by human scholars. Whether there are some survivors is not known, save for feral imps and orcs in Yuthul Gor who had been enslaved by the Black Ring and are being used to built Flying Fortresses.

In 1290 AD Boothe was caught having an affair with Dana Jackson by her husband Carl. As a result, Carl murders him.

In 1292 AD dragon slayer Marius with his group defeat the Dragon Knight Geldor, after they had trapped him in the dungeons beneath his castle.

1300 AD

The last dragon knight, Talana is located in Broken Valley and mortally wounded by the veteran slayer Rhode. Talana manages to escape to the ruin between upper and lower Broken Valley where she encounters a freshly initiated dragon slayer. Thrusting her power upon the slayer, she converts them from slayer to Dragon Knight, revealing to them the truth that the betrayal was not a unified act of the Knights and the danger which Damian still presented.

Later when the Dragon Knight captures the Battle Tower and kills Laiken with Razakel, Damian unleashes his flying fortresses upon Rivellon, eradicating all life from Broken Valley as retaliation for the Dragon Knight's pursuit of him.

During this time the last Dragon Knight saves Aleroth from undead and demon onslaught and enters the Hall of Echoes to ressurect Ygerna under assumption that her ressurection would kill the Damned One.

However this was a lie instilled by Ygerna herself. Ygerna imprisons the last Dragon Knight in Plane of Hypnerotomachia, where Lucian was alive but imprisoned by his son.

During their imprisonment Damian and Ygerna unleash Black Ring armada upon Orobas Fjords and destroy the Champion Harbour.

When their army reached Aleroth, Zandalor had removed a shield from prison of Behrlihn who used his partial freedom to bring the Dragon Knight back to Rivellon, under promised him that if the Knight would be free then he would free the Divine as well and grant him a device known as The Eye of the Patriarch.

The Knight arrives at Aleroth and was forced to find clues which were scattered throughout the city and stop the rampage of undead summoned by ressurected Engineer.

After the Knight reached Behrlihn's prison, Bellegar appeared and begged the Knight to not free the Damned One, in exchange for device as mighty as the Eye. The only device, Zandalor believed could eliminate both Damian and his armada.

In the end the Knight freed Behrlihn who gave the Knight the Eye but refused to free the Divine. Armed with this powerful object the Knight, with army of Champions of Aleroth set out to obliterate Damian's armada and his palace, high in the sky above Tanoroth and Ferol.

The Knight succesfully managed to obliterate the armada, who turned out to be commanded by Ygerna herself but she had managed to spirit herself away, along with Behrlihn and pulled the Dragon Knight with them.

They teleported themselves unto Plane of Hypnerotomachia and there beneath Lucian's crystal prison, final battle ensued. The Dragon Knight came out victorious and with Ygerna's death, Lucian was freed.

Afterwards both the Dragon Knight and the Divine returned to Aleroth.

However Damian still was alive and according to Ygerna's words working to unlock his demonic powers.

Notes

• Divinity: Fallen Heroes was as of 14th July 2023 cancelled alongside a project based on Divinity: Original Sin II game whose code name was "Soul for Frost Island".