Timeline

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A timeline of major events in Thief. Minor events are discussed on the Storyline page.

[edit] Ancient History

Precursors

• Emperor Va-Taraq dies
• Va-Toran is crowned emperor - seals colosseum for one year and one day in mourning

Cataclysm

• Karath-din is swallowed up by the earth

Destruction of Kurshok civilization

• The Trickster casts out the Kurshok. They have not seen the surface since, and eventually ceased to believe it even exists.

The Hag begins to collect glyph powers, The Ancient Keepers create the Sentient safeguards

The Golden Age^[fanon]

[edit] Recent History

The Eye

• The Hammerites find The Eye and bring it to the Hammerite Cathedral in Old Quarter.
• The Eye exhibits strange behavior, moving to different locations within the cathedral when no one is looking.

Year ~xw84 (50 years prior to TDP) Catastrophe

• The Eye begins resurrecting the dead, who begin attacking everyone and everything living.
• The City Council hurriedly constructs a wall to contain the zombies.
• The Keepers seal the cathedral using ancient elemental wards. One is kept by the Hammerites, another is sealed in Karath-din, another is kept by ancient trapped caverns, and the last is kept with the Mages.

• The Hag murders Lauryl and takes her skin. The Shalebridge Cradle catches fire.

[edit] Current History

• Interpreter Diocen retires his position, and Caduca takes his place.
• Garrett joins the Keepers around the age of 10, and undergoes Keeper training.
• Garrett, now about the age of 20, decides to use his skill for other means, leaves the Keepers to begin his life of crime.
• The Hag, using the name 'Gamall' and using Lauryls form, is discovered by the Keepers, and beings translating.

Year xx34 Thief: The Dark Project events, a.k.a The First Dark Age

• Garrett is hired to collect The Eye from Constantine. Garrett discovers the location of the eye and the elemental wards. He collects the talismans, and releases the Eye, which he then unwittingly delivers into the hands of the Trickster.
• Garrett loses one of his eyes to the Trickster, who takes it for his ritual.
• After rescuing the Hammerites, they give Garrett a Fake Eye to destroy The Trickster.
• An idealistic Hammerite named Karras gives Garrett a Mechanical Eye.

• Karras founds the Mechanist Order and begins his rise to power.
• Truart takes control of the City Watch.
• The Hammerites begin to lose influence.

• Ganing the trust of the Watch, the Nobility, and businessmen alike, the Mechanists begin a large grab for power, despite being a very new splinter group.

Thief II: The Metal Age events, a.k.a The Second Dark Age

• The Watch begins rounding up all criminal elements for the Servant project.
• Garrett inadvertently walks into a trifecta of the City Watch, his old enemy Viktoria, and the Keeper Prophecy.
• Garrett and Viktoria work together to thwart Karras's plans to destroy all biological life in The City, and end up killing him in the process. Viktoria sacrifices herself at Soulforge Cathedral.
• After the death of Karras, the Mechanists quickly fall from power.
• The City Watch, Nobility and businesses quickly drop most or all ties to the Mechanists.

• Surviving Mechanists are put on trial.

Thief: Deadly Shadows events, a.k.a. The Third Dark Age

• The Hammerites slowly return to power after the fall of the Mechanists.
• Garrett is accused of murder, and is hunted by the Keepers.
• The Hag disguised as an old woman attacks Garrett, leading to the aid of Inspector Drept.
• The Hag returns to her true form when Garrett frees Lauryl's soul from the Cradle. The Hag goes on a rampage through the Keeper Compound.
• Aided by the Keepers and Drept, Garrett destroys the Hag.

The Third Dark Age

• After the death of the Hag, all prophecy, every glyph, and every bit of Keeper magic is revealed. All books are empty, and building appear in the city out of nowhere.
• Garrett leads the remaining Keepers.
• Garrett catches a pick-pocket, akin to how Artemus found Garrett.