Post by Murasaki on Dec 23, 2014 10:19:03 GMT
Timeline
May 3rd, 2018:
Elder Tale's new patch [Homesteading the Novasphere] is announced. Level cap to be increased to 100.
World Fraction. Hundreds of thousands of Elder Tale players to be transported into the game world.
Parallel World Shift. The timeline divides into two. Players of Elder Tale who downloaded the patch are split into two streams of consciousness called Divergence α / Divergence β.
- Divergence α (alpha timeline): The world carries on as though the players trapped in the game were not trapped in the first place. Instead, these players play Elder Tale as usual. The newest patch is met with much praise. The rest of this timeline will henceforth follow the timeline of Divergence α.
- Divergence β (beta timeline): The alternate stream of consciousness. This is where the Adventurers experienced the Apocalypse. Canon Log Horizon events occur in this Divergence. Refer to the Chronology link in the provided wiki article for information on these events. Those of Divergence β are unaware that they have a counterpart of themselves still living in Divergence α.
June 5th, 2018:
Elder Tale announces the concept of creating subservers. Forum discussion commences on the topic.
July 6th, 2018:
Data mining from encrypted files in the Northern European server reveal a file marked "server_unfounded". The file is quickly pulled from the client.
Discussion continues on the possible idea of an additional Elder Tale server possibly connected to the Northern European server.
September 20th, 2018:
Tokyo Game Show. Elder Tale executives answer Q&A regarding future plans for their MMO. When the rumor of a new server was brought up, Producer Yuri commented: "You'll just have to wait and see."
October 22nd, 2018:
Elder Tale's 20th anniversary.
A new server was announced. It will be an entirely new server and is not region-locked.
- Initial name for the server: <The Unfounded Kingdom>. Launch date: December 11, 2018.
October 29th, 2018:
More information on the <Unfounded Kingdom> was released.
- A server to take place exclusively with Great Britain as the setting. Game developers promised of additional content including an exclusive storyline.
November 5th, 2018:
<Unfounded Kingdom> class voting commences to decide the names of the starting 12 classes.
- The <Samurai> class was voted in place of the default <Pirate> class, due to strong petitioning.
- The Medium class was named as the <Shaman> class.
November 12th, 2018:
<Unfounded Kingdom> city information released.
- Londinium was confirmed to be the only starting city for the server.
- New city: Sarum. Based upon the modern-day city of Salisbury.
- New city: Stratford. Based upon the modern-day town of Stratford-upon-Avon.
November 19th, 2018:
<Unfounded Kingdom> plot information released.
Game engine <Datenhalter> to be tested in the server. Promises of exclusive content that is increasingly player-run.
The server was explained to be an entirely new experience in terms of plotline. Plotlines were divided into Generations, one to take place each season.
- Generation 1: <The Unfounded Kingdom> - 2019 Q1-Q2
- Generation 2: <Sarum Expedition> - 2019 Q3
- Generation 3: <Machination, the Miasma Insurgency> - 2019 Q4
- Generation 4: <Spectrum, the Crossroads of Eight Elements> - 2020 Q1
November 26th, 2018:
<Unfounded Kingdom> system information released.
It is impossible to transfer an existing character to the new server due to a different game engine being used.
Forum users express mixed topics, some speculating whether the existence of this server confirms rumors of an Elder Tale II.
- Screenshots were uploaded, confirming that characters will be able to select two subclasses, a Crafting Subclass and a Roleplay Subclass. Developers announced that the creation of an entirely new world meant that everyone was needed to help advance technology.
December 3rd, 2018:
Pre-orders for the Unfounded Kingdom are processed, allowing new players to purchase the game and download necessary files needed prior to the server's launch date. Single character creation enabled.
Current owners of Elder Tale were allowed to create a single character on the new server for free.
December 11th, 2018: (Day 1 of the RP)
The Unfounded Kingdom opens. Elder Tale 21st expansion: <Renaissance in the Unfounded Kingdom>
- World Fraction. Those who downloaded Elder Tale and created a character on the Unfounded Kingdom server found themselves in the game. Divergences α and β start to become one. The Adventurers who found themselves in Elder Tale all start at Level 1. There are no signs of any other Adventurers who had arrived in the world before.
- The noble class of Landers were not found in this world. Londinium's Lander population is predominantly those of lower to middle class. When questioned on where the nobles were, Landers were not aware that a ruling class had existed for years. They had all mysteriously disappeared one day.
- First death occurs by Adventurer <Leeroy> when he ventured off into the training grounds too far. This information was not widely reported, due to reported bribery on the part of an individual.
December 12th, 2018:
Establishment of several guilds:
- Imperial Guard, headed by Lugh. Established temporary order in the city in order for the Adventurers to figure out what had happened to them.
- Britain Royal News, headed by Hearst. Created first news bulletin in Londinium to share information regarding the new world.
- Industrial Revolution, headed by Cid. First report of Insightful Crafting was made by a Brewer mixing together beverages without using the system.
December 13th, 2018:
- Insightful Crafting begins to be used more often, allowing more kinds of food to have taste. Food crafting is now almost extensively hand-crafted.
- First death occurs in Londinium due to unauthorized fighting within the city.
- First appearance of the Royal Guards.
- The player killed was witnessed by several people to have respawned in Westminster Abbey. Adventurer respawning becomes widely known.
December 15th, 2018:
- The surrounding area around the Unfounded Kingdom has been mapped within the nearby 10 kilometers.
- Windsor Greatwood 30% mapped. Savill Flower Grove discovered. Thames Marshland discovered.
December 25th, 2018:
- Silent Christmas. The Snowfall/Christmas season passes without much attention.
January 2nd, 2019:
- Windsor Greatwood 70% mapped. Windsor Castle Grounds discovered.
- A heavy road blockade was discovered to the west of the Windsor Greatwood, spanning the entire western border.
January 13th, 2019:
- Moonrise Festival. Said to be representative of the Lunar New Year holiday celebrated by Asian cultures.
January 25th, 2019:
- Windsor Greatwood 100% mapped. Windsor Castle Dungeon unlocked.
- First raiders encountered and defeated the dungeon bosses Butler Grandier and Lady Villelm.
- Imperial Guard pushes for the establishment of other smaller guilds.
February 10th, 2019
- After finding a detour through the blockade, the Sarum Frontier has been discovered by cartographers after venturing 15 kilometers west of Londinium.
February 17th, 2019
- The Sarum Expedition Camp is constructed roughly 5 kilometers away from the new area, Sarum Village.
- Expedition Missions begin. Combat forces cleared away the golem population surrounding the area. Crafting units worked on supply replenishment. Scouting forces begin to search for alternate means of approaching the village.
February 19th, 2019
- First scouting report of the Stonehenge area, revealing a high concentration of mana surrounding the monument.
- Stonehenge discovered to transform into a field boss. Scouts retreated and regrouped to share information.
- Attempts to fight Stonehenge or capture Sarum prove ineffective. Golem reinforcements continue to be extremely dense.
February 27th, 2019
- Stonehenge Fairy Gate discovered.
- Golem forces calculated at 90% their original population.
March 14th, 2019
- Golem forces calculated at 75% their original population.
April 1st, 2019
- A mysterious anomaly occurs in a previously defunct Fairy Gate in Londinium.
- Adventurers who investigated the phenomenon observed that they seemed to have entered an alternate parallel dimension of Londinium.
April 3rd, 2019
- Golem forces calculated at 50% their original population.
April 20th, 2019
- Golem forces calculated at 25% their original population.
- Stonehenge Fairy Gate accessed by players who discovered a Fairy Gate Pass.
- Revealed the existence of mysterious individuals: Caesar, Cicero, Lucan, Suetonia, Siculus.
- Stonehenge runes rewritten in the mysterious timeline.
May 5th, 2019
- Golem forces calculated at 10% their original population.
- Expedition forces make two-pronged plan to attack Stonehenge and capture Sarum at the same time.
May 15th, 2019
- A combat group was dispatched to take on Stonehenge.
- Meanwhile, other expedition members successfully captured Sarum Village due to the decreased golem guards found in the area.
- Restoration begins in Sarum.
June 10th, 2019
- Spring Cleaning occurs in Londinium due to increasing Lander emigration out of the city because of Sarum competition.
- Last-ditch Lander economic schemes leads to a reported economy crash, small number of Adventurers supposedly came out extremely rich and used funds to bolster the economy.
June 25th, 2019
- After repairs to the city and increased emigration, Sarum is restored and gains the status of Main City. A monster-warding barrier is created around the village, turning it into a safe zone.
- With the establishment of a second city, the Sarum Fairy Gate and Londinium Fairy Gate become functional.
July 3rd, 2019
- First confirmed defeat of field boss Maledict Mayahuel.
July 6th, 2019
- Summer Treasure Hunt begins after reported discovery of treasure in the Thames Coastline.
- Isle of Grain starts to be frequented by treasure hunters.
- Mentor Campaigns start as a new wave of Adventurers start to head out of the city and make their mark.
July 18th, 2019
- Isle of Thule first accessed on a quiet day at sea.
- Ultima Thule discovered at the heart of the island. It is speculated to be the site of a yet undiscovered dungeon deeper within.
August 6th, 2019
- Cleanup of Londinium reveals the Londinium Underground.
- Exploration of the Londinium Underground continues for a month.
September 9th, 2019
- Phantom Train boss discovered in the Londinium Underground.
September 25th, 2019
- Phantom Train boss defeated.
- Phantom Train releases a mysterious substance that filled the Underground for a short time. Those caught in the substance reportedly experienced great madness for a few hours.
September 27th, 2019
- Research upon the mysterious substance revealed that it is Miasma, a rare Major Element that once existed beside Anima and Psyche in larger quantities in the past.
October 3rd, 2019
- An Adventurer <Magellan> sails south from the southernmost edge of the Unfounded Kingdom in search of the mainland.
October 5th, 2019
- Reports of a mysterious village with a Japanese theme in a forest to the north of Sarum.
- Early winter snowstorms created a land bridge for Adventurers to cross. The Avon Valley was discovered.
October 6th, 2019
- Magellan respawns in Westminster Abbey, claiming that he had sailed for days without finding any traces of land.
- Speculation that the Unfounded Kingdom may not physically be in the world equivalent of Great Britain after all.
October 7th, 2019
- Stratford Wardens intercepted the first Adventurers to enter Stratford, imprisoning them on accounts of suspicion.
- That night, the Adventurers were broken out of their cells by a mysterious individual claiming the side of "just vengeance".
October 9th, 2019
- Stratford Wardens continue to be wary of incoming Adventurers.
- Adventurer groups enter the Miasma Realms and perform missions to slowly gain their trust.
October 10th, 2019
- First Adventurer converted into a Heretic due to prolonged exposure in the Miasma Realms. They are promptly executed by Stratford Wardens to determine the aftereffects. The Adventurer respawned in Stratford, still holding the new class's title.
October 11th, 2019
- Heresy Trials. The transformed Heretic Adventurer rallied to appeal to the Stratford Wardens in order to preserve the land against Corruption. After long hours, the appeal was accepted.
- New Heretic Adventurer units were formed under the newly formed Adventurer Nocturne Division.
October 21th, 2019
- Nocturne Expedition, eradication of Heretic Rebel bases within the Miasma Realms.
October 31st, 2019
- The Purple Mirror Mansion appears in Avon overnight and stays henceforth.
- Minor vandalism cases have been reported throughout player housing districts.
November 27th, 2019
- The Autumn Harvest Festival occurs, taking on characteristics representative of Thanksgiving in the real world's American culture.
November 29th, 2019
- Moon Dance Village has opened its gates to the public.
December 24th, 2019
- The Snowdonia Winter Ball is held.
December 31th, 2019
- Parties held throughout the Unfounded Kingdom to celebrate the new year.
February 14th, 2020
- Coconia Lunar Festival in Londinium.
February 17th, 2020
- Coconia Lunar Festival in Stratford.
February 19th, 2020
- Coconia Lunar Festival in Sarum.
- Moonrise Festival held in Moon Dance Village.
April 2020
- Londinium Fire Bombing incidents.
May 2020
- First expeditions to Scotland.
- Adventurers exploring Scotland found themselves scaling a mountain range called the Three Nations Pass located in the equivalent of Lancashire, UK.
- The Three Nations Pass consisted of the Unfounded Kingdom to the south, an unknown and inaccessible wasteland to the west, and Scotland to the north.
June 2020
- Adventurers reach the edge of Scotland, which appears in this universe as a fragmented land of floating islands.
- Progress starts on prototype airships to scale the floating islands.
July 2020
- Progress continues on airships. The main crafting groups back in Londinium were recruited to work on the project.
- Supplies and parts are brought up north and a temporary workshop was developed.
- A prototype airship was created by an adventurer, username Wright.
- Scotland Territory undergoes investigation. Floating islands varied in size; some fragments smaller than a few meters in volume, others the size of small countries.
August 2020
- Fairy Gates were discovered in the equivalences of Glasgow and Edinburgh. No civilizations were discovered, however.
- Ancient Alvian ruins were discovered in the equivalent of Inverness. Research teams began their investigation.
- Deep investigation of Inverness discovered a dungeon called the Tyrant's Curse.
- The Tyrant's Curse was based on the Shakespearean play Macbeth and proved to be incredibly difficult.
September 2020
- Some Adventurers decided to investigate the link between the Tyrant's Curse and the Dimensional Theater in Avon.
- By traversing the Miasma Realms, the group of Adventurers discovered the source of the Miasma Realms, a monolith possessed by an entity called "Cromm Cruach".
- Reports of certain Adventurers from the group hearing voices from Cromm. By following the directions given to them, they discovered an artifact, Creator's Script of Macbeth.
- The Creator's Script of Macbeth was brought to the Tyrant's Curse and was key in clearing the dungeon. However, upon clearing the dungeon, the floating islands started to lose their magic and collapsed to the earth below. All Adventurers present were killed and had to return from Londinium.
- Upon returning to the destroyed land at Scotland, Adventurers engage an extremely powerful being - Shakespeare.
- Shakespeare reveals his true identity - Cecht, the Composer. A member of an ancient race known as the Cessair.
- By completing the Tyrant's Curse, the Cromm Cruach was beginning to awaken. Miasma began to well up from the destroyed land.
- Credne tells the story of the Ancients: the Cessair once lived in a land called Mag Mell. However, a World Fraction caused Cromm Cruach to appear - the progenitor of monsters. To seal away Cromm Cruach, Cethleann, the Creator used the land's raw Anima and Mana to create a new land, Tir na Nog, and the Fomorian race to fight against these monsters. With a desire of "restoring the peace of the past", she would make sure these species will be strong enough to weather hardship. Cethleann then scattered her own soul into countless fragments to give them sentience. After their creation, Nemed, the Shepherd watched over the Fomor race for a long time but noted that they were dispositioned to "survive" rather than "thrive". As Mag Mell's power weakened, so would the land and the new race at this rate. With guidance from Cecht, she would then make a second race, the Tuath, to live alongside the Fomorians to accelerate both races' potential. In a wish of "making the most out of the present", she gifted the Tuath race with ambition and ingenuity and scattered her own soul. Since then, the Fomorians and the Tuath lived for hundreds of generations until they became one race - the People of the Land. Cecht continues to reclaim "excess" souls from fallen People of the Land - fragments of Cethleann and Nemed, and return them to Mag Mell.
October 2020
- Mysterious apparitions seemed to appear throughout this Halloween season. Adventurers reported that the drops from these monsters followed the theme of the Star Candy Rangers, an old console game that was released by Ataruva many years before.
- Further research into the origins of the ancient Cessair race leads to a chronology of the living races. It is discovered that all current races are descended from the Fomorians and the Tuath. Of this, the Alvians were among the first of their combined generations.
- Ancient Alvian lore begins to be deciphered in the wake of this chronology.
- Access to the unknown wasteland has been discovered by the unsealing of an ancient Alvian Fairy Gate.
- Adventurers discover the ruins of an ancient land called the Lune Seaport in the wasteland. In doing so, this results in the beginning of the Celestial Arms storyline.
November 2020
- A memoir by an Adventurer on the value of owning a home in this house has led to a Housing Renovation craze.
- After many months of renovating the land in cooperation with Landers, the Extreme Home Makers guild has announced that three new housing wards are available and have offered easy registration into these plots.
- The timeline of Chapters 1-3 of the Celestial Arms questline occurs in this month.
- Lore on the Lune Seaport is compiled - the city was thought to be the equivalent of Lancashire, but the Fairy Gate instead directed individuals to Ireland. The Lune Seaport is instead the ancient city of Partholon, the first civilization of the Fomorians and Tuath. The city was founded by Indech, the Navigator, who disguised his true form and became the Fomor's first king. He would carefully guide its culture to be ruled by strength, aiming to guide the souls of Cethleann closer toward their true potential. One of the traditions established within the early Fomor hierachy was that whoever defeats the king in battle would become its new king. After carefully watching over the Fomors, he eventually finds an individual of potential and guides them so that he himself would be "overthrown" and return to Mag Mell.
- Balor, the Philosopher, was impatient with the Cessair's plans and decided to take things into his own matters. After Indech's return, he secretly possessed a Fomorian and quickly became its king. There he would incite conflicts with the Tuath so that both Fomorian and Tuath would take casualties in war and accelerate the revival of Cethleann and Nemed's souls. However, he would then be stopped due to another Cessair's intervention and sealed away as the "heart" of Partholon. Some Fomorian factions aspired to return him to existence. The Messier were among these factions.
December 2020
- Moonrise Festival held in Moon Dance Forest.
- Additional "hearts" were discovered in all the other cities through the access of subterranean dungeons. Credne, the Guardian - sealed in Londinium. Goibniu, the Builder - sealed in Sarum. Tuireann, the Scholar - sealed in Avon. Together with Cecht who guarded Scotland, the power of Tir na Nog was reawakened.
- By awakening Tir na Nog, the ward protecting all the cities disappeared and the ancient city of Partholon appeared. Adventurers split up into groups which stayed in the cities to defend them, and groups who made their way to Partholon.
- Adventurers unsealed and reawakened Balor, the Philosopher.
- Cromm Cruach makes its appearance, quickly engulfing the land into the Miasma Realms. Adventurers utilized the power of the Cessair to achieve victory one by one in the major cities.
January 2021
- Cromm Cruach makes its final stand at the Isle of Man. Many Adventurers joined the fight, launching a full assault on the entity.
- Cromm Cruach is defeated on January 13, 2021 and a new seal is created on the island. Doing so causes a World Fraction.
- Adventurers found themselves suddenly back in the real world. Through some sort of magic, or perhaps a miracle, certain People of the Land also were transported to the real world, their backgrounds generated accordingly. The story has ended...
January ????
- Adventurers as well as the People of the Land who they were close with in the 2 year timeframe, reawaken in Tir na Nog. People found themselves awaken in this land after an unspecific passage of time. For some, only a few years have passed. For others, they had lived their entire lives only to reawaken here.
- Upon reawakening, all individuals heard a message - "Welcome back to the Unfounded Kingdom. This is the Epilogue of the story. For those of you who have grown and created your own story, you may log out at any time and return to your own life. However, you will never return to this place again. Won't you write a final chapter for yourself?"
