Treachery and Greed timeline
Important events from the distant past until the present war in Tilea. All years are given in the Imperial reckoning.
- 1780 The legendary city of Skavenblight is founded in the Blighted Marshes
- 1500 The high elves leave the old world
- 700 Humans begin to settle in the elven ruins in what will later be known as Tilea.
-50 Artur, chief of the Teutogen tribe, founds the city of Middenheim.
-30 The Birth of Sigmar, to the Unberogen tribe of the Reikland, heralds the beginning of what will later be known as The Empire.
-20 Marius the Fen Wolf, chief of the Juton tribe, is defeated in battle by the Teutogen tribe. He leads his people from their ancestral home, in what is now Nordland, into the Reik Marshes; there he begins a lengthy campaign to rid the area of Mist Demons (also called the 'Fimur').
-10 Marius discovers ancient elven ruins at the mouth of the River Reik, and founds his new city of Marienburg at that site. The foundations of the Rijker's Isle fortress are laid.
-8 Sigmar becomes chief of the Unberogens, and immediately begins to unite the tribes through a combination of conquest and diplomacy.
-1 Victory at the Battle of Blackfire Pass ends the threat of greenskin invasion for generations
1 The twins Lucan and Luccina found the city of Luccini. In the following centuries Remas, Sartosa and Tobaro expand massively. In the north, Sigmar is crowned as the first Emperor by the Ar-Ulric.
40 The city of Talabheim is founded in a vast crater.
50 Sigmar abdicates and vanishes into the east. The rulers of the twelve Imperial states (Averland, Drakwald, Hochland, Middenland, Ostermark, Ostland, Reikland, Solland, Stirland, Talabecland, Westerland and Wissenland) select a new Emperor from amongst themselves.
73 A new cult, proclaiming Sigmar to be a god, rapidly spreads throughout The Empire. The Cult's leader assumes the title of Grand Theogonist. The Ar-Ulric is furious and refuse to recognise the divinity of Sigmar.
100 Dwarf runesmith Alaric the Mad at last completes the twelve Runefangs, ordered one hundred years earlier for the chieftains of the twelve tribes. Each of the state rulers, now called Elector Counts, receives one of the swords.
451 Dark elves and undead pirates raid the coast of Tilea. Sartosa is destroyed.
475 Vast numbers of orcs invade Tilea, causing immense damage
491 The Tilean states unite against the orcs.
500 The king of the Jutons is defeated by Emperor Sigismund the Conqueror, and the city of Marienburg becomes part of the province of Westerland.
632 Norse tribes begin to raid the coastland around Marienburg, and the city itself is sacked and burned.
765 The treaty at the Althing of Traktatsey brings the Norse raids to an end.
936 The van Daalen family, the ruling house of Westerland, form an alliance by marriage with the Beumanoirs of Moussillon, in opposition to the Duchy of L'Anguille.
978- The last orcs are driven from Tilea.
1010 The halfling province of the Moot is formed by Imperial charter.
1017 Sartosa is resettled by Norse sailors.
1053 The reign of the notorious Emperor Boris the Incompetent begins.
1102 Manann is declared to be the patron deity of Marienburg.
1106-1110 Beastmen gather in the Drakwald. The Elector Count of Drakwald is killed, and his province left without an heir.
1109 Marienburg is captured by the Norse chieftan Snorri Half-hand. The Baron of Westland flees to the fortress on Rijker's Isle.
1111 The Black Plague sweeps across The Empire. Middenheim adopts a policy of strict isolation, saving the lives of its citizens. The Norse abandon Marienburg.
1115-1124 A period of total anarchy ends with the ascension of Emperor Mandred Skavenslayer.
1152 Mandred's assassination leads to open war between the rival states of Stirland and Talabecland.
1240 Araby invades Sartosa.
1359 The count of Stirland is elected Emperor.
1360 The Ar-Ulric backs Countess Otillia of Talabecland in her seccession from The Empire. The two declare the Cult of Sigmar to be founded on a lie, and begin the persecution of all worshipers of Sigmar, in what is later called the Sigmarite Heresy. Civil war consumes The Empire again. The Norse raid Marienburg.
1366 Tilean mercenaries fight on both side of the Empire's civil war.
1414 Middenland and Nordland sign an agreement to divide the former province of Drakwald equally. The Count of Nordland claims the Drakwald Rundfang for his own.
1425 Bretonnian knights are defeated by Tileans in the Tournament of Ravola. Bretonnia pledges to never invade Tilea.
1448 Tilean mercenaries fight to free Estalia from Arabian rule. Tobaro is attacked by the Arabian sultan, but succeeds in driving him off.
1450 The Crusades against Araby begin. Many Imperial Knightly Orders are founded during this period.
1487 Dark elves raid Remas.
1492 Marco Colombo discovers the distant land of Lustria.
1501 Arabians are expelled from Sartosa by Luciano Catena of Luccini.
1547 The Ar-Ulric returns the headquarters of the Cult of Ulric to Middenheim. The Elector Count of Middenland declares the latest Imperial election a sham, and proclaims himself Emperor. This marks the start of the Age of Three Emperors.
1550 End of the Crusades.
1563 Tobaro is overrun by skaven.
1565 Meldo Marcelli drives the skaven out of Tobaro.
1699 The explorers Ricco and Robbio trek east along the silk road and visit the court of the Cathayan Emperor Wu.
1757 Sartosa becomes a haven for pirates.
1597 The Duke of L'Anguille invades Marienburg and begins a brutal five-year occupation.
1602 The Middenland Emperor sends an army to Marienburg, forcing the Bretonnians to withdraw.
1604 Baron van Buik, Elector of Westerland, forms a city council composed of the heads of important mercantile families. Marienburg begins a period of rapid growth, fuelled by a massive expansion in overseas trade.
1707 The orc warlord Gorbad Ironclaw sacks the southern Empire and destroys the province of Solland. The Elected Emperor is killed at the siege of Altdorf, but the orcs are ultimately defeated.
1812 The Red Pox sweeps through Tilea.
1850 Marienburg is sacked by the Norse for the final time.
1877 A pig is elected Prince of Tobaro, and rules for 12 years before falling off the battlements of his palace.
1948 The Year of four Tyrannies in Tilea.
1979 Marienburg bribes a majority of the Elector Counts, resulting in the election of Baroness Magritta of Westerland to the Imperial throne. The Grand Theogonist refuses to crown the Empress, stating that the electoral system has become irredeemably corrupt. Magritta is to be the last Elected Emperor. All three Emperors now pass on their crowns by dynastic succession, and Sigmar's Glorious Empire stands in ruins.
1993 Marienburg wizards are given legal protection, under the pretext of civil defence.
1999 Mordheim, the capital of Ostermark, is destroyed by the impact of a comet said to have been sent by Sigmar. The Elector, Count Steinhardt, is killed along with his entire family. A strange new mineral is discovered in the ruins of the city, and Marienburg is among those sending expeditions to acquire it.
2000 The League of Ostermark is formed. New art, technology and prosperity reaches Tilea.
2010 Vlad von Carstein, the ruler of Sylvania, reveals himself to be a vampire. His armies ravage Ostermark and Stirland. Vlad is apparently slain several times, but always returns.
2012 The genius inventor and artist Leonardo da Miragliano leaves Tilea for the Empire.
2051 Vlad is slain while besieging Altdorf, after the theft of his magic ring makes him vulnerable. His wife Isabella kills herself, and Vlad's vampiric underlings fall to squabbling amongst themselves.
2094 Konrad von Carstein defeats the other vampires and leads his armies against The Empire.
2100 The Battle of Four Armies. The three Emperors unite to defeat Konrad, but are unable to put aside their differences. The Emperors of Midenland and Talabecland arrange each other's assassination during the battle, and Helmut of Marienburg is killed by Konrad. All four armies withdraw from the field. Emperor Helmut is raised from the dead as a zombie under Konrad's control. His son Helmar swears vengeance.
2102 The Tilean town of Lambrusco employs the famous condottiere Ennio Mordini and his mercenary army in its war with neighbouring Organzo.
2103 Mordini is betrayed by his employer, and his army is massacred by the Organzans.
2108 Mordini emerges from the Apuccini Mountains at the head of a vast, skeletal army. He burns down Lambrusco and slaughters everyone within. The town is renamed 'Mordini,' and becomes the base for the undead warlord's campaign against all living things.
2121 The Battle of Grim Moor. A combined force of humans and dwarfs defeats Konrad's army. Konrad himself is slain by Emperor Helmar and the dwarf hero Grufbad.
2132 Mannfred von Carstein, the last of the Vampire Counts, attacks the Empire by surprise in the so-called Winter War. He lays siege to Altdorf, but is driven back by the necromantic magic of Vlad's Liber Mortis, wielded by the Grand Theogonist Kurt III.
2145 Mannfred is brought to battle at Hel Fenn by a vast allied army. Graf Martin Volker of Stirland slays the vampire, and is declared a hero.
2146 Graf Martin, backed by the Sigmarite Church, invades the League of Ostermark under the pretext of restoring the heir of the Steinhardt family to the throne. The Otillian Empire of Talabecland also invades, as does an alliance of the Empire of Middenland and the Kislev town of Rahkov. Graf Martin is killed, the Stirland army is driven back, and the aged Grand Theogonist dies of disappointment.
2147 The Otillians and Middenlanders continue to fight over Ostermark. The Bechafen Purge, a mass-execution of suspected followers of Sigmar, leads to a popular rebellion against both Otillian and Middenlander rule.
2148 Emperor Severin I of Middenland dies of old age, and the Middenland nobles return home to determine his successor. Talabecland reaches an agreement with the Kislevites and the Ostermark rebels at the Diet of Bechafen. Ostermark becomes an independant state under the control of the restored Steinhardt dynasty, but retains strong links to the Otillian Empire. A key part of the agreement is the toleration of the Cult of Sigmar. The Tzarina of Kislev arranges for her son, Kniaz Makari of Rahkov, to marry the young Gräfin Helena of Ostermark, thus ending the border skirmishes between Ostermark and Kislev. Ar-Ulric Waldemar resigns his office and disappears.
After several years in command of the army Giacomo Lomellini fights an army of ratmen to the north of Tobaro. The army is routed with little loss and largely written off as mutant beastmen.
2150 The Western Elves return to the Old World, founding a trading post in Marienburg. The elves sign an exclusive trading contract with the city, increasing its wealth enormously.