The Western Shores · 0 M.B.
The Mother’s Birthing
The Mother arrived upon the western shores bearing the keys to civilization. Her coming began the western calendar, advanced the first realms and shaped the kingdoms known today.
CROWNFALLThe chronicles
Lore Stories
Cinematic histories from the battlefields, courts and forgotten roads of the Crownfall world.
Hearthland · 100 M.B.
The Woman of the Wet Forest
The Church hunted every whisper of the Old World—until its swords entered a forest that refused to let them leave.
Enter the storyAvalos · 215 M.B.
The Crusaders
King Thomas I sent faith beyond every sea. Three great Crusades followed—and each vanished.
Enter the storyThe Western Kingdoms · 390 M.B.
Western Unification
The kingdoms of the West united beneath the Crown of Avalos, binding their separate thrones into an order that would define the Western Realms for centuries.
Cascadia · 415 M.B.
The Cascadian Uprising
When Cascadia’s king died without a clear heir, a nobleman married into the Lionell line claimed the throne for himself—and the kingdom rose around his disputed crown.
Eternal Forest · 515 R.C.
The Vampiric Purge
Elves and dwarves joined in a war beneath the Eternal Forest, defeating the vampires not by destroying them—but by burying them beyond the reach of the living.
Lorae’ln & Dur’Marahl · 400 O.C. / 347 R.C.
The Orcish Invasions
The orc hosts invaded Lorae’ln and Dur’Marahl twice—first in 400 O.C., and again in 347 R.C.—leaving two civilizations to remember the same terror across different ages.
The Western Kingdoms · 690 M.B.
The Narrow Pass
The banners of Hearthland, Avalos, Cascadia and Zehlor gathered while Cedric Blackthorne and Rhyker Voss faced the road ahead.
Enter the storyAvalos · 693 M.B.
The Hearthland Uprising
The lords of Hearthland rose against Lord Protector Cedric Blackthorne, carrying their rebellion into Avalos and threatening the authority holding the Western Realms together.
Cascadia · 708 M.B.
The Battle of Bellfrost
Alistair Wexford raised Cascadia against House Blackthorne, turning the northern city of Bellfrost into the battlefield that would decide the kingdom’s allegiance.
Avalos · 709 M.B.
The Western Summit
Empress Ariel of Azreal and Tsar Stanimir Dragovic of Vologrod sailed to Avalos to seek the aid of Cedric Blackthorne, Lord Protector of the Western Realms.
The Nareth Islands · 734–1252 R.C.
The Wars of Nareth
For more than five centuries, Azreal and Kavaran fought for dominion over the Nareth Islands, turning the contested waters into one of history’s longest theatres of war.
Vologrod · 1135 R.C.
The Birth of Vologrod
The Fourth Imperium’s invasion forced the divided Vologrodian kingdoms to unite against a common enemy. From their resistance, the Tsardom of Vologrod was born.
Qianhai · 1746 R.C.
The Conquest of Qianhai
The Shogun of Yashamiro invaded the Khan’s territory, seeking to conquer Qianhai and claim the whole island beneath a single throne.
Einheart · 2039 R.C.
The Rhinehold
A city burned, an opposition vanished, and Aldon Morvaak emerged as the last man standing.
Enter the storyBay of Kravos · 2057 R.C.
The Pirate War
The Seventh Imperium blockaded the Bay of Kravos and starved its ports, forcing Rhyker Voss’s pirate fleets to turn upon one another as the empire waited beyond the bay.
The Bay of Graves
Serpent of the Bay
Rhyker Voss met the fleets of Azreal and Vologrod on waters already crowded with the dead.
Avalos
The King’s Mile
Prince Frederick rejected King Edward IV’s decree and marched the Royal Guard toward Cedric’s northern forces—until the soldiers chose the realm over a claimant.
Enter the storyThe Great War
Drakensport
At the gates of the city, Saphira Raine saw what followed behind the Varian legions and fled.
Yashamiro · 2058 R.C.
The Wall of Ukka
Shogun Hanzo held Ukka Bridge while the empire closed around an island nation.
Al-Quazzar · 2062 R.C.
The Siege of Zaharraq
In a campaign dismissed as a side theatre, Lexen Morvaak’s Eighth Army drove directly toward Zaharraq, carrying the war to the capital of Al-Quazzar.