Also, I'm still lacking huge pieces of plot, but I think I now know how Silverlock and Co stop Dekar from rearranging the universe. (I have names! And plot points! *does the happy dance*)
Timeline!
4E 29
Ketheden DeLavrey makes a deal with the newborn god Natash'Azuan; in exchange for immortality, he agrees to serve the death aspect of the god for the rest of his existence.
4E 37
Ketheden founds the Assassins' Guild; Kaya DeLavrey kicks him in the face, exiles him from the family, and shuts down the Guild.
4E 40
Keth assassinates Kaya; Kalena DeLavrey becomes the next head of the family. Kalena threatens to reopen the Tower just to revoke Keth's immortality if he doesn't behave. He points out that he could have just opened the tower on his own- he was behaving. She eventually strikes a deal with him and Azuan regarding the Assassins' Guild, and allows it to exist.
4E 43
Someone tries to assassinate Kalena and a number of other important political figures; Keth and the rest of his Guild hunt down the people responsible and slaughter them. The Assassins' Guild becomes the first guild recognized by the census board; it sets a precedent for guild licensing rights. Parliament grants all of the guildsmen noble titles and tries to buy the Guild to use for their own purposes. Keth refuses to become affiliated with the government; as a result, the Guild is allowed to exist, but the assassins remain criminals.
4E 726
Nagendra becomes the Avatar of Varun; her first act as Avatar is to issue a list of activities and objects that are considered forbidden and profane. The list includes the following, among others: Leechmages, alcohol, drugs, mongooses, and anesthesia. In the future, hundreds of assassins grit their teeth and hope that the twitchy priest isn't on duty in the infirmary when they get injured; assassins are a stoic lot, but even they appreciate painkillers on occasion.
4E 734
Silverlock is born.
4E 737
Silverlock is sold to The Black Cherry Tree (AUGH I HATE NAMING THINGS) and begins his training and indoctrination.
("The Black- you're kidding. Isn't that just a bit...lewd?" Blaine valiantly tried to repress his snickering.
"There's a tree. In the courtyard. It happens to be a black cherry tree. Go ahead and laugh, but bear in mind that any off color comments you could ever think of have already been made.")
4E 751
Dekar DeLavrey is born; he is the youngest of eleven children (all half siblings), and the only one who carries Rianna's Legacy.
4E 754
Ayanna DeLavrey is born, and adopted as Ninaya's successor. Ninaya refuses to ever endure pregnancy again, and drops all of the men in her retinue like a bad habit (which, technically, they were).
4E 769
Gannet Sorlin cuts off half of Silverlock's face in a debacle that remains legendary at The Tree; due to a strict "You break it, you buy it" policy, he gets to keep Silverlock.
("You ought to be happy I've taken you away from that place- I'm not interested in you for your body."
His face still hurt and Sorlin's attitude of moral superiority was just adding insult to injury. "The fuck you don't. In three weeks, you'll be begging to fuck me."
"In three weeks, I'll have broken you five times over and will want you just as much as I do now- which is to say, not at all."
"Don't flatter yourself, old man. Everyone wants me.")
4E 784
Silverlock's indenture ends; Ninaya DeLavrey dies of natural causes; Ayanna DeLavrey becomes the new head of the family; Dekar attains a seat in Parliament.
4E 785
Silverlock becomes so bored with being free he signs himself away to the Assassins' Guild; Banshee Harkiss takes him on as an apprentice in the ways of assassin magery.
4E 786
Tyrin Samarkand is born to the assassins Hawk and Civet.
4E 794
Tyrin gets traded to the Thieves' Guild.
4E 802
Tyrin's team gets caught by the mage they were attempting to burgle; most of his teammates die immediately. He is unlucky enough to survive long enough to be found by an Acolyte of Varun. Tyrin officially dies; Blaine Torkehaav becomes the newest Apostle of Varun. Word of Tyrin's death gets back to Civet and Hawk; Civet, somewhat overwhelmed by grief, agrees to become the Guildmaster's next body. Hawk leaves the Guild.
4E 804
Foxbird shows up on the doorstep of the temple; Blaine adopts her (or rather, she adopts him) and gets banished and cursed. He goes back to the Assassins' Guild, hoping to find his parents. (Oh, buuuuurn.) The Guildmaster realizes he should've checked his intelligence better before propositioning Civet, and gives Blaine a job and a place to stay. A few months later, Blaine meets Greymalkin again.
("If I ask you why, exactly, the Guildmaster owes you so many favors, will I have any chance of getting an answer?"
"Does a snowball have a chance in hell? Will Nagendra let me go back to the temple? Is Lady DeLavrey ever going to sleep with you?"
"That's a lot more promising than I thought it would be, actually.")
4E 805
Greymalkin reveals himself to be a number of things, none of which are a decent person; the Shrive threaten to dismember Greymalkin slowly and painfully if he does anything at all to upset either Blaine or Foxbird in any way.
4E 806
Silverlock meets Foxbird.
4E 811
Foxbird earns her tags.
4E 813
Blaine meets Silverlock. A month or so later, Silverlock learns to detatch his soul enough to keep Blaine from going into convulsions. They start
4E 816
Blaine and Silverlock stop speaking to one another for about three months (because of the Foxbird thing), during which they are both fairly miserable and irritable. Nagendra dies, and they get back together; Mandhatri becomes the next Avatar of Varun and abolishes all of Nagendra's decrees; assassins start disappearing.
4E 817
INSERT STORY HERE; afterwards, Silverlock and Blaine go back to screwing like minks. Foxbird kicks Harbard in the face for hitting on her one too many times; the Malestri are recognized as full citizens under the protection of Rothcaran and Shaivhen law. Varun apologizes profusely to Silverlock, Blaine, the surviving Apostles, the Guildmaster, and Natash'Azuan, and agrees to owe them all huge favors.
4E 830
Silverlock retires from active duty in the Guild and starts teaching. Foxbird continues to not marry Harbard.
4E 839
Blaine dies; Silverlock and Foxbird leave the Guild. Foxbird, Harbard, and a few other Malestri leave the city and go looking for their relatives. Silverlock hires a Mystic for a seance and Blaine, filled with righteous ghostly wrath, tells him to get a new hobby that doesn't involve bothering his exes post-mortem. Silverlock sulks.
4E 843
Silverlock goes to work for the mafia as a crime lord's "personal assistant".
("I'm not a pet." They'd bound his hands properly; it would take him several minutes to untie the knots. "If you treat me as such, our contract becomes void and I'll extract my compensation from you however I see fit."
"I don't need another body guard. Why else would I decide to keep you?"
He glanced around the room lazily and catalogued the condition of the other body guards. There were six of them, each well armed. "Nine seconds."
"What?"
He tripped the first guard and used his body in mid-fall as a stepping block to better break the face of the second with his knee and use that one's body for leverage to pull his arms back in front of himself. By that point, the other four were rushing him; a moment later all four were disarmed and on the ground, and two chairs were broken.
He shook his head to settle his hair back into place. "Nine seconds. It would have been eight, but I didn't want to kill them."
The man gestured to the remaining unbroken chair with a slightly unsteady hand. "Would you prefer to be paid on a monthly schedule or a bi-weekly one?")
Somewhere around 4E 950ish
Silverlock becomes an Acolyte of Joshel for half a year before Joshel himself tells Silverlock to bugger off; Blaine laughs hysterically for about a week.
4E 1042
Theron is "born." Whimsy replaces Shanreth's memories.
4E 1054
Theron and Shanreth move to Luthra; Theron meets Bren.
4E 1056
The dragon Rhapsody breaks the seal on Shanonil's memories in Theron's head; Theron goes into a coma for a few months; Bren weaves tapestries in the basement and talks until his throat bleeds.
4E 1057
Theron stumbles into Shaivhen and gets kidnapped by some slavers on his first night in the city; Silverlock finds him and purchases him and starts fucking with his head.
4E 1062
The remnants of the seal on Shanonil's memory shatters all at once; Theron spends several weeks thinking he is actually his mother.
4E 1064
Theron goes back to Radrezhaea, gets Blacklisted, gets Bren Blacklisted (and maybe Mihonil, too), gets arrested, gets Bren arrested, chews off his fingers, kills Bren, fucks Bren, turns Bren into the Walker, kills his father, becomes the Voyance, and turns the majority of the population into an army of mindless zombies.
4E 1097
The Voyance perfects the creation of Revenants and Ghosts, and starts his conquest of the eastern half of the continent.
4E 1231
Stella Matin dies; in the process, she goes blind accidentally acquires a piece of the Voyance's soul. After a few years, she starts seeing the future.
4E 1263
The Voyance finds out about Stella and keeps her around as his personal advisor; she hangs out with the Walker a lot, and they become something like friends. A group of living humans and sympathetic Revnants start planning to overthrow the Voyance.
4E 1289
Walker puts down the terrorist rebellion but finds himself remembering things about the leader of the rebels- she turns out to be Whimsy, who was a friend of Bren's in Luthra. Whimsy turns out to be the lost goddess Razhia, and she convinces Walker and Stella to help her destroy the Voyancy. Everyone dies, the Voyance recovers his old memories and becomes Theron again, and they all wander across the border to have wacky hijinx in Shaivhen and open a pawn shop.
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