Example: World Timeline

Five centuries of a realm's history laid out as eras and dated events, from a forged crown to a contested throne. This is what Time & Events looks like once a world has a past.

Time & Events

Eras Frame the Age

Three eras carry the realm from founding to schism to reign, each with its own color.

  • Age of Founding
  • The Long Schism
  • Age of Reign

Events Carry the Dates

Each turning point is a dated event you can read in order.

  • A crown forged, an oath sworn
  • An oath broken, a keep besieged
  • A throne finally claimed

Participants and Calendar

Events name who was there, and dates read on the realm's own calendar.

  • Participants like Queen Sariel
  • Roles such as commander
  • Years in the Age of Reign

Story Now

Drag Story Now, or press play, and watch the realm's web assemble as history reaches each year. The same scrubber drives your live relationship map in the app.

312 A.R. — Prince Aldric claims the throne

Read it like a historian

The same events power more than a list.

  • Set Story Now and your relationship map re-weaves to that year.
  • Save the era and event vocabulary as an event pack for the next world.
  • Pair it with Map Replay to see how you built the map itself.

Steps

  • Define your eras and give each one a color.
  • Add an event per turning point, with its year and a short summary.
  • Tag participants and assign their roles.
  • Set your calendar so every date formats the same way.

Tips

  • Start with the big eras, then drop events into them.
  • Use event tags to filter a busy timeline down to one thread.
  • Set Story Now to the latest event to see the world as it stands now.

Braid

Each strand is a figure or house; the threads bend to meet at the events they share, so who wove together when reads at a glance. Scroll to zoom, drag to pan. A read-only preview of the Braid view.

World Timeline Preview

A timeline groups dated events under the eras of your world. This is a read-only preview; building, scrubbing, and the live relationship map happen in the app.

Month of Emberfall, Year 312 of the Age of Reign

Age of Founding

0 A.R.

The Sunshard Crown is forged

Queen Sariel
112 A.R.

The Concord of Ash is sworn

The Five Houses

The Long Schism

276 A.R.

House Nightvale breaks the oath

Lord Corvin
Lady Sable
301 A.R.

The Siege of Stormwatch Keep

Age of Reign

312 A.R.

Prince Aldric claims the throne

Prince Aldric