Timeline of Xanth

By E. Timber Bram updated by me

-4000 Presumed arrival of the Demon X(A/N)th, causing magic to slowly infuse the region from trace leakage of his essence.

-2200 A colony of human folk arrive from Mundania. It grows until Magicians and Sorceresses manifest. This is when one of the first Sorceresses, the Sea Hag originates from.

-2100 Xanth is cut off from Mundania, becoming a true island.

-1900 The human colony fails, with the humans becoming assorted magic species through interbreeding or change by magic. Harpies, merfolk, naga, sphinxes, ogres, goblins, elves, fauns, nymphs, fairies, and other crossbreeds and variants may derive from this.

-1000 The isthmus is restored and limited contact with Mundania is resumed.

-800 Centaur species begins around this time.

-85 Prince Harold Harpy delivered.

-73 Prince Harold Harpy exiled to Brain Coral storage.

0 First Wave of colonization arrives in Xanth, establishing current permanent settlement.

1 Civilized voles leave main camp near the Gap Chasm.

35 Second Wave occurs, killing men and children of the First wave.

200 Third Wave occurs several generations later.

202 Magician Roogna delivered to Third Waver.

204 Fourth Wave occurs. Women surviving the Third Wave kill their rapist husbands and bring in better men.

216 The princess is delivered to the King Preceding Roogna.

219 Millie the Maid delivered in West Stockade.

224 Electra delivered to West Stockade

228 Roogna crowns himself King.

233 Electra goes to the Isle of View to help the Sorceress Tapis by making the Heaven Cent.

236 The Princess goes to Tapis to have a coverlet made for her sleep.

* Altercation between Magician Murphy and Sorceress Tapis at the Isle of View. Murphy's curse causes Electra to bite the apple and start the 1,000 year sleep scheduled for the Princess.

* Fifth Wave advance scouts enter Xanth.

* Dor's adventure in Fourth Wave Xanth, wherein he detonates the Forget Spell in the Gap Chasm.

* The great Goblin/Harpy war occurs.

* Prince Harold Harpy released from Brain Coral storage, and the spell on Goblin females is revoked.

* Topological transformation of Millie the Maid into a book titled The Skeleton in the Closet. Neo-Sorceress Vadne is exiled to Brain Coral storage. The Zombie Master Zombies himself.

* Tapis and the Princess go to Castle Roogna, and the Princess marries King Roogna.

237 Magician Murphy retires to Brain Coral storage.

* Fifth Wave proper begins.

286 King Roogna dies in battle with the Sixth Wave.

367 Zombie Jonathan encounters a phantom at Specter Lake.

378 Seventh Wave.

591 Stork brings Magician Gomden.

623 Magician Gromden assumes the throne.

657 Stork brings Magician Yin-Yang.

658 Stork brings Threnody as the result of the mischief of Demoness Metria with King Gromden.

659 Stork brings Jordan the Barbarian to fen Village.

677 Jordan commences his adventure in medieval Xanth.

* Jordan has a tryst with Bluebell Elf.

* King Gromden dies; Castle Roogna deserted.

* Magician Yang beats other personality Yin and assumes the throne.

* Jordan becomes ghost as a result of Threnody and Yang's cruel lie.

* Threnody marries King Yang

681 Threnody kills herself and becomes a ghost.

682 King Yang remarries.

684 Stork brings Lord Bliss; son of Yang.

689 Stork holds nose and brings Evil Magician Muerte A. Fid.

698 Eighth Wave.

704 Lord Bliss marries Lady Ashley Rose.

705 Stork brings Rose of Roogna to Lord Bliss and Lady Rose.

719 King Yang assassinated by poison pen letter.

* Muerte A. Fid, Magician of Alchemy, assumes throne.

721 Lord Bliss receives poison pen letter.

725 Lord Bliss dies, Rose of Roogna sent to Castle Roogna for safety.

753 Ninth Wave.

797 Tenth Wave.

866 Eleventh Wave.

883 Stork brings Magician Ebnez.

897 Mare Imbrium foaled as night mare.

909 Magician Ebnez takes a throne.

917 Last Wave (twelfth)

932 King Ebnez adapts the Deathstone into the Shieldstone to protect Xanth from Mundane Waves.

933 Stork brings Humfrey.

* Stork brings MareAnne.

949 Stork brings Storm Magician.

* Humfrey hired by King Ebnez to do a Xanth census of talents, as Royal Surveyor.

* Humfrey marries Dana Demoness: Wife 1.

953 E. Timber Bram appointed Historian of Xanth.

954 Dafrey delivered to King Humfrey and Dana Demoness; Dafrey get's Dana's soul and Dana takes off.

* Humfrey marries Maiden Taiwan: Wife 2.

955 Tics mutate.

971 Humfrey abdicates throne. Maiden Taiwan abdicates their marriage.

* Storm Magician assumes throne.

* Humfrey rediscovers Castle Roogna.

972 Humfrey achieves degree from University of Magic and becomes a true Magician of Information.

* Magician Humfrey marries Rose of Roogna: Wife 3.

973 Rosette Bliss Humfrey-"Roy"-delivered to Magician Humfrey and Princess Rose.

975 Storm King decrees that any resident without a magic talent will be exiled from Xanth.

994 Rosetta marries Stone.

* Cherie Centaur foaled south of North Village.

997 Stork brings Magician Trent to the North Village.

1000 Rose goes to Hell in a handbasket.

* Magician Humfrey takes 80 years' worth of Lethe elixir.

* Magician Humfrey marries Sofia Mundane: Wife 4.

1001 Stork brings Sorceress Iris to an unwary family.

1002 Crombie the Soldier delivered to Magician Humfrey and Sofia.

1005 Magician Humfrey trains Magician Trent.

1007 Magician Humfrey trains Sorceress Iris.

1017 (Magician) Bink delivered to North Village to Roland and Bianca.

1021 Magician Trent transforms the fish in Fish river to lightning bugs; also others, including a winged centaur filly who flees to Brain Coral's pool.

1022 Evil Magician Trent attempts a coup d'etat. Transforms Justin in to a tree. Is betrayed and exiled to Mundania.

1025 Stork brings Gorgon and Siren, twin sister.

1027 Bink loses the middle finger of his left hand in a nonmagical accident.

1033 Herman Centaur exiled from the herd for having magic.

1035 Sofia (Wife 4) returns to Mundania.

1036 The Sea Hag takes over her last body.

1039 Grundy Golem animated by the Good Magician Humfrey.

1040 Donald becomes a shade.

1042 Bink travels to the Good Magician to learn whether he has a magic talent. Encounters an aspect of Chameleon, Donald Shade, Sorceress Iris, Magician Humfrey, has missing finger restored by healing spring, and is exiled to drear Mundania.

* Bink, Chameleon, and Trent return to Xanth and find Castle Roogna.

* Wiggle Swarm; Herman the Hermit Centaur dies.

* Storm King dies.

* Magician Trent becomes King and deactivates Shieldstone.

* Magician Trent marries Sorceress Iris.

* Bink marries Chameleon.

* Chester Centaur marries Cherie Centaur.

* Thirteenth Wave: Trent's former army settles peacefully.

* Chet Centaur foaled near North Village to Chester and Cherie Centaur.

* Grundy Golem goes to Magician Humfrey to learn how to become real.

1043 Millie the Ghost restored to life.

* Time of No Magic

* Magician Murphy and Neo-Sorceress Vadne escape from Brain Coral and make a deal with Com-Pewter: get them safely to Mundania and their child will serve the evil machine, if he ever comes to Xanth.

* Brain Coral starts inventory of stock in pool. This requires two or three decades to complete, so Murphy and Vadne are not yet missed.

* Crunch Ogre marries curse fiend ogress.

* Demon X(A/N)th makes Grundy Golem alive.

* Magician Dor delivered to Bink and Chameleon.

* Crombie marries Jewel the Nymph.

1044 Princess Irene delivered to King Trent and Queen Iris.

* Smash Ogre whelped north of Magic Dust Village to Crunch Ogre and pseudo ogress.

* Tandy delivered to Crombie and Jewel.

1046 Goldy Goblin delivered to Gorbage Goblin.

1047 Chem Centaur foaled to Chester and Cherie Centaur.

1051 Stork brings Xavier in South Xanth to the witch Xanthippe.

1052 Stork delivers Wira into an undistinguished and probably undeserving family.

1054 Gorgon returns to Xanth and asks Magician Humfrey a question: "Would you marry me?"

1055 Dor goes to Fourth Wave Xanth to get the zombie restorative formula from the Zombie Master. Uses it to restore Zombie Jonathan to life as the Zombie Master.

* Zombie Master marries Millie the Maid.

* Hardy Harpy hatched South of Xanth.

* Gorgon, having served a year, gets her answer: Magician Humfrey would marry her. She's not surprised.

1056 Hiatus and Lacuna, twins, delivered to Zombie Master and Millie.

* Stork brings Glory Goblin to Gorbage Goblin.

* A centaur and winged horse happen to drink at a love spring.

1058 Cherion Centaur foaled; a winged centaur.

1059 Dor becomes King during King Trent's trip to Mundania.

* Gorgon marries Good Magician Humfrey: Wife 5.

* Zombie Master assumes the throne . . . while Dor, Irene, Arnolde Centaur, Smash Ogre, and Grundy go to Mundania to rescue King Trent and Queen Iris.

* Ichabod Mundane learns of Xanth.

1062 Tandy rides a night mare to Humfrey's castle.

1063 Chem Centaur maps central Xanth.

* John Fairy and Joan Fairy marry.

* Siren marries Morris Merman.

* Smash Ogre marries Tandy

* Goldy Goblin marries nonentitous goblin chief.

1064 Stork brings Cyrus Merchild to Water Wing to Morris Merman and the Siren.

* Eskil (Esk) Ogre delivered to Smash Ogre and Tandy.

* Hugo delivered to Magician Humfrey and the Gorgon.

* Zombie Master and Millie the Ghost move south and build New Castle Zombie

* Prince Naldo Naga delivered to King Nabob in Mount Eaten.

* NextWave (fourteenth).

1067 Princess Irene marries Magician Dor.

* Chain of Kings during the NextWave:

Trent

Dor

Zombie Master

Humfrey

Bink

Arnolde Centaur

Iris

Irene

Chameleon

Mare Imbrium

* Mare Imbrium becomes a Day Mare.

* King Trent abdicates and retires with Iris to North Village.

* Dor assumes throne.

1069 Sorceress-Princess Ivy delivered to King Dor and Queen Irene, Princess Ida did not make it, the stork carrying her got lost and delivered her to the Faun and Nymph retreat.

* Princess Nada Naga delivered to King Nabob in Mount Etamin.

1072 Gap Chasm Forget Spell, shaken by the Time of No Magic, fragments, spinning off forget whorls.

* Magician Humfrey and Stanley Steamer youthened to infancy in a slight mishap.

* Chem Centaur has an informal liaison with Xap Hippogryph.

* Lady Gap Dragon, Stacy Steamer, takes over post.

* Wiggle Swarm.

* Hardy Harpy marries Glory Goblin.

* Xavier marries Zora Zombie.

1073 Chex, a winged centaur filly, foaled by Chem Centaur. Because her sire is of the animal kingdom, she grows and matures quite rapidly for a centaur.

1074 Magician-Prince Dolph born to King Dor and Queen Irene.

* Jordan the Ghost and Threnody (Renee) restored to life and married.

* Stanley Steamer accidentally banished by a left over spell.

1077 Grundy goes with Snortimer, the monster under Ivy's bed, on a quest to find Stanley Steamer.

* Stacy Steamer changes her name to Stella

* Grundy rescues Rapunzel from the Sea Hag, with the aid of the Monster of the Sea.

* Snortimer remains to protect the faun and nymphs, in lieu of Stanley Steamer, who returns to Ivy.

* Grundy Golem beats the Sea Hag, who is banished to the Brain Coral storage. Grundy shows the Demon X(A/N)th how to play to win.

* Godiva Goblin marries Chief Gouty Goblin.

* Grundy marries Rapunzel.

* Gwendolyn Goblin delivered to Gouty and Godiva Goblin.

* Jenny Elf born in the World of Two Moons.

1078 Lacuna marries Vernon retroactively.

1079 Gobble Goblin sneaked to Gouty Goblin and a tart.

1080 Good Magician Humfrey's dose of Lethe elixir wears off, and he remembers Rose of Roogna and goes to rescue her from Hell. The Gorgon and Hugo join him in the dream realm.

* Latia Curse Fiend leaves Gateway Castle in Lake Ogre-Chobee to help Esk Ogre and the Voles.

* Esk finds Marrow Bones and Bria Brassie on the Lost Path in the gourd.

* Vale of the Voles and the Kiss-Mee River restored.

* Esk Ogre marries Bria Brassie.

* Ryver retroactively delivered to Lacuna and Vernon.

1083 Prince Dolph undertakes a Quest to find Good Magician Humfrey, accompanied by Marrow Bones.

* Vida Vila wishes to marry Prince Dolph, but he is to young.

* Marrow and Dolph find Gracile (Grace'l) Ossein on the Isle of Illusion.

* Melantha (Mela) Merwoman captures Dolph and wishes to marry him. To win free, Dolph undertakes to recover her firewater opal from Draco Dragon.

* Cherion Centaur marries Chex Centaur in a ceremony performed by the Simurgh before the winged monsters. All present sweat to protect the foal of this union, whose life will change the course of history in Xanth.

* The Goblins of Mount Etamin raid Draco's nest and abduct Marrow Bones.

* King Nabob Naga betroths his daughter, Princess Nada, to Prince Dolph, making a naga-human alliance. The naga rescue Marrow and the Dragon's treasure. Marrow and Dolph return two firewater opals to Mela.

* Dolph and Nada enter Mundania through the gourd and meet Turn Key, who provides a way to locate the Heaven Cent.

* Marrow, Grace'l, and Dolph use a hynogourd to enter the realm of dreams and find the sleeping princess. Only it turns out to be Electra, awakened after 847 years.

* The Night Stallion puts Grace'l on trial, with Dolph as defense attorney. Dolph succeeds, barely, in vindicating her, and gains the respect of the Night Stallion.

* Jot and Tittle, twins, delivered retroactively to Lacuna and Vernon.

* Brusque Brassie-Ogre delivered to Esk Ogre and Bria Brassie.

1085 Che Centaur foaled to Cherion and Chex Centaur.

* Com-Pewter acquires a Castle Roogna magic mirror from a traveler.

1086 Princess Ivy, Nada, and Electra recover the mirror from Com-Pewter.

* Ivy invokes the Heaven Cent and is transported to Mundania, where she meets Grey Murphy and brings him to Xanth.

* Grey and Ivy encounter the Goblinate of the Golden Horde led by Grotesk Goblin, and rescue Donkey Centaur. Ivy affiances Grey.

* Grey learns his talent at Mount Parnassus: He is a Magician of Nullification.

* Com-Pewter plot to take over Xanth using Grey Murphy is revealed.

* Magician Murphy and Sorceress Vadne return to Xanth, and Murphy lays a curse on the geis on Grey to serve Com-Pewter. The geis in thus fouled up, and Grey is freed to work for Magician Humfrey.

1089 Surprise is lost on the way to delivery by the Stork to Grundy and Rapunzel.

* Che Centaur is foalnapped by the Goblins on Goblin Mountain.

* Jenny Elf and Sammy Cat come to Xanth from the World of Two Moons and give comfort to Che

* Siege of Goblin Mountain, resolved when Che agrees to be Gwenny Goblin's companion, and Gwenny and Jenny go to live with Che's family.

* Prince Dolph marries Electra as she turns eighteen in normal-living time.

1089 Humfrey rescues five and a half wives form Hell, in a fashion.

* Lacuna's change of life.

1090 Dawn and Eve, twins, delivered to Prince Dolph and Electra.

* Che, Gweeny, and Jenny lose their innocence and are inducted into the Adult Conspiracy.

* Ida finds her right home and family at Castle Roogna.

* Mela Merwoman marries Prince Naldo Naga.

* Roxanne Roc violates the Adult Conspiracy.

* Gwenny Goblin beats out Goblle and becomes Chief of Goblin Mountain.

* Okra Ogress marries Smithereen Ogre.

* Black Wave of Xanth.

1091 Demons complete companions game and get first two players, Dug and Kim

* Cyrus Merman meets and Marries Merci Merwoman, daughter of Mela.

* Mundane Kim gets the prize for finishing the companions' game, a talent, of erasure. 1093 Trent youthened to 25 to help Gloha Goblin-Harpy find a man.

* Rescues Cynthia Centaur, the girl Trent transformed in 1021 into a winged Centaur, from the Brain Coral to help start a new species one day with Che.

* Surprise finds her way home five years later to Grundy and Rapunzel.

* Marrow Bones gets half of Graeboe Giants soul

* Graeboe Giant and Gloha Goblin-Harpy marry.

* Metria, wanting to know what love is, marries a man named Veleno and aquires half a soul.

1094 Gary Gargoyle is made flesh and sent to tutor Surprise, all while trying to save Xanth from the pollution coming from Mundania in its rivers.

* Iris youthened to 23 to help with Gary's mission.

* Hiatus saves Deseree Dryads tree and marries her.

1095 Roxanne Roc is put on trial for violating the Adult Conspiracy and is sentenced to be the chick's nanny until he can take over the Simurghs job, Che is asked to be the chick's tutor when the time comes. The chick hatches after the trial.

* Threnody makes up with mother, Metria, and the curse on Castle Roogna is abated and Threnody can once again enter Castle Roogna.

* Princess Nada Naga and Prince D. Vore, Grossclout's son, are betrothed.

* Princess Ivy and Grey are married beside Princess Nada and Prince D. Vore.

1096 Harmony, Melody, and Rhythm; triplets, delivered to Princess Ivy and Magician Grey Murphy.

* The Demon X(A/N)th newest contest causes him to go to the land of in the form of a donkey headed dragon. In the process he learns what love is and falls in love with a woman named Chlorine.

* Demon Ted delivered to Metria and Veleno.

* Demonica delivered to Prince D. Vore and Princess Nada Naga.

* Forest Faun and Mare Imbri are the first visitors to Ida's Moon Ptero.

* Imbri becomes a tree nymph after finding love with Forest Faun.

1098 Chameleon and Bink youthened by 60 years.

* King Xeth Zombie marries Zyzzyva Zombie

* Jenny Elf marries the werewolf Prince Jeremy on her 21st birthday.

* Justin Tree agrees to be turned back into a human so he and his lover, Briana, can take the places of Millie and the Zombie Master when they fade out.

* The Zombie Master goes on a mission to Ida's moons to find one that his Zombies can inhabit so as to not bother the human's anymore.

* More of Ida's moons are discovered for a total of nine known moons.

1099 Nimby and Chlorine exchange bodies with Edsel and Pia Mundane to explore Mundania as part of a new game Nimby is playing.

* The O-Xone, the magic interface between Mundania and Xanth is completed.

* Pia, Edsel, Justin Tree, and Brianna save the Coventree.

* Magician Grey Murphy goes back in time as a favor to Com-Pewter with Com-Pewter's Golem Robota to study the weather. Murphy must go visit the Storm King back to get information. Along the way Grey is stoned by the Gorgon, but Robota remains in the Magic Dust Village to rescue Grey when the time of no magic occurs to take him back to the time that they left. They also discovered the Storm King kept his soul in a box and only used it when he wanted to use his talent, to ensure a longer life for himself.

1100 Triplets meet the Dastard

* Sea Hag escapes the Pool after 33 years in storage—and is banished

* Becka finds Castle Maidragon

1101 Demon Earth rescue