Timeline

A timeline of major events in Thief. Minor events are discussed on the Storyline page.

Ancient History

Events which happened in the distance past of the Thief world, the exact order of some of these isn't known but some are known in relation to others, or in a logical order.

• At an unknown period of time, The Trickster leads man and beast in the ways of nature and chaos.

• The Master Builder appears and starts to leads man in the ways of tools and order.

The Hag

• The Hag begins to collect glyph powers, The Ancient Keepers create the Sentient safeguards.

Note: The writings claim that the Keepers, besides building the safeguards, also created the Sentients as well. This would imply they would have done so before the Trickster bequeathed The Crown to King Gruliac.

Destruction of the Kurshok Civilization; The Great Fall

• The Trickster casts out the once revered Kurshok after gifting their King, Grulias The Great, the Crown only to have the king later claim he was greater than the Trickster himself after receiving it. They have not seen the surface since then. Since this time, eventually, most people cease to believe the Civilization ever even existed at all. The Civilization hangs on for a while until after the Rule of Merdiac, where the 'chaos times' begin.

Fall of The Trickster

A possible depiction of The Master Builder fighting The Trickster.

• At some point, the Builder and the Trickster clash, resulting in the Trickster defeated and banished, but not destroyed.

Precursors

• Emperor Va-Taraq of Karath-din dies.
• Va-Toran is crowned emperor - seals the Colosseum for one year and one day in mourning.

Destruction of Precursor civilization; The Extinction/Cataclysm

• Karath-din is swallowed up by the earth. Cause is unknown, perhaps possibly as the result of divine punishment, as Karras claims The Master Builder cast them down for not bringing The Builder's Paradise to the world.

Recent History

The Eye

• The Hammerites find The Eye and bring it to the Hammerite Cathedral in Old Quarter.
• The Eye exhibits strange behavior, moving to different locations within the cathedral when no one is looking.

Year xx8?-84

(+50 years prior to TDP) The Catastrophe

• The Eye begins resurrecting the dead, who begin attacking everyone and everything living.
• The City Council hurriedly constructs a perimeter wall to contain the zombies.
• The Keepers seal the cathedral using ancient elemental wards. One is kept by the Hammerites, a second is sealed in Karath-din, another is enshrined in ancient caverns, and the last is kept with the mages of the Hand Brotherhood.
• The Hag murders Lauryl and takes her skin. The Shalebridge Cradle catches fire (the Cradle Incident).

Current History

• Interpreter Diocen retires his position, and Caduca takes his place.
• Garrett joins the Keepers around the age of 10, and undergoes Keeper training.
• Garrett, in his twenties, decides to use his skills for other means, resulting in a departure from the Keepers to begin his life of crime.
• The Hag, using the name 'Gamall' and using Lauryl's form, is discovered by the Keepers, and begins translating.

Year xx34

Thief: The Dark Project events (The First Age)

• Garrett, by this time accomplished in his trade and likely in his late twenties or early thirties, is hired to collect The Eye for Constantine. Garrett discovers the location of the Eye and the Elemental Wards. He collects the Talismans and releases the Eye, which he then unwittingly delivers into the hands of the Trickster.
• Garrett loses one of his eyes to the Trickster, who takes it for his ritual.
• After rescuing the Hammerites, they give Garrett a Fake Eye to destroy The Trickster.
• An idealistic Hammerite named Karras gives Garrett a Mechanical Eye.

The Dark Project Ends

• Karras founds the Mechanist Order and begins his rise to power.
• Truart takes control of the City Watch.
• The Hammerites begin to lose influence.
• Gaining the trust of the Watch, the Nobility, and businessmen alike, the Mechanists begin a large grab for power, despite being a very new splinter group.

Year xx35-36

Thief II: The Metal Age events (The Second Age)

• The Watch begins rounding up all criminal elements for the Servant project.
• Garrett inadvertently walks into a trifecta of the City Watch, his old enemy Viktoria, and the Keeper Prophecy.
• Garrett and Viktoria work together to thwart Karras's plans to destroy all biological life in The City, and end up killing him in the process. Viktoria sacrifices herself at Soulforge Cathedral.

The Metal Age Ends

• After the death of Karras, the Mechanists quickly fall from power.
• The City Watch, Nobility and businesses quickly drop most or all ties to the Mechanists.
• Surviving Mechanists are put on trial.

Year ?-?

Thief: Deadly Shadows events (The Third Age)

• The Hammerites slowly return to power after the fall of the Mechanists.
• Garrett, well into his career and now in his late thirties or perhaps older, is accused of murder, and is hunted by the Keepers.
• The Hag disguised as an old woman attacks Garrett, leading to the aid of Inspector Drept.
• The Hag returns to her true form when Garrett frees Lauryl's soul from the Cradle. The Hag goes on a rampage through the Keeper Compound.
• Aided by the Keepers and Drept, Garrett defeats the Hag.

The Unwritten Times

• After the Hag's capture, all prophecy, every glyph, and every bit of Keeper magic is destroyed. All books are emptied, and buildings appear in the city out of nowhere.
• Garrett rejoins the remaining Keepers, perhaps in a leadership role.
• Garrett catches a pick-pocket, akin to how the Keepers found Garrett, and the trilogy ends in a similar fashion to how it began.

See Also

• Forum:Thief_Universe_Calendar:_References_to_Time