Timeline

The timeline of the Bone Season series dates back many centuries, starting with the nineteenth century.

19th Century

1859

• September: The Rephaim arrive on Earth. Nashira Sargas persuades Lord Palmerston, the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, that he needs to relinquish control of the country to them in order to prevent an Emite invasion. Palmerston agrees, but the rest of the country has no idea that this has happened.
• The Rephaim reach an agreement with Palmerston that they will occupy the university city of Oxford and that clairvoyants will be delivered to them every ten years as a form of tribute.
• A secret military unit is deployed to clear Oxford.
• The first Bone Season begins.

1869

• Bone Season II begins.

1879

• Bone Season III begins. Emma Orson, a dreamwalker, is one of the captives.

1888

• August: The Autumn of Terror begins in London after Nashira sends a red-jacket to find Emma Orson, who had been secretly released from Oxford by Arcturus Mesarthim and Terebell Sheratan. The red-jacket is a berserker and begins to brutally murder women in Whitechapel, starting with Mary Ann Nichols.
• November: Marie Jeanette Kelly becomes the final victim of the red-jacket, who is now known as Jack the Ripper. Since Mary had also gone by the name Fair Emma, it was assumed that she and Emma Orson were one and the same. In punishment for apparently killing the dreamwalker, "Jack" is executed upon his return to Oxford and bound to Nashira as a fallen angel. Whitechapel's H Division is unable to identify the murderer.

20th Century

1900s

1901

• Queen Victoria dies. This marks the beginning of the end for the British monarchy.
• Moments after his coronation, Edward VII is accused of being Jack the Ripper after "evidence" is found in his quarters. Within days, the hysteria and rage on the streets forces Edward, the rest of the monarchy, and many members of the aristocracy to flee for their lives. Edward will forever be known as the Bloody King.
• A Republic of England is founded, led by Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, who declares an overriding mission for his new government: the destruction of "unnaturals" like the Bloody King. This mission is justified by the fact that Edward supposedly summoned evil spirits to perform the murders.

1902

• The Great Biblioclasm takes place in Paternoster Row at the heart of the amaurotic publishing trade. The majority of written knowledge about clairvoyance in London is destroyed.

1929

• November 29: After decades of preparation, the Scion Citadel of London is declared open by the First Inquisitor, James Ramsay MacDonald. The republic is renamed the Republic of Scion England. This is the first time the word "Scion" has been used in public.
  • This day continues to be marked with the annual celebration of Novembertide.
• Bone Season VII begins.

1960s

1960

• Thomas Merritt begins creating the London syndicate.

1964

• Merritt concludes that his work is done, declares himself Underlord, and names his lover, Madge Blevins, his mollisher.

1970s

1976

• Merritt and Blevins die in a freak accident.
• The first scrimmage takes place. The victorious Golden Baroness becomes the first Underqueen.

1980s

1980

• The Golden Baroness is brutally murdered. Her mollisher, the Silver Baron, inherits the position of Underlord.

21st Century

2031

• On the Merits of Unnaturalness is published, causing gang wars in London.
• Grand Inquisitor Zettler implements the Underguards as part of the NVD.

2039

• Bone Season XVIII begins.
• November 29: Arcturus Mesarthim and his followers launch the Novembertide Rebellion against the Sargas family, but their plans are betrayed by XVIII-39-7. All humans in Oxford, with the exception of Duckett, are slaughtered by the Emim. Several of the Rephaim involved are tortured, becoming known as the scarred ones.
• The Balkan Incursion begins after Scion conquers Greece.

2040

• January: Paige Mahoney is born in Tipperary.
• Bulgaria surrenders to Scion.
• Yoana Hazurova is imprisoned in the Chakalnya.

2045

• Ethereal batteries are invented.
• Scion turns its attention to creating Radiesthesic Detection Technology (RDT), a more efficient means by which clairvoyance can be detected.

2046

• February 1: On St Brigid's Day, crowds gather in Dublin to protest a diplomatic visit by Abberline Mayfield, Grand Inquisitor of the Republic of Scion England. Cathal Bell, a Scion sympathizer, has secretly ensured that his political opponents are killed on this day. ScionIDE soldiers in the crowd open fire on the unarmed protestors, starting on Grafton Street, where Paige Mahoney is with Finn Mac Cárthaigh and his fiancee, Kayleigh Ní Dhornáin. Kayleigh is shot dead, causing Finn to charge a soldier. Paige survives the bloodbath by hiding under the statue of Molly Malone. This incident becomes known as the Imbolc Massacre and begins the Scion conquest of Ireland.

2048

• Colin Mahoney is conscripted by Scion. With help from Cathal Bell, he takes Paige and relocates to London.

2049

• The Taoiseach of Ireland, Eóghan Ó Cairealláin, issues a formal and unconditional surrender to Scion. He is executed by hanging in December and replaced by the first Grand Inquisitor of Ireland, April Whelan.
• Bone Season XIX begins. A large number of humans are gathered to replace those lost in the Novembertide Rebellion. Among the captives is Liss Rymore.

2056

• Paige Mahoney joins the Seven Seals.
• The events of The Pale Dreamer begin.
• October 31: Jaxon Hall makes Paige his mollisher.

2059

• The first RDT Senshield prototype, which can detect aura at up to twenty feet, is trialled at the Paddington Terminal complex.
• March 7: Paige Mahoney is captured for Bone Season XX.
  • The events of The Bone Season begin.

• September 1: The Bicentenary, celebrating two centuries of Rephaite rule, takes place in Oxford. Paige Mahoney and Arcturus Mesarthim use the festivities to stage their revolt. Paige and the surviving humans, take the Pentad Line to London.
• September 2: The group arrives in London. During their escape from the Tower of London, Paige is separated from many of the other prisoners, including Michael Wren.
  • The events of The Mime Order begin.

• October 30: The Rephaite Revelation is published by the Spiritus Club and becomes an instant bestseller.
• November 1: The fourth scrimmage in history takes place. Paige is declared the victor. She declares war on Scion and turns the Unnatural Assembly into the Mime Order.
• November 2: The events of The Song Rising begin.
• Operation Albion begins. This is the formal name for the eradication of resistance in the homeland, especially the complete dismantling of the Mime Order.
• November 27: The Juditheon is burnt down by Jaxon's loyalists.
• December 1: Martial law is declared in London. The Mime Order seeks shelter in the Beneath.
• December 3: Paige and her group begin their journey to the Scion Citadel of Manchester. The Ranthen make the crossing to the Netherworld in search of Adhara Sarin.
• December 6: Paige and her group arrive in the Scion Citadel of Edinburgh.

2060

• January 1: Shortly after midnight, Paige is liberated from the Westminster Archon. A few hours later, she and Arcturus arrive in the Scion Citadel of Paris.
  • The events of The Mask Falling begin.
• January 12: Scion publicly unveils Operation Madrigal, also known as the Iberian Effort, which aims to annex Spain and Portugal.
• January 31: Scion reports that the battle for Lisbon has now begun. Graham Harling, the Grand Admiral of the Republic of Scion England, is leading Operation Madrigal.
• March 7: The gala celebrating the conquest of Spain and Portugal. The bombing of Paris occurs in retaliation, the first military attack on a Scion citadel.