Timeline
The modern chronology from the early 1900s forward — named eras and anchor events. Expand each era as you migrate lore from your notebooks.
The Modern Cycle
The opening frame of Project Morganstern's modern timeline — from the early 1900s forward, as free will teeters and the Cycle approaches its final midnight.
1900 +- Content sealed at your current tier.
Graeme Murray's twin is killed during World War I — the first confirmed instance of the Murray twin curse in the modern timeline. One twin dies; one survives. The pattern is set.
Involved: graeme-murray , graeme-twin
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Viola Walker is born. She will become a key figure in helping the troubled youth of King and Pierce County — and one of the Shepherd House's more consequential alumni.
Involved: viola-walker
The Founding Era
The years spanning the Shepherd Sisters' arrival in Seattle through their mysterious disappearance — during which they built the school, shaped the magical community of the Pacific Northwest, and left questions that echo into the modern Cycle.
1910 –1934-
Gentle and Charming Shepherd arrive in Seattle from New England — two women in a Boston marriage, masquerading as sisters. They fled with Charming's dowry and Gentle's inheritance. They quickly become prominent suffragettes in Seattle's high society.
Involved: gentle-shepherd , charming-shepherd
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The Shepherd House is established as an all-girls school for the young women of Seattle's high society, founded by Gentle and Charming Shepherd.
Involved: gentle-shepherd , charming-shepherd
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The original Shepherd House burns to the ground. Rachel arrives in Seattle in the aftermath of the fire.
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The Shepherd House is rebuilt on its current grounds. Mallory is born into the Blood — becomes a vampire — on the grounds of the new school.
Involved: mallory
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Gentle and Charming Shepherd disappear under mysterious circumstances, leaving the Shepherd House without its founders. The circumstances of their disappearance remain unresolved.
Involved: gentle-shepherd , charming-shepherd
The Bloody Nine Feud
Nearly a decade of gang violence that scarred the modern timeline's early years, culminating in the loss of countless innocent lives.
1912 –1921- Content sealed at your current tier.
The feud's devastating close — years of gang violence resolving in mass casualties among innocents caught in the crossfire.
The Hale Years
From the birth of the Hale twins through Odette's banishment from the Sidereal Council — the era of the Council's greatest consolidation of power, and its most consequential betrayal.
1932 –1962- Content sealed at your current tier.
Ophelia and Odette Hale are born — twin sisters whose diverging paths will shape the magical world for decades to come.
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George Alan Harvelle is born. He will go on to become one of Jules Harvelle's two dads — a boomer-aged trans man who did not transition until Jules was in middle school.
Involved: george-alan-harvelle
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Ophelia and Odette Hale begin attending the Shepherd House together. The school that shaped them — and that Odette will later mirror and twist into something unrecognizable.
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New management takes over financial responsibility for the Shepherd House, ushering in a new chapter for the institution after the disappearance of the founding Shepherd Sisters.
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Odette Hale graduates from the Shepherd House. Simultaneously — or near simultaneously — Aeon is bound to a young master through massive works of perverted magic. The connection between these two events is unconfirmed.
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The Shepherd House becomes fully co-educational and opens its doors to students of all skin colors and creeds — a major institutional shift reflecting the social pressures and activism of the era.
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Odette Hale joins the Sidereal Council — the governing body of magical practitioners. Her membership will be brief, but her access to its knowledge and structures will outlast her tenure by decades.
Involved: odette-hale
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Odette Hale attempts to merge soul to body in an effort to reincarnate her hate — breaking the Sidereal Council's most sacred law. She is banished and disappears from public life entirely. This is not the end of her. It is the beginning of the rest.
Involved: odette-hale
The Transmutations Era
The parent generation's youth in the mid-80s — a period of transformation, experimentation, and the first fractures in how magic was understood.
1979 –1989-
Eric Murray is born. Eva's father. He will become a legacy member of the Sidereal Council — the Murray family's connection to the Council spans generations.
Involved: eric-murray
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Eric Murray technically dies in utero — his umbilical cord is wrapped around his own neck. Arthur, born first, is unharmed. Eric is successfully resuscitated. Both twins survive. This generation is an anomaly in the Clan Murray Curse's pattern: the curse reached for one twin and was turned back.
Involved: eric-murray , arthur-murray , graeme-murray
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Viola Walker begins attending the Shepherd House. In the same year, Jules Harvelle is born — the child who will one day marry Thomas Fletcher and parent Thomasin.
Involved: viola-walker , jules-harvelle
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After nearly two decades of absence, Odette Hale resurfaces as headmistress of Artemis Hall in Bellevue — the Shepherd House's rival school, and its real front. She did not disappear. She was building.
Involved: odette-hale
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The parent generation's era begins — magic shifts in ways that will echo through the modern Cycle.
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Luna Obscura is founded. Odette Hale begins amassing power in earnest — building the faction that will become the primary opposition to the Sidereal Council over the following decades.
Involved: odette-hale
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Viola Walker loses her powers in a confrontation with an unknown adversary. The identity of the adversary and the exact nature of the power loss are unconfirmed.
Involved: viola-walker
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Eric and Vera Murray meet in a coffee shop in Cardiff — Eric is in his final year at Merriam Academy and has come to the mainland for a night out. Two Homo Magi, both Council-adjacent, by chance at the same table. The start of the Murray family.
Involved: eric-murray , vera-murray
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George Alan Harvelle and Jaquar Harvelle are married. Adam (Adaez) — Maria Reed's father — is also born around this time.
Involved: george-alan-harvelle , jaquar-harvelle
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Eric Murray abandons his arranged marriage with Elya Eldor — daughter of Archmage Isseya Eldor, scion of the Eldor clan, and the match his mother Anne Murray had brokered — and elopes with Vera, a Faroese hedge witch from outside the formal magical hierarchy. The act causes a significant and lasting schism in the Council's politics.
Involved: eric-murray , vera-murray , elya-eldor , the-archmage , anne-murray
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Eric and Vera Murray are married. A union of two Homo Magi families with deep ties to the Sidereal Council. Their family will grow to include Hazel (2000), Eva and Asher (2006), and Thora (2012).
Involved: eric-murray , vera-murray
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Jules Harvelle and Thomas Fletcher are married. Their union will produce Thomasin and Georgie Fletcher.
Involved: jules-harvelle , thomas-fletcher
Hell Hunt
A recurring annual trial held on an island off the coast of Wales on the last day of autumn. Participation is sought — but largely coerced. Participants cannot leave the island until they have defeated the Briarhart, a creature that comes for them in the night. It is often fatal for more than one student, and maiming is not uncommon.
Luna Obscura
From Luna Obscura's founding through the present — Odette Hale's long shadow over the magical world, the slow accumulation of her power, and the story's final months before the Cycle resets.
1980 +The Heir Timeline
From the birth of the main cast through the present — the era in which the Heir phenomenon manifests, the Cycle races toward its final midnight, and six teenagers in the Federal Way corridor find themselves at the center of everything.
2006 +-
Hazel Murray is born — the first of the Murray children. He will become Eva and Thora's older brother, a bridge between the adult world of the Sidereal Council and the teenagers he can't quite reach.
Involved: hazel-murray
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Evander (Eva) Murray and Asher Murray are born — twins. Asher is older by mere moments. The second and third Murray children, after Hazel.
Involved: eva , asher-murray
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Charlotte Finnegan is born — christened Szarlota Mészáros. Capricorn Sun, Taurus Moon, Capricorn Rising. She will be adopted by the Finnegans and grow up as Charlotte.
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Georgie Fletcher is born — the last of Thomas Fletcher's children, and Thomasin's younger sibling.
Involved: georgie-fletcher
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Maria Reed is born — named Juliana at birth. Scorpio Sun, Virgo Moon, Scorpio Rising.
Involved: maria
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Thomasin Fletcher is born — first of two Fletcher children. Their family on the Harvelle side connects them to the Shepherd House's legacy.
Involved: thomasin
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Abigail "Abby" Chapman is born in March. Pisces.
Involved: abby
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Jet Mehtala is born — the single Mehtala child. She will be fourteen at the story's start in 2023, the youngest of the Shepherd House Titans and the team's freshman.
Involved: jet
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Thora Murray is born — the last of the Murray children. Eva's little sister.
Involved: thora-murray
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Eva manifests her powers for the first time. In the same period, Heather and Maria Reed meet — a connection that will become one of the story's deepest unresolved threads.
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Asher Murray — Eva's twin, older by moments — drowns in a tragic accident. Eva bears witness. Both were eight years old. The event reshapes the Murray family and leaves Eva carrying a wound she has never fully named.
Involved: asher-murray , eva
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The Murray marriage begins to fracture. Vera will later remember this period as where she first considered divorce — the first branch that eventually became the final straw.
Involved: eric-murray , vera-murray
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Heather disappears under mysterious circumstances. Maria Reed was the last person to see her. The story begins with this thread unresolved.