A very vague timeline of Clan Nocturne. Someday I’ll flesh it out with more details. xD But with over a year of events and plots, I need to start keeping track of it. I do plan on adding links to all the various story pieces too, but alas I have to go to work!
Amaroq founds the clan. A straggling group of Plague dragons struggling to survive.
Nox was bitten by an onyx cobra and feverish, stumbled blindly into Plague territory and onto the struggling band of dragons. Amaroq helped nurse her back to health, despite the slim resources.
Nox, healed, took control of the clan and moved them to her home in the Tangled Wood--creating Clan Nocturne.
Sagr, a deranged plague wildclaw and his group followed them and began their assault. If dragons couldn’t survive the Plaguelands, they didn’t deserve to survive anywhere
Sagr captured Sovereign and began his plans to create an Emperor.
Nocturne took to raiding smaller dragon clans and beastclans (namely serthis) to have the resources to survive. Serthis attacks started, no doubt out of revenge. Sagr’s attacks continue.
Somewhere around here, Clan Nocturne became allies with clan-orodres.
Sagr created his emperor and attacked. Nocturne defeated the enemy but lost a huge chunk of the clan, including a lot of the original band of dragons…added Serthis attacks and they were forced to flee to the Foxfire Brambles and rebuild.
New lair is built. The clan once again feels whole and is growing again. Defenses are strong...but Nox is physically growing weaker due to the advanced stage of her gembond.
Night of the Nocturne occurs--Nox is remade into a nocturne. The progression of her gembond slows and for the first time she considers having hatchlings of her own. She seeks out Sluagh. The first clutch is born, including Styx, her firstborn daughter--who eventually will become the Warlord of Clan Nocturne.
Niceven is born somewhere deep in the Foxfire Bramble, outside of Nocturne. No one knows that Andais has nested with another. All Nocturne knows is that the coatl female seems to slowly be losing control. The shadows on her scales seem warped, twisted. Something is very wrong. She has been playing too much with Shade-touched magic.
Andais’ betrayal. Results in Andais being executed.
Niceven creates the Barrow Court from the bones of her mother. She vows she’ll bring Nocturne to pay for the crimes against her mother and she begins to collect dragons to aid her in her cause. A splinter group of serthis moves into the area--youngsters from the tribe Nocturne used to raid. Niceven shows them that they have a common enemy and they ally with the intent to destroy Nocturne.
The Barrow Court and Splinterroot serthis sect attack. Nocturne is crippled by the attack. They manage to succeed, destroying the Barrow Court and driving back the serthis...but their numbers are at an all time low. They’re at their weakest. Because her duty is to those of her clan that have survived, Nox can’t give those fallen in the war a proper funeral. She enlists centaur allies to cart the dead to the grove shrine where they can have their proper funeral pyres.
When the serthis continue their attacks, Nox calls upon her illusionists to help Nocturne disappear. She refuses to bring allies into a war she feels they started and so hiding seems to be the best option. Nocturne pulls of its biggest illusion yet and goes into hiding.
Amaroq, the original founder, doesn’t follow Nocturne into hiding. Instead he chooses to stay. If something doesn’t change, he fears Nocturne will still fall when the spell ends. More than that, the guardian-turned-coatl finds himself with the lingering urge to find his Charge. He sets out on his Search.