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**ENSHROUDED: A HISTORY OF EMBERVALE**
**Full spoilers through the 1.0 story.**

Dates use the in-game D.A. calendar. Undated events have approximate placement; some overlap. Based on online journal transcriptions and release documentation, checked 25 October 2026.

**Undated ancient past**
An Ancient account describes a fragment of their star falling into a promising world. They follow it, then find their departure blocked. Attempts to escape and a search underground lead to a buried living threat, subsequently sealed away. The account uses poetic language; its cosmology should not be reduced to a literal technical diagram.

**Undated Ancient research**
Manathor's expedition investigates a transformative organism and distils blue Elixir. A sample disappears; a fabric scrap carries biological material matching the organism. The record hints at an intruder, without naming one. Its exact placement relative to the origin account is uncertain.

**432 D.A., first day of Yearwake**
Ethan is selected as a Scholar of the Empyrean. This documents an established channel of contact between humans and Ancients before the catastrophe.

**492 D.A., 49th day of Midyear**
The Wanderer visits Lord Vorgoth. Vorgoth drinks the offered blue liquid and experiences levitation.

**After that audience; exact year unstated**
Vorgoth introduces Elixir to Gormander and pressures Jezmina. His account credits the Wanderer with the Well blueprints.

**498 D.A.**
Balthazar observes Well construction and irritating fumes. Extraction is already causing visible harm.

**500–501 D.A.**
Balthazar records the spreading Shroud and develops a spore explanation for its transmission.

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**503 D.A.**
Pikemead's Reach falls to Vorgoth's army; Balthazar reports Gormander's death. Civilian accounts describe the siege and gates closed against the population.

**503 D.A.**
Eldermere reports inadequate energy production and polluted water at the dam, showing that Ancient infrastructure is under strain too.

**By 505 D.A.**
Balthazar reports the Ancient capital has risen. The ascent is therefore already underway or visible by this date.

**Undated stages of the ascent**
Claravinta records a council split, insufficient power, and the Shroud reaching the elevated settlement. Ancients offer their bodies as fuel. These stages overlap the wider collapse; their precise dates are unestablished.

**506–508 D.A.**
Cinder Vessel trials progress from failure in 506, to a successful animal subject in 507, to a blacksmith volunteering as the first human prototype in 508.

**During the collapse; undated**
Jezmina travels with Ancients, intending to place Cinder Vessels beyond Embervale's shores. She knows Vorgoth is heading toward the risen islands.

**509 D.A., days 8 and 26 of Yearwake**
Loraine enters Cinder's Cradle after Rimgard's forces breach a barrier. She studies the ascent platform and its distant power sources.

**512 D.A., days 1–20 of Midyear**
Captain Arkwright guards a Cinder Vault, repels Scavengers, and destroys the bridge to protect its occupants. This also cuts off his soldiers' supplies.

**Player era; year unassigned here**
The Flameborn awakens, restores a foothold, and follows the struggle into Cinder's Cradle. Rescue and rebuilding accompany the battle against the Shroud.

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**Finale introduced in 1.0**
Vorgoth is fought as Champion of the Shroud, then the Wanderer's Vessel. The concluding quest also requires rescuing the Mother Flame.

**After the finale**
The immediate threat is overcome and rebuilding gains new hope. The Shroud and Fell remain. This is the conclusion of the current story, rather than universal cleansing.

**Source references**
Ancient origins: <https://enshrouded.gamevault.in/wiki/lore/legacy-of-the-ancients>
Vorgoth and the Wanderer: <https://enshrouded.gamevault.in/wiki/lore/notes-by-lord-vorgoth>
Collapse and war: <https://enshrouded.gamevault.in/wiki/lore/the-alchemists-theories-ii>
Preservation experiments: <https://enshrouded.gamevault.in/wiki/lore/cinder-vault>
Final boss forms: <https://www.enshrouded.tools/enemies/vorgoth>
Official ending scope: <https://enshrouded.com/en-US/news/release-trailer-changelog-everything-you-need-to-wait-for-tomorrow>

Dated entries describe what their writers recorded. They do not establish the exact present year or settle every mystery.