**EMBERVALE TIMELINE | 1/3**

**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.