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<div style="font-size: 1.3em; font-weight: bold; color: #ffffff; text-align: center;">Timeline</div>
<div style="font-size: 0.85em; color: #6b7684; text-align: center;">the history of the world, in order</div>
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| colspan="2" style="padding: 0;" | ![[Black_Desert_Valencia_City_screenshot.webp]]
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| colspan="2" style="background-color: #1c232b; padding: 4px;" | <div style="color: #c9b27a; font-size: 0.85em; text-align: center;">Valencia City, seat of the House of Nesser</div><div style="color: #6b7684; font-size: 0.75em; text-align: center;">From the Adventurer's Guide, Pearl Abyss</div>
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! style="background-color: #fff; color: #1c232b; width: 32%;" darkstyle="background-color: var(--wiki-surface); color: var(--wiki-color);" | Type
| style="text-align: left;" | In-world chronology
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! style="background-color: #fff; color: #1c232b;" darkstyle="background-color: var(--wiki-surface); color: var(--wiki-color);" | Calendar
| style="text-align: left;" | Elionian, with an older Kabuanian reckoning
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! style="background-color: #fff; color: #1c232b;" darkstyle="background-color: var(--wiki-surface); color: var(--wiki-color);" | Turning point
| style="text-align: left;" | The plague of 235 and the war that followed
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! style="background-color: #fff; color: #1c232b;" darkstyle="background-color: var(--wiki-surface); color: var(--wiki-color);" | Present day
| style="text-align: left;" | The 280s, when an adventurer arrives
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! style="background-color: #fff; color: #1c232b;" darkstyle="background-color: var(--wiki-surface); color: var(--wiki-color);" | Covers
| style="text-align: left;" | [[Black Desert/Regions|All eleven regions]]
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The '''timeline''' of ''[[Black Desert]]'' is the in-world history of the continent, running from an age nobody now remembers to the years an adventurer walks into.

Dates are given in the Elionian calendar, which nearly every region uses. A few of the oldest events are recorded instead in the older Kabuanian reckoning, and the two do not line up. The earliest entries here therefore sit outside the sequence rather than at the start of it.

The history is not evenly distributed. Half a century between roughly 235 and 286 contains almost everything the game's story depends on, and the centuries before it are thin by comparison.

= Before the kingdoms =

The oldest recorded event belongs to the Kabuanian calendar. In its year 286 the world turned on itself, people attacked one another with strength they should not have had, and figures called the Edana put an end to it using black stones. Their civilization vanished afterward and left a sealed chamber in southern [[Black Desert/Balenos|Balenos]] that nature spirits are said to guard.

A meteorite had struck the land that became [[Black Desert/Valencia|Valencia]] long before that, breaking apart and scattering the fragments that came to be called [[Black Desert/Black Stone|black stones]]. An earlier Valencian civilization used them as a power source and was destroyed by them, leaving the ruins that still litter the desert.

In [[Black Desert/Kamasylvia|Kamasylvia]] the goddess Sylvia came down into the forest, planted the Kamasylve and blessed the land with the sun and the moon, from which came the Ganelle and the Vedir.

= The kingdoms =

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! style="background-color: #1c232b; color: #c9b27a; width: 14%;" | Year
! style="background-color: #1c232b; color: #c9b27a;" | Event
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! style="background-color: #fff; color: #1c232b;" darkstyle="background-color: var(--wiki-surface); color: var(--wiki-color);" | 135
| Noir Bartali III founds the Kingdom of Cron in [[Black Desert/Balenos|Balenos]] and builds [[Black Desert/Cron Castle|Cron Castle]]. He later seeks immortality, and the summoning he attempts destroys the castle, the country around it and himself. Survivors gather at [[Black Desert/Velia|Velia]].
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! style="background-color: #fff; color: #1c232b;" darkstyle="background-color: var(--wiki-surface); color: var(--wiki-color);" | 185
| The Sherekhan, changed by dragon's blood, settle east of [[Black Desert/Drieghan|Drieghan]] under Akum. Drought kills most of them within a year, and Akum's dying instruction sends the survivors wandering with a dragon's tooth.
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! style="background-color: #fff; color: #1c232b;" darkstyle="background-color: var(--wiki-surface); color: var(--wiki-color);" | 226
| Rain falls after forty years and does not stop. The Sherekhan settle where it lands and found [[Black Desert/Duvencrune|Duvencrune]].
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! style="background-color: #fff; color: #1c232b;" darkstyle="background-color: var(--wiki-surface); color: var(--wiki-color);" | 233–236
| The reign of Imur Nesser in [[Black Desert/Valencia|Valencia]]. He massacres the [[Black Desert/Aakman|Aakman]] after failed negotiations.
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! style="background-color: #fff; color: #1c232b;" darkstyle="background-color: var(--wiki-surface); color: var(--wiki-color);" | 235
| A plague out of the desert kills more than half the population of the western continent. Elionian priests blame Valencian alchemy worked on black stone. [[Black Desert/Drieghan|Drieghan]] organizes its five territories in the shape of a dragon.
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= The war with Valencia =

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! style="background-color: #1c232b; color: #c9b27a; width: 14%;" | Year
! style="background-color: #1c232b; color: #c9b27a;" | Event
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! style="background-color: #fff; color: #1c232b;" darkstyle="background-color: var(--wiki-surface); color: var(--wiki-color);" | 236–267
| [[Black Desert/Calpheon|Calpheon]] wages war on [[Black Desert/Valencia|Valencia]] for thirty years under King Dahad. A sandstorm swallows Dahad and his army in the [[Black Desert/Great Valencian Desert|Great Valencian Desert]], ending the campaign. Imur Nesser names that ground the Red Desert.
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! style="background-color: #fff; color: #1c232b;" darkstyle="background-color: var(--wiki-surface); color: var(--wiki-color);" | 264–267
| Natural disasters drive barbarian peoples west. Fogans and Nagas out of Valencia settle the southern swamps of [[Black Desert/Serendia|Serendia]]; Sausans and Helms settle in [[Black Desert/Mediah|Mediah]].
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! style="background-color: #fff; color: #1c232b;" darkstyle="background-color: var(--wiki-surface); color: var(--wiki-color);" | 265
| Crucio Domongatt takes the Serendian throne at twenty-seven and sets out to free the kingdom from Calpheon's influence.
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! style="background-color: #fff; color: #1c232b;" darkstyle="background-color: var(--wiki-surface); color: var(--wiki-color);" | 270–282
| The reign of Torme Nesser, the oldest king in Valencian history. Trade in black stone makes the kingdom wealthy.
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! style="background-color: #fff; color: #1c232b;" darkstyle="background-color: var(--wiki-surface); color: var(--wiki-color);" | 274
| Guy Seric of Calpheon seeks a military alliance with [[Black Desert/Kamasylvia|Kamasylvia]] for its archers.
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! style="background-color: #fff; color: #1c232b;" darkstyle="background-color: var(--wiki-surface); color: var(--wiki-color);" | 275–276
| Calpheon declares war on [[Black Desert/Serendia|Serendia]] over the black stone found in its swamps, takes [[Black Desert/Heidel|Heidel]] and imposes a humiliating treaty. [[Black Desert/Balenos|Balenos]] surrenders without fighting.
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= The years of collapse =

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! style="background-color: #1c232b; color: #c9b27a;" | Event
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! style="background-color: #fff; color: #1c232b;" darkstyle="background-color: var(--wiki-surface); color: var(--wiki-color);" | 276
| Queen Brolina Ornette inherits [[Black Desert/Kamasylvia|Kamasylvia]] as it slides toward civil war. Ahib fleeing that conflict cross into [[Black Desert/Drieghan|Drieghan]] and expose how little it can defend itself.
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! style="background-color: #fff; color: #1c232b;" darkstyle="background-color: var(--wiki-surface); color: var(--wiki-color);" | 277
| Illezra unseals the Book of Cartian. [[Black Desert/Mediah|Mediah]] Castle burns and darkness covers the region for three days. Bareeds II dies; only his youngest heir survives. Mediahn soldiers occupy the ruin of [[Black Desert/Cron Castle|Cron Castle]].
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! style="background-color: #fff; color: #1c232b;" darkstyle="background-color: var(--wiki-surface); color: var(--wiki-color);" | 280–281
| Illezra leads the barbarians on [[Black Desert/Altinova|Altinova]]. The guilds buy coexistence and Mediah becomes a republic under [[Black Desert/Neruda Shen|Neruda Shen]].
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! style="background-color: #fff; color: #1c232b;" darkstyle="background-color: var(--wiki-surface); color: var(--wiki-color);" | 281
| Guy Seric dies in suspicious circumstances. The Calpheonite feudal order collapses and a council of all classes replaces the monarchy.
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! style="background-color: #fff; color: #1c232b;" darkstyle="background-color: var(--wiki-surface); color: var(--wiki-color);" | 282
| [[Black Desert/Sahazad Nesser|Sahazad Nesser]] becomes the sixth king of Valencia, without the golden key that legitimizes the succession.
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! style="background-color: #fff; color: #1c232b;" darkstyle="background-color: var(--wiki-surface); color: var(--wiki-color);" | 283
| Chamberlain Jordine's taxes provoke open peasant revolt in [[Black Desert/Serendia|Serendia]].
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! style="background-color: #fff; color: #1c232b;" darkstyle="background-color: var(--wiki-surface); color: var(--wiki-color);" | 284
| The Acher Guard defeats the Ahib and drives them southeast, where they build [[Black Desert/O'dyllita|O'dyllita]]. The Ahib return strong enough to cut apart a Lemoria patrol at the Duzak Tunnel.
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! style="background-color: #fff; color: #1c232b;" darkstyle="background-color: var(--wiki-surface); color: var(--wiki-color);" | 285
| Serendia is weakened, poor and unsettled, and the disturbances around the Tower of Will begin.
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! style="background-color: #fff; color: #1c232b;" darkstyle="background-color: var(--wiki-surface); color: var(--wiki-color);" | 286
| Dragons are sighted over [[Black Desert/Drieghan|Drieghan]] and Chief Durgeff hires foreign hunters. Queen Brolina opens the borders of [[Black Desert/Kamasylvia|Kamasylvia]] and sends word to Calpheon and Drieghan.
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= The present =

The game begins at the end of this sequence rather than after it. Three of the four western powers have changed hands within a decade, Kamasylvia has just reopened, and the succession in Valencia rests on a key nobody can produce.

That is the point of arriving now. An adventurer walks into a continent where every settled arrangement is recent enough to still be contested.

= See also =

* [[Black Desert]]
* [[Black Desert/Regions|Regions]]
* [[Black Desert/Lore|Lore]]
* [[Black Desert/Factions|Factions]]
* [[Black Desert/Home|Home]]

= Further reading =

* [https://www.naeu.playblackdesert.com/en-US/Wiki?wikiNo=296 History of Calpheon — Adventurer's Guide]
* [https://www.naeu.playblackdesert.com/en-US/Wiki?wikiNo=297 History of Serendia — Adventurer's Guide]
* [https://www.naeu.playblackdesert.com/en-US/Wiki?wikiNo=298 History of Mediah — Adventurer's Guide]
* [https://www.naeu.playblackdesert.com/en-us/Wiki?wikiNo=299 History of Kamasylvia — Adventurer's Guide]
* [https://www.naeu.playblackdesert.com/en-us/Wiki?wikiNo=300 History of Valencia — Adventurer's Guide]
* [https://www.naeu.playblackdesert.com/en-us/Wiki?wikiNo=301 History of Drieghan — Adventurer's Guide]
* [https://www.naeu.playblackdesert.com/en-US/Wiki?wikiNo=330 History of Balenos — Adventurer's Guide]

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{{ Black Desert/Banner }} {| style="width: 100%; border: 2px solid #1c232b;" darkstyle="border-color: #48484a;" |- | colspan="2" style="padding: 10px; background-color: #1c232b;" | <div style="font-size: 1.3em; font-weight: bold; color: #ffffff; text-align: center;">Timeline</div> <div style="font-size: 0.85em; color: #6b7684; text-align: center;">the history of the world, in order</div> |- | colspan="2" style="padding: 0;" | ![[Black_Desert_Valencia_City_screenshot.webp]] |- | colspan="2" style="background-color: #1c232b; padding: 4px;" | <div style="color: #c9b27a; font-size: 0.85em; text-align: center;">Valencia City, seat of the House of Nesser</div><div style="color: #6b7684; font-size: 0.75em; text-align: center;">From the Adventurer's Guide, Pearl Abyss</div> |- ! style="background-color: #fff; color: #1c232b; width: 32%;" darkstyle="background-color: var(--wiki-surface); color: var(--wiki-color);" | Type | style="text-align: left;" | In-world chronology |- ! style="background-color: #fff; color: #1c232b;" darkstyle="background-color: var(--wiki-surface); color: var(--wiki-color);" | Calendar | style="text-align: left;" | Elionian, with an older Kabuanian reckoning |- ! style="background-color: #fff; color: #1c232b;" darkstyle="background-color: var(--wiki-surface); color: var(--wiki-color);" | Turning point | style="text-align: left;" | The plague of 235 and the war that followed |- ! style="background-color: #fff; color: #1c232b;" darkstyle="background-color: var(--wiki-surface); color: var(--wiki-color);" | Present day | style="text-align: left;" | The 280s, when an adventurer arrives |- ! style="background-color: #fff; color: #1c232b;" darkstyle="background-color: var(--wiki-surface); color: var(--wiki-color);" | Covers | style="text-align: left;" | [[Black Desert/Regions|All eleven regions]] |} The '''timeline''' of ''[[Black Desert]]'' is the in-world history of the continent, running from an age nobody now remembers to the years an adventurer walks into. Dates are given in the Elionian calendar, which nearly every region uses. A few of the oldest events are recorded instead in the older Kabuanian reckoning, and the two do not line up. The earliest entries here therefore sit outside the sequence rather than at the start of it. The history is not evenly distributed. Half a century between roughly 235 and 286 contains almost everything the game's story depends on, and the centuries before it are thin by comparison. = Before the kingdoms = The oldest recorded event belongs to the Kabuanian calendar. In its year 286 the world turned on itself, people attacked one another with strength they should not have had, and figures called the Edana put an end to it using black stones. Their civilization vanished afterward and left a sealed chamber in southern [[Black Desert/Balenos|Balenos]] that nature spirits are said to guard. A meteorite had struck the land that became [[Black Desert/Valencia|Valencia]] long before that, breaking apart and scattering the fragments that came to be called [[Black Desert/Black Stone|black stones]]. An earlier Valencian civilization used them as a power source and was destroyed by them, leaving the ruins that still litter the desert. In [[Black Desert/Kamasylvia|Kamasylvia]] the goddess Sylvia came down into the forest, planted the Kamasylve and blessed the land with the sun and the moon, from which came the Ganelle and the Vedir. = The kingdoms = {| class="wikitable" style="width: 100%; border: 2px solid #1c232b;" darkstyle="border-color: #48484a;" |- ! style="background-color: #1c232b; color: #c9b27a; width: 14%;" | Year ! style="background-color: #1c232b; color: #c9b27a;" | Event |- ! style="background-color: #fff; color: #1c232b;" darkstyle="background-color: var(--wiki-surface); color: var(--wiki-color);" | 135 | Noir Bartali III founds the Kingdom of Cron in [[Black Desert/Balenos|Balenos]] and builds [[Black Desert/Cron Castle|Cron Castle]]. He later seeks immortality, and the summoning he attempts destroys the castle, the country around it and himself. Survivors gather at [[Black Desert/Velia|Velia]]. |- ! style="background-color: #fff; color: #1c232b;" darkstyle="background-color: var(--wiki-surface); color: var(--wiki-color);" | 185 | The Sherekhan, changed by dragon's blood, settle east of [[Black Desert/Drieghan|Drieghan]] under Akum. Drought kills most of them within a year, and Akum's dying instruction sends the survivors wandering with a dragon's tooth. |- ! style="background-color: #fff; color: #1c232b;" darkstyle="background-color: var(--wiki-surface); color: var(--wiki-color);" | 226 | Rain falls after forty years and does not stop. The Sherekhan settle where it lands and found [[Black Desert/Duvencrune|Duvencrune]]. |- ! style="background-color: #fff; color: #1c232b;" darkstyle="background-color: var(--wiki-surface); color: var(--wiki-color);" | 233–236 | The reign of Imur Nesser in [[Black Desert/Valencia|Valencia]]. He massacres the [[Black Desert/Aakman|Aakman]] after failed negotiations. |- ! style="background-color: #fff; color: #1c232b;" darkstyle="background-color: var(--wiki-surface); color: var(--wiki-color);" | 235 | A plague out of the desert kills more than half the population of the western continent. Elionian priests blame Valencian alchemy worked on black stone. [[Black Desert/Drieghan|Drieghan]] organizes its five territories in the shape of a dragon. |} = The war with Valencia = {| class="wikitable" style="width: 100%; border: 2px solid #1c232b;" darkstyle="border-color: #48484a;" |- ! style="background-color: #1c232b; color: #c9b27a; width: 14%;" | Year ! style="background-color: #1c232b; color: #c9b27a;" | Event |- ! style="background-color: #fff; color: #1c232b;" darkstyle="background-color: var(--wiki-surface); color: var(--wiki-color);" | 236–267 | [[Black Desert/Calpheon|Calpheon]] wages war on [[Black Desert/Valencia|Valencia]] for thirty years under King Dahad. A sandstorm swallows Dahad and his army in the [[Black Desert/Great Valencian Desert|Great Valencian Desert]], ending the campaign. Imur Nesser names that ground the Red Desert. |- ! style="background-color: #fff; color: #1c232b;" darkstyle="background-color: var(--wiki-surface); color: var(--wiki-color);" | 264–267 | Natural disasters drive barbarian peoples west. Fogans and Nagas out of Valencia settle the southern swamps of [[Black Desert/Serendia|Serendia]]; Sausans and Helms settle in [[Black Desert/Mediah|Mediah]]. |- ! style="background-color: #fff; color: #1c232b;" darkstyle="background-color: var(--wiki-surface); color: var(--wiki-color);" | 265 | Crucio Domongatt takes the Serendian throne at twenty-seven and sets out to free the kingdom from Calpheon's influence. |- ! style="background-color: #fff; color: #1c232b;" darkstyle="background-color: var(--wiki-surface); color: var(--wiki-color);" | 270–282 | The reign of Torme Nesser, the oldest king in Valencian history. Trade in black stone makes the kingdom wealthy. |- ! style="background-color: #fff; color: #1c232b;" darkstyle="background-color: var(--wiki-surface); color: var(--wiki-color);" | 274 | Guy Seric of Calpheon seeks a military alliance with [[Black Desert/Kamasylvia|Kamasylvia]] for its archers. |- ! style="background-color: #fff; color: #1c232b;" darkstyle="background-color: var(--wiki-surface); color: var(--wiki-color);" | 275–276 | Calpheon declares war on [[Black Desert/Serendia|Serendia]] over the black stone found in its swamps, takes [[Black Desert/Heidel|Heidel]] and imposes a humiliating treaty. [[Black Desert/Balenos|Balenos]] surrenders without fighting. |} = The years of collapse = {| class="wikitable" style="width: 100%; border: 2px solid #1c232b;" darkstyle="border-color: #48484a;" |- ! style="background-color: #1c232b; color: #c9b27a; width: 14%;" | Year ! style="background-color: #1c232b; color: #c9b27a;" | Event |- ! style="background-color: #fff; color: #1c232b;" darkstyle="background-color: var(--wiki-surface); color: var(--wiki-color);" | 276 | Queen Brolina Ornette inherits [[Black Desert/Kamasylvia|Kamasylvia]] as it slides toward civil war. Ahib fleeing that conflict cross into [[Black Desert/Drieghan|Drieghan]] and expose how little it can defend itself. |- ! style="background-color: #fff; color: #1c232b;" darkstyle="background-color: var(--wiki-surface); color: var(--wiki-color);" | 277 | Illezra unseals the Book of Cartian. [[Black Desert/Mediah|Mediah]] Castle burns and darkness covers the region for three days. Bareeds II dies; only his youngest heir survives. Mediahn soldiers occupy the ruin of [[Black Desert/Cron Castle|Cron Castle]]. |- ! style="background-color: #fff; color: #1c232b;" darkstyle="background-color: var(--wiki-surface); color: var(--wiki-color);" | 280–281 | Illezra leads the barbarians on [[Black Desert/Altinova|Altinova]]. The guilds buy coexistence and Mediah becomes a republic under [[Black Desert/Neruda Shen|Neruda Shen]]. |- ! style="background-color: #fff; color: #1c232b;" darkstyle="background-color: var(--wiki-surface); color: var(--wiki-color);" | 281 | Guy Seric dies in suspicious circumstances. The Calpheonite feudal order collapses and a council of all classes replaces the monarchy. |- ! style="background-color: #fff; color: #1c232b;" darkstyle="background-color: var(--wiki-surface); color: var(--wiki-color);" | 282 | [[Black Desert/Sahazad Nesser|Sahazad Nesser]] becomes the sixth king of Valencia, without the golden key that legitimizes the succession. |- ! style="background-color: #fff; color: #1c232b;" darkstyle="background-color: var(--wiki-surface); color: var(--wiki-color);" | 283 | Chamberlain Jordine's taxes provoke open peasant revolt in [[Black Desert/Serendia|Serendia]]. |- ! style="background-color: #fff; color: #1c232b;" darkstyle="background-color: var(--wiki-surface); color: var(--wiki-color);" | 284 | The Acher Guard defeats the Ahib and drives them southeast, where they build [[Black Desert/O'dyllita|O'dyllita]]. The Ahib return strong enough to cut apart a Lemoria patrol at the Duzak Tunnel. |- ! style="background-color: #fff; color: #1c232b;" darkstyle="background-color: var(--wiki-surface); color: var(--wiki-color);" | 285 | Serendia is weakened, poor and unsettled, and the disturbances around the Tower of Will begin. |- ! style="background-color: #fff; color: #1c232b;" darkstyle="background-color: var(--wiki-surface); color: var(--wiki-color);" | 286 | Dragons are sighted over [[Black Desert/Drieghan|Drieghan]] and Chief Durgeff hires foreign hunters. Queen Brolina opens the borders of [[Black Desert/Kamasylvia|Kamasylvia]] and sends word to Calpheon and Drieghan. |} = The present = The game begins at the end of this sequence rather than after it. Three of the four western powers have changed hands within a decade, Kamasylvia has just reopened, and the succession in Valencia rests on a key nobody can produce. That is the point of arriving now. An adventurer walks into a continent where every settled arrangement is recent enough to still be contested. = See also = * [[Black Desert]] * [[Black Desert/Regions|Regions]] * [[Black Desert/Lore|Lore]] * [[Black Desert/Factions|Factions]] * [[Black Desert/Home|Home]] = Further reading = * [https://www.naeu.playblackdesert.com/en-US/Wiki?wikiNo=296 History of Calpheon — Adventurer's Guide] * [https://www.naeu.playblackdesert.com/en-US/Wiki?wikiNo=297 History of Serendia — Adventurer's Guide] * [https://www.naeu.playblackdesert.com/en-US/Wiki?wikiNo=298 History of Mediah — Adventurer's Guide] * [https://www.naeu.playblackdesert.com/en-us/Wiki?wikiNo=299 History of Kamasylvia — Adventurer's Guide] * [https://www.naeu.playblackdesert.com/en-us/Wiki?wikiNo=300 History of Valencia — Adventurer's Guide] * [https://www.naeu.playblackdesert.com/en-us/Wiki?wikiNo=301 History of Drieghan — Adventurer's Guide] * [https://www.naeu.playblackdesert.com/en-US/Wiki?wikiNo=330 History of Balenos — Adventurer's Guide]