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Tarkir/Timeline

Magic: The Gathering

Tarkir'stimelineis not straightforward. It is a twin timeline that branches at one point with one influencing the other.

Tarkir's timeline is not straightforward. It is a twin timeline that branches at one point with one influencing the other. The story of Sarkhan Vol is a straightforward path that winds through both timelines.

Tarkir's Timeline

c. -25,000 AR

Birth of Tarkir

Between c. -20,000 and c. -15,500

Founding of the Khanates

  • Founding of the Mardu Horde.
  • Founding of the Abzan Houses.
  • Founding of the Jeskai Way.
    • Ugin teaches the Jeskai the Ways of Ugin's Fire (Soulfire, Mistfire, Deathfire, Bloodfire, Vitalfire, Ghostfire).
  • Founding of the Temur Frontier.
    • Ugin teaches the Shamans the Mind Whisper
  • Founding of the Sultai Brood.

c. 3260

c. 3263

c. 3276

  • Alesha chooses her war name.

Crux of Fate

c. 3279

3279

  • Battle between Ugin and Nicol Bolas. Bolas coerces the Dragon broods to attack their progenitor.

Original Timeline

3279

  • Ugin dies. The dragon tempests cease.

The End of All Dragons

The Dragons are hunted to extinction:

  • Silumgar is slain at Molderfang Falls.
  • Ojutai was slain at the Cori Mountain Fortress.
  • Kolaghan was slain on the steppes near Scream Reach.
  • Atarka was slain in the Karakyk Valley.
  • Dromoka was slain and she and her brood were harvested for their scales.

Khans of Tarkir

c. 4509

c. 4537

c. 4543 or earlier

c. 4550

  • Narset becomes khan of the Jeskai.

c. 4554

c. 4559 or earlier

  • Sidisi becomes khan of the Sultai.
  • Surrak becomes khan of the Temur.
  • Zurgo becomes khan of the Mardu.
  • Taigam leaves the Jeskai and joins the Sultai.
  • Anafenza becomes khan of the Abzan.

4559

  • Sarkhan returns to Tarkir.
  • Sorin Markov arrives on Tarkir and finds Ugin dead.
  • Varuk takes control of the Mardu after Zurgo's obsession with Sarkhan becomes clear.
  • The appearance of the Alabaster Kirin.
  • Sarkhan, Narset, and Zurgo reach Ugin's Nexus.
  • Zurgo Kills Narset.
  • Sarkhan enters the Nexus of Fate and travels 1280 years backward in time.

New Timeline

3279

  • Sarkhan encases Ugin in a hedron cocoon. The dragon tempests increase.

Khanfall

c. 3282 or later

After the fall of Ugin, the dragon tempests grow in ferocity, giving the dragons the upper hand in the struggle:

  • The rakshasa and naga forsake the Sultai. Tasigur surrenders to Silumgar.
  • Daghatar decides to ally with Dromoka and her brood, forcing all of the Abzan to give up ancestor worship. The Remembrance is destroyed, and every kin-tree is uprooted.
  • Shu Yun, khan of the Jeskai; Alesha, khan of the Mardu; Reyhan, khan of the Abzan holdouts; Yasova, khan of the Temur; and Tasigur hold a meeting at Dirgur stronghold to discuss the future of their clans. Tasigur betrays the location to the dragonlords. Reyhan is killed by Silumgaar. Shu Yun and the other Ghostfire initiates of the Jeskai give up their lives to make peace with Ojutai. Alesha, Yasova, and Tasigur escape.
  • Tasigur returns to Silumgar and is turned into a piece of jewelry for the dragon.
  • Alesha and the Mardu decide to forsake their previous clan and follow dragonlord Kolaghan.
  • Yasova and the Temur begin hunting food for Atarka.

Dragons of Tarkir

  • Kolaghan takes full control of the other races that are following her brood.
  • the Kolaghan clan adopts cannibalism

c. 4537

c. 4543 or earlier

c. 4558

  • Anafenza is executed by her cousin Oret and returned by him as a kin-tree spirit.

Before 4559

  • Sidisi is killed and resurrected as a sibsig vizier to Silumgar.

c. 4559

  • Narset's planeswalker spark ignites.

4559

  • Sarkhan Vol returns to his present, though he was never born in this timeline.
  • Sorin Markov arrives on Tarkir and releases Ugin from his Hedron cocoon.

New Phyrexia's Invasion of the Multiverse

Sarkhan's Timeline on Tarkir

Pre-sparking

  • Sarkhan is born as Vol. He later grants himself the title Sarkhan.
  • Sarkhan rises through the Mardu Horde.
  • Sarkhan joins Chianul and the Whisperers in the Qal Sisma mountains of the Temur Frontier.
  • Sarkhan returns to the Mardu.

c. 4554

  • Sarkhan's planeswalker spark ignites.

Khans of Tarkir

4559

  • Sarkhan returns to Tarkir.
  • Sarkhan befriends Narset.
  • Sarkhan finds the tomb of the spirit dragon Ugin.
  • Sarkhan is sent back in time to the "Crux of Fate."

Fate Reforged

3279

  • Sarkhan arrives in Tarkir's past.

3279

  • Sarkhan cocoons the dying Ugin.
  • Sarkhan returns to modern-day Tarkir.

Dragons of Tarkir

4559

  • Sarkhan meets with Ugin.
  • Sarkhan meets Narset again.

Phyrexian Invasion

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