This timeline covers many different aspects: the adventures of the heroes, historical entries, mysteries, and other tidbits that may appear.
The start of the Saxon War. Still ongoing and no hope seems in sight. Originally started after a Saxon raid that destroyed the church at Deventer, the Franks used this as a casus belli to invade & torch the Iminsul Paderbon 772 / 773 at Eresburg. Casualties have been steadily increasing since.
A series of soldier stations has been build over the past few years in the major passes in the Alps between southern Frankia and northern Italy. This is due to strange & ferocious howls carried on the winds in this part of the Alps. A few people & groups have disappeared here. Tracks of large clawed humanoid creatures and drag marks of bodies are regularly found. Patrols have been increased to try to work out what has happened.
Reports have started to come in from long range / overland traders that have contact with the tribal groups east of Old Saxony. They have noticed an increase in the actions of undead military operations throughout their own territories and further east. This is something worrying to us as well, and may need intervention on our part. Also, they report increased Dark Fey activity especially around forests close to the south east of the Baltic Sea and close to the border of the Saxon lands. Exactly what is going on is unknown at present. The only information from our spies is that the region between the east Saxons & western Slavs in that area has seen an increase in the number of what they refer to as Hexbloods. What these are is, again, unknown to us. We may have to capture one to study further.
The Saxon War started in the year 800 AD after the Franks decided to attack the Saxons in Old Saxony as they had continued to carry out raids into Frankia. Also, they had killed two Roman Catholic missionaries, and refused to covert to Christianity. Ass well as that, the Franks had burned down a tree that belonged to the Saxons that was their main religious symbol for the whole nation.
Two mercenaries called Grimmaz Fyrwin & Fleec Snow, were sent to a valley in the Central Massif believed to be cursed. After finding the remains of the old Roman fort, they examined the caverns below. Deep down a strange set of figures appeared mummified by extreme age with strange growths attached & growing over the underground town they found. A large strange skeleton was found against one wall, and steps leading down to a strange alter with an amber 'sarcophagus' on it. After dealing wit the necromancer & some Troglodytes that were there, the team dumped the sarcophagus into a pit of lava to one side. Upon looking at the town they found an old library missing a book, and a humanoid creature that looked as if cut open, a being claiming to be a member of the Order of the Gash. They reported this to the authorities in Parisius, and gained some respect with a group of Wood Elves & Celts near the valley.
Fleec Grimmaz is tasked by the Thieves Guild of Frankia to slip the family of a Saxon turncoat called Willhelm out of Aachen. He also encounters an injured Martine Sacha. She gets healed, and accompanies her to kill off Elonga Lola she was taking home. They corner her in a sewer room and kills her. They have the time too to slip out Willhelm's mother and siblings (brother & sister) and get them to Parisius. When they do, they use the same sewer tunnels, killing a small weak vampire cult that is starting. Also, they get held up by the Count de Rais that is trying to force Fleec to get a book from southern Britain. Fleec agrees to save the life of Willhelm's mother. They get away and is left in the hands of the Thieves Guild to set up a new life in Parisius
Fleec Snow travelled home to the area around Weymouth in southern Britain. He meets his mother asking about the family and checks on her. Setting out he searches for his brother Shorty. After finding him in the Saxon controlled east, he finds Shorty, who had tried to rob the local cathedral. A monk called Edward helps Fleec out to retrieve a book from the cathedral, to take back to Father Tossil for safekeeping. It was being sought by the de Rais family. Unfortunately a gate is opened to a hell dimension and a character called the Librarian comes out. Banished back to the dimension, both leave, help out Shorty who is told he can make use of the Frankish Thieves Guild as well as the local guild. Fleec sets up regular smuggling jobs with the guilds, and his mother before leaving. When back in Parisius and the Slinky Seine, he sets up trade with the Thieves Guild of Frankia, passes of the book and proceeds to Rome to travel to Tunis & find the Silk Road to start trading.
The thief known as Fleec Snow done a job for the Parisius nobility. They had got to the end of their tether with Burgomaster de Rais. Count de Sade offers Fleec the chance to break into the local property of de Rais, and proceeded to the basement encountering a female warrior from the Horn of Africa named Martine Sascha. She is after items waylaid by de Rais that he is going to use in ritual magic of the darker variety, and she believes to be part of a cult belonging to snake worship. Her people regularly fights against them when encountered. Both sneak down and intercept a woman with slight snake details to her, and a cult temple below the house. They capture the woman, and take details & a bit of treasure before returning to the surface. Fleec gets his new acquaintances to help ensnare de Rais, who is then lifted by the authorities. He is never seen again.
A number of murders has took place in Parisius. Carried out by an unknown assailant, it seems most of the murders occurs around the 31st of October 800. Still happening but the number has severely drops off after this time to about one to two a month at most. The authorities are sure it is some type of supernatural killer that is loose on the streets.
The Battle of Aachen was a short brief battle between the Franks & their allies (including a Grimmaz Fyrwin & a turncoat Saxon called Willhelm), against a horde of Saxons & their own allies. The latter was a force of skeletons, zombies & two wights being used to test the defences of the Franks. Short and relatively bloodless, at least for the Franks, it was quickly over. It marked the first time in decades if not centuries a dragon was part of the Frankish force, at least temporarily.
The city of Alexandria awakens to a disturbing day. The sea around the port (and the port itself) is frozen with a few metres of ice. A long white serpent is seen deep in the waters at the same time. Both disappear quickly and a minor quake hits the city. A short time later, it is found that a part of the Library of Alexandria's underground workshops & storage area has been damaged and a small tunnel is found behind it. Though rumoured to have always been there, it is thought it was a cursed area and only entered by military personnel, who quickly vanish. So far no others are to have ventured down. At the same time, a number of reports start to flood in through Egypt of the dead stirring more frequently in their graves, crypts and fancy tombs. Attacks by many of these increase. All the while, the number of assassinations & thefts increase, along with stories of parties of strange human / serpent hybrids are reported by many Bedouin, soldiers & civilians from old out of the way places making for the north.
Fleec Snow, Edward the Monk, and Martine Sascha arrives in Tunis after travelling from Rome by ship. He meets a couple of locals who show him around, and introduces him to the local High Elf community. They supply him with equipment, and is shown to the offices of the local community leader. He's given a map and will be given documentation to the Snow Family Mines when he returns.
Fleec Snow and his companions set out from Tunis west towards the mountains. They quickly find the region that the mines are meant to be in. In the area they find a ruined temple to Baal, and a group of local bandits led by a strange man with a slightly animalistic characteristic to him. They manage to persuade him to show the way to the mines, as he is looking to get into it too. Fleec managed to open it and enter. The bandit is killed by the guards that came with them. Fleec, Mischa, and Edward get down into the mine and find the main mine deep within. They find that there is elements of copper and other little deposits that could still be mined. Finding two strange rooms, opening one, there is old money and ore stored in it. They are left whether to open the second room.
A number of authorities bordering the Bohemian Massif has sent troops into the region after a number of disappearances of trade caravans, lumberjacks and charcoal burners has occurred. Usually found in the northern end of the Massif, it is suspected that the ruined old city found there, and a suspected fallen star, is to blame. The old city of Lindwurm has always had a strange disturbing reputation so it is suspected that they have something to do with the disappearances. No evidence has been found so far, even with the disappearance of some of the bands of troops that have entered the forests there.
Charlemagne, the King of the Franks, has been crowned Holy Roman Emperor by the Papacy in Rome. He still governs the Frankish Empire but is now seen as a paragon of Christian (Divine) Rulership and an important ally of the Roman Catholic Church.
A break-in occurred in the Merchants Quarters area of Wien. The only thing seems to have been taken is a bunch of supposedly cursed dolls & toys, and nothing else. The story says that they belonged to a child of a local merchant whose whole family mysteriously died during a string of bizarre accidents. The child was placed in a sanitorium run by the local Roman Catholic church, where years later she still stays, afraid the toys will return to her to finish her off. The last anyone has heard is that the dolls & toys are being moved to Parisius to be studied by the Le' Merchand family & their Gnome contactsin the off-chance there is some type of mechanical device in them. A rumour persists that these have disappeared recently in the vicinity of the townland of Eschbach.
Grimmaz Fyrwin, Reolus Rhin and Anselma arrive in Uppsala following information about Anselma's husband. They find him (Magnar) is there and an Undead army attacks with heavy forces. Led by a powerful Draugr they repel the attack when Grimmaz & Reolus hurt the Draugr and Anselma finishes it off with two arrows (one through each eye). Grimmaz decapitates it, and a mounted Undead officer carries it off. They learn that the leaders of the longship that they travelled with have been killed in the fighting. Also, Floki Bigbeard has been killed too fighting in the front line.
The Frankish authorities has had to send troops in to the middle of the Central Massif. Ongoing problems have been going on in the region since a special operation by a mercenary and a member of the Thieves of Frankia who is now a minor noble, and the latter now a trader. Ever since this rebellion, rock slides, avalanches and now earthquakes are regular occurrences. At the same time, strange lights are regularly seen, with bizarre creatures spotted at distance, horrific nightmares, weird music on pipes & drums heard, and odd unnatural whispers in unknown languages overheard. The recent earthquakes in the region lasted two or three odd days and the panicked populous needed some reassurance.
The town of Eschbach gets word from travelers & trade caravans coming from the south that here is no life in a hamlet 3 to 4 miles south of the town. A strange glowing rock is lying in the middle of the hamlet, and strange bluish light is present. Such light is seen appearing & disappearing around the hamlet along with shreiks & strange speech. A team led by the Lord of Eschbach is assembled and they investigate. A large humanoid creature is found & killed. A lump of lead is roughly shaped and placed over the rock cutting down strange effects felt by the team. Returning to Eschbach, more lead is got and a stamp to press into it. The team returns and finds the rock to cover up the rest of it, and is attacked by a few differently sized creatures that turns out to be Star Spawn Grue. Dispatched easily, they return with the rock to Eschbach. After the local priest takes possession of it to store correctly, one team member called Amon voices his suspicion that the Grue were the mutated villagers. This is confirmed, and one of the ways that the Star Spawn can come through to this world.