World history

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    For the history of the game world, see real world history and Real world history.The timeline on this page outlines the history of the world that the MediEvil series takes place in. It is based on information from manuals, books and other in-game references. It also uses information from the official websites and promotional materials.

    Historical events preceded by "c." are approximations based on given information and are not to be considered exact dates, and may be subject to change as new information is given.

    Events marked as "Unknown" are also approximations and their placement in the timeline could be entirely wrong.

    Timeline

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    Year Event
    c. 8614 B.C. RavenHooves the Archer, last prince of the Centaurs, dies before or around this time.[1.1]
    c. 1303 B.C. Ramesses II is born.[2]
    1279 B.C. Ramesses II becomes Pharaoh of Egypt.[2]
    c. 1232 B.C. Kiya is born.[3]Template:Ref
    1213 B.C. Kiya is selected to be one of Ramesses II's wives. However, Ramesses II dies before their marriage is consummated.[2] Nonetheless, Kiya is selected to accompany him on his journey to the afterlife. She is interred in a tomb at Abu Simbel.[4.1]
    Unknown Mellowmede is destroyed by the Rhinotaurs in what would become known as the Massacre of Mellowmede.[5.1]
    c. 1218 King Peregrin is born around this time.Template:Ref
    c. 1233 King Peregrin is crowned at age 15. Zarok's dog, Mr Snuffy, is killed by Peregrin's Royal Guard the day of the coronation.[6]

    Zarok later leaves Gallowmere to become an evil sorcerer's apprentice.[6]

    1236 The first Gallowmere Games take place this year.[6]
    1254 Sir Daniel Fortesque is born to Lord Cedric Fortesque.[6]Template:Ref
    c. 1283 50 years after Peregrin's coronation, a terrible famine sweeps over Gallowmere. The King tasks his Court Magician, Mazok the Muddled to come up with a solution. Mazok's attempts lead to the creation of the Jabberwocky.[6][5.2]

    King Peregrin hires Zarok to be his Court Magician who singlehandedly makes the famine disappear.[6]

    The Jabberwocky is chased from the kingdom by Dirk Steadfast.[6][5.2]

    1285 Canny Tim wins top prizes in every single archery category during the 49th Gallowmere Games, which prompts King Peregrin to offer Tim a place in his army.[6]Template:Ref

    The people of Gallows Town clamour for a democracy.[7]

    1286 Original timeline:

    Zarok invades Gallowmere with an army of undead. He is fought by the King’s Militia at the Battle of Gallowmere. Zarok’s Champion Lord Kardok and Sir Daniel die in the battle. Zarok ultimately loses the battle and flees into hiding.[8]

    A few days later, King Peregrin dies from choking on a Brussels sprout.[5.3]

    Time loop timeline:
    Main article: Time loop

    The undead Sir Daniel Fortesque from 1886 finds himself in Gallowmere, just one day before the Battle of Gallowmere. He joins forces with Canny Tim and the fairies to thwart an attack on Castle Peregrin by the Jabberwocky.[6]

    On the day of the battle, the undead Dan swaps places with his living self to ensure history happens as it should. Lord Kardok and Dan die in the battle, while Zarok survives the battle and flees into hiding.[6] This locks the Sir Dan from the original timeline in a time loop and makes all other timelines, including the original one, fade away. Zarok's defeat in the Battle of Gallowmere is thus ensured across all of time.[9]

    A few days later, King Peregrin dies from choking on a Brussels sprout.[5.3]
    Unknown Zarok's Shadow Demons are sealed under The Enchanted Earth by a great hero[5.4] in an impregnable box of King Peregrin's design using the Shadow Artefact. Eventually, Zarok gets his hands on the Artefact.

    The Town Mayor steals the Shadow Artefact from Zarok's Tower. Zarok later searches Gallows Town for it and turns many of its citizens into goats which plummets the Mayor's ratings.[5.5]

    1383 Wartilda wins the Jolliest Witch in Gallowmere Award, beginning her winning streak.[5.6]
    1386 Wartilda wins the Jolliest Witch in Gallowmere Award for the fourth consecutive year.[5.6]

    Zarok returns to conquer Gallowmere once again, but unwittingly resurrects Sir Dan, who eventually defeats him.[10.1]

    1774 Fisherman Phil McCaven caught a Kraken off the coast of Bognor Regis.[10.2]
    1817 Many possessions of Ramesses' are recovered from a Tomb at Abu Simbel, including Kiya's tomb and are brought and placed into the Great Museum in Kensington.[4.1]
    c. 1830 Professor Hamilton Kift is born.[11]
    c. 1835 The Mullock King is born.[12]
    c. 1840 Lord Palethorn and Madam Jo-jo are born.[13]
    c. 1849 Mander is born.
    c. 1851 Dogman is born.
    1877 December: Lord Palethorn is expelled from the Magic Circle.
    1878 January 10: Lord Palethorn asks Professor Hamilton Kift to accompany him on a journey to the last resting place of Zarok's spell book.

    January 11: The Professor agrees to accompany Lord Palethorn.

    January 17: The Professor and Lord Palethorn stay the night in the Bonny Prince Charlie inn.

    January 18: The Professor and Palethorn arrive on the island where the tomb containing Zarok's spell book can be found.

    January 20: The Professor and Lord Palethorn find the entrance to the tomb.

    January 21: The Professor and Lord Palethorn enter the tomb. As Palethorn takes the spell book, the tomb begins to collapse. He pushes the Professor aside, whose hands are crushed by the closing tomb's door.

    Early February: The Professor is found by local fishermen and transported to Inverness to heal.

    March 31: The Professor constructs functional mechanical hands for himself, although he has trouble adjusting to them.

    April 1: The Professor recounts the events of January 21 in his journal.

    1884 March 6: Medievil Times newspaper issue No. 1 is published.Template:Ref
    1885 March 12: The Professor performs experiments in an attempt to create a fully formed human specimen, but only manages to re-animate body parts, which mutate into monsters that he is forced to release into the London Underground.[10.3]
    1886 April 21: The Medievil Times newspaper issue No. 666 is published.[14]

    Palethorn casts a spell that raises the dead, including Sir Dan.[10.4] Dan teams up with the Professor and Princess Kiya to stop him.

    May 23: The Professor writes in his journal about Kiya's usefulness in helping him with his experiments in creating a fully formed human specimen.[10.3]

    Later, Kiya is killed by Jack the Ripper. Dan travels back in time using the Professor’s time machine to change this course of events. He saves Kiya and merges with his past self, creating the Super Armour. Eventually, they defeat Palethorn.

    What happens next is disputed:

    One outcome sees Daniel and Kiya return to their eternal slumber together in the Museum.[10.5]

    Another sees Daniel and Kiya travel back in time (but also to an alternative timeline), where they end up in Zarok's Lair. However, instead of encountering Zarok, they are met with Palethorn, who used the power of Zarok's spell book to travel back in time and replaced Zarok with himself.[10.6][15]

    Another chain of events shows that Dan and Kiya use the time machine to travel through time. However, the time machine malfunctions and separates them. Dan ends up in 1286, one day before the Battle of Gallowmere while Kiya is transported back to her own lifetime.[6]

    1902 Professor Marcus Effington Christy is born.[4.2]
    1910 It was believed back in 1886 that by this year, the moon will be a part of the great colonial empire.[10.7]
    1962 The "Essays on Popular Delusion and the Madness of the Masses", written by Prof. Marcus Effington Christy are released. Among these delusions is included The Autumn of Death which describes the events of 1886 as such.[4.2]
    1963 Prof. Marcus Effington Christy dies.[4.2]
    Modern Day A mysterious man meets with Professor Darrow, a researcher of the life, death and resurrections of Sir Daniel Fortesque. He tells her about the events following Palethorn's defeat and the events preceding the Battle of Gallowmere.[6]

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    See also

    Notes

    [a] Kiya's age is given as 19 on MediEvil 2's official website. Subtracting her age from the year of the Pharaoh's death gives us her approximate date of birth.

    [b] In a Q&A on Facebook, Chris Sorrell said "I picture Dan dying in his mid thirties, King P in his late sixties". King Peregrin dies a few days after the Battle of Gallowmere (1286).[5.3] This places his birth between 1217-1219, hence c. 1218. This also makes it possible to approximate other dates given the information about Peregrin's reign in MediEvil: Fate's Arrow.

    [c] The years given in MediEvil: Fate's Arrow are 100 years off from the dates given in MediEvil 2. For the sake of consistency with MediEvil 2, 100 years have been added to all years from MediEvil: Fate's Arrow in the timeline.

    [d] If the publishing schedule for Medievil Times is the same as for its real world counterpart, The Times, its first issue would come out on March 6, 1884.

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