Quest for Glory Timeline

Timelines of Quest for Glory series from official sources. Like many of Sierra's series, Quest for Glory's internal timeline is not entirely consistent. Below are all the variations of the timeline based various official sources.
 * Mordavia History of Events: A Time Line (a timeline without dates included in the Quest for Glory: Shadows of Darkness Hintbook)
 * QFG4 Timeline (timeline with dates based on the timeline in the QFG4 Hintbook)
 * Tetralogy Timeline (timeline based on Tetralogy concept)

Comparing the timelines
This section combines all alternate dates given in both the QFG4 Timeline and the Tetralogy timeline to compare where the two diverge.

Legend

 * BQFG (before QFG1)
 * QFG (after QFG1)
 * Green (dates shared by both timelines.)
 * Violet (QFG4 timeline dates.)
 * Tan (Tetralogy timeline dates.)

Chronology

 * 1001 BQFG
 * The Djinn Wars; Iblis creates the Forbidden City and raises an army of djinn to take over the world. The sultan Suleiman bin Daoud raises an army of djinn to stop the Marid.
 * Iblis is bound in a statue, but a prophecy predicts he may rise again. He Who Waits Behind is bound to a ring to help prevent this.


 * 320 BQFG
 * The Land of Mordavia is founded by a nearby King, who puts the rule of the region under the Borgov family of Boyars. Castle Borgov is built.


 * 200 BQFG
 * King Siegfried the Third gives Spielburg castle to the von Spielburg family.
 * Around this time the kingdom of Tarna is founded or at least taken over by the Liontaurs and restructured.


 * 100 BQFG
 * Erasmus built his vacation tower on Mount Zauberberg.


 * 70 BQFG
 * In the land of Silmaria, a young wizard (Ad Avis) seeks out the Dark Master (Katrina) to gain forbidden knowledge.
 * Ad Avis enters into service under the Dark Master, and is bound to her, despite his outrage that she is a woman. He discovers the prophecies of Iblis and begins a plot to summon him.


 * 50 BQFG
 * The Little Old Lady's valuable Sego palm is planted, and begins to grow.


 * 40 BQFG
 * Laspo Yorick becomes Court Jester to Baron Stefan von Spielburg.


 * 20 BQFG
 * The Dark Master grows tired of Ad Avis and releases him. Ad Avis, freed from his servitude to the Dark Master travels to Raseir for the final preparations to unleash Iblis.
 * King Justinian becomes king of Silmaria.


 * 18 BQFG
 * Elsa von Spielburg is born in Spielburg Valley. The Baroness died from complications from the birth.


 * 17 BQFG
 * Signor Ferrari begins searching for the black Falcon.


 * 16 BQFG
 * King Justinian becomes king of Silmaria.


 * 15 BQFG
 * Rakeesh Sah Tarna gives up the throne of Tarna to become a Paladin and defeat the Demon Wizard.
 * Anna is killed in Mordavia and becomes a ghost.


 * 12 BQFG
 * Rajah Sah Tarna becomes King of Tarna in place of his brother.


 * 11 BQFG
 * Anna is killed outside of town while looking for berries in the forest for Dr. Cranium.


 * 10 BQFG
 * Elsa von Spielburg was stolen away by magic and left with some brigands. The Baron sends out Baronial Guards to Yaga in retaliation. They are all killed and their skulls placed on the fence surrounding her hut. Yorick starts searching for her (anachronism with -13 BQFG4).


 * 9 BQFG
 * :Elsa is turned down for training by the Weapon Master for being female (anachronism with 14 BQFG4).


 * 8 BQFG
 * Yorick discovers Elsa with the brigands, and becomes the Brigand Warlock.


 * 5 BQFG
 * Bernard von Spielburg disappears during a hunt.
 * Samuel moves to Spielburg and begins begging there.


 * 4 BQFG
 * Strangers take up residence in Castle Borgov. Harsh rains ensue, turning the only pass out of the valley into a deadly swamp.


 * 3 BQFG
 * Heinrich Pferdefedern's wife and mother of Hilde Pferdefedern passes away.
 * Boris Stovich leaves his wife, and starts working at Castle Borgov.


 * 2 BQFG
 * Signor Ferrari moves into Raseir, searching for the Black Falcon, and quickly learns how to make a profit out of the city.
 * Tanya is kidnapped.


 * 1 BQFG
 * Ad Avis deposes of the Emir of Raseir and places his brother on the throne, and the fountain of Raseir begins to dry up, during the Month of the Serpent, Year of the Spear. . Khaveen, military commander, forces all the Katta out of the city.
 * Shameen and Shema journey to Spielburg to search for a Hero, whilst most of the other exiles relocate to Shapeir.
 * Katrina returns to live in Castle Borgov following rumors of the Cult of the Dark One (She had originally moved in decades ago ).
 * The E4 convention is held with lecturers such as Prof. Grant Gottfried and Henk Malan speaking.


 * 0 QFG
 * Prologue Begins. Devon Aidendale leaves Willowsby heading towards Spielburg.
 * 2 weeks later: Abdulla Doo is a rich merchant leaving Shapeir, he planned to be the first merchant to enter Spielburg Valley that year.
 * 3 weeks later: Abdulla Doo's caravan is attacked by Brigands in Spielburg Pass, stealing all of his wares.
 * 4 weeks later : QFG1 Begins. The Hero arrives in the valley, and soon becomes trapped by an avalanche from the Dragon Smoke Mountains as the snow melts.
 * 9 days later : QFG1 Ends. The Hero saves Spielburg. Baba Yaga flees the valley, eventually making her way to Mordavia.
 * QFG2 Begins: 
 * Hero is brought to the south by Shameen and Shema to save the cities of Shapeir and Raseir, during the month of the Serpent, Year of the Djinn.
 * 17th of the Serpent, leaving Shapeir, the Hero joins a caravan headed for Raseir.
 * 29th of the Serpent, the Hero is arrested by guards of Raseir.
 * 30th of the Serpent, Ad Avis is killed in Raseir by the Hero, and the Dark Master summons his body to Mordavia, so that he will be her Vampire Slave.''' QFG2 Ends.
 * More strangers move into the castle (including Ad Avis and the goon guards) and the towns people begin to notice.
 * Katrina starts summoning storms in Mordavia and a swamp begins to form. Travel to and from Mordavia is restricted and the exchange rate for its coinage bottoms out..
 * 1 month later; The Simbani request aid in their war against the Leopardmen. So a Peace Mission is sent out.
 * 3 months later; QFG3 Begins. Hero visits Aziza to discuss Ad Avis missing body, and rumors of war in Tarna.
 * 3 days later; Hero travels to Tarna via magical portal.
 * 2 days later; Rakeesh and the hero stand before the Council of Judgement to speak of peace. Then they travel towards the Simbani Village
 * 24 days later : QFG3 Ends. A Demon Wizard at the World Gate is destroyed through the Hero's actions.
 * Moments later, the Hero is consumed by dark magics and transported about four years into the future to the Dark One's Cave in Mordavia.
 * King Justinian of Silmaria is assasinated. 2 day later, Hesparian mercenaries invade Marete.
 * Some point near this time the Silmarian Chief Thief is also assassinated.
 * Immediately after QFG3: QFG4 Begins. The Hero is teleported to Mordavia and ends up in the Dark One's Cave. At near the same time Erasmus and Fenris attempted to Teleport the Hero to Silmaria, they only manage to teleport some of his clothes. While in Mordavia he learns of the Dark Master and stops the second Summoning of Avoozl.
 * 11 days later: The Hero destroys the Nosferatu Ad Avis, though Katrina's soul is consumed by darkness in the process.
 * 2 weeks later : QFG4 Ends. Dmitri Ivanov is declared the new Boyar by the regional King. The swamp begins to clear from the pass, opening the valley to the outside world again.
 * Minos brings Elsa to Silmaria to compete in the Rites of Rulership. Toro follows and becomes master of the local Adventurer's Guild. Magnum Opus also travels to Silmaria to compete in the Rites. Erasmus and Fenris contact the Hero and whisk him off to Mariana.
 * Dr. Cranium prensents his findings in experiments in tissue reanimation at the Scientific Ball.
 * Immediately after QFG4: QFG5 Begins. The Hero arrives in Silmaria and seeks to uncover the King's assassin and compete in the Rites of Rulership.


 * 1 QFG
 * Boris Stovich becomes the Gatekeeper of Castle Borgov.
 * Baba Yaga returns to her home in Surria after having spent winter in Mordavia.
 * Andre begins training as a Healer under Julanar in the Spring.
 * Famous Adventurer travels to the north in the spring.


 * 2 QFG
 * :The Dark Master has the monster Toby lure the Child Tanya from Hotel Mordavia in town.
 * Tanya becomes the Dark Master's 'daughter'.
 * The Dark Master summons rainstorms to block off Mordavia from the outside world (the pass was blocked as far back as QFG3 at -4 BQFG4.)


 * 3 QFG
 * :Minos becomes advisor to King Justinian.
 * Dr. Cranium gets one final shipment of supplies before the pass into Mordavia is completely blocked off.
 * The E4 convention is held with lecturers such as Prof. Grant Gottfried and Henk Malan speaking.


 * 4 QFG
 * There is another Antwerp population explosion in Spielburg during the spring.
 * Months later, during the summer, Dr. Cranium travels to Spielburg to collect Antwerp speciments. He meets with Baron Stefan von Spielburg who agrees to sell the Antwerps to him.
 * The rains completely block the pass with an endless and impassible swamp, preventing Dr. Cranium from receiving supplies.
 * King Justinian is murdered by Bruno. Two days later Hesperian Mercenaries and Roman Invaders invade Silmaria.
 * QFG4 Begins. The Dark Master and Ad Avis cast Entrapment and Teleport spells to summon a Hero to find the missing Rituals pulling the hero from over three years in the past. At nearly the same time Erasmus and Fenris attempts a Teleport spell of their own to bring the Hero to Silmaria.
 * The dark magic of the Dark One's Cave distorts the Teleport spell, and thus the Hero appears in the Dark One's Cave itself instead of in the castle. Erasmus ends up teleporting some of the Hero's clothes to Silmaria, while some of the Hero's gear stayed back in Tarna (including the Hero's Katta Pin).
 * The Dark Master senses the distortion of her spell, and waits outside the cave to use the Mouth Ritual should the Hero be able to reach the cave mouth. She decides to bide her time and see if she can convince the Hero to help her.
 * The Hero begins his journey through Mordavia to learn of the Dark Master and stop the second summoning of Avoozl.
 * 11 days later : The Hero destroys the Nosferatu Ad Avis, though Katrina's soul is consumed by darkness in the process.
 * Punny Bones travels to Silmaria and leaves.
 * 2 weeks later QFG4 Ends.
 * Dr. Cranium prensents his findings in experiments in tissue reanimation at the Scientific Ball.
 * QFG5 Begins


 * 5 QFG
 * Baba Yaga returns to her home in Surria after having spent winter in Mordavia.
 * Andre begins training as a Healer under Julanar in the Spring.
 * Famous Adventurer travels to the north in the spring.


 * 1001 QFG


 * The seal on Iblis begins to weaken again.