Post by Anna-Bo on Nov 7, 2017 21:16:05 GMT 1
This is the official Timeline, copied from the EQ website.
I have added the years, making the year the High Ones crashed Year 0, the same as in the Holt's Timeline!
I have divided the Timeline in 3 sections.
First Section - this part is simultaneous to our Holt's Timeline, some events are added to that Timeline.
Second Section - Timeline till Final Quest begins (no spoilers, it hasn't been added to the Official Timeline!!)
Third Section - Future Time, this takes place after Final Quest and has been published.
THE ELFQUEST TIMELINE
Our thanks to Scott Blaser, who collated and created this timeline. Note that Elfquest is a sprawling web of myths and legends told on one level by the elves themselves, and on another by Wendy and Richard Pini, human storytellers, with help over the years from other writers and artists. Elfquest springs from the heart first, rather than the head. It’s meant to stimulate imagination and feelings, where the effect can be more profound and life-changing than that from a list of dry facts. As Elfquest begins its newest episode, “Final Quest,” the “facts” of this timeline may not mesh smoothly with the story as it evolves. Let the tale spin as it will. Each reader will – and should – take her or his own truth from it in the Now as it happens. The past is a dreamberry memory, and legends grow along with their storytellers.
ARRIVAL
10,000 YEARS BEFORE ELFQUEST #1
Year 0
Elfquest #32 (flashback)
The early High Ones became too many for their planet. Some found other worlds to dwell on. Descendants of those returned to the birthplace. Eventually, these high ones formed groups and went to seek out those on other worlds. They brought trolls and preservers along. Timmain’s group discovered the World of Two Moons. In art and literature, humans depicted immortal creatures, evidence of High Ones. As they landed, the trolls revolted. The High Ones lost control and crashed 20,000 years in the past. The ape-like humans greeted them with brutality.
Hidden Years #6 – 7
In order to survive, Timmain took a wolf’s form and hunted for the others. In time, the High Ones made a life for themselves. Timmorn, first chief of the Wolfriders, is born to Timmain and a wolf. Here, the 10,000 years of the Ten Chiefs begins.
10,000 – 8,000 YEARS BEFORE ELFQUEST #1
Year 0-2,000
Savah and her family found the Sun Village at Sorrow’s End. Lord Voll and the Gliders move to Blue Mountain.
Elfquest #11 (flashback)
Guttlekraw becomes king of the trolls. Ekuar and his rock-shaper companions Osek and Mekda find the Palace and are enslaved by Guttlekraw. Ice forces Guttlekraw and the rest of the trolls to move south, under the future Holt of the Wolfriders. Greymung rebels against Guttlekraw. Mekda escapes through the Tunnel of Golden Light during the battle. Guttlekraw and his trolls return north. Greymung sends an unnamed troll off to search for rock-shapers. At the same time, Winnowill leaves Blue Mountain, finds the troll, seduces him and gives birth to Two-Edge. She later kills the troll.
9,000 YEARS BEFORE ELFQUEST #1
Year 1,000
Blood of Ten Chiefs #1
Timmorn, the first chief, begins dreaming of being a full wolf and is called away by something. Timmain says his magic made him more wolf-like. He decides who he is and everything becomes clear.
7,000 YEARS BEFORE ELFQUEST #1
Year 3,000
Blood of Ten Chiefs #3, 4, 6
These take place during the reign of the fourth chief Two-Spear (at first known as Swift-Spear). Swift-Spear goes to war against the humans of the nearby village. The humans are forced to leave and he earns the name Two Spear. # 6 features his sister, Huntress Skyfire, but she is not yet chief.
Two-Spear #1 – 5
Two-Spear begins to have strange dreams of the humans returning and believes they are no longer safe. His lifemate Willowgreen recognizes Graywolf. Two-Spear’s dreams bring him to a chamber, possibly formed by high ones. He believes high ones told him to go to war. He goes back to the wolfriders, and his chieftainship is challenged by his sister Huntress Skyfire. The tribe splits and Two-Spear leaves with half the tribe to become the Go-Backs.
Kahvi # 2 – 3 (flashback)
#2: Kahvi returns from her hunt with nothing. Her father Two-Spear says she’s weak. His lovemate says there are other ways to lead. Icetooth finds her and says she should be pack leader and chief. In a cavern made by the High Ones she challenges Two-Spear. #3: Kahvi and her father battle. Two-Spear means to kill her but she wounds him twice before he knocks her down. She gets up for more but is stabbed through her chest and falls into a pool. Two-Spear says he never had a daughter and they leave.
4,000 YEARS BEFORE ELFQUEST #1
Year 6,000
Blood of Ten Chiefs #5, 7, 17, 18
These are set in Freefoot’s time. The last two issues feature his son, Oakroot. Freefoot dies. Oakroot becomes chief, and later takes the name Tanner.
2,000 – 300 YEARS BEFORE ELFQUEST #1
Year 8,000-9,700
Blood of Ten Chiefs #8 – 9, 12 – 14
These take place during the reign of the eighth chief, Goodtree. However, Mantricker is the main character of the last three of these. Goodtree founds the Holt where the Wolfriders live until EQ # 1.
Hidden Years # 20 (flashback)
Hummer and Buckthorn, two very competetive Wolfriders, try to outdo each other at everything. When they have a staring match, they recognize after two days.
Blood of Ten Chiefs #2, 15, 16
These take place after Bearclaw is born. Bearclaw discovers the trolls. Mantricker dies, and Bearclaw becomes the Wolfriders’ tenth chief. # 16 is set early in Bearclaw’s time.
Blood of Ten Chiefs #20 "Petalwing’s Song"
In the Forbidden Grove, Petalwing and the Preservers protect their wrapstuff bundles from a troll.
Birdcall (later Treestump), Clearbrook, Moonshade, Strongbow, One-Eye, Redmark (later Redlance), Pike, Rainsong and Woodlock are born.
’93 Summer Special "Naming Day"
Birdcall receives his new name, Treestump.
Kahvi # 3 (flashback)
After Two-Spear’s death, Icetooth leads the split-off Wolfrider tribe to a cave. Kahvi is alive in a pool, preserved by it’s magic. They have no wolf-blood due to Willowgreen’s trickery. But Kahvi does. She becomes chief of what will be the Go-Backs. While hunting a large stag Icetooth is stabbed with an antler. Kahvi kills it. He says to wear the four braids of chief as he dies.
600 – 572 YEARS BEFORE ELFQUEST #1
Year 9,400-9,428
Hidden Years #9
Rayek is born to Jarrah and Ingen. Leetah is born to Suntoucher (Anatim) and Toorah twelve years later.
475 YEARS BEFORE ELFQUEST #1
Year 9,525
Wolfrider! Prologue
Wolfrider! Part 1: Strongbow runs from an angry bear. He’s chased up a tree. Bearclaw leaves it cub hanging from a branch and they return to the Holt. Strongbow wanted to hunt the bear like Bearclaw, to prove himself. Bearclaw knocks him down. "Only I hunt the bear!" Rain heals Strongbow. Joyleaf says Bearclaw constantly tests himself, never satisfied.
95 YEARS BEFORE ELFQUEST #1
Year 9,905
The Go-Backs settle at the Frozen Mountains.
50 YEARS BEFORE ELFQUEST #1
Year 9,950
Crescent is born to Strongbow and Moonshade.
47 – 6 YEARS BEFORE ELFQUEST #1
Year 9,953-9,994
Wolfrider! Parts 1 – 11
The humans settle near the Holt, fleeing draught and famine. A young human chief grows up and the feud between Wolfriders and humans begins.
31 YEARS BEFORE ELFQUEST #1
Year 9,969
Hidden Years #5
Shale is killed by humans and Eyes High, with cub, is captured. Two boys, feeling dishonorable, take her on a raft, where Skywise is born. She sends him down the river for the tribe to find as she dies.
20 YEARS BEFORE ELFQUEST #1
Year 9,980
New Blood # 6 "Auspicious Beginnings"
(Note: This is a "what-if" non-canon tale.) Runner finds young Skywise watching the sky. The future chief is about to be born. As Skywise watches Cutter being born, a snake approaches. It’s about to strike and Skywise whips it away. Only Clearbrook saw. Bearclaw thanks him. Runner is proud. Skywise must always watch over the cub, advise him and be his friend. Nightfall is also born to Brownberry and Longbranch at about the same time.
20 YEARS BEFORE ELFQUEST #1
Year 9,980
New Blood #1, 7, 10
These are three stories Cutter and Skywise told to Ember and Suntop. It is doubtful that these actually ever took place. Scouter and Dewshine born, Scouter to One-Eye and Clearbrook, and Dewshine to Treestump and Rillfisher.
Blood of Ten Chiefs #19
Cutter and Skywise go on a digger hunt.
10 YEARS BEFORE ELFQUEST #1
Year 9,990
Hidden Years #5 "Starfall, Starrise"
After getting rid of Cutter, Skywise goes with Foxfur into the dreamberry patch. They see a human making a circle of rocks, wearing the ornament Eyes High wore in her hair. Skywise attacks him, demanding to know where he got it. He and his brother couldn’t keep Skywise’s mother alive. For making a mockery of the ceremony by running off with Eyes High, his brother Taf was killed. This is his grave. The ornament isn’t a trophy, but a symbol of his shame. Skywise cuts it off of him and rides away.
Blood of Ten Chiefs #10 – 11
The High Ones’ "recorder" falls near the Holt.
Elfquest #16, Kings of the Broken Wheel #5 (flashback)
Rillfisher is killed.
Graphic Novel #5 "Courage By Any Other Name"
Redmark changes his name to Redlance.
New Blood #6 "Power of Two"
(Note: This is a "what-if" non-canon tale.) Skywise watches Cutter hunting. He stores up legs of meat and delivers it to a troll. He’s giving it to Redrash in exchange for a metal slingstone. Skywise says he’s giving too much meat. He has an idea. The next day he accuses Redrash of cheating Cutter. Cutter takes the slingstone and gives Redrash centipedes. He never said what kind of legs. Cutter finds the slingstone is unfinished and useless. Skywise makes a headpiece out of it.
’93 Summer Special "Eclipse of the Heart"
Joyleaf tells Cutter, Skywise, Nightfall, Scouter, and Dewshine the story of the moons and sun.
6 YEARS BEFORE ELFQUEST #1
Year 9,994
Elfquest #6 – 7 Marvel/Epic numbering – #4 original Warp numbering (flashback)
Madcoil decimates the Wolfrider tribe. Deaths include Rain, Brownberry, Longbranch (One-Eye’s older brother, until NB # 6 recently known as Longreach), Foxfur (Skywise’s lovemate), Joyleaf and Bearclaw.
Cutter becomes chief.
New Blood #6 "Choice of Direction"
(Note: This is a "what-if" non-canon tale.) Hunting is very slim. They need furs for the white-cold. Everybody has ideas but won’t let Cutter speak. He walks off with Skywise. He was born to be leader but they won’t let him lead. Skywise says his instincts have been off since Madcoil. Don’t think so much. Cutter sends for a meeting. They won’t follow the river or the sun, they’ll stay here in a place they know. He earns their trust.
Newstar is born to Woodlock and Rainsong shortly afterwards.
4 YEARS BEFORE ELFQUEST #1
Year 9,996
Dart is born to Strongbow and Moonshade.
1 YEAR BEFORE ELFQUEST #1
Year 9,999
’93 Summer Special "Fur Flower’s Gift"
The Wolfriders help a human boy who can’t hunt.
Wing is born to Woodlock and Rainsong.
ELFQUEST #1 The Beginning!
Year 10,000
Elfquest #1 – 8 Marvel/Epic numbering – #1 – 3 original Warp numbering
Humans burn the forest and the Holt. The Wolfriders escape across the desert. Cutter and Leetah recognize. Cutter and Rayek’s original challenge.
1 YEAR AFTER ELFQUEST # 1
Year 10,001
New Blood #1, 4
Ahnshen, a Sun Villager, becomes obsessed with making Moonshade be how he wants her to be, not like a Wolfrider.
2 YEARS AFTER ELFQUEST # 1
Year 10,002
Elfquest #9 Marvel/Epic numbering – #6 original Warp numbering (flashback)
Suntop and Ember are born.
2 – 6 YEARS AFTER ELFQUEST # 1
Year 10,002-10,006
Rayek enters the troll caves and meets Ekuar, an imprisoned rock-shaper. At the same time, Guttlekraw and his trolls attack. Rayek and Ekuar are led through the Frozen Mountains by Two-Edge’s voice, and are found by Go-Backs. Guttlekraw kills Greymung, and enslaves most of his subjects. Only Picknose, Oddbit and Old Maggoty escape.
7 YEARS AFTER ELFQUEST # 1
Year 10,007
Elfquest #9 – 32 Marvel/Epic numbering – #6 – 20 original Warp numbering
The original Quest takes place during one summer/ fall.
9 YEARS AFTER ELFQUEST # 1
Year 10,009
New Blood #5
Dewshine gives birth to Windkin. She convinces Scouter that he’s the father in all the ways that count.
Yun is born to an unnamed Go-Back and Skywise.
9 – 10 YEARS AFTER ELFQUEST # 1
Year 10,009-10,010
New Blood #9
Egg has a vision of Timmain.
Trinket is born to Oddbit and Picknose.
10 YEARS AFTER ELFQUEST # 1
Year 10,010
Siege at Blue Mountain #1 – 8
Venka is born to Kahvi and Rayek. Dart visits the Wolfriders with his twelve "Jack-Wolfriders," of which three have been named: Zhantee, Dodia and Shu-shen (later Shushen). Aroree abandons Blue Mountain. Blue Mountain falls and Strongbow kills Kureel. The human tribe Hoan-G’Tay-Sho leave, taking the catatonic Door with them as an object of worship.
DISAPPEARANCE
10+ YEARS AFTER ELFQUEST # 1
Year 10,010
Kings of the Broken Wheel #1 – 6
Kahvi is separated from her tribe. Picknose is thrown out, together with Oddbit, Old Maggoty and Trinket. Rayek and the Wolfriders take the Palace to the Sun Village. Ekuar makes a miniature Palace and gives it to Savah. Rayek and most of the Wolfriders go to a new continent, bringing Zhantee and Shenshen, and leaving Dart, Scouter, Dewshine and Windkin in the Sun Village. The palace vanishes with Rayek, Leetah, Skywise, Suntop, Ember, Ekuar and Trinket in it. The Palace will reappear some 10,000 years later in what would be the cultural equivalent of the 1300s A.D. on Earth. No calendar system of dates has yet been devised for Abode, however.
’93 Summer Special "Rock-Shaper"
In the Sun Village, a few days after the Palace has left, Ahdri learns she is a rock-shaper.
A FEW WEEKS AFTER DISAPPEARANCE
Year 10,010
Kings of the Broken Wheel #7 (p 1 – 17)
After a while, the Wolfriders left behind decide to go on with life and survive. A new holt is created and Cutter begins marking the time.
1 YEAR AFTER DISAPPEARANCE
Year 10,011
Kings of the Broken Wheel #7 (p 1 – 17)
Tyldak, Aroree, Kahvi, and Venka cross the ocean. Winnowill calls to them from beneath the waves. Venka’s powerful sending allows them to escape and they soon arrive at the new Holt.
2 YEARS AFTER DISAPPEARANCE
Year 10,012
Kings of the Broken Wheel #7 (p 1 – 17)
Tyleet is born to Redlance and Nightfall.
Kimo is born to Newstar and an unnamed Sun Villager sometime later.
I have added the years, making the year the High Ones crashed Year 0, the same as in the Holt's Timeline!
I have divided the Timeline in 3 sections.
First Section - this part is simultaneous to our Holt's Timeline, some events are added to that Timeline.
Second Section - Timeline till Final Quest begins (no spoilers, it hasn't been added to the Official Timeline!!)
Third Section - Future Time, this takes place after Final Quest and has been published.
THE ELFQUEST TIMELINE
Our thanks to Scott Blaser, who collated and created this timeline. Note that Elfquest is a sprawling web of myths and legends told on one level by the elves themselves, and on another by Wendy and Richard Pini, human storytellers, with help over the years from other writers and artists. Elfquest springs from the heart first, rather than the head. It’s meant to stimulate imagination and feelings, where the effect can be more profound and life-changing than that from a list of dry facts. As Elfquest begins its newest episode, “Final Quest,” the “facts” of this timeline may not mesh smoothly with the story as it evolves. Let the tale spin as it will. Each reader will – and should – take her or his own truth from it in the Now as it happens. The past is a dreamberry memory, and legends grow along with their storytellers.
ARRIVAL
10,000 YEARS BEFORE ELFQUEST #1
Year 0
Elfquest #32 (flashback)
The early High Ones became too many for their planet. Some found other worlds to dwell on. Descendants of those returned to the birthplace. Eventually, these high ones formed groups and went to seek out those on other worlds. They brought trolls and preservers along. Timmain’s group discovered the World of Two Moons. In art and literature, humans depicted immortal creatures, evidence of High Ones. As they landed, the trolls revolted. The High Ones lost control and crashed 20,000 years in the past. The ape-like humans greeted them with brutality.
Hidden Years #6 – 7
In order to survive, Timmain took a wolf’s form and hunted for the others. In time, the High Ones made a life for themselves. Timmorn, first chief of the Wolfriders, is born to Timmain and a wolf. Here, the 10,000 years of the Ten Chiefs begins.
10,000 – 8,000 YEARS BEFORE ELFQUEST #1
Year 0-2,000
Savah and her family found the Sun Village at Sorrow’s End. Lord Voll and the Gliders move to Blue Mountain.
Elfquest #11 (flashback)
Guttlekraw becomes king of the trolls. Ekuar and his rock-shaper companions Osek and Mekda find the Palace and are enslaved by Guttlekraw. Ice forces Guttlekraw and the rest of the trolls to move south, under the future Holt of the Wolfriders. Greymung rebels against Guttlekraw. Mekda escapes through the Tunnel of Golden Light during the battle. Guttlekraw and his trolls return north. Greymung sends an unnamed troll off to search for rock-shapers. At the same time, Winnowill leaves Blue Mountain, finds the troll, seduces him and gives birth to Two-Edge. She later kills the troll.
9,000 YEARS BEFORE ELFQUEST #1
Year 1,000
Blood of Ten Chiefs #1
Timmorn, the first chief, begins dreaming of being a full wolf and is called away by something. Timmain says his magic made him more wolf-like. He decides who he is and everything becomes clear.
7,000 YEARS BEFORE ELFQUEST #1
Year 3,000
Blood of Ten Chiefs #3, 4, 6
These take place during the reign of the fourth chief Two-Spear (at first known as Swift-Spear). Swift-Spear goes to war against the humans of the nearby village. The humans are forced to leave and he earns the name Two Spear. # 6 features his sister, Huntress Skyfire, but she is not yet chief.
Two-Spear #1 – 5
Two-Spear begins to have strange dreams of the humans returning and believes they are no longer safe. His lifemate Willowgreen recognizes Graywolf. Two-Spear’s dreams bring him to a chamber, possibly formed by high ones. He believes high ones told him to go to war. He goes back to the wolfriders, and his chieftainship is challenged by his sister Huntress Skyfire. The tribe splits and Two-Spear leaves with half the tribe to become the Go-Backs.
Kahvi # 2 – 3 (flashback)
#2: Kahvi returns from her hunt with nothing. Her father Two-Spear says she’s weak. His lovemate says there are other ways to lead. Icetooth finds her and says she should be pack leader and chief. In a cavern made by the High Ones she challenges Two-Spear. #3: Kahvi and her father battle. Two-Spear means to kill her but she wounds him twice before he knocks her down. She gets up for more but is stabbed through her chest and falls into a pool. Two-Spear says he never had a daughter and they leave.
4,000 YEARS BEFORE ELFQUEST #1
Year 6,000
Blood of Ten Chiefs #5, 7, 17, 18
These are set in Freefoot’s time. The last two issues feature his son, Oakroot. Freefoot dies. Oakroot becomes chief, and later takes the name Tanner.
2,000 – 300 YEARS BEFORE ELFQUEST #1
Year 8,000-9,700
Blood of Ten Chiefs #8 – 9, 12 – 14
These take place during the reign of the eighth chief, Goodtree. However, Mantricker is the main character of the last three of these. Goodtree founds the Holt where the Wolfriders live until EQ # 1.
Hidden Years # 20 (flashback)
Hummer and Buckthorn, two very competetive Wolfriders, try to outdo each other at everything. When they have a staring match, they recognize after two days.
Blood of Ten Chiefs #2, 15, 16
These take place after Bearclaw is born. Bearclaw discovers the trolls. Mantricker dies, and Bearclaw becomes the Wolfriders’ tenth chief. # 16 is set early in Bearclaw’s time.
Blood of Ten Chiefs #20 "Petalwing’s Song"
In the Forbidden Grove, Petalwing and the Preservers protect their wrapstuff bundles from a troll.
Birdcall (later Treestump), Clearbrook, Moonshade, Strongbow, One-Eye, Redmark (later Redlance), Pike, Rainsong and Woodlock are born.
’93 Summer Special "Naming Day"
Birdcall receives his new name, Treestump.
Kahvi # 3 (flashback)
After Two-Spear’s death, Icetooth leads the split-off Wolfrider tribe to a cave. Kahvi is alive in a pool, preserved by it’s magic. They have no wolf-blood due to Willowgreen’s trickery. But Kahvi does. She becomes chief of what will be the Go-Backs. While hunting a large stag Icetooth is stabbed with an antler. Kahvi kills it. He says to wear the four braids of chief as he dies.
600 – 572 YEARS BEFORE ELFQUEST #1
Year 9,400-9,428
Hidden Years #9
Rayek is born to Jarrah and Ingen. Leetah is born to Suntoucher (Anatim) and Toorah twelve years later.
475 YEARS BEFORE ELFQUEST #1
Year 9,525
Wolfrider! Prologue
Wolfrider! Part 1: Strongbow runs from an angry bear. He’s chased up a tree. Bearclaw leaves it cub hanging from a branch and they return to the Holt. Strongbow wanted to hunt the bear like Bearclaw, to prove himself. Bearclaw knocks him down. "Only I hunt the bear!" Rain heals Strongbow. Joyleaf says Bearclaw constantly tests himself, never satisfied.
95 YEARS BEFORE ELFQUEST #1
Year 9,905
The Go-Backs settle at the Frozen Mountains.
50 YEARS BEFORE ELFQUEST #1
Year 9,950
Crescent is born to Strongbow and Moonshade.
47 – 6 YEARS BEFORE ELFQUEST #1
Year 9,953-9,994
Wolfrider! Parts 1 – 11
The humans settle near the Holt, fleeing draught and famine. A young human chief grows up and the feud between Wolfriders and humans begins.
31 YEARS BEFORE ELFQUEST #1
Year 9,969
Hidden Years #5
Shale is killed by humans and Eyes High, with cub, is captured. Two boys, feeling dishonorable, take her on a raft, where Skywise is born. She sends him down the river for the tribe to find as she dies.
20 YEARS BEFORE ELFQUEST #1
Year 9,980
New Blood # 6 "Auspicious Beginnings"
(Note: This is a "what-if" non-canon tale.) Runner finds young Skywise watching the sky. The future chief is about to be born. As Skywise watches Cutter being born, a snake approaches. It’s about to strike and Skywise whips it away. Only Clearbrook saw. Bearclaw thanks him. Runner is proud. Skywise must always watch over the cub, advise him and be his friend. Nightfall is also born to Brownberry and Longbranch at about the same time.
20 YEARS BEFORE ELFQUEST #1
Year 9,980
New Blood #1, 7, 10
These are three stories Cutter and Skywise told to Ember and Suntop. It is doubtful that these actually ever took place. Scouter and Dewshine born, Scouter to One-Eye and Clearbrook, and Dewshine to Treestump and Rillfisher.
Blood of Ten Chiefs #19
Cutter and Skywise go on a digger hunt.
10 YEARS BEFORE ELFQUEST #1
Year 9,990
Hidden Years #5 "Starfall, Starrise"
After getting rid of Cutter, Skywise goes with Foxfur into the dreamberry patch. They see a human making a circle of rocks, wearing the ornament Eyes High wore in her hair. Skywise attacks him, demanding to know where he got it. He and his brother couldn’t keep Skywise’s mother alive. For making a mockery of the ceremony by running off with Eyes High, his brother Taf was killed. This is his grave. The ornament isn’t a trophy, but a symbol of his shame. Skywise cuts it off of him and rides away.
Blood of Ten Chiefs #10 – 11
The High Ones’ "recorder" falls near the Holt.
Elfquest #16, Kings of the Broken Wheel #5 (flashback)
Rillfisher is killed.
Graphic Novel #5 "Courage By Any Other Name"
Redmark changes his name to Redlance.
New Blood #6 "Power of Two"
(Note: This is a "what-if" non-canon tale.) Skywise watches Cutter hunting. He stores up legs of meat and delivers it to a troll. He’s giving it to Redrash in exchange for a metal slingstone. Skywise says he’s giving too much meat. He has an idea. The next day he accuses Redrash of cheating Cutter. Cutter takes the slingstone and gives Redrash centipedes. He never said what kind of legs. Cutter finds the slingstone is unfinished and useless. Skywise makes a headpiece out of it.
’93 Summer Special "Eclipse of the Heart"
Joyleaf tells Cutter, Skywise, Nightfall, Scouter, and Dewshine the story of the moons and sun.
6 YEARS BEFORE ELFQUEST #1
Year 9,994
Elfquest #6 – 7 Marvel/Epic numbering – #4 original Warp numbering (flashback)
Madcoil decimates the Wolfrider tribe. Deaths include Rain, Brownberry, Longbranch (One-Eye’s older brother, until NB # 6 recently known as Longreach), Foxfur (Skywise’s lovemate), Joyleaf and Bearclaw.
Cutter becomes chief.
New Blood #6 "Choice of Direction"
(Note: This is a "what-if" non-canon tale.) Hunting is very slim. They need furs for the white-cold. Everybody has ideas but won’t let Cutter speak. He walks off with Skywise. He was born to be leader but they won’t let him lead. Skywise says his instincts have been off since Madcoil. Don’t think so much. Cutter sends for a meeting. They won’t follow the river or the sun, they’ll stay here in a place they know. He earns their trust.
Newstar is born to Woodlock and Rainsong shortly afterwards.
4 YEARS BEFORE ELFQUEST #1
Year 9,996
Dart is born to Strongbow and Moonshade.
1 YEAR BEFORE ELFQUEST #1
Year 9,999
’93 Summer Special "Fur Flower’s Gift"
The Wolfriders help a human boy who can’t hunt.
Wing is born to Woodlock and Rainsong.
ELFQUEST #1 The Beginning!
Year 10,000
Elfquest #1 – 8 Marvel/Epic numbering – #1 – 3 original Warp numbering
Humans burn the forest and the Holt. The Wolfriders escape across the desert. Cutter and Leetah recognize. Cutter and Rayek’s original challenge.
1 YEAR AFTER ELFQUEST # 1
Year 10,001
New Blood #1, 4
Ahnshen, a Sun Villager, becomes obsessed with making Moonshade be how he wants her to be, not like a Wolfrider.
2 YEARS AFTER ELFQUEST # 1
Year 10,002
Elfquest #9 Marvel/Epic numbering – #6 original Warp numbering (flashback)
Suntop and Ember are born.
2 – 6 YEARS AFTER ELFQUEST # 1
Year 10,002-10,006
Rayek enters the troll caves and meets Ekuar, an imprisoned rock-shaper. At the same time, Guttlekraw and his trolls attack. Rayek and Ekuar are led through the Frozen Mountains by Two-Edge’s voice, and are found by Go-Backs. Guttlekraw kills Greymung, and enslaves most of his subjects. Only Picknose, Oddbit and Old Maggoty escape.
7 YEARS AFTER ELFQUEST # 1
Year 10,007
Elfquest #9 – 32 Marvel/Epic numbering – #6 – 20 original Warp numbering
The original Quest takes place during one summer/ fall.
9 YEARS AFTER ELFQUEST # 1
Year 10,009
New Blood #5
Dewshine gives birth to Windkin. She convinces Scouter that he’s the father in all the ways that count.
Yun is born to an unnamed Go-Back and Skywise.
9 – 10 YEARS AFTER ELFQUEST # 1
Year 10,009-10,010
New Blood #9
Egg has a vision of Timmain.
Trinket is born to Oddbit and Picknose.
10 YEARS AFTER ELFQUEST # 1
Year 10,010
Siege at Blue Mountain #1 – 8
Venka is born to Kahvi and Rayek. Dart visits the Wolfriders with his twelve "Jack-Wolfriders," of which three have been named: Zhantee, Dodia and Shu-shen (later Shushen). Aroree abandons Blue Mountain. Blue Mountain falls and Strongbow kills Kureel. The human tribe Hoan-G’Tay-Sho leave, taking the catatonic Door with them as an object of worship.
DISAPPEARANCE
10+ YEARS AFTER ELFQUEST # 1
Year 10,010
Kings of the Broken Wheel #1 – 6
Kahvi is separated from her tribe. Picknose is thrown out, together with Oddbit, Old Maggoty and Trinket. Rayek and the Wolfriders take the Palace to the Sun Village. Ekuar makes a miniature Palace and gives it to Savah. Rayek and most of the Wolfriders go to a new continent, bringing Zhantee and Shenshen, and leaving Dart, Scouter, Dewshine and Windkin in the Sun Village. The palace vanishes with Rayek, Leetah, Skywise, Suntop, Ember, Ekuar and Trinket in it. The Palace will reappear some 10,000 years later in what would be the cultural equivalent of the 1300s A.D. on Earth. No calendar system of dates has yet been devised for Abode, however.
’93 Summer Special "Rock-Shaper"
In the Sun Village, a few days after the Palace has left, Ahdri learns she is a rock-shaper.
A FEW WEEKS AFTER DISAPPEARANCE
Year 10,010
Kings of the Broken Wheel #7 (p 1 – 17)
After a while, the Wolfriders left behind decide to go on with life and survive. A new holt is created and Cutter begins marking the time.
1 YEAR AFTER DISAPPEARANCE
Year 10,011
Kings of the Broken Wheel #7 (p 1 – 17)
Tyldak, Aroree, Kahvi, and Venka cross the ocean. Winnowill calls to them from beneath the waves. Venka’s powerful sending allows them to escape and they soon arrive at the new Holt.
2 YEARS AFTER DISAPPEARANCE
Year 10,012
Kings of the Broken Wheel #7 (p 1 – 17)
Tyleet is born to Redlance and Nightfall.
Kimo is born to Newstar and an unnamed Sun Villager sometime later.
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