Timeline (Total War)

This is a rough timeline of the world of Hyrule Conquest. For more detailed information about eras or events, please see the specific pages for characters, factions, and Hyrule Historia missions.

Pre-Dawn of Hyrule

 * The entities that would become known as Druthulidi are born amongst the stars, ravaging countless other worlds.
 * Bellum is born.
 * Dethl is born.
 * Vaati is born.
 * Iemanis is born.
 * Demise is born.
 * Malice is born.
 * The world of the Parella, an aquatic race with an innate understanding of portals and genetics, is targeted by Bellum - to stave off the demon's hunger, the Parella begin to lure the it along to other worlds by using Mirror Gates. Over millennia, Parella society becomes like a symbiotic entity to Bellum, leading it to food while engineering other creatures to their own ends.
 * The primordial worlds of Zora and Plasmarines are devoured by Bellum, and their species are indoctrinated and engineered by the Parella as landborn and ranged soldiers respectively.
 * As the future Realm of Twilight, a lush aquatic world home to species such as the Dark Dragons, enters decline, the Parella lead Bellum to it. The world's oceans and much of its life are devoured before the Parella move onto Hyrule. A small population of Parella are left behind by their kin, and will spend the following millennia attempting to rejoin them on Hyrule.

Dawn of Hyrule

 * The three Golden Goddesses create the world of Hyrule, along with the Sacred Realm and Termina. They gift 7 powerful Spirits with the Sage Medallions, making them the First Sages, tasking them with maintaining the balance of Hyrule's natural processes, and task the three Oracles with spreading wisdom to the infant races of Hyrule.
 * Demoko is born.
 * Solahrasin is born.
 * Maphaeus is born.
 * Malkorbagia is born.
 * Sulkaris is born.
 * Evaleen is born.
 * Kovaloo is born.
 * Din is born.
 * Nayru is born.
 * Farore is born.
 * Fi is born.
 * Ghirahim is born.
 * Aunomouzan is born.
 * The Firstborn, primordial ancestors of the Hylians and their kin, emerge into being.
 * The Dragons of Hyrule come into existence.
 * The Golden Goddesses create the Triforce and withdraw from Hyrule, leaving it in the care of the First Sages and Oracles.
 * Both the Sages and mortal races of Hyrule begin to draw magical power from the Aura, derived from the Spirits of the Sacred Realm.
 * The First Sages begin to resent and fear one another's power, creating servant races from their associated elements in failed bids to make life of their own.
 * The Oocca are created by Demoko from mortals.
 * The Silent Ones are created by Solahrasin.
 * Creatures like Morphites and Kyamerons are born from Malkorbagia' attempts to create life from water.
 * The Gorons are born of failed attempts by Maphaeus to make life from fire and earth.
 * The first Undead are created by Evaleen.
 * The Kovalians are created by Kovaloo.
 * Kovaloo develops spirit magic by hijacking the souls of mortals bound for Termina.

The Cleansing

 * Six of the First Sages covet the Triforce for themselves and wage war upon each other, creating servant races as their armies, but are unable to defeat one another or Sulkaris, who retains an eternal vigil over the holy relic.
 * The First Sages unleash the Druthulidi into Hyrule, hoping to control them as weapons against one another. However, the Druthulidi prove controllable and threaten to devour all of Hyrule, warring with both the Sages and each other.
 * The Parella and Ocean Zora enter Hyrule from the Realm of Twilight via Mirror Gates.
 * The Gohma as well as their relatives such as Arurodas, Tektites, and Magtails, are created by Iemanis.
 * Dethl's influence spawns the countless undead that haunt Hyrule's dark corners.
 * United by a desperate truce, the First Sages appeal to a mysterious dark power known as Majora, trading the fate of Hyrule to it in exchange for defeating the Druthulidi.
 * Majora takes over Termina.
 * Majora easily defeats the Druthulidi, killing Iemanis and driving the others into hiding in the dark corners of Hyrule.
 * With Iemanis dead, the Will of the Gohma collapses, leaving the Gohma and their kin little more than beasts.
 * The six First Sages ally to overthrow Sulkaris and take the Triforce for themselves, leaving Sulkaris alive in exile to preserve the myth of their own immortality.
 * With the Triforce now in their control, the First Sages maintain a tenuous peace with one another, creating a false religious and historical narrative depicting Sulkaris as a traitor who coveted the Triforce and the Druthulidi as demonic invaders whom were defeated by the actions of the First Sages. Secretly, their resentment and fear of one another only deepens.

Great Sea War

 * The mortal races of Hyrule spread across the world and thrive.
 * The Firstborn branch into the Akkalan, Lokomo, Cobble, and Wind Tribe peoples.
 * The Lokomo develop a great technologically-advanced state in the islands of the Western Great Sea.
 * Anjean is born.
 * Byrne is born.
 * The Oshunites, a race of great flying whales, form a magically gifted in the depths of the central Great Sea.
 * Oshus is born.
 * Jabun is born.
 * The Wind Fish is born.
 * The Cobble Kingdom, gifted with colossal architecture and animated constructs, rule over much of the world, their kingdom terminating in the northwestern islands of the Great Sea. Their northern empire dwarfing the entire continent of Hyrule.
 * Through the influence of the Parella and their Zora servants, Bellum is partially reawakened. The Parella undermine the relationship between the three empires, leading to a massive war that ravaged the Great Sea.
 * The Cobble Kingdom aligns with the Parella, slowly coming to revere Bellum as a god.
 * Facing pressure from the united Parella and Cobble, the Lokomo and Oshunites cease hostilities.
 * As his armies crumble, King Oshus of the Oshus Empire unleashes the magically-animated Phantoms as a last effort to save his kingdom.
 * The Phantom Army goes berserk, wiping out enemy and ally alike. The Oshunite, Cobble Kingdom, and Lokomo empires collapse and are nearly exterminated by the rampaging constructs. The parella and Ocean Zora are devastated and flee into the depths or south into Hyrule's Rivers.
 * For unknown crimes, the Ocean Zora are damned to Termina.
 * The surviving Lokomo, led by Anjean, go into hiding.
 * Byrne goes into exile.
 * The Cobble Kingdom's surviving people enter a magical stasis in deep vaults below the earth. They will never awaken, trapped in undeath.
 * King Oshus manages to seal the phantom scourge, but with his empire destroyed, goes into hiding.
 * Jabun flees south to central Hyrule, and is appointed as the second Sage of Water by Malkorbagia.
 * The Wind Fish goes into hiding in a remote region of the Great Sea, forming Koholint.

Pre- 3000 BG

 * A civilization gifted in Necromancy arises in the Gerudo Desert, mastering the nature of immortality, but is destroyed by an unknown calamity, leaving behind only sand-choked ruins.


 * The magically-gifted Wizzrobe civilization emerged in northern Hyrule, living in great underground cities. Their society is destroyed by an unknown magical calamity, driving their race into decline and hiding.

c. 3000 BG

 * The Akkalan people settle Hyrule Field, divided amongst numerous independent city-states and warlords.


 * The Akkalan city of Vigjaro is founded on top of one of the fallen underground Wizzrobe cities. The Wizzrobe re-emerge as a mysterious sect of healers and sorcerers, based out of the city's great Cathedral.
 * Snowpeak is established as a citadel by early Akkalan warlords.
 * The town of Nal Ordona is founded by Akkalan colonists on slopes of the northern mountains of Ikana.
 * Gustaf is born.
 * Dakkon is born.
 * Dakkon is appointed second Sage of Fire by Maphaeus. He uses his newfound power to found the Volvagian Empire, crushing the native Lizalfos, Helmasaurs, Dodongos, and Gorons of the Death Mountain Range. The Lizalfos and Gorons are incorporated into the empire as servants and slaves, respectively.
 * King Dalagra of the Gorons is slain by Dakkon.


 * The remnants of the Ocean Zora flee into the southern rivers and oceans of Hyrule.
 * The future River Zora retain their loyalty to the Parella and Bellum, and degenerate into aquatic marauders.
 * A branch of River Zora flees Bellum's influence in the depths of the Sea of Storms, becoming the abyssal kingdom of the Storm Zora.
 * A group of Ocean Zora settles in a lush valley of central Hyrule, coming under the leadership of Jabun. They form the city-state of Domain Prime. Over the centuries, this city grows into the Zora Dominion.
 * Under tutelage from Jabun and Malkorbagia, the Zora Dominion founds the great library of Greshou on the northwestern peninsula of the Lanayru coast.
 * The Akkalan town of Kakariko is formed in the foothills of Death Mountain, trading with the Volvagian Empire and Zora Dominion.
 * The Wind Tribe forms the kingdom of Holodrum in northeastern Hyrule.
 * Siroc is born.
 * The Forest Minish civilization forms and reaches the height of its power in the southern Kokiri Forest.
 * Ezlo is born.
 * Vaati is born.
 * Vaati, a young and ambitious Minish Sorcerer, discovers a Druthulidi hiding beneath the Kokiri Forest. He awakens the demon and makes a pact with it in exchange for immense power, but is quickly possessed and completely subsumed by the demon, which takes on his name.
 * Vaati destroys the kingdom of the Forest Minish, leaving its capital in ruins, and departs west to the Gerudo Desert.
 * The Huskus Imperium comes to dominate most of the Kokiri Forest.
 * Torkulon is born.
 * The Kingdom of Ikana, under the rulership of Igos du Ikana, rises and becomes on of the greatest kingdoms on the Hyrulean continent, based out of the ancient city of Ikana.
 * Igos du Ikana is born.
 * The Garo Master is born.
 * Keeta is born.
 * Gomess is born.
 * The Moblins form an agrarian kingdom in the lush southern volcanic plains of Ordona, forming a great civilization based out of the future city of Demise.
 * After millenia of exile, Sulkaris encounters a young Gohma queen in Misery Mire, and begins to unravel the secret of Iemanis' Will of the Gohma, hijacking it with her own will.
 * The oldest known written records of Hyrulean history are made.

Darknut Civil War (c. 3000 BG)

 * The Darknut race nearly exterminates itself in a series of devastating Civil Wars.
 * Zalunbar is born.
 * Baral is born.
 * Senturon is born.
 * Yaraxonal is born.
 * Yaraxonal is appointed second Sage of Spirits by Kovaloo.
 * Baral legendarily holds off an entire army at a remote desert fortress that will become known as Baral's Stand.
 * The darknut heroes, with help from a mysterious Sorcerer known as Vaati, unite the Darknut race under the rule of the Legion. Dissidents flee into the desert, becoming the nomadic Wosu.
 * The city of Ontheon is established as the Legion's imperial capital.
 * Under promises of power from Vaati, Zalunbar and Senturion assassinate Baral and betray Yaraxonal, sealing her in stone and gaining her Sage immortality, while Vaati gains her control over the winds.

The Fallen Sage (3000 AG)

 * After decades of experimenting with the Gohma, Sulkaris unleashes the Gohma as an army of vengeance against the First Sages and their servants. However, her union with the Gohma hivemind drives her to not just expose and destroy her kin, but seek to consume all life in Hyrule.
 * The Gohma drive across Hyrule like a blight, waging war against the Akkalans, Darknut Legion, Huskus, and other empires.
 * The Darknut Legion, isolated in the desert, manages to bunker against the Gohma.
 * In response to the Gohma, the Akkalan Kingdoms unite under the leadership of Gustaf, who becomes the first king of Akkala.
 * Vigjaro falls the the Gohma.
 * A group of Akkalan refugees flee the Gohma to the south, founding a small frontier Fort before continuing East.
 * The Zora Dominion allies with Akkala against the Gohma.
 * The surviving Minish and Holodrum ally with Akkala against the Gohma.
 * The Huskus Imperium is devastated by the Gohma invasion, most of its people killed and its cities destroyed. Under Emperor Torkulon, they form a desperate alliance with the Akkalans.
 * The Akkalan army led by Gustaf lures Sulkaris and her army into the Plains of Ordona, where they trap her swarms with the Huskus Armies led by Torkulon. Sulkaris is "slain" by Gustaf with a Light Arrow. The Gohma Hive mind collapses and retreats to Misery Mire.
 * Sulkaris reawakens in the Gohma Hive Mind, realizing her siblings have deceived her about their immortality, and that she is now effectively immortal due to her link to the Will of the Gohma.

Akkala Confederacy (3000-2992 BG)

 * The Kingdom of Akkala joins in a loose confederation with the Minish, remnants of the Huskus Imperium, and Holodrum.
 * Gustaf and Siroc marry and sire several children, co-ruling the Akkalan Confederation.
 * After ruling for years from Snowpeak, Gustaf founds Hyrule Prime as the new Akkalan capital.
 * Akkala establishes formal diplomatic relationships with the Zora Dominion and Volvagian Empire.
 * Akkalan colonists begin to settle the Gerudo Desert, founding the city of Ashinon. They begin to develop rounded ears and dark skin.
 * The Akkalan refugee colony of Lynna City begins to develop in the Lynna Plains of Labrynna, enjoying relative peace and stability compared to their western cousins.

Darknut Crusade (2992 BG)

 * Under the influence of Vaati, Emperor Senturon of the Darknut Legion declares war on Holodrum, believing that the Wind Tribe possesses the legendary Triforce. Darknut armies march east and swiftly devastate the Wind Tribe.
 * In desperation, Siroc pleads with Demoko and his Oocca for sanctuary, which he grants in exchange for the Wind Tribe entering his service as Oocca.
 * Akkala declares war on the Legion in defense of its allies, battling the Darknut army at the ruined city of Tarm to give Siroc and her people time to escape. The surviving members of the Wind Tribe escape to the City in the Sky, leaving the Triforce in Gustaf's care.
 * Senturon, enraged at his defeat, threatens Vaati, and is killed by the Sorcerer. The Legion ends its crusade and returns to their home.
 * Senturon's corpse is recovered and resurrected by the Fairies of Tarm.
 * The Fairies of Tarm occupy the ruins of Tarm and spread their influence across the now-ravaged wilds of Holodrum.
 * Zalunbar declares himself the "God of Flesh

(2992-2962 BG)

 * Hylia is born.
 * The Moblin Kingdom accidentally unearths the druthulidi Demise, which swiftly subjugates them and begins twisting them into new forms as its soldiers and servants. From the original Moblin race the Bokoblins, Bulblins, Dodoblins, Miniblins, Forest Blins, Bigblins, and Moblinoxi are born via twisted breeding experiments. The formerly peaceful and cultured race is molded into a rabble of violent, stupid warbands.
 * With external threats from Akkala and the now warlike Moblins, the Kingdom of Ikana becomes more divided and paranoid.
 * Stone Tower Ruins is designed by the Ikanian Princess, Gomess, as a grand monument to the Goddesses.

Ikanian Civil War (2962 BG)

 * A mysterious visitor in a strange mask, during an audience with Igos du Ikana, warns him of treason within his kingdom, while intially dismissed, Igos' suspicions and mistrust grows. He increasingly turns to the mysterious Garo assassins to enforce his power through underhanded means, unaware they actively plot against him.
 * At the stranger's behest Igos du Ikana rejects the Goddesses and declares Majora worship the state religion of Ikana, defiling shrines and converting the Stone Tower Ruins into a grand altar to the dark god.
 * The stranger, unbeknownst to Igos, also approaches the King's favorite soldier, Keeta, telling him of the King's injustice and madness. Keeta forms an alliance with the mysterious Garo Master to overthrow Igos.
 * The stranger, unbeknownst to Igos or Keeta, also approaches Princess Gomess, promising her command over the creatures of Hyrule if she aids in overthrowing her mad father and the rebel Keeta.
 * Convinced Keeta is plotting an insurrection, Igos du Ikana orders his imperial guard in Ikana to run down civilians with their chariots.This crime forces Keeta's rebels to intervene, which sparks a civil war that ravages the city between the imperial loyalists, Keeta's rebels and their Garo allies, and Gomess's magically-controlled swarms of beasts.
 * Desperate to retain control of his Kingdom, Igos due Ikana pledges himself to the dark god Majora and is rewarded with demonic horrors to support his forces.
 * After three days of Civil War, the Kingdom of Ikana lies silent, its people dead, its lands ravaged. The souls of the Ikanians are damned to an eternity of warfare in Termina, and their homeland is reduced to an ashen desert wasteland.

2962-2955 BG

 * According to historical records, Gustaf dies of old age, leaving no heirs. In truth, he remains alive and in power.
 * Displaying great magical aptitude, Hylia becomes a powerful Hylian Archmage.

Moblin War and Queen Hylia's (2955 BG)

 * With Ikana in ruins, the ravenous hordes of the Moblins, led by Demise, storm into Akkala, devastating the kingdom and its armies.
 * Gustaf, in desperation, authorizes Hylian mages to infuse a promising young mage, Hylia, directly with the power of the Triforce, turning her into a demigod.
 * General Hyia breaks the siege of Hyrule Prime with her magic, and the people of Akkala begin to revere her as a goddess.
 * As Akkala falters, and the people turn to her, Hylia consolidates power, eventually ousting Gustaf and assassinating or driving away most of his heirs.
 * Gustaf and his surviving loyalists and heirs flee west into the Moruge Mountains, founding the city of Calatia.
 * The newly-crowned Queen Hylia is declared a goddess, as the Akkalan people reject the Golden Goddesses, and rename their very kingdom and people in her honor - Akkala becomes the Kingdom of Hyrule, its people the Hylians.
 * With the Moblin armies still ravaging her Kingdom, Hylia leads her armies directly to the Moblin capital of Demise, ruthlessly slaughtering the city's civilian populace. Ad Demise itself confront her armies, Hylia unleashes her true power. The verdant Moblin homelands are burnt to ash, becoming the Crucible of Hylia, and the great majority of the Moblin race is exterminated.
 * Queen Hylia, distraught with guilt at her crimes, disappears and takes up shelter with the Wizzrobe in Vigjaro, who aid her in erasing any trace of herself or her rule in exchange for learning her magical power.
 * Demise, injured but alive, retreats into the depths of the earth to heal and plot revenge.
 * Devastated by war, and the power vacuum at Hylia's disappearance, the Kingdom of Hyrule Collapses into Civil War.

Central Hyrule

 * The Hyrulean Civil War rages across Hyrule as warlords and noble lines vye for power.
 * As the inherent magical aptitude and crimson eyes of Akkalan heritage begin to disappear amid the Hylian population, a secret society obsessed with preserving these traits, the Sheikah, emerges, dividing its "pureborn" lines amongst numerous Clans, while secretly manipulating the power structure of Hyrule. This obsession with pureblooded lingeage will seep into Hylian noble families and knight orders.
 * The Nohansen Dynasty, a powerful noble line in the Kingdom of Hyrule, seizes power with the support of the Sheikah, and establishes rule from Hyrule Prime, claiming descent from Gustaf. The Hyrulean Civil War comes to an end.
 * Goddess Worship is reestablished in Hyrule.
 * The Sheikah Clans slowly form their own independent society in Hyrule's shadow, based out of the town of Kakariko.


 * Sahasrala is born.
 * Sahasrahla marries Efa and the two have a son together.
 * Rauru is born.
 * The Hylian priest mystic Sahasrahla is appointed the second Sage of Light by Solahrasin, training his son to succeed him.
 * The Kingdom of Hyrule rapidly expands, reclaiming its Akkalan territory taking over the territory of future Ordona Province, Lanayru Province, and the western half of the Kokiri Forest.


 * The Hylian city of Hylia Marine is founded around the Zora Water Temple in Lake Hylia, as a monument to Hylian-Zora cooperation.
 * The Forest Temple is established as a shrine to the Sage of Forests, Palagard.
 * Faron Prime is founded as the capital of the growing Hylian territory in the Kokiri Forest.
 * The port city of Aslosus is founded on the western coast of Hyrule.
 * Rejecting the pureblood policies of their northern kin, the Hylians of Ordona freely intermix, leading to the odd trait of rounded ears becoming a universal dominant trait.
 * Zora colonists begin to immigrate to the Northern Coast of Lanayru, founding the colony of Airu and interbreeding with Hylians living there. Such unions are regarded as profane by both Hylians and Zora of the Dominion and cracked down on.

Western Hyrule

 * The Darknut Legion conquers the Mazura, burning their capital city in the southwestern Gerudo Desert to the ground.
 * The Darknut Legion assimilates the Fokka of the northwestern desert and the roving bands of western Lynel.
 * The Gerudo Empire, now a separate people from their Akkalan cousins, emerges as a great power, stretching from the Coast of Ontheon to the border of Hyrule at its height.
 * The Gerudo come to revere Kovaloo, mastering the art of spirit magic. This cult is gradually replaced by reverence of the Golden Goddeses, particularly Din.
 * Koume and Kotake are born.
 * Facing resource shortages and internal strife, the Gerudo Empire buckles, losing territory and falling from imperial control to a circle of squabbling Warlords.
 * Koume and Kotake, twin sisters and powerful Gerudo witches, emerge as the shadow rulers of the Gerudo Empire through a long game of assassination and political manipulation.
 * Calatia stabilizes into a small but powerful kingdom hidden in the western Moruge Mountains.

Eastern Hyrule

 * The Kingdom of Labrynna wages war on the Lynels of Labrynna, breaking their power and driving them East across Rolling Ridge or west into old Ikana. With the only true threat to its power broken, the kingdom enjoys centuries of peaceful expansion.