Events

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Entry	Appears in	Notes
Abellaime's entry into the sealed temple	Pretenders to the Thro ch 5	backstory; she broke a four-hundred-year ward and took the temple after the last priest of Ffen bound it with spite
assault on the city	House of Open Wounds ch 21
attack on the Rectitude	Lives of Bitter Rain ch 3	the Red Grieving Bat Society attacked the Palleseen supply carrack the previous month; the goods taken from it led Angilly to observe Lasaret's meetings
Aullaime's diversion	City of Last Chances ch 45	the freeing of mill demons that attacked Palleseen patrols across the city; marked by ragged demon bodies near the Anchorage
Bracite civil war	House of Open Wounds ch 26	the conflict after the Bracite dynasty's iron grip eroded through internecine squabbles and the rise of viziers; half a dozen factions fought in the streets, blood enough to turn the river red, until the Palleseen marched in "to keep the peace"
Brandery's ultimatum	Pretenders to the Thro ch 14	the demand that prompted the current ceasefire and the locals' decision to seek "proper talks"
Defenestration	Pretenders to the Thro ch 7
Game	City of Last Chances ch 3-31; House of Open Wounds ch 28	gambling venue also called "the Anchorage Game"; run by Langrice; where Vulture soldiers and others drink and gamble
God's hard bargain	House of Open Wounds ch 51	the agreement by which Lidlet, Foley, and others chose servitude to God rather than death; now being spread as a survival strategy across the Sway
Gownhall uprising	City of Last Chances ch 33	a recent insurrection at Gownhall; soldiers are blockading streets the night after; Vinchec references "the parlous state of education in this city, what with the, you know"
Hobbers inquest	House of Open Wounds ch 39	the formal inquest into Cohort-Archivist Hobbers' death, conducted by a duty Inquirer; ends with a reprimand to Alv and a "formal statement of understanding" on Callow's record
Ibaleth treaty renewal	Days of Shattered Fait ch 11	an annual ceremony where the Alkhand sits by the riverbank and Kass the Ibaleth queen brings pearls and a carved ogrodon horn in exchange for fish and a handful of muddy earth; the Ibaleth display ogrodons and fire batons
Ilmar uprising	House of Open Wounds ch 25
Ilmari uprising	Pretenders to the Thro ch 39
labourers march	City of Last Chances ch 37	the factory mob crossing the river toward Gownhall; Nisbet reports it is larger than expected and containment is uncertain
Last Calm Night	City of Last Chances ch 32	the night between the student uprising and the expected Palleseen counter-assault; "the city holds its breath"
Liberation of Jarokir	Days of Shattered Fait ch 1	a famous event depicted in a picture on the wall of Slate House
Mellister's shooting	Pretenders to the Thro ch 29	Brandery shot Mellister when she confronted him about skimming resources; she had the God-contract paper and was healed
Ochelby's murder	City of Last Chances ch 2	the swapping of the warding bundle for a straw doll at Mother Guame's circle house, leading to the Anchorwood beasts killing Ochelby and most of his escort
Pal-Loruthi War	Days of Shattered Fait ch 21	a past war in which Flint led a company of marines in the naval element; Pals won "against great odds"
prisoner exchange	House of Open Wounds ch 39; Pretenders to the Thro ch 3	scheduled for the next day; Prassel demands to send one of her people with it; Sherm arranges it
Runkel's death	House of Open Wounds ch 43	the Sage-Monitor dies hours after Jack's refusal; the Whitebellies keep cranking the bellows over his corpse until the Fellow-Monitor discovers he is gone
sea-cult attack on the shore camp	Pretenders to the Thro ch 23	"a passing flotilla of mad cultists" punched the main camp "full of holes"; Dantell cites it to Aspel as failure of range defence
the Advent of Perfection	City of Last Chances ch 48	a historical moment referenced in relation to how long the people of the Anchorwood have "lived with the Wood and what's beyond it"
the Alkhand's declaration	Lives of Bitter Rain ch 10	the Alkhand stands in court, denounces Gorbudan, banishes him and his followers, and names Dekamran heir
the arrest of the Gownhall scholar	City of Last Chances ch 13	a Gownhall academic detained for matters "touching the heart of the Perfecture"; caused continuing student unrest
the battle at the Lighthouse	Pretenders to the Thro ch 38	Kiffel ea Leachan held up the Dead Company's advance against the Lighthouse before the current siege; referenced by the Lich Queen as the reason Kiffel is the "champion"
the battle of Cevaern Straits	Pretenders to the Thro ch 26	Conn Leachan took a hundred heads in one day; referenced in the epigraph legend
the big push	House of Open Wounds ch 10	a major advance "across the contested stretch to break the Loruthi lines and take another few miles off them"; the reason for the special meal
the Bracinta engagement	House of Open Wounds ch 33	the ongoing battle in which the Loruthi use fireberg artillery against the combined Palleseen battalions; the battle's stakes are Bracinta's plantations and mines, "the jewel of their mercantile crown"
the Brothers' War	Days of Shattered Fait ch 22	named at the first engagement: "That is the first engagement of the Brothers' War"; Gorbudan vs. Dekamran for the throne of Usmai
the burning of Angilly's parents	Lives of Bitter Rain ch 4	eleven years ago in the old garrison compound; a blazing woman priestess set rain on fire and burned them alive; the only place the old garrison "exists" is in Angilly's memory
the butchering at Revelation House	House of Open Wounds ch 50	Ollery's infamous massacre, unnamed in the text but the source of his epithet "The Butcher of Revelation House"; an event "so ghastly, so unthinkable" it was discussed across the Archipelago
The Camp Exterminations	Pretenders to the Thro ch 40	the Commission's post-war genocide of Palleseen cult prisoners; regulars balked, Unnaturals proved conflicted, so the Commission sent Prassel and her dead to finish the job
the conquest of Jarokir	House of Open Wounds ch 5	celebrated by the Pals as a great achievement; the Palleseen burned the sacred groves of Jarokir as a final offering to no god
the coronation at the pools	Days of Shattered Fait ch 17	Gorbudan's declaration as Alkhand seven days ago; held at the pools halfway up the waterfall cliffs, visible from most of Alkhalend; the Usrani coaxed Kakrops from the cave; the Grand Moerend Arkanith rushed through the formalities; "Nobody had really got into the festive spirit"
The Cotto harbour disaster	Days of Shattered Fait ch 23	referenced: in the Alkhand's youth the Cotto attacked Alkhalend by sea and were destroyed; wreckage took a month to clear from the harbour mouth
the crash of the Gallete island	House of Open Wounds ch 34	a Gallete floating island destroyed and crashed against the earth during the battle, killing all aboard; seen as a shattered mountain of stone and broken buildings
the curse attack	Lives of Bitter Rain ch 1	the supernatural fire that destroys the refectory; food rots and seethes, fire moves with "a serpent's body, a lizard's legs," ignites damp wood and even stone
the Day of the Three Walls	Pretenders to the Thro ch 12	the single-day Palleseen assault that takes the first two walls, is stalled at the third, and costs Guillen oa Pedrig his life.
the death of Kakrops	Days of Shattered Fait ch 26	the frog god of Alkhalend goaded into battle by Gorbudan and killed by massed Palleseen fire
the declaration of war between Lor and Pallesand	Lives of Bitter Rain ch 9	word arrives four days after the pool scene on the swiftest courier skiff out of Peor
the defenestration of the Perfector	Pretenders to the Thro ch 9	the Perfector of Eres Ffenegh was thrown from the Lighthouse window, both an Os-Fferegh tradition of disposing of tyrants and a sacrifice to the Fisher King
the deicide	Days of Shattered Fait ch 28	the killing of Kakrops during the night of the 18th; the divine corpse and its blood stained the coronation pools; the entire city and the Usrani are in mourning
the delegation for the royal reception	House of Open Wounds ch 49	a planned Palleseen attendance at a reception for the new king of Bracinta; officers jockey for places; "It wasn't often that a Pal got invited to a royal reception"
the extirpation of the old gods	House of Open Wounds ch 44	after the Temporary Commission's accession, the Palleseen drove out old worship, smashed temples, drained relics, and defaced icons; speaking the old language or telling old stories became arrestable offences
The fall of Eres Ffenegh	Pretenders to the Thro ch 41	the final day of the siege; the Resolute Battalion breaches the Left-city, the Gaelensreach is held by counter-curse, the Pandaemonium is stormed, and the Pal army retreats before the demon legion
The Fall of the Moeribandi Empire	Pretenders to the Thro ch 37	the Empire fell "not from division or invasion, but from a steady retreat into its own tomb, the doors pulled closed from within"
the fox hunt	Lives of Bitter Rain ch 5	the operation conducted by Angilly's team; Pal soldiers and a dozen-plus demons raid the city to flush out Halseder or provoke his emergence or prove his absence
the Great Advance	House of Open Wounds ch 2	a much-fabled planned offensive against the Loruthi, dependent on Prassel's necromantic mine-clearing support
the Great War	City of Last Chances ch 42	the total war on Hellgram's home world; "Great, because on his world, it had eclipsed all creeds and boundaries and divisions and occupations"; deployed gas, demon artillery, monsters, and the weapon that separated Hellgram from his wife
The hangings	City of Last Chances ch 28	a recent large public execution carried out by the Pals; treated by the workers as the rope tightening around the city's throat; included a Gownhall maestro and a student
The Hospitallers breaking ranks	Pretenders to the Thro ch 30	the Hospitallers "broke ranks and joined with the Os-Fferegh to throw the army out"; this happened before the current siege fighting
the Housebreaking	Days of Shattered Fait ch 45	the Under-warden's ritual, completed by the Reckoner, which overloads the House of Hard Angles' ghost-trap, frees the centipede creature, consumes and releases all the ghosts, recharges the tablethi, kills Drathel, and resurrects Premath. "He's done it," Caecelian whispers.
the Jarokir incident	Lives of Bitter Rain ch 2	referenced as "the incident" and "the garrison"; the fire that killed Angilly's parents and left her with severe scarring and a lasting phobia of flame
the killing of the Loruthi emissary	Days of Shattered Fait ch 6	the previous night's duel; the Alkhand formally rules it "a thing belonging to your war, and not a thing belonging to my nation, or within my jurisdiction"
the killing of the Sage-Archivist	City of Last Chances ch 1-6	the Sage-Archivist of the School of Correct Erudition murdered in the Anchorwood, two streets from the boarding house; reported as wildfire news
the Kings Below's purge of dissidents	City of Last Chances ch 16	a street-to-street roundup of political organisers in the Infernal Realms; the rounded-up demons were shipped to Ilmar on contracts as if they were ordinary labour
The Leachan Name Contract	Pretenders to the Thro ch 13	Abellaime's price for the Crabshell demon's service: Kiffel ea Leachan surrenders her family name and lineage, with the implication that descendants of her line will be "touched by Hell"
the liberation	Lives of Bitter Rain ch 1
the liberation of Magnelei	House of Open Wounds ch 22	a Palleseen military victory against the Loruthi, achieved at trivial cost; celebrated with rummell rations
the liberation of Oloumann	Lives of Bitter Rain ch 6	a military/political operation in which Professor-Invigilator Flockersly oversaw the destruction of a "culinarily-blessed religion"
The Lighthouse raid	Pretenders to the Thro ch 27	Palleseen commandos emerge from a summoned supernatural forest directly at the top of the Lighthouse, kill the Pope, and wound the Mouth and Niev
the Loruthi counterattack	House of Open Wounds ch 16	the battle eight days prior; resulted in Alv being carted away blind, and Banders, Masty, and Jack going missing
the Loruthi wars	Days of Shattered Fait ch 48; Pretenders to the Thro ch 19	a past conflict; veterans of it are among the Pal defenders who hold their squares
the Magnelei prisoner exchange	House of Open Wounds ch 40	a negotiated swap of prisoners between Palleseen and Loruthi forces, conducted in the city square with officer delegations, Bracite civilian overseers, and attending servants
the massacre of Callow's squad	House of Open Wounds ch 46	Alv kills ten of Callow's sympathetic-magic scholars in his tent with a four-foot cleaver, "as though there could be a giant with an axe loose in camp"; only Skilby survives to die moments later
the Moeribandi necropolis expedition	Pretenders to the Thro ch 20	a research expedition beyond the Sway into the Successor Steppes to find a sealed necropolis of the Moeribandi Empire; the narrator was sent partly to remove her from regimental dinners
the Night	Days of Shattered Fait ch 34	the night of Kakrops's death, referred to obliquely ("after what happened on the... the Night"); it drove a wedge between the throne and the Palleseen while binding them irrevocably together
The night of the thirteen	City of Last Chances ch 28	the Pals kicked in doors across the Hammer Districts, arresting thirteen Siblingries organisers; took them to the Donjon
the Osseach of Defiance meeting at the Pandaemonium	Pretenders to the Thro ch 7	the Osseach of Defiance council now conducts its sessions at the Pandaemonium; its arrival forces Kiff into hiding
the Pal attack on the Varinaen	Pretenders to the Thro ch 9	at the very start of the siege, the Palleseen struck a blow against Varinecthes that "neutered" him without killing him; the archmage now refuses all contact
the Pal invasion of Allor	Pretenders to the Thro ch 17	the Palleseen conquest that forced Abellaime's family to flee, collapsing her inherited vendetta into irrelevance
the Palleseen conquest of Nihilostes' homeland	City of Last Chances ch 19	temples torn down, gold and relics carried off or rendered for raw magic; the big gods' persecution of little gods ended, but the conquered people's subversive cults were exported across the Sway
the Palleseen defeat near Magnelei	House of Open Wounds ch 37	a bloody setback that left units fragmented and prompted the Sage-Archivist's reform agenda
the Palleseen invasion of Allor	Lives of Bitter Rain ch 5	announced at chapter's end; "the Palleseen army has marched into Allor. The filthy demon-worshippers had been asking for it"
the Pals' assault at Eres Ffenegh	Pretenders to the Thro ch 34	the chapter's final line: "that's when the Pals come in"; the siege breaks into direct action
the Poem That Stopped the Dead	Pretenders to the Thro ch 12	Guillen oa Pedrig's final sea-song, an old banned boat-song, halts the Dead Companies' charge and shatters their compulsion.
the Proclamation of the Wood	City of Last Chances ch 6	the Indweller declares the Anchorwood barred to Pallesand on pain of death until restitution is made
the purge	House of Open Wounds ch 44; Pretenders to the Thro ch 11	the silent internal war of "purge and counter-purge" on the Archipelago, involving Culling Lists, interrogations, and quota-filling; Dantell knows "if they didn't make quota then they got to round off the numbers in person"
The raid on the Impounded Evidence Office	City of Last Chances ch 30	an overnight incursion using a mind-erasing mist/fog; two workers left mentally empty, one vanished, only the Indweller's mask taken
the rebellion in Hell	Pretenders to the Thro ch 34	Caeleen's uprising; the slave pens broken open, the palaces stormed; the Kings Below fear her
the Reproach's breaking free	City of Last Chances ch 46	"The Reproach had left its prison at long last and had come to the Wood"
the Sergyen incident	City of Last Chances ch 4	the previous day's botched "chastisement" of Sergyen the chandler by Ruslav, Benno, and Ergice; Sergyen fled or was killed; a substitute was roughed up instead
the shark rite	Days of Shattered Fait ch 40	a Cotto sea-rite in which a hidden object (symbolic faith) is surgically removed from a person and fed to a shark; Loret undergoes it in a flooded hold
the Siblingries' march	City of Last Chances ch 41	the failed uprising; produced the wounded flooding into Yasnic's cellar and the subsequent arrests
the siege of Eres Ffenegh	Pretenders to the Thro ch 1-3	the seven-month siege by the Palleseen, triggered by Varinecthes's arrival and the city's expulsion of the Palleseen garrison; described as involving ruined districts, artillery, deaths by magic and weapon, cold, and sickness
the succession crisis	Lives of Bitter Rain ch 5	a decade ago, the king died; his relatives all claimed the throne; "the halls of the Wolf Palace ran red with blood, and then so did the streets of the capital"; the heir vanished; the viziers called in the Pals and Loruthi
the surrender negotiations of Eres Ffenegh	Pretenders to the Thro ch 18	the top-level talks held in the Pandaemonium between Resolute Battalion and the interim Carcer administration, from which three "bogeymen" are excluded before the real negotiation begins
The Three Nights	House of Open Wounds ch 48	three nights of assassinations in Magnelei after competing claimants and royal scions vied for the throne
the Usmiat-Peost border raids	Lives of Bitter Rain ch 10	repeated swift raids by Gorbudan's followers on Palleseen factoras, mills, and plantations; officially denied by the court
the usurpation of the Varatsins	City of Last Chances ch 17	the Armiger families cast down the Varatsin Dukes, exterminated their line, scattered their adherents, and took their palace and grounds
the venture towards the Lighthouse	Pretenders to the Thro ch 28	the recent Palleseen assault that gained Wards and a wedge between upper and lower city but did not reach the Lighthouse itself; Lovern's mission severed the city's link to the sea cults during this action
the war against the Loruthi	Pretenders to the Thro ch 1	the earlier conflict between the Palleseen and the Loruthi in which Varinecthes was "employed on the other side"
Third Goupa Uprising	Days of Shattered Fait ch 21	"brutal fighting" in which Flint served, referenced in his background
Vestry's botched summoning	Pretenders to the Thro ch 5	the rogue demon incident at the Pandaemonium; a four-handed, goat-headed, scorpion-tailed demon conjured against the Lighthouse but turned on its caller
Wielding of the Hammer	City of Last Chances ch 37	mentioned as something Vorkovin has "only the vaguest notion" of; presumably a planned uprising action elsewhere in the city
the trial	House of Open Wounds ch 19	Jack's court-martial referenced at the chapter's opening; outcome was death sentence commuted to conscription; Lidlet's fate was also decided there