Timeline

Many, Many Years Ago

 * An ambitious Centra named Adel, and her followers, are corrupted by their own magic. They begin to break off from their fellow Centra.


 * Hyne, A Centra Priestess, gathers a group of fellow Centra to rise against her starting the first civil war.


 * Three of Hyne's disciples, Suthieal, Ediendelle, and Rhirawhen used their power combined to forge an enormous green Crystal Pillar (later becoming the centre of the Lunatic Pandora). The Crystal Pillar was created to be a conduit of magic. It contains no innate power of its own, but it can store magic and release magic at the will of the user


 * Suthieal, Ediendelle, and Rhirawhen each take a piece of this crystal and travel the world imbibing the power of the earth into them. These pieces of the crystal become gems Sapphire, Ruby and Emerald.


 * The Gems are fitted into a golden sword Trinity.


 * Trinity is given to Hyne's favoured general Gilgamesh to carry into battle against Adel's followers.


 * Gilgamesh uses the sword to Trinity the onslaught of Adel's followers. With every cutting swing more of their tainted power is sealed away within the crystalline structure of the Crystal Pillar, leaving a trail of wounded survivors to live out the rest of their existence as beings of no magic -- Humans.


 * A part of Adel's tainted soul travels with the power of herself and her followers bound to the Crystal Pillar. There her soul begins to feed on the rest of the magic locked inside gathering it all for herself. She becomes the first Sorceress, a human inhabited by Centra magic.


 * The time of the Centra civilization. Centra founds two empires; Dollet to the west and Esthar to the east where they send the humans to live. Dollet begins to excel in military might, while Esthar begins to prosper scientifically.

80 Years Ago

 * The Lunar Cry, a phenomenon wherein the Moon becomes over-saturated with monsters, who erupt towards Earth in a tide of destruction, strikes the Centra civilization. It is utterly destroyed and a huge crater forms in the middle of the continent.


 * Without the guiding hand of the Centra the humans feel lost. Over time the Esthar people begin to rebuild its scientific society, but Dollet is splintered into the countries of Dollet, Galbadia, and Timber.

40 Years Ago

 * The Crystal Pillar is discovered by Esthar on the Centra continent and evacuation begins. Somehow, Adel is woken up and escapes her crystal prison.


 * Adel swiftly seizes control of the city of Esthar making it her own.

30 Years Ago

 * Adel has an iron grip on the country of Esthar, and she pits it in a war against Galbadia, led by President Vinzer Deling, a dictator. Galbadia fights heated battles against Estharian invasion.


 * To further its war efforts against Esthar Galbadia forcefully annexes its peaceful neighbour Timber. The fathers of two men named Zone and Watts, the heads of a resistance faction named the Forest Owls, are killed after Timber's capture. Soon, a number of copycat rebel factions begin cropping up, all without a single successful coup to their name.


 * A number of scientists and researchers, disheartened by Galbadia's motives, leave to start their own town they called Fisherman's Horizon (FH), dedicated to pacifism.


 * Adel, the only Centra to survive the Lunar Cry, is determined to not be victim to the same even herself. She orders the Lunatic Pandora to be built around the Crystal Pillar to harness its powers through technology. Oliver Quan is one of the men who help design and implement to the Lunatic Pandora thereby becoming familiar with the Crystal Pillar and its workings. This is his first real taste of the Centra way of fusing technology and magic.


 * Oliver Quan is assigned to Dr Odine's research team.


 * Oliver Quan helps Dr. Odine, a slightly manic professor, begins experiments on magical beings known as Guardian Forces (GFs). He discovers that they can be harnessed (Junctioned) to human minds, which allows humans to use magic, or, more accurately, para-magic.


 * Dr. Odine studies the sorceresses' powers, and creates Odine-brand jewellery which is capable of inhibiting those powers.

29 Years Ago

 * Adel was beginning to feel her age, and knew that her time was nearing its end. Since a Sorceress must pass on her power to another upon death before he or she can rest, Adel realized that she must find herself a successor. To facilitate this, Adel ordered the mass kidnapping of hundreds of young girls, planning to choose one with the most potential and raise her to become the next tyrant of Esthar. She takes particular interest in a young girl named Ellone who has shown extraordinary Centra like powers. Esthar troops come to Winhill but fail in capturing Ellone.


 * Laguna Loire returns to Winhill. Soon afterwards, Ellone is captured by the Esthar soldiers despite his efforts. He chases after Ellone towards Esthar.


 * Laguna reaches the Lunatic Pandora Laboratory in Esthar, where he is captured and forced to provide hard labour for the experiments of Dr. Odine. He meets up with more Moombas here. Kiros and Ward rescue him, and together they beat Ellone's location from Dr. Odine and rescue her as well. Before they get her, though, Odine manages to imprint Ellone's brain wave patterns onto his computer, leading him to create a machine that simulates her time-spanning powers. He calls the machine the Ellone Junction Machine.


 * Laguna joins up with a rebellion against Sorceress Adel, and hatches an ingenious plan to get rid of her. Though they cannot harm her physically, they trick her into a special sealing container, which they then launch into space, to be continually monitored by Esthar's space station. The container's antitransmission waves cause constant worldwide radio static from this point forward. As part of the plan, they dump the Crystal Pillar from Lunatic Pandora into the ocean to prevent the Lunar Cry from occurring.


 * Oliver Quan appalled by what Odine has done splits away from him and leaves Esthar. A small team of his own scientists go with him.


 * Laguna is elected President of Esthar, and decides to shut Esthar up from the rest of the world; partly in penance for their war, partly because he believes the rest of the world is not ready for Esthar's scientific knowledge yet. Kiros and Ward stay on as his assistants.

28 Years Ago

 * Oliver Quan founds Project ANA. Countless women are artificially inseminated with Centra DNA. They all miscarry within a few months most of the mother's dying along with the babies.

26 Years Ago

 * Waverly Quan is born.

25 Years ago

 * Mitch Gavanaugh is born.


 * Ultimecia, a sorceress from the future, arrives from the Time Compression and perishes; she is succeeded by Edea Kramer. Cid and Edea realize the evil she could cause. They come up with a plan for a military academy where students would be trained to fight the sorceresses forces. They call the school Garden, and its graduates SeeDs. Three Gardens are set up; Balamb Garden, Trabia Garden, and Galbadia Garden.


 * Oliver Quan enlists SeeD mercenaries from Galbadia Garden to provide and maintain security at Project ANA.

23 Years Ago

 * Mirabelle Llaytos volunteers for what she thinks are medical trials only to be impregnated with Centra DNA. She is the first candidate to carry a child into the third trimester.


 * Stephan Arlan, one of the Galbadian SeeD, falls in love with Mirabelle. They escape together not long before she is due to give birth.
 * Oliver Quan begins hunting for Mirabelle and his unborn Centra.


 * Stephan and Mirabelle settle down in Deling City and get married assuming the last name of Artos.

22 Years Ago

 * Mirabelle Artos gives birth to the first Centra child in over a hundred years, Stella Artos.


 * Reese Amaerick is born to parents Avery Colton Amaerick and Diane Lark. The two part ways shortly thereafter citing irreconcilable differences. Both parties mutually agree for Avery to resume full custody of his son; Diane does not want a child. Avery and Reese live with Avery's terminally ill mother, Reese's grandmother, Donna Amaerick.

21 Years Ago

 * Zackery Mercutio is born.


 * Shay Gavanaugh is born.


 * Avery Amaerick earns the rank of Lieutenant in the Dollet Armed Corps, Marine Division.

19 Years Ago

 * Lieutenant Avery Colton Amaerick is killed in action by Estharian soldiers while leading a recon mission.


 * Reese Amaerick (age 3) is moved from his grandmothers beachfront home in Dollet to his mother's home in one of the more impoverished neighborhoods further inland. He enters public school records under his mother's maiden name, Lark.

12 Years ago

 * The Events of FFVIII, The Second Sorceress War.


 * Oliver Quan arrives at the Lunatic Pandora to discover his chosen liege, Adel, has been destroyed by SeeD. He gathers her remains to begin the process. Project ANA is abandoned and Defenders of the New Age is formed. Using Timber's desire to be a free nation to his advantage he quickly establishes his new base of operations there.

9 Years ago

 * In an attempt to clean up any loose ends from Project ANA Oliver Quan sends out his Defenders to kill any of the remaining scientists or SeeD who do not work for him.


 * Stephan, Mirabelle, and Lance Artos are killed by the Defenders of the Age. Stella Artos (age 13) under orders from Oliver Quan is taken hostage because of her age makes her a candidate of being the missing Centra girl.


 * Stella Artos undergoes tests at the hands of DotNA but is found totally absent of magic and is assumed to not be the Centra. However always one to cover his bets Olive Quan leaves her alive and has her moved to one of the DotNA labour camps.

8 Years Ago

 * Mitch Gavanaugh (Age 17) sheds his former name and joins the Defenders of the New Age leaving his family and sister behind.

7 Years Ago

 * Bryce Spier, head of the DotNa labour camp, takes a special interest in Stella Artos (Age 15)
 * Reese Amaerick (age 15) kills a local gangster in defense of his mother, in their home in Dollet.

5 Years Ago

 * Reese Amaerick (age 17) leaves home and begins living on the streets. After a few months he is cornered in an alley and saved by Waverly Quan. He leaves Dollet to start a new life with the Defenders of the New Age, assuming the identity Reese Malone.


 * Stella Artos (Age 17) is visited by an unknown Defender who leaves her with the pair of guns she later dubs Nameless. Using these guns and eventually unknowingly turning to her Centra power she escapes the hands of her captors and flees into the wilderness. Weeks later she finds herself on the doorstep of Galbadia Garden. There with the help of Irvine Kinneas she is accepted as SeeD.

4 Years ago

 * Stella Artos (Age 18) meets Sar Winterson and is drawn into an abusive relationship with him.

2 Years ago

 * Stella Artos (Age 20) ends things with Sar and turns to a life of drink and drugs and sex. She gets so caught up in it all that she botches her first SeeD exam. All other members of her team are killed and the only way she survives is that her Centra powers kick in when she needs them most.

1 Year ago

 * Stella Artos (Age 21) passes her second SeeD exam obtaining the rank of SeeD.


 * Balamb discovers an ancient Centra object, the Trinity sword which is said can kill sorceresses.


 * Team Trinity is formed.


 * Team Trinity discovers the location of the first gem is the Deep Sea Research centre. Upon arriving at the centre they discover a few DotNA agents headed by Mitch Gavanaugh who have set a trap for them.


 * After escaping their sticky fate Team Trinity collects Suthieal's Sapphire and returns with it to Garden.


 * Oliver Quan takes real notice of the SeeD now and decides to do something about them.


 * Shay Gavnaugh joins SeeD at Balamb Garden.

6 months ago

 * Oliver Quan chooses one of his most promising agents, Reese Malone, to take care of Team Trinity. His orders are to travel with the team until they collect the emerald and then kill them all. In a cruel joke the identity Waverly sets up for him is also his real name -- Amaerick. It is the first time he has used it since he can remember and he doesn't even know its his. Under the guise of a Trabian SeeD Reese Amaerick joins team Trinity.


 * Team Trinity travel to Deling City to meet a DotNA agent named Laice. She recognizes Reese as a DotNA spy and tries to warn the SeeD. She tips them off that the Emerald is located in Esthar.


 * Team Trinity splits into two groups. One group follows Reese down into the underground elevator system of Esthar while the others try to break into the city on the surface. Eventually Reese's team breaks into the Coroniere Labs to steal a white diamond like gem called the Angel Tear. They are discovered while there and have to fight there way out just as the other team shows up.


 * Team Trinity is ambushed and arrested by Estharian police.


 * After sometime in a holding cell they are released by Brooke Coroniere. They return to her mansion.


 * Team Trinity goes to meet another informant named April. While at her apartment Jun Kuroki is kidnapped by members of the Nimatech Corporation.


 * In a bid to free her Team Trinity agree to work with the people from Nimatech to find the Emerald in exchange for Jun's freedom.


 * The Emerald is found and the exchange is arranged to take place at a restaurant called Advelo. However once there things go wrong. The building is set on fire and the SeeD are forced to escape before any real negotiations can take place. Stardust Infinity is trapped behind a burning bar when Reese comes to her rescue helping her get out of the restaurant.


 * It is assumed that the members of the Nimatech Corporation died in the fire.


 * Xu calls the SeeD back to the garden to reveal to them that the Angel Tear was the Emerald all the time and it is now in SeeD custody.


 * The hunt for the Ruby begins.


 * Upon arriving in Fisherman's Horizon Reese no longer feels that he can carry out his mission. After walking Stardust Infinity to her room he flees FH and turns himself into DotNA agents to face the consequences.


 * Waverly Quan puts Reese into a coma and drops him on Garden's doorstep to face prosecution for his war crimes if he survives.


 * Team Trinity continue their search for the Ruby and end up in Shumi village. A group of Defenders attack them once there and they are forced to make a quick get away.


 * Stella Artos along with Gemma and Jax arrive on an airship to help them get away with the Ruby. Once back in Balamb the three of them are placed on Team Trinity.


 * The Trinity sword is completed.


 * Balamb Garden is attacked by Adel becoming a fleshy beast that is filled with monsters.


 * Team Trinity manages to fight their way through the many traps left for them by her and her Defenders. Eventually they reach the top of the Garden where they fight Adel.


 * In the last moments of their desperation the three Centra Suthieal, Ediendelle, and Rhirawhen appear and Adel is killed.


 * During the final battle with Adel Stella unknowingly heals Reese Amaerick with her Centra powers.


 * Reese awakes from his coma.


 * The Defenders of the New Age bomb and destroy Balamb Garden.


 * The remaining Balamb SeeD decide that it is time to clean up the remaining Defenders of the New Age still in operation. Three teams are formed from the members of Team Trinity. Reese and Stella are placed on a team together to infiltrate a lab located under Timber. They are unable to collect any of the data they need and the mission is a failure.


 * All three SeeD teams return empty handed to Squall. After the destruction of Balamb Garden Squall relocates his base of operations to Galbadia Garden. Stella, Zacke, Gone, and many other members of the team are stationed there. As a prisoner of war in Balamb Garden custody, Reese follows.

Present

 * Reese Amaerick and Stella Artos team up to take down the remains of the Defenders of the New Age.