Timeline of the Jade Company

-20: Emergence onto another realm of Glittering Stone.

-10: Jade Company meets a foe known as Eyeless and is annihilated. The Company returns to Khatovar to resupply and gain more recruits. It is later attached to the Black Company.

0: Emergence onto the BCCS realm. The shadowgate is damaged somewhat. The Company sneaks north, moving around Taglios as far as possible.

11: Angered at being unable to return to their home in Khatovar, the priests of Kina are abandoned and the Jade Company keeps moving north, skirmishing with Taglios' outriders, then moves up the Cataracts.

15: The Jade Company reaches the Sea of Torments. On a whim, they turn east, passing through the predecessors of the modern Jewel Cities of the South. At about this time, the Black Company emerges from the shadowgate.

20: The Jade Company reaches the Eastern Realm of the South and are hired for their first commission, naming themselves for the first time a Free Company. The Annalist, Chol'n, relates the campaign; the Company was in service to the House of Iron, fighting the houses of Steel, Stone, and Rust. This all happens in the area around Khatch, southeast of the Sinjain Mountains.

30: The Metal War ends when Stone and Rust are vanquished by the Company & House Iron. Steel sneaks away. The Jade Company settles down, becoming somewhat sedentary for some time.

45: The Captain gets word about a warlord on the northern coast of the South side of the Sea is hiring mercenaries. So begins the Book of Ul'Shankar.

46: The Company enters the employ of Wrath, in the Sinjain Mountains, a warlord-king that desires to conquer the Metal Lands that the Company just vacated, offering high salaries and incentives. Swallowing their morals and truly becoming mercenaries, the Company accepts the money and their commission, waging war on the weakened Metal Lands.

50: The Metal Lands are conquered by Wrath, who surprisingly pays well. They then begin consolidating that area, pressing southward and capturing and subjugating the people they find, headed towards that part in the land covered by the map of "Shadowmaster Territory."

53: In the night, nearly half the entire force (including the officer core) is assassinated in the night by a unit of Stranglers sent by the descendants of the Kina priests left behind in the Dandra Presh. The Book of Ul'shankar closes, and Vivek's Book begins. Wrath is captured by the Jade Company and put to death after new officers are elected, when Wrath attempts to push on.

56: The Company returns to the Metal Lands and spends a year rebuilding their numbers, and then settle down again, becoming the local law enforcement before moving on.

90: A scout of the Jade Company receives word of the Black Company’s annihilation at the hands of the Triplet Cities and the Paingod. Elated to be out from under the yoke of fear, the Jade Company sends half its force to reclaim their Lance of Passion and their Annals. They are destroyed or lost and never heard from again. The Company returns to being the local law enforcement. The authors of these Annals are not recorded, as there was no active campaigning in this period.

270: After all these years, a firebrand Captain decides to go on a quest of domination. He rallies up the Jade Company and begins preparations to leave. Unfortunately, the Metal Lands inhabitants see this as an attempt to destroy them and wage a thirty year civil war that culminates in the total destruction of that realm by the year 300.

300: With the Metal Lands vanquished, the Jade Company begins moving west, as told in the Book of Pyrite (by now, naming customs have reached down past the Sea of Torments). Also notable is the fact that these are the first Annals written not in the Old Tongue of Khatovar, which had gone through gradual changes and integration, but rather entirely in the ancient Jewel Cities tongue.

315: The Jade Company, numbering now about two thousand strong, reaches the Jewel Cities. It hears word of the Black Company's arrival, but does nothing, having forgotten by now the legacy of fear that Kina forced upon them. Several skirmishes have been fought against local lords, but by now, nothing major enough to leave a lasting impression on the Annals. For a short time, the Jade Company spends time doing some clean up work before someone gets the idea to head south along the main road, to see the blasted lands of the Triplet Cities and see what happened to their fore brethren back in the year 90.

320: After having to fight in a five year guerilla war against brigands, the Jade Company finally reaches the Triplet Cities. There, they establish themselves a small empire, leading raids out against the vassals of the Cho'n Delor and waylaying merchants. They are set back significantly due to lack of great numbers of resources.

400: The former bandit kingdom has already grown old and decadent and corrupted by stagnation. A force led by the Gea-Xle, aided by a Taglian unit, destroys and scatters much of the Jade Company, so says the Book of Wild Tiger, still writing in the ancient script of the Jewel Cities.

430: This era is the beginning of the so-called "modern Jade Era," marked by the signing on of the current Captain, who quickly rises up the ranks. Circle, Morion, and The Painter sign on with the Company later that year.

435: The Jade Company accepts the oaths of Iron, Saga, and Drake this year, as the Company steadily moves northwards towards the Jewel Cities. The Company numbers maybe two hundred strong, and the Annals, now being written in the relatively modern language of the Jewel Cities, have been passed on to Saga, as Wild Tiger dies in a skirmish against vengeful Cho'n Delor.

437: The Company accepts the commission of the sorcerer called Emerald, gaining their new Standard and First Generation Badges upon their arrival on the western lands. Much of this year is spent cleaning up brigand activity and consolidating Emerald's power, moving through the area west of the Bigotes River.

440: The current Captain becomes the Captain after his predecessor dies of old age complications. Emerald turns his eye to conquering the seas.

447: The Book of Saga reports that the Company suffered a terrific defeat in a naval battle against the Faceless One, a sorcerer of the North. Emerald is slain in sorcerous combat against the Faceless One, and the Captain orders that survivors (around thirty or so) return to Beryl. Patches, Hyena, Bullock, and the Lieutenant join the Company along the way.

448: The Company arrives in Beryl and sign on with the Imperial Legate of Beryl. Wrench, Needle, Finney & Mudd, and Golden swear into the Company, followed by Blackhand, Shepherd, and Braids, who sign on the latter part of this year. A huge black ship, called The Dark Wings, is seen leaving port to the North, and people are talking about an Imperial Legate with "eyes of fire and a mouth like a smith's forge" riding on a black wagon to the south, but no one knows what's going on about this. The matter is left to rest.

449: The player characters sign on some time during this year. Saga passes on the mantle of Annalist to Mercy, who joins very late in this year, and Iron is made into the Standardbearer. The current officer core is settled. The Company begins rooting out corrupted elements of the city and the Urban Cohorts.

450: The current year. There have been a series of malicious attacks on the Jade Company, who still numbers merely two hundred or so. The brothers desire to move on, perhaps to the North, but must still fulfill their commission, which will expire late this year.