Timeline

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This timeline is an extended list of events in the world of the Magnus Archives, as best as they can be organised. Where events are contradictory, these issues are noted.

Please see the Timeline/Episodes page for a simplified timeline of episodes.

Prehistory

• Pre-Human Evolution
  • The original fear entity formed, feeding off animalistic fears of predation.

• Emergence Of Homo Sapiens
  • The first humans evolve. Over the subsequent millennia, they split the original entity into multiple smaller Entities.

• Unknown Prehistoric Period
  • The first avatar opens a door between the realm of The Entities and Earth.

Classical Antiquity

• 3300 BC - 1300 BC ca
  • The Indus Valley Civilization. They create burial pits full of burned bones, ash, skulls with markings as if the eyes were removed, and others that seemed buried alive.

• 2613 BC - 2494 BC ca
  • The Fourth Dynasty of Ancient Egypt. A pyramid is built to contain an immortal mummy.

• 2150 BC ca
  • The poem Lugal-e is written. It describes the Sumerian demon Asag.

• 391 AD
  • The Serapeum of Alexandria is torched by Those Who Sing the Night.

Middle Ages

• 515-959 ca
  • A Saxon man named Eowa flees a battle against a Mercian king, and builds the first residence in the future location of Hill Top Road and dies after slipping through the gap.

• 1255
  • Ulrich I, Count of Württemberg had a second son out of wedlock. It is possibly Johann Von Württemberg. No name is listed, but enemies of the count were spread rumours that this exiled son was "keeping the company of witches".

• 1279
  • Ulrich II dies and is succeeded by Eberhard I.
  • A coin with the letters "JW" on the front, an image of a man with long flowing hair and the number "1279," the other side with the words "Für die Stille" ("for the silence") on it, was minted.

• 1279 ca
  • Johann Von Württemberg's tomb becomes touched by The Eye.
• 1300s-? ca
  • Geoffrey Neckam purchases a house on Hill Top Road and eventually begins investigating the strange nature of his home. His studies brings the location to the attention of The Web. (Exact date unknown; could technically be anywhere from 1096-1700s).

• 1347 ca
  • The entities that would one day become Breekon & Hope accompany the Black Death wherever they travel.

Modern Period

• 1527-1590 ca
  • A sculptor of puppets lives at Hill Top Road and uses human tendons for his strings. He is eventually slain by a crusading hunter of the Reformation.

• 1533-1594 ca
  • Simon Fairchild is an apprentice to the painter Tintoretto. He becomes fascinated with the skies he paints and is claimed by The Vast.

• 1592
  • Christopher is dragged through the streets of Norwich by a horse, presumably after finding the book that would later detail his demise.

• 1642–1651 ca
  • A writer of anonymous letters lives at Hill Top Road and is eventually buried beneath it, after being deemed a traitor in the English Civil War.

• 1715
  • John Flamsteed spies on Edmund Halley meeting up with people with black empty eyes. They kneel and worship around a dark pool.
  • 2nd May - Flamsteed drowns Halley in a mysterious dark pool in the woods.
  • 4th May - Flamsteed is surprised to see Halley alive. Halley thanks Flamsteed for his life and freedom. Spreading in Halley's eyes is darkness and mist.

• 1719
  • 31st December - Flamsteed dies. He was the Astronomer Royal until his death. Halley succeeds him.

• 1775
  • Nathaniel Thorp, a soldier in the Revolutionary War, is at the Battle of Bunker Hill and flees after being shot. He finds himself confronted by Death and gambles his life on a game of Faro. After cheating to ensure his victory, Nathaniel finds himself cursed to wander the world, ending lives as the personification of Death for almost 200 years.

• 1787
  • October - Abraham Janssen witnesses Wolfgang Von Kempelen attempting to perform The Unknowing in the Court Theatre Buda. The ritual is eventually stopped by a group of soldiers, likely agents of The Slaughter.
  • 2nd November - Abraham Janssen writes down his experiences in his journal.

• 1799
  • Jeremy Bentham begins work on the Panopticon, a prison where the prisoners were visible at all times by the guards, on the site of what will become Millbank Prison.

19th Century

• 1815
  • Winter - Albrecht von Closen is haunted by a strange man after investigating the tomb of Johann von Württemberg in the Schwarzwald (Black Forest) in Germany.
  • Robert Smirke begins work on Millbank Penitentiary.

• 1816
  • Rudolph Zeitler is found dead in his home after stealing jewellery from the von Closen household, possibly including a coin from Johann von Württemberg's tomb. Doctors rule his injuries as "beyond the capacity of human violence".

• 1818
  • The Magnus Institute is founded by Jonah Magnus.

• 1821
  • Work is completed on Millbank Penitentiary.

• 1824
  • 9th April - Barnabas Bennett writes a letter to Jonah Magnus begging for help in returning from a world where he appears to be the only living human.

• 1831
  • April - Doctor Jonathan Fanshawe visits Albrecht von Closen before performing his autopsy upon his death. Albrecht von Closen had taken many books from the tomb in the Black Forest and rebound and repaired many of them. It is insinuated this "theft" is the cause of his deteriorating condition and he died because the books he and the doctor returned were not the right ones, implying Jonah Magnus’ assistant swapped them for blank versions, diverting the real books to the Magnus Institute.

• 1834
  • Sampson Kempthorne takes on a protege, George Gilbert Scott, who frequently (and violently) redesigns his plans for various workhouses to be far more cramped and claustrophobic. He later is encountered by a cloaked and disconcerting figure, who disappears, leaving evidence of Gilbert Scott's presence. Upon finding Gilbert Scott's worksite, he finds that a labourer is convinced that his friend has been placed inside a wall by a "Governor", though none had yet been assigned to the site.

• 1835
  • Robert Smirke constructs the complex beneath 100 Pall Mall.

• 1837
  • August - Hezekiah Wakely writes a letter to Nathaniel Beale concerning Hezekiah's new job as a gravedigger.

• 1838
  • February - Wakely writes a letter to Beale about Wakely's habit of sleeping in the churchyard. He further writes about falling asleep in a grave, then dreaming that the grave collapsed around him and then waking outside the grave.
  • June - Wakely writes a letter to Beale about Nelly Cooper, who was nearly buried alive, resulting in the Reverend deciding that all graves should be fitted with safety bells.
  • December - Wakely writes a letter to Beale about how he was disturbed by the ringing of the safety bell on the grave of Jacob the baker, leading to him cutting the string of the bell.

• 1839
  • January - Wakely writes a letter to Beale, saying he is disappointed Beale told the magistrates about Wakely murdering Jacob. Wakely further writes he is coming to bury Beale.

• 1844
  • 22nd October - The Millerite Movement's predicted date of the apocalypse goes by without anything happening, leading to the group calling it "The Great Disappointment".

• 1845
  • Robert Smirke retires and begins looking into "alternative" religions. In the future, his buildings will host an abnormally high number of paranormal incidents.
  • Late May - Benjamin Carlisle and his wife leave Savannah, heading along the Oregon Trail.
  • Late November - Carlisle and his wife are lured into the Rocky Mountains by Eustace Wick, who tries to kill and eat them. Both men are killed in the struggle and Mrs. Carlisle is left alongside the corpse of her husband, which she begins to believe is telling her to eat him.
  • 4th December - Mrs. Carlisle writes a letter in regards to cannibalism while attempting to travel the Oregon Trail. N.B. While the description marks the statement as being written December 4th, the filing number indicates it was registered as being taken on December 5th.

• 1853
  • Simon Fairchild attempts a grand ritual for the Vast. It is sabotaged by a Hunter and fails.

• 1862
  • Lt. Charles Fleming is pursued across China by those killed in the Taiping Rebellion after escaping the destruction of the HMS Nemesis.

• 1864
  • Algernon Moss outbids Maxwell Rayner at an auction and is visited that night by a "Sandman". He blinds himself rather than see the creature anymore. N.B. it is assumed that Moss gives his statement to the Magnus Institute relatively soon after this event.

• 1867
  • The last records of the existence of Garland Hillier.
  • 13th February - Robert Smirke begins writing a letter to Jonah Magnus, urging Magnus to not attempt to wear the Watcher's Crown. Smirke dies of apoplexy before finishing the letter.

• 1890
  • Millbank Penitentiary is demolished.

• 1891 ca
  • A house is built at 105 Hill Top Road.

• 1891
  • The house at 105 Hill Top Road is bought by Walter Fielding.

20th Century

1900s

• 1900
  • Sir Frederick Treeves publishes The Tale of a Field Hospital, a collection of columns written for the British Medical Journal detailing his experiences working in a field hospital during the Second Boer War, with the sections detailing Treeves' encounters with one Private Amherst omitted.
• 1908
  • A branch of the von Closen family moves to England.

1910s

• 1917
  • May - Wilfred Owen encounters "The Piper" whilst left for dead on the fields of France during the First World War.

• 1918
  • 4th November - Wilfred Owen dies, ostensibly just as the war ends.

1920s

• 1920
  • Elsa von Closen marries Michael Keay.
• 1923
  • Walter Fielding dies. The house at 105 Hill Top Road is inherited by his son, Alfred Fielding.
• 1924
  • Mary Keay is born. N.B. This is later contradicted by another statement.
• 1925
  • Percy Fawcett goes on his second trip to the Amazon in an attempt to find the Lost City of Z.

1930s

• 1934
  • Simon Fairchild, a con artist, is thrown from a fourth-floor window by an irate member of the public. N.B. This is presumably when the entity currently known as Simon Fairchild takes on that identity.
• 1935
  • April - Robert E. Geiger and Harry Eisenhard arrive at Stefan Brotchen's farm in Boise City, Oklahoma to write a story about the ongoing dust storms. As the storm hits, Brotchen appears to choke and they flee by car, but in the darkness of the storm Eisenhard disappears and Brotchen chokes to death.
• 1936
  • Eugene Vanderstock is born.

1940s

• 1940
  • During the Blitz (September 7, 1940 – May 11, 1941), Eugene Vanderstock begins setting buildings on fire, creating targets for German bombers.
• 1941
  • November - Sgt. Walter Heller, after being injured during Operation Crusader, is hospitalised in Alexandria, Egypt. While taking a walk during his recovery process, he locates a lost offshoot of the Serapeum of Alexandria. Inside, he finds himself pursued by a robed, cyclopean figure. He also feels watched by many pairs of eyes, a phenomenon repeated over half a century later when he gives his statement to the Magnus Institute in 1997.
• 1942
  • Late 1942 - A group of worshippers of the Slaughter attempt to summon the entity through a Ritual called the Risen War. This ritual fails.
• 1944
  • August - The 11th Army Hospital Train begins operating in the European theatre of World War II.
• 1945
  • April - The 11th Army Hospital Train is derailed, killing 5 crew members and injuring 14. William Hay suggests that this might have been done deliberately in order to kill a violent medic.
• 1947
  • Luca Moretti is part of an expedition into the Alps to hunt down deserters, described as rotten or "sono andanti marcio". N.B. This is assumed to take place soon after the Italian armistice was signed in 1947.

1950s

• 1950s ca
  • Arthur Nolan suggests creating a messiah who will eventually enact a ritual for the Desolation. The pregnant Eileen Montague volunteers her child and she is burned to death as Agnes Montague is born.
• 1952
  • November - Yuri and Ivan Utkin visit the Circus of the Other with their father. Ivan goes missing, and is made to walk a tightrope as the main attraction. While searching for his brother, Yuri finds a collection of circus freaks that defy biological explanation.
• 1955
  • A young Mary Keay (apparently nine years old) sneaks into the surgery of Dr. Margaret Tellison in Whitechapel, while her mother works at the Magnus Institute. She witnesses Dr. Tellison murder a patient and use what would become a Leitner book to extort money from patients “bound” within the pages. Keay uses her father’s straight-razor to kill the doctor in turn, taking both the book and a smaller, unnamed book about dying animals for herself.

• 1957
  • Alfred Fielding dies. The house at 105 Hill Top Road is inherited by his son, Raymond Fielding.

• 1959
  • Autumn - Trevor Herbert and his brother Nigel are taken in by the "vampire" Sylvia McDonald. Nigel is drained of blood but Trevor is able to kill the sated creature with a knife wound to the stomach, followed by setting it on fire. The house of Sylvia McDonald is also set alight, and burns to the ground.

1960s

• 1960s ca
  • Raymond Fielding runs a halfway house for children on Hill Top Road in Oxford, apparently on behalf of the local diocese. He takes on a girl called Agnes Montague, who is disliked by the rest of the neighbourhood. Montague was placed there by the Cult of the Lightless Flame, who found her difficult to raise.
  • Ronald Sinclair turns eighteen, and prepares to leave Hill Top Road. He is compelled to return back to the basement of the house, where Fielding is waiting with a large web-patterned table and a sinister apple, but is able to escape, likely due to Montague's intervention.
• 1968
  • June - Trevor Herbert kills the vampire Robert Arden.

• Mid/Late 1960s ca
  • Kumo ga tabeteiru, a Japanese horror movie regarding spiders, is supposedly released.

1970s

• 1970
  • Gertrude Robinson begins working against the Cult of the Lightless Flame.
• 1972
  • Elias Bouchard works as a filing clerk at the Magnus Institute. N.B. contradictory with another statement, perhaps intentionally so.
  • Neil Lagorio splits with his partner, Gabe, who had worked with him on Labyrinth of the Minotaur.
  • April - Rosa Meyer goes through the belongings of her deceased brother, Christopher Meyer. Whilst handling a hand mirror, she glimpses a face behind her, leading to a feeling of being watched that doesn’t fade away.
  • 4th June - Nathaniel Thorp gives his statement to the Magnus Institute, cutting off a finger to prove his supernatural nature, having been freed from his curse a few years prior.
• 1973
  • James Wright takes over as head of the Magnus Institute after Richard Mendelson.
• 1974
  • Raymond Fielding disappears and leaves the house on Hill Top Road to Agnes Montague. She eventually burns the house to the ground and disappears. Fielding's badly burnt body is found in the basement, missing a hand.
  • After 9th of October - Gertrude Robinson begins wondering about a Slaughter ritual.
• 1975
  • Neil Lagorio works on Agents of Orion.
• Late 1970s ca
  • Neil Lagorio works on the science fiction movies Beyond Time, Under New York, and The Crawling Ones.

1980s

• 1980s ca
  • Neil Lagorio works on some of the horror movies of John Carpenter, as well as the horror movies Dead Sky, The Nightmare Children, Forty Winks, and Toy Shop.
• 1982
  • Trevor Herbert kills Alard Dupont, incorrectly believing him to be a vampire.
  • Margaret Carnegie dies and leaves her dump to Gordon Goodman.
  • Julia Montauk is born sometime between April 1982 and March 1983.
• 1983
  • Alexander Wollett is murdered in his home in Ulster, presumably after finding the book that would later detail his demise.
  • The Bright Lake amusement park is photographed, appearing to be fully operational.
  • January - Robin Patton stops leaving his bedroom.
  • February 12th - Patton wraps himself in a blanket in his cupboard.
  • Late February - Later in the month, Benjamin Hatendi investigates Patton's house and finds his corpse, inadvertently touching the dark fluid that pooled around it.
  • 7th March - Hatendi dies after repeated nighttime encounters with a mysterious darkness.
• 1984
  • 24th October - Rosa Meyer kills the driver of a delivery van heading towards the Magnus Institute, filling the van with petrol, but is stopped by police before any attack can be carried out.
• 1985
  • Jurgen Leitner rents an office in Pall Mall, just above a series of passages designed by Robert Smirke. He continues renting these offices until 1994.
• 1987
  • Jurgen Leitner asks for Harold Silvana and Rachel Turley to dig a hole beneath 100 Pall Mall. When asked to confirm that he has the owner of the building's permission, Leitner becomes aggressive and they refuse to do the job.
• 1989
  • Neil Lagorio works on the science fiction movie Orbit.
  • Jude Perry meets Agnes Montague.

1990s

• 1990
  • Julia Montauk's mother disappears from the family house in Dartford in the dead of night, leaving behind a pendant belonging to the Peoples' Church of the Divine Host. No missing person report is filed by her husband, despite him being a member of the police force.
• 1991
  • Elias Bouchard apparently joins the Magnus Institute, working in Artefact Storage. N.B. contradictory with previously documented information.
  • Canyon Cafe opens. Agnes Montague begins visiting it regularly.
  • Jude Perry completes her initiation into the Cult of the Lightless Flame.
  • 6th July - Adelard Dekker makes statement 9910607, about a creature he refers to as the “Not-Them”.
  • Autumn - Carlos Vittery accidentally kills a spider, the resulting half-formed spiders giving him life-long arachnophobia.
• 1992
  • Kevin Costner stars in Jewel of the Amazon, with special effect work by Neil Lagorio.
  • Between 1992 and 2011 Lagorio works on The Wire Runner, Eagle Falls, and The Harvestmen.
• 1993
  • One "Detective Rayner" contacts the Montauk family, asking Robert Montauk to do an unknown act he clearly does not want to do.
  • Rosa Meyer dies in HMP Holloway.
  • Jurgen Leitner visits Pinhole Books.
  • Sgt. Terrence Simpson investigates a disturbance among a crofting community in Scotland, where the locals have turned rabid.
• 1994
  • The Leitner library is attacked and destroyed, scattering the collection to the winds. The attack was made by representatives of many Powers.
  • June - The individuals that would become known as Breekon & Hope arrive at the office of Alfred Breekon.
  • Early September – Lucy Cooper visits her parents and finds that her mother Rose has been replaced by Not-Rose.
• 1995
  • An unknown entity pursues young Julia Montauk, only stopping when her father completes a ceremony involving human sacrifice and 41 human hearts. Robert Montauk goes to prison for these crimes.
  • Some time after the attack on Leitner's library, Jonathan Sims is given a children's book called "A Guest for Mr. Spider". A teenager who frequently bullies him is entranced by the book, knocking a door in it and causing large spider legs to pull him inside.
  • Lester Chang confronts his father-in-law in his home, which appears to have been overrun by a creeping purple mold. Breekon & Hope remove the furniture from the infested house.
• 1996
  • Elias Bouchard takes over for James Wright as Head of the Magnus Institute.
  • Ivo Lensik's father, who spoke for years of having been menaced by a man with "all his bones in his hands," is found dead with deep gashes in his arms and a look of fear on his face. It is ruled a suicide.
  • Trevor Herbert kills the vampire Hannah Edwards.
  • May - Joshua Gillespie meets "John" in Amsterdam, unwittingly agreeing to look after a wooden coffin.
  • 14th May - Alfred Breekon gets a delivery from Breekon & Hope. He sneaks away to the Magnus Institute to give his statement, before returning and being killed by his replacements.
  • September - The Boneturner's Tale is returned to Chiswick Library by Michael Crew, before being immediately taken by Jared Hopworth.
  • Late October - Sebastian Adekoya is confronted in Chiswick Library by Jared Hopworth's mother, as she returns The Boneturner's Tale. Late that night, Adekoya returns to the library to be confronted by a changed Hopworth, who takes The Boneturner's Tale and flees.
  • 4th November - Gertrude Robinson commits to tape the statement of Lucy Cooper. Robinson speculates that creature in the statement is the same as Adelard Dekker refers to as the “Not-Them” in statement 9910607.
• 1997
  • Dexter Banks directs Red Ronin.
  • Breekon & Hope deliver a wooden coffin to Joshua Gillespie.
  • 15th April - Gertrude Robinson commits to tape the statement of Yuri Utkin.
  • September - Michael Crew first appears at Lion Street Books in Chichester.
  • 5th September - Sgt. Walter Heller gives his statement.
• 1998
  • Gertrude Robinson begins tracking supplicants drawn by "the siren call of flesh" in hopes of stopping the Flesh ritual.
  • Breekon & Hope, along with "John," pick up the wooden coffin from Joshua Gillespie.
  • January - Herbert Knox’s former lover, Kirstin Bowman, dies after losing her balance and falling down a flight of stairs, leaving Knox Ex Altiora
  • February – Michael Crew buys Ex Altiora from Lion Street Books, though his cheque bounces. When Knox tries to find him to request payment, Crew uses Ex Altiora in a ritual to try and fend off the Lichtenberg figure that has been pursuing him. Crew throws himself from a church spire and neither he nor Ex Altiora return to Lion Street Books.
  • March - An explosion in Alexandria destroys several buildings – Jonathan Sims later theorises that this is related to the Serapeum of Alexandria being located by Sgt. Walter Heller and Gertrude Robinson six months earlier.

• 1999
  • A number of the Magnus Institute's files are leaked to the press, causing widespread derision.
  • September - Mikaele Salesa sells a meat grinder to the cook on his ship. The cook begins serving his own meat to the crew, healing himself with the meat grinder. Mikaele fights the cook, who is thrown overboard.
  • October - The Bright Lake amusement park closes its doors for the last time.

21st Century

2000s

• 2000
  • 18th January - Vincent Yang is kept unintentionally imprisoned by Mikaele Salesa after impounding cargo going through Portsmouth. Yang awakens from sleep inside a wooden crate barely large enough to move in. He stays there for what he perceives as days, before eventually being released by Salesa and Peter Lukas on the 19th of January.

• 2001
  • April - Lawrence Moore realises that his cousin Carl has been replaced by Not-Carl. Adelard Dekker comes to him and performs a binding ritual to bind the creature to a web-patterned table.
  • 4th August - Graham Folger's parents, Desmond and Samantha Folger, die in a car crash on the M1 near Sheffield.

• 2002
  • First week of March ca - Harold Silvana, Rachel Turley, and Alfred Bartlet (with the help of a teenaged Gerard Keay) discover a passageway while doing renovation work beneath the Reform Club in Pall Mall. Bartlet dies, allegedly from a heart attack, and Keay escapes with a book. All survivors, as well as the police that investigate, deny any knowledge of the incident.
  • Late March ca - Robert Montauk is visited in HMP Wakefield by Maxwell Rayner. The lights blow midway through the visit and the guard, Phillip Brown, hears Rayner tell Montauk "You didn't think you could kill it for long, did you?" In the coming months, taps in the prison begin to run with stagnant water.
  • Early June - Robert Kelly takes part in a charity tandem jump in Doncaster. When he leaves the plane, there is no ground, only an endless, bright, blue sky stretching out before him. When he lands, his co-workers tell him he was falling for 15 minutes, but for Kelly, it felt like hours or even days.
  • 3rd June - Joseph Puce hears an impact in one of his fields in Doncaster and finds a single parachute. There is no skydiving above his property that day.
  • 7th June - Robert Kelly is reported missing by his mother, after "the sky ate him".
  • 24th July - Isaac Masters and Alice "Daisy" Tonner stop a Breekon & Hope delivery van. Upon being shown the interior of the van by "Tom," Breekon, and Hope, Masters opens the coffin being transported and disappears down the staircase inside. Tonner is injured and made to sign a Section 31.
  • 1st November - Phillip Brown and Peter Gordo encounter an unnatural darkness inside the cell of Robert Montauk in HMP Wakefield, including another growling figure in the darkness. Montauk is soon after found dead in his cell, having been stabbed 47 times in the chest. The light bulb in his cell was blown out.

• 2003
  • Fiona Law, a research assistant at the Magnus Institute, supposedly passes away from complications following a liver transplant. This is contradicted by information revealed by Jonathan Sims.
  • 3rd June - Joseph Russo gives a statement in regards to a first edition copy of The Tale of a Field Hospital (suspected to have been compiled by Jurgen Leitner), which he gives to the Magnus Institute.
  • 5th June - Joseph Russo is found dead in his apartment, due to infection of a paper cut on his finger.
  • July - Paul MacKenzie is visited at night by a presence that attempts to gain access to his bedroom every night for over a month.
  • 1st August - Phillip Doah falls beneath a train at Birmingham New Street Station, after finding the book that would later detail his demise. N.B. this is also placed as occurring in February in the same statement.
  • August - Masato Murray is left a book by Doah. The book contains a series of stories of gruesome deaths, ending in his own, changing every time it is read.
  • 1st September - Marcus MacKenzie begins his statement by apologising for the statement his father made the previous week, believing him to be lying for attention and to manipulate his son into moving back home. He goes on to explain that throughout his life, he has also had a strange relationship with doors, and sees seemingly impossible doors appear at various intervals in his life, all tempting him to enter.
  • October - Paul MacKenzie dies of a stroke.
  • 4th November - Enrique MacMillan gives a statement of his account of finding a presumed Leitner book. Afterwards, he attempts to claw under the floorboards of the Head Archivist's office at the Institute. He is taken into custody and dies, apparently of "asphyxiation," while awaiting trial.
  • Winter - John Haan lets the staff of his takeaway go and replaces them with his nephew, Tom Haan.
  • Neil Lagorio supposedly begins suffering from Parkinson's.

• 2004
  • Gertrude Robinson checks out the statement of Second Lieutenant Charles Fleming at the Pu Songling Research Centre, Beijing.
  • Deborah Madaki begins attending a sculpting class alongside "Gabriel".
  • 9th April - Phillip Brown gives his statement regarding his time working at HMP Wakefield.
  • May - John Haan’s takeaway in Walthamstow is closed down after he is arrested for murdering his wife, Lanying, and disposing of her body in the meat he sold.
  • 5th July - Toby Carlisle begins a bimonthly series of hours-long hammering that causes his downstairs neighbour, Christof Rudenko, some distress.
  • August - Nikolai Denikin dies. In the aftermath, his granddaughter, Leanne, finds a bright red calliope organ in his attic, along with a collection of wooden dolls. She plays it to her boyfriend, Joshua Drury, who is found mangled, with his jaw removed, after they split up. The calliope organ is removed and later finds its way into Artefact Storage at the Magnus Institute.

• 2005
  • Father Edwin Burroughs begins his work as an exorcist for the Diocese of Oxford.
  • January - Christof Rudenko delivers a package to his upstairs neighbour, Toby Carlisle, learning his name.
  • Grant Walker loses his job at Deloitte and moves in with his brother Stephen.
  • October - Stephen and Grant Walker are locked out of their house. Stephen breaks his arm falling off of a ladder, and Grant is forced to confront his fear of ladders. During this, they encounter Michael Crew, who watches them for a while.
  • November - Jessica McEwen is taken by the Anglerfish in Old Fishmarket Close.

• 2006
  • Antonia Hayley takes part in a salvage dive of the Maria Fairchild in the Graveyard of the Atlantic, near Sable Island, Nova Scotia, accompanied by Simon Fairchild. In the wreck, Hayley discovers a portal in the hull to a region of high-pressure water with a colossal hand on the other side.
  • 22nd January - Adelard Dekker writes a letter to Gertrude Robinson warning her that a 15th power is emerging.
  • 7th April - Amy Patel witnesses Graham Folger's replacement by Not-Graham. Folger has in his possession a large table with a web pattern upon it.
  • 17th April - Sebastian Adekoya is found dead, allegedly from a hit-and-run, with a number of his bones twisted.
  • August - Sarah Baldwin is taken by the Anglerfish in Old Fishmarket Close.
  • October - Agnes Montague talks to Jude Perry who asks for Montague to do a job, then hands her a "collection" in an envelope when she refuses.
  • Stephen and Grant Walker encounter Michael Crew again at the top of Tour Montparnasse in Paris, France. Grant disappears along with Crew.
  • Mid-November - Ivo Lensik, while working construction at the building site on 105 Hill Top Road, encounters a man claiming to be Raymond Fielding. Fielding vanishes unexpectedly, leaving a burn mark on the floor, and Lensik falls and hits his head while cleaning it. While in the John Radcliffe Hospital, a nurse named "Annie" tells Lensik the history of the house, including the fact that Fielding has apparently been dead since 1974.
  • 23rd November - Lensik uproots a tree at the house, finding beneath it a small box containing an apple, which in turn contains spiders. Simultaneously, Father Edwin Burroughs finds himself saved from an intense heat at the same house by the demonic entity within him. N.B. Father Burrough's statement suggests these events took place in 2009 rather than 2006.
  • Agnes Montague meets with other members of the Cult of the Lightless Flame, including possibly Diego Molina and Arthur Nolan. She kisses her date, Jack Barnabas, giving him severe burns in the process. Montague tells the cultists that if she died a cold and quiet death the cultists would have another chance at performing their ritual soon. The cultists hang her. Later that night, she is found dead in her Sheffield flat with a severed human hand attached to her wrist, whose owner must have died at the same time as her.
  • 30th November - Eugene Vanderstock makes his statement to the Magnus Institute after being instructed by Arthur Nolan to do so. Vanderstock says he wants to kill Gertrude Robinson but that Nolan tells him not to harm her yet. However, Nolan's authority has been weakened and many in the Cult of the Lightless Flame are looking to Diego Molina for leadership.
  • December - Daniel Rawlings is taken by the Anglerfish in Old Fishmarket Close.

• 2007
  • The calliope organ was acquired by the Mangus Institute.^[77]
  • The book "The Key of Solomon, owned by MacGregor Mathers and Jurgen Leitner," is purchased on eBay by user grbookworm1818. Later investigation by Jonathan Sims reveals this to be Gertrude Robinson.
  • Early 2007 - The Daedalus satellite is launched by Stratosphere Group, a consortium of scientific and aerospace groups including Pinnacle Aerospace (majority owned by the Fairchild family), Nathaniel Lukas (of the Lukas Family) and Optics Solutions Ltd. (based in Ny-Ålesund)
  • Late 2007 - Carter Chilcott goes to the Daedalus alongside Jan Kilbride and Manuela Dominguez in the employ of Conrad Lukas. Chilcott eventually escapes his isolation experiment (and various paranormal phenomena) after his exit code fails by refusing to eat or drink until the experiment ends. Kilbride becomes traumatised by The Vast. Dominguez uses fake science to create a tiny dark sun, which she plans to use to bring about the ritual of the Dark.
  • Summer - Gregory Pryor, a private investigator, follows Hector Laredo on the orders of Laredo’s wife, Nicola. He discovers that Laredo is involved in drug smuggling with the Ukrainian mafia and, upon Laredo’s loss of a shipment, tails him to a butcher’s in Stockwell. There, Laredo is butchered and disposed of down a tooth-lined chute in the floor by a “man” called Jared, while Pryor hides in a locker. When Pryor attempts to escape, Jared removes the bones from his left arm. When police investigate the site, they find the body of Harry Gough, the owner of the property, buried beneath the floor.
  • 14th April - Ivo Lensik gives his statement. The statement is later destroyed by Martin Blackwood.
  • 2nd September - Gertrude Robinson, helped by her assistant Michael Shelley, begin to identify North America as the focal point for the ritual of the Buried. She also wishes to confirm the status of Jan Kilbride once he returns from the Daedalus satellite.
  • Prior to October 2011 - Gertrude leads Shelley to the non-existent island of Sannikov Land in order to disrupt the ritual of the Spiral. The ritual fails but an aspect of the Distortion is bound to Shelley, forming 'Michael'.
  • 22nd October - Christof Rudenko confronts his upstairs neighbour, Toby Carlisle, over smells emerging from his flat. A hazmat team is called out when it is revealed that the flat is full of decaying meat.

• 2008
  • Eugene Vanderstock moves to a flat in Ilford.
  • Arthur Nolan begins tormenting an old woman who is his tenant.
  • Oliver Banks, or "Antonio Blake," begins having prophetic dreams after suffering from a breakdown.
  • 10th February - Jan Kilbride makes his statement.
  • May - Ashley Dobson is taken by the Anglerfish in Old Fishmarket Close.
  • Jackson Ellis moves to Bucoda, Washington, and is disconcerted by the presence of a strange pit that the other residents seem to ignore.
  • June - Megan Shaw is taken by the Anglerfish in Old Fishmarket Close.
  • 17th June - Jackson Ellis witnesses a woman being killed by the pit. Shortly before leaving Bucoda, he encounters an old woman and a young man with blue eyes examining the pit.
  • 18th June - Gertrude Robinson incapacitates and dismembers Jan Kilbride, casting his Vast-touched body into the pit to disrupt the Buried's ritual. Bucoda is leveled by the ensuing earthquake.
  • 3rd July - Mary Keay visits the Magnus Institute to make a statement, clarifying that her Leitner book is from “the End” and that soon she will uncover the last of its secrets. She gifts Gertrude Robinson a piece of human skin binding an unknown person in English. Later that year, in September, she attempts to bind herself to the book, begging her son, Gerard Keay, to help her. He refuses, and her skin is found hung up and written on in Sanskrit after her death. Gerard is later charged with her murder.
  • 21st July - Gertrude Robinson summons Eric Delano using the page given to her by Mary Keay. He tells her how he was able to quit working for the Institute.
  • Pinhole Books, Mary Keay's shop, closes.
  • 8th August - Alan Parfitt finds the person that left the strange rubbish bags outside 93 Lancaster Road, Leytonstone. Kieran Woodward follows him, finding only a small metal piece in the shape of a human heart with Parfitt's name engraved on it. Parfitt is never seen again.
  • October - The Haans attempt to perform the Last Feast, but are stopped by Gertrude Robinson using explosives.
  • 19th December - Gertrude Robinson takes the statement of Lucia Wright and gives her a number for a counseling service.

• 2009
  • Breekon & Hope goes into liquidation.
  • Gerard Keay is acquitted of his mother’s murder, after evidence is found inadmissible.
  • Earliest mention of Martin Blackwood working at the Magnus Institute.
  • Lee Kipple attends a performance by the band Grifter's Bone, causing him to black out, and wakes up wandering Kilburn covered in wounds from a boxcutter. Afterwards, Kipple takes to wearing earplugs and growing his hair to hide the fact that his ears are constantly bleeding.
  • Father Edwin Burroughs is found eating the flesh of two murdered students, Christopher Bilham and James Mann, in the house of Bethany O'Connor on Bullingdon Road. According to his later testimony, only a day or so had passed since his visit to Hill Top Road in 2006. He later pleads guilty to murder and serves two life sentences at HMP Wakefield.
  • January - Trevor Herbert notices a 40 year old woman repeatedly taking the place of several others at homeless shelters. He confronts her and she attempts to mentally compel him to leave. He is able to fight off the compulsion, which he credits to his experience with vampires. After a struggle, Herbert cuts her and she splits apart into spiders.
  • 4th January - Adelard Dekker sends a letter to Gertrude Robinson regarding an incident in the ruins of the Bright Lake amusement park.
  • 19th January ca - According to Gertrude Robinson, Eugene Vanderstock is killed around this date.
  • 2nd February - Gertrude Robinson records a statement from Arthur Nolan. Robinson warns him that he and his cult should not attack her or Jack Barnabas.
  • Mid February ca - Jason North finds a ritual site near Loch Glass in the Highlands of Scotland. This ritual site contains many burn marks, as well as photographs of Gertrude Robinson. North finds himself cursed and everything he loves and owns begins to set alight, from his car, to his house, to his wife.
  • April 22nd - A woman calling herself Anya Villette makes a statement saying she cleaned the house on Hill Top Road on April the 23rd 2009, before entering the basement and exiting into an unfamiliar world, apparently two weeks in the past. No records of her exist.
  • August - A track of a voice reading numbers appears on Gary Boylan's iPod, emanating from a disused power pylon. After several weeks, he manages to decode the numbers, revealing a message apparently on behalf of the Extinction. Boylan flees the pylon, returning home to find his father and neighbor dead.
  • 10th August - Jason North sets himself alight with petrol, being admitted to Raigmore Hospital, where he dies three days later.
  • 16th August - During a performance of "As You Like it" at Duke's Theatre in Covent Garden, actor Adonis Biros notices a masked and cloaked figure in the audience.
  • 17th August - While wandering London, Adonis Biros finds it deserted except for several masked, cloaked figures. When hitting one of the figures it turns out to be empty, except for a stick holding it up.
  • 19th August - While performing a play Adonis Biros gradually sees the whole audience replaced by masked, cloaked figures.
  • September - Andrea Nunis is warned by Gerard Keay to keep her mother’s face in mind while travelling the streets of Genoa, as she is “marked”. She gets lost and finds herself trapped in a “crowd with no people” and eventually emerges thanks to Keay’s advice.
  • 27th September - “Craig Goodall” breaks into John Haan’s abandoned takeaway, “Waltham Express Grill”, is captured by a Chinese man (presumably one of the Haans) and loses three fingers before being rescued by Leroy Yates, a friend whom he had told where he was going. He finds that once he is rescued, his fingers have returned, though the ring on them has not. The takeaway burns down in the pair’s struggle to escape.
  • 3rd October - Gary Boylan gives his statement.
  • 5th October - Deborah Madaki has her final, maddening lesson with "Gabriel", who soon departs to the non-existent Sannikov Land.
  • December - Father Edwin Burroughs unsuccessfully attempts to exorcise Bethany O'Connor. She dies in the process and Burroughs is "marked" by the entity that possessed her.
  • Late 2009 ca - Eugene Vanderstock goes missing.

2010s

• 2010
  • January - Howard Ewing is held by a member of the British Transport Police after seeing a fiery apparition of a train while cleaning Moorgate Station, alongside Kelly Dwyer and Vihan Prassad. A week later, his father dies and is cremated.
  • March - Nathan Watts is tempted by the Anglerfish.
  • John Fellows is taken by the Anglerfish in Old Fishmarket Close.
  • Spring - Dr. Neil Thompson sells an antique syringe, allegedly belonging to John Snow, to Mikaele Salesa.
  • 30th May - After a lab accident, Dr. Neil Thompson is drained of blood by a swarm of mosquitoes at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.
  • 10th July - Trevor Herbert gives a statement of his career as a vampire hunter to the Magnus Institute, before allegedly passing away from cancer. In fact, he survives, drawing strength from the killing of monsters.
  • Julia Montauk takes a job as a security guard at an office block in Manchester occupied by DKN Systems, a front for the People's Church of the Divine Host. She meets Trevor Herbert as he investigates the company as they perform a ritual involving darkness and they begin to hunt together.
  • October - Sean Kelly disappears from the port of Felixstowe.
  • Late November - Lawrence Mortimer travels to America to meet an "internet friend", Arden Neeli, and go hunting in the Appalachian Trail in Virginia. Over the next few days, they are hunted by an individual with the manner of an apex predator. Neeli is killed by the predator, whereas Mortimer is able to flee.
  • Carlita Sloane is forced to take a job on the Tundra in order to leave Porto do Itaqui. While on the ship, Sloane discovers that the cargo containers are empty and is huddled into a lifeboat late one night. The only member of the crew that is not woken, Sean Kelly, is never seen again.
  • Winter - Darren Harlow, a cleaner at the University of Surrey, witnesses a psychology experiment conducted by Dr. Elizabeth Bates go wrong, where a phobia of spiders is to be transmitted to a woman, Annabelle Cane. The arachnophobia “projectors” are entranced by Cane and Harlow finds himself being forced to throttle himself. Mark Voight, one of the researchers, caves in Cane's head on a windowsill during a struggle, revealing a mess of blood, bone, and cobweb. Over the following years, the “projectors” go missing.
  • 1st December - Arden Neeli's body is found.

• 2011
  • Jonathan Sims begins working at the Magnus Institute.
  • Sunil Maraj quits his job at a shopping centre in Stratford after his co-worker, Samson Stiller, is absorbed by the surveillance system, with the help of an operations manual (presumed to be a Leitner).
  • Floyd Matharu begins working for Mikaele Salesa aboard the Dorian.
  • A couple of years after the exorcism of Bethany O'Connor, Annie Willett asks Father Burroughs to have a look at the house on Hill Top Road.
  • Alison Killala becomes the carer of Neil Lagorio.
  • Alice "Daisy" Tonner kills Calvin Benchley, a childhood friend who became influenced by a bloody and violent figure (likely associated with the Slaughter) to become a serial assaulter and murderer.
  • Early 2011 - Lee Rentoul puts a curse on Paul Noriega after unwillingly spending 5 years in prison for him, which he accomplishes with the help of a old woman named Angela from Bexley. After Rentoul kills Noriega (at a meeting with Mikaele Salesa), the curse passes to him, causing him to progressively lose parts of his body.
  • 9th February - Thomas Neill gives his statement.
  • April - Sean Kelly's body washes up on the coast of Morocco, with the coroner placing it as having spent no more than 5 days in the water.
  • 29th May - Lee Rentoul approaches the Magnus Institute for help. He later disappears.
  • Summer - Jordan Kennedy, an exterminator, is called out to a house that has an ant infestation. After clearing the bottom floor and identifying a yellowed fridge as the source of the issue, Kennedy is confronted by John Amherst, who threatens him before attempting to strangle him. Kennedy uses a lighter to set Amherst on fire and leaves quickly, after smelling a distinct and unpleasant smell.
  • 19th July - Bertrand Miller dies in Ivy Meadows Care Home.
  • Late July - Ivy Meadows Care Home closes down. Most of the workforce is undocumented and many of the surviving occupants go missing. Among the residents is Melanie King's father.
  • August - Nicole and Josh Baxter, morticians at Baxter and Gordon Funeral Directors, are called out to recover the corpse of Bertrand Miller from John Amherst, the "new Director" of Ivy Meadows Care Home. The corpse is found covered in strange, weeping, yellow rashes.
  • Diego Molina is arrested at the scene of an arson near Clapham by PC Basira Hussain and PC John Spencer. When cuffing Molina, Hussain is burned by the metal of the cuffs. Spencer is later found scalded to death in a bathtub, after trying to burn the (suspected Leitner) book Molina had on him at the time of the arson. This is the first occasion PC Hussain has to sign a Section 31 form.
  • 4th September - Nicole Baxter returns to Ivy Meadows Care Home and finds the entire population of the care home infected. Two unknown individuals (an old Mancunian man and a young woman with a scar on her face) confront her, convince her to flee and set the building alight.
  • 7th November - Lisa Carmel hosts a meeting in Murder Club, a club for discussing true crime. The meeting is interrupted by a masked intruder. The members of the club kill the intruder. Over the next two weeks the members hunt and kill each other. The only survivor is Ananya Kaleka, who is arrested and dies in her cell a few months later.
  • 23rd December - Gerard Keay and another unknown man (presumed to be Diego Molina) are brought into St. Thomas Hospital in London for severe burns sustained near St. Mary's Church. Lesere Saraki witnesses Gerard kill the other man, before returning to his hospital bed.
  • 27th December - Gerard Keay is released from St. Thomas Hospital into the care of his mother, Mary Keay.

• 2012
  • Jonathan Sims investigates the haunting of several gems in Hackney that once belonged to "Simon Fairchild", a con artist killed in the 1930s.
  • Dexter Banks creates a remake of a film he half-remembers called 蜘蛛が食べている (kumo ga tabete iru, trans. Spiders Are Eating/The Spider is Eating), based off of a (suspected Leitner) book. The remade film is titled Widow's Weave.
  • Julian Jennings and his mother meet Simon Fairchild at the Unterberg in Austria and are trapped on a cable car.
  • 14th March ca - News breaks that Neil Lagorio is dead. Dexter Banks and almost a hundred actors are taken by a giant spider during the filming of Widow's Weave.
  • May - Andre Ramao, having bought a Chinese urn from Mikaele Salesa, begins inexplicably losing items, with no record of them ever having existed. He becomes progressively more obsessed with the urn, until he falls asleep in front of it, when all the items are returned. After fleeing pale, filthy hands pushing themselves out of the urn, Ramao's husband disappears.
  • 1st June ca - Annabelle Cane visits Neil Lagorio. This is the last day Alison Killala sees Neil alive. Killala begins watching the original cuts of Lagorio's movies.
  • 1st November ca - Alison Killala finishes watching the original cuts of Neil Lagorio's movies and sees Neil dead.
  • 10th November - Dominic Swain purchases Ex Altiora.
  • 11th November - Swain finds Mary Keay to explain the book's strange properties. Later, Gerard Keay purchases the book for £5000 and burns it.
  • 19th November - Nicole Baxter gives her statement.
  • 1st December - Alison Killala makes her statement and delivers the original cuts of the movies of Neil Lagorio to the Magnus Institute.
  • 2012 ca - Justin Gough has a vision during a near death experience in which he makes a deal to come back to life. He becomes a serial killer who kills victims in their dreams via the direct manifestation of carbon monoxide in their blood. Adelard Dekker follows him and scrambles his brain with a metal skewer.
  • 2012 ca - Gertrude Robinson destroys Mary Keay's pages and Gerard Keay joins her work "for a few years" before his eventual death in 2014.

• 2013
  • Alexander Scaplehorn, a tax specialist working for the Inland Revenue, is drawn to the basement of the Trophy Room, a taxidermy shop in Barnet, while examining the business' books. He finds a face within the darkness of the basement and, when he tries to flee, is blocked by Daniel Rawlings, along with Breekon and Hope.
  • Tim Stoker's brother Danny Stoker takes up urban exploration with Abigail Ellison. He eventually breaks in to Covent Garden Theatre in the basement beneath the Royal Opera House. Tim follows him as he returns, only to find a marble copy of the Theatre Royal, an apparition of Joseph Grimaldi, and a strange dancer wearing his brother's skin.
  • Kulbir Shakya investigates a law firm offering to consolidate his debts and is plagued by a supernatural downpour and isolation until he attempts to drown himself.
  • February - A shriveled corpse is found washed up on Redondo Beach.
  • 28th June - Dominic Swain gives his statement.
  • 3rd July - Ross Davenport goes to his gym in Aberdeen, run by Jared Hopworth, only to be confronted by a mutilated creature with many arms using the equipment. He flees and warns Marie Balandin of the strange events.
  • 12th July - David Laylow and Tom Haan leave their posts at a meat processing plant in Dalston. Later, Laylow claims to have been trapped in a strange dream-like version of the slaughterhouse, while Haan disappears altogether.
  • 14th August - Adelard Dekker investigates an outbreak of disease in Klanxbüll, Germany. Finding that John Amherst is responsible, Dekker incapacitates him by trapping him in concrete but is himself infected in the process. He writes a message to Gertrude saying he intends to kill himself.
  • 23rd August - A police report is filed naming Marie Balandin as a person of interest in a series of animal mutilations.
  • Late September - Jennifer Ling confronts Lee Kipple about his reaction to the mention of the band Grifter's Bone and discovers what happened to him.
  • 4th October - Gertrude Robinson submits to tape the statement of Abraham Janssen regarding a previous attempt at the Unknowing. She speculates about means of stopping the upcoming Unknowing.
  • 16th October - Chloe Ashburt and Lana Billings close up Fanton's department store in Hammersmith. A mannequin that Ashburt had a strange feeling about kills and skins Billings, before the police arrive and find Ashburt traumatised but unharmed.
  • Late October - Jennifer Ling follows the suggestion of an online comment and wanders around Soho looking for a performance by Grifter's Bone. After finding it, she sets her phone to record it and leaves. Upon her return, all 11 members of the audience are dead, with many of them matching descriptions to those killed in violent circumstances in London the preceding month. She is unable to play the recording. N.B. Jennifer Ling's statement implies that this occurs in October but states it happened in November.
  • Mid November - Jennifer Ling assaults her neighbour Agatha Norrel with a claw hammer, before turning it upon herself. Neither of the women survive. It is suspected that Ling managed to decode the recording she previously made of Grifter's Bone before the attack.
  • 2013 ca - Jess Tyrell works the sewer beneath Kentish Town. The tunnel collapses, trapping her. She feels a hand from below grabbing her leg.

• 2014
  • Jurgen Leitner is almost beaten to death by Gerard Keay.
  • The crew of the Dorian retrieves a camera from an island in the Maldives, then sail to Southampton. That night there is an explosion in the port. Captain Gaultier returns to the ship, injured. He says he and Mikaele Salesa had left to deliver the artefact, but they had been betrayed, and Salesa was dead. The captain dies from his injuries. Floyd Matharu stops working for the Dorian.
  • Gertrude Robinson visits the Pu Songling Research Centre, Beijing. She requests they forward two statements to her in West Pullman, Chicago.
  • February - A second shriveled corpse is found washed up on Redondo Beach.
  • 23rd February - Jane Prentiss makes a statement to the Magnus Institute. Following this, she is found in her attic, having buried her arm in what looks to be a wasp's nest, in her flat on Prospero Road in Archway. She is taken to the hospital and begins showing signs of "infestation". She murders six members of the hospital staff as she escapes and one nurse breaks his neck while trying to flee. The Magnus Institute is consulted, but ultimately their involvement is dropped in favor of a cover-up.. Exterminator Jordan Kennedy is called in to destroy the wasp's nest on behalf of the landlord, Arthur Nolan. Kennedy ultimately fails, and Nolan is forced to set himself alight using a match and a strange flame-shaped scar pattern on his stomach to deal with the issue. Once the nest catches, Kennedy again detects the unpleasant smell he last encountered when confronting John Amherst.
  • March - Dylan Anderson acquires a "monster pig" on his farm near the Marlborough Forest in New Zealand, who begins to eat the other pigs in his pen, before moving on to Angus Dale, a worker from the Carly Brothers Circus.
  • 26th March - Erin Gallagher-Nelson and Luke Nelson explore the ruins of St. James' Church beneath St. Paul's. They are followed by shadow-creatures until their lights are extinguished and Luke is beheaded.
  • 2nd June - Gertrude Robinson and Gerard Keay go with François Deschamps to the house of Benoît Maçon in Paris, where they discover Maçon's lover, a large mass of crawling insects.
  • 14-15th June - Laura Popham and her sister, Alena Sanderson, get lost caving in Lost Johns' Cave in Lancashire. Popham is eventually found but Sanderson is nowhere to be seen.
  • 14th July - Manuela Dominguez makes her statement to the Magnus Institute saying the Dark will soon attempt its ritual. She urges Gertrude Robinson and the head of the institute to join the Dark before that happens.
  • 18th July - PC Alice Tonner and PC Basira Hussain are called to the scene of a suicide attempt in Kensington. The victim, despite multiple gunshot wounds to the head, survives long enough to be taken to hospital.
  • Summer - Lorell St. John begins to perceive other people around her as philosophical "zombies"
  • September - Sebastian Skinner is called in to sort out drainage problems at a workplace in a remote area of the Gwydir Forest and is greeted by Megan (presumably Megan Shaw) who gives him a tour of the facility. Upon a second visit, Megan is accompanied by Jude Perry and Skinner realises the horrors being done at the workplace in the name of "I-do-not-know-you". He is burned by Perry as he tries to escape and disappears shortly afterwards.
  • 9th October - Gertrude Robinson commits to tape the statement of Wallis Turner. She considers using Gerard Keay to stop the Unknowing.
  • 18th November - Harriet Lee is attacked in an alleyway by Jane Prentiss.
  • 20th November - Timothy Hodge meets and has sex with Lee, before she explodes into worms.
  • Late 2014 - Gerard Keay passes away from a brain tumour. This takes place in UPMC Presbyterian Emergency Department, Pittsburgh, while travelling with Gertrude Robinson. N.B. another statement, which may take place in either late 2015 or early 2016 (as the next episode is recorded in early January 2016) states that this took place "late last year". However, the fact that Gerard died before Gertrude indicates that this must be referring to 2014.
  • Gertrude Robinson breaks into the morgue and mutilates Gerard's body in the process of binding him to the Catalogue of the Trapped Dead. She is arrested but ultimately let go.
  • 9th December - Timothy Hodge gives his statement, going missing shortly afterward.
  • 21st December - "Antonio Blake" has a dream predicting the death of his father.
  • 31st December - "Antonio Blake's" father dies of a heart attack, despite his attempts to prevent it.

• 2015
  • Justin Gough was a resident at an East London Care facility but disappears from their records this year. Several of the staff dies from carbon monoxide poisoning at roughly the same time.
  • Donna Gwynne is part of an archaeological team lead by “Stavo” that works on a dig in the eastern Egyptian desert. Inside a 4th Dynasty tomb, the team finds a moving mummified corpse that appears to have been conscious for 4500 years. Gwynne speculates that the ancient Egyptians, who considered death the most important event of a person’s life, would not have been kind to a person who could not die. N.B. the statement is undated but it occurs during the three years prior to her statement made on the 20th May 2015.
  • Early 2015 - Carlos Vittery begins to be haunted by the spider he killed in 1991. Eventually, some time after the 9th of April, he is found dead, with "foreign organic matter" in his throat, encased in web.
  • January - Melanie King witnesses Sarah Baldwin conversing with a strange figure while filming for Ghost Hunt UK, a paranormal YouTube channel, at the Cambridge Military Hospital in Aldershot.
  • 1st February - Gregory Cox is contacted by a client in Guildford for a freelance web development position. Despite the client's strange requests, Cox takes the position.
  • February - A third shriveled corpse is found washed up on Redondo Beach.
  • March - Mark Bilham goes to Hither Green Dissenter's Chapel in search of Natalie Ennis after a confrontation between her and Katherine Harper (his girlfriend, her past housemate).
  • 11th March - Natalie Ennis is reported missing by Bilham.
  • Night of 12th/13th March - "Antonio Blake" has a dream predicting the death of Gertrude Robinson.
  • 13th March - The Dark's ritual begins. It is supposed to last until the 20th March during the solar eclipse in Ny-Ålesund.
  • 14th March - "Antonio Blake" makes his statement, warning Gertrude Robinson about his dream predicting her death.
  • 15th March - Elias Bouchard finds Gertrude Robinson’s desk deserted but covered in blood matched to Gertrude’s. There is more present than a human could lose and survive, so she is reported missing. Some time later, Jonathan Sims is promoted to Head Archivist of The Magnus Institute.
  • 16th March - The Dark's ritual begins to come undone due to the collapse of the ritual at the Hither Green Dissenter's Chapel.
  • 20th March - A full solar eclipse is visible from Ny-Ålesund (and in real life). but the ritual of the Dark ends in failure. Elias Bouchard shoots Gertrude Robinson three times, apparently killing her.
  • 22nd March - Evan Lukas dies from congenital heart failure.
  • 30th March - Naomi Herne attends the funeral of Evan Lukas, before crashing her car while returning home. She wanders across a haunting dreamscape of graveyards and crypts, before being assisted by the voice of Evan on the wind, and being hit by a passing car in the early hours of the morning.
  • 4th April - Gertrude Robinson commits the statement of Sebastian Skinner to tape. She says she had hoped to have more time to recover and that she can still barely stand, as well as that the plans of the Desolation have recently gone up in flames.
  • 15th May - According to her official file, this is the day Gertrude Robinson died. In addition, police respond to reports of screaming from Hither Green Dissenter's Chapel.
  • 8th June - Lydia Halligan gives a disjointed report of her insomnia to the Magnus Institute detailing her contact with 'Michael'. She dies of a heart attack within a month.
  • 1st August - Angie Santos gives her statement regarding Gregory Cox, Annabelle Cane, and the Chelicerae web forum.

• 2016
  • The apparent ghost of a burning woman shows up for several nights inside the flat of Lynne Hammond in Clapton.
  • Helen Richardson, an estate agent in Wimbledon, finds a door that shouldn't exist while showing a house to Michael. After passing through it, she finds herself trapped in a labyrinthine dimension of corridors, mirrors and paintings, along with a thin creature with sharp hands. She escapes and finds three days have passed.
  • There is a suspected sighting of Angus Dale, a missing person since the appearance of the "monster pig" on Dylan Anderson's farm.
  • 13th January - Naomi Herne gives her statement regarding the death of her fiancé, Evan Lukas. When Jonathan Sims suggests she seek psychiatric care, she becomes angry and storms out of the Institute.
  • February - A fourth shrivelled corpse is found washed up on Redondo Beach. It is Chadwick Frazier, an actor that was in Widow's Weave.
  • 29th February - Martin Blackwood goes to Carlos Vittery's former building in Archway to follow up his statement. He returns to the building later that evening and enters through an open basement window. In the basement, he discovers Jane Prentiss, who attacks him. He flees back to his flat in Stockwell, where Prentiss traps him for approximately 13 days.
  • 12th March - Martin Blackwood gives his statement in regards to and on the final day of the trapping in his apartment by Jane Prentiss.
  • 31st March - Sasha James sees a distorted figure through the glass of a window. She later meets the man, who claims to be named Michael, and who offers to help save Jonathan Sims' life.
  • 1st April - Michael meets with Sasha James at Hamwell Cemetery. Michael leads James to an abandoned building containing what was once Timothy Hodge and saves her from the worms infesting Hodge's body. James kills Hodge with a fire extinguisher, revealing a method of defense against the worms.
  • 2nd April - Sasha James gives her statement.
  • 17th April - Melanie King gives her first statement to the Magnus Institute and investigates the memoirs of William Hay.
  • Summer - A hypnotic table with a piece missing, previously seen by Ronald Sinclair in the house of Raymond Fielding on Hill Top Road and by Amy Patel in the living room of Graham Folger, is delivered along with a spiderweb-patterned lighter to the Magnus Institute by two deliverymen, Breekon and Hope.
  • 12th July - Dr. Lionel Elliott gives a statement in regard to a series of events that took place during his Introduction to Human Anatomy and Physiology class at King's College, London.
  • 29th July - Jonathan Sims, while trying to kill a spider, puts a hole in the drywall of the Archives, revealing the worms that had been laying siege to the Archives since March. Elias Bouchard is able to activate the CO2 fire suppression system, killing the worms and Jane Prentiss. While fleeing, Sasha James escapes into the institute's Artefact Storage, where she is replaced by Not-Sasha. Two cassettes holding case recordings go missing. Notably, they are the two cassettes that previously held a recording of James before her replacement. In the aftermath, Martin Blackwood finds the corpse of Gertrude Robinson in the catacombs beneath the Institute, dead of gunshot wounds to the chest according to initial impressions. Jordan Kennedy later assists in the burning of Prentiss' body.
  • August - Jonathan Sims ventures into the catacombs beneath the Archives, locating a strange, closed "doorway" that had apparently been constructed by the worms a month earlier. He is told to leave by a voice from the darkness and quickly does so. He also begins to record secondary statements for his successor, detailing his investigation into Gertrude Robinson's death.
  • 2nd September - Jonathan Sims records his statement in regard to his exploration of the tunnels recently discovered below the Archives.
  • 19th September - Basira Hussain gives her statement to the Magnus Archives and secretly agrees to pass Gertrude Robinson's tapes to Jonathan Sims from the Metropolitan Police evidence room.
  • October - Tessa Winters opens an .exe file titled “Ushanka's Despair”, expecting a chatbot. Instead, a 17 hour video of a Russian man eating his computer pursues her, appearing on any screen she watches until she watches it in its entirety.
  • 2nd October - Helen Richardson goes to the Magnus Institute to make a statement about her encounter with Michael and his twisting corridor. Afterwards, she leaves through a door that does not exist and is claimed by Michael, who appears to Jonathan Sims and stabs him, to no lasting damage.
  • December - Melanie King breaks into the C.F. Booth scrapyard in Rotherham. She locates the carriage of the 11th Army Hospital Train, soaked in blood, and is attacked by a figure wielding a scalpel.
  • 1st December - Detective Alice "Daisy" Tonner delivers a tape to Jonathan Sims, confronting him about her and Basira Hussain's suspicions regarding the murder of Gertrude Robinson. She also gives a statement that confirms that vampires exist and are taken care of by the police when they are brought in.
  • 17th December - Nicholas Leckman enters the London Underground at Moorgate following an argument with his son and never emerges.

• 2017
  • 7th January - Tessa Winters gives a statement in regards to a strange computer program she downloaded from the deep web three months ago. Jonathan Sims asks her to unlock a laptop of Gertrude Robinson’s found hidden in the Archives. She manages to do so, but a row erupts between Sims and Tim Stoker over Sims' obsessive behaviour.
  • 6th January - Karolina Górka is trapped on the London Underground on the way home from King’s Cross, finding much of the train caved in. She finds a man, Nicholas Leckman, trapped in the wreckage.
  • February - A fifth shriveled corpse is found washed up on Redondo Beach.
  • 11th February - P.C. Basira Hussain takes part in a raid on the People’s Church of the Divine Host, led by Maxwell Rayner and including Natalie Ennis, who are suspected of kidnapping a young boy named Callum Brodie. Several officers and cultists, including Rayner, Ennis, and Officer Leo Altman, are killed in the unnatural darkness surrounding the cult, but Brodie is recovered. Hussain then gives a statement to the Magnus Institute that same day, before leaving to retire from the force.
  • 13th February - Melanie King gives her second statement to the Magnus Institute in regards to her further research into war ghosts. She reveals that after completing her statement, she will board a flight to India to follow up further leads. While there, she is shown to be able to remember the real face of Sasha James and proceeds to have a loud argument with Jonathan Sims over the true appearance of Sasha. She leaves under the impression that Sims has been trying to gaslight her or play a trick. This is the first indication of the identity of Not-Sasha that Sims receives.
  • 16th February - Jonathan Sims takes an axe to the web table in the Institute's Artefact Storage, setting free the "NotThem" that had been bound to it by Adelard Dekker. The creature, which had been posing as Sasha James, comes after him. Sims escapes with the help of Michael but is pursued into the tunnels beneath the Archives. Martin Blackwood and Tim Stoker also follow him but are tricked into Michael's labyrinthine dimension, whilst Sims is eventually saved by Jurgen Leitner, who has been hiding in the tunnels beneath the Archives. After giving his statement, Leitner is murdered by Elias Bouchard. Shortly afterward, Blackwood and Stoker escape Michael's dimension and discover Leitner's body.
  • 18th February - Jonathan Sims stays with Georgie Barker while considering his next move and Alice "Daisy" Tonner begins her investigation into Sims, despite warnings from Elias Bouchard.
  • Melanie King takes a job as an Archival Assistant at the Magnus Institute.
  • Over the course of his investigation, Jonathan Sims reaches out to King in her new role and begins to piece together several clues linked to the Stranger sent to him on various tapes.
  • At some point, a circus passes by. N.B. These events are undated.
  • Melanie King asks Martin Blackwood about getting into Artefact Storage, and Blackwood suggests speaking to Sonja. King explains that there should be a Calliope in storage, but no one can seem to find it.
  • 24th April - Jonathan Sims locates Jude Perry and takes her statement. Sims trades a handshake for the location of Michael Crew, and Perry burns him severely.
  • 28th April - Jonathan Sims confronts Michael Crew and forces him to give a statement. Alice "Daisy" Tonner tracks down Sims and kills Crew. She is only prevented from doing the same to Sims by the arrival of Basira Hussain, who convinces her to use Sims to get Elias Bouchard to confess to the murder of Gertrude Robinson.
  • Sims, Hussain, and Tonner confront Bouchard, a standoff which ends with Hussain under the employ of the Magnus Institute.
  • 29th April - Georgie Barker confronts Jonathan Sims regarding his increasingly strange behaviour. Barker gives her statement regarding a protest during her first year of university led by an autopsy cadaver. These events led to her losing her ability to feel fear.
  • 6th May ca - Robin Lennox encounters a stone circle in South Downs.
  • Jonathan Sims investigates the Newcastle branch of Breekon and Hope, finding the corpse of Alfred Breekon covered in bite marks.
  • Alice "Daisy" Tonner and Jonathan Sims 'arrest' Sarah Baldwin at The Trophy Room in Barnet. Baldwin reveals that a crucial piece of taxidermy was stolen by Gertrude Robinson, before escaping.
  • Nikola Orsinov visits Jonathan Sims and demands he find the ancient piece of taxidermy stolen by Gertrude Robinson.
  • Melanie King fails to murder Elias Bouchard. Instead, she agrees to assist Martin Blackwood in recording statements.
  • Breekon & Hope kidnap Jonathan Sims under the orders of Nikola Orsinov.
  • May 26th - Brian Finlinson visits the Magnus Institute to give a statement about spiders. He meets Peter Lukas who asks him for directions to the office of Elias Bouchard before casting him into the Lonely.
  • Michael gives a statement to Jonathan Sims whilst the latter is a captive of the Circus of the Other. Michael intends to kill Sims once the statement is complete. He is instead replaced by Helen Richardson, who uses a doorway to rescue Sims. N.B. The duration of his kidnapping is roughly one month.
  • Jonathan Sims returns to the Magnus Institute. He prevents Melanie King from killing Elias Bouchard with a knife and shows an increased ability for intuition following prompting from Bouchard.
  • Jonathan Sims uses his powers to blackmail Kurt Anderson into giving him papers left with his brother Dylan Anderson from Gertrude Robinson.
  • Jonathan Sims asks Alice "Daisy" Tonner to look after his assistants when he leaves the country following leads. He also discusses what moves Section 31 officers would make against Elias if he was a threat.
  • June 14th - Timothy Stoker tells Martin Blackwood about the death of his brother, Danny Stoker.
  • Jonathan Sims visits the Pu Songling (蒲松齡) Research Center in Beijing looking for statements checked out by Gertrude Robinson and gets referred to an address in America.
  • Elias Bouchard exerts his powers on Melanie King to grant her the knowledge of how her father truly died in the Ivy Meadows Care Home and threatens to make her "see" it if she doesn't do as she is instructed.
  • Jonathan Sims travels across America following the trail of Gertrude Robinson and Gerard Keay, intending to continue his search at the Usher Foundation in Washington, D.C, gradually becoming sicker as he goes longer without taking a statement.
  • 29th June - Jonathan Sims is kidnapped before arriving at the Usher Foundation by Julia Montauk and Trevor Herbert and threatened by a police officer called Max Mustermann, who is revealed to be an avatar of the Stranger. They take custody of Mustermann and interrogate him for information.
  • While Jonathan Sims is in America, Peter Lukas visits the Magnus Institute and speaks with Martin Blackwood.
  • 30th June - Jonathan Sims interrogates the remains of Gerard Keay bound in a book and gets information on Gertrude's plans to stop the Unknowing. Sometime afterward, Sims burns Keay's page, freeing him from the book.
  • 2nd August - Jonathan Sims, Basira Hussain, Melanie King, Martin Blackwood, and Tim Stoker record their statements ahead of the mission to the House of Wax to disrupt the ritual of the Unknowing.
  • 6th August - Jonathan Sims, Basira Hussain, Alice "Daisy" Tonner, and Tim Stoker infiltrate the House of Wax in Great Yarmouth and plant a large amount of plastic explosives. Nikola Orsinov completes the ritual of the Unknowing.
  • 7th August - As reality rewrites itself, Tonner fights Breekon & Hope and is pulled into a coffin after killing Hope. Sims, unsure of what is real, is tormented by Orsinov disguised as both Gertrude Robinson and Jurgen Leitner, before he compels Stoker to be aware of the detonator that he is holding. Stoker detonates the explosives, killing himself and Orsinov in the process. Breekon and Hussain manage to escape, while Sims falls into an unliving coma.
  • 9th August - Elias Bouchard visits the comatose body of Jonathan Sims, who dreams of those whose statements he has taken. He is arrested for the murder of Gertrude Robinson and Peter Lukas takes over day-to-day management of the Institute.
  • October - Martin Blackwood's mother dies.
  • December - Jared Hopworth and his companions launch an attack on the Magnus Institute and its staff.

• 2018
  • 15th February - Oliver Banks visits Jonathan Sims' body in the hospital, telling him to "make a choice". He is told to leave by Georgie Barker and Sims begins to breathe again, eventually waking up while Barker and Hussain are talking. Hussain catches him up on what has happened since the Unknowing and provides him with a statement for sustenance.
  • Jonathan Sims confronts Martin Blackwood.
  • Sims and Basira Hussain remove a bullet from Melanie King's leg, releasing her from the Slaughter's influence.
  • Blackwood and Peter Lukas discuss their plans going forward.
  • Hussain and Elias Bouchard discuss the defence of the Archives.
  • 3rd March - The entity known as "Breekon" delivers the coffin containing Alice "Daisy" Tonner.
  • Jonathan Sims finds a tape recorded by Gertrude Robinson covered in cobwebs and decides to rescue Alice "Daisy" Tonner.
  • 20th March - Helen gives Jonathan Sims access to Jared Hopworth, who is trapped in the Distortion's corridors after a failed attack on the Magnus Institute. Hopworth removes two of Sims' ribs, one for himself and one for Sims to use as an "anchor".
  • 24th March - Jonathan Sims journeys into the coffin to rescue Alice "Daisy" Tonner.
  • 27th March - Sims and Tonner return from the coffin.
  • Elias Bouchard warns Basira Hussain that the Dark will soon attempt their ritual.
  • Alice "Daisy" Tonner breaks into the office of Elias Bouchard. She finds and signs an employment contract.
  • Jonathan Sims tries to use his powers to know what Peter Lukas and Martin Blackwood are planning.
  • 29th May ca - Jess Tyrell sees Jonathan Sims staring at her while she is in a coffee shop for a date. He compels her to tell him about her encounter with the Buried.
  • 11th June - Jonathan Sims and Basira Hussain are aboard a ship headed for Ny-Ålesund. Sims records a statement from Floyd Matharu.
  • 12th June - Jess Tyrell visits the Magnus Institute to lodge a formal complaint after being harassed by an Institute employee.
  • 16th June - Jonathan Sims and Basira Hussain meet Manuela Dominguez in Ny-Ålesund. She tells them the ritual of the Dark has already been stopped. Sims destroys the Dark Sun by beholding it. Dominguez is captured by Helen, who then offers Sims and Hussain a way home.
  • 20th July - Annabelle Cane's statement is found by Jonathan Sims, Basira Hussain, Melanie King and Alice "Daisy" Tonner when they go on an expedition to the house on Hill Top Road. Cane warns Sims not to come back to Hill Top Road again.
  • 14th August - Simon Fairchild visits the Archives to explains things to Martin Blackwood.
  • Trevor Herbert and Julia Montauk visit the Archives to get back the page that Jonathan Sims stole from them. After learning Sims burned the page, they decide to kill him. He is rescued by Alice "Daisy" Tonner.
  • Jonathan Sims suggests to Martin Blackwood that they gouge their eyes out in order to leave the Institute.
  • Melanie King blinds herself to sever the Eye's claim to her, escaping the Archives and moving in with Georgie Barker.
  • 25th September - Peter Lukas and Martin Blackwood use a map of the tunnels underneath the Magnus Institute to navigate to the Panopticon, where they discover the body of Jonah Magnus. Alice "Daisy" Tonner gives in to The Hunt in order to fend off Trevor Herbert and Julia Montauk, as well as the newly-released NotThem. Elias Bouchard reveals that Magnus is "occupying" his body. Lukas casts Blackwood into the Lonely. Jonathan Sims follows them by using the Eye to see their route.
  • After following Blackwood and Lukas into the Lonely, Sims extracts a statement from Lukas, which Lukas ultimately fails to resist. Sims attempts to compel him further to learn what Jonah Magnus gains from their wager, ultimately killing Lukas. Blackwood seems to be taken by the Lonely before Sims compels Blackwood to See him, breaking him out of the trance.
  • 18th October - Jonathan Sims and Martin Blackwood hide in a safe house in Scotland. Sims receives a package from Basira Hussain with statements to read. One statement seems to be routine, but is actually written by Elias Bouchard/Jonah Magnus. The statement details Sims' close encounters with each Entity and how the contact has marked him. As Sims is the Archivist, or more accurately the Archive itself, he is now a living catalogue of fear, and all Entities can be brought into the world by such a person. The statement ends with an incantation, triggering the Mass Ritual and summoning all of the Dread Powers into reality simultaneously. It transforms the world into an expanse of self-contained domains where the Entities torment all of humanity ceaselessly. The Entities are given joint dominion over the Earth, with the Eye as "primus inter pares", feasting on the fear and misery of all life.

Post-Change

Please Note: After these events, Space and Time cease to be precisely measurable. No dates can be reliably sourced or stated with any confidence. All events are presented in "chronological" order.

• Jonathan Sims and Martin Blackwood take shelter in their safehouse and listen to the remaining tapes that Sims brought with him. He listens to the final statement of Gertrude Robinson, who confesses to having sabotaged the Archives, in order to halt the Eye's ritual before it is completed.
• Sims and Blackwood resolve to leave their safehouse and travel to the Magnus Institute in London to confront Elias Bouchard (Jonah Magnus) and attempt to defeat him.
• Sims and Blackwood encounter a domain of The Slaughter. An army barracks has been transformed into a series of trenches, locked in continuous combat. They leave the domain and a nearby telephone rings, as someone is attempting to contact the two.
• Sims and Blackwood encounter a domain of The Corruption. A village has become paranoid over who may be infected with a disease and are persecuting one another. Sims learns to use his powers to locate his past associates. He also attempts to determine whether the Entities are able to be dealt with and the Change reversed. Helen contacts the two and proposes the three remain friends.
• Sims and Blackwood encounter a domain of The Stranger. A carnival that is senseless in size and scale grotesquely transforms people who are made to perticipate in the carnival rides. They find Not-Sasha orchestrating the terror. Sims discovers avatars cannot harm him or Blackwood. After the creature gloats about killing Sasha James, Sims uses his abilities to wipe her out of existence.
• Sims and Blackwood encounter a domain of The Buried. Helen reveals the nature of Sim's destructive ability, explaining he can summon the overwhelming gaze of the Eye upon a subject. Sims absorbs the experiences of those transformed into worms and are tormented by their memories and regrets. A telephone rings. Blackwood discovers it is Annabelle Cane. She offers to help him, claiming Sims does not need him.
• Sims and Blackwood continue to travel, and Sims generates a statement spontaneously from information given to him by the Eye. It details Gertrude Robinson's first years in the Archives, and the fates of her assistants.
• Sims and Blackwood encounter a domain of The End. The realm is called the Corpse Roots. Sims receives a mock-coroner's report from Oliver Banks detailing the slow march of those trapped down a root system to their demise. Banks reveals no new humans are being born so the fear the Entities feed off will run dry in several millennia. This will result in all the remaining Entities dying.
• Sims and Blackwood encounter a domain of The Desolation, an apartment block ablaze with the tenants trapped inside. It is ruled by Arthur Nolan and Jude Perry. Upon discovering her, Sims vapourises Perry.
• Sims and Blackwood encounter a domain of The Lonely. Blackwood becomes trapped in a house, experiencing acute dementia, detailing his thoughts to a tape recorder. Sims reunites with him and they escape the domain.
• Sims and Blackwood encounter a domain of The Flesh. It is a garden where the flora is made of humans whose flesh is grown and pruned by Jared Hopworth. Sims tells Hopworth he intends to destroy him. Hopworth asks for the suffering in his garden be recorded first. Sims then obliterates him.
• Sims and Blackwood encounter a domain of The Web. It takes the form of a theatre where the victims are turned into marionettes and are made to act out various torments, such as a recovering addict that the Spider is pressing into giving into their temptations once again. After, Blackwood tells Sims he was possibly compelled to explore the Spider's domain. Sims admits he cannot understand the Web.
• Sims and Blackwood encounter a domain of The Dark. The domain is a residential street plunged into perpetual night, populated mostly by children who are afraid of monsters in the dark. Sims finds Callum Brodie there, who has embraced The Dark and wishes to inflict his suffering on others.
• Sims and Blackwood encounter a domain of The Vast. An unspeakably large creature moves across the landscape and those trapped on its sheer front attempt to climb to safety or plummet to the ground. Simon Fairchild confronts the two. Blackwood demands Sims kill him. Sims lets him go as he wants to keep his humanity.
• Sims and Blackwood encounter a domain of The Extinction. It is a landfill site with a trapped victim attempting to catalogue the contents of the devastated landscape. Blackwood asks Sims if he can see whether the Extinction was on the verge of emerging, and if any deities besides the Powers exist. SIms does not know.
• Sims and Blackwood encounter a domain of The Hunt. The trapped fear betrayal at the hands of their pack. Trevor Herbert ambushes the pair and takes Blackwood hostage. Herbert wants to enact revenge for the death of Julia Montauk at the hands of Alice "Daisy" Tonner. Basira Hussain has tracked Herbet and kills him. The three leave the domain together.
• Sims and Blackwood and Hussain encounter a domain of The Spiral. The domain is Wonderland House, a mental health facility. The Spiral has taken to imitating the doctors and staff, tormenting the patients, sabotaging their care, changing their medication, and convincing them that their problems are their own fault. Later, the three find the body of Noah Thompson, killed by Tonner. He had evaded a criminal charge for blinding another man. Sims tells them that it was an accident whilst Thompson was running away from Tonner.
• Sims and Blackwood and Hussain encounter a domain of The Flesh. It is a giant processing plant where people are made to endure an unknowable bureaucracy before being killed and butchered for meat, with the cadavers being discarded senselessly. They find another victim of Tonner who is mutilated and the group resolve to kill her.
• Sims and Blackwood and Hussain encounter a domain of The Desolation. Victims are trapped as slaves under a cruel overseer, shovelling the corpses of their loved ones into a roaring furnace. The group find Tonner as she feeds. She invites Hussain to join the Hunt with her, but Hussain kills her. Hussain decides to leave the group and find her own way to London.
• Sims and Blackwood encounter a domain of The Buried, The End, The Eye and The Web (all assumed, the domain does not have clear ties to a single Entity). It is a necropolis filled with the reanimated dead, subjects are made to navigate it, eventually making it to a funeral home where they must deliver a eulogy for their dead loved ones. Upon navigating it, they encounter Upton House. It seems pristine and unaffected by the Change. Inside the sanctuary, they encounter Annabelle Cane and Mikaele Salesa.
• Sims and Blackwood meet Salesa living in a stately house unaffected by the apocalypse. Sims also cannot use his powers there. Salesa tells the story of how he aquired an antique camera that shields him from the apocalypse. Cane arrived later for unknown reasons. Although Sims and Blackwood resolve to stay for a while, Sims becomes sick, so they leave and head for London.
• Sims and Blackwood encounter a domain of The Stranger and The Flesh (possibly). It takes the form of a hospital where doctors destroys the patient's wellbeing through psychological and physical torture. Breekon is present, working as a janitor. He approaches the pair and requests Sims destroys him, as he has no purpose without his companion Hope. Sims does so, and the pair leave.
• Sims and Blackwood encounter a domain of The Lonely, The Eye, The Spiral and The Vast. The domain is a labyrinthine cathedral and an homage to Robert Smirke. Helen tells Blackwood he has his own domain. Sims takes a statement of a small group of academics who are trapped inside the monument, attempting to navigate and understand it.
• Sims and Blackwood encounter a domain of The Corruption, The Buried and The Vast (possibly). A labrynth of tunnels are filled with innumerable ants. They torment the inhabitants by crawling all over them and entering their mouths. Jordan Kennedy, the exterminator that helped Sims overcome his fear of Jane Prentiss, is there. As a mercy, Sims alleviates Kennedy's suffering by making him an avatar of The Corruption.
• Sims and Blackwood encounter a domain of The Eye, The Buried, The Stranger, The Spiral and The Lonely (all assumed). It is a prison in which the accused are trapped without knowing the charges, with no recourse for complaint, or chance to appeal. The pair encounter the inspector who arrested Elias. He begs for them to free him, but Sims reveals he tampered with evidence, so they leave him. Blackwood is then pulled into his own domain.
• Blackwood is within his own domain of The Lonely and The Eye. Sims is nowhere to be found. Blackwood meets a mirror version of himself, Also-Martin, who is the honest and unshielded version of himself. He tells him things about his life he must confront, such as the need to kill Sims if he wants to return the world to normal. He says he could not do this, but will ask Sims to destroy him if they cannot end the Change, so he doesn't have to live off others' suffering.
• Sims travels alone to a domain of The Spiral. It belongs to Helen. He nonetheless traverses her domain, a hotel that separates its inhabitants from one another and cannot be logically traversed. After coming to the realisation that Helen is deceptive and will sabotage his plan, he attemtps to destroy her. She can avoid the gaze of the Eye, but when she tells Sims a lie, the Eye reveal her and Sims destroys her. Sims reunited with Blackwood and they continue their journey.
• Sims and Blackwood encounter a domain of The Eye. It is the outskirts of London, with banks of CCTV cameras watching them. Sims takes the statement of an individual who has become totally surveilled without even her thoughts remaining private. Upon completion, Sims commits to his mission of defeating the Eye.
• Sims and Blackwood encounter a domain of The Eye and The Flesh (possibly). They arrive at the walls of the Panopticon itself. Blackwood looks for an entrace, whilst Sims takes a statement. A minister walks through the city and is forced into witnessing various torments such as starving people in the street, offices full of horrors, and being forced to eat whilst watching others starve. After completion of the statement, Sims and Blackwood are pulled into the tunnels by Melanie King and Georgie Barker who are living there as it offers some protection against the Entities. They have been misinterpreted as prophets by other survivors, who have formed a cult around them.
• Sims and Blackwood meet the members of the new "cult", including Laverne and Celia. Barker cannot feel fear and King has cut out her eyes, so both are hidden from the Powers. They have been rescuing people from fearscapes and have hidden them in the tunnels. Blackwood tells King her friend Helen was destroyed by Sims. Another cultist, Arun, writes hymns. After finding out Sims is also immune to he new world, he elevates Sims to the same position.
• Sims and Blackwood awake in the tunnels and are introduced to the last member of the cult, an unnamed woman who believes names are how the Eye finds people. Sims and Blackwood theorise about how to enter the Panopticon and confront Magnus. King and Barker commit to helping them.
• Sims and Blackwood ascend the Panopticon. Rosie Zampano, assistant to Elias Bouchard (Jonah Magnus), is there and Sims pulls Zampano's experiences directly from her. She remembers the ways that Bouchard seemingly read minds when she started to work for the Institute. Magnus then allows them in, but is unresponsive, wanting to gloat at his victory.
• Sims and Blackwood are unsure how they might kill Magnus. Sims takes a statement of the real Elias Bouchard, detailing his job interview held by James Wright, then-Head of the Institute and vessel of Magnus' soul. It details Wright's similar mind reading and all knowing abilities, like Zampano's experience, and the death of Bouchard's roommate who was killed by the Eye. Sims confirms that Bouchard has been dead this whole time, and no part of his true self remains. He confirms Magnus is vulnerable through the body of Bouchard, but killing him means another instantly taking his place.
• Sims and Blackwood argue over whether Sims should kill Magnus and take his position. They fall out and Sims goes alone to take a statement. It details a young man who is jubilant over the death of an elderly man who has been plaguing his life and surveilling him, possibly his father or guardian. The young man now seeks to live freely, but a strange growth appears on his shoulder. It is an eye, and it grows larger and starts to communicate with him until the man cuts it out. Sims goes and looks for Blackwood, but he has been taken by Annabelle Cane. He travels to Hill Top Road in Oxford to find him.
• Sims encounters a domain of The Vast. He is rowing a boat across a large body of water that has formed between London and Oxford. He takes a statement from a person who is floating on the same body of water, whilst an impossibly large object sits just under the surface. Sims then finds Basira Hussain on an island and she offers to help find Martin Blackwood.
• Annabelle Cane and Martin Blackwood are walking to Hill Top Road, protected by the camera. Cane admits she killed Mikaele Salesa in his sleep. Once they arrive, Blackwood reads a statement Cane has prepared. It details the many occupants of Hill Top Road and their grisly fates. Afterwards, Cane smashes the camera, revealing Hill Top Road to be sitting atop a gap in reality. She suspends Blackwood above the gap with a web made of tapes. He realises the recorders are artefacts of the Web, and something powerful has been listening.
• Jonathan Sims and Basira Hussain arrive at Hill Top Road and confront Cane, who has become a large spider-like creature. She proposes a truce. Cane knows the Change is unsustainable, as those whose fear fuels the Powers will eventually die. She proposes exploiting the gap in reality in Hill Top Road. If Sims destroys the Panopticon and Magnus at the same time, the Powers will be pulled into another dimension. A gas main under the Panopticon and the lighter Sims carries were both arranged by the Web for this. Sims was even marked early in life for this job.
• Sims, Blackwood, and Hussain make their way back to London, and enter another domain of The Vast. They descend a rickety ladder into the abyss below. Sims takes a statement from those who have been trapped on the ladder before. All three plunge to the bottom as the fall cannot hurt them. They make it back to London and the tunnels, where Melanie King and Georgie Barker are alone. The cultists have been taken by agents of the Entities. They begin to discuss their options.
• The group discuss their options. The first, that they follow the plan of Annabelle Cane and release the Powers into other realities. The second, that Sims takes over from Magnus to manage the suffering in the world. The third, that they let the process take its course, ensuring no new realities are infected by the Fears. All but Sims wish to send the Entities into the void, as they will not manifest automatically and each reality will need to create another Mass Ritual to summon them. Sims wants to take over, as he believes the rituals will happen again and thousands of multiverses will become hellscapes. Sims goes outside to smoke. Georgie Barker follows Sims, and he gives her his lighter for her cigarette. The group make the joint decision for Sims and Blackwood to kill Magnus, whilst the others destroy the Panopticon.
• Jonathan Sims ignores the plan and confronts Jonah Magnus at the Panopticon. Sims kills Magnus and replaces him as the centre of The Eye. He then takes a statement of the Entities themselves, detailing their emergence and evolution. Martin Blackwood attempts to stop him but arrives too late. Meanwhile their allies attempt to destroy the Panopticon. Sims believes this is impossible. However, Georgie Barker still has the web lighter Sims lent her the day before. She uses it to ignite a cache of explosives. The Magnus Institute and Panopticon are destroyed, opening a tear in reality, and banishing all Entities to a different dimension. Jonathan Sims and Martin Blackwood are caught in the blast. No trace of them can be found and their fates remain unknown.