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  • 800 BE GUE --The Last Pre-Quendorian tribe, the Mithicans, vanish mysteriously, in some horrible goof-up!
  • 400 BE GUE -- A long and violent war breaks out between the cities of Borphee and Pheebor over the re-naming of a river. The remains of the city of Pheebor can still be seen from the now Borphee river. (A very good name!)
  • 0 GUE -- The Quendorian Empire is found when peace is brought to the warring kingdoms Galepath and Mareilon by Entharion the Wise.
  • 353 GUE -- Yoruk is born. He becomes a Mashed Potato merchant, and soon becomes very bored.
  • 380 GUE -- Yoruk builds a boat and sails the great sea in search of more stuff. He discovers the Eastlands, and while there, learns the secrets of Deep Magic from the Devil himself.
  • 406 GUE -- Yoruk decides to live in a cave in the forest of Egreth. He starts writing "The Books of Saint Yoruk." By a remarkable coincidence, he is declared a saint later that very year.
  • 425 GUE -- Yoruk dies, leaving behind his skull that contains all of the secrets of Deep Magic.
  • 723 GUE -- Dimwit Flathead is born. This tyrant will later become "The most wretched ruler Quendor has ever seen."
  • 770 GUE -- Dimwit Flathead assumes to throne, the first of his siblings to become king. (The Twelve Flatheads)
  • 783 GUE -- Flood Control Dam #3 is constructed. This dam cost 37 Million Zorkmids to build, and holds back the water of the mighty frigid river. The purpose of the dam is questionable though, because it never rains underground.
  • 789 GUE -- The Flatheads are cursed by the wizard Megaboz in protest of a 1400 square bloit statue of Dimwit. All of the twelve Flatheads died that year.
  • 883 GUE -- The curse of Megaboz is finally brought to an end when the kingdom of Flatheadia is reduced to a small white house.


  • 913 GUE -- Antharia Jack's career begins with the hit series, The Z Team. This series was created by Syovar, self declared King of Zork, as a way of highlighting his own military career.
  • 931 GUE -- The cube of Foundation is aquired by Antharia Jack. He apparently lost it in a game of Grue, Fire, Water to a woman who also stole his heart.
  • 945 GUE -- A group of four alchemists set out to search for the secret of eternal life. They vanish and are never heard from again. Shortly after, strange events begin around the Grey Mountains and Desert River provinces. Syovar declares these areas the "Forbidden Lands".


  • 948 GUE -- A nameless adventurer discovers the ruins of the Kingdom of Flatheadia. He/She embarks on an adventure into the Great Underground Empire, and eventually become the Dungeon Master, keeper of all magic in Zork.


  • 949 GUE -- A nameless adventurer is sent into the Forbidden Lands to search out the four missing alchemists. This adventurer rights the wrongs of the land, and brings together two lost loves.


  • 950 GUE -- The skull of Yoruk goes missing. Last reported to be in the possession of a gang of Grues under the small white house.


  • 966 GUE -- Dalboz of Gurth is named as the newest Dungeon Master. Unfortuneately, shortly after, all magic is taken from Zork. This same year, the Coconut of Quendor is put aboard a ship by the Enchantress Y'Gael. It's destination is unknown.


  • 967 GUE -- The ship carrying the coconut dissappears in the region near the dragon, Archipelago.
  • 1033 GUE -- Mir Yannick, Dalboz's G.U.E. Tech roommate, discovers the long missing Totemizer Machine. This device allows him to rise from the position of Junior Executive Maniacal Zealot to Senior Executive Maniacal Zealot when he demonstrates the machine's effectiveness on his supervisor.
  • 1037 GUE -- Griff meets Dalboz in the forest. Griff is to search for the Time Tunnels and try to collect the lost artifacts of Zork. He is captured and Totemized by Yannick, however, and dumped down a well.
  • 1043 GUE -- Brog, a half-witted member of the already half-witted Brogmoid species, sneaks into the Inquisition's headquarters, turns on the Totemizer, and crawls inside. He is dumped by the gates of Hades.
  • 1046 GUE -- Yannick rises to the position of Vice President of Unreasoning Zeal, who is second only to the Grand Inquisitor. Later, the Grand Inquisitor accidentally hits himself repeatedly with a blunt instrument until he dies during a meeting with Yannick.
  • 1047 GUE -- Mir Yannick becomes the new Grand Inquisitor.
  • 1048 GUE -- Syovar III accidentally strangles himself, according to the Grand Inquisitor, who was the only witness. Yannick takes command of Quendor and the Frobozz Magic Company. (Renaming it Frobozz Electric)
  • 1050 GUE -- Mir Yannick finally meets with Dalboz the Dungeon Master. A battle ensues, and Yannick emerges bald, but the winner. Dalboz is dead.
  • 1052 GUE -- Dalboz's spirit finds his way into a rusty old lamp under a dock in the town of Port Foozle.
  • 1058 GUE -- A member of the magic resistance, Lucy Flathead is caught by Undersecretary Wartle defacing Inquisition propaganda. She is sentanced to Totemization when Yannick learns of her descendancy, and of being the heir to the Empire of Quendor.


  • 1066 GUE -- An adventurer is sent out on a quest into an "Undiscovered Underground" portion of the Great Underground Empire. For his/her bravery, he/she recieves a half-day off.


  • 1067 GUE -- An adventurer stops the Grand Inquisitor's plan of using mass media to brainwash the citizens of Quendor. All with the help of a Dungeon Master, a Griff, a Brogmoid, and a Flathead. The adventurer is named the new dungeon master, and Lucy Flathead assumes her rightful place as Queen of Quendor. Antharia Jack finally catches up with Lucy, the woman of his dreams.


  • 1???-1??? GUE -- The magic wars, lead by the Grand Inquisitor's Ghost, ravage the land, and set the Eastlands against the Westlands.


  • 1647 GUE -- An adventurer wins a sweepstakes held by Illuminite, Transluminite, and Leisure (IT&L;). The adventurer stops a creature known as Morphius, and restores the town of Shanbar to it's former glory.

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