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timeline to make sure i know what i'm doing

two territorial forges on different sides of the mountain, eastern and western

group of fodder dragons are being shipped to eastern forge - next few lines, read alois

random fodder dragon uses other random fodder dragon named holly to steal a metal pin from guard on fodder ship

random fodder dragon convinces larger fodder dragon named theo to attack a guard after undoing his chains. theo is holly's brother

guard named alois is killed by theo

random fodder dragon unchains himself and throws metal pin

theo looks for pin and tries unchaining other prisoners

random fodder dragon steals guard's jewels and rolls the body in a trench, leaves

holly watches the random fodder dragon in envy - read leblanc

theo holly and other unimportant prisoner are caught and punished, theo is killed

random fodder dragon goes to west forge and asks for a job, steals alois' name and notices the western patriarch's distress after his partner dipped - read aero

random fodder dragon goes to eastern forge where he was initially meant to go and pretends western matriarch kidnapped them, convinces eastern matriarch to attack back and save the first alois who was apparently her lover that was sort of obvious because of his jewels - read ayesha (she doesn't know first alois is dead)

eastern matriarch gets mad and wages war, trusts random fodder dragon as a spy

western patriarch also trusts random fodder dragon as a spy

note. somewhat canon values in the ashfall waste, spirits aren't valued and they love capitalism

random fodder dragon finds random deception spirit named kolya and bribes him with the lives of weaker dragons using his currently limited influence - read kolya

kolya becomes stronger the more lies that are told and believed

random fodder dragon distracts western patriarch's advisor, aldrich, with eastern patriarch's advisor, knox, in a disguise - read knox

random fodder dragon gaslights the western patriarch into everything being his fault and takes his position, this was over the course of a few moons

random fodder dragon has kolya put eastern matriarch to sleep and eats all the pearlcatchers idk

eastern matriarch is kept in the bottom of the crypts and guarded by lesser spirit named gwendolen, her closest followers were "executed" - read sentinel

random fodder dragon unites both sides of the mountain under his own rule, there are some civil fights - read laeg

western former patriarch is still chilling as a royal but he needs therapy

new alois starts chucking fodder into the volcano to create a new spirit that'll listen to him, this creates a spirit of carnage named wyrre - read wyrre

new alois meets a spirit of envy named luella and bribes her with power if she does all his gross leadership work, like taxes, for him

luella uses this to feed her ego and kills people she doesn't like in a way akin to medusa

brien falls in love with luella

a now stronger volcano/mountain with more fuel promotes the uhh industrial revolution because heat make steam faster and helps with forging yk

some new spirits are born from this but they're not really important except maybe leroux he's important in my heart

western former patriarch's shaman aldrich creates somewhat rebellious group they also like plants - read aldrich or ivern

new alois has 3 offspring and one of them, rieux, joins aldrich's group and is dissatisfied with his sister, aefen's actions - read rieux or aefen

holly breaks out of eastern forge's prison during the chaos and starts collecting dragons in the poorer regions - read dragons in "alleys" for important slums characters

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smaller timelines:

random female spiral named salem figures out how to mind control people and leblanc uses that

salem tries attacking lucy, a well known artisan

quincy stabs salem

salem falls asleep and is dragged back into the alleys before quincy can fully kill her

lucy remains with symptoms familiar to anyone who's read "dracula" or "salem's lot" and falls in love with her doctor marguerite

quincy studies stuff because he wants to find and kill salem for good, his studies lead him to discovering dorian stuck in a magic ring

takes dorian and makes him run the ferrous tavern as an intel hub type area supported by the golden brigade leader mycroft, ferrous tavern inspired by diogenes club - read mycroft or dorian

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random male spiral named church, a necromancer, uses magic dirt to bring stuff back to life, uses this dirt to prevent salem from fully dying. has some level of mind control - read church

in previously stated industrial era, spirit of novelty named leroux comes to life and does some weird stuff which includes stealing church's magic dirt - read leroux

uses magic dirt to revive a corpse/create a new being, whichever idea you want, named galatea - read galatea

local undertaker, glanvill, falls in love with galatea and helps promote leroux as being cool - read glanvill

leroux becomes the face / icon of the current industrial era. bringing something back to life is a big deal

church notices this and is mad but won't do anything until leblanc finds the time is right or salem recovers

lombard is schizophrenic
edsel became delirious because she knows what's goin on in the mountain