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Recent History refers roughly to the latter half of the tenth century after the founding of 
Noxus, in which most of the canon stories take place. Year 997 AN has been widely accepted as the present year within the 
Runeterra Prime universe.[1]
Because the last century has plethora of history happen all at once, a lot of its chronology is disputed. In order to make this page more coherent Recent History has been divided into several simultaneously occurring Sub Events:
Noxian Invasion of Ionia
974 AN - 989 AN
974 AN - 989 AN
Rebirth of the Sun Disc
989 AN - 991 AN
989 AN - 991 AN
Return of the Ruined King
994 AN - 997 AN
994 AN - 997 AN
Great Mage Rebellion
996 AN - Onward
996 AN - Onward
History[]
- 973 AN
Govos enters the Temple of Thanjuul as a servant in the kitchens.
- 975 AN
- 977 AN
- Kusho, Shen and Govos began to track down a serial killer known as Khada Jhin. All three would be mentally scarred by Khada Jhin's murders.
- Kusho gives Govos a new Kinkou name, Usan.
- 978 AN
- Samira's home of Amakra was attacked by cultists that worshiped Xerath. She and her family migrate to Bel'zhun. She would quickly join a Noxian warband and start her training as a soldier.
- Gangplank killed Sarah's parents in a raid, orphaning her.
- 980 AN
- Reincarnated Karma reemerges from within a 12-year-old Darha.
- Shen, Usan, and Master Kusho finally track down and capture Khada Jhin in Jyom Pass on the Ghajan River. He is taken to Tuula and imprisoned there.
- 981 AN
- Samira, after two years, finished her training as a Noxian soldier. (Early 981 AN)
- 983 AN
- Garen left High Silvermere to join the army as a squire. During this time he met Jarvan IV and later became friends with him.
- Qiyana started her elemental studies. Within weeks she mastered advanced techniques.
- 984 AN
- Kaisa obtained her first blade from her father for her birthday.
- 986 AN
- Jarvan IV obtained Drakebane from his father.
- Kaisa reopens a Void rift, causing an earthquake that swallows her entire village beneath the Sai desert.
- Kaisa mortally wounds a voidling, which fuses with her skin to save its own life.
- Kassadin, striken with grieve of losing his wife and daughter, is dragged back to Zirima, where he would drown away his sorrows.
- 987 AN
- Evelynn kills Shauna Vayne's parents. Vayne vowed to learn everything about Dark Magic to enact revenge against the demon that killed her family.
- LeBlanc took Rell to the Black Rose academy.
- 988 AN
- Gregori and Amoline Hastur left Noxus Prime to live in isolation somewhere north of the Ironspike Mountains. Annie's mother Amoline dies, leaving Tibbers to Annie.
- Rell is first forced into combat with another student.
- 988 AN - 996 AN
- Kassadin hears of a prophet who made life sacrifices to the Void.
- Enraged by realising this prophet's actions was the cause of the loss of his family, Kassadin ends up calling in every favor he could to fight Malzahar and the Void.
- 989 AN
- Garen has served with honor in several campaigns along the Freljordian border by this time, playing a key role in purging cultists from the Silent Forest and having fought alongside the defenders of Whiterock.
- Alistar, with the help of a servant girl named Ayelia, was able to escape the Reckoner arenas of Noxus. Weeks later, a political coup shook the empire to its dark foundations, and the arena minotaur's escape was forgotten.
- 990 AN
- Varus arrives in Shurima where he senses another Darkin presence in a Shuriman tomb.
- 991 AN
- Akali formally entered her Kinkou training, determined to succeed her mother as the new Fist of Shadow.
- Events of Frozen Hearts
- Nunu got a flute from his mother Layka, so he could learn to play her melodies himself. In the safety of their cart, the two bundled together and followed the knotted string that served as Layka's heart-song, recording everywhere they'd been together, as the years came and went.
- When the caravan was attacked by raiders, Nunu was separated from his mother. Dragged to safety by a band of Frostguard, the surviving Notai children were taken to the Foundling Village near their towering Frostguard Citadel. Nunu was left to wonder what happened to Layka, waiting to hear her songs on the wind.
- The secessionist uprising of Rokrund Plains.
- Events of The Black Powder Plot.
- General Granth fails to kill Swain and gets killed instead.
- General Granth fails to kill
- Samira lost one of her eyes.
- Events of The Black Powder Plot.
- 993 AN
- Marcus Du Couteau fakes his death and dissappears with the help of Talon. They start plotting to kill Swain.
- 993 AN - 994 AN
- Akali disapproves of the Kinkou Order's rules and regulations and sets off to fight as a Rogue Ronin Assassin. Shen and her have parted on neutral terms for the time being.
- Heimerdinger and Ziggs arrive and set-up shop in Piltover.
- Jinx starts to vandalize Piltover.
- 995 AN
- Events of Paint the Town.
- Events of Bombs: A Tribute.
- Ziggs starts his quest to blow things up.
- Events of Annie: Origins.
- Annie unlocks her powers.
- Annie and Daisy play in the woods. She is unable to save Daisy after she slips in a river.
- Death of Daisy Hastur.
- Arriving home, Annie is confined in her room. Engulfed in sadness, Annie doesn't realize her mental state caused a fire, burning down the entire house. Gregori dies saving Annie.
- Death of Gregori Hastur.
- Leanna blames Annie for everything and attempts to rip apart Tibbers. Annie's inner rage manifests outwards and transforms Tibbers.
- Tibbers awakened.
- Death of Leanna Hastur.
- Events of The Axiomata.
- Aliay Qunlan becomes a Yun Tal and sees the world outside through The Vidalion. A day after his ceremony he meets Qiyana and the two bond with their ideal to change Ixtal.
- Aliay Qunlan becomes a Yun Tal and sees the world outside through The Vidalion. A day after his ceremony he meets
- Heimerdinger becomes an acclaimed professor of Piltover university.
- 996 AN
- Events of Orchid's Bloom.
- Events of Progress Day.
- Caitlyn sniffs out potential Noxian spies in Piltover, and manages to out one named Tamara, deporting her to Bel'Zhun with discretion. Another, Colette, manages to infiltrate Clan Medarda's ranks. Vi began the process of interrogating a prisoner in relation to the spies, though whether she discovered anything about the second spy is unknown.
- Events of Blood of Noxus.
- Events of The Whispering Doodad.
- Noxus obtains Piltover's Clan Medarda's trading map.
- Nami becomes the Tidecaller and ascends to the surface world to track down the Aspect of the Moon.
- Events of The Principles of Strength.
- The Delverhold strengthens its ties with Noxus. Alyssa Roshka Gloriana val-Lokan becomes its leader.
- Events of Stains on a Name.
- A decade after the Battle of the Placidium, Ionia honors the young woman who inspired a revolution.
- A decade after the Battle of the Placidium, Ionia honors the
- Events of Breach and The Girl Who Came Back.
- Kai'Sa decides to give up her life of self-isolation in the Great Sai's underground and live on the surface again.
- Events of The Dreaming Pool.
- Syndra is freed from her prison inside Dael'eh Ahira, Fae'lor of Ionia.
- Death of Okin.
- Fae'lor ruined castle is lifted by Syndra into the sky and transported northwards to an unknown location.
- The destruction of Fae'lor Noxian fortification had caused the Noxians to mobilize their armies for an eventual second invasion of Ionia.
- Events of The Blade of Millenia.
The Man with the Steel Cane
- Events of Zed.
- Events of The Man with the Steel Cane.
- Jhin is released from his prison and is trying to lure Zed and Shen for his performance before going on an assassination mission in Zaun for the Ionian government.
- Shen, accompanied temporarily by Akali, tracks Jhin and Zed down.
- Jhin, Shen and Zed clash in Nanthee. Jhin escapes Ionia by the use of bombs and catches as ship heading for Piltover. Shen is able to beat Zed and take him as a prisoner. Kayn watching the capture from afar refuses to save Zed, titling himself as the new Master of the Shadow Order.
- Jhin travels to Piltover while being tracked down by Akali.
- Event of Awaken.
- After Jhin kills members of several merchant clans selling weapons to Ionia, Clan Ferros and Camille try to deal with him in a Zaunite theatre. What happens after the fight is unclear other than the fact that Jhin has gotten away from Camille and set multiple traps in side the theater which he has taken hold of.
- After
- Shen releases Zed and they travel to Piltover together to find Akali and Jhin.
- Akali gets captured by Jhin. Not soon after, Zed and Shen arrive at Akali's location where they battle with Jhin. They were able to overpower Jhin and successfully re-capture him, with Jhin slipping hinting towards who released him from his imprisonment to begin with.
- Zed returns to Zhyun to confront Kusho, who staged his death during the Noxian invasion and has later become the leader of the Navori Brotherhood. Kusho reveals that he was the one who released Jhin from prison, which enraged Zed. Kusho tried to pit Kayn against Zed, but after Kayn affirmed his loyalty to Zed, Kusho drinks the Tears of Shadows to empower himself. After a quick battle, Zed kills Master Kusho.
- With the help of Kayn and his loyal students', Zed is able to retake his position as the Master of the Shadow Order, killing the disloyal followers in the process.
- Events of The Man with the Steel Cane.
- Events of Meet Zoe.
- Coming back to Runeterra after millennia, a misunderstanding with a town's citizens leads local soldiers to try to banishing Zoe only to be met with a meteor summoned by her, the resulting crater would lead mortals to discover a World Rune nearby.
- Coming back to Runeterra after millennia, a misunderstanding with a town's citizens leads local soldiers to try to banishing
- Rell escapes the Black Rose academy in search of her friends and foes.
- Death of Shava, Riven's adoptive mother.
- Events of Monstrous.
- Events of A Piece of Shadow Cake.
- Events of Wild Magic.
- Events of Child of Zaun
- Events of Daredevil Impulse
- 997 AN
- Events of Warriors.
- Ezreal raids a Shuriman tomb to obtain the Tear of the Goddess. Tomb traps awaken voidlings that charge towards Ezreal. Kai'Sa steps in to save Ezreal. After brief hesitation, Ezreal joins Kai'Sa in fighting off the voidborn.
- Caitlyn and Vi are unable to prevent Zaunite criminals from releasing Urgot. Vi's gauntlets get damaged but both her and Caitlyn eventually manage to defeat Urgot.
- Viego is defeated and sealed in the Camavoran capital, Alovedra.
- Events of Dead of Winter.
- Olaf returns to the Winter's Claw to find Sejuani and their comrades hunting a Mammoth near the Ursine's lands. They come home empty-handed and devastated by the death of some of their warriors. Left with little food for the tribe and no clue to what to do next, the warmother talks to Kriek, a man that the tribe leave as a prisoner with no food, who claims he needs no nourishment since he ate from the Great Cauldron of Ornn. Later that evening, Sejuani decides to hunt for the lost artifact.
- During the events of The Call, Olaf and Sejuani war with the Ursine in search of the Great Cauldron of Ornn, when Volibear manifests himself during the battle and blesses his followers.
- Events of In Battle, Broken.
- Atreus returns to Mount Targon after the events of Ruination, hurt and exhausted and is found by 3 Iula. He slept for four days and after waking up, Atreus started demonstrating post-traumatic stress. He explained the events related to Atreus and expressed his wishes to stop fighting. Iula became enraged, remembering what her husband sacrificed for him, explained the war the Solari are raging upon the tribes of Targon and told him to use his power to defend this world from the inhuman beings that threaten it.
- During the events of The Call, Atreus faces Leona and the Solari on a celestial temple on the Upper Slopes of Mount Targon.
- Bel'Veth swallows the Shuriman port city of Belveth, including its surrounding sea.
- Events of Hollowspun.
- At some point between 991 AN and now, Taliyah leaves The Sun Disc, moving south. What happened to her family is unknown.
- Taliyah and the kids she is sheltering are heading to Xolan, a mythical paradise on Sai Kahleek when they find Kai'Sa.
- During the events of The Call, Kai'Sa and Taliyah arrive on Xolan, only to find a ruined city. There, they were cornered by Xer'Sai and Rek'Sai herself. Kai'Sa decides to sacrifice herself jumping into the abyss bellow.
- At some point between 991 AN and now,
- Events of All That Will Ever Be and Pinwheel
- After jumping back into the crater Rek'Sai and the rest of the Xer'Sai created, Kai'Sa finds herself in the Lavender Sea and comes face to face with its monstrous empress. Overwhelmed by her strength, Kai'Sa is captured by Bel'Veth
- Bel'Veth reveals to Kai'Sa that her father, Kassadin, still lives but has lost his mind to the Void. She also reveals that while the Void was corrupting reality, reality was also "corrupting" the Void.
- Bel'Veth offers Kai'Sa an ultimatum: help her wipe out her progenitors, the Watchers, and she will give them a chance to defeat her. She orders Kai'Sa to "find the Watchers and comfirm the truth", before releasing Kai'Sa. In an act of self-preservation, Kai'Sa instinctively rockets herself up towards the surface, escaping the Lavender Sea.
- After jumping back into the crater
- Events of The Unexpected Spark.
- After the Black Mist attack on Zaun, it left the city devastated, and Zeri is willingly helping the citizens the way she can.
- After the Black Mist attack on
- Events of Ravenbloom Conservatory.
- Annie is brought back to Noxus by a Black Rose scout and is recognized as Amoline's daughter. She hangouts for a while and makes some new friends, but is ultimately bothered by the academy harsh rules.
- In act of childish prank, Annie unleash Tibbers' true form and set Ravenbloom on fire, destroying it.
- Events of The Boys and Bombolini
- After the Ruined King events, Graves is back to business with his partner Twisted Fate. They would pull a heist on Bombolini's diving company, a former partner in crime who who went completely unappreciated for years before retiring from crime altogether. During the mission, they discussed Graves' past adventures and relationships, which Twisted Fate replied with some jealousy. During the robbery, they met Bombolini himself, who was surprised to see them and remarked their obvious romantic relationship.
- This heist resulted in his ship exploding and Graves and Twisted Fate didn't even get a worthwhile reward from the job, but their new found feelings for each other left room for more questions.
- After the Ruined King events,
