Story timeline

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Neon's first Great Flood

Lavabo's odd concept brings the rains early; the unfinished upper-floor drains are wrecked and Heiyi is clogged with rain and filth for four years. Talks with Lavabo fail and Neon's rulers fall out.

• Cronos & Lotos

Community lore

ARKLAND subspace is created in Lavabo

Tester and Unistar create the ARKLAND subspace in Lavabo (now Atlas), based on their personal project ARKSTORY.

Year stated as 114.A.P. on a fan-written subspace page.

• Subspaces & the Genesis disc
• The Limbos
• Cronos & Lotos

157/04/12Community lore

The Platform Exile: the defeated are shown to a crowd and sent to Lost-Spirit Island

About 3,000 Kovar soldiers captured in the counterattack are chained, shown to a crowd and exiled to Lost-Spirit Island, a desert island in the Lavabo (later Atlas) sea, barred for good from mainstream society. The contest entry 遗欲之泪 says they became the first Isly islanders.

The pages differ on the venue (Phiwison Square, the Phiwison underground base, a sunken plaza under HAVEN). The footnote in 遗欲之泪 credits the winning Tsukinami Project and places the exile after the first phase of the war had ended, while the chronicle lists the 4/12 Platform Exile inside phase one (phase two starts on 4/30).

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• Cronos & Lotos

Community lore

The Atlas Ocean Institute is founded

The Atlas Ocean Institute (originally the Lavabo Ocean Institute) is founded to study marine life and ecology and some surface ecology, with its HQ in Atlas and a branch in Haven. The page says it ceased to exist when the Mazarine End reached Atlas, without a year.

Only the founding year is given; the end is undated.

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179/12/30Community lore

Delek hands the Tear of Lost Desire to Nira

In a small storage room on the ship Coral, Delek, who wears a blue teardrop gem on a cord, pulls an identical gem from a sack and gives this 'tear without a home' to Nira, who accepts it solemnly.

From one of five memory fragments Lalia is shown (dated 179/12/30); it is a vision inside the story.

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180/08/16Community lore

Delek refuses to leave the mast in a storm

In a storm Delek clings to the sail mast and will not come down, telling Nira to leave him alone. Two days later (08/18) the crew cannot find his young assistant, and one sailor guesses the boy went after him.

Span 180/08/16 to 180/08/18 (two memory fragments). The text implies Delek is gone but never says how.

• Cronos & Lotos

241/10/05Community lore

Derachos's team files its findings on the Tear and Lost-Spirit Island

Derachos set up a special team that spent decades reaching its findings on the Tear of Lost Desire (a level-3 possession whim), with an attached file on Lost-Spirit Island in the Atlas: L-shaped, about 5.3 km2 at high tide, highest peak 710.3 m. Both files are rated key.

Collection date 241/10/5 of two collapsible records held by Derachos. The text already calls the city Neon and the sea Atlas, which sits awkwardly with a 241 date, since the official pages have HAVEN renamed Neon only in 242.

• Sultan
• Cronos & Lotos

Community loreDate inferred

Neon develops pollutant refining during the Rainbow War

During the Rainbow War Neon, to ease the front, extracts stable concept aggregates from pollution-tide-like matter near the Neon–Atlas border, thought to come from Lotos, for whim weapons.

‘During the Rainbow War’ spans 242/03/07 to 256/09/23; earliest year used.

• Sultan
• Cronos & Lotos

242/11/17In game

Hepo arrives at the Mobius studio

Flyleaf: 'From that day on, the rain never stopped.' At the end of Tower year 242, at the Wangyou Palace in Atlas, Gino welcomes Hepo, a visiting scholar from planet Aguya in the ROTAENO subspace, who has come about the rain of the 'Haven'. He tells her the water layer overhead is the reflection of a world once called HAVEN and now renamed Neon, where a war is on; she still decides to go to Neon with the reporters.

• EXChapter EX
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• The Limbos

Community lore

Pollutant refining is used in the war and pollutants flow back to Neon

The new pollutant refining technique, developed and used in the Rainbow War, does irreparable warping to Atlas itself. Pollutants flow back into Neon, speed up the drains' alienation and quickly spoil Choroid's water.

• Sultan
• Cronos & Lotos

256–271 A.P.Community lore

Sunset Clearing

After the Rainbow War, Neon holdouts without Sultan turn Neon's shared mind into whims and launch a suicide attack on the lavabo, which makes Lotos turn into a whim. Named Sunset Clearing in 300, it runs alongside the Great Lavabo Retreat.

• Sultan
• Cronos & Lotos

256/08/31In game

The Mirrors in Mirror

The Mirrors in Mirror shows “the mirror of the mirror”; stolen again and again, it turns up in a nearby junk shop every fourteen days, with only an eagle feather left behind. Two unnamed speakers argue about giving “that guy” the mirror and sending it to a place on the fourth floor “we designed together”; one says Cronos agreed and that “he” can make himself a fulcrum, because “his name is already gone”.

• IVSewer Maze
• Cronos & Lotos
• Sultan
• Peregrinus & the Guru

256/09/16Community lore

The Sultan side collapses: the Bufeng compound burns and the Moxier'gan front breaks

In the fan story Chiluan Tears, Fang Hanzhong runs back to Iris on 09/16 with the news that the Rainbow Church and Sultan have lost and that the Witches' Council and the Unified Government mean to wipe the Bufeng out; the next day's news reports a fire at the Bufeng site and no survivors found so far. On 09/17 the command at the Moxier'gan plateau in Lavabo breaks and the chief commander Liangyou is mortally wounded; in the story on the Liulingshui page, the medic Quewen survives the ruined battlefield and wakes on a train taking prisoners back to Neon. Sunset Clearing likewise says the Bufeng sect was probably wiped out by the Unified Government in 256.

Span 09/16 to 09/17, earliest date used. Dates come from the vignette headers on Chiluan Tears and the story timestamps 256/09/17 16:34:15 and 22:08:40 on the Liulingshui page. The Chiluan Tears history puts the end of the war on 09/23, a week later; Sunset Clearing gives only the year 256.

• Sultan
• Peregrinus & the Guru
• Cronos & Lotos

Limbo Wiki (official)

The Great Lavabo Retreat

Sultan's remnants sneak into Lotos and run its power plant in reverse. Whims pour out and Lotos is sealed. The evacuation turns into the Great Flood. Cronos stays behind alone and splits himself into five: a promise never to return, the wisdom to find it, the passion to protect it, the desire to go back, and the way to find it.

• Cronos & Lotos
• Sultan

Community lore

The evacuation train burns in the Great Lavabo Retreat (the story Blindness)

In the story Blindness, during the 271 A.P. Great Lavabo Retreat a train packed with refugees is set alight by a whim that climbs onto its tail; the girl and her lover do not escape and burn to ash. The Broken Data Research report AWFS-0 doubts that the story is true.

Taken from the contest story's section headed 271.A.P; the entry's own collection stamp reads 371.A.P.

• The Limbos
• Cronos & Lotos

Community loreDate inferred

Liangzi's father dies reporting from Lavabo

After trouble in Lavabo, Liangzi's reporter father goes on assignment there (note of 271/1/22) and is never heard from again; the company sends condolences and 20GB compensation on 271/12/32. Villagers he saved later say his reporting saved a village.

Year 271 comes from the father's note (271/1/22) and the company notice (271/12/32); that he died in his reporting is stated in the 274/11/12 entry.

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Community lore

The Akashic Society disbands in the Lavabo Retreat; Yonkers moves up to Haven

During the Great Lavabo Retreat fear of whims peaks; the Akashic Society is forced to disband and its subspace Yonkers is moved up to Haven.

From the 271 entry of the Akashic Society's short history on a user sandbox.

• Cronos & Lotos
• The Limbos

271/08/15In gameDate inferred

Cronos splits into five souls (the Pearl of Truth)

The Pearl of Truth is dated two days before the fall of Lavabo and carries the line ‘wake up from the dream of the past’. Per the wiki, while closing out the evacuation of Lotos, Cronos split himself into five souls, turned the way to find Lotos into two external memories held by ‘promise’ and ‘passion’, and had everyone reborn in different places.

• S1Lotos
• Cronos & Lotos

271/08/17In game

The fall of Lavabo

The Endless Sea toppled and tens of thousands died; many souls broke into light before they could reach the channel of judgment, and people lost their home once again. The sea, now a personified being, waited for the one who had made and then destroyed it, and never met him: ‘next time, it will be in Lotos’.

• S1Lotos
• Cronos & Lotos
• Sultan

Community lore

Eustoma is born in Atlas

Eustoma Kaywar is born in Atlas in 275 A.P.

The same page says she fled to Haven during the Great Lavabo Retreat, which the timeline dates to 271, four years before her birth; the page contradicts itself.

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Community lore

Atlas migrants flood Haven and the communication crisis breeds the Speech Prism

After the Great Lavabo Retreat, large numbers of Atlas migrants poured into Haven and upset its social circles and ways of talking. The near-collapsing Unified Government of the First People neglected whim prevention, generation values soared, and new whims such as the Speech Prism appeared.

The page writes 280 A.P. 'after the Great Lavabo Retreat'; the timeline puts the retreat itself in 271, so this is the aftermath about nine years on.

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Limbo Wiki (official)Date inferred

A tsunami and a pollution tide transform a drifting island's natives

In the Dragon Palace Era the natives of a drifting island near HAVEN eat fish from an Atlas 'pollution tide' after a tsunami and mutate: they walk upright and invent a magic called lami-ba^daa. Some of them later break away as Tide-Welcoming Spirits.

Dragon Palace Era (90-286), in the sea around HAVEN; the page dates nothing. The Rainbow War page has the Witches' Council already using Tide-Welcoming Spirits when the war opens (242), so the window is roughly 90-242. deathMark's own observation; the page says almost no humans had landed on the island before HAVEN's internal strife.

• Sultan
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Limbo Wiki (official)

The cache-matter hypothesis is disproved

People once supposed a substance that, piled high enough, could make whims; cache matter came out of that idea and was used as energy for decades. The hypothesis was disproved only in the Dragon Palace Era, yet Lotos's core stayed a plant that processes it and whim energy became the Tower's industrial mainstream.

Era only: Dragon Palace Era (90-286); the page gives no year.

• Cronos & Lotos

287/01/25Community lore

Ayaki receives uto's diary

The day before a deadline Ayaki is handed his 'relics of a past life', among them uto's diary: its first entry is nearly 200 years old and its last third is stuck shut.

Date is the collection time of the item. It falls three months after uto left Lotos on 286/10/25; the page does not say how Ayaki and uto are connected beyond the diary being a past-life relic.

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Community lore

Ling (Liynw) is turned into an AI Limbo

In 368 Ling, Atlas's level-4 whim born in the Endless Sea (the user Liynw), is converted into an AI Limbo by the Limbo researcher Alya, who came to Atlas to investigate, and flees with her to Haven.

Two candidates merged: Liynw's user page says she was the whim born in the Endless Sea from Atlas myth and points to the page 绫海深底, so they are the same whim. The intro of 绫海深底 writes 368.A.P. User-page character lore.

• Cronos & Lotos
• The Limbos

Community lore

The Disordered Train is book-burned

In 371 A.P., to stop intrusion into the base layer's information, the whim object Disordered Train is burned from the records and the incident ends. It was a level-4 whim that formed between 360 and 371, an old steam locomotive pulling green carriages.

The page states 371 for the burning and says the train formed sometime between 360 and 371. Broken Data Research reports collected in 701 add that a Lotos effect had pulled it into the Endless Sea before the burning.

• The Limbos
• The Mazarine End
• Cronos & Lotos
• Subspaces & the Genesis disc

Community lore

The Ashen Flower Sea subspace is born

The Ashen Flower Sea is born in 372 A.P., attached deep at the border of Atlas's Endless Sea and Haven, appearing as a fire burning on the seabed. It took shape because the story spread widely in Haven and the Disordered Train incident was not fully erased.

The page dates the birth to 372 and the story it came from to 371.

• The Limbos
• The Mazarine End
• Cronos & Lotos
• Subspaces & the Genesis disc

Community lore

Eustoma awakens as a Limbo

In 402 A.P. Eustoma, a research assistant at the Atlas Ocean Research Institute, is guided by a researcher and awakens as a Limbo.

On the page 鳐, Predipit still says on 402/03/17 that she is not a Limbo and will awaken once she works it out herself; the user page puts the awakening in the same year.

• Cronos & Lotos
• The Limbos

402/02/12Community lore

Alya answers questions about the koi explainer

To improve the koi explainer, Alya answers Harry Hedwig's questions: a koi can take on special traits from its owner's wishes but keeps some fish features; its water ball rarely drowns anyone; feigned sleep does not turn into real sleep; the owner must take it out for a walk every day; koi are very strong fighters; unowned koi talk to each other, owned ones do not, and none will hurt their own kind on an owner's order.

Recorded talk kept by Harry Hedwig, grade souvenir, dated 402.A.P/2/12.

• Cronos & Lotos

402/03/11Community loreDate inferred

An old fisherman spears a blue-grey fish and is caught in a memory vortex

An old fisherman sets out from Yungang at eight in the morning, loses his way in the Endless Sea by noon and spears a flat, blue-grey, long-tailed fish. He is pulled into a vortex of unfamiliar scenes, passes out when his brain cannot take it, and remembers almost nothing when rescued; his left hand is scratched. The institute sends Predipit and Eustoma to find the fish.

Inferred: the 402/03/17 record says six days had passed since the incident, which gives about 3/11, the day the mission was assigned and already knew the story, so the real day may be a little earlier. The fisherman is unnamed.

• The Limbos
• Cronos & Lotos

402/03/11Community lore

Predipit and Eustoma dive into the Endless Sea to find the blue-grey fish

Researcher Predipit and assistant Eustoma of the Atlas Ocean Research Institute are sent to find the flat, long-tailed, blue-grey fish an old fisherman met. They dive into the Endless Sea on 3/15, dig up two eggs in an eerily lifeless patch of shallow sea on 3/16, and Predipit suspects the ray drains and releases people's memories.

Span 402/03/11 to 03/18: the mission is assigned on 3/11 (the weekly digest also dates the dive to 3/11), the dive starts on 3/15, the eggs are found on 3/16 and the search goes on to 3/18. The earliest date is used.

• The Limbos
• Cronos & Lotos

402/03/19Community lore

The ray wrecks the camp; Predipit is lost in a memory vortex

A giant ray smashes the shelter before dawn to get its egg box. Predipit, riding its back, is flung toward a broken steel rod and is later seen hanging in the water with the rod's far end in the ray's belly. A vortex of gathered memories swallows him and the ray; rescuers report his heartbeat at zero and no body found.

Dated by Eustoma's record of 402.A.P/3/19.

• The Limbos
• Cronos & Lotos

Limbo Wiki (official)Date inferred

The 420s: Atlas's new AIs are mostly mindless natives

In the Lavabo period Atlas made almost no AIs. By the 420s of the Central Palace Era the AIs born there are mostly natives with no power to think; converters usually take them to the virtual mines to work illegally, though the natives see that as the only way up.

The page says 'the 420s' of the Central Palace Era; dated to 420 as the start of that decade. It describes a state of affairs, not one moment.

• Cronos & Lotos

Community lore

Reborn Sanchun meets Anyan and settles in Chungang

Sanchun, reborn on the Second Surface and homeless since Lavabo was destroyed, meets the Second Surface resident Anyan in the hill building and accepts his invitation to settle in Chungang.

Year from the page's timeline; the meeting scene is memory fragment 5. The page dates the whole 'Happiness Factory on the Hill' series of events from 521 to 593 A.P.

• The Second Surface & the half-beasts
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Limbo Wiki (official)

Lavabo is formally renamed Atlas

In the Central Palace Era Lavabo is formally renamed Atlas.

Era only: Central Palace Era (286-673); the page gives no year.

• Cronos & Lotos

Limbo Wiki (official)

Flying-whim ferrymen start carrying tourists to Atlas

From the Central Palace Era flying-type whim ferrymen appear on Atlas and can carry tourists from Haven down to it.

Era only: Central Palace Era (286-673); the page gives no year.

• Cronos & Lotos

Limbo Wiki (official)

Bernice's writings set off a rush to dig in the Endless Sea

Late in the New Birth Era Bernice Itaca's writings set off a wave of digging in the Endless Sea.

Late New Birth Era (673-742); the page gives no year.

• Cronos & Lotos

744/03/22Community lore

The last Leap over the Dragon Gate: the koi take their leave

Over the Atlas sea a green cloud ring and a huge wave rise, and orange-red koi dive into a red sea of light and turn to red glow. One golden light falls into the water and becomes a girl who tells Alya that after leaping the gate koi can speak and can choose to end themselves, and that humans should stop looking for them.

Two key-level records held by Alya, both collected 744/3/22. Anyone who sees the Leap in person is reborn within three days. It falls about a year after Port Odysseus fell (743).

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• The Mazarine End

Limbo Wiki (official)

The ALIGN rally is founded

Clear and Samuelle found a rally in memory of Clock Town and the fallen Cronos, held every quarter. The first champion is Sappho Lesbos.

• VIIChronnection
• The Ark & Samuelle
• Cronos & Lotos

Limbo Wiki (official)

Dr. Naberius becomes a three-headed dog

The raven-masked doctor who helped build the Mid-Level is caught up in a redacted incident and is not reborn as usual: he becomes a three-headed dog, kept human-looking by his mask. People claim the dog is Cronos in disguise, which in the end pins the Cronos concept down.

• S2Eschaton
• Cronos & Lotos
• The Ark & Samuelle

Limbo Wiki (official)

Part of Atlas's records are made public

Burned books left the Miracle Forest poorly recorded until part of Atlas's records were made public in the Lunar Era.

Era only: the Miracle Forest page says the Lunar Era (742-770); no year.

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