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This page contains the Timeline which was published in Issue 65 of PC Format Magazine. For a more detailed listing of the events in the game, please refer to this page, Chronology, where we also take into consideration the entries of Florentine's Journal and the various other documents and objects that may propose some clues to the lore of the game.

Date Event
12,000 BCC
The Soulstone is cast into Hell and the gate of the Abyss is formed from the Soulstone. The Soulstone creates the power called Abaddon. Abaddon becomes the Keeper of the key to the Abyss (the Shrive) and in his inception the seven Seals of the Gate to the Abyss are bound to time.
3,000 to 300 BC
Druids use the stones as a place of pagan worship.
1264
Claude Florentine born in Lyon, France. The Power of Belial takes form at Florentine's birth.
1294
Florentine arrives at the stones.
1316
Initiation of the Temple of the Morning Star. It is their intention to destroy the Seven Seals in order to open the Gate to the Abyss and call upon Satan's power. Thus, the Power of Satan can take a physical form on Earth before the Power of God.
1336
The Tower is located by Florentine. The Lesser Power of Galziel [sic] is formed. The first Stone and Seal of Abaddon are broken by the Temple. Florentine removes the Shrive from the Soulstone. The Temple burns to the ground due to traps set in the Seals. Florentine survives with the aid of Belial. The Shrive disappears, taken by Aelf (St. Michael) who divides the two pieces. He deposits the top piece in the Temple under the house and the sword in his keep on the Realm of Arqua. Florentine learns of the Gardeners, the keepers of the Tower and the Seals. The Watchers - Gaul and Hawk - wake as the sword is removed from the Soulstone and begin their separate journeys in quest for the Abyss.
1420
The second stone and Seal of Abaddon are broken. The Temple burns down once again when the Second Seal is broken. Florentine survives. Florentine and Belial go to Israel to find a device that will halt the fires.
1431
Florentine meets the Powers known as Fecor and Anarazel in the ruins of Krak des Chevaliers and they head for the Carpathians where they hope to find the elusive device.
1490
The Mirror of Solomon is located. Florentine pays a visit to Madrid to find papers on the Tower, then goes to the Temple of the Morning Star.
1521
The Power of Abaddon is conjured into the Mirror. Abaddon is forced to tell Florentine of the traps within the Seals on the Stones.
1529
The third stone and Seal of Abaddon are broken. The Power of Vine appears at the temple.
1666
Florentine chairs the Grand Meeting of Magicians in London. The Power of Pyrichiel is summoned causing the Great Fire of London. The fourth stone and Seal of Abaddon are broken.
1670
The evil of Florentine's mind creates the Lesser Power of the Dodger.
1672
The Dodger escapes into the Tower.
1673
Attempts to find the Dodger begin.
1783
The fifth stone and Seal of Abaddon are broken. Florentine learns that the Dodger is able to control the Ire. The Temple sends in Yielders and Urges to locate the Dodger but they fail.
1895
After unsuccessful attempts to kill the Dodger, the Power of Belial informs Florentine that the Gardeners may have returned to the Tower. American Temple member James Jonson is killed after locating an entrance to the Tower. His family perish in the fire. The Temple are attacked by the Dodger and the Ire as they try to move the Mirror.
1912
Florentine summons the Powers of the Slanderers to guard the Temple grounds. Hawk arrives at the Temple but is captured by Belial and bound in chains through the neutral Power called Raysiel by Florentine's will. Hawk is incarcerated in an 'otherwordly' jail, the entrance to which is behind the sarcophagus in the Study.
1929
The homes of the richest members of the Temple are guttered in a series of fires. Florentine blames the Dodger. The Temple abduct six women for the sacrifical breaking of the sixth Seal and stone of Abaddon. The sixth stone is broken. Belial escapes the Temple with the six pieces of the Seals from the Chamber of the Soulstone and flees to the catacombs of St. Michael's.
Up to present day
Charles Randall discovers the house, but is silenced forever and tied to part of the Soustone. Charles becomes Belial's servant. Belial finds Adam Randall's address and arranges a visitation to give him the Seals. Their proximity begins a change in Adam's soul. He has visions and is drawn to the house. Charles Randall reaches out with his soul and taps into Rebecca Trevisard who tries to contact Adam through dreams. Adam and Rebecca arrive at the house more or less the same time. Belial and Florentine work independently on the same aims. The Temple wants to use Adam to find the Shrive and Sword, then use him to smash the last Seal. Belial and Florentine both want to be the one to free Satan. Within the last Seal lies the very heart of the Soulstone. But where are the Shrive and the Sword, the artefacts that can save or destroy mankind? Can Adam find them before Belial or Florentine, and will he be able to banish the Power of Satan? The final episode begins...