Shuttle's Shipyard

Shuttle's Shipyard — Timeline

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Timeline — The Weaving of an Exile

All dates are relative to the Shipyard’s common reckoning: Before Stitch (BS) and After Stitch (AS), counting from the first public covenant between the Exile-God and the people who would become the Yard.

Ages at a Glance

  • The Unmooring (Before Stitch)
  • The First Binding (0 AS)
  • The Long Dimming (38–101 AS)
  • The Rebraiding (102–current)

Milestones

  • 87 BS: Rumors of a reversed place at the world’s underside. Sailors report edges that taste of metal and honey.
  • 43 BS: A thread of night is hauled ashore; it frays into lantern-fiber. First edges are knotted in public.
  • 12 BS: The Weaver-in-Exile is pulled by prayers and work to the reverse-of-the-world. Patterns appear in the frost of mirrors.
  • 0 AS — The First Binding: The god speaks through a shuttle and offers covenant. A plaza is chalked, the three Laws are taught, and the first loom-ship is commissioned.
  • 7 AS: Treadwork rings with measured song; the first cohort of Edge-Runners swears to tie off loose ends.
  • 15 AS: Spindle Square opens as a market where oaths are weighed with thread.
  • 26 AS: Edge Thread extends its Walk; lamps are raised in braided pairs.
  • 38–101 AS — The Long Dimming: Rival powers test the seams; famine of fiber and oil; the god sleeps longer between breaths. The yard never closes, but crossings slow.
  • 64 AS: The Forgetting Riot — citizens refuse to tithe memory. A storm tears three seams. Calm returns with the Tying Fair covenant renewal.
  • 70 AS: The Knotted Saint is named by strangers saved at the fringe. Pilgrimages begin.
  • 74 AS — The Rebraiding: Trade resumes; fiber co-ops form; new patterns are certified.
  • 79 AS: A jealous yard across another seam lures ships; their boons fail under stress. Refugees are taken in; the Rival is named False-God of Bright Thread.
  • 86 AS: The Edge Ledger is started: names of those pulled back from the dark are read each Edge Night.
  • 110 AS (Current): the 46th Blood Bond Tournament disrupted by a foul play. The participants fight off the Undoers work, and ascend to Edge Runners.

Festivals & Observances Through the Year

  • Pattern Day (early spring): masterworks unveiled, free clinics and drills.
  • Edge Night (midwinter): lamps along the Walk, names of the saved are read.
  • Tying Fair (midsummer): vows made public under the canopy; ribbons everywhere.

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