OOC: ((Just a timeline of Ælbdís Gaomee's life. For orientation for friends and myself, else I'll be forgetting or mixing everything up. Hihi))

First Age (Years of the Trees)

• ca. 4608 Ælbdís is born as first daughter of her Avarin parents, during the wandering of her kin.

• 4611 Ælbdís' sister Estra is born.
- The Elves reach in the same year the Erebor and wander further north to the lands that are today known as the Withered Heath.

• 4618 The kin opens up the first encampment after many years of wandering. Tents are their homes, they have not yet the knowledge to build with stone.
- Estra discovers a herd of Heath-Ox, the future incoming of milk, meat and fur for the Elves.

• 4632 Ælbdís and Estra begin to learn how to read and write from their parents. The scripture is by now long forgotten.

• 4641 The Elves break up camp and go further to the north-west, until they reach the outskirts of the Grey Mountains.

• 4642 First contact with the dwarves. The borders of communication cannot be breached as the languages between the two peoples differ too strongly. Both make sure to be here in peace and to abide the other. The Dwarves vanish then to Ælbdís' displeasure under the earth.

• 4678 Orcs appear for the first time to the Elves. With primitive bows and spears they are driven back and Ælbdís' father joins on that the group of warriors.
- They begin to make armors from wood and leather.

• 4680 Elves turn to Manwë, that he may help them against the Orcs. Ælbdís' mother builds an idol of the Vala and becomes his High-Priestess.

• 4683 The Dwarves re-appear and come to the Elves' aid. They teach them the crafting of armor and the smithing and forming of steel into weapons. The Orcs are defeated by the Union of warriors and dwarves.
- Trade is afterwards established between Elves and Dwarves.
- The coming of the Dwarves is interpreted as aid of Manwë and the Vala becomes the patron of the Elves.

• 4708 Ælbdís is experiencing the consecration into the circle of the adults and as priestess of Manwë.

• 4711 Estra is taken as adult now as well and joins her father and the warriors.

• 4727 The community is now lead by the scholars and priests. They discover how to farm and to plant crops. Trade increases with the Dwarves.

• 4809 The Dwarves give free the secret of how to build with stone and the first small buildings are set.

• 4900 Ælbdís' mother is speaking of the great evil from Utumno and its return. The first Prophecy of the Dark Time is being written.

• 4995 The world grows dark, the light of the Trees fade and the Dark Time arrives. Orcs and Trolls begin to seek out the Elves more and more often, each time attacking harder.
- The Warriors lead now the community and the Elves retreat into the mountains where they can defend themselves.

• 5000 The Moon arises and brings the Elves hope that the Dark Time may be ended.
- The main host of the Orcs is crushed.

First Age (Years of the Sun)

• 1 A great festival is held as the Dark Time ends with the first dawn.

• 132 Ælbdís is chosen to investigate the new creatures that have been seen around their borders and the priestess finds them to be Man.
- The Man adapt quickly to the Elves' language and pointed the way to the West as they are in search of the Valar.

• 133 Some Man stay behind and leave for the Erebor.

• 289 Evil Men from the east assault the Elves. Ælbdís is gravely wounded but survives the siege due to the engineer mastery of the dwarves, who equip the Elves with far reaching catapults and spear-onager.

• 587-590 While in Beleriand reigns the War of Wrath and Morgoth is cast into the Void, the remaining Dragons flee from Angband and reach the Withered Heath. The Elves try to defend themselves but are defeated. Estra and Ælbdís' parents are dead, many others are scattered and are picked off by the roaming orcs. Few survivors migrate into Greenwood, one of them being Ælbdís.

Second Age

• 5 Ælbdís is given the name Tuilinthel by the Elves of Greenwood and comes to Oropher's court, where she abides still as priestess.

• 10-38 The priestess tries to find the scattered remnants of her kin, but without much success.

• 67 She meets the warrior Farodir, befriends him and is taught by him in archery and combat with the blade. Aldoreel, the sword of Estra and her sister's longbow serve her as weapons.

• 501 Ælbdís tells Farodir of a strange dream she had and the possible return of the Dark Time. Farodir speaks to her in return of Morgoth having been cast from this world and a scenario such as Ælbdís imagines would be impossible to come upon the world a second time.

• 517 - 1209 The priestess travels throughout Middle-Earth and sets foot on Numenor, praying the word of the Valar especially to Mankind as she believes that only the faith to the Valar may prevent the return of the Dark Time.

• 1210 Ælbdís is being blinded through an accident and found by the Dwarves. They bring her to the Iron Hills and care for her. Ælbdís befriends her saviour Ógodr and his wife Gunhildr.

• 1212 Ælbdís looses her sight entirely.

• 1214 Ógodr's son Torgrim is born and Ælbdís becomes his godparent.

• 1215-1380 Ælbdís trains her skills in combat and archery as a blind. She sets out with Torgrim and Ógodr to let Torgrim become a true warrior. They meet Farodir on the way who joins them therein.

• 1380-1392 Adventures of the four companions throughout the east of Middle-Earth.

• 1401 Ælbdís finds the hermit Yulivee in the deep east of Rhûn, who had been one of her kin. The wise Elf teaches Ælbdís of the Otherworld and the Elven-Paths.

• 1411 Ælbdís leaves Yulivee, done with her training and ventures alone through Rhûn back to the Iron Hills

• 1693 The war between Sauron and Elves begins and a new Dark Time is about to begin. Ælbdís gathers the remnants of her kin, led by the warrior Tobaár.

• 1698 The Cloud-Children as the remnants call themselves now can fight back Sauron from the borders surrounding the Withered Heath with the knowledge of the elder days and Tobaár's tactical skills.

• 1730 Ælbdís is invited by Tobaár to be one of ten elves forming a council. The council leader becomes Yárilyion.

• 3111 Ælbdís goes on a pilgrimage to Númenór but is sent back before she can arrive at the shore, for the use of elvish language and their visit is prohibited.

• 3434 - 3441 Ælbdís and her kin take part in the Last Alliance. The priestess herself tends to the wounded and the dead. The Dark Time ends.

Third Age

• 489 The cloud-children and the Men of the Dale-Lands fend off marauding Easterlings who aim to invade Gondor.

• 541 Ælbdís is captured by Easterlings and tortured.

• 542 Farodir can rescue the priestess from her captivity and brings her to Thranduil's Halls where she can be brought into the care of healers.

• 1050 Sauron's shadow falls upon Greenwood the Great. Yárilyion calls Ælbdís to duty in service to the Tirn.

• 1051 - 2976 Ælbdís stands in service of the Tirn and battles against the creatures that have invaded Mirkwood. Her kin holds itself in the background and rarely engages into combat. The council is slowly forgotten.

• 3015 Ælbdís goes on a pilgrimage to remind the people once more of the Valar. During her travels she meets the scholar Matuk who is a believer of Iluvatar. Drunken and struck in an argument, the monk almost succeeds in killing Ælbdís. The knight Torfrid rescues her life and imprisones the monk at his estate.
- The knight seems to have involved a liking to Ælbdís and the Elf learns of Matuk's plan to kill an ongoing betrayer in the numbers of Dale's nobles.
- Ælbdís whispers the knight visions into his sleep which move him to accompany the priestess and the monk on their travel.
- Robbers attack the companions and Ælbdís suffers a grievous wound. Thought dead she is left behind and the Torfrid blames the Monk. Símar, the Younger finds Ælbdís and brings her to a healer of her kin.
- On her way to find Matuk, Ælbdís runs into Edstan and she teaches him a few of the Valar's virtues.

• 3016 begins her wandering into Eriador

• 3018 Ælbdís befriends the Ñoldo-Lord Anglachelm who crafts her the knife called Anghigil.
- The priestess intends to return to the council of her kin at the borders of the Withered Heath and passes through Lórien.
- Ælbdís is hit by an orcish arrow and can flee to the village of Stangard where she meets Edstan.
- Ælbdís is informed by Ollkas and Farron, two scholars of her kin that the next Dark Time may be nigh.
- Edstan and Ælbdís intend to go together to the Withered Heath and pass through Lórien.

~to be continued~