Companion timelines

The Companion Timeline is an official timeline based on the references made in the King's Quest Companions.

It has a few differences from some of the dates made in King's Quest games and manuals, and other sources.

Companion Timeline
The Ancient Ones inhabited the Isle of the Sacred Mountain in a time before the "Kingdom" of the crown existed. They lived alone in the sea. It is said that the Ancient Ones may have existed and disappeared before the first withdrawal. The Genie becomes trapped in the bottle (and it would be about 500 years before the bottle is opened again). The magic fruit begins to grow on the small magic tree in the Death Bogs of Tamir. King Edward loses the Magic Mirror.
 * C. 1000 BGC
 * C. 475 BGC
 * C. 77 BGC
 * 20 BGC
 * 0 GC
 * Sir Graham, King Edward's greatest knight finds the three treasures that the king had lost.
 * After Graham returns the treasures, Edward dies, and King Graham is coronated to the throne.


 * 1 GC
 * King Graham sees the face of King Edward in the Magic Mirror, who instructs him to search for a queen. Gerwain suggests that he has a party to find maidens of the realm. Soon after Graham sees Valanice in the magic mirror and travels to Kolyma to save her from Hagatha. They are married in Kolyma aftewards.


 * 5 GC
 * Valanice gives birth to Rosella and Alexander. King Graham begin his daily strolls by Lake Maylie.
 * Rumors begin to circulate that a terrible three-headed dragon was terrorizing the lands on its way towards the kingdom of Daventry.


 * 6 GC
 * The royal family have a summer picnic on the shores of Lake Maylie taking Alexander and Rosella with them. Manannan appeared and cast a spell on the group, and kidnaped the young prince. When the spell wore off they found Alexander's cradle empty but still rocking. Valanice searched for her son in the castle nursery but found no sign of her son, and Rosella was crying uncontrollably. The castle was scoured high and low, and every inch of Daventry was searched but there was never any sign of the little boy. Manannan had returned to his home in Llewdor and renamed the boy Gwydion.
 * Alexander-Gwydion and Rosella have their first birthday.
 * Around this time, Derek Karlavaegen leaves for Serenia from Port Bruce in Llewdor on the Round About. At some point during the trip the compass was damaged by a storm, and the crew sailed off course for a little over a month off before the ship was destroyed in the Dangerous Currents, and Rocky Shoals near the Green Isles. Derek ended up on the shore of the Isle of the Crown.


 * 7 GC
 * Alexander-Gwydion and Rosella have their second birthday.
 * King Caliphim and Queen Allaria who are without children, hope for a daughter.
 * Derek Karlavaegen finishes the Guidebook to the Land of the Green Isles, and gives one copy to royal family and keeps one for himself, with the promise he will keep his knowledge of the islands secret.
 * After which he returned to Daventry with the help of a spell from Caliphim's ancient court sorcerer. He was sent to a bower near the town of Serenia. He had finally arrived at the destination he had originally intended to land at when he left from Llewdor nearly a year before.


 * 23 GC
 * As Gwydion was a few weeks from his 18th birthday, he set a plan into motion to defeat the evil wizard Manannan and escape from Llewdor. He learned from an oracle of his true identity and his sister's eminant death from the Three-Headed Dragon ravaging Daventry. He decided to travel Daventry to save her.
 * After a long voyage on a pirate ship, he reached Daventry. He was able to save his sister Rosella, and the kingdom of Daventry from the dragon. They return home and have a short reunion together.
 * The joy of the reunion proved to be a strain on fourty-two year old, Graham's heart. About an hour later he collapsed from a heart attack. Rosella was overcome with grief and sat by the magic mirror wishing she could save him. Her sorrow traveled through the magic mirror and called forth The Good Fairy and Queen of Tamir, Genesta, who revealed to Rosella the existence of a magical fruit that could save her father's life. Rosella agreed to help Genesta, who in turn, used her magic to transport Rosella to the kingdom of Tamir. Once there, she vowed to both help the fairy queen and retrieve the mystical fruit.
 * After a long and perilous adventure, Rosella accomplished her goals by retrieving the magical fruit, defeating the evil fairy sorceress Lolotte, and returning Genesta's life preserving talisman to her. Genesta then returned her home so she could give the fruit to King Graham.
 * Soon after Rosella and Alexander had their eighteenth birthday.


 * 24 GC
 * King Graham sets out for a walk near Lake Maylie on a wonderful spring day. While he is gone Mordack steals his castle and kidnaps his family. He is brought to Serenia by Cedric who points him in the right direction. After several side tracks in the land of Serenia, King Graham finally reaches Mordack's Island and saves his family.


 * 25 GC
 * Nearly a year after Mordack was defeated, Alexander sees Cassima in the mirror, a few days later he travelled to Llewdor to meet Dererk Karlavaegan and learn about the Green Isles. He then makes a three month voyage to the islands.
 * Over the course of three days he saves the kingdom from Abdul Alhazred. A week later Alexander and Cassima are married.
 * Not long after Rosella and Valanice were in Daventry's castle garden, Valanice wanted her to get married as she is reaching marriageable age. She traveled to Eldritch and Etheria, and saved Edger and his family. Only a short period of time had passed in Daventry while they were gone, due to Eldritch's time moving faster than Daventry's. When they returned to Daventry, they told Graham of their adventures.

Not long after Alexander and Rosella have their twentieth birthday. The date that the Witch of the Dark Forest is predicted to escape the Genie of the Bottle's bottle.
 * 524 GC

After 1000 BGC

 * Crispinophur leads the first Withdrawal from the Other World (Earth) onto the continent of Serenia.
 * The people of Greece, Rome, and Egypt withdraw into Tamir

Before 0 GC

 * The people of Innsmouth withdraw into Tamir.
 * Hereward is killed in a border wars.

Few Years After 25 GC

 * The events of Mask of Eternity occur within a few years after KQ7. Graham is still alive, but older, and white-haired.