#sso timeline

[sso-maev]

SSO timeline (REWORKED)

Consider the old timeline outdated! I’ve found new timestamps and made a few guesses based on character ages and relations to each other.

We have a few things to go off of: It’s been 20 years since Catherine died, and it’s been 45 years since the baroness left Mr Sands and Thomas was born. The old sisterhood, canonically all being born in 1977-1978, should be in their mid 40s. While I used to say Elizabeth’s age was a good jumping off-point, I think 47 is a bit too old considering the other people in her generation (like Sigry and Avalon). It would also make the gap between the failed sisterhood and Catherine’s death a bit too large.

So new theory! Sigry is 44 in the journals and probably born in 1977, and that is our reference point for the timestamps going forward. The journal ages are unreliable, but I’ll consider them canon unless contradicted by the games or books. In case of contradictions between different sso media, my canon hierarchy goes: Newer quests (Post-2018) > Books > Older quests > Journal ages > SSL.

I’ll put the source of my timeline claims in brackets. Confirmed, unmovable timestamps will be marked in green. Unclear time estimates will be marked with a ~. Let’s get into it!

1218

Jon Jarl arrives on Jorvik. [Starstable Online]

1702

Bertrude Silverglade passes away, leaving the Silverglade estate in the hands of an unnamed “mysterious relative”. [Starstable Online]

~1773

John Sandman and Rosalinda are born, ~25 years before Rosalinda’s death

1798

Rosalinda dies. She and John Sandman are engaged to be married, so they’re probably in their mid-20s. [The Legend Awakens]

1871

Mr Sanders fishes up a deep-sea creature, likely connected to Garnok. [Starshine Legacy]

1890

Owen D Sands establishes Deep Core Drilling Company on Jorvik. [Starshine Legacy]

~1890-1900

At some point during this time period, Mississippi Jones looks for the horn of Araxia. He is pursued by the presumed dead John Sandman. [Starstable Online]

1903

A cave-in/gas incident kills 211 workers and 14 civilians during a Deep Core drilling. (Sounds very similar to what happened in Old Hillcrest…theories…) [Starshine Legacy]

1904

Deep Core is forced to shut down. [Starshine Legacy]

1921

Beatrice, a soul rider of a former sisterhood, is born. She turns 100 years old in present day. [Ghost Stories from Jorvik]

1933

A former reincarnation of Starshine saves four girls who went missing on a school trip to a grave field north of Jorvik City. (Maybe this would be Beatrice’s eventual sisterhood?) [Starshine legacy]

1936

Annabelle Silverglade is born. [Starstable Online]

~1937-1940

Beatrice’s sisterhood is active.

~1949

Pi is born, most likely right inbetween Beatrice and Elizabeth.

1953

Esmeralda Holdsworth is born. [Starstable Online]

1954

Jasper Holbrook is born. [Starstable Online]

1959

John Sandman is on the Firgrove council. Herman Wetton is presumably born around this time, as he claims to have grown up in the 60s. [Starstable Online and Darkness Falling]

1964

Annabelle Silverglade marries John Sandman. [Starstable Online]

1965

Elsa Einstein is born. [Starstable ad]

~1965-1969

Pi is part of a soul rider sisterhood. [Aideen’s gift]

1970

Evergray is born. [Starstable Online]

1976

Annabelle Silverglade divorces John Sandman 45 years before present day. Thomas Moorland is born. [Starstable Online]

1977

Sigry Varanger and Caroline Westfall are born. [The Prisoner of Pandoria]

1978

Catherine Holbrook is born. [Starstable Online]

1979

Avalon is born. [Starstable Online]

1985

Dr Eiren Doyle is born. [Starstable Online]

1987

Ms. Drake is born. [Starstable Online]

1988

Rhiannon is born. [Starstable Online]

1989

Darko is born. [Starstable ad]

1995

Elizabeth arrives on Jorvik. She, Eva, Sigry and Caroline form a soul rider sisterhood. [Shadows Over Jorvik]

~1996

Catherine joins the sisterhood, but grows distant after a failed light ride. [Starstable Online]

~1997

Caroline goes missing and is never seen again. [Starstable Online]

~1999

Catherine’s horse dies after being part of a dangerous ritual. Evergray is presumably banished shortly thereafter. [Starstable Online]

~2000

Catherine and Thomas get married. Josh B’gosh is born. [Starstable Online, Starstable ad]

2001

Catherine dies. Justin is born. [Starstable Online]

2002

Rania Varanger is born. [Starstable Online]

2003

Linda Chanda, Alex Cloudmill, Lisa Peterson and Anne von Blyssen are born in the same year. Derek, Maya, Tan and Loretta are also born this year. [Starstable Online, Jorvik Calling, Starstable ad]

2010

Madison Hightower is born. [Starstable Online]

2011

Rhiannon arrives on Jorvik, ten years before the beginning of SSO. [Starstable Online]

2019

Lisa Peterson arrives on Jorvik, two years before the beginning of SSO. [Starstable Online]

2021-2022

Main story of Starstable Online.

[dorianwolfforest]

i love being correct

[jorvikzelda]

OH YEAH BY THE WAY!!!!! happy three years to my main account's Anne being out of imprisonment <3 lets get u some therapy next girl

[ald3r-wolfcak3]

I keep thinking about what if Aideen was split because of Garnok?

She created the island while stil was this centaur creature. She natured all the living things on it, making deers and blooming flowers. Keeping the island safe from the other part of the world.

And when Garnok was banished and crashed into the island, the impact broke the law of the world. Rifts opened to other dimention, magic went berserk and Aideen split to human and horse. She wasn't strong enough to protect the island alone, so she gifted her remaining lower to her new creatures, creating the soul riders and soul horses.

Aideen and the first four banished Garnok, but since Aideen power wasn't strong enough it was only a permanent solution. Each generation of the soul riders are stronger, since each reincarnation of Aideen is stronger.

Their goal is destroying Garnok and recreat the eden that never come to be.

[hellohomura]

18.02.2011 ⏳ today's timeline

me - im going to draw a madohomu that is sso off model

[vilda-ravenhill]

Update log: Oh god I forgot about the fucking Kalter

[storybounded]

Hmmm. Got some thoughts brewing.... about some things regarding Lisa's time-line I want to get together soon...

[stefanie-cutekeep]

... oh boy do I have a lot to say today.

The fact that we had to wait almost a year (9 months to be exact) for only around 15 minutes of quests is very disappointing, but not in the least surprising.

That being said, my excitement over this almost outweighs the disappointment. My 9 year old self is screaming right now.

Today's quests were the most exciting and lore-filled we've had in years. It feels good that something that feels like it belonged in the timeline finally happened, instead of all this dilly-dallying around with witches and leprechauns. This is the closest I've come to getting that feeling old SSO had in a good while, and I recognize that most people probably don't feel the same, but nontheless this was the case for me. The nostalgia of actually focusing on the original big bad instead of all these random side quests was so good.

And it's over now. For the time being, at least. That's the weirdest feeling for me. Years of working towards the end and it finally comes. I can't wait to see how they'll continue this story, even if it's most probably going to take a year or two before we get to that point.

This is all to say that while it was certainly disappointing how short and frankly anticlimactic the update was, it could have been a lot worse in my opinion. Credit where credit is due.

Also I can practically feel my SSO hyperfixation creeping in on me again so looking forward to that

[apples-stables]

My bestie @aryamistwood and I keep chattin about where we think SSO is gonna update next. They noted its been kinda in quest order/what locations players find first.

So here's my theoretical order of location updates (no specific timeline but i do predict we get at LEAST two of these this year if not 3. They've updated a ton in the time ive been playing sso, aka 4 years, so i can see it happening)

- Jarlaheim (May be broken up into Jarlaheim proper, Paddock Island, and Jorvik stables as seperate entities.)

- South Hoof

- Greendale Forest/Wolf Hall Inn (as one update potentially)

- OR Wolf Hall/Nilmer's Highland together

- the new map area they hinted at??

- god please update Dino Valley

- Jasper's Farm and mayhaps the surrounding goldenhills forest

- Crescent Moon Village/the areas you first see when unlocking Epona

Would love to know y'alls predictions/thoughts. My most wanted areas are Jarlaheim, South Hoof, and Dino tbh

[sso-maev]

Listen Im not saying my sso timeline is flawless but:

- I made the estimate of modern sso taking place ~2025, give or take a year depending on Catherine’s age relative to Elizabeth.

- Anne goes missing on a dressage competition in France the summer MC comes to Jorvik.

- Anne is known as one of Jorvik’s best dressage riders; it wouldn’t be unthinkable for her to represent her country on the international stage.

- The olympics are held in France summer of 2024, and among other things include dressage.

I rest my case

[butterfly-headquarters]

post garnok montana 👀 what is that like for her 👀 -dinosaurvalley

HELLO HI JOSEPH MY GUY

Ok, so, I'm taking this as only the immediate post garnok time up to like 2 years later bc else it would be so much lmao (so this covers only the post garnok and traveling Jorvik arc since both happens in the span of 3/4 years of one another)

After the squid is properly sealed again so he doesn't fucking destroy the whole island (he's just sealed. He can't be destroyed. In my version Aideen and Garnok are like ying and yang. You can't have one without the other.) the Soul Riders can return to their normal life.

Which is a pretty hard thing to do if you don't know what your normal life looks like. After coming back to Jorvik Montana immediately got involved in magic shit and saving the world and dealing with her parents death which meant she never even had the chance to form some sort of new, every day lifestyle. And she tries, she tries so hard to cope with this normalcy of not spending evening and nights taking out Dark Core machines or dealing with pandoric rifts. So she tries. She helps out at the stables, does work at the forge and helps out with the deliveries, keeps learning new spells and studying magic.

But something is missing. Despite everything she still feels like she has something to do, that there are still things she needs to finish. There's this hollow feeling in her chest that haunts her when she's alone, when it's night and she's laying alone in her bed and no matter what she does it won't leave.

And Justin knows something is wrong. She's thinner than before, she's not dyeing her hair as regularly, she's stoped asking him to spend the night with her, Onyx tells him that she doesn't talk much when the both of them are going on trail rides. Every time he tries to talk to her she changes the subject or says she doesn't want to talk. This goes on for months until one day Justin finally blows up at her and the two of them have the worst fight they've ever had.

Only once Montana breaks down and admits she doesn't know what to do, that she feels lost and without purpose and with no idea of what to do next, of how to fix herself do both of them sit down and talk it out. Justin gets them tea and a box of tissues for Montana and they spend a few hours sitting on her bed, talking about what possibilities there are for her.

In the end they arrive at the conclusion that it would be good for her to travel around Jorvik for a while. Make sure all the portals and stones are sealed, help with any rifts or magic chaos that just naturally occurs on Jorvik. Maybe even learn some new spells, try out how she could perhaps still use her magic. Possibly even find a cure for her corruption.

And it's not like she's leaving for years on end without coming back. She drops by every few months, makes sure she's there for birthdays and things like Christmas or big celebrations. While on the road there are enough people she knows where she can crash at their stables and if that's not an option she has a tent for bad weather and a hammock for warm summer nights. It's actually helping a lot with relearning who she herself as a person is. After 2 to 3 years of this she's figured out how to somewhat navigate from that point forward (aka. Taking over Conrad's Blacksmith once he retires and taking care of magic activities around Moorland, Silverglade and Fort Pinta. Plus still helping out at Moorland Stables and permanently moving back in. Justin and her technically took a break (does that work if you never really were officially together?) and had the whole "if you find someone else take that chance" talk but neither of them did so now they officially are a thing. Only took them abt 8 years to get there

(I change my mind. Justin and her stay an item. They accidentally adopt 3 kids. They don't have biological ones. Mayhaps they got married)

[mllenugget]

I was made fun of because I was speedrunning daily quests without paying attention to what the npcs were asking for, and the SSO lore timeline in ROUGH in my head I haven't played since last summer

For all I know mister ex-druid turned ex-exiled could've been asking to open yet another breach between dimensions I would have done it without batting an eye-- and- and honestly noone would've given a damn anyway 's just another tuesday in Jorvik

[dorianwolfforest]

A very small grievance, but a grievance all the same, is that nothing in sso is technically canon? We aren’t playing the canon version of the game yet. They could change anything at a moments notice and that would be all. Like with Wynna. The first problem is she was such a big part of Elizabeth’s life, and yet they have never interacted and Elizabeth has never talked about her. She wasn’t at the memorial. And if they change the canon to make Elizabeth talk about Wynna and have her show up to the memorial, that’s a canon we will never experience and our version of the game is some divergent timeline. And that’s the nature of the game, there’s nothing to be done about it. But it’s still something I upset myself with thinking about lmao

[sillysorsa]

intro to my page lelz

im gonna be real this is probably the amalgamation of 30 drafts over the course of a week because i have no idea what the hell im gonna put here so lets frankenstein this bitch Nicknames i go by: Mush, Tez (or Terezi if we're really getting into it), Sometimes trying out diff names on the world wide web, so you might see some moots call me stupid shit. Also any variation of Sorsa/Sosra for my finnish moots (hmu) I am a ex-twitter refugee so excuse my fucking around here since i have no idea what im doing half the time Current obsession is Homestuck but especially Terezi, as you'll see her on basically all my socials I like silly art and also make sillies art, usually either troll related or my own original characters related >:] For shipping (preferably not over the atlantic) I like pretty much any pairs, just not the yucky ones (you know who you are), since im still figuring out my own shipping wall (moot reference iykyk) When you see my post imagine me as a small gnome running by your timeline, here to drop off a tiny gift 1 SH4LL H4V3 ORD3R 1N TH1S RUMPUSBLOCK >:]]

Interests i forgot to add which i think are still relevant: -HORSES. If you ask me anything even closely related to them be prepared for a minimum 20-minute explanation in which i forget which language im speaking in atleast 3 times. -Games I like!! osu!, pjsk, SSO (see aforementioned bullet point), RDR (thinking of getting the first one) recovering valo player (i pop in occasionally), Lethal Company, and Roblox (where i met most of the friends I now have !) -Taste in music I have a somewhat wide variety, going from Hardstyle and Techno (or otherwise ear-screeching electronic) to slow-tempo sad girl music, or just what I call 'having fun and frolicking with my friends' type music. You might have to ask for specifics if interested. Oh and all of this can be mashed with Vocaloid, too. i have been getting into cosplay, finally, and am in the process of making a (somewhat) lore accurate scalemate cloak of Terezi's ! Might update on that in the near future >:]

[edenrabbitnest]

is there a coherent sso timeline by year btw? I know some dates like 1218 but before I do a bunch of math I wanna see what's already confirmed

[miscreantsmadness]

Main quests read-through

As someone who first played the Starshine Legacy games and who've played sso since the swedish launch, both the timeline and lore is kind of a blur. Since they updated the intro quests I've laso been very curious about exactly what's changed. Some of the changes I love, others not so much.

Anyway I thought I'd share my efforts with you all as well.

I'll update this masterpost whenever I post the next chunk of the story.

Main quests read-through masterpost:

Intro text

Day 1