Wraith/History

1819 – Construction of Fort Snelling begins.

1862 – The Dakota War of 1862 ends with the Dakota defeated, and results in the mass hanging of 38 people named as the main instigators.

1865 – The last two Dakota leaders involved in the Dakota War are hanged at Fort Snelling, causing a byway to the River Styx to open up at the confluence of the Mississippi and Minnesota Rivers.

1865 – The Hierarchy claims Fort Snelling, building a Citadel on the site and create their first Necropolis in the area that is overseen and controlled by the Emerald Legion.

1885 – Minneapolis is officially claimed as the Necropolis for the Hierarchy, while Saint Paul’s population is mostly made up of Heretics and Renegades.

1916 – July 1st, the Fourth Great Maelstrom begins.

1928 – Danny Hogan, future leader of the Washaba Street Racketeers, is killed by a car bomb.

1929 – The Fourth Great Maelstrom ends.

1930 – The rebuilding and repairs of Stygia and Necropoli across the Shadowlands begins.

1935 – A growing group of Renegades take control of the Washaba Street Caves and make it their base of operations.

1945 – The Fifth Great Maelstrom begins, but unlike the previous Maelstrom only lasts a few months. The Iron Hills are cut off from Stygia when the Sea Gates are closed and all the Wraiths on the islands are presumed lost. Many Renegades and Heretics in the area, that would have been lost to Oblivion, were saved when the Washaba Street Racketeers allowed those in need to shelter within their caves.

1946 – The rebuilding and repairs of Stygia and Necropoli across the Shadowlands begins. A scouting party is sent to the Iron Hills, and they report back that the islands are now covered in a dense, white fog.

1948 – Five hundred Legionnaires are sent to the Iron Hills to retake control of the island, none return.

1950 - On March 7, a Renegade takes control of Northwest-Orient Airlines Flight 307 and tries to crash it into Fort Snelling. The attempt is thwarted but one of the wings strikes the flagpole at Fort Snelling. Damaged, the plane circles back around and smashes into a home off Minnehaha Parkway. Two people on the ground are killed, as are all ten passengers and three crewmembers. The Hierarchy use this attack as an excuse to send Legionnaires into Saint Paul.

1955 - On the 10th anniversary of Charon's fight with Grool in Weeping Bay, horses begin to reappear along the banks of the River Styx and in Horse-Noose Canyon.

1958 – Building on the goodwill they fostered during the Fifth Great Maelstrom, the Washaba Street Racketeers reputation and influence within Saint Paul grows. The Washaba Street Caves become known as neutral ground where no violence is tolerated, and where disparate groups of Wraiths can meet to make deals and negotiate without fear of being ambushed or attacked. Ever the pragmatists, even the Emerald Legion Anacreon can see the benefit of such an arrangement, and so the Hierarchy respect the neutral ground nature of the Washaba Street Caves.

1963 – The Smiling Lord sends an entire Legion to the Iron Hills to reclaim the islands for Stygia, and as before not one legionnaire returns.


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