Thank you for this.

Hard to make sense of the lore when it's scattered all over, subject to the biases of the NPCs telling it, and is getting rewritten (or nearly) sometimes whenever new lore is added.

This thread, or at least the lore document, ought to be pinned at the top of the forums somewhere.

wish someone could explain lafi bedmountain plothole :x
good work

That sounds interesting. What plot hole is it?

Thanks again for such a good work! 

Document updated.

2022-06-08

+ Added information from the King’s Key quest chain for Nova. Sections affected: Balenos, Serendia, Calpheon, and O’dyllita.
+ Added information from the Mysteries of Summer 2019 event. Sections affected: Balenos, Serendia, and Calpheon.
+ Removed the Black Calamity = Black Spirit Meteorite theory.

The document has received an update.

2022-08-14

+ Added Elvia section.

+ Added Drakania Succession & Awakening information. Sections affected: Mediah, Drieghan, Mountain of Eternal Winter.

+ Added missing information related to various classes all across the timeline.

+ Added information from the recent Balenos main quest rework. Sections affected: Balenos, Valencia.

+ Added information related to Queen Marumin. Sections affected: Valencia, Mountain of Eternal Winter.

+ Added further details from the Mountain of Eternal Winter main quest in the Drieghan section.

+ Added details in the Important Events section regarding Sylvia and Godr-Ayed.

+ Added details from the Sights of Mediah quest chain in the Mediah section.

I've played through the Balenos main quest many times,  we already had many reworks but the last one felt so much better than the previous ones. 

Is it me or the new one finally "connects the dots" smoothly? Not to mention the quest bosses which finally feels like a challenge.

Anyway,  I'd like to see the remaining main quests be reworked with the same quality.  BDO has a real story,  we can see it thanks to you,  but the writing is not on par with this story...  Yet. 

I still have hopes in filling up other gaps in the entire BDO story. This is a step up in the right direction.

The document has received an update.

2022-11-30

+ Added Want to Read More? section.

+ Added information from the Yolunakea update. Sections affected: Balenos, Valencia, O’dyllita.

+ Added information from the Magnus update throughout the document.

+ Added Kabua Calendar dates throughout the document.

+ Added further information from the Balenos 2022 rework, rearranged events related to it, and updated their footnotes.

+ Added a detail from Sorceress’ backstory missing from the English localization in the Calpheon section.

+ Added more information related to the Awakening quests of various classes throughout the document.

+ Added a detail from Caphras’ adventure in the Elvia section, and expanded the section with related events from the Kamasylvia section.

+ Added information related to Elvia Calpheon.

+ Updated Introduction section.

+ Updated the document’s year formatting to be more precise. It now properly separates approximate given event dates (circa: c.) from the approximate position of an event in the timeline (asterisk: *).

+ Fixed a minor error in the Mediah section.

+ Fixed several entries after reviewing the original Korean texts. Sections affected: Serendia, Calpheon, Valencia.

+ Fixed and moved the position of certain events throughout the entire document and updated their footnotes to explain the reason behind the change.

The document has received an update.

2023-08-28

+ Added Ulukita section.

+ Added Ulukita mentions in the Mediah section.

+ Added emergence of the Olun’s Valley golems in O’dyllita’s section.

+ Changed Sherekhan Iron Mine mentions from plural to singular.