Timeline

This is an as-yet-incomplete timeline of the events within, or surrounding, Every One That Asketh. Events described or mentioned in a specific chapter have the relevant chapters referenced; if no chapter is listed, the event is Word of Istie.

2120

 * Aelianus Vakarian born

2122

 * Evadne Quirinius born

2123

 * Hannah Shepard born

2124

 * Robert Minkowski born

2129

 * Seri T'Scalyt born

2135

 * Aelianus begins basic training

2137

 * Evadne begins basic training
 * Aelianus begins mandatory service

2139

 * Evadne begins mandatory service

2141

 * Aelianus completes mandatory service, begins work in tactics division
 * Hannah enlists in the Alliance navy

2142

 * Robert enlists in the Alliance

2143

 * Evadne completes mandatory service, begins work in tactics division

2144

 * Aelianus leaves the Hierarchy military, enters C-Sec

2145

 * Aelianus and Evadne married
 * Aelianus starts specialized C-Sec investigative training

2148

 * Aelianus makes detective

2150

 * Solana Vakarian born

2152

 * Hannah and Robert married

November

 * 13: Garrus Vakarian born

April

 * 11: Shepard born

2155

 * Aelianus promoted to head of C-Sec investigative branch

2157

 * First Contact War / Relay 314 Incident

2160

 * Evadne diagnosed with Corpalis Syndrome

2163

 * Evadne leaves active duty

2165

 * Solana begins basic training

2166

 * Evadne starts working from home full time

2167

 * Solana finishes school, begins mandatory service

2168

 * Garrus begins basic training

2170

 * Garrus finishes school, begins mandatory service

2171

 * Solana finishes mandatory service, enters spec-ops division

2172

 * Shepard enlists
 * Evadne retires

2173

 * Shepard gets her N1 designation

2174

 * Garrus finishes mandatory service, turns down Spectre training, is accepted at C-Sec Academy
 * Shepard gets her N2 and N3 designations

2175

 * Solana accepted into Blackwatch
 * Shepard gets her N4 and N5 designations
 * Seri T'Scalyt and Caere'Telan abducted on Erinle

2176

 * Shep gets her N6 designation
 * Garrus graduates C-Sec Academy, starts work on the Citadel

July

 * marines and colonists slaughtered by thresher maws on Akuze; Shepard is the only survivor

September

 * 16: Shepard begins mission on Illium

November

 * 1: Shepard abducted by the Marquis d'Apien

January

 * 15: [approximate] Shepard publicly seen as Har'stein Weiak's personal attendant


 * 28: Admiral Hackett receives footage of Shepard

March

 * 26: Shepard escapes Har'stein Weiak's mansion, slaughtering him and the Silver Star board in the process, and freeing all his servants

April

 * 2: murders discovered


 * 30: Shepard arrives in Alliance space

May

 * 5: Shepard arrives on Arcturus Station


 * 7: Hannah Shepard arrives on Arcturus Station


 * 17: Shepard's name is put forward as a Spectre candidate

June

 * Shepard gets her N7 designation, is promoted to Lieutenant Commander

July

 * 20: Shepard returns to active duty, is put on shortlist for Normandy crew

August

 * Massacre at Torfan

September

 * Shepard starts command school
 * Garrus starts investigative training

2179

 * Garrus promoted to detective

2180

 * Aelianus retires from C-Sec, goes into politics in Cipritine

2182

 * Evadne moved into full-time care
 * Normandy SR-1 christened

2183

 * events of Mass Effect 1
 * Shepard promoted to Staff Commander

September

 * 12: Normandy SR-1 destroyed by Collectors; Commander Shepard KIA


 * 18: Garrus leaves the Citadel, takes up residence on Omega

October

 * Shepard's body recovered from Alchera; the Lazarus Project begins

2185

 * events of Mass Effect 2


 * Evadne transferred to Helos Medical Institute

June

 * 24: Kasumi Goto joins the Normandy

July

 * 3: mission on Sanctum

January

 * 8: Alpha Relay explosion: Bahak system annihilated

June

 * 15: the Reaper War begins with the invasion of Khar'shan
 * 19: the Reapers invade Earth
 * 22: the Reapers attack Taetrus
 * 29: the Reapers attack Palaven

July

 * 2: the Reapers reach the Attican Traverse
 * 7: the Reapers attack Tuchanka
 * 10: the Reapers attack Irune
 * 12: the Reapers attack Dekuuna
 * 24: the Reapers reach the Terminus Systems

August

 * 11: the Reapers attack Kahje and Rakhana
 * 23: the Reapers attack Sur'Kesh
 * 24: first Reaper attack on a quarian ship
 * 25: the Reapers attack Heshtok

October

 * 19: genophage cured

November

 * 4: the Reapers attack Thessia
 * 17: the Miracle at Palaven

December

 * 6: the last heat sink before the battle


 * 7: Battle of London
 * Shepard does God-knows-what to the Reapers
 * the Normandy ends up somewhere in uncharted space


 * 10: Reaper found in Birmingham; life signs detected


 * 11: KIA signal isolated


 * 12: Shepard found


 * 13: PFC Einarson has vision


 * 14: Xen and Anderson visit the geth


 * 15: Shepard retrieved, brought to the Parigoria


 * 16: Shepard is discovered to be pregnant


 * 23: discovery that embryo is not human


 * 30: embryo is discovered to be turian

January

 * 1: Garrus confirmed as baby's father


 * 7: Aelianus visits the Parigoria

April

 * 7: the Normandy leaves 1002315 Williams

May

 * 7: the Normandy reaches the Exodus Cluster


 * 9: the Normandy reaches the remains of Arcturus Station, meets up with Hannah Shepard and the Orizaba


 * 14: the Normandy reaches the Local Cluster; Garrus discovers he’s a dad


 * 21: Miranda arrives on the Parigoria


 * 28: Tali pulls the Admiralty Board’s collective heads out of their asses; Garrus reams his father out

September

 * 20: Shepard wakes from Reaper coma, goes into labour; baby arrives!


 * 30: Minos attacks the Parigoria; the Shakarians exit stage right to the Normandy

October

 * 3: Aelianus visits the Normandy, meets Viatrix


 * 7: Shepard rallies the troops on board the Cyucrae


 * 9: the Citadel wakes up


 * 11: Wrex and Grunt arrive on the Normandy


 * 13: successful remote reactivation of a relay (Serpent Nebula); reactivation fleet moves out


 * 14: Wrex and Shepard spar in the cargo bay


 * 17: Shepard and Bakara talk about Tuchanka


 * 22: Admiralty Board meeting on Rannoch; Shepard shows Garrus the reports about him


 * 26: Minos spotted on Earth; Miranda sends information to Normandy


 * 28: Miranda's message is received, Shepard realizes her father's in the video


 * 29: Shepard tells Hannah about Robert; Garrus finds out Evadne is still alive, but her health is failing
 * 30: Rannadril, day 1
 * the Normandy arrives in the Radak Cluster
 * Shepard meets Evadne, Evadne meets her granddaughter
 * Shepard has a flashback planetside, then again on the Normandy
 * Garrus relieves her of command


 * 31: Rannadril, day 2
 * Shepard has flashback to Skyllian cabal assignment, holding Garrus at gunpoint
 * Chakwas confirms Garrus' assumption of command
 * Shepard asks Traynor to help her learn Venian
 * overnight, the Citadel returns to the Serpent Nebula

November

 * 1: Rannadril, day 3
 * war council meeting re: Citadel and Council
 * Evadne has nerve attack and begins final decline
 * Doctor Larin offers to help Shepard with treatment for PTSD
 * 2: Rannadril, day 4
 * Viatrix starts nursing
 * Garrus discovers Shepard can feel subvocals
 * Evadne's vigil


 * 3: Rannadril, day 5
 * Evadne Vakarian dies
 * Shepard and Garrus find out the Alliance wants to promote her


 * 4: Rannadril, day 6
 * Garrus catches up on his CO duties
 * receives threatening video clip from Spirits-know-where
 * requests all the Alliance's info re: the Skyllian cabal
 * installs Vi's shuttle seat
 * Shepard has another Illium flashback
 * Shepard consents to being the human councillor


 * 5: the Normandy drops Tali off on Rannoch


 * 6: Citadel, day 1
 * the Normandy arrives at the Citadel, Shepard and Garrus rediscover the Silversun apartment


 * 7: Citadel, day 2
 * Shepard's first appointment with Sha'ira
 * Garrus starts enlisting in the Alliance, and starts seriously considering hunting down the Marquis d'Apien


 * 8: Citadel, day 3
 * Garrus reads the ONI files on the Skyllian cabal
 * Shepard's first Council meeting
 * Tali finds out she's being commissioned as the captain of the Alarei
 * Aelianus is named Primarch of Palaven


 * 9: Citadel, day 4
 * Shepard's second Council meeting


 * 20: Tali's commissioning as Admiral


 * 21: recommissioning of the Alarei

December

 * 7: memorial service/awards ceremony
 * first assassination attempt: modified omnitool charge
 * firefight in Kithoi Ward with Minos


 * 8: Shepard's cybernetics mysteriously restart on their own


 * 9: Shepard makes a press release, then collapses
 * 13:
 * Shep wakes up, discovers the new capacitor nodes
 * list of new Councillors published


 * 16: Garrus surprises Shepard by decorating the apartment for Christmas


 * 21: Normandy Christmas party
 * first instance of entanglement
 * 24:
 * Hannah and Aelianus come for Christmas
 * Shepard reveals she's learning Venian

January

 * 3: Garrus' commissioning


 * 6-9: new Normandy crew arriving


 * 9: Garrus' speech to the crew


 * 11: the Normandy goes to Illium, and Aria tags along


 * 13: Garrus explores Weiak's mansion, meets Seri T'Scalyt
 * 14:
 * Garrus heads back to the Citadel
 * First meeting of the new Council; Balak and Shepard face off
 * Press ambushes Shepard, Khalisah saves her
 * Archangel pays Balak a surprise visit
 * 15:
 * Garrus sneaks into the apartment
 * Second day of Council meetings
 * Shepard, Garrus, Hannah, and Aelianus discuss wedding plans


 * 17: Alarei crew decide to investigate Dholen


 * 19: Alarei crew decide to go raid a geth station


 * 20: Shepard records interview with Emily Wong
 * 21:
 * Shepard hires Khalisah as her press agent
 * Alarei crew borrow a solar panel and narrowly avoid some Minos operatives


 * 25: Alarei crew set up the satellites around Dholen


 * 26: Shepard/Wong interview airs


 * 27: Alarei crew visit Grace Sato on Ontarom
 * 28: a mysterious man watches the news on Earth

February

 * 1: Alarei crew visit Dr. Carinii on Digeris
 * 3:
 * Shepard breaks down in session with Sha'ira
 * Garrus talks with Dr. Bryson about plans for studying Shepard
 * 4:
 * Council meeting
 * Bakara and Valern have it out
 * the Hierarchy gives their terraforming capsule up to the krogan
 * Shepard ambushed by the press regarding Shanxi, Garrus tells her that the officer in question was Evadne
 * dance rehearsal: second instance of entanglement
 * 5:
 * Garrus tells Shepard how Shanxi went down
 * Ann tells Shepard about the plan for studying her alterations
 * Meeting with Systems Alliance Parliament, HIGHCOM, and Hierarchy representatives regarding Shanxi
 * the press tour is born
 * Garrus and Shepard test out the ICT simulation room
 * 6:
 * Garrus and Shepard talk to Joker, then Hackett, about the Austerlitz
 * 9:
 * Sasha and Aeran'Celet visit the Silversun apartment
 * Garrus receives video clip of the Marquis on Anhur
 * 10: Dholen's second mass fluctuation
 * 11: Garrus flies off to Anhur in the Astraqis; Alarei arrives back in the Dholen system


 * 12: Garrus arrives on Anhur, figures out the Marquis' real name


 * 13:
 * the story of Viatrix's birth is leaked to the tabloids
 * Minos releases manifesto
 * Garrus stakes out the club where the Marquis has been seen
 * (Feb 14 Citadel time) Shepard informs him death threats are happening and a security detail is being assigned
 * 14:
 * Garrus arrives back at Citadel
 * Shepard is called before a grand jury for high treason


 * 16: Shakarians arrive at Terra Nova
 * 17: first day of testimony: Terran marines, Xen, Parigoria staff
 * 18: second day of testimony: Hannah, Anderson, EDI, Chakwas, Bryson
 * 19: third day of testimony: Hackett, Garrus
 * 20:
 * Shepard dreams of the Illusive Man again
 * fourth day of testimony: Shepard
 * 21:
 * jury returns no indictment
 * second assassination attempt: sniper
 * 22:
 * Shakarians return to the Citadel, review security for the upcoming gala
 * Garrus receives new video from Minos
 * 23:
 * first Armax match
 * third instance of entanglement during dress rehearsal: Garrus experiences Alchera flashback
 * Shepard and Garrus explore the entanglement phenomenon, experiencing each other's memories
 * 25: second Armax match
 * 26: Citadel Commencement Gala
 * victory tour announced