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This page gives a high-level overview of High Reaches Weyr's recent history. Some of these periods are outlined in more detail, with links to relevant logs and other information.

Everything listed on this page is common knowledge. Discretion should be used before claiming knowledge to specific events in the detailed summaries.

See also:

• Weyrleader Timeline - A timeline of High Reaches' Weyrleader pairs.
• Area Timeline - An overview of individual events.

• The Igen Exchange - Turn 36 - Present: Igen offers High Reaches a temporary goldrider transfer to ease their goldrider woes; Irianke's arrival certainly does that, but it results in complications, too. Is it really fair to force several of the weyrlings destined to Impress from Irianke's Niahvth's clutch to transfer to Igen?

• The Highwayman - Turn 36: Brigands in the Nabol area attack, steal, and even kill; after stealing the summer tithe from Keogh, they are finally apprehended and taken back to Nabol. Presumably, justice is served... but if so, no one's actually heard the details.

• The Death of Teris - Turn 36: While on a visit to High Reaches, Teris' Iskiveth goes between without her rider. The Acting Weyrhealer, Miska, knowing that Teris is a fellis addict, decides that she needs to be clear-headed before making a decision as to her own future; many people are discomforted by this. Finally, someone manages to sneak Teris something to help end her life. In the aftermath, a healer inquest is called for, and Miska is ultimately moved to more administrative duties at the Hall.

• The Storm - Month 2, Turn 36: A storm off Ista abruptly changes course, putting the Tillekian fleet in danger. For reasons unknown, Aishani and Iesaryth are at Tillek when the alarm is sounded, and end up in the midst of the storm, warning ships; reinforcements from the Weyr are called for. In the midst of it, Iesaryth is - allegedly - hit by lightning (or was it something more sinister?) and goes between, never to return.

• Piracy on the High Seas - Turn 34 - Turn 35(?): Pirates attack and sink/steal a number of ships off the Tillek coast. High Reaches seems to struggle with a response to it; relations with Tillek sour further. Abruptly, however, the attacks simply... stop.

• A Crisis Of Succession - Month 7, Turn 32 - Present: At eighty-five no one expected Lord Ustelan of Nabol to live for terribly much longer; the only real hope was that he would officially name an heir before he died. Instead, his wife went missing - with rumours of a pregnancy, and proof of an acknowledged heir-to-be-born - and, following his death, chaos ensued, with several claimants to the Hold unwilling to back down. With the harvest soon to come in, and no easy resolution in sight, there's every chance the Weyr will get drawn into this, too.

• Divided Leadership - Month 11, Turn 30 - Month 6, Turn 32: After Iolene's death, High Reaches has a long, eight month wait for the next queen to rise, and the leadership to be decided. In the end, even eight months isn't long enough: both junior queens rise at once, and both are caught by browns, leaving the weyr in the unprecedented situation of having two Weyrwomen and two Weyrleaders... or perhaps none at all. After all, who ever heard of a female brownrider as Weyrleader?

• Exiles and Islands - Month 6, Turn 25 - Turn 30: The discovery of a group of exiles on a distant Western island sets off an occasionally difficult chain of events as the group return to the mainland and become instrumental in both Weyr and Hold politics.

• The Exile Queen - Month 6, Turn 26 - Month 2, Turn 30: When High Reaches' Weyrleaders encouraged the young exiles to Stand for Iovniath and Cadejoth's clutch, the last thing they expected was for them to Impress half the dragons - including High Reaches' newest queen and one of her bronzes. Iolene's exile upbringing did not make for an easy path, one that become more complicated still after Tiriana's ousting and her own surprise rise to the position of Senior Weyrwoman.

• The Assassination of Iolene By The Coward I'kris - Month 12, Turn 29 - Month 5, turn 30: When Monacoan (and still-weyrling) brown Svissath catches Rielsath, a chain of events is set into motion that does not become clear until Iolene's abrupt murder in