Timeline

The Timeline of the Overlord Series.

Timeline

The games take place in this order, with Overlord: Minions taking place around Overlord and Overlord: Dark Legend.

• Overlord: Dark Legend
• Overlord
• Overlord: Raising Hell
• Overlord II

Timeline

Below is a timeline of events.

Prelude: Overlord: Dark Legend

• The Black Baron is killed and the Duke of Gromgard takes control of the land and Castle Gromgard.
• The Duke of Gromgard leaves on a quest to find prosperous food and riches to restore the land to its former glory.
• The Duke of Gromgard returns with nothing, only to find his wife has run away with another nobleman.
• The Duke leaves on a second quest for food and riches.

Overlord: Dark Legend

• Lord Gromgard becomes the First Overlord.
• The Hafling revolt is destroyed and the demented halfling jester is defeated.
• The Wolf Queen and her pack are defeated and the Withering Woods are saved.
• Doris the witch is defeated.
• Erasmus the gardener elf is defeated.
• The dwarf leader is defeated.
• The elf-dwarf war started.
• The first overlord takes his rightful place as ruler of Greenvale.

overlord: minions

• the overlord creates a special team of four minions of each of the different hives.
• a peasant visits the overlord to inform him of a plague sweeping his lands and the overlord sends his minion team to investigate the source in the withering woods.
• the minion team defeats the giant fungus monster at the heart of the plague and follow the source of his creation to the halfing realm of briarthorn burrows.
• the minions discover the kindred and break into their halfing headquarters.
• the minions defeat grub and travel to cloudland keep, atop shimmer mountain.
• the minions climb shimmer mountain, break into cloudland keep and defeat lady opal.
• the minions travel tothe fossilized temple and learn of the kindreds connection to dragons.
• the minions defeat the kindred dwarf boss, duggen.
• the minions travel to the floating forest to find ash, the rogue elf ex-member of the kindred family.
• ash tells them of the story of the kindred.
• the minions travel to dragonspire,
• the minions discover silver silvanus, who turns out to be a dragonkin and ex-member of the black flame cult and now leads the kindred.
• the minions defeat silver and restore evil to the land.

Prelude: Overlord

• A group of heroes journey to the Dark Tower to defeat the Second Overlord.
• The Eigth Hero grabs the Second Overlord and jumps with him to the bottom of the tower.
• The other heroes ransack the tower and leave with their glory and riches.
• The Second Overlord possesses the Old Wizard.
• The Old Wizard manipulates the heroes into giving into their primal urges and becoming evil.
• Jewel attacks Castle Spree.
• Oberon drives away the Dwarves from Evernight forest and goes into an eternal slumber.
• Goldo becomes king of the Dwarves and captures a number of Elves.
• Melvin Underbelly becomes king of the Haflings and steals the food from Spree.
• Sir William becomes engaged to Rose's sister Velvet.

Overlord

• The Eigth Hero is awakened with amnesia and becomes the Third Overlord.
• The Overlord kills Melvin Underbelly and recovers his red minions.
• The Steel smelter is recovered and returned to the Dark Tower.
• Castle Spree is saved and Rose is made the Overlord's mistress.
• The Durium smelter is recovered and returned to the Dark Tower.
• The Succubus Queen is killed and the curse on Heaven's Peak is lifted.
• Sir William is slain and Velvet is denied her place at the Overlord's side as his new mistress.
• The Mellow Hills abyss is conquered, and the abyss stone is taken.
• The Heaven's Peak abyss is conquered, and the abyss stone is taken.
• Oberon Greenhaze is killed and the Elves' Sacred Grove is sustained.
• The Dwarven home the Golden Hills is attacked and the elven prisoners are set free.
• The Arcanium smelter is recovered and returned to the Dark Tower.
• The Dwarven Stronghold is breached their beer kettle is taken.
• The Mother Goddess statue is taken by Jewel to the Ruborian Desert along with the minions hidden within it.
• Goldo along with Rollie are defeated and the last of the female Elves are saved.
• The Evernight abyss is conquered, and the abyss stone is taken.
• The Golden Hills abyss is conquered, and the abyss stone is taken.
• The minions open a portal in the Ruborian Desert for the Overlord to use.
• Jewel is captured and the Mother Goddess statue is returned to the Elves.
• Kahn the Warrior attacks spree with his overseers.
• Kahn attacks Heaven's Peak and is killed.
• The Second Overlord returns and overthrows the Third Overlord.
• the third overlord regains his minions and defeats the second overlord, regaining his title.
• the overlord goes once more into the infernal abyss, and destroys kahn a second time.
• The Third Overlord defeats the Forgotten God, conquering and at the same time being trapped in the Infernal Abyss.

Interlude: Overlord: Raising Hell and Overlord II

• Mistress Rose gives birth to the Overlad and leaves the Dark Tower.
• Without an Overlord, the minions flee to the Netherworld.
• Florian Greenheart tries to steal the Tower Heart, but causes it to explode, shattering it into 12 shards and causing the Great Cataclysm:
  • With no Overlord for the energy in the heart to be absorbed into, Dark Tower and the surrounding land is destroyed and plagued by magic, mutating the creatures.
• Due to the cataclysm, people fear magic and the Glorious Empire a crusade on anything magical.
• The Overlad is left by Rose in the small town of Nordberg.
• Rose joins Solarius' reign, in the misguided attempt to bring order to the world.
• Several years pass.

Overlord II

• A group of brown minions discover Overlad in the snowy town of Nordberg.
• The Overlad is taken to the Netherworld and raised by Gnarl to become the new Overlord.
• 13 years pass, during which the Glorious Empire's power increases.
• Overlad is now an adult and becomes the Overlord (the Fourth Overlord).
• The Elves take The Overlord's Yeti back to The Sanctuary.
• The Fourth Overlord finds The Nordberg Sanctuary and finds the Reds.
• The Fourth Overlord retrieves his Evil Presence Spell from the sanctuary.
• The Fourth Overlord conquers Nordberg Town and finds Kelda.
• The Fourth Overlord arrives in Nordhaven,deals with the thieves and sets sail to Everlight with the Elven Ship.
• The Fourth Overlord opens the gates to Everlight Jungle.
• The Fourth Overlord arrives in the Everlight Facility and saves the Green Hive,and where Juno is accused for witchcraft.
• The Fourth Overlord deals with the Spider Queen and gets the spider mounts.
• The Fourth Overlord confronts the Everlight Governess.
• The Fourth Overlord conquers Everlight Town and finds Juno.
• The Fourth Overlord sails to the Empire Harbor and starts the exploration of the Glorious Empire.
• The Fourth Overlord starts to combat a massive experimental test subject.
• The Fourth Overlord confronts Senator Drearius and destroys his villa.
• The Fourth Overlord uses the sedan chair to enter the city.
• The Fourth Overlord fells into the Empire Sewers,where he founds the Blues and their hive.
• The Fourth Overlord enters the Imperial Palace,and is distracted by the Anti-Magic Shield.
• The Fourth Overlord is thrown in the Empire Arena,where he founds his Yeti.
• The Fourth Overlord escapes the arena.
• The Fourth Overlord explores the Wasteland,found the shards of the Tower Heart and finds the Last Sanctuary.
• The Fourth Overlord kills the Salamander King and uses the Tower Heart to corrupt Queen Fay.
• The Fourth Overlord uses the Tower Heart to break Empire City's Anti-Magic Shield.
• Florian Greenheart's secret identity is revealed.
• The Devourer is battled and killed.
• The Fourth Overlord takes control over the world.
• Gnarl reveals that "there are many things that want to overthrow an overlord" implies that he is one of them, and chuckles at the end.

See also

• Storyline