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{Williams Family Timeline
The Williams: A History
Williams Family Timeline
Month - Year
Moving to Ashvale
Isaac and Eveline, with baby Isobel, are the first of the family to move to the town of Ashvale. Eventually, they are followed there by a few sets of aunts and uncles, siblings or cousins and their spouses, and so on. With their money pooled together, the whole set of Williams' have a large, sprawling manor built to house all of them comfortably in a multi-family home.
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A peaceful life
The family settle into a steady life. Isaac and Eveline have 3 more children and run a local apothacary, selling medicines to heal common ailments. The wider unit of the Williams family are all close, with lots of shared family time among them. They all contribute to the home in their own ways and are a generally happy, large family unit.
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Hunters on the prowl
Rumors of witch hunters reach the town of Ashvale. The Williams have been careful who they share their true nature with, but there is a concern that they could end up targets. They all do their best to keep their heads down and not cause a fuss.
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A family marked
When five members of The Order of the Hallowed Thorn come to town, tensions are high all across town, but particularly in certain families more than the rest. Unknown to most of the town, these men have sly ways of detecting witches, and once they find them, they will do whatever necessary to take every last one of them out.The three witch-families in the community (The Williams, the Bishops, and the Hales) band together in hopes of being able to fend off the Hallowed Thorn if they are attacked.
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A terrible tragedy
A raid in the dead of the night on the Williams family home by the Hallowed Thorn. A housefire, to "smoke out the witches". The night is pure chaos, and many of the family are killed while others stay to fight or manage to flee to safety.Three of Isaac's children are killed; Eveline dies saving Isaac, teleporting in front of a blow meant for him. Isaac and Isobel manage to escape.
The rest of the family and the town as a whole band together to force the members of the Hallowed Thorn to leave. Neighbors offer solace to the tragedy-struck members of their community.
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Making Deals with devils
Caught up entirely in his grief, Isaac starts researching deeper, darker magics that most keen witches wouldn't dare try to touch. He keeps his work secret, uncertain he'll ever take action with what he finds, or how possible any of it may truly be.Uncle Thomas discovers his work and warns him it is not wise to go messing in magics such as this. He admits his uncle is right, and locks the journals away, and tries to move on.
Isaac eventually discovers the Sirens in the lake and finds that they own a ring that grants the wearer immortality– just one of the many relics he'd seen in his manic research. With the existence of one such artifact confirmed, it renews his belief in the things he was looking into before and he begins to form a plan. Isaac makes a deal with the Sirens to get the ring. He has to lure 12 souls to the lake for them in order to earn his prize.
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Ashvale disappearances
People who visit the lake in Ashvale have always had a strange habit of going missing at times, but over the course of the next 5 years, those disappearances seem to increase. No one ever finds trace of the bodies, and the most recent rash of missing are children. The town council orders that everyone be careful when nearing the lake, and for no children to go unaccompanied until they find the cause of these mysterious disappearances.
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Dark truths revealed
Isaac's paranoia rises dramatically at possibly of being caught before he can give the Sirens the final offering. He gets reckless, and though he does succeed in the Siren's deal, and gets his prize, he had been followed that night and seen by Uncle thomas who had given him warning before. He disappears before Isaac sees him and the next day, calls an important family meeting with all of the eldest adults in the family to reveal the truth.
Month - Year
A Man Exiled
Being caught changed nothing for Isaac, he argued that no one understood and even tried to get one of his cousins who lost children to the raid on the house to side with him, though she refused. Isaac vowed one day they would know how it felt and rue the day.The family shunned him and forced him to leave, only allowing him long enough to grab some important belongings, which little did anyone know, included the journals with all of his earlier research. The exile made bitterness thread through him that would follow him through the rest of his years.
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A family's vow
After the discovery of the truth about their own family member, the remaining members of the family vowed to do everything in their power to protect the town of Ashvale. Partially in penance, and partially because now they were made aware of the Sirens in the lake, and they knew how dangerous they could be, especially if provoked.
Month - Year
Power hungry
Isaac continues his years full of bitterness and hate and grief. He goes on long, excruciating journeys in hopes of uncovering the relics that will allow him to perform a ritual to recover the lives of his lost wife and children.
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A gathering of followers
Though the things he's seeking to do– forms of sacrifice, resurrection, and necromancy– are strictly forbidden in respectable circles of witches, Isaac molds the idea of what he's doing into something else: Collecting these magic relics that allow such awful things to come to parse in order to protect them from falling into the wrong, or worse yet, unwitting hands.Under this less nefarious pretense, he gathers a few people through his journey to work alongside him.
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Disturbing Visions
Back in Ashvale, The Williams have kept ears to the ground for anything that might lead them to believe Isaac is up to something. Mostly, it's quiet, but recently, cousin Sarah has recieved premonitions of dastardly things he's up to, and she warns the family of his plans to perform a sacrificial ritual.They all know he'll have to eventually return to Ashvale to complete such a ritual to the purpose of resurrecting his fallen family members, so they prepare to take him down, if and when that comes to pass.
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On the hunt
Rather than waiting for something terrible to pass, certain groups of the men of the family decide to move in units to track Isaac down. Uncle Thomas tells them of the research he'd caught Isaac doing and 6 of the young, hearty boys take that information and leave Ashvale, splitting into pairs to try to either get ahead of him on the relics, or find and take Isaac down before he does something truly terrible.
Month - Year
The trail goes cold
Even with teleporters in their ranks, the boys on the search for Isaac seem to always end up a step or two behind the man. The trail goes cold and eventually, they all find their way back to Ashvale, having no choice but to admit defeat.
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Through the generations
The story of Isaac is passed down through each generation of the Williams family. Through the years, occasionally something would surface, but inevitably the trail would go cold again. Eventually, all possible mentions of Isaac seemed to stop and it was assumed he was dead. No one has seen or heard from him for centuries, but still the story is passed along, just in case– no body has ever been recovered, so there is still a possibility of him being around.
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Charles meets Michelle
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Charles & Michelle get married
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Michael is born.
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Jacob is born.
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Ellie is born.
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Nov 13 - 1997
Toby is born.
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Emmy is born.
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Peter is born.
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Month - 2009
Chloe & Aiden are born.
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