Fictional calendars
Custom era names, year numbering, and day/month systems for worlds that don't follow Earth's clock.
Fantasy Timeline Generator
Turn the history of your invented world into a clear, visual timeline — ages, dynasties, wars, and prophecies, free and in your browser.
Open the tool — free to get started
Built for ages, epochs, and invented calendars
Fantasy worlds rarely run on the Gregorian calendar. Define your own eras — "Second Age, Year 347" works just as correctly as a modern date. Colored era bands mark each age on the timeline so readers can tell at a glance whether an event belongs to the time of the gods, the long empire, or the present day.
Start from a blank canvas or a world-history template, add events with names, dates, and descriptions, and the timeline builds itself as you type.
- Custom eras and year numbering for invented worlds
- Colored era bands for ages, dynasties, and epochs
- Date ranges for wars, reigns, and long migrations
- Continuity warnings when dates contradict each other
Everything a fantasy world needs
Dynasty & war tracking
Date-range events for reigns and conflicts. Gantt view shows overlapping kingdoms side by side.
Cause & effect links
Connect events as Causes, Foreshadows, Depends on, or Consequence of — history as a chain, not a list.
Export & share
JSON backup, Markdown for your story bible or AI assistant, or a PNG image to share with collaborators.
Empires, reigns, and rivalries in the Gantt view
Switch to the Gantt view and every dynasty becomes a horizontal bar. Overlapping reigns and rival kingdoms sit side by side across the centuries so you can see at a glance who held power, where two dynasties competed, and where a single conquest changed everything.
Color each dynasty its own band. A thousand years of succession reads like a map.
Link events by cause and prophecy
History isn't a list — it's cause and effect. A betrayal causes a war. A famine is the consequence of a drought. A coronation depends on a death. An ancient omen foreshadows the battle a thousand pages later. Mark those links and the timeline becomes a web, not a spine.
Continuity checks warn you the moment your dates contradict a dependency, so your world's logic stays airtight even across millennia.
- Causes — this event directly leads to another
- Consequence of — this event follows from another
- Depends on — can't happen without the prerequisite
- Foreshadows — hints at an event far in the future
Three views for sprawling lore
Chronicle
Clean vertical scroll. Read your world's story top to bottom like a book.
Gantt
Horizontal bars. Overlapping reigns, wars, and factions become instantly visible.
Outline
Compact list. Fast bulk editing and reordering when you're restructuring history.
Fantasy timeline examples to start from
Pick the shape closest to your world and adapt it scene by scene.
Ages of the world
Creation myth, the first kingdoms, a cataclysm that ends an age, and the long recovery — the deep-time backbone every epic fantasy needs.
Royal dynasty & succession
Births, marriages, reigns, betrayals, and contested heirs across a single bloodline — the spine of any court-intrigue saga.
Great war chronology
Spark, alliances, key battles, sieges, and the treaty that ends it — causes and consequences linked so the war reads as a chain, not a pile.
Magic & prophecy timeline
When the old magic woke, when an order rose or fell, and the prophecies that foreshadow events ages later in the story.
Start with a matching template
Open a finished example page first, then load the template into the editor when it fits your project.
Fantasy World Timeline Template
A realm's history across three ages — the age of kings, the rebellion, and the rebuilding — on a custom fictional calendar you can bend to your own world.
D&D Campaign Timeline Template
Track your tabletop campaign session by session — the party, the quest, the dungeon, and the villain's plan — from the first tavern meeting to the final showdown.
Mythology Timeline Template
The deep myth behind a world — a creation, a destroyer, a divine war, and the first mortals — across three mythic ages you can reshape into your own pantheon.
Frequently asked questions
- Is the fantasy timeline generator free?
- Yes — free to use, no account required. Create, edit, and export without signing up.
- Can I use a made-up calendar with custom eras?
- Yes. Set up a fictional calendar with your own eras and year numbers — "Third Age, Year 1208" sorts and spaces on the timeline exactly like a real date.
- Can I show multiple ages on one timeline?
- Yes. Colored era bands let each age, dynasty, or epoch be visually distinct, even across thousands of years.
- Can I track characters and kingdoms per era?
- Yes. Create reusable entities for characters, factions, and locations, link them to events, then filter the entire timeline to any single bloodline, kingdom, or war.
- Where is my timeline saved?
- In your browser — it reloads automatically when you return. Export JSON to back it up or move between devices.