Story Timeline Index

Tracks when each story entry sits in Valenar's chronology, what it depends on, and what it changes. This ledger should make it possible to audit ordering, reveal timing, and consequence flow without treating prose itself as canon.

Timeline Slot	Entry ID	Status	Act	Relative Time	Location	Preconditions	POV	Allowed Exposure	Branch Scope	Downstream Consequence	Authority Sources
D1-T0 Awakening	act0-day1-i-woke-alone	accepted	act-0	Day 1 morning, immediately after arrival	arrival pocket near the old stones	first-launch new game	first-person	hinted (arrival)	linear	opens act0.survive.get-up; seeds the Journal	../lore/local/gl-mc-corebound.md, ../lore/local/gl-mc-earthborn-backgrounds.md, ../lore/hooks/lh-game1-cosmology-hooks.md
D1-T1 First Water	act0-day1-water-first	accepted	act-0	Day 1 mid-morning	stream margin downhill of the arrival pocket	act0-day1-i-woke-alone	first-person	revealed (demon presence; growth anomaly hinted)	linear	resolves act0.survive.find-water; opens act0.survive.prepare-for-night	../lore/hooks/lh-game1-world-hooks.md, ../lore/local/gl-game1-demon-remains.md, ../lore/universe/ud-world-law.md
D1-T2 Shelter Chosen	act0-day1-before-dark	accepted	act-0	Day 1 afternoon	low ground between a stone outcrop and a fallen tree	act0-day1-water-first	first-person	revealed (night danger)	linear	resolves act0.survive.prepare-for-night; opens act0.survive.search-for-food	../lore/hooks/lh-game1-world-hooks.md, ../lore/local/gl-mc-earthborn-backgrounds.md, ../lore/universe/ud-world-law.md
D1-T3 Forage	act0-day1-food-or-trouble	accepted	act-0	Day 1 late afternoon	edge of a stand of low woods uphill of the shelter	act0-day1-before-dark	first-person	hinted (second wrongness)	linear (fork annotation to Lost Hours)	resolves act0.survive.search-for-food on linear; flags Lost Hours fork on foreshadowed	../lore/local/gl-game1-demon-remains.md, ../lore/local/gl-mc-earthborn-backgrounds.md, ../lore/hooks/lh-game1-world-hooks.md
D1-T3b Pre-Blackout (foreshadowed)	act0-day1-condition-pre-blackout	accepted	act-0	Day 1 late afternoon, immediately before the gap	edge of the forage area	act0-day1-food-or-trouble and foreshadowing route engaged	first-person	hinted	lost-hours-foreshadowed	registers the "I had a warning" anchor for the Lost Hours reconstruction	../lore/local/gl-mc-earthborn-backgrounds.md, ../lore/hooks/lh-game1-world-hooks.md
D1-T4 The Gap	act0-day1-the-missing-hours	accepted	act-0	Day 1 late afternoon into early evening; time of writing splits across the gap	at the shelter, returning to the wedge	act0-day1-food-or-trouble	first-person	hinted (anchor adjacency; mechanism stays hidden)	lost-hours (parent)	opens act0.survive.recover-the-lost-hours; seeds the arc	../lore/local/gl-mc-corebound.md, ../lore/hooks/lh-game1-world-hooks.md
D1-T5 Camp Evidence	act0-day1-tracks-in-camp	accepted	act-0	Day 1 early evening	at the shelter, ground search around the wedge	act0-day1-the-missing-hours	first-person	revealed (demon proximity); hinted (anchor adjacency)	lost-hours	contributes to act0.survive.recover-the-lost-hours via the evidence inventory	../lore/hooks/lh-game1-world-hooks.md, ../lore/local/gl-mc-corebound.md, ../lore/local/gl-mc-earthborn-backgrounds.md
D1-T6 Post-Blackout Body	act0-day1-condition-post-blackout	accepted	act-0	Day 1 early evening	at the shelter, sitting against the rock	act0-day1-tracks-in-camp	first-person	hinted	lost-hours	feeds the recover-the-lost-hours reconstruction	../lore/hooks/lh-game1-world-hooks.md, ../lore/local/gl-mc-earthborn-backgrounds.md
D1-T6b Fragment	act0-day1-dream-fragment	accepted	act-0	Day 1 evening, brief eye-closed moment	at the shelter	act0-day1-condition-post-blackout and Lost Hours route engaged	first-person	hinted	lost-hours (conditional)	registers a 'fragment from the gap' for later return	../lore/hooks/lh-game1-cosmology-hooks.md
D1-T7 Stones Noticed	act0-day1-old-stones-first-notice	accepted	act-0	Day 1 evening, last good light	at the shelter, looking uphill at the old stone line	act0-day1-food-or-trouble	first-person	revealed (stones as site); hinted (anchor function)	linear (fork annotation to Old Stones thread)	unlocks the Old Stones quest thread	../lore/hooks/lh-game1-world-hooks.md, ../lore/local/gl-mc-corebound.md, ../lore/local/gl-game1-old-hero-traces.md
D2-T0 Dawn	act0-day2-morning-came	accepted	act-0	Day 2 morning, first light	at the shelter, dawn light along the slope	act0-day1-before-dark; act0.survive.survive-the-first-night mission armed or completed	first-person	revealed (night survival; in-Zone observables)	linear (rejoin for all routes)	resolves act0.survive.survive-the-first-night; opens Day 2 directive	../lore/hooks/lh-game1-world-hooks.md, ../lore/local/gl-mc-earthborn-backgrounds.md, ../lore/universe/ud-world-law.md