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RIVERWORLD CHRONOLOGY
[Compiled by Attila Torkos] Hungary

??Intelligence emerges on several planets, but

nowhere does it possess self-awareness.
??A scientist of the Firsts accidentally
produces a wathan from the extraphysical forces
during his experiments. He does not recognize
the importance of his creation, and carries on
with his experiments producing more wathans.
Wathans attach themselves to the neighboring
living beings, giving rise to self-awareness in
those with a highly developed nervous system.

??The first generation of the Firsts possessing

self-awareness reach adulthood. 25 years after
the production of the first wathans they realize
how they gained self-awareness. They keep on
producing more wathans to help newer generations
become self-aware.
??Centuries later the Firsts develop
interstellar travel. They discover intelligence
on several planets, but realize that
intelligence is nowhere aware of its own
existence.
They set up wathan generators on planets
cradling intelligence to help new species gain
self-awareness.
??Reaching the highest level of ethical
development the Firsts make themselves immortal.
Their work is carried on by newer species
given self-awareness. They, in turn, become
immortal once they reach maturity.
??Elder races help a new species gain
self-awareness on Ghuurrkh. This is the 7th race
after the Firsts.
97 000 B.C. Ghuurrkhians plant wathan generators
on Earth which harbors many intelligent life
forms.
A Titanthrop, to be later named Joe Miller,
witnesses the Ghuurrkhians' activity. Thanks to
the generators Titanthrops, Neanderthals and
modern Man become self aware.
Wathans detaching from the bodies of the dead
are captured by wathan traps.
??The majority of Ghuurrkhians become immortal,
only about 10,000 individuals carry on with the
Work.
ca.11 000 B.C. Ghuurkhians build the
Gardenworld.
ca.1200 B.C. Birth of Loga in Troy. He is killed
at the age of 4 by akhays.
ca.1000 B.C. Ghuurrkhians on the Gardenworld
start resurrecting those humans, Titanthrops and
Neanderthals who died under the age of 5 on
Earth using their wathans.
Wathans attach themselves to the resurrected

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bodies, and the children grow to become adults in their new bodies. Later generations are
brought up by Loga and others of the first
generations.
ca.2009 A.D. Loga, his companions and a
Ghuurrkhian named Monat Grrautut depart for the
planet of the Riverworld Project.
ca.2100 A.D. Earths biosphere is destroyed by
atomic warfare. A group of Gardenworlders clean
Earth and resettle it with life during the next
160 years.
ca.2169 A.D. Loga and company arrive to their
target-planet and under the supervision of Monat
begin to transform the planet.
ca.2219 A.D. The Riverworld is completed. Monat
plans to resurrect all humans, Titanthrops and
Neanderthals who died above the age of 5 on
Earth in two turns on the Riverworld using their
wathans. After this they intend to let both
groups advance their ethical development for
100-100 years. By the end of the projected time
those who are not mature enough for immortality
would be destroyed and the rest would be
resurrected on Earth as immortals. Loga does not
want to limit the time given for ethical
development. He starts his own plan unbeknownst
to the rest of the Ethicals.
Before 2246 A.D. During the resurrection process
Loga wakes up Sir Richard Francis Burton for a
short time to show him the activity of the
Ethicals. Seeing this Burton would be able to
accept the resurrection with rational sense.
Loga convinces the Ethicals that Burton's
untimely awakening is an accident.
2246 A.D. Approximately 36 billion Earthlings
older than 5 years are resurrected on the
Riverworld. Monat, who did not believe
Burton's untimely awakening was an accident,
places himself and another Ethical posing as
Peter Jairus Frigate near Burton at Resurrection
to keep an eye on him. A Neanderthal, Kazz
discovers that neither Monat, nor the pseudo
Frigate has the sign the other resurrecteed have
on their foreheads. Monat hipnotizes Kazz to
forget this. Burton, Kazz, Monat and Frigate
build the Hadji and start sailing up the River.
People along the banks of the River organize
themselves into states. Several Ethicals work
among the resurrectees without being discovered.
[After Resurrection Day]
/\
2247 A.D.= 1 A.R.D. Kazz discovers in the state
of Theleme that Robert Spruce does not wear a
sign. Burton tries to question Spruce, but
Spruce commits suicide. The Ethicals start to
look for Burton. Burton leaves Theleme. A
Titanthrop, Joe Miller joins Akhenaten's
expedition to find the source of the River.
Loga visits Jacques Gillot and tells him some
facts about wathans and Resurrection. Gillot
founds the Church of the Second Chance (Loga
hopes this will speed up the ethical development
of the resurrectees).
?? Robert F. Rohrig and Agatha Croomes reach the
North Pole, the shore of the sea feeding the
River, where they starve to death. They are
resurrected at another location.
2250 A.D. = 4 A.R.D. Akhenaten's expedition
reaches the sea of the North Pole. Miller sees
the Tower of the Ethicals, then falls from a
rock ledge and dies. He is resurrected at

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another location. Akhenaten finds the remains of
Rohrig and Croomes. They reach the Tower and
enter, except for Paheri. They all die. Paheri
escapes and later drowns in the River. He is
resurrected at another location, where he tells
his adventures to Tom Mix. Mix dies, and is
resurrected at another location. Loga visits Mix
and trusts him to travel to the Tower with Jack
London. Mix and London build the Razzle Dazzle
and start sailing up the River. Loga trusts
altogether 124 people to reach the source of the
River to help him against the other Ethicals if
needed.
2251 A.D. = 5 A.R.D. Loga visits Burton and
trusts him to reach the River's source. Burton
commits suicide several hundred times during the
next 2 years hoping he would be resurrected near
the River's source, but is not successful.
2253 A.D. = 7 A.R.D. The Ethicals capture
Burton. They warn him that there is a renegade
among them who pursues his own goals, then
resurrect him again near the River, in Theleme.
Monat, the pseudo Frigate and Kazz re-join him.
They build the Hadji II and start up the River.
The Razzle Dazzle arrives to Ruritania, where
the real Peter Frigate boards the ship.
2262 A.D. = 16 A.R.D. Loga visits Savinien de
Cyrano de Bergerac and asks him to find Samuel
Clemens and help him reach the River's source.

2263 A.D. = 17 A.R.D. Joe Miller meets Sam

Clemens and tells him his adventure at the North
Pole. Clemens and Miller start sailing the river
with a Viking fleet to find metal for building a
riverboat to reach the source of the River.
2266 A.D. = 20 A.R.D. Loga diverts an asteroid
and crushes it on the Riverworld near Clemens to
provide him with metals.
Clemens and John Lackland found the state of
Parolando and develop an advanced industry using
the meteor's ores. Cyrano arrives to Parolando
and joins Clemens. The true Frigate learns
Paheri's story from Mix. He sends a letter to
Robert F. Rohrig with Rivermail, telling
Paheri's adventures.
2267 A.D. = 21 A.R.D. Clemens starts building a
large riverboat.
2269 A.D. = 23 A.R.D. John Johnston, an agent of
Loga joins Clemens.
2271 A.D. = 25 A.R.D. Rohrig receives Frigate's
letter.
2272 A.D. = 26 A.R.D. Clemens' riverboat, the
Not For Hire is completed. Lackland steals the
boat, renames it Rex Grandissimus and leaves
Parolando. Clemens starts building a new boat to
be able to follow Lackland.
??The Ethicals realize that Loga is the
renegade. Loga is forced to kill all his
companions in the Tower. He stops theresurrections on the entire planet, renders
the vehicles of the Ethicals disfunctional and
plans to return to the Tower alone. His vehicle,
however, also becomes useless.
2276 A.D. = 30 A.R.D. New Bohemia's president,
the Ethical Ladislas Podebrad reveales the metal
source beneath his state and builds an advanced
industry. He wants to build a fast vehicle to
reach the Tower. Clemens second boat is
finished in Parolando and christened Mark Twain.
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renamed his first boat, he renames the Mark
Twain to Not For Hire. He starts up the River to
catch up with Lackland.
2277 A.D. = 31 A.R.D. The Ethical Milton
Firebrass starts building a dirigible in
Parolando to get to the Tower quickly.
2278 A.D.= 32 A.R.D.The Hadji II sinks.
2279 A.D. = 33 A.R.D. Kazz tells Burton that
Monat and Frigate does not have the sign and
that he was hipnotized not to reveal this.
Before Burton could ask them, Frigate and
Monat disappear. The Razzle Dazzle reaches New
Bohemia. Podebrad builds an airship to reach the
Tower. Mix and company build the balloon Jules
Verne and set out toward the North Pole.
Firebrass's dirigible, the Parseval is
completed. They reach the North Pole. Firebrass
and some others try to land on the Tower, but
Loga, travelling in disguise on the dirigible,
detonates their helicopter. Piscator enters the
Tower, then dies. The Parseval departs to
rendezvous with the Not For Hire.
2280 A.D. = 34 A.R.D. Podebrads airship
crashes. Podebrad boards the Rex. Burton and
company board the Rex. Loga leaves the Parseval
with the helicopter and detonates the dirigible
to prevent anybody from getting to the Tower
before him. Monat and the pseudo Frigate board
the Not For Hire.
2281 A.D. = 35 A.R.D. New Bohemia's people dig
near a grailstone to tap its energy source. As a
result all grailstones on the right side of the
River cease to function. People of the right
bank attack the left bank driven by famine. Half
the population if the Riverworld dies. The true
Frigate, Mix and company board the Rex. Loga
boards the Rex under the pseudonim Ah Qaaq and
kills Monat.
2306 A.D. = 60 A.R.D. The Rex arrives at
Virolando. The Not For Hire catches up with the
Rex. During the battle between the two ships
Lackland and Clemens die, the boats sink.
Cyrano, Podebrad, Mix, London dies. Burton,
Frigate, Joe Miller, Ah Qaaq and some other
survivors keep sailing up the River with the
crusiser of the Not For Hire.
2313 A.D. = 67 A.R.D. Burton and company reach
the North Pole, where Miller falls off a rock
ledge and dies. The rest get to the Tower where
Ah Qaaq turns out to be Loga. Loga tells Burton
and company the purpose of the Riverworld
project and the reason of his rebellion.
Together they repair the dying biocomputer
controlling the Riverworld. Burton and company
realize that Loga is crazy. They put him to
sleep and hibernate him. They restart the
resurrections on the whole planet. They
resurrect about 200 people in the Tower. Burton
and a group of people leave the planet with a
starship and move to an unsettled planet.
2347 A.D. = 100 A.R.D. The computer puts to
sleep, then kills the inhabitants of the
Riverworld. Those mature for immortality are
resurrected on Earth. The wathans of the rest
are scattered. The second turn of wathans
brought from the Gardenworld is resurrected.
2447 A.D. = 200 A.R.D. The computer puts to
sleep, then kills the second turn of the
Riverworld's inhabitants. The wathans of those
not mature for immortality are scattered, the
rest resurrected on Earth. The Riverworld

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