Willowshore Timeline

The remote village of Willowshore is founded by a follower of Sangpotshi named Zhi Hui.  She builds a Sangpotshi monastery in the mountain hinterlands, incorporating an ancient sugi tree, said to have mystic properties, at the heart of the monastery’s courtyard.

With construction of the monastery complete, Willowshore's focus shifts to an increasingly self-sufficient lifestyle that only periodically needs to support the monks living nearby.

Zhi Hui passes away of natural causes.

Willowshore becomes a lumber town.  Local Sangpotshi traditions dwindle.  The monks of the Tan Sugi monastery, bereft of Zhi Hui's guidance, bicker and abandon the monastery.

Chou Mingxia, the leader of the city of Sze, sends her son to Willowshore, where he attempts to harvest the glorious sugi tree.  His attempt fails, resulting in a mysterious tragedy that would come to be known as the Night of Broken Blades.   Having departed for the monastery that morning, the woodcutters returned to Willowshore with broken weapons and unliving bodies that evening.  While these undead woodcutters were defeated by morning, dozens of townsfolk had perished during the struggle.  The monastery comes to be regarded as cursed, haunted, or worse.

Governor Heh Shan-Bao is installed at Willowshore by Lung Wa.

Age of Lost Omens begins.  Lung Wa empire collapses.  Government officials in Shenmen are cut off, and they succumb to greed, becoming cruel and abusive to the common folk. Governor Heh does his best to shelter Willowshore from these events.