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Bloodtide by Melvin Burgess

  • Government taken out of London, United Kingdom

  • Period: to

    Bloodtide

  • Experiments take place creating Halfmen

    Experiments take place creating Halfmen
  • Galaxy Building (tallest building) top 30 floors brake off

  • People started moving closer to Big Ben, St. Paul’s, Tower Bridge, and Docklands

  • Experimentation ends leaving all Halfmen outside of London

  • War between Halfmen and Humans officially begin

    War between Halfmen and Humans officially begin
  • Years of Starvation begins

  • Halfmen take over lands around London

  • Wall around London built

    Wall around London built
    "Ring of brick and stone right around London, towering over broken suburbs and fields. Every 50 metes had a machine gun nest, jags of glass, iron ans steel stuck out of the mortar. Rolls of razor wire coiled up on top and a minefield on each side, 50 meters wide." pg. 87
  • Halfmen forces quiet down/some surrender

  • Volsons versus Conors

    The war between two families begin
  • Experimentation by Halfmen starts

  • Volson family conquers South side of London

  • Conor family succeeds to claim land North of London

  • Volsons v.Conors continue

    Generation after generation they continue to fight
  • HQ of experimentation done by Halfmen discovered by citizens

  • HQ for experimentation by Halfmen moved

  • Forces of the Old London fight Volsons and Conors army

  • Treaty between King Conor and King Val Volson

    Treaty between King Conor and King Val Volson
    Signy is forced to marry Connor, the man she hates the most. "Takes place in Westminster Abbey, where old Kings and Queens used to wed." pg. 23
  • Odin gives a gift to Siggy

    "His arms seemed to have come loose from the bonds behind his back, and now he was lifting them into the air." pg 48
  • Signy went with Conor to Finchley

    Signy went with Conor to Finchley
    "Conor's headquarters in Finchley occupied several whole streets, an old estate of luxury houses. It was flanked on one side by an old railway cutting, on another by a reservoir." pg. 71
  • Schools and hospitals start to get built

    Schools and hospitals start to get built
    "Only a month after I came we went to see the site where our first hospital was going up." pg. 81
  • Rumors of Ragnor reached London

    "There was Ragnor, the new city, with its startling towers and robot servants and glittering electrical life." pg.83
  • Gangs ruled London

    "Police didn't visit London, Manchester, Birmingham, Glasgow and other cities. School, hospitals and business were controlled by gangs." pg. 85
  • A Halfmen trader named Karl gave Signy a shapeshifter

    "He opened his coat and took out a kitten. He'd had it hidden in a pocket inside. I put out my hands, and he laid it into them." pg. 111
  • Conor kills Val

    During the visit to citizens Conor's people started to attack the Volsons. Eventually, leaving Val Volson dead
  • Revolts started to take place in London

    Revolts started to take place in London
  • Volson brothers are killed by Conor

    Hadrian, Ben and Siggy were sent to Halfman lands to be eaten by the manpig. Had and Ben are eaten when Siggy escapes later.
  • Halfmen leaders start to fight back

    Dag Aggerman a terrorist to ganglords but considered a freedom fighter to the halfmen started organizing plans for freedom.
  • Rebellions occur in Portsmouth

    Some halfmen creatures crept inside the wall to recruit people to fight Conor.
  • Vincent; Signy’s child is born

    Conor believes that the child is his when it is Siggy's.
  • Conor takes over Portsmouth

    Outraged that even a few halfmen could pass through the Wall, Conor takes down Portsmouth.
  • Sigmund Volson joins the alliance

  • Siggy Volson starts training his cloned son Styr

  • Fights breakout between forces in the Halfmen lands

  • Hurricane takes out most of London

    Hurricane takes out most of London
    Blows out windows from Galaxy Building, tears panels from offices, and destroys the brickwork of buildings.
  • Dag Aggerman killed within own camp

    Conor brewed his own halfmen and snuck it inside Aggerman's camp and destroyed him.
  • New leader of the Halfmen emerged; Jack Tebbs

    Everyone new that the leader was Siggy but they needed a halfmen to be a symbolic leader.
  • Conor continues to lose every battle

  • The Great Hall at Winchester burned down

    The Great Hall at Winchester burned down
  • Stonehenge removed and assembled on Hackney Marsh

  • Huge Rebellion moved in closer to Oxford

  • Christ Church dismantled

  • London enters final stage of war

  • Siggy continues to conquer Conors land

  • Tough years of starvation ends

  • Battle of the Halfmen and Humans

  • Signy kills Conor and Cherry for betrayal

  • Siggy’s men shoot Signy when she attempts to kill Siggy