Shin Madou Timeline

[The Phantom God]

First thing's first. The reason this timeline does not include the Puyo Puyo half of the series from Fever onward is because official timelines don't either. We also do not have enough official information available to us to make our own Puyo Puyo timeline, as when the series turned from a story driven RPG to a puzzle game the writing took a sharp turn away from quality in favor of humor. Additionally, the original timeline was based around Arle's birth. This timeline has had its dates offset by 16 to account for this while making the timeline less Arle-centric. Additionally, if the events being described take place in a form of official media such as a novel, video game or something else that will be listed below in (This Color)

Virtually No One ICly
Remembers The Below Lore

Creation Age
11XXX≈ Years Ago - Pre Madou World

• A terrible war between heaven and humanity breaks out. Lilith, a powerful mage of the title "Protector of Man", battles Lucifer who leads the forces of God. "God" is a creation of "The Creator", both of them being holy deities of sorts. The war is fought over a cycle of life, death and reincarnation instituted upon humanity by The Creator. It is the perception of Lilith that this is all unjust suffering.

11016≈ Years Ago - Creation of the Madou World

• Human civilization collapses under the destructie force of the world. However,
  Lilith claims a small victory in the process. Lucifer, the leader of heaven's forces, falls deeply in love with Lilith after his repeated attempts and failures to defeat her and she co-opts Lucifer to her cause, supposedly becoming his wife in the process. (How much of their marriage is accurate and how much of it was just Lilith playing along or Satan asserting things that aren't mutual isn't known, as the latter is the type.)
• Using a very powerful holy artifact she obtained during the war, Lilith performs a miracle. She uses the artifact, The Seraphim Orb, to create her own new reality in defiance of The Creator. This reality, located in its own dimension between the original doomed world and the world of demons, is the Madou World.
  
• Lucifer's betrayal enrages God. God rips Lucifer's twelve wings apart and exiles Lucifer from Heaven. Lucifer is also forbidden from using his name any longer, instead going by the name of Satan from then on.
• The cycle of life, death and reincarnation is broken. A millenia of low-key chaos follows.

10016≈ Years Ago - The Cycle Begins Again

• The cyce of life, death and reincarnation begins again.
• Unholy and holy creatures, known collectively as "Those who could not be man" or more recently as 'monsters', enter the world and intertwine with man in a new cycle.

7016≈ Years Ago - Great Ancient Civilization Period

• Humanity prospers with the aid of spiritual magic and a new, more stable world to live in.
• Several Millenia passes, during which Man begins to war amongst itself for reasons unknown.

End of Absurdly Rare Lore

Dawning Age
1516≈ Years Ago - Ancient Madou Civilization Period

• The ancient civilizations deteriorateto apoint where all history behind this point is lost, both orally and in written text. The exceptions are a couple of surviving immortals, namely Lilith and Satan themselves.

1016≈ Years Ago - Birth of Ancient Magic

• A new type of magic is discovered which begins to replace the spiritual magic of old in popularity. This new type of magic is fueled by directly absorbing magic power, usually by ingesting and metabolizing it.

716 Years Ago - Heroic Era

• Spurred on by this new type of magic a period characterized by legends, swords, magic and heroes begins.

366 Years Ago - Peak of the Heroic Era

• Rune Lord, a dark magician, is sealed away in the imperial capital of Rana by a hero from another dimension named Lagnus.
  ([Novel] Shin Madou Monogatari Gaiden - The Golden Hero)

166 Years Ago

• Schezo Wegey, at the age of 14 years old, becomes displaced from his home and winds up in the now abandoned city of Rana. Here he manages to defeat Rune Lord,
  obtaining the Dark Sword and mastering the spell Areiado in the process.
  ([Game] Madou Monogatari ARS: S Story <PC98>)

Tranquil Age
18 Years Ago

• Arle Nadja's parents get married.

16 Years Ago

• Arle Nadja is born.

12 Years Ago

• Arle's father goes missing under unknown circumstances.
• Arle goes to live with her grandmother for a while and is given some chores to do. However, she manages to get lost in the forest near her grandmother's house and discovers some forest fairies that teach her how to cast their magic, which she uses to protect herself as she finds her way back home.
  ([Game] Madou Monogatar ARS: A Story <PC98>)
  ([Game] Madou Monogatari A <GG>)

10 Years Ago

• Arle takes her kindergarden graduation event, the events of which are too numerous to list here. She graduates at the top of her class.
  ([Game] Madou Monogatari 1 <MSX/PC98>)
  ([Game] Madou Monogatari I <GG/Genesis/PCE>)
  ([Game] Madou Monogatari - Big Kindergarten Kids <SNES>)

4 Years Ago

• Arle's memories and consequently her abilities as a magician are erased under unknown circumstances.

2 Years Ago

• Rulue is kidnapped by a vampire by the name of Count. It is during this time that she falls head over heels in love with Satan. Much to her chagrin, Count's plot to lure Satan to him using Rulue is foiled when Satan simply doesn't show up. Instead, Rulue is forced to rescue herself.
  ([Game] Madou Monogatari ARS: R Story <PC98>)

Present Year (Events are in chronological order)

• Arle is captured by Schezo Wegey, who intends to feat upon her magic and take her powers for himself. However, she escapes her cell and kills him before escaping again to a new dungeon owned by Satan. Satan notices that Arle looks strikingly similar to Lilith and immediately falls in love with her, much to Arle's chagrin. She defeats Satan, however, and rescues Carbuncle from his smothering induced imprisonment.
  ([Game] Madou Monogatari 2 <MSX/PC98>)
• Arle suffers frostbite on her hands as a result of miscasting Ice Storm and goes in search of medicine to help her heal. However, the local shop isn't able to get its supplies as there's some trouble on the usual trade route. Investigating it, Arle meets Rulue at the source. After being impressed with Arle's magical prowess, Rulue agrees to stop causing trouble under the condition that Arle allows her to go to school with her. Arle and Rulue become close friends and classmates.
  ([Game] Madou Monogatari 3 <MSX/PC98>
• Arle receives a request from her former kindergarten teacher to get rid of some monsters. She encounters and defeats the Rot Wizard, a powerful undead magician that attempted to kill her during her kindergarten graduation exam.
  ([Novel] Never-released story of SS Madou Ver. 2.0)

Activity Age
Present Year (Events are in chronological order)

• Arle accidentally invades a holy ancient dungeon while taking an exam. Here she meets Lilith, whom she mistakenly identifies as a doppelganger for lack of a better explanation for their striking visual similarities. She also meets 4 of the 8 jewel guardians--Red Ruby, Yellow Diamond, Blue Sapphire, and Green Emerald--defeats them and uses their jewels to obtain the Ruler's Mantle, which she, in turn, uses to defeat The Phantom God and become the heir to the Seraphim Orb.
  
  This causes the seal placed upon Arle at the age of 12, the one that erased her memories, to be tapped again. (Problematic English. It's not 100% clear what this means.)
  
  However, Arle rejects her destiny to succeed Lilith and rule over the world using the Seraphim Orb.
  ([Game] Madou Monogatari: Mistaken Final Test <Windows>)
• Rulue goes on an impromptu adventure during spring break wherein she is forced to confront Count a second time.
  ([Game] Rulue's Spring Break of Fists <Windows>)
• Schezo infiltrates the tower of Wish, Witch's grandmother. He inadvertantly winds up saving the world instead.
  ([Game] Madou Monogatari - Tower of the Magician <Windows>)

The following lore is part of a canonically forgotten part of the timeline that no one but Satan, Lilith and Doppelganger Arle are allowed to remember without staff approval. For everyone else, this part of the timeline seemingly never happened.

1 Year Later

• Arle meets the rest of the jewel guardians--Flame Garnet, Lightning Zircon, Blizzard Aquamarine, and Storm Alexandria
  ([Novel] "Guardian Story" <Never-released version of SS Madou Ver. 1.0>)
• A story set in a magic school's vacation spot, where the students are tasked to hunt for treasure in a magical island.
  ([Novel] "Treasure Hunt Story" <Never-released version of SS Madou Ver. 3.0>)
• The unknown events of Catastropher Prologue Act 1
  ([Novel] "Fetid Magician Once More Kai" <Never-released version of SS Madou Ver. 4.1>)
• Catastropher Prologue Act 2. Rulue returns to her hometown and is forced to battle her disciples and teacher for unknown reasons.
  ([Novel] "Heartless Martial Art" <Never-released version of SS Madou Ver. 4.2>)
• Catastropher Prologue Act 3. A story is told servingas a flashback to 350 years ago, providing a behind-the-scenes look into the showdown between Lagnus and Rune Lord.
  ([Novel] "Hero and Sanctuary" <Never-released version of SS Madou Ver. 4.3>)

2 Years Later

• The entire magic world is wrapped up in rumors about the super-being "The Ancient One", with Arle and co. engaging in a grand battle against the "Catastropher Seven", a nihilist cult that desires the world's demise. The "Triblade", consisting of Schezo's effeminate step-brother "Sword"--Rulue's father "Edge"--the leader and Arle's friend "Saber". "Swordmaster", Saber's father, also makes their debut as the best swordsman in history.
  ([Novel] "Catastropher Story" <Never-released version of SS Madou Ver. 4.0>)

Turmoil Age
4 Years Later - Judgment of God

• The cycle of life, death and reincarnation is reborn and the creator begins to take action against the madou world. It is revealed that Arle is Lilith's ancestor of some nature. (The nature is unclear, as it is never stated that Lilith and Satan had children.) She is also revealed to be immune to the creator's influence and thus the only one capable of fighting him.
• The Final Ragnarok ensued, a long battle spanning many dimensions against The Creator.

483 Years Later - The End

• The several hundred year showdown between Arle and The Creator comes to a close as he is defeated by Arle. However, it comes at a great price. Nothing is left standing in the battle's wake, leaving only an empty void where the madou world used to be. Arle's soul is torn apart by the struggle, but as she is an eternal she does not cease to exist with the rest of the old madou world. Satan retrieves one half of her soul from the void, but he misidentifies it as the whole thing and the other half is left trapped in the void for 500 years as a result.

983 Years Later - The Beginning

• Satan creates a new world modeled after the old madou world complete with replicas of people from the old madou world. Everyone's age is set in stone in this world and no one ever thinks about growing up. However, Arle's soul was damaged during the madou war and only half of it is used in the creation of the "New Arle", weakening her greatly. Most people have no knowledge of what transpired before this point and their memories, if any, would have had to have been fabricated by Satan. After this point, the passing of time becomes nebulous.

End of destroyed timeline

New Age
Present Day (Events are in chronological order)

• Arle discovers a strange spelled named "Owanimo" that allows her to sacrifice puyos to the goddess of spacetime, who in return grants magical power. This is the tie in game to the Puyo Puyo series.
  ([Game] Madou Monogatari - Michikusa Ibun <PC98>)
• The events of Puyo Puyo 1 take place.
  ([Game] Puyo Puyo)
• The events of Puyo Puyo 2 take place.
  ([Game] Puyo Puyo Tsu)
• Satan gets really bored and deliberately allows Yog Swartus to invade the new Madou world for giggles, baiting Arle, Rulue, Schezo, Lagnus and a gaggle of friends along on a journey. to defeat the extra-dimensional monster.
  ([Game] Madou Monogatari <Saturn>)
• The events of Puyo Puyo 3 take place.
  ([Game] Puyo Puyo Sun)
• The events of Puyo Puyo Gaiden take place, mysteriously referred to as The Puyo Disappearance Incident. This is apparently an alternate universe according to the timeline, however, that statement is pretty meaningless in terms of determining whether the game is canon in any sense of the word. The Sonic series is also an alternate universe.
  ([Game] Puyo Puyo Gaiden: Puyo Wars)
• The other half of Arle's soul returns after Satan discovers her unsuccessfully attempting to enter his new madou world and takes pity on her, allowing her to enter as 'So-Called-Doppelganger' Arle. "Doppelganger Arle" has become bitter and twisted over the five hundred years she spent lonely and trapped in the void between dimensions, misidentifying the new Arle as a fraud and in turn being misidentified as a doppelganger when she turns against Satan in order to challenge the new Arle for the right to exist. She is then beaten and ejected from reality due to a rule in Satan's new world wherein two versions of the same unique person cannot exist at once.
  ([Game] Puyo Puyo~n)

Puyo Puyo Fever and beyond occurs here. The canonity of Dr. Robotnik's Mean Bean Machine, 15th Anniversary, 20th Anniversary, Quest, Touch, and Tetris are questionable.