Lagos Timeline

1991—Nigerian government finishes building Abuja. The country’s capital is moved to the new city, abandoning Lagos to the sprawling slums. Government and corporate investment in the city slows to a trickle.

2007—The nationalistic group known as MEANS begins attacking corporate oil investors and facilities, causing a widespread withdrawal from the area by foreign corporations.

2011—VITAS 1 sweeps through Africa. The death toll is between 50 and 75 percent of the continent’s population. In Lagos, it’s believed that over 75 percent of the population, approximately ten to twenty million people, dies.

2011—The city is still under siege from VITAS when the Awakening occurs. The first signs of the Awakening are when the tribal shamans suddenly become able to cure victims of VITAS through their traditional medicine and prayers.

2015—Radical climate, environmental, and geological changes across Africa are attributed to the Awakening. Entire cities disappear as jungles and the savannah spread across sub-Saharan Africa.

2022—Riots rock the city as VITAS II sweeps through, killing a quarter of the residents. Several sections of the city burn.

2030—Ghoul nation of Asamando is founded by Thema Laula. Lagos becomes a major hub in the underground trade route across Africa to Asamando.

2039—Global race riots burn through Africa. In Lagos, priests of Obatala provide shelter to thousands of metahumans and summon spirits to quell riots.

2040—The Azanian alliance forms, composed of Cape Republic, Oranje-Vrystaat, Trans-Swazi Federation, and Zulu Nation. The Azanians grow to be one of the most powerful countries in Africa and soon dominate South Africa.

2043—Multiple branches of the Universal Brotherhood open across Africa. In Lagos, rampant corruption, thefts, and armed robberies against the charity and its brotherhood force most of the branches to close.

2061—As SURGE spreads through the city, the people of Lagos attribute it to another outbreak of VITAS. Thousands of changelings are attacked and killed.

2061, November 1st—Ancestor spirits appear all over the city, warning of the “Return of the Dead.” Shedim outbreaks across the city cause widespread destruction. Even more people flow into the city as they attempt to escape shedim infestations in Interior Africa.

2063—A pipeline connecting Lagos to the Niger Delta oil fields is completed with cooperation of several of the Kingdoms of Nigera. War breaks out almost immediately.

2068—The Seven King War ends when Oni Adegoke makes a deal with Global Sandstorm for military support.