more holes ahead and they dont stay empty for long nightworld timeline a chronology of births and deaths and major events in the secret history the past prehistory `` demonsong '' rasaloms first death srem assembles her compendium the great cataclysm ends the first age 1476 rasalom trapped in the keep ; 1498 torquemada encounters the compendium of srem 1563 on one of his inspection trips to the keep , glaeken seals the compedium and other forbidden books there 1890 ernst drexler sr born 1923-24 aryans and absinthe 1926-45 black wind the gaijin masamune is damaged at hiroshima 1927 jonah stevens loses left eye in great lower mississippi valley flood 1930 jacks father born 1931 jacks mother born 1941 early april jasmine `` jazzy '' cordeau impregnated with a human clone 1941 may 3 - the keep rasalom killed invades the clone in jazzy 1941 ( june ) alexandru sells compendium & other books to a bucharest dealer 1941 jonah stevens has visions instructing him to care for the vessel 1942 ( jan 6 ) the vessel ( a human clone ) born to jazzy 1942 compendium sold to american collector ( feb ) jonah and emma stevens adopt the vessel from st. f 's name him james 1946 walter erskine born in chillicothe , mo 1949 ernst drexler ii born 1950 jacks father trained as us army sniper by sgt .