The Schedule, Node by Node

Your season hub draws a dated timeline along the bottom: a row of nodes, each with a date and a label, telling you what opens when. It is the single most useful screen on the hub, and the dates on it are your kingdom's, not anyone else's.

What the nodes look like

Here is a real hub timeline, read off one kingdom's screen, as an example of the shape. Dates are drawn MM/DD with no year.

#	Date drawn	Label
1	10/12	The opening node — drawn gold, with a rune ring, as the one in progress. Its label ends ampaign Begins and the first character could not be read, so this guide does not fill it in
2	10/15	Mistletoe Sanctum
3	10/16	Lv 5 Pass: single direction access
4	10/17	Sanctum of Dawn
5	10/21	Lv 6 Pass: single direction access
6	10/22	Sanctum of Daylight
7	10/28	Lv 7 Pass: single direction access

⚠️ Those dates are one kingdom's October run and they will not be yours. Read the shape, not the dates: a battlefield Sanctum first, then Passes and ladder Sanctums alternating, each a few days apart. See which run are you in.

⭐ The pattern worth planning against

Strip the dates out and the order tells you how the season opens up:

1. A battlefield Sanctum opens first — the Mistletoe Sanctum. You clear every enemy Chief's Troops out of it to “temporarily occupy it”, and then every member of your Team inside the area “will continuously earn points”.
2. Then Passes and ladder Sanctums alternate, each Pass a level higher than the last. A Pass opening single direction access is not full access — it lets traffic one way.
3. The ladder Sanctums arrive in their fixed order: Dawn, then Daylight, then Twilight, then Light. The schedule and the Sanctums' own rules agree, because each one gates the next.

⭐ So the season's tempo is set for you. You cannot rush to the Level 8 Sanctum: it does not open until the ladder below it has been climbed, and the Passes that let you reach it open on their own dates. What you control is whether your Team is ready on each date.

What the timeline does not tell you

• How long the season runs. No screen anywhere draws an end date. Your hub's own countdown is the only authority, and it is specific to your kingdom.
• Where the Sanctum of Twilight and Sanctum of Light nodes fall. On the hub read for this page the axis showed seven nodes and ran out of drawn nodes both sides — but nobody dragged it, so seven is what was drawn, not necessarily all there is. Expect the last two rungs of the ladder to sit beyond it.
• When a period turns. Periods alternate on their own clock, shown on the period banner rather than the timeline. One was seen running a three-day cycle. See the periods.
• When the Chronicles stages advance. The quest track has its own per-stage timer, and it is not on this axis. See Chronicles.

Before the map opens

The timeline above starts when the campaign does. Before any of it comes the preparation stage. Players who have played this map report it as nine days — four two-day windows and a final one-day window — scored Team against Team, paying buffs that only take effect once you enter. ⚠️ No screen draws that shape, so check your own event timer. That schedule is on the preparation page, and it is the part of the season you can prepare for before it starts.

Then, between preparation ending and the map opening, two things happen in order: each Team elects its Captain, and then the Captain allocates the starting areas. Both have their own countdowns on their own screens. See the two Teams.