Quote Originally Posted by unlimitedBLACK View Post
I thought the order of operations was
  1. Hraesvelgr consumes Shiva
  2. peace between dragons and mortals for awhile <-- this is where Avalonia should exist
  3. Ratatoskr gets unalived by Thordan and his knights
  4. Nidhogg starts the DSW and gets mad with Hraesvelgr won't help him, SPECIFICALLY because Hraesvelgr's oath to Shiva prevents him from joining an assault on the mortals
  5. Thordan's surviving knights establish Ishgard as their citadel to defend against the dragons

Am I remembering things wrong?
According to what I can find the order is:

1. Elezen flee Hyur expansion and a group of them settle in Coerthas where a collection of villages around the shrine to Halone becomes Ishgard.
2. Hraesvelgr consumes Shiva.
3. Peace between dragons and humans (Avalonia would date to this time period).
4. 200 years later Thordan and his knights kill Ratatoskr and the Dragonsong War begins.
5. At some point later, the church and the High Houses invent a false history where Thordan was led to Coerthas by Halone and that Nidhogg attacked the caravan of settlers and that Avalonia was made by heretics.