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The History of Darwinia
By Ville Valste
This is a guide for the History of Darwinia, created by me. I've used the game's location descriptions and my own logical thougt in the progress of creating this guide. If you notice anything missing/wrong/spot-on you can leave a comment.
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Locations
In this section I have the list of locations that have any signifigance to the History of Darwinia with brief descriptions. The locations are under the most fitting category.

War against the Virus
Barbs of Madness
- Place infected witht he Virus
A Monument to the Heavens
Mountain of Lost Souls
- Here an entire Multiwinian army was destroyed by Virus' Soul Destroyers.
The Tortured Expanse
- Place infected with Virus. Possibly the first place where the Virus started infecting the trees of Darwinia.
Scorched Earth
- Place very heavily infected with Virus.
The Last Stand
- Here the near extinct Red Tribe was saved from the Virus by the Green Tribe.
Heart of Chaos
- Here the Red Multiwinians got back their free will from the Virus.
Gridlock
- The detoriated remains of a great frotress built by the Red Tribe while they were still under the Virus' control.

First War
Shrine of Memory
- The shrine was made for the memory of Multiwinians lost during the First War.

Great War
Hamburger Hill
- Location discovered shortly after the Great War
The Bleak Mountains
- Location created by the Darwinians shortly after the Great War.

Unending War
Wake of Eternity
- This is where the Unending War started.
The Holy Tree
- Created after the start of the Unending War by Shamen after the first Great Tree was destroyed in the same war.
The Bloody Shrine
- A Darwinian shrine which location became a battlefield.
Field of Unlife
- After the destruction of the Holy Tree the location turned hostile to virtual organisms.
Beneath the Baleful Eye
- The first WMD.

The Rocket Launches
- After the start of the Unending War, Multiwinians sought to launch their own rockets regardless of the means necessary.
Echoes of the Future
- The first rocket launch.
The Second Beginning
- The second launch site.

Random Events
The Bitter Front
- Possible Scenario: A Multiwinian expedition searched and survived this location(barely).
Pursuit of Victory
- A newly discovered location. Discovered possibly during the Unending War, assuming that the war indeed is unending.
The Deceitful Vale
- The Yellow Tribe turned on the Green Tribe here and blamed the environment for it.
The Walled Garden
- Location created by Dr Sepulveda himself.
Maze of Despair
- Sort of "Darwinia's Bermuda's Triangle.
The Third Kind
- A Futurewinian saucer crashed here.
The Hard Way
- A fortress first built by the Green Tribe
Beyond the Pale
- A old Shaman fortress.
Confrontation Point
- The Blue and Yellow Tribes fought here for generations and finally united to fight a monster summoned by the Shamans.
The Apex of Infinity
- This loaction was a testing site for a unstable explosive weapon until a test went wrong and wiped out everyone
Bridge of Light
- This is where the Blue Tribe emerged as a mutation of the Green Multivinians.
The Wheel
- One of the loactions found after the start of the Unending War. The place has no resources or tactical importance to it, but is still under heavy fighting for no apparent reason, other than the Multiwinian warlike nature.
Official Timeline
This is the official timeline from Introversion:
General Timelines
War against the Virus:
This war is probably been fought since the events of the first game(Darwinia) and has became less significant to the time of this game(Unending War).

First War:
Probably pretty early and less ginificant war. Possibly fight entirely on the loaction of the Shrine of Memory.

Great War:
There's not much here for this. But I'm gonna say it is possible that the Greatest Betrayal might be related to this war.

Unending War:
A lot of discoveries(assuming more than there are mentioned in the game) were made before this war, maybe even the expedition to the Bitter Front. I'm going to assume that the Shamans( or Shamen; both were used in the game's descriptions) went into hiding after the start of this war, possibly after the destruction of the Holy Tree.

The Rocket Launches:
Possibly started after the Great War, though possible to be dated even before the start of the First War. The Multiwinian interest towards rocket launches greatly increased after the start of the Unending War.
Dedicated Timelines
Note that this section has a lot of assumptions of what could be the events and their order. If someone has any better ideas go ahead and comment.

Timeline of the War against the Virus:
- The events of Darwinia(the game).
- The Red Tribe under the thrall of the Virus. The Red Tribe is possibly a mutation from the Green Darwinians caused by the Virus.
- The peak of Virus' powers. Effectively destroying many Multiwinian armies with the aid of various Monsters, the Red Tribe, the Dark Forests and the Evilinians.
- The Red Tribe constructs a great fortress.
- The Red Tribe breaks free.
- The Red Tribe is saved from the Virus and extinction by the Green Tribe in a great battle at the Red Tribe's fortress that is largely destroyed in the course of battle.
- The building of the Shrines for Sepulveda starts.

Timeline of the First War:
- The Red Tribe Turns on the Green Tribe, effectively breaking their relations.
- The war ends in a draw.
- The Shrine of Memory is built.

Timeline of the Great War:
- The Yellow Tribe Turns on the Green Tribe and is joined by the Red Tribe.
- The war ends in a draw.
- The Age of Multiwinian discovery dawns as many expeditions are sent to find new locations and rocket launches start.

Timeline of the Unending War:
- The war begins at the location of Wake of Eternity. The reason to why the war started is forgotten.
- The Great Tree is destroyed.
- The Holy Tree is recreated by the Shamen.
- The Holy Tree is destroyed and the location becomes the Field of Unlife.
- The first WMD is created.
- Testing of a powerful, but unstable explosive weapon wipes out a research facility.
- The discovery of the location Pursuit for Victory.
Notes from the Author
This guide is currently a Work In Progress and I'd appreciate any help you, the Multiwinia community, can give.

A couple of important questions:
When did the Blue Tribe emerge?
When did the Red Tribe break free from the Virus?
When did the Shamans/Shamen go into hiding?
When was the fortress in the location of The Hard Way constructed?
When did the conflict of Confrontation Point start and end?
25 Comments
PoopDoop 28 Nov, 2024 @ 1:42pm 
Futurewinians - save us
Cardboard 29 Jul, 2021 @ 12:22pm 
Maybe some of the wars most likely the first one was started as a holy war, as in the first game the shrine thing they used to try contact the developer guy made multiwinians believe he was a god and others after the virus was created by trying to contact him believe he is a false prophet or hate him.
Ville Valste  [author] 15 Aug, 2020 @ 2:36am 
The stuff that comes from the eggs is called Viriii, which to my understanding are just one manifestation of the original Virus. In regards to how the tribes might have acquired it, my guess would be that they somehow figured out how to reverse-engineer and run programs similar to those we see in Darwinia (e.g. Squad- and Engineer-programs) for the things that originated from the Virus and use those monsters for themselves.
Cardboard 15 Aug, 2020 @ 2:16am 
Didnt the different tribes start using the virus as their own weapon? Because when you play the game you can drop eggs
Ville Valste  [author] 30 Apr, 2018 @ 2:01am 
I remember seeing the origin story of the Darwinians too, but I think it was essentially a fanfiction, so I couldn't include it. I found the first part of it here: https://forums.introversion.co.uk/viewtopic.php?t=40420
But I remember a much longer version, which I couldn't find.

Darwinia+ is, from what I could gather, the same as the original game, but kind of remade for XBLA. I'll see, if I can research that version and add the things to the guide.
Kamerad Matto 23 Apr, 2018 @ 1:12pm 
Also on another note, I had just assumed that the First War and the Great War were just other names given to the War against the Virus, but I guess it would make more sense for it to have been a seperate war given the information in the little lore tidbits.
Kamerad Matto 23 Apr, 2018 @ 12:53pm 
I also remember seeing a more detailed timeline laying all this out and also merging with the history of the Darwinians before the events of the story in Darwinia, and mentions of something about Darwinians emerging from caves or something like that.

Idunno, hopefully someone else can have better luck finding this information than I have so far, just figured I'd share to fellow Multiwinia fans who are interested in uncovering the lore of Multiwinia.
Kamerad Matto 23 Apr, 2018 @ 12:51pm 
After that was Assault where the multiwinians began to develop weapons of mass destruction
Rocket Riot was the Multiwinians essentially having a space race to try and get as many of their own tribes forces off of Darwinia in order to be able to conquer the most of space or something (least certain about this).
Then Blitzkrieg was essentially most of the fighting had began to get concentrated to areas which the Multiwinians realized were of much more Strategic significance to ending the war or something like that (also pretty uncertain about that).
Kamerad Matto 23 Apr, 2018 @ 12:51pm 
I will attempt to lay out what I can remember:
Domination was the initial onset of the war where there was simply unorganized fighting for conquest with no consideration for the actual value of specific areas.
Then comes along King of the Hill where the Multiwinians actually developed some understandings of the Strategic importance of specific areas.
Next was Capture the Statue, where the Multiwinians began to fight over religious and cultural relics that were left over from before the war.
Kamerad Matto 23 Apr, 2018 @ 12:51pm 
So I've been brooding and searching around now for a while for some more History about Multiwinia. I remember a few years back when I learned about Darwinia+ (XBLA of Darwinia & Multiwinia) allegedly having some singleplayer story or something for Multiwinia I freaked out and tried to find out more about this and some way to possibly get it on PC or something, and was dismayed to find that it was only on XBox 360.

Pretty sure that the singleplayer in that is just the same singleplayer as on the PC version, but nonetheless I remember stumbling upon a pretty substantial pile of extended lore information, including mentions about how each of the different game modes in Multiwinia were supposed to represent different stages in the Unending War.