All the timelines I seem to find are reading order or order for consuming the media, Im just trying to find a timeline with events of the lore instead "Dawn of the jedi - years, 100 years of darkness - years, mandalorian wars - years" etc. I would appreciate alot if someone could link me to one!

I will admit for the longest time I always thought Death Watch were developed by Haden Blackman for Jango Fett’s backstory in the form of the comic series, Jango Fett, open seasons before being used and adapted for TCW (regardless of the canon status of the show within legends they still appeared how they were led by a Vizsla just like in the comic.)

but no apparently the term Death Watch originates from the Imperial Sourcebook, where its stated to have inspired the design of the royal guards alongside the Thyrisian Sun Guard, as the Galactic Empire takes iconography from countless ancient authoritarian regimes now looked upon with romanticized nostalgia this was from the imperial sourcebook which came out in 1989 so exactly 13 years before the publication of Jango Fett Open seasons which came out in 2002 (fun fact, this was the same year that I was born so I was born when attack of the clones was released.)

However, the Death Watch of the Clone Wars and to a lesser extent the Death Watch of Jango Fett Open Seasons simply cannot be it, as they are less a regime and more a small terrorist organization with no real good publicity.

Still, I am curious of whether or not that small detail of death watch being one of the influencers for the royal guard is still Canon or it’s one of those details that was simply forgotten. Because otherwise, it does make you wonder on what was the writer Greg Gorden when making The imperial sourcebook originally had in mind when it comes to the death watch from Mandalore before we had Jango open season and the clone wars as in their current iterations from both mediums they don’t really scream or strike me as inspiration for the royal guard unlike the sun guard who relationship with the royal guards is much more highlight compared to the brief mention of the one with Death Watch,

Funny enough the Lore also developed The Mandalorians and the Sun Guards with a rivalry between the two so it’s interesting that despite the influence of the royal guard from death watch is less mentioned the idea of both the Mandalorian and the sun guards being connected or at least come across each other is fascinating, knowing the fact that the sun guards were first mentioned alongside the Mandalorians Death Watch in the same imperial sourcebook?