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 Originally Posted by hellsing
if you use the search engine i posted a long post a while ack about the plot of silent hills games, that might help, and i can sit here all smug knowing the answer to something you dont 
You should try to find that post!
Hellsing wrote up a great explanation of the games.
Edit: Never mind, I found it here:
in the first game harry , played by rose in the movie, is driving to silent hill with his adopted daughter who he found on the side of the road.. or in a field its not sepcific.
they see a police officer on a motorbike ,drive on and see the bike on its side on the curb then a woman appears in the cars path they swerve and crash, harry comes to adn cheryl is gone he heads off into the town there in "silent hill" to find her he discovers the town is infested with monsters and is steeped in a mystical and occult history.
heres the timeline leading to silent hill 1
before 16th c - native americans conduct rituals here. this land is valued as a sacred place in native american religion.
1607 - england began colonising north america
late 1600's - colonists begin to move to silent hill
1692 - salem witch trials in massechuttas
early 1700's - a mysterious plague breaks out and the town is abandoned
1776 - u.s declaration of independance
1789 - george washington elected
around 1810 - the war of 1812 begins
silent hill is resettled as a penal colony. silent hill prison and brookhaven hospital is built
1820 -maine becomes a state
allen smith paints waterfront landscape
1830 - forced removal policy for native americans
1840 - silent hill prison closes
1850 - a coal feild is discovered and wilse coal mine opens. which leads to the activation of the town.
1861 - out break of the civil war
chester and his son both participate in the war
1862 - toluca prison camp is constructed for POW's
1865 - culmination of the civil war
1866 - the prison camp is converted into toluca prison
1890 - end of native americans organsied resistance
people start to dissappear all over town
early 1900's - toluca prison is closed and the town becomes a tourist resort.
1918 - a tours ship called the little baroness goes missing
1939 - strang events at toluca lake
19xx - the town mayor dies suddenyl and key members of the towns development die accidental deaths.
well that the ''known'' timeline, but harry finds out other secret things ,as well as the mosnters.
heres what the book says about the events in the time line that relate to silent hill.
FOLK LORE: 'sacred ground were native americans conducted mysterious rituals' before settlers came from europe, silent hill was a holy place, even then the land seemed to hold a sacred power.
they revered the town as "the place of silent spirits" .however they were driven away by settlers and abandoned the town.
PRISON: after the outbreak of a plague the town is resetlled as a penal colony
many people lost there lives on this abombnable soil. consequently the town was first used as a penal colony. it was at this time it was first given the name silent hill.
after the closing of the prison the historical society was built on its former iste. it conveys the towns sense of history
HELLSINGS NOTE - the executioners at the penal colony wore red triangular hoods, this is a reoccuring theme as im sure you can guess where.
EPIDEMIC: once more the threat of plague steadily wraps the town in darkness.
the town was stricken by an epidemic. it may have been that becuase of the unforseen events the towns population as well of the thoughts and feelings of the origional prisoners, the origional power that the town held was gradually distorted.
the current incarnation of the brookhaven hospital has existed since it became large scale in the late 1800's
THE CIVIL WAR: the town is drawn into the civil war that devided the nation in two.
the civil war occured in 1861. the stone statue in the lake is a memorial to patrick lester who fought in the war at this time.
allthough the conflict was origionally bron from political opposition. it was distorted by future generations. into an issue conerning the birth of the religious cult.
TOLUCA LAKE: after becomeing a sightseeing area, a series of misfortunes befell the town.
with the closeing of wiltse coal mine came the reinvention of the town as a tourist resort. however to to a succetion fo boating accidents the town gained a poor reputation as a site seeing area.
the famous toluca lake is a place of powerful emotions. it is known as an ominous lake that has become completely shrouded in a pervasive mist.
HELLSINGS NOTE - this location is visited in silent hill 2 and 4 ,but not in 1 or 3.
well thats the towns real history, not seen the film yet, going to later today so i dont know how truthful it sticks to this, my next post has massive spoilers so ingnore if you dont wanna now the truth if the film confused you.
[spoilers] ALESSA HISTORY
20 yeas ago - the development group all die mysterious deaths.
the staff of a company that was working for the town as a sightseeing are died mysteriously one after the other.
becuase of the extent of the mysteries surrounding there deahts. it was rumored there was some connection to the towns religion
it was thought that the deaths overlapped with the towns strange past.
14 years ago - alessa is born
in the "nowere" of the first game we get a glimpse of allessas tortured existence.
12 years ago - cluadia is born
two years after allesa was bron. both girls parents were of the same faith and both girls were on extremely good terms during there childhood.
11 years ago - harry (played by rose in the film) wife dies suddenly.
7 years ago - cheryl is born
a fire breaks out that destoroys six buildings in the buisness district. it ws arranged so alesssa's body was found at the gallespie house. which was the origin of the fire. however the cause of this fire was a ritual so dahlia could use her daughter and impregnate her with the cults god.
lisa nursed alessa who brought her back using her powers in conunction with the warped powers of the town.
dr kauffman prbably replaced the body.
DRUG CIRCULATION - after the fire in the buisness district a new drug called "ptv" becomes prevalent in the town.
first a criminal investigator then the mayor of silent hill who was redoubleing efforts to regain control met with mysterious deaths one after the other.
ptv was circulated among tourists and the town corroded.
an unseen alliance exists between the hospital and the religious cult.
HELLSINGS NOTE- it has been thoerized that the ptv or 'white cluadia' either changes or prtoects people from changing into mosnters like the rest of the town supposedl did.
but this is just a thoery.
0 events of silent hill - heather is born
alessa 14 years old at the time, suffered from the burns infliced upon her by the ritual that brought about the decent of the god. in order to escape dahlias control, she calls out to cheryl her 'other half' ,who is 7 years old at the time, to return, due to the power of allessas thoughts the town is trnasformed into the ''otherwolrd'' silent hill.
in the attmept to rescue his daughter harry (rose) becaomes involed in these events.
after the two girls become one a new life is born, who harry names heather.
5 years later - a murder case in portland
after the events of silent hill harry (rose) took heather away with him, and moved to portland however, her wereabouts were discovered by a cult member who was searching for her.
harry killed him to protect the secret of heathers wereabouts from the cult.
? years later - after dahlias death there was a peroid of inactivity in the cult, after ten years had passed however, it became active once more ,the structure of the organisation was adjusted and there numbers rapidly increased, one young preist (vincent) was behind this renovation
HELLSINGS NOTE those events and the character claudia all appear in silent hill 3 were heather is now an adult and is taken bakc to the town.
possible movie sequel?
the follwing events are here in the timeline but silent hill 2 is set in the 80's ,just to put the series timelin into perspective.
materialization of delusions - starting with the first game the power that the town holds has gradually intensified. it has reached the point where those who hold darkness in there hearts are drawn to the town, and each of there subconiousness's are manefested as creatures in the town, case in point the red pyramidhead....
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