The massacre occurred at an unknown time during the Year 1769 of the Fourth Age, some 500 years ago. Several years prior, the Bonde family moved from the developing Misthalanian capital city of Varrock to the untamed Wilderness of the north, where they apparently were able to create a successful plantation. The farm was not the only Wilderness settlement established at the time, and was but one of many small farms and villages apparently created during an attempt to re-colonize the Wilderness.