Relevant History and Timelines

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History plays an important part in the Forgotten Realms Setting. Events of the past have heavilly influenced factions, attitudes and events of current times. Below, you'll find historical events of note that have shaped the Savage Frontier and Surrounds of today. All dates are displayed in "DR" or "Dale Reckoning". Dalereckoning is taken from the Year of Sunrise, when the Standing Stone was raised by the elves of Cormanthyr and the human Dalesfolk.

-23,900 Establishment of the first gold elf settlements of Aryvandaar (present-day High Forest).

–23600 Establishment of the first moon elf settlements of Ardeep (present-day Green Fields).

–23200 Ilythiir settlements spread south and east (present-day Shaar and Forest of Amtar).

–23100 Establishment of the first gold and moon elf settlements of Syòrpiir (present-day Ankhwood and Chondalwood).

–22900 The elf settlement of Illefarn (present-day Ardeep and Kryptgarden Forests and parts of Dessarin Valley) is founded, and green elves join their moon elf cousins in Ardeep.

–22500 Establishment of the moon elf settlements of Orishaar (present-day Duskwood and the Shaar).

–21400 Establishment of the green elf settlements of Thearnytaar (present-day Thornwood).

–21000 Establishment of the green elf settlements of Eiellûr (present-day Winterwood).

–20000 Orishaar and the southern dark elf nation of Ilythiir begin skirmishes that continue on and off for the next seven millennia.

–18800 Establishment of the first elf settlements of Miyeritar (present-day High Moor and Misty Forest) by green and dark elves due to political differences with the gold elves of Aryvandaar.

–17800 Establishment of the great elf settlements of Keltormir (present-day Forest of Tethyr that spanned all of Tethyr, Amn, Erlkazar, and Calimshan) by moon and green elves, seeking peace and simple lives away from the strife of the other elf realms.

–17600 The Sundering: Hundreds of High Mages assemble in the heartland of Faerûn at the Gathering Place. Ignoring the lesson learned from the destruction of Tintageer centuries earlier [–24500], they cast a spell of elven High Magic designed to create a glorious elf homeland. On the Day of Birthing, the magic
reaches its apex as the spell extends both back and forward in the mists of time. Faerûn, the one land, is sundered apart by the unbridled force of the Sundering. As a result, hundreds of cities are washed away, thousands of elves lie dead, and the face of Toril is changed forever. The name Faerûn, no longer the One Land, is given to the largest continent. Surrounded by vast expanses of water, the island of Evermeet [–9800], thought to be a piece of Arvandor and a bridge between worlds, breaks the surface of the Trackless Sea [–677]. Blessed by the goddess Angharradh, verdant forests and wildlife soon flourish across the island. Corellon Larethian wards Evermeet against Lolth, Malar, and the other powers of the anti-Seldarine and entrusts a unique seed to the Fair Folk of the isle. The seed soon sprouts, growing into a miniature tree known as the Tree of Souls [1371]. Over time, the souls of ancient elves who choose to stay on Toril, rather than pass on to Arvandor, merge into the Tree of Souls, slowly augmenting its power. Prophecies reveal that the Tree of Souls will someday be planted on Faerûn when the Fair Folk finally return to the
mainland after a period of exile on the Green Isle.

–17500 The independent sylvan elf realms of Thearnytaar, Eiellûr, and Syòrpiir open discussions about unifying the elves of the Satyrwwod (present-day Thornwood/Chondalwood).

–17100 to –16800 War of Three Leaves: The unification of the Satyrwood is thwarted by dark elf Ilythiiri spies and assassins, killing their leaders and framing opposing heirs, driving the three realms to a multifront war. Ilythiir’s influence is not discovered for centuries.

–17000 Elves emigrate from Eillûr, Syorpiir, and Thearnytar to the undersea realms of the Inner Sea for the next seven millennia.

–16800 Thearnytaar, Eiellûr, and Syòrpiir remain separate realms after the War of Three Leaves ends, though each of the three continues skirmishing among themselves and with Ilythiir for centuries.

–16000 The first dwarf settlements appear in the great mountain range known as the Yehimal, which lies at the juncture of the three great continents of Faerûn, Kara-Tur, and Zakhara. From there, the earliest dwarves migrated into all three lands.

–15000 The first great kingdom of the dwarves of Faerûn is centered in the great cavern of Bhaerynden, deep beneath the Shaar.

–15300 The elf Vyshaan clan rises to power in Aryvandaar under Coronal Ivósaar Vyshann.

–14700 Aryvandaar’s rulers begin attempts to diplomatically and peacefully annex Miyeritar into their realm and under their control.

–14000 Tribal barbarian clans of humans roam Keltormir.

–13900 Miyeritar becomes the center of elven Art and High Magic in Faerûn.

–13200 Skirmishing and trade interference starts between Aryvandaar and Miyeritar.

–12500 The elves of Aryvandaar discover the Hall of Mists beneath the High Forest and summon an arakhor (an elder form of treant) to guard the site. Over the millennia, this creature becomes known as Grandfather Tree.

–12000 to –9000 The Crown Wars of the Elves erupted more than a dozen millennia ago, pitting nearly four generations of elf against elf. The two greatest events of the Crown Wars that still have impact are the
Dark Disaster and the Descent of the Drow. The Dark Disaster utterly destroyed the forest realm of Miyeritar, leaving the blasted plains that are now the High Moor. Perhaps due to the savagery of the Crown Wars or other factors long lost to time, the dark elves became corrupt during this era, broke away from their kinfolk, and after much warfare and cruelty they descended beneath the world’s surface to become the deep elves, also known as the drow.

–12000 Rise of the Vyshaantar Empire: After centuries of fruitless diplomacy, the impatient, grasping rulers of Aryvandaar attack Miyeritar and begin putting political pressure on Shantel Othreier to join them or suffer the same fate.

The First Crown War begins.

–11900 Dwarves settle the Firepeak Mountains.

–11800 Miyeritar is militarily occupied and annexed by Aryvandaar, though a number of clans and strongholds resist and continue to fight. Many elves of Illefarn, despite its officially neutral stance, provide secret safe havens for Miyeritari refugees.

–11700 Dragons set aflame the southern expanse of Shantel Othreier, separating the soon-to-be-called Wyrmwood from its greater body. Tethir, kin of Keltormir (soon to be called the Dragonslayer), single-handedly slays two ancient red wyrms of the Ridge and saves many elves of his own Keltormir and Shantel
Othreier. Tethir’s stand earns the elves the respect of the dragons, which had previously dismissed them as ignorant, two-footed cattle.

— Human clans settle in the clearings and meadows created by the dragon fires around Keltormir.

— The Second Crown War: Battle flares up yet again in answer to the aggressions of Aryvandaar. Ilythiir rises up and viciously strikes out at any that support the gold elves of the north. Its nearest neighbor Orishaar, a major trade partner with Aryvandaar, falls swiftly in a brutal surprise attack.

–11600 The Ilythiiri destroy Syòrpiir by fire, separating that region from its allied neighbors and burning its homes to the ground.

–11500 Thearnytaar and Eiellûr band together and declare war on Ilythiir, decrying the Ilythiiri’s use of fire and wanton destruction far more than the power plays of the northern elves. They fight a holding action, preventing the Ilythiiri from advancing north.

–11450 The Sable Wars: Thearnytaar and Eiellûr, with minimal allies from Keltormir and Shantel Othreier, invade Ilythiir, intent on destroying or reforming the dark elves before more realms fall. More than half their forces are decimated by the corrupt magic of the dark elves.

–11400 Eiellûr falls, as the Ilythiiri once again use fire to destroy an enemy and isolate it from aid. The Ilythiiri are helped by traitor green elves, who believe their acts of appeasement actions can help restore peace.

— The continuation of the Crown Wars (and the recent Sable Wars and the fall of Eiellur) sees a sudden influx of elves entering the Inner Sea, forcing elves out into the sea and away from the coastal waters. This migration ignites the first major conflicts with merfolk and sahuagin.

–11300 End of the First Crown War: Miyeritar conquered by Aryvandaar.

–11200 End of the Second Crown War: Thearnytaar falls to the savage and now unrepentant dark elves, who use enslaved monsters and undead to occupy the thorn- and bramble-choked woods. Ilythiir now directly skirmishes with the major realm of Keltormir along its eastern and southern expanses.

–11000 The illithid (mind flayer) enclave Oryndoll is settled by refugees from Glyth, one of the wandering stars that circle the same sun as Toril.

- Taark Shanat the Crusader and his eight sons, lead a great exodus of dwarves out of Bhaerynden to a new kingdom in the west. These emigrants eventually become known as shield dwarves and establish the great empire of Shanatar beneath the lands of Amn, Tethyr, Calimshan, and the Lake of Steam.

–10900 The Third Crown War: Conflict erupts as accords finally fail between Shantel Othreier and Aryvandaar.

–10800 The Cloaker Wars: The followers of Shanat come under attack by the mysterious inhabitants of Rringlor Noroth, who rise from the depths of a great chasm in a battle for control of the caverns of Alatorin. The Stout Folk eventually prevail after Taark slays four blue dragons who claimed the Rift
of Dhalnadar as their demesne.

— Rise of Shanatar: The Wyrmskull Throne is created. Taark renames the wyrm’s lair Brightaxe Hall and founds the kingdom of Alatorin. Shield dwarves mark the founding of Alatorin as the beginning of the First Great Age of Shanatar.

–10750 One gold elf clan and two moon elf clans of Aryvandaar, along with gold and moon elf clans of other elf realms, flee the Vyshaan and establish the realm of Ilodhar along the western shores of a mountain-nestled lake (present-day Lake Miir).

–10700 Battle of the God’s Theatre: The Gods’ Theater (present-day the Tunlands) on eastern Shantal Othreier is the site of one of the largest and costliest of all the Crown Wars’ battles. Nearly 70,000 elves died at the hands of elf and orc enemies, as an orc horde 100,000 strong fell upon the already embattled elves. Aryvandaar won the day, and occupied the northern half of Shantel Othreier.

–10600 End of the Third Crown War: Aryvandaar conquers Shantel Othreier after the mysterious death of Coronal Ynloeth. Only Ardeep, a vassal realm of Shantel Othreier, continues to resist the Vyshaan.

–10500 The Dark Disaster: Miyeritar is engulfed in killing storms, which reduce this entire forest and realm into a barren wasteland in three months. Although no proof could ever be found, many believe the High Mages of Aryvandaar inflicted the Dark Disaster on Miyeritar. Shock over the Dark Disaster establishes
an uneasy four decades of peace, as nearly every elf of Faerûn shrinks back in awe and horror from the havoc wrought by the Crown Wars.

— The eight sons of Taark Shanat set off to found their own kingdoms in the caverns to the north (beneath modern-day Tethyr and Amn). Because each son claims a different child of Moradin as a patron deity, each subkingdom becomes closely linked with the church of a particular god or goddess.

–10460 Aryvandaar finally conquers the elf realm of Ardeep. The Vyshaanti slay two of its rulers—Ilitharath and his grandson Tarosspur—in the hundred years it takes to bring Ardeep under their control.

–10450 The Fourth Crown War: Ilythiir’s seething counterattack to avenge Miyeritar sees its open use of the corrupt powers of Ghaunadar and other dark, evil gods for the first time. The Fourth Crown War ends with the cataclysmic events of –10000.

–10400 Dark elves of Clan Sethomiir travel by magic to the Riildath (present-day Rawlinswood and Forest of Lethyr) from Ilythiir, guided by the hand of the balor Wendonai. They construct an underground fortress named Narathmault, “the Dark Pit,” at the site of presentday Dun-Tharos, recognizing it as a place of great evil.

–10300 he elves of Keltormir, opposed on both sides by the Vyshaan of Aryvandaar and the dark elf Clan Hune of Ilythiir, strategically withdraw from eastern Keltormir, holding their lines at Highlands’ Edge.

–10270 The Stone and Claw Campaigns: The withdrawal of Keltormir’s forces to close and defend its own borders pits the forces of Aryvandaar and Ilythiir against each other. They soon close ranks and fight incessantly for two centuries. Battles rage across the giant-infested mountains and wemic-claimed plains
north of Keltormir.

–10110 Through enslaved dragons and other powers, the dark elves of Ilythiir engulf all of Shantal Othreier in flames, destroying over 70 percent of its trees over the course of fifty years. In response to this continued destruction, over 1,000 priests and High Mages in neutral Illefarn and other free areas
spend decades in fervent prayer for salvation by Corellon Larethian and the Seldarine gods.

–10000 Descent of the Drow: Corellon’s magic, as directed through his priests and High Mages, transforms the dark elves, whether the corrupt Ilythiiri or others, into the drow. Whether by magic or by the weaknesses that banish them from the sunlit lands, all drow retreat within two months’ passing into
the Underdark.

— Elves are summoned by the Seldarine to the site that becomes the Elven Court one month after the Descent of the Drow, to settle differences and restore peace among the elves.

— Like their kin elsewhere, the dark elves of Narathmault are transformed into drow by the will of the Seldarine, shattering their bindings over a host of fiends who swiftly turn on their former masters. Led by Undrek of Clan Sethomiir, the drow and their minotaur servants are forced to flee Narathmault, traveling south and east into the underground caverns beneath the present-day Plateau of Thay.

–9900 Aryvandaar’s covert persecution of High Mages and priests begins. Although not destroyed utterly, Illefarn and its colony in the Llewyrrwood (present-day Neverwinter Wood) are annexed by Aryvandaar. Many elves of both lands flee to the remnants of Shantel Othreier.

–9800 The Vyshantaar Empire’s forces occupy all elf realms (except Keltormir) from the High Forest of Aryvandaar to the sweltering southern forests of Ilythiir. They begin the colonization and settlement of Evermeet [–17600, –1100].

— Yuirwood is settled by small numbers of green elves in the aftermath of the Crown Wars.

— A large force of Llewyrr elves escapes the oppressive mainland and resettles in isolation and safety among the mountains of the Moonshae Islands. Their new land becomes Synnoria, after the elf queen who led the Llewyrr to this island sanctuary.

–9750 The Riildath (present-day Rawlinswood and Forest of Lethyr) is settled by moon elves and gold elves of Shantel Othreier fleeing the persecution of the Vyshaan of Aryvandaar, becoming the realm of Lethyr. The elves of the Riildath discover the horrors of Narathmault and resolve to clear the forest of all N’Tel’Q uess (non-elves) so as to safeguard them from the foul legacies of Ilythiir.

–9600 Rise of the first drow civilizations in the Underdark beneath southern Faerûn and the founding of the drow cities of Telantiwar and Guallidurth.

–9200 The Fifth Crown War: The First Proclamation of the Elven Court leads to the revolt of the nobles of Aryvandaar, and the last Crown War begins. The Elven Court, the Seldarine priesthoods, and the long-hidden High Mages restore pockets of resistance and freedom across the entire Vyshantaar Empire, fragmenting the armies and nobles to limit their coordination.

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–9000 DR to –3000 This era signals the rise of all the humanoid civilizations, in a time when the many dragons and giants were long overthrown and the elf wars no longer loomed over everyone as a threat. The
elf realms of Evereska and Evermeet grow by colonization along with other realms, from the human Unther and Coramshan to the dwarf realms of High Shanatar and Oghrann.
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–9000 The Fifth Crown War ends with the utter defeat of the Vyshaan and the dissolution of Aryvandaar. Much of the High Forest is abandoned for an age, leaving the forest open so the gods might restore its peace. Many elves begin migrating back to the Elven Court in the eastern forests. Keltormir and Illefarn
emerge intact from the Crown Wars, and the latter realm joins with the vassal realm of Ardeep now that Shantel Othreir is no more.

— The drow of Telantiwar overwhelm the dwarves of Bhaerynden (present-day Great Rift [–8800]) and take their rift-city for their own. Surviving dwarves flee to other regions with one large group traveling to the Chultan peninsula before splintering into small tribal groupings, eventually becoming known as the wild dwarves.

— As part of the great migration, one isolated branch of dwarves settles amid the isolated peaks of the Novularond, eventually becoming known as the arctic dwarves.

— Spawn Wars: Skirmishes break out between the eight subkingdoms of Shanatar as each fights to extend its borders at the expense of its neighbors. Over time, the skirmishes evolve into open warfare, pitting thousands of dwarves against one another. This series of conflicts is known as the Spawn Wars because the dwarves make extensive use of deepspawn-bred legions.

–8900 Tribes of Taangan (Tuigan) humans settle the Endless Waste.

–8800 The Great Caverns of Bhaerynden collapse, creating the Great Rift.

After an attack by a flight of red dragons on the center of the great elf forest of Keltormir, the dragon fire sparked a forest fire that raged out of control. This fire extinguished four entire clans of elves, eleven giant settlements, at least four green dragons, and thousands of square miles of woodlands. The once-unified elves of Keltormir splintered into a number of separate clans.

–8600 Evereska is founded in secret by surviving clans of Eiellûr, Miyeritar, and Orishaar as an elf haven in the woods east of Aryvandaar.

–8500 Aelinthaldaar, which becomes the capital city of Illefarn, is founded on the future site of Waterdeep.

— Keltormir’s Fall: Due to fire-sundered and otherwise ravaged homelands, Keltormir dissolves into three separate forests: The Wyrmwood, Darthiir Wood (present-day Forest of Mir), and the Forest of Tethir.

–8400 A few sun elves return to found Siluvanede in the northwestern reaches of the High Forest.

–8350 Imaskari tribes settle a vast, fertile plain in the area that will later become the Raurin Desert.

–8210 The non-gold elf clans of Ilodhar abandon that realm due to constant harassment by orcs and ogres. Several clans travel north to Rystall Wood, while others travel east to western Arcorar.

–8170 to –8150 The First Spider War: The drow of Guallidurth take advantage of the dwarves’ civil war to attack the caverns of Alatorin, which were far removed from the front lines of fighting. Brightaxe Hall is captured, and the kingdom of Alatorin falls.

–8145 DR to –8137 The Second Spider War: Aghast at their folly, the eight reigning kings of Shanatar forge an armistice and turn their armies against the drow. The drow are overcome and retreat from the caverns of Alatorin. In triumph, the eight kings march their armies back into Brightaxe Hall and pledge never again
to fight one another.

–8137 Second Age of Shanatar: The eight shield dwarf tribes of Shanatar are united under the rule of the king of Ultoksamrin. Within 150 years, trade is under way with surface elves.

–8130 Yrlaancel, the City of Peace, is built within Rystall Wood.

–8123 Imaskari artificers create their first permanent extradimensional space. Their fascination with such magic soon transforms Imaskari city design.

–8100 Deep Shanatar [–2600] is at its greatest expanse beneath southwestern Faerûn (present-day Amn, Tethyr, Erlkazar, Calimshan, and Alimir Peninsula).

–8100 DR to –8080 The Mindstalker Wars: The illithids of Oryndoll attack the eastern subkingdoms of Shanatar, beginning a conflict that came to be known as the Mindstalker Wars among the dwarves and the War of Cloven Thoughts among the mind flayers. The illithids are driven back, but in their wake the surviving
Stout Folk discover that the caverns of Barakuir, which had been cut off in the early days of fighting, lie empty. Clan Duergar had been carried back to thralldom in the mind flayers’ realm. After millennia of enslavement and countless illithid breeding experiments, the descendants of Clan Duergar are transformed into a new dwarf subrace, the gray dwarves.

–8000 Founding of the settlement of Semberholme as a safe haven in times of war and crisis for the females, children, and elders of the elves of Cormanthyr.

–7950 Full trade exists between the dwarves of Deep Shanatar and the elves of Darthiir, Tethir, and the dwindling remnants of Shantel Othreier.

–7891 Zexthandrim is conquered by Imaskari forces.

–7800 The Great Arrival: The noble djinni lord Calim arrives in Faerûn followed by the Djen, an entourage of genies and their human and halfling slaves. The djinni lord quickly seizes all the lands south and west of the Marching Mountains and founds the Calim Empire on the present-day site of Calimport.

–7790 The Dragon Wars: A Flight of Dragons destroys the city of Calimport. This event initiates a century of war pitting Calim and the genies against the dragons. By its end, every dragon in the Marching Mountains dies at the hands and magic of the genies. The genies’ magic rebuilds Calimport within a year of its initial destruction.

–7690 Calim negotiates the borders of his empire with the elves and dwarves and finally claims the lands south of the River Agis and east to the western slopes of the present-day Alimir Mountains. Calim continues warring with the giants and dragons of the Marching Mountains.

–7600 The drow empire of Telantiwar falls with the collapse of the great cavern of Bhaerynden. Drow refugees claim lesser caverns to the north, south, east and west of the newly formed Great Rift, establishing cities such as Llurth Dreier, the City of Ooze.

— The dwarves return to their ancestral home, now the Great Rift, and establish the Deep Realm. In the millennia that follow, the Stout Folk of the Deep Realm become known as the gold dwarves.

–7600 Founding of Sharrven in the southern reaches of the High Forest, due to overcrowding in Evereska and elitism of Siluvanedenn elves.

–7400 The elf realm of Ilodhar falls under an orc horde.

–6950 Star elves begin to gather in the Yuirwood, leaving the other elf nations behind.

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-4700 The Elven Kingdom of Eaerlann is built in Aryvandaar's ruins by Sharrven nobles to keep Siluvanede from becoming too powerful.

-4500 Start of the Seven Citadels War of Siluvanede versus Eaerlann and Sharrven.

-4300 End of the Seven Citadels War, with Sharrven reducing Siluvanede to a vassal realm of Eaerlann.

-4100 Rise of the dwarven realm of Ammarindar.

-3900 Creation of Delzoun, Shield Kingdom of Dwarves.

-3859 Rise of the Human Kingdom Netheril (present day Anauroch Desert).

-3830 Netheril's humans learn magic from the Eaerlanni Elves.

-3533 Wizards find the Nether Scrolls among the ruins of Aryvandaar and abandon the elve's magic for power.

-2770 Sharrven falls, but isolated sites linger for centuries and the forest keeps the name until modern times.

The Slaughter of Sharrven: The elf realm of Sharrven fragments and falls due to an explosion in the monstrous populations within the southern High Forest engineered by the fey’ri of Siluvanede. Survivors flee to Eaerlann and Evereska.

King Connar IV of Ammarindar vanquishes many of the creatures that have devastated Sharrven, including the red wyrm Rithaerosurffel, known as the Bane of Sharrven.

–2758 Netheril’s government evolves into a council called the High Mages of Netheril, which includes the leading arcanists of Low and High Netheril.

The Netherese establish the mines of Dekanter.

–2600 In the North, Deepkingdom, realm of the gray dwarves, reaches its peak.

–2482 Netherese wizards of House Orogoth build a fortified villa in the southern reaches of the High Moor, near the northern edge of the Serpent Hills. Several generations of Orogoths sought the power of Faerûn’s wyrms, and legend has it that some eventually obtained it—at least after a fashion.

–2436 An unknown thief returns seven of Netheril’s remaining Nether Scrolls to the ancient ruins of the Iqua Tel-Q uessir (creator races). Three of the scrolls are placed in the Hall of Mists beneath the Grandfather Tree of the High Forest, and two others are placed in the Crypt of Hssthak, which later becomes part of western Anauroch. The location of the other two scrolls remains unknown.

–2387 Netheril releases all its gnome slaves.

–2375 At the urging of Arthindol the Terraseer, Netherese scouts begin exploring the area that will later become the Sword Coast North.

–2368 The Terraseer establishes Quesseer north of the Sword Mountains. The settlement becomes a trademeet for Netherese expatriates, the elves of Illefarn, the seafarers of Illusk, the nomadic Ice Hunters, and the dwarves of fallen Haunghdannar.

–2300 Many of House Orogoth’s Netherese servants succumb to the Serpent Curse, a magical malady that transforms humans into a snakelike race known as ophidians, and are driven into the hills to the west.

A horde of orcs from the Spine of the World, led by giants and their ogre generals, crushes the human civilization of Illusk despite aid from Netherese arcanists led by Jeriah Chronos the Chronomancer.

–2100 Survivors of Illusk travel to Icewind Dale, where their descendants become the Reghedmen.

–2095 After refusing divine healing for the injuries he sustained in the defense of Illusk, the Chronomancer dies.

The Netherese enclave of Quesseer is abandoned.

–1950 Fighting a drow incursion into the western woods, Coronal Sakrattars sacrifices himself using a blood dragon spell, which destroys the massive horde of drow occupying the last ruins of Uvaeren and the Twisted Tower, though not the tower itself. The coronal’s chosen heir, Sinaht Irithyl, becomes the third coronal of Cormanthyr.

Construction begins on the dwarf stronghold known as Citadel Felbarr.

–1900 Citadel Felbarr is completed.

–1896 Twenty-four of the remaining Nether Scrolls are stolen.

–1850 Under the leadership of their greatest queen, Duerra, the gray dwarves of Underspires launch a series of attacks against their Underdark enemies, the drow of Undraeth, the illithids of Oryndoll, and eventually the remnants of Deep Shanatar.

–1803 to –1350 The Deepbear Battles: The duergar of Gracklstugh destroy the quaggoth nation of Ursadunthar, whose drow-incited survivors retaliate for centuries by raiding outlying duergar settlements.

–1800 Duerra, queen of the gray dwarves of Underspires, is rewarded with divine ascension. The capital city of Dunspeirrin, City of Sunken Spires, soon falls into a centuries-long decline.

–1658 The mines of Dekanter play out and are abandoned. Within a few years, Netherese arcanists begin using the chambers and tunnels to test their latest workings of the Art.

–1471 The floating enclave of Thultanthar (present-day City of Shade) is created in Netheril.

–1288 A shield dwarf named Melair discovers a vein of precious mithral beneath Mount Waterdeep. King Melair I, as he comes to be known, sends word to his kindred, and those who answer his call become Clan Melairkyn. The Melairkyn are traders, artisans, and explorers, strongly protective of their home, which
they name the Underhalls of Melairbode.

–1100 The last great wyrm of the Wyrmwood falls by elf hands, and the kingdom becomes Arundath the Quiet Wood.

Aelinthaldaar, the capital city of Illefarn, is razed by elven High Magic on the order of Illefarn’s coronal. Virtually nothing is left to indicate that an elf city had stood on the site for seven millennia.

–1088 Scarcely a dozen years after the razing of Aelinthaldaar, annual trade begins between southern merchants and barbaric local tribes on the future site of Waterdeep.

–1064 The Netherese make first contact with the illithids.

–1014 The Netherese refocus their efforts on exploring Faerûn when travel to other worlds is found to be both dangerous and unprofitable.

–900 to –600 Star elves of Yuireshanyaar, foreseeing disaster, begin construction of the extraplanar refuge of Sildëyuir.

–897 King Olaurin, greatest hero-king of Ammarindar, is slain by the deep dragon Erthungaron

–750 Drow attacks on Cormanthyr and Rystall Wood begin again in earnest, but only as slash-and-run raids by drow seeking magic, slaves, or destruction. The impregnable Twisted Tower expands twice in the next decades.

An order of powerful Netherese wizards takes up residence amid an unexcavated section of Melairbode, in what is now known as the third level of Undermountain. The name of the outpost is lost to time, though
some scholars refer to it as the Sargauth Enclave.

–699 Year of Moon Blades Clashing: The star elves abandon Yuireshanyaar for Sildëyuir. Many green elves choose to remain in the Yuirwood.

–696 Year of Great Rains: Karsus, the greatest archwizard of Netheril, is born.

–681 Year of Nightmares: Netherese arcanists emigrate to the Demiplane of Nightmares. The magical energies of that nightmarish realm transform their descendants into an assortment of horribly twisted creatures known as the Night Parade.

–674 Year of Dwarves Besieged: The archwizard Karsus creates the floating enclave of Eileanar.

–665 Year of Crumbling Ruins: A powerful earthquake rocks the Nether Mountains, causing the lost city of
Tzindylspar to collapse.

–664 Year of Turning Tides: The drow nearly destroy the town of Keltar in Calimshan over the course of a 37-hour battle, given their magical superiority and a globe of darkness that they use to surround the city. Calimport’s army arrives after the drow conquer the city and have shipped more than half of the surviving population into the Underdark as slaves. Although the Calishites free the town and force the drow
back to the Underdark, more than 3,000 Keltams are never seen again.

The remaining Nether Scrolls are stolen en route to Eileanar.

–628 Year of Empty Crowns: The dwarves of Clan Ironshield abandon the settlement of Andalbruin for the higher, more defensible Settlestone.

–626 Year of Oaths Forsaken: A group of outcast Netherese wizards known as the Selskar Order builds a school of wizardry called the Tower of the Star in the ruins of Andalbruin.

–550 Year of Glistening Dust: King Azkuldar III of Ammarindar secretly creates the Xothol, an arcane college charged with guarding against the increasingly antagonistic Netherese.

–530 Year of Meager Means: The Night Wars draw to a close, and the drow never again gain more than a remote toehold in the surface lands. In all, more than 75,000 humans and other beings are captured and enslaved by the drow during these conflicts. Many of their descendants become skulks. More than 150,000 others die fighting the deep elves, though nearly as many drow and duergar die during the wars as well.

–500 In the North, Citadel Sundbarr is constructed by the dwarves of Delzoun. Like Adbar to the north, the citadel is mostly subterranean, with only a few structures on the surface.

–470 Year of Perdition’s Flame: The Shadow Wars, pitting Cormanthyr and Rystall Wood against the Twisted
Tower, begin.

–461 Year of Bold Pioneers: The phaerimms begin casting the spells that eventually lead to the creation of the Great Desert of Anauroch and the abandonment of Low Netheril.

–427 Year of Breaking Storms: The spells of the phaerimms bring down the floating cities of Lhaoda and Tith Tilendrothael. The other Netherese enclaves set up wards against this form of attack.

–408 Year of Sleeping Dragons: Karsus discovers heavy magic. In the process of experimenting with it, he slays Wulgreth of Netheril, a renegade arcanist, and transforms him into a lich.

–400(circa) Around this time, the Lost Sage Augathra the Mad travels the world. She divines many of the names in the Roll of Years, building on the work of other prophets, particularly those of the Netherese wizard known as the Terraseer. During the day, her visions cause her to devise the Roll of Years upon which the seer Alaundo built his work, but at night—gripped by fevered nightmares—she scribes a different set of names. These dark visions drive her travels, and as they continue she grows ever more insane, thus earning her moniker. This second set of year names, the Black Chronology, is a secret lost with Augathra and remains undiscovered for over 1,000 years.

–400 Year of Gilded Sky: The ancient black dragon Thauglorimorgorus the Black Doom, King of the Forest Country (present day Cormyr), notes the arrival of elves in his lands.

–393 Year of the Burning Winds: An unknown wizard, believed to be a renegade arcanist of Netheril or from
another plane, unites the goblinkin of the Windy Plains (present-day southern Anauroch) by force. He styles himself Great Hlundadim and names the realm Hlundadim after himself.

–372 Year of Owls’ Watching: The elves of Eaerlann found Ascalhorn (present day Hellgate Keep).


–371 Year of Bruins: Although he has already survived for centuries, Ioulaum embraces lichdom and establishes a heavily fortified lair in the Northdark.

–361 Year of Mageserpents: A band of ophidians stumbles across the ruins of an ancient sarrukh city,
hidden beneath what is now the western end of the Forest of Wyrms. During their explorations, the ophidians discover the Naja Fountain, an ancient sarrukh artifact guarded by a powerful ha-naga named Terpenzi. Claiming to be the prophet of the World Serpent, Terpenzi proclaims himself King of Najara and begins a decades-long campaign to subjugate the scattered tribes of ophidians.

–354 Year of Many Maws: The first recorded clash between the sharns and the phaerimms, occurs in Anauroch.

The arcanist Melathlar flees Netheril and travels to Illusk. Fearing phaerimm assaults, he sacrifices his life to power a mighty work of the Art that raises the great stone Host Tower, walls, and powerful spellwards around this fledgling settlement.

–351 Year of Dark Roads: As the life-draining spells of the phaerimms rapidly despoil central Netheril, several Netherese arcanists abandon their demesnes and begin searching for a place to build a city in the Underdark, beneath the western wilderness.

Civil unrest begins to increase in many of Low Netheril’s cities.

–350 (circa) The Netherese migration to Illusk reaches its peak as settlers from many towns in Low Netheril travel west to escape the depredations of the phaerimms.

–350 Year of Craven Words: Three mighty phaerimm sorcerers subvert the beholders of Ooltul (and have lived and ruled there ever since).

The Netherese wizard Saldrinar destroys Kisonraathiisar, the topaz dragon ruler of Westgate, and becomes the city’s first human king.

–348 Year of Moon Madness: The archwizard Xolund the Maker instills sentience into the mythallar of
the Netherese enclave of Sakkors.

–345 Year of Good Courage: Arthindol the Terraseer appears for the final time. Upon arriving in the enclave of Karsus, he warns that the goddess Mystryl is about to face her greatest challenge—one that could alter the Netherese perception of magic for all time.

–339 Year of Sundered Webs: Ioulaum of Netheril abandons his floating city for his lair in the depths of the Northdark while civil unrest peaks in Low Netheril.

Fall of Netheril: Nearly all of the Netherese enclaves fall to the earth and are destroyed due to disruptions in the Weave brought about by the casting of the spell Karsus’s avatar and the subsequent death of the goddess Mystryl. The body of the momentary god Karsus falls to earth in the eastern region of the High Forest.

The Netherese floating cities of Selûnarra and Thultanthar escape the destruction of Netheril by transporting their enclaves and entire populations to the Gates of the Moon and the Plane of Shadow
respectively.

The archwizard Aumvor is transported by contingency magics to his secret lair in the heart of the High Forest, where he undergoes the transformation to lichdom.

The Sargauth Enclave in present-day Undermountain is partially destroyed as a result of Karsus’s Folly, and the Netherese arcanists that survive are twisted into magically potent undead that will become known as
the Skulls of Skullport.

The Netherese enclaves of Nhalloth and Sakkors crash into the Inner Sea and are destroyed.

The archwizard Larloch escapes the destruction of his floating enclave Jiksidur, which crashes on the northern borders of Narfell. He discovers the ruins of Orbedal, the floating enclave of his rival Rhaugilath “the Ageless,” and builds present-day Warlock’s Crypt. He also discovers the remains of Rhaugilath, whom he binds to his will after a fierce battle, making him the first of his many lich servitors.

Establishment of the Netherese survivor states of Anauria, Asram, and Hlondath as well as the underground city of Philock in the middle Underdark beneath the Wood of Sharp Teeth.

The archwizard Raumark leads a flight of Netherese skyships far to the south to settle the Halruaan basin.

–338 Year of Guttering Torches: The Bey of Runlatha and the dwarves of Ascore lead Netherese refugees
from Runlatha to safety through the underground passage known as the Lowroad. The refugees migrate farther west, hoping to found a new realm to the west of Delzoun.

–335 Year of Seven Spirits: The arcanist Maerin of Illusk commissions Immar Fardelver and many other
artisans of Delzoun to begin construction of the great subterranean city of Gauntlgrym in the Crags, to the east of Illusk.

–334 Year of Three Seas’ Rage: The dwarves build Besendar’s Blockhouse on the site that will become present-day Everlund.

A group of Netherese arcanists establishes the city of Helbrester in the Nelanther Isles.

–333 Year of Humbling Havens: Ascalhorn and Citadel Sundbarr accept human refugees from Netheril. As the Narrow Sea dries up, the dwarves begin the slow abandonment of Ascore. The elves of Eaerlann allow other Netherese refugees to settle in Ascalhorn.

–331 Year of Shadows Fleeting: The elf armies of the Coronals Tannivh of Cormanthyr and Connak of
Rystall Wood finally break the greater defenses of the Twisted Tower and destroy all remaining drow slavers within the tower. The tower is left in the hands of good dark elf allies, and it is a great temple to Eilistraee within a century. The Soldier’s Blade is lost during this great battle, captured by the
drow in their slaying of Lord Orym Hawksong during the fall of the Twisted Tower. The blade and the body of Lord Orym are taken down into the Underdark as spoils of war by the fleeing drow.

–330 Year of Empty Quests: The Bey of Runlatha dies near Delzoun’s western border while battling the
nalfeshnee Zukothoth. The Runlathan refugees fragment into loosely allied family groups and revert to a primitive way of life. These groups become the precursors of the Uthgardt tribes of the modern era.

–329 Year of Icefire: Dwarves of Clan Shattered Shield of Citadel Sundbarr flee their mines and workings in the Ice Mountains due to the approach of a group of renegade dwarves from Citadel Felbarr, believed to be afflicted with a disease known as the slaying slumber. They begin a titanic trek eastward across the High Ice to the kingdom of Dareth.

–325 Year of Crown Hatred: Netherese wanderers found the settlement of Hartsvale in the Ice Mountains to the east of the Coldwood.

–321 Year of Hollow Hills: Gauntlgrym is completed by the dwarves of Delzoun in this year, and the arcanist
Maerin of Illusk welcomes humans from Illusk, Netherese refugees from Runlatha and Sundabar who have made the long trek west, and dwarves of Clan Goldspire of Delzoun to live in the city.

–320 Year of Netted Dreams: The ophidians of Najara summon the Hss’tafi tribe of yuan-ti from the southern
jungles of Chult to increase their strength against the rising power of the Netherese survivor states. The yuan-ti establish themselves as Najara’s ruling caste.

–310 Year of Glassharks: In gratitude for their aid in the Shadow Wars, the coronal allows some reformed, surface-acclimated drow to settle in remote lands of Cormanthyr to the east of Cormanthor.

–306 Year of Wan Shades: Shadows emancipated from their masters reclaim their identities and strike at Netherese undead across Faerûn.

–298 Year of Nine Watchers: The Cult of Karsus founds the city of Karse in the depths of the High Forest.

–286 Year of Foul Awakenings: Westgate falls during the course of a single night to a small army of elite mercenaries led by the vampire Orlak.

The Xothol is closed.

Bitter disputes among the inhabitants of Karse eventually lead to the destruction and abandonment of the city. Wulgreth of Netheril, a Netherese lich arcanist, takes up residence in the ruins.


–272 Year of the Songstones: Citadel Adbar is completed.

–267 Year of Crumbling Caverns: A powerful earthquake severs the link between ruined Tzindylspar and the surface and opens new passages into the Fardrimm (the underground tunnel network linking the North and the areas beneath Anauroch).

–223 Year of Burning Briars: The Sixth Rysar of Cormanthor begins with the realm’s greatest warrior, Eltargrim, taking his first steps toward magic (and High Magic).

–221 Year of Shambling Shadows: Shadow dragons of Clan Jaezred conquer the drow city of Chaulssin (beneath the Rauvin Mountains) and enslave the populace. In the centuries that follow, the drow population is eradicated, twisted into creatures of shadow and supplanted by wyrm-spawned offspring. The city is slowly drawn farther and farther into the Plane of Shadow.

–206 Year of Elfsorrows: Syglaeth Audark, last Coronal of Illefarn, is murdered by raiders from Jhachalkyn, a drow city deep beneath the southeastern Neverwinter Woods.


–205 Year of Good Hunting: Orc hordes engulf Rystall Wood throughout the year, the worst hordes arriving in winter.

The Lord of Scepters, Iliphar Nelnueve of House Amaratharr, defeats the black wyrm Thauglorimorgorus in a Feint of Honor and is granted rule over the elf realm of Cormanthyr.

–200 (circa) Candlekeep is founded; Calendar of Harptos begins.

The humans who are to become the first of the Dalesfolk cross the Dragon Reach to the southern region of Cormanthor.

–149 Year of Adamantine Ore: Shield dwarf prospectors discover rich veins of adamantine and iron in the
Teshan Mountains (present-day Desertsmouth Mountains) and send word back to their kin in the Storm Horns to join them.

–145 Year of Depths Unknown: Roryn, blood of Thordbard, of the Iron House of fallen Oghrann founds the dwarf realm of Tethyamar in the present-day Desertsmouth Mountains.

–111 Year of Terrible Anger: "The Orc Marches", the entire North erupts as great orc hordes stream south
from the Spine of the World and the Ice Mountains to lay waste to all in their path. Illusk and Gauntlgrym fall to this onslaught, and Delzoun is devastated by countless orc assaults. Most of Illusk’s population manages to escape by sea or by magic and is spared. The elves of Iliyanbruen, Rilithar, Siluvanede, and Eaerlann unite to shatter the strength of the orcs and halt their rampage south into the High Forest and Dessarin Valley.

–108 Year of Wands: Humans displaced by the Orc Marches rebuild and resettle Illusk. The city again operates as a magocracy under the Grand Cabal.

–104 Year of the Star Stallion: Besendar’s Blockhouse is abandoned by the dwarves of Delzoun in the face of countless orc raids.

–100 Year of the Black Unicorn: The dwarf realm of Delzoun, the Northkingdom, falls to encroaching phaerimms and other dangers. The dwarves’ surface citadels survive the attack and remain in dwarf hands.

–75 Year of Leather Shields: The wizard Baerauble Etharr, survivor of lost Netheril, is saved from death
at the hands of barbarian tormentors by the elf Alea Dahast. Baerauble comes to live with the elves of Cormanthyr.

–64 Year of Gleaming Frost: Rystall Wood falls in its Twelfth Rysar to giants and orcs. The survivors either remain in Yrlaancel or migrate to Cormanthyr.

–50 Year of the Phandar: Illuskans from Ruathym settle at the mouth of the River Delimbiyr, founding the city of Tavaray.

–33 Year of Slowing Sands: The Netherese state of Asram (in the present-day Anauroch Desert) falls victim to a plague sent by Talona, from which there are no survivors.

–15 Year of the Embrace: Gripped by the imperial urge, the leaders of Illusk expand their nation southward and eastward.

–12 Year of Laughing Lovers: The elves of Iliyanbruen resist further Illuskan expansion in the south.

–10 Year of Burning Glades: Led by Lord Halueth Never, the elves defeat Illusk, although skirmishing
persists.

–9 Year of Fell Traitors: The Circle of Flames, a wizards’ cabal, forms in the city of Cormanthor. The group consists mainly of retired or current Akh’Faer wizards and their apprentices.

–4 Year of Pacts: The elves of Iliyanbruen and the humans of Illusk make peace, setting the River Mirar as the boundary between their kingdoms.

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1 Year of Sunrise: The Standing Stone is raised by the elves of Cormanthyr and the Dalesmen, ratifying the Dales Compact between them and starting the Dalereckoning calendar.

The dwarves of Ammarindar complete Citadel Yaunoroth.

4 Year of the Slaked Blade: Laranla Imdalace of Ardeep disappears. Rulership of the kingdom passes to her kinswoman Embrae Aloevan.

6 Year of the Firestars: Fleeing plague and tyranny in Impiltur, the farmer Ondeth Obarskyr settles a tract of land on the outskirts of the Wolf Woods west of Marsember. He names the settlement Suzara’s City, after his wife.

10 Year of Dreams: The Netheril region becomes known as the Great Desert of Anauroch.

Dissatisfied with her husband Ondeth and their new home, Suzara takes the first ship back to Impiltur with their youngest son.

16 Year of Distant Thunder: Elves attack the Bleth farmstead outside Suzail, killing all occupants. Baerauble Etharr counsels Ondeth against further expansion into the Wolf Woods.

20 Year of the Fallen Fury: The human Calendar of Harptos adopts the elf holiday of Cinnaelos’Cor (The Day of Corellon’s Peace) and renames it Shieldmeet, celebrating it every four years since.

25 Year of Many Runes: Church of Deneir founded.

34 Year of Purloined Power: A Talfirian bard named Verraketh Talember discovers the Shadowstar, a mysterious artifact that fell like a shooting star into the High Moor. While the artifact slowly transformed him into the Shadowking, Verraketh gathered an army of shadow-spinners and began forcibly assimilating the Netherese and Talfirian realms of the Chionthar river valley into the empire of Ebenfar.

Drow overwhelm the Melairkyn dwarves of Undermountain, and King Melair IV is slain. The dwarves retreat to lower, less important levels of the Underhalls.

52 Year of the Thundering Horde: Illuskans begin farming the plateau above Deepwater Harbor, and for two and a half centuries their rule of the area is uncontested.

64 Year of Gleaming Frost: Northmen begin settling the Twilit Land—the coastal area between presentday Neverwinter and Waterdeep.

75 Year of Clinging Death: Alaundo, later famous as “Alaundo the Seer,” arrives in Candlekeep. A quiet, learned man of unknown origins (though his stray comments led colleagues to believe he grew up in a Sword Coast port city), Alaundo extended the Roll of Years greatly by naming many years in the far future. At Candlekeep, a belief arose that Alaundo dreamed, and “saw” future events, but had to work through repeated dreamings to place them precisely in time. Some say gods inspired him, or that he was the secret avatar of a god, but he remains a mystery. He came to Candlekeep to read the writings of others; books fascinated
him lifelong.

The deity Moander hurls his forces and the “creeping evil” against the elf village of Tsornyl, blighting much of the surrounding woods. The High Mages of Cormanthyr use their magic to sever the “creeping evil” from Moander and imprison the corruption at Tsornyl, weakening the Darkbringer’s presence in Toril.

The elf realm of Rilithar bordering the Sword Mountains is finally abandoned because of the encroachment of human settlers and unceasing orc and troll raids. Several clans of moon elves from Rilithar arrive in the Gray Forest far to the east through a portal and establish the realm of Vedrymmell.

87 Year of the Hoar Frost: Eigersstor (Neverwinter) is founded.

89 Year of the Faithful Oracle: Terpenzi, the naga king of Najara in the Heartlands, foresees its death at the hands of Verraketh the Shadowking of Ebenfar and orders its subjects to seek out the magics of ancient Netheril while it searches for a mate.

90 Year of the Moor Birds: Terpenzi assembles a great army of ophidians commanded by yuan-ti to attack the growing might of Ebenfar. The armies of Ebenfar destroy the city of SS’thar’tiss’ssun, cloak its ruins in powerful warding spells, and scatter the serpentfolk of Najara. Terpenzi leads its remaining armies into battle with the Shadowking but is destroyed. The battlefield becomes known as the Fields of the Dead.

95 Year of the Reluctant Hero: Ruathens, led by Uthgar Gardolfsson, sack Illusk. The Grand Cabal retreats to the Host Tower, abandoning the city to the raiders. The Illuskans eventually burn the invaders’ ships and drive Uthgar and his followers into the interior.

96 Year of the Mournful Harp: Stefan Blackspear becomes Highlord of Illusk and exiles wizards from his
city-state.

100 (circa): The followers of Uthgar join with other nomadic humans descended from the group of Netherese who followed the Bey of Runlatha and scattered across the North after his death.

111 Year of Fallen Guards: Goblinkin of Hlundadim, led by the orc shaman Andegril the Wise, attack and conquer Anauria.

112 Year of the Tusk: Cormyrean cartographers create the first recognized map of Cormyr, Cormanthor, and the Dalelands.

123 Year of the Icy Axe: Uthgar dies from wounds received in battle with Gurt, Lord of the Pale Giants, at the present-day site of Morgur’s Mound. His nomad human followers call themselves the Uthgardt in his honor and form tribes based on the beast spirits he was said to have tamed in his lifetime.

127 Year of the Defi ant Stone: Grath Erlkar, a Northman raider and explorer, founds Grath’s Hold (later
known as Port Llast).

132 Year of Thirteen Prides Lost: The wizards of the Circle of Flames in Cormanthor begin to record the
Scrolls Ardentym this year.

133 Year of the Arduous Journey: The Barony of the Steeping Falls is founded at the site of present-day
Daggerford by Artor Morlin, the Baron of Blood, an outlaw hailing from the lands of the Shoon.

139 Year of the Resolute Courtesans: The deforestation of the Chondalwood by the humans of the area is in
full swing.

140 Year of the Executioner: Fleeing persecution under the Shadowking of Ebenfar, tribes of lost Talfir cross the Sea of Swords and settle along the southern shores of the island they name Gwynneth.

141 Year of the Impenetrable Mystery: Gauntlgrym is resettled with aid from Highlord Narandos of Illusk.

142 Year of the Prowling Naga: One of Terpenzi’s brood, Jacinica, becomes the new king-in-exile of Najara. As its first official act, Jacinica orders the remains of Terpenzi to be transformed into a bone naga and enslaved to the bearer of the artifact known as the Marlspire of Najara.

143 Year of the Smiling Princess: Large forces of wild elves from the Chondalwood halt the progress of lumberjacks in the forest.

144 Year of the Fear and Flame: Battle of the Elven Tears: More than 2,000 elves lose their lives in the
Chondalwood through the allied might of the free cities of the Vilhon Reach. Within six months of the victory, the city-states unite as the nation of Chondath.

145 Year of the Pirates’ Port: Lady Ahskahala Durothil is born at Semberholme to Lady Uschymna and
Lord Phaendar Durothil of Myth Drannor.

The blue dragon Iryklathagra is born amid the sands of Anauroch.

146 Year of the Risen Towers: Aravae Irithyl is born, the first child of House Irithyl in centuries. Her
mother dies giving birth, leaving the infant and her great-uncle, the coronal, as the sole heirs of House Irithyl. From birth, Aravae has a personal guard of three soldiers whose sole purpose is to protect the child who will be the coronal’s heir.

Elembar is founded by settlers from Tavaray, north of the River Delimbiyr and east of Ardeep. Uth Myrmoran, an exiled lord of Tavaray, erects the Uthtower west of the Sword Mountains and founds the realm of the same name.

147 Year of the Iron Colossus: Azuth worshipers formally break with the Church of Mystra and establish the
House of the High One Ascendant in the mountains near Lhair.

149 Year of the Dwarf: Dwarves of Ammarindar led by Iirikos Stoneshoulder build a stone bridge across the River Shining at the site of present-day Loudwater.

152 Year of the Severed Hand: The orcs of the Severed Hand tribe capture Illusk and rename it Argrock.

153 Year of the Wolfstone: Illithids from the Underdark and their lycanthropic thralls conquer Gauntlgrym. A few survivors escape and are taken in by a tribe of Uthgardt barbarians.

163 Year of the Screeching Vole: The Ring of Winter is last reported used on Faerûn in this year, when a village and a Cormyrean lord’s estates are destroyed in a massive ice storm during high summer.

168 DR Year of Scattered Stars
A wizard of unknown ancestry calling himself Halaster Blackcloak [307],
later identified as the Raurinese wizard Hilather [150, 1026], builds a tower
and fortified ramparts in the middle of the Deepwater Plateau, to the north
and west of the burgeoning farms along the harbor shore in Waterdeep. He
begins exploration of the Underhalls of the Melairkyn and claims the delvings
for himself.
171 DR Year of Unkind Weapons
The elves of Cormanthyr complete a two-year-long siege to destroy the sole
surviving temple to Moander in northern Arcorar at the site of present-day
Yûlash. The wizards of Cormanthyr use High Magic to banish the Jawed
God from the Realms.

175 DR Year of the Black Boats
The orcs of the Severed Hand sack Port Llast (formerly Grath’s Hold). Much
of the city’s population travels south to Eigersstor and safety.
177 DR Year of the Troublesome Vixen
The elves of Iliyanbruen destroy the orcs of the Severed Hand and Argrock,
though the effort costs much of their strength. Within three years, Iliyanbruen
is no more. Many of its moon elf inhabitants travel west to Evermeet
[–1100, 342] or south to Ardeep, leaving only scattered wood elf settlements
and the abandoned capital of Sharandar.
183 DR Year of the Murmuring Dead
Uthgrael Aumar, the Stag King, founds Athalantar.

191 DR Year of the Broken Lands
The realm of Yarlith [568] is formed north of Uthtower and south of Eigersstor
to prevent dynastic squabbling between the twin heirs to the throne of
Uthtower.

198 DR Year of Almond Eyes
The goblinkin of Hlundadim [111, 200] invade Cormyr, burning the settlement
of Arabel and plunging south into the King’s Forest.
199 DR to 308 DR
Crown against the Scepter Wars: Hlondath instigates the Crown against the
Scepter Wars, intent on raiding Cormanthyr for magic. Ultimately the conflict
ends in victory for Cormanthyr.
c. 200 DR
Settlers from Elembar, Athalantar, Uthtower, and Yarlith establish a series
of frontier holds known as the Mlembryn lands in the region straddling the
River Dessarin.
— Cedarsproke, a druid enclave dedicated to Silvanus, is established deep in
the Gulthmere Forest [1358].
200 DR Year of Leaping Flames
The armies of Cormyr led by King Moriann defeat the goblinkin of Hlundadim
[198, 268] north

205 DR Year of the Greengrass
Settlers from Uthtower, Yarlith, and the Mlembryn lands recolonize Illusk
[152, 306]. Taman Steeldrake becomes Grand Prince of Illusk.
207 DR Year of the Majestic Mace
The dwarf realm of Ironstar falls.
211 DR Year of Spoiled Splendors
The four tribes of Arkaiun barbarians flee the Council Hills region ahead
of invading Untheric and Mulhorandi armies and migrate southwest. They
roam the grasslands along the southern coast of Faerûn, eventually settling
along the coast of the Bay of Dancing Dolphins.
— Clan Melairkyn, forced to retreat to successively lower and less important
levels of the Underhalls by the drow, finally vanishes. The drow name their
new holdings Kyorlamshin and claim most of fallen Melairbode [–677, 658]
as their demesne.

216 DR Year of the Battle Horns
The North erupts in battle as many orc bands vie for supremacy, and countless
thousands of goblinkind perish. Upon the death of the Stag King, his
five sons, known thereafter as the Warring Princes of Athalantar, begin open
battle for the throne.
218 DR Year of the Dancing Lights
The settlement of Krenadir is founded in Luiren.
— Prince Belaur proclaims himself King of Athalantar and takes the throne
with the aid of hired wizards. The new king names all his wizard allies
lords of the realm. These cruel, avaricious wizards soon become known as
magelords.
220 DR Year of the Sword Violets
Coronal Eltargrim opens the forest of Cormanthor to non-elves, N’Tel’Q uess,
primarily druids, great wizards, and crafters who can add to the glory of
Cormanthyr.

227 DR Year of the Raised Banner
The dwarves of Alaoreum [1150] fight and win an epic battle with the red
dragon Stormcrossing. The dwarves win, but the humans are alerted to their
presence in the mountains of Turmish.
— The human realm of Tathtar is established at the western end of the Vilhon
Reach by the warrior Haedrar Mornlight.
— The adventurer Orluth Tshahvur establishes the realm of Shavinar [277]
to the north of present day Baldur’s Gate in an attempt to unite human steadings
for common defense against marauding monsters, frequent troll raids,
and outlaws cast out of more southerly Sword Coast cities.

232 DR Year of the Leaping Centaur
Several rock gnome and deep gnome clans build the underground city of
Dolblunde [614] under the leadership of Olbrent Handstone.

238 DR Year of Many Mushrooms
Ihundyl meets his demise at the hands of Elminster Aumar [240] and Myrjala
Dark-Eyes.
240 DR Year of the Chosen
Peace treaties are established between the Shoon Imperium and Tathtar,
ending the conflict between them.
— Athalantar adopts a new royal line when Elminster Aumar [238, 241] is
made a Chosen of Mystra and forgoes the throne after defeating King Beluar
and the Magelords. Helm Stoneblade is crowned King of Athalantar.

241 DR Year of the Hippogriff’s Folly
In late autumn, the former and sole surviving Prince of Athalantar, Elminster
Aumar [240, 324], enters the city of Cormanthor both to serve Mystra’s will
and to return the kiira (lore gem) of House Alastrarra.
244 DR Year of the Elfsands
Evereska’s existence is discovered by non-elves, though the secret is kept for
centuries by the human tribes of the Greycloak Hills.
245 DR Year of the Dun Dragon
King Iltharl abdicates the throne to his sister Gantharla, first Queen of Cormyr.
Iltharl retires north to Cormanthor to live with the elves.

253 DR Year of Somber Smiles
The panther Guenhwyvar is transformed into a unique figurine of wondrous
power by Anders Beltgarden, a human wizard settler of Cormanthyr. The
figurine is granted to the young bladesinger Josidiah Starym.

261 DR Year of Soaring Stars
The elf city at the heart of Cormanthyr becomes the unified city of Myth
Drannor. Coronal Eltargrim, in an edict called the Opening [462], declared that
Cormanthyr was to be an open realm, accessible to all non-elves (N’Tel’Q uess),
following the laying of the mythal and the renaming of the city.
262 DR Year of Pages Perilous
Formation of the Eldreth Veluuthra: Five leading elf houses—Bharaclaiev,
Hyshaanth, Rhae-vaern, Tellynnan, and Starym—declare that they cannot
support the coronal of Cormanthyr’s liberal attitude toward non-elves (particularly
humans), nor can they allow the continued encroachment of humans
into ancestral elf lands. Rather than battle fellow elves, the five houses depart
Myth Drannor and began to catalog the crimes of humans against both nature
and the land they inhabit. [757]

266 DR Year of the Unspoken Name
A number of humans are murdered in Myth Drannor by a bigoted servant elf
of House Ammath, secretly working for its rival, House Symbeam.
267 DR Year of Bane’s Shadow
Crushed Helm Massacre: An army 10,000 strong from Chondath marches
into the Chondalwood. After less than a day of fighting with the wood elves,
only 200 men escaped.
— Lumberjacks abandon the Chondalwood and establish the city of Hlath
near the Nunwood.
— Battle of Fallen Trees: The Chondathan logging towns of Timindar and
Orbech are destroyed by elves attacking from within the Chondalwood.

268 DR Year of Cruel Storms
The seemingly unending spread of the great desert Anauroch sees the fall
of the realm of Hlundadim [200, 1104]. Its mysterious ruler known only as
Great Hlundadim disappears, and his goblinkin subjects quickly disintegrate
into warring, nomadic bands.

273 DR Year of the Delighted Dwarves
Three dwarf clans from Ammarindar and Citadel Felbarr [–329, 1104] migrate
together to Myth Drannor.
276 DR Year of the Burnished Blade
The Magister Ergrith Klavulgrun, known as “The Kingslayer,” begins slaughtering
merchant lords of Tashalaran cities and neighboring realms.
— The forges of the dwarf clans Snowsbattle and Honedaxe produce three
great gifts in gratitude for their new homes here: the Beljuriled Belt of Battle
for the coronal; the Shield of Briars for the Arms-Major; and the Herald’s
Horn for the Spell-Major of the Akh’Faer (which became better known later
by its primary wielder’s name as The Harking Horn of Ishildé).
277 DR Year of Broken Flame
The kingdom of Shavinar [227], between the Troll Hills and the River Chionthar,
falls to trolls.

284 DR Year of Fallen Flagons
A great halfling migration hundreds strong arrives at Myth Drannor from
Meiritin [231, 491] and Tethyr by way of the first open portals set up to
bring folk to the city.

286 DR Year of the Jolly Mongrels
The halfling immigrants to Myth Drannor open taverns to all races, thereby
causing all elf-run taverns, inns, and halls to lessen their strictures on patrons
over the next several years.
289 DR Year of Waking Dreams
King Torst of Cormyr and his brother Prince Gordroun are slain in the siege
of flooded Marsember. Their younger brother Keldroun is crowned king, and
the city is abandoned to the lizardfolk.
290 DR Year of Full Cribs
Arkhenthus the Mage-Devourer, the ancient white wyrm, dies by the swords
of six flying elves and humans. This marks the first Cormanthyran dragonhunt
involving non-elves.?
— This year marks the greatest number of births in Cormanthyr’s history.
While only half are elf babies, there are more full-blooded elves born in this
lone year than in the previous decade. The coronal deems this a sign of the
realm’s health and the rightness of his quest for unity among all the races.
292 DR Year of Frostfi res
Gnomes walk the sylvan glades of Myth Drannor for the first time since
escaped gnome slaves passed through Cormanthor in Netheril’s time.
— Aloevan, laranla of Ardeep, embraces the service of both Mystra and
Sehanine and is made a Chosen of both goddesses.

302 DR Year of the Deep
Bay
Tavaray is abandoned as the surrounding
Lizard Marsh rapidly expands, prompting a wave of
migration northward along the coast and eastward
up the lower Delimibiyr Vale.

306 DR Year of the Fanged Horde
The kingdom of Grimmantle in the Mlembryn lands falls to the Thousand
Fangs orc horde, which then assails Illusk [205, 611] and Neverwinter. The
horde is eventually blunted and scattered by a mercenary army led by Grauth
Mharabbath, “the Knight of Many Battles.”
— A mighty host of orcs descends on Rashemen from the Sunrise Mountains
but is driven off.
307 DR Year of Sundered Sails
After decades of debate, the elves decide to allow N’Tel’Q uess (non-elves)
to join the Akh’Velahrn (the army of Myth Drannor) after training in the
Cormanthyran methods of battle. More than four hundred humans and one
hundred dwarves eagerly enlist.
— The apprentices to Halaster [168, 309], known as the Seven (Arcturia,
Jhesiyra Kestellharp, Muiral the Misshapen, Nester, Marambra Nyghtsteel,
Rantantar, and Trobriand the Metal Mage), leave Halaster’s Hold hoping
to establish their own holdings in the subterranean depths. The tower and
surface holding fall into decay and ruin, and the tribes of Blackcloak Hold,
as the settlement had come to be known, quickly learn to avoid the “cursed”
enclosure.

309 DR Year of the
Cascade
After many years of exterminating
large pockets of drow
and duergar, Halaster Blackcloak
[307, 668] now rules the
Underhalls.

323 DR Year of the Miscast Shadow
The empire of Ebenfar collapses after the imprisonment of the Shadowking
[140, 1364].

324 DR Year of Freedom’s Friends
The Harpers at Twilight [386] are formed in secret deep in the Elven Court
woods by Dathlue Mistwinter, the Lady Steel, whose family crest (a silver
harp between the horns of a crescent moon, encircled by stars on a black
field) becomes the badge of the Harpers. Among the early members were
elf, human, and half-elf warriors, rangers, druids, thieves, and mages, including
Ruehar Oakstaff, Ioelena Audark, Lyari Pholont “the Shadesilk,” and
Elminster [241, 331].

329 DR Year of the Closed Scroll
Hlondath is abandoned when the encroachment of Anauroch begins to
destroy its fields. Its inhabitants migrate east to the Moonsea and south into
the Dalelands.
— Ioulaum [–339] is apparently slain by a cabal of illithiliches. In revenge,
his apprentice Tabra slaughters the illithids of Ellyn’taal.
— The Anauroch Desert ceases to spread when the sharns [–354] finally defeat
the phaerimms [–100, 464].
— Orcs sack the surface fortress of Citadel Sundbarr.

330 DR Year of Roused Giants
Arun Maerdrym [386] is born the first half-elf among the senior noble Houses
of Myth Drannor; to the surprise of many elves, he is accepted by the patriarch
and allowed to retain his name and position in the family and clan.
331 DR Year of the Cold Clashes
Elminster [324, 720] leaves Cormanthyr for the first time in seventy years
at Mystra’s insistence.
— The orcs of Vastar [–700, 512] launch an unexpected attack on eastern
Cormanthyr late in this year, and occupy some of the lands east of the Elven
Court for the next few years. The orcs spend the next years both solidifying
their forces here and exploring the ruins of the ancient elf temple city.
— The Sossrim clans of the Great Glacier are united under the rule of Ylaethar
“the Bear,” who proclaims himself Ornath (king) of the newly founded
kingdom of Sossal [–300, 991].
335 DR Year of Seven Stones
The Darkwoods Massacre: The fourth major foray by Myth Drannor forces
against the invading orcs occurs within the Darkwoods in high summer. The
battle is lost as the orcs surround over half of the allied forces and decimate
them in their sleep; since the human guards were also among the slain, no
explanation is apparent for the negligence. In all, more than 1,000 soldiers
died that night, though only 100 of them were elves.

339 DR Year of the Vanished Foe
The orcs in the eastern forest are routed by elf and human forces. Instrumental
in the battles is the human warrior Velar. Velar and his human (and
some elf) allies resettle the lands around the coastal forest, and the area soon
becomes known as Velarsdale.
342 DR Year of Cantobele Stalking
Athalantar falls to an orc horde from the High Moor. The orcs are in turn
destroyed by an unlikely alliance of moon elves from Ardeep and dwarves
from Dardath. The last Council of Illefarn is called, and the long-fragmented
elf realm of Illefarn is officially dissolved with the remaining wood elves of
Iliyanbruen and many wood elves from Rilithar departing for Evermeet [177,
611]. Ardeep and Dardath formally ally and look to create further alliances
with the humans of the region.
344 DR Year of the Loom
Construction of the House of Stone begins in this year by the dwarves of
Dardath led by Turgo Ironfist.
346 DR Year of Blushing Stars
Seven elf officers of the Akh’Velahrn are exiled from Myth Drannor and
Cormanthyr after their court martials discover their barbaric treatment of
non-elf troops and responsibility for the Darkwoods Massacre.
— Arms-Major Pirphal of Cormanthyr commissions the first three Baneblades
for each of his new lieutenants (a halfling, a dwarf, and a human).
— Saeval Ammath [68, 348] returns from an excursion into the western mountains
and immediately sequesters himself in a House Ammath towerholding
outside the mythal. While many find this behavior curious, none suspect that
he has found and claimed a dragon’s egg.

348 DR Year of the Dagger
Saeval Ammath [346, 358] hatches his foundling red dragon’s egg. Due to
many enchantments he placed on the egg, the dragon’s shape is more similar
to a blue dragon, though its tone is still red. Saeval names the hatchling
Garnetallisar [358].

56 DR Year of the Errant Kings
— After thirty-five years of expansion under King Ashar, Valashar [321, 358]
(and the Shoon Empire) stretches as far north as the Troll Mountains and
the High Moor. Responding to the claim of northern lands by King Ashar
and the expansion toward Cormyr’s western border, King Azoun I mounts
a bold campaign that swiftly crushes Valashar’s armies on the Fields of the
Dead and then sacks numerous garrisons and the city of Ithmong. The Shoon
Empire’s borders shrink back to the Giant’s Run Mountains, and Lord Tornamn
is executed.
358 DR Year of the Battle Talons
Demron completes the first three Baneblades of Demron, and they are presented
to their wielders amid great ceremony.
— The dragon Garnetallisar [348, 708] becomes known to the folk of Myth
Drannor, as he takes to flying with the wizard Saeval [348, 708] astride his
back. Despite much uproar, Garnet proves himself trustworthy and humble
before the coronal and others. Saeval’s enchantments give this unique dragon a
lawful good nature. The coronal grants his trust by providing a means for the
dragon and his master to live within the mythal, despite its normal defenses
against chromatic dragons.
— Open hostilities resume between Iryklathagra [322, 366] and Shoon VII
[322, 366], a battle that again visits destruction upon Valashar [356, 375]
during a rare visit by the qysar to the periphery of his domain.
361 DR Year of the Fearless King
Both the Shoon Imperium and the Kingdom of Cormyr decide to extend their
influence into the Western Heartlands.

367 DR Year of Shying Eyes
The city of Phlan [400] is founded on the northern shores of the Dragons’
Sea.
— Shoon VII stages his own “death.” Feigning incapacitation stemming from
his last battle with Sharpfangs [366, 1162], Shoon VII [366, 370] places his
daughter Shaani on the throne and manipulates her into poisoning her apparently
infirm father. Secretly immune to the poison’s effects, the former qysar
is now free to research a transformation to lichdom.
370 DR Year of Sleeping Dangers
Shoon VII [367, 438] becomes a lich.
374 DR Year of the Thoughtful Man
The House of Silvanus, a druid conclave, is established on the Isle of Ilighôn
[724] on Midsummer night.
375 DR Year of the Woeful Resurrection
Ashar’s March: Ashar Tornamn of Valashar [358, 376] begins a 15-month
march north along the Sword Coast and into the Western Heartlands seeking
to expand the hegemony of the Shoon Imperium.
— Human Varae-worshipers from the Shining Plains come north in search
of the lost city of Ss’thar’tiss’ssun. They discover an artifact created by House
Orogoth that transforms them all into ophidians.

376 DR Year of the Leaping Hare
Ashar Tornamn extends the borders of Valashar [375, 491] and the Shoon
Imperium to the High Moor by summer. Crown Prince Azoun I of Cormyr
leads his army against Ashar, driving the Shoonite forces back through Amn,
Tethyr, and Valashar before sacking Ithmong and returning to Cormyr.
379 DR Year of Seven Stars
Seven notable mages in Myth Drannor form an alliance and build the Incanistaeum,
the first school of wizardry open to all the races of the city whose
teachers were not exclusively elves. This group soon becomes known in other
lands as the Seven Wizards of Myth Drannor.

384 DR Year of Dreaming Dragons
Silverymoon Ford [447], a lowly wood and rope bridge, is built across the
River Rauvin.

386 DR Year of Dawn Moons
Arun Maerdrym [330, 414], called the Half-Elven among the nobles, joins
the Harpers in Twilight [324, 449].

390 DR Year of the Half Moon
The Srinshee [656], High Mage of Cormanthyr and Myth Drannor, goes into
deep mourning for a decade, after her first paramour (and apprentice) in centuries
dies in a hunting accident. While she and others suspect that one of the
noble houses had a hand in her beloved’s death, no proof ever surfaced and the
matter was dropped. Hereafter, the young-appearing Srinshee never appears
clad in any colors brighter than midnight blue, black being predominant.
— The city of Myth Lharast is established in present-day Amn as a “purer”
temple city with worship solely to Selûne rather than the orthodox theocracy
of Minsorran.
— Followers of Selûne begin worshiping the Moonmaiden on the slopes of
Mount Waterdeep.
398 DR Year of the Warning Ghost
The Night Dragons’ Attack: Five black and two green dragons assault the
mythal directly over Myth Drannor, testing its defenses against them. Lieutenant
Itham, commander of the dragonriders, brings their full complement
of six good dragons and one hundred hippogriffs against them. Although all
of the evil dragons are destroyed, they also kill one bronze dragon, half the
hippogriffs and their riders, and four dragonriders, including Itham. The
Baneblade Morvian falls into the possession of Lady Ahskahala Durothil.

414 DR Year of Omen Stars
Arielimnda, a human ranger, fellow Harper, and wife of Arun Maerdrym
[386], delivers a human son on Higharvestide. Since he is human, the boy is
not allowed to bear the Maerdrym name. Arun follows an ancient elf custom
and does not name the boy, allowing him the freedom to earn a name (and
perhaps a place in the clan) later.
418 DR Year of the Eagle’s Flight
The first aarakocra colonists arrive in northern Faerûn, after generations
of migrating from island to island across the Trackless Sea [–677, 987] from
distant Maztica.

426 DR Year of the Black Dawn
Arun’s human son [414] joins students of
the Seven Wizards of Myth Drannor as
a pupil of Mentor Wintercloak in the
school known as the Incanistaeum. At
age twelve, he remains unnamed, though
he has a number of nicknames some
elves gave him, including Biir (“garbage,”
used by commoner elves) and Zenar
(“Less than half,” as a noble’s double
insult against himself and his half-breed
father). His few green elf friends call him
Bhin, or “young human.”
— The shadow dragon Augloroasa is
born to Shhuusshuru in the Far Hills.
— Ongild, a Halruaan wizard of some
renown, crafts a magic gem that stores
spells and gives it his name. The ongild
eventually winds up in the belly of a red
dragon named Hoondarrh.

429 DR Year of the Cat’s Eye
King Duar sets out to defeat an orcish
army in the King’s Woods. In his
absence, Duar’s father-in-law Melineth
Turcassan sells the city of Suzail to the
pirate Magrath the Minotaur for five
hundred sacks of gold.
432 DR Year of the Sea Princes
King Duar seizes Dheolur and defeats
Magrath the Minotaur.
434 DR Year of the Stallion
Triumphant
The duergar temple city, Dirk Hargunen,
is founded.

447 DR Year of the Awakening Treant
— The Moonsilver Inn is built at the northern end of Silverymoon Ford
[384, 459] in the North.

449 DR Year of Killing Ice
Silvyr Ithal marches to Ithmong and takes the crown as the rightful King
of Tethyr, sparking rebellion in Tethyr and Amn. Silvyr is killed in combat
by Amahl Shoon VII [438, 450].
— The son of Arun [426, 464] finishes his tutelage under Mentor Wintercloak
and leaves Myth Drannor to learn of the world and teach it the ways
and magics of the City of Song. Secretly, he also plans on proving his worth
to his father’s clan and becoming one of the first Harpers [386, 712] outside
Cormanthyr and the eastern lands. He takes the only name he has been
called of which he is proud: Arun’s Son. He vows to claim his place among
the Maedrym once he has earned a new name.















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