The Complete Forgotten Realms Timeline 5: The Rise of Waterdeep to the Founding of the Zhentarim

The Rise of Waterdeep to the Founding of the Zhentarim

953/Year of the Guiding Crow

954/Year of Perilous Halls

955/Year of the Telltale Candle

Barbarians attack Waterdeep in the depths of winter. In memory of their bravery, the Waterdhavians bury the barbarian's princess at the foot of the peak that later becomes known as Maiden's Tomb Tor.
The Great Rising of the Orcgates: A fell power (some say Thayan archmages experimenting with dangerous spells, others insist that the gods of the orcs themselves were responsible) suddenly brought into being scores of dimensional portals that spewed forth orcs from the mountain caverns of the far North to lay waste to half a hundred cities and realms all over Faerun.

956/Year of the Crooked Finger

Cathtyr is killed by her daughter Filina. Filina becomes Queen of Dambrath.

957/Year of the Entombed Poet

Teremir I (927 to 959), 5th son of Teresa, Queen of Tethyr (slain by Mhoaran).
The volcanic isle known as the Ship of the Gods erupts in the Alambar, killing thousands of Untheri settlers.

958/Year of the Far-Flung Harp

959/Year of the Haunted Crew

End of the Bormul Dynasty; beginning of the "Tethyr" Dynasty (the "Lion's Dynasty").
Mhoaran "the Tusk-Bearded" (919 to 974), cousin of Teremir I and son of Cyriana's 3rd sister, King of Tethyr.

c.960

The Book of Fangs and Talons is rumored to be in the area of Secomber. Soon after it is taken to the Daggerford area.

960/Year of the Mageling

961/Year of the Pensive Gibberling

Cathakay Queen of Dambrath.

c.962

The Cult reaches farther south than ever before with the creation of the cell in, around, and beneath the city of Hlondeth in the Vilhon Reach.

962/Year of the Shandon Veil

The village of Phandalin is conquered by orcs, and the mountain delve Wavecho Cave, home to dwarves and gnomes, is also destroyed by their depredations. The orcs under their chieftan Uruth found the kingdom of Uruth Ukrypt in what is now Kryptgarden Forest. Within a few generations the orcs are wiped out.

963/Year of the Deadly Duo

The construction of Castle Waterdeep begins around the site of Nimoar's Hold on the eastern spur of Mount Waterdeep, just north of the city walls.

964/Year of the Pickled Privateer

965/Year of the Runelighting

966/Year of the Squire

Wythyndle's Round Book, a holy tome of Milil, vanishes from a temple in the eastern Cloven Mountain during a hard winter.

967/Year of the Tearful Princess

968/Year of the Wandering Gnome

Jholnareer becomes High Mage of Milvarune and Mage-King of Milvarn, though he rules only as one of the Oligarchs of Thesk.
In Zakhara, a war begins between the genie races.

969/Year of the Bright Standard

970/Year of the Child's Trinket

971/Year of the Children

The Cult's further expansion in the south is halted by the church of Tiamat when an underground Cult cell "trespasses" on a similar group worshipping the Dragon Queen in the city of Surkh.

c.972 to 995

The Cult of the Dragon refocuses its efforts to expand in the North, creating at least 10 new cells in this time period. The only known failure of the Cult to infiltrate an area during this time is in Silverymoon.

972/Year of the Cairngorm Crown

After the recent defeat in Surkh, dissidents within the Cult of the Dragon begin to openly question Algashon's leadership and the weighty influence the church of Bane has had in Cult operation in the preceding years. The mage Drakewings becomes a particularly outspoken opponent of the God of Tyranny's place in the Cult of the Dragon.

973/Year of the Empited Lair

974/Year of the Haunting Harpy

Castle Waterdeep is completed at High Harvestide. The city walls expand (now abutting the wall around Halaster's Hold for defense) and the worn log palisades become new, high stone walls.
Laroun becomes the first female War Lord of Waterdeep.
Nearel (951 to 997), 32nd child/17th son of Mhoaran, King of Tethyr (slayer of Teremir I's eldest son).
The stronghold of the retired adventurer Sulass Drowsbane grows into the city of Sulasspryn.

975/Year of the Bent Coin

Telflamm annexes Nyth and Culmaster and establishes itself as a royal city-state under a grand prince.

976/Year of Slaying Spells

Mulhorandi invasion of Thay defeated at the River Thazarim.

977/Year of Swordforging

A circle of talons and blood is found outside of Daggerford. This is linked to the Book of Fangs and Talons, a holy book of Malar. No trace is ever found of the book though.
The Magister Bilnur Faerglamer dies of natural causes, never having faced a serious challenge for his office. Azuth picks the Calishite courtier Malune Nalonkrivar (reigns 977- 983DR) to succeed Bilnur as Magister.

978/Year of the Hooded Rogue

979/Year of the Marching Forest

980/Year of the Orator

981/Year of the Rebel Uprising

982/Year of the Scythe

The red wyrm Thungarbarath Flamegout is killed by the Bold Broadswords adventuring band. The only survivor of the battle, Jorthan Twocastle, retrieves the Flame of the Spirit.

983/Year of the Submerged Country

The Magister Malune Nalonkrivar is killed in Tunland by the black dragon Constulgrael. The Water King becomes Magister (reigns 983-986DR), the only true dragon to do so in the history of the office.

984/Year of the Caravan

985/Year of Bright Nights

The Plinth of Moon and Stars, a small altar atop the tower of Lunaven Moonstar in Waterdeep (present day: The Plinth), is dedicated to Selune.
Fetitia Ledora, rumored to be the daughter of Alustriel Silverhand, and Yhelfanna the Masked, a Rashemaar witch of the Hathran, form the Sorority of the Silver Fire, an adventuring sisterhood of incantatrixes.

986/Year of the Dusken Ride

The Dragon Magister is killed in an ambush by the mage Meldryn Jalensifer. Jalensifer, a master of disguise and stealth, becomes the new Magister (reigns 986-998DR).

987/Year of the Flaming Dwarf

988/Year of the Meddling Avatar

989/Year of Dark Stalking

Orjalun of Silverymoon is born on Midsummer's Night and is marked as a wizard from birth, Mystra's symbol clearly evident in a birthmark over his heart.
Dwarven miners from the remote outpost of Thunderholme in the Thunder Peaks break into the shadow dragon Aurgloroasa's lair and wake the dragon from a decades-long sleep; she kills the miners and caves in their tunnels.
The ranger Eldrum the Silent observes the Crystrum of Tranquility, a holy book of Eldath, in Hulluck Forest. At the time, the keeper of the Crystrum was the Eldathyn priestess Analauth� Brenewood.

990/Year of the Muster

991/Year of the Breaking Ice

992/Year of the Watching Helm

Heralds of Faer�n created. (Note: FOR4 Code o/t Harpers has this date and year as 996).
The merchant factions in Turmish are subjugated by Lord Saros. Saros forms trading and defense pacts with Hlath, Reth, and Hlondeth, and immediately begins shaping Turmish into a major naval power. (Note: 9520 The Vilhon Reach gives this date [922 DR] as the Year of Flashing Eyes).

993/Year of the Slain Mountain

994/Year of the Weary Scribe

c.995 to 1000

Factionalism within the Cult of the Dragon increases with most members joining either Algashon's reformational Bane-influenced camp or Drakewing's pragmatic faction.

995/Year of the Charging Mare

996/Year of the Disfiguring Scar (Note: FOR4 Code o/t Harpers gives the name of this year as The Year of the Watching Helm)

Arangor (? to 1021), King of Cormyr.

997/Year of the Fearful Harper

Kortal (968 to 1022), 2nd son, King of Tethyr (slayer of Teremir I's daughter's family).
Orjalun learns magic exclusively from High Mage Threskaal of Silverymoon, who senses a greatness in his pupil resembling that of Ahghairon.
Kloroth of the Seven Curses gains the Sceptre of Mystra, but loses it due to a curse it bestows on him. It is taken by means of a gate to Skullport by a thief who is slain by an illithid, which flees into the Third Level of Undermountain with the item. The illithid is killed by drow, who are then killed by Halaster. The Sceptre remains in the dungeon.

998/Year of Much Iron

Waterdeep's War Lord Laroun establishes a naval guard to protect the city and its trading partners. Construction begins on fortifying the harbor and Deepwatch Isle.
A temple and monastary to Lathander breaks ground to the north of Waterdeep (at the present site of the Spires of the Morning).
The Magister Meldryn Jalensifer surrenders his office to the mighty archmage Sarndaen "The Opener" Dalabar. Dalabar becomes the new Magister (reigns 998-1066DR).

999/Year of the Gaping Sky

c.1000

The dwarven realm of Dareth is found to be in shambles. The remaining dwarves fled to Mount Sundabar, where they are shattered by white dragons.
The archmage Ultham creates the Magical Chessmen of Ultham-Urre in Chessenta.

1000/Year of the Wailing Winds

Riatavin established as a trading post and temple city with the backing of the Spulzeer, Krimmevol, and Coprith families.

1001/Year of the Awakening

Many ruins discovered and old magic and undead released.
Tuelhalva Drakewings encounters Gargauth trapped in a pit in Peleveran. Gargauth's words inspire Drakewings to plot a break from the Sembian Cult of the Dragon cell.
The shadow dragon Aurgloroasa begins to corrupt High Old One Dagan, son of Belgin, blood of Jangarak, by whispering to him in his dreams.

1002/Year of the Heavenly Rock

Centuries of long skirmishes between Durpar and Ulgarth come to an uneasy halt as the two nations finally reach a balance of power.

1003/Year of the Labyrinth

The Kamaar Slaughters. Below the waves of the Inner Sea, what was a territorial skirmish over one of the lower kelp beds along the coastal slopes of Voalidru and Mount Teakal becomes an infamous lesson in Eadraal's history. Five war parties comprised mainly of Clan Kamaar warriors willfully ignore the Laws of Battle and destroy an entire ixitxachitl city with their ignoble ambush. For their crimes, merfolk King Kosul I exiles the clan to the site of thier crimes among the ixitxachitl reefs west of Eadraal; the exiled merfolk eventurally turn the ixitxachitl cavern town into Thuridru, named after their former home.

1004/Year of the Oracle's Carcass

1005/Year of the Pillaged Crypt

1006/Year of the Second Son

Felbarr, the last remnant of Delzoun, is deserted by the dwarves.

1007/Year of the Bold Barbarian

The city walls of Waterdeep expand, absorbing the ruins of Halaster's Hold (the walls run along the lines of what are now the northern borders of Dock and Southern Wards). Ahghairon builds his tower out beyond the city walls, and he also places magical barriers around the ruins of Halaster's tower, preventing many dangers from escaping into the city.

1008/Year of the Treacherous Path

1009/Year of the Broken Spear

1010/Year of Three Signs

Laborers finish the extensive harbor fortifications at Midsummer, and the Free City of Waterdeep is officially established.
Laroun becomes the first Warlord of Waterdeep.

1011/Year of the Defiant Mountain

1012/Year of the Flamboyant Coif

1013/Year of the Hunted Whale

1014/Year of the Grimacing Sage

1015/Year of the Maid Enraged

1016/Year of the Roaring Tempest

Cathakay dies in battle against a gold dragon. Her niece Melanith becomes Queen of Dambrath.

1017/Year of the Stone Rose

1018/Year of the Dracorage

Chapter 22 of "Cormyr: A Novel"
Death(?) of King Tchazzar, unifier of Chessenta, in battle against the sahuagin. His body is never found.
Tuelhalva Drakewings frees Gargauth. A horde of abishai baatezu summoned by Gargauth allows Drakewings to take over the realm. Drakewings' faction breaks from the Cult in Sembia and relocates to Peleveran. Less than one month later, Algashon incites a Rage of Dragons and destroys the entire nation of Peleveran. Both Drakewings and Algashon perish.
Rage of Dragons in Faer�n and the Heartlands.
- The cities of Lheshayl and Ormath are heavily damaged, and four dragons are killed in the Shining Plains (including the great wyrm Andraxis).
- A great flight of dragons assaults Zhentil Keep. The old Keep is destroyed, but the city is saved by its wizards, and priests of Bane. The Cult of the Dragon is widely blamed for the devastation, and the inhabitants of the Keep first take note of the Cult as a recognized enemy (as opposed to a dimly perceived nuisance).
- The blue dragon Alasklerbanbastos contacts the Cult of the Dragon for additional power in hopes to rival the apparent ascension to godhood of Tchazzar.
- The wyrm Sapphiraktar the Blue joins in the massive flights of dragons ravaging the Realms. He emerges from his normal Calim desert habitat and destroys much of Calimport and Keltar in Kythorn and Flamerule.
- Westgate's harborside district is set aflame by a red wyrm of the Thunder Peaks, Thungarbarath Flamegout, and the royal family and much of the populace is slain in the resulting conflagration that engulfs the city, bringing the Campion dynasty to an end. Thungarbarath is eventually slain and the fires extinguished thanks to the heroics and able leadership of Sarvyn Eorn, a mercenary lord visiting the city in search of his next commission.
As the surviving inhabitants begin to rebuild their city, Sarvyn Eorn is crowned as King of Westgate by acclamation. King Sarvyn holds his throne for many years, widely recognized for his wisdom, craftiness, and principled nature. The Bane of Thungarbarath forges a strong relationship with the monarchy of the Forest King, and several years after his coronation, Sarvyn marries Lady Ardine Huntsilver of Cormyr, a favored second cousin of King Arangor and a granddaughter of Prince Tanalar, the second son of King Galaghard III.
Early in his reign, Sarvyn of Westgate reverses the long-standing royal edict banning temples from the city proper. In the years that follow, numerous temples are constructed in Westgate proper, and the shrines and secret temples west of the city dating back to the Campion Dynasty are abandoned. Over time, the seven hillocks become known as the Shrines of the Seven Lost Gods, even though several of those faiths are still venerated in Westgate. (Curiously, the term 'Seven Lost Gods' has its roots in antiquity. It more properly refers to seven demipowers that bowed down before Bane long ago: Maram of the Great Spear, Haask the Voice of Hargut, Tyranthraxus the Flamed One, Borem of the Lake of Boiling Mud, Camnod the Unseen, and two whose names have been forgotten.)

1019/Year of the Sure Quarrel

Assassin wars in the South; many satraps killed by crossbow-wielding thieves.
The Dragon's Plague, named for the scaly appearance of those infected, hits the cities of Calimport and Keltar.

1020/Year of Smouldering Spells

Thay develops much of its unique fire magic.
House Extaminos begins openly ruling Hlondeth.

1021/Year of the Howling Axe

Thay strikes against the Harpers. Liches walk the Heartlands.
Elminster and Khelben agree to re-form the Harpers; the Harpers go underground.

1022/Year of the Wandering Wyvern

Refounding of the Harpers; Elminster recruits an adventuring group led by Finder Wyvernspur to become the core of the new organization.
Haedrak (988 to 1059), 1st cousin on father's side, King of Tethyr.
The half-elven hero Aglauntaras builds the Tower of the Rising Moon in Deepingdale.

1023/Year of the Pirates' Trove

Durpar and Ulgarth reach an armed peace settlement.
An attempt to clear a road through the Quivering Forest leads to the death of the last surviving Great Prince of the Valjevo family of Phlan.

1024/Year of Lathander's Light

Amid some protest over tradition, though none over the young man's ability, the 35-year-old Orjalun is named Keeper of the Vault of the Sages in Silverymoon.
The Cult of the Dragon's cell in western Unther is driven out by the repeated attacks by the faithful of the well-established followers of Tiamat.

1025/Year of Screaming Princesses

1026/Year of Crimson Magics

Warlord Laroun dies in a series of massive raids by the Black Claw orc tribes. Raurlor, leader of Waterdeep's army, becomes Warlord.
Ahghairon creates the magical axe, Azuredge.
The Black Claw orc horde meets its' final defeat at Stump Bog.
Fall of the orc realm of Uruth Ukrypt.
The elder red wyrm Maerithryvvin slays the reclusive mage Artabranth, and destroys his tower in Eshpurta.

1027/Year of the Tempest

1028/Year of the Wistful Nymph

1029/Year of the Bold Strides

1030/Year of Warlords

Zulkirs established as the ruling body of Thay.
Aencar becomes Warlord of Battledale.
Raurlor increases the size of Waterdeep's standing army and navy to a size unseen since the Fallen Kingdom. His rulership turns Waterdeep into a garrison and military encampment, "to protect Waterdeep from her many, jealous enemies."

1031/Year of the Comforting Hand

Internal strife in Thay as the Zulkirs continue to establish their rule until 1074 DR.

1032/Year of the Nightmaidens

Raurlor announces his plans to establish the Empire of the North. Ahghairon defies him and causes Raurlor's death. The wizard takes the Warlord's seat, declaring himself the first Lord of Waterdeep. He restructures Raurlor's armies and navies into the city guard (army and navy), and the watch (city police), bringing order to Waterdeep.
Allussus Korolx and Miliredarr Wardh, two ancient sages and trustworthy comrades of Ahghairon, become two of the first Lords of Waterdeep.
Year 0 of Northreckoning.

1033/Year of the Dreamforging

1034/Year of Bane's Blood

Bowgentle of Silverymoon is born on the last day of this year to a fisherman and his wife. Guards on the city walls later reported the sighting of exactly 21 shooting stars at the time of his birth.
High Old One Dagin, a dwarven priest of Dumathion, becomes King of Thunderholme. The death of the old king and his son were caused by the Sibilant Shade, who had corrupted the priest.

1035/Year of Falling Stars

Waterdeep grows under Ahghairon's and the Lord's rule, the walls expanding again (to the current area of Waterdeep Way and River Street) to handle the increased population. The system of Wards comes into being, initially creating Castle Ward, Trades Ward, Temple (later Southern) Ward, and Dock Ward.

1036/Year of the Final Test

1037/Year of the Immortals

Otherplanar creatures spill out of Undermountain into Waterdeep, but are turned back by Ahghairon and Kherris, a masked Lord wielding Azuredge. Ahghairon refortifies the magical and physical defenses around the ruins.

1038/Year of Spreading Spring

Rotational Shift of Toril.
Global warming. Lands of Narfell, Vaasa, and Damara are fully free of ice. Large-scale immigration begins to these lands.
Aencar begins to unify the Dales, takes the title "Mantled King".

1039/Year of the Haunted Haven

1040/Year of the Lion's Heart

1041/Year of the Mistmarch Soldier

1042/Year of the Reaching Beacon

1043/Year of the Dark Rider

Bowgentle begins to learn magic at the feet of Quintas Uhlawm the Kind, an enchanter and Harper.

1044/Year of Singing Shards

Aencar the Mantled King dies. The Dales split up into independent, though allied, communities.
Mt. Ugruth erupts on the last day of the year, doing little except to blanket Hlondeth in a layer of ash.
By this time, Chondath has become little more than a collection of loosely-allied city-states.

1045/Year of the Singing Mushrooms

1046/Year of the Twilight Campaign

1047/Year of the Vitriolic Sage

1048/Year of the Chevalier

1049/Year of Auril's Absence

c.1050

The noted conjurer Ulcaster founds a short-lived school of wizardry on the future site of Beregost.

1050/Year of the Keening Gale

High Mage Threskaal passes away after the longest rule of any High Mage of Silverymoon; Orjalun is named as his successor.

1051/Year of the Dogged Search

1052/Year of the Frozen Kingdoms

1053/Year of Lashing and Torment

King Selkarin of Estagund mounts a failed naval invasion of Dambrath.

1054/Year of Tolling Terrors

The regent Dagan dedicates the newly completed temple of Dumathoin to Null, the draconic deity of death and undeath. The shadow dragon Aurgloroasa is summoned and soon Thunderholme falls to the dragon's power.
High Mage Orjalun of Silverymoon notes Bowgentle's skills in magic and teaches him for a short time.

1055/Year of the Grueling Story

1056/Year of the Laughing Dead

1057/Year of Azure Frost

The abandoned dwarf-hold of Felbarr is garrisoned by troops from Silverymoon.
Unther sends an army to reclaim Chessenta, but fails miserably.

1058/Year of the Spider's Daughter

Bowgentle leaves Silverymoon to embark on a great career matched in scope only by the deeds of Elminster of Shadowdale.

1059/Year of the Broken Pillar

Coram (1010 to 1065), 5th son of Haedrak, King of Tethyr.

1060/Year of Fantastic Spectacle

Retreat of Great Glacier.
Dwarves of the Herlinga clan from Sossal sail across the Great Ice Sea and inhabit the Glittering Spires.

1061/Year of the Pious Dance

1062/Year of the Shattered Lance

1063/Year of the Deluded Tyrant

1064/Year of the Stranger

The city walls of Waterdeep swell (running along the current locations of Selduth Street and the Coffinmarch) to handle increasing numbers of people. A low wall abutting the city walls surrounds the eastern cemetary of the city.
Waterdeep's population surpasses 50,000 this year.

1065/Year of the Watching Wood

Battle of Ingdal's Arm, the Yuir half-elves defeat the humans. The founding of Aglarond.
Brindor, a half-elf with blood ties to Aubayreer of Milvarn, is elected first king of Aglarond. The nation retains close ties with Milvarn.
Coram II (1050 to 1070), 2nd grandson of Coram, King of Tethyr (slain by Teremir II).
Harpers in the North find the lair of the dracolich Alglaudyx and manage to destroy the undead creature, seizing its rich hoard for Harper coffers. With this newfound wealth, the Harpers invest in valuable properties and businesses in cities up and down the Sword Coast.

1066/Year of the Lord's Dilemma

The Magister Sarndaen "The Opener" dies when he steps through a gate and is instantly crushed in an avalanche. The office of Magister passes to the half-elven sorceress Immue Dathril (reigns 1066-1104DR).

1067/Year of the Minotaur Paladin

1068/Year of the Seer Born

1069/Year of the Thunder's Child

1070/Year of the Spawning

Teremir II (1045 to 1071), Teremir I's great-grandson, King of Tethyr (slew Coram II and temporarily restored line).
The copper dragon Galadaeros is visited by the Waterdhavian adventuress Ranressa Shiard; the two eventually become friends and found the all-female Galadran Company.

1071/Year of Lion's Roars

Alemander I (1038 to 1145), wizard and brother of Coram, King of Tethyr (slayer of all of Teremir's last heirs).

1072/Year of the Wandering Elfmaid (NOTE: This Year is also known as the Year of the Shattered Goblet)

Chapter 1 of "Vampire of the Mists". 1072-1102: Vampire of the Mist, p 5-16, i.e. 475 Barovia (p267) up to 1232 DR at the end of the novel.
Jander Sunstar enters the Mists and the Demi-Plane of Dread.

1073/Year of the Bottomless Ocean

1074/Year of the Tightening Fist

Zulkirs quell rebellions and rule in Thay. The last of the renegade mages is killed.
By this time, Bezantur is on its' way towards becoming the mercantile and religious capital of Thay.

1075/Year of the Bronze Banner

1076/Year of the Defiant Salute

1077/Year of the Friendly Jackal

1078/Year of the Hierodulic Wolverines

1079/Year of the Lazy Scribe

1080/Year of the Misguided Archer

1081/Year of the Disastrous Bauble

1082/Year of the Prancing Korred

Building of the fortress of Emmech in Rashemen, at the mouth of the Umber river.

1083/Year of the Sighted Hand

1084/Year of the Tireless Lute

1085/Year of the Vacant Plain

Building of the Watchwall (Giant's Wall) in Aglarond by the galeb duhr of Tannath and Undergoth.

1086/Year of the Seer's Fires

1087/Year of Forgotten Anger

1088/Year of Shambles

1089/Year of Three Faces

1090/Year of Slaughter

Followers of Malar led by the fanatical priest Belegoss Wolfwynd mount the Great Hunt. The Hunt permanently smashes the power of the southern Dragonreach cities. Elminster sets the Harpers to slaying every member of the Hunt.
The Great Hunt kills Lunaven Moonstar and desecrates Selune's Waterdeep shrine. In response, an army of Selunites falls upon the Hunt, driving the Malarites from the region following a great slaughter.
Construction begins on the first true temple of Selune in Waterdeep (completed in 1097).
The Imnel Concession: Numerous monsters in the eastern grasslands and financial troubles (including paying the army) forces King Imnel IV of Amn to forge a treaty that returns all lands south of the Tethir Road to Tethyr in exchange for military and monentary support.
The temple of Arlast Halungh is destroyed in the Battle of Slaughterwyrm. Thalaxas the Tyrant is killed in the confusion and the Black Book of Beshaba was lost for a while.
Battle of the Bones: A horde of 200,000 goblins and orcs arises from the High Moors due to extreme drought and attempted an invasion of the North. The Battle of the Bones marks the spot of the great battle that destroys the horde.

1091/Year of Watery Graves

Aurgloroasa, a shadow dragon seen once before from Westgate's docks, sinks the treasure- laden Winsome Wyrm just outside Westgate's harbor, a long-popular tale in the city which is told and retold in the form of the "Ballad of the Shadow Storm."
The green dragon Dretchroyaster and the very old black dragon female Naxorlytaalsxar fight an aerial duel over the waters of Lake Sember. The fallout from this battle, which becomes known as the Battle of Falling Fishkill, poisons the lake killing fish by the hundreds and forcing a small colony of aquatic elves to return to their ancestral home in the Sea of Fallen Stars.

1092/Year of the Aimless Mystic

The last members of the Great Hunt are slain. Belegoss Wolfwynd is killed.
A mages duel between Akham el Qaandan and Haneq el Fustaf sets part of Calimport aflame.

1093/Year of the Bursting Song

1094/Year of the Crested Thrush

1095/Year of the Dawndance

Imphras unites the cities of Impiltur.
The Skeletal Finger thieves' guild wreaks havoc across Tethyr and Amn from hideouts in the Small Teeth.

1096/Year of the Diverged Path

1097/Year of the Gleaming Crown

Founding of Impiltur. The realm rises anew, heralding the end of the dynastic squabbles that had torn apart the kingdom of Old Impiltur. The city-states of Lyrabar, Hlammach, Dilpur, and Sarshel unite under the banner of Imphras to face hobgoblin hordes advancing from the Giantspires.
Imphras is elected 1st king of Impiltur and wears the Lost Crown of Narfell.
The High House of Stars (temple of Selune in Waterdeep) finishes construction.

1098/Year of the Rose

Chapter 2 of "Vampire of the Mists"
Thay attempts 1st invasion of Mulhorand. Thay is defeated at Sultim and withdraws.

1099/Year of the Restless

New trade routes forged. First modern contact with Kara-Tur and Zakhara.
Lady Alathene Moonstar of Waterdeep founds the Maids of the Midnight Moon, an order of sorceresses dedicated to Selune.
By this time, the Moonstar clan has ascended into the ranks of Waterdhavian nobility.

c.1100

Searching for a way to immortalize his songs, Finder Wyvernspur dabbles in magic that brings about the deaths of two of his apprentices. A tribunal of Harper judges decree that Finder's music and name are to be forgotten. He is exiled to a solitary existence on another plane for almost 300 years.

1100/Year of the Bloodrose

1101/Year of the Maelstrom

The Spires of the Morning, the abbey and temple to Lathander, becomes part of Waterdeep as the walls expand to accomodate more settlers. (The perimeter approximates the current paths of Trader's Way and Andamaar's Street.) The plateau north of the city is all irrigated farmland.
The city of Treshla is destroyed by the spells of an aroused colony of beholders from the Thornwood.

1102/Year of the Chaste Maiden

1103/Year of the Consuming Glory

1104/The Year of the Dark Dawn

Birth of Zulkir Szass Tam of Thay.
The sage Aldiber of Memnon writes the widely-quoted chapbook, A Year of Sorcery: Wizardly Doings in the Year of the Dark Dawn.
The noted explorer Vanrak Moonstar returns to Waterdeep from a disasterous expedition to the Black Jungles, a pale shadow of his former self.
Vanrak Moonstar becomes head of the Moonstar clan in Waterdeep after the mysterious death of his father, Andvarran. Vanrak cuts the House's ties with the High House of Stars.
In Silverymoon, warehouses, inns, and some homes are built on the south shore of Rauvin, marking the first nonmilitary buildings placed in this part of the city.
The Magister Immue Dathril runs afoul of something in Undermountain, possibly a phaerimm, that leaves her little more than a pain-wracked head and upper torso. The office of Magister soon passes to the mage who gave her a painless death - the drow Nelnfaen Sauntarae (reigns 1104-1126DR).

1105/Year of the Guardian

1106/Year of the Solemn Halfling

Auril's faith is first introduced to Calimport by Thaulatiiya, First Frostmaiden of the Chill Goddess.

1107/Year of the Skulk

Felbarr falls to an orc horde at the Battle of Many Arrows; its' garrison is slaughtered and the fortress is re-named the Citadel of Many Arrows.
Amnwater, once a tavern and trail stop, becomes a village of local farmers and caravan drovers.

1108/Year of the Open Chest

1109/Year of the Lover's Eyes

1110/The Year of the Bloody Fields

As prophesied, many battles were fought this year.
Hulberg is sacked by an unexpected giant attack.

1111/Year of the Old Giant

Roadaeron Lorndessar succeeds his long-lived granduncle, Sarvyn Eorn, as King of Westgate and founds the Lorndessar Dynasty.

1112/Year of the Perilous Storm

Shalgreth of the Wings bequeths the Crystrum of Tranquility to the rangers' adventuring society known as the Men in Green.

1113/Year of the Outcast Prophet

1114/Year of the Last Enclave

1115/Year of the Haunted Herald

1116/The Year of the Empty Scabbard

The Heralds break from the Harpers.

1117/The Year of the Twelverule

Mordulkin defies the King of Cimbar and Chessenta breaks up into squabbling city-states through 1154 DR.
Alzurth, Mage Royal of Westgate, seizes King Roadaeron's crown after imprisoning his predecessor and former lord in his own throne room before a host of assembled courtiers. As king, Alzurth imposes his reign of terror on the populace of Westgate through his command of sorcery and his absolute mastery of the Knights of the Silent Skull, a company of twelve armored warriors who stalk Westgate's streets at night in search of opponents of King Alzurth's rule.
The Dark Horns temple to Beshaba is destroyed by an orc horde that raids and sacks the Seat of Beshaba. The Black Book of Beshaba is lost in the battle.

1118/Year of the False Bargain

1119/Year of the Sharn Suitors

1120/Year of the Perplexing Sphinx

1121/Year of the Shameful Plea

1122/Year of the Rose Pearls

Imbrar King of Impiltur.

1123/Year of the Shattered Chains

A violent series of storms known as the "Teeth of Talos" ravages the coast of Tethyr, smashing fishing fleets and sinking the Dragonstail Peninsula, a low-lying serpentine spit of land stretching out from the Purple Hills.
Roadaeron escapes his magical tomb deep beneath the surface of the earth when an archmage in the Gulthmere Woods miscasts a freedom spell. The deposed monarch flees westward before King Alzurth of Westgate discovers his escape.
In Irieabor, Roadaeron reunites with Blaervaer, his youngest son and the only other member of the royal line to survive Alzurth's bloody purge. Blaervaer, who had been fostered in the home of a simple shopkeeper, follows his true father into exile in the Rockshaws, the broken country of the northeastern High Moor, after Alzurth's assassins track down the exiled king in Irieabor.

1124/Year of the Shared Sorrows

1125/Year of the Lupine Torque

1126/Year of Azure Blood

Azuth appears to the mage Olohmber "Old Thunder" Starnardyn of Arrabar and offers him the office of Magister (reigns 1126-1153DR).

1127/Year of the Luminar Procession

Imbrar and his guard are lost in the Giantspires; Ilmara is crowned queen of Impiltur.

1128/Year of the Peryton

Althon king of Aglarond.
The red dragon Gotha is imprisoned under a mountain of ice north of the Endless Waste and the Icerim Mountains. After 237 years, Gotha emerges as a red dracolich.

1129/Year of the Gilded Cormorant

1130/Year of the Howling Moon

By this time, House Moonstar of Waterdeep is in open schism. The Lords of Waterdeep attempt to arrest Lord Vanrak Moonstar, the Dark Ranger, but he mysteriously disappears.
Lady Alatheene becomes head of House Moonstar.

1131/Year of the Seven Kings Horde

1132/Year of the Talking Spiders

Creation of Long Portage.

1133/Year of the Persuasive Voice

1134/Year of the Sylvan Winds

1135/Year of the Petulant Dragon

1136/Year of the Shadowkin Return

1137/Year of the Falling Menhirs

Rise of Zhengyi the Witch King in Vassa.

1138/Year of the Sharpened Teeth

1139/Year of Shining Waves

1140/Year of the Knight

1141/Year of Eyes

A contingent of evil mages from Vassa construct a castle of ice at the base of Mt. Okk, in the Great Glacier. They develop much unique cold-based magic which they plan to use to conquer their homeland.
The Monocle of Bagthalos is created by Bagthalos Deszhummer, High Priest of Helm, in Zazesspur, Tethyr. In 1142, the Monocle is stolen by the Skeletal Finger.

1142/Year of the Sword's Oath

Redsail the Pirate retires to Aglarond.
The Bandit Lord Rivior has a hold built for him north of Eveningstar by the dwarves.

1143/Year of the Talisman

1144/Year of the Giant's Maul

The venerable blue dragon Thoklastees is slain over the Shining Sea in an aerial battle against beasts summoned by the Halruaan archmage Ootheraum Deirin. It is said that seeing this struggle and the airship in which Ootheraum sailed the skies inspired the Lantanna to begin their long (and continuing) researches into flying ships.

c.1145

The Book of Bats is first mentioned as being among a satrap's treasures in Calimshan.

1145/Year of the Smiling Flame

Coram III (1112 to 1181), 3rd great-grandson of Alemander I, King of Tethyr.

1146/Year of the Tardy Guests

1147/Year of the Glad Tidings

Battle of the Ford of Goliad. Zhengyi's forces rout the Damarans. King Virdin of Damara is killed.

1148/Year of the Angry Sea

A massive earthquake rocks the Great Glacier, swallowing the ice castle of the Vassan wizards. They are presumed dead.
Halaster quits the underground caverns which soon become the pirates-city known as Skullport.

1149/Year of the Persuasive Trees

c.1150

The drow queen Nathglaryst of Undraeth clashes with the Harpers along the coast of Turmish. The Harpers disrupt the slave trade between Undraeth and the Red Wizards of Thay.

1150/The Year of the Scourge

Due to Hellgate Keep's forces fouling the waters of the River Rauvin further upstream, a virulent plague strikes Silverymoon, resulting in the death of nearly half its population. Soon after, a resurgence in attendance at the groves sacred to Mielikki, Lurue, Shiallia, and Silvanus also sparks the construction of a number of new temples.
Plague throughout the Sword Coast. Worship of Talona and Loviatar soars.
Waterdeep is hit hard by the plague, the situation made worse by attacks by trolls and orc tribes.
Chondath regains control of Hlath.
Khelben Arunsun the Elder arrives and settles in Waterdeep, building Arunsun Tower (later known as Blackstaff Tower).
The Flame of the Spirit resurfaces in Calimport as a means of murdering a number of satraps and several powerful shaleiras.
About this time, Halaster grants Skullport to Shradin Mulophor.

1151/Year of the Molten Man

1152/Year of the Portentous Waters

1153/Year of the Remembering Stones

The Magister Olohmber "Old Thunder" is slain in an ambush by the mage Horgyl "Stonebeard" Tusselvarr. Horgyl becomes the new Magister (reigns 1153-1204DR).

1154/Year of the Sun Underground

Siege of Cimbar by the Lords of Akanax and Soorenar. The king is unable to get assistance from his allies and is forced to sign a pact imposing harsh limits on his power. Akanax refuses to sign, recognizing its lord as the true king.

c.1155

The Halruuan conjurer Akhlaur is overwhelmed by his experiments, creating the swamp that now bears his name.

1155/Year of the Tyrant's Lament

1156/Year of the Winged Gift

1157/Year of the Wizened Mage

1158/Year of the Blood Tusk Charge

The Flame of the Spirit surfaces in Elturel, where it comes into the posession of the mage Helgarth.

1159/Year of the Cloven Stones (NOTE: This Year is also known as the Year of Tattered Banners)

Zulkir Szass Tam of Thay becomes a lich after being seriously wounded in a failed invasion of Rashemen.
After years of dwelling in his simple cottage in the Rockshaws, Roadaeron chances upon a sword-hilt with an invisible blade, later revealed to be Zeladazar, the Ghost Sword, an event which rekindles the sense of injustice he has long held close to his heart. Over the course of the next three years, faced with the inevitability of his own mortality and a desire to grant Blaervaer his birthright, the exiled king uses the magical weapon as a symbol to rally about him an army to retake the throne of Westgate for his son. Members of Westgate's merchant nobility who chafe under Alzurth's nightmarish reign secretly fund many of Roadaeron's mercenaries. Blaervaer goes along with his father's plans, despite his preference for the quiet life that they had forged in the Rockshaws.

1160/Year of the Swimming Lass

1161/The Year of the Quiet Earth

Merith Strongbow, eldest of the Knights of Myth Drannor, born.
The Karanak Clan become lords of Luthcheq under suspicious circumstances.
Battle of Manyswords: The final defeat of an orc horde led by Krautharr Longfangs.

1162/Year of the Prancing Centaur

Death of the bandit lord Rivior.
Roadaeron and Blaervaer lead an assault on Westgate, with the father wielding the Ghost Sword. The long-suffering citizens of Westgate rise in revolt as do many of Alzurth's own soldiers, and the invading army quickly overruns the city. King Alzurth is slain by Zeladazar and his phantom image is captured by the blade's magic. As Alzurth's undead status is a closely held secret, the exiled king is left defenseless when the Ghost Sword vanishes immediately after the lich's destruction. The elderly Roadaeron is then slain by Alzurth's elite company of armored knights - later revealed to be skeletal warriors - before Blaervaer can reach his father. In the aftermath of the two kings' deaths and after the posthumous restoration of his father's throne, Blaervaer is crowned as Westgate's next sovereign.
The Skeletal Finger guild is slain to the last thief by the venerable blue dragon Iryklathagra, in the guild's own hideaway, after the thieves disturb her rest. The dragon moves into the guild's vacated hold, keeping the Monocle of Bagthalos.

1163/Year of the Shrouded Sky

Founding of a pirate base on the Dragonisle.

1164/Year of Long Shadows

Birth of Pryntaler Obarskyr of Cormyr (1164-1210DR).
Immurk "the Invincible" raids a merchant-ship of Procampur, capturing the coronation crown of Cormyr's new king, Palaghard I. This marks the rise of piracy in the Inner Sea from their hideouts in the archipelago that become known as the Pirate Isles.
The nations of the Inner Sea, including Cormyr, Sembia, Impiltur, and the city-states of Procampur and Starmantle begin building their own warships, seeking to defend their merchant fleets and hunt the pirates in their own lairs. Westgate, still struggling to rebuild its royal treasury and fleet of ships, does not participate. At the urging of his advisors, despite strong personal reservations, King Blaervaer issues a royal edict that defines piracy as a raid against a ship docked in Westgate's harbor. As a result, Westgate becomes a relatively safe port for pirates to visit, and the city's inhabitants need no longer fear pirate raids.
Voonlar founded.
The Champions Vigilant knightly order is founded in Tethyr.

1165/Year of the Obsidian Heart

1166/Year of Countless Scribes

1167/Year of the Parchment Heretical

Battle of Yonder Fields.

1168/Year of the Leering Orc

The Arena Efreetum and surrounding slaves and gladiators barracks are set afire by a mage attempting to escape combat in the Calimport arena.

1169/Year of the Earth Shaking

Imphras II King of Impiltur.

1170/Year of the Moonlight Tapestry

1171/Year of the Dark Mask

1172/Year of the Hoary Host

Ausitil Queen of Dambrath.
The dwarves of Mithril Hall are forced out by the great shadow dragon Shimmergloom.
Clan Battlehammer arrives in Icewind Dale.

1173/Year of the Fledglings

1174/Year of the Agate Hammer

1175/Year of the Storm Skeleton

1176/Year of Prowling Naga

1177/Year of the Majesty

1178/Year of the Secret Rider

1179/Year of the Stalking Satyr

As a precursor to the Harpstar Wars, a group of Malaugrym attack Arunsun Tower. They are defeated and banished from Faerun by Khelben, Elminster, and a number of mages of Waterdeep (including Hamiklar Wands, the father of Maskar).

1180/The Year of Sinking Sails

Sembia loses its' fleet in Pirate Isles.

1181/The Year of the Shieldtree

Alemander II (1150 to 1202), 1st grandson of Coram III, King of Tethyr.

1182/The Year of the Tomb

Cities of Calimshan recognize the rule of the pasha of Calimport.
The Malaugrym uncovered in Faer�n. Harpers report the shapeshifters have infiltrated the armies of Thay and Calimshan.
The Harpstar Wars.
The Cult of the Dragon set several traps and managed to kidnap or slay several Harpers.
Talryn, the crown prince of Lyrabar, flees the court of his father and finds sanctuary with Immursk in the Pirate Isles.
Trade roads now link Amn and Tethyr to the Sword Coast cities of Baldur's Gate, Dragonspear Castle, and Ahghairon's city of Waterdeep.
The High House of Stars, Selune's temple in Waterdeep, is attacked and utterly destroyed by invaders entering from Halaster's Halls. Lady Alathene resigns as head of the Moonstar clan and throws herself into rebuilding the temple.

1183/Year of the Grisly Ghosts

Paladins of Osiris clear River of Swords of were-crocodiles and Sebek worshipers. The were- crocodiles re-locate to the Adder River Delta.

1184/Year of the Howling Hourglass

1185/Year of the Immoral Imp

1186/Year of the Mesmer Pool

Prince Talryn returns to Lyrabar upon hearing of the death of his father from ships the pirates attack. Talryn and his pirate companions are arrested in the city. The king's death was a ruse, and the young prince executed, his name struck from royal records. Talryn's younger brother, Lashilmbrar, is named as Impiltur's heir.
Birth of Dhalmass Obarskyr, the future "Warrior King" of Cormyr (1186-1227DR).

1187/Year of the Arcane Guise

Birth of Ardagast Falconhand, head of the King's Scouts and ancestor of Florin Falconhand (1187-1246DR).

1188/Year of Soft Fogs (NOTE: Lands of Intrigue gives the name of this year as the Year of Dawn Moons)

Chapter 24 of "Cormyr: A Novel"
Wyvorlaa, Vizera of King Alemander II of Tethyr, discovered to be consorting with an ancient lich. The king's nobles force her execution.
The House of the Moon, a new temple of Selune, is completed in Waterdeep. The temple's founding corresponds with with a rebirth of the Moonmaiden's faith, and the ranks of Her followers swells over the course of the next decade.
The clergy of the House of the Moon declares the ruins of the High House of Stars, Selune's old temple, desecrated ground, and forbids any of the Moonmaiden's followers from setting foot on the site.
The magical artifact known as the Flame of the Spirit earns the name "Helgarth's Death" when an apprentice of Helgarth, Magathra of Baldur's Gate, thrust the gem into Helgarth's mouth and held it there. With the death of Helgarth, the servitors and other apprentices of the mage attempt to kill Magathra. The Flame of the Spirit is thrown into the streets and recovered by the owner of Amscoth's Ales, a nearby tavern.

1189/Year of the Lynx

Elthond, 1st son of Althon, King of Aglarond.
Priamon Rakesk, later known as "Frostrune," born in Waterdeep.

1190/Year of the Poisoned Quill

1191/Year of the Bone Helm

Having grown old, King Blaervaer of Westgate steals away from his throne back to the Rockshaws, embittered by the vicious struggles among his four sons for the throne. His sons, having been raised amidst the scheming nobles of Westgate, are nothing like their noble, if somewhat naive, father. In the aftermath of Blaervaer's sudden abdication, his eldest son, Roadaeron II, is enthroned as his successor.

1192/Year of the Guide

The Cormyrean king Pryntaler founds the Order of Freesailors (the Freesails).
Khelben "Blackstaff" Arunsun wins the artifact Yrix's ring of fire in a spellduel with a tiefling wizard while traveling the Planes.
The Flame of the Spirit is snatched from its place in an Elturian tavern by the dancer Falaera "Manybells" Drachan. She is killed soon thereafter, and the Flame vanishes.
King Roadaeron II of Westgate is murdered less than one year after his coronation, along with his queen and three young heirs.
Maeraedryn, Blaervaer's second son, is crowned as King of Westgate. Although suspicion of regicide falls on the newly installed monarch immediately, this tirelessly charming, darkly handsome master of intrigue quickly establishes himself as the true power in Westgate. His hidden investments greatly enrich the city, and Westgate flourishes. During King Maeraedryn's twenty- seven year reign, many members of the royal bloodline fall prey to assassins, but the bloodlines of Blaervaer's youngest three sons survive.

1193/Year of the Peltast

1194/The Year of the Bloody Wave

Battle of the Singing Sands, Thay's first great battle against Aglarond. Aglarond wins, but Elthond dies in the battle.
Philaspur, second son of Althon, King of Aglarond.

1195/The Year of the Midday Mists

Lady Alathene of Waterdeep becomes an arch-lich. She is publicly announced as dead by the family patriarch, Hormuk Moonstar.
Blaervaer of Westgate dies of old age in his cottage in the Rockshaws, unmourned and already forgotten by his descendants.

1196/The Year of the Shrike

1197/The Year of the Sundered Shields

Battle of Brokenheads. Aglarond beats Thay.
Philaspur perishes at the fortress of Glarondar during the battle.
The twin wizards and Grey Sisters Ulae and Thara become joint queens of Aglarond at the age of sixteen.

1198/The Year of the Lean Purse

Three orders of Torm, Tyr, and Ilmater come together to form the Knights Kuldar of Barakmordin (Tethyr).

1199/The Year of the Baldric

In Elesisas, Thornstar's Company finds the Sceptre of Mystra in the lap of a trapped statue somewhere in the Sixth Level of Undermountain. Of that company, only Impaladus Nolorn makes it out of the dungeon alive. He later joins the Watchful Order of Waterdeep.

1200/The Year of the Buckler

1201/The Year of Embers

Death of Immurk the Pirate aboard his ship, the Sea Scorpion, while fighting Sembian warships.
By this time, the pirate fleet of the Inner Sea is judged to have over 100 ships.
Dhalmass (1186 to 1227), King of Cormyr.
Major invasion of Aglarond by a Thayan alliance of wizards is narrowly defeated.

1202/Year of the Dragon Altar

The rare celestial event known as the "Eye of Myrkul" (involving the passage of the new moon through a ring of seven stars otherwise associated with an old symbol of Mystra) appears in the night sky over Faerun.
Coram IV (1173 to 1218), 1st legitimate son of Alemander II, King of Tethyr.
Death of Eltrym Drauthglas, the infamous "Hullack Hawk."

1203/Year of the Gold Sash

1204/Year of the Private Tears

The pirate Urdogen claims the Dragonisle and rule of the pirates of the Inner Sea. He begins raiding all Inner Sea ports.
The Magister Horgyl "Stonebeard" is killed in a spellduel with the mage Haelvar "Grimskull" Ildagh. Haelvar becomes the new Magister (reigns 1204-1221DR).

1205/Year of Seven Trinkets

The beholder known as The Eye begins operations in Skullport.

1206/Year of the Sarune

1207/Year of the Bloated Baron

1208/Year of the Gamine

1209/Year of the Blazing Banners

The (naval) Battle of the Fallen: Cormyr, Sembia, Impiltur and the Vilhon Reach powers unite a great fleet to defeat Urdogen and his fleet of 90 ships. In Eleint of this year, Urdogen and nearly all of the Inner Sea pirates perish.
The hopes of unifying all the nations along the Inner Sea soon die as each country falls to petty bickering over the spoils of the pirates' holds, or accuses each other of delays that result in the near-total loss of the Sembian war fleet.

c.1210

The traveling merchant Rebrum of Sheirtalar penns the much copied, bawdy narritive Life of Rebrum.

1210/Year of the Armarel

1211/Year of the Crimson Crag

Dhalmass crowned King of Cormyr.

1212/Year of the Ocean's Wrath

Unchartered adventurers exploring the Fields of the Dead north of Elturel uncover the Flame of the Spirit from a crypt beneath the Hill of the Headless Dancer.
Priamon Rakesk takes the name 'Frostrune'.

1213/Year of the Night's Peace

1214/Year of the Waking Wrath

The Key of Faith is found on the Second Level of Undermountain by Walgund's Warriors.

1215/Year of Starlight

1216/Year of Green Wings

Balagos the great red wyrm slays the venerable silver dragon Eacoathildarandus.

1217/Year of the Falling Moon

1218/Year of the Swimming Cats

Kymer "the Shade King" (1167 to 1227), �elf bastard son of Alemander II, Usurper-King of Tethyr.

1219/Year of Prideful Tales

The School of Wonder, a mages' academy, is built in the hills northwest of Hillfort Ishla by the mages Myrdon and Salasker.
King Maeraedryn of Westgate is formally challenged to a duel by his grandson and acknowledged heir, Iliphael, who has grown sick of his grandfather's cruel teasings and sly torments. After dispatching all his viable rivals to the throne, Maeraedryn had selected Iliphael as his heir, knowing that the noble merchant families would never choose the sickly grandson over the grandfather as king. Instead of simply dispatching Iliphael to the dungeon for his temerity, Maeraedryn accepts his challenge, perceiving the ensuing combat as a chance to further humiliate the long-suffering Iliphael. Iliphael, however, has long prepared for his opportunity to seize the throne, and Westgate's next king dispatches his predecessor through the treacherous use of sorcery, having secretly trained in the Art for many years.
King Iliphael's reign is marked by the rapid depletion of Westgate's royal treasury. The sickly, philandering tyrant is obsessed with power and paranoid that he will be replaced in turn. He spends much of Maeraedryn's wealth on procuring or developing personal magic items, including the Jodhpurs of Skydancing, the Stormshower Girdle, and Iliphael's Gauntlet of Wands.

c.1220

The diviner Melegaunt Tanthul arrives on Toril. He spends the next decades studying the world, wandering from Kara-Tur to Chult.

1220/The Year of the Toppled Tree

The Turmish warlord Sjorn Sendreth starts a 20-year campaign against the dwarves of the Alaoreum by attacking Ironfang.

1221/The Year of the Frozen Flower

Tunnels are dug beneath Hellgate Keep to connect with the abandoned deep halls of Ammarindar.
The Magister Haelvar "Grimskull" is ambushed and killed by the mage Isilger "The Dark Smile" Mountrant. The Dark Smile becomes the new Magister (reigns 1221-1274DR).

1222/The Year of the Horn

The Cult of the Dragon attacks the Harpers, who have fallen under the sway of the self-styled Harper King, the lich Thavverdasz. The subsquent arrivals of first Szass Tam and then Elminster result in a significant defeat for the Cult.
The Harpstar Wars end with the destruction of Rundorl Moonsklan and the lich Thavverdasz.

1223/The Year of the Trembling Tree

The great green wyrm Athauglas is killed by the Company of the Gauntlet.

1224/The Year of the Swollen Stars

Storm Silverhand writes "To Harp at Twilight."
Birth of Vangerdahast Aeiulvana, Court Wizard of Cormyr (1224-?).

1225/The Year of the Winged Worm

Lashilmbrar is king of Impiltur.
A Cult of the Dragon cell forms in and around the city of Elversult. Initially led by human Cultists, the cell is later taken over and run by the first dracolich the cell creates, Cypress the Black.

1226/The Year of the Black Buck

1227/The Year of the Wall

Chapter 26 of "Cormyr: A Novel"
Palaghard II (1214 to 1261), King of Cormyr.
Palus Frohm, one of Vassa's greatest explorers, begins a twenty-year trek through the Great Glacier, culminating in the writing of "Blood and Ice: Survival in the Great Glacier."
Haedrak II "The Corsair Prince" (1199 to 1274), 2nd son of Coram IV, King of Tethyr.

1228/The Year of the Tattered Banners

1229/The Year of the Carrion Crow

Manshoon of the Zhentarim is born.
Queen Ulae of Aglarond marries Ilion the forester.

1230/The Year of the Long Watch

Elf-maidens setting out for a pleasure outing are never seen again. This becomes the basis for the epic poem "The Long Watch."
High Mage Orjalun of Silverymoon retires and appoints Sepur as his successor. Orjalun then mysteriously vanishes later that day in a burst of green light while walking across the Silverymoon bridge.

1231/The Year of the Bright Star

1232/The Year of the Weeping Wives

Destruction of Sessrendale by Archendale.
Jander Sunstar is delivered from his curse.
High Mage Sepur abandons Silverymoon; Spellsfall sees the death of over two dozen mages vying for power in the city. Silvermayor Theomel Scalson is elected in Eleint.

1233/The Year of Many Monsters

King Iliphael of Westgate is slain by his fiancee, Shlanarnla Durovree, whom he has kept in chains in his dungeon since their betrothal four years earlier. Shlanarnla strangles Iliphael with her steel fetters when he approaches too closely and then claims the throne of Westgate in accordance with the city's archaic inheritance laws, as her unmourned betrothed had not yet named an heir. As the first and only ruling queen of Westgate, Shlanarnla's brief reign is marked by a spate of assassination attempts against her, which she narrowly survives time and time again.

1234/The Year of the Full Flagon

1235/The Year of the Black Horde

The Black Horde: Waterdeep is besieged for nine months by the largest orc horde in recorded history. The city is spared when Ahghairon and his generals introduce griffons as flying steeds for the army, allowing them past the orcs to gain food and aid outside the walls.
Warlord Khallos Shieldsunder steals control of the city from the Silvermayor while the city is under siege by the Black Horde. The northern walls are breached for the first time in 604 years.
Alustriel, Storm Silverhand, and an army of elves and Harpers free Silverymoon from the orc seige. Alustriel destroys the self-proclaimed High Mage Shaloss Ethenfrost and his apprentices in spellbattle, while Storm, the archmage Tulrun, and the Harpers are victorious at the Battle of Tumbleskulls.
Alustriel is the first High Mage of Silverymoon to ever be unanimously chosen by the people.
Amnian armies fighting humanoids this year capture many orcs, bringing them to Purskul where they are forced to work in a series of agricultural and stone-working camps.
The Black Horde reaches as far south as Tethyr, causing mass panic in the Plains of Clovis.

1236/The Year of the Struck Gong

Queen Shlanarnla of Westgate disappears in a storm while out hunting with her latest consort. Although widely assumed in Westgate to have been assassinated, Shlanarnla chooses to flee the throne and the grim fate it portends with her newfound love. Her fate is not recorded.
As Shlanarnla has no known heirs, the crown of Westgate reverts back to the Lorndessar line, and Verovan, great-grandson of King Blaervaer and third cousin of King Iliphael, assumes the throne. King Verovan's reign is marked by his heavy taxes, fueled in part by the need to rebuild the royal treasury and in part by the new monarch's consuming greed, and his penchant for rowing-races.

1237/The Year of the Grotto

Thesk and Aglarond form an alliance around the marriage of Queen Thara of Aglarond to Elthar of Milvarune. Thara and her sister Ulae are granted a title from Milvarn and become the first rulers of Aglarond to assume the title of Mage-Queen.

1238/The Year of the Lone Candle

A major trade war occurs between Amnian houses. This dispute over rights to the Zakharan spice trade fuels further conflicts between the Ophal and Ulvax families, and ignites numerous other trade wars in its wake.
Khelben the Elder drives Frostrune out of Waterdeep.

1239/The Year of the Bloodied Sword

1240/The Year of the Bright Sun

1241/The Year of the Lost Lady

Lady Serisa Khiilart, a well-respected Tethyrian noble-woman, is captured and slain by orcs. In her memory, orcs are wiped out throughout the South in a genocidal slaughter. Orcs call this the Year of Pushing Too Far.
The dwarves of the Alaoreum collapse a mountain atop their underground city, cutting it off from the surface world.
The Pasha of Calimport is assassinated by his rivals.
Amnian armies, back from the great war against orcish forces, bring additional orc slaves to the labor camps near Purskul. Many orcs legally gain their freedom in 40 years; they and their half-orc children become Amnian citizens.
The great mage Bowgentle dies.

1242/The Year of the Yellow Rose

Monastery of the Yellow Rose founded in Damara.
The ruins of Keczulla are cleared of trolls and other monsters. Keczulla is resettlted as a caravan stop.

1243/The Year of the Blue Dragon

Rule of the venerable wyrm Anaglathos in Turmish. Until 1247 DR, this is the Time Of The Worm in that nation. (Note: 9520 The Vilhon Reach gives this date as 1242).
Nandel Greenward enters Undermountain and becomes Halaster's apprentice.

1244/The Year of the Defiant Keep

Mirt the Moneylender sights the Flame of the Spirit in Skullport. Since that date, Tymorans have fruitlessly scoured Undermountain for the missing prayerbook.
The human fortress of Illusk holds off an orc horde for most of a year but then falls.

1245/The Year of Pain

Loviatar worship gains great popularity - most of the modern temples in the North are founded at this time.

1246/The Year of Burning Steel

First recorded use of bombards by Lantan.
Kerrigan the wizard, a hidden Lord of Waterdeep, attempts to usurp Ahghairon's position and set himself up as sole ruler of Waterdeep by killing the other Lords and Ahghairon. After the deaths of three Lords, Ahghairon slays Kerrigan in Southern Ward.
The Simbul is apprenticed to Ilione of Aglarond.
Andaeren Robyth, a thief with a scaled, taloned left arm, is teleported to Westgate, where he begins a short but colorful career.

1247/The Year of the Purple Basilisk

Anaglathos overthrown in Turmish by popular rebellion and slain by adventurers.
The Assembly of Stars is created to govern Turmish.
Aurgloroasa, the shadow dragon who sank the Winsome Wyrm over a century before, abandons her thoughts of seizing Westgate as her domain after Anaglathos is overthrow in Turmish and slain.
The Vault of the Sages is moved into its current location in Silverymoon, and the Heralds buy its former building to create the Map House.
The Company of Jade, an all-male band of adventuresome lordlings, stumble into the long- forgotten Auantiver Labyrinth while exploring the ruins of Battlegate Keep near the border of Cormyr and Sembia. They encounter a monstrous purple basilisk that kills all but a handful of the Company.

1248/Year of the Cockatrice

Verovan, last true king of Westgate, dies during a rowing race with a Thayvian galley when he accidentally employs a whip tipped by cockatrice feathers to lash his crew, a whip placed on his ship by the treacherous Red Wizard he had challenged. As Verovan's death comes as he attempts to stem the growing power of the merchant houses and petty lords of Westgate, many speculate that his own citizens betrayed him.
Upon Verovan's death, a troop of tanar'ri in possession of a piece of the late king's soul are dispatched by the Abyssal lord with whom the fallen king had dealt to plunder the royal treasury, hidden in an extradimensional pocket formed out of the Abyss. The tanar'ri and the fragment of Verovan's soul are imprisoned along with the king's treasure through the actions of Gen Thalavar, an adventuring paladin and third cousin of Verovan who happened to be in the city at the time and sensed the danger. The treasury key is secretly fashioned into a brooch, and the green feather becomes the trading badge of House Thalavar.
Fed up with the excesses of the monarchy, the noble merchant families of Westgate establish the position of Croamarkh, an elected head-of-state whose term of office lasts four years. House Vhammos occupies the former royal palace shortly thereafter and renames the building Castle Vhammos.
A company of adventurers led by Endruth Immister, a paladin of Tyr known as the "Unicorn Knight" of Westgate, retrieves the Leaves of Green, a prayer "tome" of Silvanus, and a huge sword whose blade is a leafy spar of living oak, from the Ghost Holds of Battledale. Endruth delivers both items to the druid Raevarl and his Circle (who dwell in the woods southwest of the city that later vanish under the axes of woodcutters).
Known as the Year of the Bounty in Waterdeep, a record harvest and mercantile explosion causes a dramatic increase in population. Due to the expanded trade, the merchants form guilds, and a recognized merchant-gentry emerges in the city.
Rehorusteb II becomes Pharaoh of Mulhorand.

1249/The Year of the Bold Knight

Death of Jholnareer of Milvarune brings an end to the country of Milvarn. Khalreer, his second son, becomes King of milvarune and an Oligarch of Thesk.

1250/Year of the Riven Skull

The Wizard Mhzentul born.
Noble villas begin dotting the plateau north of Waterdeep.
Ahghairon and other mages of Waterdeep alter the ancient cemetary of the city, eliminating individual graves and creating the tombs of the City of the Dead.

1251/The Year of the Wandering Winds

1252/The Year of the Empty Goblet

Vine-blight destroys grape crop - no wine!
The Wine-Blight Insurrection and the Battle of Broken Vats in the Duchy of Ankramir (Tethyr).
After two years of growing skirmishes with undead, the Lords of Waterdeep establish walls around the City of the Dead, and her still-current curfews.

1253/The Year of Beckoning Death

Plague year in Cormyr, Sembia, and the Vast.

1254/The Year of Silent Steel

Rising power of thieves' guilds results in many assassinations.
In Turmish, the hero Corwin Freas is assassinated.
A civil war erupts in Sembia and lasts for three years.

1255/The Year of the Raging Flame

Ambitious priests of Bhaal launch the "Crusade of Slaughter," which sweeps bloodily from eastern Amn along the trade-routes to the very walls of Westgate before being broken in late autumn by hastily hired mercenary armies. Raevarl and the druids of his Circle are slaughtered during the fray, and the Leaves of Green are lost once again.
In their wake, the Bhaalist crusaders leave the shattered ruins of the royal Amnite city of Torlathan, which lies on the northern bank of the Valashar River some seventy-five miles upstream of its confluence with the River Khalleshyr, fracturing the trade route between Amn and Westgate. Intermittent efforts to rebuild this link falter with the death of Amn's last reigning monarch in 1276, leading to a precipitous decline in Westgate's westbound caravan trade for several decades thereafter.
Growth in trade and population forces the walls of Waterdeep to move northward again (to the current paths of Sulmoor and Julthoon Streets).
Founding of the Shadow Thieves of Waterdeep by a circle of five thieves and assassins.
Priamon Frostrune becomes a lich.

1256/The Year of the Dusty Throne

Ahghairon dies, and the Guildmasters begin seizing power in Waterdeep. The Council of Guildmasters soon grows to govern the whole city.
Khelben the Elder disappears from Waterdeep, though his tower remains occupied by his apprentices.
The demi-goddess Siamorphe arises again in Waterdeep.
The new Moonstar villa is built north of Waterdeep's walls, atop the ruins of the High House of Stars. The old Moonstar compound soon becomes the Blushing Mermaid festhall.
The village of Evershed (southeast of present-day Calling Horns) is destroyed by an orc horde.

c.1257

The aarakocra civilization in the Riders to the Sky Mountains is driven to extinction by Chessentan mercinaries hunting for sport.

1257/The Year of the Killing Wave

Deaths of the Gray Sisters. Halacar King of Aglarond.
Tidal wave strikes Calimshan.
The Chanting Chain, a holy spellbook of Talos, is discovered when a stronghold of Talos-worshippers is sacked. The Talassans prove to be led by a mind flayer.
Bowgentle's Book is created at the School of Wonder in Amn.

1258/The Year of the Wilted Flowers

Balagos the great red wyrm slays the old red dragon Hulrundrar.
Zhentilar lords Harlshoon (father of Manshoon) and Calkontor destroy each other.

1259/The Year ot the Vigilant Fist

c.1260

Lathander appears to certain of his clergy, commanding them to build a temple in ruined Myth Drannor, and giving them the Dawnstone for their altar. These clergy form a special order, the Seekers of the Dawn, and found the Dawnspire in the ruins.

1260/The Year of the Broken Blade

Many peace treaties signed this year.
Halacar of Aglarond leads a disasterous campaign into Thay. The Battle of Lapendrar.
Halacar is poisoned; his sister Ilione, tutor of the Simbul, takes the throne as Queen of Aglarond.

1261/The Year of Bright Dreams

Azoun III (1241 to 1275), King of Cormyr.
Manshoon founds the Zhentarim.
The religious order of St. Ramedar is founded in Zazesspur.
A tavern in Kurrsh is burned to the ground by incensed Talassians from the Vilhon Reach when they discover the Chanting Chain hanging from the wall there. The Chain is recovered and taken by the Talassian to Shamph, where they are attacked and slain by the local militia. This final battle is know as the Slaughter of the Crazed and the Chanting Chain disappears from it.
The Ladies of the Blade, a band of female adventurers, is founded by a group of bored noblewomen of Westgate. Four years later, the company recovers the Key of Faith, a sacred prayer "tome" of Oghma the Lorekeeper, amidst the Ghost Holds of Battledale.

1262/The Year of the Black Wind

Killing storm raised by a Calishite mage.
The Guildwars and the Misrule of the Lords-Magisters: All but two Guildmasters are slain in Waterdeep during the Guildwars; Lhorar Gilgeggh and Ehlemm Zoar proclaim themselves the Lords Magister.
The Shadow Thieves establish their base of operations (the Citadel of the Bloody Hand) inside Mount Waterdeep.
The mage Rythtalies, master of the steel dragon Jalanvaloss "Wyrm of Many Spells," disappears.

1263/The Year of the Tressym

As foretold by Alaundo, these creatures became widespread.
Chaos fills the streets when a flock of over 100 tressym fly into Silverymoon and roost on the rooftops for a tenday. Alustriel simply shrugs, pointing to Alaundo's prophesies about the widespread tressym this year. While most of the tressym fly away soon, a number stayed and made the city their home.
Fzoul Chembryl becomes High Priest of the Dark Shrine in Zhentil Keep. He renames it the Black Altar.

1264/The Year of the Shattered Altar

Widespread tomb-robbing and sacrilege.
The tombs of two Tethyrian monarchs, Strohm IV and Samyte the Martyr, are looted by Bhaal-worshipers.

c.1265

The wizard-king of Halruaa moves the capital from Halagard to Halarahh.

1265/The Year of Flowers

1266/The Year of the Leaping Frog

Tana'ri and power-mad students destroy the School of Wonder, killing nearly every other student and Master within its walls.
The Magister Isilger Mountrant gives the secrets of creating blast globes to a mage of the Zhentarim.

1267/The Year of the Groaning Cart

A bountiful harvest year.
Colderan Morn rules in Daggerdale. He drives the dwarves of Clan Bladebright from the dale.

1268/The Year of the Daystars

The Flying Plague, a horde of perytons, harpies, and manticores attacks the southern Moonsea region and destroys the city of Lis.

1269/The Year of the Moat

The Flame of the Spirit reappears on the body of a brigand in the Rat Hills south of Waterdeep.
The sahaugin ambush of a hunting party devastates the undersea realm of Eadraal as the beloved merfolk Prince Aldem and Prince-Consort Kran die to protect Kosul, the king's heir.

c.1270

Zelphar Arunsun is born.

1270/The Year of the Tooth

1271/The Year of the Shattered Wall

On the heels of a hard winter, mages and warriors of the Dragon Cult attack Holyheart House, a temple of Eldath in the Chondalwood. The two dracoliches Goarulskul the Black and Arlauthra Manytalons destroy the temple and kill many Eldathyn.

1272/The Year of the Shrieker

Zhentarim wizards and priests of Bane and Myrkul raise an army of undead, orcs, and other creatures to assault Silverymoon but are repelled by Alustriel's Spellguard.

1273/The Year of the Wagon

Baeron and Shilarn revive Ahghairon's system of rule in Waterdeep. Baeron becomes Lord of Waterdeep. The houses of Zoar and Gildeggh are Outcast (exiled from the city). Magisters ("Black Robes") appointed to keep justice in the city and, by the month of Uktar, the Shadow Thieves' ventures are deterred and they, as a group, are outlawed.
Waterdeep's population rises, reaching 100,000 by years end.
Joadath noted as being Lord of Shadowdale.

1274/The Year of the Purple Toad

Seven princesses of Tethyr are assassinated in Waterdeep. The killers are drawn and quartered and hung on the gates of Waterdeep. King Haedrak dies after hearing the news. Errilam declared King of Tethyr. Harpers are falsely blamed for this and are not welcome in Tethyr to this day.
Errilam (1236 to 1277), 3rd son of Haedrak II, King of Tethyr (dies without issue in 1277).
The Magister Ilsilger "The Dark Smile" dies after launching an attack on a dozen archmages that had gathered to overthrow him. Ilsilger and eight of the archmages die in the battle. Thornar Fleetmoor, foremost among the survivors, becomes the new Magister (reigns 1274-1278DR).

1275/The Year of the Blade

Rhigaerd II crowned King of Cormyr (at 6 years of age); his uncle Salember ("The Rebel Prince") reigns as Regent in Cormyr until 1286.
Zhentil Keep grants Yulash "independence."
Pasha Eiruidin Ondaru of Calimshan is killed by his palace wizard, Ongraunnathan the Blind. The mage uses his spells to make the Pasha seem alive, and rules in his name until 1286DR.

1276/The Year of the Crumbling Keep

The Citadel of the Raven rebuilt.
Shilarn, a Lord of Waterdeep and Baeron's wife, gives birth to a daughter, Lhestyn.
The Lords of Waterdeep allow the city's perimeter to expand out to the borders they hold to the current day. North and Sea Wards are added and ward boundaries are adjusted and established as they remain today.
The Lords increase their numbers beyond Ahghairon's self-imposed limits, and establish sixteen Lords of Waterdeep.
King Dhanar of the Parhek Dynasty of Amn is assassinated, and merchant families squabble over the succession, each with an heir to the throne (legitimate or otherwise) in its control. The merchant families begin a long war over trade and succession.
The Men of the Basilisk decide to open their ranks to any promising young noble or merchant lord who can survive the crucible of the extra-dimensional Auantiver Labyrinth and its fearsome basilisk guardian.

1277/The Year of the Beholder

King Errilam of Tethyr is accidentally killed while on a hunting trip with elven friends. This incident, and the rumors that grew out of it, sparks centuries of strife and hatred and many cruelties between the royalty of Tethyr and the elves.
Alemander III (1262 to 1288), 1st nephew of Errilam, King of Tethyr (begins persecution of the elves).
The mage Uldinus Lawkland steals a copy of the Simbul's spell trigger spell.

1278/The Year of Many Bones

First recorded mention of the Draconomicon.
The Magister Thornar Fleetmoor is killed by a rival, the mage Uldinus Lawkland. Lawkland becomes the new Magister (reigns 1278-1280DR).

1279/The Year of the Snarling Dragon

Tulrun leaves Silverymoon and returns to his abode in the Coldwood. Beginning of annual monstrous raids on Tulrun's Tent.
A Cult of the Dragon cell near Luskan destroys itself when the dragons and dracolich involved with the cell do battle over treasure hoards.
The green dragon Drethroyaster goes on a murderous rampage through Battledale, Featherdale, and Tasseldale. More than 700 lost their lives in these attacks. Some time later, Dretch is attacked and nearly dispatched by the conglomeration of adventuring companies known as the Crossed Swords.

1280/The Year of the Manticore

Thay's second invasion attempt overwhelms Mulhorand. Sultim is beseiged and nearly falls before reinforcements arrive. Priests of Anhur are made scapegoats.
Old Skull Inn built in Shadowdale.
The Magister Uldinus Lawkland is killed by the mage Ohland Grethgar, a pupil of the Simbul's. Grethgar becomes the new Magister (reigns 1280-1282DR).

1281/The Year of the Cold Soul

Berethond Half-Elven disappears during combat with a great green wyrm in the forest west of Dragonspear Castle. He is assumed dead, and the Draconomicon which he carried with him is believed lost.
Members of a Malar sect lead a "Wild Hunt" through the streets of Elturel. The cultists collected, caged, and then released monsters that they used in their "worship." The Book of Fangs and Talons is associated with this Wild Hunt.

1282/The Year of the Many Mists

A lich calling itself Sammaster appears in the Desertmouth Mountains and begins gathering humanoids, undead, and dragons into an army.
The Magister Ohland Grethgar is killed in a spell duel in the skies over Orlumbor with the black dragon Starlaurynguldar. The wyrm also died from his wounds, and Azuth offers the office of Magister to the mage Inhil "Hurler-of-Stars" Lauthdryn (reigns 1282-1294DR).

1283/The Year of the Crawling Clouds

1284/The Year of the Dying Stars

1285/The Year of the Blacksnake

By this time, Skyships Glade in Tethyr is used exclusively by illithid slavers.
An adventuring company of paladins, the Company of Twelve, attacks the lich Sammaster's stronghold. Nine are killed, but the lich's physical form is destroyed. Survivors confirm that this indeed was Sammaster First-Speaker.

1286/The Year of the Rock

Chapter 28 of "Cormyr: A Novel"
Rhigaerd II (1269 to 1335), King of Cormyr.
Methlas begins building a new pirate fleet in the Inner Sea.

1287/The Year of the Smoky Moon

A MageFair is held in the Fallen Lands. The Flame of the Spirit appears there in the posession of Udo of Felthaeran.

1288/The Year of the Roaring Horn

Last ogre Tharkul falls.
Human kingdom of Thar established.
Princess Shaerglynda of Tethyr is killed in Waterdeep. Her killer escapes with her tiara, rings, and necklace, and is never found.
Jaszur (1274 to 1295), first son (twin) of Alemander, King of Tethyr (slain in Waterdeep, 1295).
Mulmaster sends an expeditionary force to Ironfang Keep; beginning of numerous gnoll attacks in the area.
The gray dwarves of Underspires wage a five-decade-long war with their surface kin.

1289/The Year of the Sighing Serpent

The annual attacks on Tulrun's Tent cease, as Tulrun journeys to the lair of Arauthator, spawn of Sneighfanglen and source of the attacks, and proposes a truce.

c.1290/

The archmage Archveult "Tattercloak" vanishes in a midair explosion over Raven Bluff's harbor. First appearance of the Tears of the Dragon.
The Magister, Lauthdryn "Hurler-of-Stars," is killed by Muaralygrym the Dark. Aralagath Tarsil of Elturel becomes the new Magister.

1290/The Year of the Whelm

Dragonspear Castle falls.

1291/The Year of the Hooded Falcon

1292/The Year of the Wandering Waves

1293/The Year of the Talking Skull

1294/The Year of the Deep Moon

Rilimbrar King of Impiltur.
Methlas, a Cormyrean merchant-turned-pirate, amasses a fleet of ships in the Inner Sea. He is assassinated by his lieutenant, Thevren.
Thevren masses a fleet of forty pirate ships and sacks the cities of Selgaunt and Saerloon, but dies shortly after his victory, poisoned by Thilana, his mistress and former lover of Methlas. Thilana successfully leads the pirates of the Inner Sea for years, reviving Immurk's spy networks and sticking to the careful, conservative plans of Methlas.
The Magister Inhil Lauthdryn disappears in the wilderlands of the Vast. Azuth offers the office of Magister to Aralagath Tarsil of Arabel (reigned 1294-1306DR).

1295/The Year of the Ormserpent

Olosar (1274 to 1319), 2nd son (twin) of Alemander III, King of Tethyr.
Shyressa, a vampiress, joins the Twisted Rune and begins her ascent to the rank of Senior Runemaster.

1296/The Year of the Black Hound

Adventurers stumble onto a hidden temple of Malar in the settlement of Easting. The adventurers discover the Book of Fangs and Talons. However, when the adventurers try to carry the book off they are attacked by a great horde of beasts summoned by the priest of Malar whose temple it was. The book was taken back, and its holder slain and devoured by the monsters.
The priesthood of Milil recovers Wythyndle's Round Book in a bazaar in Calimport, and take it on a tour of Sorlyn temples amidst great rejoicing.

1297/The Year of the Singing Skull

"Homeland" begins (First recorded mention of Drizzt Do'Urden).
Massacre on Watcher's Knoll of Tyrists by Joadath.
The dwarves of Ironfang in the Alaoreum Mountains of Turmish re-emerge into the surface world.
Yenandra "The Pirate Queen" begins her reign in Dambrath.
The nobles of Yulash begin a bitter quarrel for the lordship of the city.

1298/The Year of the Pointed Bone

Lhestyn, as the "Masked Lady," infiltrates Shadow Thieves Guild of Waterdeep and exposes it. Within the span of a bloody week, the Shadow Thieves are either dead or fled from the city due to the Watch and the Lord's agents (like Lhestyn).
Priests of Malar hold an open enclave to plan their dispositions in the lands of the Sword Coast. The enclave lasts for a tenday where the Book of Fangs and Talons is featured in many rituals.

1299/The Year of the Claw

Shadow Thieves settle in Athkatla after their ejection from Waterdeep in the previous year.
The shadow dragon Aurgloroasa clashes with and kills the adult black dragon Arngalor, whose lair was in the Heart of the Mine at the headwaters of the River Arkhen. Aurgloroasa was disguised as a blue dragon so she has never been linked to the deed.

1300/Year of the Starfall

Lhestyn weds Zelphar Arunsun, a powerful mage from Neverwinter (and acknowledged youngest son of Khelben the Elder).
Joadath of Shadowdale dies.
Aumry and Sylune become Lord and Lady of Shadowdale.

1301/Year of the Trumpet

First recorded resurgence of the Cult of Tiamat in Unther.
By this time, the exiled Shadow Thieves have grown so powerful in Amn that the government is forced to acknowledge their presence and power.

1302/Year of the Broken Helm

Gharri of Gond born.
Khelben "Ravencloak" Arunsun born to Lhestyn & Zelphar in Waterdeep.
Durnan and Mirt the Merciless return from Undermountain and retire as rich men.

1303/Year of the Evening Sun

Fall of the human kingdom of Thar.
The venerable green dragon Claugiylimatar makes her lair in the Deeping Cave, somewhere in Kryptgarden Forest.
The Shadow Thieves begin construction on the training complex that will come to be known as the Assassin's Run.

1304/Year of the Stag

In early summer, Maeran Faerlin, a rising merchant of Westgate, employs a trio of mages known as the Hunting Hands, a band of archers, and Alion Narithryn, a minor priest of the Morninglord, to hunt down Aglistralarraghautha, a large female black dragon whose brood of hatchlings had been laying waste to the Reddansyr area and who had destroyed the merchant's warehouse in an isolated compound near Teziir. Of the merchant and his hired adventurers, only Alion survives the battle, but Aglistralarraghautha and five hatchlings are destroyed thanks to the dragonbane prayer found within the Tome of the Morning, a prayer tome of Lathander.

1305/Year of the Creeping Fang

Laershala of the Emerald Eyes strangles Thilana the Pirate Queen while in port at Tantras, and claims the Dragonisle and leadership of the Inner Sea pirates. As her tactics are more brutal and less planned, Laershala slowly loses control of the pirates.
The Cult of the Dragon locates the shadow dracolich Aurgloroasa and approaches her for the first time.
The ancient Netherese city of Nhallen is found by adventurers, sunk in the Inner Sea off the coast of the Altumbel.
The chitine slaves of Yathchol are emancipated from their drow masters.

1306/Year of Thunder

Moonsea War. Mulmaster vanquished by an alliance of the other Moonsea cities.
Hulberg is destroyed by Mulmaster. Sulasspryn suffers heavy damage.
Vangerdahast of Cormyr founds War Wizards.
A dragon invasion, known as the Dragon Run, sweeps out of the Moonsea North. Phlan is destroyed.
Durnan establishes the Yawning Portal over the ruins of Halaster's Hold, controlling the access to the dungeons beneath the city.
The last heir to the throne of Amn, the self-styled Exile Prince Rohav, dies of poison at the hands of his vizier, Arlen Bormul.
The Magister Aralagath Tarsil is accidentally killed by the mage Orten Imdrar. Imdrar becomes the new Magister (reigns 1306-1317DR).

1307/Year of the Mace

Azoun IV of Cormyr born.
Sulasspryn collapses into a huge sinkhole, destroying the city.
Akanax marches on and almost totally destroys Maerduuth.
Thamalon Uskevren, of House Uskevren of Sembia, born on Mirtul 4.

1308/Year of the Catacombs

Dungeon exploring comes into vogue.
Baeron, Open Lord of Waterdeep, dies of fever, and Shilarn, his wife, immolates herself on his funeral pyre.
Lhestyn becomes the Open Lord of Waterdeep.
Construction begins on Lhestyn's (later Piergeiron's) Palace. It is complete by early winter.

1309/Year of the Sunset Winds

1310/Year of the Storms

1311/Year of the Fist

Birth of Filfaeril Selazir, wife of King Azoun of Cormyr (Mirtul4 1311-?).
Zelphar Arunsun dies at the hands of evil sorcery, though the source remains undetermined to this day. Lhestyn secretly names Piergeiron, a paladin and officer of the city guard, a Lord and her eventual successor as Open Lord of Waterdeep.
Rezim becomes vizier of Mulhorand and begins to persecute the church of Anhur. Chessentan mercinaries replace Anhur worshippers as guards of Skuld.

1312/Year of the Griffon

Darkhold seized by the Black Network.
The independent city of Teziir is refounded on a high bluff overlooking the Lake of Dragons, located to the west of Westgate its main rival in the merchant trade. Previous cities on this site have been attacked, sacked, and burned more than a few times throughout history.
A Chessentan merchant secretly backed by the Lawless, a sect of Shar, offers the Helm of Helm, a prayer "tome" dedicated to the God of Guardians, for sale in Westgate. Each night, battles erupt in the streets of Westgate between the Lawless (backed by someone of great authority in the city), the South Shore Serpents, the Wild Blades Adventurers of Teziir, and agents of Thay.
Durnan founds the Red Sashes as his own personal agents in Waterdeep, creating a precaution against such blatant disregards for the watch as grow common in Dock Ward (such as the death of Zelphar Arunsun).

1313/Year of the Shattered Oak

1314/Year of the Shadowtop

The tree of this name flourishes in this year.
Death of Lhestyn. Piergeiron becomes the Unmasked (Open) Lord of Waterdeep.
Rhigaerd II, King of Cormyr defeats the border raiders.
The Pirate Queen Laershala dies in combat with a Cormyrean Freesail; the pirates of the Inner Sea break up into squabbling factions.

c.1315

The Company of the Howling Wolf kills the archmage Iniarv.

1315/Year of Spilled Blood

1316/Year of the Gulagoar

The arch-mages Orcrommor the Mighty and Asblan the Bold destroy each other in an aerial battle over the city of Ordulin.
The Zhentarim take control of Teshendale. Refugees pour into Daggerdale and Dagger Falls including Zhent agents who incite a rebellion against the Morn family and install Malyk, a Zhentarim agent as ruler.
The dwindling Spulzeer family establishes the Spulzeer Inn, which later becomes the foundation for the village of Trailstone on the Tethir Road.

1317/Year of the Wandering Wyrm

Great Plague of the Inner Sea (also called the Dragon Plague). Chessenta is decimated, Unther suffers, but Mulhorand is largely unaffected. The Vilhon manages to restrict its spread and is relatively unscathed.
Targuth Athkarr becomes Huhong of Rashemen.
Death of the sorcerer-king Nesker. The first High Blade takes power in Mulmaster.
The Magister Orten Imdrar dies in spellbattle with the Water Witch, Elminster, and the mage Qilder Yarven. Yarven becomes the new Magister (reigns 1317-1318DR; a month in each year).

1318/Year of the Tired Treant

The Chanting Chain is written of in Ormath where Lalagos Indivvur, a priest of Talos, conducts a holy ritual to pull spells from it.
The Magister Qilder Yarven is killed in a spellduel with the mage Maldiglas "The Magnificent" Turntower. Turntower becomes the new Magister (reigns 1318-1322DR).

1319/Year of the Fallen Throne

The kingship of Sossal ends in bloodshed.
Alemander IV, 1st nephew of Olosar, King of Tethyr (slain in the 10 Black Days of Eleint, 1347). End of the Tethyr Dynasty.

1320/Year of the Watching Cold

Ilione of Aglarond dies of the plague; The Simbul becomes Queen of Aglarond.
Akonhorus II becomes Pharaoh of Mulhorand; Resurgence of the cult of Set, as Seti is born.
The Thayvians withdraw from Escalant in the wake of the Great Plague.
The indiscretions of the merfolk Prince Vhaemas lead to the illegitimate birth of Vhaemas the Bastard, as he is called by his mother and her clan, Kamaar of Thuridru.

1321/Year of Chains

The Harpers reorganized. Twilight Hall founded in Berdusk.
King Zaor of Evermeet is assassinated. Queen Amlaruil becomes sole ruler of the elves.
By this time, the Shadow Thieves have taken control of much of the criminal activity within Amn, and have spread to nearby cities.

1322/Year of Lurking Death

Monstrous attacks at a 50-year high.
The blue dragon Alasklerbanbostos, now a dracolich called the Great Bone Wyrm, spends the summer terrorizing and raiding Chessentra and Unther.
The shadow dragon Aurgloroasa undergoes the transformation to dracolich.
Khelben the Elder, disguising himself as Khelben the Younger, "claims" the long-vacant Arunsun Tower as his own, renaming it after his new title of "the Blackstaff."
The Magister Maldiglas Turntower devoures his own lifeforce constructing his magical refuges. Azuth offers the office of Magister to the mage Phelarnden Ghemelt of Tharsult (reigns four months, 1322DR).
The Chessentan archmage Maxiladanarr Torstren becomes Magister (reigns 1322-1328DR). He begins a breeding program to create sorcerous families, known as the Incipient Clans.

1323/Year of Dreamwebs

Great Plague declared over.
Thayvian wizards attempt to control others through dreams; they are discovered and destroyed.

1324/Year of the Grimoire

Chapter 30 of "Cormyr: A Novel"
Many old magical tomes were discovered in this year, sparking a renewed interest in magic.
Luthcheq invades Mordulkin, to take advantage of heavy losses in the plague years. Luthcheq loses the war and the losses are blamed on wizard-spies in the service of Mordulkin. Luthcheq begins its persecution of wizards.
The white dragon Arauthator slays the venerable red dragon Rathlylaug high above the rooftops of Neverwinter.

c.1325

Harper's Hold is built deep into the slopes of Mt. Waterdeep.

1325/Year ot the Great Harvests

Beer and wine of this year are legendary.

1326/Year of the Striking Hawk

The wizard Meltharond Thone, master of the venerable white dragon Arveiaturace, dies.

1327/Year of the Blue Flame

The mad wizard Yarash moves into the pyramid on Sorcerer's Isle.
Tholaunt, an incarnation of Anhur, is slain by Valerios, the Tharchion of Pyrados.

1328/Year of the Adder

"Homeland" ends
The Magister Maxiladanarr Torstren is killed in an avalanche. Azuth offers the office of Magister to Imrul Athelzedar (reigns 1328-1354DR).

1329/Year of the Lost Helm

Filfaeril Selazir wed to King Azoun of Cormyr on Eleint 2.
Morkoth agents, at the behest of Great Arcane Aodk, kidnap the merfolk Queen Wylla, Princess Deira and Princess Aeda, and magically change them into monstrous forms that mindlessly attack Voalidru. Their deaths are avenged with the attacks on Olleth later that year and the death of Aodk and his Arcounts.

1330/Year of the Marching Moon

Prince Rythan of Tethyr slays Jhaniloth Puiral of the Twisted Rune.

1331/Year of the Leaping Dolphin (NOTE: "The Wyvern's Spur" gives this year as the Year of Temples)

Numerous high-ranking mages among all the Guilds Arcane of Calimport, Almraiven, Volothamp, Memnon, and Keltar mysteriously abandon their homes and positions to depart on some mysterious mission within the Marching Mountains.
Birth of Zaranda Star, later Queen of Tethyr.

1332/Year of the Sword and Stars

Florin Falconhand is born.
The Wyrmstrike of Dunbridges (Border Kingdoms).
Azoun IV and his wife, Filfaeril Selzair "the Dragon Queen," have a son, Foril.
Numerous goblin and hobgoblin tribes are reported on the move among the western Marching Mountains, though reports have numerous mages at the heads of these hordes - the same mages who went missing in Calimshan late last year under some mysterious calling.

1333/Year of the Striking Falcon

The Great Amnian Trade War. Founding of the Council of Six and the unification of Amn by Thayze Selemchant.
Islif Lurelake is born.
Myrmeen Lhal is born.
Tale of the Azure Bonds (Mirtul to Kythorn), The Wyvern's Spur (Flamerule to Ches 1334).
Lord Iorltar of Zhentil Keep names Manshoon his successor as first lord.
Gamalon Idogyr and his family leave Tethyr for the Rock of Bral.
The realm of Mulsparkh rises along the northern bank of the River Memnon near the end of this year, founded by Calishite mercinaries and monsters at the secret instigation of the Twisted Rune.

c.1334

Last known appearance of the mage Nchaser.
Prince Foril, infant son of Azoun and Filfaeril of Cormyr (Mirtul 1, 1332 to Uktar 11, 1334), assassinated.

1334/Year of the Blazing Brand

Hyarman Hussilthar becomes Huhong of Rashemen.
Tethyrian mounted troops including Crown Prince Rythan, brother of King Alemander IV, are defeated at the Battle of Nightflames by the army of Mulsparkh; the realm of Mulsparkh is swiftly crushed soon after by the Calishite legions. The Sword of Starlight, a Tethyrian sword of state and a powerful magical item, is secreted away by Yuzas Nur yn Yusuf el Tiagar, a military officer with greater ambitions than abilities.
Foril, son of Azoun IV, dies at two years old.
Tanalesta, daughter of Azoun IV and Filfaeril, born.
Manshoon and Fzoul, with the help of their beholder allies, become the new lords of Zhentil Keep.
The faithful of Loviatar undertake an extensive search in Westgate for the Lash of Loviatar, following rumors of its sighting in the city. Their efforts succeed in making the Church of Pain many enemies, but no trace of the prayer "tome" is ever found.

1335/Year of the Snow Winds (NOTE: The Waterdeep Boxed Set gives the name of this year as the Year of the Shaking Serpent)

"The Family Business" (Realms of Valor)
Alusair Nacacia Obarskyr, the Steel Princess of Cormyr, born on Eleint 9 (1335-?).
Prince Haedrak Errilam Alemander Olosar Lhorik (Lhaeo) is born in a room atop the High Palace of Silverymoon.
The Evereska Charter claims the Greycloak Hills for the elves.
Rhigaerd II dies in the waning days of this year.
A spell-duel in Ordulin between Thindol of the Zhentarim and the awakened lich Bhalgustrin ends with the death of Thindol.
The "Bleak Winter" in the North.

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