Post by longearmage on Jul 23, 2008 5:55:06 GMT -5
Here are the events that occurred in 1372 DR according to A Grand History of the Realms:
1372 DR Year of Wild Magic
Hammer 1: Thultanthar [–339], the City of Shade [–1471], returns to the skies of Faerûn, marking the return of the archwizards of Netheril.
Hammer 11: Kern Desanea, son of Tarn and Shal (Heroes of Phlan), recovers the Warhammer of Tyr [1350]. For assisting with Kern’s quest, the legendary undead Paladin Miltiades is restored to life by Tyr.
Midwinter Night: The god Bane returns to Faerûn, bursting forth from the skin of Iyachtu Xvim [1369]. With his divinity restored, Bane quickly gains the portfolio of fear, restoring him to a greater power.
Ches 20: Alustriel [1371] travels to Mithral Hall to aid King Bruenor in his efforts to fortify against further intrusions by Obould’s [1371] orc forces.
Ches 24: Khalia, a Thayan emissary, approaches Mulsantir under the flag of peace and asks permission to create an enclave. She is refused but allowed to leave safely.
Ches 27: One of the hathrans, the ruling witches among the Wychlaran in Rashemen, betrays her sisters in a bid for power. She is defeated by the half-elf bladesinger Taenaran and Marissa, a druid from Cormyr. Marissa becomes one of the spirits of Rashemen.
Tarsakh 26: The Shadovars trap the phaerimms [1371] surrounding Evereska with a shadowshell.
Tarsakh 30: Citizens of Neverwinter begin falling ill from a plague later known as the Wailing Death. Within a few tendays, most inhabitants of the city are dead or dying.
Mirtul 2: The Talontar blightlords begin mustering a blightspawned
army to crush the Circle of Leth and raze the Great Dale.
Mirtul 15: Shade rescinds its offers of alliance to Waterdeep.
Mirtul 19: Shadovars begin hunting phaerimms living in Myth Drannor.
Mirtul 20: After five months of battling phaerimms and armies of bugbears and lizardfolk thralls led by beholder and illithid generals, the relief army led by Laeral Silverhand-Arunsun [1371] and her sister Storm [1355, 1374] arrives in Evereska.
Mirtul 21: Galaeron Nihmedu arrives in Cormyr, bearing proof that the Shadovars are melting the High Ice and crippling the Heartlands.
Mirtul 27: Aware of Cormyr’s preparations for an assault on the City of Shade, the Shadovars gather an army and march on Tilverton [1356, 1373]. During the ensuing battle, Vangerdahast [1355] releases a potent magical weapon against the Shade army. The interaction of this weapon with the Shadow Weave releases a spectacular surge of energy that utterly destroys Tilverton. All that remains of the city is a dark, concave space filled with shadows and
flitting regions of deeper darkness.
Flamerule 1: Wulfgar [1364] returns to Icewind Dale [1351].
Flamerule 7: Akhlaur [1146] and Zalathorm [1357], who owe their long lives to certain magic they created together in their youth, face off against one another for control of Halruaa. Zalathorm destroys the red gem around his neck that houses the last remaining portion of their life-extending magic, killing them both. Immediately afterward, the survivors of the battle, together with the Cabal—a group of elf spirits recently freed from another, larger gem—resurrect Zalathorm.
Flamerule 10: The shadowshell surrounding Evereska fails.
Flamerule 12: The Shadowmasters [1366] effectively take control of the Merchants’ Council of Telflamm. Few outside the council suspect the extent of the guild’s power.
Eleasias 2: The Shadovars lose the Karsestone when several of Mystra’s Chosen attack and damage Shade’s mythallar. The enclave is temporarily crippled. Elves and their allies drive the phaerimms out of Evereska in a tenday, and the city’s mythal is restored by month’s end.
Eleasias 28: Lolth falls silent, denying her followers divine magic. She separates her Demonweb Pits from the Abyss and begins to transform herself into a greater goddess. The Jaezred Chaulssin [1358] take advantage of the situation, launching attacks on drow-ruled cities throughout the Underdark. By year’s end, thanks to their machinations, Menzoberranzan [1371, 1373] has nearly fallen, Ched Nasad [1233] is destroyed, Eryndlyn falls to followers of Ghaunadaur and Vhaeraun, and Maerimydra falls (unexpectedly) to followers of Kiaransalee. Smaller strikes in Dusklyngh, Jhachalkyn, and Karsoluthiyl weaken the hold of the ruling Matron Mothers and allow male-dominated merchant houses to gain in influence.
Eleint 23: An army of goblins, ogres, giants, and demons led by Kurgoth Hellspawn, a half-fiend fire giant, attacks Maerimydra. Although most of Maerimydra’s drow are slaughtered or enslaved, small bands of refugees escape into the surrounding Underdark, known as the Deep Wastes. House Dhuurniv, which fell into disgrace for forging the Spider’s Truce during the Weeping War, is the only Maerimydran noble house to survive with significant holdings, since most of them lie outside the city.
Marpenoth 13: The first of several demonic assassins is sent after
Quenthel Baenre.
Marpenoth 14: King Lareth holds a conclave of metallic dragons to discuss the coming Rage.
Marpenoth 20: A slave rebellion is put down in Menzoberranzan.
Marpenoth 30: Daemonfey occupy Myth Glaurach [864, 1374].
Uktar 3: The drow city of Ched Nasad is destroyed in an attack by duergar mercenaries hired by House Zauvirr, a drow family seeking to seize power in the city. In their attack, the duergar use “stonefire” incendiary bombs, sold to them by the Jaezred Chaulssin, that burn the webbing supporting the castles and suspended thoroughfares of the city, causing a general collapse into ruin. The duergar may well have intended the destruction.
Uktar 15: Kaanyr Vhok the Sceptered One, leads the Scoured Legion [1371] in a siege against Menzoberranzan with the secret backing of the Jaezred Chaulssin.
Feast of the Moon: The Great Seal is broken, ending millennia of Deep Imaskar [799] isolation. The Deep Imaskari dispatch their most trustworthy and secretive spies into the outer world.
Feast of the Moon: Volcanic eruptions in the Smoking Mountains bury the Citadel of Black Ash [1359] under lava.
(Before using ANY of this as rumor or a basis of character creation, please read the DM Q&A HERE)
1372 DR Year of Wild Magic
Hammer 1: Thultanthar [–339], the City of Shade [–1471], returns to the skies of Faerûn, marking the return of the archwizards of Netheril.
Hammer 11: Kern Desanea, son of Tarn and Shal (Heroes of Phlan), recovers the Warhammer of Tyr [1350]. For assisting with Kern’s quest, the legendary undead Paladin Miltiades is restored to life by Tyr.
Midwinter Night: The god Bane returns to Faerûn, bursting forth from the skin of Iyachtu Xvim [1369]. With his divinity restored, Bane quickly gains the portfolio of fear, restoring him to a greater power.
Ches 20: Alustriel [1371] travels to Mithral Hall to aid King Bruenor in his efforts to fortify against further intrusions by Obould’s [1371] orc forces.
Ches 24: Khalia, a Thayan emissary, approaches Mulsantir under the flag of peace and asks permission to create an enclave. She is refused but allowed to leave safely.
Ches 27: One of the hathrans, the ruling witches among the Wychlaran in Rashemen, betrays her sisters in a bid for power. She is defeated by the half-elf bladesinger Taenaran and Marissa, a druid from Cormyr. Marissa becomes one of the spirits of Rashemen.
Tarsakh 26: The Shadovars trap the phaerimms [1371] surrounding Evereska with a shadowshell.
Tarsakh 30: Citizens of Neverwinter begin falling ill from a plague later known as the Wailing Death. Within a few tendays, most inhabitants of the city are dead or dying.
Mirtul 2: The Talontar blightlords begin mustering a blightspawned
army to crush the Circle of Leth and raze the Great Dale.
Mirtul 15: Shade rescinds its offers of alliance to Waterdeep.
Mirtul 19: Shadovars begin hunting phaerimms living in Myth Drannor.
Mirtul 20: After five months of battling phaerimms and armies of bugbears and lizardfolk thralls led by beholder and illithid generals, the relief army led by Laeral Silverhand-Arunsun [1371] and her sister Storm [1355, 1374] arrives in Evereska.
Mirtul 21: Galaeron Nihmedu arrives in Cormyr, bearing proof that the Shadovars are melting the High Ice and crippling the Heartlands.
Mirtul 27: Aware of Cormyr’s preparations for an assault on the City of Shade, the Shadovars gather an army and march on Tilverton [1356, 1373]. During the ensuing battle, Vangerdahast [1355] releases a potent magical weapon against the Shade army. The interaction of this weapon with the Shadow Weave releases a spectacular surge of energy that utterly destroys Tilverton. All that remains of the city is a dark, concave space filled with shadows and
flitting regions of deeper darkness.
Flamerule 1: Wulfgar [1364] returns to Icewind Dale [1351].
Flamerule 7: Akhlaur [1146] and Zalathorm [1357], who owe their long lives to certain magic they created together in their youth, face off against one another for control of Halruaa. Zalathorm destroys the red gem around his neck that houses the last remaining portion of their life-extending magic, killing them both. Immediately afterward, the survivors of the battle, together with the Cabal—a group of elf spirits recently freed from another, larger gem—resurrect Zalathorm.
Flamerule 10: The shadowshell surrounding Evereska fails.
Flamerule 12: The Shadowmasters [1366] effectively take control of the Merchants’ Council of Telflamm. Few outside the council suspect the extent of the guild’s power.
Eleasias 2: The Shadovars lose the Karsestone when several of Mystra’s Chosen attack and damage Shade’s mythallar. The enclave is temporarily crippled. Elves and their allies drive the phaerimms out of Evereska in a tenday, and the city’s mythal is restored by month’s end.
Eleasias 28: Lolth falls silent, denying her followers divine magic. She separates her Demonweb Pits from the Abyss and begins to transform herself into a greater goddess. The Jaezred Chaulssin [1358] take advantage of the situation, launching attacks on drow-ruled cities throughout the Underdark. By year’s end, thanks to their machinations, Menzoberranzan [1371, 1373] has nearly fallen, Ched Nasad [1233] is destroyed, Eryndlyn falls to followers of Ghaunadaur and Vhaeraun, and Maerimydra falls (unexpectedly) to followers of Kiaransalee. Smaller strikes in Dusklyngh, Jhachalkyn, and Karsoluthiyl weaken the hold of the ruling Matron Mothers and allow male-dominated merchant houses to gain in influence.
Eleint 23: An army of goblins, ogres, giants, and demons led by Kurgoth Hellspawn, a half-fiend fire giant, attacks Maerimydra. Although most of Maerimydra’s drow are slaughtered or enslaved, small bands of refugees escape into the surrounding Underdark, known as the Deep Wastes. House Dhuurniv, which fell into disgrace for forging the Spider’s Truce during the Weeping War, is the only Maerimydran noble house to survive with significant holdings, since most of them lie outside the city.
Marpenoth 13: The first of several demonic assassins is sent after
Quenthel Baenre.
Marpenoth 14: King Lareth holds a conclave of metallic dragons to discuss the coming Rage.
Marpenoth 20: A slave rebellion is put down in Menzoberranzan.
Marpenoth 30: Daemonfey occupy Myth Glaurach [864, 1374].
Uktar 3: The drow city of Ched Nasad is destroyed in an attack by duergar mercenaries hired by House Zauvirr, a drow family seeking to seize power in the city. In their attack, the duergar use “stonefire” incendiary bombs, sold to them by the Jaezred Chaulssin, that burn the webbing supporting the castles and suspended thoroughfares of the city, causing a general collapse into ruin. The duergar may well have intended the destruction.
Uktar 15: Kaanyr Vhok the Sceptered One, leads the Scoured Legion [1371] in a siege against Menzoberranzan with the secret backing of the Jaezred Chaulssin.
Feast of the Moon: The Great Seal is broken, ending millennia of Deep Imaskar [799] isolation. The Deep Imaskari dispatch their most trustworthy and secretive spies into the outer world.
Feast of the Moon: Volcanic eruptions in the Smoking Mountains bury the Citadel of Black Ash [1359] under lava.
(Before using ANY of this as rumor or a basis of character creation, please read the DM Q&A HERE)