| c. 100 |
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- The nomad human followers of Uthgar begin to join with other nomad humans groups descended from the Netherese that followed the Bey of Runlatha and scattered across the North after his death.
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| 100 | Year of the Greybeards |
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- The city of Athkatla is founded.
- Year 0 in Amnreckoning (little used except in official documents)
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| 101 | Year of the Smiling Moon |
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- Josidiah Starym is born to the gold elven House Starym of Myth Drannor, to his gold elf father and moon elf mother. He has his father's features and golden hair, but has his mother's uncanny sapphire-blue eyes, a strange combination for a noble gold elf child.
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| 102 | Year of the Ormage |
| 103 | Year of the White Hound |
| 104 | Year of the Preying Griffon |
| 105 | Year of the Tattooed Mistress |
| 106 | Year of the Adamantine Spiral |
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- Rhiiman "The Glorious" (? to 131), King of Cormyr.
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| 107 | Year of the Fledglings |
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- "Bones of the Beast (Webstory for "Son of Thunder")
- Qysar Shoon II dies and is succeeded by his first grandnephew, Qysar Shoon III. Hazamir el Aktorral, Syl-Pasha of Calimshan, is made riqysar (regent-emperor). Aktorral moves some of the Imperial Court back to Calimport and the surroundings he trusts rather than live in Shoonach.
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| 108 | The Year of the Mortified Monk (NOTE: FR10 Old Empires gives the name of this Year as the Year of the Flood) |
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- First great flood of the River Alamber nearly destroys Unthalass.
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| 109 | Year of the False Ghost |
| 110 | Year of the Quirt |
| 111 | Year of Fallen Guards |
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- The kingdom of Anauria falls to an orc invasion, though it ensures the mutual destruction of the horde, and orc numbers are reduced for centuries in this area. (NOTE: The Forgotten Realms Campaign Setting mistakenly gives this date as c. 200 DR)
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| 112 | Year of the Tusk |
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- Cormyrean cartographers create the first recognized map of Cormyr, Cormanthor, and the Dalelands.
- Height of the Western Kingdoms (Asram, Anauria and Hlondeth).
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| 113 | Year of the Belching Boggle |
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- Leodom II (85 to 136), 1st son of Hazam, King of Tethyr.
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| 114 | Year of the Jagged Leaves |
| 115 | Year of the Morning Glory |
| 116 | Year of the Mortal Promise |
| 117 | Year of the Swinging Pendulum |
| 118 | Year of the Monkey |
| 119 | Year of the Mountain's Fire |
| 120 | Year of the Remembered Pain |
| 121 | Year of the Embroidered Button |
| 122 | Year of the Mourning Armsmen |
| 123 | Year of the Icy Axe |
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- With the death of el Aktorral this year, all governmental control of Calimshan and the Imperium moves to Shoonach until the fall of the Imperium. Calimport becomes merely the largest port, and its northern quarters become more and more deserted. During the next centuries, the walls around the port wards rise higher than ever to defend against intruders as more rogues take residence in the nearly empty upper city. Calimport Below also becomes larger and more populous during the Imperium, as neglect sees the collapse of many buildings and the rise in monstrous populations down below is a direct result of fewer garrisons in the Old City (as upper Calimport becomes known for 300 years).
- Uthgar dies from wounds received in battle with Gurt, Lord of the Pale Giants, at the present-day site of Morgur's Mound. His nomad human followers call themselves the Uthgardt in his honor and form tribes based on the beast spirits he was said to have tamed in his lifetime.
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| 124 | Year of the Biting Frost |
| 125 | Year of the Ironwood |
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- The city of Ormath is established on the Shining Plains.
- Hlondeth's population soars as a trade road - the Pikeman's Folly - is built between the two cities.
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| 126 | Year of the Cinnamon Haze |
| 127 | Year of the Defiant Stone |
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- The settlement of Grath's Hold (Modern: Port Llast) is founded by Grath Erlkar, a Northman raider and explorer.
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| 128 | Year of the Addled Arcanist |
| 129 | Year of the Mummy's Amulet |
| c. 130 |
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- The Eshowe of Chult unleash Eshowdow the Shadow Giant.
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| 130 | Year of the Dwarven Twins |
| 131 | Year of the Cockatrice's Stare |
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- The Silver Swordpoint, a mercinary company led by the warrior Flaerivus Grevauldyn, is chartered in Athkatla.
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| 132 | Year of Thirteen Prides Lost |
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- Dempster Turmish declares himself Mayor of Alaghon. He sends his mercenaries against his rivals. A brief, bloody civil war erupts in Alaghon, and Dempster emerges as undisputed leader.
- The official founding of Turmish.
- The mages of the Circle of Flames begin to record the Scrolls Ardentym this year.
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| 133 | Year of the Arduous Journey |
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- The Barony of the Steeping Falls is founded by Artor Morlin "the Baron of Blood", an outlaw hailing from the lands of the Shoon.
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| 134 | Year of the Impassable Chasm |
| 135 | Year of the Halfling's Dale |
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- Arrabar's military forces wipe out the city of Mimph.
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| 136 | Year of the Stalking Beholders |
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- Yusuf (109 to 136), 10th son of Leodom II, King of Tethyr.
- King Leodom III (117 to 175, original name Ali), 17th son of Leodom II, King of Tethyr.
- Shornthal Imynster becomes Magister (reigned 136-148DR).
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| 137 | Year of the King's Destiny |
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- On the twelfth day of Flamerule, the army of Iljak engages the forces of Mussum along the Sandshore. The battle rages for a fortnight until early Eleasius, when Samran forces sack the city of Iljak and attack its forces on the unprotected left flank. Iljak surrenders, and the twin forces of Mussum and Samra enslave the survivors.
- King Dalious Croam, after two short years on the throne of Westgate, sets sail for the eastern reaches of the Sea of Fallen Stars on an extended trade mission. The heirless king appoints a member of the city's nobility as Croamarkh, a title that means "Voice of Croam", to govern in his stead during his planned lengthy absence.
- The Errant King, as King Dalious comes to be known, never returns to Westgate, although the nobility maintains the fiction that Westgate's absent monarch continues to wander the Realms long after he most certainly would have died of old age. For over a century, under the aegis of the absent Croam Dynasty, Westgate is governed by a series of Croamarkhs selected from the ranks of the nobility.
- The warrior Flaerivus Grevauldyn rescues a priestess of Mystra from an orc raiding band. She begins to teach him the rudiments of magic.
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| 138 | Year of Sparks Flying |
| 139 | Year of the Resolute Courtesans |
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- By this time, the deforestation of the Chondalwood is in full swing. The city of Shamph is established along the Emerald Corridor, a road stretching from Shamph to Arrabar.
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| 140 | Year of the Executioner |
| 141 | Year of the Impenetrable Mystery |
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- The warrior-mage Flaerivus Grevauldyn defeats Thaerdimor, the self-styled Mage-King of Daerimathlor, in spell-battle.
- Highlord Narandos, ruler of Illusk, sponsors a group of settlers who seek to reclaim the lost city of Gauntlgrym. By the year's end these settlers have established themselves within the uppermost level of the subterranean city, and cleared it of orcs and other foul creatures.
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| 142 | Year of the Prowling Naga |
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- Citadel Adbar is built by King Adbarruns of the dwarves.
- Qysar Amahl Shoon IV is killed by his brother Amahl of the Nine Whirlwinds, who sweeps him off the Royal Mount at Shoonach with a gust of wind spell.
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| 143 | Year of the Smiling Princess |
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- Lumberjacks in the Chondalwood are halted by a large force of elves. Lord Anthony Illistine creates an alliance of the free cities of the region.
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| 144 | Year of the Fear and Flame |
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- Battle of Elven Tears. The alliance of free cities in Chondath attacks the elves. Ariel-Than, an elven city, is burned to the ground, and more than 2,000 elves die in the war. The survivors reportedly flee deeper into the wood to the city of Rucien-Xan, a mythical elven home.
- Six months after the Battle of Elven Tears, Lord Anthony Illistine is named governor of Chondath, and the city-states are finally united under one leader.
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| 145 | Year of the Pirates' Port |
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- Dempster Turmish continues his campaign to conquer the Vilhon area. Hlondeth is besieged. Alaghonian forces are unable to mount an effective siege without closing off access to the Vilhon, and after six months Dempster ends the siege.
- Lady Ahskahala Durothil is born at Semberholme to Lady Uschymna and Lord Phaendar Durothil of Myth Drannor.
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| 146 | Year of the Risen Towers |
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- Lord Dempster attempts a second siege of Hlondeth, but is again defeated, this time by the city's high walls and a powerful barrage of magic.
- Avavae Irithyl is born, the first child of House Irithyl in centuries. Unfortunately, her mother dies giving birth, leaving tiny Aravae and the Coronal, her great-uncle, as the sole heirs of Irithyl. From birth, Aravae has a personal guard of three armathors whose sole purpose is to protect the child who will be the Coronal's heir.
- Elembar is founded by settlers from Tavaray.
- Uth Myrmoran, an exiled lord of Tavaray, erects the Uthtower and forms the realm of the same name.
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| 147 | Year of the Iron Colossus |
| 148 | The Year of Blue Ice |
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- Drow construct the original Crystal Labyrinth in Undermountain as a training area for their young.
- Shornthal Imynster falls in battle; the warrior-mage Flaerivus Grevauldyn becomes Magister (reigned 151-154DR).
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| 149 | Year of the Dwarf |
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- Dwarves of Ammarindar led by Iirikos Stoneshoulder build a stone bridge across the River Shining at the site of present-day Loudwater.
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| c. 150 |
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- An unknown dwarfhold in the Lost Peaks comes to a sudden end.
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| 150 | Year of the Lost Library |
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- Lord Dempster rebuilds his army for a third attempt at Hlondeth, but dies in his sleep before it is ready. His wife, Florentine, becomes ruler and immediately calls off the attack.
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| 151 | Year of the Kraken |
| 152 | Year of the Severed Hand |
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- Illusk falls to the Severed Hand orc horde, its strength weakened by the attempt to colonise Gauntlygrym. The orcs take up residence in the ruins and establish a settlement of sorts known as Argrock, after their leader. Many citizens of Illusk flee south, swelling the populations of Grath's Hold and Eigersstor.
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| 153 | Year of the Moving Ground |
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- The humans of Gauntlgrym come under concerted assault by illithids and their lycanthrope thrall armies after they delve too deeply into the underground levels of that city. A few escape into the Savage North and are taken in by the wandering Gray Wolf Uthgardt tribe, who save them from orc raiders.
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| 154 | Year of the Jealous Hag |
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- Lady Florentine of Turmish is assassinated, setting off endless rounds of political maneuvering by various merchant houses. This 100-year gap in leadership becomes known as the Calmwaters, and the region flourishes.
- The Magister Flaerivus Grevauldyn is killed by rival mages. Malanthus Stormstaern, "The Dark-Eyed Storm", becomes Magister (reigns 154 to 177).
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| 155 | Year of the Mellifluous Heaps |
| 156 | Year of the Imaginary Foe |
| 157 | Year of the Resounding Call |
| 158 | Year of the Imploring Widow |
| 159 | Year of the Lost Profit |
| 160 | Year of the Smirking Knaves |
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- Port Llast comes into common usage as the name for the swiftly growing settlement of Grath's Hold. The city becomes home to thousands of miners and explorers eager to find the mineral wealth of the Savage North.
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| 161 | Year of the Hangman's Noose |
| 162 | Year of the Great Dwarven Gate |
| 163 | Year of the Screeching Vole |
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- Last reported use of the Ring of Winter in Cormyr.
- Founding of Altumbel by the Unther Empire.
- Founding of Elmwood on the southern coast of the Moonsea, as a small waystation for ship traffic to and from the River Lis.
- Founding of the city of Crimmor, in Amn.
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| 164 | Year of the Fallen Temple |
| 165 | Year of the Smoking Brazier |
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- Rise of the Triton Protectorate of Pumana beneath the Inner Sea.
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| 166 | Year of the Reremouse |
| 167 | Year of the Deep Wellspring |
| 168 | Year of Scattered Stars |
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- Halaster's Hold, the wizard's tower and fortified ramparts, is built to the north and west of the farms in the Waterdeep area.
- Ornoth is crowned king of Uthtower.
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| 169 | Year of the Weary Warrior |
| 170 | Year of the Bloodties |
| 171 | Year of Unkind Weapons |
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- The elves of Cormanthyr complete a two-year-long siege and running battle to destroy the sole surviving temple of Moander in the northern forest (at the site of modern Yulash). The elves raze the temple after slaying all of Moander's priests. The Coronal and sixteen of Cormanthyr's High Mages cast the binding High Magic that banishes the Jawed God from the Realms until it is freed by a nonborn child.
- From this time foward, Moander remains a lurking evil trapped beneath the ruins of his final temple.
- First of Halaster's Hunts against the drow in the Underhalls. These incursions by the Mad Mage continue until 308 DR.
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| 172 | Year of the Great Debate |
| 173 | Year of Screaming Sharn |
| 174 | Year of the Windswept Plains |
| 175 | Year of the Black Boats |
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- Leodom IV (149 to 187, original name Kasim), 4th nephew of Leodom III, King of Tethyr.
- Port Llast is assailed and sacked by the orcs of the Severed Hand who devastate the surrounding countryside and bring fire to the nearby woodlands. Much of its population travels south to Eigersstor and safety.
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| 176 | Year of the Wyrmclaws |
| 177 | Year of the Troublesome Vixen |
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- The Magister Malanthus Stormstaern is killed by a "falling star". His oldest friend and onetime apprentice Dorgon "Stonecloak" Heamiiolothtar becomes Magister (reigns 177 to 241).
- The elves of Iliyanbruen sally forth from their capitol Sharandar and destroy the orcs of the Severed Hand and Argrock at the cost of much of their strength. Within three years, this elven realm is no more as many of its moon elf inhabitants travel west to Evermeet or south to Ardeep. Isolated wood elf settlements remain in the depths of the Neverwinter Woods.
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| 178 | Year of the Jealous Spouse |
| 179 | Year of the Engraved Locket |
| 180 | Year of Leaning Pillars |
| 181 | Year of the Sinking Islands |
| 182 | Year of the Quenched Stirges |
| 183 | Year of the Murmuring Dead |
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- Athalantar is founded by Uthgrael Aumar "The Stag King".
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| 184 | Year of the Leucrotta |
| 185 | Year of the Golden Elephant |
| 186 | Year of Vestigal Wings |
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- Moriann, King of Cormyr (? to 198).
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| 187 | Year of the Twisted Tree |
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- Tasiiva Cormal (124 to 193), wife of Leodom IV, Widow Regent of Tethyr.
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| 188 | Year of Dissolute Drow |
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- King Uthgrael Aumar (? to 216) marries Syndrel Hornweather (? to 216).
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| 189 | Year of the Cowled Defender |
| 190 | Year of the Apparition |
| 191 | Year of the Broken Lands |
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- The archmage Iniarv creates the Twinned Crown of Yarlith, companion to the Twinned Crown of Uthtower.
- The realm of Yarlith is formed north of Uthtower to prevent dynastic squabbling between the twin sons of Ornoth and their supporters. They are crowned King Uth III of Uthtower and King Ornoth II of Yarlith respectively.
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| 192 | Year of the Magnificent Equine |
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- Elthryn Aumar (192 to 224), the father of Elminster, is born to Uthgrael and Syndrel Aumar.
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| 193 | Year of the Raised Brow |
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- Hazam II (178 to 209), 2nd son of Leodom IV, King of Tethyr.
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| 194 | Year of Coiling Smoke |
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- The Shadowdale temple of Eilistraee and its good dark elves are slaughtered by a new infestation of drow from below; the temple is restored as the Twisted Tower military garrison.
- Completion of the Fountain of the Qysars in Calimport.
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| 195 | Year of the Yeti |
| 196 | Year of Yearning Elves |
| 197 | Year of the Unseeing Priest |
| 198 | Year of the Almond Eyes |
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- Tharyann "The Elder", King of Cormyr (? to 231)
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| 199 | Year of the Cold Enchanter |
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- Hlondath instigates the Crown Against the Scepter Wars, intent on raiding Cormanthyr for magic. The skirmishes happen once every three years or so, and are more annoying than damaging, but they bleed away forces that could fight the drow of the Twisted Tower.
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