Forgotten Realms: The Library

Forgotten Realms chronology, -199 - -100

All dates are in Dalereckoning, and year names are given where appropriate.

-199Year of Flowing Fire
-198Year of the Beast
-197Year of Talons Twelve
-196Year of Gilded Draperies
-195Year of the Chirugeons
-194Year of Torment
-193Year of the Hawkstaff
-192Year of Tourneys
-191Year of Dark Villany
-190Year of Three Heirs
-189Year of Stunned Serpents
  • Shyllisyrr Ithal, elven wife of Corin Ithal (uncle of King Darrom Ithal of Tethyr) dies of a snake bite. Beginning of six years of escalating unrest between Tethyr's elves and humans.
-188Year of Wrongful Martyrs
  • Despite a good heart and a business sense that nearly doubled the trade coming to Calimshan, Syl-Pasha Malik yn Asraf el Majizar dies under assassins' knives on the third day of this year.
  • The Throne Wars: The assassination of Syl-Pasha Malik begins more than two years of conflict that ranges from trade wars to military campaigns against cities. Fourteen different Calephs claim the throne of Calimport (and symbolically Calimshan) by years end, none of whom hold the post for more than 62 days.
  • Seven different series of fires (known collectively as the Throne Fires) engulf eastern and southern Calimport in this year, set by rival factions fighting for the throne.
-187Year of Gilded Burials
  • 28 more rulers claim the Caleph's Throne in Calimport. By Midwinter, all true unity among the cities of Calimshan has shattered. All areas of the empire stand individually, many claiming to be the true heart of the empire and hoping to grab more land and control for themselves.
  • The Throne Wars end with the rise to power of the once-meek wizard vizar Tasyn el Tarshaj yi Manshaka. The Tarshaj dynasty (four brothers and their families, of whom Tasyn was the elder) simultaneously conquer the cities of Manshaka, Memnon, Calimport, and Almraiven, thus unifying the Pasha's Lands for the first time in nearly two years. Syl-Pasha Tasyn's first chores are to rebuild the capital and reconquer the rest of Calimshan.
-186Year of the Quiet Horde
-185Year of Unburdening
-184Year of the Abandoned Heart
-183Year of Larks
  • King Darrom of Tethyr is assassinated on orders of Amir I, head of Clan Tarseth.
  • Silvam (-209 to -118), 2nd son of Darrom, is King of Tethyr.
-182Year of Sleeping Giants
  • Calimshan, in its attempts to reconquer its old territories around the Lake of Steam and the Shaar, discover that the old threat of the beholders has risen again. Beholders and their cultists control the majority of territory east of Ankhapur and are now pushing their forces west in retaliation against the Calishite invasions.
-181Year of Rivers Rising
-180Year of Tragedies
  • Amir Tarseth's role in the assassination of King Darrom is uncovered by his sons, Amir II and Ra'id II. The two sons slay their father to restore the family's honor.
  • Laummas the Liegelord becomes a lich.
-179Year of the Huntress
-178Year of the Cold Quarrel
-177Year of Leaping Wolves
-176Year of Travel
-175Year of Shifting Sands
-174Year of the Bestiary
-173Year of Hale Heroes
  • Varytha Ithal, missing daughter of Corin Ithal of Tethyr, returns to Tethyr to warn of a coming goblin horde.
  • The Perry Accords are signed by Tethyr and Calimshan. Their architect, Florian Perry, becomes the first Count of Tethyr.
-172Year of Sickles
  • Florian Perry, the First Ambassador of Tethyr, travels to Calimport to negotiate a long- lasting peace between the two countries.
  • The Moonrise elves settle Ssrenshen, under Moonrise Crag.
-171Year of the Ogres' Rage
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  • The Eshowe begin a 300-year war with the Tabaxi of Chult.
-170Year of Many Eyes
  • Zahyra Bardson-Ithal becomes the first Court Vizera of Tethyr. She creates the magical Shield of Silvam.
  • Beginning of the Eye Tyrant Wars: Calimshan allies with Tethyr and Iltkazar to fight the risen beholder powers of the Lake of Steam, which have pushed back Calishite aggressors and are now advancing into eastern Tethyr. Almraiven falls to beholders within the first three months of the year, and Suldophor follows by Greengrass. Though a longer struggle, the beholders control the Spider Swamp and the southern Forest of Mir by the end of Kythorn. This prevents much transfer of troops from western Calimshan save directly into beholder-controlled strongholds.
-169Year of the Well Women
  • Rumor's of Ioulaum's continued existence begin circulating when an arcanist, Tabra, claims to have been an apprentice of Ioulaum.
-168Year of Furrowed Brows
-167Year of Sudden Kinship
  • The Storming of the Qatarn Hills: In the first five days of Uktar, King Silvam of Tethyr leads the Fourth Army to victory over nine beholders and thrice their own army's forces. The beholders occupy Volothamp and Schamedar by year's end, though their entrenchment within eastern Calimshan overextends their reach, and they lose control of Ankhapur, one of their largest surface strongholds.
-166Year of Seven Loves Lost
  • The human realms declare victory in the Eye Tyrant Wars, though alliances remain to pursue renegade beholders for the next few years among all their lands (Calimshan, Tethyr, and Iltkazar).
  • Birth of Baerauble Etharr, the first Lord High Mage of Cormyr (-166 to 429DR).
-165Year of the Abandoned Hope
-164Year of Passing Dreams
-163Year of the Yarting
-162Year of Boneblight
-161Year of the Emerald Mage
  • The alliance of Calimshan, Tethyr, and Iltkazar forged during the Eye Tyrant Wars dissolves by this year.
-160Year of the Stone Giant
  • A cairn (undead stone giant) called Dodkong or "King of Death" begins wandering the western Realms.
-159Year of the Burning River
-158Year of the Deathdolor
-157Year of Many Harvests
-156Year of the Flickering Sun
-155Year of Revealed Chants
-154Year of Bloody Hazard
-153Year of the Starry Shroud
  • Proeskampalar (present-day Procampur), is founded by dwarves and quickly becomes an important trading partner of Westgate.
-152Year of Wildwine
-151Year of Roving Bands
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  • The great conflagration. Narfell and Raumathar are destroyed in one final battle. Monsters and minor powers summoned in the last battle invade the South after the battle ends.
-150Year of Recompense
  • The syl-pasha of Calimshan grants the lands west of the Forest of Mir and north of the river Memnon to Tethyr, moving Tethyr's southern border to its present-day boundaries. While many in Tethyr believe this a reward for their aid in the Eye Tyrant Wars, it is really a political move to depower Calishite nobles amassing power against the syl-pasha.
-149Year of Adamantite Ore
-148Year of the Black Marble
  • The God Kings final battle. An alliance of the Summoned is defeated and they are sent back to their home planes.
-147Year of the Candlemaker
-146Year of Cresting Floods
-145Year of Depths Unknown
-144Year of the Copper Kettle
-143Year of Bright Lamplight
-142Year of Beauty Drowned
-141Year of Ancient Coins
-140Year of Blind Justice
-139Year of Burnt Ambitions
-138Year of Damsels Dancing
-137Year of Blooded Sunsets
  • The Chultian city of Mezro is sacked.
  • A company of paladins from the Vilhon Reach in service to the Morninglord overthrows the Night King of Westgate. Following the vampire's destruction, the group's commander, Dawnknight Gen Soleilon, is crowned king of Westgate in the undead monarch's stead. The Radiant King rules wisely for many years, rebuilding Westgate's fortunes and establishing the Soleilon dynasty. The paladin-king's most notable accomplishment is the erection of the city's first stone walls and the construction of an extensive sewer system.
  • Unbeknownst to the general populace, Westgate's deepest catacombs remain home to at least a dozen vampires created by their former monarch. The undead legacies of Orlak war amongst themselves for nearly a year before a new Night King is chosen to rule Westgate's underworld. From this day forward, the Argraal of Orlak and the Fangs of the Night King are held by the preeminent vampire "descended" from the original Night King. Any vampire that slays the Night King assumes the bloody chalice, the dagger hilt with twin poniard blades, and the title in turn. On those rare occasions when the Night King is not slain by a rival vampire, all of Orlak's existing "descendants" war amongst themselves for the title until a single candidate reigns supreme (a feat most commonly achieved by killing all potential rivals and then creating a new group of servitor vampires).
-136Year of the Ruling Spectre
-135Year of Old Beginnings
  • The Raumathari city of Kensten is rebuilt by Mulhorand. Official founding of the modern city of Bezantur.
  • Other cities are soon built on the coastal areas of the Wizard's Reach as Mulhorand and Unther once again expand northward.
  • The Shaking Plague strikes several cities in Calimshan.
-134Year of the Scorpion
-133Year of Silent Screams
  • Great sea-storms erupt along the Sword Coast this spring. On Midsummer's Night, a great wave engulfs the city of Velen, killing half its population.
-132Year of Dragons Diving
-131Year of Favor
-130Year of Fleeting Pleasures
-129Year of Gleaming Shards
-128Year of Hallowed Hills
-127Year of Shackles
-126Year of Rainbows Weeping
-125Year of Banished Wisdom
-124Year of Lessons Learned
-123Year of Rich Rewards
-122Year of Unleashed Sorrow
-121Year of Ample Rewards
-120Year of Confusion
-119Year of Close Scrutiny
-118Year of Elven Delights
  • Nishan (-179 to -98), 2nd son of Silvam, King of Tethyr.
-117Year of Endless Bounty
-116Year of Lost Messengers
-115Year of Strident Bards
-114Year of Making Merry
-113Year of Ill Tidings
-112Year of Tortured Dreams
-111Year of Terrible Anger
  • The Orc Marches: The entire North erupts as great orc hordes stream south from the Spine of the World and the Ice Mountains to lay waste to all in their path. Illusk and Gauntlgrym fall to this onslaught, and Delzoun is devastated by countless orc assaults. Most of Illusk's population manages to escape by sea or by magic and is spared. The elves of Iliyanbruen, Rilithar, Siluvanede and Eaerlann unite to shatter the strength of the orcs and halt their rampage south into the High Forest and Dessarin Valley.
-110Year of Shadowed Glances
  • Akkabar el Shoon is born in Myratma.
  • Ualair the Silent is born.
-109Year of Pixies Playing Foul
-108Year of Wands
  • Start of the Seventh Serôs War. The morkoth theocracy of the Deep One attack Es'rath and Hmurrath on two fronts. They free the Emerald Eye of Kyron, using it with astonishing effectiveness.
  • Illusk is swiftly rebuilt in this year as it attracts many humans displaced by the Orc Marches. Its ruling magocracy, the Grand Cabal, returns to power.
-107Year of Tapestries
-106Year of the Valorous Kobolds
  • House Tanor'Thal creates the waterfall in the Shaft of Undermountain.
  • End of the Seventh Serôs War. The war ends with the surprising appearance of long-hidden triton forces from the deeper trenches of the sea. Breaking the back of the morkoth Theocracy and sending the morkoth fleeing back into the depths, the tritons help maintain the balance among the shalarin and the morkoth on the floor of Serôs.
-105Year of the Bloody Goad
  • Drow of House Tanor'Thal uncover a lost temple to Lolth in Undermountain.
-104Year of the Star Stallion
  • The Emerald Eye of Kyron, after some study, is secretly sealed within the black coral walls of Vynagyr, under the Inner Sea.
  • Besendar's Blockhouse is abandoned by dwarves of Delzoun in the face of countless orc raids.
-103Year of the Taint
-102Year of the Spiked Gauntlet
-101Year of the Flame Noose
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  • Fall of Delzoun to encroaching phaerimm and other dangers; only scattered surface Citadels survive.
  • For the next hundred years, the Illuskans of Ruathym colonise the Gull Rocks, Gundarlun, Mintarn, the northern Moonshae Isles, the Purple Rocks, the Teeth, Tuern (aka Uttersea), Umukek, the Wave Rocks, and the Whalebones. In time these Illuskan seafarers become known as the Northmen.
-100Year of the Black Unicorn
  • Delzoun falls to encroaching phaerimm and humanoid raids although Citadel Adbar and Citadel Felbarr survive. Citadel Sundbarr defends itself by harnessing the might of the great Everfire volcanic rift, but orcs and other monsters plunder the surface portions of the city slaying its inhabitants or causing them to flee.

A. Jason Antokas, George Krashos, Olaf Krusche, Jan Stephan Lundquist

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