Forgotten Realms: The Library

Forgotten Realms chronology, -299 - -200

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

-299Year of Heartsblood
-298Year of Nine Watchers
  • The city of Karse is founded by Netherese refugees.
-297Year of Scrying Orbs
  • Thieves who manage to loot most of the royal treasury steal King Glaurauth's regalia, the Crown and Scepter of Saldrinar. The king's wizards pursue the thieves inland from their anchorage at what is now Procampur, but the wealth of Westgate's monarch is eventually lost in Elvenblood Pass, located north of the Vast, when a horde of orcs falls on Glaurauth's agents.
-296Year of Factols
-295Year of Harsh Words
-294Year of Sundry Violence
  • The Coronal Luszoch rises to power in Aryselmalyr, and makes veiled threats to all allied and subject powers during his forst tour of the empire. While no one acts outwardly, all forces prepare for war but wait for the belligerent coronal to make the wrong move.
-293Year of Tyrant Hawks
  • The Warlord Karlag falls at the battle for the garrison-town of Calimaronn. Another clan chieftain, Mong Ithal, leads the clans to victory. Calimaronn, as well as the river it fords, is named Ithmong, after Ithal.
-292Year of Envenomed Nectar
-291Year of the Setting Suns
  • Netherese citizens fleeing conflicts between the Survivor States begin to filter into Cormanthyr.
  • King Glaurauth of Westgate dies of heartstop. As his three offspring all died before reaching their tenth year, the aged monarch leaves his throne in turn to his successor as captain of the city guard, Thorndaer of the Golden Helm.
-290Year of Fiery Slumber
  • The fall of Netheril.
-289Year of Spiteful Stones
-288Year of Eight Lightnings
  • At Ithmong, Calimshan accedes independence to the lands of Tethyr and its people. The chiefs of Tethyr's clans create a ruling Council of Clans.
-287Year of Hard Currency
  • The city of Karse falls victim to the begrudging followers who believe the god Karsus is a sham.
-286Year of Foul Awakenings
  • Westgate falls during the course of a single night to a small army of elite mercenaries who emerge from catacombs beneath the city. By morning's light, King Thorndaer and his entire family are dead, and King Orlak rules over the oldest port in the western Inner Sea region. Until the end of his reign, the Night King holds court only after the sun has set, is never seen during daylight hours, and always keeps his entire face (except his eyes) shrouded with a black-and-white-hatched porcelain mask, leading many to suspect (correctly) that the long-lived monarch of Westgate is a vampire.
  • The inhabitants of Karse war amongst themselves leading to the destruction and abandonment of the city. The lich arcanist Wulgreth of Netheril takes up residence in the ruined city.
-285Year of Early Graves
-284Year of Lost Faith
-283Year of Shattered Portals
-282Year of the Vampire's Cloak
-281Year of Silvered Thoughts
-280Year of the Impudent Kin
-279Year of Gems Aflame
-278Year of the Ruling Sceptre
  • Tethyr's Council of Clans falls apart due to the greed of younger chiefs and the passing of the warlords who freed the land from Calimshan. The clans fall into infighting for the next 60 years.
-277Year of the Winking Eye
-276Year of Overflowing Casks
  • Jhaamdath begins construction on the largest navy yet seen on the Inner Sea.
-275Year of the Grinning Pack
-274Year of the Purring Pard
-273Year of the Dancing Faun
-272Year of Songstones
  • Citadel Adbar is completed this year.
-271Year of the Auburn Beauty
-270Year of the Winter Wolf
-269Year of Mournful Moments
-268Year of the Sunbright
-267Year of Crumbling Caverns
-266Year of Hastening Heralds
-265Year of Burgeoning Victory
-264Year of Scriveners
-263Year of Midwives
-262Year of the Broken Promise
-261Year of the Lost Princess
-260Year of Hunting Hounds
-259Year of the Pyre
-258Year of Many Moons
-257Year of the Stricken
-256Year of Able Warriors
-255Year of Furious Waves
  • Jhaamdath, a long-time rival of Calimshan, falls to a tidal wave summoned by the elven High Mages of Nikerymath. The resulting cataclysm inundates Jhaamdath, forming what is now known as the Vilhon Reach.
  • Fall of Aryselmalyr. Coronal Esahl Vesahliir and more than 40,000 sea elves and other aquatic sentients die instantly when the Esahlbane Monolith shatters Coryselmal.
  • Start of the Sixth Serôs War. After the destruction of Coryselmal and the end of the Aryselmalyr Empire, all the once subject powers of the Inner Sea vie for control of Serôs.
-254Year of Quartered Foes
-253Year of Whirlwinds
-252Year of Vindication
-251Year of Black Apples
c. -250
  • Emigration of settlers across the Inner Sea from ruined Jhaamdath to what will become Thesk, Impiltur, and the Vast.
  • Calimshan, under Syl-Pasha Faud yn Orun el Evyrtaan, reclaims some small areas and towns among the Arnaden lands of the Lake of Steam, now that Jhaamdath's control on these lands has fallen along with its primary cities.
-250Year of Imprisonments
-249Year of Silver Wings
  • General Halflar and his men storm Venom's lair and kill the green wyrm. Unfortunately, they also find out that Venom is not one dragon, but two. The entire force is killed when the second dragon attacks them.
-248Year of Last Songs
-247Year of the Striking Lance
-246Year of Much Cheer
-245Year of Entombed Blades
-244Year of Fleeting Fancy
-243Year of the Rack
-242Year of the Game
-241Year of the Sand Shroud
-240Year of Enslaved Swords
  • End of the Elf Purges. After fifteen years, the worst of the backlash against the sea elves of the Inner Sea dies down. Those who survived the attacks from koalinth, merfolk, and locathah zealots, and the newly returned (and far more evil) morkoth do so by use of magic (including High magic) and some Dukar protection.
-239Year of Whispered Lore
-238Year of Fortunes Fair
  • Start of the Second Dukars' War. After seventeen years of constant skirmishes amid the powers of the central sea (and a resurgance of the sahaugin presense due to lack of order at the Pillars of the Trident), the Dukar Orders of Jhimari and Numos take proactive steps toward maintaining the peace by attempting to found a Dukar kingdom centered on Myth Nantar: Nantarum.
-237Year of Windragons
-236Year of Unfriendly Ports
-235Year of Laughing Crystal
-234Year of Wizard's Doom
-233Year of Destinies Foretold
-232Year of Forsaken Goblets
-231Year of the Ringed Moon
  • Three entire clans of elves fleeing Serôs (the Inner Sea) to save their lives and those of their children migrate to lake Sember within the elven nation of Cormanthyr.
-230Year of Loss
  • Calimshan attacks Tethyr, seizing Ithmong and Myratma. Able workers (more than a third of the population) of both these towns are enslaved and brought to Calimport to work on the new Pasha's Palace. The 1,480 warriors among the 5,500 new slaves are all sentenced to the new Djen Arena, where many of them fight to the death against monsters and each other for the amusement of the masses.
-229Year of the Myrmidon Maid
-228Year of the Unknown Paraph
-227Year of Rangers Lost
  • Calimport increases in population and area to its largest size ever, its true citizens numbering more than 75,000. For the next eight centuries, Calimport remains the largest and most frequented port on Faerûn's shores.
  • Shyael Ildacer is born.
-226Year of the Shallows
-225Year of the Golden Staff
-224Year of Forked Tongues
-223Year of Burning Briars
  • The Sixth Rysar of Cormanthor begins with the realm's greatest warrior Eltargrim taking up the Ruler's Blade and taking his first steps toward magic (and High Magic).
-222Year of the Dessicated Corpse
-221Year of Shambling Shadows
  • Chief Clovis Ithal of Tethyr dies at the Ithmong Slaughter. His son Darrom rallied the Tethyrians and led them into the city.
-220
  • King Darrom of Tethyr marries the half-elven Saraala of Clan Tarseth.
  • End of the Second Dukars' War/End of Nantarum. Under mysterious circumstances, the powerful undersea city-state of Nantarum loses the war for the Hmur Plateau while under siege by the merfolk forces of "King" Ristan. Forces at the siege noted only a strange humming rising from the mythal and numerous discharges of magical energy lighting the night-darkened sea. When the besiegers swam into the city, they found the only person left alive; the sea elf Dukar Yupal Narlis, his mind destroyed. His thirty Dukar followers and "nobility" stood along the avenue leading to the Council Academy of the Dukars, alll transformed into coral statues with looks of contrition on their faces.
-219Year of the Sallow Orb
-218Year of Dread
-217Year of Sumbril
-216Year of Bloodied Orphreys
-215 to 750
  • The Third Epoch (Time of the Merfolk) of Serôs (the Inner Sea). This Epoch covers the rise and fall of the merfolk empire of Hmur, as well as the rise of the sahuagin empire of Aleaxtis.
-215Year of the Oracle
  • End of the Sixth Serôs War. The new powers of Serôs are shalarin As'arem, the morkoth Theocracy of the Deep Ones, and the merfolk Kingdom of Hmurrath. The rise of Hmurrath signals the start of the Third Epoch.
-214Year of the Vengeful Mitre
-213Year of the Great Bell
-212Year of High Thrones
  • At the Battle of the Purple Marches, Myratma falls to the Tethyrians, forcing the second Calishite surrender of Tethyr.
  • Darrom (-237 to -183), son of Clovis, founds the Ithal dynasty, and becomes the first King of Tethyr. Year 0 in Tethyreckoning.
  • Awakening of the beast Ulfoq in the Great Glacier. The beast devours dozens of Nakulutians before returning to its Crevasse. It has not been seen since.
-211Year of Bound Branches
-210Year of Holy Hands
  • Anauria gains its independence from the other two Netheril survivor states.
-209Year of Valiant Striving
-208Year of Shattered Havens
-207Year of Tolling
-206Year of Elfsorrows
  • Jassin Aunglor, a moon elf warrior, sneaks into Venom's lair and attacks the green wyrm. Venom's lair collapses in the conflict, burying Venom, Jassin, and Jassin's moonblade beneath tons of rock.
  • Mistale Audark, wife of the late General Halflar, requests that she and the remainder of the Audark Clan be transformed into baelnorn to protect the Vale of Lost Voices.
  • The Crown Prince of Tethyr, Darrom Ithal II, dies of a fever.
-205Year of Good Hunting
  • Chapter 2 of "Cormyr: A Novel"
  • Lord of Scepters Illiphar Nelnueve of House Amaratharr is granted rule of the colony forests of the Forest Country (Cormyr) upon his besting of Thauglorimorgorus the Black Doom in a dragons' duel of honor.
  • Orc hordes engulf Rystall Wood throughout the year, with the worst hordes arriving in winter.
  • Anauria's success as an independant city-state convinces Hlondath and Asram to abandon memories of Netheril.
-204Year of
-203Year of the Obsidian Crypt
-202Year of the Purchased Princess
-201Year of
c. -200
  • Records indicate that Tethyrian royal family rules in Tethyr.
  • Candlekeep founded; calendar of Harptos began.
  • The humans who are to become the first of the Dalesmen cross the Dragon Reach to the southern reaches of Cormanthor.
  • Halruaa is settled by fleeing Netherese wizards.
  • Start of the Fifth Age of Calimshan.
-200Year of Stonerising (NOTE: The name of this year is also given as the Year of Clouds)
  • The completion of Ithalyr, the first royal palace of Tethyr, on the seashore cliffs of the Purple Hills.
  • Coronal Eltargrim declares Semberholme and its environs as an elven sanctuary and refuge.
  • Syl-Pasha Kalil el Evyrtaan dies from thousands of viper bites, a magical trap laid by some of his closest advisors. Vizar Asraf el Majizar rules over the start of the Fifth Age of Calimshan, and Calimport becomes a more organized city with structured trade and skilled-workers' guilds.

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

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