Forgotten Realms: The Library

Forgotten Realms chronology, -399 - -300

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

-399Year of Risen Myths
-398Year of Phantoms
-397Year of Falling Stones
-396Year of Twilit Leaves
-395Year of Ashen Faces
  • Laranla (Queen) Fildaerae "the Night Flame", ruler of Ardeep, is slain in orc raids. She is succeeded by her grand-niece Imdalace.
-394Year of Clouded Vision
-393Year of Burning Winds
-392Year of Lanterns
-391Year of Squalid Scarecrows
-390Year of Enchanters
  • "The Lady and the Shadow" (Realms of the Arcane Story IX)
  • The juvenile black dragon Zarlandris settles in Glaun Bog at the behest of its' master, the green wyrm Venom.
-389Year of Steelsong
-388Year of Glad Roses
-387Year of Shattered Walls (NOTE: Cult of the Dragon gives the name of this year as the Year of Ebon Husks)
  • The fortress of Zazessovertan falls to Tethyrian forces shortly before Zazesspur falls.
  • Zazesspur is sacked and burnt by a surprise attack of barbarians from the Dragon's Neck Peninsula and the Purple Hills, marking the first known collaboration among the native Tethyrians against their oppressors.
  • Traditional beginning of Tethyr's First Age.
  • A group of young green elves discovers a group of aquatic elves exploring the shallows of the River Veire. This leads to the sea elves coming to Semberholme.
  • The elves of Semberholme discover an enclave of forest gnomes just west of the Pool of Yeven.
-386Year of Smoking Snow
-385Year of Medyoxes
-384Year of True Gages
-383Year of Riven Tankards
-382Year of Angered Ankhegs
-381Year of Fallen Goats
-380Year of Broken Gates
-379Year of Dancing Idols
  • Hobgoblins unite under the rulership of their first king. The realm of Holorarar is born.
-378Year of Ebon Hawks
  • The pasha of Calimport orders a wall built across the Dragon's Neck Peninsula. After nearly four years of constant attacks by barbarians and Tethir elves, the construction is abandoned.
-377Year of Storm Currents
-376Year of Sanctuary
-375Year of Clutching Dusk
  • The first major plague in Faerûn's history strikes the southern Shining Coast, killing over 30% of the population of Coramshan's cities in a five-year epidemic. The Empire Plague spells the end of Calimshan's control of the Calishar Emirates and the Lake of Steam colonies.
  • The Axash dynasty of Calimshan ends due to the plague, and those who survive cannot stop the rise of Syl-Pasha Akkab el Evyrtaan, cousin to the now-dead Khalid elAxash. The first order of the new syl-pasha is to put Calimport to the torch to minimize the threat of the plague. The fires, for the first time in centuries, refuse to burn and thus the new syl-pasha is forced to abandon the city for the next five years.
-374Year of Shattering
  • With the city all but abandoned due to the plague they framed on nearby Jhaamdath, priests of Talona attempt to conquer Calimport and plunder its riches to build a temple to their goddess of poisons. Many of those who remain in Calimport are rogues, escaped slaves, and necromancers. For a time, the capital becomes the Rogues' City.
-373Year of Whispering Stones
  • The Basilica of Night, Shar's impressive seat of power in Calimport, remains one of the few places in the city that is not fully controlled by Talona. Skirmishes around the temple grow more and more violent. In Eleint of this year, the Basilica finally falls to Talona's forces, but Shar's priests collapse the temple on their foes. The bulk of the temple's wealth and reliquaries are moved into their new home within an ancient temple in the Undercity, soon to be called the Temple of Old Night.
-372Year of Owls' Watching
  • The fortress of Ascal's Horn is completed by the elves of Eaerlann.
-371Year of Bruins
  • The arcanist Ioulaum transforms himself into a lich.
c. -370s
  • Work begins on Citadel Adbar, since the Narrow Sea's destruction leaves Delzoun's eastern front exposed.
-370Year of Rent Armor
  • The Empire Plague finally ends early this year. By the end of Hammer, Syl-Pasha Akkab el Evyrtaan reenters Calimport and initiates a bloodbath that destroys all those who remain in the city as traitors or plague carriers. Many folk, including the clergy of Talona that ruled the city, survive by fleeing into the Undercity.
-369Year of Falling Gold
-368Year of Simulacra
-367Year of Flaming Manes
-366Year of Arumae
-365Year of Seven Tines
-364Year of Creaking Corbels
-363Year of Paladin's Puissance
-362Year of Defilers
-361Year of Mageserpents
-360Year of Autumnfire
-359Year of Boiling Moats
  • The dwarven nation of Delzoun is attacked by balor and tanar'ri. The dwarves begin fighting a ceaseless battle that lasts night and day for 120 years.
  • The warrior Anoitus helps defend the dwarves of Delzoun.
-358Year of Shuddering Mythals
-357Year of Sycophants
-356Year of Stale Ale
-355Year of Lost Regalia
-354Year of Many Maws
  • The first recorded clash between sharn and phaerimm occurs this year.
  • The arcanist Melathlar flees Netheril and travels to Illusk. Fearing further phaerimm assaults, he sacrifices his life to power mighty Art that raises a great stone tower, walls and powerful spell wards around this fledgling settlement.
-353Year of Enchanted Parchment
-352Year of Delights Unending
-351Year of Dark Roads
c. -350
  • Netherese migration to Illusk reaches its peak as settlers from such towns as Unity, Harborage, and Westwendt Village travel west to escape the depredations of the phaerimm and other dangers.
-350Year of Craven Words
-349Year of Bold Poachers
  • A Netherese/Halruaan wizard by the name of Saldrinar of the Seven Spells, thought to be the creator of Saldrinar's Slow Gem, uses a pre-set sequence of seven spells (so that the casting of one sets off the next) to destroy Kisonraathiisar, the topaz dragon ruler of Westgate, and win himself the throne as the city's first human king.
  • The death of the Wyrmking Kisonraathiisar marks the beginning of a gradual southward migration of black dragons across the Lake of Dragons. The progeny of Thauglorimorgorus the Black Doom seek their own domains outside the lands claimed by the King of the Forest Country, in time giving name to the Dragon Coast among humankind.
-348Year of Moon Madness
-347Year of Shivered Staves
-346Year of Rhymes
-345Year of Good Courage
  • The Terraseer appears in the enclave of Karsus and warns that the goddess Mystryl is about to face her greatest challenge - one that will change the way the Netherese view magic for all time.
-344Year of Rolling Crowns
-343Year of Chilled Marrow
-342Year of Soverign Truth
  • The arcanist Shenandra develops a counter spell to the phaerimm's life drain and magic drain spells. Her spell negates the effect caused by the phaerimm's spells.
  • Shadelorn discovers a method to make a more powerful mythallar.
  • The Crown of Horns perverts Shadelorn's improved mythallar so that it absorbs all magical items, memorizable spells, and continuous spell effects within a 20-mile radius. The result is that all arcanists that had extended their life through magical means are reduced to ash, Shenandra is killed before her spell can be passed on, Shadowtop Borough's mythallar is destroyed, and the enclave crashes into the Jannick River.
-341Year of Weeping Minstrels
  • Lady Arilain, the archwizard of Opus, discovers through her divination magic that Karsus is about to cast his Karsus' Avatar spell. She warns the other wizards of Opus, and then goes to confront Karsus. She is never seen again.
-340Year of Desire and Despair
-339 to 720
  • Cormanthor's Prime/The Glory of Myth Drannor: After the fall of Netheril, magic and the Weave had become corrupted. Elves found themselves in competition for territory with many more fecund races, and troubles dogged the Tel'Quessir at all turns, but the great empire of Cormanthyr grew out of this age. Rather than stand alone, the elves chose to join with the good races against the orcs and other dangers, leading to the greatest era of cooperation among the races ever seen on Toril. This era sees the opening of Cormanthyr to the other races and the rise of Myth Drannor.
-339Year of the Sundered Webs
  • "Dangerous Games"
  • "When Even Sky Cities Fall" (Realms of the Arcane Story V)
  • "Too Long in the Dark" (Realms of Shadow Story III)
  • Ioulaum disappears.
  • Karsus casts the twelfth-level spell Karsus Avatar and all magic ceases for a time, returning much changed.
  • The Fall of Netheril; all enclaves fall to earth and are destroyed. (3520 NY)
  • Mystryl is destroyed, but is replaced by Mystra, the new goddess of magic, who forever strips 10th level and greater magic from humanity.
  • Anauria, Asram, and Hlondath (the survivor states) arise out of the rubble of Netheril, saved by Mystra.
  • Serôs (the lands under the waves of the Inner Sea) suffers numerous blows during this year, as the wild magic (due to the death of Mystryl and the Fall of Netheril) creates a whirlpool from the surface down to the mythal at Myth Nantar, destroying many buildings and dragging surface ships to watery graves. The Netherese enclaves of Mhalloth and Sakkors crash into the Inner Sea, coming to rest from forty to 300 feet beneath the sea's surface.
  • The Fall of Netheril is felt even in Calimport, as the temporary sundering of the weave causes the collapse of a number of minarets and palaces whose only supports were those of magic. In the few moments when magic does not exist on Toril, more than 7,000 in the city die in the destruction.
-338Year of Guttering Torches
  • Netherese refugees from Northreach are led west to safety by dwarves of Delzoun through the underground tunnels known as the Low Road.
-337Year of Broken Charges
-336Year of Dark Sunset
-335Year of Seven Spirits
  • The arcanist Maerin of Illusk commissions Immar Fardelver and many other artisans of Delzoun to begin construction of the great subterranean city of Gauntlgrym in the Crags, east of Illusk.
-334Year of Three Seas' Rage
  • Dwarves of Delzoun build a small keep known as Besendar's Blockhouse at the site of present-day Everlund.
-333Year of Humbling Havens
  • The elves of Eaerlann allow some Netherese to settle in Ascalhorn, provided they relearn elven magic and abandon their abusive powers of the past centuries. To practice any Netherese magics in the city is a great crime, and is punishable by banishment or death.
  • Human survivors of the fall of Netheril are given refuge by the dwarves of Citadel Sundbarr for a time and this temporary settlement becomes known as Sundabar to its human inhabitants.
-332Year of Burnished Books
-331Year of Shadows Fleeting
  • The elven armies of Cormanthyr and Rystal Wood finally break the greater defenses of the Twisted Tower and destroy all remaining drow slavers within the tower. The Tower is left in the hands of good dark elf allies, and it becomes a great temple to Eilistraee within a century.
  • The Soldier's Blade is lost during this great battle, captured by the drow in their slaying of Lord Orym Hawksong during the fall of the Twisted Tower. The blade and the body of Lord Orym are taken down into the Underdark as spoils of war by the fleeing drow.
-330Year of Empty Quests
  • The Netherese warrior Bey of Runlatha is slain by the nalfeshnee Zukothoth on the western border of Delzoun. His fellow survivors of the fall of Netheril fragment into loosely allied tribal groups, precursors of the Uthgardt tribes of the modern era, and revert back to a primitive way of life.
-329Year of Icefire
-328Year of Drowned Hopes
-327Year of Opened Graves
-326Year of Scorched Skulls
  • The lich Wulgreth destroys a city built near Karsus's stony dead form in retribution.
c. -325
  • Netherese wanderers found the settlement of Hartsvale in the Ice Mountains, east of the Coldwood.
-325Year of Crown Hatred
-324Year of Windriver's Loss
-323Year of Unseen Doom
-322Year of Plunging Hooves
-321Year of Hollow Hills
  • Gauntlgrym is completed by the dwarves of Delzoun in this year and the arcanist Maerin of Illusk welcomes humans from Illusk, Netherese refugees from Northreach and Sundabar who have made the long trek west, and dwarves of Clan Goldspire of Delzoun, to live in the city.
-320Year of Netted Dreams
-319Year of Rock Roses
-318Year of Crying Wolves
-317Year of Vampiric Glee
-316Year of Drifting Death
-315Year of Vengeance
  • After a number of raids and a short siege, Zazesspur falls once again to the barbarians. It is rebuilt as a Tethyrian fortified town, and named Fort Karlag.
-314Year of Four Princes
-313Year of Humility
-312Year of Jade Roses
-311Year of Patient Traps
c. -310s
  • In gratitude for their aid in the Shadow Wars, the Coronal allows the settlement of some reformed, surface-acclimated drow into some remote lands of Cormanthyr to the east of Cormanthor.
-310Year of Glassharks
-309Year of Many Anchors
-308Year of Proud Vixens
-307Year of Illuminated Vellums
  • Tethyrian clans, under the rule of Warlord Karlag, conquer the Calishite garrison at Myratma, which they rename Artrimmar.
  • King Saldrinar vanishes suddenly, leaving the throne of Westgate to his only apprentice, Mather, known posthumously as "Wyrmshroud".
-306Year of Wan Shades
-305Year of Bold Bladesmen
-304Year of Erupting Crypts
-303Year of Dusky Dwarves
-302Year of Heirs Adrift
-301Year of Wafting Sorrows
  • Mather Wyrmshroud dies defending Westgate from the concerted attacks of three black dragons from the lands of the Forest Kingdom. Glaurauth, a warrior who is Mather's closest friend and the captain of the city guard, succeeds the fallen wizard-king. Known as "the Great", Glaurauth becomes monarch of Westgate at a time when the city is still the northernmost human settlement in the western Inner Sea lands.
c. -300
  • Westgate ruled by King Glaurauth.
-300Year of Cold Anger

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