| ? to ? |
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- The Days of Thunder: This is the time of the fabled Creator Races, when many gods came to the consciousness of mortals, and many races still hid in caves. No mention can be found of elves, dwarves, and other races in this time. Still, their absence on ancient cave paintings is hardly sufficient evidence to say that they did not exist in the Realms.
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| ? to -24000 |
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- The Dawn Ages/The Time of Dragons: Dragons and giants rule Toril at this time; elves and dwarves settle in small but growing communities all over Faerûn. The dwarves overthrow the giants and start their empires. Toward the end of this time, the elves start doing the same against the dragon overlords of this era.
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| ? to -14000 |
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- The First Epoch (Time of Beginnings) in Serôs (the Inner Sea). All the races currently living under the Sea of Fallen Stars take to the waters during this period, which only the whales have much knowledge of. This Epoch ends with the elven migration into Serôs, and their rise to power.
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| -25090 |
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| c. -25000 |
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- "Traitors" ends (Realms of the Elves Story I)
- First mentions of Ironfang Keep on the Dragons' Sea appear in draconic legends.
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| c. -24000 |
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- The Sundering: Hundreds of High Magi gathered in the heartland of Faerûn at the Gathering Place. Ignoring the lesson learned from the destruction of Tintageer centuries earlier, the High Magi cast a spell designed to create a glorious elven homeland. As the Day of Birthing dawned, the spell reached its apex. Faerûn, the one land, is sundered apart by the unbridled force of the spell. As a result, hundred of cities are washed away, thousands of elves lie dead, and the face of Abeir-Toril is changed forever. The name Faerûn, no longer the one land, was given to the largest continent. Evermeet, Island of Elves, is created. The Tree of Souls is given to the elves.
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-24000 to
-12000 |
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- The First Flowering: The elves reach their peak here, more than 15,000 years ago. The great elven civilizations of Faerûn include Aryvandaar, Illefarn, Ilythiir, Keltormir, Miyeritar, and Shantel Othreier. With the elves' success against the orcs and dragons and giants, the other races thrive in safety and begin the slow climb on civilization.
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| -23900 |
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- The elven forest community of Sharlarion survives the Sundering nearly complete. These fortunate elves increased their number and spread into the surrounding forest, hills, and lowlands.
- Establishment of the first elvish settlements of Aryvandaar (Present Day: High Forest).
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| -23600 |
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- Establishment of the first elvish settlements of Shantel Othreier (Present Day: Green Fields).
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| -23200 |
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- Establishment of the first elvish settlements of Ilythiir (Present Day: Shaar & Forest of Amtar).
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| -23100 |
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- Establishment of the first elvish settlements of Syòrpiir (Present Day: Ankhwood and Chondalwood).
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| -22900 |
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- Establishment of the first elvish settlements of Illefarn (Present Day: Ardeep & Kryptgarden Forests and parts of the Dessarin valley).
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| -22500 |
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- Establishment of the elvish settlements of Orishaar (Present Day: Duskwood & the Shaar).
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| -21400 |
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- Establishment of the elvish settlements of Thearnytaar (Present Day: Thornwood).
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| -21000 |
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- Establishment of the elvish settlements of Eiellûr (Present Day: Winterwood).
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| c. -20000 |
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- First skirmishes between the Orishaar and Ilythiir elvish tribes begin, and continue off and on for seven millennia.
- Evidence from carvings in some sea caves under the Inner Sea suggests that the merfolk, locathah, and sahuagin inhabit the deeps and have battled each other since this time.
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| -18800 |
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- Establishment of the first elvish settlements of Miyeritar (Present Day: High Moor, Misty Forest), by green and dark elves due to political differences with the gold elves of Aryvandaar.
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| -17800 |
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- Establishment of the great elvish settlements of Keltormir (Present Day: Forest of Tethyr which spanned all of Tethyr, Amn, Erlkazar, and Calimshan) by moon and green elves of Thearnytarr and elsewhere, seeking peace and simple lives away from the strife of the other elven realms.
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| -17500 |
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- The independent sylvan elf realms of Thearnytaar, Eiellûr, and Syòrpiir open discussions of unifying the elves of the Satyrwood (Present Day: Thornwood/Chondalwood).
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-17100 to
-16800 |
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- The War of Three Leaves: The unification of the Satyrwood is thwarted by dark elven Ilythiiri spies and assassins, killing their leaders and framing opposing heirs, driving the three realms to a multifront war. Ilythiir's influence is not discovered for centuries.
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| c. -17000 |
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- Elves migrate from Thearnytaar, Eiellûr, and Syòrpiir to the Inner Sea over the next seven millenia.
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| c. -16900 |
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- Numerous elves abandon the surface realms of Eiellûr, and Syòrpiir during the War of Three Leaves to settle in the Selmal Basin of the Inner Sea. This begins the elven migrations into the Sea of Fallen Stars, which continue for seven millennia.
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| -15300 |
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- The elvish Vyshaan clan rises to power in Aryvandaar under Coronal Ivósaar Vyshann.
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| -14700 |
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- Aryvandaar's rulers begin attempts to diplomatically and peacefully annex Miyeritar into their realm and under their control.
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| c. -14000 |
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- Tribal barbarian clans of humans roam Keltormir, hiding and hunting in the great forests and avoiding the greater races of elves, giants, and dragons.
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-14000 to
-215 |
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- The Second Epoch (Time of the Elves) of Serôs (the Inner Sea). The Seconf Epoch officially begins with the building of the undersea capital of Aryselmalyr, and ends with forty years of war between the sea elves and other undersea races. It is also during this Epoch that the first land- dwellers began exploration of the waters (wizards of Netheril), the initial migrations of shalarin into the Inner Sea, and the trapping of the sahuagin behind the Sharksbane Wall.
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| -13900 |
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- Miyeritar becomes the center of elven Art and High Magic on Faerûn.
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| -13200 |
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- Skirmishing and trade interference starts between Aryvandaar and Miyeritar.
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-12000 to
-9000 |
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- The Crown Wars: The Crown Wars of the Elves are fought during this period, pitting nearly four generations of elf against elf. The two greatest events of the Crown Wars that still have impact on the Realms are the Dark Disaster and the Descent of the Drow. The Dark Disaster utterly destroyed the forest realm of Miyeritar, leaving the blasted plains that are now the High Moors. Perhaps due to the savagery of the Crown Wars or other factors long lost to time, the Dark Elves became corrupt during this era, broke away from their brethren, and after much warfare and cruelty they descended beneath the planet's surface to become the Deep Elves, the drow.
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| c. -12000 |
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- The Crown Wars begin with the rise of the Vyshaantar Empire of Aryvandaar. After centuries of fruitless diplomacy, the impatient, grasping rulers of Aryvandaar attack Miyeritar and begins putting political pressure on Shantel Othreier to join them or suffer the same fate.
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| -11800 |
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- Miyeritar is militarily occupied and annexed by Aryvandaar, though a number of clans and strongholds resist and continue to fight. Many elves of Illefarn, despite its officially neutral stance, provide secret safehavens for Miyeritari refugees.
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| c. -11700 |
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- The dragon's war against the giants of Keltormir leads to the First Tethrift; a great burning of the forest that separated the Wyrmwood from the greater body of the forest. Tethir, the first recorded elven dragonslayer, slays two ancient red wyrms. A portion of Keltormir's woods are named for him.
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| c. -11450 |
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- The dragon's war against the giants of Keltormir leads to the First Tethrift; a great burning of southern Shantel Othreier that separated the soon-to-be-called the Wyrmwood from the greater body of the forest. Tethir, kin of Keltormir and the first recorded elven dragonslayer, single- handedly slays two ancient red wyrms of the Ridge and saves many elves. A portion of Keltormir's woods are named for him.
- Tethir's stand earned the elves the respect of the dragons, who had previously dismissed them as ignorant, two-footed cattle.
- Over time, humanity slowly builds in the clearings created by the dragon fires.
- The Second Crown War flares up in answer to the aggressions of Aryvandaar. Ilythiir rises up and viciously strikes out at any who support the gold elves of the north. Its nearest neighbor of Orishaar, as a major trade partner with Aryvandaar, falls swiftly in a brutal surprise attack.
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| -11600 |
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- The Ilythiiri destroy Syòrpiir by fire, separating them from their allied neighbors and burning their homes to the ground.
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| -11500 |
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- Thearnytaar and Eiellûr band together and declare war on Ilythiir, decrying their use of fire and wanton destruction far more than the power plays of the northern elves. They fight a holding action, preventing the Ilythiiri from advancing north.
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| -11450 |
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- The Sable Wars: Thearnytaar and Eiellûr, with minimal allies from Keltormir and Shantel Orthreier, invade Ilythiir, intent on destroying or reforming the dark elves before more realms fall. More than half their forces are decimated by the corrupt magics of the dark elves.
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| -11400 |
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- Fall of Eiellûr as the Ilythiiri once again use fire to destroy their realm around them and isolate them from aid. They also were helped by traitor green elves, who thought their appeasement actions could help restore peace.
- The start of the Crown Wars (and the Sable Wars and the Fall of Eiellûr) sees a sudden influx of elves entering the Inner Sea, forcing the elves out into the sea and away from the coastal waters. This ignites the first major conflicts with merfolk and sahuagin.
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| -11300 |
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- End of the First Crown War: Miyeritar conquered by Aryvandaar.
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| -11200 |
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- Thearnytaar falls to the savage and now-unrepentant dark elves, who use enslaved monsters and undead to occupy the thorn-and-bramble choked woods. Ilythiir now directly skirmishes with the major realm of Keltormir along its eastern and southern expanses.
- With another major migration into the Sea of Fallen Stars after the fall of Thearnytaar, the sea elves expand militarily beyond the Selmal Basin and establish the undersea kingdoms and regions of Coranthys, Tor Meraliir, Ullythan Reef, and Ryeniir.
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| -11003 |
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- Rise of the Aryselmalyr Empire in the Sea of Fallen Stars. Coryselmal, the grandest of the sea elf cities of Selmalyr (an elven kingdom of the Selmal Basin), becomes the capital of the Aryselmalyr Empire over all the sea elf kingdoms in the Inner Sea.
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| c. -11000 |
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- Dwarves from the great stronghold of Bhaerynden establish the first holds of Deep Shanatar in the southern Underdark (Present Day: Alimir Mountains, Lake of Steam).
- The illithid enclave of Oryndoll is settled by refugees from Glyth, a planet in Realmspace.
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| -10900 |
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- The Third Crown War erupts as accords finally fail between Shantel Othreier and Aryvandaar.
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| -10700 |
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- Battle of the Gods' Theatre: The Gods' Theater (Present Day: The Tunlands) on eastern Shantal Othreier is the site of one of the largest and costliest of all the Crown Wars' battles. Nearly 70,000 elves die at the hands of elven and orcish enemies, as an orc horde 100,000 strong falls upon the already-embattled elves. Aryvandaar wins the day, and occupies the northern half of Shantel Othreier.
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| -10600 |
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- Shantel Othreier is conquered by the Vyshaantar Empire of Aryvandaar after the mysterious death of Coronal Ynloeth. Guerilla fighting and rebel mages arise in parts of Miyeritar and the newly conquered territories.
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| -10500 |
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- The Dark Disaster: Miyeritar is engulfed in killing storms, which reduce this entire forest and realm into barren wastelands in three months. While no proof could ever be found, many believe the High Mages of Aryvandaar inflicted the Dark Disaster on Miyeritar.
- Shock over the Dark Disaster established an uneasy four decades of peace, as nearly every elf of Faerûn shrank back in awe and horror from what havoc the Crown Wars wrought.
- The elven realm of Ardeep is finally conquered by Aryvandaar. In the hundred years it takes the Vyshaan to bring this land under their hegemony, they slay two of its rulers, Ilitharath and his grandson Tarosspur.
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| c. -10450 |
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- The Fourth Crown War: Ilythiir's seething counter-attack to avenge Miyeritar sees their open use of the corrupt powers of Ghaunadar and other dark, evil gods for the first time.
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| -10300 |
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- The Keltormir elves, opposed on both sides by the Vyshaan of Aryvandaar and the dark elf clan Hune of Ilythiir, strategically withdraw from eastern Keltormir, holding their lines at Highland's Edge.
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| -10270 |
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- The Stone and Claw Campaigns: The withdrawal of Keltormir's forces to close and defend its own borders pitted the forces of Aryvandaar and Ilythiir against each other. They soon closed ranks and fought incessantly for two centuries. Battles raged across the giant-infested mountains and wemic-claimed plains north of Keltormir.
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| -10110 |
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- In opposition to the corrupt dark elves of Ilythiir and their continued destruction of the forested elven homelands by fire (an elven enemy of long-standing), over 1,000 priests and High Mages in neutral Illefarn and other free areas spend decades in fervent prayer for salvation by Corellon Larethian and the Seldarine gods.
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| -10100 |
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- Through enslaved dragons and other powers, the dark elves of Ilythiir engulf all of Shantal Othreier in flames, destroying over 70% of its trees over the course of 50 years.
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| -10000 |
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- Descent of the Drow: Corellon's magic, as directed through his priests and High Mages, transforms the dark elves, whether the corrupt Ilythiiri or others, into the drow. Whether by magic or by the weaknesses that banish them from the sunlit lans, all drow retreat within two month's passing into the Underdark.
- Elves are summoned by the Seldarine to the site that becomes Elven Court one month after the Descent of the Drow, to settle differences and restore peace among the elves.
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| -9900 |
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- Aryvandaar's covert persecution of High Mages and priests begins, as they attempt to destroy or control any who might somehow force their descent as they did the drow. While not destroyed utterly, Illefarn and its colony in the Llewyrrwood is annexed by Arvynandaar as its nobility of priests and High Mages died under the persecution of the increasingly-crazed Coronal Giilvas Vyshaan. Many elves of both lands flee to the remnants of Shantel Othreier.
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| -9872 |
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- Sea-elven garrison towers are built among the Sharksteeth Mountains under the Inner Sea, with the help of Vodos the Great Builder.
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| -9845 |
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- Construction begins on the Sharksbane Wall (uniting the existing Tower Garrisons) by clergy of Deep Sashelas, Trishina, and Eadro.
|
| -9839 |
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- Start of the First Serôs War. The burgeoning Inner Sea empire of sea elves allies with the merfolk against the sahaugin of eastern Serôs.
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| -9833 |
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- End of the First Serôs War. This war destroys the major sahaugin kingdom in "Sekolah's Trench" (the Trench of Lopok). Wars and skirmishes continue across the centuries to slow or stop the continuing construction of the Sharksbane Wall.
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| -9800 |
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- The Vyshantaar Empire's forces occupy all elven realms (save Keltormir) from the High Forest of Aryvandaar to the sweltering southern forests of Ilythiir. They begin the colonization and settlement of Evermeet.
- A large force of Llewyrr elves escapes the oppressive mainland and resettle in isolation and safety among the mountains of the Moonshae Islands. Their new land becomes Synnoria, after the elfqueen who led the Llewyr to this island sanctuary.
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| c. -9600 |
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- Rise of the first drow civilizations in the Underdark beneath southern Faerûn. Their constant harassment of the Vyshantaar forces over the next five centuries help prevent their annexing Keltormir or any other lands.
- The drow city of Guallidurth is founded.
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| -9200 |
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- The Fifth Crown War: The First Proclamation of Elven Court leads to the revolt of the nobles of Aryvandaar and the last Crown War begins. The Elven Court, the Seldarine priesthoods, and the long-hidden High Mages restore pockets of resistance and freedom across the entire Vyshantaar Empire, fragmenting the armies and nobles to limit their coordination.
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| c. -9000 |
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- The illithids dwelling in Oryndoll's outlying holdings clash with the Shanatar dwarves in a protracted conflict known to the dwarves as the Mindstalker Wars and to the mind flayers as the War of Cloven Thoughts.
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| -9000 |
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- The Fifth Crown War ends with the utter defeat of the Vyshaan and the dissolution of Aryvandaar. Much of the High Forest is abandoned for an age, leaving the forest open so the gods might restore its peace.
- The Wandering Years of elven colonization begin. Many elves begin migrating back to Elven Court in its eastern forest. Illefarn and Keltormir are the sole remaining civilizations to emerge intact from the Crown Wars. The end of the Crown Wars brings the last of the great elven migrations into the Inner Sea.
- Drow overwhelm the dwarves of Bhaerynden and take their fifth-city for their own.
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-9000 to
-3859 |
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- The Rise of Civilization/The Founding Time: This era signals the rise of all the humanoid civilizations, as the many dragons and giants were long overthrown and the elven wars no longer loomed over everyone as a threat. The elven realms of Evereska and Evermeet grow by colonization along with other realms, from the human Unther or Coramshan to the dwarven realms of High Shanatar or Oghrann.
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| -8938 |
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- The 135-mile-long Sharksbane Wall, built to keep the sahuagin out of the waters of the Inner Sea, is completed in this year.
|
| -8830 |
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- The five Tunnels of Iratis are completed by the end of this year.
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| -8800 |
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- An elven tale, "Inferno", tells of a great drought lasting two summers in this year. After an attack by a flight of red dragons on the center of the great elven forest of Keltormir, the dragon fire sparked a forest fire that raged out of control. This fire extinguished four entire clans of elves, eleven giant settlements, at least four green dragons, and thousands of miles of woodlands. The fires clear all the wooded area between the two great rivers (Present Day: the rivers Sulduskoon and Ith).
- Founding of Rystall Wood and its First Rysar begins with its first crowned Coronal.
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| c. -8640 |
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- Dwarves are believed to live in great numbers in the eastern mountains of present-day Semphar.
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| -8600 |
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- Evereska is founded in secret by surviving clans of the former Shantel Othreier, Miyeritar, Orishaar, and Eiellûr as an elven safehaven in the woods east of Aryvandaar.
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| c. -8500 |
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- Dwarves migrate north from the Great Rift and enter the cavernous realms beneath the Sword Coast South.
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| -8500 |
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- Keltormir's Fall: Due to fire-sundered and otherwise ravaged homelands, Keltormir dissolves into three separate forests: The Wyrmwood, Darthiir Wood (Present Day: Forest of Mir), and the Forest of Tethir.
- Aelinthaldaar is established as the capitol of Illefarn at the site of present-day Waterdeep.
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| -8400 |
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- End of the First Rysar of Rystall Wood. Year of Founding for Jhyrennstar. The Coronal is crowned and the First Rysar starts.
- Founding of Siluvanede in the northwestern reaches of the High Forest.
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| -8298 |
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- Start of the Second Serôs War. The sea-elven empire uses locathah forces to rally the enemies' enslaved locathah against them, as well as merfolk and crabmen.
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| -8282 |
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- End of the Second Serôs War. The war destroys the Kuo-Toan Consortiums. All their caravan cities along the underwater Plains of Duna collapse, and their people are put to the slaughter, rendering the kua-toans nearly extinct in the Inner Sea up til the present day.
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| -8200 |
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- Founding of Uvaeren and its First Rysar begins with the crowning of its first Coronal.
|
| -8130 |
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- Yrlaancel, the city of peace, is built within Rystall Wood.
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| -8100 |
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- The dwarven realm of Deep Shanatar is at its greatest expanse beneath southwestern Faerun (Present Day: Amn, Tethyr, Erlkazar, Calimshan, Alimir Peninsula). The empire is ruled from the Wyrmskull Throne in Alatorin's Brightaxe Hall. Within 150 years, trade is underway with surface elves.
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| -8000 |
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- Founding of Semberholme in the Elven Court.
- All sahuagin settlements in the Inner Sea lying west of the Sharksbane Wall are destroyed by this time.
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| -7950 |
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- Full trade exists between the dwarves of Deep Shanatar and the elves of Darthiir, Tethir, and the dwindling remnants of Shantel Otheier.
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| c. -7800 |
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- The Great Arrival: A large force of djinn (known as the Djen) led by the djinni lord Calim arrive in the areas around present-day Calimport, along with a large force of servants and a few slaves, mostly humans and halflings. Within months of the arrival, the spires of Calimport rise above the plains and woodlands of southern Faerun. The Djen quickly clear and seize all the lands south and west of the Marching Mountains; the Calim empire has begun.
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| -7790 |
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- The Dragon Wars: Calimport falls before a flight of dragons. The djinni lord Calim begins a century-long campaign against the dragons of the Marching Mountains. By its end, every dragon in the mountains dies at the hands and magics of the Djen. The genies' magic rebuilds Calimport within a year of its initial destruction.
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| -7717 |
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- The reigning Dao Ataman of Imir of the Great Dismal Delve establishes a permanent two-way gate between his holdings on the Elemental Plane of Earth and a cavern complex beneath the site of present-day Kzelter.
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| c. -7700s |
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- Rogue genies abandon the Empire of Calim and settle the lands and waters of the southwestern Inner Sea.
- Rise of the Marid States. Rogue marids from the surface Calim Empire trespass in Selmalyr, sparking war with the elves. Within a year, marids and their jann spread into Serôs (the Inner Sea), allying with and sharing their power with the other aquatic races. The Marid States are in deep water beneath the Hmur Plateau, allowing them to claim territories out of reach of from direct elven retribution.
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| -7700 |
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- Start of the Second Rysar of Uvaeren.
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| -7690 |
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- The djinni lord Calim reaches an accord with the elves and dwarves and the borders of his empire halt at the southern banks of the River Agis and encompass all the lands south and east to the western slopes of the present-day Alimir Mountains. Calim continues warring with the giants and dragons of the Marching Mountains.
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| -7687 |
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- Ajhuu, a greater marid, breaks away and establishes a realm within Calim's lands while the noble djinni is away. On Calim's reutrn, the Steam Clashes begin between them. Creation of the Maridflow and Hajluar's Falls (present-day: Azure Falls) in the Alimir Mountains.
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| -7684 |
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- The Shattering: With this event, the Steam Clashes end and Ajhuu and his rebels are destroyed. The coastline between the mouth of the River of Ice and the southern tip of the Alimir range is forever changed, and the Spider Swamp comes into being.
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| -7628 | Year of the Sapphire |
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| -7600 |
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- The Second Rysar of Jhyrennstar begins under the Coronal Hoccar.
- Founding of Sharrven in the southern reaches of the High Forest, due to overcrowding in Evereska and elitism of Siluvanedenn elves.
- Llurth Dreier, City of Ooze, is founded by the drow under the Shaar.
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| -7500 |
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- Dwarves establish the realm of Sarphil.
- The Second Rysar of Rystall Wood gives way to the Third Coronal.
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| -7400 |
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- Ilodhar falls under an orc horde this year.
- The Third Rysar of Uvaeren begins after the sudden death of the Coronal while hunting. The new Coronal is more militarily disposed, and begins proactively attacking orcs and giants in the mountains.
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| -7130 |
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- Rise of the Dukars. This quasi-mystical order of monastic and military wizards arises from the efforts of its four founders in the small town of Nantar on the Lower Hmur Plateau. The orders are composed of only lorekeepers at this time.
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| -6964 | 76th Year of the Amethyst |
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| -6946 |
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- The Mervae Alliance. The Dukars develop their powers and become peacekeepers across Serôs (the Inner Sea) with the alliances made with Aryselmalyr here, though unlike any other forces, they do not bid oaths of fealty to the sea-elven empire.
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| -6900 |
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- Coronal Kiyuigh dies on his 100th foray into the mountains. The Fourth Rysar of Uvaeren starts with the new Coronal, the blind Great Scholar Eltaor, who restores Uvaeren's reputation as a learned realm.
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| -6800 |
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- A horde of efreet called the Army of Fire, led by the great pasha Memnon, magically arrive near the location of its current namesake city. The efreet establish the short-lived realm of Memnonnar and found the settlements of Memnon, Myratma, and Shoonach.
- The Third Rysar ends in Rystall Wood, and the Fouth Rysar starts at the crowning of Naevys Caersaelk, the first female Coronal of the realm of Arcorar.
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| c. -6500 |
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- A group of elves, mainly immigrants from Syorpiir, settle the great forest now known as the Chondalwood and name their home Nikerymath.
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| -6500 |
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- Coronal Hoccar dies, ending the Second Rysar of Jhyrennstar. The Third Rysar begins with his niece, the Coronal Haalija.
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| -6452 |
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- Founding of the dwarven House Axemarch in Shanatar.
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| -6400 |
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- The elves meet the dwarves of Sarphil on the battlefields of the Vast, and forge a tenuous alliance since the elves saved the dwarves from death at orc hands.
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| -6300 |
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- The Coronal Eltaor dies by palimpset. The Fifth Rysar sees the election of the young, vibrant Coronal Intevar.
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| -6200 |
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- Beginning of the age known to the elves of Tethir as the Era of Skyfire. Memnon and Calim bring their forces to bear against each other and battle until -6100DR.
- The Fourth Rysar of Rystall Wood gives way to the Fifth Rysar under the Coronal Esyae, daughter of Naevys.
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| -6100 |
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- End of the Era of Skyfire: Battle of Teshyllal Fields. Calim and Memnon destroy each other, but the forces unleashed in that battle scar the landscape forever, creating the Calim Desert.
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| -6060 |
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- Fall of Calim's Rule: The last of the djinn are ousted by humans in alliance with the dwarves of Shanatar. The lands east of the Calim Desert and south of the Marching Mountains become the human nation of Coramshan.
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| -6048 |
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| -6000 |
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- The Fourth Rysar of Jhyrennstar begins.
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| -5960 |
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- King Adiir Velm of House Axemarch leads 5000 dwarves onto the plains of former Memnonnar and founds the realm of High Shanatar. Over the next few centuries they settle the lands now considered Tethyr.
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| c. -5800 |
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- The nation of Jhaamdath is founded with a few settlements north of the great forest Nikerymath.
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| -5700 |
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- Tales of Intevar's Librarium in Uvaeren spread throughout all elven lands, as this allegedly contains the collective knowledge of the elves.
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| -5660 |
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- Intevar's Librarium and some strongholds in Uvaeren are attacked by greedy elven wizards seeking knowledge of High Magic, to no avail. However, Intevar dies of a poisoned wound, ending the Fifth Rysar. The newest Coronal of the Sixth Rysar is his apprentice and wife, the Lady Mnuvae.
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| -5642 |
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- Elves found the city of Evereska.
- Djen settle in Calimshan area.
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| c. -5600 |
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- The dwarves of Shanatar and the giants of the Giant's Plains break out in war. 25 years later, more than half the giant population of the Cloud Peaks are exterminated by the dwarves.
- The dwarves of Shanatar build the Axe and the Star Bridges in present-day Amn.
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| -5590 |
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- Esyae dies in a High Magic ritual gone wrong, and her young brother Mhaenal becomes the Sixth Coronal of Rystall Wood.
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| c. -5400 |
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- Ambril's Bane. Dwarves kill human tomb robbers on the slopes of Mount Kellerak, including an heir to the throne of Coramshan. Three millennia of war between Coramshan and Shanatar ensues, with the elves allying with the dwarves.
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| c. -5350 |
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- Battle of Karlyn's Vale. The dwarves of Shanatar slaughter the last major giant tribes of the south. Later, a monstrous likeness of Karlyn, the warleader of the dwarves, is built over the course of two centuries to honor him.
- The Murabir (warlord) Mir of Coramshan seizes much of High Shanatar while the dwarves are fighting the Giant Wars to the north.
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| c. -5300 |
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- Between this time and -2600 DR, the dwarven realms of Oghrann, Haunghdannar, Gharraghaur, Belsimer, Ammarindar, Delzoun, Ironstar, the Fallen Kingdom, and Dareth are founded as dwarves flee the constant warfare enveloping Shanatar.
- The First Kingdom of Mir is founded in the lands west of the Darthiir Woods and south of the Wurlur (present-day: River Ith). For the next 300 years, Mir and Coramshan aggressively expand eastward and share the conquered territories until their defeat by the kingdom of Jhaamdath.
- Beginning of the First Age of Calimshan (until -3200DR).
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| -5215 |
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- Oghrann established as the first colony from Shanatar; few dwarves remain in this realm, and most continue north.
|
| -5112 |
|
- From now until -4835, the Webfire Wars rage throughout the drow city of Llurth Dreier, pitting the faithful of the Spider Queen against the followers of Ghaunadaur.
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| c. -5000 |
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- Clash at Earthrift. Two elven princes are accidentally killed in a dwarven-instigated landslide, and the alliance between the elves of Keltormir and the dwarves of Shanatar falls apart.
- Coramshan and Mir unite under Ukhar IV to form the Calimshan Empire, which claims all lands south of the Wurlur (present-day: River Ith) and west of the Iltkazar Mountains.
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| -5000 |
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- The Twelve Nights of Fire: The elven realm of Uvaeren is destroyed by a falling star whose impact opens a 100-mile-long and 30-mile-wide clearing in Cormanthor's treeline. The Coronal and nearly all of its noble houses die instantly or during the conflagration. Few Uvaeranni escape to the safety of deeper Arcorar, aside from those few dozen away from the realm during this disaster.
- Rystall Wood becomes a separate forest and realm after the Twelve Nights of Fire clear away the mountain and hill trees that attached it to Arcorar. While an independant forest now, its Coronal still convenes often with the leaders of the Elven Court.
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| -4974 |
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- The dwarven realm of Haunghdannar is established this year by dwarves centered in the mountains east of present-day Leilon. It was the home of the only known seafarring dwarves.
|
| -4973 |
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- The drow city of Sshamath, City of Dark Weavings, is founded.
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| -4970 |
|
- Death of Coronal Mhaenal by monsters summoned into his bedchambers; the Sixth Rysar of Rystall Wood ends with the murder investigation lasting for 90 years.
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| c. -4900 |
|
- Plague hits Calimport and Almraiven. Known as the Warrior's Plague, for the berserk rages and battle madness in those afflicted; most casualties among military forces.
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| -4900 |
|
- The Fifth Rysar of Jhyrennstar convenes under the warrior Coronal Khilseith.
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| -4880 |
|
- Three nobles are uncovered as the plotters who slew the aged Coronal Mhaenal; the actual caster of the monster summons is executed, and the others banished from Rystall Wood and Arcorar.
- The Seventh Rysar of Rystall Wood finally begins with the rise of Coronal Injros.
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| -4819 |
|
- Rise of the dwarven realm of Gharraghaur, centered on present-day Mirabar.
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| c. -4770 |
|
- The Plague of Terror: mysteriously affecting only Calimport, this plague drives many mad from imagined spectral foes and other fears. As a result of the plague, the entire waterfront and other inner parts of the city burn as a few dockworkers imagine great sea monsters attacking the city.
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| c. -4700 |
|
- Eaerlann rises among the ruins of Aryvandaar due to the efforts of young elven nobles from Sharrven. Their interests in restoring the elder realm while also allying with the dwarves of the North were matched in the interests of the Elders of Sharrven and Evereska to preventing the elves of Siluvanede from doing the same and repeating the same mistakes of the past.
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| -4642 |
|
- Efreet invade Djen through a Gate, start of 100 years of war.
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| -4600 |
|
- The stone fortress of Sonnmorndin is built as a naval base by the Sailors of the Mountainous Waves, the marines of Haunghdannar, on the island of Arauwurbarak (Present day: Ruathym).
|
| c. -4542 |
|
- End of the 100 years Djen-Efreeti war.
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| c. -4500 |
|
- The Seven Citadels' War: Skirmishes break out between the elite forces of Siluvanede and the fledgling forces of Eaerlann (with support from Sharrven). These conflicts, which last for the next 200 years, are sometimes collectively referred to as the Sixth Crown War.
- The elven tree city of Teuveamanthaar is founded as the capitol of Eaerlann at the present-day site of Tall Trees.
|
| -4420 |
|
- The surface dwarven realm of Besilmer is founded by Torhild Flametongue. The dwarves of Besilmer build the Halls of the Hunting Axe, the Hall of Four Ghosts, Hammer Hall, the building now known as the Stronghold of the Nine, the Stone Bridge, and are believed to have also built Southkrypt. Belsimer crumbles when Torhild is slain, and its people flee south to join the Fallen Kingdom.
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| -4400 |
|
- The Dark Court Slaughter: Drow and duergar attack and destroy Elven Court and Sarphil beginning at the start of the year on Midwinter Night. Within days, Elven Court is in ruins and Sarphil is occupied by the drow and duergar. The Slaughter claims the lives of many clan leaders of Elven Court and both the Coronals of Rystall Wood and Jhyrennstar.
- In the aftermath of the Dark Slaughter, the archer-guard Shevarash, in an anger-tinged prayer to Corellon, vows to become the Seldarine's hand against the drow to extract revenge for the loss of his family. The Black Archer never smiles again, as he sought to kill Lolth and all her followers.
- The Eighth Rysar of Rystall Wood (the child wizardess Enajharas) and the Sixth Rysar of Jhyrennstar (the prophet of Labelas, the aged Oacenth) begin with somber coronations and the call-to-arms against the drow, their now-revealed enemy.
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| -4300 |
|
- End of the Seven Citadels' War with the full forces of Sharrven brought to bear against the oft-victorious Siluvanedenn. The gold elf realm is humbled by superior magics and elven dragonriders; hereafter, Siluvanede remains exclusive, but it is a vassal realm of Eaerlann.
|
| -4274 |
|
- Three hunting clans and five fishing villages on the northwestern coast of Faerûn unite under a single leader. The humans call their community Illusk, naming themselves after the elven nation Illefarn, whom they attempt to emulate.
|
| -4200 |
|
- The impressionable Coronal Enajharas isolates Rystall Wood from all dealings with Arcorar, as her nobles say conspiracies against them whirl among the elves of Jhyrennstar.
|
| -4160 |
|
- Fall of Besilmer. Surviving dwarves flee south to form the dwarven realm of Dardath beneath the Horn Hills.
|
| c. -4100 |
|
- Rise of the dwarven realm of Ammarindar.
|
| -4070 |
|
- Shevarash the Black Archer dies, but undergoes Apotheosis to become the Night Hunter and Arrow Bringer. This green elf demigod of the Seldarine is still a hunter and vengeful destroyer of drow, but now hunts Lolth and Vhaeraun directly (though he no longer considers Eilistraee and her worshipers to be among his prey).
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| -4000 |
|
- The Coronal Oacenth of Jhyrennstar falls ill; the Ruling Trials last from Midsummer to Harvestide; the three elfblades are forged. Coronal Kahvoerm Irithyl becomes the ruler of Semberholme, Jhyrennstar, and Elven Court, all of which are now the elven nation of Cormanthyr.
|
| -3983 |
|
- The birth of the city of Cormanthor begins here, with the Summoning of the Rule Tower.
|
| -3917 |
|
- The drow city of Menzoberranzan is founded by Menzoberra the Kinless.
|
| c. -3900 |
|
- Establishment of Delzoun, the Shield Kingdom of the dwarves.
|
| -3889 |
|
- Birth of Nether the Elder.
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-3859
1 NY |
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- Alliance of the fishing villages of Fenwick, Gers, Gilan, Gustaf, Moran, Nauseef, and Janick into Seventon. Soon renamed Netheril.
- Beginning of the First Age.
|
| -3843 |
|
- The drow city of Ched Nasad is founded.
|
| -3835 |
|
- The elven realm of Eaerlann open dialogues with Netheril; humans begin to learn magic from the Eaerlanni elves during this decade.
|
| -3827 |
|
- Death of Nether the Elder.
|
| -3796 |
|
- Trade begins between humans of Netheril and the elves of Illefarn.
|
| -3770 |
|
- Fall of the dwarven realm of Oghrann.
|
| -3750 |
|
- Ships from Haunghdannar sent to the fortress of Sonnmorndin begin to disappear. All contact is lost with this outpost of the Sailors of the Mountainous Waves.
|
| -3727 |
|
- Word of a nation of "humanlike rock begins who dwelled in earthen mountains and hills" reached the ears of the Netherese.
|
| -3717 |
|
- The Duergaran city of Gracklstugh is founded.
|
| -3655 |
|
- Scout of Netherese, in search of the rock creatures in the west, intercept a Rengarth (nomadic human barbarians) hunting party and befriend them. From the Barren Mountains, south of the Cold Forest, arrive one of the largest orc hordes ever to hit the area. The alliance between the elves of Earlann and Illefarn and Netheril removes the orc threat.
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| c. -3650 |
|
- Dwarven realm of Shanatar founded.
|
| -3611 |
|
- Fall of the dwarven realm of Gharraghaur.
|
| -3595 |
|
- War breaks out between the elven nations of Eaerlann, Mieyritar, and Illefarn. The humans, caught in the middle, are unable to trade with one for fear of retribution from the others.
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| -3533 |
|
- The Nether Scrolls are uncovered by the Netherese in the ruins of Aryvandaar; the humans soon abandon the magic taught by the elves for greater power.
- End of the First Age, Beginning of the Nether Age.
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| c. -3520 |
|
- The elves of the North begin aiding in the escapes of gnomish slaves from their Netherese captors, helping them move south and east across the Realms.
|
| -3495 |
|
- Born Congenio Ioun (364NY - 1319NY), the first major arcanist of Netheril and the creator of the Ioun's stones.
|
| -3462 |
|
- Creation of Congenio's pebbles (Ioun Stones).
|
| -3458 |
|
- After 269 years of searching the Netherese discover and establish trade with the dwarven kingdom of Delzoun.
|
| -3400 |
|
- Start of the Ninth Rysar of Rystall Wood.
|
| -3392 |
|
- The Duergar King Horgar Steelshadow II proclaims the founding of Deepkingdom with Gracklstugh as its royal seat, claiming sovereignty over all gray dwarf enclaves north of the Sharnlands and west of the Buried Realms beneath Anauroch.
|
| -3389 |
|
- Fall of the dwarven realm of Haunghdannar. The sea is believed to have made all the dwarves of this nation mad and the realm dwindles and is abandoned. Their descendants are thought to be the Madbeards of today.
|
| -3386 |
|
- Hoyden is established by elves seeking to end the squabbling between the nations of Eaerlann, Mieyritar, and Illefarn.
|
| -3381 |
|
- Two of the Nether Scrolls are stolen during an excursion in the High Forest. The mages carrying the scrolls are slaughtered by a grove of treants. The Scrolls are never recovered.
|
| -3354 |
|
- War between the two remaining elven nations comes to an end. The 240 year war decimates their numbers thrice over.
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| -3332 |
|
- In less than a tenday, the Sunset Plague claims the lives of almost everyone in Calimport, including more than half the ruling family. Calimport lies empty for nearly a century, as many are afraid of the plague.
|
| -3326 |
|
- The Abbey of the Moon burns in a forest fire. It becomes haunted by powerful apparitions who destroy all who enter.
|
| -3315 |
|
- Born Ioulaum (544NY - unknown) one of the greatest human archwizards of Toril.
|
| -3309 |
|
- The Numosi and Jhimari schools of the Dukars are destroyed by kraken out of the Trench of Lopok.
|
| -3200 |
|
- End of the First Age of Calimshan. Beginning of the Second Age (until -1900DR).
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| c. -3150 |
|
- The enslaved gnomes of Netheril begin to construct a series portal known as the Trail of Mists to assist in their escape from their Netherese masters.
|
| -3145 |
|
- Ioulaum led a major battle with thousands spellcasters and warriors against the orcs in the Rampart Peaks. The orcs retreated and on the field lay 118000 corpses, 10000 of whom were orcs. Ioulaum, not satisfied, wanted to find where the orcs are stationed. After years of scouting, tracking and scrying the major habitats of orcs was found in the knolls surrounding the Canton River. With more than 50000 troops, Ioulaum began a war called "Excursion into Extinction" that lasted 16 months. He sacrificed 32000 troops, but killed 140000 orcs! The two mountains where the war was set become known as Bone Hill and Thunder Peak.
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| c. -3100 |
|
- Human seafarers from the west, known today as the Illuskan or Northmen, name and settle the island of Ruathym.
|
| -3095 |
|
- Half of the Nether Scrolls is stolen by elves of Cormanthyr and secreted away by the High Mages of that realm. One of the thieves is the gnome elf-friend Rilmohx Sha'Quessir.
|
| -3014 |
|
- Ioulaum creates the first mythallar. A mythallar is established in Northreach.
- Beginning of the Mythallar Era. (845 NY)
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| -3011 |
|
- Ioulaum creates the Mantle of Ioulaum, the first magic item to use the mythallar.
|
| -3002 |
|
- Raising of the Mythal/Birth of Myth Nantar. Nantar, a small town on the slopes of the Hmer Plateau and long the center of Dukar culture, becomes Myth Nantar, City of Destinies, as the High Mages raise a mythal around the soon-growing city. This becomes the site for much magical research and lore. It is also the location of a new central academy for Dukars and other schools and towers in the city teach numerous other methods of magic brought by the former surface elves (and some hidden marids' magic). Any Dukars trained at Myth Nantar, for the first time, must vow oaths of fealty to the Empire and the Coronal at Coryselmal.
|
| c. -3000 |
|
- The dwarven realm of Ammarindar flourishes.
- The Gate of Iron is built by dwarves to protect the region of present-day Durpar and Ulgarth from the Imaskari empire.
- Tibold, in present-day Erlkazar, is founded as an outpost of the dwarves of High Shanatar to resist the Second Calimshan Empire's advances.
- Trade relations open between the surface elves of Cormanthyr and the sea elves of Arselmalyr at Myth Nantar.
- The Kuo-toan city of Sloopdilmonpolop, City of Pools, is founded.
- Illuskan humans of Ruathym found the settlement of Illusk at the mouth of the River Mirar and displace local Ice Hunter tribes.
|
| -2993 |
|
- Ioulaum creates the first floating city - Ioulaum's Enclave.
|
| -2919 |
|
- The Ironstar Kingdom of dwarves begins this year under the lone Ironstar clan.
|
| -2900 |
|
- The incredibly ancient Coronal Kahvoerm dies upon placing his selu'taar upon the hilt of the Ruler's Blade. His fourth son attempts to take his place, but the Ruler's Blade rejects him and destroys the greedy elf in a gout of greenish flame. Sakrattars Irithyl, the youngest of the Coronal's great-grandsons, takes up the blade and is proclaimed Coronal by ancient blade-rite, as was Kahvoerm. So begins the Second Rysar of Cormanthyr.
|
| -2811 |
|
- There are now a total of 13 floating Netherese cities.
|
| -2770 |
|
- The Slaughter of Sharrven: The elven realm of Sharrven fragments and falls due to an inexplicable explosion of the monstrous population within the southern High Forest. Survivors flee to Eaerlann and Evereska, and the realm lies vacant but for a few settlements and outposts (though the southern forest retain the name "Sharrven" until the modern era). While proof is sorely lacking, the paranoid elves of Siluvanede quickly blame the power-hungry mages of Netheril, and vow to slay any Netherese wizard that strays into their western High Forest realm.
|
| -2758 |
|
- Dekanter, a Netherese miner, discovers a huge lode of gold, iron, mercury, silver and platinum. This mine provides Netheril with minerals for over 1000 years. Begin of the Silver Age.
|
| c. -2650 |
|
- The city of Bhaluin is founded by the Raurin Empire.
|
| c. -2642 |
|
- Height of Netheril, Dwarven Realm of Ammarindar founded.
|
| c. -2639 |
|
- Dwarven Realm of Dareth founded.
|
| -2637 |
|
- Mezro in Chult is founded by Ubtao.
|
| c. -2600 |
|
- Dareth, the dwarven "Ice Kingdom", is founded. Orloebar Snowbeard is crowned king.
- The last known dwarves of Shanatar fall on the northern slopes of the Sulduskoon River.
- Work begins on the Twisted Tower.
|
| -2550 |
|
- Ulutiu, an unknown entity, dies. His ice barge sinks and gives birth to the Great Glacier.
- Year 0 of Ulutiun Calendar.
|
| -2549 |
|
- Despite repeated attacks and attempts to stop them, the drow complete the Twisted Tower this year and build up their presence here.
|
| -2540 |
|
|
| -2539 |
|
- The Spiderfires: Drow inflict their greatest damage upon the forests since the Twelve Nights of Fire by setting the southern Rystall Woods aflame with a swarm of spiders made out of arcane fire. After a long, dry summer, the woods burn easily. This clears more than 100 miles of forest south of the River Tesh, and severs the southern part of the woods around and to the west of the Twisted Tower from the greater Rystall Woods and widens the cleared lands between them and Cormanthor.
|
| -2509 |
|
|
| -2488 |
|
- Empire of Raurin (Imaskari, Artificiers) destroyed. Exiles flee to the west, eventually settling on the shores of the Alambar Sea.
|
| -2475 |
|
- The Great Glacier continues to expand, covering the lands that will eventually be known as Vaasa & Damara.
|
| -2436 |
|
- An apprentice working for the phaerimm steals seven of the Nether Scrolls. The mageling is killed as he leaves the city, but the Scrolls are never recovered.
|
| c. -2400 |
|
- Calimshan garrisons eastern Iltkkazar in the vincinity of the Omlarandin Mountains, south of the Wurlur (present-day: River Ith).
|
| -2391 |
|
- The beholder hive of Zokir, the City of Orbs, is founded.
|
| -2387 |
|
- A work strike by the gnomes of Netheril is successful, and the gnomes are released from servitude to the Netherese. Most gnomes head immediately south, fleeing from Netheril.
|
| -2381 |
|
- The palace of the Bakkal of Calimport erupts in flames, ending that corrupt and vicious dynasty. The fires spread and destroy the western half of Calimport.
|
| c. 2375 |
|
- Netherese scouts explore the Sword Coast North region led by the arcanist Arthindol the Terraseer.
|
| -2368 |
|
- Terraseer, a mysterious oracle, found an ideal location for an outpost in the east that could provide water for caravans and scouts and call the town Old Owlbear Well.
|
| c. -2300 |
|
- The Earliest human-built boats sail the southern Alambar coasts as Raurinese refugees flee north and along the seacoasts. Easily attacked and sunk by sahaugin, boats are small and usable only for coastal fishing, not exploration. Raurinese refugees continue their expansions over land.
|
| -2280 |
|
- The Erehnir Reconstruction: After guild wars and other conflicts destroy much of Calimport, many areas are rebuilt in the religious and artistic manner they are known by to this day. The walls of at least two western sections of modern Calimport retain hints of murals that graced the walls when they were created during this decade.
|
| -2274 |
|
- A clan of dwarves from the Tortured Land are exiled to the Great Glacier. Four survive the trek to the Novularond and become the forebears of the Innugaakalikurit.
|
| -2237 |
|
- The Netherese arcanist Trebbe is killed when he attempts to enchant a magical crown and the spells go awry somehow. This crown becomes known later in history as the Crown of Horns.
|
| -2207 |
|
- End of the Silver Age. The Golden Age of Netheril begins. (1652 NY)
- Birth of Jeriah Chronos, who laters becomes known as the Chronomancer.
|
| -2200 |
|
- Start of the Tenth Rysar of Rystall Wood.
- Two Rystall elves, forbidden lovers long kept apart by their feuding noble families, secretly ask the Coronal for aid. He helps them stage their "deaths" and the two are transformed together to become the first baelnorn sworn to the Coronal and Cormanthor, rather than to a particular House. Forever apart in life, the Guardian Paramours become the most faithful defenders of the grounds of Castle Cormanthor.
|
| -2135 |
|
- The god Re founds Skuld and gives it the name "City of Shadows".
- Mulhorand founded. Year 1 of Mulhorand Calendar.
|
| -2103 |
|
- The Chronomancer aids Illusk against orc hordes. He stands nearly alone against them and is grievously injured.
|
| c. -2100 |
|
- Survivors of the fall of Illusk travel north and west to what is now Icewind Dale, where their descendants become known as the Reghedmen.
|
| -2095 |
|
- Death of the Chronomancer from a war wound that never healed.
|
| -2087 |
|
- The god Enlil finds pearls on the west coast of the Alambar. He founds the city of Unthalass ("City of Gems").
|
| -2064 |
|
- A tremendous orc horde, led by giants and their ogre generals, completely razes the human civilization of Illusk.
|
| -2059 |
|
- Scimitars are introduced to Netheril. There is speculation that the scimitar was originally a drowish weapon.
|
| -1967 |
|
- Unther and Mulhorand clash at the River of Swords. The 1st Unther-Mulhorand War begins.
|
| -1961 |
|
- Re and Enlil agree that the River of Swords will be the eternal boundary between Unther and Mulhorand. There are occasional clashes, but never is there a major war between the two powers again.
|
| -1950 |
|
- Fighting a drow incursion into the western woods, Coronal Sakrattars sacrifices himself to create a blood dragon and destroy the massive horde of drow occupying the last ruins of Uvaeren and the Twisted Tower (though not the Tower itself). The Coronal's chosen blade-heir recieves and draws the Ruler's Blade without incident; Sinaht Irithyl becomes the third Coronal of Cormanthyr.
|
| -1931 |
|
- The armies of Calimshan destroy the Idol of Nomog-Geaya and its hobgoblin worshipers. Henceforth, this area is known as the Gorge of the Fallen Idol.
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| c. -1900 |
|
- By this time, Calimshan rules as far north as the Snowflake Mountains and is composed of four separate kingdoms within its empire; Calimshan (the original lands of Coramshan and the Calim Empire), Mir, Tethyr, and Iltkazar. End of the Second Age and beginning of the Third Age.
|
| -1900 |
|
- From now until -1400DR, the Caltazar Hills, in present-day Tethyr, come under constant attack from the beholder nations of the Lake of Steam.
- The building of Citadel Felbarr, the surface garrison to protect Delzoun against the orcs.
- The Final Fall of Shanatar sees the dwarves seal their deep realms from any entrants, and all but disappear from southern Faerun.
|
| -1896 |
|
- Twenty-four scrolls of the remaining Nether Scrolls are stolen. The thieves, fearful of Netherese retribution, destroy the golden scrolls, pounding them into gold chunks.
|
| -1846 |
|
- Peak of Netherese civilization.
- Records show that the dwarven realm of Ammarindar has its King's Seat at Splendarrmornn, the Shining Mountain.
|
| -1838 |
|
- In retribution for Calishite adventurers plundering her hoard and slaying one of her brood, Ylveraasahlisar the Rose Dragon destroys Calimshan's army, the Caleph's Court, the Bakkal Raor, and two-thirds of Calimport before she settles onto the throne and rules the heart of the empire. Much of Calimport Muzad (under-Calimport) comes into being with the wyrm's attack, as her demands for the city's immediate reconstruction forces builders to simply smooth out the rubble and begin again.
|
| -1803 |
|
- Occurring from now until -1350, the Deepbear Battles, a war between the duergar and a nation of quaggoths, marks the beginning of Deepkingdom's decline.
|
| -1783 |
|
- The Dragon's Wrath: A great fire levels all of central Calimport.
|
| -1726 |
|
- Dragonslayers led by Rafak el Cajaan sorely wound the Rose Dragon and drive her out of Calimport; while she escapes the humans, Ylvera dies under the jaws of their bronze dragon ally, Cadasalmpar. The Cajaan dynasty refounds human rule of the Calim empire.
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| c. -1720 |
|
- Netherese explorers start to build and settle undersea cities on the Inner Sea continental shelf over the Plains of Duna within territory claimed by the sea elves and the merfolk. Netherese mages either keep Aryselmatyn forces at bay or enslave any Serôsians that enter their sphere of influence.
|
| -1720 |
|
- Netherese wizards arrive near the blasted ruins of Uvaeren, fleeing something; they die within two years after uncovering a hidden library cache and unwittingly setting loose some of its magical defenses.
|
| -1715 |
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- The city of Tzindylspar is founded by dwarves of Delzoun and Netherese emigrants. Within a few years, a portal connects this gem-rich city with Calimshan of the Cajaan dynasty. Rubies from Tzindylspar quickly become the rage among the Calishite nobility, but few Southerners willingly visit the frigid northern city. Most houses dispatch halfling trade representatives to manage their affairs.
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| -1708 |
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- By this time, the once-widespread Cajaan dynasty of Calimshan is reduced to its last male heir.
- The worship of a "great sun god" arises in Calimshan.
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| c. -1700s |
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- Latest time at which the dwarves are thought to have discovered the means to forge steel.
- Netherese begin to explore the Inner Sea and establish the three subsea colonies of Deep Netheril.
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| -1700 |
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- The Pasha of Calimport's third son becomes emir of Tethyr. His debauchery soon drives the elves of Tethir into conflict with the humans.
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| -1694 |
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- Rise of power of the Merynth dynasty of Arselmalyr under the warrior Essyl Merynth, nephew of the dying Coronal Tanrah Eshalniith.
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| -1660 |
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- "The Three Seaflame Battles": The aquatic elves of the Inner Sea march on the three cities of Deep Netheril. The enclaves are destroyed by the elven High Mages, creating the bays where Saerloon and Selgaunt stand today.
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| -1648 |
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- Sossalian ancestors of the Ulutiuns settle by the Lugalpgotak sea.
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| -1570 |
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- The fishing town of Zazesspur becomes a fortified city, with the emir's palace built at its center.
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| -1550 |
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- The eastern expanse of the Darthiir Wood, between the mountains and down the Almraiven Peninsula, is consumed by fire.
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| -1539 |
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- Start of the Third Serôs War. Coronal Essyl lashes out against minor koalinth and scrag raids to the north, and ignites the war by uniting the koalinth and merrow against a common foe.
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| -1537 |
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- The merrow kingdom of P'Karnis falls.
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| -1535 |
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- The ixitxachitl Imperium of Ilvanyv falls. In the same year, the long loyal merfolk of Thalorlyn on the Hmur plateau rebel against the oppressive violence of the Third Serôs War.
- Yrlaphon established among the eastern woods, across the River Lis from Cormanthor.
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| -1533 |
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- Establishment of Thalorlyn as the independent First Kingdom of Hmur, and they claim Myth Nantar.
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| -1531 |
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- Nearly one-third of the merfolk of Serôs (the Inner Sea) are killed as the Aryselmalyr Empire puts down the rebellon at Thalorlyn.
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| -1530 |
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- Frontier Wars between the Calimshan Empire and the elves of Tethir last until -1300DR. It is during this time that the Calishites discover the method of making shortbows, from captured elven longbows.
- Trade roads in today's Tethyr and Calimshan date from this period.
- Agents of Coronal Essyl create the Emerald Eye of Kyron for the mad merfolk King Kyron.
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| -1527 |
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- The First Dukars' War. Within the scope of the Third Serôs War, the fifth Dukar Order of Nantari (those that vowed allegiance to Aryselmalyr), go to war against the other Orders.
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| -1525 |
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- The Merrow and koalinth of the Inner Sea band together into the Horde of the Bloodtide, only to be defeated again by the mad King Kyron of Thalorlyn. The rebel Republic of Tivaan rises among the merfolk to unite the Hmur Plateau against Aryselmalyr's mad ruler, once spies reveal that Coronal Essyl and King Kyron have allide with kraken to supplement their power.
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| -1524 |
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- Kyron and his loyalists are desposed and outcast from the Hmur Plateau, despite the mer- king's kraken ally and the powerful Emerald Eye.
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| -1523 |
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- End of the First Dukars' War with the destruction of the House of the Nantari Order in Myth Nantar. This loss sets back Essyl greatly, and twenty years of tense détente begin.
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| -1522 |
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- The Four Arcana of Humbar, the usually isolationist morkoth from the deep-waters of the Inner Sea, ally with Tivaan after numerous attacks from the Coronal's forces.
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| -1509 |
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- The First Shalarin Passing. The first "Wildtide Gate" opens and the shalarin arrive within Serôs (the Inner Sea). Immediately attacked by the magically attuned Emerald Eye and the madmen Kyron and Essyl, the shalarin lose more than 75% of their number. Tivaan, the Dukar Orders, and Humbar all rush to the aid of the shalarin and quickly gain powerful allies.
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| -1506 |
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- The mer-King Kyron dies at the hands of the Dukars, who take the Emerald Eye of Kyron into their custody. The merfolk traitors either return to Tivbaan or remain allied with the Coronal Essyl.
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| -1502 |
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- End of the Third Serôs War. War ends with the death of the Mad Coronal Essyl Merynth by his brother, the Grand Dukar Jholar of the Jhimari Order. Jholar abdicates the Coronal's throne in favor of his younger sister, the devout priestess Vaeqiis.
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| -1501 |
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- The Dukars again become an independent group of peacemakers not answerable to Aryselmalyr. The Nantari Order is dissolved, though the school at Myth Nantar is rebuilt as an academy where all four orders convene to keep a closer eye on the magic of Aryselmalyn elves.
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| -1500 |
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- Expansion of Unther and Mulhorand.
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| -1492 |
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- Shalarin survivors of the Third Serôs War settle Es'krin on the northeastern Hmur Plateau. Alliances with the Dukars and Humbar provide protection for the city-state until they can restore their own warrior caste.
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| -1428 |
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- Calimport falls with the death of Syl-Pasha Violir Cajaan IX, and beholders rule the ruined city of Calimport and its vassal empire. Qyraaptir the Bloodeye, a beholder mage of frightening power, claims the Pasha's Throne. Beholders now rule all major settlements throughout Calimshan and the Lake of Steam.
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| -1427 |
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- Ynamalik Nadim invades Tzindylspar with a small army of monsters and the the City of Rubies falls within a tenday. The Calishite prince claims the fallen city as his personal lair.
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| -1403 |
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- The Cajaan Vengeance: The outer districts of Calimport are set afire in an attempt to smoke out the occupying beholders during a siege of the city.
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| -1402 |
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- Qyraaptir the Bloodeye and his beholder forces fall or flee before the Drakhon priests and their allied human soldiers. Calimport is the first city freed of beholder domination, and Calimshan is free of beholder rulers within three years, thanks to the rule of the Drakhon pashas. The beholders retreat to their strongholds beneath the Alimir mountains or along the Lake of Steam.
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| c. -1400 |
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- The first crude ships cross the Inner Sea as Unther expands across and along the Alambar.
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| -1400 |
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- Start of the Eleventh Rysar of Rystall Wood. The Coronal Faahresc is a rabid drow-hating warrior who leads his people on numerous raids in the Underdark caverns and the Twisted Tower to the south.
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| -1399 |
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- Start of the Fourth Serôs War. The Hmur Plateau becomes overrun by a horde of koalinth and merrow, ending the peaceful merfolk Republic of Tivaan. A desperate mermaid steals the Emerald Eye of Kyron from the Dukars' Tower at Myth Nantar to drive the horde off the plateau, only to become corrupted by its power and lead the horde herself against her remaining people and the rest of Serôs.
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| -1396 |
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- End of the Fourth Serôs War. This war destroys the Second Kingdom of Kyron, setting back the koalinth population of the Inner Sea for decades. The Emerald Eye is recaptured, and the possessed mermaid is believed dead, buried in a collapsed reef on the Plains of Duna, which are hereafter called the Haunted Plains. The new merfolk community, under the auspices of the kindly Coronal Vaeqiis, is the kingdom of Thalvan, led by King Darmox.
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| -1362 |
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- Discovery of the Writings of Ulutiu, splintering of the tribes into the Nakulutiuns and the Iulutiuns.
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| -1354 |
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- Unified armies of Rystal Wood and Cormanthyr infiltrate and rout the majority of the drow forces around and under the lands of Rystall, Uvaeren's ruins, and the Old Skull, the granite crag within the hills that lie in the clearings among the three forests. However, they cannot penetrate the Twisted Tower, allowing many drow to escape.
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| -1338 |
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- The Fourth Rysar of Cormanthyr begins under the Coronal Miirphys Irithyl, who only draws the Ruler's Blade once to establish his reign; as a priest of Sehanine, he prefers his bow.
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| -1320 |
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- The current road from Zazesspur to Memnon is built by slave labor for moving troops to the frontier wars against the elves of Tethir.
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| -1300 |
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- A road is started from Zazesspur to the east, though it regressed to a dirt road 10 miles east until its completion in -1130DR.
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| -1293 |
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- Coronal Miirphys helps raise the Crescent Court, the temple of Sehanine in Cormanthyr.
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| c. -1290 |
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- The blue wyrm Maldraedior reigns as the suzerain of the blue dragons of Unther and Mulhorand.
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| -1288 |
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- The dwarf Melair strikes a rich vein of Mithril, thus beginning the mining of the Underhalls of Clan Melairkyn (present-day: Undermountain).
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| -1280 |
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- Aided by advances in weaponry (especially the shortbow and the chariot), the Calimshan Empire attacks the beholder nations of the Lake of Steam. The war rages up and down the Almraiven Peninsula, and ends in -1080DR with the beholder's defeat.
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| -1250 |
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- Unther battles against the elves of the Yuirwood and the dwarves of the Great Rift. Mulhorand, for the most part, ignores them.
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| -1205 |
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- End of the Golden Age of Netheril. Beginning of the Age of Discovery.
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| -1202 |
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- Ali yn Enar Samesaj, the future Great Vizar of Calimport, is born on the last day of Alturiak.
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| -1200 |
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- Numerous settlements and many more elven patrols fall before a trio of nycaloths rampaging through the Cormanthor forest. Rumors say jealous Netherese archwizards summoned and then sent the yugoloths into the Elven Woods merely to test what magics they had to array against Netheril.
- After three months of cat-and-mouse games and a climactic battle within the streets of Cormanthyr, the elves subdue the Nycaloths. Coronal Miirphys, the High Magi, and a number of priests use High Magic to imprison the trio, who had become known as Khov'Anilessa (the "Trio Nefarious").
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| -1186 |
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- The nomadic Angulutiuns founded.
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| -1161 |
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- Ali el Samesaj saves the daughter of a Drakhon sultan from kidnapers, and he comes to the notice of Syl-Pasha Adjam Drakhon of Calimport, her grandfather. As a reward, he becomes a fixture in the sultan's court, and his unofficial court wizard.
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| -1156 |
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- The Villaflames: Fire destroys much of Calimport's waterfront before spreading westward into the pasha's villas.
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| c. -1150 |
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- After the Villaflames, the Drakhon dynasty takes control of the cleared areas of Calimport and restructures the areas to best suit their political allies and their own motivations. The massive stone docks and defenses that grace Armada Ward for centuries to come replace the dock areas destroyed.
- Syl-Pasha Kamal el Drakhon commisions the building of el Qysanallojal (the Imperial Navy), and this allows Calimshan to begin controlling the coastal lands and waters of the Shining Sea. Originally built to speed troop movements against the beholder armies, the Qysanallojal swiftly expands Calimshan's political and trade influence.
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| -1130 |
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- The Battle of Samesaj Gate: The eastern garrison of Akkabel (present-day: Ithal Pass) is the scene of a great victory for Calimshan, as the besieged forces of Akkabel gain reinforcements from Calimport via a magical gate. They break the siege and inflict great losses on the beholders. The gate remains intact after the battle, but only its caster (the vizar Ali el Samesaj) knows that it is keyed to the full moon's light more than other magic. This great victory over the beholder forces sees Samesaj raised to the title of Grand Vizier at the right hand of Syl-Pasha Ruj el Drakhon.
- The road from Zazesspur east to Akkabbel (site of present-day Ithal's Pass) is finally completed.
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| -1100 |
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- The last great wyrm of the Wyrmwood falls to the elves. The remaining younger dragons flee west into the Cloud Peaks or south towards the Small Teeth. Wyrmwood becomes Arundath, the "Quiet Forest" of the elves.
- Illefarn fragments into the independent elven realms of Ardeep (Modern: Ardeep Forest), Iliyanbruen (Modern: Neverwinter Wood) and Rilithar (Modern: Westwood and Kryptgarden Forest) as their last Coronal Syglaeth Audark commands a Retreat to Evermeet. Aelinthaldaar, the capitol of Illefarn is razed by means of powerful High Magic. By year's end, humans barbarian tribes are using the site for its excellent deepwater harbor.
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| -1095 |
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- The Grand Vizier Samesaj creates his final resting place to the east of Calimport's city walls; the Khamarnari, the Tomb of Fire. Once its fiery marble walls rise from the earth, Samesaj enters through one wall, never to be seen again.
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| -1089 |
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- Belkram's Fall/The Shaft is discovered by the dwarves of Undermountain.
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| -1088 |
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- Annual trade begins at the future site of Waterdeep, between the ships from the South and Northern human tribes.
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| -1087 |
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- The Theurgist Adept Thayd rebels along with most of the wizards in Unther and Mulhorand.
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| -1081 |
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- Thayd and his conspirators are defeated. Thayd is executed, but prophesies that Unther and Mulhorand will never be great again.
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| -1080 |
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- End of the wars between Calimshan and the beholder nations of the Alimir Peninsula with the victory at Mintar. The Pasha's Throne at Calimport now rules from the Sword Coast to Mintar. The increased trade and influence sees Calimport nearly double in size (to nearly the size of present-day Waterdeep).
- Calimshan's armies slowly eradicate all remaining beholder influence (beholder rulers or beholder cult-controlled cities) on the Arnaden surface lands (around the Lake of Steam) over the next twelve decades.
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| -1076 |
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- Opening of the Orcgate in southwestern Thay.
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| -1075 |
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- First battle of the Orcgate Wars in Thay. Orcs overrun many northern Unther/Mulhorand settlements, slaying thousands.
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| -1071 |
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- Battle of the Gods. Orc god Gruumsh kills Mulhorand deity Re: first known deicide.
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| -1069 |
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- Orcs in Thay defeated; many flee north and west.
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| -1067 |
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- Calishite forces occupy Velmhold, an ancient fortress and port city of Shanatar. They rename it Zazessovertan, or "fortress overlooking Zazesspur".
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| -1050 |
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- Set kills Osiris in power struggle to succeed Re.
- From this time until -450DR, the Imperial Navy of Calimshan becomes a dominant force on the Shining Sea and the Lake of Steam.
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| -1048 |
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- Osiris ressurected by Isis, Horus-Re drives Set into the desert and becomes chief of the Mulhorand pantheon. Set worship is abolished, and the Tower of Set in Skuld is destroyed.
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| c. -1000 |
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- The war between factions of the drow and the dwarves causes the world's fire to flow into the Underdark and separate members of each race from Faerûn. These fragments become the ancestors of the dwarves and the Ancient Ones of Maztica.
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