The humans found the kingdoms of Arcania and Hyrkania in central Tycho. They are the only human kingdoms to survive the Dawn War.

 The Dawn War Ends

 Under the guidance of Maglubiyet, the goblinoid tribes join into larger kingdoms. Maglubiyet grows in power.

 The founding of the Beast kingdoms of south Tycho.

95 Draconic Calendar / - 355 Nerathian Calendar / - 2353 Imperial Age

 After several decades of wars the goblinoid tribes of Eulalia have settled into four hobgoblin led kingdoms. This year marks an alliance pact between them. Maglubiyet grows strong.

100 D.C. / - 350 N.C. / - 2348 I.A.

 The human tribes under Adrotus are the first to learn the secrets of ironworking from the dwarves. They forge an iron crown and crown Adrotus the first king of Lorica.

102 D.C. / - 348 N.C. / - 2346 I.A.

 Arcania's mage-kings complete a magic ritual of unknown purpose, but the archspell backfires. The mage-kings vanish, the kingdom effectively seizes to exist, and over the next decades Arcania's entire population slowly dies out leaving no descendants.

105 D.C. / - 345 N.C. / - 2343 I.A.

 The draconic migrations. Many dragons, including the Gold One set their lairs all over Eulalia, while over the next decades some appear in Tycho. Their place of origin is unknown. Initially the dragonborn, lizardfolk and kobold tribes of Eulalia treat them as gods, but that notion is soon dispelled.

110 D.C. / - 340 N.C. / - 2338 I.A.

 Hyrkanian nomadic tribes reach as far west from the Antler river as Mare Album in their travels.

130 D.C. / - 320 N.C. / - 2318 I.A.

 After three decades of preparations the Goblin kingdoms make war upon the giant strongholds of the northern highlands. These brutal wars will last for a century.

150 D.C. / - 300 N.C. / - 2298 I.A.

 The Beast kingdoms of south Tycho unite under the wise rule of the serpentfolk, creating the Zannad empire.

170 D.C. / - 280 N.C. / - 2278 I.A.

 Ollocnus, an exiled prince of Lorica, finds refuge in an elven community. There he marries Nerifiel and with the help of his father in law makes peace with the local human tribes south of Mare Album.

175 D.C. / - 275 N.C. / - 2273 I.A.

 The Zannad empire makes war against the gnoll tribes on their northern borders.

185 D.C. / - 265 N.C. / - 2263 I.A.

 Ollocnus founds the city of Novice on the Adar river estuary. He spends the next five years uniting the local humans, elves and nomadic Hyrkanian tribes of the Adar river into the kingdom of Aquilonia. He dies before his work is done, but his son, Nasir, becomes the first king.

200 D.C. / - 250 N.C. / - 2248 I.A.

 The Zannad empire subdues the gnoll tribes of the Arid plains. Many of them join the empire's armies.

225 D.C. / - 225 N.C. / - 2223 I.A.

 The Aquillonian borders reach as far west as Lorica. The two kingdoms fight several border skirmishes over the following twenty years.

233 D.C. / - 217 N.C. / - 2215 I.A.

 After a five year long siege, the last of the giant strongholds falls to the Goblin kingdoms. The surviving giants scatter away from the northern highlands of Eulalia. The Goblin kingdoms are all but spent from the conflict.

245 D.C. / - 205 N.C. / - 2203 I.A.

 Wild elf horse tribes begin raiding north from the Sea of Grass into dwarven lands and Lorica.

250 D.C. / - 200 N.C. / - 2198 I.A.

 Kendel the Seafarer is made admiral of the Aquilonian fleet. He sails from Novice to the far end of Mare Nostrum. His ship, the Helerona, is the first to navigate the Northern Gap into Mare Glaciem.

255 D.C. / - 195 N.C. / - 2193 I.A.

 Kendel the Seafarer with five ships manages to navigate past Mare Glaciem into the Great Ocean.

260 D.C. / - 190 N.C. / - 2188 I.A.

 The serpentfolk ruling the Zannad empire turn to the worship of Zehir, god of darkness. They erect numerous pyramidal temples and begin sacrifices of sentient creatures in his name.

262 D.C. / - 188 N.C. / - 2186 I.A.

 The Aquilonian-Lorican war begins.

272 D.C. / - 178 N.C. / - 2176 I.A.

 The battle of Nicia. The advancing Lorican army is all but annihilated in an ambush by the Aquilonian general Elidin Swiftbow. Crown prince Cunegni of Lorica is captured in the battle. Lorica sues for peace.

273 D.C. / - 177 N.C. / - 2175 I.A.

 Aquilonia and Lorica found the colony of Khandavar jointly as a neutral ground to solidify peace.

285 D.C. / - 165 N.C. / - 2163 I.A.

 Aquilonian explorers found colonies all along the Tycho coast as they continue their exploration of the Great ocean. Agos is founded.

290 Draconic Calendar / - 160 Nerathian Calendar / - 2158 Imperial Age

 A period of intense raids by the wild elves of the Sea of Grass. The raids would be later named the Wild Hunt, though most consider the name inaccurate.

293 D.C. / - 157 N.C. / - 2155 I.A.

 Agos is razed to the ground by the Wild Hunt.

299 D.C. / - 151 N.C. / - 2149 I.A.

 As the Wild Hunt invades Lorica the dwarves send help. Their army is helpless against the elven horse archers and is slaughtered at the battle of Orgol.

300 D.C. / - 150 N.C. / - 2148 I.A.

 The battle of Guadiana river. At great loss the Wild Hunt is defeated by Lorica. King Adrotus III and both his sons die in battle, leaving the kingdom leaderless.

 The Gold One ascends to the peaks of the Pillars of Heaven, where he spends the next century in contemplation.

 An Aquilonian fleet circumnavigates Tycho, recolonizes the ruins of Agos to use as a base and begins coastal raids in the Zannad empire. A small number of ships continue exploring, establishing the colony of Carda and reaching the estuary of the Antler river this year, and all the way to Isonzo river the next year, where a small trading post is established.

 High king Gotrek marches a large dwarven army into the Sea of Grass as retaliation for the loss at the battle of Orgol. The Dwarf – Elf war begins.

 The Lorican civil war ends with no clear winner. The Iron Crown is lost and Lorica breaks up into many petty kingdoms.

350 Draconic Calendar / - 100 Nerathian Calendar / - 2098 Imperial Age

 Numerous draconic states exist in Eulalia, each ruled by a single dragon. They are in constant competition with one another, with alliances and enmities constantly shifting.

354 D.C. / - 96 N.C. / - 2094 I.A.

The serpentfolk ruling the Zannad empire have slowly over the past century , under the influence of divine magics and interbreeding, transformed into the emotionless yuan ti. The resentment of their tyranny over the rest of the races of the empire has grown significantly. A secret cabal plans to overthrow them and enacts a ritual to bind celestial beings to their land and will as weapons. The ritual is a partial success. A large number of rakshasas are bound to the land and will of the cabal to overthrow the yuan ti, but in return demand payment in the flesh of the cabal; all its members are devoured.

356 D.C. / - 94 N.C. / - 2092 I.A.

 The formation of the Grand Alliance. After years of negotiations and travels, prince Arshis Farahi, last descendant of the Aquilonian royal bloodline manages to bring together numerous petty kingdoms, city-states and barbarian tribes, sick of living under the fear of the Zannad raids. Two armies gather north of Guna and Bora Gates while a fleet gathers at Carda.

357 D.C. / - 93 N.C. / - 2091 I.A.

The Zannad empire sends an army north of Guna Gates to destroy Farahi's forces; they are caught in a trap and destroyed. Only a few gnoll scouts escape to bring news of the disaster.

358 D.C. / - 92 N.C. / - 2090 I.A.

 The fourth battle of Guna Gates. Farahi's army marches on Guna Gates, and after a five day battle defeats the Zannad army there. The fleet sails from Carda and raids along the Zannad coast. The second army, under general Clermon Famys passes through Bora Gates into the Arid plains where he defeats a large gathering of gnoll tribes serving the empire.

 The rakshasas undermine the yuan ti power, instigating several minor revolts in the empire.

 A storm sinks many transports carrying supplies for the army and scatters the rest of the fleet.

 Clermon Famys has reorganized his army and begins marching forward again, also hunting gnoll tribes.

 A massive revolt threatens the Zannad capital and takes over a year to quell.

 The yuan ti perform daily sacrifices of slaves to Zehir. When there is a shortage of slaves, common citizens are dragged to the altars for sacrifice.

 Assassinations of yuan ti by the rakhsasa insurgency are commonplace in the cities and yuan ti dare not move outside without heavy escort.

 The Zannad fleet finally sails to meet the Grand Alliance's fleet in battle. They are badly defeated and the capital's port blockaded.

 Arshis Farahi defeats a Zannad army close to the Zannad capital and makes preparations for a siege.

 Another Zannad army wipes out Famys's army's remnants and marches towards the capital.

 Farahi marches south again and renews the siege of the capital.

371 Draconic Calendar / - 79 Nerathian Calendar / - 2077 Imperial Age

 After a two year long siege, the Zannad capital falls when several gates are left mysteriously open. The Grand Alliance's army rushes in, putting the city to the torch. During the fighting Arshis Farahi is killed as he leads an assault on one of the temples. The capital is razed to the ground, and the temples demolished.

 Over the next decade the Grand Alliance will carry on razing the rest of the Zannad cities, but lacks the focus and leadership Arshis provided. By the end, nothing will be left of the Zannad empire and the few surviving yuan ti will scatter in the world. The Grand Alliance dissolves, its purpose complete.

455 Draconic Calendar / 5 Nerathian Calendar / - 1965 Imperial Age

 Along the coastline of Mare Nostrum, where once Lorica and Aquilonia ruled, over 50 smaller states now compete for supremacy, via trade and warfare.

 Chieftain Hrodgar unites the barbarian tribes around the Frost Sea and founds the first Hrodgeir kingdom.

 The first accounts of material shortages in the dwarf realm. The mine shafts dig ever deeper every year, but the population is simply too large to sustain. Many dwarf clans leave their ancestral homes to live among the nearby human states.

 Having heard the tales of Faidon Spineas, Hayani Assyr, a Turathian merchant, begins gathering funds for an expedition. Having read Raoul Kalla's texts, he convinces investors in Turath and Hyrkath to fund a dozen ships for an expedition heading south to discover new lands.

 Hayani Assyr's expedition sets off from Vor Rukoth, heading directly south. Halfway through the journey his ships are scattered by the monsoon winds. Hayani's ship along with two more are wrecked upon the reefs surrounding a small isolated island. He names the island Firtina.

 One of Hayani's ships that had been lost three years ago returns to Vor Rukoth, the first ship to reach Eulalia and return to Tycho. They bring information of a new land, infested by giants of stone that they barely escaped.

 Hayani Assyr sets sail from Antigum with 20 ships heading for Assyria, in the first serious attempt at colonization. This time he estimates the monsoon season correctly, reaching his destination with little incident. He dies a year later in Assyria of dysentery.

 A second expedition sets sail for Assyria, this time from Vor Rukoth. The expedition rediscovers Firtina isle, but wary of the hidden reefs around the island doesn't approach.

 The Goblin kingdoms make forays into Giant's Peninsula.

 Nerath begins expanding north, past the Pyrenees mountain range. At their greatest expansion they reach the city-state of Tacana on the Adar river, that joins the Republic.

510 Draconic Calendar / 60 Nerathian Calendar / - 1910 Imperial Age

 The treaty of Delgal. Nerath and Turath sign a treaty establishing their common border on the Antler river.

 Turath and Hyrkath sign the Navio Pact, establishing their common border on the Emba river, swearing eternal friendship and agreeing to common colonization efforts in Assyria.

 Turathian and Hyrkathian settlers found the city of Tyr in Assyria.

 Zebukiel the Gray Wyrm attacks a goblin army marching north into Giant's peninsula, with the help of several giants. He will wage a private war against the Goblin kingdoms for years to come.

 Faexidor Moonsilver establishes his magic academy in Nerath. This is the first academy of its kind. The elven magical arts, that have coexisted alongside human ones since the Dawn War, begin to slowly replace the latter.

 Silvara, a very young and impetuous dragon, discovers the Turathian and Hyrkathian colonies while exploring north of the Arkhosian Barrier mountains.

The Arkhosian parliament, after the many contacts with explorers and the colonists in Assyria calls for the creation of a naval force to explore the seas.

The first Hrodgeir kingdom dissolves.

 An account of a Nerathian trade captain reports that the petty kingdoms around Mare Nostrum have grown very rich from trade, despite the near constant state of warfare between them.

 After several years of defeats, the remaining oni flee to the Feywild to avoid the wrath of Arkhosia. Arkhosia claims Averlorn as spoils of war, though the thick forested region is ill suited for most dragons and would only ever be sparsely populated. The Oni wars end.

The first Arkhosian ships reach Tyr, transporting an embassy.

 Nerath founds cities in the regions of the dead Zannad empire. Nerathian colonists and local populations intermingle freely.

 The Hyrkathian colony of Balic is established in Assyria.

 The Dragon's Wing is the first Arkhosian ship to cross the Middle ocean, reaching Vor Rukoth.

 Nerath sets an outpost on the tip of Giant's peninsula, in a flat region around the river Naze. Soon they are attacked by giants. Mordenkainen erects magical barriers to shield the small town. This is the first settlement in the area that Neverwinter would eventually be built.

 On an expedition, another goblin army is lost in the swamps northwest of the kingdoms, ambushed by lizardfolk.

580 Draconic Calendar / 130 Nerathian Calendar / - 1830 Imperial Age

 A three way war exists in Giant's peninsula, between the giants, Arkhosians and Goblin kingdoms. Nerath remains mostly neutral in the conflict.

 The goliath tribes of the north highlands revolt against the Goblin kingdoms. Distracted with the military campaign in Giant's peninsula, the Goblin kingdoms are slow to react to the organized attacks and their garrisons are lost.

 The Turathian Plaque of Nobility lists the 42 noble houses that make up the Turathian senate.

 Turathian admiral D'Abiego and his 8 ships complete mapping the west Eulalian coast. They set an outpost in an island caldera just off the main coast that will be used many times in the future to replenish ships.

 The exiled Zebukiel forms a pact with the giants and leads an attack on the Arkhosian forces in Giant's peninsula. The forces are routed and Zebukiel kills the dragon leading the forces, Seraphon. The Council of Wyrms and the parliament push for a response. The Gold One relents and a large force is sent to Giant's peninsula.

 This winter an extreme cold descends from the Mashuk mountain range all the way to Mare Nostrum. It will get progressively worse each winter over the next three decades, causing havoc in the kingdoms of the Nostrum commonwealth.

 Elves living in the forests west of the Blasted plains make contact with Turathian crews exploring the Orange river.

 Captain Ach'Deimos of the Turathian ship Swift Wind is the first human to set eyes upon the floating Shundered Isles.

 Admiral D'Abiego and three ships are lost while exploring the frozen southern coast of Eulalia.

 It is not known why the raids stopped or why the Frost Giants disappeared, but stories have Mordenkainen cast an archspell that drove the giants away.

After several disputes over the lands of Assyria, Hyrkath and Turath sign an agreement detailing the split of the lands between them. Concerned about the immense strength of Arkhosia they also agree to defend each other's colonies should an attack occur.

675 Draconic Calendar / 225 Nerathian Calendar / - 1735 Imperial Age

 The Goblin kingdoms send a small force to infiltrate the Darastrix Uthwix mountains, under Zebukiel's advice. Following hidden mountain paths revealed to them by the Gray Wyrm, they reach some of the secret lairs, where dragons keep their eggs. They kill the trusted dragonborn guards, a few dragonlings that had hatched, steal a few eggs and destroy many more. Cries for vengeance sound across Arkhosia.

 The Gold One and the Council of Wyrms issue an ultimatum to the Goblin kingdoms, to surrender the perpetrators for punishment. When they refuse, war is declared.

 The Battle of Black Forest. With Zebukiel's advice, the goblin armies ambush the invading Arkhosians. Zebukiel kills Aujircaex and Uskscivax, both young and inexperienced dragons, before he is attacked by Nundrintut the Red, one of the oldest and most revered dragons in Arkhosia. Zebukiel flees, but it is a ruse. He leads Nundrintut into a trap and slays him. The Arkhosian army manages to escape the ambush and defeats the goblin army.

 The Gold One orders the silver dragon Silvara to gather a force, hunt down Zebukiel and end him.

 The Plaques of Erathis are ratified by the Nerathian senate. They turn into Nerathian law several traditional laws and customs that existed for a long time. Chief among them is outlawing slavery.

 Mare Glaciem thaws, allowing ships to traverse from Mare Nostrum to the Great ocean again.

 Turathian slave traders are driven off west Eulalia by the elves with the help of Silvara. Over the past years they bought numerous elven slaves captured by Zebukiel. Silvara continues her hunt.

 A census of the dwarven capital puts the population at fifteen thousand, the lowest population for centuries. More dwarves live outside the Everlasting kingdom than in it. Nerath's dwarven population at the time is higher than that.

 The spellspire of Carda is completed. This is the first spellspire in the World.

 Hyrkath's assyrian colonies produce more wealth than the motherland. Hyrkath's attempts to set colonies in Averlorn are rebuffed by Arkhosia.

 Zebukiel begins terror raids in Assyria, killing hundreds and destroying a dozen villages before leaving the region, with Silvara pursuing him.

 Agos is attacked by wild elves again. A Turathian ship squadron in port helps repel the attackers. A few months later, after many negotiations, Agos becomes a Turathian client state.

 The nerathian Dian Ahmad leads an expedition through a portal to Sigil. This is the first written account of a visit to Sigil. A small outpost is established in the demiplane for further exploration.

 The first mention of the existence of the Orium tower.

 Turathian slavers make deals with the Goblin kingdoms. Hobgoblins lead expeditions to the Orange river region to hunt for elves that are then sold to Turath. Many such expeditions end in disaster, but the price elves fetch justifies the costs. Goliaths are soon also included in the slave trade.

 Silvara is offered a position on the Council of Wyrms but refuses, even when the Gold One tries to personally convince her. She leaves Arkhosia in a self-imposed exile.

725 Draconic Calendar / 275 Nerathian Calendar / - 1685 Imperial Age

 Another Wild Hunt begins, moving north from the Sea of Grass. Without any central power in the region to oppose them, the wild elves cross the Guidiana river within a few months and in three years reach as far as Odense river, before turning south, to pass through Bora Gates.

730 D.C. / 280 N.C. / - 1680 I.A.

 The Battle of Silamos plains. Agosian troops allied with a Turathian army meet the wild elves in battle, as they are marching towards Agos. The battle lasts nearly a full day and as the sun reaches west, a Nerathian lead army strikes the elven rear. They bring with them eight golems. This is the first recorded use of constructs in battle. The wild elves are destroyed.

 Silvara has returned to the west of Eulalia where she lives among the elves. The hobgoblin lead slave raids into the west forests of Eulalia become extremely costly as she deals with them. Many parties are completely lost and the endeavor is no longer profitable.

Nerath spent the past few decades helping the Mare Nostrum kingdoms rebuild, gaining numerous friends in the region. The Nerathian League forms. Turath sees this as a negative development as the the League members favor Nerath in trade.

 The Nerathian senate asks its best wizards to find a cheaper and more intelligent alternative to golems, which have proven their strength in several battles so far.

 Turathian slavers completely abandon attempts at raids in the western forests of Eulalia, after several years of failures and the destruction of all their outposts by Silvara.

 Unrest in Assyria. Talks of independence in many Hyrkathian and Turathian colonies. Both Hyrkath and Turath crack down harsly on the agitators. Fearing Arkhosian involvement, Hyrkath begins heavily reinforcing the colonies. Arkhosia denies the accusations and perceives the shipping of so many troops worrisome.

 The Gold One, deeply disturbed, retreats to the peaks of the Pillars of Heaven to meditate. Before he departs, he and the Council of Wyrms ask the parliament to choose a temporary Karpal until his return. They elect the dragonborn Inid Clincash Xarghull as Karpal.

 A revolt erupts in Assyria as the colonies seek to free themselves from overseas rule. Hyrkath once again accuses Arkhosia of instigating the revolt, only to receive a very strongly worded denial from the Arkhosian parliament. Both Turath and Hyrkath troops storm the cities to put the revolt down, but underestimate the extent. Though Tyr and Balic are easily secured, the Diyala-Rhasa plains and the gulf of Gulg remain in rebel control.

 Turath formally changes its capital in a week long celebration. Vor Kargal is a marvel of a city with the autocrat's palace only matched in opulence and size by the central temple of the city, dedicated to Asmodeus.

 Turath establishes the city of New Unarth on Firtina Isle.

 A Hyrkathian fleet sails in and blockades the ports of the gulf of Gulg. When the Arkhosian ships and Martividastudrax approach under a truce flag, they are attacked. Though they manage to escape, Martividastudrax is wounded.

776 Draconic Calendar / 326 Nerathian Calendar / - 1634 Imperial Age

 Enraged at the attack of the embassy, influenced by Tiamat and after receiving several reports of the oppression and atrocities committed, Arkhosia declares war on Hyrkath. The might of the Arkhosian armies crosses the borders and swiftly occupies the gulf of Gulg. The Hyrkathian fleet burns.

 Barely slowing down, the Arkhosians reach the Diyala-Rhasa plains where the rebel troops are in full retreat. The Hyrkathian army, eighty thousand strong, arranges itself for battle. They outnumber their enemies four to one. Before this army stand the remnants of the rebels, reinforcing three dezka of disciplined dragonborn troops, above them flying a score of dragons. Then the dragons roar. It is one of the most one sided battles of history. Before dusk the plains are littered with fifty thousand Hyrkathian corpses.

 Hyrkath calls on Turath to honor their pact and send aid, but autocrat Za'Zerxes ignores them. Three months later, as the Arkhosian army approaches Tyr, Turathian troops evacuate, leaving Hyrkathian troops to their fate. Tyr falls soon after. Balic follows five months later. By the end of the year all of Assyria has fallen under Arkhosian control.

 In Turath, the senate is heavily questioning autocrat's Za'Zerxes's decision to abandon Assyria, going as far as to discuss deposing house Zarxus, when the Hyrkathian letter arrives. Za'Zerxes uses it to unite the senate behind him for the moment. Turath declares war on Hyrkath.

 A triumph is held in Oz'Akmir's honor by the autocrat upon his return. During his speech before the steps of the temple of Asmodeus, he accuses Za'Zerxes of cowardice and dishonoring all of Turath when he broke the pact with Hyrkath. It is part of a plot with the senate. Za'Zerxes is deposed within the day and Oz'Akmir is declared the new autocrat.

 Turath consolidates and fully annexes all remaining Hyrkathian territories. The Turathian senate considers Arkhosia the greatest threat they face, a threat that will only grow stronger if allowed to also rule the seas. Autocrat Oz'Akmir reaches out to the Goblin kingdoms. They form an alliance against Arkhosia.

 The Egg Thieves incident. Five bugbears lead by a hobgoblin are found in the Darastrix Uthwix mountains and killed. The memories of the destruction of many eggs more than a century ago are still fresh in the minds of many dragons. It is unknown what the small party was doing in the mountains, but it is enough that the Arkhosian parliament now calls for war.

 It is uncertain who initiated hostilities. In midsummer of this year however, ten dragonborn dezka and over fifty dragons cross the Arkhosian Gates to the west, following a formal declaration of war against the Goblin kingdoms.

 Autocrat Oz'Akmir, confident in Turathian naval superiority believes his mainland unassailable. He calls for the senate to formally declare war on Arkhosia, while readying the fleets for a fight. Three months after Arkhosia invaded the Goblin kingdoms, from the balcony of his palace announces to the population of Vor Kargal that Turath is at war with Arkhosia.

 The Great War begins.

 A second battle takes place three months later, again a victory for the Arkhosians. By the end of the year, inid Nathibra's army reaches Giant's gulf.

 The Turathian navy blockades Tyr, Balic and the gulf of Gulg. A squadron approaches Vyth Taourthi with magics to deal with dragons, unaware that the Colosssi are not just statues and is annihilated by them with no survivors.

 Nerath deploys the first Warforged battalion. The Nerathian senate, impressed at the achievement and worried about the war, funds archmage Asha'man Chun to build more Creation Forges. The Nerathian League issues a statement of neutrality.

 Arkhosia trains eight more dezka to reinforce Assyria. Their fleet prepares to face the Turathian navy. As the year ends, six reserve dezka march towards the Arkhosian Gates, commanded by inid Harkath to reinforce inid Nathibra.

 Inid Nathibra's remaining six dezka and the rest of her dragons reach the northern edge of Black Forest at the same time as the south goblin army of thirty thousand exits it. The battle is short, and the goblin army retreats south, only to be caught in a pincer between the forces of inids Nathibra's and Harkath's five days later, and is destroyed.

 The combined Arkhosian army lifts the siege on the remaining forts of the Krigga Gap, relieving the beleaguered forces there.

 Fifty Turathian navy ships attempt to assault the port of Vyth Taourthi. Before they can even approach, twelve ships are destroyed by the Guardian Colossi. The rest flee in panic, broken in small groups. The Arkhosian navy gives chase sinking or capturing eight more.

 After a long period of recuperation from last year's battles, reinforced with five more dezka and having doubled the number of forts of the Krigga Gap, inids Nathibra and Harkath begin a two-pronged offensive through the Black forest, with a combined force of sixteen dezka. They win three battles in quick succession, forcing the goblin army to retreat north, maintaining most of their forces intact.

 The Turathian senate sends a fleet to the goblin kingdoms, transporting forty thousand troops. Under the command of the hobgoblin warmaster Krekkar Drurz, the goblin army consolidates on the junction of Rune Fork with the Dragon river, spending the rest of the year fortifying the area around the Citadel of the Black Hand.

 Warmaster Shoknurg Gnash, raises more troops in the Tenawe plains, forcefully putting in service goliaths and orcs along with goblinoids. He plans to strike the Krigga Gap with overwhelming force.

815 Draconic Calendar / 364 Nerathian Calendar / - 1595 Imperial Age

 Inids Nathibra and Harkath scout the expansive fortifications centered around the Citadel of the Black Hand, protected on two sides by the Dragon river and the Rune Fork and decide that an assault would be very costly. Rather they encamp their army 10 miles south, engage in short skirmishes only and concentrate their efforts in damming Dragon river and Rune Fork with all the magic, engineering and draconic muscles at their disposal.

 The siege of Tyr fails, never managing to completely seal off the city. Three dezka arrive from Raam, forcing the Turathian army to withdraw north. a battle follows, with both sides near equal numbers, and very few dragons present. The Arkhosian dezka organization proves more flexible and effective, easily carrying the day.

 Turath pushes Nerathian League members to join the war on their side. Nerath protests. Turath sends a fleet in the gulf of Carda as a show of force. Nerath deploys its fleet as well. After three months of tensions the Turathian navy backs off.

 Martividastudrax arrives in Nerath as the Arkhosian emissary.

 The first battle of Gulg. The Arkhosian navy tries to break the blockade, but is driven off.

 The hobgoblin warmaster Shoknurg Gnash marches towards Krigga Gap leading an army a hundred fifty thousand strong. Tensions erupt between the different racial groups of the army, breaking out into fighting and riots during the third night of the march. Unknown to warlord Gnash, agents of the Qeelakorn order had polymorphed and infiltrated his army, fueling these tensions. Warlord Gnash is almost assassinated by Temepukrax, the mercury dragon leading the infiltrators, escaping with his life, only by luck. His army shatters, and it will take many months before it can become a cohesive force again.

 When the autumn rains raised Dragon river and Rune Fork at their greatest point, inid Nathibra breaks both dams, causing a massive flood downriver, destroying a great many of fortifications and flooding many more. Thousands of goblinoids drown. The Citadel of Black Hand is surrounded, and having their supplies destroyed by the flood the garrison surrenders. Warmaster Krekkar Drurz retreats north with less than half his army, and is joined by the Turathian army.

 The battle of Camstad. Four days before the change of the year, inids Nathibra and Harkath array their army against warmaster's Drurz. After a long and bloody battle the day belongs to Arkhosia. Warmaster Drurz dies in battle, and the remnants of his army, retreat west and north, split in two.

 Inid Nathibra pursues the remnants heading west, towards Barghest's Spire, the citadel where the four warmasters of the Goblin kingdoms rule from. Another forty thousand strong army guards there, but most of them are newly raised troops. The pursued troops start confusion and chaos as they move through the lines, bringing the goblin army into disarray. Nathibra takes the opportunity and swiftly crashes both armies, capturing thousands. In the chaos, the citadel's gate is left open and the attack's momentum drives the last defenders away. The citadel and the surrounding town are captured, and the two warmasters present surrender.

 When Nathibra and her guards enter the warmasters' council room to accept the surrender, they discover the room decorated by Nekazzion's head. Enraged, Nathibra decapitates the closest warmaster, her guards killing the other one as he tries to flee. During a long night of rage and vengeance, the captives and any goblinoid found in the citadel or the town are killed. Barghest's Spire and the town are razed to the ground, Arkhosians going as far as ripping the foundations of the buildings. Nothing is left of the site.

 The Turathian senate votes to send a fleet to Mare Nostrum to enforce favorable trade with Nerathian League members. Autocrat Oz'Akmir begins plans for a massive overseas invasion of Assyria.

 The bronze dragon Aujiqumadosfax takes charge of the Arkhosian navy. She begins construction of new ships and trains the crews endlessly.

 The second Hrodgeir kingdom collapses.

 Shoknurg Gnash, the last remaining warmaster of the Goblin kingdoms, reorganizes his army of a hundred and twenty thousand strong, but realizes breaking through the Krigga Gap is useless now that the Arkhosian armies have reached the Great Tenawe river to the north. Sensing that his army would soon be trapped, he marches west to the hills of Mourning, where he plans to make a stand.

 The goliaths of the North Highlands revolt and defeat the small Goblin kingdoms garrisons left.

 Bahamut is reborn, but is still weak and Tiamat very strong. The imbalance of the draconic gods continues.

817 Draconic Calendar / 366 Nerathian Calendar / - 1593 Imperial Age

 Turmoil in the Nerathian senate. Nerathian League members are complaining of the Turathian trade tactics. For the first time the Nerathian senate considers the option to go to war with Turath. Martividastudrax's gentle diplomacy starts bearing fruit.

 While inid Harkath mops up goblinoid remnants in the north, inid Nathibra marches south along the Great Tenawe river. Defeating several small garrisons, she turns west and reaches the hills of Mourning by mid autumn, bringing with her thirteen dezka and thirty eight dragons. As the two armies array themselves for battle, the goblin armies more numerous and having the high ground, Shoknurg Gnash steps forth and issues a challenge for single combat to Nathibra. Nathibra steps forward. The duel doesn't last long. As Nathibra strikes down warmaster Gnash, his body transforms into acid and explodes, mortally wounding inid Nathibra. It was a deception, as the real warmaster Gnash was safely among his troops. His plan succeeded only partially. Though initially demoralized and leaderless, the roars of the enraged dragons cause the entire Arkhosian army to charge uphill. It was a bloody battle with heavy casualties on both sides. As the sun set on that day, the last Goblin kingdoms army is gone. Warmaster Shoknurg Gnash vanishes without a trace.

 Autocrat Oz'Akmir reviews the massive fleet and army ready to sail to Assyria from Vor Rukoth. Over five hundred ships and nearly a hundred thousand soldiers. A week long celebration begins to see the Grand Fleet off. The Qeelakorn order infiltrates the celebration and led by Temepukrax sabotages the fleet in the expansive port. Many ships are set on fire, but the protective spells woven into the hulls to protect them from dragonbreath slow the fires down enough for the crews to put them out. Only a few ships are destroyed. A hunt for the saboteurs begins.

 This winter starts a trend of ever decreasing temperatures south of the Mashuk mountains and the Rhein river. Ice forms in Mare Boreas.

 Martividastudrax informs the Council of Wyrms that the Nerathian senate will vote for war against Turath, but only if Arkhosia supports their defenses. The Council and Karpal Harkath formulate a plan to land troops in Nerath just as Nerath declares war to strike a decisive blow at the heart of Turath, ending the war.

 House Garenia of Turath funds the construction of a temple dedicated to Glasya in Vor Rukoth, as a show of gratitude for protecting the city from the fires last year.

 The Turathian army in Assyria fully controls the western peninsula of the subcontinent. The Arkhosian army reinforces Tyr, but gathers the majority of its forces around the gulf of Gulg.

 The second battle of Gulg. A hundred ships of the Turathian invasion force sail in the gulf to reinforce the blockade, one in five with a spellspire. Aujiqumadosfax, commanding the Arkhosian navy, waiting for such an opportunity, sails into the gulf, behind a conjured windstorm that traps the Turathian fleet against the shore. Only a score of Turathian ships escape, the first major naval loss for Turath.

 The Gold One descends from the Pillars of Heaven, having communed with Bahamut. He finds an Arkhosia at War.

 Autocrat Oz'Akmir is blamed for Nerath's involvement and is deposed, replaced by Ga'Rexus of house Garenia. With the majority of their seasoned troops in Assyria, Turath is unable to defeat the advancing armies and only slows down the advance in desperate battles.

 The Pact of the Bloodfire Moon. Autocrat Ga'Rexus engages the nobility of Turath and all of Asmodeus's priesthood into a month long ritual at the temples. The ritual completes as the advancing armies are a mere dozen miles from Vor Rukoth. Across the world, the armies and nobles of Turath transform, becoming the first tieflings, bearing the mark of damnation upon them. Hellgates open in Vor Kargal, Vor Rukoth, Unarth and other major cities, spewing forth the legions of the Nine Hells to fight the invading armies.

 The infernal legions push back the invaders. Turath becomes Bael Turath.

821 Draconic Calendar / 370 Nerathian Calendar / - 1589 Imperial Age

 The infernal legions advance, driving back the Arkhosian-Nerathian armies. For half a year they defeated all efforts to oppose them, destroying unbreakable warforged battalions and slaying several dragons. They have reached half way between the Antler river and Carda, and the only force that even slows them are the numbers of warforged that the Creation Forges constantly now produce. Seemingly nothing can stop them.

 The Gold One vows not to leave the Nerathian people to the carnage caused by the Nine Hells. He instructs Martividastudrax to offer the Nerathian senate sanctuary, along with as many people as their ships can carry. The Nerathian senate agrees, but an impassioned speech by senator Hildebald Notker, convinces the entire senate to be the last to evacuate. Martividastudrax respects the decision and vows to defend the senate until they leave.

 As warforged battalions slow the carnage of the infernal legions down with their lives, a mass exodus takes place from Nerath, tens of thousands flee across the ocean and even more flee west to Mare Nostrum and the Nerathian League. The elderly archmage Asha'man Chun, crafter of the Creation Forges, destroys his note books and then begins destroying the Forges themselves. He is stopped by three Arkhosian dragons; Frimrienax the Red, Brairgos the Green, and Soadana the Black. They argue the value of the warforged as a weapon and the archmage retorts that warforged are thinking, ensouled creatures, not tools to be used. They come to blows, and though Asha'man Chun's spells are powerful, they are no match three great wyrms. However, when the archmage falls, the dragon in rage realize that he merely was biding his time. Most Creation Forges are destroyed, the dragons only able to salvage one. It is transported across the ocean to Arkhosia.

 The infernal legions breach the walls of Carda, while numerous people are trying to escape to sea in small boats. Only three ships remain at the edge of the harbor, ready to sail away; the merchantman Ligaera loaded with refugees, the Stygian, flagship of the Nerathian navy, and the Arkhosian warship Kepesk Vrak. As the devils overrun the city, the Kepesk Vrak sacrifices itself to protect the Ligaera when it is attacked by a large group of War Devils. The Stygian, waiting for senate to evacuate, receives orders to sail away. The Nerathian senate refuses to leave while there are still people in the city. Martividastudrax, true to his vow remains with the senate.

 As the last two Nerathian ships sail away, the infernal legions storm the senate, defended by the High Guard, the last Warforged and a gold dragon. The last defenders of Nerath fight a futile battle to the last.

 Nerath is no more.

 The Turathian army in Assyria has recovered enough from the transformation and advances upon the gulf of Gulg. With the blockade lifted, Arkhosia reinforced the area heavily. Several skirmishes and two battles take place over five months, mostly indecisive, until the Battle of Draaj pits the entirety of both armies against each other. The Turathians use magic that keep the dragons at bay, but the flexibility and strength of the Arkhosian dezka system wins the day. Bael Turath retreats towards Balic, defeated.

 The Gold One grants the lands of Averlorn to the Nerathian refugees to settle. Karpal Harkath gets the Arkhosian parliament to agree, but several dragons complain. The Gold One severely reprimands Frimrienax the Red, Brairgos the Green, and Soadana the Black for their actions in Nerath. The Council of Wyrms is divided in the matter.

 Bael Turath recovers an intact Creation Forge hidden in a mountain near Carda. It is broken down and transported to Vor Kargal and will begin building warforged by next year.

 The siege of Balic ends in three days. The Qeelakorn order, with help from Balic civilians open the gates at night. Arkhosia recaptures the city. The Assyrian campaign caused the heaviest loses on Bael Turath so far.

 Autocrat Ga'Rexus begins reforms of the Turathian army, modeled on the Arkhosian dezka system. The legions of Bael Turath are born. By the end of the year two fully warforged legions will also be ready.

 Temepukrax sends news from Bael Turath of the new warforged legions. The Council of Wyrms convinces the Gold One to put their own Creation Forge in use.

824 Draconic Calendar / 373 Nerathian Calendar / - 1586 Imperial Age

 The Frost Giants descent again from the north down the Rhein river and Mare Nostrum. Over the next twenty years, as winters grow colder and colder and Mare Boreas freezes, they will bring devastation upon the numerous kingdoms of the dissolved Nerathian league.

 Admiral Zo'Marick of the Turathian navy sets up a base at New Unarth on Firtina Isle. He begins raiding Assyria and the Arkhosian coast, keeping the slower Arkhosian fleet unbalanced and split as it attempts to protect the coastline.

 The Arkhosian Creation Forge is set in the hidden Akuech Taoul, beneath the foothills of the Darastrix Uthwix mountains. It begins producing Arkhosian warforged this year.

 Bael Turath sends its new warforged legions to the city states of the Pehn sea, forcing them in servitude. They will use the tribute collected and the labor of the people there to rebuild the ravaged ports of Nerath and secure the coast west of the Antler river.

 The spellspire atop the Golden Tower of Tyr is completed. Its control chamber is the largest one ever build, capable of fitting a dragon.

 Aujiqumadosfax gathers a significant portion of the Arkhosian fleet, leaving many coastal towns unprotected and sails to Firtina Isle. The first battle of Firtina Isle is a success for Arkhosia, as the Turathian ships are caught by surprise, and many burn while the docks are destroyed. This success comes at a cost, as the unprotected towns suffer greatly from the Turathian raids until they latter are forced to withdraw.

 Temepukrax goes deep undercover in Bael Turath, with the objective of destroying the Turathian Creation Forge.

 Arkosian dragons, dragonborn and warforged begin organizing into specialized units focusing on specific capabilities each. These units will be known as caexalt, swordwings.

 The naval docks of Firtina Isle are rebuilt and New Unarth heavily reinforced with its walls imbued with mighty protective magic. Aujiqumadosfax attacks with the fleet again, but is repelled. Eight more battles will take place on Firtina Isle over the next decade, with mixed results.

 Arkhosia begins building fortified towns in the former Goblin kingdoms, in an effort to control rebellious goblins. Bael Turath sends aid to the goblins to destabilize the region. A state of insurrection begins.

 Arkhosia and Bael Turath both focus on control of the strategically important Giant's peninsula. The campaign for control there will last fifteen years.

 Bael Turath forces its vassal states to offer an annual tribute of ships and troops. Autocrat Ga'Mallus plans to use the tribute to bolster the size of the Turathian navy.

 The Battle of the Naze river. Bael Turath repels an Arkhosian advance on their main stronghold on Giant's peninsula, with the help of several giant tribes. The battle is notable as it is the first time that the majority of troops on both sides were warforged.

 Agos refuses to provide tribute to Bael Turath. Within a few months, the city is occupied by Bael Turath, its leadership publicly tortured and executed, a new puppet government installed and the tribute has doubled.

 Bael Turath heavily reinforces Firtina Isle, determined to reestablish the naval docks. The Arkhosian forces suffer badly in the assaults and forced to survive under a state of constant siege in the hills on the south of the island.

842 Draconic Calendar / 391 Nerathian Calendar / - 1568 Imperial Age

 The 13th Battle of Firtina Isle. Aujiqumadosfax leads a hundred ships of the Arkhosian fleet to relieve the besieged troops on Firtina Isle, only to be caught during his approach by a Turathian fleet twice his size. The faster Turathian ships harry his fleet, causing significant damage. Aujiqumadosfax is struck down while flying over his fleet, trying to assess the situation. A third of the Arkhosian ships is lost but the rest escape. Aujiqumadosfax severely wounded, is captured, brought to Firtina isle and executed. The Arkhosian troops on the island will hold for another four months before surrendering.

 The Arkhosian Parliament once again calls for a more proactive strategy, instead of responses to Bael Turath's strategy. The Council of Wyrms argues the case to the Gold One, but he is more concerned of the continuing insurrection in the former Goblin kingdoms, thinking of abandoning the territory. For the first time the Council of Wyrms strongly opposes the Gold One, arguing that such an action would only recreate the enemy on the west. Ideas of exterminating goblins are shot down by the Gold One, and after many meetings, an impasse develops.

 Autocrat Ga'Mallus arrives on Firtina Isle, heading a massive two hundred and fifty ship fleet and tens of thousands extra troops. Many ships and troops are drawn from the vassal states and just as many are warforged. He gathers as many ships as he can get and sails for Vyth Taourthi at the head of a five hundred ship armada, gambling that the defenses of the port would be overwhelmed and the headquarters of the Arkhosian fleet destroyed, giving Bael Turath dominance of the waves.

 The Battle of Vyth Taourthi. Though spotting the approaching Turathian armada early, the Arkhosian fleet is scattered, protecting the coastline from raids. The Arkhosian ships present are heavily outnumbered. Battle begins as the Turathian armada approaches within a few miles of the port, when the Guardian Colossi begin the carnage. Despite horrendous casualties, the armada manages to land troops outside the city walls but is unable to approach the port entrance, guarded by the Colossi. A group of ships finds a blind spot next to the sea wall and disembarks troops that scale the wall. The fight is brutal, as Turathian hellkites and warforged fight their way on the walls to Sunset gate. Capturing the gate would allow numerous troops outside the walls to take the city. Dozens on both sides fall each moment. Ga'Mallus watches this from afar, on board his flagship, the Salvation, when it becomes the target of arriving reinforcements. A caexalt of fire breathing dragons descend upon it, and though two fall, the inferno breaks through the protective spells and destroys the ship. As the advance towards Sunset gate stalls, the Turathian armada retreats, leaving behind over two hundred and fifty wrecks and tens of thousands dead.

 Arkhosia is still shaken by the size of last year's attack on Vyth Taourthi. The Gold One and the Council of Wyrms begin a program of naval expansion and make plans to cut Bael Turath from the wealth of its client states.

 Autocrat Da'Luthar, in an effort to avoid his predecessor's fate, purges the Turathian senate of his political rivals. Houses Zarxus, Garelian and Ozallius are destroyed. New Unarth on Firtina Isle and the outposts on islands around Giant's peninsula are further fortified. A strategy of naval raids without any major land attacks is put into effect.

 The Proxy Wars. Both Arkhosia and Bael Turath shift their focus on fostering insurrections and denying each other the resources of vassal states. Arkhosia sends a fleet to the Pehn sea to directly assist the enslaved city states there against Bael Turath and makes heavy efforts to fight the goblin insurrection in the former Goblin kingdoms. Bael Turath uses agents and resources to foster insurrection in Assyria and the Goblin kingdoms and paying the tribes of Giant's peninsula to fight for them, while continuing raids across the Eulalian coast to keep the Arkhosian navy off balance. This period lasts for three decades, with no major battles.

 Sigil becomes the battleground of small elite groups of both sides. Its myriad portals leading to every place in the World are vitally important during the Proxy Wars. Both Arkhosia and Bael Turath explore the demiplane, use its portals and try to deny their use to the other side.

 Unrest has taken root in Assyria, after many years of efforts by Bael Turath.

 Autocrat Da'Luthar dies in his sleep, after twenty seven years of tyrannical rule. He is succeeded by his son, Da'Lucar. The new autocrat calls his generals on assembling a force to take Assyria. Tyr is the first objective.

 Two Arkhosian warforged dezka land near Agos and repel a wild elf attack. With their support, the Agosians overthrow the Turathian puppet government and drive away the Turathian legion occupying the city.

 The city states of the Pehn sea are in open revolt against the Turathian rule.

873 Draconic Calendar / 422 Nerathian Calendar / - 1537 Imperial Age

 The revolt of the Pehn sea city states drew the Turathian navy away and delayed the invasion of Assyria significantly. Autocrat Da'Lucar orders the invasion to proceed with a smaller force. Two hundred ships sail from Vor Rukoth for Firtina Isle under the command of legate Zo'Garus. There they will join another fifty ships and move to strike Tyr.

 After decades of silence, Temepukrax makes contact with the Qeelakorn order, sending details of the plan to Arkhosia. The Arkhosian admiral Laccas Medgar, already in the final stages of preparation for a massive invasion of Firtina Isle, alters the plans. As he had planned, he uses over a dozen aquatic caexalt to hunt down any Turathian scout ships and clear his route, but his destination is not Firtina Isle, but Tyr. He times his arrival after Bael Turath lands at Tyr, in a plan to trap the enemy fleet and annihilate it.

 The Turathian fleet arrives at Firtina Isle with no incident. Joined by more ships it sails for Tyr, unaware of the trap, but runs into a storm that scatters it and delays its arrival by days. Upon their arrival, they are met by Medgar's fleet that had arrived the day before and was exiting the gulf of Tyr. Legate Zo'Garus was ready for combat, but failed to realize the size of the enemy fleet, thinking it was only the small flotilla that was expected to be protecting Tyr. Admiral Medgar was not arrayed for battle but sailing to hide his fleet nearby and wait for the delayed Turathian fleet. His ships though fewer were not laden with troops and supplies and more maneuverable, while he still had the advantage of several caexalt present.

 The Battle of the gulf of Tyr starts around midday and is a bloody affair for both sides, neither gaining a significant advantage but suffering heavy loses. Legate Zo'Garus retreats to Firtina Isle, failing to make landings. For his failure, legate Zo'Garus is stripped of command and returns to Vor Kargal, where he is tried and executed.

 Under the command of inid Errhen Zenvys and Noryssaion the Bronze, a small force of half a dozen caexalt, thirty ships, two dragonborn and four warforged ierikc, begin a campaign against the outposts on the islands around Giant's peninsula, with the ultimate goal of destroying them. The campaign will last five years and will occupy significantly larger Turathian forces, ultimately leading to Bael Turath abandoning most outposts.

 The rising star of house Karador, Ka'Tempus comes of age and is immediately inducted to the Hellguard. He will be one of the fastest rising officers, becoming the youngest tribune of the Hellguard just ten years later. Unknown to everyone, Ka'Tempus had been assassinated and replaced by Temepukrax, the mercury dragon when he was fifteen.

 Both empires are severely exhausted and in dire economic straits, but Bael Turath's mercantile economy feels the pressure significantly more, since the loss of its trade partners.

 The False Peace. Autocrat Ak'Deimos calls for a ceasefire and negotiations with Arkhosia. The Gold One agrees.

886 Draconic Calendar / 435 Nerathian Calendar / - 1524 Imperial Age

 After a decade of piracy, Di'Marionna and her three ships cross into the Feywild, where they found the city of Roanapur.

 Emissaries of Arkhosia and Bael Turath meet to discuss terms of the ceasefire and the possibility of a long term peace. Such discussions don't include the fate of embattled regions such as the Pehn sea, or reparations.

 The Council of Wyrms protests to a peace offering that equates to an admittance of defeat to devil worshiping people. The Arkhosian Parliament is divided on the matter. The Gold One does not change his position and the Council of Wyrms is calmed by Anarganon the Red.

 The Turathian senate is uneasy with the ceasefire, but autocrat Ak'Deimos has the support of the Hellguard. Members of house Dalius plot revenge against the disappeared Ka'Tempus. Their long search reveals the true identity of Ka'Tempus - Temepukrax. Armed with this knowledge they plot to retake the autocrat's throne.

 Autocrat Da'Vernia executes most officers of the Hellguard and replaces them with warforged.

 The ceasefire breaks down when Bael Turath reinforces Firtina Isle after the agreed Arkhosian evacuation.

 Autocrat Da'Vernia and the senate agree upon a strategy using Firtina Isle as a base for raiding Arkhosia and Assyria, but avoiding any major offensives, merely containing Arkhosia. Instead the offensive focus will fall upon the Pehn sea and other rebellious vassal states.

 Marjeris the Grey presents an idea of using massed high flying caexalt for a precision strike against the naval docks at Firtina Isle. She spends several years finding the dragons willing to attempt it and with with the help of several mages and artisans, develop the spells and technology required for a success.

 Small groups of devils begin terror raids in Arkhosia causing many civilian casualties.

 After years of mediations, the Gold One resumes control of the Council of Wyrms. Anarganon the Red is given the task to stop the Turathian raiding fleets and Glorificus the Gold is put in overall command of the defenses of Assyria.

 The stress of the situation takes its toll on autocrat Da'Vernia. She collapses and dies during a war council. Her firstborn son Da'Kestus becomes autocrat. He refocuses efforts on winning in the Pehn sea and finding fresh places to expand. To that end he recalls many ships protecting Firtina Isle or contacting raids, gathering a large force to strike at Pehn sea.

900 Draconic Calendar / 449 Nerathian Calendar / - 1510 Imperial Age

 A small Turathian raiding fleet looking for new resources sails far from normal routes, reexamining Eulalia's west coast. There they find a small coastal elven town, previously unknown. They spot three very young silver dragons flying above, seemingly in play. With the defenses so weak, they attack. In battle all three dragons are killed and the town sacked, and many of its populace taken away in chains. They sail north to an old but known outpost after the raid. Unknown to them, the three dragons were Silvara's children. She arrives at the scene three days later, finding her three children dead.

 Bael Turath lands many troops at the estuary of Gal Oya, marching inland and putting to the torch rebellious towns and villages and relieves the besieged Iron Keep. An Arkhosian dezka arrives and with the help of the local beastfolk fights them to a stalemate. In the meantime, Feothalax sees an opportunity and gathers the fleet, sailing out of the Pehn sea through the Anachak straits in an attempt to meet the Turathian fleet in a decisive battle. A storm sinks several ships however and many more are blown of course, before her fleet can come anywhere near the enemy.

 Silvara, having entombed her children deep in the forest, with the help of the elves tracks down the raiding fleet responsible. She and the elves fall upon the Turathian raiders with a savage fury, killing every last one of them and freeing the enslaved population of the elven town they attacked.

 Iron Keep, the last major bastion of Turathian power in the Pehn sea, falls after a two year siege. With it, the last claim Bael Turath has in the region dies. Feothalax makes plans to attack the Turathian naval base in the Gulf of Carda and asks for reinforcements. Those reinforcements will not arrive for three years.

 Anarganon is furious as the ships he had asked for the attack on Firtina Isle were sent across the ocean to Moray island. He asks Glorificus the Gold for assistance and he offers a significant portion of the fleet patroling the Assyrian coast, as well as five dezka and six caexalt. Most importantly he introduces him to Marjeris the Grey and her project. The three together finalize the planned assault on Firtina Isle.

 The 15th Battle of Firtina Isle. The battle opens with Marjeris's high flying caexalt dropping special winged warforged directly on top of the naval docks. Though they suffer heavy loses, they succeed in disabling the magical defenses. Then a dozen caexalt dive upon the anchored ships and facilities, causing terrible carnage. At the same time Anarganon and Glorificus approach with the fleet. The naval docks are destroyed, and Arkhosian troops once again occupy the south of the island, but this time the defenses of the naval docks are not there to stop them marching north. After a series of battles, New Unarth is put under siege.

 The Battle of Torterona. Autocrat Da'Kestus's Home fleet moves to join the battered Carda fleet, but is intercepted by Feothalax's. The battle in the narrow straits is a brutal one with heavy loses on both sides. It is decided when the Turathian flagship, with Da'Kestus on board is destroyed when Feothalax personally leads a caexalt through an opening in the Turathian defenses. Autocrat Da'Kestus dies and the remnants of the Home fleet scatter, hunted down.

906 Draconic Calendar / 455 Nerathian Calendar / - 1504 Imperial Age

 High priest of Asmodeus, Da'Ferrus becomes the new autocrat after his brother Da'Kestus died. Though the Turathian senate is confident that the defenses of the homeland are strong, they demand of the new autocrat to win this war. Da'Ferrus assures them that he has a plan. He increases the power of the temples and makes several infernal pacts to strengthen Bael Turath. As a result a second wave of even more brutal infernal terror raids plague Arkhosia.

 Feothalax's fleet is caught in a storm and loses many ships on its way to engage the Turathian fleet at Carda. The scattered fleet is instead attacked and suffers even more.

 Last year Anarganon planned the attack on Firtina Isle just before the monsoon season, denying reinforcements to New Unarth for months. By the time ships could cross the ocean again the Turathian fleet protecting Firtina was all but destroyed and New Unarth put under siege. This year, after the most heavy and brutal fighting of the entire war, the magical defenses of New Unarth break and the city is taken by storm. Anarganon, Glorificus and Marjeris, all command to take no prisoners. The entire population of New Unarth is executed, the walls and buildings razed down to the foundation, the rumble thrown in the smaller city port to block it. The draconic triumvirate erects a huge enchanted black pillar where the city center was, commemorating the victory and the names of all the fallen Arkhosians.

 The island becomes an abandoned place, haunted by the ghosts of the fallen. Soon its nickname will supersede its original name and will become known as the Isle of Terror.

 The draconic triumvirate returns to Vyth Taourthi to the mighty cheers of thousands and makes its way to Ryna Taoul where they are hailed as heroes by the Arkhosian parliament. They present themselves before the Council of Wyrms and the Gold One. He once again reprimands them for their brutality, but this time there are no roars of ascent from the Council of Wyrms. Sensing the tides turning, Anarganon seizes the opportunity and declares a challenge to the Gold One. The Council of Wyrms remains silent. The ensuing duel lasts for hours and severely injures both dragons. Unable to continue, the duel is a draw. But the damage is done. The Gold One, thought invincible, withdraws to his personal lair to heal, leaving the fate of Arkhosia to the Council of Wyrms. This shakes the very foundations the empire is build upon.

 Glorificus is reinducted into the Council of Wyrms, while Marjeris seeks a way to heal the crippling wounds Anarganon suffered.

 Rumors are heard across the cosmos that the energies of the Living Gate are on the rise.

 Autocrat Da'Ferrus promises that a final solution and victory against Arkhosia is at hand. He enforces compulsory prayers and offerings to the temples every nine days. A nine month long ritual begins, spread across all the infernal temples.

 Marjeris the Grey in an effort to save Anarganon from his wasting wounds, enacts a necromantic ritual. Anarganon transforms into the first dracolich, though the years of suffering and the ritual weakened him.

 The Ritual of The Unbound Flood. The nine month long ritual completes at Bael Turath. It channels the energies gathering at the Living Gate and uses them to extract all water from Arkhosia. An arcane wave starts at Ryna Raoul and rapidly spreads, reaching the Walls of Averlorn and the Arkhosian Barrier mountains within a day. Everything dries up and dies, from the tiniest insect to the mightiest dragon. The Walls of Averlorn block the wave from moving east, and the Arkhosian Barrier partially shields Assyria from the wave, losing much of its potency before reaching there. In a single day, the Arkhosian empire is gone.

 The Ritual of The Unbound Flood has some unintended consequences. The final day of channeling is so stressful that eveyone in the temples of Bael Turath have their souls ripped from their bodies. This loss of control, or perhaps the rage of primal spirits against this massive disruption of the natural order, or perhaps both, cause massive volcanic eruptions and earthquakes across Bael Turath that last for years, destroying nearly everything.

 Vor Rukoth escapes destruction as it is suddenly transported to the Shadowfell.

 Both empires stop existing. The Great War is over.

 The Great Migrations. As eastern Tycho becomes increasingly uninhabitable, bearing the burden of Bael Turath's destruction, surviving populations migrate westwards, towards Mare Nostrum. The scarcity of resources though brings many groups into conflict. Records of this period are nearly impossible to find, the only civilization that seemingly has not collapsed being the dwarves of the Everlasting kingdom.

 By the end of the century only a handful of dragons remain in Assyria. The oldest and mightiest, said to be of the same generation as the Gold One and Anarganon, becomes tyrant of Tyr. His previous names and deeds forgotten, he will be remembered in history as the Dragon of Tyr.

 The Dragon of Tyr makes literacy illegal. Reading and writing are reserved only for a few select that their positions need them and will in the future be considered mystical arts.

 The Tyranny of Dragons. The west provinces of Arkhosia, formerly the Goblin kingdoms, broke up into small draconic fiefdoms soon after Arkhosia's destruction. As years turned to decades and the Dragon Wars dragged on, stronger dragons began consolidating territory by killing or driving away rivals. Finally, the Dragon Wars ended with eight chromatic dragons, the victors of past conflicts, forming a Conclave in Arkhosian imitation and settling the borders of their territories. It is a mockery of Arkhosia as the tyrannical rule of their subjects, dragonborn, goblin and goliath alike, soon makes them despised by all.

 People with strange psionic powers are born across the world, but the vast majority are in Assyria. The Dragon of Tyr, fearful of these new powers, hunts them down. Some he imprisons and studies, others he eats, but most are just killed immediately. Assyria's fauna also begins to exhibit such changes.

 The Dragon of Tyr commands the construction of the Ziggurat of Tyr, a massive structure designed to channel the lingering energy of the Ritual of the Unending Flood, demolishing an entire district for the space. It will take a century and a half to complete and thousands will die during its construction.

 Assyria has turned completely into a desert. The mighty Diyala and Rhasa rivers are little more than streams. Guardhouses protect water wells.

 The Grand Rebellion against the Chromatic Conclave takes root. Rebellious activity will be constant from this point on, until the death of the last of the Conclave.

1200 Draconic Calendar / 749 Nerathian Calendar / - 1200 Imperial Age

 After decades of drawing psionic power from the Ziggurat, the Dragon of Tyr is transformed beyond recognition and gained strange powers. The population of Tyr is a mere fifth of what it was when he took power and they are all his slaves in all but name.

 Zo'Rictus of the Turathian house Zolfura leads an expedition into his former homeland.

 Halfling folk tales put the life and exploits of the legendary hero Barras Quickblade around this time.

 Magnuses of the Orium tower renew the ancient wards against the frost giants of the north that the mage-kings of Arcania had erected long ago. The cold begins to retreat from Mare Nostrum.

 The Great Fire of Tyr. The psionic powers of the Dragon of Tyr erupt uncontrollably, causing a cataclysmic fire that burns down nearly the entire city. Only the Golden Tower and the Ziggurat remain unharmed. Thousands perish in the flames.

 After three centuries of struggles, the last dragon of the Chromatic Conclave is slain by a party calling themselves Bahamut's Sword, putting an end to the Tyranny of Dragons.

 The Dragon of Tyr sends armies to raid the Diyala-Rhasa area for slaves and resources, leaving behind pure devastation.

 The Council of Emnos. In the burgeoning city of Emnos, the noble houses of Bael Turath that survived and scattered after its destruction, gather after an invitation of house Kalhir. Va'Nero the second of house Kalhir, claims the title of autocrat as inheritance from his ancestor of the same name, and attempts to extract oaths of fealty from the rest of the houses to rebuild Bael Turath. The rest of the houses refute him, as the resurrection of Bael Turath and worship of Asmodeus had become a taboo subject over the centuries.

 The Vampire Wars. House Kalhir attacks the rest of the tiefling noble houses attempting to subdue them. Va'Nero reveals that Orcus himself has blessed his house and unmasks himself as the first vampire. It fails spectacularly to sway the noble houses, leading to decades of conflict.

 The Vampire Wars end with house Kalhir shattered, with only a scant few survivors escaping. These wars were the last attempt of restoring Bael Turath. Tieflings will not get their own homeland for another thousand years.

 The 3rd Hrodgeir kingdom rises.

 The Oni return to Averlorn, conducting raids against the many small towns build in the thick forests by the Nerathian refugees centuries ago. The people there fight back, but the small isolated communities suffer.

 Tensions grow between the dragonborn and hobgoblins of the west Arkhosian provinces. Without a common goal in mind, the ancient enmities grow in strength. Many start living in segregated communities.

 Elves from the Feywild come to Averlorn and help the people there in their struggles against the Oni.

 The twins Lariades and Nyope come of age and complete the challenges given to them by the Assyrian society of druids. They are given the Amber Bow and Amber Spear, and a plan is set in motion to slay the Dragon of Tyr. A civil revolt begins in Tyr. As the Dragon's templars brutally quell the unrest, several druids complete a ritual that severs the Dragon from the energies drawn from the Ziggurat. The twins, with the help of many brave companions face the enraged Dragon of Tyr. Many of their companions die in the cataclysmic battle, but in the end the Dragon of Tyr is vanquished, putting an end to centuries of terror.

 Lariades and Nyope marry and are declared the first High King and Queen of Assyria. They order the surviving druids to begin work on a project that would turn Assyria green again.

 The High King of Assyria dies. With no immediate heirs a succession crisis leads to the throne of Tyr remaining empty for two decades. The rest of the Assyrian city-states declare their independence.

 Madjindis Nodu is crowned the new High King of Assyria, though his direct authority ends at the port of Tyr. Eventually, after many years of negotiations the rest of the city-states will recognize the Throne of the Golden Tower as the supreme authority in Assyria, but will remain completely autonomous otherwise. The new High King will also invest heavily on irrigation and the society of druids, in an effort to improve food production for the people.

 Elves coming from the Feywild help facilitate a friendship pact between Agos and the wild elves of the Sea of Grass, ending centuries of raids. It will take an additional twenty years before the same can be achieved with the dwarfs of the Everlasting kingdom. Once that is also achieved, the raiding culture of the wild elves will end, giving way to more peaceful ways of living in tune with nature.

 Asad Nodu succeeds his father as High King of Assyria. During his father's reign, the efforts of the druids and the irrigation projects made Tyr the most prosperous city of Assyria, but it is a constant battle against the curse. Balic and the rest of the city-states followed their example. Asad Nodu funds a restoration of the derelict Ziggurat of Tyr, dedicating the top levels of the structure to shrines of every known deity.

 Dhaafir al-Jaffar becomes High King of Assyria, beginning the Jaffar dynasty. He founds the Great Library of Tyr, housed in the middle levels of the Ziggurat, and by the end of his rule, twenty years later, the Tyr School of Psionics begins teaching gifted people, located at the bottom levels, the first and most renowned institution of its kind.

 The elves of the west forests of Eulalia split into two realms, one in the north forest and one in the south centered on Elocin and Tyelpelasse respectively. Silvara vows to protect both of them. Both realms become part of the expanding elven confederation. Silvara slumbers for fifty years.

 The vanyatar of Averlorn, Irareth Elengil, establishes the kingdom's capital at Fennanfin and its Feywild counterpart, Hithliniath. The Feywild in the region is dominated by Oni, and thus only small fortified settlements and castles exists there. Construction begins at the fortified port of Caras Harad.

1750 Draconic Calendar / 1199 Nerathian Calendar / - 650 Imperial Age

 The Sigil Almanac is written by the bard Lancard Lestat. It describes the flourishing demiplane city with all its peculiar inhabitants from all around the Cosmos. The anarchic state of the city is evident with the only points of order the dragonborn and tiefling communities, remnants of the Great War, as well as the structured bladeling neighborhood.

 The Caleppian Trading Guild is founded.

 High King Thorgimm of the Everlasting kingdom forbids the elven ambassadors to open portals in the realm. Instead he funds the first dwarf colony, the port city of Barak Varr, on the estuary of the Zhuf river, opening free trade with other races for the first time in many centuries.

 The 3rd Hrodgeir kingdom falls due to civil conflict.

 The elven confederation spreads across the World and the Feywild, more than any empire ever did in the past. The people living under the banners of its constituents, elves and other races alike, prosper. Elven culture spreads even beyond these territories and the elven ways of magic have completely replaced previous arcane traditions, with the exception of the Magnuses of the Orium tower.

 The Khandavar - Ostern War begins over control of the Rysnen peninsula. It will end in five years in Khandavar's favor. The martial prowess of Khandavar and its open society have significantly improved its power in Mare Nostrum and other city-states take notice of the rising power.

 The Caleppian trading guild establishes the port of Moil at the eastern edge of the Shallow sea, to facilitate trade with lizardfolk, dragonborn and hobgoblins.

 The Great Lighthouse of Emnos is completed, making the approach to the estuary of the Antler river and the city's harbor significantly safer.

 Turova founds the colony of Thaemgifell with loans granted by the Agosian Trading Guild. This is the northernmost settlement of Tycho, and its location is vital for shipping between Mare Nostrum and the Great Ocean.

 Sigil has adjusted fully to life with Modrons handling things. A great council of scholars and mages that have investigated the Great Machine in the bowels of the city gathers to share their findings, but only manage to agree that it was created together with Sigil long ago, near the start of the Dawn War.

 A group of githyanki Far Wanderers, lead by captain Karruk Sazak arrive in Sigil after the destruction of their astral ship by aberrations. Karruk Sazak is convinced that the Great Machine in the bowels of the city is the answer to protecting the Cosmos from Far Realm incursions. They begin investigating the Great Machine.

 The Jaffar dynasty of High Kings ends and is replaced by the Hasan dynasty. Sabaah al-Hasan becomes High King of Assyria.

1930 Draconic Calendar / 1379 Nerathian Calendar / - 470 Imperial Age

 The Wars of the Four Kingdoms. The kingdoms of Arverni, Antigum, Ariel and Tarentum of east Tycho enter a period of intense rivalry and shifting alliances that last for over a century. They fight several small wars, and often those that were allies in one war bitterly fight against each other in the next.

 After several centuries of mistrust and enmities originating from the Great War the dragonborn and hobgoblins of the Dragon and Great Tenawe rivers segregate. Hostilities soon begin, but with no central authority they remain very localized. Attempts to mediate between the two races by the Ghaele of Spring prevent further violence.

 Silvara falls into a deep slumber for the next century. The elves of Tyelpelasse fear that she is growing very old.

 Karruk Sazak leads an expedition into the Abyss funded by Melamkurkurra. Half the members of the expedition are lost, but he returns to the City of Brass with the prize Melamkurkurra sought after, the Deluvian Hourglass. Karruk betrays his sponsor however, and does not hand over the artifact, killing Melamkurkurra in the ensuing fight before leaving the Elemental Chaos along with a handful of followers still alive.

 Hil Nivriz writes the first account and and draws the first detailed map of the Shallow sea that has survived to modern times.

 The birth of Irsy the Black Wyrm. Later on in life she will become far more known with her High Rysnen name, Ignatia.

 The dwarf clan Bitteraxe using survey maps indicating mineral wealth, contracts elven mages to make portals to an unknown mountain range against the High King's commands. They leave the Everlasting kingdom to found the mythical dwarf hold of Hammerdeep. Two more clans choose to follow them there, Coldforged and Onyxbrow. Though the portals used are outside the Everlasting kingdom's borders, the High King exiles the clans involved.

 In the first week of Stormwrack, Primus awakes and becomes fully operational. It creates thousands upon thousands of Modrons that swiftly eradicate residents of Sigil not quick enough to flee. Though the fate of Karruk Sazak is unknown, it is believed that he is one of the first dead. Primus captures the Deluvian Hourglass and it becomes the heart of a new construct, its purpose to hijack all portals in the Cosmos to sent Modrons through.

 As Primus begins hijacking permanent portals across the Cosmos one by one, the gods realize the terrible peril and in an unprecedented event most give at least their silent consent for a fundamental change to the fabric of the magic weave. This tiny alteration is enough to make all magic portals, and existing spells to create them stop functioning. The crisis is averted, but Primus and his forces remain.

 Naegwyn floods as the portals used to make the many waterfalls stopped working. Soon the city's area turns into a massive bog swamp and buildings slowly begin to sink. As the elves try to save their city, a dragon egg in their care hatches. Skaljandiir, the orium dragon is born.

 Over the next decade Averlorn loses most of its isolated Feywild holdings. Many are abandoned, but just as many fall to oni attacks. In the end, only Hithliniath remains secure, and while Caras Harad remains an elven port in the Feywild, it becomes an independent city-state.

 Parts of the World enter an era of relative isolation, forcing the use of more mundane ways of travel and a refocus on local affairs.

 The Republic of Emnos forms, uniting the coast from Delgall to Evenfar. The Republic will try to expand and include more territories over the years, but will fail to do so, meeting stiff local opposition.

 Amru al-Hasan becomes High King of Assyria. His reign will be marred by a futile series of conflicts as he attempts to impose his complete authority over the city-states of Assyria. His efforts will in fact have the opposite effect, undoing decades of diplomacy his predecessors had conducted.

 The elves of Elocin, believing that Silvara will never wake again, swear allegiance to Asarnil, who becomes the first elf mage-king of Elocin. The northern forest communities soon give their allegiance to Asarnil. The elves of Tyelpelasse and the rest of the southern forests decry this as a betrayal.

 In response to the Turovian agression, the league of Vilona unites, crowning the Autarch of Vilona the first king of Gedracia.

 Five kingdoms form along the banks of the Adar river; Droven, Busal, Kamelyra, Aselalia and Kharus. Their capitals are respectively Medza, Hestevik, Amanao, Argenta and Rueda. They are in constant competition, but also depend on each other to maintain trade along the river. As a result only a handfull of small wars are ever fought between them. Tieflings and halflings gain wealth as they are the ones that mostly manage the trade along the river.

 The archmage Evard Daing completes the construction of a powerful magic staff, black as night and with strange abilities, a project that took a decade to complete. At sixty five years of age he leaves Moil crossing into the Shadowfell, in a bid to find immortality.

 A merchant captain of the Caleppian Trading Guild notes that over the past decades Moil's population has changed, now including numerous people with snake-like features.

 The kingdom of Tranada, centered around the Odense river, begins a war against the encroaching Marren-Ostern Alliance. The war ends in a devastating defeat for Tranada, with the signing of the Treaty of Sevet. Tranada becomes a client state of the Alliance. Marren and Ostern turn their attention back at their old rival, Khandavar, forcing them into vassalage.

 Asarnil dies in a hunting accident. His first born son, Haldir, becomes king of Elocin, though most would prefer the far more popular Doserain to take his father's crown. A conspiracy forms against the new elf-king, believing that Haldir is responsible for his father's death.

2100 Draconic Calendar / 1539 Nerathian Calendar / - 300 Imperial Age

 Averlornian explorers, under the sponsorship of vanyatar Enendil, recolonize ancient abandoned Arkhosian ruins to the north of Averlorn, near the gulf of Arkhosia. The new city is named Enedthas.

 A decade ago, the Caleppian Trading Guild lost control of Moil to the numerous snakefolk living there, identified as resurgent yuan ti. With reports of ziggurats to Zehir raised in the city, the Guild hires a hobgoblin mercenary army to oust the yuan ti. The exact events of the battle are unknown, as the city, its inhabitants and the mercenary army all vanish without a trace. Centuries later, its ruins are discovered in the Shadowfell, but of the people there was no trace.

 The archmage Evard Daing, having survived in the Shadowfell for a century, meets his end in a fight against sorrowsworn lead by Vorkhesis, Herald of Fate. Before the fight, Evard handed over a copy of his spellbook to his apprentice. Eventually the spells invented by Evard will become widespread. Decades later, his staff ends in the hands of a shadar kai wizard named Dovad.

 The hobgoblins begin training breeds of drakes and behemoths as beasts of burden and war. The tensions between them and the dragonborn are high, with many atrocities committed by both sides. By this time the communities of both are fully segregated, though scattered along the Great Tenawe and Dragon rivers.

 Silvara passes peacefully in her sleep, deep in the south forest. Unable to move the colossal body, the elves bury her in place and plant a grove of oaks above. As the oaks grow, their leaves turn silver, and soon this spreads for miles around. The nearby community, Tyelpelasse - Silverleaf in elvish- takes its name from this in her honor.

 Khandavar has been a rebellious vassal of the Marren-Ostern Alliance for over a century. Harpax Adramus, a young scion of the aristocracy, gathers enough support among his peers for another rebellion. Claiming descent from ancient Nerath, he raises a golden phoenix banner and rouses the populace of the city, driving away the Alliance garrison. The Alliance sends an army to punish the city, but are defeated in battle. The War of the Phoenix will see Khandavar free, though severely weakened. Harpax Adramus is elected dictator-for-life.

 When Harpax Adramus died six years ago, power in Khadavar reverted back to the squabbling aristocratic council. The Alliance, mired in the third war against Rigia, seizes this opportunity to retake control of Khandavar. Their attempt is successful and the Adramus family along with many supporters flee in exile fearing for their lives.

 The dragonborn-hobgoblin conflicts reached a peak a decade ago. Harkath of clan Shaarn successfully unites the disparate dragonborn factions and defeats the hobgoblins in many battles. A peace treaty is signed, with Harkath representing the dragonborn and four hobgoblin khans representing the opposing side. Under this treaty, the hobgoblins are to migrate north along the Great Tenawe and Dragon rivers, while the dragonborn south, in a population exchange to seperate the two races. The kingdom of Raiann is born and Harkath is crowned the first king, also founding the Harkathi clan. The hobgoblins follow in the next years in creating the Assau ilkhanate in the north, ruled over by a council of khans.

2250 Draconic Calendar / 1689 Nerathian Calendar / - 150 Imperial Age

 The War of the Storm. Oni clans in the Feywild join in alliance under the Storm Lightning and Death Moon clans. They use a new way to cross the veil to the Primary Plane and make war against Averlorn. After many brutal battles, vanyatar Uridan drives the oni back to the Feywild, but not before the kingdom suffered greatly.

 Nabeel al-Hasan dies, ending the Hasan dynasty of High Kings, the longest running in the history of Assyria. With no clear successor, Assyria enters a period of turmoil and wars, lasting a century, known as the Wars of Succession.

 Ignatia the Black subdues several tribes of lizardfolk in the Swamp Coast, forcing them in servitude.

 The Marren-Ostern Alliance, in a revanchist political move, declares war on Khandavar, aiming to reclaim the territory lost twenty five years ago. Khandavar, currently under the rule of dictator Gaius Adramus, is far from weak, successfully holding and even defeating the Alliance armies over the next three years. In a brilliant move of diplomacy, Gaius convinces king Ranald of Tranada to rebel against the Alliance. The Rebellion and the twin defeats at Sauheim and Niex a year later, seal the fate of the Alliance. A year after that, Marren falls after a lengthy siege, the final nail in the coffin of the once superpower of Mare Nostrum.

 The Assau ilkhanate establishes its capital at Camstad and finalizes the Rules of Iron that govern the way contracts for mercenary armies are drawn and the conduct of mercenary troops to this day. Mercenary hobgoblin armies become a sought after commodity for rich guilds and nobles and distinguish themselves during the Assyrian Wars of Succession.

 A ship carrying people fleeing Balic for Draaj to avoid the fighting is blown off course and runs aground on Giant's peninsula, near Punjar. Among the passengers are a large group of halfling families. The yuan ti capture many survivors that are used as sacrifices, but most of the halflings hide in the swamp and wage a guerilla campaign against them.

 The kingdom of Brisea, located around the gulf of Carda, begins a shipbuilding project to compete with the Antlerian and Caleppian Trading Guilds.

 Eldgrim Bragisson manages to unite the warring tribes of the Frost Sea and becomes the first king of the 4th Hrodgeir kingdom.

 Rigia comes out of a forty year long succession crisis and civil war that split the kingdom in three. The new king, Kondrad Rozum, focuses on rebuilding the kingdom's declining navy and turns his attention upon the kingdom of Guwyth, that has been a long time rival for control of the trade with the Great Ocean.

 Captain Malco Cardo from Carda makes landfall on the estuary of Vaal river mistaking it for the Orange river, in an attempt to reestablish contact with the elves of west Eulalia after many centuries. He initially takes boats up the Vaal river but after a week he is attacked by ghouls losing half his men. He returns to the estuary and sails south, realizing his mistake. He finally establishes contact with the elves of Tyelpelasse a month later.

 Laesal and Tranada, bitter rivals for decades, both try to convince dictator Severus Bestia of Khandavar to marry his son Julianus to a princess of either kingdom respectively. After a masterful use of diplomacy, both princesses are married to eligible members of House Bestia, but the young Julianus, having just come of age, instead marries princess Elisa of Gedracia at his confirmation as dictator. King Kondrad Rozum of Rigia, currently preparing for war with Guwyth, sees this as the prelude of a massive alliance against him forming to his south.

 The War of the North. Rigia begins its invasion of Guwyth. King Kondrad falls ill and dies during the campaign, shortly after landing near Boksmeer.

2350 Draconic Calendar / 1789 Nerathian Calendar / - 50 Imperial Age

 After a decade of fighting, Rigia failed to defeat Guwyth, though they gained control of the straits exiting Mare Nostrum and the Isle of Varseveld. Guwyth, though refusing to give up the fight, has suffered greatly.

 The Assyrian Wars of Succession end, with Khalim al-Shaban crowned High King.

 Qimyar and Neriya Desor manage to sail back to Averlorn, bringing with them several halflings eager to learn magic and ways of fighting to defeat the yuan ti.

 Rigia proposes peace to Guwyth, as long as they retain control of the Isle of Varseveld. Guwyth declines.

 Dictator Julianus Bestia, keen to restore old traditions, sponsors an academy of magic. He names the expanded realm he rules Rysnen after the peninsula and establishes the emblem of House Adramus, the golden phoenix, as the official banner. His two sons, Adrius and Aurelius Bestia, marry into the nobility of Laesal and Tranada respectively, while his young daughter Artoria, is promised to the heir of Gedracia, prince Verner, when she comes of age.

 The Guwyth royal bloodline dies out and the nobility is in tatters after the long struggle against Rigia. Unwilling to start a succession war, they offer the crown to duke Thorkild of Gedracia, a well respected figure among them.

 King Thorkild of Guwyth visits Turova in Rigia in an attempt to mend the wounds the War of the North left. During the reception by king Leon, he is assassinated. Neither Guwyth, nor Gedracia or Rysnen believe the assassin worked alone. As Rigia refuses to hand over the perpetrator, war seems imminent.

 The halfling shadow monks of Punjar successfully assassinate the yuan ti leadership. Chaos ensues as a mob drives the remaining yuan ti from the city.

 The researchers of the magical academy create the first elemental ring, mounted on a vehicle. The first airship, the Soaring Hawk, completes its flight. The age of the airship begins.

 Paziah chooses to fade into the background, rather than lead the Church of the Platinum Scale. The Church, with imperial support and popular among the population for its charities, begins expanding from Khandavar to all of Mare Nostrum.

 Emperor Angelus flies on The Soaring Hawk, that the magical academy tested over the past decade. He immediately makes the knowledge of airship construction a state secret and separates the researchers and mages into a state sponsored guild, creating the Imperial Artificers' Guild. He funds both it, and the rest of the magical academy, which becomes the basis of the Imperial Arcane Institute. He orders the Artificers' Guild to construct a fleet of airships.

 The first use of airships in combat, as five airships act as archer and ballista platforms during the quelling of a minor rebellion in Rigia.

 The kingdom of Arverni is defunct as the only claimants to its crown are nobility of Ariel or Antigum. In a bid to avoid bloodshed right after the end of another war, the two latter kingdoms make an agreement, choosing a mutually agreeable Antigan noble, Alesso Lorelan for king of Arverni, with the provision that he will marry countess Lauretta Celini, niece of the king of Ariel, Martino Alban.

 The republic of Emnos and the kingdom of Brisea agree to create a buffer zone between them, ending over a century of border disputes. They raise funds to build Port Villay, as neutral ground between them.

 Augustinus Bestia is crowned the second emperor of Rysnen.

 Raiann founds the outpost of Balasar castle, to maintain communications and trade with the elves.

60 Imperial Age

 The Church of the Platinum Scale has expanded greatly across the empire, along with the Platinum Talons that continued roaming the wilder and lawless areas, protecting people. Though their popularity increased greatly, so did the harshness of the punishments inflicted upon wrongdoers. They also gradually began a policy of discrimination against tieflings, culminating this year with the Solini Incident, where the Talons executed three tiefling families for worshiping Asmodeus. This is a turning point for the Platinum Talons, turning them from champions of the helpless to church enforcers and leading to worse atrocities in the coming decades.

 A red dragon known locally as Fumbir and as Tiberius in his Rysnen designation, sets his lair in the highlands of Eulalia, northwest of Raiann, and begins raiding goliath settlements.

 A mysterious magical plague spreads on the island of Cathay. Over the year it will kill a tenth of the population and render far more blind. Ships making port at Cathay will carry it across the World, and t it will begin claiming victims in many more places by the start of the next year. The plague will return periodically every few years.

 A large revolt starts in the region of Rigia controlled by Guwyth. Emperor Vincentius Bestia sents his armies to quell the rebellion.

 Laesal greatly increases the tariffs on goods imported from the Adar river, nearly bankrupting the region's merchant guilds, and completely bans the Melkor and Cartesian guilds, controlled by tieflings, from trade with them.

 Discrimination against tieflings, fueled by the Church of the Platinum Scale, is reaching its peak in the Rysnen empire.

 Across the empire, sermons of the Church of the Platinum Scale claim tieflings as the culprits of the plague. Soon violence erupts and in larger cities lynch mobs form, mostly instigated by the Platinum Talons.

 The plague, although delayed, hits the eastern kingdoms of Tycho as well. It becomes especially virulent there, killing in particular several members of the nobility, including the heir to the crown of Antigum and the king of Ariel. A succession crisis evolves over the following year, that ends up with Ariel ruled by the king of Arverni, Lavinio Lorelan. In the following years, as Antigum has no legal heirs, king Lavinio will also inherit the crown of Antigum, uniting all four eastern kingdoms into Yngvar.

 Gedracia siezes the opportunity to expand into Agosian territory, as Agos is still recovering from the plague. This leads into a crisis in the empire as other imperial kingdoms don't want Gedracia to double in size or gain easy access to the Great Ocean, while emperor Vincentius is furious at Gedracia for following their own independent foreign policy. In the end, under heavy pressure, Gedracia relinquishes the Agosian territories that become an autonomous region within the empire.

95 Imperial Age

 The population of the Orange river increased greatly over the past few years due to migration from Tycho. As talks between the varied groups of nobles and commoners about forming a state slowly begin, a young exiled Rigian descended Rysnen noble named Decimus Natempestas, starts mediating between the greatly differing opinions. An astute politician and capable leader, he changes the name of his house to Stormborne to avoid any association with the Rysnen empire and will succeed after five years of negotiations to become the first king of Meridiania.

 Emperor Vincentius Bestia dies. He is succeeded by his son, Vespasius the Incompetent. Vespasius will be the last emperor of the Bestia line.

 Emperor Vespasius dissolves the Imperial Council, and then reforms it, filling it with close friends. Gedracia, Laesal and Tranada protest strongly and imperial support from these kingdoms drops significantly.

 The Time of the Three Emperors. Gedracia declares their king, Ejnar Sune, descedant of Artoria Bestia as Rysnen emperor. A few months later Tranada declares their king, Angelus Virquinal, descedant of Aurelius Bestia as emperor. The next twenty years will be consumed by political posturing among the three claimants to gain the support of the rest of the imperial states in their claim.

 Husni al-Mattar becomes the first Assyrian High King of his dynasty.

 The First Raiann - Assau War. The hobgoblins attack south into Raiann, using their disciplined formations, and for the first time make use of specially bred spirehorn behemoths in war, breaking the dragonborn lines time and time again using tactics centered around the huge beasts. Raiann agrees to peace after a year of constant defeats.

 An expedition from Emnos, lead by captain Albaro Samper braves the horrible tales of Giant's peninsula and lands at the tip, setting an outpost at a location of some ancient Nerathian ruins. The outpost will eventually become the city of Neverwinter. A rival expedition from Carda, lead by captain Karsas lands further to the east in a small cove covered in Arkhosian ruins. They name the place Stormreach. The exploration and colonization of Giant's peninsula begins.

 Elephon Tulius Cumanus gains massive popularity in Laesal. A descendant of the second son of Adrius Bestia, who was the father of the first Rysnen emperor, he marries the daughter of king Mirkaldar Thegella of Laesal, the princess Thylendra and is named heir to the crown of Laesal.

135 Imperial Age

 Captain Vidimir Athair of Port Villay lands in a deep natural harbor beneath a small mountain on the west side of Giant's Peninsula. During the mountain's survey the crew discovers rich silver veins. Despite the danger of nearby giant tribes, they establish a small outpost, planning to return for a more permanent settlement.

 As the year nears its end, a number of well planned revolts begin in Rigia, taking advantage of the absence of any central authority in the Rysnen empire. They soon spread, threatening to overthrow the regional governors.

 Adrius Seranus, the Khandavar claimant for the imperial throne, dies of poison. His supporters accuse Tranada and their king, Angelus Virquinal. Adrius's brother, Veres Seranus attempts to gather support as successor to the Rysnen throne but is assassinated by his generals, who declare their support for king Ejnar Sune of Gedracia. Tranada gathers its forces to strike before Gedracia and Rysnen consolidate under the rule of king Ejnar.

 Gedracia surrenders to king Elephon. King Elephon wastes no time and marches upon Tranada, defeating the advancing Tranadan army at Arnau, and again at Lundau, destroying their army completely. Two months later Obory falls and king Angelus Virquinal is captured. The Time of the Three Emperors ends.

 Elephon Tulius Cumanus returns to Khandavar where he is crowned Rysnen emperor with the Iron Crown of Lorica. The reign of Elephon the Conqueror will see the end of the Rigian revolts and the reestablishment of Rysnen central authority.

 Emperor Elephon the Conqueror completes the conquest of the free city-states of west Tycho. The only port to the west left outside imperial control is the dwarf city of Barak Varr.

 As the outpost had grown into a small town over the years, Ahghairon sacrifices a white bull to Erathis, to commemorate the fallen and celebrate the founding of a new city. He names the city Waterdeep after the deep waters of the natural harbor.

 Emperor Laeroth the Reformer and his closest allies put together Plan Meteor in secrecy, aiming at curtailing the power of the Platinum Talons.

161 Imperial Age

 The Great Reform. Emperor Laeroth the Reformer enacts a series of changes to improve the decaying administration of the massive Rysnen empire. With the crowns of Gedracia, Tranada and Laesal firmly under imperial control and Guwyth in shambles after decades of unrest in its Rigian region, the emperor abolishes the old kingdoms and forms new provinces, naming them Praants, assigning loyal noble families as autonomous governors, while the royal families of the old kingdoms gather in Khandavar, to form the Domus Nobiles - the house of nobles - as the new governing body of the empire.

 Ten Praants form: Lothiran, Durwen, Silamos, Elaekoth, Gerragord, Rysnen, Glaybaen, Thyreclya, Fojar and Aselalia. Each sends forty representatives to Khandavar to form the Senatus Populus - the people's senate and legislative imperial body - though how each Praant chooses these senators is left to them. The senators of Durwen are hereditary positions, of Glaybaen assigned by its governor, while Silamos's senators are elected every ten years. Each Praant must maintain its own army, but the emperor takes measures to ensure that none of these forces are a match for the imperial army.

 The emperor also enacts Plan Meteor. He forms the Order of Justicars, roving paladins that have imperial authority as judges to settle disputes and mete punishment in remote areas, allowing holy warriors of any deity to join, as long as they follow the Order's tenets. The Order directly takes over these responsibilities from the Platinum Talons, but before the Platinum Church had a chance to respond, the imperial army arrested key members, including the Patriarch of the Platinum Talons. In the end the Church was forced to disband three quarters of the Platinum Talon force and those kept had the sole purpose of protecting Church property.

 The final reform was the formation of the Rysnen Air Corps, consolidating all airships into a unified armada and banning the use of airships by anyone else. All these changes would take nearly twenty five years to complete, but ultimately changed the empire from the decaying state it was to the strongest in the world.

 Ahghairon begins the system of hidden rulership that will eventually become the Masked Lords of Waterdeep.

 Ahghairon dies. Greenhorn the Fierce, is still raiding outside the Dragonward. The Masked Lords strike a deal with Skaljandiir, offering a rich reward in silver and ancient elven artifacts if he deals with Greenhorn. Skaljandiir faces him in the sky and defeats him, breaking Greenhorn's body upon the ground.

 Emperor Laeroth the Reformer severely increases the punishment for slave trading in the empire, from a heavy fine to a capital offense.

 King Vigor Ravenholm of Meridiania successfully negotiates the inclusion of the elves of High Forest into the kingdom, granting them two of the five ducal titles. Meridiania peacefully expands south as the duchies of Silverleaf and Wintertree form.

 The Phoenix, the first airship that can stay airborne for a full day, makes its maiden flight.

 The halfling Sanwan Magnus, wizard of the Orium tower, successfully solves the arcane puzzle Mordenkainen had prepared to conceal his spellbooks. Mordenkainen's spells, hidden for nearly two thousand years, are recovered and spread across the world.

215 Imperial Age

 The brown dragon Apophis takes residence in the Hejaz Mountains of Assyria, extorting tribute from caravans traveling to and from Tyr. Over the next decades several attempts to slay him fail, until the caravan merchants accept the tribute as an additional cost of making business.

 King Edgard Ravenholm of Meridiania creates Coast and Grey counties to the southwest, over lands the elves had abandoned long ago. Elfkeep becomes the capital of Coast county. With the blessing of the elves he founds Temple city on an island at the center of Spirit lake, dedicated to honoring the gods.

 Port Villay asks to join the Republic of Emnos, in fear of the Rysnen empire. The Republic senate, after a very long debate accepts, even though the vote barely reaches majority.

 Fumbir, also known as Tiberius the Red has achieved total domination over the goliath tribes of Eulalia's North Highlands. Hundreds of kobolds flock to serve him and he uses their labor and that of the goliaths to begin construction of an impregnable cliffside lair to store his hoard.

 Lizardfolk begin raids along the Giant's Peninsula, sometimes accompanied by young black dragons, assumed to be Ignatia's offspring. Trade suffers and unprotected villages are ravaged, forcing Waterdeep to build a naval force to patrol the coastline.

 A small fleet of lizardfolk longships, accompanied by two young black dragons, enter Waterdeep's harbor to raid. Ahghairon's Dragonward stops the two dragons and after a full day of fighting the lizardfolk are defeated, losing half their longships to the spells of Khelben Arunsun. This brings a stop to lizardfolk raids for the next fifty years. Khelben Arunsun is awarded Ahghairon's staff by the Masked Lords. Later that year he leaves Waterdeep for his adventures.

 Emperor Imnos the Rash pressures High King Gromar Ironbrow into joining the Rysnen empire. The Everlasting Kingdom, surrounded by the Rysnen empire for over a century has many advocates for joining the empire especially among the clans relying on its trade. High King Gromar though, publishes a fiery speech riling up the dwarfs opposing such a plan and shaming those that supported it. Emperor Imnos, targeted personally in the speech, feels personally insulted and strong arms the Domus Nobiles to cut all trade with the Everlasting Kingdom. A period of hostile relations begins known as the Cold War.

 Khelben Arunsun returns Razor to its proper resting place in the Shadowfell. There he faces off against a cabal of shadow sorcerers, defeating them all and claiming their leader's staff as his own. The staff is the same one that Evard Daing crafted seven centuries ago. Khelben will use this staff for the rest of his life, and due to it become known as the Blackstaff.

 The Path of Light is founded around this time in Cathay to fight off slavery.

267 Imperial Age

 Anuriel of Enedthas is the first person to record descriptions of the aberrant denizens of the Arkhosian Desolation, collected over the past century from adventurers that returned safely from short journeys. Still, none of those that ventured deep in the Desolation ever return.

 Khelben Arunsun slays the Nightwalker Ekhthrar, saving the city of Thay in the Shadowfell. Later in the year, after returning to the Primary Plane, he visits the Feywild city of Astrazalian when it Worldfalls on the Spring Equinox. He will spend half a year a guest there, studying ancient elvish texts concerning the origins of dragons.

 Khelben Arunsun arrives in Tyr, asking High King Noori al-Ramin access to the ancient draconic texts that are kept hidden in the Golden Tower. The High King agrees on the condition that Khelben first wins a match against the Immortal Game, an enchanted board of dragonchess that its spectral controller has never been defeated for over a thousand years. He succeeds in the task after a two month long game. He then uses a small fortune to hire three ships for an expedition heading east, past the mapped regions of the world.

 Mount Waterdeep's silver veins dry out. The mine shafts, running deeper and deeper for nearly a century are abandoned but had lessened in importance through the city's life, as Waterdeep's natural harbor brought a lot trade income for decades now.

 Raiann clans begin cross-breeding griffons. The blackwing griffons are the best result of these efforts, though even those are notoriously difficult to handle, imprinting only on a single rider for their whole life and expensive to raise and train. Raiann hopes this will give them an edge over Assau.

 The Third Undead Incursion of the Orange River. Meridiania's border lookouts and elven trained scouts gave ample warning of the invading undead and king Ronald Ravenholm meets them with the full might of his knights as they cross the river, crushing them.

 Emperor Ivellios Lusius Cumanus, last emperor of the dynasty, asks the Imperial Artificer's Guild and the Arcane Institute to work together with the empire's merchant guilds to come up with a solution for faster and cheap transport across the vast regions of the Rysnen empire. The committee will work on this problem for twenty years before presenting a plan to the Domus Nobiles; the Lightning Rail.

 Emperor Ivellios dies. The imperial throne passes on from the half-elf emperors to his son-in-law and protege, Simas Caecius Sollemnis. The new emperor is quick to establish his authority, issuing an ultimatum at Emnos for their numerous transgressions over the past sixty years. Emnos rejects the ultimatum and the Domus Nobiles votes for war. Emnos attempts to form an alliance with their long time rivals for the eastern trade, Yngvar, but king Rinieri Alberti of Yngvar instead marries his daughter to emperor Simas's son, ensuring the survival of his kingdom. The Republic of Emnos stands alone.

 Khelben Arunsun dies of old age. His possesions and the Blackstaff title pass on to his longtime apprentice, Vajra Safahr, a wizard of mixed Agosian and Assyrian descent, that becomes Waterdeep's new archmage.

322 Imperial Age

 After seven years of battles, Emnos is badly pressured by Rysnen and the only reason they have not fallen yet is the extreme length of the Rysnen supply lines and the Emnosian navy controlling the shores. Many in the aristocracy view the war a lost cause however and secretly conspire, convincing general Barak Morceli to stage a coup against the senate and end the war. General Morceli agrees and leads his troops, the Emnos Republican Guard, in a successful coup against the senate, executing the senators opposing peace. He takes control of the city of Emnos and in order to secure his control, imprisons several of the aristocracy and generals. Naming himself dictator, he quickly calls on the Rysnen empire for peace. The terms are harsh for Emnos; though general Morceli is recognized as its ruler, the republic is little more than a protectorate of the Rysnen empire.

325 I.A.

 A fifteen year debate in the Senatus Populus begins concerning the funds required for construction of the Lightning Rail and the routes to be built.

 The orc chieftain Kurmbag, with help from the Shadow oni clan, unites the orcs of the Walls of Averlorn and invades the kingdom. A decade of devastation follows before the kingdom destroys the invading orcs.

 The Senatus Populus agrees on a plan for the Lightning Rail, voting on creating a route from Emnos to Stanewic, a project the will take fifty years to complete.

 The Second Raiann - Assau War begins, the first time both sides have a sizable aerial force of griffon and warwing riders. The conflict lasts five years.

 Construction of Stormspire completes in Tal en'Sul. The massive tower was crafted to hide the creation of portals from all scrying magic. Experiments on the creation of new teleportation circles begin.

 The goliaths of the North Highlands revolt against Tiberius the Red. Tiberius burns the three goliath mountain cities to the ground, killing thousands and destroying most goliath historical records. The goliath tribes scatter in small hidden mountain villages to escape his wrath.

 As construction on the Stanewic-Emnos line of the Lightning Rail continues, the Senatus Populus approves the emperor's plan for extending the Khandavar-Debstavar a line all the way to Agos. For this and several more large construction projects across the empire, emperor Marcel become known as 'The Builder'.

 The Third Raiann - Assau War breaks out. It will last three years before a ceasefire is agreed upon.

390 Imperial Age

 The Stanewic - Emnos Lighting Rail line is completed, while the line to Agos continues construction.

399 I.A.

 The Fourth Undead Incursion of the Orange River. Undead armies flood Donovan county and cross Orange river in several points. As Meridiania's knights scramble to fight on multiple fronts, the young king Rothgar Ravenholm moves the royal family to Raven Tower, their ancestral home, for protection. Unknown to them the phylactery of a Baelorn lich, held deep in the tower's vault since the time of king Ronald, is used to bring the lich back to unlife. The lich kills the royal family and the tower's retainers, bringing them back to unlife and then proceeds to lay waste to Raven county, destroying the city of Ravenmoor.

 Though the undead army is defeated, Raven county is destroyed, as is the royal family, and the lich escaped north to the Forests of the Dead. Rulership of Meridiania passes on to Marcus Marenatum the Radiant, a distinguished paladin of Pelor of noble birth, whose leadership was crucial in driving back the undead.

 The young wizard Maldas Fiorvante of Yngvar is inducted in the Orium tower.

 The Platinum Talons, having slowly regained their influence since Plan Meteor, begin expeditions in the Badlands of Bael Turath to hunt down and destroy monsters. Emperor Bezar, of the particularly religious Musylva family, approves their expeditions.

 The Fourth Raiann - Assau War. The hobgoblins deploy dragonspawn beasts for the first time. The fleshtearers, a reptilian magical mutation of bears with gray dragon blood, spread terror on the front lines. The war ends four years later with little changes on the borderline.

 After many decades of failures, the Bralanis of the Three Winds manage to create stable teleportation circle spells. They lock the circles of Stormspire with their rings and begin creating a new network of teleportation circles in the Feywild.

464 Imperial Age

 A small group of intrepid dwarf and halfling adventurers infiltrate the lair of Tiberius the Red and make off with several treasures from his hoard. Tiberius, in his fury, lashes out against every goliath village he can find, burning them to ash. The Rage of Fimbur, as the period is known to the goliath tribes continues for several years, with the dragon moving further and further away from his lair in his raids as time passes and the thieves are not found.

473 I.A.

 Tiberius raids south into northeast Meridiania. Many villages are turned to ash and Tiberius destroys a group of knights lead by crown prince Alexius Marenatum. The crown prince survives only by the actions of Kenneth Walsh, a young knight that rescues him. A week later, sir Kenneth faces Tiberius in single combat, and manages to slay the red dragon. Sir Kenneth Walsh adopts a red dragon rampant on a silver field as his heraldry. His actions, though unknown to him, free the goliath tribes from Tiberius's bondage.

475 I.A.

 The king of Meridiania, Marcus the 2nd of house Marenatum dies. He is succeeded by his son, Alexius the 4th. Sir Kenneth Walsh becomes Alexius's right hand man.

 Epignomus Pratensis, director of the Imperial Arcane Institute, cooperates with Karaak Vrye, doyen of the Imperial Artificer's Guild on the fourth research expedition to the Shundered Isles. Upon their return they propose a plan to emperor Pontian Nonus Musylva to better protect the imperial domain from the slave ship raids that have begun increasing during this time. In the fateful meeting a young Hortensius Marinus, later to become the imperial court's Count Palatine, and Joseth Crownblade, the newly ordained patriarch of the Platinum Talons, are present. The proposed plan is quickly supported by the latter two and involves the transportation of several floating earthmotes from the Shundered Isles to just off the southern coast of the empire to act as airship mobile bases. Project Skyfall, as it will eventually be named, will fail to achieve its initial objective, and will be later hijacked by expansionist members of the Domus Nobiles as a means of invasion of Eulalia, with Patriarch Joseth Crownblade playing a significant part is influencing the decision.

 Gniuso Festiusin Musylva becomes Rysnen emperor. A deeply religious and honorable man, he picks patriarch Joseth Crownblade as one of his close advisors and is briefed on project Skyfall by him and the Count Palatine, Hortensius Marinus, who present the project as the chance to not just expand the light of the empire and the church to Eulalia, but also to punish the tieflings that fled there. The tiefling city-state of Deliverance is mentioned for the first time as the target of such an operation.

 The Hrodgeir Civil War. Tribes opposing the Rysnen backed king Farbek of the Anansi tribe rise in revolt.

500 Imperial Age

 At age nineteen, Lucresia Imscari graduates from the Silver Blade swordmaster school of Carda, gaining this year's platinum pin. Within a month she joins the Rysnen imperial army as an officer of the thirteenth shock brigade. The unit will soon move north to bolster the borders to Hrodgeir that is undergoing a civil war.

 Emperor Gniuso Festiusin Musylva is inducted into the Inner Circle and mysteries of the Church of the Platinum Scale by patriarch Joseth Crownblade. As part of his initiation he communes with exarch Paziah and becomes aware of her influence in church affairs over the centuries.

 Githyanki Gul'othran raiders take notice of the teleportation network of Stormspire for the first time and pay spies to learn more. A small contingent moves to the Feywild, hiding close to Tal en'Sul, where they engage in skirmishes with local gnome barbarian tribes, and ultimately ally themselves with Poisonfang, a mirage dragon.

 The prophet Errath of Raiann has the first visions of a Great Calamity for the Cosmos. He describes a living being of immense proportions, writhing with the energies of the Far Realm. Soon, deities and other otherworldy beings will take notice of a multitude of signs that the Living Gate is about to open.

 As the civil war is ready to erupt, the liches of the Forests of the Dead begin the Fifth Undead Incursion. Having secured the help of Ignatia the Black in the form of lizardfolk tribes and her offspring and also hiring a hobgoblin mercenary army, they begin a two-pronged attack, targeting Donovan and Orange counties. King Marcus the 3rd loses any popularity left, as he refuses to send any help, focusing instead on the Blackmane insurrection. Only the southern counties and elven duchies, urged by earl Kenneth Walsh, send help to Donovan county, eventually pushing back the undead with the help of Havoc company, that managed to turn the hobgoblin general Raeros Brith, taking the hobgoblin regiments out of the war.

 Earl Kenneth defeats duke Karl Blackmane. When ordered to declare his fealty to king Marcus he refuses, marching his army instead to the capital. King Marcus flees overseas.

512 Imperial Age

 On the first day of the year, Loraine of house Walsh is officially crowned the new queen of Meridiania. As information of the Rysnen interference and confirmation of the invasion emerges, she declares a state of war with the Rysnen empire and issues letters of marque and reprisal.

 Later that month Havoc company and captain Ramius of the Scarlett Wynterfylleth uncover the existence of the Rock, its current position and route.

 The githyanki Gul'othran assault Tal en'Sul in the month of Newbirth, capturing the city and Stormspire, but fail to obtain all the rings that are needed to unlock the teleportation circles. They will hold the city until mid Stormwrack, when the city is liberated by a coalition of earl Kenneth Walsh's troops, eladrin soldiers, gnome tribes and Valerius the Adamantine, all lead by Havoc company.

 During Stormwrack masses of drow refugees reach the surface near Waterdeep, fleeing their civil war.

 By mid Starfall, a secondary Rysnen armada, based in Emnos and Port Villay lands troops on Giant's Peninsula, quickly capturing Neverwinter and Stormreach. In an effort to help the Free cities, Meridiania sends sir Liam Walsh as an envoy to Assau, negotiating with general Raeros Brith the use of hobgoblin regiments to fight against the Rysnen troops in Giant's peninsula.

 The pirate captain Shil Yargo receives a pardon and a letter of marque from Waterdeep to fight against the Rysnen invasion of Giant's peninsula. Lady Jayna Voss is chosen dictator of Waterdeep for the duration of the war.

 The firebombing of Deliverance. In the first week of Highsun the Rock is close enough that its airships can reach Deliverance, bombing the city with alchemical bombs. Thanks to prior warning, most people had evacuated. Deliverance enters an alliance with Meridiania, abolishing slavery as part of the treaty.

 Marcus Marenatum, having reached an agreement with Rysnen agents, travels back to Meridiania to unite sympathizers to the empire with the Rysnen promise of him returning to the throne of the kingdom. While sailing there, the ship transporting him, the Princess of Agos, is attacked and Marcus captured by Havoc company.

 In late Highsun, a coalition of Meridiania, Deliverance and Tal en'Sul use the teleportation circles of Stormspire to invade the Rock's tunnel network, lead by lord Verolien Wintertree of Meridiania and sir Lucan Naragaeth. Joseth Crownblade is killed by Havoc company in the temple of Bahamut, and the rogue exarch Paziah is captured and handed over to other exarchs of Bahamut, ending her influence on the empire. While leading an attack, lord Verolien dies in single combat against Lucresia Imscari.

 The Primus Incident. Sir Lucan Naragaeth leads a group in an attack in the tunnels beneath the Rock to destroy stasis chambers that held thousands of draconians near completion, collapsing the chambers. As their escape is blocked, they are forced to use a portal without the use of Stormspire, attracting Primus's attention. The Rock freezes in time and disappears for ten days, as Primus works to hijack the portal. When successful, thousands of Modrons pour through, attacking everything in sight. Most of the Rysnen airships, having taken off to avoid capture are left stranded over the ocean and are forced to move towards land before they crash.

 The Rysnen army, advancing from Neverwinter break through the mountain pass held by giants towards Waterdeep. The city will soon be put under siege.

 Admiral Proudmoore commanding the combined Meridianian and Deliverance fleet uses information about the routes and timetables of the squadrons of the Rysnen armada heading to the west coast of Eulalia to engage them before they can join together. In three seperate battles, he surprises and overwhelms them, destroying the second Rysnen invasion force.

 The Battle of Waterdeep. In early Jolnick, the short siege of the city is lifted when hobgoblin regiments under the command of sir Liam Walsh and lord Morath Vyrix arrive. The battle is hard fought, but swings against the Rysnen troops that are forced to flee northwards towards Neverwinter.

 Havoc company captures Serenity Bastion. With the innumerable Modron legions pushing hard in the tunnels, and now possessing the ability to destroy the earthmote, they force the Rysnen forces to surrender and a general ceasefire. An evacuation of the Rock to Stormspire begins, with sir Torinn Strongheart commanding the rearguard, and once complete Havoc company fires off Temeraire's long range lightning projectors. The captured airship's weapons, overload the anarch spheres in Serenity Bastion that are controlling the earthmote's movement. The Rock explodes in a cataclysmic eruption of elemental energies, the debris falling in the ocean.

 Most of the airships that left from the Rock when it froze in time arrive in Neverwinter. Lord Humbert and general Amerigo Mallory, commanding the invasion force on Giant's peninsula, are informed that governor Lucas Aurelius will not send the reinforcements they asked, due to the destruction of Va'Vua by an unknown force.

 Following these events, exarch of Bahamut Ekar and Perra Ouratiuiri have an audience with emperor Gniuso Festiusin Musylva, convincing him of Paziah's renegade status and guiding him to change the direction of the church of the Platinum Scale. The emperor ratifies the ceasefire.

 The Scouring of Va'Vua. The End of the World cult completes a ritual that acts as a beacon for Far Realm entities. A rift forms for a short while above the city of Va'Vua in Agriradia praant and aberrations pour through. Governor Lucas Aurelius sends the forces raised as reinforcements for the Giant's peninsula campaign to deal with the situation.

 The Neverwinter Disaster. Later that month, the End of the World Cult performs the ritual in occupied Neverwinter, causing untold devastation. The loss of life is huge, but the rift lasts only for an instant, preventing massive numbers of aberrations from coming through. The disaster had the unintended effect of ending the city's occupation, as the Rysnen authorities were destroyed.

 Cleanup continues in Neverwinter. Nearly two thirds of the population are dead, many more catatonic. A provisional government is set, supported by Waterdeep.

 Drow refugees, lead by Atalya Baldur are granted lands to build upon in the foothills of the mountains, where the main Underdark entrance is. A new city will be built there, protecting the gate to the Underdark. It will be named Baldur's Gate.

 Lead by exarch of Ioun Riya Janariah, general Lucresia Imscari and lord Morath Vyrix, a plan to eradicate Primus's ability to hijack portals forms. Lord Vyrix leads an elite group of companions in Sigil, destroying the contructs Primus used to detect and control portals, and in the process freeing the Deluvian Hourglass. They barely escape the demiplane. Primus can no longer detect or hijack portals and is effectively trapped in Sigil, allowing for people to use teleportation circles freely once again.

 An invasion of swarms of aberrations hits Arvandor, Corellon's divine domain. Four of Hestavar's angelic legions and part of its astral fleet head there to assist. The invading aberrations are destroyed by late Mithral.

 The Battle of Hestavar. A massive swarm of aberrations centered on Allabar, the Living Planet and over a hundred astral krakens assaults the divine domain. The defenders, angelic, immortal and mortal alike barely hold out until reinforcements from Celestia arrive. During the last stages of the battle Bahamut is slain, but Allabar is badly wounded by Pelor, causing the aberrations to retreat.

 The Battle of Elocin. Under the command of baron Lucan Naragaeth and sir Torrin Strongheart, meridianian forces invade the Forests of the Dead and destroy the baelorn liches of Elocin in a bid to recover an artifact required to stop the Far Realm.

 Governor Lucas Aurelius recieves information of further cult activities in Seggelin and send his forces to deal with the situation. The cult cancels their plans for the ritual and the city is saved.

 The hunt for the End of the World cult continues as the group lead by Lord Morath Vyrix and Carric Whiteheart destroy several cells. Their hunt brings them in Averlorn, where they avert another disaster by preventing a ritual.

 The Battle of Brainswell Nebula. Hestavar's astral fleet defeats a swarm of krakens gathering in the psychic anomaly.

 Several dwarf Holds of the Everelasting kingdom are under siege from below, as aberrations swarm upwards from the Underdark, behind fleeing Underdark populations.

Dalphrane, 512 Imperial Age

 The Siege of Beholder's Keep. A fissure forms on top of the Rysnen Intelligence Service's headquarters outside Khandavar. While Lucresia Imscari leads the forces holding the aberrations at bay and protects the capital, Lord Morath Vyrix and his companions infiltrate the wrecked keep and close the fissure.

 The Battle at Eldregaard. Hestavar's astral fleet suffers a crushing defeat, but its remnants are rescued when the Black armada of Bane joins the fight, destroying the aberrations. Mue Miststrike, commander of the fleet and exarch of Pelor dies, when the flagship, Sunspear is destroyed.

 Underdark refugees and aberrations begin reaching the surface in Yngvar, Hrodgeir and the Sue river valley in Aselalia praant. By the end of the month small temporary fissures appear on a daily basis.

 Throughout the month the Shiradi scour the Feywild hunting aberrations. The Firbolg tribes begin a Wild Hunt, with aberrations as their target. The Unkindness of the Sorrowsworn, lead by Vorkhesis, Herald of Fate, roam the Everflow, protecting the souls of the departed from aberrations.

 The Siege of Celestia. Aberrations attempt to breach Celestia's veil, but are constantly thrown back by the exalted champions and exarchs of the domain's deities, though without Celestia's fleet victory cannot be achieved. Tiamat herself appears inside the domain supported of her abishai, renegade devils and helped by Dakranad the Mithral. Havoc company puts a stop in their plans. The exarch Paziah dies. Bahamut is reborn.

 The Battle of the Storm. The combined astral fleets discover the wounded Allabar in the center of the storm, surrounded by hordes of aberrations, including hundreds of astral krakens. They begin a long fighting withdrawal, but the storm appears to follow them, slowly pushing them towards the Triad islands. The githyanki fleets join the fray, while the Black armada fights the aberrations on the other side of the storm and Baator's infernal barges also enter the fray.

 The Living Gate Opens. The battle continues, while the ship Hope's Bastion infiltrates the storm taking the prophet Xavier and lord Vyrix and his companions to the Living Gate Sanctum. Reality fissures begin forming everywhere. Protected by Carric Whiteheart, the prophet manages to close the Living Gate, but both of them are trapped in the Far Realm.

 The Living Star Erevanne forms. Allabar is trapped in the Far Realm. The fissures across all planes close, though it will take weeks of fighting to destroy most aberrations that are left behind and even then some evade destruction.

 The crisis ends.

 The first reports of the rise of the Eclipse vampire coven in the Shadowfell.

  Construction of the Starhawk, the first spelljammer built on the Primary Plane, is completed in Meridiania.

 Vimak Stonehand of clan Krie unites the disparate goliath tribes of the North Highlands into the kingdom of Sun and Stone under his rule.

532 Imperial Age

 The bard Ariel publishes the 'Annals of Havoc Company', chronicling the achievements of aforementioned group. It is the only book she wrote based on real events, though the liberties from the actual events described in the book make it far from a historical account.

535 I.A.

 The 2nd Reformation Council convenes after years of pushback from conservative elements of the Church of the Platinum Scale. For the first time in history emperor Gnuiso takes a much sterner stance against the conservatives, pushing through all the church reformations and forcibly replacing patriarch Talaf Highlander with the progressive Bellas Lancia of Argenta.

548 I.A.

 The Ascension of Saint Lucresia of the Blade to the realm of Bane and the founding of the Church of the Black Lord.

550 I.A.

 The gnome Eniston Nerthoglim, also known as Stoutpocket, travels from Whistledown in the Feywild to Meridiania's capital, where he enrolls in the royal arcane academy where he will study arcane crafting for the next ten years.

565 I.A.

 Eniston Nerthoglim, having returned to Whistledown constructs the first ironjack. It will take many years for his invention to spread.

 Emperor Gnuiso Festiusin Musylva dies and is succeeded by his son, Milphio Syra Musylva.

 The Eclipse vampire coven teleports their castle outside Baldur's Gate. In the ensuing battle the coven is destroyed and the castle ruined. A month earlier the coven had destroyed the twin villages of Maplerock and Redwater in Silamos.

 The gnomes of Whistledown successfully fend off a fomorian raid using troops equipped with Eniston's ironjacks.

 Aurelio Perpenna Musylva is crowned Rysnen emperor. The new emperor is a deeply reactionary man and will seek to undo his grandfather's church reformations.

 Norran Walsh, the late king's younger brother, is crowned king of Meridiania. His coronation is the last time the baron of Orange is seen. It is believed that he disappeared to hunt down the people responsible for his son's death.

 An elderly Vimak Stonehand steps down as king of Sun and Stone in favor of Krakon Bearshot of clan Krie. Legend has it that he set off with a few loyal followers for one final adventure.

 Valerius the Adamantine, having subdued all orc and goblin tribes south of the Dragonspine mountains, establishes the Valerian Dominion.

590 Imperial Age

 The Great Schism. Emperor Aurelio convenes the 4th Reformation Council, but inviting only select members of the church to participate. When other church officials protest and attempt to participate, he orders the Justiciars to arrest the delegates. Most Justiciars refuse the orders of grandmaster Bozael Drezen, forcing the emperor to disband the order and call in the imperial guard to quell the protesters. The ensuing riots burn a fifth of Khandavar and split the church of the Platinum Scale in two. Bozael Drezen is appointed the new patriarch by imperial decree and receives permission to reform the Platinum Scales.

 Meridiania annexes the Upper Orange river region that has been a lawless frontier for decades, forming the Orange March. The region's borders are decided with a treaty with the kingdom of Sun and Stone, giving the two kingdoms a common border.

 After decades of delays, construction on the Vyrix canal, connecting Waterdeep's harbor to Baldur's Gate begins. It will be completed by 605 I.A.. Along with the canal tunnel leading from Baldur's gate to lake Illinata and from there following the underground tributary of Giant's river to Punjar via Loudwater, the canal will connect the two ports on opposite sites of Giant's peninsula, greatly improving trade in the region.

 The paladins of the disbanded Justiciar order reform without imperial decree and set about protecting civilians caught in the fighting. They are declared outlaws by emperor Aurelio Perpenna Musylva.

 Assyrian alchemists figure out a way to stabilize an explosive substance with the use of magical residium. The resulting granulated powder, though less powerful than blasting water, is significantly more stable. They name the substance sargonite, after the leader of the project, Sargon el-Hadi.

 Kakoba Dindi of Burthei Erel develops a cheap method of carving the least runes as well as a mechanical way to trigger them. This innovation allows mechanical devices to trigger magical effects, without the need for the operators to be magically adept themselves.

 Sargon el-Hadi dies in an explosion, experimenting with milling sargonite into a powdered form. As his work was illegal under Tyr's High King's law, his disciples flee, spreading his knowledge across the world.

 Imperial artificers that fled to Yngvar to avoid the civil war, begin working on an airship that utilizes air elemental energy instead of fire. Their work will lead in a few years to the first functional air elemental airship.

 A mysterious patron begins recruiting adventurers from across the planes for an exploration of Sigil. Of the candidates, fifty will be selected and will gather in Airspur on the Sundered Isles by the end of the year. They will become known as the League of Blades.

 After nearly a century of Hrodgeir ruled by the imperial aligned Ulf tribe, king Beiner dies with no heir. As the Rysnen Civil War rages, the Anansi tribe finds the support to regain the throne, crowning Armod king of Hrodgeir.

 King Harkaath X of Raiann establishes the College of Artifice and Alchemy in Khopesh as a way to modernize the kingdom. Providing generous rewards, he invites experts from around the world to teach there, chief among them Kakoba Dindi.

 The Everlasting Kingdom develops a tunneling engine utilizing an earth elemental ring, capable of creating a 20 feet wide tunnel through solid rock at a rate of a thousand feet per day. The dwarfs begin using this engine to create underground tunnels connecting all their holds and allowing easy travel between them. This project will take decades to complete.

600 Imperial Age

 The Battle of Portalis. The army of the Republic of Antler advances on the imperial garrison of the city. This is the first battle that a large number of airships fought on both sides and was the decisive arm in the battle. The imperial air corps carried the day, using its draconians in boarding actions against republican airships.

 Under the direction of their patron the League of Blades successfully infiltrates Sigil and destroys Primus, though some report it was only deactivated. The modrons serving Primus are tasked in repairing and maintaining Sigil. All surviving members of the League of Blades become extremely rich and their patron assumes rulership of Sigil, under the guise of the Queen of Blades. In the following decades, Sigil will regain its place as a teleportation hub after over a millenium.

 After nine years of civil war, imperial authority is nearly non-existent. The only territories that emperor Aurelio Perpenna Musylva truly controls is Rysnen and Gerragord, though the reactionary wing of the Church of the Platinum Scale put Durwen under control at great cost. Silamos, having avoided the worst of the conflict ever since it repelled an incursion by the Platinum Scales back in 593 I.A., declares its autonomy under imperial rule. Though governor Daphis Thessalos declares his loyalty to the empire and not the emperor, also assures that Silamos will remain neutral in the conflict from this point onwards, still providing the valuable grain needed to feed the millions of imperial subjects.

 Captain Temir Zhoroe of the immortals of the imperial guard assassinates emperor Aurelio Perpenna Musylva, before putting an end to his own life. The remaining members of the Domus Nobiles move quickly to take control of the situation before it spirals out of control. The imperial guard arrests all members of the Platinum Scales in the capital.

 The Battle of Volongo Ford. A large group of Platinum Talons lead by patriarch Bozael Drezen is ambushed by local militia, lead by several former paladins of the Justiciars. The Platinum Talons are annihilated and patriarch Bozael Drezen captured alive. A week later, after a long trial held by the Justiciars, he is found guilty of multiple accounts of murder and many other crimes and is hanged.

 Silamos is reintegrated into the empire as a region with increased autonomy, gaining special rights under the new imperial charter. Daphis Thessalos is reconfirmed as Imperial Governor, gaining the titles of Prince of Silamos and Graf of Agos and Ixos, effectively turning governorship of Silamos into a hereditary nobility title. The Senate of Silamos forms, gaining local legislative authority.

 The reformist wing of the Church of the Platinum Scale, officially split from the Church, forming the new Reformist Church of the Platinum Dragon. Their already wide popularity is reaffirmed as the new church is confirmed as the state religion. The Church of the Platinum Scale only holds majority in Durwen praant, were they maintain their benefits as state religion under special dispensation from the People's Senate.

 The Justiciars are reformed under grandmaster Zamanna Ea, as an independent judicial body.

 During the year the artificer Tarra Goodbarrel introduces her new invention, the Non-euclidean Energy Vacuum and Interpolatable Transistor, to several arcane institutions across the world. More commonly known as an elemental core, the device draws magical energy from the Elemental Chaos to power spells and magical effects and is set to revolutionize the world with its industrial applications. Kakoba Dindi, currently working in the College of Artifice and Alchemy in Khopesh, quickly realizes the utility of the device in conjunction with his method of rune carving to produce purely mechanical controls for large scale magical devices powered by elemental cores.

 During a border skirmish between Raiann and Assau, blackwing griffon riders use thunder lances for the first time to great effect. The weapons invented by the College of Artifice and Alchemy use sargonite powder ignited by Kakoba Dindi's techniques to drive its heavy spearhead into the target upon impact.

609 Imperial Age

 The ongoing weapon race between Assau and Raiann reaches a pivotal point early in the year. Assau hobgoblin crafters, having already created a ranged version of the Raiann thunder lance that shoots small lead balls, develop a siege weapon using sargonite to launch large catapult stones. The bombard as it is named further speeds up the weapon race.

 Sigil's population has jumped to several thousand over the past nine years. Though the demi-plane city is still sparsely populated, it has become a hub for espionage and the transpotration of small expensive cargo. Hobgoblins use the city to transport half a dozen bombards and several other sargonite weapons to one of their mercenary armies fighting a minor rebellion in Eveh, on behalf of the authorities of Phnom Pehn. Some of these weapons are captured and eventually make their way to the Rysnen empire.

 The first industrial use of elemental cores. A collaboration between Raiann's College of Artifice and Alchemy and Meridiania's Royal Arcane Academy, a sargonite mill utilizing elemental cores for power begins production in Meridiania's Middletown. Most of the production is earmarked for Raiann.

 The Rysnen Air Corps first deploys sargonite filled bombs on their airships.

 In an effort to further develop and unite the western side of the empire, three additional lightning rail lines are planned. Agos to Axos, Duertek to Yuelddrimm and the most ambitious of all, Cerassoma to Barak Varr via the mountains of the Everlasting Kingdom, where the new earth elemental tunneling engines will be used to tunnel through connecting several dwarf holds together.

 In Yngvar, Horacio Pagani introduces the first wagon powered by an elemental core. He is soon followed by Carlo Abarth who introduces his own version. This leads to an intense rivalry between the two and the world's first race between elemental cored powered wagons.

 The Peninsular Commonwealth hires Eniston Nerthoglim to build ironjacks to bolster their armed forces.

 The Sky Spirit, the first airship to utilize elemental cores makes its first flight in Meridiania.

 The Rysnen empire begins a modernization of its air corps, introducing sargonite firearms and an extensive shipbuilding program to replace old airships and the loses of the civil war. Though experimenting with air elemental rings, the vast majority of the new ships use fire elemental rings.

 The Dolphin, the first ship to use a water elemental ring is launched in Calepp. Its speed is unmatched in comparison to any sailing ship. Later in the year it will complete the journey to King's Cross in Meridiania in only 9 days, less than a third the time of the average crossing before it.

 Meridiania and Raiann jointly plan construction of a lighting rail line from King's Cross to Khopesh.