Time Line

0/Year of Chasms (NOTE: This is also the year name given for 633 DR)

    --The treants of Semberholme complete their migration to the south of Lake Sember.

1/Year of Sunrise

    --The Standing Stone is raised by the elves of Cormanthyr and the Dalesmen, starting the
    Dalereckoning Calender.

4/

    --Ioulaum is reportedly slain in a spellbattle with a cabal of alhoon (illithiliches).

5/Year of the Clutched Emerald

    --The syl-pasha establishes gates between various sites in Calimport and his new imperial
    capital rising at Shoonach.

6/Year of Firestars

    --Ondeth Obarskyr and his family settle in the forest of Cormyr.

10/Year of Dreams

    --The Netheril region is renamed Anauroch after the greatest of its' two survivor states.

15/Year of Glittering Glory

    --Amahl III (-14 to 50), son of Amahl II, becomes Emperor of the Shoon Empire.
    --The syl-pasha of Calimshan moves his court and much of the empire's power to
    Shoonach. As Calimport remains the primary port for his empire even though it is no longer
    the capital, Syl- Pasha Akkabar Shoon establishes a tightly controlled puppet dynasty on
    the Caleph's Throne.

16/Year of Distant Thunder

20/Year of the Fallen Fury

    --The human Calendar of Harptos adopts the elven holiday of Cinnaelos 'Cor ("The Day of
    Corellon's Peace") and renames it Shieldmeet, celebrating it every four years since.
    --Iljak grows into a major trade city. Few villages remain outside a 50-mile radius of the
    expanding city.

25/Year of Many Runes

    --Church of Deneir founded.

26/Year of Opening Doors

    --The human realm of Cormyr is founded by Obarskyr family; the Elder Kings begin their
    reign. 1 CR (Cormyrean Reckoning).
    --Faerlthann (? to 55), 1st King of Cormyr.

27/Year of Shadowed Blades

    --The syl-pasha of Calimshan dies under mysterious circumstances while enchanting
    magical items in his chambers deep beneath the Imperial Mount of Shoonach. King Amahl
    III succeeds his great-great-grandfather as ruler of Calimshan and Tethyr. After
    establishing another puppet regime on Tethyr's throne, Amahl III crowns himself Qysar
    ("emperor") Amahl Shoon III of the Shoon Imperium.
    --Rahman (4 to 63), son-in-law of Emperor Amahl III, becomes King of Tethyr.
    --Start of the Sixth Age of Calimshan, also known as the Age of Shoon.

34/

    --The Melairkyn clan of Undermountain is decimated by a drow onslaught; dwarven
    rulership ends with death of King Melair IV (buried in the Lost Level).

39/Year of Proud Flame

c.50

    --The Vilhon Reach grows. By this time, Hlondeth establishes itself as both a port city and
    a major landmark along the Tunway. The cities of Mussum, Samra, and Arrabar spring up
    along the southeastern shores of the Vilhon. Daroush, Torl, and Asple are established on
    the northwestern shore.

50/Year of the Barbed Wind

    --Qysar Amahl Shoon III dies and is succeeded by Qysar Shoon I.

52/

    --The first permanent farms are established in the Waterdeep area by locally settling tribes.

53/

    --Sundryl Aeravansel leaves the city of Cormanthor and never returns. The reason for this
    is some grudge that Sundryl held with the Coronal and Sundryl's attachment to the eastern
    woods.

61/Year of the Branded Mage

    --Qysar Shoon I decrees the establishment of the Wizard's Consortiums of all the cities of
    his realm, to which attendance is mandatory for all wizards. Those who resist are slain,
    and soon Shoon I knows of nearly every mage within his domain, which allows him better
    control over such forces.

63/

    --Leodom I (35 to 97), 5th son of Rahman, King of Tethyr.

68/Year of the Echoing Chasm

    --Saeval Ammath is born into House Ammath, and numerous portents indicate he will
    become the Archmage of the House later in life.
    --Drow raiding Mount Melairbode establish the prison adjoining the Lost Level of
    Undermountain..

75/Year of Clinging Death

    --Plague racks the civilized Realms (Empires of the Sands, Vilhon). More than 50% of the
    total population of the Vilhon is killed in as little as 10 years.
    --Qysar Shoon I of the Shoon Imperium dies and is succeeded by his third son, Qysar
    Shoon II.
    --Alaundo the Seer arrives in Candlekeep.
    --Moander the Darkbringer hurls his forces and the "creeping evil" against the elven city of
    Tsornyl, blighting much of the surrounding woods. The magic of Moander twists all life,
    both follower and victim alike, into corrupt monsters, including deepspawn and shambling
    mounds. While the evil could not be destroyed, High Magic severed the creeping evil from
    Moander and imprisoned the corruption at Tsornyl (soon to be called the Darkwatch). This
    weakened the Darkbringer's presence in Toril, though it cost the lives of thirty-two elves,
    including two High Mages, to sever and bind the power.

c.77

    --By this time, the dwarves are exterminated from all but three levels of Undermountain.

87/

    --Braerindra dies, becoming a baelnorn to protect Castle Cormanthor. She is known
    henceforth as the Watchnorn of Castle Cormanthor.

97/

    --Hazam (64 to 113), 3rd son (adoptive; wife's son) of Leodom I, King of Tethyr.

99/Year of the Dragonstar

100/Year of the Greybeards

    --The city of Athkatla is founded.
    --Year 0 in Amnreckoning (little used except in official documents)

101/Year of the Smiling Moon

    --Josidiah Starym is born to the gold elven House Starym of Myth Drannor, to his gold elf
    father and moon elf mother. He has his father's features and golden hair, but has his
    mother's uncanny sapphire-blue eyes, a strange combination for a noble gold elf child.

106/

    --Rhiiman "The Glorious" (? to 131), King of Cormyr.

107/Year of the Fledglings

    --Qysar Shoon II dies and is succeeded by his first grandnephew, Qysar Shoon III. Hazamir
    el Aktorral, Syl-Pasha of Calimshan, is made riqysar (regent-emperor). Aktorral moves
    some of the Imperial Court back to Calimport and the surroundings he trusts rather than live
    in Shoonach.

108/The Year of the Flood

    --1st Great Flood of the river Alamber nearly destroys Unthalass.

111/Year of Fallen Guards

    --The kingdom of Anauria falls to an orc invasion, though it ensures the mutual destruction
    of the horde, and orc numbers are reduced for centuries in this area. (NOTE: The Forgotten
    Realms Campaign Setting mistakenly gives this date as c.200 DR)

112/Year of the Tusk

    --Cormyrean cartographers create the first recognized map of Cormyr, Cormanthor, and the
    Dalelands.

113/

    --Leodom II (85 to 136), 1st son of Hazam, King of Tethyr.

123/Year of the Icy Axe

    --With the death of el Aktorral this year, all governmental control of Calimshan and the
    Imperium moves to Shoonach until the fall of the Imperium. Calimport becomes merely the
    largest port, and its northern quarters become more and more deserted. During the next
    centuries, the walls around the port wards rise higher than ever to defend against intruders
    as more rogues take residence in the nearly empty upper city. Calimport Below also
    becomes larger and more populous during the Imperium, as neglect sees the collapse of
    many buildings and the rise in monstrous populations down below is a direct result of
    fewer garrisons in the Old City (as upper Calimport becomes known for 300 years).

125/

    --The city of Ormath is established on the Shining Plains.
    --Hlondeth's population soars as a trade road - the Pikeman's Folly - is built between the
    two cities.

c.130

    --The Eshowe of Chult unleash Eshowdow the Shadow Giant.

132/Year of Thirteen Prides Lost

    --Dempster Turmish declares himself Mayor of Alaghon. He sends his mercinaries against
    his rivals. A brief, bloody civil war erupts in Alaghon, and Dempster emerges as
    undisputed leader.
    --The mages of the Circle of Flames begin to record the Scrolls Ardentym this year.

135/

    --Arrabar's military forces wipe out the city of Mimph.

136/

    --Yusuf (109 to 136), 10th son of Leodom II, King of Tethyr.
    --King Leodom III (117 to 175, original name Ali), 17th son of Leodom II, King of Tethyr.

137/

    --On the twelfth day of Flamerule, the army of Iljak engages the forces of Mussum along the
    Sandshore. The battle rages for a fortnight until early Eleasius, when Samran forces sack
    the city of Iljak and attack its forces on the unprotected left flank. Iljak surrenders, and the
    twin forces of Mussum and Samra enslave the survivors.

139/

    --By this time, the deforestation of the Chondalwood is in full swing. The city of Shamph is
    established along the Emerald Corridor, a road stretching from Shamph to Arrabar.

142/

    --Citadel Adbar is built by King Adbarruns of the dwarves.

143/

    --Lumberjacks in the Chondalwood are halted by a large force of elves. Lord Anthony
    Illistine creates an alliance of the free cities of the region.

144/

    --Battle of Elven Tears. The alliance of free cities in Chondath attacks the elves.
    Ariel-Than, an elven city, is burned to the ground, and more than 2,000 elves die in the
    war. The survivors reportedly flee deeper into the wood to the city of Rucien-Xan, a
    mythical elven home.
    --Six months after the Battle of Elven Tears, Lord Anthony Illistine is named governer of
    Chondath, and the city-states are finally united under one leader.

145/Year of the Pirates' Port

    --Dempster Turmish continues his campaign to conquer the Vilhon area. Hlondeth is
    beseiged. Alaghonian forces are unable to mount an effective seige without closing off
    access to the Vilhon, and after six months Dempster ends the seige.
    --Lady Ahskahala Durothil is born at Semberholme to Lady Uschymna and Lord Phaendar
    Durothil of Myth Drannor.

146/Year of the Risen Towers

    --Lord Dempster attempts a second seige of Hlondeth, but is again defeated, this time by
    the city's high walls and a powerful barrage of magic.
    --Avavae Irithyl is born, the first child of House Irithyl in centuries. Unfortunately, her
    mother dies giving birth, leaving tiny Aravae and the Coronal, her great-uncle, as the sole
    heirs of Irithyl. From birth, Aravae has a personal guard of three armathors whose sole
    purpose is to protect the child who will be the Coronal's heir.

148/The Year of Blue Ice

    --Drow construct the original Crystal Labyrinth in Undermountain as a training area for
    their young.

c.150

    --An unknown dwarf hold in the Lost Peaks comes to a sudden end.

150/

    --Lord Dempster rebuilds his army for a third attempt at Hlondeth, but dies in his sleep
    before it is ready. His wife, Florentine, becomes ruler and immediately calls off the attack.

153/Year of the Moving Ground

154/

    --Lady Florentine of Turmish is assassinated, setting off endless rounds of political
    maneuvering by various merchant houses. This 100-year gap in leadership becomes known
    as the Calmwaters, and the region flourishes.

163/Year of the Screeching Vole

    --Last reported use of the Ring of Winter, when a village and a Cormyrean lord's estates
    are destroyed in a massive ice storm during high summer.
    --Founding of Altumbel by the Unther Empire.
    --Founding of Elmwood on the southern coast of the Moonsea, as a small waystation for
    ship traffic to and from the River Lis.
    --Founding of the city of Crimmor, in Amn.

168/Year of Scattered Stars

    --Halaster's Hold, the wizard's tower and fortified ramparts, is built to the north and west
    of the farms in the Waterdeep area.

171/Year of Unkind Weapons

    --The elves of Cormanthyr complete a two-year-long seige and running battle to destroy the
    sole surviving temple of Moander in the northern forest (at the site of modern Yulash). The
    elves raze the temple after slaying all of Moander's priests. The Coronal and sixteen of
    Cormanthyr's High Mages cast the binding High Magic that banishes the Jawed God from
    the Realms until it is freed by a nonborn child.
    --From this time foward, Moander remains a lurking evil trapped beneath the ruins of his
    final temple.

175/

    --Leodom IV (149 to 187, original name Kasim), 4th nephew of Leodom III, King of
    Tethyr.

186/

    --Moriann (? to 198), King of Cormyr.

187/

    --Tasiiva Cormal (124 to 193), wife of Leodom IV, Widow Regent of Tethyr.

188/

    --King Uthgrael Aumar (? to 216) of Athalantar marries Syndrel Hornweather (? to 216).

191/

    --The archmage Iniarv creates the Twinned Crown of Yarlith, companion to the Twinned
    Crown of Uthtower.

192/

    --Elthryn Aumar (192 to 224), the father of Elminster, is born to Uthgrael and Syndrel
    Aumar of Athalantar.

193/

    --Hazam II (178 to 209), 2nd son of Leodom IV, King of Tethyr.

194/Year of Coiling Smoke

    --The temple of Eilistraee and its good dark elves are slaughtered by a new infestation of
    drow from below; the temple is restored as the Twisted Tower military garrison.
    --Completion of the Fountain of the Qysars in Calimport.

198/

    --Tharyann "The Elder" (? to 231), King of Cormyr.

199/Year of the Cold Enchanter

    --Hlondath instigates the Crown Against the Scepter Wars, intent on raiding Cormanthyr for
    magic. The skirmishes happen once every three years or so, and are more annoying than
    damaging, but they bleed away forces that could fight the drow of the Twisted Tower.

200/Year of Leaping Flames

    --The Rogue Fires engulf all of northern and western Calimport as opposing underworld
    factions fight for control of the city.

202/

    --Tribes of "barbarians" from the south invade southern Unther and Mulhorand.

205/

    --Mulhorand & Unther chase defeated barbarians back to their base settlement and
    exterminate them. A dying shaman prophesies that their empires shall soon crumble.

207/Year of the Majestic Mace

    --Fall of the dwarven realm of Ironstar. The near-final remnants of the clan are slaughtered
    on the Stone Bridge. The rest flee south and join with the Fallen Kingdom (Kingdom of
    Man).

209/

    --Tebalan Pahuk (158 to 211), Court Vizier and Tethyrian loyalist, Regent of Tethyr.

210/

    --Elthryn Aumar marries Amrythale Goldsheaf, a forester's daughter.

211/

    --Four tribes of barbarians fleeing the legions of Unther and Mulhorand settle in Dambrath
    and become known as the Arkaiun.
    --Moshafi Telerus (172 to 217), Court Vizier and Shoon loyalist, Regent of Tethyr.
    --Drow assaults force Bandaerl Dumatheir of Clan Melairkyn to seal the dwarves within
    the Deep Temple of the Lost Level of Undermountain.

212/Year of the Awakening Magic

    --Elminster, son of Prince Elthryn and Amythrale Goldsheaf of Athalantar, is born in
    Heldon.
    --The port of Murann is created in Amn.

216/Year of the Battle Horns

    --The known Northlands erupt in battle as many orc bands vie for supremacy; countless
    thousands of goblinkin perish.
    --King Uthgrael of Athalantar dies; his sons, the "Warring Princes," begin open battle for
    the throne.

217/

    --Matamid Korrunhel (180 to 251), Court Vizier and Shoon Loyalist, Regent of Tethyr.
    --Cauln Aumar (191 to 217) of Athalantar is slain by a Calishite wizard in the employ of
    his brother Elthaun.

218/Year of the Dancing Lights

    --Belaur Aumar (189 to 240), 1st son of Uthgrael, King of Athalantar. He organizes the
    Magelords.
    --Will o' Wisps are seen in profusion all over Faerun this year; some sages believe this
    marks an invasion of the strange beings, perhaps through a gate from another plane.

219/

    --Birth of the great mage Mentor Wintercloak.

220/Year of the Sword Violets

    --Coronal Eltargrim opens the forest of Cormanthor to N'Tel'Quess, primarily druids, great
    wizards, and demi-human craftsmen who can add to the glory of Cormanthyr.

223/Year of Dark Dreams

    --Emyr (208 to 229), 8th son of Hazam II, King of Tethyr.
    --The city of Trademeet is established as the caravan mustering point for Tethyr and Amn.
    --Ilhundyl, the Mad Mage, is exiled from the Calishite city of Volothamp for his monstrous
    experiments and his inability to control creatures he summoned from the Abyss.

224/Year of the Flaming Forests

    --In the winter of this year, many forest fires rage across the Northlands.
    --Battle of Bloodrivers: At the site of present-day Yartar, the orc-chieftan Gluthtor
    emerges victorious and spends the year uniting the orcs under his command.
    --Elthryn and Amrythale Aumar killed by the archmage Undarl. The Lion Sword is broken.
    --Several Tethyrian garrisons in the Tejarn Hills are destroyed by Ilhundyl the Mad Mage.

225/Year of Shattered Skulls

    --Gluthtor's great orc horde is turned back by the elves of the Sword Coast lands, at the
    cost of much of their strength, in the battles of Five Falcons (east of the Stone Bridge), and
    Hungry Arrows (southeast of present-day Everlund). The rise of archery among orcs is
    said to date from these slaughters, wherein the surviving orcs saw a few thousand elven
    archers slay hundreds of thousands of goblinkin.

226/Year of the Empty Turret

 --Despite the lack of major wars, disease and widespread lawlessness take many fighting-men
to their graves all over Faerun this year.

227/Year of the Raised Banner

    --The dwarves of the Alaoreaum fight an epic battle with the red dragon Stormcrossing.
    The dwarves win, but the humans are alerted to their presence in the mountains.
    --Three small realms are founded this year. They are the halfling realm of Meiritin in what
    is now eastern Amn; the human realm of Shavinar north of present-day Baldur's Gate; and
    Tathtar at the western end of the Vilhon Reach. All have since vanished.

228/Year of the Loremasters

    --Several sages publish important histories of human magical achievements in the summer
    of this year.
    --At this time, Elminster is an outlaw in the Horn Hills, on the borders of Athalantar.

229/Year of the Black Flame

    --A cabal of wizards calling themselves "The Black Flame" forms in Unther and destroys
    several armies sent by local rulers to slay them. Over the 20 summers that follow, they
    develop many important magics, but dwindle in numbers, destroyed by rivals, or lost in
    travels to other planes. They leave behind many powerful spells that later form much of the
    arsenal of the Red Wizards of Thay.
    --King Emyr of Tethyr dies without issue; end of the Cormal Dynasty and beginning of the
    Korrunhel Dynasty.
    --Matamid Korrunhel (180 to 251), Former Vizier and Regent, King of Tethyr.
    --During this year, Elminster, using the name Eladar the Dark, is active as a thief in
    Hastarl, capital of Athalantar.
    --Plague hits the cities of Keltar, Volothamp, and Manshaka. Named the Ashes Plague for
    the skin tone of those infected.

230/Year of the Wailing Dryads

    --Trees are felled all over the over-crowded, human-held lands of Faerun this year, and
    many roads begun, cutting into the heart of once-impassible woodlands.
    --Dalagar "Longwalker" becomes king of Andlath (a vanished realm that flourished on
    what is now the Shining Plains), and begins construction of a trade road linking the Sword
    Coast lands with the Vilhon Reach.
    --The Tathtar Wars: The fledgling country of Tathtar on the Deepwash invades eastern
    Tethyr, possibly in alliance with Tethyran rebels in Ithmong. Beginning of nearly ten years
    of warfare between the realms.

231/Year of the Mist Dragon

    --Boldovor "The Mad" (? to 242), King of Cormyr.
    --A gigantic mist dragon of this rare species appears in the lands around the Inner Sea,
    challenging and slaying any dragon it can find. By winter, it has amassed a huge treasure,
    and the first of several hundred fruitless adventurer-forays sets forth from Calimport in
    search of what bards come to call the Shining Hoard of the Great Dragon (for some 60
    years the mist dragon slays adventurers. After that, no trace of it or its hoard can be found).
    --Ilhundyl the Mad Mage conquers Meiritin's largest settlement and declares himself ruler
    of the Calishar Emirates. Mild unrest farther south near Shoonach delays a military
    response from the Shoon Empire.
    Emperor Shoon IV unleashes the Death Parade (a horde of skeletons and zombies) on
    rebels in Ithmong.

232/Year of the Leaping Centaur

    --In Andlath, centaur herds break free of human slavery, shattering that realm into small,
    besieged territories and outposts. King Dalagar spends much of the year in his saddle,
    fighting 40 battles or more, but the road-building goes on.

233/Year of Much Ale

    --A rich barley harvest this year makes beer plentiful and good in the lands around the
    Inner Sea.
    --As a member of the Brave Blades adventuring band, "Elmara" (Elminster) is busy
    exploring old ruins, dungeons, and subterranean holds in the lands north and west of
    Athalantar.
    --The Brave Blades plunder the Floating Tower of the archwizard Ondil of the Many
    Spells.

234/Year of Bloodflowers

    --A red-leafed flower, called the Bloodflower for its hue and prevalence on the open
    plains that often become battlefields, seems to grow everywhere this year--until an
    alchemist in Calimshan discovers a magical use for its petals. In the decade that follows,
    the bloodflower is harvested so thoroughly that it disappears from Faerun.

235/Year of the Drawn Knives

    --Intrigue, wars of succession, and assassinations are all rife across Faerun; it is a time of
    defiance, violence, and short tempers.
    --Elmara (Elminster) is studying and adventuring with the sorceress Myrjala Dark-Eyes.

236/Year of the Plague Clouds

    --A mage in Mulhorand devises a spell that creates clouds of poisonous gas that last for
    several days. The wizard is slain by fearful neighbors and rival wizards, but not before
    someone steals at least one of the spells involved.
    --Elmara (Elminster) continues to study and adventure with Myrjala, traveling widely in
    Faerun.

237/Year of the Disappearing Dragons

    --Ansryn Tehvyae, a crazed hermit-mage who dwells in Tsharoon (a land since swallowed
    by the Quoya Desert) develops a spell that teleports unwitting and unwilling dragon from
    place to place, from afar. There is much tumult in the eastern Realms, until Tehvaye is
    identified and killed by the furious surviving dragons. The fate of his spell is unknown.
    --Elmara's magic grows to outstrip Myrjala's; they decide to part and Elminster reveals his
    true gender to his teacher.

238/Year of Many Mushrooms

    --Damp, cloudy weather and widespread rotting diseases promote wild growth of
    mushrooms all across northern Faerun.
    --Elminster goes mage-hunting across Faerun, trying to defeat evil mages and gain their
    powers.
    --Myrjala and Elminster destroy Ilhundyl the Mad Mage of the Calishar. They reveal their
    love for each other, and decide to dwell and work together.
    --Dalagar "Longwalker," King of Andlath, completes his road linking Athkatla to Ormath.

239/Year of the Wandering Leucrotta

    --A sudden increase in the numbers of leucrotta drives many of these nasty creatures to
    roam across the North, each seeking its own territory. Much fear, rumors (of various rulers
    being disguised leucrotta and suchlike), and bloodshed results.
    --Elminster and Myrjala work together, building their powers for a planned assault on
    Athalantar.

240/Year of the Chosen

    --Elminster achieves his destiny and shatters the rule of the magelords, slaying King Beluar
    and the malaugrym Undarl. El then crowns the outlaw Helm Stoneblade king of Athalantar.
    Myrjala reveals herself as the goddess Mystra; Elminster becomes one of Mystra's Chosen,
    and is sent to Cormanthor.
    --Peace treaties signed between Tathar and Tethyr end nearly ten years of war between the
    two realms.

241/Year of the Hippogriff's Folly

    --In late autumn, the former and sole-surviving Prince of Athalantar, Elminster Aumar,
    enters the city of Cormanthor both to serve Mystra's will and return the kiira of House
    Alastrarra.

242/

    --Iltharl (? to 245), King of Cormyr.

244/Year of the Elfsands

    --Evereska's existence is uncovered by N'Tel'Quess for the first time, though the secret is
    kept for centuries by the human tribes of the Greycloak Hills.

c.250

    --Halaster Blackcloak makes Undermountain his domain.

251/

    --Xandar (224 to 260), 3rd son of Matamid, King of Tethyr.

253/Year of Somber Smiles

    --The panther Guenhwyvar is transformed into a unique figurine of wondrous power by
    Andres Beltgarden, a human settler of Cormanthyr. The figurine is granted to the young
    bladesinger Josidiah Starym.

254/Year of the Ghost Horse

255/Year of the Magethunder

257/Year of the Speaking Mountain

    --Mt. Ugruth, a volcano near the city of Hlondeth, erupts, blackening the skies for months.
    --Under the cover of the eruption, Chondath invades and conquers Hlondeth, toppling the
    ruling Gestin family.

260/

    --Chondath establishes the frontier towns of Timindar and Orbech. The Grand Druid of the
    Gulthmere issues several warning to Chondath regarding the continued cutting of the
    Chondalwood, but is ignored.
    --A gold and silver rush in the Deepwing Mountains begins. Lachom is founded, and is
    swiftly controlled by Chondath.
    --Vajra (244 to 310), sole heir of Xandar, Queen of Tethyr. (married Karazir Tiiraklar).

261/Year of Soaring Stars

    --Laying of the Mythal at Myth Drannor. Myth Drannor created for all races. Cormanthor
    changes its name to Myth Drannor (The City of Might, Bards, Song, Beauty, Crowns,
    Love).
    --The Lord-Speaker Ildilyntra Starym of the Starym Clan attacks the Coronal Eltargrim.
    This act causes the fall in power of the Starym Clan in Myth Drannor. Ildilyntra dies when
    she transforms herself into a blood dragon to attack the Coronal.
    --The Srinshee, once a baelnorn, is reborn as an elfmaid. This is rumored to have been
    done at the behest of the human goddess Mystra.
    --Lady Symrustar Auglamyr is re-born as a Chosen of Mystra, the first of the elves to have
    this honor.
    --Elven and human mages devise spells needed to sail the skies in this year, and new
    skyships are seen in Faerun - the first such craft outside of Halruua since the fall of
    Netheril.

262/Year of Pages Perilous

    --While numerous members of many elven clans quit Myth Drannor rather than share it with
    the N'Tel'Quess, only minor families and the five major Houses of Bharaclaiev, Hyshaanth,
    Rhaevaern, Starym, and Tellynnan abandon the city for other purely elven settlements in
    Cormanthyr and elsewhere (though a limited number of each clan remain in the city). Only
    the Starym were a senior clan, and in respect of that, their lands were left to be vacant for
    300 years; if not claimed by the clan again, the manors and holdings would return to the
    Coronal.

266/Year of the Black Buck

    --Starting in early spring, a number of murders in the eastern quarter of Myth Drannor turn
    many immigrants against each other. The eight victims (all humans) died of various poisons
    (to which all elves are immune). By the year's end, armathors apprenend a bigoted servant
    elf of House Ammath, who confesses to the crimes. (Secretly, the servant spied for House
    Symbeam, political enemies of the Ammath, and this gambit paid off well in social and
    political damage to their rivals, though the Coronal never found the family guilty of any
    wrongdoing).

267/

    --Battle of Fallen Trees. The Chondathian logging towns of Timindar and Orbech are
    destroyed by elves attacking from within the Chondalwood.
    --The Crushed Helm Massacre. Chondath forces are led into a trap inside the
    Chondalwood. Of 10,000 men, only about 200 survive and escape the elves and wood
    giants.

268/Year of Cruel Storms

270/

    --Chondath troops begin massing at the southern border of Turmish. The squabbling
    merchant houses unite behind the rule of Alesam Mischwin. The two forces reach a
    stalemate, and Chondath retreats.

273/Year of the Delighted Dwarves

    --The first migration of dwarves arrives at Myth Drannor in three small clans from
    Ammarindar and Citadel Felbarr.

275/

    --Gantharla (? to 289), Queen of Cormyr.
    --Halaster discovers the Lost Level of Undermountain.

276/Year of the Burnished Blade

    --The forges of the dwarven clans Snowsbattle and Honedaxe produce three great gifts in
    gratitude for their new homes in Myth Drannor; the Beljuriled Belt of Battle for the Coronal;
    the Shield of Briars for the Arms-Major, and the Heralds' Horn for the Spell-Major of the
    Akh'Faer (which would become better known later by its primary wielder's name as The
    Harking Horn of Ishildé).

277/Year of the Whispering

    --Discovery of a gold deposit in the Aphrunn Mountains creates the city of Aelor almost
    overnight.
    --The green elf warrior Tenyajn Haell is made a general in the Cormanthyran army, taking
    charge of the training of its ranks.

278/

    --The population of the Vilhon soars; many mercinaries are hired this year.

279/Year of Smiling Nyth

282/

    --The Aelor gold mines run dry.

284/Year of Fallen Flagons

    A great halfling migration hundreds strong arrives at Myth Drannor from Meiritin and
    Tethyr via the first open gates set up to bring folk to the city.
    --The city of Aelor is reduced to a ghost-town.

285/

    --The slave-nation of Nimpeth is founded and becomes the first Vilhon city-state to
    withstand the armies of Chondath.

286/Year of the Jolly Mongrels

    --As most social clubs in Myth Drannor are privately owned and often held exclusive
    memberships, the halflings of the city surprise all by opening taverns to everyone, the first
    and most storied of which is the Treant's Treat, located in a warren beneath a great,
    petrified tree. Within a decade, even elven taverns, inns, and halls are lessening their
    strictures on patrons (though some places still discriminate by trade, wealth, or other
    prejudices). By 307 DR, only a few elite sites in the Kerradunath district restrict
    themselves to established elven club members.

289/

    --Roderin "The Bastard" (? to 317), King of Cormyr.

290/Year of Full Cribs

    --This year marks the greatest number of births in Cormanthyr's history. While only half
    were elven babies, there are more full-blooded elves born in this lone year than in the
    previous decade. The Coronal deems this a sign of the realm's health and the righteousness
    of his quest for unity among all the races.
    --Death of Arkhenthus the Mage-Devourer, an ancient white wyrm, by the swords of six
    flying elves and humans. This marks the first Cormanthyran dragonhunt involving
    N'Tel'Quess.

292/Year of Frostfires

    --Gnomes walk the sylvan glades of Myth Drannor for the first time since escaped gnome
    slaves passed through Cormanthor in Netheril's time.

293/Year of Hounds

    --Tathtar is overrun by an orc horde led by the chieftain Thaurgarl "Greatmaw" and falls.
    Only Lower Tathtar survives the collapse.

c.300

    --Ilgostrogue Sstar leaves Citadel Adbar with 35,000 dwarves, of which 12,000 survive to
    found the settlement of Ironmaster.
    --The arching stone bridge in Loudwater is built by the dwarf Iirikos Stoneshoulder for the
    elves of Earlann.

300/Year of the Late Sun

    --A bardic college called the Academia Vilhonus is founded, and starts the Turmish custom
    of painting dots on the foreheads of learned men.
    --The theocracy of Minsorran, the "Lands of Balance," consecrates its lands.

306/

    --The Karsus Overwash is renamed Winding Water.

307/Year of Sundered Sails

    --The Seven, Halaster's apprentices, abandon Halaster's Hold and enter the dark ways of
    Undermountain. The tower and surface holdings fall into decay and ruin. All settlers avoid
    this walled "cursed" enclosure.
    --After decades of debate, the elves allow N'Tel'Quess to join the Akh'Velahrn after
    training in the Cormanthyran methods of battle. More than 400 humans and 100 dwarves
    eagerly join up.

308/Year of Promise

    --The Crown Against the Scepter Wars end as Cormanthyr makes it clear the Hlondathans
    are to cease or be destroyed by the elves. Until this year, little loss of life occured during
    the war, though the Hlondathans were sorely outmatched in weapons and skills.

c.310

    --Chondath organizes the practice of each Vilhon realm sending troops every four years to
    Southsands, to engage in a mock war.

310/

    --End of the Korrunhel Dynasty; beginning of the Tiiraklar Dynasty.
    --Karaj (267 to 315), son of Vajra, King of Tethyr.

315/

    --Karaj II (290 to 345), son of Karaj I, King of Tethyr.

317/

    --Thargreve "The Lesser" (? to 334), King of Cormyr.

319/Year of the Unforgotten Fire

    --Fire engulfs all Calishite cities and towns, as Qysar Shoon VII sets the sewers aflame to
    root out criminal elements.

320/Year of the Bright Plumage

    --The cities of Nleeth and Amah are founded as training centers for warriors competing in
    the Vilhon games.

321/Year of the Blessed Sleep

    --The realm of Valashar is added into the Shoon Empire. Ruled by the mad king Ashar
    Tornamn, Valashar spent the next fifteen years expanding northwards towards the High
    Moor. This expansion brought it into conflict with King Azoun I of Cormyr, who crushed
    Valashar's armies in 336DR.
    --It becomes general knowledge in Cormanthyr that the Vale of Lost Voices is protected by
    baelnorn. Treasure seekers stop visiting the tombs there as often.

323/Year of the Miscast Shadow

324/Year of Freedom's Friends

    --The Harpers at Twilight are formed in secret deep in Elven Court woods by Dathlue
    Mistwinter, the Lady Steel, whose family crest (a silver harp between the horns of a
    crescent moon, encircled by stars on a black field) becomes the badge of the Harpers.
    Among the early members were elf, human, and half-elf warriors, rangers, druids, thieves,
    and mages (including Ruehar Oakstaff, Ioelena Audark, Lyari Pholont "the Shadesilk," and
    Elminster).

326/The Year of Secret Slaughters

    --Halaster Blackcloak discovers the Crystal Labyrinth of Undermountain, and begins to
    change it to his own ends.

329/Year of the Closed Scroll

    --Hlondath's grain fields are consumed by the expansion of Anauroch, and the city-state is
    abandoned, its folk migrating east beyond the Moonsea or south into the Dales and beyond.
    Once Hlondath itself is overrun by the desert, Anauroch ceases its spread, much to the
    relief of those in Cormanthyr. Hlondath's people flee east to the Moonsea or south to the
    Dales and beyond.

330/Year of Roused Giants

    --Arun Maerdrym is born, the first half-elf among the senior noble houses of Myth Drannor;
    to the surprise of many elves, he is accepted by the patriarch and allowed to retain his
    name and position in the family and clan.

326/

    --The cities of Ormath and Lheshayl meet on the Field of Tears over a land dispute. The
    two sides battle for more than a week before the Tenpaw wemic tribe drives both sides
    from the field.

331/Year of the Cold Clashes

    --Elminster leaves Myth Drannor for the first time in seventy years at Mystra's insistence.
    --The orcs of Vastar launch an unexpected attack on eastern Cormanthyr late in this year,
    and occupy some of the lands east of the Old Elven Court for the next few years. The orcs
    spend the next years both solidifying their forces here and exploring the ruins of the ancient
    elven temple- city.
    --Kelvhan Olortynnal is born in Cormanthyr.

335/Year of Seven Stones

    --Ashar's March: Lord Ashar Tornamn, acting without orders from the Shoonite Emperor
    or the king of Tethyr, moves his armies north, reaching the High Moor by late summer. He
    claims the Sword Coast from the Moor to Shoonach for the Shoon Empire.
    --King Azoun I of Cormyr finds trade routes to the west blocked by Shoonite troops
    demanding tariffs for "passing through the empire's lands." Azoun orders the creation of the
    sword Ilbratha, "Mistress of Battles."
    --Aquatic elves begin to appear in a temple of Deep Sashelas in Myth Drannor and the Old
    Elven Court.
    --The Darkwoods Massacre: The fourth major foray by akh'velahrn forces against the
    invading orcs occurs within the Darkwoods east of the Old Elven Court's ruins in high
    summer. The battle is lost as the orcs surround over half of the allied forces and decimate
    them in their sleep; as the human guards were also among the slain, no explanation is
    apparent for their negligence. In all, more than 1,000 soldiers die that night, although only
    100 of them are elves.
    --Captain Fflar of Myth Drannor comes to Semberholme for the next eight years.

c.336

    --First reliable mention of the artifact known as the "Crown of the Mountain," then wielded
    by the mage Larbrand in the Tashalar.

336/Year of the Whipped Cur

    --Cormyr defeats the army of Valashar on the Fields of the Dead, then advances into Amn,
    Valashar, and Tethyr.

339/Year of the Vanished Foe

    --Human and elvish forces rout the orcs in eastern Cormanthyr. Instrumental in the battles is
    the human warrior Velar. Velar and his human (and some elven) allies resettle the land
    around the coastal forest. This area soon becomes known as Velarsdale.

345/

    --End of the Tiiraklar Dynasty, beginning of the Tornamn Dynasty.
    --Kallos (324 to 380), 3rd nephew of Karaj II, King of Tethyr and Tethyrian loyalist.

346/Year of Blushing Stars

    --Seven senior and junior akh-velarhn officers (five gold, two moon elven) are exiled from
    Myth Drannor and Cormanthyr after their court-martials reveal that they subjected their
    non-elven soldiers to barbarous treatment while under their commands, whether in training
    or under patrol conditions. The blame for the Darkwoods Massacre falls on their
    shoulders, due to biased troop placements, failures to maintain communications or deliver
    orders among encamped forces, and a willing sacrifice of non-elven troops in favor of
    elven ones.
    --Penitent over his failure to detect bigotry among his troops (especially his
    second-in-command), major Pirphal Faerondaryl offers his resignation to the Coronal,
    which is refused, as Eltargrim bids him to solve the problem rather than avoid it. Major
    Pirphal commissions the first three baneblades as weapons for his new lieutenants (one
    each: halfling, dwarf, and human); the blades are dwarven forged, the hilts elven-crafted,
    and finally enchanted by the human mage Demron.
    --Saeval Ammath returns from and excursion into the western mountains, and immediately
    sequesters himself in a Hiouse Ammath tower holding outside the mythal. While many find
    this curious, none suspect that he has found and claimed a dragon's egg.

348/Year of the Dagger

    --Northkeep, the first human settlement in the Moonsea North, is founded.
    --A group of outlaws, fleeing the justice of Mulhorand, settle in and found Ulgarth.
    --Saeval Ammath hatches his foundling red dragon egg. Due to the many enchantments he
    placed on the egg, the dragon's shape is more similar to a blue dragon, though its tone is
    still red. Saeval names the hatchling Garnetallisar.

c.350

    --Shoonish warriors battle on the Fields of the Dead.
    --Citadel Adbar built by King Adbarruns of Delzoun.

351/Year of the Dancing Deer

    --Yrlaancel grows with an influx of refugees and becomes Ondathel, Eldath's City of
    Peace.

352/

    --The Great Fire of Alaghon.

355/Year of the Mourning Horns

    --Shoon VII slaughters the unicorn herds of Shilmista to create his Book.

356/Year of the Crafty Kings

358/Year of the Battle Talons

    --Emperor Shoon VII fights the blue dragon, Iryklathagra "Sharpfangs," on the plains of
    Valashar. The dragon flees but Shoon VII loses his Staff of Shoon to the dragon.
    --Demron completes the first three Baneblades of Demron, and they are presented to their
    wielders amid great cerimony.
    --Saeval's dragon Garnet becomes known to the folk of Myth Drannor, as he takes to flying
    with the wizard astride his back. Despite much uproar, Garnet proves himself trustworthy
    and humble before the Coronal and others. Saeval's enchantments give this unique dragon a
    laeful good nature. The Coronal grants his trust by providing a means for the dragon and his
    master to live within the mythal, despite its normal defenses against chromatic dragons.

c.360

    --House of Stone built by Turgo Ironfist.

362/

    --Anglond (? to 379), King of Cormyr.

367/Year of Shying Eyes

    --Founding of Phlan.

374/

    --The House of Silvanus is established on the isle of Ilighon.

379/Year of Seven Stars

    --Azoun I (? to 393), King of Cormyr.
    --A septet of notable mages of Cormanthyr form an alliance and build the first school of
    wizardry open to all the races of Myth Drannor whose teachers were not exclusively elves.
    This group soon becomes known outside the city as the Seven Wizards of Myth Drannor .

380/

    --Nishan (345 to 383), 2nd son of Karaj II, King of Tethyr and Tethyr loyalist.

383/

    --Herakul (353 to 386), brother of Nishan, King of Tethyr and traitor/kinslayer.

384/

    --Silverymoon Ford is built as a rope-and-wood bridge over the shallows at the bend in
    the River Rauvin.

386/

    --Priam (369 to 450), son of Nishan, King of Tethyr. A Tethyrian loyalist who secretly
    aided King Silvyr's return. His sole granddaughter later married Strohm I
    --Arun Maerdrym, called the Half-Elven among Myth Drannan nobles, joins the Harpers at
    Twilight.

388/

    --The city-state of Al-Anwahr is founded in the heart of what is now known as the Haunted
    Lands of Zakhara, by emigrants.

390/Year of the Half Moon

    --Myth Lharast established as a "purer" temple city, with worship dedicated solely to
    Selune rather than the orthodox theocracy of Minsorran.
    --First Selunite worship in Waterdeep.
    --The Srinshee goes into deep mourning for a decade, as her first paramour (and
    apprentice) in centuries dies in a hunting Hereafter, the young-appearing Srinsheee never
    appears clad in any color brighter than midnight blue, black being predominant. While she
    and others suspect that one of the noble Houses had a hand in poisoning the bear and
    driving it into a killing frenzy, no proof ever surfaced and the matter was dropped.

398/Year of the Nightsun

    --The Night Dragon's Attack: Five black and two green dragons assault the mythal directly
    over Myth Drannor, testing its defenses against them. Lieutenant Itham, as commander of
    the dragonriders, brings their full compliment of six good dragons and 100 hippogrifs
    against them. While all the evil dragons were destroyed, they also killed one bronze
    dragon, half the hippogriffs and their riders, and four dragonriders, including Itham. The
    baneblade Morvian and the command of the Wing and Horn fall to lady Ahskahala Durothil.

c.400

    --The city of Escalaunt is founded by Unther.

400/Year of the Blue Shield

    --Northkeep is sunk beneath the waves of the Dragon Sea (modern: The Moonsea) by a
    horde of over 40,000 humanoids and dragons. The city of Phlan is leveled.
    --Chondath aides the cities of Chondathian (Saerloon) and Chauncelgaunt (Selgaunt)
    against orc and goblin hordes. After the hordes are driven off, Chondath keeps soldiers in
    the two cities.

403/

    --Silverymoon Ford becomes a permanent stone bridge with carvings of unicorns along its
    length.

404/Year of Withered Flowers

    --Last recorded expedition to seek a time gate.

406/

    --Galagard I (? to 416), King of Cormyr.

414/Year of Omen Stars

    --On Higharvestide in Myth Drannor, Arielimnda, a human ranger, fellow Harper, and wife
    of Arun Maerdrym, delivers a human son. Since he is human, the boy is not allowed to bear
    the Maerdrym name. Arun follows an ancient elven custom and does not name the boy,
    allowing him the freedom to earn a name (and perhaps a place in the clan) later. The boy
    becomes simply known as "Arun's Son." His green elf friends call him "Bhin," meaning
    "young human" in elvish.
    --Ecaeris Aunglor is born.

426/Year of the Black Dawn

    --Arun's human son joins students of the Seven Wizards of Myth Drannor as a pupil of
    Mentor Wintercloak. At age 12, he remains unnamed, though he has a number of nicknames
    some elves give him: Biit ("garbage," used by commoner elves) or Zenar ("Less than half,"
    as a nobles' double insult against himself and his half-breed father). His few green elf
    friends can him Bhin, a word for "young human."
    --The shadow dragon Aurgloroasa is born to Shhuusshuru in the Far Hills .

427/

    --Duar (? to 449), King of Cormyr.

429/

    --King Duar of Cormyr defeats an orcish army near the King's Forest.

437/

    --All the rivers and lakes in Anauroch dry up, leaving an ever-expanding desert.

447/

    --The Moonsilver Inn is built at the northern end of Silverymoon Ford.

449/Year of Killing Ice

    --Silvyr, rightful heir to the throne of Tethyr, raises an army and marches on Ithmong,
    capturing it. He takes the crown offered by the abdicating King Priam, and restores the
    rightful monarchy of Tethyr.
    --The son of Arun finishes his tutelage under Mentor Wintercloak and leaves Myth Drannor
    to learn of the world and teach it of the ways and magics of the City of Song. Secretly, he
    also plans on proving his worth to his father's clan and becoming one of the first Harpers
    outside of Cormanthyr and the eastern lands. He takes the only name he has been balled of
    which he is proud: Arun's Son. He vows to claim his place among the Maerdrym once he
    has earned a true name.

450/Year of the Solitary Fist (NOTE: Lands of Intrigue and Cormanthyr: Empire of the
Elves give the name of this year as the Year of the Corrie Fist)

    --King Silvyr of Tethyr invades Shoonach. After a tenday of skirmishing and destruction, a
    reluctant truce is called. King Silvyr and Emperor Amahl VII meet in single combat in an
    area, where King Silvyr is slain by the Emperor's foul treachery. Amahl VII is killed by
    Silvyr's son, Strohm.
    --The Great Fires of Shoonach rage as the imperial family is killed.
    --Tornamm Dynasty ends; beginning of the Strohm dynasty (end of the Shoon Traitorum).
    --Strohm I (275 to 662), 1st elf son of Silvyr, King of Tethyr.

459/Year of the Blooded Dagger

    --Settlements at Silverymoon Ford, the bridge over the river Rauvin, grow into Silver
    Village as a logging camp is built around the inn and bridge.

460/Year of the Scorching Suns

    --The wyrm Hoondarrh, the Red Rage of Mintarn, is born in the eastern Sword Coast
    North.
    --The Western Emirate of Amin becomes the country of Amn under King Esmel Torlath
    (also known as Serrus the Great), an ex-Shoonite general and native of the area. Amn exists
    as three major city-states west of Lake Esmel.
    --Major droughts bake southern Faerun and cause many forest and brush fires along the
    Sword Coast.
    --Demron of Myth Drannor is commissioned for another Baneblade, though this one is for
    the Spell-Major to replace the lost ary'faern'kerym elfblade lost a decade ago by Zaos
    Durothil in battle with the red wyrm Edallisufanzar.

462/Year of the Empty Helm

    --Within two centuries of the Opening of Myth Drannor, objecting nobles and crowded
    conditions force the Coronal to end both the building of new homes and settlements within
    the city limits and curb the N'Tel'Quess migration and allay the fears of his capital's Elder
    Houses.
    --Demron completes Faervian, the fourth Baneblade and the only one for the Akh'Faer.

464/Year of the True Names

    --While wandering across Anauroch, Arun's Son saves a trio of Evereskan elves from a
    phaerimm ambush nearly at the cost of his own life. Retrieved from death by Mystra, he
    becomes her Chosen, "As he whom magic, duty, and honor defines." As the Nameless
    Chosen, he becomes the first human ever to stay among Evereska's glades.

465/Year of the Dawn Blades

466/Year of the Burnt Spear

    --Deadly disease brought to Great Glacier by Treasure Hunters from Sossal. Hundreds of
    Angulutians and caribou succumb to the sickness.

472/Year of Full Cellars

    --A bountiful harvest year across the Realms. The halflings of Myth Drannor claim this
    year's ales were hearty enough to warrant a visit from their goddess Arvoreen in the
    warrens of Brewers' Havens!
    --Ulbaerag Bloodhand and his people conquer the settled tribes of Waterdeep. Irrigation of
    the farms starts and extensive building begins around the harbor area.
    --A plague wipes out the city of Mussum. More than 75% of the population is killed, and
    the plague lurks in the ruins to this day.

473/

    --Civil war devastates Al-Anwahr.

479/Year of Forestsfrost

    --Prince Imnel Torlath of Amn and his armis clear the ogre-held passes through the Small
    Teeth, reopening trade between Murann and Crimmor. The major battle-sight, once called
    Imnel's Scar, is now the town if Imnescar.
    --The realm of Teshar falls.

482/

    --Delthuntle and Laothkund break free of Unther.

491/Year of Faltering Fires

    --Unnatural heavy precipitation falls all year long.
    --Cortryn is founded by Tethyrian and Calishite immigrants and a powerful noble family of
    Calimshan to restore the Shoon Empire's lost glory. Cortryn absorbs and consolidates the
    bulk of the former realms of Valashar and Meiritin while extending its northern border up
    through the Troll Mountains. Eshpurta is founded as Cortryn's northernmost ciy and fishing
    center.

500/Year of the Flame Tounge

    --Citadel Amnur is completed and garrisoned this year.
    --Josidiah Starym mounts a campaign to recover the lost Soldier's Blade of Cormanthyr
    after nearly 800 years; he does this as way to prove to Coronal Eltargrim that the heir of
    House Starym is noble enough to marry his niece and heir. The opening gambit of this
    search sees a temporary fall of the garrisoned drow at the Twisted Tower, since that was
    where the Soldier's Blade was lost to Cormanthyr. Josidah and his troupe of bladesingers
    and akh-faern venture into the Underdark beneath the Tower, vowing to return in a century
    with the lost treasures.

503/Year of the
Galloping Gorgon

    --Fishermen and fur traders begin to settle within Silver Village.
    --Seven halfling scouts of the akh'velahrn destroy a large encampment of Moander's faithful
    near the ruins of his temple and his entombed remains. This septet becomes heroes of Myth
    Drannor, their deeds celebrated for much of the winter among their kin. Two of the seven
    also become the first halfling armathors of Myth Drannor at the bidding of Coronal
    Eltargrim.

504/

    --Teth & Nethra declare independence.
    --Unther begins long campaign against North Coast cities.

512/Year of the Wyvernfall

    --Orc Hordes rampage out of Vastar and other strongholds, engulfing many lands in war.
    --Turmish is invaded by a huge horde of orcs from the Candlekairn clan of the Orsraun
    Mountains; the towns of Shaus, Marikor, and Dauntshield are destroyed.
    --The Coronal's Court receives the first of many visitations by spelljamming elves of the
    Imperial Elven Navy at Shadusk and Green Monachs' Glade northeast of the city.
    --Otaehryn Hawksong is born.
    --Esmeltaran is completed and established as the new capital for the kingdom of Amn
    during the second year of the reign of King Imnel, grandson of Esmel.

517/

    --Mount Andrus erupts in the Orsrauns; little damage is done to Turmish, but the orcs of the
    mountain are further decimated.

519/Year of the Phoenix

    --Sammkol Thistlestar, one of the two halfling armathors, is found dead on Gondim's Ride.
    While there is no wounds on him, later examinations find that his heart and lungs and other
    internal organs are missing. A culprit is swiftly found - a visiting necromancer from
    Cormyr - and an overzealous armathor slays him immediately without a trial. (The
    armathor is later well paid by House Selorn for keeping their part in the magical
    assassination of Sammkol quiet).

522/

    --The druids of the Gulthmere send a delegation to Alaghon to halt logging, and are
    ignored.

523/Year of Trials Arcane

    --Meiritin is abandoned due to abuses and enslavement at the hands of the Duke of Cortryn.
    --Younger moon elven members of the Starym clam return from Earlann, Illefarn, and
    elsewhere to Myth Drannor. Their arrival restores House Starym as a social power in the
    city and the new arrivals usurp the House lordship, as its heir Josidiah Starym is absent on
    a quest. As a test of their renewed loyalty to the Coronal and as a stalling maneuver to
    prevent Josidiah's loss of status, the Coronal demands that the current lord Starym draw his
    family's moonblade, long held in trust and undrawn since it forging, to attest the loyalty and
    worthiness of the clan and its lord.
    --Lord Illitran Starym undergoes a Cleansing march, a three-month-long trek out into the
    deepest woods of Cormanthor intended to purify his spirit and ready him for the
    responsibilities of wielding a moonblade. Unknown to all, Illitran's trek takes him to the
    ruins of Moander's temple in the northern forest. There, he forges a pact with the
    imprisoned god of corruption and gains the power to cancel the moonblade's retributive
    powers against undeserving wielders and corrupt it to a sword designed to slay humans
    and half-elves. Upon his return, he easily draws the blade, "proving his and his family's
    loyalty to Myth Drannor."
    --Founding of Phalorm, one of many realms referred to as the Fallen Kingdom over time.
    --Second confirmed sighting of the artifact known as the "Crown of the Mountain," in the
    Underdark near Chessenta.

525/

    --Hachaam Selorn is born.

527/Year of the Tatters

    --Hlondeth is invaded through its sewers and attacked by kobolds. The city falls, except for
    the walls of House Extaminos. The kobolds are repulsed by Extaminos' serpents.

536/Year of the Laughing Lich

    --Hlontar, the realm of Alokkair the Wizard-King, is forged out of remnants of Teshar and
    the Netherese survivor states.

538/

    --Bryntarth I (? to 581), King of Cormyr.

539/

    --Tellshyll the Aged becomes the first known wizard to live in Silverymoon.

545/

    --Reinhar, a great warchief, rises to lead the Arkaiuns of Dambrath.

551/

    --Estagund is conquered by Reinhar I, warchief of the Arkaiuns of Dambrath.

554/Year of Waving Wheat

    --Purskul is founded as an Amnian granary clearinghouse and caravan stop.

555/Year of Dances Perilous

    --Ondathel's High mages recreate their city once again as Myth Ondath upon raising a
    mythal.
    --Ecmane Truesilver is born in Suzail and his parents arrive in Myth Drannor by the year's
    end.

558/

    --Amn begins external trading.

561/Year of the Three Setting Suns

    --The Guild of Naturalists (the "Beast-Tamers") forms in Myth Drannor and builds its hall
    within two years.

569/Year of Tumbled Bones

    -- Fall of Hlontar and the disappearance and presumed death of Alokkair the Wizard-King.
    --Ecmane Truesilver becomes an apprentice of Deynriir the Silver Sorcerer. Unknown to
    to him at the time, Ecmane also secretly becomes an acolyte of Windsong Tower under his
    moonelven tutor.

c.570

    --First mention of Olothontor, the Minstrel Wyrm, in trail-lore books of the North.

570/

    --Iymrith "The Dragon of Statues" is first mentioned in an adventurer's journals.

572/Year of Writhing Darkness

    --The orcish realm of Vastar falls into chaos with the death of Ologh the Overking at the
    claws of the black wyrm Iyrauroth.
    --Zoar Moonflower is born in Semberholme.
    --The Runemistress, Shyressa, becomes a vampire.

574/Year of the Gored Griffon

    --Once Vastar destabilized, orcish populations began to rise in northeastern Cormanthyr. In
    preparation, Pirphal commissioned Demron for a fifth magical blade to serve as the
    Baneblade for the Arms-Major of the Akh'Velahrn. In this year Dragathil is finished.
    --Silver Village grows to become Silverymoon and is one of the few thriving trading posts
    in the North; Bynan "Two-Axes" Oakfeller becomes the first mayor.

575/Year of the Breaching Bulette

    --Keczulla, a mining town, is founded by the Keczull family during the height of local gold
    fever.
    --Thennaris Trollbann discovers the secrets of the "Pyramid of Magar's Hill."

580/Year of Loose Coins

    --Ecamane Truesilver becomes one of the first humans to learn of the Quess'Ar'Teranthvar
    and gain knowledge from it. After ten months of meditation with the artifact, Ecamane
    leaves Windsong Tower, his hair prematurely white due to the magics and wisdom he
    gained from the transformed Nether Scrolls.
    --The Orc-King Grimmerfang claims the throne of Vastar after defeating his rivals, and
    ends the wars among the orcs for a time.

581/

    --After a hunting accident, the mayor's post of Silverymoon is turned over to Bynan "Son-
    Axe" Oakfeller, ranger and son of the first mayor.

587/

    --Mayor Bynan's younger sister, Tara, leaves Silverymoon to travel the North and becomes
    a ranger.

588/Year of Dragons Dawning

    --Ecamane Truesilver leaves Myth Drannor with comrades and pupils of his own to restore
    proper studies of magic to the Savage North and redeem the ill deeds of the Netherese
    archwizards of the past.

590/Year of the Turning Leaf

    --Arms-Major Pirphal dies with most of his patrol in the western forest, victims of the
    black dragon Mrinabnahor. Dragathil is lost to the elves for the next four centuries, as the
    dragon steals it away for its mountain hoard west of the Dragon Sea.

591/Year of Silver Streams

    --Oakengrove Abbey, a human stronghold dedicated to Silvanus, is founded roughly 70
    miles west of the Standing Stone.
    --Cassius Durind, a popular, level-headed farmer, becomes Mayor of Silverymoon upon
    the retiring of Bynan "Son-Axe."

c.595

    --Jander Sunstar bagan travelling the Realms.

c.600

    --Bunko Battlehammer leads 13,000 dwarves to Mithril mines.
    --Clan Ironshield leaves Andalbruin and founds the city of Settlestone.
    --At this time, little remains of the dwarven realm of Delzoun.

600/Year of Fire and Frost

    --The red wyrm Hoondarrh kills the mage Tharilim and gains the Ongild.
    --Minsorran's four cities are mysteriously abandoned after being snowbound by a freak
    midwinter blizzard.

604/

    --Mayor Durind of Silverymoon is found beheaded under mysterious circumstances. Torus,
    a rich cattle-and-sheep merchant with much local influence, buys the mayorship.

605/

    --More than twelve mysterious deaths occur in Silverymoon or in the forests around it,
    including the burning of the Oakfeller estate and the deaths of Bynan, his wife, and four
    children.

606/

    --Tara "Two-Blades" Oakfeller returns to Silverymoon to discover her family dead. She
    reveals the culprit is Mayor Torus, who was killing off any financial or political rivals by
    sacrificing them to dark gods. Tara kills "the Butcher Mayor" and is elected mayor herself.

610/Year of the Spellfire

    --Dwarves conquer the lands of the Vast, overcoming Grimmerfang and his orcs, and they
    found the Realm of Glimmering Swords.

611/Year of the Normiir

    --Draxius (? to 643), King of Cormyr.
    --Amlaruil Moonflower is born on Evermeet.
    --Low cobblestone defensive walls are erected along the northern trail leading to
    Silverymoon, replacing a section of the wooded palisades.

614/Year of the Shattered Scepter

    --Hlondeth finally becomes independant of Chondath.
    --Orc hordes under the command of Grunnig "the Red" unite in the Fields of the Dead into
    an army called the Horde of the Wastes and attack the realm of Phalorm (commonly
    referred to as the Fallen Kingdom). The dwarven King Oskilar, son of Fauril, is slain
    whilst leading a desperate rearguard action to gain time for the armies of the realm and the
    House of Stone is besieged. The savage fighting near present-day Dragonspear Castle,
    known as the Battle of Sodden Fields, sees Phalorm emerge victorious, though her battle
    strength is sorely damaged. Phalorm's army retreats north seeking to rally at Iniarv's
    Tower, a fortress of the allied seacoast realm of Uthtower.

615/Year of the Lamia's Kiss

616/Year of the Ensorcelled Kings

    --The adult shadow dragon Aurgloroasa establishes her lair within the Thunder Peaks.

619/Year of Orcsfall

    --An orc horde pours into western Cormanthyr and the Dales, threatening to overrun
    Semberholme and the southern Dales. The ballad "Battlestars at Tilver's Gap" tells the tale
    of the destruction of the orcs from Thunder Peaks by the combined Dalesmen militia and
    elven armies.
    --After a dozen years as mayor of Silverymoon, Tara dies from a fever. The town elects the
    popular wizard and sage Donal "the Wise Bear" Ethen as mayor.

c.620s

    --The Sword Heralds of Cormyr begin their activities about this time, creating many
    extradimensional hideaways during the next century and beyond.

621/

    --Chief Umggok of the Granitefang tribe establishes a small but permanent orc settlement at
    the foothills of the Moonwood.

622/

    --"The Wise Bear" steps down as mayor of Silverymoon to return to his studies and the
    building of a public library. His suggestion of an elven comrade to replace him sees the
    election of Mayor Paulorin Felinaun, later known as the "Elf Mayor."

627/Year of the Bloodcrystals

    --Ecmane Truesilver and his nine apprentices arrive in Silverymoon. Claiming five
    goddesses (Eldath, Mielikki, Lurue, Mystra, and Sehanine) drew them here, the mages
    create a school of magic patterned on elven teachings.

628/

    --In Silverymoon, Mayor Artus Natek, a rich fish merchant, is elected after Paulorin "Elf
    Mayor" elects to travel west to Evermeet. Ecamane and his apprentices help rout a
    Granitefang attack against Silverymoon; this marks the first orc attack with no casualties
    suffered by town natives.

629/

    --The Silver Lady's Library, named after Mielikki, is established adjacent to Ecmane's
    manse; Ecmane donates his collection of rare tomes from Myth Drannor to the library.

628/

    --The Far Horns Forest shrinks to about its current location in modern Faerûn.

631/

    --The Granitefang orcs attack Silverymoon from both north and south sides, fighting across
    the bridge and actually entering the city, but they are repelled by the militia and the mages.
    Due to constant troubles with the orcs, Mayor Artus Natek passes the mantle of leadership
    to his army commander, Warlord Kieth.

632/Year of Burning Skies

    --The Ice Queen's Winter descends on Myth Ondath starting in Eleint. The seige army of the
    Ice Queen is led by the lich Vrandak the Burnished, and the army is accompanied by
    magical winter storms that last out the year.

633/Year of Chasms (NOTE: This is also the year name given for 0 DR)

    --Myth Ondath is destroyed, mythal and all, by the Ice Queen's use of the artifact known as
    the Gatekeeper's Crystal.
    --After toiling for years, Demron completes Keryvian, the Arms-Major's Foebane and the
    greatest of the Baneblades. Demron succumbs to exhaustion due to his work on the blade,
    dying two days after the final magics are set into the sword. In honor of his work for the
    city of Myth Drannor and his magecraft, House Ammath and numerous other contributors
    fund a temple to Demron's patron god Azuth, which is built on and around Demron's Tower
    over the next four years. Once complete, Demron's remains are the first interred in the
    temple's crypts.
    --The Storm Prophet Tothur displays the Chanting Chain, a spellbook holy to Talos, in the
    Great Bazaar of the Master of Gargoyles in western Shaar.

634/

    --Warlord Kieth leads the fledgling army of Silverymoon and a cadre of mages to victory
    over the Granitefang orcs in the Battle of Brokenfang. This battle destroys the humanoid's
    settlement and halts all orc attacks on the city for more than four years.

637/Year of the Silver Sun

    --Silverymoon elects Ecamane Truesilver as the first High Mage to rule the city; stone
    walls are constructed around the city's perimeter. Stone walls are constructed around the
    city's perimeter and are completed by Uktar. Year 0 in the Silverymoon Calendar.

640/Year of the Fanged Beast

    --First mining and trading encampments at Zhentil Keep.
    --The cities of Ormath and Lheshayl come under constant attack from saber-toothed tigers
    until the beasts are driven off.
    --The archmage Tallrunner Tigris, later known as Tulrun, is born.

642/

    --Sundryl Aeravansel dies.

643/

    --The wizard Nezram "Worldwalker" leaves his tower on the shores of Azulduth.

645/Year of the Costly Gift

    --The wizard Maskyr gains Maskyr's Vale from the dwarven King Tuir "Stonebeard" by
    plucking out his right eye as the cost of gaining the vale. Humans soon begin making their
    first permanent settlements in the Vast

648/Year of the Dancing Daggers

    --Death of Baron Hurst Amadin in an orc attack on his High Castle west of Semberholme.

649/Year of the Bloody Crown

    --The dwarven Realm of Glimmering Swords falls to the orcs in the Battle of Deepfires. A
    number of dwarven clans flee under the earth, while other craftsmen and noncombatants
    migrate to Myth Drannor. Humans remain and fight the orcs to retain their new homes.

c.650

    --The noted mage Rathdaen roams the Realms.

650/Year of the Falling Tower

    --Travelers frequently pass between Ascalhorn and Silverymoon, and trade opens with the
    dwarves.

652/Year of the Viper

    --Zaor Moonflower becomes one of the youngest officers of the Akh'Velahr in Cormanthyr.

654/Year of the Coveted Briars

    --Many druids' enclaves, both human and elven, are established this year throughout both
    Cormanthyr and the Realms at large.

655/Year of the Volanth

656/Year of the Peaceful Seas

    --The Circle of Flames completes the Scrolls Ardentym this year. Akh'Faer scholars and
    strategists receive six incomplete fragments of the Scrolls, but only the Circle and the
    Srinshee have complete copies of them.

658/Year of the Dangerous Game

    --Rathdaen, a Cormyrean mage and Realms-wide explorer of note, arrives in Myth Drannor
    after a decades-long absence. While never a native, he is close friends with many
    practitioners of the Art in the City of Song, and remains as a guest for years at a time.
    --A gate is secretly established between the Hall of the Naturalists in Myth Drannor and the
    Underhalls of Mount Melairbode (Undermountain).

659/Year of the Hunting Ghosts (NOTE: This Year is also known as the Year of Mages'
Dawning)

    --More than 50 wizards from Myth Drannor and other parts of the Realms migrate to
    Silverymoon.
    --The archmage Tulrun arrives in Silverymoon; Ecmane Truesilver sends him to Myth
    Drannor to study magic under the tutelage of the Seven Wizards.

c.660/

    --The archmage Maskyr gains his vale from Tuir Stonebeard, King of the dwarves of the
    Vast.

660/Year of the Morning Horn

661/Year of the Bloody Tusk

    --Height of Myth Drannor.
    --The Coronal Eltargrim of Myth Drannor, at dawn on the last day of Midsummer festivals,
    passes on to Aravandor, leaving only the Ar'Cor'Kerym, his Ruler's Blade, hovering in
    mid-air atop the Rule Tower. Aravae Irithyl, his niece and heir, proclaims a city-wide
    period of Mourning for the next five years. Thus ends the Sixth Rysar of Cormanthyr after
    866 years.
    --Ogres from the Cloud Peaks and Small Teeth sack the towns of Imnescar and Trademeet,
    and nearly lay seige to Esmeltarann until stopped by the army of General Rashturl.

662/Year of the People's Mourning

    --Strohm II (520 to 735), 2nd ½elf grandson of Strohm I, King of Tethyr.
    --The mage Rathdaen dies peacefully in his sleep, to the sorrow of many of Myth Drannor's
    inhabitants. He leaves the Tome of Rathdaen to his apprentice, a foolish braggart by the
    name of Narsel, who fears attacks by jealous rivals trying to steal his master's legacy and
    immediately leaves for parts west.

663/Year of the Baleful Song

    --Pyraan the Grim and Peridar Snowbrows secede from the faculty of the Incanistaeum,
    reducing the "Seven Wizards" of Myth Drannor to five.

664/Year of the Falling Petals

    --The Heir's Passing: Aravae Irithyl, the heir of the Coronal of Cormanthyr, and all of her
    personal guard are found dead under mysterious circumstances the morning after
    Cinnaelos'Cor. The Srinshee and the High Court Mages insist on maintaining the Mourning
    Days and add the funeral of Aravae to the solemn times while staving off a succession war
    among the noble Houses of Cormanthyr.

665/Year of Ashen Tears

    --Due to political pressure amid his family, Taeral Olortynaal discontinues his long
    association with the Incanistaeum of Myth Drannor.

666/Year of Stern Judgement

    --The Claiming Chaos: The end of the Mourning Days demands an immediate decision on
    the succession of the Coronal. A claiming Ceremony is convened to determine the next
    Coronal of Myth Drannor and Cormanthyr. After 40 elves and the Rule Tower itself are
    destroyed, the Srinshee steps in, easily swinging the elfblade free of its perch. As it is
    brandished before her, the golden light of the blade crystallizes around her in a massive
    diamond-shaped energy field that engulfs and restores the Rule Tower. Finally, with a
    whirl of magic, the Srinshee, the magical field, and the weapon all disappear.

667/Year of the Austere Cerimonies

    --By early summer, the Council of Twelve now rules over Myth Drannor, crafting a new
    form of representative government. The city is without a Coronal for the first time in it's
    existence.

668/Year of the Telling Tome

    --Wizards begin mysteriously disappearing this year from Myth Drannor and all of
    Cormanthyr. The only clue is that all the visible gates throughout the city crackle ominously
    and flash blue lightning within their boundaries. (In truth, Halaster Blackcloak of
    Undermountain is abducting wizards at random and banishing them to the Underhalls.)

669/Year of the Brutal Beast

    --Abarat the Alabaster, an elf archmage with a reputation for plane-walking, resigns as
    head of the Six Tyryl Towers wizards' school and announces plans to build a tower north
    of the city and Cormanthor in the western reaches of the Beast Marches (soon to be called
    Thar).

c.670

    --The monument to the dwarven hero Karlyn of House Kuldelver becomes known as the
    Wailing Dwarf.

670/Year of Many Floods

    --Entering the Vault of Ages for the first time in years due to an outbreak of drow within the
    northwestern forests, the Spell-Major Paeris Haladar finds it empty, the greatest and oldest
    treasures of Cormanthyr all gone!
    --Drow infest the northern forests, seeking to build a stronghold over the ruins of
    Moander's temple. The Akh'Velahr clears all the drow out within 20 months.

671/Year of the Shrouded Slayer

    --Travelers become frequent between Ascalhorn and Silverymoon as trade opens up with
    the dwarves of the North.
    --Twenty months after building an ivory tower north of Cormanthor, the moon elf wizard
    Abarat contacts former associates for aid against a besieging army of monsters. Though
    some arrive within hours of receiving the magical message, they discover that both Abarat
    and the monsters are all missing, as are any external signs of anything amiss. Abarat was
    never found or heard from again, but his unfinished tower of pure ivory, thereafter known
    as Abarat's Folly, still stands as a monument of elf wizardry and as a beacon to adventurers
    seeking gates to the planes that many claim to have seen inside.

672/Year of the Angry Caverns

    --Many dwarf settlers of Myth Drannor, most of them refugee clans from the fallen Realm
    of the Glittering Swords, leave the city and move north to the southern shores of the Dragon
    Sea. They reopen the westernmost mines of Sarphil, known as the Lost Ways, which
    honeycomb a lengthy escarpment (known as the Scarp) that looms over the eastern reaches
    of Tailings Bay.

673/Year of the Covenant

    --The fledgling town of Hillsafar, named in honor of the dwarf clan of the same name, is
    founded by elves, half-elves, and humans on the western shore of Tailings Bay to trade
    with the dwarves of the Scarp. Some found this settlement to both keep drow out of the
    area and maintain some vigilance over Moander's Crypt. Within a few decades, the town's
    name is corrupted and shortened to Hillsfar.
    --Many of Myth Drannor's less-established craftsmen migrate to the new city in search of
    new opportunities.

674/Year of the Nomad

    --Josidiah Starym returns to Myth Drannor to a hero's welcome as he brings not the
    expected Soldier's Blade, but the Akh'Faer's Artblade, retrieved from a deep dragon's lair
    far beneath the Storm Horn Mountains. Unfortunately, his reward is personal heartbreak as
    he realizes that all he worked for is gone with the passings of both the Coronal and Aravae.
    --Josidiah does not take up his rightful place as Lord-Speaker of House Starym, but he
    does (by right of the elf-blade he restores to Myth Drannor) take over the leadership of the
    Akh'Faer and thus rise to a seat on the Council of Twelve. Josidiah refuses to discuss it,
    but many notice that he no longer walks with his magnificent cat Guenhwyvar, and some
    whisper he had to trade the cat's figurine of power for the blade. Of his 12 original
    comrades, only one survived: Onas Ulondarr, an elf bladesinger of House Ulondarr.
    Returning to the city married to Maira Shieldark, a human wizardess of Arabel, they bring
    with them four adult half-elf children (three women, one man; all rangers): Alupiira,
    Vaeala, Shaeia, and Rahsil.

675/Year of the Bloodfeud

    --The scandalous House Ulondarr, by openly accepting half-elves among the direct
    succession, suffers censure and much grief (and not a few attacks by mercenaries and
    assassins) from the other Houses of Myth Drannor. The attacks and social intrigues last for
    the next 50 years.

676/Year of the Gruesome Grimoires

    --Taeral Olortynaal returns to the Incanistaeum and to the "Seven Wizards," though they are
    still only five in number. Later this year, in a politically motivated spell battle among some
    noble elves and humans, gold elf students accidentally kill Taeral and two human students.
    These elves are never charged with the crimes, as they frame the only non-elf left, and the
    innocent Arlesn of Arabel is forever banished from Myth Drannor for a crime he didn't
    commit.

677/Year of the Resonant Silence

    --Hym Kraaven, senior among the "Seven Wizards", uncovers the truth about Taeral's death
    and is swiftly killed in "an out-of-control tavern brawl" by agents and friends of the
    now-rogue and obviously power-mad magelings of House Faerondarl.

678/Year of the Poignant Poniard

    --Lord Councilor Kharis Maerdrym and his hunting party, which included several humans
    of note, mysteriously disappear off the coast of Delthuntle during a Grand Hunt of a
    near-legendary greater quelzarn. Agents of Unther are suspected in the attack (as are some
    of Lord Maerdrym's usual political foes).

679/Year of the Scarlet Sash

    --Unther forced to recognize independence of the North Coast Cities. Unther never
    recovers from this long, costly, and bloody campaign.
    --End of second Untheric Empire.
    --Hillsafar is nearly destroyed by an army of deepspawn-bred monsters emerging from the
    tangled, treacherous Beast Marches to the west. The Akh'Velahr reinforcements of
    Cormanthyr succeed in dispersing the beasts by the first snowfall of winter. A small
    garrison of troops remain stationed in Hillsafar for the protection of the northern forests
    and villages until Myth Drannor's Fall.

680/Year of the Long March (NOTE: This Year is also known as the Year of the Storm
Skeleton)

    --Many Chondathian mercinaries return home from the North Coast Campaign. Chondath
    begins to concentrate its efforts on fledgling Sembia.
    --Many human and dwarf stonemasons migrate from Myth Drannor to Hillsafar to aid that
    fledgling city in constructing its first encircling defensive wall.
    --After more than a decade, wizards of the Guild of Naturalists piece together the clues and
    realize that Halaster Blackcloak has been abducting wizards all throughout Cormanthyr in
    retaliation for their plundering of his monsters in Undermountain. The guild mounts a
    rescue expedition into the dungeon, which never returns, and they quietly end their sorties
    to Undermountain. Attempts to dispels or destroy the gate connecting their hall with
    Undermountain meet with failure.
503/Year of the
Galloping Gorgon

    --Fishermen and fur traders begin to settle within Silver Village.
    --Seven halfling scouts of the akh'velahrn destroy a large encampment of Moander's faithful
    near the ruins of his temple and his entombed remains. This septet becomes heroes of Myth
    Drannor, their deeds celebrated for much of the winter among their kin. Two of the seven
    also become the first halfling armathors of Myth Drannor at the bidding of Coronal
    Eltargrim.

504/

    --Teth & Nethra declare independence.
    --Unther begins long campaign against North Coast cities.

512/Year of the Wyvernfall

    --Orc Hordes rampage out of Vastar and other strongholds, engulfing many lands in war.
    --Turmish is invaded by a huge horde of orcs from the Candlekairn clan of the Orsraun
    Mountains; the towns of Shaus, Marikor, and Dauntshield are destroyed.
    --The Coronal's Court receives the first of many visitations by spelljamming elves of the
    Imperial Elven Navy at Shadusk and Green Monachs' Glade northeast of the city.
    --Otaehryn Hawksong is born.
    --Esmeltaran is completed and established as the new capital for the kingdom of Amn
    during the second year of the reign of King Imnel, grandson of Esmel.

517/

    --Mount Andrus erupts in the Orsrauns; little damage is done to Turmish, but the orcs of the
    mountain are further decimated.

519/Year of the Phoenix

    --Sammkol Thistlestar, one of the two halfling armathors, is found dead on Gondim's Ride.
    While there is no wounds on him, later examinations find that his heart and lungs and other
    internal organs are missing. A culprit is swiftly found - a visiting necromancer from
    Cormyr - and an overzealous armathor slays him immediately without a trial. (The
    armathor is later well paid by House Selorn for keeping their part in the magical
    assassination of Sammkol quiet).

522/

    --The druids of the Gulthmere send a delegation to Alaghon to halt logging, and are
    ignored.

523/Year of Trials Arcane

    --Meiritin is abandoned due to abuses and enslavement at the hands of the Duke of Cortryn.
    --Younger moon elven members of the Starym clam return from Earlann, Illefarn, and
    elsewhere to Myth Drannor. Their arrival restores House Starym as a social power in the
    city and the new arrivals usurp the House lordship, as its heir Josidiah Starym is absent on
    a quest. As a test of their renewed loyalty to the Coronal and as a stalling maneuver to
    prevent Josidiah's loss of status, the Coronal demands that the current lord Starym draw his
    family's moonblade, long held in trust and undrawn since it forging, to attest the loyalty and
    worthiness of the clan and its lord.
    --Lord Illitran Starym undergoes a Cleansing march, a three-month-long trek out into the
    deepest woods of Cormanthor intended to purify his spirit and ready him for the
    responsibilities of wielding a moonblade. Unknown to all, Illitran's trek takes him to the
    ruins of Moander's temple in the northern forest. There, he forges a pact with the
    imprisoned god of corruption and gains the power to cancel the moonblade's retributive
    powers against undeserving wielders and corrupt it to a sword designed to slay humans
    and half-elves. Upon his return, he easily draws the blade, "proving his and his family's
    loyalty to Myth Drannor."
    --Founding of Phalorm, one of many realms referred to as the Fallen Kingdom over time.
    --Second confirmed sighting of the artifact known as the "Crown of the Mountain," in the
    Underdark near Chessenta.

525/

    --Hachaam Selorn is born.

527/Year of the Tatters

    --Hlondeth is invaded through its sewers and attacked by kobolds. The city falls, except for
    the walls of House Extaminos. The kobolds are repulsed by Extaminos' serpents.

536/Year of the Laughing Lich

    --Hlontar, the realm of Alokkair the Wizard-King, is forged out of remnants of Teshar and
    the Netherese survivor states.

538/

    --Bryntarth I (? to 581), King of Cormyr.

539/

    --Tellshyll the Aged becomes the first known wizard to live in Silverymoon.

545/

    --Reinhar, a great warchief, rises to lead the Arkaiuns of Dambrath.

551/

    --Estagund is conquered by Reinhar I, warchief of the Arkaiuns of Dambrath.

554/Year of Waving Wheat

    --Purskul is founded as an Amnian granary clearinghouse and caravan stop.

555/Year of Dances Perilous

    --Ondathel's High mages recreate their city once again as Myth Ondath upon raising a
    mythal.
    --Ecmane Truesilver is born in Suzail and his parents arrive in Myth Drannor by the year's
    end.

558/

    --Amn begins external trading.

561/Year of the Three Setting Suns

    --The Guild of Naturalists (the "Beast-Tamers") forms in Myth Drannor and builds its hall
    within two years.

569/Year of Tumbled Bones

    -- Fall of Hlontar and the disappearance and presumed death of Alokkair the Wizard-King.
    --Ecmane Truesilver becomes an apprentice of Deynriir the Silver Sorcerer. Unknown to
    to him at the time, Ecmane also secretly becomes an acolyte of Windsong Tower under his
    moonelven tutor.

c.570

    --First mention of Olothontor, the Minstrel Wyrm, in trail-lore books of the North.

570/

    --Iymrith "The Dragon of Statues" is first mentioned in an adventurer's journals.

572/Year of Writhing Darkness

    --The orcish realm of Vastar falls into chaos with the death of Ologh the Overking at the
    claws of the black wyrm Iyrauroth.
    --Zoar Moonflower is born in Semberholme.
    --The Runemistress, Shyressa, becomes a vampire.

574/Year of the Gored Griffon

    --Once Vastar destabilized, orcish populations began to rise in northeastern Cormanthyr. In
    preparation, Pirphal commissioned Demron for a fifth magical blade to serve as the
    Baneblade for the Arms-Major of the Akh'Velahrn. In this year Dragathil is finished.
    --Silver Village grows to become Silverymoon and is one of the few thriving trading posts
    in the North; Bynan "Two-Axes" Oakfeller becomes the first mayor.

575/Year of the Breaching Bulette

    --Keczulla, a mining town, is founded by the Keczull family during the height of local gold
    fever.
    --Thennaris Trollbann discovers the secrets of the "Pyramid of Magar's Hill."

580/Year of Loose Coins

    --Ecamane Truesilver becomes one of the first humans to learn of the Quess'Ar'Teranthvar
    and gain knowledge from it. After ten months of meditation with the artifact, Ecamane
    leaves Windsong Tower, his hair prematurely white due to the magics and wisdom he
    gained from the transformed Nether Scrolls.
    --The Orc-King Grimmerfang claims the throne of Vastar after defeating his rivals, and
    ends the wars among the orcs for a time.

581/

    --After a hunting accident, the mayor's post of Silverymoon is turned over to Bynan "Son-
    Axe" Oakfeller, ranger and son of the first mayor.

587/

    --Mayor Bynan's younger sister, Tara, leaves Silverymoon to travel the North and becomes
    a ranger.

588/Year of Dragons Dawning

    --Ecamane Truesilver leaves Myth Drannor with comrades and pupils of his own to restore
    proper studies of magic to the Savage North and redeem the ill deeds of the Netherese
    archwizards of the past.

590/Year of the Turning Leaf

    --Arms-Major Pirphal dies with most of his patrol in the western forest, victims of the
    black dragon Mrinabnahor. Dragathil is lost to the elves for the next four centuries, as the
    dragon steals it away for its mountain hoard west of the Dragon Sea.

591/Year of Silver Streams

    --Oakengrove Abbey, a human stronghold dedicated to Silvanus, is founded roughly 70
    miles west of the Standing Stone.
    --Cassius Durind, a popular, level-headed farmer, becomes Mayor of Silverymoon upon
    the retiring of Bynan "Son-Axe."

c.595

    --Jander Sunstar bagan travelling the Realms.

c.600

    --Bunko Battlehammer leads 13,000 dwarves to Mithril mines.
    --Clan Ironshield leaves Andalbruin and founds the city of Settlestone.
    --At this time, little remains of the dwarven realm of Delzoun.

600/Year of Fire and Frost

    --The red wyrm Hoondarrh kills the mage Tharilim and gains the Ongild.
    --Minsorran's four cities are mysteriously abandoned after being snowbound by a freak
    midwinter blizzard.

604/

    --Mayor Durind of Silverymoon is found beheaded under mysterious circumstances. Torus,
    a rich cattle-and-sheep merchant with much local influence, buys the mayorship.

605/

    --More than twelve mysterious deaths occur in Silverymoon or in the forests around it,
    including the burning of the Oakfeller estate and the deaths of Bynan, his wife, and four
    children.

606/

    --Tara "Two-Blades" Oakfeller returns to Silverymoon to discover her family dead. She
    reveals the culprit is Mayor Torus, who was killing off any financial or political rivals by
    sacrificing them to dark gods. Tara kills "the Butcher Mayor" and is elected mayor herself.

610/Year of the Spellfire

    --Dwarves conquer the lands of the Vast, overcoming Grimmerfang and his orcs, and they
    found the Realm of Glimmering Swords.

611/Year of the Normiir

    --Draxius (? to 643), King of Cormyr.
    --Amlaruil Moonflower is born on Evermeet.
    --Low cobblestone defensive walls are erected along the northern trail leading to
    Silverymoon, replacing a section of the wooded palisades.

614/Year of the Shattered Scepter

    --Hlondeth finally becomes independant of Chondath.
    --Orc hordes under the command of Grunnig "the Red" unite in the Fields of the Dead into
    an army called the Horde of the Wastes and attack the realm of Phalorm (commonly
    referred to as the Fallen Kingdom). The dwarven King Oskilar, son of Fauril, is slain
    whilst leading a desperate rearguard action to gain time for the armies of the realm and the
    House of Stone is besieged. The savage fighting near present-day Dragonspear Castle,
    known as the Battle of Sodden Fields, sees Phalorm emerge victorious, though her battle
    strength is sorely damaged. Phalorm's army retreats north seeking to rally at Iniarv's
    Tower, a fortress of the allied seacoast realm of Uthtower.

615/Year of the Lamia's Kiss

616/Year of the Ensorcelled Kings

    --The adult shadow dragon Aurgloroasa establishes her lair within the Thunder Peaks.

619/Year of Orcsfall

    --An orc horde pours into western Cormanthyr and the Dales, threatening to overrun
    Semberholme and the southern Dales. The ballad "Battlestars at Tilver's Gap" tells the tale
    of the destruction of the orcs from Thunder Peaks by the combined Dalesmen militia and
    elven armies.
    --After a dozen years as mayor of Silverymoon, Tara dies from a fever. The town elects the
    popular wizard and sage Donal "the Wise Bear" Ethen as mayor.

c.620s

    --The Sword Heralds of Cormyr begin their activities about this time, creating many
    extradimensional hideaways during the next century and beyond.

621/

    --Chief Umggok of the Granitefang tribe establishes a small but permanent orc settlement at
    the foothills of the Moonwood.

622/

    --"The Wise Bear" steps down as mayor of Silverymoon to return to his studies and the
    building of a public library. His suggestion of an elven comrade to replace him sees the
    election of Mayor Paulorin Felinaun, later known as the "Elf Mayor."

627/Year of the Bloodcrystals

    --Ecmane Truesilver and his nine apprentices arrive in Silverymoon. Claiming five
    goddesses (Eldath, Mielikki, Lurue, Mystra, and Sehanine) drew them here, the mages
    create a school of magic patterned on elven teachings.

628/

    --In Silverymoon, Mayor Artus Natek, a rich fish merchant, is elected after Paulorin "Elf
    Mayor" elects to travel west to Evermeet. Ecamane and his apprentices help rout a
    Granitefang attack against Silverymoon; this marks the first orc attack with no casualties
    suffered by town natives.

629/

    --The Silver Lady's Library, named after Mielikki, is established adjacent to Ecmane's
    manse; Ecmane donates his collection of rare tomes from Myth Drannor to the library.

628/

    --The Far Horns Forest shrinks to about its current location in modern Faerûn.

631/

    --The Granitefang orcs attack Silverymoon from both north and south sides, fighting across
    the bridge and actually entering the city, but they are repelled by the militia and the mages.
    Due to constant troubles with the orcs, Mayor Artus Natek passes the mantle of leadership
    to his army commander, Warlord Kieth.

632/Year of Burning Skies

    --The Ice Queen's Winter descends on Myth Ondath starting in Eleint. The seige army of the
    Ice Queen is led by the lich Vrandak the Burnished, and the army is accompanied by
    magical winter storms that last out the year.

633/Year of Chasms (NOTE: This is also the year name given for 0 DR)

    --Myth Ondath is destroyed, mythal and all, by the Ice Queen's use of the artifact known as
    the Gatekeeper's Crystal.
    --After toiling for years, Demron completes Keryvian, the Arms-Major's Foebane and the
    greatest of the Baneblades. Demron succumbs to exhaustion due to his work on the blade,
    dying two days after the final magics are set into the sword. In honor of his work for the
    city of Myth Drannor and his magecraft, House Ammath and numerous other contributors
    fund a temple to Demron's patron god Azuth, which is built on and around Demron's Tower
    over the next four years. Once complete, Demron's remains are the first interred in the
    temple's crypts.
    --The Storm Prophet Tothur displays the Chanting Chain, a spellbook holy to Talos, in the
    Great Bazaar of the Master of Gargoyles in western Shaar.

634/

    --Warlord Kieth leads the fledgling army of Silverymoon and a cadre of mages to victory
    over the Granitefang orcs in the Battle of Brokenfang. This battle destroys the humanoid's
    settlement and halts all orc attacks on the city for more than four years.

637/Year of the Silver Sun

    --Silverymoon elects Ecamane Truesilver as the first High Mage to rule the city; stone
    walls are constructed around the city's perimeter. Stone walls are constructed around the
    city's perimeter and are completed by Uktar. Year 0 in the Silverymoon Calendar.

640/Year of the Fanged Beast

    --First mining and trading encampments at Zhentil Keep.
    --The cities of Ormath and Lheshayl come under constant attack from saber-toothed tigers
    until the beasts are driven off.
    --The archmage Tallrunner Tigris, later known as Tulrun, is born.

642/

    --Sundryl Aeravansel dies.

643/

    --The wizard Nezram "Worldwalker" leaves his tower on the shores of Azulduth.

645/Year of the Costly Gift

    --The wizard Maskyr gains Maskyr's Vale from the dwarven King Tuir "Stonebeard" by
    plucking out his right eye as the cost of gaining the vale. Humans soon begin making their
    first permanent settlements in the Vast

648/Year of the Dancing Daggers

    --Death of Baron Hurst Amadin in an orc attack on his High Castle west of Semberholme.

649/Year of the Bloody Crown

    --The dwarven Realm of Glimmering Swords falls to the orcs in the Battle of Deepfires. A
    number of dwarven clans flee under the earth, while other craftsmen and noncombatants
    migrate to Myth Drannor. Humans remain and fight the orcs to retain their new homes.

c.650

    --The noted mage Rathdaen roams the Realms.

650/Year of the Falling Tower

    --Travelers frequently pass between Ascalhorn and Silverymoon, and trade opens with the
    dwarves.

652/Year of the Viper

    --Zaor Moonflower becomes one of the youngest officers of the Akh'Velahr in Cormanthyr.

654/Year of the Coveted Briars

    --Many druids' enclaves, both human and elven, are established this year throughout both
    Cormanthyr and the Realms at large.

655/Year of the Volanth

656/Year of the Peaceful Seas

    --The Circle of Flames completes the Scrolls Ardentym this year. Akh'Faer scholars and
    strategists receive six incomplete fragments of the Scrolls, but only the Circle and the
    Srinshee have complete copies of them.

658/Year of the Dangerous Game

    --Rathdaen, a Cormyrean mage and Realms-wide explorer of note, arrives in Myth Drannor
    after a decades-long absence. While never a native, he is close friends with many
    practitioners of the Art in the City of Song, and remains as a guest for years at a time.
    --A gate is secretly established between the Hall of the Naturalists in Myth Drannor and the
    Underhalls of Mount Melairbode (Undermountain).

659/Year of the Hunting Ghosts (NOTE: This Year is also known as the Year of Mages'
Dawning)

    --More than 50 wizards from Myth Drannor and other parts of the Realms migrate to
    Silverymoon.
    --The archmage Tulrun arrives in Silverymoon; Ecmane Truesilver sends him to Myth
    Drannor to study magic under the tutelage of the Seven Wizards.

c.660/

    --The archmage Maskyr gains his vale from Tuir Stonebeard, King of the dwarves of the
    Vast.

660/Year of the Morning Horn

661/Year of the Bloody Tusk

    --Height of Myth Drannor.
    --The Coronal Eltargrim of Myth Drannor, at dawn on the last day of Midsummer festivals,
    passes on to Aravandor, leaving only the Ar'Cor'Kerym, his Ruler's Blade, hovering in
    mid-air atop the Rule Tower. Aravae Irithyl, his niece and heir, proclaims a city-wide
    period of Mourning for the next five years. Thus ends the Sixth Rysar of Cormanthyr after
    866 years.
    --Ogres from the Cloud Peaks and Small Teeth sack the towns of Imnescar and Trademeet,
    and nearly lay seige to Esmeltarann until stopped by the army of General Rashturl.

662/Year of the People's Mourning

    --Strohm II (520 to 735), 2nd ½elf grandson of Strohm I, King of Tethyr.
    --The mage Rathdaen dies peacefully in his sleep, to the sorrow of many of Myth Drannor's
    inhabitants. He leaves the Tome of Rathdaen to his apprentice, a foolish braggart by the
    name of Narsel, who fears attacks by jealous rivals trying to steal his master's legacy and
    immediately leaves for parts west.

663/Year of the Baleful Song

    --Pyraan the Grim and Peridar Snowbrows secede from the faculty of the Incanistaeum,
    reducing the "Seven Wizards" of Myth Drannor to five.

664/Year of the Falling Petals

    --The Heir's Passing: Aravae Irithyl, the heir of the Coronal of Cormanthyr, and all of her
    personal guard are found dead under mysterious circumstances the morning after
    Cinnaelos'Cor. The Srinshee and the High Court Mages insist on maintaining the Mourning
    Days and add the funeral of Aravae to the solemn times while staving off a succession war
    among the noble Houses of Cormanthyr.

665/Year of Ashen Tears

    --Due to political pressure amid his family, Taeral Olortynaal discontinues his long
    association with the Incanistaeum of Myth Drannor.

666/Year of Stern Judgement

    --The Claiming Chaos: The end of the Mourning Days demands an immediate decision on
    the succession of the Coronal. A claiming Ceremony is convened to determine the next
    Coronal of Myth Drannor and Cormanthyr. After 40 elves and the Rule Tower itself are
    destroyed, the Srinshee steps in, easily swinging the elfblade free of its perch. As it is
    brandished before her, the golden light of the blade crystallizes around her in a massive
    diamond-shaped energy field that engulfs and restores the Rule Tower. Finally, with a
    whirl of magic, the Srinshee, the magical field, and the weapon all disappear.

667/Year of the Austere Cerimonies

    --By early summer, the Council of Twelve now rules over Myth Drannor, crafting a new
    form of representative government. The city is without a Coronal for the first time in it's
    existence.

668/Year of the Telling Tome

    --Wizards begin mysteriously disappearing this year from Myth Drannor and all of
    Cormanthyr. The only clue is that all the visible gates throughout the city crackle ominously
    and flash blue lightning within their boundaries. (In truth, Halaster Blackcloak of
    Undermountain is abducting wizards at random and banishing them to the Underhalls.)

669/Year of the Brutal Beast

    --Abarat the Alabaster, an elf archmage with a reputation for plane-walking, resigns as
    head of the Six Tyryl Towers wizards' school and announces plans to build a tower north
    of the city and Cormanthor in the western reaches of the Beast Marches (soon to be called
    Thar).

c.670

    --The monument to the dwarven hero Karlyn of House Kuldelver becomes known as the
    Wailing Dwarf.

670/Year of Many Floods

    --Entering the Vault of Ages for the first time in years due to an outbreak of drow within the
    northwestern forests, the Spell-Major Paeris Haladar finds it empty, the greatest and oldest
    treasures of Cormanthyr all gone!
    --Drow infest the northern forests, seeking to build a stronghold over the ruins of
    Moander's temple. The Akh'Velahr clears all the drow out within 20 months.

671/Year of the Shrouded Slayer

    --Travelers become frequent between Ascalhorn and Silverymoon as trade opens up with
    the dwarves of the North.
    --Twenty months after building an ivory tower north of Cormanthor, the moon elf wizard
    Abarat contacts former associates for aid against a besieging army of monsters. Though
    some arrive within hours of receiving the magical message, they discover that both Abarat
    and the monsters are all missing, as are any external signs of anything amiss. Abarat was
    never found or heard from again, but his unfinished tower of pure ivory, thereafter known
    as Abarat's Folly, still stands as a monument of elf wizardry and as a beacon to adventurers
    seeking gates to the planes that many claim to have seen inside.

672/Year of the Angry Caverns

    --Many dwarf settlers of Myth Drannor, most of them refugee clans from the fallen Realm
    of the Glittering Swords, leave the city and move north to the southern shores of the Dragon
    Sea. They reopen the westernmost mines of Sarphil, known as the Lost Ways, which
    honeycomb a lengthy escarpment (known as the Scarp) that looms over the eastern reaches
    of Tailings Bay.

673/Year of the Covenant

    --The fledgling town of Hillsafar, named in honor of the dwarf clan of the same name, is
    founded by elves, half-elves, and humans on the western shore of Tailings Bay to trade
    with the dwarves of the Scarp. Some found this settlement to both keep drow out of the
    area and maintain some vigilance over Moander's Crypt. Within a few decades, the town's
    name is corrupted and shortened to Hillsfar.
    --Many of Myth Drannor's less-established craftsmen migrate to the new city in search of
    new opportunities.

674/Year of the Nomad

    --Josidiah Starym returns to Myth Drannor to a hero's welcome as he brings not the
    expected Soldier's Blade, but the Akh'Faer's Artblade, retrieved from a deep dragon's lair
    far beneath the Storm Horn Mountains. Unfortunately, his reward is personal heartbreak as
    he realizes that all he worked for is gone with the passings of both the Coronal and Aravae.
    --Josidiah does not take up his rightful place as Lord-Speaker of House Starym, but he
    does (by right of the elf-blade he restores to Myth Drannor) take over the leadership of the
    Akh'Faer and thus rise to a seat on the Council of Twelve. Josidiah refuses to discuss it,
    but many notice that he no longer walks with his magnificent cat Guenhwyvar, and some
    whisper he had to trade the cat's figurine of power for the blade. Of his 12 original
    comrades, only one survived: Onas Ulondarr, an elf bladesinger of House Ulondarr.
    Returning to the city married to Maira Shieldark, a human wizardess of Arabel, they bring
    with them four adult half-elf children (three women, one man; all rangers): Alupiira,
    Vaeala, Shaeia, and Rahsil.

675/Year of the Bloodfeud

    --The scandalous House Ulondarr, by openly accepting half-elves among the direct
    succession, suffers censure and much grief (and not a few attacks by mercenaries and
    assassins) from the other Houses of Myth Drannor. The attacks and social intrigues last for
    the next 50 years.

676/Year of the Gruesome Grimoires

    --Taeral Olortynaal returns to the Incanistaeum and to the "Seven Wizards," though they are
    still only five in number. Later this year, in a politically motivated spell battle among some
    noble elves and humans, gold elf students accidentally kill Taeral and two human students.
    These elves are never charged with the crimes, as they frame the only non-elf left, and the
    innocent Arlesn of Arabel is forever banished from Myth Drannor for a crime he didn't
    commit.

677/Year of the Resonant Silence

    --Hym Kraaven, senior among the "Seven Wizards", uncovers the truth about Taeral's death
    and is swiftly killed in "an out-of-control tavern brawl" by agents and friends of the
    now-rogue and obviously power-mad magelings of House Faerondarl.

678/Year of the Poignant Poniard

    --Lord Councilor Kharis Maerdrym and his hunting party, which included several humans
    of note, mysteriously disappear off the coast of Delthuntle during a Grand Hunt of a
    near-legendary greater quelzarn. Agents of Unther are suspected in the attack (as are some
    of Lord Maerdrym's usual political foes).

679/Year of the Scarlet Sash

    --Unther forced to recognize independence of the North Coast Cities. Unther never
    recovers from this long, costly, and bloody campaign.
    --End of second Untheric Empire.
    --Hillsafar is nearly destroyed by an army of deepspawn-bred monsters emerging from the
    tangled, treacherous Beast Marches to the west. The Akh'Velahr reinforcements of
    Cormanthyr succeed in dispersing the beasts by the first snowfall of winter. A small
    garrison of troops remain stationed in Hillsafar for the protection of the northern forests
    and villages until Myth Drannor's Fall.

680/Year of the Long March (NOTE: This Year is also known as the Year of the Storm
Skeleton)

    --Many Chondathian mercinaries return home from the North Coast Campaign. Chondath
    begins to concentrate its efforts on fledgling Sembia.
    --Many human and dwarf stonemasons migrate from Myth Drannor to Hillsafar to aid that
    fledgling city in constructing its first encircling defensive wall.
    --After more than a decade, wizards of the Guild of Naturalists piece together the clues and
    realize that Halaster Blackcloak has been abducting wizards all throughout Cormanthyr in
    retaliation for their plundering of his monsters in Undermountain. The guild mounts a
    rescue expedition into the dungeon, which never returns, and they quietly end their sorties
    to Undermountain. Attempts to dispels or destroy the gate connecting their hall with
    Undermountain meet with failure.

681/Year of the
Zombie Lords

    --Nezram's tower destroyed by the green dragon Chathuulandroth. Nezram's children are
    scattered or slain.
    --During the festival of Greengrass, Achveult Tattercloak, a student of the Seven Wizards
    of Myth Drannor, and his consort, Tlanchass, depart from the Sixstars intersection in a most
    spectacular fashion. The latter, who had long maintained the guise of a beautiful human
    female, revealed her true form by transforming into a gold dragon, and the pair then go off
    to the south and west.

682/Year of the Howling

    --The Masked and Mentor Wintercloak effectively disband the "Seven Wizards" by leaving
    Myth Drannor with their last four students, all gnomes. Their departure, when one of
    Mentor's properties (an old stone tower) abruptly uprooted itself and flew up into the sky,
    heading north by northwest, was surprisingly open. The Incanistaeum now lies solely in the
    hands of Sakaala of the Seven Rings.

683/Year of the Tainted Troll

    --The young but already learned mage Nezras arrives in Myth Drannor where he joins the
    Six Tyryl Towers to learn more of magic. The grand-nephew of Nezram the
    World-Walker, Nezras seeks knowledge that will restore his uncle's Unique Mageries tome
    to his keeping.

684/Year of the Sundered Crypt

    --Dwarves of the clan Tarynstone are found digging deep tunnels under Myth Drannor
    despite the long-held prohibition against such actions. Furthermore, some elf Houses are
    outraged that the dwarves' tunneling in restricted areas collapsed some nigh-forgotten deep
    crypts of the elder or long-gone Houses. Clan Tarynstone and its 350 dwarves, despite a
    cry within the Ruling Council for death sentences and an equally loud cry for acquittal, are
    exiled from Myth Drannor and Cormanthyr. The clan emigrates west into the Thunder
    Peaks.

685/Year of the Wraithwinds

    --Two among the eight senior officers and one junior officer spilt off from the other
    armathors of Myth Drannor to join the resigning High Court Mage and Councilor Shyael
    Ildacer to pursue a new course as the "followers of the Srinshee's dream", the Eternal
    Srinnala.

686/Year of the Unshriven

    --Nezras the Scholar weds the elf wizardess Raejiisa Sicafei after both graduate from their
    studies at the Six Tyryl Towers of Myth Drannor.

689/Year of the Eager Executioner

    --The displaced Archmage Paeris Haladar attempts to slay Josidiah Starym with spells,
    vowing vengeance for his loss of status. Josidiah survives four assassination attempts but
    is nearly slain in an Honor Duel called to settle the feud. When Paeris seizes the fallen
    Artblade, he is found unworthy of its power and responsibility. Forever after, dead magic
    zone surrounds and permeates Paeris Haladar, making him a pariah to all within
    Cormanthyr. Josidiah reclaims the elfblade and returns to his post as Spell-Major with
    honor.

690/Year of the Clashing Blades

    --Sakaala of the Seven Rings disbands and dismantles the Incanistaeum, the school of
    wizardry run by the Seven Wizards of Myth Drannor. She and her three remaining
    apprentice- students (two elves, one half-elf) leave for parts unknown after growing wings
    from their backs and taking flight. At last sighting, they are headed to the northwest.

692/Year of Crawling Crags

    --Tulrun, a former apprentice of Mentor Winterclaok, journeys to Ysgard this year (and
    remains for over a century) after encountering a Shard of Selune in the long-forgotten ruins
    of the Abbey of the Moon.
    --The Tejarn Purchase: Tethyr, due to financial troubles, sells the lands between the
    headwaters of the Sulduskoon and the Tejarn Hills to King Brinnaq of Amn.

693/Year of the Engimatic Smile

694/Year of the Ominous Oracle

    --High Mage Truesilver and twenty-one other wizards cast mighty protections and
    enchantments on the walls of Silverymoon.
    --The first divinations and portents of doom arrive via Darcassan, the diviner of Windsong
    Tower. He tells the Elders of Windsong Tower of the signs, but they keep the knowledge
    from the public to prevent a panic. Given the climate of distrust and factionalism, this news
    is also kept secret from the Council, as it is uncertain where the threat to Myth Drannor's
    security lies.
    --The Circle of Flames and the wizards of Windsong Tower begin spiriting magical items
    and tomes (including the Scrolls Ardentym and the Keryfaertel) safety. Many end up in
    Ascalhorn and Silverymoon in the trusted hands of colleagues there (in the cases of
    wizards not moving there themselves), though some wizards take off with their secrets for
    parts unknown over the next twelve years.

695/Year of the Fanciful Feasts

700/Year of the Slain Raven

    --The forests of Moondale, founded shortly after the raising of the Standing Stone, are
    completely cleared by this date even though no living tree was ever felled by its people.

704/Year of the Emerald Citadel

    --The Ildacer clan, due to the internal machinations of the Ruling Council and other factions
    (specifically Lord Venali Starym and the Guild of Wizards, Conjurers and Enchanters),
    loses much of its holdings, monies, and social status in Myth Drannor. While the Ildacers
    lose all their estates, they move into and maintain four inns and taverns within the city.
    With the loss of Riirose, the Eternal Srinnala moves their base of operations into some old
    abandoned mages' towers north of the city, which are owned by another member.

705/Year of Watchful Eyes

    --Ecamane's final apprentice miscasts a find familiar spell and mixes his form with that of a
    cat. Ederan Nharimlur now has light gold fur covering his skin and the green eyes of a cat.

708/Year of Bound Evils

    --High Mages and three battalions of Akh'Faer mages battle a resurgence of evil beasts and
    cultists of the fallen god Moander near the site of his fallen temple. While the cult is
    dispersed, numerous "lost spells" of Moander's clergy are recovered from the ruins by the
    elder priests and restored to use.
    --Three nycaloths escape their dimensional pocket prison that floated invisibly high above
    Cormanthyr. Their freedom depended on a "red dragon that never held malice or greed in
    its heart [flying] over the Coronal's throne." As Saeval Ammath and his adopted
    dragon-mount Garnet flew above Myth Drannor, they weakened the dimensional prison
    enough for the nycaloths to escape.

709/Year of the Earnest Oaths

    --The three nycaloths and their summoned yugoloth allies spend 29 months drawing
    together their forces amid the mountains and hills north of the Dragon Sea. In all, their army
    consists of orcs, ogres, bugbears, hobgoblins, gnolls, flinds, trolls, and an ever-growing
    assortment of lesser yugoloths.

710/Year of the Toppled Throne

    --Drow attacks in Cormyr claim the lives of three noble families of the realm. While
    believed dead, most of the nobles survive as slaves in the Underdark.
    --Full summoning of the Army of Darkness begins north of the Dragon's Sea, and they
    march by year's end.

711/Year of the Despairing Elves

    --Late in the autumn of this year, the Army of Darkness overruns the mining and trading
    encampments on the western Moonsea (the site that will become Zhentil Keep). By early
    winter, the first incursions into Cormanthor have begun.
    --The Weeping War begins on the Feast of the Moon with the Northern Massacres
    campaign as the Army of Darkness engages many elf patrols and destroys many elf villages
    and clan enclaves.

712/Year of the Lost Lance

    --Beginning of the nycaloth-led assault on Myth Drannor, the Woods of Cormanthyr, and
    the Lands of the Dragonreach by the Army of Darkness. The Weeping War continues
    throughout the year, resulting in the deaths of many heroes and the collective Harpers at
    Twilight, including the Lady Dathlue Mistwinter. There are four major campaigns this year,
    and Myth Drannor nearly falls prey to the Army of Darkness. The Nameless Chosen is
    near-mortally wounded at Silversgate, and the Chosen Elminster is lost among the planes
    for a time.
    --High Mage Truesilver dies in the Battle at Silversgate, but names as his successor
    Aglanthol the Red, his great-nephew and head apprentice; by year's end, High Mage
    Aglanthol adopts the Staff of Silverymoon as his symbol of rulership.

713/Year of the Firedrake

    --The Monarch Mordent, an elven man-o-war, crashes into the Army of Darkness outside of
    Myth Drannor. The site of the crash becomes known as Monarch's Fall Glade.
    --The Weeping War rages on, though the allies manage to eliminate Malimshaer and
    Gaulguth, two of the three nycaloths leading the Army of Darkness. While three major
    campaigns rocked the forest for much of the year, there is a tense peace from Greengrass to
    Midsummer's Night. during this time, many Myth Drannan natives emigrate either to sister
    cities outside of Cormanthor or to Semberholme and Tangled Vale settlements; After more
    than 200 years, the Twisted Tower falls once again to the dark elves, marking the
    refounding of the Lands Under Shadow in western Cormanthor.

714/Year of Doom

    --Fall of Myth Drannor. The final campaigns of the elves and allies against the Army of
    Darkness see the reestablishment of Elven Court as a seat of elven power in Cormanthyr
    while Myth Drannor falls under siege by the Army of Darkness. With the slaughter of the
    army and cavalry, little can be done against the Siege of Shadow, which descends on Myth
    Drannor on the 21st day of Kythorn.
        --Battle of Burnt Ridge. Many of the city's mages fall here.
        --Lady Steel dies fighting the city's attackers; her contingencies trigger a massive
        explosion that slays many evil beings.
        --Druth Daern hides during the final battle and later emerges to ransack the ruins.
        --In Silverymoon, the group of allied warriors and mages known as the Seven of
        Silver open a gateway to Myth Drannor to aid in its defense, but they succeed only in
        allowing twelve elves and humans to escape. The Seven of Silver are immortalized
        by the bard's song "Seven Silvers Falling," sung by those wishing to commemorate a
        noble sacrifice.
        --The Banes' Duel: The climax of the war was the duel between the two final
        opposing army leaders. The Banes' Duel between the forces of Aulmpiter the nycaloth
        and Captain Fflar lasts for two whole days, and ends with the pair facing off in mortal
        combat on the 15th day of Flamerule. While neither body is ever identified, the
        magical blast that engulfs them robs both armies of their commanders.
        The Siege lasts until the Final Flight in Flamerule, as the now-direction-less hordes of
        the Army of Darkness simply swarm over Myth Drannor's last defenders by savagery
        and sheer weight of numbers. Only 200 elves allies out of the 3000 who remained to
        defend the City of Song escaped to tell of the city's passing, among them, Zaor
        Moonflower. Among the casualties were Josidiah Starym, who nobly sacrificed
        himself with the destruction of the Artblade. His remains were never recovered.

715/Year of the Hungry Jaws

    --The elves of Cormanthor spend this summer and the next hunting down and killing the
    remnants of the Army of Darkness, until the woods are cleansed. This work takes all the
    magic they have, and most of their best warrior blood.

717/Year of the Druid's Wrath

    --Turmish is routed by the druids of the Emerald Enclave, and the wizard leaders of
    Turmish, the Windlass, are beheaded. The druids establish themselves in Ilighon, the
    Chondalwood, and the Winterwood.
    --The young boy Rhyester, blind from birth, sees the dawn on the first day of Ches and has
    his sight for the first time in his life. By year's end, he and other folk faithful to Lathander
    have constructed a crude temple to the God of the Dawn in Silverymoon.

c.718

    --Founding of the elven settlements of Lake Sember and Tangled Trees as areas to begin
    training their young in the arts of war.

719/

    --The High Mage Aglanthol dies at the hands of rogue tanar'ri brought to Silverymoon by a
    reckless mage wishing to open a portal to the ruins of Myth Drannor; his successor is the
    noble Ederan Nharimlur, named High Mage Catseye, after his most common nickname.

720 to 1358

    --The Age of Humanity: With the elven and dwarven empires in decline, this era marks a
    dramatic increase in human expansion on Toril. The High God Ao opens Realmspace to
    races from other worlds. With these immigrants, came their faith in new gods. This era
    started and concluded on two prominant events involving the Faerûnian pantheon of gods,
    The Dawn Cataclysm and The Time of Troubles.

720/Year of the Dawn Rose

    --Gathering of the gods at the Dancing Place.
    --Re-founding of the Harpers at the request of some elves from Elven Court. In attendance
    are all 15 of the Harpers at Twilight who survived the previous decade, including Lady
    Alais Dree, Elminster Aumar, Khelben Arunsun (once the Nameless Chosen), and Meil
    "Darkhunter" Araeln; The sylvan community of Elventree is founded as a site for the elves
    of Elven Court to continue interaction with their allied races (since Elven Court now is
    prohibited to the presence of non-elves) and as a trading site.
    --Myth Lharast is overrun by evil lycanthrope hordes; the city is blasted out of existence by
    "lightning bolts from the moon."

724/

    --Two remaining wizards of the Windlass lead an assault on Ilighon and are killed.

c.725

    --Reinhar IX "the Foolish" reigns in Dambrath.

728/

    --High Mage Ederan marries the elven princess Elenaril, one of the few escapees from
    fallen Myth Drannor.

731/Year of the Visions

    --2nd Great flood of the River Alamber devastates Unthalass.
    --Gilgeam orders a small group of his scribes to create a permanent archive of his triumphs
    in the Citadel of Black Ash.
    --The Ring of Eyes, a group of beholders and beholder-cultists originally from the Lake of
    Steam, destroys the ruling house of Cortryn and conquers its territories. The elves of
    Shilmista fight the Ring constantly from this year until the Ring's end in 757DR.
    --King Strohm II repulses the invading armies of Lower Tathtar, and the fallen duchy of
    Elestam is officially recognized as part of Tethyr.

734/

    --Due to overcrowding, the walls of Silverymoon are moved outward to almost twice the
    size of the city at that time (and almost the walls' current location). The space behind the
    walls is used for garrisons and grazing lands for the cattle of the city. The walls of the Old
    City are left partially standing for people to use as partial foundations and support for new
    buildings.

735/

    --Strohm III (715 to 769), Strohm II's human great-great-great-grandson, King of Tethyr.

c. 737

    --King Strohm III of Tethyr battles the remnants of Tathtar's fading might.

737 Year of the Winded Herald

740/

    --Galaghard II (? to 751), King of Cormyr.

747/Year of Stagnate Water

    --Flostren's Hold built at the sight of present-day Zhentil Keep.
    --High Mage Ederan and High Mistress Elenaril of Silverymoon are blessed with their
    second and third children, a boy (Ederan the Younger) and girl (Lynnasha) who share the
    fur and cat eyes of their father.

748/Year of the Coin

    --Flostren's Hold is bought out by a consortium of Sembian merchants who are later known
    as the Twelve Lords.

750/Year of the Dying Dwarf

    --The first walls of Flostren's Hold are built and Elephstron becomes Lord of the Keep.

751/Year of Good Tidings

    --Cathtyr becomes the first Queen of Dambrath.
    --Zhentar comes to Flostren's Hold and becomes a Lord.

752/Year of High Treachery

    --Zhentar kills all of the Twelve Lords of Flostren's Hold who are opposed to him.

753/Year of Strife

    --Flostren's Hold renamed Zhentil Keep; the Dark Shrine, a temple to Bane, is built.
    Zhentar and Lord Elephston kill each other in a duel.

754/Year of Midsummer's Dreams

    --Zhentil Keep starts a program of expansion, erecting new walls and the first bridge
    across the Tesh.

755/Year of the Enigma

    --Construction of Castle Spulzeer begins. Keczulla becomes a ghost town after its mines
    play out.

756/Year of the Leaning Post

    --First fisherfolk settle in Aglarond (mainly colonists from Chessenta). Velprintalar, Corth,
    and Indal's Arm are built.

757/Year of Lost Wayfarers

    --A Chessentan mage, Tashara of the Seven Skulls, slays the five beholders of the Ring of
    Eyes and scatters their human lackeys. She then wanders north to the Tunland, where she is
    slain by Azuth.

760/Year of Drifting Stars (NOTE: this Year is also known as the Year of the Majesty)

    --The goddess Mystra, in the guise of the half-elven sorceress Elue Shundar, marries
    Dornal Silverhand, a nobleman and former Harper who lived near Neverwinter.
    --Amn conquers the former land of Cortryn, bringing its borders almost to their current
    state.

761/Year of Laughter

    --Anastra Sylune Silverhand (Sylune) is born.

762/Year of the Snow Sword

    --Endue Alustriel Silverhand (Alustriel) is born.

763/Year of the Sharp Edge

    --Ambara Dove Silverhand (Dove) is born.

764/Year of the Mistmaidens

    --Ethena Astorma Silverhand (Storm) is born.

765/Year of the Cowl

    --Construction begins on the High Mages' Keep of Silverymoon, completed 16 months
    later.
    --Anamanue Laeral Silverhand (Laeral) is born.

766/Year of Yearning

    --Alassra Shentrantra Silverhand (The Simbul) is born.
    --Construction complete on the High Mages' Keep of Silverymoon.
    --The Brothers of the Black Hand, a cadre of Bane-worshipping evil wizards exiled from
    Ascalhorn, steal powerful magical items from Silverymoon, including High Mage Ederan's
    Staff of Silverymoon, the chain mail Glove of Taarnahm the Vigilant, and Tasmia's Necklace.
    Their safehouse in Ascalhorn proves the Black Hand's undoing as it falls to wizardry and
    baatezu manipulations, and the Hand's slayers confiscate the stolen items.

767/Year of the Awakening Wyrm

    --Eresseae Qilue Silverhand (Qilue) is born.

769/

    --Strohm IV (745 to 802), 3rd son of Strohm III, King of Tethyr.

771/

    --Ederan the Younger, a ranger dedicated to Mielikki, disappears in the Lurkwood.

773/

    --Rhyester dies of natural causes and is laid to rest in the crypt beneath the Lathander's
    Dawn temple in Silverymoon. Within a year, the temple is renamed Rhyester's Matins.

775/Year of the Bloody Stone

    --The new walls of Zhentil Keep are finished.

779/Year of the Crying Sphinx

    --Folk begin emigrating from Ascalhorn due to the abuses of the town's archwizards.

c.780

    --Jahorga, a realm that lay between the Nagawater, Nagaflow, and the Great Road, is
    captured by the High Temptress Endreira of Loviatar and turned into the pirates-realm of
    Endrara.

784/

    --High Mage Ederan dies of old age after a long and peaceful reign; his daughter, Amaara
    "Goldentresses" Nharimlur, rises to the station of High Lady Mage and becomes
    Silverymoon's first female ruler.

795/Year of the Firehawk

    --Castle Spulzeer is finally completed south of the Tethir Road in the Purchase Lands.

796/Year of the Gray Mists

    --Merrydale becomes Daggerdale following vampiric infestation.
    --Lower Tathtar and its capitol city, Dajaan, finally vanish when a plague devastates the
    surviving populace.

797/Year of the Hearthstone

    --Dornal Silverhand, father of the Seven Sisters, is slain by orcs and becomes the Watcher
    of Mystra.

c.800

    --Sammaster First-Speaker, founder of the Cult of the Dragon, is born, though the location
    and exact date of his birth are lost to time.

800/Year of the Black Fist

    --Rise in the power of Bane in the Realms.
    --Drow influence in the now-Ashaba valley at its height.
    --Thentia founded by the Swifthand, Khodolis, and Birneir families.

801/

    --High Lady Amaara announces her betrothal to Tilimarin Forestheart, a half-elf guard
    captain. Three days before the wedding, Tilimarin is murdered by a green dragon in the
    Moonwoods. Amaara slew the dragon with wrathful magics, and stripes of its emerald
    hide still adorn the borders of a tapestry that hangs in Alustriel's throne room to the present
    day. Called the "Weeping Lady," the tapestry depicts High Mage Amaara weeping over her
    fallen lover.

802/

    --Strohm V (787 to 832), 2nd nephew and sole heir of Strohm IV, King of Tethyr.

811/Year of Many Tears

    --Tulrun returns to the Realms, and becomes a marauding beast in the North.
    --The Crown of the Mountain is noted as being in the Nelanther, in the posession of a priest
    of Talos.

815/

    --Elue Dualen, a white-haired human girl whose magic far outstrips her age, arrives in
    Silverymoon and becomes fast friends and confidants with the High Lady Amaara and her
    sister Lynnasha "Lynx" Nharimlur.

817/Year of the Deadly Torch

    --The traveling mage Mnethos takes the young Sammaster as an apprentice, noting the boy's
    fierce intelligence and fascination with magic.
    --Halaster and Arcturia create the vampire's lair on the Lost Level of Undermountain.

818/Year of Broken Locks

    --Mnethos the mage introduces Sammaster to the glory of Our Lady of Mysteries, the
    worship of whom Sammaster soon adopts.

c. 820

    --Wulgreth summons the first baatezu to Ascalhorn.

821/

    --In Zakhara, a young man, Jafar al-Samal, becomes the first sha'ir.
    --Elue Dualen makes the first major expansion of the Silver Lady's Library, and she
    establishes the Lady's College with Lynx. This is the first open school for mages in
    Silverymoon that does not force students into apprenticeship with the teachers. The college
    takes payment in the form of service to defend the city with the army for as much time as
    they study at the Lady's College.

823/

    --Mourktar breaks free of Unther.

c.825

    --Sammaster leaves the service of his magely tutor, Mnethos, having learned all he can
    from the itinerant wizard.

c.826

    --The gold wyrm Valamaradace is given the title "Dragon Queen" by the dying red wyrm
    Mairogra.

832/

    --End of the Strohm Dynasty, beginning of the Mallorhen Dynasty.
    --Tibor (799 to 838), Husband of Strohm V's elder daughter, King of Tethyr.

834/Year of the Leaping Lion

    --Castle Greatstead (Grimstead) built on the borders of Shadowdale.

c.835

    --Sammaster achieves the status of an archmage at an age almost unheard of at that time. He
    wanders Faerûn extensively during this period.

835/

    --The Eastern Forest finishes its recession to match its current size (and name) in modern
    Faerûn.

836/Year of Twelve Bells

    --Aided by Lynnasha Nharimlur, sister of High Lady Amaara of Silverymoon, Tulrun
    recovers from his madness.
    --The archmage Kartak Spellseer "the All-Seeing" is found guilty of the murders of at least
    14 people around the Tejarn Hills. He escapes punishment and flees south into the Iltkazar
    Range.

838/

    --Samyte (818 to 841), 1st son, sole direct heir of Tibor, King of Tethyr (He and his sons
    slain by Uthaedeol the Blood-Drenched).

c.840

    --Sammaster's researches into the field of metamagic result in many new enchantments.

841/

    --End of the Mallorhen Dynasty; beginning of the Bormul Dynasty (the "Queen's Dynasty")
    --Alisande (816 to 847), Strohm V's daughter, Queen of Tethyr.
    --Baerovis (? to 862), King of Cormyr.

843/

    --The High Lady Amaara, Elue Dualen, Elenaril, Lynnasha "Lynx" Nharimlur and three
    other mages casting in concert create the magical Moonbridge of Silverymoon, replacing
    the stone bridge that lasted over four centuries.

847/

    --Sybille the Great (832 to 885), daughter and sole heir of Alisande, Queen of Tethyr.

851/Year of the Jasmal Blade

    --Our Lady of Mysteries appears to Sammaster. They dally, and the Goddess of Magic
    offers to make the archmage one of her Chosen. It seems that Mystra has foreseen the death
    of a Chosen and Sammaster is to be her replacement.
    --Sammaster meets with the Sage of Shadowdale, Elminster, and learns how to use and
    control his Chosen powers, including silver fire. He leaves a year later.

c.855

    --The elven sage Olaurae of Myth Drannor titles Suzail "the brightest jewel of Cormyr's
    crown."

855/Year of Cornerstones

    --In the spring, Sammaster first meets Zhent slavers. Many die, including innocent
    prisoners.
    --Sammaster enters an extended period of exhaustive research into the processes of life,
    death, and undeath, creating several original necromantic enchantments before again taking
    to traveling Faerûn.

c.857/

    --Huriot, the greatest Prince of Thieves Skuld has ever known, is captured and convicted of
    grave robbing.

857/

    --Alustriel, using her mother's name of Elué, takes the throne of Silverymoon by the decree
    of the resigning Amaara; Amaara accompanies Elenaril on her trek to Evermeet.

861/Year of the Exploding Owl

    -- Sammaster meets and begins a relationship with Elué/Alustriel, Chosen of Mystra.

863/Year of the Wondrous Sea

    --The Chultian city of Mezro disappears.

864/Year of the Broken Branch

    --Castle Grimstead destroyed by drow.
    --Sammaster's relationship with Alustriel ends with disastrous results for Sammaster's
    emotional and mental well-being.
    --Rysellan the Dark founds the Twisted Rune. One of the Rune's earliest lairs lies deep
    beneath Calimport in what was once an ancient drow temple.

865/Year of Flamedance

    --Sammaster meets and is befriended by Algashon Nathaire, a mage and priest of Mystra's
    enemy, Bane, near or in Baldur's Gate.

c.866 to 874

    --Sammaster and Algashon travel widely, with the duplicitous priest's words turning
    Sammaster toward bitterness, resentment, and evil.

c.870

    --Kobolds become extinct in Tethyr.

870/

    --Adventurers begin to clear the monsters out of the Yuirwood.
    --Cyriana the Great Queen (870 to 922), 1st granddaughter, Queen of Tethyr.

872/

    --Nimoar the Reaver conquers Bloodhand tribe, and he seizes the docks and harbor
    buildings.

875/Year of the Stricken Star

    --Algashon coerces Sammaster into attacking his former lover, Alustriel of Silverymoon.
    Alustriel is wounded in Sammaster's initial assault and calls for aid from Khelben Arunsun
    and Laeral Silverhand, two more Chosen of Mystra. Sammaster is stripped of his Chosen
    powers by Azuth. Algashon saves Sammaster from Death.
    --Sammaster, insane, embraces evil from this point onward.

876/Year of the Toothless Skulls

    --Warlord Lashtor takes control of Silverymoon after the High Lady Elue Dualen leaves
    her rule and the city abruptly, accompanied by Lynnasha "Lynx" Nharimlur and the
    archmage Tulrun. His army begins slaying mages in the streets, and they put the Silver
    Lady's Library to the torch.

877/

    --Lashtor is deposed by the mage Tanalanthara "She-Wolf" Mytersaal, who is named High
    Mage of Silverymoon. Yril Mytersaal, her brother, is named Warlord after Lashtor's
    execution

880/Year of Unfettered Secrets

    --The first tanar'ri are summoned to Ascalhorn late in the year.

882/Year of the Curse

    --Nimoar's Hold rises at Waterdeep's current north end fortified by a log palisade. The city
    walls expand around the Hold and the city's perimeter.
    --Nimoar drives worshipers of Selune out of the walled confines of the city.
    --Ascalhorn falls, corrupted from within by baatezu, and becomes known as Hellgate
    Keep. The mage Jaluster dies at the hands of the baatezu, but the bard Maerstar recovers
    his Orizon.
    --Refugee mages and others from Ascalhorn form a small tent city within the walls of
    Silverymoon. A starving orc horde nearly overruns Silverymoon, but the city is saved by
    the sacrifice of High Mage Tanalanthara.
    --The dwarven realm of Ammarindar falls. Ammarindar's sister realm of Oghrann falls
    soon thereafter, and the survivors occupy the Far Hills.
    --The Night Plague descends on Zhentil Keep, but are destroyed.
    --The elven realm of Eaerlann falls.

883/

    --After a mild winter spent in mourning over the loss of their Lady Wolf, Silverymoon
    elects the humble Tanisell the Cloaked, a human originally from Ascalhorn, to become
    High Mage (the "Cloaked Lord of Silverymoon," as a popular ballad called him).

884/Year of Singing Arrows

    --The elves destroy a large mercenary force in Sembia.
    --The red wyrm Hoondarrh attacks and kills the wyrm Skadaurak and claims his lair.

885/

    --Galaghard III (? to 910), King of Cormyr.

886/Year of the Fell Firebreak

    --Wards are established around Hellgate Keep by the Harpers, to strip the tanar'ri of their
    gating abilities.

887/Year of Fell Pearls

    --Pirate raids in force from the South attack tribes in Sword Coast. All attacks on Nimoar's
    Hold fail.
    --The first "translations" of ancient prophecies by the mad Sammaster are distributed,
    including his specious work on Maglas' Chronicle of Things to Come.

888/

    --Tothur and over 40 Talassan priests perish in the Struggle of Storms, a battle fought for
    control of the Talassan church. This struggle breaks the back of the Talassan church in
    Faerûn for the next three centuries. The Chanting Chain disappears during the battle.

889/

    --The Bull Elk tribe of the Dessarin sets Nimoar's Hold afire, but Nimoar's forces defeat
    them and drive them off. The Hold is rebuilt by year's end.
    --King Zaor of Evermeet ascends to the Elven throne.

890/Year of the Burning Tree

    --A new High Mages' Keep and three new towers are constructed in Silverymoon.
    --Many of the cellars beneath Hellgate Keep's buildings become connected to the sewers
    as the fiends attempt their first tunnels under the wards.

891/

    --With the influx of people from Ascalhorn and record trade years for the cities' merchants,
    Silverymoon is forced to expand the city's north walls to the locations where they rest
    today. All the guards' garrisons and some support buildings are demolished and rebuilt
    across the bridge on the southern shore of the Rauvin, with new high walls surrounding the
    Warriors' Quarter.

892/Year of Howling Winds

    --Jander destroys his vampiric master.

896/Year of the Empty Hand

    --Extensive poverty and famine from here to 900 DR.
    --The red wyrm Hoondarrh demands tribute from the inhabitants of Mintarn.

897/Year of the Calling Shrike

    --In reaction to increased monster activity in the mountains of Amn over the past decade,
    Citadel Rashturl is built this year as a log fort, replaced by stone in four years.

898/Year of the Common Corpse

    --The first shafts below the sewers of Hellgate Keep are opened, and the tunneling fiends
    find some older hidden subterranean crypts that are soon plundered for magic.

c.900

    --King Galaghard of Cormyr battles the forces of the Witch Lords at Wheloon, Juniril, and
    Manticore's Crossing. The final battle between the two forces occured at the Vast Swamp,
    with Cormyr winning with help from elven stag calvalry.
    --The mage Shangalar "The Black" lives in northeastern Calimshan.

900/Year of the Thirsty Sword

    --Widespread war; strong leaders emerge.
    --Beginning of the Rotting War in Chondath. Reth and Arrabar attack Hlath.
    --The Vault of the Sages is built in Silverymoon and its initial collection includes at least
    two tomes of knowledge, history, and magic from each mage of the city. The Harpers
    bestow the lost collection from the Silver Lady's Library upon the Keeper of the Vault.

902/Year of the Queen's Tears

    --The Rotting War in Chondath decimates the country. Chondath renounces claims on
    Sembian city-states. The cities of Chondathan and Chauncelgaunt become independant.
    --Sammaster's research into necromancy results in the first successful Cult of the Dragon
    dracolich, Shargrailar.

905/Year of the Rotting Word

    --Sammaster finishes his principle work on the Tome of the Dragon, and copies begin to
    appear across Faerûn as the Cult's philosophy spreads.

906/Year of the Plough

    --Azmaer the Drow Lord holds Tower of Ashaba.
    --Drow driven from the Twisted Tower. Shadowdale founded.

907/Year of Waiting

    --The upper (aboveground) city of Calimport is reclaimed and resettled by Mameluks who
    are shut out of the power circles of Manshaka. At the secret urgings of the Twisted Rune,
    they seek to reclaim the ruined greater city beyond the walls of the port. The Rune's
    primary agent in this endeavor is Vizar Bollus el Kahdan, a half-elven warrior-mage.

910/

    --Rhiigard (? to 932), King of Cormyr.

911/Year of Ruins Reborn

    --Due to magical fluctuations in the woods and hills around Silverymoon, Tanisell and his
    fellow mages reassert new enchantments and magics on the walls surrounding the city.
    --At Midsummer, Vizar Bollus el Kahdan proclaims himself syl-pasha of Calimport, and
    nearly all of the surface ruins of the city are cleared of danger.

912/Year of the Sudden Journey

    --The first deep fiend-dug tunnels lead north out of Hellgate Keep toward the Nether
    Mountains.

913/Year of the Watching Raven

    --Sembia founded under the Raven banner.

916/Year of the Sinhala

    --The Harpers and the priests of Lathander ambush Sammaster and his entourage as they
    travel to visit two green wyrms in southern Cormanthor. Sammaster and an avatar of the
    Morninglord do battle. Sammaster's actions wound the avatar slightly before he obliterates
    Sammaster.

c.917 to 940

    --After Sammaster's downfall, Algashon leads the Cult underground for the first time since
    its creation in the prior century. Algashon's Cult adopts many of the revenue-generating
    schemes required to finance much of the Cult's operations.

919/Year of the Chase

    --Hellgate Keep's forces are forced from their deep tunnels for a time by the Morueme clan
    of dragons.

920/Year of Great Riches

    --Ahghairon is born on Midsummer's Night, and many legends report Mystra's symbol
    glowing brightly among the stars of the North.
    --High Mage Tanisell succumbs to a fever and dies. His successor is his closest advisor
    and friend, Nunivytt Threskaal, the Keeper of the Vault of the Sages and ranking mage of
    the Lady's College. High Mage Threskaal's reign is a peaceful, studious one and is still
    considered one of the golden eras of magical learning for Silverymoon and her pupils.
    --The goddess Waukeen appears on Shieldmeet and establishes the Merchant's Peace at
    Trademeet in Amn.

922/Year of the Spouting Fish

    --Red Wizards under the command of Ythazz Buvaar sack the regional capital of
    Delhumide.
    --Battle of Thazalhar in Thay. Red Wizards declare Thay independent of Mulhorand.
    --End of the Second Mulhorand Empire.
    --Teresa the Great Queen (893 to 957), 3rd niece, Queen of Tethyr.
    --The black dragon Ebondeath, ruler of the Mere of Dead Men, is transformed into a
    dracolich by Strongor Bonebag, a priest of Myrkul with ties to the Cult of the Dragon.

923/

    --The demon prince Eltab is bound under the city of Eltabbar.

927/

    --The young Ahghairon of Waterdeep arrives in Silverymoon and is taught magic by
    numerous tutors, including High Mage Threskaal.

929/Year of Flashing Eyes

    --Chessenta rebels against Unther. Alliance of Chessenta drives Unther back beyond the
    Riders to the Sky Mountains.
    --Alasklerbanbastos, a blue dragon, competes with Tchazzar for control of western Unther
    (now Chessenta).

c.930

    --The emergance of the orc realm of Uruth Ukrypt heralds a collapse of trade along the
    High Road of the North.

932/Year of Fireslaughter

    --First Troll War in the North. After a number of attacks on Nimoar's Hold, Nimoar's
    forces clear the Evermoors of trolls, burning miles of land bare while slaying the
    everlasting ones.
    --Thay conquers the independant city of Kensten, renaming it Bezantur (after the high priest
    of Kossuth in the city).

934/Year of Fell Wizardry

    --First Thayan invasion of Rashemen.
    --The Thayans first demand tribute from Escalant.
    --Founding of Mulmaster as a trading fortress between the Moonsea and the Dragonreach.

936/

    --Heavy orc raids on Nimoar's Hold and outlying farms last the full year. Nimoar dies of
    old age, and Gharl replaces him as War Lord of the tribe.

937/Year of the Turning Wheel

    --Alliance of the Cities of the Golden Way into the nation of Thesk.
    --The Book of Fangs and Talons is found atop Beran's Hill by the Slow Serpent band of
    adventurers. A local priest of Silvanus examines the book. Several nights later over 40
    Malarites descend upon the priest and tear him and his home apart, stealing the book back.

940/Year of the Cold Claws

    --The name of Waterdeep comes into common usage.
    --Second Troll War in the North. This year sees the start of continual troll raids and strife
    that last more than a decade. Six War Lords of Waterdeep die in battle against the trolls.
    Despite the problems, Waterdeep grows in population, as tribes gather within the walls for
    safety.
    --Ashaba, first Lord of Shadowdale, merges with river.
    --The Moonsea city of Hulberg is founded as a base for human forces fighting giants and
    humanoids in Thar.
    --Tulrun discovers the death of his companion Krustalonos and dedicates himself to killing
    the spawn of the great white wyrm Sneighfanglen.

941/

    --With the merest hint of his first beard on his chin, Ahghairon shows some of his coming
    might by single-handedly destroying a pair of young green dragons intent on attacking
    Silverymoon. Ahghairon leaves the city soon afterward to learn more of the Realms.

944/

    --Kurskos Ironhand of Aumreayum slays Amrok of the dwarves and takes Adjatha the
    Drinker.

c.950

    --Cult of the Dragon cells number near 100 at this time, the height of Cult power across
    Faerûn since the organization's inception.

952/

    --Ahghairon rises and is recognized as the premier mage of the Savage North. He becomes
    the official advisor for the War Lord of Waterdeep.
    --This year marks the end of the Second Trollwar. The trolls remain nearly extinct around
    Waterdeep for nearly 100 years.

953/

    --Bryntarth II (? to 968), King of Cormyr.

955/

    --Barbarians attack Waterdeep in the depths of winter. In memory of their bravery, the
    Waterdhavians bury the barbarian's princess at the foot of the peak that later becomes
    known as Maiden's Tomb Tor.
    --The Great Rising of the Orcgates: A fell power (some say Thayan archmages
    experimenting with dangerous spells, others insist that the gods of the orcs themselves
    were responsible) suddenly brought into being scores of dimensional portals that spewed
    forth orcs from the mountain caverns of the far North to lay waste to half a hundred cities
    and realms all over Faerun.

956/

    --Cathtyr is killed by her daughter Filina. Filina becomes Queen of Dambrath.

957/

    --Teremir I (927 to 959), 5th son of Teresa, Queen of Tethyr (slain by Mhoaran).
    --The volcanic isle known as the Ship of the Gods erupts in the Alambar, killing thousands
    of Untheri settlers.

959/

    --End of the Bormul Dynasty; beginning of the "Tethyr" Dynasty (the "Lion's Dynasty").
    --Mhoaran "the Tusk-Bearded" (919 to 974), cousin of Teremir I and son of Cyriana's 3rd
    sister, King of Tethyr.

c.960

    --The Book of Fangs and Talons is rumored to be in the area of Secomber. Soon after it is
    taken to the Daggerford area.

961/

    --Cathakay Queen of Dambrath.

c.962

    --The Cult reaches farther south than ever before with the creation of the cell in, around,
    and beneath the city of Hlondeth in the Vilhon Reach.

962/Year of the Shadow Veil

    --The village of Phandalin is conquered by orcs, and the mountain delve Wavecho Cave,
    home to dwarves and gnomes, is also destroyed by their depredations. The orcs under their
    chieftan Uruth found the kingdom of Uruth Ukrypt in what is now Kryptgarden Forest.
    Within a few generations the orcs are wiped out.

963/

    --The construction of Castle Waterdeep begins around the site of Nimoar's Hold on the
    eastern spur of Mount Waterdeep, just north of the city walls.

968/

    --In Zakhara, a war begins between the genie races.

971/Year of the Children

    --The Cult's further expansion in the south is halted by the church of Tiamat when an
    underground Cult cell "trespasses" on a similar group worshipping the Dragon Queen in the
    city of Surkh.

972/Year of the Cairngorm Crown

    --After the recent defeat in Surkh, dissidents within the Cult of the Dragon begin to openly
    question Algashon's leadership and the weighty influence the church of Bane has had in
    Cult operation in the preceding years. The mage Drakewings becomes a particularly
    outspoken opponent of the God of Tyranny's place in the Cult of the Dragon.

c.972 to 995

    --The Cult of the Dragon refocuses its efforts to expand in the North, creating at least 10
    new cells in this time period. The only known failure of the Cult to infiltrate an area during
    this time is in Silverymoon.

974/Year of the Haunting Harpy

    --Castle Waterdeep is completed at High Harvestide. The city walls expand (now abutting
    the wall around Halaster's Hold for defense) and the worn log palisades become new, high
    stone walls.
    --Laroun becomes the first female War Lord of Waterdeep.
    --Nearel (951 to 997), 32nd child/17th son of Mhoaran, King of Tethyr (slayer of Teremir
    I's eldest son).
    --The stronghold of the retired adventurer Sulass Drowsbane grows into the city of
    Sulasspryn.

975/Year of the Bent Coin

    --Telflamm annexes Nyth and Culmaster and establishes itself as a royal city-state.

976/Year of Slaying Spells

    --Mulhorandi invasion of Thay defeated at the river Thazarim.

977/

    --A circle of talons and blood is found outside of Daggerford. This is linked to the Book of
    Fangs and Talons, a holy book of Malar. No trace is ever found of the book though.

982/

    --The red wyrm Thungarbarath Flamegout is killed by the Bold Broadswords adventuring
    band. The only survivor of the battle, Jorthan Twocastle, retrieves the Flame of the Spirit.

985/Year of Bright Nights

    --The Plinth of Moon and Stars, a small altar atop the tower of Lunaven Moonstar in
    Waterdeep, is dedicated to Selune.
    --Fetitia Ledora, rumored to be the daughter of Alustriel Silverhand, and Yhelfanna the
    Masked, a Rashemaar witch of the Hathran, form the Sorority of the Silver Fire, an
    adventuring sisterhood of incantatrixes.

989/Year of Dark Stalking

    --Orjalun of Silverymoon is born on Midsummer's Night and is marked as a wizard from
    birth, Mystra's symbol clearly evident in a birthmark over his heart.
    --Dwarven miners from the remote outpost of Thunderholme in the Thunder Peaks break
    into the shadow dragon Aurgloroasa's lair and wake the dragon from a decades-long sleep;
    she kills the miners and caves in their tunnels.
    --The ranger Eldrum the Silent observes the Crystrum of Tranquility, a holy book of Eldath,
    in Hulluck Forest. At the time, the keeper of the Crystrum was the Eldathyn priestess
    Analauthé Brenewood.

992/Year of the Watching Helm

    --Heralds of Faerûn created. (Note: FOR4 Code o/t Harpers has this date and year as 996).
    --The merchant factions in Turmish are subjugated by Lord Saros. Saros immediately
    begins shaping Turmish into a major naval power. (Note: 9520 The Vilhon Reach gives
    this date [922 DR] as the Year of Flashing Eyes).

c.995 to 1000

    --Factionalism within the Cult of the Dragon increases with most members joining either
    Algashon's reformational Bane-influenced camp or Drakewing's pragmatic faction.

996/(Note: FOR4 Code o/t Harpers gives the name of this year as The Year of the
Watching Helm)

    --Arangor (? to 1021), King of Cormyr.

997/

    --Kortal (968 to 1022), 2nd son, King of Tethyr (slayer of Teremir I's daughter's family).
    --Orjalun learns magic exclusively from High Mage Threskaal of Silverymoon, who senses
    a greatness in his pupil resembling that of Ahghairon.
    --Kloroth of the Seven Curses gains the Sceptre of Mystra, but loses it due to a curse it
    bestows on him. It is taken by means of a gate to Skullport by a thief who is slain by an
    illithid, which flees into the Third Level of Undermountain with the item. The illithid is
    killed by drow, who are then killed by Halaster. The Sceptre remains in the dungeon.

998/

    --Waterdeep's War Lord Laroun establishes a naval guard to protect the city and its trading
    partners. Construction begins on fortifying the harbor and Deepwatch Isle.
    --A temple and monastary to Lathander breaks ground to the north of Waterdeep (at the
    present site of the Spires of the Morning).