Chronomancy was known to the wizards of Alphatia, but all
Alphatian chronomancers were destroyed by an unknown Immortal
after they attempted to make contact with the long-lost
techno-magical empire of Blackmoor. One investigator of this
disaster believes the Immortals Rafiel and possibly Rad
(a.k.a. Etienne d'Amberville) are defending a pre-historic
secret somehow connected with the Radiance of Glantri. Rumors
sometimes pass through Glantri that a local wizard has
rediscovered the lost secrets of chronomancy, but this has
never been proven.
Unobtrusive chronomancers have considerable freedom;
furthermore, they might gain the cautious notice of Immortals
from Energy or Time (particularly Ixion), who might be bribed
at tremendous expense to reveal other secrets of chronomancy
or Mystaran history. Immortals of Time carefully shunt
chronomancers "around" critical events in history, so that all
attempts to reach those times are missed by days, months, or
years. Time travelers perceived as dangerously hostile to
Mystaran history are located and destroyed without ceremony or
delay.
6000 BC: There is no true civilization in the Outer
World. Humans are tribal hunter-gatherers, living mostly in
plains and light forests. Dwarves are barbaric mountain and
foothill dwellers, mostly goatherds. Elves are sheltered,
protected and nurtured by the forest-spirits they worship; they
do not need to work or suffer. There are no monstrous humanoids
on the world to threaten the demihumans.
5000 BC: The childhood of the elves is over; the forest
spirits stop sheltering them, forcing them to leave paradise
and to seek their own futures. The first great elf
civilization, Evergrun, develops on the southern continent in
areas now under the southern icecap.
Far across the galaxy, on another world, a race of
pale-skinned humans called the Alphatians begin to rise to
preeminence and to study mighty magics.
4500 BC: Beastmen - reincarnated souls of evil beings -
appear in the Borean Valley, a frozen land north of Blackmoor.
These beastmen are wild, chaotic creatures that do not breed
true; whelps may have some or none of the traits of their
parents, may be of different size and appearance. This is all
brought about by the magic of Hel, an Immortal of the sphere of
Entropy, who wants to introduce more confusion, dismay, and
death into the world.
4000 BC: The human Blackmoor civilization begins a
meteoric rise due to its great success in developing powerful
sciences and technologies. It conquers and assimilates all
surrounding human tribes and quickly grows very powerful.
Another human civilization, the Oltecs, begins a more
stately rise toward civilization in lands far to the south of
Blackmoor. Protected by deep forests and sheltering hills, they
do not have any communication with Blackmoor.
On the Alphatians' world, the Alphatians defeat the
Cypris civilization... and begin to be assimilated by it.
3850 BC: A group of warlike, flatland tribes are
colonized by the Oltecs. These tribes fiercely cling to their
distinct heritage in spite of the Oltec conquerors.
3500 BC: The Blackmoor civilization is flourishing. It
conducts trade and intermittent war with the southern elves, at
the other end of the world. Four clans of elves colonize in the
region near Blackmoor. Both the southern and the colonial elves
embrace Blackmoor's technology. Blackmoor priests demand the
extermination of the "unnatural" beastmen in the Borean Valley,
and promote holy wars to hunt down and destroy those creatures.
Following a failed military coup, a rift occurs in the
Oltec civilization; the more aggressive Azcan tribes declare
their independence and begin to wage war on the Oltecs.
According to modern Azcan histories, the hated former masters
were overthrown and enslaved. In fact, the Oltecs and Azcans
exist side by side for almost five centuries, alternating war
and commerce, until outside forces literally destroy the world
they know.
The widespread Neathar race is beginning to undergo
development; the language in individual areas changes rapidly
into very different dialects, and the independent Neathar
tribes no longer recognize a kinship or a common origin among
themselves.
On the Alphatians' world, the Alphatian/Cypris
civilization uses its magical knowledge to begin colonization
and conquest of nearby planets and exploration of the elemental
planes.
3400 BC: To avoid the ongoing war in their homeland,
some Oltecs migrate to the Savage Coast, settling the eastern
and central shores. Manscorpions and tortles already live
along the central coast, and aranea and wallara civilizations
flourish on the western end. (RS)
3200 BC: The Blackmoor crusades drive the Beastmen
farther north, into the land called Hyperborea; they adapt to
the colder climate and survive.
3100 BC: Aquarendi elves seek the guardianship of
Manwara, an Immortal of the Sea, and enter the warm waters to
begin a new life.
3000 BC: Some Blackmoor devices explode, shifting the
axis of the Known World in an event later called the Great Rain
of Fire or the Planetshift. Blackmoor becomes the north pole
and its civilization disappears. The elven civilization becomes
the south pole; the elves are able to migrate to the area
called Grunland (which now begins centuries of volcanic
upheaval that lead to its being renamed Vulcania). These
southern-continent elves, though suffering hardship, are not in
immediate danger of extinction and so none are taken to the
Hollow World.
Melting ice caps raise ocean level by several hundred
feet. Lowland marshes and coastal plains along the southern
edge of the northern continent are flooded.
Survivors of the elven colony near Blackmoor flee to
the newly-formed Broken Lands; they burrow deep into the ground
to survive the aftereffects of the Great Rain of Fire. These
are the ancestors of the Shadow Elves.
Two races of humans come to the land that will later
be called the Minaean Coast. From the east comes Tangor Man,
driven from his home by climatic changes brought on by the
Great Rain of Fire. From across the waters to the west comes
Oltec Man on one of his great colonizing migrations.
The ice caps recede from the southern edge of the
continent of Brun. Spirits are drawn in to merge with the world.
One of the most dangerous Blackmoor devices is left
untouched in the Broken Lands.
The Great Rain of Fire is seen by Azcans and Oltecs
alike as an important part of their mysticism: the End of the
Fifth Sun. The Immortals magically transplant large numbers of
these peoples to the Hollow World to save them.
The shark-kin, after spending thousands of years on the
land, return to the sea.
On the Alphatians' world, Alphatian aggression is
gradually supplanted by Cypric self-absorption; other-planetary
conquests and colonies are left to fend for themselves as
Alphatian study of magic turns inward.
3000 - 2500 BC: Formerly arctic areas of the Known
World, including most of the lands covered in the Gazetteer
series, slowly become habitable as the ice recedes from former
polar regions.
2900 BC: The Immortal named Garal Glitterlode created
the gnomish race, planting colonies of them in the land that
would later become Rockhome and the mountains of the northern
continent.
2800 BC: New elven nation on the southern continent
land of Vulcania divides on magic vs. technology. A separatist
branch of the southern elves, led by Ilsundal the Wise, decides
to abandon Blackmoor technology and return to the
nature-oriented magic of their ancestors. They begin a long
migration northward in the hope of finding the lost colony of
elves that had settled near Blackmoor.
Azcans and Oltecs on the outer world have practically
vanished, dispersed across the world and culturally transformed
in every case. A small number of survivors take refuge in the
caves of a mighty plateau. These are the ancestors of the
modern Atruaghin Clan. This plateau, although impressive, is
nowhere near as grand as the one that now stands in the lands
north of the Sea of Dread. They retain a dim memory, retold and
altered into myth and folklore, of Azcan and Oltec glory and
strife. They also remember the mysterious disappearance of many
kin.
2500 BC: Gnomes and dwarves enter the Northern Reaches
region and settle in its hills and mountains as the continental
ice sheets recede.
The Taymora humans settle the southern shores of the
northern continent.
Climatic changes due to the axial shift have rendered
the lands of Blackmoor and the elves uninhabitable. In Vulcania,
the elvish civilization is losing its battle with the elements;
it has forgotten most of its magic and its Blackmoor technology
is failing. A second separatist group of southern elves begins
its long march northward.
2400 BC: The land that was Hyborea is now warming up;
the Beastmen migrate to the area that was once Blackmoor, which
is now the northern pole, and thrive there. They are beginning
to breed true, in recognizable species. The tribes gather at
Urzud.
A great volcanic explosion occurs in Vulcania,
destroying the remnants of the southern elvish civilization.
A human culture, the Antalian tribes (descendants of
the Neathar) are flourishing in the area later to be called
Norwold. They are a blond, warlike culture with bronze weapons
and armor.
2300 BC: Ilsundal's elves have crossed the Strait of
Izonda to the Immortal's Arm, then headed east along the
Savage Coast. Another group took another route through the
Adakkian Sound, where they rejoined Ilsundal's band and
continued with them.
Elves arrive in and settle the eastern and central
Savage Coast. They live alongside, but not among, Oltecs. (RS)
The Sheyallia clan turns south, onto the Serpent
Peninsula, and settle in the forest. The Meditor and Verdier
clans, disliking the increasingly rainy and hot climate, sail
east in search of better lands.
2200 BC: Some elves break off from Ilsundal's migration
and eventually find their way to the frozen valleys of Glantri,
where they settle. A few survivors from the second migration
from Vulcania also reach Glantri and settle among their
cousins.
Some Tanagoro colonists from halfway around the world
reach the Serpent Peninsula and decide they like they abundant
rain forests. However, the elves regard their slash-and-burn
agriculture with horror. Eventually, they work out a
compromise: the Tanagoros keep to the coastlines and forest
fringes, while the elves withdraw deeper into the forest.
2100 BC: Meditor and Verdier elf clans leave Ilsundal's
northward migrations and settle in southern Traldar lands
(Karameikos).
The main force of Ilsundal's migration reaches the
Sylvan Realm, far to the west of lands such as Karameikos and
Thyatis.
2000 BC: The Beastmen have now evolved into the modern
species of orcs, goblins, ogres, giants, and trolls.
The Ethengars arrive on the fertile lands of the Steppes.
First human settlements in the coastal and island
lowlands of the Northern Reaches.
Elven and human mages settle in the forests of the
western Savage Coast, supplanting aranea; they name their land
Herath. Enduks are created on the Orc's head Peninsula and
begin building the civilization of Nimmur. (RS)
2000 - 1750 BC: An agricultural settlement flourishes
along the River Nithia. It swiftly becomes the seat of a
fast-growing culture.
Tribal humans, swarthy descendants of Oltec and Neathar
tribes, also settle in the coastal and island lowlands of the
Northern Reaches, in the Ethengar Steppes.
Antalian colonists migrate southward into the lands
later to be called the Northern Reaches.
1900 BC: On the great continent to the east of Alphatia
and Bellissaria, a nomadic, cavalry-based race of warriors
grows strong. These are the Jennites, copper-skinned
descendants of an Oltec expeditionary party; their language and
customs have evolved far away from their Oltec origins.
1800 BC: The dwarfish race on the Known World is
slowly, inevitably dying out. The Immortal called Kagyar the
Artisan takes all remaining dwarves in the Known World. Half he
transplants to the Hollow World, and half he reshapes into a
new dwarven race. Now there are no remnants of the original
dwarven race on the outer world. Some of the "new dwarves" are
returned to the Northern Reaches, where the largest dwarf
colonies had been, and eventually become the Modrigswerg clans;
others are planted in the Rockhome region. Both groups are
given false memories and believe that the Modrigswerg dwarves
also originally lived in the Rockhome lands.
In the Sylvan Realm, Ilsundal creates the first elvish
Tree of Life and becomes an Immortal.
The Steel Wars divide the humanoid tribes. Plague,
famine, and massacres ravage Urzud, and the population
dwindles.
1750 BC: The earthquakes that rock the Sea of Dread
drastically change the Serpent Peninsula. The Tanagoro culture
collapses into warring tribes. They tear the original
Atruaghin Plateau from the mainland, forming the Ierendi
islands.
Copper-skinned people fleeing the earthquakes the
destroyed the original Atruaghin Plateau join light-skinned
Urduk tribesmen, descendants of the Neathar tribesmen, in the
Great Waste.
1750 - 1500 BC: The human tribes along the River Nithia
progress from Bronze Age to Iron Age metals technology. A
jackal-headed creature named Pflarr achieves Immortality.
1725 BC: King Loark of the humanoids organizes an army
of humanoids known as the Great Horde. They migrate
southeastward into the lands of men, ravaging as they go,
continuing Loark's Quest for a Blue Knife. Great waves of hill
goblins, trolls, and giants especially begin moving southward
into areas now occupied by human settlers.
1722 BC: The Great Horde of King Loark ravages Norwold
and learns Norse culture, sending the Antalian culture there
into a dark age; the Immortals Odin and Thor send intact
communities of Antalians into the Hollow World. (The
descendants of the outer-world Antalians eventually become the
men of the Heldann Freeholds.)
1720 BC: Akilla-Khan conquers the southern steppes of
Ethengar.
1711 BC: Great Horde reaches pre-khanate Ethengar.
Akilla-Khan allies with King Loark against the Ethengarian
nomads.
1710 BC: The Great Horde of King Loark invades the
Ethengar Steppes and enslaves the primitive Ethengars. King
Loark's horde is joined by Akilla-Khan's humanoid horde.
Together they ravage the steppes.
1709 BC: Akilla-Khan betrays King Loark in exchange for
lands west of the Dol-Anur. The Great Horde is defeated at the
Battle of Chongor, in ancient Ethengar. King Loark's Great
Horde splinters; the trolls head east, the goblins south, and
the rest of the Great Horde is driven out of the steppes into
the Broken Lands and settles there.
Part 2
1700 BC: The elves of Glantri discover, in the Broken
Lands, a strange artifact from the lost Blackmoor civilization.
They tinker with it, and the artifact explodes cataclysmically,
sending impenetrable clouds into the sky (which last for
years), and spreading a strange rotting plague among the
surviving elves - those who were far enough away to survive.
The elves shelter themselves in the deepest caves of Glantri.
They find an incredible series of caverns there and begin a
years-long migration. The traveling tribes are separated from
one another. These are the ancestors of the Hollow World's
Gentle Folk, Icevale Elves, and the Schattenalfen. A fourth
group, led by an elf named Atziann, had no survivors save that
king. Some emerge, years later, hundreds of miles south, past
the Broken lands. Some perish.
The catastrophe forms the Land of the Black Sand in the
Ethengar Steppes.
Elsewhere, a series of great volcanic eruptions and
earthquakes split several large land masses away from what is
now the Five Shires and Atruaghin Clans area; aboriginal
(Neathar-descended) peoples called the Makai and lizardmen
called Malpheggi are stranded on the new islands. The Taymora
civilization is destroyed. The plateau under which the
surviving Azcans have been living largely collapses, killing
many of them and leaving the survivors in a shattered, hostile
land.
Meditor elves are stranded on the newly formed
Minrothad Isles.
The local cataclysm rakes the Broken Lands and buries
the Great Horde. King Loark dies, and his horde breaks apart.
Giants, trolls, and gnolls are driven south into the Northern
Reaches in successive waves of migration.
Goblinoids settle in the Yazak Steppes. (RS)
1691 BC: Baka betrays Akilla-Khan and drives his
humanoids into the Broken Lands.
1690 BC: Akilla-Khan builds a fortress in the Broken
Lands, and starts raiding Glantri and Ethengar borders.
1688 BC: Akilla-Khan retires from the world and becomes
an Immortal, He takes the name of Yagrai. Unaware of the truth,
Ethengarians rejoice. Baka declared Khan of all Ethengars.
1681 BC: Baka Khan is poisoned. The Ethengars war over
his successor. The War of Succession starts.
1680 BC: Land masses split further, forming 10 islands
south of the Five Shires.
Verdier elves build ships and join their cousins, the
Meditor clan, in the Sea of Dread.
1675 BC: Tahkati Stormtamer unites the tribes that are
now known as the Children of the Horse and leads them in
conquest of the other tribes that now make up the Atruaghin
Clans. Eventually, he becomes an Immortal.
1650 BC: Atziann, king and sole survivor of a clan of
Glantri elves who had been driven underground, comes across the
Hollow World Azcans, emerging near Chitlacan. Fascinated by
these people, he spends several years among them (in disguise)
and studying their ways before leaving to pursue his dream of
Immortality.
1600 BC: Tensions erupt between the two largest Jennite
hordes: One horde, the more traditional of the two, has woman
warriors, while the other has virtually enslaved its women. The
Immortal Tarastia enjoins the more traditional horde to conquer
the other, but the resulting holy war all but destroys Jennite
civilization. (By the time the Alphatians reach the Known
World, six centuries later, the outer-world Jennites have
regressed to stone-age barbarism, their previous glory all but
forgotten.)
1500 BC: Nithian culture begins its climb to greatness.
One colonial expedition led by the Nithian Traldar clan travels
to the lands now known as Karameikos. As these colonies spread
out, they become the first humans to inhabit Darokin.
The Immortal Pflarr creates a jackal-headed
servitor-race he calls the Hutaaka. He uses many of them as
agents, heralds, and servants throughout the known world; he
plants a large colony of them in mountains south of the
Nithians.
Modest Bronze Age human cultures in the eastern
lowlands of the Northern Reaches.
Sophisticated gnomish and dwarven cultures co-exist
with primitive giantish clans in the western uplands of the
Northern Reaches.
The elf, Atziann attains Immortality and adopts the
Azcan form of his name, Atzanteotl, "Atziann the Divine." He
begins whispering to the priests that rule Azcan society and
selected subterranean elves, turning them to evil and entropy.
Only Atruatzin, the Azcan priest-king, who would later become
Atruaghin, resists the Immortal.
A group of halflings pause in their northward
migration at Thanegia Island. Dismayed by the unrest in the
land, they quickly move on.
On the Alphatians' world, the civilization has achieved
total mastery of its environment; the great universities are at
the peak of their powers and just beginning to indulge in
serious scholastic competitions and squabbles.
1494 BC: A terrible plague strikes Chitlacan, killing
almost two thirds of its population. Atruatzin, himself a
survivor of the disease, and his most faithful followers are
driven out of Chitlacan by his philosophical and political
rivals (who follow Atzanteotl). They settle in the fortress of
Quauhnahuac.
1484 BC: Driven by the whispers of Atzanteotl, and his
own fear that Atruatzin might reclaim the throne, the
treacherous Azcan usurper leads an massive assault on
Quauhnuac. Everyone found in the fortress is slain or
sacrifices, but there is no trace of Atruatzin or his inner
circle. The priests curse the land on which Quauhnahuac is
built, and sow salt among the ruins.
1470 BC: The Chochomecs (an Azcan tribe) desert
Atacalpa, migrating to Oltec lands of the east.
1468 BC: Atruatzin and his loyal companions find a
resting-place, where they establish a temple to the old gods.
They name it Mictlan, the "Land of the Dead."
1420 BC: The underground elven wanderers stumble upon
Mictlan, and overthrow the humans. Those elves who have been
seduced by Atzanteotl declare that the temple is sacred to him,
and he has given them victory over their enemies and a place to
call home. These elves become the Schattenalfen. Most of the
elves are uneasy about this alien Immortal, but they are weary,
and so they settle and build the city of Aengmor. All of
Atruatzin's followers are slain; he alone escapes.
1410 BC: Atruatzin reaches the surface world in his
quest for meaning in his life. He finds the lost descendants of
the surface world Azcans and Oltecs living in the shattered
lands north of the Sea of Dread.
1400 BC: Within a few generations, the Traldar settlers
have suffered enormous population losses (through bad winters,
animal attacks, and disease), have lost most of the materials
and time necessary to forge metal (and consequently have
forgotten how), and have reverted to a pre-agrarian lifestyle.
They now fall under the domination of the Hutaaka humanoid
people from the northern mountainous region.
Denwarf, golem-like leader of the Known World's
dwarves, settles his people in the great cavern called Dengar
and disappears into the lower caverns.
A group of Schattenalfen are driven out of Aengmor (by
the will of their patron). They retrace an earlier expedition's
path to the Hollow World.
Atruatzin, who now calls himself Atruaghin, unites the
warring tribes he lives among. His skill as a warrior and
leader makes the a challenging, but not impossible task. The
newly unified people begin to call themselves the Children of
Atruaghin - the outside world calls them the Atruaghin Clans.
1395 BC: After an unsuccessful bid to unseat the
Kogolor dwarves, the Schattenalfen move on to settle near the
Azcans, with whom they immediately make war. Atzanteotl
delights in and encourages the instant, uncompromising enmity
among his followers.
1310 BC: Quest for Steel; Wogar Tribe migrates west
from Blackmoor to a great lake, called the Cradle.
1305 BC: Prophecy from King Wogar's Great Shaman; Wogar
Tribe moves south, along a major river, following the Great
Shaman's floating gri-gri.
1300 BC: The halflings from the southern continent,
long-abandoned by their friends the elves, and increasingly
endangered by the ever-growing human population, make a mass
naval migration to the northern continent. They settle the area
later called the Five Shires, which they name Faerdinel. They
become friends with a declining, pacifistic clan of elves
called the Gentle Folk.
In the Savage Coast, goblinoid hordes decimate elven
and Oltec civilization. Those humans and elves who remain fall
to a savage, semi-nomadic existence. (RS)
1299 BC: Vestland trolls miss a turn and pop-up in
Broken Lands. Trollhattan is founded. Bagni Gullymaw eats an
elephant. Nithia enslaves the Black Moon horde of trolls.
1296 BC: Ogres kill King Wogar's Great Shaman at the
Battle of Khuzud, and flee with his treasure. They settle in
the Sind Desert and learn local culture.
1290 BC: The outer-world Shadow Elf city of Aengmor is
"destroyed" (actually, merely surrounded by lava and made
uninhabitable) during a volcanic eruption; many Schattenalfen
escape, burrowing deeper into the crust of the earth. Actually,
this is part of a grand scheme of Atzanteotl, their patron.
1270 BC: Great Drought dries up the ogres' wells in
Sind. The ogres migrate east, devastating and enslaving Sind
villages.
A great goblin horde lead by Wogar drives through Hule.
They ravage the land, slaughtering many people and enslaving
the others. Their reign of terror ends when Hosadus, a young
holy man, convinces the horde's leaders that the sacred blue
knife they seek lies to the east, beyond the Black Mountains -
beyond even the Great Waste. Wogar and most of his horde move
on, spurred by the unexpected revelation. The remainder stays
in Hule as followers of Hosadus.
1269 BC: Ogres settle in Broken Lands. They found
Ogremoor.
1265 BC: Ahmanni Turtlerider and Atruaghin become
lovers. Atruaghin's ageless nature becomes apparent, making
marriage between them impossible.
1263 BC: Wogar becomes an Immortal. His tribe continues
along the coast to Atruaghin. They learn the use of feathers,
war paints, light cavalry tactics, and scalping.
1262 BC: A small band of Urduk explorers from Sindh
stumble upon the ancient city of the Karimari, and convince
them to reduce their isolationism.
1260 BC: Atruaghin leaves the Atruaghin Clans to
explore the surface world in a search for the nature of his
seemingly eternal youth. He appoints new chiefs to each of the
Clans and establishes the Words of Atruaghin that his people
live by to this day.
1259 BC: Tahkati Stormtamer, now an Immortal, agrees to
help Atzanteotl in destroying the work that Atruaghin has done
in uniting the Atruaghin Clans.
1257 BC: Wogar Tribe, Red Orcs, conquers and enslaves
the people of the Atruaghin Clans. Their rule is oppressive and
savage. Tahkati Stormtamer realizes that he has been betrayed
by Atzanteotl and breaks all ties with the Immortals of
Entropy. He vows vengeance.
1254 BC: Wogar Tribe splits into three nations. One
settles south of Atruaghin, another in the Five Shires. The
last goes north, and torches a trading post called Akorros,
then moves to central Broken Lands.
1190 BC: Descendants of the Great Horde resurface in
the Broken Lands. The Tribes meet again and discover the Rock
of Oenkmar and a knife they mistake for one of their legendary
artifacts. End of the Quest for a Blue Knife. Truce proclaimed.
1104 BC: Underground elves discover the Refuge of Stone
and take the name of shadow elves unto themselves. Building
work begins on the City of Stars.
1100 BC: Nithians lead by Minroth colonize the islands
later to be called the Minrothad islands, and found Harbortown.
Nithians under Prince Ramenhotep establish the colony
of Thothia on the Isle of Dawn. This is the eastern extent of
Nithian colonization.
1090 BC: On the Alphatians' world, the Followers of
Flame begin their serious rivalry with the Followers of Air.
1050 BC: Great wizards of the Nithians, inspired by the
Immortal Pflarr's servant race (the Hutaaka), create the gnoll
race by magically blending trolls and gnomes. But they've been
deluded that the results might be an equivalent servant-race
for the Nithians; instead, the gnolls turn out to be savage,
strong, warlike, and prolific. They rebel; they escape and
later invade Karameikos. Nithian priests visit the Shamans of
Oenkmar. Atzanteotl is increasingly offended.
1027 BC: On the Alphatians' world, sporadic violence
breaks out between the Followers of Flame and Followers of Air.
1010 BC: On the Alphatians' world, a temporary peace
results from one academian's proposal of the Flame vs. Air
essay debate.
1009 BC: On the Alphatians' world, Emperor Alphaks I
arbitrarily declares the Flames to have won the debate.
Outrage, protest, rebellion and revolt result; the Followers of
Flame war with the Followers of Air.
1000 BC: The Broken Lands are overpopulated. Broken Lands
orcs, ogres, trolls, gnolls, and goblins migrate outward,
especially southward, displacing other humanoid tribes before
them. All forces join and raid Rockhome; they are defeated by
dwarven King Blystar III. Minor raids go on for 500 years.
Orcs from the Broken Lands invade and conquer the
region now known as the Five Shires. Their reign is brutal, to
say the least.
Gnolls cross southern Darokin and invade Traldar lands,
destroying their Golden Age. Most of the Darokin humans flee
north, right into orc territory, where few survive. The
Hutaakans retreat to their valley while the Traldar and gnolls
practically annihilate one another. By the time the gnolls
retreat, the Traldar population is 20% of its pre-invasion
amount. Many seafaring Traldar, led by a lesser king named
Milen, flee south across the Sea of Dread, and reach the
southern continent to the east of what would later be called
the Hinterlands. They travel far upriver, and establish a new
kingdom there.
Elsewhere, nonhuman tribal movements pit tribes of orcs
and goblins against the dwarves.
Gruugrakh gnolls, fleeing their Nithian masters, first
come to the Plain of Fire and settle there.
The Nithian Empire is at its peak; it is the first
post-Blackmoor empire in the world. It features monumental
architecture, large urban complexes in the delta region of the
River Nithia, conquest of neighboring states, establishment of
more remote colonies, and the development of sophisticated arts
and culture. Colonies are planted in the Makai islands (south
of the Five Shires area), where they conquer the aboriginal
natives. The humans of the Northern Reaches areas are conquered
and enslaved by the Nithian Empire. The Nithians, made curious
about the southern continent by the Traldar flight in that
direction, transport many Northern Reaches slaves to Harbortown
and thence to the southern continent, to colonize there. This
is the southern limit of Nithian expansion, and it isn't very
successful; The Northern Reaches slaves soon rebel and slay
their Nithian overlords. These tribes carve out their own
territory in the southern continent, and are the forefathers of
the Thyatian, Kerendan and Hattian tribes who later found the
empire of Thyatis.
Black explorers from Tangor find and colonize the Pearl
Islands.
On the Alphatians' world, the war between the Followers
of Air and Followers of Flame reaches its zenith. The Followers
of Flame are defeated. Alphaks is banished. Old Alphatia is
destroyed; the Followers of Air come to the Known World to
settle on the great continent they name Alphatia, bringing
along natural strains of wolf and tiger lycanthropy. They
proceed to build a mighty empire based on magic.
1000 - 610 BC: Orcs, part of the migration from the
Broken Lands, invade the Five Shires region and enslave the
halflings. The Gentle Folk elves of the Five Shires region
disappear or are destroyed by the orcs. Over a period of four
hundred years, the halflings are conquered and reconquered by
orcs, dwarves, and bandits of different races; eventually they
reclaim their land and establish a strong kingdom.
900 BC: Atruaghin returns to the Hollow World briefly.
He visits the ruins of Quauhnahuac and uses his ever increasing
power to create Atruaghin's Mystic Conveyor, a powerful magical
artifact the links the Known and Hollow Worlds.
800 BC: The ice finally recedes to the north of Glantri.
Elves led by Mealiden Starwatcher leave the Sylvan
Realm via the magical rainbow; they carry nine seedlings of the
tree of life with them. They land in the forested regions of
what would later be called Thyatis, but are driven out by the
warlike humans there, and flee northward. The Callarii clan
settles in Traladara territory; most of the rest settle in a
windy steppes area. Elvish wizards begin to alter those steppes
with their magic, changing the land nearly overnight into
terrain where a mighty forest could flourish. In the process,
they drive orcs from the open lands to the west.
One of the elf-clans, the Shiye, listens to the
guidance of the elf-immortal Eiryndul and makes a dangerous
crossing to the continent of Alphatia, where they set up their
own kingdom in the deep central forests of that continent.
Using the artifact he constructed at Quauhnahuac,
Atruaghin returns from his exploration of the Known and Hollow
Worlds to lead his adopted people in a revolt against the Red
Orcs. The conflict is savage, but in the end the Children of
Atruaghin are successful.
Deep in the southern continent, the Milenians,
descendants of the Traldar, are flourishing, conquering the
surrounding tribes, and establishing a strong empire.
Human clans begin building permanent settlements in
Darokin.
795 BC: Atruaghin recalls the memory of that great
plateau that once stood in the lands of his people. Using
magics and powers that he has acquired from his travels
throughout the Known and Hollow Worlds, he calls it back into
existence that the Children of Atruaghin might never again fear
invasion. Atruaghin, having completed the Path of the Polymath,
becomes an Immortal in the Sphere of Thought in recognition of
his lifelong struggle against entropy.
792 BC: Atzanteotl begins to turn Danel Tigerstripes
against Atruaghin and his followers. Atruaghin sends Hattani
Stoneclaw, leader of the Bear Clan, to prevent his corruption.
The intervention is too late, the Children of the Tiger begin
to worship Atzanteotl and Hattani Stoneclaw becomes an
Immortal.
700 BC: Thanatos, Immortal of the Sphere of Entropy,
helped by the Immortal Ranivorus, corrupts the pharaoh of the
Nithians. The pharaoh turns the Nithian empire toward worship
of Entropy.
The Nithian colonists in Thothia turn away from the
Entropic faith of their homeland and increasingly turn to a new
form of mysticism.
Nithians arrive on the Savage Coast. They interbreed
somewhat with Oltecs Elves of the eastern coast establish
settlements in and around what will eventually become Torreon
and Narvaez. (RS)
Mealiden is acclaimed king of Alfheim.
610 BC: Inspired by the example of Atruaghin and his
people some two centuries before, the Hin revolt against the
humanoids and reclaim their place as an independent state. The
modern Five Shires are born.
600 BC: Three warrior-tribes from the southern
continent (the Thyatians, Kerendans, and Hattians),
hard-pressed by the Milenians to the south, migrate to the
northern continent.
572 BC: The hin formally organize their land into five
semiautonomous Shires, each ruled by an elected Sheriff.
556 BC: A boy named Yav is born to an elven mother and
a Tanagoro father in the Serpent Peninsula. He is the
strongest seer yet known in the area, and his many timely
warnings of hurricanes and other disasters make him a hero.
529 BC: A series of abuses by the Serpent Peninsula
seers cause a major revolt. Elven purists slaughter every seer
they can find. Some take more extreme measures, killing people
of mixed elven and human blood regardless of their
precognitive abilities. The unrest ends with the power of the
seers broken and the Sheyallia elves fleeing the wrath of the
Tanagoro people. Yav vanishes; it is thought the elves killed
him.
528 BC: 3,000 Sheyallia elves fleeing from the Serpent
Peninsula stumble into the Plain of Fire and discover the
intricate networks of caves and tunnels beneath. The settle,
war with the gnolls, and eventually cooperate with them.
500 BC: The Traldar are in the midst of their Dark Age.
Communication between communities is infrequent. Local dialects
begin to differ widely. The national epic of King Halav is the
only thing which gives the people a sense of unity. Linguistic
changes are already advanced enough that the people consider
themselves Traladara, descendants of the Traldar, the people of
King Halav.
Elsewhere, the Nithian Empire, having incurred Immortal
dislike, abruptly ends; the Immortals alter the climate, divert
the headwaters of the River Nithia, promote social unrest, deny
magical powers to their clerics, and take other actions which
cause the Empire to collapse catastrophically. The Immortals
use magic to ensure that almost all trace of the Empire is
wiped from the face of the Known World. The colonies are
systematically destroyed - except for Thothia, which has
already turned away from the Entropic faith which led to the
destruction of Nithia.
Ancestors of modern Alasiyan peoples withdraw to
desert basins and establish a nomadic culture. Weak mainland
human tribal cultures in the Northern Reaches are at the mercy
of giantish clans. The remaining Black Moon gnolls scatter east
and west.
In the Ierendi islands, the Malpheggi lizard men,
doomed to extinction by a parasitic plague brought by the
Nithian colonists, wipe out the Nithians before dying
themselves. This is part of the Immortal plan to destroy the
Nithian Empire.
By now, the steppes where Mealiden's elves settled have
become the mighty Canolbarth forest.
By now, the Thyatians, Kerendans and Hattians have
conquered and assimilated the human tribes who opposed them;
they are now in full control of the region which will one day
be called Thyatis.
Yav, known as Mulogo, convinces the Tanagoro people of
the Serpent Peninsula to sail across the Western Sea and
settle on the Immortal's Arm.
Herath wars with Wallara; manscorpions betray the
enduks and take possession of Nimmur; Nithians disappear,
leaving little evidence other than a few relics and pyramids.
The Red Curse is created, but confined by Herathian mages in
portions of the eastern Savage Coast. (RS)
493 BC: Queen Ubdala of the Broken Lands raises Great
Horde again. She recruits goblins and gnolls in the Altan
Tepes, and marches north.
492 BC: At the battle of Sardal Pass, they are routed,
the orcs utterly massacred. Ubdala dies. Hordes routed south
and west, crowding Cruth mountains and Altan Tepes. Gnomes
kicked out.
490 BC: Kobold clans are driven into the uplands of the
Northern Reaches from the west. They overrun and exterminate
the gnomes, and occupy their subterranean kingdoms.
480 BC: Yav leaves the Tanagoro and sails back to the
Serpent Peninsula to search for what was causing the unnatural
greed and selfish thoughts (not to mention precognitive
abilities) of residents.
452 BC: Mahmatti Running Elk becomes an Immortal after
becoming one of the most powerful shamani ever to exist atop
the Atruaghin Plateau.
450 BC: Dwarves arrive along the eastern Savage Coast
and build small colonies. (RS)
400 BC: The prophet Mulogo (actually Yav) reappears
and leads the People of Yav from the Immortal's Arm back to
Thanegia Island.
350 BC: Mealiden abdicates the throne to follow
Ilsundal's path to Immortality. Alevar of the Grunalf clan
becomes king of Alfheim.
322 BC: A Schattenalfen attack annihilates the southern
Azcan city of Axateotl for the seventh, and last, time.
251 BC: A legendary gnome craftsman named Glimreen
Gemeye discovers a jet engine artifact of the destroyed
Blackmoor civilization.
250 BC: Mealiden becomes an Immortal of the Sphere of
Energy.
200 BC: Tritons fleeing from their devilfish enemies
enter the Sunlit Sea and establish the Kingdom of Undersea in
the waters between the islands of Ierendi and Minrothad.
By now, orcs control the land to the west of the
Streel River, as far south as Akorros. The also control the
Broken Lands, southern Glantri, and most of Ethengar. Humans
control the areas south of Akorros; elves control Alfheim to
the east.
Alphatians begin settling the region of the Peninsula
of Esterhold. They use their magic and sophisticated military
forces to drive most of the Jennites back several hundred
miles and enslave the rest.
The centuries-old Milenian Empire begins to weaken.
192 BC: The Alphatians, annoyed by the piratical
activities of the Thyatian tribes, launch a campaign to conquer
Thyatis.
190 BC: The Alphatians complete their conquest of
Thyatis; Thyatis is now part of the Alphatian empire.
150 BC: The outer-world Shadow Elves contact the
humanoid tribes of the Broken Lands, spreading their hatred of
the above-ground elves and persuading the humanoids to attack
Alfheim.
Tortle civilization rises on the central Savage Coast.
(RS)
100 BC: The Milenian civilization has grown soft and
decadent. It enslaves surrounding tribes and nations; most
soldiers in the Milenian army are conscripts from conquered
tribes. The Immortals decide to preserve the Empire in its
earlier, more heroic form; they transport to the Hollow World
all Milenians who adhere to the earlier Milenian goals and
desires. Depriving the Milenians of their few remaining true
warriors and uncorrupted government leaders sends the empire to
its doom even more swiftly.
Newcomers reach Skothar's southwestern shores. They
come from the continent of Davania, fleeing the collapse of
the Milenian Empire and seeking to establish a colony where
their way of life could survive. They find the coast already
inhabited, and ask and are granted permission by the nearby
natives to settle a stretch of wilderness between two
prosperous Jennite cities.
In the Lost Valley of the Hutaaka, the descendants of
the Traldar finally free themselves from Hutaakan rulership and
begin warring on their former masters. This racial war is
destined to go on for another 1,100 years.
50 BC: The decadent Milenian civilization collapses
utterly under the attacks of surrounding tribes.
2 BC: Lucinius Trenzantenbium, a Thyatian-born,
Alphatian-trained wizard, kills the Alphatian wizards in
Thyatis and declares himself King of Thyatis; was breaks out
between Thyatis and Alphatia.
0 AC: The economies of both Thyatis and Alphatia have
been wrecked by the war; the two powers conduct a peace treaty
in the city of Edairo, the capital of Thothia (on the Isle of
Dawn). Later, in Thyatis, General Zendrolion Tatriokanitas
assassinates King Lucinius and several other kings gathered
there, and crowns himself Emperor of Thyatis, Ochalea and the
Pearl Islands. The Thyatians celebrate for weeks. Thyatians do
some trading with Minroth islanders.
The Traladara begin a period of regrowth as trade is
slowly established with southern peoples. Peaceable demihumans
(the Callarii elves and the Highforge gnomes) settle in
Traladara territories; warlike demihumans (goblins, hobgoblins,
orcs) do as well, in lesser numbers.
Early Alasiyan agricultural settlements along coastal
plain and interior desert oases.
1 AC: Yav reappears once again, attempting to fix an
artifact. However, the fix drains all ambition from the
Tanagoro.
21 AC: Ansel Darokin declares himself King of Darokin,
beginning the reign of the Eastwind Kings.
39 AC: The Flying City of Serraine makes its maiden
flight.
67 AC: Orcs living near Lake Amsorak wrest most of
Darokin from its human inhabitants in this bloody summer. The
humans and elves of Darokin join forces to drive the orcs out;
they're successful. Thousands of orcs flee into Nagpuri,
slaying and pillaging as they overrun the lands. Nagpuri's
warriors must contend with orc troubles for the next decade.
87 AC: Aden I, King of Darokin, is killed by orcs,
ending the Eastwind reign.
88 AC: Orcs make major gains against the leaderless
Darokin humans, forcing the Elves of Alfheim to support Corwyn
Attleson as a compromise choice to lead Darokin. The reign of
Darokin Kings begins.
100 AC: Descendants of Makistani tribal nomads enter
Ylarum from the north and settle the Ust-Urt Valley.
Celedryl of the Erendyl clan is crowned king of Alfheim.
Goblinoid hordes sweep the Savage Coast again. Tortle
civilization falls, and humans, dwarves, and elves remaining
along the eastern coast are prompted to build permanent
settlements. (RS)
100 - 150 AC: Three prominent families rise to power
in the Asanda plain - the Pratikutas of Putnabad (which
includes present-day Jaibul and Jalawar), the Rastrapalas of
Shajarkand, and the Mahavarmans of Nagpuri and Gunjab.
Throughout the century, successive generations gain and lose
power and ground in almost constant struggles for control.
122 AC: In Darokin, Corwyn I dies after a long and
successful reign. His son, Corwyn II, assumes power.
150 AC: Thyatians begin colonizing into the
southeastern coastal plain and the foothills of the Altan Tepe
range in Ylarum, enslaving and assimilating, and scattering the
indigenous population.
179 AC: The Pratikutas seize control of the entire
length of the Asanda River and most of the Salt Swamp -
despite internal problems with revolts and rebellions.
186 AC: Rajah Vijay Pratikuta dies, leaving Putnabad
to Sarad, his only son. Rajah Sarad's weak rules loses all but
a fraction of Putnabad's territory. Newly-powerful families
rule in Jalawar and Jhengal. Other rajahs suspect these new
rulers are shape shifters.
200 AC: Rockhome dwarves begin colonizing into outside
lands; they are usually welcomed into human communities.
250 AC: The Alphatians begin colonizing into the
northern and central coastal plain of Ylarum, enslaving and
scattering the indigenous population. Some of the Ylari driven
out by the Alphatian and Thyatian aggression migrate to
Darokin. The Alphatians also found the colony of New Alphatia
on the Isle of Dread; Alphatian magic is adapted to seafaring
needs.
Alphatian settlers colonize the side of Trader's Isle
left uninhabited by the Minroth traders. At first they fight,
but soon trade wins over war.
Nomads driven from their homelands in Ylarum by
Thyatian colonists make their way into Darokin and then into
Sind. They bring with them single-humped dromedaries, fine
horses, and techniques for making /flying carpets/. Some
settle in Sindhi towns. Many more find kindred spirits in the
Urduk nomads west of Sind and add their herds and desert
traditions to those of their new-found brethren. Rajahs
seeking to strengthen their armies with Ylari warriors try to
attract Ylari settlers to their lands.
276 AC: Human and elf cultures in the Isles of Dread
meet and establish trade.
284 AC: Minrothian and Alphatian cultures clash on
Dread Island over slave trading issues; elves force the humans
to make peace.
293 AC: Last of the orc tribes driven from Darokin.
300 AC: The water elf trading port of Seahome is
established on Alfeisle in the Minrothad isles.
330 AC: A group of humans exploring deep underground
finds the shadow elves and rekindles their interest in the
surface world.
360 AC: Minroth traders carry slaves for Thyatian
Empire; halfling slaves are introduced to the Isles of Dread.
390 AC: Disastrous humanoid raid on Alfheim. Some orcs
captured.
395 AC: The Flaems, an offshoot of the Alphatians from
the original Alphatian homeworld, settle the Glantri area where
they discover the Radiance. They bring natural strains of bear
and boar lycanthropy.
400 AC: Ostland raiders range south to Thyatis and
north to Norwold. Mainland Northern Reaches tribes are
victimized by the sea raiders and by giantish clans.
The Flaems discover that other, enemy Alphatians are in
possession of the mighty Alphatian empire to the east.
The Traladaran village of Marilenev begins doing more
trade business than fishing and begins slow, gradual growth
from the increasing trade. Thyatian clerics learn the "Song of
King Halav" and commit it to writing for the first time.
Rogue Alphatian wizards attempting to develop a
hardier, more powerful Alphatian race create fast-spreading
magical strains of the curses of vampirism and lycanthropy.
401 AC: A two-month epidemic of lycanthropy in Alphatia
results in thousands of werecreatures and dozens of weretypes.
The newly-formed Alphatian Center for Disease Control acts
quickly to limit the effects of the epidemic.
406 AC: The magical strain of lycanthropy stabilizes
into seven primary weretypes - wolf, boar, tiger, bear, bat,
fox, and giant hawk.
410 AC: Minroth traders unwittingly help spread the
new vampirism and lycanthropy throughout the seafaring world,
including the Kingdom of Undersea.
411 AC: The first wererat awakens to intelligence and
the stunning revelation that he can take human form. He calls
himself Mrikitat.
415 AC: Weresharks first appear in Undersea, triggering
an epidemic of lycanthropy among the sea peoples.
419 AC: Normal seals carry lycanthropy to the sub-polar
regions of Mystara.
425 AC: Minrothad traders unwittingly introduce
lycanthropy to Sind. The disease threatens to overrun every
level of Sindhi society. Weretigers are especially prevalent.
Other shape shifters already in Sind see this as an
opportunity to unite their kind - dopplegangers and mujinas
allying with lycanthropes - and seize complete control of the
area.
Ka the Preserver, an Immortal, fears this would
irrevocably alter Sindian culture and transplants nearly half
of the Sindhi population to the Hollow World before the shape
shifters can effect their takeover. Ka gives false memories to
those he transplants - memories of an outer world Sind once
ruled by shape shifters called /chambahara/, or "deformed
animals."
Those left behind also receive false memories of a
devastating plague that killed half the Sindhi population.
They are left with many shape shifters to contend with, as Ka
transported only a fraction of the shape shifting population
to the Hollow World. For a while, a Sind ruled by shape
shifters becomes a reality.
443 - 445 AC: Expeditions of elves and humans attempt
to purge Dread Island of all lycanthropes; human population is
decimated; this time is called the Silver Purge. Similar events
take place in Undersea, during the Night of the Long Knives;
many weresharks flee to deeper waters. Werecreatures know this
time as the Great Persecution.
445 - 450 AC: Lycanthropes fleeing from the Great
Persecution establish colonies on every continent.
450 AC: Malf Quickhand leads a halfling slave revolt;
newly-freed halflings take ships and migrate to the island they
name Open Isle.
Traldar arrive in the Savage Coast region. They
establish several city-states on the eastern shores of the
Gulf of Hule. Traldar who settle on the western shores are
absorbed into existing human cultures descended from the
Oltecs. Humans of the eastern coast begin to establish
permanent villages and begin to intermingle with elves of the
region. (RS)
451 AC: Mrikitat establishes a nation of wererats in
the sewers beneath the City of Thyatis.
Sindhi mages led by Maga Aditi, a name-level female
magic-user, unite and overthrow the shape shifters. A brutal
purge follows. Elaborate tests and carefully plotted traps
expose a great many shape shifters - dopplegangers and
lycanthropes alike - who are promptly executed. When the dust
settles, the magic-users of Sind establish their own caste,
the /Jadugeryas/, and claim themselves high-born, like the
Himayas (warriors) and Rishiyas (clerics).
460 AC: Wereseals join the list of persistent
weretypes.
475 AC: The forest elf trading port of Verdon is
founded on Alfeisle.
478 AC: Ostland is united under King Cnute the Bold.
488 AC: Hadric Corser, the Great Uniter, brings the
remaining Minroth humans together; founds the city of Minrothad
and lays foundation for an organized trading federation.
491 AC: Mrikitat the wererat attains Immortality in the
Sphere of Time.
500 AC: Thyatian and Alphatian colonies in Ylarum
begin what will become three centuries of warfare. The Alasiyan
tribes are constantly feuding.
Conflict between Alphatian and Thyatian empires begins;
Minroth traders maintain neutrality and dominate merchant
shipping for both sides.
Traders bearing vampirism and wolf, bear, and boar
lycanthropy settle in Traladara's deep woods and flourish
there.
Big Chief Sitting Drool unites the Broken Lands. Siege
of Corunglain. Orcs threaten Darokin City.
Three of Cnute's sons colonize the mainland near
Ostland. Troll and giant raids are discouraged by punitive
expeditions.
Humans move into the areas that will eventually become
Eusedria and Robrenn; some elves and dwarves ally with these
humans. Lupins and rakasta form permanent settlements along
the central Savage Coast, in lands that will eventually become
Renardy and Bellayne. (RS)
501 - 504 AC: Darokin blames the elves for an attack
on a farm near the Alfheim border, and battles Alfheim in the
Elfwar.
502 AC: Corunglain freed. Darokin Punitive Expedition
massacred and devoured in Trollhattan. Scandal in Darokin.
510 AC: A Northrock chief named Qeodhar organizes his
people and persuades the Alphatian emperor to accept his
nation as a subject territory of Alphatia.
520 AC: The halfling trading port and capital city of
Open Isle, Malfton, is established.
Second Punitive Expedition from Darokin is massacred in
Kol. First caravans attempt to cross Broken Lands.
522 AC: Second Siege of Corunglain. Villages torched.
523 AC: In Darokin, Corunglain falls to the orc armies
of Big Chief Sitting Drool. Thousands are killed and the entire
city is looted. Enslaved population taken back to Broken Lands.
525 AC: Third Punitive Expedition from Glantri and
Darokin. Sitting Drool brought back in chains.
526 AC: Sitting Drool traded for slaves and gold taken
from Corunglain, causing great political uproar in Darokin.
Truce with Darokin and Glantri.
527 AC: Adventurers assassinate Sitting Drool. Tribes
break up again. Various humanoid hordes invade Red Orcland.
550 AC: The beast man invasion of the wizard Illodius
scars the magical forests of Alfheim. Alfheim Town founded in
the blighted area.
560 AC: Alfheim/Darokin alliance crushes the shadowelf
invasion.
570 AC: First settlement is started on the Island of
Ierendi by castoffs from the Five Shires. The island is already
inhabited by small tribes of native aboriginal peoples.
571 AC: Thyatis establishes prisons on five Ierendi
islands currently inhabited by shipbuilding halflings.
575 AC: The hin begin using the Ierendi islands as
year-round naval bases; their seaborne trade flourishes.
585 AC: Ethengar raiders oppose the Flaemish in
numerous skirmishes; the Khan's horsemen are driven out.
586 AC: The Thyatians, in need of funds and
resources, conquer the Ierendi islands and seize the
shipbuilding facilities there. The halflings retaliate with
piratical raids on Thyatian shipping.
593 AC: Ruaidhri kills the last of the werehawks.
600 AC: On Ierendi, Mad Creeg lead a rebellion among
the prisoners. With native help, Mad Creeg's improvised army
drives Thyatians from the islands.
The Sylvan Lands are conquered by humans led by the
wizard Moorkroft; the surviving elves of the Sylvan Lands, the
Feadiel clan, make the dangerous passage to Alfheim.
The northern barbarians unite into a tremendous army
that nearly overruns Hule. With city after city falling,
Bozdogan reveals that he has reincarnated Hosadus. The
legendary hero combines warfare with trickery and deceit,
driving the barbarian hordes from Hule.
601 AC: Gregus Verdier, the "Second Uniter," is born on
Alfeisle in Minrothad.
602 AC: Monarchy formed as Mad Creeg claims all
islands, establishing the Kingdom of Ierendi, and declares
himself ruler.
604 AC: Vestlanders revolt against Ostland in response
to increasingly increasing taxes.
609 AC: Decades of feuding between the Jadugeryas and
Rishiyas of Putnabad end as the Jadugeryas flee to the
southern portion of Putnabad and carve their own mumlyket out
of the badlands. They call their small kingdom Jaibul.
610 AC: A band of a hundred elves fleeing their
recently conquered Sylvan Lands far to the northwest encounter
a group of Graakhalians on the Plain of Fire. Most decide to
stay; the rest, having problems accepting the gnolls, leave at
sword-point.
614 AC: Ottar the Just defeats King Finnbogi of Ostland
in the Battle of Bridenfjord, and establishes the Kingdom of
Vestland. Ostland continues to raid southern mainland coasts.
Vestland pursues trade with Alphatian and Thyatian colonies.
623 AC: Devil swine first appear in Alphatia.
637 AC: Black Toes assumes rulership of Ierendi upon
the death of his father. He marries Kethy Matrongle from
Glantri and assumes her surname. The Matrongle family begins
long control of the island.
645 AC: Ethengar attempts a major invasion of what is
now Glantri but is defeated at Skullhorn Pass.
646 AC: Gregus Verdier forges forest elves of Minrothad
into unified political and economic faction.
662 AC: The Flaemish attempt to invade Ethengar, but
the expeditionary force is utterly massacred in the steppes.
675 AC: King Celedryl purges shadowelf infiltrators
from Alfheim, but is only partly successful.
687 AC: Ierendi merchants discover the rich trade
opportunities Sindhi ports offer. Jaibul and Putnabad compete
fiercely for foreign trade.
691 AC: Gregus Verdier establishes the Council of Dread
and the Minrothad Guilds.
Yubraj Narenda ul Nervi, the Crown Prince of
Sindrastan, nearly dies when his favorite elephant goes mad
and gores him. A holy man saves his life, calming the elephant
and healing the prince. While he lies unconscious, Narenda
experiences a terrible vision of danger Sind will face in the
future - a danger the Sindhi people will be powerless against
unless Sind's independent mumlykets are united. When Narenda
awakens, the holy man is gone; no one can say who he was or
where he went. Narenda's father, Sanjiva ul Nervi, dies later
in the year, leaving the rulership of Sindrastan to his son.
695 AC: Rajah Narenda ul Nervi's army initiates the
slow and bloody process of the unification of Sind by
conquering Gom, Karganj, and Naral.
696 AC: Sandapur falls to Narenda's onslaught. Backed
by the allied forces of the rajahs of Jalawar and Putnabad,
the village of Pramayana stands against Sinddrasan's armies
for more than a year.
698 AC: Pramayana falls at last, but Rajah Narenda
realizes he cannot hope to conquer all of Jalawar. He strikes
westward instead of south, taking Sindri and Khamrati and the
rest of Jhengal.
700 AC: Warfare intensifies between Alphatian and
Thyatian colonies in Ylarum.
Gregus Verdier is assassinated.
Doriath, a former adventurer, assumes the throne of
Alfheim. The Erewan faction of Erendyl clan leaves Alfheim for
Glantri.
Rajah Narenda establishes Gola Keep to encourage
desert trading caravans to enter the Asanda Plain via Jhengal.
His generous trade agreements with Slagovich bring fabulous
trade and wealth to Jhengal. The Rajah also marries his first
wife, Drisana, who bears him a son the next year.
703 AC: Rajah Narenda's forces conquer Baratpur,
bringing Baratkand under Sindrastani control. The rajah
assumes the title Rajadhiraja, allows the former rajah of
Baratkand to retain his title and some governmental
privileges, and places Rajah Javis Nandin on the throne of
Jhengal.
704 AC: Still resistant to being conquered by force,
both Putnabad and Jalawar agree to unite with Sindrastan (and
pay annual taxes and tribute to Rajadhiraja Narenda ul Nervi)
in return for sharing the benefits of trade with Slagovich.
The ruling Jadugeryas of Jaibul reach an agreement with the
rajadhiraja, allowing them independence in return for promises
not to interfere with Sindhi affairs, and to allow caravans
traveling through the Barren Plain to pass through Jaibul to
Putnabad.
705 AC: The Rajadhiraja turns his attention northward,
his eyes on the fertile lands of Nagpuri. Within six months,
the rajah of Nagpuri swears fealty to Rajadhiraja Narenda ul
Nervi. The deal is sealed with the marriage between the
Rajadhiraja and Kumuda, the rajah's daughter.
706 - 713 AC: Bloody wars to control Kadesh and Gunjab
nearly exhaust the Rajadhiraja's resources. In AC 712,
Raneshwar falls to Narenda's troops. The next year, Kadesh
agrees to unite with lower Sind, provided the Rajah of Kadesh
retains his rulership under the new title of Maharajah (Great
Kind), just as the Rajah of Gunjab was allowed the year
before. The Maharajah of Kadesh also betroths his infant
daughter to the Rajadhiraja's twelve-year-old son.
713 AC: The Ierendi Navy destroys a Thyatian naval
patrol. The Royal Navy achieves instant preeminence among the
powers of the Known World.
714 AC: Rajadhiraja Narenda ul Nervi announces the
total unification of the Kingdom of Sind with the treaty
reached between Sindrastan and Peshmir. Rajah Ravi
Prabhapravitha of Peshmir assumes the title of Maharajah.
Mandara, the maharajah's eldest daughter, becomes the
Rajadhiraja's third wife.
717 AC: The Rajadhiraja charges Jahore and its ruling
families with the task of building a Sindhi Navy. The first
problem is to find suitable timber; most bust be imported from
eastern lands.
722 AC: In Graakhalia, a rebellion by some of the
Sylvan Lands immigrants is quickly put down, and the leaders
executed.
723 AC: Santhral II dies, ending the reign of the
Darokin Kings. The nation breaks down into independent dominions
ruled by whoever can afford to pay troops to keep the roads
passable.
726 AC: The newly-completed Sindhi navy of four
merchant vessels and a war galley mysteriously sinks in
Jaibul's outer harbor shortly after returning from their
maiden voyage to Tanakumba. The rajah of Putnabad suspects
sabotage on the part of foreign merchants jealous of their own
lucrative positions as middlemen in the trade between the
eastern and western lands.
728 AC: The Alphatian colonies in Ylarum destroy the
Thyatian colonies there; Thyatian colonists flee.
The d'Ambrevilles and their vassals arrive from Old
Averoigne in another dimension, establishing a French-like
culture in the wooded valleys of northwestern Glantri.
730 AC: Settlers come to Glantri, including fair elves
(descendants of the elves who fled the area in 1700 BC) and
humans from Traladara and Thyatian colonies in Ylarum.
Frictions begin between the Flaems and settlers.
957 AC: The first arquebus is constructed in Nueva
Esperanza; a function for /smoke powder/ has been found, but
it is rarely used because of the dangers. (RS)
958 AC: Texeiras conquers the Barony of Marino and the
Dominion of Tanaka. (RS)
959 AC: Alphatia begins another direct war upon
Thyatis.
960 AC: The Alphatian assault forces reach Thyatis City
and kill the Thyatian emperor, but are repelled by a
counterattack led by Thincol the Brave, a famous gladiator.
962 AC: The Barony of Los Elegidos is founded north of
Torreon, Alcazar, and Cristobal. (RS)
963 AC: The Azcans discover the Stonecarvers at Colima,
and send a small troop to wipe them out. The Colimans prevail,
however, and maintain their way of life.
Yazi gnolls attack Saragon and Aranjuez. (RS)
965 AC: Kitrina Meditor, ruling guildmaster of
Minrothad, is assassinated. The council of guild Leaders acts
as regent until Oran Meditor comes of age.
Prince Haldemar of Haaken begins his voyage on the
Princess Ark, discovering the southern polar opening into the
Hollow World and the invisible moon, Myoshima.
966 AC: Montejo and Aranjuez unite diplomatically to
form the Barony of Saragon. (RS)
967 AC: The Barony of Morales is founded just north of
Torreon, between Cristobal and Alcazar. (RS)
968 AC: Torreon wars on its neighbors, conquering and
absorbing Morales and Alcazar; Cristobal and Elegidos are
weakened but do not fall. Elite Torreoner warriors use swords
of /red steel/, the first recorded instance of that metal's
use in a large battle. (RS)
969 AC: Torreon discovers deposits of /cinnabryl/ in
Terra Vermelha, and moves to take over those lands; to
forestall a possible war over mining rights, diplomats gather
and form the Treaty of Tampicos, which is signed by Torreon,
Vilaverde, Texeiras, and Hule. (RS)
970 AC: Duke Stefan Karameikos III trades his
ancestral lands (the Duchy of Machetos) to Emperor Thincol for
independent rulership of Traladara, which is renamed the Grand
Duchy of Karameikos. Duke Stefan sails to and takes possession
of his duchy, then begins parceling out land and titles to his
Thyatian followers. He begins building roads across the Duchy
and a strong military to protect it.
Elegidos disappears without a trace. (RS)
971 AC: Corwyn Hoff named Chancellor of Darokin after
the resignation of Kalimi.
Babosas is conquered and absorbed by Hule. (RS)
972 AC: Moctitlapac is installed as Tlatoani - Emperor
of the Azcans.
975 AC: Rypien Hallonica names Chancellor of Darokin
after the death of Hoff.
King Thar unites Broken Lands, threatening Darokin
commerce. Enforces Tharian Code of Conduct. The Legion is
created. Thyatis frowns at the military threat.
The wheel-lock pistols is developed in Nueva Esperanza.
Certain leaders, including a warrior named Cimmaron, encourage
the secret production of the weapon. (RS)
977 AC: Almarron conquers and absorbs Escudor, then
turns north and initiates hostilities with Gargon~a and Rivera.
(RS)
978 AC: To help defend itself from Almarron, Rivera
agrees to be absorbed into Gargon~a. While Almarron is
distracted, Nueva Esperanza begins hostilities; Cimmaron's
pistoleers make quite an impression. (RS)
The Heldannic explorers of the Hollow World become
aware of the Oostdok dirigibles and decide that they would
nicely complement their fleet of Warbirds.
979 AC: The d'Ambrevilles and their estate return to
New Averoigne. Chateau d'Ambreville is destroyed, and the House
of Sylaire erected in its place. Sire Malachie du Marais and
Dame Genevieve de Sephora enter Glantri from Old Averoigne. An
epidemic of wolf lycanthropy begins.
Duke Stefan Karameikos marries Lady Olivia Prothemian.
Devilfish resume their attacks on the Kingdom of
Undersea.
The revolution in Nueva Esperanza continues, led by
General Cimmaron. Almarron and Gargon~a end hostilities, and
both ratify the Treaty of Tampicos. (RS)
980 AC: Lycanthropes are again discovered in Minrothad
and in Undersea; fear spreads that more may have escaped the
Silver Purge (443-445 AC). Devil swine and wererats seem
particularly numerous. Weresharks reappear in Undersea.
Lady Adriana Karameikos born.
Armed with a wheel-lock pistol and a /red steel/
sword, General Cimmaron leads his forces to victory over
troops from Almarron at the Battle of Hondo; his followers
declare him Earl Cimmaron, and Nueva Esperanza becomes the
center of the newly independent Cimmaron County. Dissatisfied
with recent leadership, the people of Almarron revolt against
their leader and overthrow him. Making use of old Traladaran
philosophies, they establish a democracy. (RS)
981 AC: Cristobal relinquishes claims on its holdings,
except for one tower and a few square miles of land; the Lord
of Torre Cristobal gives up the title "Baron" but maintains
independence from other powers. (RS)
982 AC: Sire Malachie du Marais wins control of the
Barony of Morlay deep within the Valley of Wolves, in Glantri.
Lord Justin Karameikos born.
984 AC: Saragon ratifies the Treaty of Tampicos. (RS)
985 AC: Founding of the Canine Protection Society in
Glantri.
Copetez and Bigotillos unite through marriage; the
lands are merged to form the State of Guadalante. Guadalante
ratifies the Treaty of Tampicos. (RS)
986 AC: Lord Valen Karameikos born.
Don~a Esperanza comes to power in Gargon~a and leads
her state into peace, beginning a policy of neutrality
regarding all the other Savage baronies. (RS)
988 AC: After Hallonica's death, the Merchant's Council
names Corwyn Mauntea, great-grandson of Charles and Lydia,
president of Darokin.
989 AC: Oran Meditor takes office as ruling guildmaster
of Minrothad, instituting reforms.
The Five Shires start clashing with the Black Eagle
Barony.
990 AC: Cimmaron ratifies the Treaty of Tampicos. (RS)
991 AC: Oran Meditor rescinds the Isolation Act and
opens Minrothad to outside contact.
992 AC: Rajadhiraja Kapil ul Nervi dies of injuries
sustained while battling a blue dragon that had plagued
Baratkand. A grandson, Chandra ul Nervi, becomes Rajadhiraja.
The Treaty of Cortesillas, between Guadalante and
Saragon, solves the question of watering rights for cattle
between the two nations. (RS)
994 AC: Almarron faces a time of troubles. An
opportunist seizes control of the state and declares himself
dictator of the nation. (RS)
995 AC: First assassination attempt on Oran Meditor.
Clan Kasan is behind the attempt and is removed from control of
the water elf guild. Clan Elsan is promoted to replace Clan
Kasan.
997 AC: /Cinnabryl/ is discovered in Slagovich; it is
mined and traded to Torreon, Texeiras, and Cimmaron for /red
steel/. (RS)
998 AC: Second assassination attempt on Oran Meditor.
The assassin is believed to be a hired wizard from Glantri.
Undead are reported in the waters to the south.
999 AC: The first vial of /crimson essence/ is
produced by an alchemist in Saragon. The secret spreads to a
group of adventurers, who become the first of the Inheritors.
Some of the Inheritors rise to power in the Brotherhood of
Order and the Friends of Freedom. To balance them, other
Inheritors join the Neutral Alliance. (RS)
1000 AC: Minrothad celebrates 150 years of nationhood.
Oran Meditor makes public appearances to stop rumors of his
continued ill health.
In Glantri, the Brotherhood of Free Wolves is pressing
hard for their own Principality under the leadership of Sire
Malachie du Marais, Baron of Morlay.
Werecreatures in the southern waters of Undersea grow
in numbers and strength.
Vestland is a modern nation and a strong, independent
trading partner with the nations of Mystara. Ostland is a
powerful, independent ally of Thyatis, aggressive and
belligerent, barbaric in culture and religious practices.
Soderfjord is a weak alliance of feuding minor jarls,
victimized by giantish clans and Ostland pirates.
Ylarum is under governance of sultans from Preceptors
faction of Al-Kalim's descendants. Its culture and economy
flourishes.
Shark-kin take up arms against the land dwellers;
devilfish increase their attacks on Undersea; the numbers of
undead and werecreatures in the southern waters grows at an
alarming rate.
Everast XV is on the throne of Rockhome.
Prince Haldemar of Alphatia foils a plot by the Rajah
of Jaibul to add Putnabad to the Rajahstan of Jaibul.
The Immortals begin a conflict that eventually begins
to affect mortals throughout the world.
Aegos becomes the site for an Alphatian project to dig
a pit through Mystara's mantle into the Hollow World.
1001 AC: Political lobbyists introduce a bill
allowing the practice of clerical magic in Glantri under very
strict conditions. Clerics must obtain a letter of sanction
from the ruler of the dominion they wish to practice clerical
magic, and the ruler has free rein over the terms of the
sanction - fees imposed, types of magic allowed (healing only,
etc.), expiration of the letter, and so forth. Clerics are
still forbidden to preach their beliefs, regardless of any
letters of sanction, and only Parliament of the Council of
Princes may grant a letter of sanction to clerics operating
within the free territories of Glantri.
The Council of Princes is evenly split over the matter,
and the measure goes to the House of Lords at Parliament. Sire
Malachie du Marais votes against it, but the measure passes.
The White Wolf prepares for an infestation of
lycanthropy-fighting clerics.
The Inheritors face internal conflicts and reorganize
the aligned societies (the Brotherhood of Order, the Neutral
Alliance, and the Friends of Freedom) into the three Orders of
the Inheritors (the Order of the Ruby, the Order of Crimson,
and the Order of the Flame). (RS)
1002 AC: Sire Malachie learns of an enormous silver
deposit in the bedrock beneath le Chateau de Malinbois. This is
a serious obstacle to his plans to control Malinbois.
1003 AC: The Council of Princes approves and Act of
Enfiefment in the economically depressed area of Bramyra,
ending years of chaotic contests for control of the area.
1004 AC: A gold strike in les Montagnes Noires leads to
a rapid influx of population with the Valley of Wolves in
Glantri. Sire Malachie must contend with the fact that the
majority of the newcomers are unwanted - they put a great
strain on the taxed natural resources of the valley, strip the
mountains of precious minerals Sire Malachie hoped to control
for himself, and clash with the resident populations (both
werewolves and non-lycanthropes).
The Council of Princes approves an Act of Enfiefment in
the area of Fort Sablestone. Sire Malachie attempts to
capitalize on the Council of Prince's current willingness to
create new Principalities. The White Wolf is also amused at
this - if the Council grants an Act of Enfiefment in the Valley
of Wolves, it will become the thirteenth Principality.
Spring: Thyatis city suffers an enormous riot by the
poorer citizens, who have seen a steady decline in the quality
and quantity of free bread passed out by the officials. This
has little effect on anyone not in - or under - Thyatis city.
The wererats of Thyatis participate in the riot, as they depend
on the free bread almost as much as Thyatis' poor do.
Spring: Both Alphatia's mages and Thyatis's military
forces become more pushy and uptight than usual.
Spring: An Alphatian elf, Troikithus, uncovers
evidence of the Brotherhood of the Radiance, and reports it to
Empress Eriadna. A week later, his body is found floating in
one of Glantri City's canals.
Summer: Relations between Glantri and the Empire of
Alphatia become strained, as the Alphatian Council of Wizards
accuses the Glantrian Great School of Magic of harboring
followers of the Entropic Immortals and using forbidden, evil
magics. Spies and counter-spies make matters worse. Prince
Etienne d'Ambreville is swept up in the politics and espionage
between the two magocracies.
Summer: Clerical missionaries of the Immortal Vanya
from the Heldann Territories are slaughtered while traveling
through the Ethengar Khanates.
Fall: Several Glantrian nobles having dinner together
are assassinated by a bombardment of lightning bolts, fire
balls, and other powerful magics. The sole survivor, Prince
Innocenti di Malapietra, testifies the killers were wearing
Alphatian clothing.
Fall: Thyatis reinforces Glantri's demand to surrender
the assassins, to everyone's surprise.
Fall: Without benefit of a declaration of war, the
Heldannic Knights send several punitive raids into Ethengar,
launching deadly lance-cavalry attacks against Ethengarian
encampments and slaughtering every last man, woman, and child
encountered.
Fall: Humanoids from the Black Mountains invade
Graakhalia in force. The Master's spies learned of the routes
through Graakhalia to tunnels beneath Sind; his agents made
sure the humanoids heard there was rich plunder to be had
beneath the Plain of Fire. The Graakhalians fight fiercely,
then desperately, as band after band of orcs, goblins,
bugbears, hobgoblins, and other humanoids press deeper into
Graakhalia's labyrinths.
Fall: A band of Glantrians are sentenced to death for
the arson of dozens of temples of the Immortal Asterius.
Winter: Glantrian adventurers escaping from Alphatia
start a fire in Aasla as a distraction, which grows into a
firestorm and devastates the city.
Winter: Humanoids secure Graahkalia's upper levels
against the elves and gnolls, paving the way for the Master of
Hule's plot to seize Sind. Hulean agents struggle to
consolidate the bickering humanoids into an army that can hold
Graakhalia while the Master moves additional forces into place.
Winter: Kiritan ul Nervi, egged on by Hulean agents,
stages a coup against his brother, Rajadhiraja Chandra ul
Nervi. The counter-uprising of Sind's people is met by
thousands of humanoids and brigands appearing out of the earth
itself to fight on the side of the new Rajadhiraja. More
humanoids pour into Sind from the Plain of Fire, reinforced by
Urduk nomads and a tribe of ogres from the Sind Desert. The
civil war sets rajah against rajah as factions fight for
control. Kiritan's forces quickly gain control of Sayr Ulan.
Many loyalist Sindhis die protecting their ruler from
assassins, and the Rajadhiraja flees to Ulimwengu.
957 AC: The first arquebus is constructed in Nueva
Esperanza; a function for /smoke powder/ has been found, but
it is rarely used because of the dangers. (RS)
958 AC: Texeiras conquers the Barony of Marino and the
Dominion of Tanaka. (RS)
959 AC: Alphatia begins another direct war upon
Thyatis.
960 AC: The Alphatian assault forces reach Thyatis City
and kill the Thyatian emperor, but are repelled by a
counterattack led by Thincol the Brave, a famous gladiator.
962 AC: The Barony of Los Elegidos is founded north of
Torreon, Alcazar, and Cristobal. (RS)
963 AC: The Azcans discover the Stonecarvers at Colima,
and send a small troop to wipe them out. The Colimans prevail,
however, and maintain their way of life.
Yazi gnolls attack Saragon and Aranjuez. (RS)
965 AC: Kitrina Meditor, ruling guildmaster of
Minrothad, is assassinated. The council of guild Leaders acts
as regent until Oran Meditor comes of age.
Prince Haldemar of Haaken begins his voyage on the
Princess Ark, discovering the southern polar opening into the
Hollow World and the invisible moon, Myoshima.
966 AC: Montejo and Aranjuez unite diplomatically to
form the Barony of Saragon. (RS)
967 AC: The Barony of Morales is founded just north of
Torreon, between Cristobal and Alcazar. (RS)
968 AC: Torreon wars on its neighbors, conquering and
absorbing Morales and Alcazar; Cristobal and Elegidos are
weakened but do not fall. Elite Torreoner warriors use swords
of /red steel/, the first recorded instance of that metal's
use in a large battle. (RS)
969 AC: Torreon discovers deposits of /cinnabryl/ in
Terra Vermelha, and moves to take over those lands; to
forestall a possible war over mining rights, diplomats gather
and form the Treaty of Tampicos, which is signed by Torreon,
Vilaverde, Texeiras, and Hule. (RS)
970 AC: Duke Stefan Karameikos III trades his
ancestral lands (the Duchy of Machetos) to Emperor Thincol for
independent rulership of Traladara, which is renamed the Grand
Duchy of Karameikos. Duke Stefan sails to and takes possession
of his duchy, then begins parceling out land and titles to his
Thyatian followers. He begins building roads across the Duchy
and a strong military to protect it.
Elegidos disappears without a trace. (RS)
971 AC: Corwyn Hoff named Chancellor of Darokin after
the resignation of Kalimi.
Babosas is conquered and absorbed by Hule. (RS)
972 AC: Moctitlapac is installed as Tlatoani - Emperor
of the Azcans.
975 AC: Rypien Hallonica names Chancellor of Darokin
after the death of Hoff.
King Thar unites Broken Lands, threatening Darokin
commerce. Enforces Tharian Code of Conduct. The Legion is
created. Thyatis frowns at the military threat.
The wheel-lock pistols is developed in Nueva Esperanza.
Certain leaders, including a warrior named Cimmaron, encourage
the secret production of the weapon. (RS)
977 AC: Almarron conquers and absorbs Escudor, then
turns north and initiates hostilities with Gargon~a and Rivera.
(RS)
978 AC: To help defend itself from Almarron, Rivera
agrees to be absorbed into Gargon~a. While Almarron is
distracted, Nueva Esperanza begins hostilities; Cimmaron's
pistoleers make quite an impression. (RS)
The Heldannic explorers of the Hollow World become
aware of the Oostdok dirigibles and decide that they would
nicely complement their fleet of Warbirds.
979 AC: The d'Ambrevilles and their estate return to
New Averoigne. Chateau d'Ambreville is destroyed, and the House
of Sylaire erected in its place. Sire Malachie du Marais and
Dame Genevieve de Sephora enter Glantri from Old Averoigne. An
epidemic of wolf lycanthropy begins.
Duke Stefan Karameikos marries Lady Olivia Prothemian.
Devilfish resume their attacks on the Kingdom of
Undersea.
The revolution in Nueva Esperanza continues, led by
General Cimmaron. Almarron and Gargon~a end hostilities, and
both ratify the Treaty of Tampicos. (RS)
980 AC: Lycanthropes are again discovered in Minrothad
and in Undersea; fear spreads that more may have escaped the
Silver Purge (443-445 AC). Devil swine and wererats seem
particularly numerous. Weresharks reappear in Undersea.
Lady Adriana Karameikos born.
Armed with a wheel-lock pistol and a /red steel/
sword, General Cimmaron leads his forces to victory over
troops from Almarron at the Battle of Hondo; his followers
declare him Earl Cimmaron, and Nueva Esperanza becomes the
center of the newly independent Cimmaron County. Dissatisfied
with recent leadership, the people of Almarron revolt against
their leader and overthrow him. Making use of old Traladaran
philosophies, they establish a democracy. (RS)
981 AC: Cristobal relinquishes claims on its holdings,
except for one tower and a few square miles of land; the Lord
of Torre Cristobal gives up the title "Baron" but maintains
independence from other powers. (RS)
982 AC: Sire Malachie du Marais wins control of the
Barony of Morlay deep within the Valley of Wolves, in Glantri.
Lord Justin Karameikos born.
984 AC: Saragon ratifies the Treaty of Tampicos. (RS)
985 AC: Founding of the Canine Protection Society in
Glantri.
Copetez and Bigotillos unite through marriage; the
lands are merged to form the State of Guadalante. Guadalante
ratifies the Treaty of Tampicos. (RS)
986 AC: Lord Valen Karameikos born.
Don~a Esperanza comes to power in Gargon~a and leads
her state into peace, beginning a policy of neutrality
regarding all the other Savage baronies. (RS)
988 AC: After Hallonica's death, the Merchant's Council
names Corwyn Mauntea, great-grandson of Charles and Lydia,
president of Darokin.
989 AC: Oran Meditor takes office as ruling guildmaster
of Minrothad, instituting reforms.
The Five Shires start clashing with the Black Eagle
Barony.
990 AC: Cimmaron ratifies the Treaty of Tampicos. (RS)
991 AC: Oran Meditor rescinds the Isolation Act and
opens Minrothad to outside contact.
992 AC: Rajadhiraja Kapil ul Nervi dies of injuries
sustained while battling a blue dragon that had plagued
Baratkand. A grandson, Chandra ul Nervi, becomes Rajadhiraja.
The Treaty of Cortesillas, between Guadalante and
Saragon, solves the question of watering rights for cattle
between the two nations. (RS)
994 AC: Almarron faces a time of troubles. An
opportunist seizes control of the state and declares himself
dictator of the nation. (RS)
995 AC: First assassination attempt on Oran Meditor.
Clan Kasan is behind the attempt and is removed from control of
the water elf guild. Clan Elsan is promoted to replace Clan
Kasan.
997 AC: /Cinnabryl/ is discovered in Slagovich; it is
mined and traded to Torreon, Texeiras, and Cimmaron for /red
steel/. (RS)
998 AC: Second assassination attempt on Oran Meditor.
The assassin is believed to be a hired wizard from Glantri.
Undead are reported in the waters to the south.
999 AC: The first vial of /crimson essence/ is
produced by an alchemist in Saragon. The secret spreads to a
group of adventurers, who become the first of the Inheritors.
Some of the Inheritors rise to power in the Brotherhood of
Order and the Friends of Freedom. To balance them, other
Inheritors join the Neutral Alliance. (RS)
1000 AC: Minrothad celebrates 150 years of nationhood.
Oran Meditor makes public appearances to stop rumors of his
continued ill health.
In Glantri, the Brotherhood of Free Wolves is pressing
hard for their own Principality under the leadership of Sire
Malachie du Marais, Baron of Morlay.
Werecreatures in the southern waters of Undersea grow
in numbers and strength.
Vestland is a modern nation and a strong, independent
trading partner with the nations of Mystara. Ostland is a
powerful, independent ally of Thyatis, aggressive and
belligerent, barbaric in culture and religious practices.
Soderfjord is a weak alliance of feuding minor jarls,
victimized by giantish clans and Ostland pirates.
Ylarum is under governance of sultans from Preceptors
faction of Al-Kalim's descendants. Its culture and economy
flourishes.
Shark-kin take up arms against the land dwellers;
devilfish increase their attacks on Undersea; the numbers of
undead and werecreatures in the southern waters grows at an
alarming rate.
Everast XV is on the throne of Rockhome.
Prince Haldemar of Alphatia foils a plot by the Rajah
of Jaibul to add Putnabad to the Rajahstan of Jaibul.
The Immortals begin a conflict that eventually begins
to affect mortals throughout the world.
Aegos becomes the site for an Alphatian project to dig
a pit through Mystara's mantle into the Hollow World.
1001 AC: Political lobbyists introduce a bill
allowing the practice of clerical magic in Glantri under very
strict conditions. Clerics must obtain a letter of sanction
from the ruler of the dominion they wish to practice clerical
magic, and the ruler has free rein over the terms of the
sanction - fees imposed, types of magic allowed (healing only,
etc.), expiration of the letter, and so forth. Clerics are
still forbidden to preach their beliefs, regardless of any
letters of sanction, and only Parliament of the Council of
Princes may grant a letter of sanction to clerics operating
within the free territories of Glantri.
The Council of Princes is evenly split over the matter,
and the measure goes to the House of Lords at Parliament. Sire
Malachie du Marais votes against it, but the measure passes.
The White Wolf prepares for an infestation of
lycanthropy-fighting clerics.
The Inheritors face internal conflicts and reorganize
the aligned societies (the Brotherhood of Order, the Neutral
Alliance, and the Friends of Freedom) into the three Orders of
the Inheritors (the Order of the Ruby, the Order of Crimson,
and the Order of the Flame). (RS)
1002 AC: Sire Malachie learns of an enormous silver
deposit in the bedrock beneath le Chateau de Malinbois. This is
a serious obstacle to his plans to control Malinbois.
1003 AC: The Council of Princes approves and Act of
Enfiefment in the economically depressed area of Bramyra,
ending years of chaotic contests for control of the area.
1004 AC: A gold strike in les Montagnes Noires leads to
a rapid influx of population with the Valley of Wolves in
Glantri. Sire Malachie must contend with the fact that the
majority of the newcomers are unwanted - they put a great
strain on the taxed natural resources of the valley, strip the
mountains of precious minerals Sire Malachie hoped to control
for himself, and clash with the resident populations (both
werewolves and non-lycanthropes).
The Council of Princes approves an Act of Enfiefment in
the area of Fort Sablestone. Sire Malachie attempts to
capitalize on the Council of Prince's current willingness to
create new Principalities. The White Wolf is also amused at
this - if the Council grants an Act of Enfiefment in the Valley
of Wolves, it will become the thirteenth Principality.
Spring: Thyatis city suffers an enormous riot by the
poorer citizens, who have seen a steady decline in the quality
and quantity of free bread passed out by the officials. This
has little effect on anyone not in - or under - Thyatis city.
The wererats of Thyatis participate in the riot, as they depend
on the free bread almost as much as Thyatis' poor do.
Spring: Both Alphatia's mages and Thyatis's military
forces become more pushy and uptight than usual.
Spring: An Alphatian elf, Troikithus, uncovers
evidence of the Brotherhood of the Radiance, and reports it to
Empress Eriadna. A week later, his body is found floating in
one of Glantri City's canals.
Summer: Relations between Glantri and the Empire of
Alphatia become strained, as the Alphatian Council of Wizards
accuses the Glantrian Great School of Magic of harboring
followers of the Entropic Immortals and using forbidden, evil
magics. Spies and counter-spies make matters worse. Prince
Etienne d'Ambreville is swept up in the politics and espionage
between the two magocracies.
Summer: Clerical missionaries of the Immortal Vanya
from the Heldann Territories are slaughtered while traveling
through the Ethengar Khanates.
Fall: Several Glantrian nobles having dinner together
are assassinated by a bombardment of lightning bolts, fire
balls, and other powerful magics. The sole survivor, Prince
Innocenti di Malapietra, testifies the killers were wearing
Alphatian clothing.
Fall: Thyatis reinforces Glantri's demand to surrender
the assassins, to everyone's surprise.
Fall: Without benefit of a declaration of war, the
Heldannic Knights send several punitive raids into Ethengar,
launching deadly lance-cavalry attacks against Ethengarian
encampments and slaughtering every last man, woman, and child
encountered.
Fall: Humanoids from the Black Mountains invade
Graakhalia in force. The Master's spies learned of the routes
through Graakhalia to tunnels beneath Sind; his agents made
sure the humanoids heard there was rich plunder to be had
beneath the Plain of Fire. The Graakhalians fight fiercely,
then desperately, as band after band of orcs, goblins,
bugbears, hobgoblins, and other humanoids press deeper into
Graakhalia's labyrinths.
Fall: A band of Glantrians are sentenced to death for
the arson of dozens of temples of the Immortal Asterius.
Winter: Glantrian adventurers escaping from Alphatia
start a fire in Aasla as a distraction, which grows into a
firestorm and devastates the city.
Winter: Humanoids secure Graahkalia's upper levels
against the elves and gnolls, paving the way for the Master of
Hule's plot to seize Sind. Hulean agents struggle to
consolidate the bickering humanoids into an army that can hold
Graakhalia while the Master moves additional forces into place.
Winter: Kiritan ul Nervi, egged on by Hulean agents,
stages a coup against his brother, Rajadhiraja Chandra ul
Nervi. The counter-uprising of Sind's people is met by
thousands of humanoids and brigands appearing out of the earth
itself to fight on the side of the new Rajadhiraja. More
humanoids pour into Sind from the Plain of Fire, reinforced by
Urduk nomads and a tribe of ogres from the Sind Desert. The
civil war sets rajah against rajah as factions fight for
control. Kiritan's forces quickly gain control of Sayr Ulan.
Many loyalist Sindhis die protecting their ruler from
assassins, and the Rajadhiraja flees to Ulimwengu.
1005 AC: The Council of Princes in Glantri approves an
Act of Enfiefment for la Vallee des Loups in Favor of Sire
Malachie du Marais.
Prompted by attacks from Bellayne, the goblinoids of
the Yazak steppes begin unifying. Robrenn attacks and
irritates the Yazi goblinoids. (RS)
An internal holy war begins in Narvaez. The church of
Narvaez unifies the factions by providing an external enemy:
the other Savage Baronies. Narvaez carries its Inquisition to
the other Baronies. (RS)
Spring: Empress Eriadna of Alphatia issues a
proclamation of war against Glantri. In return, Glantri, backed
by the Empire of Thyatis and the Heldann Freeholds, declares
war on Alphatia.
Spring: Rajadhiraja Kiritan ul Nervi consolidates his
position as Sind's new ruler. He seems blind to the fact that
he's merely a puppet, and that the Master of Hule pulls his
strings. Many rajahs accept the situation, seeing
opportunities to increase their own power. Only Rani Drisana
of Jalawar, Rajah Mohan of Baratkand, and Maharajah Kami of
Peshmir refuse to recognize Kiritan's claim to the crown.
Summer: Alphatia start building up its forces in
preparation for eliminating the Empire of Thyatis as an
obstacle to invading Glantri.
Summer: The three rajahs of Sind who refuse to
acknowledge Kiritan as Rajadhiraja attempt to overthrow the
usurper. Their efforts are hampered by the fact that their
mumlykets are separated by mumlykets whose rulers have sworn
obedience to Kiritan. Opposed from without by Kiritan's
Hule-backed forces and from within by spies and stooges, the
attempted coup fails miserably. Maharajah Kabir Rudraksha of
Kadesh seizes the opportunity to invade Peshmir, taking
87-year-old Maharajah Kami prisoner and setting his son Hara
up as Peshmir's new Maharajah.
Summer: Alphatian wizards travel secretly to Glantri,
and set loose hordes of monsters - many from other planes.
Many of these monsters spill over the borders into Sind. Some
join the Master's forces; others simply roam about looking for
trouble.
Fall: In Jalawar, Inay Paramesh, a distant relative of
the Madhars overthrows Rani Drisana Madhar. Without the help
of Kiritan's elite guard, Inay could not have hoped to
succeed. Vijay Niranjan, the rani's half-brother, falls in the
fighting, as does Rohit, her first husband. Drisana escapes
with her husband Bhagwandas. The two flee to Ulimwengu in
search of Rajadhiraja Chandra ul Nervi.
Fall: The Alphatians on the Isle of Dawn assault the
Fortress of Kendach and the Hold of Fenswatch. After a few
weeks, West Portage is taken.
Winter: On the trail of rajadhiraja Chandra ul Nervi,
Drisana Madhar reaches Ulimwengu. She learns that he passed
through Karimari territory on his way to seek help from
Yavdlom, then traveled back through hoping to drum up support
among the Urduk nomads who did not join the Master's forces.
Drisana stays in Ulimwengu, hoping to convince the Karimari to
supply warriors, elephants, and triceratops in the event
Chandra ul Nervi can form an army to regain his throne.
Winter: His power over Sind now relatively secure, the
Master convinces Kiritan to invade Darokin. The combined
forces of Sind's armies and the Desert Nomads overwhelm
Darokin's defenses and drive the Republic's armies before
them. Akesoli falls within weeks, and the armies soon reach the
city of Darokin itself. A substantial number of weretypes live
secretly in Darokin - merchants and adventurers who contracted
lycanthropy while abroad.
1006 AC: Torreon, Vilaverde, and Texeiras ally with
Narvaez, rather than fight that state. The other five baronies
(Guadalante, Cimmaron, Almarron, Saragon, and Gargon~a) ally
to fight against the Narvaez alliance. Gauchos and Swashbuckler
"freedom fighters" prove effective against the naval power and
mercenaries of the Narvaez alliance. (RS)
Hule attacks the Savage Baronies. The baronies end
their conflict to unite against Hule. (RS)
Spring: Glantrian wizard-adventurers travel to
Alphatia and harass the nobles there - fire-bombings,
hit-and-runs, and the like.
Spring: Duke Stefan declares Karameikos independent
from Thyatis, now the Kingdom of Karameikos.
Spring: Chandra ul Nervi hastily pulls together his
own army of Urduk nomads, mercenaries, brigands, and outlaws
from the Barren Plains and the Sind Desert to retake Sind
while its fighting forces are occupied in Darokin. His ragtag
army includes nearly 100 Karimari warriors with their /moto
moto rods/ and mounted on elephants and triceratops, a number
of Yavdlom warriors disgusted at their nation's policy of
non-interference with "destiny", and loyal Sindhis who fled
their homes when the civil war broke out. Panicking, Kiritan
withdraws his armies from Darokin to meet his brother's threat.
Spring: The forces of Karameikos (including some
werecreatures, although they try to keep that secret), Alfheim
and the Five Shires march to the defense of the city of
Darokin. They lift the siege, and over the next few weeks
slowly drive back the Desert Nomads. The Master's forces,
weakened by their sudden loss of manpower, begin to lose the
ground they had gained in Darokin.
Summer: As the eastern armies drive the Desert Nomads
from Darokin, Kiritan's armies barely manage to hold off
Chandra ul Nervi's irregular troops. Disgusted with this turn
of events, the Master diverts his reserve forces to reinforce
Kiritan's armies - rather than sending them to Darokin as he'd
originally planned. The sudden influx of humanoids turns the
tide against Chandra ul Nervi. His forces decimated and
scattered, the rajadhiraja flees back through Ulimwengu. The
Master relinquishes his hold on Darokin, but tightens his grip
on Sind.
Summer: Days after Chandra ul Nervi's defeat, a
devastating meteor sent by the Master of Desert Nomads smashes
through the skyshield and slams into the Darokin/Glantri
border. The impact creates an enormous crater north of Lake
Amsorak. It destroys a mountain range, and raises an
impenetrable cloud above the two nations. The resulting
earthquake knocks down buildings in Akesoli and devastates the
village of Chandbali. The dust cloud rising from the impact is
larger than some countries. It covers all of southern Glantri
and northern Darokin and extends over northeastern Sind. For
days it blocks the sun. When it finally settles, ash and dust
cover everything, smothering plants and fouling drinking
water. The harvest is ruined, and a winter famine threatens.
Fall: The trees of the Canolbarth begin to darken,
twist, and mutate, becoming increasingly inhospitable to the
elves.
Fall: The dwarves of Rockhome, dismayed at the events
of the surface world, retreat into their subterranean
communities.
Fall: The Master of Hule decides that Chandra ul Nervi
must be eliminated as a potential threat to the conquest of
Sind. He sends ten divisions across the Great Waste to
Ulimwengu, certain that 10,000 soldiers would be more than
enough to overrun the primitive Karimari forces and drive the
deposed ruler out of his hiding place. The few soldiers and
humanoids who survive the resulting massacre bring word of
Ulimwengu's magical defenses back to Hule. The Master is
surprised to learn that the Karimari are far more than they
appear. His magics penetrate the illusions that had kept the
truth of Shani Kijiji and the Karimari from him.
Fall: The Master's attack on Ulimwengu is enough to
convince even the most progressive-thinking Karimari to close
their borders once more. All refugees are politely asked to
leave - immediately. Chandra ul Nervi and Drisana Madha seek
shelter among the Yavdlom people.
Winter: The Great Khan of Ethengar, whose people have
suffered from several savage raids by the Heldannic Knights,
invades the Heldann Territories. His forces march straight to
the capital, Freiburg, and lay siege to it.
Winter: On the Isle of Dawn, the Alphatian army
attempts to secure the center of the island, turning its
attention to Redstone Castle.
Winter: Zealot followers of the "Desert Garden"
philosophy of al-Kalim cross the Altan Tepes into northern
Thyatis, and take Fort Nikos without a single loss of life on
either side. The next day, they seize the town of Biazzan,
also without a fight.
1007 AC: Yazi gnolls attack the Savage Baronies, which
have been severely weakened by previous conflicts. The Master
of Hule sets a curse on his enemies, inflicting floods and
other natural disasters on the Savage Baronies. (RS)
Spring: The Heldannic Knights and Empire of Thyatis
formally sign a treaty of alliance.
Summer: King Thar of the Broken Lands leads his
humanoid hordes in raids on southern Glantri, finally besieging
Glantri City itself.
Spring: Kiritan vows to root out the last of his
brother's supporters and begins a systematic program of
oppression. The Master of Hule and his agents are more than
happy to assist.
Spring: The Graakhalians stage a last-ditch effort to
drive the humanoids from Graakhalia. They're soundly defeated.
Nearly half their population has died fighting or of
starvation (no time for harvests) since Graakhalia was
invaded. The survivors retreat deep underground, into
territory hitherto unexplored.
Summer: On the Isle of Dawn, the Alphatians take
Newkirk in a surprise attack. Within a couple of weeks,
Redstone Castle's commanders surrender.
Summer: Thousands of humanoids from the Broken Lands
move into Glantri and Darokin; some enter northeastern Sind,
adding to its misery. A few spill over into Graakhalia.
Fall: The Ylari forces in Biazzan decide to withdraw.
The entire force slips away before the Thyatians are aware,
getting all their people and most of Biazzan's wealth across
the mountains safely.
Fall: Shadow Elves invade, conquer, and settle Alfheim,
transmuting the forest and forcing the Alfheim elves to flee
north to Wendar and south to Karameikos. Bands break away to
brave the Desert Nomads in search of the long-lost Sheyallia
elves. They find no sign of their brethren.
Winter: Plague erupts in the Heldann Freeholds,
starting in the city of Freiburg.
Winter: An elf from Alfheim stumbles on a Sheyallia
elf sheltering with a Sindhi family in Baratkand. The two
gather together as many elves as they can and enter Graakhalia
in search of the scattered Graakhalians.
Winter: Ochalea and the Pearl Island capitalize on the
war raging between Thyatis and Alphatia to declare their
independence.
Winter: The elves fleeing southward from Alfheim are
trapped by a harsh winter in the icy foothills of the Cruth
mountains.
1008 AC: The Savage Baronies again enter into border
conflicts. Tortles and other peasants revolt. In Almarron,
rebels oust their dictator and install a Baron descended from
their former noble rulers. The Colonial Revolt begins, and many
colonies rebel against their parent states. Yazak goblinoids
attack throughout the Savage Coast. (RS)
Countless uprisings, civil unrest, riots, and
assassination attempts disturb Kiritan ul Nervi's rule. The
Master orders him to tighten his control of his nation or
suffer the consequences.
Spring: Helskir is overrun by Alphatians, who quickly
sweep south and capture the northern 2/3 of the Isle of Dawn.
Within a few days, Eruul Zaar is crowned king of Helskir by
Empress Eriadna herself.
Spring: Military forces from the Five Shires join the
army of Darokin to help keep order there and defend Darokin
from the humanoids occupying the Great Crater.
Spring: The Alfheim elves reach Karameikos, and are
ceded land in the east of that kingdom.
Summer: Plague spreads throughout the north, reaching
Glantri through Ethengar. With little clerical magic to combat
it, Glantri's population is devastated. Lycanthropes seem just
as susceptible as normal folk, and the Valley of Wolves loses
many werewolves.
Summer: The many clerics of Heldann are increasingly
winning the war against the plague. Healthy combined forces
from the Heldannic Knights and Ostland penetrate into the
Ethengar Khanates and, at the community of Tromso, massacre
some of the armies which attacked their territories.
Summer: The Alphatian Naval Fleet sails around the
northern end of the Isle of Dawn and engage the Thyatian
fleet. Great harm is inflicted by both sides, and eventually
the Alphatian navy retreats to the Isle of Dawn.
Fall: Ethengarians attack Alfheim elves crossing their
territory to reach Wendar in the north.
Winter: Glantri is finally recovering from the plague,
and are able to drive most of the humanoids out of Glantri
into the Great Crater. Thar's hordes now decide to attack
Darokin, but are driven back by the armies there.
Winter: The Alphatian Navy makes landfall in Ylaruam,
at the town of Cubia, two days sailing from the Thyatian
border.
1009 AC: Chandra ul Nervi, sick at heart at the abuses
his brother has been heaping on the Sindhi people, surrenders
himself to an agent of the Master of Hule. he agrees to return
as Rajadhiraja - under Hule's control - in order to stop the
worst abuses. The Master sees this as a way to quiet Sind's
unrest and promptly replaces Kiritan with Chandra ul Nervi.
Spring: The Heldannic Knights launch a force to come,
somewhat belatedly, to Glantri's rescue. Knights make an epic
ride through Rockhome, Ylaruam, and Darokin, joining the
Darokin army in time to push Thar's forces down into the
Crater.
Spring: The Alphatian forces marching in by land slam
into Fort Zendrol and capture it. For the first time in
decades, Alphatian forces march across the border into
mainland Thyatis.
Summer: The Alphatian military machine rolls through
the Thyatian duchy of Tel Akbir.
Fall: The second group of Alfheim elves leaves the
northern Glantrian mountains and enters the nation of Wendar.
The Glantrian plague follows them there.
Fall: Thyatis, hard-pressed by the Alphatian military
juggernaut, sues Empress Eriadna for peace.
Fall: A storm of tremendous force deluges the Alphatian
city of Sundsvall with rain, hail, and lightning - and drains
the world of magic. For an entire week, no magic works, either
on Mystara or in the Hollow World. Lycanthropes can no longer
transform and are stuck in whatever form they were in when the
storm struck. When magic returns, so does lycanthropy and its
effects. The storm and its after-effects were caused by an
Immortal artifact, the Nucleus of the Spheres, the source of
the radiance, a magical power unique to Glantri.
Fall: Magic stops working, and Yazak goblinoids sack
the capitol of Herath. Though magic is restored a few days
later, the Red Curse has spread across the coast. Inheritors of
the baronies begin introducing /cinnabryl/ throughout the
coast, while taking control of most of the /cinnabryl/ mines as
well. (RS)
Winter: The Thousand Wizards of Alphatia teleport to
the skies over Glantri City and begin a magical bombardment.
The Nucleus of the Spheres is destroyed and Glantri is
devastated. Immediately afterward, earthquakes rock Alphatia,
and the continent sinks deep beneath the sea.
1010 AC: The nations of the Known World begin the long,
difficult process of rebuilding.
In Glantri, the Principality of Fenswick is enfeoffed.
Sind is still occupied by the Master's forces. Chandra
ul Nervi is a virtual prisoner in his palace; the rajahs and
maharajahs are no more than puppet rulers. The Master licks
his wounds and launches more attacks against Darokin - from
the sea.
Three Alphatian mages posing as magical spirits invade
the Atruaghin Plateau and subjugate the Clans.
Dwarves stumble upon the city of Oenkmar.
Unusual amounts of snow runoff from the mountains
flood Graakhalia, Darokin, and the Five Shires.
The shadow elves in Aengmor (former Alfheim) realize
that without the Alfheim elves' maintenance spells, their
forest will die. In desperation, they enlist the help of elves
in Norwold in developing spells similar to those spells the
Alfheim elves had used.
Shadow Elves exploring the lower crust discover the
Schattenalfen elves of the Hollow World and open diplomatic
relations with their long-lost relatives.
The Great Khan of Ethengar attacks the Heldannic
Territories, hoping for a quick victory while the Heldannic
forces are occupied with conquering Landfall and other
matters. Months of besieging Grauenberg, skirmishing with
Heldannic troops, and raiding Heldannic settlements result in
very little gain for Moglai Khan. Changing tactics, he proposes
peace with the Heldanners, and they become uneasy allies.
Thyatis drives hard into the Alphatian regions of the
Isle of Dawn, retaking all of the Isle except Helskir and
Thothia. Thyatis also drives Ylaruam's small forces from its
territory on Brun.
Darokin, The Five Shires, Ylaruam, Rockhome, and
Karameikos form the Western Defense League, each pledging to
aid any of the League's members in time of war or disaster.
Overcrowding among the Hollow World Jennites
contributes to the rapid spread of a disease that the Jennite
clerics cannot halt. A Nithian healer named Tibnuhati cures
the plague before it devastates the Jennite herds, but there
is no guarantee the plague will not strike again.
The Malpheggi Lizard Men suffer an epidemic that
reminds them of the Nithian disease that had once destroyed
their people. The epidemic kills a thousand lizard men.
Thaumont 25: The Immortals awake Alphatia in the
Hollow World.
Kaldmont: The Five Shires declare war on the Black
Eagle Barony and march in to free its oppressed people.
1011 AC: New Kolland becomes the first humanoid
principality in Glantri.
Thar allies himself with King Alebane of Ogremoor to
invade Rockhome while the dwarves are caught in a civil war.
The campaign is a disaster; in disgrace, Thar flees to the
Makkres Mountains of Vestland.
Thothia retaliates against Thyatis. Rallying the
"Alphatian Irregulars" (divisions of the fragmented Alphatian
military), Pharaoh Ramenhotep pushes the Thyatian armies out
of Thothia, through Trikelios, and all the way to Ekto.
The Floating continent of Alphatia manages to drive
the Heldannic Knights from the Hollow World.
Nuwmont: The Five Shires capture Ludwig von Hendriks,
the Black Eagle Baron.
1012 AC: Specularum, Karameikos is renamed to Mirros.
Subtle events mold a darker, more sinister Glantri.
The Great Waste is primarily home to creatures loyal
to the Master of Hule and to people trying desperately to
survive in spite of the invaders.
1020 AC: Joint Darokinian and Thyatian operations to
protect their interests. All-out war pits humans vs. orcs.
1050 AC: Ylarum falls under the rule of Kin faction
sultans. Its culture and economy flourishes, but its values
decline, and there is a resurgence of traditional tribal
enmities.
1150 AC: The deaths of High King Maramet of Vestland
and his sole heir throw the nation into a political turmoil.
The Sorona, the enchanted crown of Vestland, is sought by
various factions hoping to claim the throne.