Black Chronology

The Black Chronology, also known as the Shadow Roll, was an alternate prophecy by the Lost Sage, Augathra the Mad, who penned the Roll of Years. In addition to her daytime visions that were recorded in the Roll of Years, she experienced dark visions at night while sleeping and these she wrote down in a book that eventually became known as the Book of the Black. She believed that the goddess Shar was the source of these revelations and that they were part of a plan by the Dark Goddess to destroy the Weave and its embodiment, Mystryl.
==History==
Augathra began having her nightmarish visions around and they propelled her to wander Toril, slowly driving her insane. The Book of the Black was lost for over a millennium until the , when the Dark Diviners of Myth Drannor discovered it in the Fane of Shadows, a multi-planar temple that roamed the planes in service to various shadowy deities. The sages of the Dark Diviners studied the tome and thought they discovered a weakness or vulnerability in Shar's plans or perhaps the goddess herself at some point in the future, and they recorded their deciphering of the Book in their own tome called The Leaves of One Night. When Shar learned of this, she cursed both books to be illegible and then had her followers steal both works.
In the , adventurers investigating a false temple of Mystra in Wheloon eventually traveled to the Monastery of the Ebon Dome on the Plane of Shadow. There, they confronted and defeated the Cyricist Skull Servant, Bineera Ethar. On her person, they found an unfinished letter to her superior, Blackwill Haarken Akhmelere, and a piece of parchment that purportedly contained the first thirty-four years of the Black Chronology and, more importantly, the matching names from the Roll of Years.
==A Portion of the Black Chronology==
The scrap of parchment believed to have been written by a Sharran monk of the Monastery of the Ebon Dome contained the following list:
Year 	Roll of Years 	Black Chronology
1352 DR	Year of the Dragon 	Year of the Lost King
1353 DR	Year of the Arch 	Year of Masks
1354 DR	Year of the Bow 	Year of Great Reaping
1355 DR	Year of the Harp 	Year of Retreat
1356 DR	Year of the Worm 	Year of the Drow
1357 DR	Year of the Prince 	Year of Spell Flames
1358 DR	Year of Shadows 	Year of Ascension
1359 DR	Year of the Serpent 	Year of the Carnival
1360 DR	Year of the Turret 	Year of Armies
1361 DR	Year of Maidens 	Year of the Golden Discovery
1362 DR	Year of the Helm 	Year of the Sun
1363 DR	Year of the Wyvern 	Year of Winter
1364 DR	Year of the Wave 	Year of Lords
1365 DR	Year of the Sword 	Year of Joyous Elves
1366 DR	Year of the Staff 	Year of Icy Waters
1367 DR	Year of the Shield 	Year of Unmasking
1368 DR	Year of the Banner 	Year of the Sons
1369 DR	Year of the Gauntlet 	Year of the City's Sorrows
1370 DR	Year of the Tankard 	Year of the Deep War
1371 DR	Year of the Unstrung Harp 	Year of the Toppling Towers
1372 DR	Year of Wild Magic 	Year of Dark Returns
1373 DR	Year of Rogue Dragons 	Year of Madness
1374 DR	Year of Lightning Storms 	Year of the Unraveling
1375 DR	Year of Risen Elfkin 	Year of Harsh Goals
1376 DR	Year of the Bent Blade 	Year of False Hopes
1377 DR	Year of the Haunting 	Year of the Black Banner
1378 DR	Year of the Cauldron 	Year of Broken Hearts
1379 DR	Year of the Lost Keep 	Year of Lost Wisdom
1380 DR	Year of the Blazing Hand 	Year of the Dull Blade
1381 DR	Year of the Starving 	Year of the Fool
1382 DR	Year of the Black Blazon 	Year of Unwelcome Guests
1383 DR	Year of the Vindicated Warrior	Year of Unjust Rewards
1384 DR	Year of Three Streams Blooded 	Year of Stolen Thrones
1385 DR	Year of Blue Fire 	Year of the Revelation
==Appendix==
===References===
Category:Chronology
Category:Prophecies