Timeline

This is a timeline of events on The Cradle. Years are in TE. 
See also the Cthulhu Alternate History Timeline for events in my alternate-history real-world setting, and Post-God Wars Timeline for my post-god-wars setting. 
== The Rise of All Things ==
*-13,800,000,000 - Indratera is formed in the Great Whirlwind
*-10,400,000,000 - Life appears on the Cradle in the form of single-celled organisms
== The Antecessor Age (-4,500,000 to -15,000) ==
*-4,500,000 - The first humans are seen to emerge, walking on two legs. They emerge around west Athas, and migrate west along the southern isles and coasts through the Tin Isles and the Luskan Peninsula. In the ensuing million years, some diverge through divine and magical intervention, forming the different races.
*-19,184 - The Red Gate of Thay is founded by extraplanar beings. The Outsiders henceforth begin projecting and maintaining the ward around The Cradle. Notably, this marks the point where (exceptions aside) no Outsiders could enter the planet. Thus, almost every being of great power that will be encountered later has its origins before this year. It remains hidden from humanoids until, well...
== The Predecessor Age (-15,000 to -5000) ==
The Predecessor Age marks the age when humanoids began to build the first ever towns and even cities, as more and more people favoured a sedentary culture rather than nomadic hunting and gathering. 
*-14,500 - The first instances of agriculture are seen in east Turmish and on the Luskan Peninsula.
*-13,000 - The first canines and felines are domesticated
*-11,500 - The first horses are domesticated in the Lakayan steppe as well as in the Danderillon.
*-10,800 - The wheel is first used for transportation, some 300 years after it was first used for pottery.
*-9,200 - In southern Turmish, metalworking first emerges in the Tin Isles and spreads over the next few hundred years slowly outward.
== The Footsteps of the First Ones ==
*26th Ekeï -8927 - The Eja tribe raze Njeteve Village.
*2nd Ixte -8,927 - A small meteor strikes the Farwydd Basin, near Anoq.
*3rd Ixte - Some Anoquit travel northward and uncover signs of First Ones presence at a standing stone site. They then free Wudo from the grasp of the Eja, kill Tuhwe, and solve another chess-based puzzle in some ruins north of their village.
*4th Ixte - Those Anoquit return home, then set off southeast. They deal briefly with Summer of the Evening Court, causing them to have to kill Meekadox to have him revived boundless. They are then found by Kosose, before being sent to the Anomaly Laboratory ruins and destroying a Skyshard.
*5th Ixte - As Ainuk's ritual reaches a fever pitch, the sky over Anoq turns red and fire rains down. Some of the Anoquit people face off against Ainuk, confronting him and his lust for revenge. They best the three Varanu:it spirits and lead their people westward.
*Spring -8926 - The Anoquit people begin to settle Y'rontaoq on the west coast, settling down.
*-8870 - The Ławglasqaqquit, burial place of Meekadox, is completed. The first Ła:uit are trained by Grace Eti.
== The Successor Age (-5000 to -1500) ==
*-3839 - The sun goddess Malini appears briefly in the Xant, founding the faith of the Xantic people for years to come, and leading to the formation of The Xantic Imperium by Pontifex Marco I
*-3696 - The last Volenyan people retreat northeast from Bey into the mountains, spurred by a harsh spate of hot, dry summers
*-3500 - Qinlen founds the Alderei by uniting the East Turmish wood tribes.
*-3234 - The Synod of Dragons is formed.
*-3181 - The Aspen arrive on Tokfir through a planar portal
*-2701 - In Netheril, the Synod of Dragons unites from several small draconic theocracies and magocracies
*-2425 - Several beings such as the Tree of Death take root in Rakkimar
*-2357 - In Gildegra, the Tahua peoples discover magical secrets in the straits, stumbling across Thay. The Outsiders of Thay agree to hand off their secrets to the mortals. The last Outsiders leave at the summer solar eclipse of -2357.
*-2300 - The last of the Tahua people leave The Danderillon for good, when vulture-king Tzopolotl seals himself in his tomb at the Fountain of Youth to die.
*-2296 - Kol Darim is founded by some pre-Skýndrar Rakki settlers. (Ragnar Fjállaþorson writes more on it)
*-2249 - An earthquake destroys some Iron Age Rakkimarran civilisations around Setfjall.
*-2158 - Turmish land tribes discover the idea of open-cast mining after a dream sent by Dumathóin to Laird Trenwyn Trevasskis, a local army leader.
== The Age of the Skyndrar (Égis Skyndrar) ==
'They came in their great boats with bronze rams, they burnt our towns with torches, salted our fields and killed our oxen, cut us down with their falling axes and curved swords. Monasteries, temples, homes lit up against the sky. I remember when Pappa lifted me up onto the back of our pony, I could hardly reach her reigns, and he yelled at me. Mariyga, you go, he said. And as I rode, I saw... I saw a woman split his skull in two and grin at me over clanging iron.'
- Unknown.
*-2100 - Queen Warneld of Clan MacLovatt, the most powerful contemporary Rakkimarran clan, unites many clans around the south of Jarl's Claw and the islands of southwest Rakkimar at the Kilþing (War Council) on Jolðenskorrir Island in Hjarofjall. The alliance concludes a few centuries of petty warring. They decide that now begins Égis Skýndir, or 'the age of raiding' - expanding southward, rather than northward, to find warmer land. The raiders are known as the Skýndrar.
*-2033 - The Skýndrar raid and settle Volenya after following the herald of a new star. Many of them end up integrating their culture and language.
*-1898 - The Alder people of the Alderei discover Eol deposits in their lands.
*-1844 - Jarl Kjotverð Tooth-in-the-Eye succeeds his father Jarl Halfdarym Skolsson after Halfdarym died in a 10-on-1 fight with a Gildegran warband.
*-1832 - In The Danderillon, the Vreigardt people unite fully for the first time in order to fight off Gildegran tribes coming down from the north passage along the Yuron, and are successful in beating them back
*-1831 - King Palifrun Wulfborn declares himself King of Bracken.
*-1805 - Queen Gerwulf of Bræknge succeeds her father, King Palifrun, after Palifrun is thrown out of a window during an argument between two yeomen, a housecarl, three thegns and a gedriht, in one of his thegns' castles. The kingdom mourns for a week, and all seven of the aforementioned nobles are hanged in metal cages from the uninhabited rocky South Spine of the city to be eaten by ravens and serve as a grim reminder. 
*-1802 - Under the sign of the Double Blue Comet, the previous Iyim of Nisos, Beska, is succeeded by her son, Baskarr.
*-1801 - Saltpeter is discovered in the Tin Isles by both Tbikhlan and Beyir people.
*-1799 - Ragnar Fjállaþorson sets out on his travels and begins to write his tomes Rasmussland og Farlandarna.
=== Rice Bræknge ===
*-1798 - King Æthelwulf succeeds his sister Queen Gerwulf of Bræknge after Gerwulf succumbs to blue fever over the course of a week, a highly acute and localised head illness, most likely brought on by eating a jellyfish caught in the Bay. 
*-1793 - A wave of Skýndrar set out to raid The Xantic Isles. However, a blood eclipse heralds doom, and they turn back instead. A month later they try again, but a planetary alignment spells bad luck.
*-1782 - King Æthelwulf forges an alliance with the Freetrade City of Nisos and its towns nearby. This cements the Kingdom of Bracken's control over the northeast Danderillon.
*2nd Vuöwa -1779 - The Crew of the Klemmuvængválf are blown off course and wrecked on the very northeastern coast of Ðanland, near Lupkówa.
*5th Vuöwa -1779 - The Crew burn down a forest accidentally, in memoriam of the fallen Brittní Spyirs.
*7th Vuöwa -1779 - The Crew discover the temple of Tzopolotl and the fountain of youth.
*21st Vuöwa -1779 - The Crew ambushes the Lupkówans at Midwinter, killing most the people, looting and razing the town, and salting the fields.
*24th Vuöwa -1779 - The crew, along with some Tbikhlan salt miners, form the Circus and enter Pszczow, before then entering The Underdark beneath Pszczow.
*25th Vuöwa -1779 - The Crew decide to explore the dark below, in the First Skyndrar Venture into the Underdark. They defeat slavers and a gibbering mouther, but take horrifically heavy losses.
*2nd Helkoälda -1778 - The Crew of the Klemmuvængválf accidentally cause the Raven Schism in Sylyntyr, and flee, leaving behind the Goldlock Chest.
*Spring -1778 - King Æthelwulf begins to bring the more eastern towns like Pszczow under his control, offering their leaders protection, the title of 'thegn', and safe trade, in return for worked metal, goods, lumber, leather, livestock, horses, and trained warriors.
*3rd Ixte -1778 - The Crew of the Klemmuvængválf return to the surface, finding Pszczow a changed town. They set off to Kol Darim to find their friends. Along the way, they receive a Prophetic vivid dream of King Æthelwulf's intentions for the Rice Bræknge.
*6th Ixte -1778 - Richard Dread and Nevaeh stand before the court of the Darim earl, Kjotverð Jarl. Richard's forthcoming yet honest attitude earns him the honourable title of landgraf, and Kjotverð's scribes send three great albatrosses to Rakkimar to ask for aid.
*12th Uekoi -1778 - A great fleet of Skýndrar ships arrive in Kol Darim. The Great Summer Army is formed.
*14th Uekoi -1778 - The Great Raid on Braeknge happens. A glorious night of battle occurs, with the Summer Army bearing down on the city. It ends with the city devastated, most the militia dead or scattered, and the king in hiding somewhere.
=== The Darim Jarldom ===
* Summer -1778 - a few of the towns closer to Braeknge attempt to resist their new Skyndrar-Darim rule and form fyrds. Some skirmishes occur, but they are soon put down. 
* Autumn -1778 - By Jarl Kjotverð’s orders, the majority of the monasteries, temples and churches along the north coast are destroyed so that their materials can be used to repair Braeknge. 
* Spring -1777 - The Jarldom of Kol Darim, bolstered by the materials from the monasteries, begins to re-incorporate the ruined city of Braeknge into its lands, with efforts to rebuild going strong, and settlement happening on the north side.
*Autumn -1775 - With Kjotverð Jarl's condition worsening, he is left bedridden, and bids the Crew of the Klemmuvængválf to assemble the components for the Fountain of Youth.
*4th Ekalo -1775 - The Crew of the Wolf and the Dzewvreigardts cross paths during the Kabuu Field Heist in Nisos.
*7th Ekalo -1775 - The Crew of the Wolf venture into Braeknge, City of Thieves and cause the Burning of the Brick and Mortar inn, facing down against the druid shifter Antler and her gang. They gather all the reagents for the Fountain of Youth and return to Kol Darim to learn of Kjotverð's worsening health.
*Mid-Ekalo -1775 - The Death of Kjotverð Jarl occurs. Richard Dread and Hallbjorn Ulfsson drink from the Fountain of Youth. Frode Skaldr is killed.
== The Late Successor Age (-1500 to 0) ==
*-1570 - The town of Pszczow, now named Mólfr, is abandoned for a few years after some kind of fungal brain disease spreads up from the pit that was thought sealed.
*-1458 - Peoples in Bey and the Skýndrar clash on the north coast of Bey.
*-1416 - On Skald-Night, after the Heralds of the Feast have ventured to fetch a holy branch, the Rakki village of Sólvenger is set upon by a great black dragon and burned to the ground. The event is foretold by the holy blackthorn branch being burnt and the tree erupting in flame. Several survivors flee through the wilderness, travelling through the ancient underground crypt of Clan Ossor and fighting draugr-wights, before reaching the safety of Steirfrost, home of the Hrafnfrost clan, where they also find Chieftain Halfdarymna alive. These survivors and their skaldic epithets were:
**Hrist Ice-flame and Snørik
**Rieka Wolf-skin
**Magnus Grey-nose
**Yuri Drake-tamer
**Hamm Golden-beard
**And Järvinen, heroic bard.
***These heroes were immortalised in the Sólvenger Saga.
*-1276 - Gildegran and Tarkassian people discover great deposits of petrified wood beneath their icy soil, perfect for fuel!
*-1145 - Seiros undergoes a coronal mass ejection, melting much of the northeastern sea ice in Rasmussia and leaving the Xant warm. With the new warmer land, the Rakki people can now settle further north in their own lands. This thus roughly coincides with the end of most of the Rakki raids.
*-1145 - A frozen land bridge between some of Rasmussia and the area south of the isle of Mjor collapses, leaving some of the north Rasmussian beasts (see below) stranded in Gildegra
*-1120 - The Xantic Isles are rid of the last of the once-migrated Rakkimarran beasts like the horned wolf, lynxbear, the süüshetti, and the permafrost penguin, all poorly adapted since the melting.
*-1038 - The volcano Tenghuzaar of the Sierra Aspera erupts, displacing many of the mountain people.
== The Years of Sunrise ==
It was the day when men were reckoned.-El-Larrat on the Dalereckoning in 'History of The Burned Lands'.
*-419 - In Volenya, King Velumskoðny the Magnificent conquers the whole of the mountains and unites the people under the Vola Imperiya.
*-345 - A conjunction of planets and stars above Athas leads a lone group of Beyir travellers into Bas to found Owijila
*-96 - Lil Wood, Vallo, Kazam, and Baraar help The Edict to free Tyrvok from the depths of the sky-city of Xinlelal. This results in Lil Wood becoming the greatest rapper of all time, Vallo aiding Thovir to cause the Great Resurrection Event, Kazam founding the autonomous sky-city of Mazakidon, and the creation of the legendary Blade of Baraar.
*-32 - Regulus Kingmaker, Lord of Troodos and Luskan, is given Zaahnwir by the Qinlen of The Alderei.
*-32 - The Lusken Empire is formed by the union of several lords and families, led by Regulus Kingmaker.
*-30 to -23 - The Horn Wars occur, where the Lusken Empire spends seven years conquering the peninsula.
*-4 - The Lusken Empire conquers The Fallo and sets its sights on Netheril.
*-1 - At the Battle of Bytēntia Pass, the Lusken Empire is beaten back out of south Netheril. They take a year to recoup, but after the Dalereckoning, ignore Netheril as it seems too much trouble.
*0 - The Dalereckoning occurs. After months of revolt by the enslaved dragons, Seiros undergoes another coronal mass ejection and scorches Netheril, bringing an end to the Synod of Dragons. Around the same time, Tyrvok is killed by Weyloran.
*50 - Carastor succeeds Qinlen as king of the Alderei
*56 - The rock gnomes of Boarwood form the Second Mandate of Netheril, picking up the pieces of the Synod of Dragons.
== The Century of the Crown ==
It spread like a disease of the flesh, tainting the fair land underfoot, knowing no end to hunger.-'A Brief History of the World's Most Hated Empire' by Professor Langdon.
*101 to 134 - The Lusken Empire's campaign in Turmish, known as the Beilsa Turmultus, finally establishes trade routes and a tenuous trade agreement with the Tbikhlans. 
*229 - The Lusken Empire invades The Danderillon and begin their campaign of 72 years in the Danderillon, the Beilsa Danderilla. They first land at Yurontok, where they meet the modern Anoqhuit culture, and set up a port, called 'Waterdeep'.
*234 - Captain Ozuno Nyoka is ported away to another world.
*299-301 - Kol Darim and The Lusken Empire in Datria have two years of underhanded wars full of guerilla tactics. The outcome is Lusken victory and centuries of subjugation. Kol Darim falls as the last stronghold of the land to the Lusken Empire. The Empire now exerts control over almost all the Danderillon, save for the Boarwood and some Vriegardt strongholds.
*405 - Aomodos-Latos is razed by Vreigardts, save for the white church 
== The Centuries of Greed ==
The sky rumbled like thunder, and down came the fury of hell itself, flaming rock falling like rain.-An eyewitness account of Dead Man's Siege.
*928 - The TOWER lands on Itztla.
*954 - The Vortic Mercatorium occupies the North Vortic Islands.
*1120 - Dead Man's Siege happens, and the Vreigardt army occupies Datria
*1125 - The Lusken Empire takes back Datria
*1130 - The TOWER lands on Jacktar
*1199 - The Vortic Mercatorium invades Netheril, permanently occupying some of its gulf's islands and some of its south coast too, in the pursuit of sulfur for firearms. They cut a deal with the Second Mandate of Netheril.
*1231 - The Vola Imperiya declares war on the Beyir Khelumvirate, beginning the Three Centuries War.
*1320 - The Vortic Mercatorium signs the Writ of Ereibo and Tartarei, banning travel to Tokfir.
== The War of the Darim Succession / The Great North Wars ==
Nothing personal, Weyloran. You're just a tad early, that's all.-Vezrath to Jarren.
*1474 - Jarl Þundenvár Knotbeard, ruler of Kol Darim, dies heirless, and many of his important advisors are killed in a mountain ambush alongside him. This sparks the War of the Darim Succession and the The Great North Wars.
*1479 - Vezrath Startouched kills Jarren Weyloran, hours after he had killed Rezmir Wyrmspeaker, in Netheril, and Vezrath wins Hazirawn.
*1480 - Rakkimar hands off the isle of Solþr Reikur to The Xantic Imperium, and rename it Ksantyr.
*1481 - The dwarves of Kol Darim and the Tribunal of Spiders wage war in the First Darim-Drow War.
*1484 - Martha Meliketh kills the land baron Saiorse Cowley and some of her goons in a shootout.
*1485 - The Order of the Gauntlet splinters. Pelor's Razor remains in Datria.
*1486-7 - Vreigardts attack Carmogan, in the First Vreigardt War
*1487 - Morrigan the dragon attacks Mount Set on Setfjall, displacing Clan MacEoin.
== The Year of the Four Horsemen ==
By the Gods, could they not have spread it out a bit? I hate transcribing this year.-Celia Edmund, Hjarofjallan librarian and historian.
*Kaleävi 1490 - Vezrath Startouched kills Tyr and, through the actions of Trajan, also kills Lliira on Ysgard. Trajan gains Hazirawn and flees
*Kaleävi 1490 - Talona's Wasting Blight is unleashed. 
*Kaleävi 1490 - A small Vreigardt army attacks Kol Darim, occupying it for only a week
*Ekalo 1490 - The Violet Catastrophe occurs, and Datria is wrecked
*Ekalo 1490 - Fira Nazar sets out on her travels.
*Uktal 1490 - The Battle of Bracken takes place, and King Altor takes the throne. Heinrich is killed by Kessar. Kelita di Lamendolio fakes her death
*Vuöwa 1490 - Rufus is taken in by Altor
== The Decade of Encroaching Shadow ==
A secret is like a dove: when it leaves my hand it takes wing.-Netherese proverb.
*1491 - Talona's Wasting Blight dies down finally.
*1491 - The Blackfeld Abbey, having split from The Iron Chapter, move into the village of Blackfeld in Netheril.
*1492 - Amelio Cassalanter sends orders to Greysword for the extermination of Taf's village at Aomodos. Lyslen MacEoin and Jara Kheriþe do the deed
*1493 - Altor pays for the revival of Heinrich but he becomes deranged and becomes the Bracken Ripper, escaping and killing many people.
*1495 - Dagult Neverember comes to power in Waterdeep
*1496 - The Xantic Imperium is allowed to build Nova Scandzia in Hjarofjall
*1497 - Dagult Neverember builds his vault beneath Jarren's Well
*1497 - Isabelle Lionheart finally catches and kills the Bracken Ripper
*1500 - Dain and Crow fall at Guzuth Toth covering the Darim retreat.
== The Riots ==
City of Splendors, my fuckin' arse.-Maxwell Loveridge.
*1500 - Dagult Neverember is impeached and disappears. Laeral Silverhand replaces him
*1501 - The First Darim-Drow War ends with a Darim retreat to Dain's Bastion. The war is over
*1502 - The Naysayers are formed, and chase down Neverember's gold successfully, slaying The Wish Mother. Velarin's life becomes sacrosanct
*1502 - The Waterdeep Riots begin
*1503 - The city of Naysayer is founded by The Naysayers
*1504 - The Last Crusaders embark on their quest. Venom, Tolen and Vittoro Cassalanter are killed, but Warad kills the Crusaders
*1504 - The Waterdeep Riots end
*1504 - Karrus Weyloran travels to Hjarofjall seeking to reclaim his sword and his honour, before he sets off into the wastes.
== The Year of Succession ==
*1507 - Amelio Cassalanter takes over from Silverhand as Lord of Waterdeep.
*1507 - Bullseye Jack is caught stealing from Heckler Hardfoot of King's Stead, but is made to work for him instead.
*1507 - Silverhand is appointed by the Emperor Regulus XIII to become governor of Fort Helena
*1508 - The first ship of the Khepri expedition, Khepri I, sets off from Thay bound for Rhino
*1509 - The Disforza family is brought to ruin by Emperor Regulus XIII and Jacopo Calinezzi. Colombo Disforza, Prella, and Arronda are hanged in the square in Luskan. Machavellio and Anaïs Disforza go on the run, and their uncle Gianluca is sent to Fort Helena as a scribe.
== The First Great Year of Piracy ==
* 3rd Veltai 1510 - The LEV Alverosa Sunset, later named the Scaleskull is separated from a Lusken fleet bound for Fort Helena during a storm after sunset. It is commandeered by several prisoners - Navassa Kenway, Patch, Syl, Ubba, Mallacith and Lass.
*4th Veltai 1510 - The Scaleskull sails to the port of Heather's Vineyard for repairs. Meanwhile, the LPV Blackwyche, captained by Marrik and crewed by Crate, Helrus McCraggan and Jak Waiki'ki amongst others, is given a privateer commission by Admiral Vaselka de Seditus of Sauheromu Anchorage. They head off into the Wolcott Straits. The Scaleskull heads off northwards, and steals some armaments that night.
*5th Veltai 1510 - The Scaleskull loots the sunken ship VVM Rejuvenasión, taking her bullion.
*6th Veltai 1510 - The LPV Blackwyche finds the castaway Viliers Sedlow in the wreckage of some of the old treasure fleet and rescues him. They then chase down the VVM Tiburón, a Vortic merchant brigantine whose crew was trying to loot the flotsam. They cripple her and board her, kill most her crew, but spare Captaine Larlais and three of her sailors after they surrender. The Blackwyche take their cargo.
* 7th Veltai 1510 - The Scaleskull makes port briefly at New Benevolence, but then leaves that day after angering customs officials. Meanwhile, the Blackwyche makes port at Sauheromu Anchorage again and leaves the VVM Tiburón and its Captaine Larlais behind there.
*9th Veltai 1510 - The Blackwyche reaches Heather's Vineyard, ruffling some feathers when she arrives. The crew sells some cargo, snoops around, and then heads off southeast. 
*10th Veltai 1510 - The Blackwyche stops to investigate the VVM De La Ouair. They find she is a plague ship, full of sickly dying crew. They let Captaine Giseau d'Hart flee with some healthy crew, but the infected crew prove to be rabid and feral - twelve Blackwyche sailors are killed and Helrus nearly is ripped to shreds, after he contracts a nasty disease. They escape with their lives, but decide to chase the Captaine to nearby Aya Atoll. However, their bosun Jak Waiki'ki convinces the crew to mutiny and leaves the trio of Marrik, Helrus and Crate for dead. Meanwhile, the Scaleskull ports at Heather's Vineyard and acquires some new armaments. 
*11th Veltai 1510 - Marrik, Crate and Helrus McCraggan attempt to attack a territorial mother hippo, leading to the death of Crate and the near-death of the other two. They stumble to the southern horn of the atoll where a Larawak chieftan, Wise Bear, takes pity on them and gives them healing herbs, plus a double hulled canoe and bids them good luck. The Scaleskull narrowly passes them by.
*14th Veltai 1510 - The Scaleskull comes upon the ghost ship LEV Forsaken in open water and fights it, sending it to the depths. They follow, and end up in 'Serenity', an incarnation/interpretation of the space between life and death. There, they meet Mora and Makë.
*21st Veltai 1510 - The Pharox Thas Catastrophe occurs. Many Lusken nobles and notable people die, including Admiral Vaselka Decimus, Vladimir, Marrik, and the Furies. 
*Summer 1510 - The Lusken Empire in Lakay and the Wolcott Straits declares a war on pirates, funded by Luskan and the Fallo back home. Many pirate ships are hunted and sank. There is a boom of pirate hunters and privateers. The straits are no longer a safe place until the fall of the colonial empire in 1513.
*Autumn 1510 - At a large fight club at sea off the coast of the North Vortic Islands, Patch beats the other four competitors; Eleanora, Daggar Mayfield, and Mad Mike.
*Low Winter 1510 - The Lusken Empire sends an expeditionary force into the Yuren River Valley, which prompts the Lusken Invasion of Anticosti Isle.
* Low Winter 1510 - The 'Battle' of Pitcairn occurs, where several Lusken legions are destroyed by a large avalanche.
* Winter 1510- The Siege of Fort Hudson begins.
== The Second Great Year of Piracy ==
*6 Helkoälda 1511- The Scaleskull makes port on Feŋ after some long side adventures. They trade, meet Nanouk, and help a farmer investigate a murdered bull.
*10th-14th Utza 1511 - The Scaleskull returns to the straits once again. They sink a man-o-war, then relax on a nearby beach on Kicking Bird Isle, and pick up several animal companions and also Captain Bonesy. They then fight the bounty hunters Sílah, Novárra and a Ghirapur, in the market of Heather's Vineyard and leave a message in the sky that reads, "You have two weeks".
*14th Utza 1511 - Selim's Angels , consisting of Isilen Disforza, Inigo Dallario, Vadduk of Thas, and Thallus Neverember, join forces at the behest of Commander Lodovika Staghart in Heather's Vineyard. After a pleasant afternoon tea and being taken round the point to the smouldering market aboard the Northern Consul, they track down and kill a Ghirapur and rescue Sílah. They then discuss their exploits above Connor's Cannon Inn, and find a wanted poster for Anaïs Disforza and Jak Waiki'ki.
*17th Utza 1511 - The aforementioned adventurers join the crew of the White Wyeverne ship, where they meet Arthur of the Yuren. The crew sails northwards toward Mésquinnes port, and on the way they battle and sink a pirate ship, gaining a big hoard of loot.
*19th-20th Utza 1511 - Those Privateers engage in a comedic bar brawl in the Waylay in Mésquinnes with several others, including Jak Waiki'ki who they capture. Arthur slits her throat (and tears out her vocal cords) in secret to save her tan uncertain fate with the Empire. They track Anaïs Disforza to a small beach where she is digging up treasure with some Blackwyche crew, and begin talking to her; Inigo Dallario reveals he is a Disforza, her brother. Just then, the White Wyeverne crew arrives, forcing the Privateers to kill Anaïs in a watery duel. 
*22nd Utza 1511 - Inigo Disforza assassinates the captain of the White Wyeverne, Yeva d'Avari. The Kraken sets upon the ship and devours it and the crew, leaving few survivors. Isilen is lost. 
*25th-27th Utza 1511 - Selim's Angels wash up on Lakay's north coast and trek to King's Stead, becoming established 
*27th Utza-20th Ižta 1511 - The Selim's Angels build their barn and run errands with the townsfolk, then revive Anaïs from her restful death. 
== The First and Second Year of Liberty ==
Freedom! Freedom for all! Liberty is come!-Banners of the Lakayan Federation decrying the island's independence.
*1512 - Several agents travel back to 1512 from 1612. Sent by Azachairiel of Sigil, they rescue Velarin Naysayer from Tartarus so the timeline can continue
*1512 - Khepri II sets off from Thay bound for Rhino as a small supply ship
*19th Utza 1513 - Selim's Angels meet Selim in his sky-home beneath a space jellyfish, and meet his fiend dummy. They then journey to the Afterlife, passing through Judgement, the Field of Reeds (where they meet Jak Waiki'ki's spirit) and Nowhere. In Nowhere, they fight the spirits of their old crew, rescue Isilen, and bring Isilen+Jak home to the land of the living!
*10th Utza 1513 - The Eagle Cried Hope sinks just off the coast of Lakay.
*12th Utza 1513 - The Lakayan Liberators wash up on Lakay and meet the Bayut of Oryix.
*13th Utza 1513 - The Lakayan Liberators are attacked by Selim's Angels, before the two groups part ways. The Liberators establish themselves briefly in King's Stead, making good with Heckler Hardfoot.
*19th Utza 1513 - The Lakayan Liberators, accompanied to the fort by Doughboy, infiltrate Fort Helena, and Gauward is captured and executed. Later, they meet and stay with the Larawak tribe. Meanwhile, Selim's Angels capture Fort Rhea and the region of Empire's Edge by letting loose a Terragator.
*22nd Utza 1513 - The Unimportant Yew is created by Alessandro Lucari.
*23rd Utza 1513 - The Lakayan Liberators entreat with the Verdis. Later that day, Machavellio Disforza kills Born of Thunder.
*29th Utza 1513 - Elna Carrinstoke scouts King's Stead, now occupied by Leona Adler and agents of the Davison Detective Agency. Galaden is killed.
*2nd Ixte 1513 - Elna Carrinstoke and Alessandro Lucari celebrate with the Uiyets at Yeghur.
*6th Ixte 1513 - Machavellio Disforza rallies the Larawaks under Biting Shark.
*13th Ixte 1513 - The Lakayan Liberators, the Uiyets, Bayuts, and Larawaks with Verdis weaponary assault Fort Helena. Elna Carrinstoke ignites herself in the Crustaceous Apparatus, which kills Alessandro Lucari. Machavellio Disforza convinces Leona Adler to join him, and they kill Gary Johnson. Together with Orthalas, Uncle Gianluca and Commodore Lilac Rogers, they enter the keep, and Lee forces El Tiburon to kill Laeral Silverhand. The sun rises on the Lakayan Federation, and the fort is renamed Fort Thunderlord.
*13th Ixte 1513 - Thus begins and concludes the The Battle of Fort Helena
*5th Vuöwa 1513 - The early Monster Hunters (Lyslen MacEoin, Aric and Thomas Tonrartok) arrive on Eðnir aboard the North Sea Swan. They apprehend Rhodson Thomasson, save Theodolf Bearkiller, and bed down in the The Hunter's Hoard.
*6th Vuöwa 1513 - The Harper Layla 'Ei' attempts to kill Aric, but is killed by Lyslen. Fleeing from the Guardia MacGillivray, they sail off with Torina MacEoin aboard the Flying Orca.
*9th Vuöwa 1513 - The Monster Hunters investigate Ðok Vest, but Tonrartok falls in the forest and is killed by an ent.
*15th Vuöwa 1513 - Elrod and joins The Monster Hunters. They have a bloody barfight at The Lion's Head and evade Guardia Kilghraimh.
*17th Vuöwa 1513 - Marndir the Bear joins The Monster Hunters. They face Baba Hjadviga, and Aric receives a vision of his past life. Jezibel, Tanis and The Fixers threaten Lyslen.
*18th Vuöwa 1513 - Aric brings The Fixers to The Roaring Hearth. They fight Lyslen in the dead of night. She tries to flee, but Jezibel Halfmoon kills her. Lyslen reveals the secrets of The Flock to her. The group disbands.
== The Year of Vengeance ==
You made me this way! -Heinrich yelling to Kessar as she begged for her life.
* Helkoälda 1514 - Waterdeep declares its independence from The Lusken Empire. The Empire begins to set its plans in motion to re-invade Scarossar.
*17th Helkoälda 1514 - Several prisoners overthrow their Darim captors and set off to Bracken. The next morning, they split into the Independent Contractors and The Union Hacks. The Serpent's Head reveals their existence to the Contractors.
*19th Helkoälda 1514 - In the TSSA tunnels beneath Bracken, The Independent Contractors and The Union Hacks come face-to-face briefly.
*20th Helkoälda 1514 - The Independent Contractors kill Gulrak Browbeater, and crash a frigate into Bracken's Cross Island, causing a mass disaster. Whilst The Union Hacks work to clean up the mess, the Contractors move into Number 221, East Overlook.
*21st Helkoälda 1514 - The Independent Contractors kill Jara Kheriþe and then Jason Greysword. Hans takes his leave.
*22nd Helkoälda 1514 - The battle at Pier No3 unfolds.
*23rd Helkoälda 1514 - Heinrich uses the Maw to kill Isabelle Lionheart, Telriel Chaufort, Ashlen Bocker and others. He himself kills Kessar Truespear. Altor is killed, just after he reveals the existence of Rufus to Heinrich
* Helkoälda 1514 - The Flock leaves for The Vortic Isles
* Lykaiö 1514 - The Serpent's Head reveal themselves to the city. Bracken is declared a free city once again.
*Ixte 1514 - The Lusken Empire's request for gunpowder trade with the Beyir Khelumvirate is blocked by The Xantic Imperium. The Luskens begin gathering their troops from The Fallo and The Luskan Peninsula.
* Helkoälda 1515 - Khepri I arrives on Rhino. Its colonists begin to build New Amkhemar.
*Utza 1515 - The first son of Machavellio and Leona Disforza, is born.
*1515 - Bracken's semi-unified anarchic forces settle a trade treaty with the kingdom of Rakkimar, the Xant and the Beyir Khelumvirate.
== The Year of Wishes, Treaties and Wars ==
I am the resurrection, I am the life. They who believe in me shall live, even when they die.-Lorabelios, archangel god of death and rebirth.
*Luäna 1516 - The Lusken Empire, The Alderei, the Highlanders and Tibeal sign the Treaty of Passage. This treaty posits that Lusken ground troops will be able to march through Turmish without being stopped, and will be granted free passage through the Highland Peaks.
*Utza 1516 - Thovir causes both The Fireball Nullification and begins the Great Resurrection Event using a Djinn. He also summons Hazirtwain into existence
*1516 - Jason Greysword and some of the dead from the The (First) Battle of Bracken rise again and occupy the Dark Zones.
*Ixte 1516 - New Amkhemar stops responding to Sending contact, and goes dark mysteriously.
*Ekalo 1516 - Dain Axehelm rises again in The Underdark. The Tribunal of Spiders sends two agents to investigate Latar's tower in Guzuth Toth, but they flee from Dain. The Second Battle for Guzuth Toth occurs, and the outbreak of the Second Darim-Drow War begins too. The Kol Darim Undead Legion is formed.
*Vuöwa 1516 - The Vortic Mercatorium and The Lakayan Federation sign the Vortais-Lakayan Alliance. This treaty states that the Mercatorium will provide its navy to the Federation immediately, and together they will wait to attack Luskan as soon as The Lusken Empire's army mobilises.
== The Dark Years ==
'The night is always darkest just before the dawn breaks.'- Alessandro Lucari.
*1517 - Fira Nazar publishes her Faerun travel guide, The Travels.
*1517 - A large avalanche and rockslide devastates Bracken's north slopes.
*Ekeï 1518 - Khepri II arrives on Rhino. Demiana, Zaum and George make contact with the Brood under New Amkhemar, but fall to their relentless and ravenous advance. Captain Indrol and several crew (SCRAM units) investigate. The SCRAMs succumb to Watcher AO Protocol and kill Indrol, before turning on the Khepri II too.
*1518 - Lusken aligned spies attempt to assassinate Kelita di Lamendolio, but the attempt fails miserably. Luskan turns its gaze away from Bracken as a possibility, with the impending doom coming...
== The Year of Bloody Flamerule ==
'By the time L'il Sol rises, we shall be upon them like wolves, and their land shall be ours.''Might we be so fortunate. If we fail, we shall meet beneath the Blue Sky once more. Tóki na'apata hí, friend.'- Vortic Second Lieutenant Iuvette Latir-Regnard and Larawak general Raging Bull before setting off for the long voyage to Luskan.
*Lykaiö 1519 - The Lusken Army finally gathers its forces from The Fallo in Luskan and sets off into Turmish, leaving the capital and the coast barely defended.
*Utza 1519 - Hearing news of Luskan's vulnerability, the Vortic Mercatorium and The Lakayan Federation's Vortais-Lakayan Navy set course for Luskan and leave.
*2nd Ixte 1519 - Cassalanter's Spear is stolen by the West Marchers. Waterdeep's Keep of Mirrors is broadsided and lightly damaged by the fleeing stolen ship's crew.
*6th-7th Ixte 1519 - The West Marchers make contact with the Aspen and later the Vortic Mercatorium on Tokfir.
*15th Ixte 1519 - The Vortais-Lakayan First Fleet makes landfall on The Luskan Peninsula, taking Cessalia and looting, burning and pillaging their way across the land. Local town Guardias are recalled to the capital, leaving many places to fall to the invaders.
*17th Ixte 1519 - The Vortics and Lakayans burn and pillage as they move eastwards. In the bay, the Battle of the Horn begins, as the navy of Brist fights the Vortic first fleet. Meanwhile, the Lusken Army just passes the Turmish Highland Peaks.
*21st Ixte 1519 - Renaer Smytt is elected Lord of Waterdeep, barely beating Warad the Calm. Amelio Cassalanter retires from the public eye in shame.
*22nd Ixte 1519 - The Second Vortais-Lakayan fleet, as well as the West Marchers, arrive at the Luskan peninsula and take Ramalfo. The West Marchers undergo betrayal at Pellegrina's Landing, and Arnaud leads the crew of the Spear off away. The Vortic forces fighting Brist in the bay are bolstered by the Second Fleet.
*22nd Ixte 1519 - The Sack of Luskan begins. Vortic and Lakayan troops fight the Guardia in the city for several long days. Buildings are burnt, bridges destroyed, and the city bombarded.
*28th Ixte 1519 - Some of the Guardia flees to Brist or the Fallo, whilst others defend the city to the last man valiantly. The Battle of the Horn draws to a close, the navy of Brist retreating with heavy losses. Despite the Guardia's efforts, on the morning of the 28th, the Bayut and Uiyet forces, bolstered by the bombardment provided by the second fleet, storm Fort Decimus and kill Emperor Romulus XIII De Seditus. They raise the Vortic and Lakayan flags over the city, and the few remaining Guardia surrender.
*Eleasias 1519 - Scarossar expands to include the city of Naysayer. The Vortic Mercatorium signs the Waterdeep-Sant-Mart Treaty to assure mutual peace.
*Eleasias 1519 - Much of the Lusken Army, now in The Danderillon and having learnt of the fall of their empire, occupy the East Danderillon coast, retaking the independent city of Pelia, renaming it Datria once more, and controlling the surrounding lands in the Datrian Empire. The remaining army occupy Carmogan and its environs in the Carm Junta.
* Ekalo 1519 - Brist forms the Duchy of Bristos. The towns on the northwest peninsula form the Nova Republic. Other cities form city-states post-collapse. Some try to get on the Vortics' good side, others staunchly remain proud of their history and independence.
*Ekalo 1519 - Arnaud DuPont Leroux and the crew of the Spear hunt down El'Lasharin in the village of Hawkmoth and put the sect down for now...
* Varokoleäna 1519 - In the Fallo, the Protectorate of Sanctum, the Divine Ascendancy of Treviso and East Estir form as the notable ex-Lusken holds in the area.
== The Year of Enðurskol ==
* Ekalo 1520 - The Verdis tribe strike Coaxite in Mantle.
*Vuöwa 1520 - Luca Calinezzi forces Amelio Cassalanter to sign Cassalanter Industries over to Calinezzi Company Limited.
*Helkoälda 1521 - The Carm Junta begins to unite the Sword Vreigardts and Tarkas Vreigardts in the Vreigardt-Junta Alliance.
* Helkoälda 1521 - Father Elias Silverton is assassinated at a political rally in Xinelal by a member of the Teal Brotherhood.
* Lykaiö 1521 - The Vreigardt-Junta Alliance begins talks with the Boarwood Enclave to unify.
*3rd Lykaiö 1521 - Soot, Mori and Goro join the West Marchers in Hjarofjall.
*14th Lykaiö 1521 - The West Marchers make port at Kalyr on Setfjall and set off into the wastes toward Vörgåsen.
*16th Lykaiö 1521 - The West Marchers, now including Forte, investigate Vörgåsen. They fight a sect of The Song and kill The Fallen Branch, but lose and forget Bernárd.
*19th Lykaiö 1521 - The West Marchers, Clan MacDeídhre and the Værdnr best The Song and, with heavy losses, kill the Tree of Death.
*28th Lykaiö 1521 - Luca Calinezzi is killed by Soot. The shock and heartbreak ultimately causes Lucrezzia Calinezzi to succumb to her lung disease and pass away. Coronita and Blanco Calinezzi call a vendetta against the West Marchers.
*Luäna 1521 - The Vreigardt-Junta Alliance, Highlanders and Boarwood Enclave form the Pãtrat.
*Luäna 1521 - In response to the formation of the Pãtrat, Scarossar attempts to secure the Čer Field Refinery Lands of the Scarossar Moors from potential local Vreigardt threats. This act sparks the Moor Wars between the army of Scarossar and the combined arms of the Sword Vreigardts/Boarwood Enclave under the Patrat's banner.
*Luäna 1521 - Two weeks into the Moor Wars, the Erodvreigardts and Boarwood guerilla forces successfully destroy their first factory in a night raid.
*20th Luäna 1521 - The West Marchers arrive in Amkhemar and purchase an Amethyst-class Engine for the Spear.
*Luäna 1521 - Warad the Calm becomes the face of the anti-war movement in Waterdeep.
*15th Veltai 1521 - The Verdis sell their Coaxite to the West Marchers.
*10th Ekeï 1521 - The West Marchers sell on their goods in Amkhemar again, and warp away to Hellas, Copernicus, then to Middle-Earth.
*Utza 1521 - Holding the line, Scarossar proposes a treaty and draws up a border north of the Čer fields. The reply is plain. The Boarwood Enclave magical tank division occupies Fort Thresher on the Vikreux.
*Ixte 1521 - The city of Naysayer closes its borders and assumes its impenetrable defences. The Boarwood Enclave occupy Appledore, and in tandem with Vreigardt forces, take Putnam Naptha and Cassalanter Coal Lode, effectively isolating Naysayer.
*Eleasias 1521 - Pătrat forces gain more ground, and occupy Putnam Saltworks and Davis Diesel & Paraffin. Scarossar proposes another line south of Fort Burgess and Cassalanter Kerosene and Tar. The fighting slows in the west.
*Kaleävi 1521 - The forces of the Highlanders arrive in Erod Warad.
*Ekalo 1521 - Over in the eastern moors, Fort Mercer is taken by Vreigardt and Highlander forces.
*Vuöwa 1521 - West Firth Earth Metal is taken by Vreigardt and Highlander forces
== The Year of the People ==
*Luäna 1522 - The Vortic Mercatorium arrive in Waterdeep to help reclaim the oil fields.
*Veltai 1522 - Pătrat guerilla forces take Betrata Grande Zinc and Tin.
*Utza 1522 - The Teal Brotherhood bomb a meeting in south Xinlelal, killing several peaceful Netherese leaders including Alŷmir Wyrmspeaker, and Ankover Shoemaker. The Second Mandate of Netheril begins to distance itself from the Mercatorium.
*2nd Ixte 1522 - The West Marchers kill the last of the Calinezzi family and destroy House Calinezzi.
*2nd Ixte 1522 - Cassalanter Kerosene and Tar is attacked by three Vreigardt sappers, Zeście, Allana and Hași. They successfully ignite the oil butts and part of the factory goes up in flames. The city of Waterdeep wrongly believes the Spear to be part of the Vreigardt attack plan. Meanwhile, Waterdeep's land grab begins.
*8th Ixte 1522 - The West Marchers rid Ne'em'irah of the Keeper, banishing it.
*Ekalo 1522 - The Pătrat attempts to form a navy to take Naysayer and Waterdeep, but they are easily outclassed and outmatched by the Vortais-Lakayan Navy at the Battle of the Sandbar Sea. A sea battle of a few days unfolds - Naysayer takes minor damage and fights off some Vreigardt coastal attackers, and the Vreigardt fleet is sank or forced to abandon their attack.
== The Roaring Twenties ==
Come to Novy Lakaika! A tropical land of opportunity for the taking for the hard workers and aspiring crafters! Make the Imperiya proud!
- Volenyan poster promoting emigration to Lakay.
*Winter 1522 - The Vola Imperiya land on the southwestern shores of Lakay, seeking resources, and occupying much of the western and southern coasts. Backed into a corner, after several months, The Lakayan Federation cave. They exchange the states of Salt Glades & Keywater to the Imperiya, in the Zapadnya Polupka, or 'Western Purchase'. These regions, now known as Novy Lakaika, remain similar to before, but with much stronger Volenyan language and influence, especially from an influx of settlers.
*Spring 1523 - Mori, Soot, Professor Langdon and Angélos leave the West Marchers, bound for Lakay. Machavellio Disforza, an indomitable duelist and ever the cunning strategist, sets them the task of assassinating Crown Prince Niesz Jakovky Fyidorovasky of Volenya. They set out across Lakay to do so.
*1523 - Arnaud, Forte and the rest of the West Marchers live in Treviso for a few months beside Master Marco Polio.
*Summer 1523 - Mori, Soot, Langdon, and Angélos successfully assassinate the Crown Prince on the outskirts of the city of Blackwater, framing it as a bandit attack carried out by Anti-Volenyan Lakayan cowboys. This leads the Imperiya to declare the Volenyan-Lakayan War. 
*1524 - Mori is laid to rest south of Penmorwen by Soot. Arnaud and the crew return to Waterdeep to make good with Warad and Edward Loveridge, before leaving again after a few weeks, bound for the Outer Planes...
*1524 - The Moor Wars dwindle to a close, with the Pătrat forces having gained significant ground more permanently, severely harming Scarossar's outward industrial prospects.
*1524 - Soot returns to Waterdeep and takes a role at the Rosepetal Orphanage, also making good with Warad and Edward Loveridge, and retiring later to join The Moonstars.
*1524 - Lord Smytt of Waterdeep is succeeded by Lord Don Zaretti, a much more militaristic and economically focused ex-Lusken commander.
*1523 - The Datrian Empire skirmishes with the eastern Pătrat forces in the Tarkas Vreilands.
* 1524 - The Datrian Empire and the Pătrat sign a treaty of mutual peace, with the Patrat handing over some land to the Empire, allowing them to nestle comfortably bounded by the Dellings and the Highland Peaks.
* 1525 - In Kol Darim, the Jarl and his council propose allowing the Kol Darim Undead Legion into the city. Some rioting and unrest breaks out, and the plan is scrapped. 
*1526 - The Datrian Empire try unsuccessfully to take some of the south mountain land owned by Kol Darim. The Pătrat springs to the Darim defence, transgressing the treaty of 1524 but earning the undying favour of the Darim.
* 1527 - Condottiere General Firovanti, the leader of the Datrian Empire, is assassinated. The Teal Brotherhood claim involvement. This weakens Vortic-Datrian potential trade relations. The Datrian empire undergoes some infighting and rioting during the inter-regnum.
* 1528 - A large tsunami strikes the coast near Sedia, causing quite a fair bit of damages.
*21st Utza 1529 - Billy Ray, Horsin' Joe and Hannibal Maelkor join forces (provisionally) and rob a train on the Trans-Heartland Railway halfway to King's Stead. In town that night, they speak to Deputy Teller, claim a bounty, rough up the Hanging Dog Gang, and have a barfight at the Limping Mare.
*22nd Utza 1529 - The Country Bumpkins forge a tenuous alliance with the Hanging Dog Gang, managing to free Heckler Hardfoot at Dead Man's Gulch. Back in King's Stead, they incite a shootout down Main Street between a detachment of Davisons and the Hanging Dog Gang, leaving only one Davison, Patch and three Dogs to limp away.
== The Dirty Thirties and the Frenetic Forties ==
''
When you overwork a machine, wear and tear begins to appear, oil and grime and dirt. Things start to go wrong, even if the machine keeps pumpin' out. And if you don't live under the machine, you wouldn't know. But we live under the machine. That's where we live.
-Barney Bombs.
*20th Vuöwa 1530 - On Midwinter's eve, the 'Red Hawk Down' incident unfolds, with Santa having been taken hostage by The Thavians. He is saved after several not-so-noble heroes storm the Rum Runner's Palace beneath Fort Wheeler, slaughtering the Thavians in the darkness, dueling their leader Fyra for Alkibiades' Kopis, and freeing Jolly Saint NIck successfully, earning their place on the Nice List.
*1531 - The Loveridge Family becomes an official limited company and major power in the city after Edward Loveridge acquires a lot of territory through careful jobs and planning.
*1531 - Scarossar, the Pătrat and the Datrian Empire all agree on peace. War is too expensive. 
*1532 - Waterdeep's industrial revolution really starts to boom in the steam department after the invention of the Serite-fired steam plant and other steam devices. The invention of the serite-steam-engine by the inventor Ralphert Clovis Stengreinsson kickstarts an age of transport and travel.
*1536 - The Datrian Empire and the The Xantic Imperium forge a trade alliance, much to Rakkimar's chagrin.
*1540 onward - Gangs such such as The Rapscallions, The Moonstars, The Red and Blacks, The Di Lamendolio Family and more begin to spring up and rise to power in Waterdeep.
*1542 - The scientist Prof. Waldenstromm and her assistant Malloy move to the town of Vörgåsen and begin their experiments. They connect the town to a power grid, the first of its kind anywhere in the world for some time...
*1545 - The Golden Flock declares Colchayulo a new free city like Bracken.
== The Wrath of the Machine ==
* 1549 - The third Darim-Drow war begins.
*7th Utza 1549 - In the Razing of Kawrow, a small farming town near Jarren's Well is destroyed by the great Beast of Kawrow. The three notable people involved are Koldaren, Skolas Ethersprite and Brall.
* Ekalo 1552 - The Agents of Chaos track down and stop The Red Hand from stealing some Hotchkiss-Davis Model 1544 LMRs
* Varokoleäna 1552 - The Agents of Chaos save Erik Brimchin from the Tribunal of Spiders in The Underdark. Guzuth Toth is blown up, and the Third Darim-Drow war ends. After finding Elisabeth Arbalist and gaining The Moor Sword, causing the timeline divergence. The Agents sail off the edge of the Sea of Pity.
* Luäna 1553 - The Agents of Chaos return to Hjarofjall, free Karrus Weyloran from his ice prison, and track down Trajan in the northern wastes. Luke Stormwind bests Trajan for Hazirawn
* Veltai 1553 - The Agents of Chaos help to reunify an anarchic Waterdeep, culminating in the Shootout at the Lanchester Steelworks. They accompany Jed Wood on a journey to kill Phlacodaemus in Tartarus. They also venture into the Estir Woods of The Fallo near New Charteyn to make good with the last of the Red and Blacks, then promptly leave.
* Ekeï 1553 - The Agents of Chaos track down Velarin Naysayer in Bracken aboard the NMV No More Mr. Nice Guy and kill him with Hazirawn, releasing his spirit and trapping it within the sword. The freeing of Naysayer's soul and its effect on the Cradle ward is akin to a hole in the ozone layer.
* 1553-1554 - The Black Watch of Thay work tirelessly in secret for three months to open portals within the South Faerun Sea to counteract the actions of Oukrana. They come into possession of Hazirawn and keep it guarded highly in New Amkhemar to repair the hole in the Cradle ward. This takes a few years, and the prophetic flood never comes, thankfully.
* 1553 - With the exit from office by Lady Corinna Fellbranch, she marks the final Lord of Waterdeep, and the city agrees to govern now by way of an elected assembly of merchants, legislators and other plutocrats, the Convocation. The first minister, Warad, is elected.
*1554 - Perennial Althier and Maxwell Loveridge marry at The Old Minster in Waterdeep.
== The Long Winter ==
* 1556 - A 'once-in-ten-thousand-years' global cooling event occurs when a huge asteroid, spurned by a planetary conjunction of Ishtar and Itztla, smashes into the sun Seiros. The sun spends the next seven years until 1563 'digesting' the asteroid and producing less heat. Enough for temperatures across The Cradle to drop by 5°C on average. 
* 1556 - Renaer replaces Warad as Minister of Waterdeep.
* 1557 - Jarl Erik Brimchin is assassinated by the Oracles after he threatens to compromise their order after accidentally intruding on an unrelated assassination. He is replaced by his son, Burdur Brimchin, and he continues to be advised by Landgraf Richard Dread.
*Ekalo 1558 - On the annual reopening night of the Palace Dala Glace in Hjarofjall, Gunnar Gunnarson harries the staff (Capellini Angel Hair, Babbling Brook, Enoki, Kolasi, Ryu Ven-Colt, Ven, and the others) in his many disguises, trying to ruin the evening. It does not work though! Later, Gordon Gorgonsson the medusa shows up, and is incensed by a raw steak, but is defeated. Ryu kills Gunnar with a blow to the head, and Capellini kills his 10-year old son with a shot to the head. They hide the evidence and never speak of it again.
*1559 - Aresilia Decimus replaces Renaer as Minister of Waterdeep.
== The Low and High Year of the Oracle ==
*Varokoleäna 4th 1560 - Morgan, Mortimer, Vishara, Namfoodle and Jane join forces to fix a broken carriage just by Prior's Gap and form the Night Watch. They save Francisco Disforza from an Oracle ambush near Jarren's Well.
*Varokoleäna 8th 1560 - Eothain Blackstone is killed by The Oracles and strung up in a grisly display in Waterdeep. The Night Watch sees the aftermath.
*Varokoleäna 11th 1560 - At Éothain's Funeral, the Night Watch and Waterdeep City Watch fight off an Oracle ambush and save Aresilia Decimus, but are poisoned by some Piqure d'Vimin-infused Cessalia afterwards.
*Varokoleäna 12th 1560 - Perennial Althier is killed by The Oracles.
*Varokoleäna 12th 1560 - The Night Watch are lured down to the Sandbar Sea, where the Betrayal at the Sandbar Sea occurs. They flee in The Moonstone. Meanwhile, the Convocation of Waterdeep grants Aresilia Decimus emergency powers. The Oracles successfully assume control of the Waterdhavian government and begin rounding up nobles to put into Waterdeep County Jail.
*Varokoleäna 17th 1560 - The Night Watch sail all the way to Feŋ in flight. They wash up and meet Jaöra Vepsaa, who takes kindly to them. They spend the next 54 days on Fen, hunting, fishing, crafting, and just living away from civilisation!
* Lykaiö 15th 1561 - Captain Iuvette Latir-Regnard of the LN Gauward's Lie swings by Fen for a trade run. The Night Watch join them on their journey back.
*Luäna 12th 1561 - The Night Watch arrive in Fort Thunderlord. They accept a Davison Detective Agency poster to hunt down Emerson 'Doc' Fenne.
*Luäna 14th 1561 - The Night Watch capture Emerson Fenne and his gang successfully.
*Luäna 20th 1561 - The Night Watch arrive in King's Stead. They talk to Teller Tanglefork of the Lakayan Liberators about their past escapades. That evening, at the grave of Galaden, they pace west and find Brigg Bannock's buried treasure - a half ton of imperial gold bullion.
*Luäna 27th 1561 - The Night Watch hand over the bullion to Governor Machavellio Disforza. He agrees to summon the Lakayan fleet from their ports along the eastern shore and southwestern cove. The gold will fund a naval blockade around, and potentially invasion of, Waterdeep, to rout the The Oracles.
*Veltai 12th 1561 - The Night Watch meet Anderson Rookes and see the Setting Sun Device. That evening, they set sail aboard the LN Bannock's Revenge.
*Veltai 14th 1561 - The Lakayan fleet moors off the north coast of Lakay in preparation for the journey across the Gap of Luskan to the Sword Coast.
*Veltai 15th 1561 - The Lakayan fleet sets off from Fort Thunderlord northward to Waterdeep.
*Veltai 19th 1561 - The LN Bannock's Revenge makes port in Sanctum briefly.
*Veltai 25th 1561 - The LN Bannock's Revenge (and the Night Watch) arrive in Waterdeep. The Night Watch recoup with the underground resistance led by Maxwell Loveridge, Robin Knox, Warad and others. They also meet up with Jane and Errich finally!
*Veltai 28th 1561 - The Lakayan fleet forms a naval blockade out at sea around Waterdeep. They give the government 10 days (until Ekeï 10th) to comply to their demands.
*Ekeï 7th 1561 - A week into the blockade, with sufficient intel gathered, the resistance make their moves just as the Setting Sun device is activated, causing all magic in the city to wane for 24 hours.
**Maxwell and Robin lead the Bulldogs and Rapscallions, as well as some vestiges of loyal city guards, to try to free the nobles from County Jail.
**Archie Grimes and the Thieves successfully broadcast a warning to the people of Waterdeep - the Oracles are your enemy.
**The Night Watch tunnel into the Old Minster basement and sneak into the church, to find Adrienne Ophiuchus and her men there. They engage in a short, dramatic, and heroic fight, as Adrienne darts and flips around the place like a madwoman, the group fighting her off and killing the last of her loyal men.
**Anderson's betrayal is revealed as the Lakayan fleet fire on the city, clearly having no intention of letting the Oracles cave to their demands, and preferring to take the city by force as was the plan all along. The Night Watch are severely hurt and buried in the rubble of the church (half destroyed by cannon fire) along with the wounded Adrienne. They finally kill Adrienne and burn her body in the ruins of the Old Minster.
*Ekeï 8th 1561 - The Lakayan bombardment of Waterdeep ends and the antimagic field drops. Night Watch and the Lakayan Navy storm Fort Laeral. They overwhelm the last of the Waterdhavian Oracles in the council chambers. Aresilia Decimus is burnt to death by Zhivka and Namfoodle. The group returns to a new Lakayan Waterdeep and checks into the Florida Burns Memorial Hospital.
*Ekeï 10th 1561 - The Lakayan Federation and the Convocation of Waterdeep officially signs the Writ of the Sword Coast and annexes Waterdeep, and Scarossar with it, into the Federation.
*Ekeï 15th 1561 - The Night Watch part ways, leaving Waterdeep finally.
*Ixte 1561 - The Lakayan Federation officially moves its administrative capital to the semi-rebuilt city of Halcyon, formerly Waterdeep. Rebuilding begins.
*Winter 1561 - Zhivka and Morgan face down the Oracles at Aomodos one final time, killing almost every single one. Subject Seven / Torvus is killed by Zhivka, but then Doctor Iraeus kills her in turn. Morgan gravely wounds the doctor before fleeing.
== The Age of Halcyon ==
*Winter 1562 - Érmione Disforza is killed and buried by Marija Grimes, who then assumes her identity.
*Spring 1563 - In Halcyon, the Vortic Mercatorium trade colony of Port-au-Réine is set up, and another large canal dug.
*Spring 1563 - In the Fallo, Keyleth Fett, Francisco Disforza, Errich Irongut, Akali and Elisabeth Arbalist cross paths and take up swords together for some money.
*Summer 1563 - Madame Jardín's cinnamon roll recipe is misplaced, and sold to Mrs. Gloucester in the Clockmarket. It is then bought by Priscilla Aurentia who then has a servant sell it to Teofila Miriescu. The Gal Pals follow this trail, thwart an unrelated robbery in the market, and successfully strike a deal with Lady Miriescu to get the recipe back!
*Summer 1563 - The Halcyon Worlds Fair Expo takes place in, well, Halcyon.
*New Year's Eve 1565 - At a showing of the play 'King Miko' (an ancient tragedy about a greedy village lord and a brave but waylaid young soul), Archie Grimes is assassinated by an unknown assailant using a King Mazander Over-Under. The assassin evades capture expertly, leaving the Watch to scratch their heads.
*Autumn 1566 - Doctor Hyram Westford meets Érmione Disforza at a party and ends up chatting about his work before owing her a favour.
*High Winter 1567 - Chasing a target named Jean-Paul, Asha de Varley crosses paths with the thief Valeria and ends up owing her a favour.
*Autumn 1566 - Henri Angier pays J. Arnu Waldenstromm to make him a lightning machine.
*Summer 1567 - Henri Angier returns from his travels to Vörgåsen with a brand new device ready for a new headline act at Halcyon's Valentine Hall.
== City of a Thousand Stars ==
*3rd Ixte 1567 - Henri Angier's murder backstage on the opening night of his show, Shock and Awe, sparks a chain of events, which you can read about in depth in the Shock and Awe Events page. Asha de Varley, Tracy DeMasque, Hyram Westford and Vaurok Shortass end up investigating.
* 5th Ixte 1567 - Luth Salmastrien, Chief Harper of Halcyon, is murdered in a morgue by Hyram Westford.
* 22nd Ixte 1567 - In Vörgåsen, Johnovver MacKenzie's thugs torch J. Arnu Waldenstromm's laboratory.
* Uekoi 1567 - Asha, Isalda, Átir and Valeria meet in Sant-Mart, capital of the South Vortic Islands, joined by Waldenstromm and Malloy. They begin their new enterprising future together, as Átir pays Valeria handsomely, and Waldenstromm and Malloy agree to work under the protection of Átir on a cleaner, safer version of the lightning machine.
*17th Ekeï 1570 - The parliament of the Lakayan Federation puts forth the Unconventional Weapon Control Writ of 1570. The document proposes a much tighter grasp over 'unconventional methods of harm', chiefly being firearms, crossbows, and magic capable of causing damage. These things would require proper documentation and licensing. The initial reaction from the cabinet is mixed, and the motion goes nowhere.
*26th Ekeï 1570 - At a charity dinner raising money for a new development for the Rosepetal Orphanage and the Heinrich Tarquinson Orphanage of Excellence, Virion Galadell, Warad both make powerful speeches to those present (including Machavellio Disforza and some of the Halcyian parliament) about their firsthand experiences back during the years of social deprivation, and the importance of ensuring a safe and secure future for the people of Halcyon and the Federation. The following day, the Writ of 1570 is passed in a near-unanimous ruling.
*Low Winter 1570 - With the advent of electricity in his city and the new and dangerous possibilities ahead, Lord Governor Disforza is eager to not repeat the mistakes of his forebears. He, like many Halcyians, was unwilling for the city to slip back into her history, or worse, follow in the footsteps of Luskan or Fort Helena. Disforza ordered the WDSA to begin shutting down production and closing. A recall was also issued to any owners of large, rapid, or prototype guns - whilst they could still be owned (with hefty paperwork), the government offered a large sum of money for them. This decreased gun ownership by a sizeable amount. The most owned weapons in the city at this time were the older and less heavily regulated Decimus Model 1486, King Mazander Over-Under, Cassalanter Mk3 Revolver, Defender M1477, Hotchkiss-Decimus Model 1509, and some Vortic weapons like the Klébel Repétre and Lozié Roue.
*1572 - At the third Halcyon World's Fair, Professor Waldenstromm unveils her electricity on behalf of the the Vortic Mercatorium to an amazing response. A month later, Lord Governor Machavellio Disforza presents his new, electric city to the Halcyians. 
*Spring 1572 - The WDSA is turned into a heritage museum. It stands as a gallery where the past would not be forgotten, but acknowledged as a barbaric time where bloodthirst drove innovation. There was some minor resistance to this move, naturally, but it was supported by most citizens.
== The New World ==
*Summer 1572 - Four large sailing ships full of people settle the colony of New Halcyon on the western shores of the southern continent Vereazora. The ships are - the Demeter, the Pyrrhic, the Erebus, and the Lophos. Aboard them travel over a thousand people looking for a new life. The settlers found the harbour of Vatoljaska and the farming town of Jarren's Reach in the verdant plains.
*Utza 12th 1573 - A year has passed and the colony is beginning to flourish. On one evening like any other, everything changes. 
**The researcher Xander Whitlock and their best friend, the berserker Morrigan Thrath, return from the woods with a dragoncrow (a four-winged 2 metre wingspan corvid) for the butcher. They chat to the town guard Maia de Marne. Elsewhere, the special investigator and town guard Lucian Blackthorn receives a file from his supervisor, Sheriff Luda Lodovika, and sits down to interview the colony's first true criminal, the drunken accused Kade. Elsewhere still, the gigantic goliath ranger Torphin drops off animal pelts and chats with his father, Yorm, in the market.
**Some members in the town spot a horse and rider watching over the town at sunset. Lucian knows it is Makë, and her arrival heralds great death. As darkness falls, a rolling pyroclastic flow of fire comes down from the mountains, burning houses in its path as the embers wash over Jarren's Reach. 
**The jailhouse is destroyed, and Kade and Lucian join forces at the sight of bigger problems. Kade saves the Sheriff from the rubble. Meanwhile, Xander and Morrigan lead a group of civilians through town toward the docks, where they meet Torphin also doing the same. The five of them converge in the town square, where several unknown foes emerge from the smoke. They are tall and hulking, faceless and handless, and look to be made of pure red and white muscle, which is later revealed to be many white and red nematode worms conglomerating.
**The quintet of unlikely leaders in this dark time begin fighting the beings, which deconstitute into worms upon death but continually get back up, and show unnatural resilience. Morr cleaves several in half whilst Kade fly-kicks the heads clean off some more. Lucian revives Sheriff Lodovika, and Torphin helps a town guard by sniping the monster he was fighting off. Several attempt to invade Morr and Xander with their nematode tentacles; Morr lets it unravel trying to keep hold of her and then pulls it into a fire. The group soon realise that fleeing is their best option, and lead the civilians toward the port, fighting off monsters here and there.
**At Vatoljaska, the group bundles aboard the Demeter, captained by the soft-spoken Cpt. Vieora Vaska. They help civilians aboard and set sail in formation alongside the Pyrrhos, the Erebos, and the Lykaon. Torphin and Lucian separately detect the presence of something in the thick, unnatural fog, creeping beneath the waves - slick black tentacles of some kind. The other three ships disappear from view entirely. Xander attempts to dispel it, but is hit by a psychic maelstrom in their mind, repelling them, so Lucian helps heal them. Torphinn asks the beast beneath the waves in Deep Speech, and it replies with ink-writing on his arm - HUNGER.
**As the ship suddenly lists to port ten degrees, the group realises it is time for decisive action. They devise an elaborate stratagem - a barrel full of gunpowder is lobbed back overboard into a zone of silence to disguise the splash, illusioned to look like a rowboat, and prestidigitated to smell like blood. The tentacles go for the bait, and Torphinn shoots it with a flaming arrow - the powder explodes, wounding the beast. The helmsman, Abraham Crunch, deliberately runs the Demeter over a reef onto a beach, and the beast is unable to follow. The Demeter crashlands on the beach and everyone clambers out, scared but alive and now ready to set up a camp and fend for themselves.
*Utza 12th to Ižte 1st 1573 - The wreck of the Demeter has been transformed into Demeter's Rest, a settlement with tents, wooden huts and shacks on the beach and at the edge of the jungle. A watchtower with a giant horn, beacon, and some cannons has been built on the hills surrounding the cove, and the 200 survivors plus 50 sailors + soldiers have somewhat settled. 
**Kade and Lucian help retrieve flotsam, and Lucian helps organise the fifteen cannons and the system of horns and guard patrols to ensure the settlement is defended. Kade also assists with the logistics and the clearing of the Demeter hulk. Meanwhile, Torphinn hunts local wildlife and encounters albino deer, antlerbears, gliding rabbits, HUGE grey roc-birds with golden claws that can pick up a bear, giant elk, a six-foot tall mantis, and a bronze beetle with the posture and build of a chimpanzee. 
**One day, Torphinn and Xander are exploring the huge, rolling valleys and rocky forested plinths that jut from the landscape like ribs, when Xander discovers and investigates a large petroglyphic ritual circle, ascertaining it was used for rain rituals. This excites them at the prospect of not just other people on the continent, but clearly those who care about agriculture and more peaceful forms of magic. The party meets at a campfire in Demeter's Rest and discusses their thoughts, deciding to journey eastward looking for survivors and signs of the locals.
*Ižte 2nd - The party reaches the ritual circle and finds it has been visited by hunters, who left arrows and a deer antler symbolically. They head eastward.
*Ižte 4th - That night, Lucian Kade and Torphinn receive a dream-encoded message sent by a New Halycian guard who identifies herself as Ana. The dream is in a wondrous nebula on rock platforms, but Ana keeps flickering and fading. She is able to impart some information - survivors... 20 of us... only me left... they took them... Lykaon... mountain, with smoke... help me... find us'. They press on, searching for her, and mapping their path as they go.
*Ižte 5th - The party finds an arroyo (dry riverbed) which is full of bright blue Ripper Ants, local wildlife as big as labrador dogs and blind, with developed senses of smell. Torphinn fools many of them into fighting over bacon-on-an-arrow and the party makes a crossing at the least busy point. Xander and Lucian fool several into being confused, but then one sprays Lucian with caustic fluid and Lucian stabs one. The distress pheromones alert the other nearby ants, which attack. Many small weak ants try to drag Lucian and Xander into the anthills, whilst they, Kade, and Torphinn crush and slash their way through the unending horde. Almost free, the remaining few ants scatter under the party's attacks until the ground rumbles, and the RIpper Ant Queen emerges - a blue ant-scorpion the size of a small car, with a huge pulsating bulbous stinger. It begins attacking the intruders fiercely and the party begins to flee after Lucian hurls his flaming sword and disorients it, and burns the nearby worker ants. 
**The Ripper Ant Queen unleashes a flurry of bites, claws and stings on Kade, knocking her down as her heart fights the poison and tries not to die. Lucian leaps in and unleashes his dhampir fangs, and whilst he does not break the queen's shell, his dog Delta uses this opportunity to bite with incredible force and rip out the ant queen's innards, leaving it dead. Lucian uses his decide to extract the ant's essence and feed himself. 
**Kade slips closer to the shadow world, and the party spots Makë standing across the arroyo, spurs spinning, tapping her watch. Kade's soul fractures as Lucian brings her back from the brink of death - part of her has moved on to the spirit world, and her soul has splintered, but she is alive and the poison begins to wear off. The party leaves the arroyo and makes camp on a hillside, where they see the smoking mountain.
*Ižte 6th - The party finds the camp of the wreck of the Lykaon survivors empty. Trees have been felled in a coordinated attack and perhaps 20, 30 of their fellow New Halcyians lay dead. They find a mute automaton named BLONDIE who gestures and displays to them what happened and that Sky People took some prisoners off into the wilderness.
*Ižte 8th - Whilst camping in the wilderness on the trail of the Sky People, the party is ambushed by two of them - an acrobat and a mage - as well as their two pet spiders. The group tries reason, but these seem to be members of a warband. The party decimates all of them except for the mage, who flees- they track him to a riverbank and shoot him dead. 
*Ižta 10th - The party helped some bronze-clad Sky People defeat a large fat wingless dragon/monitor lizard. They gained their trust and accompanied them to their city, Šqafena (Silver Lake). There, they spoke to Taska who they saved, and Chieftess Šan, among others 
*Ižta 18th - The party set off with Taska and other warriors looking for Okroš Kyor, the cruel chieftain of the Bloodstone clan who kidnapped their Lykaon friends. 
*Ižta 20th - Kade smoked some Devil's Tongue plants and wished herself home, erasing everyone's memory of her. The group continued to a ruined temple and met Isa, a halfling druid. They all delved inside and began to fight Kyor and his legions of mummified gold-clad half-undead warriors. 
== The Supernal Years ==
*1575 - Leona Disforza is killed by an unidentified Larawak assassin. A small group called the Children of Anoq claim involvement, .
*Veltai 1577 - At Deadman's Rest's fight night arena tournament, the deadly duo of McCloud and Biter manage to best a string of foes.
*Summer 1578 - Wilco, Sheriff, Bennie and Flint Cassidy are all travelling together on a Heartland Rail train to King's Stead when the train is held up by members of a local gang, the Red Sashes. The quartet put down the robbers, then head to the Limping Mare, where they proceed to get into a barfight with the remnants of the gang, getting rid of them once and for all. This earns them the respect of the townspeople, and Wilco meets Selim.
*Autumn 1578 - Reports in The Fallo begin of dark corruption in the Estir Woods.
*1 Kaleävi 1579 - Wisp and Rama, a pair of caravan guards, are on the road to Abavale in the caravan of Mr. Arthur. Along the way they rescue the herbalist Betrys from the aftermath of an ambush.
*4 Kaleävi 1579 - Wisp aids the Harper Zasenna Salmastrien. Shortly after, their encampment is attacked by the Moor Riders, led by Malak Coldblood and Elluin Ethanderal. A fiery skirmish ensues, ending in the capture of Elluin. Some passing travellers - Maenilahi, Filomena and Mäke - aid the guards, and a group is born, the Moomyns.
*5 Kaleävi 1579 - The Moomyns reach Abavale at dawn, exhausted, and check in to the Weary Walker Inn. They spend some time in town, and Elluin plans an escape but is foiled. They intercept a communication ordering Zasenna's death.
*6 Kaleävi 1579 - At 5am in the Weary Walker Inn, an unknown assailant unleashes a cloud of ink and shoots Zasenna, killing her. The Moomyns drag Elluin to Sheriff Abadas B. Mollyock's office and hand him in. They return at 7 with poisoned croissants and try to offer him one, but the sheriff takes one for himself. In the ensuing confusion, Elluin dazes him, grabs some tools, and flees down the escape tunnel. They give chase to Abavale Iron and Tin Mine, and after some proceedings unfold, Elluin falls to his death off of a sheer cliff at Abavale Gorge. The Moomyns set off northwards.
*8 Kaleävi 1579 - The Moomyns find and bust the Wyte Bros drug refinery.
*10 Kaleävi 1579 - The Moomyns arrive in Treviso along with Derriar. Rama turns in the Wyte brothers. They make contact with Elisabeth Arbalist of the Harpers in the Jade Dragon Inn, and after some lunch, are also introduced to Lamont Fuzzles. The group rides to Llur Vennor, but they only find Ioreth Rhesyra waiting for them. A bloody battle ensues, where the newest member of the Moor Riders, Mäke, stages a betrayal which ends in his own death, and Ioreth is killed.
*10 Kaleävi 1579- By the night of the crescent moon, Malak Coldblood leads the Moor Riders to torch Treviso in the Great Fire of Treviso.
*11 Kaleävi 1579- Treviso's fire goes out but a large chunk of the town is sucked into a hungering void that disappears. Malak leads the Moor Riders away toward the Shores of Dolmen.
*14 Kaleävi 1579 - At Cahay's Rectory, the Moomyns scuffle, with Herakles dying and them blowing up a library.
*16 Kaleävi 1579 - The Moomyns reach old Castle Fiexko on the shores of Caledfwlch, finding it occupied with the Moor Riders. They blow up the keep and fight some, but then run. Rama is captured.
*1587 - Krash, Kovarn, Dusty Diggums and Kawiri Seeragon meet up in Mir Vorghulis in the Underdark and hunt down Gavel. They form Krash n the Boyz.
*1588 - Roth Ullrson and Missikituaq slay a polar bear.
*1589 - Jarl Burdur Brimchin passes of old age, leaving a power vacuum for two years in Kol Darim.
== The Tail of the Century ==
*Midsummer 1591 - Richard Dread is elected Consul of Kol Darim, marking the city-state's transition from a dynastic system to an elective systam.
*14th Vuöwa 1592 - Talia, Dr Beatrix Goodbottle and Edmund Morse join forces under the Internal Department of Extraordinary Affairs in Halcyon. Under Klas Wall and Svinne Fors, they inspect a coach delivery gone awry, finding out from Olympia Disforza at Halcyon Grandstand Museum that it contained the Book of Weyloran. They fight some zombies on a frozen lake and find parts of the book, rescue the coach drivers Christiansen and Vina, and return back with their findings. The case goes cold soon after; the unknown woman is not found.
*15th Vuöwa 1592 - Talia, Beatrix, Edmund and Wilgim investigate reports of giant magic lobsters invading the sewers of Halcyon, killing the evil sentient lobster mother, reclaiming Wilgim's stolen finger, and helping the rebel lobster-people readjust to life in the bay. 
*3rd Luäna 1593 - Alabaster, Edmund Morse, Talia, Ezra Stormwind and Roth Ullrson (now becoming the Bygone Bastards) help out Big Mike by agreeing to find rescue of his informants. They have a barfight with some Rooks and Shanks, and meet Ubba. Then, Béla Szedzecy takes them to Halcyon, where they check out Halcyon Grandstand museum, before finally returning to Maxwell Loveridge's house to sleep.
*4th Luäna 1593 - The Bygone Bastards rendevous with Madeä Foxglove, have lunch at White Beach Sunset, and then visit the Shelter of Her Light to see Jeyda Stormwind. At the church that evening, some unknown cultists led by Venë attack the group. Morse unleashes his necromantic power, and this ends in the group having to kill him. 
*5th Luäna 1593 - The Bygone Bastards meet Douglas Silverhorn and hatch a plan for an art heist. They inform him the museum is shut, before infiltrating in his stead. There, they are given a tour by Lazla Reä and realise how guarded the place is. 
*7th Luäna 1593 - The Bygone Bastards best the Tarantula Hawk Worm under Halcyon. 
*10th Luäna 1593 - The Bygone Bastards pull off the crime of the century and rob the Halcyon Freeport, before handing over Bellatrix XII's Necklace to Richard Dread and leaving for Rakkimar.
*2nd Utza 1593 - The de Ferrva family of Cessalia summons several adventurers to help them solve their problems, beginning the De Ferrva Conspiracy. They are the family's own youngest son, Isaac de Ferrva, as well as the assassin Ikhthyes, the sailor Estella Acquaviva, the doctor Vittorio O. Vasari, and the navy captain's son Theo Leafwalker. The group thwarts some bandits in the Cessalia marketplace.
*3rd Utza 1593 - The group heads to Luskan, where they learn of an arms dealer called the Mink and investigate this trail. They meet Jesp, and explore the city. They visit Taran Lastraylov in Portbrook Jail, where they learn about a meeting, and tail a guard, Vetro. They engage in a high octane chase before interrogating and killing him and Strite, someone selling him Goldshimmer. They learn about someone called the Pistolero. Thyes performs an incredibly clean kill on Vetro when he escapes to cry wolf. That night, they ambush and assassinate a gunpowder dealer known as The Pistolero at the ruins of the Church of Her Piety.
== The Quarter to Midnight Years ==
* Spring 1595 - A group of Di Lamendolio Mafia goons, led by Vákja Axehelm de'Zephyn and Te Varangi, try to find an ancient artifact known as the Jade Slayer in Bygone. A group consisting of Lore Lace, Fringo, Toko, Caramel and Leif have a bar brawl in the Greasy Bap, chase them atop a column of cars, then rush through the Clockmarket (stopping to watch Shock and Awe and get gentleminion'd up) before facing them down at the canal. Both Vaks and Te Varangi are killed. Toko takes the Jade Slayer and runs, but Caramel swallows the key. 
*2nd Wekoé 1596 - On St. Verehia's Feast Day in Jarren's Well, Stephen Hazelhome, Guldar, Dr. Elisabeth Kane, and Dominic Alban meet. They clear out the Underhill barrows south of the town, killing a fallen angel, before returning back home for a reward from Raina Kanél. 
* 5th Wekoé 1596 - In the midst of Firth, the group fights off several angry kobolds and dinosaur-dragons. They rescue Professor Trina Flannick and make haste.
* 8th Wekoé 1596 - East of the woods, the group meets Nausikä. They then form a tenuous alliance with the Blackthorn Rogues Company led by Aurélia Bella and Esmë Bella, two duelists. 
*14th Wekoé 1596 - The group comes upon Ambition and battles the Rot Shepherd, and manage to capture Samoset the Honeyed Drawler. 
*18th Wekoé 1596 - The group passes through Vaskuit Sulek Village and trudges up Thunder's Peak to find Ravenna. A thunderous dramatic battle occurs atop a glacier, complete with a giant orca and lightning rain. On the march back, Stephan, Elisabeth, Dominic, Guldar and Ravenna are pulled through the Blackfeld Abbey's magic mirror and end up in their dungeons. 
== The Age of Knowledge ==
* 1616 - After growing problems, the city of Halcyon outright bans freelance adventurers. This leads to massive protests and riots, mirroring those of the turn of the 16th century. Disgruntled adventurers form the DEAD (Department of Eldritch Asset Destruction). 
* 1617 - A threat, believed to be a cult trying to summon something, is identified in the Anok Marshes, the Danderillon's dense forested swamps. Several sizeable squads of Halcyon Army personnel are sent to the marshes. No one truly knows what happened that day except for those present, but almost all of the cultists and soldiers are massacred. (Spoilers: It was demonic intrusion. The cultists managed to summon Devil-King Ormander briefly, who razed and murdered every mortal present bar one or two who escaped).
*1620 - Datria and Halcyon begin coming to blows over Vreiland oil disputes. Also this year, Charlemagne Vonhaute aka The Matador, a prolific serial killer, is caught and imprisoned. 
== The Crisis of 1621 ==
* Kalejavi 1621 - The Datrian Empire and the Lakayan Federation argue over ownership of the Mórnala Vreiland Oilfields. Both claim that as successors of the Lusken Empire, the lands are theirs. Lakay posits that Scarossar, its continental predecessor state, held ownership of them.
* Late Kalejavi - The Lakayan Federation occupies the Central Vreilands by building several small forts. Datria claims that this flaunts the terms of the 1575 Treaty of Carmogan, which stated that the central Danderillon would remain out of the claims of both Halcyon or Datria.
* Ekalo - Datria, angered by Lakay’s occupations, partially mobilises their army and threatens Halcyon with offensive action if they do not withdraw.
* Ekalo - Rakkimar, siding with Datria yet attempting to discourage conflict, places the Kalyr Embargo upon the Lakayan Federation. The Xant, always Rakkimar’s shadow, does so too. Now neither Rakkimar nor the Xant trade their metals, wood, or stone with the Lakayan Federation.
* Ekalo - The Luskan-Brist Commonwealth and the Lakayan Federation sign the Twelfth Treaty, stating that Luskan-Brist will supply the Federation with rifles, swords, gunpowder, and prototype machine guns to help secure the oilfields in return for a future twelfth-share of the profits.
* Ekalo - The Lakayan Federation, worried about its loss of trade, proposes the Treaty of Charteyn with the Vortic Mercatorium that they be allowed access to the otherwise historically Vortais-occupied northern Burning Hills to mine metal.
* Late Ekalo - Wanting to de-escalate the situation, Datria sends their Foreign Minister, Lady Madalena Scarlet, to the city of Halcyon. Rakkimar warns Datria that this is dangerous, but they continue.
* 3rd Varokoleana - Lady Scarlet is kidnapped and murdered by a small group of extremist cultists. The cultists, known as Iconoclasts, were secretly instructed by Halcyian Mayor Raül Amerigo.  
* 4th Varokoleana 1621 - Aster Valorina, Jack Nightfall, Edinveks di Karra and Nora Worthington are sent by the DEAD and IDEA to investigate Scarlet's disappearance. They fend off an eldritch horror known as Rhan-Tegoth, only surviving by tricking it into being hit by a subway train.
* 6th Varokoleana 1621 - The above quartet of investigators discover the mother (Lagertha) of a missing person (Phelps McKinney) to be murdered in her Halcyon Heights apartment. They walk into a trap set by a cult known as the Iconoclasts and end up captured, fighting their way out and killing two cultists. One flees and Nora tracks down a hidden note.
* 9th Varokoleana 1621 - Nora, Jack and Aster enter the Disforza Clock Tower and find the body of Lady Scarlet. Nora discovers a magic mirror. After debrief, the investigators are invited to Mayor Amerigo's Kitavarro party. They go suit shopping and gather intel during the next 3 weeks.
* 10th Varokoleana - News of Lady Scarlet’s murder begins to come to light in the press.
* Mid-Varokoleana - The Datrian Empire high command issues a private ultimatum to Mayor Amerigo and his cabinet members to 1) pull out of the Vreilands immediately and 2) accept brutally harsh economic sanctions from Datria, Rakkimar, and the Xant. They give them until the end of the month to respond.
* Mid-Varokoleana - Mayor Amerigo blackmails multiple other cabinet members into silence and makes it impossible for his cabinet to reach a decision. He begins planning a huge Kitavarro festival party to distract the press and public opinion. In addition, he has several couriers murdered to prevent anyone higher up (save for the senile Lord-Governor) from finding out. The Lord-Governor begins mobilising the armies, taking this challenge as an affront.
* Late Varokoleana - Preparing for the worst, Rakkimar, the Xant, and Datria sign the Hjarofjall-Datria-Acre Pact, and henceforth are known as the Boreal Alliance.
* The Vortic Mercatorium warns Datria (whose empire occupies Northern Turmish) that if they move any further southwest toward the eastern Burning Hills, the Mercatorium will join the war on the side of the Federation instead.
* Late Varokoleana - The Boreal Alliance threatens the Vortic Mercatorium into neutrality and into scrapping the proposed Charteyn Treaty with the Lakayan Federation.
* 28th Varokoleana / 1st Vőwa 1621 - Mayor Raul Amerigo hosts a lavish party at the Government Hill Fort-Palace. The guest list includes the sulfur baron Jean de Guillerme, the Cartographer-in-Chief Alver Dirosso, the architect Jean-Luc Krisaõr, Fleet Commodore Bianca Dxeroloma, the Gouverner d'a Commẻrce Romilde Loup Vernac, the Pontifex Consul Dimateo, and the philosopher Galata Arvejja. The ultimatum lays still unanswered. The Boreal Alliance’s army is fully mobilised, as is the Federation’s. Nora, Jack, Eddy and Aster step into a magic mirror and end up in Gildegra, in a cabin near Qanollek and Hlånfjall.
* 1st Vőwa at 11:57am - Via telegraph and public press, the Boreal Alliance threatens the Lakayan Federation one final time: “If the economic sanctions upon Halcyon are not accepted by the Federation by midnight, the people of the Cradle will wake up to war”.
* 1st Vőwa at 1:03pm - The Luskan-Brist Commonwealth sides with the Federation by publicly decreeing “Our Commonwealth is prepared to fight alongside the Federation to protect the freedom of the people of this Cradle against Boreal tyranny.”
* 1st Vőwa at 1:18pm - In a telegram to the Lord-Governor of the Federation, Luskan proposes the Euluskan League, which is rapidly agreed upon. It is formed of Luskan-Brist and their nearby city states, and the greater Lakayan Federation.
* 1st Vőwa at 3:12pm - The Boreal Alliance threatens to invade and surely obliterate the Brackian Empire from all three sides (Datria, the Xant, and Rakkimar) unless the Empire becomes a collaborationist state. Bracken refuses. Thus, over the coming months, Rakkimar begins invading Bracken's outer fort territories and raze them one by one until Bracken bows. 
* 1st Vőwa at 7:06pm - Meeting the dire challenge put forth, Lord-Governor Machavellio di’Sforza makes an announcement to the world. On the eve of the first of Vőwa 1621, at 7:06pm, the Euluskan League declares war upon the Boreal Alliance.
* 2nd Vőwa - Aster, Nora, Eddy and Jack reach Brackian-controlled Moose Fort on Anticosti and settle.
*6th Vőwa - Troops from the Luskan-Brist Commonwealth arrive in Halcyon, met with cheering crowds.
*Mid-Vőwa - Boreal and Euluskan troops clash for the first time in the First Battle of Mórnala. Both sides dig trenches and hold their lines, leading to the establishment of the Vreilands Front.
* 1st Lukájo 1622 - A Rakkimarran battalion, armed with Datrian rifles, prepares to invade Moose Fort. The civilians of the fort are evacuated aboard the frigate Erebus, whilst its sister ship Tartarus stays behind in the bay to provide artillery. Jack, Eddy, and Aster are brought in to try to negotiate peace unsuccessfully. A Rakki spy, working on the orders of Chieftain Tetukin, detonates a slow-match powder bomb aboard the Erebus, killing over 200 Brackian civilians in what could be described as one of the earliest tragedies of the war in the North. Eddy duels Tetukin, wounding him gravely but being killed by having his head smashed into a spiked pauldron. Jack detonates Eddy's flamethrower's petrol tank, immolating over fifty Rakki warriors. Nora completes a ritual, Invoke True Evil, and calls forth Cthulhu, the Dreaming One, down upon Moose Fort as the Rakki attack begins simultaneously. The effort of the ritual rapidly ages Nora into a husk of bones and she is no more.
*Early Lukájo 1622 - The Luskan-Brist Commonwealth blockades the harbour of the Vortais protectorate-city of Sanctum, trying to force the city-state to defect to the League. At the same time, Halcyon stations several garrisons of troops on the Nethir Upland, at the northernmost fringe of the Burning Hills, a Vortais territory. The Vortic Mercatorium enters the war as a tertiary global power to protect its overseas territories.
*1622 - WIth the Dreaming One unleashed on Moose Fort and the Boreal and Euluskan troops clashing, the God Wars are considered to have begun. What unfolds next, you'll have to look at Post-God Wars Timeline
 
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