Timeline

## Calendar

The denizens of Silvania use the following calendar:

1. Month of Hearths (30)
2. Month of Love (30)
3. Month of Bloom (31)
4. Month of Songs (31)
5. Month of Crafts (31)
6. Month of Fortunes (30)
7. Month of Swords (30)
8. Month of Shields (31)
9. Month of Harvest (30)
10. Month of Mischief (31)
11. Month of Wisdom (30)
12. Month of Darkness (30)

#### 24. Fortunes

* **Maleun Almoradi finds the Book of Vile Darkness**: Maleun Almoradi, a drifter and a swindler from Hazredia, comes across the Book of Vile Darkness in an alley. As he begins reading it, his dog Kaliba attacks him and he is forced to kill her. When he goes to dispose of her, he goes blind and deaf, realizing he can never stray far from the Book. He reads the book over the course of a month, getting perverse delight from its secrets.

### Shields

#### 13. Shields

* **Almoradi finishes reading the Book of Vile Darkness**

### Unknown Date

* **Almoradi receives the Wand of Orcus**: As a boon from Orcus, Almoradi is given his Wand. It comes at great cost, as his extremities rot away. He sequesters himself in his room. His neighbors find themselves in restless slumber, some dying of exhaustion after a week.
* **The Thanaturge unleashes the First Doom**: Maleun Almoradi makes a pact with Orcus, becoming the lich known as the Thanaturge

## -107

### Unknown Date

* **Birth of Seralion von Dis**: A half-elf is born to wandering Auronese performers in Calledon.
* **The Doom vanquishes Hazredia**

## -70

### Unknown Date

* **Birth of Faedrin Vons**: An elf is born to House Vons, a family of high mages, in Auronia soon before the Doom reaches their lands. He is given the child name Faen.
* **The Doom comes to Auronia**

## -42

### Unknown Date

* **Birth of Rottharn the Great**: A dwarf is born in an underground citadel in Bastovia.

## -22

### Unknown Date

* **Birth of Meosion**

-8
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### Crafts

#### 24. Crafts

* **The Nascence of the New World**

-7
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### Swords

#### 12. Swords

* **The Thanaturge is captured**

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### Shields

#### 23. Shields

* **Rout of Maglubiyet's Host**: The threat of the Orc-King's intervention sends Maglubiyet's Legion into a rout, vanishing into the woods in the dark of night.
* **The orcs begin their migration**: The only thing that kept the conflict between Dhagg and Jahurikk from erupting into open civil war was the prospect of Bastillion attacking while the orcs fought amongst themselves. Instead, Dhagg and Jahurikk agreed to take their followers elsewhere: Dhagg’s host and the giants to the west, and Jahurikk’s and the goblins to the north.

#### 28. Shields

* **The elves head north**: Long-simmering tensions between elves and humans reach a boiling point. The elven leaders privately denounce the Communion as a sham and both sides agree that the elves would leave once it was safe to do so, and that Bastillion would provide supplies.

### Harvest

#### 3. Harvest

* **Battle in the Woods**: Fleet of foot, the elves cross paths with Jahurikk’s group after almost a week of travel. The orcs attack the elves in a frenzy. The wood elves, masters of arboreal combat, drive them back. Jahurikk decides to retreat with his remaining forces rather than fight to the death.

#### 17. Harvest

* **Orc Civil War**: Jahurikk’s band comes across the orcs led by Dhagg, now called the Defiant, near the site of future Anferhafen. Dhagg's reject their pleas for aid, asking how they could get beaten by elves, and why they dare flee rather than fight to the death. Dhagg declared himself the true Orc-King and attacks Jahurikk. Their armies fight to a stalemate. Dhagg personally blinds and cripples Jahurrik. Ultimately, both sides flee; Dhagg leads his orcs across the river to found Ogroz Drekh and Jahurrik’s people found Grob-Tal.

### Unknown Date

* **First Council of Silvania**

2

### Unknown Date

* **Birth of Erikka Zaubers**: Erikka is born to a hedge wizard in Haven Town (later Havenport), then a small village on the outskirts of Silvania.
* **Battle of Ogroz Drekh**: With the help of the aarakocra, Rottharn Goldenmaul tracks down the location of the orc stronghold Ogroz Drekh and leads an army to destroy it. He wipes out Dhagg the Defiant's entire host in one battle and razes Ogroz Drekh to the ground.
* **The giants head for Jotunbrigge**: Hearing of Rottharn's destruction of Ogroz Drekh, the giants agree to forsake the Shield and head for a more isolated range, settling in Jotunbrigge. The Goliath Clans settle in the abandoned camps.

20
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### Love

#### 30. Love

* **Faen and Erikka meet**: The young elf Faen Vons meets the human teenager Erikka Zaubers when her family moves to a farmstead near the Sylvan Forest. The pair become fast friends.

24
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### Unknown Date

* **Faen claims adulthood**: After decades of frivolity, Faen claims adulthood and takes the name Faedrin in order to court Erikka.

25
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### Crafts

#### 13. Crafts

* **Faedrin marries Erikka**: Faedrin Vons marries Erikka Zaubers in a human ceremony, much to the confusion of Faedrin's family.

30
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### Unknown Date

* **Vons Zaubers University opens**: Faen, now Faedrin, and Erikka open Vons and Zaubers' School of Magic to teach prospective wizards on the Silvanian frontier.

87
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### Hearths

#### 6. Hearths

* **Erikka Zaubers dies**: At 85, Erikka Zaubers dies of old age. Her widower, Faedrin Vons, becomes sole rector of Vons Zaubers University.

97
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### Unknown Date

* **The Great Modron March**: Over a thousand Modrons fall into Silvania from interplanar space. Out of the resulting chaos, they establish an enclave in Havenport.
* **Faedrin Vons comes out of seclusion**: Ten years after Erikka's death, Faedrin Vons emerges from Castle Vons to broker an arrangement with the Modron decaton.

## 271

### Unknown Date

* **Necropolitan Crusade**: Rottharn the Great secures alliance with the High King of Doralei to drive King Malborak Goblinfriend from Grob-Tal.
* **Siege and Massacre of Grob-Tal**: As the elven army tarries, Rottharn the Great storms the Goblin Necropolis. A young goblin kills Rottharn the Great with a lucky shot from a shortbow. In response, the Goldenmauls raze Grob-Tal to the ground and massacre its population.
* **The Low Angels arrive**: A lone halfling ranger rides a pony south to Anferhafen to tell about of the massacre. News spread throughout the province and soon a rag-tag army of halflings marches north to end the bloodshed.
* **"Death" of King Goblinfriend**: Aarokocra scouts track down the Orc-King's cortege outside of the Shield. The King and his people hide in the caves, as the scouts slay his body double. Malborak leads his people across Malborak's Pass.

## 275

### Unknown Date

* **Approximate birth of Phaelen Lathalas**

## 571

### Unknown Date

* **Birth of Simon Herzl**: Simon Herzl, who would become the Archmage of Enchantment at Vons Zaubers University, is born in Colonia Silvania.

## 629

### Unknown Date

* **Birth of Dolion Galanis**: The human who would become the Soulbinder is born.

## 637

### Unknown Date

* Birth of **Sam**: Sammel is born to human parents in Vonsburgh.

## 642

### Unknown Date

* **Anastasie Moarte sees the Shard**: The explorer Anastasie Moarte, great-uncle of Vladimir, is nearly sacrificed to the Froghemoth in an expedition to the jungle. Inside its gullet he sees a Shard of the Wand of Orcus, which haunts his dreams in the years to come.

## 644

### Unknown Date

* **Birth of Gustav zur Rotta**: A human is born in the village of Rotta in Vonsburgh Province.

## 646

### Crafts

#### 19. Crafts

* **Anastasie Moarte returns to Big Jungle**: Haunted by his last voyage, Anastasie sets sail for Snap Jaw Point. On this day he begins a journal of his last expedition.

#### 22. Crafts

* **Anastasie hires Korth**: Anastasie Moarte hires a group of lizardfolk led by Korth as his guides to the Sanctum.

### Harvest

#### 4. Harvest

* **Anastasie is lost**: Anastasie and the lizardfolk are lost. He is disgusted by their cannibalistic eating habits.

#### 25. Harvest

* **Anastasie goes mad**: After constant attacks by grungs and bullywugs, Anastasie finally indulges in the meat of the frogfolk. He is ever more haunted by visions of the Shard.

### Darkness

* **Madness in the jungle**: Anastasie becomes adept at killing frogfolk. He becomes aware of a powerful artifact that dominates the minds of frogs and seeks. Eventually he finds it: the Dominoran.

## 648

### Unknown Date

* **Dolion becomes an acolyte**: Dolion Galanis joins the Divine Communion as an acolyte. His zealotry borders on obsession. He craves divine magic and, after a few years, leaves the Communion when he doesn't get any.
* **Anastasie perishes in the Sanctum**: Anastasie finds the Sanctum of the Froghemoth by using the Dominoran to extract the frogfolks' deepest secrets. He uses the Dominoran to take the Shard from the froghemoth. Korth and the other lizardfolk backstab him, stealing his treasure and leaving him to die. They take the Shard back to Snap Jaw Point.

## 650

### Unknown Date

* **Birth of Dharok Stonecrusher**: Dharok is born to a goliath capo in the Kalagiano clan.

## 653

### Unknown Date

* **The Last Great Dragonhunt**: The remaining blue and brass dragons are killed or driven away from the Kzara Desert (Kyippa to the native kobolds).

## 655

### Hearths

#### 1. Hearths

* **Disaster at Snap Jaw Point**: The Crystal Skull appears in Snap Jaw Point. The same day, there is an explosion of necrotic energy. A necrotic tempest hangs over the peninsula for three years, transforming it into Barren Point.

#### 6. Hearths

* **Faedrin Vons dies**: Vons is found dead in his study. Having become a recluse in recent decades, suicide or foul play is suspected.

#### 7. Hearths - 13. Hearths

* **Sage Slayings (1st spree)**: A series of high-profile murders are carried out against the most powerful wizards in Vonsburgh. All Archmages are attacked. The Archmages of Conjuration, Abjuration, and Evocation are killed, as is Remy Fossoyeur, the Archmage of Necromancy. Aedrie Amaskiir, Trynora the True, and Simon Herzl survive the attacks.

### Crafts

#### 5. Crafts

* **Teufelssteins move to Vonsburgh**: Meyer Teufelsstein moves from Colonia to Vonsburgh with his wife Ana and infant son Albert, to replace Faedrin Vons as rector.

#### 8. Crafts - 20. Fortunes

* **Sage Slayings (2nd spree)**: This time, students were attacked seemingly at random. The killings also slowed down over time, going from several a day to once every few weeks, before stopping suddenly. Despite increased security, the killings still occurred. The magical skill needed to evade security is the reason these killings are thought to be the Sage Slayer's.

#### 15. Crafts

* **Necromancy banned**: Necromancers are blamed for the Sage Slayings and Meyer Teufelsstein closes the School of Necromancy in his first act as rector. The Communion forswears necromancy nationwide soon after.

#### 20. Crafts - 27. Crafts

* **Necromancer Riots**: Necromancers protests the closing of the School of Necromancy, culminating in a violent confrontation with the City Guard. Dolion Galanis instigates some of the riots and spends a few nights in jail.

### Fortunes

#### 12. Fortunes

* **The Boneheads are arrested**: A cabal of radicalized necromancer students are arrested in Vonsburgh on charges of conspiracy to conjure demonic entities and open necromancy. A teenage boy, Sam, is let go. The others, including Dolion, are interrogated by Halvard Brandt and given a slap on the wrist after their portal was found to be simple tricks dressed up with illusions.

## 658

### Unknown Date

* **Barren Point Shard recovered**: Arnaut Silver travels to Barren Point in an Inquisition ship. Warding himself against the necrotic tempest, he retrieves and contains the Crystal Skull and the Shard. The necrotic tempest soon fades away. The items are placed in an Inquisition safehouse
* **Necromancers protest Inquisition**: Rumors of a powerful necromantic artifact being hoarded by the Inquisition make its way to the ex-necromancers, who stage a protest near the safehouse.
* **Dolion steals from Baszwick**: The Boneheads, led by Dolion Galanis, sneak into Phoebus Baszwick's Shoppe of the Arcane and steal his Cloak of Invisibility. It takes a month for Baszwick to notice it's missing.
* **Dolion steals the Shard**: Worries over the necromancer protests lead to the Inquisition transporting the Shard. Their security fails, and the invisible Dolion is able to take the Shard for himself. The inquisitor on watch is blamed and the Inquisition covers up their negligence.
* **Dolion Galanis becomes the Soulbinder**: The five members of the Boneheads debate over who will wield the Shard. Dolion, who possesses it but was no spellcaster, suddenly shoots rays from the Shard, killing the contenders and raising them as zombie. The remaining two Boneheads, Sam and Rennard Rotsul, pledged their loyalty as his thralls.

## 675

### Bloom

* **The Doom of Doralei begins**
* **Albert Teufelsstein completes his flesh golem**

### Songs

#### 27. Songs

* **Djinni's Bottle Massacre**: Sahir Usamaddin holds a student rally at the Djinn's Bottle over the disappearances of students and elven refugees. Sam pretends to leave and summons a wraith, which kills Sahir and six other people in the Djinni's Bottle. Theryn McKelvy, Dharok Stonecrusher, Gustav zur Rotta, Vladimir Moarte, and Scourge (disguised as Houston Brooks) kill the wraith and its specters. They are confronted by three guards, two of which have been bribed to deliver bodies to Albert Teufelsstein. They move to arrest the party, but are killed. The remaining guard, Axel, flees and is soon picked up by the Holy Inquisition.
* **A misunderstanding**: Dharok is thrown in the drunk tank for a night by the City Guard after smashing an Old World vase while drunk.

#### 28. Songs

* **Skirmish in the Sewers**: After freeing a wererat named Gulrim, the party follows him to an Inquisition warehouse connected to the sewers. They break in, kidnapping both Axel and Inquisitor Devoir and retreating to the wererats' den. Grand Inquisitor Arnaut Silver arrives with an entourage to negotiate for the hostages' release. He and Scourge come to terms. The party pretends to plan an ambush with the wererats, then double-crosses them. With the party's help, the Inquisition kills the Rat King and all but one wererat, who is taken alive and cured of her lycanthropy.