Records: The Timeline

## **A Sense of Perspective**: the World as it Was in 1296

For a sense of place, true changes start on the Sword Coast and Western Heartlands of Faerûn, circa 1296 DR. The year prior, the king of Tethyr had been assassinated by a Waterdeep noble, a new naga king ascended to the throne in Najara, and the royal family of Impiltur was assassinated by a secondary prince (one of their own). The realm was an interesting place to visit, not a great place to live...

## **Timeline**

### **Pre-1296 DR**

* *Before the Beginning:* events leading to the creation of House Stonehearth

#### **1297 DR**

* The Library of Baldur’s Gate becomes *The Stonehearth College*
* The conspicuous success of the Stonehearth Merchant Company (SMC)
* The *SMC* seeds the paper industry
* The founding of the consolidated Stonehearth Arms

### **1300 DR**

#### **1303 DR**

* Stonehearth cartage challenges inspire wainwright development

#### **1305 DR**

* Stonehearth Arms felt the first touches of the Naturalist Method

#### **1308 DR**

* The Scribe business moves into the realm of magic
* Stonehearth Calculators make academic waves
* A new form of scroll paper wipes out *The Gate*...

### **1310 DR**

* Rediscovering the natural philosophy of Optics

#### **1311 DR**

* The Stonehearth College: *The Indivisible Universe*

#### **1312 DR**

* The SMC’s magic scroll business diversifies into general arcane consumables
* An Explosive Discovery...

#### **1314 DR**

* Stonehearth College points out the *Imperfection of the Heavens*

#### **1316 DR**

* A division of labor multiplies the product…

#### **1319 DR**

* Valene Stonehearth assumes the mantle of House Patriar (r. 1319-1340)

### **1320 DR**

* Expanding into mechanical miniaturization...

#### **1321 DR**

* Stonehearth creates the tools of the mechanical trade
* ...*and discovers tiny worlds*

#### **1325 DR**

* Stonehearth leads a Baldur’s Gate-Lantan Standardization Concord
* Baldur's Gate joins the Council of Lords (Lords' Alliance)

#### **1327 DR**

* Gold and Paper: from ledgers to Presses to Schools…

#### **1328 DR**

* Outgrowing the Walls: the need for Construction capacity…

#### **1329 DR**

* Beneath the foundations: SMC Mining, Aggregate and Magic

### **1330 DR**

* Stonehearth devised a new way of calculating business figures…

#### **1331 DR**

* The Heavy Metal of Stonehearth’s Blacksmith

#### **1335 DR**

* Increased tensions between Stonehearth and the Council of Four…

### **1340 DR**

* Piers Stonehearth assumes the mantle of House Patriar (r. 1340-1365)

#### **1341 DR**

* Stonehearth builds a Mythal Defense System

#### **1343 DR**

* Working backward for the horses of the Stonehearth College

#### **1345 DR**

* Stonehearth supports Eltan’s bid for power in Baldur’s Gate

### **1350 DR**

#### **1351 DR**

* The SMC arcane inscription rises to the next *meta*-level

#### **1358 DR**

* The ***Time of Troubles*** begins the ***Era of Upheaval***
* Lantanese Smokepowder proves the fallen restrictions
* Divine influences now dot Toril...
* Healing magic is severely undercut

#### **1359 DR**

* As magic faltered, mechanics and mundane medicine surged
* Vorthryn’s Archivir reenters circulation

### **1360 DR**

#### **1362 DR**

* The SMC rolls out Scrolls of Correspondence

#### **1365 DR**

* Strange magic presents itself to House Stonehearth
* Everett Stonehearth assumes the mantle of House Patriar (r. 1365-1391)

### **1370 DR**

#### **1372 DR**

* The Shadow of Netheril returns to Faerûn

#### **1374 DR**

* Stonehearth incorporates the Tethyr Barony of Impresk (the Snowflake Mountains)

### **1380 DR**

#### **1384 DR**

* Anywhere else: the Industrial Revolution

#### **1385 DR**

* **The Spellplague**
* Stonehearth's foreign Allies
* Stonehearth asserts authority in the Impresk Barony

### **1390 DR**

#### **1391 DR**

* Ariqa Stonehearth assumes the mantle of House Patriar (r. 1391-1412)

#### **1394 DR**

* Growth of Stonehearth’s Industrial Revolution

#### **1399 DR**

* Scouting and surveying the future North Point area

### **1400 DR**

* Stonehearth reestablishes contact with Lantan

#### **1404 DR**

* Stonehearth reestablishes contact with Halruaa

#### **1405 DR**

* Horseless Carriages occupy abandoned Roaringshore as a staging area

#### **1406 DR**

* **House Stonehearth negotiates a charter as a Baldurian march**

#### **1408 DR**

* Supply trains start moving north, both by ship and over land

### **1410 DR**

* One Year since North Point ground breaking
* The SMC invents commercially-available magical lighting
* Baldur's Gate: "Strong Steam" explodes

#### **1411 DR**

* Stonehearth begins North Point mining operations, strikes gold…

#### **1412 DR**

* Trolls prove their regional reputation
* Connak Stonehearth assumes the mantle of House Marquis (r. 1412-1430)

#### **1413 DR**

* North Point University: the Reinvention of the Seed Drill

#### **1414 DR**

* Mageweave Barony: the first elevations to Stonehearth Nobility

#### **1415 DR**

* North Point tinkers develop the threshing machine

#### **1417 DR**

* North Point tinkers patent the grain elevator

#### **1419 DR**

* North Point begins construction on town walls.
* Volkerburg, Mageweave barony, digs in cliffside to create *The Grand Mall*

### **1420 DR**

* Stonehearth tinkers develop *explosive ammunition*

#### **1421 DR**

* Stonehearth evolves past steam: *magic motors*

#### **1423 DR**

* The SMC unleashes *Arcane Energized Crystals* to the marquisate
* House Sid invents (and sells) crystal-powered *Refrigeration*

#### **1424 DR**

* Vampiric attack consolidates North Point community

#### **1426** **DR**

* House Esparia brings House Stonehearth into Cormyr

#### **1427 DR**

* The Dimming (*Stonehearth's first Phaerimm conflict*)…

### **1430 DR**

* The Arcane Construction and Demolition (ACD) Company
* Hudson Stonehearth assumes the mantle of House Marquis (r. 1430-1452)

#### **1432 DR**

* Lantan swears fealty to the Stonehearth Coronet

#### **1433 DR**

* Stonehearth guns evolve past propellant
* The Stonehearth *College of Arms* (CoA) is founded near North Point

#### **1434 DR**

* **The March becomes the Marquisate:** theSouthern Highlands Expansion
	+ +8 Baronies
	+ +4 Counties
* The Marquisate Military

#### **1435 DR**

* Reapers cap massive agricultural engineering developments

#### **1437 DR**

* An arcane explosion flattens a portion of central North Point
* The Elfsong returns in Baldur's Gate

#### **1439 DR**

* Hearth’s Reach Tower is built on the North Shore

#### **1445 DR**

* Port Station is unveiled in North Point

#### **1446 DR**

* Apostles to Apostates: Changing the Divine Frequencies

### **1450 DR**

* Marquisate Mythals power quasi-magical items

#### **1451 DR**

* Neverwinter is destroyed by volcano
* Proto-guard units supplement Mobile Infantry in their gendarme roles

#### **1452 DR**

* The Evolution to the Charter of Light – and the Lords’ Alliance Recognition
* Adrienne Stonehearth assumes the mantle of House Marquis (r. 1452-1475)

#### **1455 DR**

* The House becomes a Waterdhavian Masked Lord

#### **1459 DR**

* Stonehearth builds Hilcross Keep in the east Outer City of Baldur’s Gate

### **1460 DR**

* Stonehearth-Baldurian Patriar relations sour as Hilcross Keep asserts regional marquis authority
* Stonehearth relations bolstered with Cormyr and Elturgard Crowns

#### **1461 DR**

* Stonehearth repulses a Netherese attack

#### **1462 DR**

* Stonehearth founds – and Halruaa joins – the Commonwealth of the Charter of Light

#### **1465 DR**

* Arcane Wonders: Wands of Casting and Arcanophones

#### **1466 DR**

* After coordination between rivals in Baldur's Gate and Cormyr, Stonehearth responds

#### **1467 DR**

* The Church of the Light illuminates Western Faerûn

### **1470 DR**

* Stonehearth Arms specialists officially adopt Wands of Casting as their sidearms

#### **1471 DR**

* The Trollclaw Malice
* The Guard are quietly substituted for the Infantry in the gendarme role

#### **1475 DR**

* Braeden ("Brenn") Stonehearth assumes the mantle of House Marquis (r. 1475-*current*)

#### **1476 DR**

* Neighboring Elturel suffers mysterious tragedy…

### **1480 DR**

* The Boneshard Fleet is sunk in view of North Point Harbor
* Stonehearth SA deepens ties to Elturgard
* Abeir-Toril Geomantic Testing

#### **1481 DR**

* Stonehearth acknowledges raw magic as the power source of Primal Casting

#### **1482 DR**

* The Commonwealth brings their own… *home*
* The "Second Sundering" begins

#### **1483 DR**

* Stonehearth Arms authorizes the charter of their dedicated *defensive*force: the Guard

#### **1484 DR**

* The Second Sundering accelerates through Toril

#### **1485 DR**

* Stonehearth "regrettably rejects" Lower Netheril pleas for assistance against Shadovar
* Barony of Espar becomes safe haven for war refugees from Cormyr and the Dalelands

#### **1487 DR**

* Turbulence in the wake of the Era of Upheaval

#### **1488 DR**

* Shadowbane: ***the Marquisate’s capital of former Netheril***

#### **1489 DR**

* Stonehearth executes their Duty to Act…