Forgotten Realms Timeline

The Days of Thunder -35,000 DR to -30,000 DR

The Days of Thunder was an ancient period of Toril’s history. This was the time of the fabled creator races.

• -35,000 DR Founding of Okoth: The sarrukh Empire of Okoth was founded along the forested shores of the Azulduth, which was then the largest fresh-water lake in Faerûn. Within a hundred years, most of Faerûn was theirs.
• -34,800 DR Rise of the Mhairshaulk Empire: The sarrukh Empire of Mhairshaulk was founded on the Chultan Peninsula westward from the Lhairghal to the Jungles of Chult. The Mhairshaulkans were believed to have created nagas, pterafolk, troglodytes, and yuan-ti, as well as numerous other races long since lost.
• -34,500 DR Rise of the Isstosseffifil Empire: The sarrukh Empire of Isstosseffifil was founded in the lands that would later become the desert Anauroch.
• -34,100 DR Fall of the Okoth Empire: Okoth fell after a century of civil unrest that drove many sarrukh to the Outer planes.
• -34,000 DR The Feywild: The otherworldly realm of the Feywild was ruled by the Fey (creators of korreds, pixies, and sprites).
• -33,800 DR Fall of the Isstosseffifil Empire: In an effort to drown the Phaerlin (also known as the Buried Realms in the Underdark) and defeat their enemies in one masterful stroke, Isstossef wizards rerouted the Narrow Sea so that it ran from east to west, inundating the land around the chain of the Tagorlar hills with water. Although the Isstossef succeeded in driving the phaerimm deep into the Underdark, the massive ecological change resulting from their weavings of Art caused the Isstosseffifil empire to collapse.
• -33,500 DR: Rise of the Batrachi Empires: The batrachi (amphibioid creator race) were the creators of the bullywugs, doppelgangers, kopru, kuo-toa, locothah, sivs, tako and other shapeshifting, amphibious or piscine races.
• -31,000 DR The Tearfall: Meteors (dragon eggs from which the first dragons were born) fall and natural disasters change continents. Disastrous earthquakes, fires, and windstorms swept across all of Toril, erasing whole continents and rearranging the seas, causing the four Inner Seas to merge into the Sea of Fallen Stars.
• -30,700 DR Lammasu Massacre: One thousand members of the Aearee-Krocaa empire were killed by a much smaller force of lammasu. Experiments with domesticated landwyrms produce the first winged wyrms, which the aearee name wyverns. Thanks to its new wyvern armies, the Aearee-Krocaa empire greatly expanded their holdings in short time.
• -30,400 DR The Wasting Plague: In a conflict between the gnolls of Urgnarash and the rookery of Kookrui-Shara, shamans of Yeenoghu summoned marrashi to blight aearee crops and spread a wasting plague among the avians. Decimated, many Aearee-Quor turned to the demon lord Pazrael for salvation.

The Dawn Age -30,000 DR to -24,000 DR

The Dawn Age was a period when the powerful empires of the creator races disappeared from the face of the earth and their land was occupied by dragons and giants. Constant war for land in Faerûn led to the creation of great kingdoms and empires. It was a time on Toril when dragons took an interest in the lesser races’ squabbling and taught them the basic concepts of organization and civilization, leading to the construction of cities and armies. The metallic dragons admired a certain amount of selflessness in the lesser races, such as the elves and dwarves and the young races of humans, gnomes, and halflings. They took pity on the weaker races and helped lead and protect them. Alternately, the chromatic dragons saw those races as less intelligent and more malleable, believing them to seek only their own advancement. They forced them to build a loose-knit society and organized them into armies. They then taught the lesser races how to construct fortified castles for their new masters to live in and bask on the hordes that they stole from the weak.

• -30,000 DR The Creation of the Nether Scolls: The Sarrukh create the Nether Scrolls.
• -30,000 DR War of the Seldarine: Araushnee is banished from the elven pantheon and cast by the Seldarine into the Abyss. Her son Vhaeraun (who was also banished) and daughter Eilistraee (who chose exile) start wandering on Toril. Araushnee makes a new home for herself named the Demonweb Pits and becomes the demon-goddess Lolth.
• -30,000 DR The Giant Pantheon: The great giant god Annam All-Father marries Othea, a lesser demigoddess of Toril. Their union produces eight terrestrial children. The giant realms of Ostoria, Darchar, Grunfesting, Helligheim, Nedeheim and Rangfjell are founded by Annam and his sons.
• -29500 DR Conflicts Among Dragons and Giants: Within a few centuries of their arrival on Faerûn, after some of the dragons reached maturity, the giants recognized the great reptiles as powerful and cunning interlopers who threatened their very existence.
• -29,500 DR Dragonfall War: Followers of Xymor attack and slay Nagamat, inciting the Dragonfall War, a conflict between the followers of Bahamut and Tiamat that persists to this day.
• -28,000 DR The Colosal Kingdom: The Colossal Kingdom reaches its height, stretching across Faerûn from the Cold Lands to the Vilhon Reach.
• -27,000 DR The Green Elves Arrive: Continuing their work to undermine dragon rule, the Fey open gates allowing the first elves to immigrate to Toril. These primitive green elves worship the Faerie gods (not the Seldarine, which were unknown at this time).
• -25,000 DR Fall of Ostoria: Ostoria reaches a truce with dragonkind and the Reign of Giants comes to an end. Ostoria has shrunk to only a shadow of its former self. The Colossal Kingdom now occupies only the northernmost edge of Faerûn (present day Great Glacier and the Cold Lands).
• -25,000 DR First Rage of Dragons: In a newly built citadel in the northernmost reaches of Toril, the elves create the Dracorage mythal, inciting the Rage of Dragons, a madness driving all dragonkind into mindless destruction.
• -24,500 DR Faerûn Founded by the Elves: Elf survivors of the Kingdom of Tintageer (Kingdom of Faerie) summon the power of elvish High Magic and escape from Faerie to Toril. The Tintageer defeat a great red wyrm Mahatnartorian, Master of the Mountains, and found the first elven nation on Faerûn.
• -24,400 DR Rise of Lolth: Lolth’s attention is drawn to Toril for the first time in history, due to the elf Kethryllia Amarillis fighting the demon Haeshkarr in the Demonweb Pits. The Spider Queen begins to seduce dark elves and takes Ka’Narlist as her consort.

The First Flowering -24,000 DR to -12,000 DR

The great elf civilizations of Faerûn reach their peak during this age. As a result of the elves’ success against the orcs, dragons, and giants, the other races thrive in safety and begin the slow climb to civilization.

• -23,900 DR Founding of Aryvandaar: The forest community of Sharlarion survived the First Sundering nearly complete. These fortunate elves increased their number and spread into the surrounding forest, hills, and lowlands. Soon the gold elf kingdom of Aryvandaar, in the present day High Forest is established.
• -23,600 DR Founding of Shentel Othreier: Establishment of the first settlements of the gold elf and moon elf kingdom of Shantel Othreier in the Green Fields. An outpost of Shantel Othreier is established in the Ardeep Forest by the moon elves.
• -22,900 DR Founding of Illefarn: First settlements of the kingdom of Illefarn are founded in Ardeep and Kryptgarden Forests, and parts of the Dessarin valley. Wild elves join their moon elf cousins in Ardeep.
• -17,600 DR The First Sundering: The First Sundering (sometimes simply The Sundering), was a High Magic ritual cast by the greatest High Mages of the Tel-quessir. The ritual resulted in the creation of the Isle of Evermeet, but also resulted in widespread disaster which destroyed or altered much of Faerûn and may even be the cause of much of the non-uniformity of the Weave throughout the continent.
• -16,000 DR The First Dwarves: The first dwarf settlements appear in the great mountain range known as the Yehimal, which lies at the juncture of the three great continents of Faerûn, Kara-Tur, and Zakhara.

The Crown Wars -12,000 DR to -9,000 DR

The Crown Wars were a series of elven wars fought early in the history of Faerûn. Over a period of 3,000 years, the great elven kingdoms participated in five primary conflicts, leading to the near destruction of the elven race.

• -12,000 DR First Crown War: After centuries of fruitless diplomacy, the impatient, grasping rulers of Aryvandaar attack Miyeritar and begin putting political pressure on Shantel Othreier to join them or suffer the same fate. The First Crown War begins.
• -11,700 DR The Second Crown War: Battle flares up yet again in answer to the aggressions of Aryvandaar. Ilythiir rises up and viciously strikes out at any that support the gold elves of the north. Its nearest neighbor Orishaar, a major trade partner with Aryvandaar, falls swiftly in a brutal surprise attack.
• -10,900 DR The Third Crown War: Aryvandaar (now known as the Vyshaantar Empire) was aided by a fallen solar named Malkizid in invading the sun and moon elf kingdom of Shantel Othereir. The war waged for nearly 300 years until Shantel Othreir surrendered after the death of their coronal.
• -10,500 DR The Fourth Crown War: Owing to the destructive magics of Vyshaantar, the Dark Disaster occurred, and a magical storm turned Miyeritar into the wasteland now known as the High Moor. Enraged at the destruction of their dark-elf brothers' land, Ilythiiri savagely attacked the Vyshaantar Empire. The Ilythiiri began to openly worship evil gods and commit such acts of atrocities that all the remaining elven kingdoms decided to expel the Ilythiiri dark elves from Corellon Larethian’s grace. The most powerful mages and clerics succeeded in completing the ritual in about -10,000 DR, though it had the adverse effect of corrupting all dark elves, not just the intended Ilythiirians. The dark elves were driven underground, and the epithet dhaerow would eventually change into drow.
• -10,500 DR The leShay Establish Sarifal: The leShay establish the kingdom of Sarifal; its capitol the shining city of Karador built upon a small island at the center of the shimmering blue waters of Myrloch, a large lake nestled within a great vale on the Moonshae’s central island.
• -9,800 DR Founding of Synnoria: A large force of Llewyrr elves escapes the oppressive mainland and resettles in isolation and safety among the mountains of the Moonshae Islands. Their new land becomes Synnoria, after the elf queen who led the Llewyrr to this island sanctuary.
• -9,200 DR The Fifth Crown War: he fragile peace was shattered when the Corellon Larethian-mandated Elven Court decreed that the sun elf clan of Vyshaan was responsible for the thousands of years of war. The Vyshaantar Empire disputed the charges and madly declared war on everyone. Within 200 years, the ancient kingdom of Aryvandaar was no more.

The Founding Time -9,000 DR to -3,000 DR

This era signals the rise of all the humanoid civilizations, in a time when the many dragons and giants were long overthrown and the elf wars no longer loomed over everyone as a threat. The elf realms of Evereska and Evermeet grow by colonization along with other realms, from the human Unther and Coramshan to the dwarf realms of High Shanatar and Oghrann.

• -8,170 DR to -8,150 DR The First Spider War: The drow of Guallidurth take advantage of the dwarves’ civil war to attack the caverns of Alatorin, which were far removed from the front lines of fighting. Brightaxe Hall is captured, and the kingdom of Alatorin falls.
• -8,145 DR to -8,137 DR The Second Spider War: Aghast at their folly, the eight reigning kings of Shanatar forge an armistice and turn their armies against the drow. The drow are overcome and retreat from the caverns of Alatorin. In triumph, the eight kings march their armies back into Brightaxe Hall and pledge never again to fight one another.
• -8,100 DR to -8,080 DR The Mindstalker Wars: The illithids of Oryndoll attack the eastern subkingdoms of Shanatar, beginning a conflict that came to be known as the Mindstalker Wars among the dwarves and the War of Cloven Thoughts among the mind flayers. The illithids are driven back, but in their wake the surviving Stout Folk discover that the caverns of Barakuir, which had been cut off in the early days of fighting, lie empty. Clan Duergar had been carried back to thralldom in the mind flayers’ realm. After millennia of enslavement and countless illithid breeding experiments, the descendants of Clan Duergar are transformed into a new dwarf subrace, the gray dwarves.
• -8,000 DR The Dwarvenhome Tunnels: Dwarven refugees cut off from Shanatar as a result of the Mindstalker Wars begin exploring remote subterranean passages beneath the Sea of Swords. The dwarves later establish Dwarvenhome in the natural caverns under the Moonshae Islands.
• -7,800 DR The Great Arrival: The noble djinni lord Calim arrives in Faerûn followed by the Djen, an entourage of genies and their human and halfling slaves. The djinni lord quickly seizes all the lands south and west of the Marching Mountains and founds the Calim Empire on the present-day site of Calimport.
• -7,790 DR The Dragon Wars: A Flight of Dragons destroys the city of Calimport. This event initiates a century of war pitting Calim and the genies against the dragons. By its end, every dragon in the Marching Mountains dies at the hands and magic of the genies. The genies’ magic rebuilds Calimport within a year of its initial destruction.
• -6,500 DR to -6,100 DR Era of Skyfire: Memnon and Calim bring their forces to bear against each other in twenty-two cataclysmic battles over the next four centuries. The High Magic of the elves forcibly disembodies Calim and Memnon and binds their elemental essences to the sky and earth, respectively. The ongoing struggles of the two noble genies create the Calim Desert.
• -6,000 DR Firbolgs Settle in the Moonshae Isles: Grond Peaksmasher leads a tribe of giants to the Moonshae Isles, primarily settling on the island of Norland in the Jotunhammer Mountains. The dwarves name the giant tribe “Fir-Bolg,” or large men with spears.
• -3,859 DR Founding of Netheril: Human realm of Netheril founded on the banks of the Narrow Sea.
• -3,533 DR The Nether Scrolls: The Nether Scrolls are discovered amid the ruins of Aryvandaar. The Netherese abandon the magic they learned from the Eaerlanni in favor of the scrolls’ greater power.

Age of Humanity -3,000 DR to 1,358 DR

With the elf and dwarf empires in decline, this era marks a dramatic increase in human expansion on Toril. The mighty human empires of Calimshan, Mulhorand, and Unther arise during this era, as well as the now lost empires of Netheril, Jhaamdath, Narfell, and Raumauthar.

• -2,999 DR Founding of Illusk: The burgeoning human clans of the northern Sword Coast band together under a single leader and found Illusk.
• -2,954 DR Founding of Xinlenal: Ioulaum raises the first Netherese Enclave, Xinlenal.
• -2,770 DR Defeat of Rithaerosurffel: King Connar IV of Ammarindar and his legion defeat the monsters invading the High Forest and defeat the red dragon Rithaerosurffel.
• -2,758 DR Founding of the High Mages of Netheril: The Netherese form a magocracy consisting of the major arcanists of Netheril called the High Mages of Netheril.
• -2,600 DR Fall of the Shanatar Dwarves: The last of the Shanatar dwarves fall to the invading Coramshan Empire and seal off the last remaining surface entrance to Deep Shanatar. Also, the drow began work on the Twisted Tower of Ashaba.
• -2,489 DR Mulan Revolution: Deities of the slaves of the Imaskari breach the planar barrier by sending avatars to Toril, led by the deity Ptah. The avatars went among the slaves and inspired them, through their divine power, to revolt against their masters.
• -2,488 DR Destruction of the Imaskar Empire: The Imaskar empire is destroyed and Horus-Re kills Lord Artificer Yuvaraj, the Emperor of Imaskar. The destruction that poured out of this conflict caused the area to become the Raurin Desert.
• -2,487 DR Mulan Migration: The former Mulan slaves migrate out of the desert, becoming the folk of Mulhorand and Unther. At the same time, the Imaskari refugees flee to the Underdark, taking the Third Imaskarcana with them.
• -2,482 DR House of Orogoth in the High Moor: The Netherese House of Orogoth constructed a fortified villa in the southern part of High Moor in hopes of procuring the power of the dragons that were known to be there. It is claimed, in legend, that they did obtain it in some way. Their research there also led to the Serpent Curse.
• -2,481 DR Founding of Deep Imaskar: Ilphemon, a lord of Imaskar, founded the city of Deep Imaskar in the Earthroot section of the Underdark.
• -2,436 DR Nether Scrolls Returned: An unknown Netherese thief returns seven of the nether scrolls to the ancient ruins of the Iqua-Tel’Quessir. Three of the scrolls are placed in the Hall of Mists, two are placed in the Crypt of Hssthak, and the remaining two’s locations, as of yet, are unknown.
• -2,381 DR Fall of the Tavhir Dynasty: Beholders descend upon the Alimir Mountains and the bakkal of Calimshan is assassinated, effectively ending the Tavhir dynasty.
• -2,375 DR Netherese Scout the Sword Coast: Netherese scouts begin surveying what is now the Sword Coast North at the behest of Arthindol the Terraseer.
• -2,368 DR Founding of Quesseer: Quesseer is founded, by Arthindol, to the north of the Sword Mountains. It becomes a center of trade for the peoples of Illusk, Illefarn, the Ice Hunters of the North, and the fallen Haunghdannar.
• -2,087 DR Founding of Unthalass: Enlil, deity of the Untheric peoples, discovers pearls on the coast of Alamber, and founded Unthalass, which became the capital of Unther.
• -1,967 DR Mulhorand-Unther War: The First Mulhorand-Unther War erupts at the River of Swords. Ancient tribes of Rashemen are used as mercenaries on both sides of the war.
• -1,838 DR Tyranny of the Rose Dragon: As revenge for their assaults on her lair and hoard, the red dragon Ylveraasahlisar “the Rose Dragon,” unleashes her fury on the entirety of Calimshan, bringing the city of Calimport, and much of its surroundings, to ruin. She then ruled the Empire, from her newly rebuilt lair in Calimport, with an iron fist.
• -1,732 DR Lapal Tribes as Refugees: The enslaved human tribes of the Lapal move into what became the Halruaa basin after having had to escape from the Yuan-ti in the jungles of Serpentes, which eventually became known as The Black Jungles and the Mhair Jungle.
• -1,726 DR Defeat of the Rose Dragon: The Cajaan noble, Rafak al Cajaan, led a team of warriors into the lair of Ylveraasahlisar and managed to inflict a great amount of wounds to The Rose Dragon before she attempted to escape. Yet, as she was doing so, the bronze dragon Cadasalmpar, an ally of Rafak, assaulted her and killed her. Rafak was then made the nation’s new emperor, reestablishing human rule of Calimshan and the surrounding territories.
• -1,657 DR Destruction of Maunator: The Netherese enclave of Maunator, also known as Sunrest, was utterly disintegrated in a horrible accident caused by ill-prepared and ill-conducted research into spellcraft.
• -1,471 DR Founding of Thultanthar: Lord Telamont Tanthul raises the Netherese enclave of Thultanthar, which became known as the “City of Shade”.
• -1,428 DR Calimport Conquered by Qyraaptur the Bloodeye: The great city of Calimport fell to a horde of beholders from the Alimir Hive in the Alimir Mountains after the death of Syl-Pasha Violir Cajaan IX. Qyraaptir the Bloodeye, a great beholder-mage, claims the throne of the deceased pasha and proceeds to exert his control over all of Calimshan and Iltkazar.
• -1,427 DR Assault on Tzindylspar: A beholder, by the name of Ynamalik Nadim, led a small army of monsters in an assault on Tzindylspar, the City of Rubies; it fell within a tenday.
• -1,402 DR Defeat of Qyraaptur the Bloodeye: Qyraaptir the Bloodeye and his beholder army fell or fled before the Drakhon priests and their allies. Calimport is the first city freed from beholder-tyranny, but the priests quickly push the beholders back into the Alimir Mountains and the Lake of Steam within three years.
• -1,076 DR to -1,069 DR The Orcgate Wars: Renegade Mulhorandi wizards employ Imaskari portal magic to open planar gates to an orc world. Hundreds of thousands of orcs inundate the northern territories of both Mulhorand and Unther. The orc god Grummsh kills the Mulhorandi deity Ra, in the first known deicide. Other deities are killed by orc deities.
• -790 DR to -530 DR The Night Wars: Drow raiders attack Calimshan and other surface powers of southern Faerûn.
• -500 DR Sarifal Retreats to the Feywild: Most Fey, including the haughty leShay, inexplicably retreat to the Feywild, abandoning the kingdom of Sarifal and their claim to the Moonshae Isles. The ancient city of Karador sinks beneath the waves of Myrloch, forgotten but not wholly abandoned.
• -339 DR Karsus’s Folly: The Netherese archmage Karsus attempted to steal the knowledge and power of Mystral, the then goddess of magic. He succeeded in doing so but it forced Mystral to kill herself in order to save the Weave. For several moments thereafter, magic across the Realms faltered, causing the Netherese floating cities to plumet to the ground, thus ending their long lasting empire.
• -200 DR Founding of Candlekeep: Candlekeep is founded. Humans, who will become the first Dalesfolk, cross the Dragon Reach to the southern region of Cormanthor.
• -164 DR Empire of Vecna Founded: The Empire of Vecna is founded in the Western Heartlands.
• -160 DR The Great Conflagration: Narfell and Raumathar begin their final war—a decade-long cataclysm that involves the summoning of demon lords and an avatar of Kossuth. At its conclusion, both combatants lie in ruins.
• -111 DR Settling the Northern Sword Coast: Orc Marches invasion. Both Illusk and Gauntlgrym fall to the horde. Humans from the island of Ruathym settle along the northern Sword Coast, including the area called Eigersstor, later known as Neverwinter, so called for its warm river that keeps plants alive even during wintertime, and an ice-free winter harbor.
• -100 DR Fall of Delzoun, Rise of Uthgardt: Delzoun declines. Uthgar, a Ruathym warrior, leads humans to sack Illusk. His followers divide into the Uthgardt tribes.
• -52 DR Development of Waterdeep: Waterdeep becomes a permanent farming community for the first time.
• 1 DR The Dale Reckoning: The smattering of human settlers that huddled in small villages at the edges of Cormanthor and Cormanthyrian led by Coronal Eltargrim Irithyl came to an agreement known as the Dales Compact. The conditions of this pact gave the future-Dalesfolk non-forested, and non-elven claimed areas of land on which to settle and ceased any and all logging efforts deeper into the forest. Furthermore, the Standing Stone was erected as a monument to this new alliance between elf and man. This turning point in both civilizations also marked the beginning of the Dale Reckoning calendar for centuries to come.
• 26 DR Founding of Cormyr: The death of Ondeth Obarskyr sees the founding of the human kingdom of Cormyr with the permission of the Fair Folk of the Forest Country. His son Faerlthann is crowned the first King of Cormyr.
• 168 DR Construction of Undermountain: Halaster Blackcloak builds Halaster’s Hold near Waterdavian farms. He begins constructing Undermountain.
• 180 DR Fall of Ilyanbruen: Elven nation declines and falls after fighting an orc horde that threatened the north and established itself in Illusk. Refugee elves seek Evermeet or flee to the Feywild.
• 201 DR Coronation of Cymrych Hugh: Cymrych Hugh defeats the beast Kazgoroth and is crowned High King of the Moonshae Isles.
• 241 DR Elminster Serves Mystra: Elminster Aumar enters the city of Cormanthor to serve Mystra’s will.
• 250 DR Death of High King Cymrych Hugh: Upon his death, High King Cymrych Hugh is entombed beneath a barrow mound in the foothills north of Blackstone. With no strong heir to the throne, the kingdoms of Moonshae split among the islands.
• 261 DR Founding of Myth Drannor: Myth Drannor established at heart of Cormanthor through the raising of a mythal. Dwarves and halflings are welcomed into the city.
• 324 DR Founding of the Harpers: The Harpers at Twilight are formed in secret deep in the Elven Court woods by Dathlue Mistwinter, the Lady Steel.
• 379 DR School of Wizardry at Myth Drannor: Seven mages build the first school of wizardry open to all the races of Myth Drannor.
• 416 DR Empire of Vecna Falls: A great internal upheaval within the Empire of Vecna causes its collapse.
• 417 DR Shining Crusade Seal Vecna: The Shining Crusade create three sealed dungeons in the Moonshae Isles to prevent Vecna from physically manifesting on Toril.
• 523 DR Rise of Phalorm: Rise of Phalorm, the realm of Three Crowns in the North, a kingdom of humans, elves, and dwarves.
• 615 DR Fall of Phalorm: Phalorm falls to humanoid hordes as both armies are wiped out by the magical flood created by a lich to attack the area which caused the Mere of Dead Men. One of their strongholds will later become Cragmaw Castle.
• 627 DR School of Magic in Silverymoon: Ecamane Truesilver and his nine apprentices arrive in Silverymoon and create a school of magic patterned on elven teachings.
• 640 DR Mining and Traading at Zhentil Keep: First mining and trading encampments established at Zhentil Keep.
• 708 DR Return of Moander: Fallen evil god, Moander, whom the elves imprisoned in his last temple ruins, reimurges and his cultists release three fiends from an extradimensional prison high above Myth Drannor by exploiting a loophole in the prison’s terms of release.
• 711 DR to 714 DR The Weeping War: The Weeping War was a battle in which the Akh’Velahr (the army of Cormanthor) were defeated by the invading demonic forces named the Army of Darkness, leading to the fall of the elven city of Myth Drannor, the greatest and most powerful bastion of civilization by far at the time.
• 720 DR Reformation of the Harpers: Gathering of the Gods at the Dancing Place inspires the refounding of the Harpers. All fifteen of the Harpers at Twilight, including Elminster, attend.
• 769 DR Merrydale Renamed to Daggerdale: Merrydale becomes Daggerdale following an vampyric infestation.
• 884 DR The Battle of Singing Arrows: The elves destroy a large mercenary force in the Dragonreach coastal Chondathan human settlements that have commonly become known as Sembia. This event frustrates human plans to conquer all of what is now Cormyr and the Dales, brings the survival of the Sembian colony into doubt, and delays the eventual founding of an independent Sembia.
• 900 DR Phandelver’s Pact Established: Clans of dwarves and gnomes create the Phandelver’s Pact, governing the unique abilities of the Forge of Spells found in Wave Echo Cave.
• 902 DR Cult of the Dragon Creates the First Dracoliches: Sammaster creates the first Cult dracolich, Shargrailar. The rituals and components necessary to create a dracolich are transcribed in the Tome of the Dragon, a holy relic that is later used by the many cells of the Cult of the Dragon to raise their own dracolich allies.
• 940 DR Second Trollwar: Second Trollwar begins near Waterdeep. Samular Caradoon becomes a war hero in that war.
• 951 DR Battle of Phadalin: Phandalin destroyed by the orcs of Uruth Ukrypt and a group of wizards bent on seizing control of Wave Echo Cave; Sir Aldith Tresendar “The Black Hawk,” killed defending Phandalin; Mormesk, a powerful wizard, killed during the attack on Wave Echo Cave.
• 974 DR Construction of Castle Waterdeep: Castle Waterdeep is completed. Laroun, Waterdeep’s first female War Lord, takes up residence therein.
• 1,018 DR Rage of Dragons: A Rage of Dragons devastates the Heartlands, the lands around the Shining Sea, and the western and southern coasts of the Inner Sea.
• 1,032 DR Founding of the Lords of Waterdeep: Ahghairon, premier mage of the North, saves Waterdeep from the usurper, Warlord Raurlor, and establishes the Lords of Waterdeep. The city becomes the largest in the North.
• 1,090 DR Battle of the Bones: A horde of 200,000 goblins and orcs arises from the High Moors due to extreme drought and attempts an invasion of the North. The Battle of the Bones marks the spot of the great battle that destroys the horde.
• 1,197 DR Battle of Brokenheads: King Philaspur of Aglarond dies repelling another Thayan attack. His daughters Thara and Ulae share the throne and become known as the Gray Sisters.
• 1,260 DR Battle of Lapendrar: Halacar of Aglarond launches an invasion of Thay, advancing along the Lapendrar. The Red Wizards destroy his army.
• 1,262 DR War among Waterdeep’s Guilds: Six years of self-interested squabbling among Waterdeep’s Guildmasters erupt into bloodshed. All but two of the city’s Guildmasters die in the next few months. The two surviving Guildmasters agree to rule together as Lords Magister, although their continued bickering prevents any effective governance of the city. The Shadow Thieves, previously a minor band of thieves openly tolerated as a recognized guild, grow in strength and influence throughout Waterdeep.
• 1,291 DR Flamsterd Sinks Into the Sea: Flamsterd tower explodes in a great cacophony, dropping it and half the island of the same name into the sea. There is no word of Flamsterd or his apprentices.
• 1,302 DR Founding of the Arcane Brotherhood: Arklem Greeth forms the Arcane Brotherhood in Luskan.
• 1,306 DR Moonsea War: Hulburg and Sulasspryn are defeated by Mulmaster. Mulmaster is later vanquished by an alliance between Sembia, Phlan, Hillsfar, Melvaunt, and Zhentil Keep. An invasion of dragons and their armies sweeps down from Thar and besieges Phlan. The city’s Moonsea allies, still recovering from the Moonsea War, are unable to come to its aid. The citizens of Phlan are quickly massacred, and the city is reduced to ruins.
• 1,340 DR Founding of Helm’s Hold: Thundertree attacked by orcs; Lady Aribeth hunts them and is converted by Tyr; Helm’s Hold established 20 miles SE of Neverwinter on the edge of the Neverwinter Wood.
• 1,345 DR Darkwalker War: Agents of the god Bhaal corrupt one of the Earthmother’s moonwells. From this darkwell, Kazgaroth “the Beast” attempts to destroy the Earthmother and ruin the Moonshaes. Kazgaroth, disguised in the human form of Thelgaar Ironhand, leads an invasion of Caer Corwell. In the end, Kazgoroth flees to the corrupted moonwell and is slain by Prince Tristan and his companions.
• 1,347 DR The Ten Black Days of Eleint: King Alemander IV and the rest of the Tethyrian royal family die during the conflagration that destroys Castle Tethyr. Crown Prince Alemander—the late Prince Rythan’s younger brother and second son of King Alemander IV—and General Sharboneth die in the fires of their own making. From the 13th to the 22nd day of Eleint, hysteria grips Tethyr, causing the destruction of Tethyr’s nobles and many castles and temples. Hundreds of innocent people who have any ties to the royalty are also murdered.
• 1,356 DR The Dragonspear War: Armies from Waterdeep and Baldur’s Gate besiege and set fire to Dragonspear Castle, defeating the devils within.

Era of Upheaval 1,358 DR to present

• 1,358 DR The Time of Troubles: Cast out from their otherworldly domains by the overpower Lord Ao, the gods of Toril wander the Realms as mortals. They seek the stolen Tablets of Fate, which are the key to their return. During this dark period, known as the Time of Troubles, magic becomes unpredictable and the prayers of the faithful go unanswered. By its conclusion, Faerûn’s pantheon of gods witnesses the ascendancy of Cyric, Midnight (Mystra), and the Red Knight, the death of Bane, Bhaal, Ibrandul, and Myrkul, and the death and rebirth of Torm.
• 1,363 DR The Battle of Daggerford: Devils entering Toril through portals in Dragonspear Castle assemble an army of ogres, hobgoblins, orcs, bugbears, goblins, and kobolds, bolstered by a black dragon. These “Hordes of Dragonspear” overwhelm and destroy the Way Inn and then attack Daggerford, but are defeated by a hastily assembled force of dwarves, elves from the Misty Forest, paladins of Ilmater, mercenaries, local militia, and a troop of the City Guard of Waterdeep.
• 1,368 DR Bhaal Spawn: Bhaal spawns offspring through women of all races. Bhaal spawn mature in this year. Gorion’s Ward, a spawn of Bhaal, defeats Saverok to foil his plans to become the new god of murder.
• 1,369 DR War of Gold and Gloom: A large group of crusading gold dwarves leaves the Great Rift to reclaim the lost caverns of Deep Shanatar. The duergar of Dunspeirrin march on Deep Shanatar as well, and war soon rages between the two armies of the Stout Folk.
• 1,371 DR League of the Silver Marches: To counter the rise of Obould’s Kingdom of Dark Arrows and thwart future evils of the North, High Lady Alustriel of Silverymoon gathers the leaders of the region to council. From Old Delzoun, the Moonlands, and the Rauvin Vale come elf, human, and dwarf lords to seek answers to their common troubles. Out of that oft-stormy meeting comes the High Lady’s Alliance, a confederation of city-states known as the League of the Silver Marches.
• 1,372 DR Return of Thultanthar: After assistance from his son Shade Prince Rivalen, Lord Telamont returned Thultanthar enclave to the Prime Material Plane, bringing about the reestablishment of the Netheril Empire. Since returning, the enclave came to primarily soar above the north-western side of the Shadow Sea in the Anauroch desert.
• 1,373 DR Vecna is Released: The three sealed dungeons preventing Vecna from exerting his influence on Toril are ruptured. The Cult of Bane claim involvement.