Forgotten Realms chronology, 500 - 999


All dates are in Dalereckoning, and year names are given where appropriate.

500The Year of the Flame Tongue
503
  • Fishermen and fur traders begin to settle within Silver Village.
504
  • Teth & Nethra declare independence.
  • Unther begins long campaign against North Coast cities.
512
  • Turmish is invaded by a huge orc horde from the Orsraun Mountains.
517
  • Mount Andrus erupts in the Orsrauns; little damage is done to Turmish, but the orcs of the mountain are further decimated.
522
  • The druids of the Gulthmere send a delegation to Alaghon to halt logging. The druids are ignored.
527
  • Hlondeth is invaded through its sewers and attacked by kobolds. The city falls, except for the walls of House Extaminos. The kobolds are repulsed by Extaminos' serpents.
538
  • Bryntarth I (? to 581), King of Cormyr.
539
  • Tellshyll the Aged becomes the first known wizard to live in Silverymoon.
545
  • Reinhar, a great warchief, rises to lead the Arkaiuns.
551
  • Estagund is conquered by Reinhar I, warchief of the Arkaiuns of Dambrath.
558
  • Amn begins external trading.
574
  • Silver Village grows to become Silverymoon and is one of the few thriving trading posts in the North; Bynan "Two-Axes" Oakfeller becomes the first mayor.
c.595
  • Jander Sunstar began traveling the Realms.
600The Year of Fire and Frost
614
  • Hlondeth finally becomes independent of Chondath.
621
  • Chief Umggok of the Granitefang tribe establishes a small but permanent orc settlement at the foothills in the Moonwood.
627
  • Ecmane Truesilver and his apprentices arrive in Silverymoon.
629
  • The Silver Lady's Library, named after Mielikki, is established adjacent to Ecmane's manse; Ecmane donates his collection of rare tomes from Myth Drannor to the library.
631
  • Mayor Artus Natek passes Silverymoon's mantle of leadership to his army commander Warlord Kieth, due to constant troubles with orcs.
634
  • Warlord Kieth leads the fledgling army of Silverymoon and a cadre of mages to victory over the Granitefang orcs in the Battle of Brokenfang.
637The Year of the Silver Sun
  • Silverymoon elects Ecmane Truesilver as its first High Mage to rule the city; stone walls are constructed around the city's perimeter.
640The Year of the Fanged Beast
  • First mining and trading encampments at Zhentil Keep.
  • The cities of Ormath and Lheshayl come under constant attack from saber-toothed tigers until the beasts are driven off.
643
  • The wizard Nezram leaves his tower on the shores of Azulduth, the Lake of Salt.
c.650
  • The noted mage Rathdaen roams the Realms.
659
  • More than fifty wizards from Myth Drannor and other parts of the Realms migrate to Silverymoon.
661The Year of the Bloody Tusk
  • Death of Lord Eltargrim of the elves; height of Myth Drannor.
671
  • Travelers become frequent between Ascalhorn and Silverymoon, and trade opens up with the dwarves of the North.
679The Year of the Scarlet Sash
  • Unther forced to recognize independence of the North Coast Cities. Unther never recovers from this long, costly, and bloody campaign.
  • End of the second Untheric empire.
680Year of the Long March
  • Many Chondathian mercenaries return home from the North Coast Campaign. Chondath begins to concentrate its efforts on fledgling Sembia.
681
  • The wizard Nezram's tower is destroyed by the green dragon Chathuulandroth. Nezram's children are scattered or slain.
694
  • High Mage Truesilver and twenty-one other wizards cast mighty protections and enchantments on the walls of Silverymoon.
712The Year of the Lost Lance
  • Beginning of nycaloth-led assault on Myth Drannor by the Army of Darkness.
  • High Mage Truesilver dies, but names as his successor Aglanthol the Red, his great-nephew and head apprentice; High Mage Aglanthol adopts the Staff of Silverymoon as his symbol of rulership.
714The Year of Doom
  • Fall of Myth Drannor.
  • In Silverymoon, the Seven of Silver, a group of allied warriors and wizards, open a gateway to Myth Drannor to aid in its defence, succeeding only in allowing twelve elves and humans to escape to Silverymoon.
  • Battle of Burnt Ridge. Many of the city's mages fall here.
  • Lady Steel dies fighting the city's attackers; her contingencies trigger a massive explosion that slays many evil beings.
  • Druth Daern hides during the final battle and later emerges to ransack the ruins.
715
  • The elves of Cormanthor spend this summer and the next hunting down and killing the remnants of the Army of Darkness, until the woods are cleansed. This work takes all the magic they have, and most of their best warrior blood.
717Year of the Druid's Wrath
  • The young boy Rhyester, blind from birth, sees the dawn on the first day of Ches and has his sight for the first time in his life. By year's end, he and other folk faithful to Lathander have constructed a crude temple to the god of the dawn in Silverymoon.
  • Turmish is routed by the druids of the Emerald Enclave. The druids establish themselves in Ilighon, the Chondalwood, and the Winterwood.
c.718
  • Founding of the elven settlements of Lake Sember and Tangled Trees as areas to begin training their young in the arts of war.
719
  • High Mage Aglanthol dies at the hands of rogue tanar'ri brought to Silverymoon by a reckless wizard wishing to open a portal to the ruins of Myth Drannor; his successor is the noble Ederan Nharimlur, named High Mage Catseye after his most common nickname.
720The Year of the Dawn Rose
  • Gathering of the gods at the Dancing Place; founding of the Harpers. The sylvan community of Elventree is established near the Moonsea.
724
  • Turmish wizards attack Ilighon and are killed.
c.725
  • Reinhar IX "the Foolish" reigns in Dambrath.
728
  • High Mage Ederan marries the elven princess Elenaril, one of the few escapees from fallen Myth Drannor.
731
  • 2nd Great flood of the River Alamber devastates Unthalass..
747The Year of Stagnate Water
  • Flostren's Hold built at the site of present-day Zhentil Keep.
748The Year of the Coin
750The Year of the Dying Water
  • First walls of Flostren's Hold are built and Elephstron becomes Lord of the Keep.
751The Year of Good Tidings
  • Zhentar comes to Flostren's Hold and becomes a Lord.
  • Cathtyr becomes the first Queen of Dambrath.
752The Year of High Treachery
753The Year of Strife
  • Flostren's Hold renamed Zhentil Keep; the Dark Shrine, temple to Bane, is built.
754The Year of Mid-Summer's Dreams
  • Zhentil Keep starts a program of expansion, erecting new walls and the first bridge across the Tesh.
756The Year of the Leaning Frost
  • First fisherfolk settle in Aglarond (mainly colonists from Chessenta).
760The Year of Drifting Stars
  • Dornal Silverhand and Elue Shundar are wed.
761The Year of Laughter
  • Anastra Sylune is born.
762The Year of the Snow Sword
  • Endue Alustriel is born.
763The Year of the Sharp Edge
  • Ambara Dove is born.
764The Year of Mistmaidens
  • Ethena Astorma is born.
765The Year of the Cowl (NOTE: Dragon Annual #1 gives this as the Year of Dawn Blades)
  • Anamanue Laeral is born.
  • Construction begins on the High Mages' Keep of Silverymoon, completed 16 months later.
766The Year of Yearning (NOTE: Dragon Annual #1 gives this as The Year of the Burnt Spear)
  • Alassra Shentrantra is born.
  • The Brothers of the Black Hand, a cadre of Bane-worshipping evil wizards exiled from Ascalhorn, steal High Mage Ederan's Staff of Silverymoon and a number of priceless magical artifacts; the items are never recovered, though most of the Black Hand wizards are found and executed.
  • Construction complete on the High Mages' Keep of Silverymoon.
767The Year of the Awakening Wyrm
  • Eresseae Qilue is born.
775The Year of the Bloody Stone
  • The new walls of Zhentil Keep are finished.
784
  • High Mage Ederan dies of old age after a long and peaceful reign; his daughter, Amaara "Goldentresses" Nharimlur, rises to the station of High Lady Mage and becomes Silverymoon's first female ruler.
796The Year of Gray Mists
  • Merrydale becomes Daggerdale following vampiric infestation.
797The Year of the Hearthstone
  • Dornal Silverhand is slain by orcs and becomes the Watcher of Mystra.
800The Year of the Black Fist
  • Rise in the power of Bane in the Realms.
  • Drow influence in the now-Ashaba valley at its height.
  • Thentia is established on the Moonsea by three noble families.
823
  • Mourktar breaks free of Unther.
834The Year of the Leaping Lion
  • Castle Greatstead (Grimstead) built on the border of Shadowdale.
843
  • The High Lady Amaara, Elue Dualen, Elenaril, Lynnasha "Lynx" Nharimlur and three other mages casting in concert create the magical Moonbridge of Silverymoon.
c.855
  • The elven sage Olaurae of Myth Drannor titles Suzail "the brightest jewel of Cormyr's crown."
857
  • Elue becomes the High Lady Mage by the decree of the resigning Amaara; Amaara accompanies Elenaril on her trek to Evermeet.
863The Year of the Wondrous Sea
  • The Chultian city of Mezro disappears.
864The Year of the Broken Branch
  • Castle Grimstead destroyed by drow.
870
  • Adventurers begin to clear the monsters out of the Yuirwood.
872
  • Nimoar the Reaver conquers Bloodhand tribe, and he seizes the docks and harbor buildings.
876
  • Warlord Lashtor takes control of Silverymoon after the High Lady Elue Dualen leaves her rule and the city abruptly, accompanied by Lynnasha "Lynx" Nharimlur.
877
  • Lashtor is deposed by the mage Tanalanthara "She-Wolf" Mytersaal, who is named High Mage of Silverymoon.
882The Year of the Curse
  • Nimoar's Hold rises at Waterdeep's current north end fortified by a log palisade. The city walls expand around the Hold and the city's perimeter.
  • Ascalhorn falls and becomes known as Hellgate Keep; refugee wizards and others from Ascalhorn form a small tent city within the walls of Silverymoon. A starving orc horde nearly overruns Silverymoon, but the city is saved by the sacrifice of High Mage Tanalanthara.
883
  • Silverymoon elects the humble Tanisell the Cloaked, a human originally from Ascalhorn, to become High Mage.
884The Year of Singing Arrows
  • The elves destroy a large mercenary force in Sembia.
887
  • Pirate raids in force from the South attack tribes in Sword Coast. All attacks on Nimoar's Hold fail.
889
  • The Bull Elk tribe of the Dessarin sets Nimoar's Hold afire, but Nimoar's forces defeat them and drive them off. The Hold is rebuilt by year's end.
  • King Zaor of Evermeet ascends to the Elven throne.
890The Year of the Burning Tree
  • A new High Mages' Keep and three new towers are constructed in Silverymoon
892The Year of the Howling Winds
  • Jander destroys his vampiric master.
896The Year of the Empty Hand
  • Extensive poverty and famine from here to 900DR.
c.900
  • King Galaghard of Cormyr battles the forces of the Witch Lords at Wheloon, Juniril, and Manticore's Crossing. The final battle between the two forces occurred at the Vast Swamp, with Cormyr winning with help from elven stag cavalry.
900The Year of the Thirsty Sword
  • Widespread war; strong leaders emerge.
  • The Vault of Sages is built in Silverymoon.
  • Beginning of the Rotting War in Chondath.
902The Year of the Queen's Tears
  • The Rotting War in Chondath decimates the country; Chondath renounces claims on Sembian city-states.
  • Cult of the Dragon creates first dracholiches.
906The Year of the Plough
  • Drow driven from the Twisted Tower; Shadowdale founded.
910
  • Rhiigard (? to 932), King of Cormyr.
913The Year of the Watching Raven
  • Sembia founded under the Raven banner.
920
  • High Mage Tanisell succumbs to a fever and dies. Nunivytt Threskaal succeeds him as High Mage of Silverymoon.
  • Ahghairon is born on Midsummer's Night, and many legends report Mystra's symbol glowing brightly among the stars of the North.
922The Year of the Spouting Fish
  • Red Wizards under the command of Ythazz Buvaar sack the regional capital of Del-humide.
  • Battle of Thazalhar in Thay; Red Wizards declare Thay independent of Mulhorand.
  • End of the Second Mulhorand Empire.
923
  • The demon Eltab is bound under the city of Eltabbar.
927
  • Ahghairon of Waterdeep arrives in Silverymoon and is taught magic by numerous tutors, including High Mage Threskaal.
929The Year of Flashing Eyes
  • Chessenta rebels against Unther.
932The Year of Fireslaughter
  • First Troll War in the North. Forces led by Nimoar of Waterdeep clear the Evermoors of trolls.
934The Year of Fell Wizardry
  • First Thayvian invasion of Rashemen. The Thayvians first demand tribute from Escalant.
  • Mulmaster is established as a trading fortress between the Moonsea and the Dragon Reach.
936
  • Heavy orc raids in the North. Nimoar is slain and succeeded by Gharl.
937The Year of the Turning Wheel
  • Thesk founded along the Golden Way.
940The Year of the Cold Claws
  • The name of Waterdeep comes into common usage.
  • Second Troll War in the North. This year sees the start of continual troll raids and strife that last more than a decade. Six War Lords of Waterdeep die in battle against the trolls. Despite the problems, Waterdeep grows in population, as tribes gather within the walls for safety.
  • Ashaba, first Lord of Shadowdale, merges with the river.
  • The city of Hulburg is founded as a base for human forces fighting giants and humanoids in Thar.
952
  • Ahghairon rises and is recognized as the premier mage of the Savage North. He becomes the official advisor for the War Lord of Waterdeep.
  • This year marks the end of the Second Trollwar. The trolls remain nearly extinct around Waterdeep for nearly 100 years.
953
  • Bryntarth II (? to 968), King of Cormyr.
955
  • Barbarians attack Waterdeep in the depths of winter. In memory of their bravery, the Waterdhavians bury the barbarian princess at the foot of the peak that later becomes known as Maiden's Tomb Tor.
956
  • Cathtyr is killed by her daughter Filina. Filina becomes Queen of Dambrath.
961
  • Cathakay Queen of Dambrath.
963
  • The construction of Castle Waterdeep begins around the site of Nimoar's Hold on the eastern spur of Mount Waterdeep, just north of the city walls.
974The Year of the Haunting Harpy
  • Castle Waterdeep is completed at High Harvestide. The city walls expand (now abutting the wall around Halaster's Hold for defense) and the worn log palisades become new, high stone walls. Lauroun named first female Warlord of Waterdeep.
  • The stronghold of the retired adventurer Sulass Drowsbane grows into the city of Sulasspryn.
  • Sulasspryn on the Moonsea is established as a city.
975The Year of the Bent Coin
  • Telflamm annexes Nyth and Culmaster and establishes itself as a royal city-state.
976The Year of the Slaying Spells
  • Mulhorandi invasion of Thay repelled at the River Thazarim.
989
  • Orjalun of Silverymoon is born on Midsummer's night and is marked as a wizard from birth, Mystra's symbol clearly evident in a birthmark over his heart.
992The Year of the Watching Helm
  • Heralds of Faerun created. (Note: FOR4 Code o/t Harpers has this date and year as 996 DR).
  • The merchant factions in Turmish are subjugated by Lord Saros. Saros immediately begins shaping Turmish into a major naval power. (Note: 9520 The Vilhon Reach gives this date [922 DR] as the Year of Flashing Eyes).
996(Note: FOR4 Code o/t Harpers gives the name of this year as Year of the Watching Helm)
  • Arangor (? to 1021), King of Cormyr.
998
  • Waterdeep's War Lord Laroun establishes a naval guard to protect the city and its trading partners. Construction begins on fortifying the harbor and Deepwatch Isle.
  • A temple and monastary to Lathander breaks ground to the north of Waterdeep (at the present site of the Spires of the Morning).


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Created June 19, 1997 - updated June 20, 1997
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