greyhawk age of great sorrow

Due to the cooperative effort of the various Aerdi tribes settling in the Flanmi basin, they expanded quickly. * 571 CY Iuz conquers lands of the Horned Society. Note: conflicts with 461 CY. This period was called the Age of Great Sorrow. **, * 557 CY ** Stelfast Holren becomes a professional hunter/guide for various nobles and merchants traveling through the Ardi Forest in The Great Kingdom. **, * 556 CY ** Bahkgarr the bullywug born in the Mistmarsh. * 727 BCY Plagues sweep human empires in western Oerik, 40% of population dies. Assassination of nearly all of the House of Rax. The Age of Great Sorrow(decline of the Great Kingdom of Aerdy). . [7], Ivid IV's two eldest sons competed with each other for several years for the right of successsion, with the younger son eventually victorious. * 1000 BCY ** Records show the weapons Blackrazor, Wave and Whelm all in possession of Keraptis at this time. https://greyhawkonline.com/greyhawkwiki/index.php?title=Age_of_Great_Sorrow&oldid=55820, Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike, This page was last edited 07:41, 5 August 2021 by Greyhawk Wiki user. * 576 CY ** Autumn (Brewfest): Stelfast Holdren and Maura arrive in the City of Greyhawk, are almost kidnapped by Evangelor Umpirt and other Slave Lords; Rose, Ehrendil, Norah, Sariel save the centaur and his young ward. Greyhawk, Hardby, [Great Kingdom] 9577 [58] Non-Suel tribes the Oerid and Bakluni peoples to the north gradually subjugated and enslaved. Humanoid invasions become common. * 781 BCY ** Mountain inhabitants of Tostenhca all die, said to be due from a curse placed by Keraptis using his Null Enigma device. * 572 CY First reports of The Scarlet Brotherhood, a Suel-supremacy movement. (3017 OR), 584 CY Destruction of Almor; Dissolution of the Great Kingdom; End of the Greyhawk Wars; Great day of Signing; Treachery of Rary; Breaking of the Circle of Eight; The Great Burn in Greyhawk; Formation of the Kingdom of the Bright Lands. * 570 CY Iuz accidentally freed from magic prison, returns to lead his empire. 375 The Free City of Greyhawk achieves its first period of greatness under the rulership of Zagig Yragerne. (1001 OR), 360 CY Battle of Molvar and Battle of Lopolla end Keolandish expansion to the North. Cobb Darg of the Free City of Irongate orders the execution of every known Scarlet Brotherhood agent within the city. The Scarlet Brotherhood invades the Hold of the Sea Princes. Manshen divided the western marklands into the Viceroyalty of Nyrond, ruled by a junior branch of House Rax from Rel Mord, and and the Viceroyalty of Ferrond, ruled from Dyvers. We think you'll have a much more enjoyable experience. * 1400 BCY ** Drow forces push Suel wizards out of their underground dungeons below the Hellfurnaces mountains. (From the Ashes 6), Before a planned assault on Ratik, the Northern Barbarians mutiny, refusing to fight any further for a god they have lost faith in. CY = Common Year (counting years since first Imperial reign in Aerdy) (From the Ashes 6), Armies of Iuz conquer the Horned Society, creating a mass slaughter in the capital of Molag. So proceeded an inexorable decline that began as the rulers of House Rax became progressively neglectful, decadent, or dimwitted. This move centralized power in the capital at Rauxes, which initially posed challenges to the Overking due to the difficulty of governing such a large realm. (935 OR), 310 CY Beginning of the Formation of the Shield Lands. **, * 1400 BCY ** Drow forces push Suel wizards out of their underground dungeons below the Hellfurnaces mountains. ** AGE OF DELIVERANCE (first empire of free humans) Holian, Gary; Mona, Erik; Reynolds, Sean K.; Weining, Frederick (2000), All events in Gygax's original timeline had six different dates due to the six different calendar systems used by the great civilizations of Gygax's world. (1081 OR), 449 CY Second Civil War in Rauxes. Manage all your favorite fandoms in one place! * circa 6000s BCY Torhoon Empire falls; Olman people escape to southern Flanaess. . The Great Kingdom of Aerdy, commonly referred to as the Great Kingdom, was a major nation-state which dominated the south-eastern Flanaess from 1 CY until 586 CY. * 498 CY Greyhawk officially becomes a Free City after severing ties with The Great Kingdom. (2046 OR), 513 CY Rise of Horned Society; humanoids take Pomarj. * 576 CY ** Autumn (week before Brewfest): Rose, Ehrendil, Norah and Sariel arrive in the City of Greyhawk. The viceroys had near total autonomy within their realms to efficiently deal with local problems, answering only to the Malachite Throne. Contents The original campaign setting of Greyhawk was a home campaign world invented by Gary Gygax in 1972 while playtesting the game that would become Dungeons & Dragons. * 568 CY ** Stelfast Holren hired to kill a unicorn, transformed into a centaur, charged with guarding the infant Maura. THE GREAT MIGRATIONS (human peoples driven east due to empire wars) Many of the modern surnames in the dictionary can be traced back to Britain and Ireland. * 321 CY The Relentless Horde invades the far north of the Flanaess. [1], The dominant tribe among the Oeridians was the Aerdi, whose name meant "sky people". But another age is prophesied: An age of darkness, of decay, and of . **, * 456 BCY ** Vampire Ctenmiir cast out of dwarven society for preying on his own people for blood. These small principalities accomplished little under their loose confederation, as they were individually unable to take on the Ur-Flan and Suel, so they quickly gathered under a single banner. **, * 724 BYC ** Ctenmiir born to dwarven Clan Ironfist under the Yatil Mountains. As each sovereign passed, he was replaced with a more dimwitted and less competent successor, until the outer dependencies of Aerdy declared their independence. The now-restored Circle of Eight brokers peace, except that Rary turns traitor, plots to murder everyone, and flees into the Bright Desert. Prince of Furyondy/Provost of Veluna kidnapped. [1], To solve this, he appointed largely autonomous viceroys to rule over each province. * 394 CY ** Elven Queen Eldrell liberates a 4,500-year-old Suel elemental prison under the Hellfurnaces mountains. * 474 CY ** Ehrendil Stone born to elven and elemental parents near the Monastery of the Toiling Lady along the southwestern coast of Jeklea Bay. The Great Kingdom became a potent force for order and good in the Flanaess. In 428 OR (-216 CY), the scion of House Garasteth, Lord Mikar, became the first grand prince (equal to a king). Wilson, Steve. Does this mean you have material about the rest of Oerth hidden in your basement?" **, D&D5e: Expanded Conditions & Abilities Glossary, Rime Of The Frostmaiden: Blackmoor On Oerth, Renewing My Old City Of Greyhawk Campaign, Valerie Valuseks City Of Greyhawk Map Annotated. Gray Hawk Name Meaning. The Malachite Throne destroys them to a person. Not to mention "times before now"! Zelcor ignored the warning, and simply disbanded the Royal Astrologers and banished them to Rel Astra. BCY = Before Common Year (before The Great Kingdom proclamation) * 1 million BCY Rod of Law (aka Rod of Seven Parts) used to slay Queen of Chaos on prime world (Oerth). ** ** )Pre- All of the following events occurred before theDevastation Rain of Colorless Fire and the Invoked(Undated) Devastation, but their exact date of occurrence isunknown. Malev did not care who took the throne, and it came as some surprise when his cousin Zelcor reportedly met his price. (2095 OR), 563 CY Bone March taken by humanoids. . (1088 OR), 455 CY Sunndi rebels against the Great Kingdom, joins the Iron League. A Brief History of Greyhawk . The Great Kingdom shattered into smaller provinces soon thereafter. Soon after, Furyondys northern border collapses under an assault from Iuz-allied humanoids attacking from the Vesve Forest. (758 OR), 155 CY Attir Aedorichs discovery of the Sinking Isle. In time, the Aerdi arrived at the shores of the great eastern waters, their long journey at an end. Archibold III of Nyrond abdicates, leaving the throne to his son Lynwerd. . (Guide 9). (Player's Guide to Greyhawk 10), 450 * 576 CY ** Autumn (Brewfest): Stelfast Holdren and Maura arrive in the City of Greyhawk, are almost kidnapped by Evangelor Umpirt and other Slave Lords; Rose, Ehrendil, Norah, Sariel save the centaur and his young ward. * 557 CY ** Stelfast Holren becomes a professional hunter/guide for various nobles and merchants traveling through the Ardi Forest in The Great Kingdom. Age of Great Sorrow [ edit] In 198 CY, Selvor the Younger prophecied an Age of Great Sorrow. * 503 BYC ** Dwarven hero Ctemiir acquires the magical warhammer Whelm. (2054 OR), 522 CY King Belvor II is crowned in Furyondy. * 509 CY Mordenkainen born. ** Rather than using his own map, which was simply a map of the United States overwritten with his cities, towns and regions, he sketched out a new world called Oerth,[3] then concentrated on one corner of one continent, a place called the Flanaess. **, * 576 CY ** Spring: Valley of the Mages First Protector Tysiln San sends Norah Brithel on a quest to find the missing Ehrendil Stone. (3010 OR), 577 CY The expedition of Archmage Marinian of Willip is lost searching for The City of the Gods north of Blackmoor. A tropical species that barely crosses the border into Arizona and Texas, the Gray Hawk is an elegant, raincloud-gray raptor with neatly barred underparts. [3], By 100 CY, the Great Kingdom stretched the entire breadth of the Flanaess, from the Solnor Ocean to the Fals Gap, and as far north as Perrenland and the north and northeast of the Vesve Forest, and from Sunndi to the Griff-Corusk mountains. **, * 576 CY ** Summer: Rose (Ulanu) Flickflower, Norah Brithel, Sariel Galanodel kidnapped by Slave Lords, sold to duergar at White Plume Mountain. **, * 1243 BCY ** About 100 gnomes return to The Valley to share new magical knowledge for weapons and defenses against raiders. Rauxes fell victim to a vast magical conflict that left the city in ruins and submerged in a region of distorted magical force with unpredictable effects, the final fate of Ivid V, the rivals for the Malachite Throne, and Rauxess citizens remains unknown. (899 OR), 272 CY Padin the Vain uses the Hand of Vecna to start the Insurrection of the Yaheetes, a Flanae enclave in the North Province. Otiluke, Tenser murdered again, and Bigby severely injured. ** (899 OR) 272 CY Padin the Vain uses the Hand of Vecna to start the Insurrection of the Yaheetes, a Flanae enclave in the North Province. * 1423 BCY Vecna born into an untouchable caste among the Flan people. An time period that started 213 CY when the rulers of the Great Kingdom started to fall. This article was transcribed from Wikipedia. During the reign of Grand Prince Almor II, the Rax Aerdi defeated their Nyrondese rivals in the Battle of a Fortnights Length (535 OR, or -109 CY). Obsidian Portal has a lot of really cool features that use JavaScript. Gygax resisted the urge to fully outline a detailed timeline in order to give players as much leeway as possible when designing their own home campaigns: "The history is given briefly, and most states are only outlined generally so as to allow as much personal input as possible from DMs who decide to acquire and use it."[4]. (2000 OR), 468 CY The Witch-Queen Iggwilvs power grows in the Yatils. He rules for 100 years with the aid of the Eye of Vecna. the Iron League). Manshen, the first Rax overking, divided these marklands in 100 CY, forming two vast provinces around the Nyr Dyv, one in the east and one in the west. * 455 CY ** Tysiln San captured in the Valley of the Mage, becomes lover/First Protector to the Exalted One/Black One. (From the Ashes 6), Nyrond moves against the Hold of Stonefist, striking first in the Phostwood, but staying close to the borders of the kingdom. * 405 CY ** Tysiln San given refuge among a community of halflings in northern Keoland for 50 years before resuming her wandering. 213 CY Age of Great Sorrow. **, * 459 CY ** The Mightyhammers of Clan Dankil adapt drow trap techniques to create the Assassins Run in the Valley of the Mage. * 566 CY ** Rose (Ulanu) Flickflower begins combat training under Lord Tethrin of the Faerie Kingdom of Celene. * 575 CY ** Winter: Wizardry Guild of Greyhawk sponsors its first expedition to storm-locked Blackmoor. Greyhawk is not like FR - a lot of things were left up to DMs to make up. * 576 CY ** Autumn: Theft of magical items spark rumors in the City of Greyhawk that the wizard Keraptis has returned to White Plume Mountain. (3005 OR), 572 CY The Dawnbreaker Clan of Rauxes fails to overthrow Ivid. 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