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c.-4,900 The Warriors' Plague: Calimport, Almraiven;
c.-4,770 The Plague of Terror mysteriously affects Calimport alone,
In less than a tenday, the Sunset Plague claims the lives of most everyone in Calimport, including more than half of the Marekh ruling family.
[...] Calimport lies empty for nearly a century, as many are afraid of the plague.
-990 Intermittent plagues over the next century [...] Schamedar and Calimport.
-676 Year of Frenzied Tempests The Temples Plague (Plague): Calimport, Almraiven, Tashalar cities;
-599 DR Year of Hasty Messengers The Spider Plagues (Plague): All cities; [21 year after a war with Guallidurth ended.]
-375 Year of Clutching Dusk .. -370 The Empire Plague strikes the southern Shining Coast this year, ravaging Calimshan and the Lake of Steam colonies.
-135 Year of Old Beginnings The Shaking Plague (Plague): Memnon, Teshburl, Calimport;
-52 Year of the Choking Spores The Flower Plague (Plague): Keltar, Calimport, Almraiven;
-16 Year of the Poisoned Pens The Plague of Scholars: All cities across southern Faerûn, as far north as Baldur's Gate; [mysterious mass poisoning]
39 Year of Proud Flame The Alley Plague (Plague): Calimport (whole city), Almraiven, and Manshaka (docks);
75 Year of Clinging Death The Fog Fever (Plague): All Shoon cities (Tethyr and Calimshan), esp. Calimport, Memnon, and Myratma;
229 Year of the Black Flame The Ashes Plague (Plague): Keltar, Volothamp, Manshaka;
320 Year of the Bright Plumage The Infernal Death (Plague): Memnon, Teshburl, Keltar, Calimport, Myratma, and Shoonach (in Tethyr);
The Plague Fires (Fire): Evyrtaan and Cajaan Sabbans; 6% population of Upper Calimport;
701 Year of the White Jonquil The Moon Plague (Plague): Calimport; [lycanthropy outbreak]
755 Year of the Enigma Crimson Death (Plague): Ankhapur, Saelmur, Suldolphor, Mintar, Almraiven;
1019 Year of the Sure Quarrel The Dragons' Plague (Plague): Calimport, Keltar

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Originally posted by The Masked Mage

We know of 1 plague unleashed into the Realms by one of the known Baneliches. "Tomar of Bane," 2nd Imperceptor of Bane (801-877 DR): "Most ruthless of all Imperceptors, Tomar’s greatest achievement was the introduction of a deadly plague into the Western Heartlands, causing the deaths of thousands."

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Originally posted by xaeyruudh

I guess I feel like being macabre today. I'm looking for any/all official mentions of plagues. Magical ones count; basically anything that kills a bunch of people without involving weapons.

If you want to add something to the list, please include the source.

So far I have:

• c. -30400 DR: Wasting Plague among aearee in present-day Orsraun Mountains (Grand History of the Realms p8)


• c. -4770 DR: Plague of Terror in Calimport (Grand History p26)


• c. -4770 DR: Sunset Plague in Calimport (Grand History p26)


• c. -4370 DR: unnamed plague in Imaskar (Grand History p18,26)


• c. -990 DR: series of plagues in Schamedar and Calimport (Grand History p39)


• -391 DR: Ivory Plague in Shou Lung (Grand History p46)


• -375 DR: Year of Clutching Dusk - Empire Plague in the southern Shining Coast (Grand History p47)


• -33 DR: unnamed plague initiated by the church of Talona ends the realm of Asram (Grand History p59)


• 3 DR: Loaraven "The Poxed" of Impiltur dies of plague (Grand History p78)


• 6 DR: unnamed plague in Impiltur prompts a farmer named Ondeth to flee west and found a settlement west of Marsember which he calls Suzara's City (Grand History p59)


• 75 DR: Year of Clinging Death - unnamed plague(s) decimate Chessenta, the Vilhon Reach, and the Shaar (Grand History p61); Kergaard Twinblade, ruler of Westgate, is among the slain; a priest of Ilmater is subsequently crowned for his effort to eradicate a plague that "nearly destroyed" the city (Grand History p85)


• 157 DR: unnamed plague in Impiltur slays the wife of Inrath III and disfigures her first son Inrath IV (Grand History p78)


• 236 DR: Year of the Plague Clouds - not sure if this corresponds to an actual plague


• 303-341 DR: Purplethroat Plague in Cormyr (Grand History of the Realms p76)


• 320 DR: The Infernal Death in Calimshan (Grand History p69)


• c. 375 DR: The Prayerbane Plague in Impiltur; Darthorn III drowns himself after the death of his wife and son (Grand History p79)


• 472 DR: The Panicked Plague decimates the town of Mussum: 75% of the citizens are slain in a single night; the circumstances are so dramatic that Mussum is never resettled (Grand History p88)


• 617 DR: unnamed plague fells Reinhar IV of Dambrath (Grand History p78)


• 796 DR: Lower Tathtar falls to an unnamed plague (Grand History p103)


• 849-890 DR: unnamed plague slays Pendernath and Thartryn III of Westgate, and all royal heirs (Grand History p86)


• 886-924 DR: unnamed plague slays Beldred II of Impiltur, and most of his family; Princess Aliia, the sole surviving heir, is deemed too young to rule; the throne of Impiltur is offered to whoever will marry her (Grand History p79, 111)


• 902 DR: unnamed plague devastates Chondath following the Rotting War (Grand History p109)


• 1150 DR: Year of the Scourge - unnamed plague sweeps the Sword Coast (Grand History p121)


• 1204 DR: unnamed plague slays Erdhinn II of Amn (Grand History p75)


• 1253 DR: Year of Beckoning Death - unnamed plague grips the northern Inner Sea lands (Grand History p126)


• 1317-1323 DR: The Plague of Dragons begins in the Vilhon Reach and decimates Chessenta and Unther - Ilione, Mage-Queen of Aglarond, dies of plague (Grand History p74, 134, and FR10 p6); 1322 is the Year of Lurking Death


• 1345 DR: The Coast Plague in Amn (Grand History p139)


• 1351 DR: unnamed plague spreads in Baldur's Gate, following the discover of Larloch's lair (Grand History p140)


• 1368 DR: unnamed plague attacks the treants in the Forest of Lethyr (Grand History p149)


• 1370 DR: The Shaking Plague in Scardale (Volo's Guide to the Dalelands) and "far southern and eastern lands" (Grand History p150)


• 1372 DR: The Wailing Death in Neverwinter (Grand History p152)


• 1372 DR: The Pox decimates the human population of Hlondeth (Grand History p154)


• 1374 DR: The Blush breaks out in Logfell, near the Qurth Forest (Grand History p156)


• 1385 DR: The Spellplague (Grand History p159)


• 1502 DR: Year of the Pox Plague - not sure if this corresponds to an actual plague

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