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Netheril Timeline
Netheril Years |
Dale Reckoning |
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0 | -3859 | Alliance of Fenwick, Gers, Gilan, Gustaf, Moran, Nauseef, and Janick into Seventon. Soon renamed Netheril. |
Beginning of the First Age. | ||
14 |
-3845 |
Earlanni elves approach Netheril |
132 |
-3727 |
Netheril scouts begin search for dwarves |
204 |
-3655 |
Orc horde emerges from the Spine of the World and begins to move towards Netheril |
326 |
-3533 |
Discovery of the nether scrolls. End of the First Age, Beginning of the Nether Age. |
364 |
-3495 |
Birth of Congenio Ioun |
397 |
-3462 |
Creation of Congenio's pebbles (ioun stones) |
451 |
-3408 |
Congenio Ion changes the name of Congenio's pebbles changed to Ioun stones |
401 |
-3458 |
Netherese scouts meet with the dwarves of Delzoun |
544 |
-3315 |
Birth of Ioulaum |
714 |
-3145 |
Ioulaum leads the Netherese against the orcs in the Rampart Peaks. |
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Ioulaum also starts the Excursion into Extinction, slaughtering over 140,000 orcs. |
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764 |
-3095 |
One set of the nether scrolls are stolen |
845 |
-3014 |
Ioulaum creates the mythallar |
848 |
-3011 |
Ioulaum creates the first magic item to use the mythallar |
866 |
-2993 |
Ioulaum creates the first floating city -- Ioulaum's Enclave |
1048 |
-2811 |
There are now a total of 13 flying cities |
1101 |
-2758 |
End of the Mythallar Era. Beginning of the Silver Age |
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The Mines of Dekanter are discovered |
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1319 |
-2540 |
Death of Congenio Ioun |
1491 |
-2368 |
The Caravan Wars start. 3,000 owlbears are killed. |
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Old Owl Well is founded. |
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1652 |
-2207 |
End of the Silver Age. Beginning of the Golden Age. |
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Birth of the Chronomancer |
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1756 |
-2103 |
Chronomancer goes to aid the Illusk nation against orc hordes |
1764 |
-2095 |
Death of the Chronomancer from a war wound that never healed. |
1963 |
-1896 |
24 scrolls of the remaining nether scrolls are stolen and destroyed |
2201 |
-1658 |
The Mines of Dekanter begin to fail. They are soon abandoned |
2202 |
-1657 |
Sunrest falls from the sky and destroyed. There are no survivors. |
2477 |
-1382 |
The Barbarbain Schism occurs as the Angardt tribe begins to learn magic. |
2654 |
-1205 |
End of the Golden Age. Beginning of the Age of Discovery. |
Discovery of the chardalyns. |
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c.2745 |
-1114 |
Spelljamming is discovered. |
2795 |
-1064 |
A illithid spelljammer is sited in the Skyward Realms (Realmspace) |
c.2845 |
-1014 |
Netheril deserts spelljamming as too costly and expensive. |
c.2855 |
-1004 |
Oberon, a Netherese arcanist interested in spelljamming, dies |
3163 |
-696 |
End of the Age of Discovery. Beginning of the Shadowed Age |
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Birth of Karsus |
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3185 |
-674 |
Ioulaum perfects the spell Ioulaum's longevity |
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Karsus creates a mythallar and becomes an archwizard. |
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3195 |
-664 |
The remaining nether scrolls are stolen on route to Karsus |
3202 |
-657 |
The search for the stolen nether scrolls ends |
c.3211 |
-648 |
Shadow published (with the help of Karsus) "Shadows: The Palpable Cohesion of Formless Corporeality." |
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Demiplane of Shadow discovered. |
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c.3212 |
-647 |
Demiplane of Imprisonment is discovered. |
3348 |
-511 |
Olostin attacks the city of Unity |
3381 |
-478 |
Olostin is destoryed by an unknown arcanist. |
3398 |
-461 |
The Phaerimm begin to cast magic drain spells |
c.3451 |
-408 |
Karsus discovers heavy magic |
3505 |
-354 |
Illusk is refound after an arcanist rebuild the city with magic, losing his life in the process. |
c.3505 |
-354 |
The sharn begin to attack the phaerimm. This give the Netherese some respite. |
3520 |
-339 |
Iolaum disappears. |
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Karsus casts the 12th level spell Karsus Avatar and all magic ceases for a time, returning much changed. |
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Anauria, Asram, and Hlondath arrise out of the rubble of Netheril, saved by Mystra |
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3533 |
-326 |
The lich Wulgreth destorys a city built near Karsus's stony dead form in retribution |
3826 |
-33 |
Asram is destroyed by plague. There are no survivors. |
3970 |
111 |
Anauria is destoryed by an orc horde |
4058 |
199 |
Crown Against the Scepter Wars begin. Hlondath and Cormanthyr posture and compare magic might. |
4167 |
308 |
Crown Against the Scepter Wars ends. Myth Drannor and Cormanthyr are the clear winner. Little loss of life occured during war. |
4188 |
329 |
Anauroch destroys Hlondath's fields and the city is abandoned. |
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Anauroch ceases its spread. |