The Roll of Years

A summary of historical events follows.

c. -14,010

• Sometime before this point in time the city that will one day be called Exag is abandoned by the race of Crafters. (DNG#145 "Exag, City of Clay" p. 49)

c -13000

• The founding of the kopru city-state Shotho'Kopur. The kopru calendar begins. (DRA#354)

c -7411

• The Torhoon empire extant in Hepmonaland. (DNG#77) 
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c -7408

• The Doomgrinder is created. (The Doomgrinder 2) 
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c -4358

• The Tiamat-worshipping Ur-Flan civilization of Caerdiralor rises on the Dragonshead Peninsula. They engage in a war of extermination with the dwarves and gnomes of the Headlands. [1]
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•  **c.-5000 BC Early Seul powers rising, but still based on god magic with a god-king 

 

 

c -4217

• Caerdiralor's capital, Myrsyrna is devastated in a sudden catastrophe. The surviving elite flee across the Sea of Gearnat, landing on the coast of the grasslands that are now the Bright Desert. Unable to escape through the Abbor Alz and hunted by the native nomadic Flan horse tribes, the refugees are driven into hiding. [2]

 

 

c. -2004

• The Flan people spread across the Flanaess. In what is now northwestern Perrenland, a Flan tribe led by a powerful warlord named Exag, fleeing a horde of hostile lizardfolk, stumble upon a city that was built by the Crafters. An old woman in the tribe, Prizin'ha, wins the day by sacrificing herself at the top of one of the Crafter pyramids, summoning an army of earth elementals that defeat the lizardfolk. The city is renamed after Exag. (DNG#145 "Exag, City of Clay" p. 49)

c -1910

• Under the tutoring of the semi-divine Vathris, the six tribes of the region that will one day be the Bright Desert form six kingdoms – Durha, Itar, Sulm, Ronhass, Rhugha, and Truun. The Sulm, influenced by the remnants of the refugee dark priests of Caerdiralor, begin conquering their neighbors and rises as a power. ("Places of Mystery: Dominions of the Flannae" - [3], DNG#98 "Into the Bright Desert", Rary the Traitor, Blight on Bright Sands Sourcebook, LGJ#03 "Blood of Heroes" p.15)

c -1400

• The Kingdom of Sulm begins to decline.
• A sudden, unexplained disease causes the koprus' kopura food source to diminish. (DRA#354)

c -913

• Shattados, last King of Sulm, receives the Scorpion Crown from Tharizdun. The crown turns Shattados into a gigantic scorpion, and his people into manscorpions and dune stalkers. Its use begins transforming the grasslands of Sulm into the Bright Desert. (WGR3.15,22; POLY#157.22; "Dominions of the Flannae")

c -903

• Sulm's transformation into the Bright Desert complete. ("Dominions of the Flannae")
• Most of the undersea city-states of the kopru are destroyed by war and strife. (DRA#354)

c -594

• Lyzandred born in a small town in the ancient Baklunish lands, probably relatively close to the Suel borderlands. (Crypt of Lyzandred the Mad 2)

-555

• Lyzandred discovers a portal to a demiplane closely aligned to Oerth and transforms it into a storehouse of magical objects best kept from evil hands. (Crypt of Lyzandred the Mad 2)

-535

• Lyzandred, trapped in his private demiplane, finally succumbs to death and becomes a lich. (Crypt of Lyzandred the Mad 2)

-484

• Beginning of the Baklunish-Suloise Wars. (Guide 9)

-465

• First employment of humanoid mercenaries. (Guide 9)

-457

• Oerid migrations east of peak point. (Guide 9)

-446

• Suloise migrations begin.

-421

• Suloise Mages of Power call down the Invoked Devastation upon the Baklunish. In retaliation, Baklunish spellcasters bring down the Rain of Colorless Fire upon the Suloise Imperium, transforming the empire in the Sea of Dust. (Guide 9)
• Surviving Baklunish migrate north to the shores of the Dramidj Ocean. (Player's Guide to Greyhawk 9)

-321

• Migratory Suloise barbarians reach the Thillonrian Peninsula. (Living Greyhawk Gazetteer, 44)

-216

• Foundation of the Kingdom of Aerdy. (Guide 9)

-110

• Battle of a Fortnight's Length. The Kingdom of Aerdy defeats Nyrondal cavalry squadrons to become the regional superpower. Aerdy thereafter becomes known as the Great Kingdom. (Guide 9)

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• The Common Year is established as the system of reckoning by Grand Prince Nasran I of the Great Kingdom of Aerdy in 645 OR (1 CY), when he declares universal peace throughout his the land, and takes the title of Overking. At this stage the borders of the Great Kingdom of Aerdy extend all the way to the City of Greyhawk. (Guide 9)

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