This page summarizes, in chronological order, pertinent events from the various settings that are part of the Aethervane campaign. Little of this information would be considered “in-character” knowledge available to the player characters in the campaign. Nonetheless, it is presented here as a resource for players and DMs to help with creating adventures and character backstories that mesh with the campaign lore.
Timeline Lorekeeper: Jude
The following events occurred so long ago and spanned periods of time so vast that assigning years to them would be meaningless.
The various planes of the Aethervane multiverse (the Aetherverse) began to form. It was not the only multiverse to have formed, nor was it the first. The first gods emerged in the Outer Planes. The first dragons, Bahamut and Tiamat, created the Material Plane, which at that time consisted of a single crystal sphere known as the First World. Bahamut and Tiamat populated the First World with dragons.
The gods invaded the First World and warred with the dragons. As the conflict reached its height, the First World shattered, spilling the Flow across the Material Plane. The shards of the First World became the crystal spheres that now bob and weave through the Flow. The essence of the First World suffused the Material Plane, giving the crystal spheres a tendency to develop along similar lines. In particular, dragons have arisen independently in almost every crystal sphere, one way or another. The surviving gods and dragons quickly claimed their crystal spheres and began forging the worlds within.
- Exandria. The formless protean gods tamed the chaotic world of Exandria.
- Greyspace. The first god of Greyspace was Tharizdun, alone in the darkness. Then came Beory, goddess of earth; Pelor, god of sun and life; Nerull, god of death; and many others. They created the worlds of Greyspace, placing the planet Oerth at the center.
- Krynnspace. At first there was only Chaos in Krynnspace. Then, from him came the High God, who summoned other gods to the sphere. Heeding the call were Paladine the good (an aspect of Bahamut), Takhisis the evil (an aspect of Tiamat), Reorx the neutral, and Hiddukel the deceiver, among others. Reorx smote Chaos and forged the sun, the world of Krynn, and its three moons. But Hiddukel tricked Reorx into forging also the Graygem, which preserved the essence of Chaos. The gods of good, evil, and balance created the gods of magic, one for each of the three moons of Krynnspace: Lunitari, Nuitari, and Solinari.
- Realmspace. Ao was the first god of Realmspace. Then Selûne coalesced from the primordial essence in the sphere, alongside her twin sister, Shar. They created the world of Abeir-Toril. Selûne and Shar fought the War of Light and Darkness, during which Selûne created the sun of Realmspace. Abeir-Toril was covered in a single, uninterrupted ocean.
- Shardspace. Ancient, godlike dragons known as the Progenitors laid claim to the sphere of Shardspace. The most powerful among them—Eberron, Khyber, and Siberys—discovered the Draconic Prophecy. Khyber and Siberys fought one another over the right to control the Prophecy. Ultimately, Khyber was victorious, but Eberron trapped the evil dragon in its coils and healed the world by becoming one with it. The shattered Siberys became the Dragon Above and sealed the sphere away from the rest of the cosmos. Khyber became the Dragon Below, and Eberron became the World Between.
¶ The Abyss and the Dawn War
Since before the dawn of time, evil alien entities beyond mortal comprehension had inhabited the Far Realm. The debauchery of these vile creatures had long ago left their home a blighted ruin. Their envious appetites turned now to the unspoiled Aetherverse. The demons known as the obyriths conspired to create an artifact called the Seed of Evil and found a way to push it into the Aetherverse from the Far Realm.
For untold eons the Seed of Evil sat undetected, until at last it was discovered by Tharizdun. As he grasped the Seed, he came into contact with the obyriths, and his mind unraveled instantly. The obyriths commanded Tharizdun to plant the Seed in the Astral Plane, promising to share dominion of the realm with him. But even in his madness, Tharizdun knew the other gods would act quickly to prevent an incursion into such a prominent realm. He planted the Seed instead in a more remote place—the Elemental Chaos. The cosmic reaction created the Abyss, and its power both drew the primordials toward it and ushered the obyriths from the Far Realm into the Aetherverse. Along with the obyriths came the aboleths, spawned by their Blood Queen, to haunt the nascent seas of the Material and Elemental Planes. Tharizdun, the primordials, and the obyriths soon became locked in an ageless battle.
In the guise of the Elder Elemental Eye, Tharizdun marshalled the primordials to his side and, in his madness, embarked on a campaign to destroy all of existence. The various gods of good and evil finally realized the threat and set their differences aside to stand against Tharizdun. After eons of battle that would come to be known as the Dawn War, they managed to seal the mad god in the Abyss.
In the relative peace that came in the Dawn War's wake, the gods introduced the first mortal humanoid races to their various spheres.
- Exandria. The protean gods created the elves, dwarves, humans, and other races of Exandria and granted them divine magic. They also created metallic dragons.
- Greyspace. Corellon Larethian created the elves in order to fight his rival, Gruumsh, who created the orcs. Morradin forged the dwarves. The origins of humans and other humanoid races of Greyspace have been lost to time.
- Krynnspace. The gods of good created the elves, those of evil created ogres, and those of neutrality created humans. The High God created the other early races of Krynn. The ogres claimed Krynn's mountains, the elves withdrew to the forests, and the humans took to the plains.
- Realmspace. The primordial Dendar the Night Serpent, a remnant of the Dawn War, devoured Abeir-Toril's sun, causing the world to become an inhospitable ball of ice. Ages would pass before mortals graced its surface.
- Shardspace. Siberys called forth the next generation of dragons. Khyber spat out the fiends. Eberron created all manner of other living things.
The peace did not last long. An obyrith known as the Queen of Chaos recognized opportunity in the introduction of mortals to the Material Plane. She corrupted the souls of deceased mortals and transformed them into a new race of demons—the tanar'ri. With this demonic army behind her, she waged war on the Aetherverse itself. The conflict would be known as the War of Law and Chaos.
For a time, it seemed that all hope was lost for the forces of Law, but in a decisive confrontation on the fields of Oerth, the Wind Dukes of Aaqa banished the Queen's general, Miska the Wolf-Spider, and the forces of Chaos disbanded. Seizing the initiative, celestials raided the Abyss, and the tanar'ri turned against their obyrith masters. The Queen of Chaos and the other obyriths retreated into obscurity, relinquishing the Abyss to the tanar'ri, who soon began to war amongst themselves and with their new rivals, the devils of the Nine Hells. Thus, the War of Law and Chaos did not so much end as simply take on a new name—the Blood War, which continues to this day, with no sign of relenting.
- Exandria. Primordial titans rose up to reclaim Exandria. The protean gods split into the Prime Deities, who taught the mortals arcane magic, and the Betrayer Gods, who joined the titans. The Prime Deities banished the Betrayer Gods and the titans to prison planes.
- Realmspace. Meanwhile, a new sun was created in Realmspace. The world of Abeir-Toril thawed, and the receding ice revealed the single continent of Merrouroboros. Thunderers (dinosaurs) and primitive humanoids emerged on the continent.
- Shardspace. Hidden from the rest of the cosmos, Eberron was spared the fallout of the Dawn War and the War of Law and Chaos, but it made little difference. For at least 10 million years, the surface world was a hellscape overrun by Khyber's fiendish offspring.
- Sigil. In the early days of the Blood War, demons and devils discovered Sigil, the City of Doors, hovering above the Spire of the Outlands. At the time of its discovery, Sigil was already ruled by the Lady of Pain. Where Sigil and the Lady of Pain came from and how long they had been there is unknown.
The following events can be set to at least approximate years. During this period, the gods became more distanced from their creations, and the first mortal civilizations began to emerge, some even setting out to explore the stars.
- The thri-kreen predated the other races of the Aetherverse into space by perhaps as many as 2 million years, using crystal throne spelljammers of unknown origin.
- Shardspace. The dragons of Eberron rediscovered the Prophecy and rose to oppose the demons. Unable to defeat the demonic hordes of the Dragon Below alone, the dragons allied with couatls. The common races, still in primitive states, hid from the godlike combatants.
- Shardspace. Recognizing their cause would otherwise be lost, the couatls of Eberron sacrificed most of their number to bind the majority of the fiends in the Dragon Below. Victorious, the dragons retreated to Argonnessen to contemplate the Prophecy, ignoring the “lesser races.”
- Shardspace. Eberron giants rose from the ruins of the Dragon-Fiend Wars to establish a civilization on the continent of Xen'drik. They enslaved the primitive elves.
- Brightspace. A mysterious god known as the Warden created Brightspace, along with the four elemental globes (Ava, Olteus, Menran, Unre) and the planet Rythea. Then the Warden sealed the sphere and vanished.
- Shardspace. The Eberron giants mastered the arcane arts under the tutelage of the dragons. The elves, ignored by their giant masters, watched and learned.
- Brightspace. The First Conjunction of the planets in the Brightspace sphere occurred. The surge of power temporarily weakened the wards that sealed the sphere off from the rest of the Material Plane.
- Shardspace. Quori invaded Eberron from Dal Quor, the plane of dreams. The giants used powerful magic to throw Dal Quor out of planar alignment, forever sealing it away from Eberron. The resulting backlash shook the continent of Xen'drik to its core and plunged large chunks of the continent beneath the sea. As the elves began to rebel against the giants, the giants turned again to powerful magic in an attempt to quell the uprising. However, before the giants could unleash widespread destruction a second time, the dragons attacked and crushed the giants' civilization. Many elves fled Xen'drik, eventually settling Aerenal; those who chose to stay became the drow. The giants reverted to primitive monsters living in the ruins of their shattered civilization.
- Brightspace. The Second Conjunction occurred in Brightspace. Again, the wards faltered.
- Shardspace. The first of the Eberron goblinoid kingdoms, Dhakaan, rose to prominence.
- Realmspace. The sarrukh lizardfolk established an empire on Abeir-Toril. They created other reptilian races, such as the nagas, pterafolk, troglodytes, and yuan-ti. The first true humans appeared on Abeir-Toril, having evolved from ape-like predecessors.
- Realmspace. The batrachi empire rose to prominence. The batrachi created the bullywugs, doppelgangers, kopru, kuo-toa, locathah, sivs, tako, and other shapeshifting, amphibious, or piscine races.
- Realmspace. In a cataclysmic event known as the Tearfall, the primordial Asgorath the World-Shaper threw an ice moon at Abeir-Toril, creating the Sea of Fallen Stars and triggering a mass extinction. Wingless, breathless landwyrms hatched from eggs all over Abeir-Toril. Ao sundered the planet into two twin worlds, Abeir and Toril, giving the former to the primordials and the latter (the original world) to the gods. The avian aearee experimented with landwyrms and created the first winged wyrms of Toril—the wyverns. The aearee empires rose to prominence. Gnoll followers of Yeenoghu summoned a pestilence to blight aearee lands. Certain aearee allied with the demon lord Pazreal and learned how to summon vrocks but lost their wings in exchange (except for the Tienkoo-Shara rookery, which fled to Kara-Tur; their descendants would later become tengu, who kept their wings).
- Realmspace. Tabaxi had emerged on Toril by this time.
- The arcane had developed mage helms by this point in history.
- Araushnee was cast down into the Demonweb Pits, where she became the demon-goddess Lolth.
- Realmspace. The first dragons of Toril amassed and assailed the aearee. Five aearee rookeries used mage helms to cross the Sea of Night to the world of Coliar. These aeries float there still, among Coliar's manifold moons. Descendants of the Aearee-Krocaa rookery are known today as the aarakocra. Some few repentant members of the Aearee-Quor rookery found refuge with their long lost cousins, the tengu. Descendants of these people call themselves kenku.
- Shardspace. Eberron orc nations arose in western Khorvaire.
- Realmspace. Working to undermine dragon rule, the fey sent the first elves through gates from the Feywild to Toril. These primitive green elves worshipped the Faerie gods (not the Seldarine, which were unknown at this time).
- Realmspace. Fleeing the destruction of the island kingdom of Tintageer in the Feywild, a small circle of gold elves came to Toril. The refugees named their new home Faerun, the One Land. Integrating into the native green elf communities, the descendants of the gold elves became known as sun elves, while the descendants of the sole silver elf refugee, Sharlario Moonflower, become known as moon elves. One of Moonflower's descendants, Kethryllia Amarillis, accidentally drew Lolth’s attention to Toril, which led to the subsequent introduction of her faith in Ilythiir and eventually to the corruption of the dark elves.
- Realmspace. High elf mages assembled in the heartland of Faerun to create their new homeland. The land was sundered apart by the unbridled force of their magic. Hundreds of cities were washed away, thousands of elves lay dead, and the face of Toril was changed forever. The name Faerun, no longer the One Land, was given to the largest continent. A piece of Arvandor (the first layer of the plane of Arborea) broke the surface of the Trackless Sea to become the island of Evermeet and a bridge between worlds.
- Realmspace. The celestial dragon T'ien Lung led a tribe of humans north and east to settle among the modern day lands of Kara-Tur. These humans became known as Lung, the ancestors of the Tuigan, Shou, Wang, and other humans of the Kara-Tur region.
- Exandria. The city of Vasselheim was founded.
- Ravnica. Sentient races came to Ravnica from other worlds. They began to expand, and their understanding of magic, science, and organization grew. Cultures clashed in a period of prolonged discord. As the world was reduced to ashes, ten major factions rose to prominence.
- By this time, mind flayer spelljammers dominated the Astral, Ethereal, and Material Planes. They even brought the Blood War to a temporary halt, so great was the threat they posed. Eventually, gith slaves rebelled and overthrew the mind flayers, driving them deep beneath the surfaces of many worlds on the Material Plane. The surviving gith fractured into the githyanki and the githzerai.
- First recorded instance of high elves using spelljammers.
- Colorspace. High elves arrived on the planet of Bodi, probably from a crash due to an early elven (mis)adventure in spelljamming.
- Facing an imminent supernova in what is now known as the Dead Shell, the Zjalan tabaxi built two colony ships powered by artifurnace helms with help from the arcane. One was called the Thundership, the other the Lightningship. The two ships struck out into the stars in search of new spheres to settle. Lightningship founded the world of Zjala II in Zjalaspace, while Thundership entered Brightspace, whose wards had just been weakened by the Third Conjunction.
- Brightspace. The Third Conjunction occurred in Brightspace.
- The cursed land of the Murk emerged in southeastern Hon'ni and began to spread.
- The kopru, githzerai, and tako nyudo originated on Rythea from refugees of the illithid/gith war that came to the planet during the Third Conjunction.
- The Thundership crash-landed in the Isle of Dread off the coast of Lorica on the planet Rythea. Survivors of the crash established the New Republic of Zjala on Cyrinsyn while the tabaxi who remained on the Isle of Dread forgot their roots and reverted to a more primitive state.
- Clusterspace. The various societies of Clusterspace became aware of spelljamming.
- Realmspace. The first dwarf settlements appeared on Toril.
- Clusterspace. The First Cataclysm occurred when two of the Cluster's three planets collided. In the aftermath of the First Cataclysm, the population of the surviving planet Astromundi expanded considerably. This led to wars, some lasting decades, between rival nations, as well as persecution of the non-human Astromundian population, particularly the elves and dwarves. Many human offspring began exhibiting mutations and were banished into Astromundi's Underdark.
- Shardspace. The dragon Vvaraak taught druidic magic to the Eberron orcs that would become the Gatekeeper druids.
- Brightspace. An immensely powerful artifact known as the Source was discovered in the land of Lorica on the planet Rythea. The dwarves who discovered the Source prophesied that it would spell doom for the entire world if it fell into the hands of any one faction, and so an alliance of nations was founded to share control of the artifact. The alliance soon became the Lorican Colleges of Magic, and their power and influence eclipsed those of all other civilizations on Rythea.
- Realmspace. Corellon's magic transformed the dark elves into the drow. They retreated into the Underdark.
- The Elven Imperial Navy had been established by this point.
- Brightspace. The Lorican orc tribes, who had been left for thousands of years to war amongst themselves, suddenly banded together and began to raid the spoils of the civilization from which they had been excluded. With the navel-gazing Colleges of Magic doing little to stop the raids, a conglomerate of merchant families formed a military to protect their valuable trade routes. Over the course of the campaign to quell the orc hordes, the militarized merchants developed a centralized government known as the Oligarchs. All factions of Lorica pledged fealty to the Oligarchs, except for the orcs, the elves, and the Colleges of Magic.
- Realmspace. The Elven Imperial Navy man-o-war Green Monarch under Captain Mariona Leafbower made a crash landing on the island of Evermeet. Captain Leafbower lent her expertise in the construction of Evermeet's defensive navy.
- Ravnica. 0 ZC. With the realization that further warfare would bring about the destruction of the world, the rival factions met in the ancient City of Ravnica and signed the magically binding Guildpact, forming ten guilds that would each maintain some aspect of the new united civilization. Over the following millennia, the City of Ravnica would spread to envelop the entire planet.
- Brightspace. In order to gain the allegiance of the elves, the Oligarchs of Lorica coronated the half-elven hero Oefelion and allowed him to rule in their stead. Meanwhile, the Colleges of Magic grew wary of King Oefelion's power.
- Krynnspace. Reorx chose a group of humans to lead north and teach his craft.
- Krynnspace. The ogres built an empire on the backs of their human slaves.
- Realmspace. The Mindstalker Wars (also known as the War of Cloven Thoughts) began between the illithids and dwarves. The illithids were driven back. After millennia of enslavement and countless illithid breeding experiments, the descendants of Clan Duergar were transformed into the gray dwarves.
- Shardspace. The daelkyr, a race of immensely powerful beings, invaded Eberron from Xoriat, the plane of madness. The Gatekeeper druids eventually defeated them and sealed the daelkyr below ground.
- Brightspace. The human wizard Kalad led the Colleges of Magic in a war against Oefelion. Kalad became king of Lorica. In a play for further power he attempted to claim the Source for himself, which led to the destruction of the great artifact and the scattering of its shards across the land. Thus began the Wizard War, in which, over the course of 200 years, various mages raced to gather the shards of the Source. The war left Lorica and much of the rest of the world with little more than smoldering ruins.
- Krynnspace. The human slaves overthrew the ogre empire.
- Krynnspace. Elves began building their civilization in a wood already claimed by chromatic dragons, eventually leading to war between the dragons and the elves.
- Krynnspace. Reorx cursed his overly proud human disciples, transforming them into tinker gnomes.
- Realmspace. The Tears of Selûne appeared.
- Thri-kreen worshippers of the Celestial Mantis of the Eternal Lotus dominated a section of the Flow. They launched a crusade against other races and faiths. The crusade was ultimately unsuccessful, breaking the thri-kreen's hold on the Flow and causing the rise of more moderate sects devoted to the Mantis God. During the crusade, a thri-kreen named Tiktikik became petrified in the Flow.
- Krynnspace. Hiddukel tricked a tinker gnome into taking the Graygem from the moon Lunitari. The gnome dropped it, and it fell to Krynn, spreading chaos and transforming the flora and fauna. Reorx tasked the tinker gnomes with retrieving the Graygem. They eventually found it in the Tower of Gargath. As they breached the tower's walls, the magic of the Graygem washed over them and transformed some of them into dwarves and others into kender. The Graygem then flew off, creating centaurs and minotaurs as it went.
- Realmspace. Avatars of the Untheric and Mulhorandi pantheons had been captured from their home planes by Imaskari sorcerers. Ao allowed Ptah to transport the avatars to Realmspace aboard two spelljammers.
- First recorded instance of beholders using spelljammers.
- Clusterspace. Spelljamming human explorers from Astromundi encountered the demonic Unbidden amongst the asteroids of the Cluster and formed an alliance with them. The dwarves of Astromundi fled, building dwarven citadels and beginning to mine the Cluster's countless asteroids. The elves of Astromundi departed as well, but their diaspora was more extensive, as they left the sphere entirely.
- Krynnspace. The Graygem came upon Silvanesti elves, transforming some of them into Dargonesti elves and others into Dimernesti elves. Later, the Graygem was recaptured and brought to the Isle of Gargath.
- Realmspace. Three beholder colony ships crashed in the Alimir mountains of Toril and established the Alimir hive.
- Shardspace. The first dragonmarks appeared on Eberron. The dragons watched in awe and horror as the Prophecy began to unfold among the “lesser” races.
- Krynnspace. The Orders of Magic and the Towers of High Sorcery were founded.
- Realmspace. The Netheril discovered spelljamming and became the first humans of Toril to explore the stars. The Netherese explorers, however, also conducted horrible experiments on nearly every race they ran across. This gave the humans of Toril a negative reputation in space that continued even after the collapse of the Netheril empire.
- Shardspace. Eberron elves and dragons united to destroy House Vol, carrier of the Mark of Death, ending millennia of intermittent warfare between the two species. Lady Vol, the lich queen, was created.
- Shardspace. The Five Nations of Khorvaire were cut out of the domains of the Eberron goblins.
- Greyspace. Mazell, a human woman, was executed in the Flan city of Fleeth for the crime of practicing magic as a member of the Untouchable caste. Vecna, her son and student, swore vengeance. Under the tutelage of King Glitterhelm of the gray elves, Vecna completed his mastery of magic. Unbeknownst to Glitterhelm, however, Vecna also discovered a book of dark secrets and was seduced by the power of Tharizdun. Vecna left Glitterhelm, killed the High Chieftain of Fleeth, and erected his Black Tower, where he transformed himself into a lich.
- Shardspace. The city of Sharn was built.
- Greyspace. Vecna gathered an army of local tribes and monstrous humanoids to increase his holdings. As Vecna's “Occluded Empire” expanded, the elven armies of Glitterhelm and Celene opposed him. Calling upon the power of Tharizdun, Vecna unleashed a surge of fire that drove all opposition from the field and created the Bright Desert. Vecna then laid siege to the city of Fleeth and was nearly slain by a burst of radiant magic summoned by clerics of Phlotus, god of light. He was rescued, however, by one of his generals—a cambion wizard named Acererak, who would later become the demilich behind the infamous Tomb of Horrors. Vecna returned and laid waste to the city of Fleeth. Next he marched his army against the elven kingdoms, beginning what would later be known as the 400 Year War.
- Clusterspace. The Unbidden conquered most of the nations of the planet Astromundi, destroying much of the planet in the process. Only the Antilan nation remained safe from the Unbidden behind powerful magical wards.
- Winterspace. Historical records on the planet Asimov began.
- Shardspace. Karrn the Conqueror established the nation of Karnath on Eberron.
- Krynnspace. The realm of Istar became a nexus for world trade.
- Krynnspace. Takhisis seeded the mines of Thoradin with dragon eggs, returning her children to Krynn.
- Greyspace. As the elven kingdoms fell at the end of the 400 Year War, Vecna slew King Glitterhelm in single combat with a sword forged of stars. Vecna gave the sword to his vampire lieutenant Kas. Soon after, Kas betrayed Vecna, and the two of them died in battle with each other, leaving behind only the Sword of Kas, the Eye of Vecna, and the Hand of Vecna.
- Realmspace. Mystryl, goddess of magic, sacrificed herself. All magic in Realmspace ceased for a moment, and the sky cities of Netheril fell, leading to the collapse of the empire.
- Shardspace. Kalashtar appeared on Eberron, flreeing Dal Quor.
- Clusterspace. Illithids emerged from the Underdark, claiming to be the descendents of the human mutants banished in earlier millennia. They began a war against the Unbidden.
- Clusterspace. The Second Cataclysm occurred when the illithid deity Lugribossk destroyed the planet Astromundi and banished the Unbidden from the sphere.
- Krynnspace. The first dragonlances were discovered. Takhisis fell to a dragonlance.
- Shardspace. Quori invaded Eberron, bringing a second wave of humans to Khorvaire's eastern shores.
- Shardspace. The dragonmarked houses of Eberron launched the War of the Mark to end the threat of aberrant and mixed marks.
This early period of modern history begins with the Dales Compact in Realmspace, which is recognized as year 1 in the Dale Reckoning system. From this point forward, the years of events are known with much greater precision. Certain events toward the end of this period are still within the living memories of individuals of especially long-lived races, such as the elves.
- Realmspace. The elves of Cormanthyr and the humans of the Dalelands erected the Standing Stone to commemorate the newfound alliance between their peoples.
- Shardspace. The War of the Mark came to an end with the destruction of the city of Sharn and the supposed extinction of the aberrant mark on Eberron.
- With help from the arcane, the Sazaur beholder nation created Ravager, an ultimate weapon built from the body of their slain hive mother.
- Realmspace. The aarakocra matriarchies of Coliar were established.
- Greyspace. The mage Lyzandred became a lich.
- Brightspace. The Hon’nese Age of Strife began when high elves lost control of the archipelago.
- Greyspace. The Baklunish-Suloise Wars began.
- When the Sazaur beholders activated Ravager, it destroyed them all. Ravager has traveled through the Flow on a random course ever since.
- Greyspace. Conflict between Suloise and Baklunish mages transformed the Suloise Imperium into the Sea of Dust. Surviving Baklunish migrated north to the shores of the Drawmidj Ocean.
- Exandria. The Calamity began. During this period, Vespin Chloras released the Betrayer Gods, and Lolth's manifestation in Exandria was slain.
- Shardspace. The Border Wars began, eventually drawing in all five human nations of central Khorvaire.
- The legendary cursed Batship was launched.
- Shardspace. 1 YK. Galifar I and his five scions (Cyre, Karrn, Thrane, Aundair, and Brey) took control of the Five Nations and established the Kingdom of Galifar.
- Realmspace. The Court of Myth Drannor received the first of many visitations by the Elven Imperial Navy.
- Clusterspace. The Antilans rediscovered their spelljamming heritage. Their expanse into space began with raids and eventually turned to conquest.
- Shardspace. The Five Nations of Galifar adopted the names of King Galifar's children as their own. The city of Sharn was rebuilt on top of the old city's ruins.
- Realmspace. The future Queen Amlaruil of Evermeet saw the Great Spelljammer while walking at night on the northernmost shore of Evermeet.
- Bralspace. Illithids and beholders inhabited the asteroid that would become the Rock of Bral.
- Exandria. 0 PD. The Calamity came to an end as the Betrayer Gods were defeated once more. Only one third of the worlds population survived the great war. In an event known as the Divergence, the Prime Gods created the Divine Gate, making it impossible for any god to manifest physically in the world of Exandria.
- Greyspace. The Kingdom of Aerdy defeated Nyrondal and became known as the Great Kingdom.
- Realmspace. The Elven Imperial Navy aided Myth Drannor in the Weeping War.
- Pirtelspace. Anthonius Pirtel the Ice Mage discovered Pirtelspace. He introduced spelljamming to the Quarinaron Confederacy on the planet Archin and built Skyport, a base orbiting the planet.
- Shardspace. The Church of the Silver Flame was born.
- Rexspace. Reigar destroyed their home planet Rex in a work of performance art known as the Master Stroke, which was intended to be the ultimate expression of war. The pieces of the planet fell onto Rex's water moon, Charon, forming its continents. Many of Rex's former inhabitants became undead on Charon.
- Winterspace. The Asimov Empire was established on the planet of the same name.
- Brightspace. Empress Koroko of Hon’ni was coronated.
- Pirtelspace. The Sea of Sorrow sargasso was formed during a space battle between Anthonius Pirtel and two liches, Delgranoth and Delgranaille.
The next period in the Aethervane timeline is marked by the inception in 918 DR of the Unhuman War, the first interstellar conflict in modern memory, which lasted 141 years. The Unhuman War was waged primarily between the so-called “Unhumans” (consisting of goblinoids, kobolds, orcs, and the like) and the Elven Imperial Navy.
- The First Unhuman War began. The Elven Imperial Navy created the bionoids and the spirit warriors.
- Clusterspace. Elven refugees from the First Unhuman War discovered the Astromundi Cluster and settled within it. They were pursued by various Unhuman vessels, which established the first Unhuman colonies within the Astromundi Cluster.
- Greyspace. In the Battle of Kule in Greyspace, over 100 elven vessels crushed an orcish fleet of 50 ships. This was the first major event and largest battle of the First Unhuman War.
- Bralspace. A small dwarven clan inhabited the asteroid that would become the Rock of Bral.
- The gauntlet of Tamus was found by a giff mercenary in the Calotian system during an isolated skirmish of the Unhuman Wars.
- Clusterspace. Neogi entered the Astromundi Cluster. Atypically, they established themselves as merchants exchanging spelljamming technology with isolated human outposts in exchange for slaves. This resulted in the most corrupt humans returning first to the stars.
- Pirtelspace. The radiant dragon Blacklight made the Sea of Sorrow her lair.
- Greyspace. CY 1. Grand Prince Nasran I of the Great Kingdom took the title of Overking. The borders of the Great Kingdom included the City of Greyhawk.
- Greyspace. The Unhuman planet Borka was transformed into an asteroid field after it was destroyed by elves with help from their deities.
- Krynnspace. The Kingpriest of Istar prepared for his ascension to godhood.
- Krynnspace. The Cataclysm of Krynn. Enraged by the hubris of the Kingpriest of Istar, the gods of Krynn abandoned the world and shattered Krynnish society for centuries with a massive asteroid strike.
- The Elven Imperial Navy defeated the fleet of Dukagsh the orc. Organizing the remnants of the fleet, he declared himself Almighty Leader of the survivors and fled to distant spheres.
- Dukagsh's refugees settled on an inhabitable planet in a distant, largely uninhabited crystal sphere. Dukagsh began forcing drastic change on orcish society.
- Clusterspace. The arcane became active in the wider Astromundi Cluster. Their sales of spelljamming technology counteracted the neogi focus on slavers as trading partners.
- Clusterspace. The Tentacle Wars began between the Antilan Empire and the illithids in the Astromundi Cluster. The Antilans struck an alliance with the arcane, resulting in the discovery of “sun magic,” which powered the crystal ships and citadels of the Antilans, as well as providing spells of devastating power. The war has continued into the present day, though it has often devolved into low-level raiding and espionage.
- Krynnspace. Reuful Ironhand became king of the Reorx dwarves and created spelljammer ports, introducing the gnome and dwarven peoples of Reorx to spelljammer commerce.
- Pirtelspace. The Elven Imperial Navy cornered a drow fleet near the ice planet Century in Pirtelspace. The drow crashed on the planet, so the EIN built a military base, Darkwatch, on a small asteroid moon above Century, in order make certain the drow did not return to wildspace.
- Pirtelspace. Sightings began of a spectral galleon in the Flow near Pirtelspace.
- Dukagsh died and attained apotheosis as a demigod. The planet Dukagsh was named after him and he was placed in a special coffin set in perpetual orbit above Dukagsh's northern pole. His followers, whom he renamed “scro” just before his death, largely abandoned the traditional orcish pantheon to worship him.
- Realmspace. In the Kara-Tur region of Toril, the arcane founded a spelljamming port called the Dock in the Wu Pi Te Shao mountains.
The Age of Armistice was a nearly 300 year-long period of peace (on the galactic scale, at least) between the first and second Unhuman Wars.
- The First Unhuman War ended in victory for the elves and defeat for the Unhumans. The half-orc Gralnakh Longtooth and Elven Imperial Navy Admiral Leafbower agreed to a cease-fire.
- Winterspace. The Council of Admirals exiled the Unhumans to the most inhospitable planet they could find: Armistice, in Winterspace. They established the Armistice Blockade to prevent the Unhumans from regaining spelljamming technology.
- The bionoids were kicked out of elven society.
- Sindiath, an elven hero of the First Unhuman War, took a large portion of the Elven Imperial Navy fleet and converted it over to passenger and cargo service, creating the Sindiath Line.
- Clusterspace. The Calidians of the Astromundi Cluster freed themselves after centuries of shifting back and forth between illithid and Antilan slavery. In the Astromundi Cluster, Antilan Sun Mage Azahn Kyli botched an attempt to obtain lichdom. The resulting magical backlash swept across the asteroid he was on, which became the undead-infested "Isle of Banshees."
- Realmspace. The Elven Imperial Navy created Karpri Base to protect the aquatic elves on the planet Karpri.
- Realmspace. The illithids of Glyth built and maintained an outpost at Stardock in the Tears of Selune.
- The Dark Oliphant, an ogre mammothship that had been a scourge of the void long after the First Unhuman War, was finally destroyed by an elven mage teleporting into the helmroom with a lit barrel of smokepowder.
- Pirtelspace. The radiant dragon Blacklight destroyed the Elven Imperial Navy outpost of Darkwatch.
- Greyspace. Zagig and his adventuring band delved into the Crypt of Lyzandred. Zagig studied with the lich.
- Greyspace. Zagig became mayor of Greyhawk and began construction of Castle Greyhawk.
- Clusterspace. The dwarven nations of the Astromundi Cluster negotiated a treaty with the Antilan Sun Mages in wihch the dwarves provide ore and mercenaries at favorable rates to the Antilans. This treaty remains in effect into the present day.
- Krynnspace. Takhisis returned to Krynn through a portal.
- Realmspace. An infectious spelljammer crew introduced a plague that wiped out 30% of the halflings of the Southern Polarate of Anadia in Realmspace.
- Realmspace. The Batship entered Realmspace and began to haunt the Tears of Selune.
- The Elven Imperial Navy took control of Korvspace in order to better protect its inhabitants from illithid slavers.
- Realmspace. Grand Caliph Anwar ascended the throne of Zakhara and sponsored spelljamming efforts.
- Realmspace. The Seed-Beholder Company of H'Catha was founded. The company provides child-rearing services for beholders.
- Bralspace. The pirate Bral established a base on the asteroid that would later bear his name.
- Greyspace. Halmadar, a Shield Lands warlord, gained the Hand and Eye of Vecna.
- Bralspace. The pirate Bral led a flotilla of his Black Brotherhood in a raid against a groundling city. His fleet of five vessels was met by eight elven men-o-war and destroyed. Bral's vessel the Starwind was last seen going down in flames onto the planet below.
- Realmspace. Karpri Base was destroyed by illithids.
- Greyspace. Halmadar was drugged by his followers and interred alive in the Kron Hills.
- Clusterspace. The Neogi Agreement established the Inner Ring of the Astromundi Cluster as neutral ground for trade and commerce. Even the illithids and Antilans keep this treaty because of the trade benefits, though they continue the Tentacle Wars outside the Inner Ring. The Neogi founded the Shaseogan trading asteroid.
- Krynnspace. A spelljammer vessel visited the gnomes of Mount Nevermind on Krynn. Mount Nevermind received other such visits over time, becoming one of Krynn's spelljamming ports.
- Greyspace. Iuz, cambion son of the demon lord Graz'zt and the witch Iggwilv, was born.
- Realmspace. First recorded use of bombards (cannons) on Faerun.
- Realmspace. Rastipedes settled on the asteroid called Long Block in the Tears of Selune.
- Bralspace. Cozar founded the Royal House of Bral.
- Greyspace. Iuz transformed himself into a deity. Along with Zuggtmoy, he began to lay the foundations for the Temple of Elemental Evil.
- Greyspace. Zagig imprisoned Iuz below Castle Greyhawk.
- Realmspace. Illithid slavers of the planet Glyth control Skyships' Glade in the Forest of Mir on Toril, using it as a hidden landing site to export abducted slaves.
- Shardspace. The first lightning rail connected Flamekeep and Fairhaven.
- Bralspace. The Shipwrights' Guildhall, a grounded Cuttle command ship, was erected on the Rock of Bral.
- Neogi developed mindspiders.
- Greyspace. The mysterious Habitat of Greyspace, an ellipsoid of dark blue-gray metal, was first detected.
- Realmspace. The Shou Lung empire on Toril dispatched one of its first dragonships to establish diplomatic relations with other planets. It was attacked and destroyed by illithids a week later. The Elven Imperial Navy discovered the wrecked dragonship and rescued its sole survivor.
- Bralspace. Frun became Prince of Bral. The Temple of Odin was founded on the Rock of Bral.
- Shardspace. The Church of the Silver Flame launched the Silver Purge. Over the course of the next 50 years, virtually all lycanthropes on the continent were slain.
- Krynnspace. Minions of Takhisis corrupted good dragon eggs, creating the draconians.
- Many years prior to this date, the Seekers of the Aetherium was founded when vedalken spelljammers from Ravnica made contact with human researchers in Vertexspace.
- Bralspace. The Seekers opened the Library of the Spheres on the Rock of Bral.
- Clusterspace. The illithids of the Astromundi Cluster conquered the Calidians of the Moons of Calimar. The former Calidian noble houses of those settlements became the Shattered Houses, and the Hidden resistance group was formed to free Calimar from the illithid yoke.
- Krynnspace. A gnomish wizard created the "ribbon bridges," which connect the Stellar Islands of Krynnspace.
- Realmspace. The Eighth Shou Emperor Kai Chin announced the "Gathering of Pearls" as a goal of his reign, setting in motion plans to recover lost lore and expanding contacts with Wa and Kozakura. This marked an increase in Shou Lung's interest in spelljamming.
- Elsun, captain of the pirate ship Dragon Claw and wielder of Blackjammer's cutlass, attacked a merchant convoy enroute to Krynnspace. Elsun was killed by an attendant EIN Man-o-War. The cutlass fell overboard and is assumed to be adrift in the Flow between Oerth and Krynn.
- Greyspace. The Citadel of Eight was founded by Mordenkainen in order to maintain the balance of Oerth. The other members included Bigby, Robilar, Riggby, Yrag, Tenser, Serten, and Otis.
- Bralspace. The beholder pirate Graffin the Gray was killed, stuffed, and mounted above the door of a Guildhall on the Rock of Bral.
- Realmspace. The Ministry of Glorious Flight was established in Shou Lung. Shou dragonships began to appear in greater numbers.
- Greyspace. The Horde of Elemental Evil was defeated, and the Temple of Elemental Evil was sacked. Serten died, and the Citadel of Eight disbanded. Zuggtmoy was sealed inside the Temple.
- Realmspace. The nation of Wa on Toril discovered spelljamming and the existence of the Shou and Elven fleets. They lost several ships in battle with the Elven Imperial Navy, so they began to design the Tsunami, the Ki-helm, and the Rudder of Propulsion.
- Greyspace. The infamous Black Company pirate fleet, eventually the most successful pirate band in Greyspace, began its depredations.
- Greyspace. Robilar and Riggby inadvertently freed Iuz from imprisonment.
- Realmspace. In the Tears of Selune, the neogi of the asteroid "Journey's Legg" attacked the rastipede colony of "Long Block." The rastipedes survived but suffered heavy losses. As a result their ships began to carry extra weapons, and they fire at once on any neogi-style vessels they encounter.
- Gaspar the mage was struck by a powerful curse while trying to recover an artifact. He founded Gaspar's Reclamations in an attempt to find a cure for the curse, which proved impossible to dispel.
- Greyspace. The Circle of Eight was founded by Mordenkainen, Bigby, Bucknard, Drawmij, Leomund, Nystul, Otto, and Rary.
- Bralspace. Andru became Prince of Bral.
- Greyspace. Gnomes established a base on Spectre in Greyspace, building a magnificent dock that floats in air.
- Krynnspace. The War of the Lance began. Gods returned to Krynn.
- Greyspace. The Free Traders mercantile company was founded in Greyspace, headquartered in the city of Greyhawk.
- Realmspace. The Gauntlet Company of Realmspace began attacking slavers with their scorpion ship.
Skirmishes by the scro, militaristic descendants of the Unhuman orcs, brought the previous age of peace to an official end. Referring to this period as the Second Unhuman War is perhaps an exaggeration, as the devastation so far pales in comparison to that of the first war. The fact remains, however, that scro attacks have steadily increased in regularity and ferocity, demanding a more committed response to be organized soon.
- The Second Unhuman War began with the scro attacking isolated spheres and planets in order to gain training and advance bases.
- Realmspace. A particularly bright shooting star flew across Waterdeep and northern Faerun on Toril in Realmspace. Some believe this was a dwarven citadel crashing into the desert of Anauroch.
- Bralspace. The House of Tempus was founded on the Rock of Bral.
- Greyspace. The Free Traders mercantile company established a trading outpost on the north face of the planet Spectre in Greyspace.
- Greyspace. Otiluke joined the Circle of Eight.
- Realmspace. The Emerald Brotherhood adventuring company was formed.
- Realmspace. The Gauntlet Company destroyed a neogi slave trade operation on an asteroid in the Tears of Selune.
- Cloaking Helms became available for sale, developed by a coalition of arcane and wizards, ostensibly to aid the Seekers in their surreptitious information gathering. As word leaked out about these new helms, assassins appeared virtually overnight, slaying many of the wizards involved in their creation. Those few who survived are scattered about the stars.
- Khelbun Arunson discovered Steel Star, home of the legendary ogre spelljammer fleet.
- Greyspace. On the planet Spectre in Greyspace, the gnomes' floating dock collapsed. They renamed their colony, "What-is-left-after-the-tragic-events-of-several-years-ago."
- Krynnspace. The War of the Lance on Krynn ended with the defeat of the dragon armies.
- Krynnspace. Dante Lionmane, Knight of Solamnia, formed the Star Knights.
- Realmspace. The Time of Troubles began on Toril.
- Bralspace. The High Holy Keep of Bane was founded on Bral, despite the demise of Bane in Realmspace during the Time of Troubles a year earlier.
- Greyspace. Robilar released Zuggtmoy from the Temple of Elemental Evil.
- Realmspace. With their new Tsunamis completed, Wa fought a short war with the Elven Imperial Navy in Realmspace. At least one Armada was destroyed.
- Realmspace. The Emerald Brotherhood was abducted by the illithid slave ship Mind Ripper. They escaped the illithids and captured a vipership, which they use to fight neogi and illithid slavers from their base in the Tears of Selune.
- By this time, Lolth had begun to send minions via portals from the Demonweb Pits to invade several worlds in the Material Plane, including Barbuda, the Black Fen, Guino, and Maldev.
- Bralspace. Uliananon Cirathorn's cloaked Elven Imperial Navy fleet began trailing the Rock of Bral in secret after forging an agreement with Prince Andru.
- Realmspace. Scro forces entered Realmspace, beginning the Second Unhuman War in that sphere. The Elven Imperial Navy, reinforced by the Ruathimaer fleet of Evermeet, forced the scro to retreat after over a dozen battles. Scro forces in the sphere were reduced to a few raiders operating from the cluster planet Garden.
- Realmspace. Wa completed construction of six Tsunami vessels. The Waan Tsunami Storm of Honor, under the command of Daimyo Akahu Nagasa, attacked a neogi base in the Tears of Selune. 100 captives were freed, including 60 elves and half-elves. These were delivered to the Elven Imperial Navy, beginning five years of peace between the Waan and Imperial Elven fleets in Realmspace.
- Bralspace. Hastain the reigar arrived on the Rock of Bral. He was granted a noble title and purchased a noble villa.
- Bralspace. The scro Tarantula Fleet conquered the elven world of Spiral in Bralspace. Despite this, the elven, dwarven, and human natives of Spiral continued to resist the scro, fighting a guerilla war from the mountains and deep forests of the planet.
- Greyspace. Halmadar escaped his prison and slew the majority of the Circle of Eight. Vecna returned from the dead and attempted to become a greater god. He failed and was banished to Ravenloft. Mordenkainen recovered the bodies of the fallen members of the Circle and began to resurrect them.
- Winterspace. General Grimnosh of the scro armed the Unhumans of Armistice with spelljamming vessels and destroyed the elven presence on Asimov before moving on to Realmspace.
- Bralspace. Realizing the elves in Bralspace were employing cloaking helms, the scro developed a powder they could jettison to reveal the men-o-war.
- Greyspace. A scro fleet of 75 mantis ships entered Greyspace and teamed with the Borka Retribution Fleet. The Imperial Elven Fleet pressed the ships of the Sindiath Line into service and intercepted the massive Unhuman armada in the Borka asteroid field. A prolonged, massive battle ended in the Unhumans' defeat.
- Greyspace. While the Circle of Eight was inactive, Iuz incited the Greyhawk Wars.
- Winterspace. Grimnosh's allies escaped the Armistice blockade. Their escape was short-lived, however, as a brief, brutal battle with the EIN and two radiant dragons destroyed all the ships of the orcish fleet. Only one of the radiant dragons survived.
- Realmspace. A Waan tsunami "accidentally" destroyed an elven man-o-war after a Shou spy informed them it was being used by drow to smuggle illegal goods into Wa.
- Greyspace. The Greyhawk Wars ended, thanks in part to the revived Circle of Eight. Rary and Robilar attempted to destroy the Circle, but failed. They fled to the Bright Desert and established the Empire of the Bright Lands.
- Clusterspace. The dwarven mining colony of Doromakhad was attacked by bizarre amoeboid creatures. Several dwarf clans were wiped out, but the survivors mounted heavy ballistae around their settlement and strengthened their defenses.
- Greyspace. The Great Kingdom splintered into the United Kingdom of Ahlissa and the North Kingdom of Aerdy. Canon Hazen of Veluna used the Crook of Rao to banish the majority of evil-aligned planar beings from the Flanaess.
- Realmspace. A scro fleet secretly entered Realmspace and began contacting goblinoids on Toril, providing them with firearms and smokepowder.
- Krynnspace. Reorx (disguised as Dougan Redhammer) led a band of adventurers to retrieve the Graygem from the Isle of Gargath. The Graygem was then lost and brought to the Isle of the Irda.
- Realmspace. Adepts of the Twisted Rune in eastern Calimshan discovered the existence of the Glyth mind flayer outpost of Stardock in the Tears of Selune. Through the magical enslavement of several mind flayers who had come down to the Realms, the undead Alhoon Ralayn and a number of Twisted Rune members conquered Stardock. The two undead seniors of the Twisted Rune kidnapped Halaster of Undermountain, causing general chaos on Toril as his uncontrolled gates spewed monsters out at random places across the planet.
- Ogre kings from the Steel Star sphere began invading other systems.
- Krynnspace. The Second Cataclysm. The Irda split the Graygem, and Chaos was released. Chaos destroyed the Isle of the Irda. The Chaos War began. In the end, Chaos departed the world, the Graygem was destroyed, and Takhisis (Tiamat) stole Krynn away from the other gods.
- Greyspace. Vecna escaped Ravenloft and absorbed the power of Iuz, becoming a greater god. He invaded Sigil and came perilously close to rewriting the entire multiverse, but was finally defeated. Vecna returned to Oerth as a lesser god, and Iuz became a separate entity once more.
- Krynnspace. The Dragon Purge began.
- Tiktikik’s petrified body was discovered by a group of adventurers traveling in the Flow. Tiktikik was returned to his own people. Tiktikik, after discovering a lost apocrypha of his people entitled Lyric of the Eternal Lotus, came to believe himself to be his people's new holy leader. Within only four months, Tiktikik had convinced the spacefaring thri-kreen tribes to unite under his leadership and once again spread their rediscovered religion to the Flow.
- Bralspace. Tiktikik's fleet surrounded the Rock of Bral and demanded its conversion to the faith of the Mantis God of the Eternal Lotus, prompting even Prince Andru to abandon his palace. Ultimately, the Rock was saved by the diplomatic actions of the same group of adventurers who had earlier rescued Tiktikik, as they happened to be on the Rock at the time when the thri-kreen flotilla arrived. The group showed Tiktikik a more ancient manuscript of the Lyric of the Eternal Lotus, convincing him that the later edition had had additions from later editors who were not inspired.
- Greyhawk. Iuz attempted to invade Greyhawk.
- Realmspace. The Spellplague occurred when Mystra, the goddess of magic, was killed. Magic in Realmspace ceased to function as it once had. The lands of Toril were forever transformed. Evermeet slipped into the land of Faerie, leaving behind a "shadow" of the island in Faerun.
- Shardspace. King Jarot, the last ruler of Galifar, died. The Last War began.
- Krynnspace. The Qualinesti elves began disappearing.
- Krynnspace. The Last Conclave. The Shadow Sorcerer demonstrated that magic is felt rather than memorized. The Orders of High Sorcery were dissolved.
- Shardspace. Thalin of Thrane died. The Church of the Silver Flame assumed control of the nation.
- Krynnspace. The War of Souls. A strange storm covered Krynn. Mina, prophet of the One God (Takhisis) appeared. Paladine sacrificed his immortality to defeat Takhisis. Krynn was returned to its proper orbit, and the remaining gods returned to the world.
- Krynnspace. The Wizards of High Sorcery reclaimed the Tower of Wayreth.
- Ravnica. For 10,000 years, the Guildpact kept the structure of the guilds intact. However, the events of Ravnica's Decamillennial introduced a loophole that allowed Szadek, parun of House Dimir, to break the Guildpact. Guilds, eventually realizing that they were no longer restrained by the spell, began making unprecedented plays for control of the City.
- Ravnica. After the Dissension Crisis disaster, the general populace of Ravnica became aware that the Guildpact had been broken. A new, non-magical set of laws were drafted, but it was too late to prevent the coming tumult. Civil unrest grew as the Guilds struggled to maintain control. Then Agyrem, the Ghost Quarter, appeared in the City, allowing the ghosts of the departed to mingle with mortals. This caused unrest to subside as the people banded together to deal with this new threat.
- Ravnica. Agyrem disappeared, and the sense of unease returned. The wealthy and powerful all but ignored the new laws as they seized control of the City's workings. Many of the guilds were nearly wiped out as the angry citizenry rebelled. The Gateless Movement was born, drawing in members of all races that felt it was time Ravnica's people escaped from under the shadow of the Guilds and governed themselves.
- Shardspace. House Cannith perfected the modern-era warforged, living constructs designed to fight the Last War.
- Brightspace. The colony of Brightshore on Lorica was founded.
- Brightspace. The Tora Shogunate came to power in Hon’ni.
- Exandria. Vecna ascended to become a greater god, but he was defeated by a band of adventurers called Vox Machina.
- Brightspace. A major Abyssal incursion was prevented in Vessar.
- Realmspace. The Spellplague ended with Mystra's return. Magic in the Realms returned more or less to normal.
- Realmspace. Ao performed the Second Sundering in order to restore the worlds of Abeir and Toril in the wake of the Spellplague.
- Shardspace. The first elemental airships went into service for House Lyrandar.
- Ravnica. In the process of rebuilding and rebranding themselves, many of the Guilds acquired new leaders and philosophies.
- Shardspace. Jaela Daran (age 6) assumed the power of the Keeper of the Silver Flame.
- Brightspace. The colony of Brightshore weathered a massive four-pronged goblinoid assault. (23 BY)
- Shardspace. A magical blast of unprecedented power obliterated the nation of Cyre, creating the Mournland.
- Brightspace. The Kintsugi Tower of Brightshore fell, releasing a surge of wild magic that reawakened the hobgoblin warforged in Lorica. Orrin, Jacinta, and their son Marco have been stranded in the Nine Hells ever since. (24 BY)
- Brightspace. The Tatsu Shogunate came to power in Hon’ni.
- Shardspace. The Treaty of Thronehold officially ended the Last War. House Cannith destroyed the creation forges that were used to create the warforged. The remaining warforged were granted the rights of sentient beings.
- Brightspace. Empress Koroko of Hon’ni was killed. Genmi, Koroko’s granddaughter, became the next empress. (State 3 of the Bleak Haven calendar)
- Brightspace. The Fourth Conjunction of Brightspace occurred. Kalad summoned an ether cyclone that destroyed Lorica. The Isle of Dread was transported to Vertexspace, where it became known as the Wayward Isle. During the planar transit, the cloak of the starfarer appeared on the islands. Kalad cracked open the Brightspace sphere and escaped. The islands of Karmell sank beneath the ocean. The mageocracy of Vessar abandoned Brightspace. (State 8 of the Bleak Haven calendar)
- Vertexspace. The Republic of Zjala smuggled spelljamming technology to the tabaxi of the Wayward Isle and were ejected from the Seekers of the Aetherium.
- Brightspace. The Elven Imperial Navy established an outpost in Brightspace.
- Vertexspace. The ancient Zjalan Thundership was unearthed on the Wayward Isle and reclaimed by the Republic of Zjala. The Seekers of the Aetherium relinquished control of the Wayward Isle to the Republic of Zjala.
- Dey. In an event known as the Ripping, the crystal sphere of Dey appeared in the Outer Flow, having been pulled backward through time from the year 3487 DR.
- Brightspace. The Zjalan Thundership attacked the Elven Imperial Navy outpost in Brightspace. An Aetherium vessel that happened to be in the vicinity joined in the defense of the outpost. Adventurers traveling with the Aetherium boarded the Thundership and killed its commanding officers, discovering that they had been infected with some sort of brain-eating parasite apparently related to the kopru from the Wayward Isle.
- Brightspace. The shogun of Hon'ni gained knowledge of spelljamming, as did the Taiga people. The Elven Imperial Navy sent a delegation to meet with both the shogun and the empress of Hon'ni.
- Zjalaspace. An allied fleet consisting of the EIN-controlled Thundership, illithid nautiloids, and dohwar shrikeships assaulted the infested Zjalan fleet above Zjala II and ended the kopru threat. In exchange for their aid, the Republic of Zjala relinquished control of the Dead Shell to the Illithid Dominion and agreed to assist the EIN in their war against the Scro.
- Pirtelspace. The radiant dragon Blacklight was slain by adventurers sent by the arcane of Refuge.
- Brightspace. The connection between the Spirit World and Hon'ni was reestablished, allowing the kami of the Spirit World to once again influence the land of Hon'ni directly. The curse of the Murk in Hon'ni was finally broken.
- Several factions descended on the Great Spelljammer inside the Maelstrom, including the arcane and House Khindo of Vessar.
About halfway through the year 1494 DR, a cataclysm of universal proportions rocked the planes, changing them forever. The Flow and all Crystal Spheres vanished mysteriously, and the Astral Plane filled the void between the Wildspace systems. The relative locations of the systems became fluid as they drifted through the Astral Plane, where concepts like position and distance have little meaning. The brightest minds of the planes have not yet determined the cause of the cataclysm. The Second Unhuman War effectively ended as the entire interstellar political landscape was thrown into utter chaos.
- Bralspace. The Xaryxian Empire planted astral seeds on the planet Spiral. The seeds erupted into crystalline vines and astral blights that began to drain the energy from all life on the planet in order to replenish the dying energy of the Xaryxian sun.
- Xaryxispace. A coalition fleet crewed by a party of adventurers from Bralspace and various races from Doomspace invaded Xaryxispace. At the end of the battle, the star of Xaryxis and all of Xaryxispace was obliterated, thanks to the heroic sacrifice of an aarakocra monk named Strut. At the same time, the astral vines and blights on the planet Spiral were destroyed, saving the planet from annihilation.