720 BC
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Events
- Early Spring Lord Soth is transported to Barovia while torturing his traitorous steward, Caradoc for the location of Kitiara's soul. Caradoc gives him the slip in the Mists.[1]
- [In Barovia, Lord Soth causes the deaths of an entire Vistani Tribe except for the young Magda Ilyanova Kulchevich. Her life is spared on the condition she act as a guide for Soth. After traveling through Barovia and Gundarak, Magda escapes Soth and his sidekick Azrael Dak.[2] Strahd manipulates Soth into going after Duke Gundar. Soth and Azrael penetrate Castle Hunedora, and Azrael kills Medraut Gundar as part of an effort to open a portal in the castle's basement. The effort fails.[3].
- Magda Kulchevich escapes Soth and spends the next two years fleeing from Gundarakite bounty hunters and the minions of Duke Gundar. Along the way, she begins gathering aa group Vistani followers that will eventually become the inter-tribe group known as the Wanderers.[2]
- Lord Soth and Azrael Dak catch up with the traitorous Caradoc along the border between Gundarak and Barovia. Soth tortures and ultimately murders. However, Soth fails notice the oncoming Mist that claimed him.[4] Subsequently, Soth is given one final chance of redemption, and he fails it.[5] Sithicus forms, and Lord Soth is its darklord.[5][6]
- A bloody civil war begins between the wild elves of Sithicus and the forces of Soth. It will last for twenty years.[7]
- Talgaard Bolshnik becomes the Kantora Strangler.[8]
- Bernadette d'Honaire Mousel gives the Mordent D'Honaire estate to her son, Francois Mousel. He transforms it into the Mousel Sanitarium for Mental Health and begins practicing a combination of Germain d'Honaire and Bernadette's techniques.[9]
Third child of Ivan Dilisnya and Lucretia Marzeya born.[10]- Trade going through Tepest hits its highpoint, but soon after begins to decline.[11]
- Son of Mikkel Renier and Esther Renier and one of the Darkonian Reniers, Javier Renier is born.[12]
Caroline Dinwiddy is born.[13]
Beoryth the Blood Hound meets his doom at the end of a knife in a Dorvinian brothel, most likely the victim of an assassination.[14]- Prince Aduard III ascends to the throne of Ustalav.[15]
- December: Strahd enters hibernation.[16]
References
- ↑ Knight of the Black Rose (Novel) pp. 53-55. Domains of Dread p. 17 assigns 720 BC as the year for the events in this novel.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Heroes of Light p. 92
- ↑ Knight of the Black Rose (Novel)
- ↑ Knight of the Black Rose pp. 299-304
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 Knight of the Black Rose p. 309
- ↑ Domains of Dread p. 17
- ↑ Gazetteer IV p.113
- ↑ Ravenloft Gazetteer Volume V p. 155
- ↑ Legacy of the Blood p. 25
- ↑ Gazetteer Volume IV Web Enhancement
- ↑ Gazetteer V p. 55
- ↑ Legacy of the Blood p. 145
- ↑ JWM Ravenloft Timeline, "Speculation based on Domains of Dread p. 127
- ↑ Lights in the Fog, Book of Secrets pp. 123-124
- ↑ Ustalav Gazetteer, QtR22 p. 218
- ↑ I, Strahd p. 5, 299, 305
