737 BC
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Events
(Early Year) The portrait of Stezen d'Polarno is recovered by mercenaries, but the Marquis betrays his benefactors. The mercenaries put Marquis Manor to the torch. The fire of the manor incites the Ghastrian Peasant Rebellion. d'Polarno is critically wounded and seemingly killed. Thus ends the reign of "d'Polarno I".[1]- Lord Soth becomes reclusive and withdraws into private revelries of the past.[2] The 737 BC arrival of the illusionist Tindafalus briefly causes Soth to stir long enough to secure the newcomer's capture. The illusionist thus secured, Soth puts him to work on the Memory Mirrors.[3]
- Prince Othmar appoints the incorruptible Sturm Androv Constable of the Kantora City Guard under endorsement from Tristen Hiregaard, [4]
- Shelly Holmes begins her career as a freelance private detective.[5]
- The Vistana Cyrilla's niece Vassa is kidnapped near Corvia.[6]
- Vassa returns as a clay golem; Cyrilla writes to Dr. Van Richten.[7]
- Dr. Van Richten publishes the Van Richten's Guide to the Lich.
- Celia Whitmoor and Kevin encounter Yuri Pedorov in Staunton Bluffs, but he gives them the slip.[8]
- (Summer) Sundered Heart challenges Zhone Clieous for title of Meistersinger of Harmonia, but is defeated at the last minute due to an unlikely loss of voice.[9]
- Sundered Heart reveals himself as Casimir and ousts Zhone Clieous from power by exposing him as a werewolf. Casimir confronts Zhone at the Crystal Club and kills him.[9]
- When adventurers retrieve the corpses abandoned by Captain Garvyn's from the Sea of Sorrows,[10] the 2nd Verse of Hyskosa's Hexad comes to pass.[11]
- (Autumn) In Nebligtode, the 737 Massacre claims the lives of many Grabens and Meredoth. As blowback, the Big Storm of '37 rocks Graben Island. Meredoth's clone eventually activates, though he and his undead are subtly changed.[12]
- (Autumn) A falling star lights up the night sky in eastern Falkovnia before crash landing near the thorp of Delmunster. The falling star proved to be, or to contain, a doppelganger plant that would devastate the community.[13] The Hospice of the Doe is lost amid the destruction.[14]
- (Near year's end) Casimir is also ousted as a werewolf and driven from town. He is said to have perished soon after. Eldon Cormistev becomes meistersinger in his place.[9]
References
- ↑ Quoth the Raven Issue 20 p. 33, 35, 37
- ↑ Spectre of the Black Rose p. 20
- ↑ Carnival p. 16, 26
- ↑ The Book of Secrets pg. 111-112
- ↑ Hour of the Knife p. 62 says she has been in practiced for five years at the time of the module. Domains of Dread p. 17 says that the events of Hour of the Knife takes place in 742 BC
- ↑ JWM Timeline points to Van Richten's Guide to the Created p. 20: The golem appeared “the following year” after Vaasa’s soul is taken."
- ↑ JWM Timeline points to Van Richten's Guide to the Created p. 19 "just last year"
- ↑ The Book of Souls (Netbook) p.67
- ↑ 9.0 9.1 9.2 Gazetteer I p.95
- ↑ Ship of Horrors
- ↑ Domains of Dread p. 17
- ↑ Nocturnal Sea Gazetteer p. 174, 391
- ↑ Dungeon #38 p.52
- ↑ Gazetteer II p.98
