739 BC

Events

• Lyssa von Zarovich conspires with Bluetspurean illithids to create a vampiric version of their race. She hopes to use these vampire mind flayers to take over Barovia, but she ultimately fails.
• Elsepeth goes to Nartok.
• Dr. Van Richten and the adventuring band known as the Hand hunt and destroy the Gibbering Golem.
• Dr. Rudolph van Richten publishes Van Richten's Guide to the Created. This act earns him considerable ire from Agatha Clairmont, whom sees it as an instruction manual to building dread golems just much as it is hunting them.
• In the wake of Isu’s death during Senmet’s coup attempt, another woman takes Isu’s place as high priestess of Osiris: Snefru. Like Isu, Snefru is secretly truly a servant of Set.
• Celeste d'Honaire-Loverde is born to Julienne d'Honaire and Bernard Loverde
• The Kantora Strangler begins murdering people out on the Kantoran streets during storming nights.
• The literary works of d'Polarno are published for the first time.
• Dr. Mordenheim throws Gerhard Beckmann out after Beckmann reacts with horror upon seeing Elise. Beckmann works for a few months on recreating Elise but instead only creates the Patchwork Bride. Mordenheim reacts even worse and casts out Beckmann and his creation out forever. Beckmann deserts his creation and flees Lamordia altogether. He eventually settles down in Kartakass. The child-like Elise replica is picked up by a Ludendorf freak show (where she gains the Patchwork Bride moniker) until she kills a child and disappears in the confusion.
• Fleas of Madness plague Lamordia. Hendrik_von_Aubrecker dies as a result. Baron Vilhelm Von Aubrecker's mind and body soon begin to deteriorate as a result of this loss.
• By this year, Tristen ApBlanc has noticed the threat Azenwrath represents. Tristen manipulates Kyall into bringing down Azenwrath.
• Luc Tarascon gets his fortune told by the Vistani woman Valana. She provides him with the 4th Verse of Hyskosa's Hexad. Using this information, Luc and Marcel Tarascon explore underground tombs to locate the the Hyskosa Scroll. Marcel is struck down by the undead, and the experience transforms Luc into a lost one. Following this misfortune, Jean Tarascon, Marcel's twin brother, arranges for Marcel's resurrection. However, the spell fails, and Marcel is left a zombie lord. Jean himself is driven to madness and hides the scroll from his brother, determined to "protect" him from it all costs.
• A string of murders and disappearances rocks Marais d'Tarascon. Marcel Tarascon and Jean Tarascon are responsible.
  
• On a night of this year, a lunar eclipse hangs low overhead, adventurers destroy the zombie lord Marcel Tarascon.Thus, the 4th Verse of Hyskosa's Hexad comes to pass.
• Shortly prior to the Grand Conjunction, Count Sulo Boritsi takes most of his family to Bergovitsa. He establishes a chapter Boritsi Trading Company in Nova Vaasa and, through it, will expand the business out into the Nocturnal Sea following its formation in 750 BC. Soon thereafter, he will finance the creation of trading company offices in Armeikos.
• Anton Boritsi perishes under suspicious circumstances. He is survived by his wife and two children (Hellena Boritsi and Bevel Boritsi. They take over his operations, including the branch of the Boritsi Trading Company still working out of Levkarest.
• Meredoth sends a second group of Lebendtod sleeper agents to invade Imogen Schlosser's tower home. The Fiend investigates the Darklord of Nebligtode and is wholly disgusted by his character and magic supremacy. The Red Haunt departs the Core for the Wartorn Cluster to cool her head.