750 BC
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Events
- Everyone in the Sisters of Mercy Hospice is murdered.[1]
- Shelaugh commands a force of no less than 46 druids of the Rowan Faction and 20 mercenaries to storm Castle Tristenoira. The majority are horribly massacred, with less than a fourth returning alive. Half of the survivors have gone mad. The Oak Faction assumes more power in Forlorn as a result of this event.[2]
- Strahd poisons Lyssa von Zarovich into a slumbering state that leaves her active for only a few hours each night.[3] The poison is delivered via the blood of the dread flesh golem Tom (created by Emil Bollenbach) that acts as a stand-in for a human she hoped to enslave.[4]
- The Infernal Machine is activated and Lowellyn Dachine becomes Death.[5]
- The Blue Dolphin shipwrecks in the Sea of Sorrows. The survivors are picked up by the Mercy and taken to Dominia.[6]
- Dr. van Richten goes missing.[7][8][9] The Weathermay-Foxgrove Twins make an oath to continue his mission.[8][9]
- Winter: Bryonna's adoptive parents die.[10]
Winter The Vistani curse placed on Lord Donskoy culminates with his demise. Marguerite de Boche is taken back to Darkon.[11]- December: The Requiem occurs.[12][13]
- The Mists capture Vecna and Kas the Destroyer and make them the darklords of the Burning Peaks cluster.[13]
- The Nocturnal Sea appears.[13][8][9] Nebligtode vanishes from the Sea of Sorrows.
Mu is abducted from Gothic Earth by the Mists and arrives in Barovia, near Vallaki. She is taken to the Asylum of Broken Souls and suffers mistreatment. She breaks out later in the year and terrorizes the Asylum's staff until she is found and her sanity partially restored by the Weathermay-Foxgrove Twins.
References
- ↑ Gazetteer II p. 98
- ↑ Gazetteer I p. 74
- ↑ Ravenloft Gazetteer Volume I p. 34
- ↑ Children of the Night: Vampires pp. 21-26
- ↑ Gazetteer II p. 138
- ↑ Bleak House: Sea of Madness pp. 3-4
- ↑ Bleak House
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 8.2 Ravenloft Third Edition p. 18
- ↑ 9.0 9.1 9.2 Ravenloft Player's Handbook p. 20
- ↑ Servants of Darkness p. 16
- ↑ John W. Mangrum's Unofficial Ravenloft Timeline p. 38 points out that the novel To Sleep With Evil covers a time-span of about a year and ends with a reference to a horrible event happening in the heart of Darkon, a probable reference to the Grim Harvest or the Requiem.
- ↑ Requiem
- ↑ 13.0 13.1 13.2 Domains of Dread p. 17
