740 BC
From Mistipedia
Events
- (Dread Possibility): The Smothering of Reason first manifests,[1] though source materials don't specify the time of year this manifestation began.
- Gabrielle Aderre manipulates Lady Haptmeyer and Lord Haptmeyer into destroying each other, leaving the Haptmeyer Estate largely abandoned for seven years.[2]
- Early Spring Dr. Van Richten publishes the Van Richten's Guide to the Ancient Dead.
- Summer The Great Upheaval occurs,[3][4], causing a number of massive effects.
- The darklords and the other denizens of the Demiplane of Dread are temporarily released from their domain prisons, and some escape into the Material Plane.[5]
- Many minor conjunctions occur as part of this cataclysmic event.[5]
- The Lawgiver ceases to grant spells for a number of months thereafter.[6]
- The geography of the Core greatly changes. Arak, Arkandale, Dorvinia, and Gundarak all cease to be, their lands absorbed into or merged with neighboring domains. The Shadow Rift replaces the land where G'Henna and Markovia once were. Bluetspur and the Nightmare Lands similarly vanish from the Core. G'Henna, Bluetspur, and the Nightmare Lands become islands of Terror whereas Markovia becomes an island in the Sea of Sorrows.[7] The Conjunction causes Valachan to rotate 90 degrees.[8]
- Dr. Dominiani vanishes from Gundarak.[9] Dominia forms as a small Island of Terror[10] with Dominiani as its darklord.[9]
- The Sea of Sorrows gains its first darklord[7] as Captain Pieter van Riese pledges his life and those of his crew to any power that will move his ship through the great storm that plagues it.[11]
- Rokushima Táiyoo is revealed.[12][3][4]
- Farelle, Sanguinia, and Vechor all disappeared, seemingly destroyed.[7] (However, they would return or be mentioned in later Ravenloft products, revealing that the domains were not truly destroyed.)[13]
- Panicked by the Grand Conjunction, Hermos and the rest of the refugee carnival folk from L'Morai flee from Darkon into Falkovnia seeking a better life. Isolde saves them from certain demise. Under her leadership, a new Carnival assembles.[14]
- Hazlik briefly escapes back to Thay. He witnesses the progeny of his enemies flourishing. Infuriated, he is recaptured by the Mists before he can fully wreak his revenge.[15]
- Strahd begins the annexation of the annexation of eastern Gundarak. Nine months of bloody war ensue.[16][16] Meanwhile, Gabrielle Aderre cozies up to the village leaders in western Gundarak with advice against the Barovians. Her Invidian troops henceforth move in and occupy western Gundarak (including Castle Hunadora).[17]
- Another revolt occurs in Valachan, and Baron Urik von Kharkov barely manages to survive an attempted assassination. As he is badly injured, earthquakes rock the land.[18] The Conjunction causes Valachan to rotate 90 degrees.[8] Von Kharkov's survival is taken as a sign of Yutow's divine protection bestowed upon von Kharkov.[18]
- The Verdurous Lands is created from the combining of Sri Raji, the Wildlands, and Saragoss.[3][4]
- The Grand Conjunction rocks the lives of both Teodorus Raines and Wyan of Viktal and causes them to believe that more great strife on the way. Teodurus Raines begins traveling Darkon preaching apocalyptic visions and conversion to the Church of Ezra, though he will not be successful until after the Requiem.[19] Many people of Tepest despair the end of the world is nigh, but Wyan, one of Belenus' clergy, preaches it is merely the fey's first strike and declares war on them.[20]
The Grand Conjunction rearranges much of the celestial bodies, causing the starmaps of the Celestines to become inaccurate. Tiryn Olenka-Blaas dies, but her former pupils carry on her work. A falling star leads Astrilax diCorvi to a hilly set of ruins just out of Vallaki. The Celestines build Midway Haven, the first Celestine Observatory there.[21]- In the aftershocks of the Grand Conjunction, a rift opens up between Dementlieu and Hell, letting an aminzu devil and a bearded devil slip through the barrier with several larvae in tow. The two devils end up in Chateaufaux and murder Mayor Henri Melano and Captain Domini Tisiphanes and assume their identities, establishing the Black Watch.[22]
- August The Lawgiver returns the power to his clerics, leading the day to become remembered as Celebration of the Reemergence.[6]
- Despairing that he may never escape to wreak his revenge, Hazlik does an about-face on his views of magic. He now condones it and begins taking apprentices.[23] Furthermore, Hazlik travels to (or rather, creates) Ramulai and establishes the Red Academy.[24]
- September Dr. Van Richten inherits the personal library of Aimon Davidovitch. Dr. Van Richten starts studying tomes.[25]
- The domains that make up the Wartorn Cluster join together into a new Cluster.
- The Red Haunt develops the Centurion-persona in the Wartorn Cluster.
References
- ↑ Gazetteer II p. 73
- ↑ The Evil Eye p. 49
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 Ravenloft Third Edition p. 18
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 Ravenloft Player's Handbook p. 20
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 Roots of Evil pp. 8-9
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 Gazetteer I p. 53
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 7.2 Ravenloft Campaign Setting: Realm of Terror (Red Box) p. 19
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 Gazetteer IV p. 88
- ↑ 9.0 9.1 Ravenloft Campaign Setting: Domains and Denizens p. 62
- ↑ Ravenloft Campaign Setting: Domains and Denizens p. 35
- ↑ Domains of Dread p. 74
- ↑ Domains of Dread p. 17
- ↑ Vechor reappears in Domains of Dread as part of the Core on the eastern side of the Nocturnal Sea. Sanguinia reappears in Ravenloft Third Edition as part of the Frozen Wastes cluster. Farelle is mentioned in Van Richten's Arsenal)
- ↑ Carnival p. 40
- ↑ Domains of Dread p. 68
- ↑ 16.0 16.1 Gazetteer I p. 19
- ↑ Gazetteer IV p. 39
- ↑ 18.0 18.1 Gazetteer IV p. 91
- ↑ Gazetteer II p. 30
- ↑ Gazetteer V p. 55
- ↑ Undead Sea Scrolls 2002 p. 128
- ↑ Chilling Tales p. 56
- ↑ Gazetteer I p. 51
- ↑ Gazetteer I p. 60
- ↑ JWM Timeline p. 35 "Extrapolated from VRGtF p. 4"
