740 BC
From Mistipedia
Events
- New Year's Day The Great Upheaval occurs.[1][2] The Lawgiver ceases to grant spells for a number of months, leading his church to remember this day as the Day of Penance.[3]
- 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.[4]
- Dr. Dominiani vanishes from Gundarak.[5] Dominia forms as a small Island of Terror[6] with Dominiani as its darklord.[5]
- Rokushima Táiyoo is revealed.[7][1][2]
- (Dread Possibility): The Smothering of Reason first manifests.[8]
- 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.[9]
- 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.[10]
- Strahd begins the annexation of the annexation of eastern Gundarak. Nine months of bloody war ensue.[11][11] 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).[12]
- 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.[13] The Conjunction causes Valachan to rotate 90 degrees.[14] Von Kharkov's survival is taken as a sign of Yutow's divine protection bestowed upon von Kharkov.[13]
- The Verduous Lands is created from the combining of Sri Raji, the Wildlands, and Saragoss.[1][2]
- 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. Over the new few years, they organize major religious movements in their homelands of Darkon and Tepest, respectively.
- Early Spring Dr. Van Richten publishes the Van Richten's Guide to the Ancient Dead.
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.[15]- 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.[16]
- August The Lawgiver returns the power to his clerics, leading the day to become remembered as Celebration of the Reemergence.[3]
- 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.[17] Furthermore, Hazlik travels to (or rather, creates) Ramulai and establishes the Red Academy.[18]
- September Dr. Van Richten inherits the personal library of Aimon Davidovitch. Dr. Van Richten starts studying tomes.[19]
- September The carnage of the Gundarakite Annexation culminates with the Teufeldorf Massacre.[11] Chaotic conditions among the Gundarakites causes Teufeldorf to fall easily into Barovian hands.[20] Although the Invidians have hold Castle Hunadora and several villages Western Gundarak, they does not seem much of a match for the superior Barovian troops coming from the east. Yet when defeat seems imminent for the Invidians, the Barovians stop with the conquest of Gundarak's cities.[12]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Ravenloft Third Edition p.18
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Ravenloft Player's Handbook p.20
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Gazetteer I p.53
- ↑ Ravenloft Campaign Setting: Realm of Terror (Red Box) p. 19
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 Ravenloft Campaign Setting: Domains and Denizens p. 62
- ↑ Ravenloft Campaign Setting: Domains and Denizens p.35
- ↑ Domains of Dread p.17
- ↑ Gazetteer II p. 73
- ↑ Carnival p. 40
- ↑ Domains of Dread p.68
- ↑ 11.0 11.1 11.2 Gazetteer I p. 19
- ↑ 12.0 12.1 Gazetteer IV p.39
- ↑ 13.0 13.1 Gazetteer IV p.91
- ↑ Gazetteer IV p.88
- ↑ 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 pg. 4"
- ↑ Gazetteer I p 35
