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The 1st Century
- Nation of Barovia forged of independent city-states by the von Zarovich family.[1]
- The founding of Barovia also united the City States to the west into the semi-independent region of Borjia. The wealthy mercantile families, Cosco, Boritsi, Olszanik and Dilisnya use their wealth to purchase titles in the new country of Barovia and in Borjia, strengthening the ties between the two regions to the extent where Borjia was seen as part of Barovia. [2]
- Beginning of the Barovian Calendar. [3]
The 2nd Century
- The formal founding of the Barovian state Church of Andral, with the blessing of the Von Zarovich family.[4]
The 3rd Century
- The Neureni Horde invades Barovia, the ravage the countryside of Barovia as they have done other countries. The Barovians finally halt them at Vallaki under the command of the General-Princess Nicoleta von Zarovich and then drive them out of Barovia.[5]
- Duchess Dorfniya Dilisnya born in Prime Material Barovia [7]
Nharov Gundar becomes a vampire.[8]
- Strahd von Zarovich born to Barov & Ravenia von Zarovich. [9]
The 4th Century
- The Shadow Dragon Ebb is born miles beneath the surface of an ancient and dying outlander world.[10]
- Strahd von Zarovich joins the military. [11]
- Likely False History: According to The Dementlieuse Sect's teachings, texts from the "original" Church of Ezra date back to this time or slightly earlier.[12]
- Reinhold Dilisnya born to Duchess Dorfniya Dilisnya and Pidlwik Dilisnya in Prime Material Barovia [13]
- Sturm von Zarovich is born to Barov and Ravenia von Zarovich.[14]
- The so-called War of Silver Knives starts between the noble Barovian families of Dilisnya, Katsky, and Petrovna, after the assassination of Izabela Dilisnya ostentatiously over a Silver Mine. Pidlwik Dilisnya, the son of Izabela, lead his family in this war.[15][16]
- Gertrude Dilisnya born to Duchess Dorfniya Dilisnya and Pidlwik Dilisnya in Prime Material Barovia [17]
- Count Barov von Zarovich finally exerts his influence over the feuding families and orders the so-called War of Silver Knives to cease and appeases the families with gifts of new lands. The families comply, but their war has weaken the country considerably. Pidlwik Dilisnya was not entirely satisfied by this appeasement believing that his mother’s death deserved more than what Barov offered, but held his tongue and quietly nurtured his grudge, passing this hatered and lust for power on to his offspring.[18] [19]
- The Tergs invade Barovia, conquering the ancestral lands of the Von Zarovich family, they proceed to conquer the closely allied mercantile region of Borjia.[20][21][22][23][24]
- Dorfniya, the wife of Pidlwik Dilisnya, gives birth to Leo Dilisnya thanks to an illicit affair with Gunther Cosco.[25]
- False History: In the land that will become known as Valachan, a tan-skinned race of folk called the Vaasi emerge from the mists and begin a war with the peaceful barbarian worshipers of Yutow the Provider. This war is known as the Pacification.[26]
- Strahd gains the military rank of general.[27][28]
- Strahd von Zarovich takes the Barovian troops to war against the Tergs for the sovereignty of Barovia.[22][23][24][29][30]
- Dagmar Olavnya (married name—maiden name unknown) born in Prime Material Barovia. [31]
- Sergei von Zarovich is born is born to Barov and Ravenia von Zarovich.[14]
- Krynn: The Kingpriest begins plotting his own passage to godhood. (41 PC) [32]
- Barovian and Borjian forces drive the armies of the Tergs back from the Borjia region. The people of Borjia begin the process of rebuilding and contribute only supplies to the Barovian war effort not troops. [33]
- The Siege of Krezk occurs during the depths of winter.[34]
- Tatyana Federovna, the future lover of Sergei von Zarovich and target for Strahd von Zarovich's desire, is born in the Village of Barovia.[14]
- Duchess Dorfniya Dilisnya dies. [35]
- False History: In the land that will become Valachan, the Vaasi continue the Pacification. The panther discovers a way for Yutow to save the realm from the Vaasi. To save it, he sacrifices himself, dieing so that the Vaasi and his worshiper merge into one race called the Valachani. [36]
- The Bright Blade is given to Sergei von Zarovich as he joins the Church of Andral.[37]
- Count Barov and Countess Ravenia von Zarovich slain by Tergs.[34]
- Strahd makes a pact with Inajira right before a critical battle with the Tergs.[38]
- Last of the Tergs driven from Barovia.[34][23][24] Strahd takes the rule over Barovia as the prize for his victory.[22]
- Strahd orders the execution of the burgomaster of Renika for withholding taxes. The choice of a replacement is left to the people of Renika itself.[39]
- Castle Ravenloft completed.[34] Strahd assumes residence there.[22]
- Pidlwik Dilisnya dies[40], but Leo Dilisnya still carries his hatred and plots out a conspiracy against the Von Zaroviches.[33] Bizarrely enough, Pidlwick is buried in the catacombs beneath Castle Ravenloft.[41]
- 1736 Forfarian Calendar: From his deathbed in absence of an heir,MacFarn of MacFarn, chief of Clan MacFarn, delegates the responsibility of choosing a successor from among his nephews to Lady Iolan. Of the choice between Duncan MacFarn and Donal MacFarn, Donal is eventually chosen.[42]
- Count Strahd von Zarovich, Commander Alek Gwilym, Sergei von Zarovich, and Lieutenant Falov lead a military strike force to defeat Red Lukas and his gang of bandits.[43]
- Most High Priest Kir dies creating the Holy Symbol of Ravenkind. Sergei von Zarovich succeeds him as high priest of Andral.[44]
- The Ba'al Verzi try and fail to assassinate Count Strahd von Zarovich.[34]
- 1737 Forfarian Calendar: An unnamed cleric of Diancecht writes The Purification of the Corrupt Flesh.[45]
- Duncan MacFarn lures his brother Donal MacFarn into a trap under a pretense of a feast at Castle Forfarmax. Once Donal and his guard are inside the feast hall, Donal orders his archers to shoot them all dead. Donal and his soldiers all perish. Duncan's agents entomb the dead bodies beneath the stones of the castle's floor.[42]
Summer The massacre at the Wedding of Sergei von Zarovich occurs.[46] Barovia forms as the first Ravenloft domain due the actions of Strahd von Zarovich.[47] Strahd turns into a vampire.[22][48]- 1738 Forfarian Calendar: On the anniversary of their murder, Donal MacFarn and the Ghosts of Hospitality possess the stones of Castle Forfarmax and kill the traitor Duncan MacFarn and his retinue of servants and guests, leaving Castle Forfarmax empty and abandoned for centuries.[49]
In 351 BC a comet shone in the Barovian sky during the fermenting season. Hence, the year is known as The Year of the Comet. Barovian Red, a local wine, marked the event with labels bearing the image of the comet.[50]
- Strahd flexes his muscles to show domination over Barovia.[22][48]
- June Burgomaster Dagmar Olavnya is robbed of half of Immol's taxes.[51]
- The fiend Drigor becomes trapped in Barovia; it attaches itself to the Madrigore family and starts writing The Madrigorian.[52]
- False History: On this approximate year, Léon (of Dementlieu) unites Dementlieu and establishes the Council of Brilliance.[53]
- Boyar Victor Wachter dies in the search for Leo Dilisnya. Victor's daughter Lovina continues his mission after his death.
- False History: The Arcane Age of Darkon ends with Darcalus Rex eliminating his rivals and becoming king.[54]
May Dr. Blake Ramsay leaves Mordentshire and takes residence on the Isle, where he later becomes darklord of.[55]
- (Outside Ravenloft) Klorr creates The Timepiece of Klorr.[56]
- False History: The ancient wizard called the Nightmage creates various evil and vile creatures and magic items at Nartok, including several clans of Broken Ones. They eventually kill him and come to live in the catacombs beneath Nartok for at least three more centuries.[57]
- October Liza Ramsay falls from the cliffs of the Isle. Dr. Ramsay, her father, forges a pact with the Dark Powers. He murders his wife Helen Ramsay and his two sons, Gregory Ramsay and Blake Ramsay, Jr. and uses their body parts to to make Liza into a dread flesh golem. He succeeds, but her eyes are tainted and deformed. Dr. Ramsay begins killing visitors to the Isle and harvesting their eyes.[58]
- Count Strahd von Zarovich confronts Lord Leo Dilisnya at the Monastery of Silver Threads, walking into Lord Dilisnya's trap. Strahd is almost put down, but the monks of the monastery act to turn the tide of battle. Strahd turns Lord Leo Dilisnya into a vampire and imprisons him in a tomb to starve from a lack of blood.[59]
- Summer: A girl known only as "Marina" is discovered wandering near Berez at the Luna River. She suffers from amnesia regarding her past. Lazlo Ulrich, the Category:Burgomaster of Berez, adopts her.[60]
- Jezra Wagner is born.[61]
The 5th Century
- First known reincarnation of Tatyana appears.[23][24] Strahd meets a young woman named Marina when he purchases some spellbooks from her adoptive father, Burgomaster Lazlo, in the guise of Vasili Von Holtz.[62]
- Strahd surreptitiously set about wooing Marina and transforming her into a vampire. However, his work is detected by Brother Grigor, whom informs Lazlo.[63]
- Strahd dominates Brother Grigor and orders him to go on pilgrimage to the Shrine of the White Sun.[64] However, Lazlo stakes Marina before Strahd complete the process of transforming her.[65] In a final act of defiance against Strahd, the Mists abduct her staked body before Strahd can get back to her.[66]
(Approx.) - In Xi'anlin on the Prime Material Plane, Lai Niangxue dies waiting for her love, Lung Ma.[67] Lung Ma's bones are buried the very same day.[68]
- 1809 Forfarian Calendar: Tristen ApBlanc resurfaces under the guise of a minstrel and distant relative of the ApBlancs. He lays claim to their old lands and orders the construction of the Lord's Tower.[69]
- 1809 Forfarian Calendar: (Death of an Ancestor) The Minstrel ApBlanc saves the future mother of Corey, an ancestor of one of the player characters.[70]
- 1810 Forfarian Calendar: (Death of an Ancestor) Corey, an ancestor of one of the player characters, is born.[70]
- First Unwise Rebellion - Minor noble families rise up against the Gundars and are crushed.[71]
- 1813 Forfarian Calendar Tristen ApBlanc tricks Isolt ApVay into marrying him by praying upon her sympathies for him as a cursed being. Over the next three years, they would produce three children, Gilan ApBlanc, Morholt ApBlanc, and Brangain ApBlanc[72]
- Winter: Jezra Wagner perishes on Mt. Baratok and becomes a heat-draining spectre.[61]
- (Xi'anlin, Prime Material Plane) The Civil Wars of the Yinshi Empire end on this approximate year. The Lai Family abandons their estate in the country to return to their urban holdings.[73]
- The Damneable Tragedie of Counte Vonn Zarovych by Demius the Bard, written in 436 BC. Includes an account of Strahd's deal with Inajira.[74]
- Second Unwise Rebellion - Minor noble families rise up against the Gundars and are crushed for a second time.[71]
- 1825 Forfarian Calendar': Tristen ApBlanc accidentally kills Gilan ApBlanc when he sends his wolves after the boy's dog Petitcrieu.[75][76]
- According to a version of Strahd's diary ready by van Richten in 736 BC, Alina, the second reincarnation of Tatyana Federovna dies of fever in this year of 445 BC. Count Strahd attempts suicide with Alina in hand, but the Mists prevent him and snatch away her corpse.[77] However, this goes against a version of Strahd's diary read by Jander Sunstar that says Tatyana's second reincarnation was Olya Ivanova who died 30 years later in 475 BC[78]
- 1833 Forfarian Calendar: Tristen ApBlanc mistakenly murders the sleeping Morholt ApBlanc, intending instead to murder his teacher Duncan ApDuguid.[79][72]
- 1838 Forfarian Calendar: Tristen ApBlanc puts away Brangain ApBlanc in a hidden cell because of he feared her holy powers.[79][80]
- The Mists claim Jander Sunstar.[81][22]
- 1839 Forfarian Calendar:Despite being locked in her cell, Brangain ApBlanc vanishes without a trace. Tumbling to the truth of her huband's evil nature, Isolt ApBlanc confronts Tristen. He ultimately murders her, but he manages to cover it up as a suicide.[79][82]
- The Vistana Maruschka born to the Zarovan tribe. (She will eventually take Eva’s place as Raunie.) [83]
- (Either False History or Prime Material Invidia): Treholan wipes out his rivals nobles and their families. He builds Castle Loupet.[84]
- Prime Material Ustalav: A curse transforms Castle Maiserene (from the county of Varno) into Bastardhall.[85]
- 1850 Forfarian Caledar: Minstrel ApBlanc vanishes. The Lord's Tower now (or is thought to now) lies abandoned.[86]
- (Ustalav, Prime Material Plane) Approximate year for the founding of the University of Lepidstadt.[87]
- The Vistani appear in Barovia for the first time.[88][23][24] Madame Eva makes a pact with Strahd.[23][24]
- Martyn Pelkar is drawn into Barovia, bringing tales of a "golden morning lord."[89] At first the boy is called mad, but Martyn's stories of whom he called the Morninglord would sprout a full Cult of the Morninglord among the Barovians[90], which history shows as appearing that same year.[91] The protective figure Martyn encounters is not actually Lathander, but rather Jander Sunstar, whom was also a new arrival in Ravenloft.[92]
- Petya and Anastasia Petrovich killed by Strahd[94]
- Urik von Kharkov becomes a vampire.[95]
- December: in Prime Material Mordent, the de Boistribue Family disappears, leaving behind partly chewed bodies of servants, bloodstains, claw marks, and a single survivor: a servant driven so mad as to prevent the telling of what happened during the incident.[96]
- Jacqueline Montarri murders Madame Eva and is horrifically cursed. Madame Maruschka becomes the new raunie of the Zarovan tribe. (Note that Madame Eva is still seen after this; this can be accounted for by her tribe’s existence in non-linear time.) [97]
- Alexi "Sasha" Petrovich, Leisl, and Jander Sunstar assault Castle Ravenloft drive Strahd into hibernation.[98]
The 6th Century
- Audun Beck, captain of the Illsong, discovers a magic gem while looting a wizard's tower. It transforms him into a sea vampire. After the healer in his village fail to restore him to life, he massacres everyone and burns the village to the ground. The Mists abduct him and his ship, taking them to the Sea of Sorrows.[99]
- Third Unwise Rebellion - Minor noble families rise up against the Gundars for the third time. The rebellion is crushed and Duke Boldizar Gundar executes all nobles not related to the Gundars by marriage.[71]
- Prime Material Mordent: Many of the Halloway Family and their associates and friends die suspicious deaths.[100]
- 1894 Forfarian Calendar: Andrew ApFittle and Nellie ApFittle, twin brother and sister, are born.[101]
- Prime Material Mordent: Lord Wilfred Godefroy is born.[102]
- 1901 Forfarian Calendar Herrold ApKie (later known as Herrd) is born.[101]
- Yersinia Wachter is born.[103]
- (False History) Jameld of Hroth is born.[104]
- 1906 Forfarian Calendar: Castle B Tristen, under the guise of Marc ApBlanc- the grandson of Bragain, claims the Lord's Tower and begins refurbishing it. Against the protests of the ApFittles, Tristen/Marc builds walls around his keep and begins recruiting mercenaries.[86]
- Monsters begin flooding the lands of Forfar for the next three years following this one, distracting the ApFittles from Tristen/Marc's activitie.[105]
- Byron Weathermay is born.[102]
- 1909 Forfarian Calendar: The Lord's Tower has now been remade into Castle ApBlanc.[105]
- Lyssa von Zarovich is born.[106]
- (Prime Material Plane) Under the graces of the Church of Belenus, the Great Kingdom is established. Along with it, the Circle, in its original incarnation, is established for the Great Kingdom's protection.[107]
- 1914 Forfarian Calendar: Nellie ApFittle, an ancestor of Shelaugh, joins the druids of Forfar.[101]
- Outlander adventurers assault Castle Ravenloft and are destroyed.[108]
- Ferdinand Misroi discovers Souragne on the Prime Material Plane.[109]
- Katherine Sutherwaite, future wife of Byron Weathermay, is born.[102]
- (False History)? Pierre Tarascon meets Hyskosa, whom reveals to him Hyskosa's Hexad two hundred years before the dukkar actually divined the prophecy.[110]
- Aldrick Wachter is born.[111]
- On this approximate year, Marc ApBlanc challenges the ApFittles for rule over Forfar, plunging it into civil war that lasts through the late 1920s in the Forfarian Calendar.[105]
- The Mists draw the Timepiece of Klorr into Ravenloft at no later a year than this one.[112]
- Wilhiem Wagner, Barovian composer, is born[113]
- Azalin enters Ravenloft and arrives in Barovia.[114]
- Strahd discusses the potential threat Azalin poses with Madame Ilka, the new raunie of the Zarovan tribe (Maruschka having apparently died at some point in the last 40 years). [115]
- 1929 Forfarian Calendar: Lord Patrick ApFittle dies, and Andrew ApFittle becomes lord of Forfar.[101]
- (Prime Material Mordent) The last of the Holsworth Family vanishes into the Sea of Sorrows.[116] By this time, much of the Halloway Family and their associates have died under suspicious circumstances as well[100]
- 1930 Forfarian Calendar: The Massacre of the ApFittles- ApFittle Hall is razed, leaving only the skeletal ruins of its foundation behind. In the smoldering ruins, Tristen orders the mass execution of no less than 27 of the ApFittles, thus heralding the start of the Time of Terrors. The spilled blood allows the seed of a Death's Head Tree to germinate and bloom 52 years later.[117]
- Tristen ApBlanc's forces triumph over the Apfittles in the Forfarian Civil War.[105]
- 1933 Forfarian Calendar: The people of Birnam sign papers of formal surrender to the minions of Tristen ApBlanc.[101]
- Prime Material Plane: The Great Fire of Paridon.[118]
- 1934 Forfarian Calendar: The Execution of Andrew ApFittle. Tristen ApBlanc wins a bloody civil war for Forfar. He orders the execution of the last ApFittle. As Tristen claims lordship of Forfar for himself, the Dark Powers respond. Forlorn becomes the second domain to form in Ravenloft.[105][82]
- As part of the land's corruption, the Lake of Red Tears emerges, and Agatha swims in its depths.[119] Most of the surviving human Forfarians will flee Forlorn during this Time of Terror.[120]
- Strahd sends Azalin to investigate Forlorn, but nothing of value to them is found.[121]
- In this approximate year, Forfarian survivors stream over the border from Forlorn to Barovia and end up settling in Immol.[122]
- Lyssa von Zarovich becomes a vampire and discovers a way to achieve the power of a vampire much greater than her age.[106]
- Estelle Weathermay is born to Byron Weathermay and Katherine Sutherwaite Weathermay.[102]
- The Dark Delvers are in operation by this year or earlier. However, both where they came from and how they got started remain unknown.[124]
- Dr. Dominiani accidentally becomes a vampire with a transfusion of cerebral spinal fluid from one of Duke Gundar's vampire brides. Gundar refrains from killing Dr. Dominiani because the doctor is now Gundar's thrall.[125]
- By no later than this year has Lord Wilfred Godefroy inherited Gryphon Manor.[126]
- Henry Leighton, future husband of Virginia Weathermay, is born.[102]
- Prime Material Ustalav: Last known sighting of the Black Coach.[87]
- Virginia Weathermay, future love interest of the Alchemist, is born to Katherine Sutherwaite and Byron Weathermay. Katherine Sutherwaite dies.[102]
- Leederik's Tower becomes a floating pocket domain[127]
- Notes on the Alchemie published in Paridon.[128]
- Lilia Godefroy is born to Estelle Weathermay and Lord Wilfred Godefroy.[102][126]
- In Sebua, grave robbers drill a tunnel into Sephren's Pyramid. They accidentally set off a trap that unleashed swarms of grave scarab beetles, resulting in all of the robbers' deaths.[130]
- ((False History) Heinrich von Ostlin (then mayor of Helbenik) conquers all of the independent city states around him and unites them into the nation of Valachan under his rule.[132]
- Lord Wilfred Godefroy canes Estelle Godefroy to death. When Lilia Godefroy tries to intervene, he murders her too.[126]
- New Year's Day Lord Wilfred Godefroy commits suicide.[133]
- Prime Material Mordent: The Mournesworth Family investigate a number of dreaded omens and rumors and commence a strange ritual before they ultimately disappear as Mordent is drawn into the Mists.[134]
- Strahd and Azalin create a portal to Mordent[114], where The Alchemist conducts strange research on changing the soul.[135] The Mists snatch up Mordent before either Strahd or Azalin can make good their escape, leaving them with only hazy dream-like recollections of what happened.[114]
- Azalin leaves the service of Strahd.[136][22] Darkon forms as he leaves Barovia.[137][136][22][137]
- (False History) Late Fall: Darcalus Rex is overthrown by Azalin.[138]
- Azalin holds a masquerade ball, calling the nobility of Darkon to its mandatory attendance. After Azalin introduces himself and proclaims rule of Darkon to be his, he kills anyone who refuses to acknowledge this right of rule.[139]
- Master Bralkain and his wizard underlings inadvertently create the Key to the Abyss, thereby enabling the Whistling Fiend to enter the Land of Mists.[140]
- The Whistling Fiend wipes out Creeana,causing all those who lived there to abandon the village or perish.[141]
- A Barovian militia established by Boyar Yersinia Wachter and led by Aldrick Wachter repels an invading party of Azalin's undead.[142]
- By this year, Il Aluk has 15,000 people residing within it.[143]
- False History Graben Manor is built on Svidi Full-Sails's former island by a wealthy jewel-thief from the south.[144]
- Bluetspur appears.[22][23][24]
- Early Summer A lycanthrope agent of the Kargat infiltrates the Krezk militia before meeting his own demise.[145]
- Summer Strahd's minions assassinate the leaders of the Kargat. This leaves the Kargat in shambles for years, and Azalin ceases the skirmish attacks on the borders of Barovia.[146]
- Arrival of the Red Haunt in Darkon.
583 BCAdam kidnaps Elise.[131]
- Thaani stream into Barovia from Bluetspur.[122]
- An exploratory party of spelunkers explores the depths under Arak and come back up the same day. For the spelunkers, the trip had been three whole weeks. From then on, Arakian miners avoided straying far from the surface as much as they could.[148]
- Bloody Jack commits his first set of murders.[23][24]
- Al Kathos forms.
- False History A family of caretakers for the livestock of the Graben Family Estate is hired on. This family will stay with the Graben Family for at least the next 150 years.[149]
- Spring: The Scourge of Arak[150]
- Keening appears.[22]
- The domain of Gundarak appears.[122][22]
- First known contact between Barovians and Gundarakites.[122]
- Malamere turns Tavelia into a vampire. Tavelia is enslaved by Malamere, but her contributions to the Kargat speed her up the ranks. Eventually at some later date, she received her freedom for her efforts, and Azalin eliminates Malamere.[151]
- 1982 Forfarian Calendar The Death's Head Tree of ApFittle Hall sprouts its first batch of "fruit".[152]
- Cumbre de Oro forms.[153]
- Lord Byron Weathermay dies.[102]
- Bloody Jack goes on his second murder spree in Paridon.[155]
- Wilhiem Wagner, a noted Lamordian composer, dies.[156]
- Anton Misroi is born.[109]
The 7th Century
- Vechor is revealed.[22][23][24] As Ravenloft claims the lair of Easan the Mad, Ahmi Vanjuko is taken as well. As the Mists surround the mansion, Vanjuko flees but winds up in Kartakass.[157]
- The Drowning Deep forms.[158]
- Ustalav (or some version of it) forms as a domain within the Land of Mists.[87]
- Henry Leighton, by now haven long taken the Weathermay surname in exchange for a large financial reward, dies.[102]
- Massa di Requiem per Shuggay,an opera, is written in Borca
- (Prime Material Plane: Ebb's shadow dragon kindred come into bloody conflict with humanoids. It doesn't go well for her relatives, but Ebb manages to escape.[159]
- Bakholis totures and murders Marta and Karlus.[160] The domain of Invidia is revealed.[22]
- The Royal Marikith Hunters are founded by Queen Orenia in Timor.[161]
- Urik von Kharkov enters Darkon through the Mists. He hears about the immortal power of the Kargat vampires and seeks them out. However, he is enslaveed as one of their vampiric thralls for two decades.[162]
- Thalis Redtree becomes baron of Nevuchar Springs, a title he holds to this very day (150 years as of the time of Gazetteer II.[163]
- (The Great Kingdom) Kateri Shadowborn gives birth to Alexi Shadowborn.[164]
- (The Southern Empire) The Dark Triad summon back to the Prime Material Plane and attempt to bind the fiend Lussimar (also known as Ebonbane) within a magical sword. Although he is imprisoned within the sword, he kills the triad and reanimates them as ghouls. Thereafter, he begins hatching plans to enact his revenge upon Kateri Shadowborn for his original defeat.[165]
- Harkon Lukas enters the Land of Mists[22] and goes on a rampage through Barovia.[166]
- False History The Graben Family moves onto Graben Island full-time, adopting the island's name for their own.[144]
- In her own home of Shadowborn Manor, Lady Kateri Shadowborn is attacked by a monastic possessed by (and wielding in sword-form) Ebonbane.[167] The monastic is enemy turned friend Lysander Greylocks, whom Ebonbane has now killed and reanimated as a ghoul.[168] Ebonbane strikes Kateri dead, but her will is too strong to be defeated. She rises as a ghost[167], her will binding Ebonbane to her manor.[169] Shadowborn Manor is claimed by the Mists.[170][23][24]
- Roman Dilisnya is born.[40]
- Bloody Jack goes on his third murder spree in Paridon.[155]
- On this approximate year, Strahd encounters Harkon Lukas running amok in Barovia and thoroughly thrashes him, forcing Harkon to flee into the Mists.[171]
- Kartakass is revealed.[172][22]
- False History: The Invidian Occupation of Kartakass ends with the the Fall of Dargacht Keep[172]
- Lilliend is revealed.
- Elena Faith-hold's hands have become tainted by the many good and innocent lives she has taken in her War On Evil. Doubt begins to take root in her mind, bringing her to pray to Belenus for guidance. However, her actions have driven the sun god refuses to answer her, and the Dark Powers answer instead, bringing her to the Demiplane of Dread. Seemingly regaining her lost paladin powers, Elena sees her emergence into a new land as a test. Elena begins a new crusade against (what she presumes to be) evil, butchering several villages before becoming darklord.[173] The domain of Nidala forms.[23][24]
- The Sincomakti School of Sciences was founded on the south shore of Lantern Lake in Versex.[174]
- The Great Fire of 617 BC devastates Aluk Septentrion. Under Baron Vestmar's supervision, the town is rebuilt.[175]
- Lazarus Ikonnas and 4 other arcane spellcasters found the Fraternity of Shadows.[176]
- The Gauldamons's worship of Lou'gal the Smiling One is uncovered. All the members of the clan are killed or chased away into the nearby forest, where they will be hunted down over the next few decades.[177]
- 2009 Forfarian Year: After seven decades, Tristen ApBlanc puts all of the goblyns of Forlorn under his control.[105]
- Under Tristen's command, his gobblyns extend and build out the structures of Castle Tristenoira.[105][178]
- Tristen begins persecuting the Forfarian druids.[179]
- The Red Haunt and Tressac meet each other in Forlorn.
- (The Great Kingdom) Alexi Shadowborn is knighted. He begins campaigning against evil in the service of Belenus.[180]
- Urik von Kharkov's vampire master is slain. Kharkov flees, casually murdering any souls unfortunate to cross his path.[162] As a result, Valachan forms, and he becomes a darklord.[23][24]
- Bloody Jack goes on his fourth murder spree in Paridon.[155]
- On this approximate year, Jax Stormguard, an outlander paladin, is drawn into Ravenloft.[181]
- August or September (The Great Kingdom) Sir Kendall dies, leaving room for Alexi Shadowborn to fill his slot in the Paladins of the Circle.[182]
- September Vandals begin defiling the tombs and graves in the city of Brimstadt.[183]
- October The desecration of graves in Brimstadt warrant the intervention of Alexi Shadowborn. He investigates and ambushes the desecraters. He discovers the desecraters are to be ghouls marked with a death's head emblem, (unknown to Alexi at the time) the symbol of Ebonbane. Alexi narrowly survives the encounter.[184]
- The Darkening shows Belenus's disfavor of Alexi Shadowborn joining the Circle, causing him to fail his Rite of Ascension. On the way home, he meets Lysander Greylocks for the first time.[185]
- In the company of Ferran Shadowborn (then Alexi's squire), Dasmaria Eveningstar, and Lysander, Alexi Shadowborn leaves the Great Kingdom for the Southern Empire, hoping to root out the killer of his mother, Kateri Shadowborn. Instead, Alexi and his friends are brought into the Phantasmal Forest. They encounter and destroy two of the Dark Triad, though at the cost of Dasmaria's life, before entering Shadowborn Manor. Lysander's existence is ended. Kateri's spirit can no longer contain Ebonbane, and the sword that held him is shattered in combat with Alexi. Although Ebonbane is briefly freed, Alexi absorbs the fiend into his body, serving as Ebonband's new prison.[186]
- Now bound to Shadowborn Manor, Alexi sends Ferran, along with their mounts, back to Shadowfast.[187] Ferran arrives back home safely. In the years to follow, Ferran will join the Circle and become an influential hero in his own right.[188] Meanwhile, Alexi remains within the Demiplane of Dread with the intention of starting a new incarnation of the Circle[189], which will eventually become the Knights of the Shadows.[190]
- The first gathering of the Scions of Irul.
- Lazlo Monz is born.[191]
- The Sea of Sorrows becomes the western coast of the Core.[170]
- False History March Anatal ancestors of the modern Grabenite villagers arrive on Graben Island, as refugees fleeing the Óvinur Ódn (= "enemy storm") besetting the "North Wild".[192]
- Efraim's Agreement[193]
- August The Village of Graben is founded. Settlers are initially led by clerics, with assemblies filling an advisory role.[192]
- (Approximately) Alexi Shadowborn founds the second incarnation of the Circle in the Land of Mists. The Knights of the Shadows refer to its members.[194]
- Jonenmark forms.[195]
- Kirchenheim is founded.[196]
- (Alphatian Empire, Mystara) Meredoth accepts the title of Baron of Norwold with the understanding he would not be interrupted from his research. He gains an island of the coast.[197]
- Dr. Germain d'Honaire is born.[198]
- Meredoth Poisons His Subjects. This mass murder and reanimation of his subjects[197] causes Nebligtode to form,[22] drawn in from off the coast of Norwold (a territory of the Alphatian Empire in the world of Mystara).[199] At this stage of its evolution, Nebligtode consists of a number of islands[200] in the Sea of Sorrows.[201] After spending some time exploring, Meredoth kills and reanimates the Graben Family.[202]
- Souragne forms.[22]
- This year marks the start of a dreadful decade of inner turmoil, isolation from the outside world, and harsh laws for Souragne.[203]
- Captain Edvard Renfus, a Darkonian sailor, is the first documented foreigner to spot Souragne after it has entered the Mists[204]
- Mr. D. goes on a murder spree in Caliphas.[87]
- By this year or earlier (Possibly False History), a family of servants is hired by the Grabens to attend to the cooking and cleaning chores of the Graben Family Estate.[149]
- Gregory and Dorina, both high-level Forfarian druids, craft the horn of the sacred grove in this year at the earliest.[205]
- Frederick van Richten, grandfatherr of Rudolph van Richten, establishes the Richten Haus estate on the outskirts of Rivalis.[206]
- By this year or earlier, the Cemetery of Marais d'Tarascon is sealed due to some horrible event that is now unknown.[207]
- Bloody Jack goes on his fifth murder spree in Paridon.[155]
- (The Great Kingdom)Leaving his home world to start a new life and atone for hisi misdeeds, Morgoroth comes to the Great Kingdom, where he consults with the now-adult Lord Ferran Shadowborn. Morgoroth bears witness of his deeds but also his will to atone to Ferran. Ferran listens and grants him asylum and a chance for repentance in exchange for an oath of loyalty.[208]
- After swearing his oath to Ferran and receiving a parcel of land, Morgoroth uses arcane magic to construct Tergeron Manor in a single night. In the years to follow, the literal ghosts of Morgoroth's past come to haunt him and the forest surrounding his manor, causing it to be referred to as the Phantasmal Forest,[209] named after and confused with the Phantasmal Forest of Ferran's stories of Ebonbane's domain.[210]
- Azalin appoints Tavelia as Kargat leader in Martira Bay.[151]
- Lars Viggsen and the Óndskapur discover Todstein,visiting it again each year until 644, when the vessel fails to return to Graben Island.[192]
- Yakov Dilisnya is born.[25]
- Domestic reindeer are brought to Graben Island from Todstein.[211]
- Duke Gundar tries to force the bards of the [[Morts-Qui-Dancent to serve as his spies. When they refuse, Duke Gundar calls on his son Medraut Gundar to torture them and curse them with a unique form of cursed undeath. The bards are required to regularly entertain others or face loss of the energy that animates them.[212]
- Blaustein forms.[213]
- Burton Wescote and his would-be wife Ann are to be wed through an arranged marriage. A bizarre and mysterious series of events leaves Ann dead at the feet of Burton's hounds after Ann had killed Michael Wescote. Burton, for his part, becomes cursed.[214]
- Curious about Lars Viggsen's repeated trespassing, Meredoth investigates Graben Island and its natives. Early reports of "Aegir's Jackdaw" circulate in response to the wizard's broom-mounted flights over the Island.[192]
- On this approximate year, Gundarakite loggers begin an almost 20 year period of chopping down Forfarian trees for lumber.[215][216]
- The Óndskapur and its crew failed to return from their fourth expedition.[217] Lars Viggsen and his crew are believed to have frozen to death on Todstein,[218] following his ship wrecking on an iceberg.[217]
- Morgoroth confesses his love to Aurora Shadowborn, but she flees, having feelings for him but having already sworn an oath of celibacy as high priestess of Belenus. Morgoroth mistakes her shock and sadness for revulsion and flees back to Tergeron Manor. Morgoroth and Aurora avoid each for a year, causing Morgoroth's heart to weigh heavy with despair.[219]
- Anton Misroi applies the supernatural knowledge he gained from the Maiden of the Swamp to become the Lord of the Dead. He gains fantastic mystical power and appears alive and human once more. However, by infusing himself with supernatural might, Misroi binds his essence to the swamp. Therefore, he cannot walk on the solid ground of the western half of his domain.[220]
- The period of chaos in Souragne seemingly ends. Trade is reestablished, and the plantation owners free their slaves on paper, but many former slaves remain so far in debt not much has changed.[203]
- Lady Kazandra, future Kargat leader, is born in Maykle.[221]
- Sir Lambert, a knight from Morgoroth's homeworld, comes through a portal into the Great Kingdom, seeking to punish the necromancer for his past crimes. Lambert states his intentions to Lord Ferran Shadowborn and the Circle (Society). Without waiting to hear judgement from the Circle, Lambert confronts Morgoroth at Tergeron Manor. In slaying Lambert, Morogorth realizes he will never atone. Lord Ferran knocks upon Morgoroth's door, hoping to find a peace. However, Ferran does not return. Morgoroth kidnaps Aurora Shadowborn, causing the Circle to attack Tergeron. Morgoroth or his forcs cause all of them to lose their lives or disappear without a trace. A storm rocks the Province of Avonleigh, causing the populace to cling together in their homes. The next morning, a mob forms to burn down Tergeron but find only a clearing where it one stood. The Dark Powers make Morgoth a darklord.[222]
- The domain of Avonleigh forms[170] (different from the Province of Avonleigh which remains behind), arising in the the Phantasmal Forest.[23][24]
- In Nebligtode, the first reports of Meerdorf on Knammen Island date from this year.[192]
- The Red Haunt finds the Kalidnay grimoire in Artan-Ak.
- Earliest time for Mulger D'Ajust to enter Ravenloft.[223]
- The Kargat establish the Faith of the Overseer in Darkon.[23][24] Tavelia is the one most responsible for its creation, having woven the dogma of the church from bits of various outlander religions and stuck them into the Doctrinae.[224]
- The Red Haunt passes through the Threefold Path and enters Lilliend.
- Bloody Jack goes on his sixth murder spree in Paridon.[155]
- Carcharodon Isle appears in the Sea of Sorrows.[225]
- Baron Mikhail Ulyanov, Kargant agent and wolfwere, is appointed ruler of the newly formed Carcharodon Isle. His arrival on the island also hearkens the first appearance of wolves on the island.[226]
- The Last Azlanti, god of Humanity, goes silent and henceforth becomes known as the Forgotten God.[174]
- On Graben Island, Kirchenheim is resettled permanently[192] following the building of its seawall.[196]
- Mercantor Melachthon, one of the founders of the Fraternity of Shadows, is lost to the Mists. Feynnman Ikonnas is his replacement.[227]
- May Dr. Blake Ramsay leaves Mordentshire for the Sea of Sorrows and takes residence on the Isle, where he later becomes darklord of.[228]
- By this year or earlier, Agonia has formed.[229]
- False History: The d'Aloure noble family of Dementlieu is well connected and powerful, but as time goes on, its fortunes begin to wane.[230]
- (Prime Material Plane) Claude Renier, future patriarch of the Reniers, is born.[231]
- On this approximate year, Locknar Cove is taken by the Mists to form an Island of Terror.[232]
- Ebb stalks those who killed her shadow dragon relatives, but she is drawn into the Mists. Winding in up in Darkon, she first comes into conflict with Azalin but then reaches an accord with him through their mutual power and condescension towards living humans.[159]
- ( False History) Rook Hill Manor is constructed Delmunster by this year at the latest.[233]
- After his parents murder Erich Reinhold and hold a funeral for him, Erich rises from the grave vrykolaka vampire. He murders everyone at Reinhold Manor. Reinhold begins haunting the hills of Soutwestern Barovia.[234]
- Tiryn Olenka-Blaas is born..[235]
- The Yeomanry is organized after a series of reaver attacks on Graben Island.[192]
- Earliest ship log references to Meerdorf.[196]
- The Wildlands forms[23][24]
- Lazlo Monz becomes the first director for the Hospital for the Alienated.[236]
- First documented trade between Graben Island and vessels from the Sea of Sorrows. The Call of the Claw Mistway connects Nebligtode to the Core at this time.[192]
- October Liza Ramsay falls from the cliffs of the Isle. Dr. Ramsay, her father, forges a pact with the Dark Powers. He murders his wife Helen Ramsay and his two sons, Gregory Ramsay and Blake Ramsay, Jr. and uses their body parts to to make Liza into a dread flesh golem. He succeeds, but her eyes are tainted and deformed. Dr. Ramsay begins killing visitors to the Isle and harvesting their eyes.[237]
- On Graben Island, Seeheim is founded in response to repeated sea reaver attacks.[192]
- Although Tristen ApBlanc has tolerated the Gundarakite loggers in Forlorn for years, they cut too close to Castle Tristenoira on this year. In response, Tristen's goblyns chase the Gundarakites out of Forlorn.[238]
- Kingdom of Vaasa: Tristen Hiregaard is born. [The given date of 664 BC is inconsistent with him being 11 when his father commits suicide in 671 BC and with the 11 years between his first love and the formation of Nova Vaasa. [239]
- In the Transpossession Temptation dread possibility, Lydia Graben tells her son, Colin Graben, stories about the Apparatus.[240]
- False History: Yome of the Weeping Eyes, last of the Warrodine kings and the Fifth Hazlani Dynasty, perishes. He leaves behind no Mulan child to inherit his throne, thereby beginning the Years of Tattered Banners.[241]
- Araby Graben runs off with a sea captain.[242], one year before the Graben Family Massacre.
- Camille Dilisnya is born.
- On this approximate year, Gundarakite loggers delve too far into the forest of Forlorn, and Tristen ApBlanc gathers his goblyns and drives them off. The loggers have not returned since then.[215]
- Bloody Jack goes on his seventh murder spree in Paridon.[155]
- Tristen Hiregaard is born.
- Emily Gerhardt born.
- Vlad Drakov is born on the outlander world of Krynn.[243]
- May: Yakov Dilisnya suffers a seizure while riding; he writes the First Book of Ezra while recovering.
- Kingdom of Vaasa: Romir Hiregaard begins his turn as Prince of Vaasa.[244]
- Orinda Nahle is born in Skald.[245]
- Sri Raji forms.[23][24]
- (Kingdom of Vaasa): Prince Romir Hiregaard, father of Tristen Hiregaard, kills his wife in an unjustified fit of jealous rage and is cursed by her to kill any woman he loves. (Tristen is ten.) [246]
- Terlarm is born in the world of Krynn.[247])
- Klaus Boritsi is born.[25]
- Rudolph van Richten is born.[248]
- (Kingdom of Vaasa):Prince Romir Hiregaard commits suicide, his son Tristen Hiregaard becomes prince at the age of 11, Sergei Hiregaard is regent, and the curse jumps to Tristen. [246]
- Baron von Kharkov I encounters the Cat of Felkovic, and the encounter leaves von Kharkov I dead. Von Kharkov II takes his place on the throne.[132] In truth, this was a critically failed attempt at destroying the nosferatu von Kharkov by Felkovic the wizard. The price he pays for failure is high, as his ghost is no longer connected to the statue. Instead, his spirit is trapped in his tower.[249]
- Howard Lumley creates a few very crude prototypes of machines that are powered by larger boilers, but nothing tiny enough for his Automatic Man. He employs some Vistani thieves to retrieve a book from Lamordia for him.[250] That text is Notes on Animation (written by Creighton Arkwright) and is actually a manual of golems.[251]
- Howard Lumley is warned by the Order of the Guardians not to utilize the Notes on Animation.[251] He disregards this warning and has an Automatic Man up and running three months later. After it runs amok, the townspeople demand it destroyed. When Lumley tries to prevent them, the Automatic Man thinks its creator has betrayed it and kills him. The townspeople attack it and the Lumley House, ultimately taking down the dread mechanical golem before abandoning the House. As the year passes, flooding partially submerges the House into the earth.[252]
- The Graben Family Massacre In Nebligtode, Colin Graben murders his his Brynna Graben and Danar Graben (his aunt and uncle, respectively), but then Meredoth massacres him along with the rest of the Graben Family. Meredoth reanimates the lot of them as lebendtod and commands them to gather subjects for his vile experiments.[253]
- Last documented case of an encounter with a member of the Gauldamon Family.[177]
- Hazlik is born in Thay.[254]
- Yagno Petrovna is born.[255]
- Members of the Order of the Guardians steal the Key to the Abyss from the dungeons beneath Castle Avernus.[256]
- False History: First records of abnormal creatures appearing in the land of Lamordia.[257]
- Lord Balfour de Casteelle is born[258]
- Lord Jules Weathermay is born.[102]
- After laying dormant for several years following the suicide of Romir Hiregaard, but it Lord Tristen Hiregaard falls in love with a peasant girl, kisses her, and kills her. The crime is covered up, Tristen is remorseful, but enjoyed the deed in the moment. [246]
- Bloody Jack goes on his ninth murder spree in Paridon.[155]
- L'île de la Tempête forms.[259]
- Thanks to the rage brought on by the curse, Lord Tristen Hiregaard begins a string of murders that will total nine women over the next six years.[246]
- Orinda begins singing for the patrons at the Tipping Minstrel.[260]
- Maria Van Richten is born
- Bernadette d'Honaire is born
- Hugues Mousel is born.
- Jerubaal Iskway, one of the founding members of the Fraternity of Shadows, disappears in Castle Tristenoira. He is presumed to be deceased.[227]
- Rudolph Van Richten is sent to boarding school in Nartok. A childhood friend is Eldrenn Van Dorn.[261]
- Wilhelm von Lovenhorst becomes one of the Umbra.[227]
- Joan Secousse is born.[262]
- (Valachan) The depredations of Lady Adeline causes several rebellions through out this 50 year timespan.[132]
- Casimir (not to be confused with Harkon Lukas’ son) starts working at Richten Haus as the gate keeper.[263]
- (Approximately) Maudit Sienne, the Puppetmaster, drives leads a carnie rebellion and drives out the previous carnival master. However, he is captured and, given a tough choice, elects to become the new master of Carnival l'Morai.[264]
- The lich Phantom's Bane kills Adame Nicht, one of the founders of the fraternity. Mazer Tam takes his place[227]
- Tristen Hiregaard tries to escape his madness by committing suicide like his father before him. Before Tristen can finish the act, the Mists intervene, and the domain of Nova Vaasa appears.[246]
- In the Second Judgement of the Lawgiver, the Vaasans are wrenched from the Faldverden (“Fallen World”) into the Falskverden (“False World”). Nova Vaasa emerges from the Mists. [266]
- Prince Ingemar Bolshnik describes the appearance of Barovia, Arak, the Nightmare Lands, and the Mists upon the frontiers of his land with the words: “howling fear to the west, stone death to the north, shapeless nightmares to the east, and nothing but ominous swirling to the south”. (Winter) [267]
- The Clever Gray Malken tavern hosts the first murder of the Signature Killer. [268]
- Alyn Dragant tracks the Whistling Fiend from Invidia to Darkon.[269]
- Kristina Dilisnya, future sister to Ivan Dilisnya, is born to Stefania Septow and Boris Dilisnya.[40]
- S.H. Williby is born.[270]
- 2069 Forfarian Calendar: Shelaugh, one of the surviving ApFittle Family and future leader of the Rowan Faction, is born.[271]
- The badly-injured Succubus Slap arrives through a portal in Darkon and elects to stay. She retreats into the Mountains of Misery to heal.
- Mordenheim creates Adam.[272] Adam Curses Mordenheim.[273]
- The domain of Lamordia forms.[257](In the Domains of Dread timeline, Lamordia merely joins the Core on this year.[274]
- Tristen Hiregaard is knighted by Prince Kethmar Bolshnik and the men become friends. [246]
- Sir Tristen Hiregaard becomes an officer of the Kantora City Guard and begins the hunt for the Signature Killer. He will rise to be the Constable of the Kantora City Guard by 717 BC at the latest. Malken will murder his first wife, Ailsa, and child, Ivaar. The tortured spirt of Ivaar may survive as a ghost in a haunted Kantora orphanage. [275] [276]
- Marcel Guignol is born.[277]
- Summer The servants of Richten Haus are all killed while the family is away one day.[278]
- Camille Dilisnya discovers her husband, Siegfried Grymig affair[279] with Maria Diazi[25] Camille poisons both Siegfried and his mistress to death. Camille's relatives send her off to Invidia, but the Mists interrupt her en route.[279]
- The domain of Borca is revealed due to the actions of Camille Dilisnya.[280] Native Borcans believe her to have delivered them from isolation in the Mists, thus ending the 333 year epoch of the Vacancy of Power. As the then-apparent sole heir of the Dilisyna rule, she is given uncontested ownership of all Borcan lands.[279]
- Boris Dilisnya and others of Ivan Dilisnya's family move from Barovia to Borca.[281] Yakov Dilisnya is among their number,[279], and he convinces Camille to support the Church of Ezra.[282]
- In Nova Vaasa, the misguided Brother Micah, of the Order of Tramalaine, summons the fiendish Black Duke. Micah fails to control the fiend; he and his laboratory are destroyed, and the fiend disappears, unseen by living eyes.[283]
- Nathan Timothy, future darklord of Arkandale and father of Alfred Timothy, is born in Mordent.[284]
- Azalin calls Styrix the night hag into the Land of Mists. After a number of months, her research of an escape proves fruitless. In response, Azalin banishes her from Castle Avernus.[285]
- Bileplate is formed.[286]
- Construction begins on the Great Cathedral of Levkarest. The Church of Ezra is spreading across Borca.[287]
- Cynthia Herbert is born.
- Drataan is razed by the Black Duke and the Brotherhood of the Whip.[288]
- Armand Ironhand confronts and is put to flight by the Black Duke.[288]
- Saarkaath forms in this approximate year.[289]
- The Adventuring Band of Loran Elbrian visits the the Tipping Minstrel in Kartakass. Perryn and Orinda fall in love, and they are wed in a private ceremony with only the other adventurers present. Orinda begins receiving training to become an adventurer.[290]
- Fall Rudolph Van Richten meets Robert Tatenna, a fellow student at boarding school.[291]
- In this year at the latest, The Isle of Demise forms.
- The Doma Odana, piloted by Captain Johan Werner and his crew, crashes into the hidden Isle of Demise. Most perish instantly, but Captain Werner and his men explore the Isle. They come to a path underground, eventually leading to a labyrinth. All but Werner are slain by Althea or other menaces. Werner is blinded, but he escapes, as commented about in his journal. His final fate remains unknown.[292]
- Jacqueline Renier and Louise Renier are born as twins to Simon Audaire and Marie Renier.[293]
- Mongrelmen flee G’Henna into the Darkonian wilderness. Karuk Abjen and a Kargat legion is sent to destroy them, but Karuk and his army are destroyed instead.[294]
- Borigia Vetighetto of Borca, a landscape painter, dies.[295]
- Camille Dilisnya marries Klaus Boritsi. Praesidius Yakov Dilisnya presides over the marriage.
- Hoder MacGrannin and Forfarian settlers establish Forfarmax.[296]
- Camille Dilisnya marries Klaus Boritsi, her second husband[25]
- Joachim Antuns is born.[297]
- Autumn: The Crimson Death originates in the Boglands. It eventually spreads to Il Aluk and, from there, the rest of Darkon, killing an estimated 1 out of every 5 Darkonians. To combat the spread of the plague, Azalin institutes a merciless regimen of quarantines for the next three decades, ordering death for any whom defy them.[298]
- Winter The Crimson Death spreads across Darkon[298]; it claims Rudolph van Richten’s great aunt Helga despite his efforts. As a result, Rudolph is even more driven into his medical studies.
- The Red Haunt's persona Katia Schlosser and Victor Mordenheim have a violent falling-out when she discovers his plan to transplant Elise's brain into her body.
- Professor Abelhous Nicholsi is born in Darkon.[299]
- Pock, a gnomish pickpocket, is caught stealing from Baron Caidin's guests. Caidan recruits Pock as a court jester and spy.
- Franklin Tennyson, Ezrite missionary, comes to Souragne.[300]
- Spring: The Crimson Death is on the decline. History credits Azalin's quarantines as responsible for its decline, though he continues its enforcement for the next three decades. The decreased population allows women opportunities for career advancement previously unavailable.[298]
- Fall: Rudolph Van Richten attends the University of Il Aluk. While there, he meets a fellow student, Dr. Harmon Ruscheider.[301]
- Late Year Vlad Drakov and his Talons of the Hawk enter the Mists and come out in Darkon. They immediately put the Darkonian villages of Pound, S'Realm, and Glymshire to the torch. The undead retaliate, and Vlad's mercenaries are expelled into the Mists.[302]
- December:[303] Ivana Boritsi and Ivan Dilisnya are born on the same night.[304]
- Bloody Jack goes on his ninth murder spree in Paridon.[155]
- Falkovnia forms.[305]
- The Mists claim Terlarm and his companions from the Krynnish city of Palanthas and bring them to Barovia Village.[306]
- Prime Material Plane: Lord Willem Ducas is born.[307]
- The Endless Road[308] and the Winding Road[309] form.
- The merchant ship Dragon's Gold enters Ravenloft in the domain of Île de la Tempete, and its crew falls victim to Captain Monette.[310]
- The Winding Road and the Endless Road pocket domains form.[311]
- 691 BC - Rudolph Van Richten marries his childhood sweetheart, Ingrid.[312]
- Claude Renier and his wererats enter the Land of Mists from the world that spawned the domain of Mordent. The wererats first turn up in Silverbas, Falkovnia.[313]
- The domain of Tepest appears.[23][24] This year and the next are marked by massive crop failure, starvation, and and particularly harsh winters, but the nobility of Darkon and Nova Vaasa, especially Tristen Hiregaard, contribute supplies to help the Tepestani people survive.[314]
- Falkovnia faces two threats in Silbervas: a rising thieves' guild and an infestation of wererats. They are both led by the Clawed. The period of Falkovnian history known as the Years of Impaled Rats begins.[315]
- Nostalia Romaine is born.[316]
- Josif Muscat, future founder of the The Keepers of the Coil is born in this approximate year.[317]
- The Church of Ezra is made the official state-religion of Souragne.[300]
- The Stamp Act of Zherisia is allowed to expire.[318]
- Rudolph and Ingrid van Richten's son Erasmus van Richten is born.[319]
- In Tepest, this year and the previous are marked by massive crop failure, starvation, and and particularly harsh winters,but the nobility of Darkon and Nova Vaasa, especially Tristen Hiregaard, contribute supplies to help the Tepestani people survive.[314]
- Dr. Rudolph Van Richten finishes his studies; opens his practice back home in Rivalis.,[320]
- Dr. Van Richten travels to Lamordia, hears of the Loud Man of Lamordia.[321]
- Mika moves from Il Aluk to Nartok and begins practicing medicine at an inn called the Black Boar.[322]
- At some low cliffs in the Forest of Shadows near Nartok, a bell tower allegedly springs up from the ground, tears free of its foundations, and runs off only to fall over the nearby cliffs. Regardless of whether this tale is true, ruins remain there to this day.[323]
- Birth of Clementine Schlosser in a manor near Chateaufaux in Dementlieu. The young succubus hones her hunting skills and learns to feed on the manor's servant staff.
- By this year, Borca has transformed into a major hub of trade. This is due, in part, to the arrival of the Dilisnya Family over the past decade and the utilization off their social and economic ties.[265]
- Vlad Drakov drives out the wererats (and their leader of Silbervas and Falkovnia altogether. The Years of Impaled Rats period ends.[324]
- The domain of Richemulot is revealed. Claude Renier is its first darklord.[325]
- (Richemulot): By this year, the Lock and Key is active.[326]
- Sir Tristen Hiregaard serves as prince of Nova Vaasa.
- Sulo Boritsi is born to Camille Dilisnya and Klaus Boritsi.[25]
- Young Willem Ducas, future darlord of Virisa, is using threats of violence to bully his victims into keeping quiet. He eventually goes overboard and murders a person. He hides the body and escapes without getting punished. This sets a deadly precedent for future murders down the road. His descent into corruption eventually centers around cannibalism.[327]
- Sir Armand Ironhand publishes The Beast of Ehrendton, a tragic saga, to widespread popular acclaim.[328]
- Falkovnia invades Lamordia in the Winter War.[324]
- After Lamordian forces skirmish with Falkovnian invaders, the Hoftmann Hospital is opened to soldiers wounded in war.[329] Unfortunately, the field hospital is built upon the prison of the Lurker, a Greater Fihyr imprisoned in the ground long ago. The pain and agony of the soldiers begin to awaken the Lurker.[330]
- Meltos, later childhood friend of Leobe, is born in Kellee.[331]
- First services in the unfinished Great Cathedral of Levkarest.[282]
- Daniel Foxgrove, future husband of Alice Weathermay and mayor of Mordentshire, is born.[102]
- Young Ivan Dilisnya begins torturing animals.[281]
- Lucretia Marzeya, future wife of Ivan Dilisnya, is born.[40]
- January: The Falkovnians retreat from Lamordia due to its freaklishly harsh winter, ending the Winter War.[324]
- With a ceasefire at hand between Lamordia and Falkovnia, the Hoftmann Hospital opens its doors to the public after being refurbished into a full hospital.[330]
- Yagno Petrovna creates a cave altar to Zhakata. He starts making sacrificial offerings of animals to his false deity.[332]
- Sometime between this year and 702 BC, Wladomir vanishes, and the shepherds Elessi and Evanda die from apparent suicide. However, Yagno Petrovna may have been responsible for all their deaths.[333]
- (Approx.) Azalin assembles the doctrine of the Eternal Order from various bits of Darkonian folklore.[334]
- In this year or the next, Calum Songmaster founds the Brotherhood of Broken Blades [335]
- Tobias Stark, an associate of Orinda Nahle, is killed by Claude Renier.[336]
- Anton Boritsi is born to Camille Dilisnya and Klaus Boritsi.[25]
- Dr. Van Richten meets Antonin Madren and becomes his mentor.[337]
- One of Urik von Kharkov's brides flees Castle Pantara and seeks sanctuary at the Hospice of the Sheltered Grace. The building falls down shortly thereafter, killing the refuge seeking bride inside.[338]
- On this approximate year or the previous, The Brotherhood of Broken Blades is founded by Calum Songmaster[339]
- Klaus Boritsi buys Danzig's Icon of Ezra and gives it to his daughter Ivana Boritsi.[340]
- Camille Dilisnya poisons her husband Klaus Boritsi and his mistress.
- After the Ba'al Verzi assassins botch several attempts on his life, Boyar Nicu Moldonesti seizes control of the organization, and he enslaves many of its master assassins.[341]
- The plague known as the Black Death strikes Richemulot.[342]
- (Darkon): By this year, William Burke and William Hare are active resurrectionists. They eventually begin gathering corpses via murder. They are later apprehended and executed, but they rise from the grave as ghouls.[343]
- Etienne Lefebvre, son of a magistrate, abandons the legal profession in order to join the clergy of the Church of Ezra.[344]
- (False History) The College of Liffe is founded.[253]
- Camille Dilisnya holds the Dinner of Death.[23][24] Yakov Dilisnya is among those poisoned by Camille. Blame upon her for the murder of their leader spreads far and wide among Ezra's faithful. Borca's streets erupt in open violence. Under advice, Camille quells the riots by building a monument to Yakov on church grounds and demonstrating great acts of (apparent) mourning.[287]
- Donella Borovsky becomes Praesidia.[345]
- The construction of a statue of Yakov, a mortal man, upon Ezran holy ground causes dissidence within the Church of Ezra. The First Schism splits the faithful.[287] After all is said and done, a Rite of Revelation is created to reveal those truly favored by Ezra.[346]
- Markovia forms.[23][24] In Nova Vaasa, the Dyskov Forest is effectively put off limits for four decades. [347]
- On this approximate year, a mob runs Mikel Gunderling out of Il Aluk on suspicion of using necromancy to achieve immortality.[348]
- Bernadette d'Honaire marries Hugues Mousel, a giomorgo mystic, defying her father, Germain d'Honaire's wishes for her to wed into the Weathermay Family. This defiance alienates Germain, and through him, the rest of the D'Honaire Family from Bernadette.[349]
- Felix Wachter writes the Second Book of Ezra[23][24], founding the Mordentish sect of the Church of Ezra.
- Sentire Franklin Tennyson embraces the teachings of the Second Book of Ezra. However, the Souragnien public's reception of these teachings is less than enthusiastic.[300]
- Ivan Dilisnya poisons the child of a servant to category:death merely for swiping a pastry.[281]
- Francois Mousel is born to Bernadette d'Honaire Mousel and Hugues Mousel.[198]
- Elizabeth Weathermay dies at a young age.[102]
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- ↑ 72.0 72.1 Gazetteer I p. 130
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- ↑ Art in the Land, Book of Souls (Netbook) p. 8
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- ↑ Vampire of the Mists
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- ↑ VotM pg. 284: Maruschka was born 20 years before Jander enters Barovia.
- ↑ Gazetteer IV p.44
- ↑ Ustalav Gazetteer, QtR22 p.215
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- ↑ Ravenloft Third Edition p.13
- ↑ Ravenloft Third Edition p.17
- ↑ Vampire of the Mists
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- ↑ Gazetteer III p.48
- ↑ VotM pg. 284: “died four years ago.” RLMC I&II pp. 89-90: tells us how it happened.
- ↑ VotM
- ↑ Children of the Night: Vampires p. 14-15; The date is questionable because it precedes the formation of the Sea by 130 years.
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- ↑ 101.0 101.1 101.2 101.3 101.4 Eve of Sorrows p. 28
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- ↑ I, Strahd, The War Against Azalin
- ↑ Van Richten's Arsenal p. 156, Jameld has seen "242 years come and go", from the 756 BC date implied on p. 6 with Van Richten vanishing six years from time of the book's in-world publication.
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- ↑ Gazetteer III p. 52
- ↑ Weeping Lands p. 30; Melancholy Meetings p. 30; see also 595 BC
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- ↑ Weeping Lands p. 28
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- ↑ Gazetteer I pp. 73-74
- ↑ 122.0 122.1 122.2 122.3 Gazetteer I p. 18
- ↑ Gazetteer II p. 22
- ↑ Feast of Goblyns p. 13 gives the derivation of the date. Dr. D. has spent 180 years as a vampire at the time of Feast of Goblyns (736 BC according to Domains of Dread p. 17). Bleak House: Heroes, Monsters, and Settings p. 9-10 details how it happened. The date of his transition into undeath is highly questionable as it predates Gundarak's 593 BC date of formation as a domain. If the date is accurate, then this event is likely false history. Alternatively, Heinfroth may have undergone thee transformation on the Prime Material Plane or elsewhere prior to the formation of Gundarak.
- ↑ 126.0 126.1 126.2 126.3 Gazetteer III p. 130
- ↑ Children of the Night: Darklords p. 181
- ↑ Based on descriptive text from John W. Mangrum's Teeny Tiny Tales of Terror project (contributed by Nathan Okerlund), from posts on the Fraternity of Shadows message board.
- ↑ Domains of Dread pp. 90-91
- ↑ Quoth the Raven Issue 5 p. 68
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- ↑ Gazetteer III p. 45
- ↑ Gazetteer III p. 56
- ↑ I10: Ravenloft II: The House on Gryphon Hill
- ↑ 136.0 136.1 King of the Dead
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- ↑ TSR Jam 1999 Heart's Final Beat]]
- ↑ Gazetteer II p.16
- ↑ I, Strahd: The War Against Azalin
- ↑ Gazetteer II p. 57
- ↑ 144.0 144.1 Nocturnal Sea Gazetteer p. 387
- ↑ I, Strahd, The War Against Azalin pp. 265-266
- ↑ I, Strahd, The War Against Azalin pp. 265-302
- ↑ Book of Souls p.54
- ↑ Gazetteer V p. 106
- ↑ 149.0 149.1 Ship of Horror (Module) p. 50
- ↑ Gazetteer II p. 20
- ↑ 151.0 151.1 Death Undaunted p. 4
- ↑ Melancholy Meetings p. 30; "52 years" after the mass execution of a large number of ApFittles.
- ↑ Book of Sacrifices p.99
- ↑ Book of Sacrifices p.86
- ↑ 155.0 155.1 155.2 155.3 155.4 155.5 155.6 155.7 Extrapolated from the date of the first spree (156 years from the time of the module, according Hour of the Knife p. 5) Domains of Dread p. 17 places that time at 742 BC. HotK p. 5 specifies that the murders occur at 13 year intervals
- ↑ Art in the Land, The Book of Souls (Netbook)
- ↑ Ravenloft Monstrous Compendium I & II pp. 85-86
- ↑ Nocturnal Sea Gazetteer p. 225
- ↑ 159.0 159.1 Gazetteer II p. 143
- ↑ Gazetteer IV pp. 44-45
- ↑ Zherisian Gazetteer p. 117-119
- ↑ 162.0 162.1 Darklords p. 54
- ↑ Gazetteer II p. 39
- ↑ Shadowborn (Novel) p. 10-11
- ↑ Shadowborn (Novel) p. 1-7
- ↑ Domains of Dread pp. 64-65
- ↑ 167.0 167.1 Darklords p. 30
- ↑ Shadowborn (Novel) pp. 174-177
- ↑ Shadowborn (Novel) p. 269
- ↑ 170.0 170.1 170.2 Domains of Dread p. 17
- ↑ Domains of Dread p. 16, 64
- ↑ 172.0 172.1 Gazetteer I p. 93
- ↑ Islands of Terror (Sourcebook) pp. 6-9
- ↑ 174.0 174.1 Ustalav Gazetteer, QtR22 p. 217
- ↑ Gazetteer II p.63
- ↑ Undead Sea Scrolls 2002 p. 8
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- ↑ Ravenloft Gazetteer Volume I p. 74
- ↑ Weeping Lands p. 27
- ↑ Shadowborn (Novel)p. 10 says he was knighted two years ago, p. 13 says he has been campaigning for two years. p. 8 marks the current date of the novel's events at 626 BC.
- ↑ The Book of Souls (Netbook) p. 105
- ↑ Shadowborn (Novel) p. 35, he died "just over a month ago" before Alexi's Rite of Ascension, p. 8-9 dates that year and month to October of 726 BC.
- ↑ Shadowborn (Novel) p. 10
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- ↑ Shadowborn (Novel), throughout
- ↑ Shadowborn (novel) p. 308-312
- ↑ A Light in the Belfry Audio DC Track 1
- ↑ Shadowborn (Novel) p. 312
- ↑ Domains of Dread p. 133
- ↑ Undead Sea Scrolls 2001 p.34-36
- ↑ 192.0 192.1 192.2 192.3 192.4 192.5 192.6 192.7 192.8 Nocturnal Sea Gazetteer p. 388
- ↑ Nocturnal Sea Gazetteer p. 172
- ↑ Domains of Dread p. 133; "Since its inception some 12 decades ago", approximately 120 years from 751 BC, the current date of Domains of Dread.
- ↑ Alanik Ray's Library Archives Places p.195
- ↑ 196.0 196.1 196.2 Nocturnal Sea Gazetteer p. 172
- ↑ 197.0 197.1 Domains of Dread p. 80
- ↑ 198.0 198.1 Realm of Terror p. 122
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- ↑ Ship of Horror p. 54
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- ↑ Domains of Dread pp. 79-80
- ↑ 203.0 203.1 Souragne Gazetteer p. 45
- ↑ Souragne Gazetteer p. 41
- ↑ Eve of Sorrows p. 23; "nearly one hundred years ago" from 735 BC
- ↑ Bleak House: Homecoming p. 29
- ↑ Night of the Walking Dead p. 21
- ↑ A Light in the Belfry Track 1. Domains of Dread p. 17, Ravenloft Third Edition p.17, Ravenloft Player's Handbook p.19 all place the formation of Avonleigh as a domain in 646 BC. A Light in the Belfry audio CD track 7 says 6 years pass between the domain's formation and Morgoroth's arrival in the Great Kingdom.
- ↑ A Light in the Belfry Audic CD Track 2
- ↑ John W. Mangrum's Ravenloft Timeline p. 15
- ↑ Nocturnal Sea Gazetteer p. 163
- ↑ Book of Sacrifices p. 74
- ↑ Quoth the Raven Issue 19 p. 54
- ↑ Howls in the Night pp. 4-5
- ↑ 215.0 215.1 Weeping Lands p. 31
- ↑ Gazetteer I p. 67
- ↑ 217.0 217.1 Nocturnal Sea Gazetteer p. 202
- ↑ Nocturnal Sea Gazetteer p. 173
- ↑ A Light in the Belfry Audio CD Track #6. Domains of Dread p. 17, Ravenloft Third Edition p.17, Ravenloft Player's Handbook p.19 all place the formation of Avonleigh as a domain in 646 BC. A Light in the Belfry audio CD track 7 says 1 year passes between the confession and the events that cause the formation of the domain.
- ↑ Souragne Gazetteer p. 87, based upon information from Dance of the Dead and Domains of Dread p. 97-98
- ↑ Gazetteer II p. 147
- ↑ A Light in the Belfry Audio CD Tracks 7-12. Domains of Dread p. 17, Ravenloft Third Edition p.17, Ravenloft Player's Handbook p.19 all place the formation of Avonleigh as a domain in 646 BC.
- ↑ based upon Mulger's statistics implying he is a Fledgling Vampire as of 750 BC, see Children of the Night: Vampires
- ↑ Gazetteer II p. 32
- ↑ The Book of Souls (Netbook) p. 72
- ↑ Book of Souls p. 73
- ↑ 227.0 227.1 227.2 227.3 Quoth the Raven Issue 13 p. 72
- ↑ the House on the Edge of Midnight, Dungeon Magazine # 76, p. 10, 12; See the note on 387 BC as to the derivation of the date.
- ↑ Alanik Ray's Library Archives Places p.6
- ↑ Lights in the Fog, Book of Secrets p.109
- ↑ 231.0 231.1 Realm of Terror p. 125
- ↑ Book of Sacrifices p. 118
- ↑ Horror's Harvest, Dungeon Magazine #38 p. 61, says "over 80 years ago", Gazetteer II (p. 98) places the events of this module at 737 BC, therefore 81 years earlier than 737 BC is 656.
- ↑ Undead Sea Scrolls 2003 pp. 110-111
- ↑ Undead Sea Scrolls 2002 p. 127
- ↑ Undead Sea Scrolls 2001 pp. 34-36
- ↑ the House on the Edge of Midnight, Dungeon Magazine # 76, p. 10, 12; See the note on 387 BC as to the derivation of the 652 BC date of the arrival of the Ramsay Family in Mordentshire. On p. 12, the fall of Liza occurred 6 years after their arrival on the Isle.
- ↑ Weeping Lands p. 31, Gazetteer I p. 67
- ↑ Ravenloft Gazetteer Volume V pg. 33, 154-155
- ↑ Nocturnal Sea Gazetteer p. 368
- ↑ Gazetteer I p. 47
- ↑ Nocturnal Sea Gazetteer p. 381
- ↑ Realm of Terror p.124
- ↑ Ravenloft Gazetteer Volume V p. 33
- ↑ Lights in the Fog, Book of Secrets p. 123
- ↑ 246.0 246.1 246.2 246.3 246.4 246.5 Ravenloft Gazetteer Volume V p. 155
- ↑ Knight of the Black Rose, age of "50 winters" at the time of the books events; Domains of Dread p. 17 places that year as 720 BC.
- ↑ Van Richten's Arsenal p. 4
- ↑ Gazetteer IV p. 102
- ↑ Children of the Night: The Created p. 22
- ↑ 251.0 251.1 Children of the Night: The Created p. 26
- ↑ Children of the Night: The Created pp. 21-22
- ↑ 253.0 253.1 Nocturnal Sea Gazetteer p. 389
- ↑ Gazetteer I p. 138
- ↑ Domains of Dread p. 74
- ↑ TSR Jam 1999, p. 45
- ↑ 257.0 257.1 Gazetteer II p. 69
- ↑ Van Richten's Arsenal p. 146
- ↑ Nocturnal Sea Gazetteer p. 90
- ↑ Lights in the Fog, Book of Secrets p. 124
- ↑ Van Richten's Monster Hunter's Compendium II p. 25-26
- ↑ Gazetteer III p. 22, 78 years old as of 757 BC
- ↑ Bleak House: Homecoming p. 6
- ↑ CoF pp. 303-305
- ↑ 265.0 265.1 Gazetteer IV p. 16
- ↑ Ravenloft Gazetteer Volume V pp. 125-126
- ↑ Ravenloft Gazetteer Volume V p. 23
- ↑ Ravenloft Gazetteer Volume V p. 38
- ↑ Van Richten's Guide to Fiends p.53. In The Revised, Annotated,and Totally Unofficial Ravenloft Timeline (p.18), John W. Mangrum wrote the following on the correct year derivation: "The date implied in VRGtF pg. 53 is actually 541, but this creates a continuity error. To arrive at this date, I used the WF’s first appearance (which must be post-579, and added “over a century.” (VRGtF pg. 41)]
- ↑ According to Hour of the Knife p. 20, S.H. Williby is aged 60 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
- ↑ Weeping Lands p. 41
- ↑ Gazetteer II p. 152
- ↑ Mordenheim (Novel) pp. 195-196
- ↑ Domains of Dread p. 17
- ↑ Ravenloft Gazetteer Volume V pp. 23, 155
- ↑ VRGttM - Authors' notes
- ↑ Gazetteer III p. 24; 74 years old at the in-gameworld date of 757 BC
- ↑ JWM Timeline p.18: "Speculation based on Bleak House: Homecoming pp. 15, 24: I’m going on the hunch that VR grows younger until he reaches the age he was at when this event occurred"
- ↑ 279.0 279.1 279.2 279.3 Gazetteer IV p. 16
- ↑ Gazetteer IV p. 15
- ↑ 281.0 281.1 281.2 Realm of Terror p. 94
- ↑ 282.0 282.1 Gazetteer IV p. 17
- ↑ VRGtF p. 25
- ↑ Realm of Terror p. 126
- ↑ Gazetteer II p. 117
- ↑ Neither Man Nor Beast p.47
- ↑ 287.0 287.1 287.2 Gazetteer IV p. 17
- ↑ 288.0 288.1 Gaz V p. 42
- ↑ Book of Sacrifices p.92; Hakaan has been looking for away out for "the past 70 years" from 755 BC, the then corresponding time of writing of the Book of Sacrifices
- ↑ Lights in the Fog, Book of Secrets pp. 123-124
- ↑ Chilling Tales p. 14
- ↑ Ravenloft Monstrous Compendium Appendix I & II pp. 103-105
- ↑ Gazetteer III p. 136
- ↑ VRGtG pg. 84 says “nearly half a century ago, i.e. @686. Problem: G'Henna does not exist until 702 BC
- ↑ Art in the Land, The Book of Souls
- ↑ Ravenloft Gazetteer I p. 82
- ↑ Undead Sea Scrolls 2001 p. 36
- ↑ 298.0 298.1 298.2 Gazetteer II p. 21
- ↑ Book of Souls (Netbook) pp. 46-47
- ↑ 300.0 300.1 300.2 Souragne Gazetteer p. 57
- ↑ JWM Timeline p. 20 "speculation based on Van Richten's Guide to the Lich pg. 15"
- ↑ Gazetteer II pp. 92-93
- ↑ Gazetteer IV p. 26
- ↑ Gazetteer IV p. 18
- ↑ Gazetteer II p. 93
- ↑ According to Knight of the Black Rose p. 159-160, the Mists claimed Terlarm and company "thirty years ago". Domains of Dread p. 17 places the events of KotBR in 720 BC.
- ↑ Alanik Ray's Library Archives Places] p. 337
- ↑ Children of the Night: Darklords p. 136
- ↑ Children of the Night: Darklords p. 141
- ↑ Nocturnal Sea Gazetteer p. 389,based upon the journal printed in Darklords p. 67
- ↑ Ryan Naylor's Children of the Night: Darklords pp. 136, 141
- ↑ JWM Timeline p. 20 "Realm of Terror; VRGtV: Give VR a good respectable year between their marriage and birth of Erasmus in 692"
- ↑ Gazetteer III p. 89
- ↑ 314.0 314.1 Gazetteer V pp. 54-55
- ↑ Gazetteer II p. 93
- ↑ Ravenloft Monstrous Compendium I & II, p. 77; Ivana Boritsi is "two years elder" than Nostalia
- ↑ The Book of Souls, p. 43
- ↑ Zherisian Gazetteer p. 41
- ↑ Van Richten's Guide to Vampires p. 4; Van Richten's Monster Hunter's Compendium I p. 8, "fourteen summers" before 706 BC
- ↑ JWM Timeline p. 20 "Speculation based on VR’s age, RoT; VRGtV; and ToDm pg. 86, which indicates it takes 4-5 years to get a medical education at the University of Il Aluk"
- ↑ JWM Timeline p. 20 "Speculation based on VRGtG pg. 9: “When I was young.”
- ↑ Tower of Doom
- ↑ Gazetteer II p. 13
- ↑ 324.0 324.1 324.2 Gazetteer II p. 94
- ↑ Gazetteer III p. 83
- ↑ Gazetteer III p .104
- ↑ Alanik Ray's Library Archives Places] p. 334
- ↑ Ravenloft Gazetteer Volume V p. 42
- ↑ Quoth the Raven Issue 6 p. 71
- ↑ 330.0 330.1 Quoth the Raven Issue 6 p. 72
- ↑ Book of Secrets p. 55
- ↑ Domains of Dread p. 87
- ↑ Circle of Darkness pp. 2-3
- ↑ Gazetteer II p. 29
- ↑ date taken from Ravenloft Gazetteer I p.106- "nearly 60 years ago", meaning nearly 60 years prior to the contemporary time period of Gazetteer I (756 BC))
- ↑ Lights in the Fog, Book of Secrets pp. 124-125
- ↑ JWM Timeline p. 21: "VRGttC pg. 6: Van Richten takes Madren on as a medical student, which implies Van Richten has time to offer such an education (which lasts up to 8 years), i.e., while he was still a simple doctor (693-706)."
- ↑ Gazetteer IV p. 94
- ↑ date taken from Ravenloft Gazetteer I p.106- "nearly 60 years ago", meaning nearly 60 years prior to the contemporary time period of Gazetteer I (756 BC))
- ↑ Legacy of the Blood p.18
- ↑ Gazetteer I p.35
- ↑ Book of Souls (Netbook) p. 9
- ↑ Book of Souls (Netbook) p. 35
- ↑ Souragne Gazetteer p. 60
- ↑ Book of Secrets p. 26
- ↑ Gazetteer III p. 110
- ↑ Ravenloft Gazetteer Volume V p. 14
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