[1], In 75 CY, Overking Tenmeris died and was succeeded by his wife Yalranda, the first and only Overqueen of the Great Kingdom, and an influential member of House Rax-Nyrond but a Cranden by marriage. The ill-fated expedition of Sormod of Perrenland to find Eru-Tovar, north of Blackmoor. * early 10,000s BCY Elven deity Corellon transforms rebel elves into the drow, casts down Lolth. The war is sparked when Iuz, masquerading as a god named Vatun, incites the Northern Barbarians into war against Stonefist, conquering it quickly. Despite the new moniker, power in the new empire would not become truly centralized until 1 CY, when Grand Prince Nasran I declared universal peace throughout the land and took the title of Overking of the Great Kingdom of Aerdy. Claimants to the throne marched on the capital of Rauxes, when the city was engulfed by a wild and unpredictable magical effect. The Great Kingdom was quickly becoming too vast to effectively control from Rauxes, so the overkings appointed viceroys to rule the major provinces. AGE OF THRALLS (demon-worshipping inhumans use humans as slaves/food) (From the Ashes 8), The North Province secedes from the Great Kingdom. In the World of Greyhawk campaign setting for the Dungeons & Dragons roleplaying game, the Knight Protectors of the Great Kingdom (also known as the Order of Knight Protectors of the Great Kingdom) is the most fabled chivalric order in the Flanaess. The lands within his rule were known as the the Kingdom of Aerdy, and their capital in Rel Astra. Urnst become independent. (2014 OR), 480 CY City of Elredd founded by a Wolf Nomad warrior on the site of earlier camp settlements. You should check them out. * circa 13,000s BCY ** Faction of isolationist elves settle in The Valley section of the Barrier Peaks. The World of Greyhawk, The City of Greyhawk, The Temple of Elemental Evil (T1-4), Rary the Traitor (WGR3), The Marklands (WGR4), Vale of the Mage (WG12), Vecna Lives . So, 1,235 years ago, began the Great Migrations to which the modern reckoning of the Oeridians is dated. ** * 91 CY ** Keraptis leaves White Plume Mountain; his fate after this time is unknown but his gnomes remain behind. (CY), which system commenced when the Overking of Aerdy declared universal peace through the whole of the Great Kingdom. **, * 1400 BCY ** Drow forces push Suel wizards out of their underground dungeons below the Hellfurnaces mountains. Herzog of the South Province leads forces to a minor victory over the Golden League (Nyrond, Almor and The Brithel family are robotics experts, rivals to the famed Kwalish who lived just north of The Valley. He rules for 100 years with the aid of the Eye of Vecna. Aerdy almost doubled in size and thereafter became known as the Great Kingdom, now a true empire. (720 OR), 100 CY Foundation of Viceroyalty of Furyondy. (Guide 9), The City of Greyhawk nationalizes the Cairn Hills smelting trade. One in Zelradton administered South Province (awarded to House Cranden), and a counterpart in Eastfair controlled North Province (awarded to House Naelax). JavaScript is currently disabled. After the withdrawal of Nyrond from the Great Kingdom, the slide became precipitous. (Guide 9). 584-586 CY: The Greyhawk Wars. * 569 CY Temple of Elemental Evil founds an army, gets destroyed a year later by a coalition of humans and elves at the Battle of Emridy Meadows. * 344 BCY Vecna is betrayed by Kas the Bloody-Handed; his empire falls. The Scarlet Brotherhood invades the Hold of the Sea Princes. (2094 OR), 561 CY The Wizard Murq captures and kills many of the children of the nobility of Greyhawk. * 575 CY ** Winter: Wizardry Guild of Greyhawk sponsors its first expedition to storm-locked Blackmoor. The Greyhawk Militia's strength is focused in the south, facing endless raids by orcs and goblinoids from the conquered Wild Coast. Malev did not care who took the throne, and it came as some surprise when his cousin Zelcor reportedly met his price. * 422 BCY Invoked Devastation wipes out Balunish Empire, Rain of Colorless Fire wipes out Suel Empire. [1], In 428 OR (-217 CY),[2] Lord Mikar of House Garasteth was crowned the first Grand Prince of Aerdy. But Gnomes and Halflings are pretty much left out. Theocracy of the Pale and Urnst also secede from Great Kingdom. CY = Common Year (counting years since first Imperial reign in Aerdy) He deposed the herzog of South Province and replaced it with a prince of his own House Naelax, who in turn sparked outrage when he imprisoned and tortured ambassadors from Irongate. * 198 CY The Star Cairns, a Suel magical site southeast of the City of Greyhawk, hit by meteor summoned by the lich Lyzandred. 213 CY Age of Great Sorrow. BCY = Before Common Year (before The Great Kingdom proclamation) It was nominated for deletion on Wikipedia. ** Several noble houses resorted to in-fighting or settling old scores with rival houses. (2041 OR), 510 CY Last of the Euroz and Jebli driven from the Lortmil Mountains. (2000 OR), 468 CY The Witch-Queen Iggwilvs power grows in the Yatils. [1], In 213 CY, Overking Jiranen died after the end of a long reign. Obsidian Portal has a lot of really cool features that use JavaScript. When Yalranda died at the age of 40, her son Manshen broke with tradition to take the name of House Rax-Nyrond. **, * 568 CY ** Stelfast Holren hired to kill a unicorn, transformed into a centaur, charged with guarding the infant Maura. [6], The dispute resulted in a period of civil war lasting nine years, during which assassination of nobles and shifting of alliances were common. During the reign of Grand Prince Almor II, the Rax Aerdi defeated their Nyrondese rivals in the Battle of a Fortnights Length (535 OR, or -109 CY). * 572 CY Tribes of orcs invade the Shield Lands, refugees flee to Furyondy. ** Coming into conflict with the Ur-Flan and Suel peoples in the region, they discovered a pressing need to unify the scatterned Oeridian tribes under a single leader. Buffoons and incompetents sat upon the Malachite Throne, and their mismanagement split apart the Celestial Houses. Population: 2,618,200Human 79% (Os), Elf 9% (sylvan 90%, high 10%), Halfling 5% (stout), Dwarf 3%, Gnome 2%, Half-elf 1%, Half-orc 1% Languages: Common, Nyrondese, Old Oeridian, Elven, Halfling Alignments: LG, LN*, NG, CG, N Religions: Heironeous*, Beory, Rao, Pelor, Zilchus, Norebo, Pholtus, Ralishaz, Boccob, Delleb, Celestian (Player's Guide to Greyhawk 10), 450 (1035 OR), 416 CY The paladin, Myro, conquers one of the bandit kingdoms and declares himself king (1041 OR), 430 CY Vlek Col Vlekzed establishes the Hold of Stonefist. * 575 CY Reports of massive raiding by giants across the western kindgoms. YEAR EVENT LOCATION SOURCE(C.Y. (858 OR) 254 CY Kingdom of Furyondy declared with crowning of Thrommel I. Veluna and Tenh follow in declaring independence. * 576 CY ** Summer: Rose (Ulanu) Flickflower, Norah Brithel, Sariel Galanodel kidnapped by Slave Lords, sold to duergar at White Plume Mountain. (From the Ashes 7), At the same time, the Great Kingdom attacks on a broad front against the Theocracy of the Pale, Almor and Nyrond. * 4400s BCY ** Suel mages begin magically binding genies as slave labor. * 474 CY ** Ehrendil Stone born to elven and elemental parents near the Monastery of the Toiling Lady along the southwestern coast of Jeklea Bay. Cobb Darg of the Free City of Irongate orders the execution of every known Scarlet Brotherhood agent within the city. * 473 BCY Vecna writes the Codex of the Infinite Planes. The first appearance of Mayaheines avatar on Oerth. * 540 CY ** Stelfast Holren born near Errantkeep under the prosperous dominion of House Naelax, a noble family in The Great Kingdom. Not to mention "times before now"! Available online. The Great Kingdom arose from the Kingdom of Aerdy in -110 CY, when the Aerdi forces of Grand Prince Almor II defeated the Nyrondese in the Battle of a Fortnights Length. (2015 OR), 494 CY Ivid I dies, Ivid II ascends the Malachite Throne. **, * 524 CY ** Norah Brithel and Ehrendil Stone become friends working together in The Valley. THE GREAT MIGRATIONS (human peoples driven east due to empire wars) by 100 CY, during the reign of Overking Manshen of Rax, there were four viceroys, with House Cranden ruling South Province from Zelradton, and House Naelax controlling North Province from Eastfair. Two successor nations, the United Kingdom of Ahlissa and the North Kingdom of Aerdy, now vie for control of the region. Celene forces under the command of Triserron, Yolandes consort, best Keoish forces in a number of short engagements. (From the Ashes 6). (2046 OR), 513 CY Rise of Horned Society; humanoids take Pomarj. After the accidental freeing, good-aligned troops raze Robilars estate, driving the fighter into exile. * 1923 BCY Founding of the Empire of Sulm in central Flaeness, soon conquers neighboring lands. * 575 CY ** Autumn: Ehrendil Stone captured by Slave Lord agents near the city of Gryrax, sold and transported to duergar occupying the dungeons below White Plume Mountain. * 361 CY Zagig Yragerne buries a cache of extraplanar magic under the Land of Black Ice. They pushed south the Suel, crushed the old Flan kingdom of Ahlissa to the southwest, and conquered rival Oeridian tribes to the north who had settled there after them. ** Zelcor ignored the warning, and simply disbanded the Royal Astrologers and banished them to Rel Astra. * 903 BCY Empire of Sulm destroyed, lands become The Bright Desert. Sea Barons defeat Duxchaners in The Battle of Medegia. (1020 OR), 390 CY The Malachite Throne overthrows Vecna II. An time period that started 213 CY when the rulers of the Great Kingdom started to fall. * 456 BCY ** Vampire Ctenmiir cast out of dwarven society for preying on his own people for blood. North Province declared independence from the Great Kingdom in 584 CY, dragging itself out of the Greyhawk Wars, and the empire shattered within weeks into many pieces. This ended the Hateful Wars. At its greatest extent, the Great Kingdom stretched from the city of Rel Astra on the Solnor coast to the Viceroyalty of Ferrond in the west; and from Sunndi in the south to Ratik in the north. The tribes entered the Flanaess through the Fals Gap, where they first encountered the Flan. In 1979, Gygax made the decision to publish the world of Greyhawk, but in order to do so, he made substantial changes to his home campaign world. During Zelcors coronation in Rauxes later that year, an ominous sign appeared in the sky, a complete eclipse of the noontime sun above the capital. * 572 CY First reports of The Scarlet Brotherhood, a Suel-supremacy movement. The County of Urnst gains independence from Nyrond at the Council of Rel Mord. Humanoid invasions become common. (645 OR), 75 CY Tenmeris and his Queen, Yalranda rule Aerdy. * 576 CY ** Autumn (Brewfest): Stelfast Holdren and Maura arrive in the City of Greyhawk, are almost kidnapped by Evangelor Umpirt and other Slave Lords; Rose, Ehrendil, Norah, Sariel save the centaur and his young ward. The Age of Great Sorrows is thought to represent the beginning of the decline of the Great Kingdom, although the Empire would last for many centuries, it began losing holding and influence during this time . Greyhawk Wiki is a FANDOM Games Community. * circa 13,000s BCY Kopru (serpent-like amphibians) start undersea empire on Oerth. * 320 CY Zagig Yragerne becomes Mayor of the settlement of Greyhawk. The Great Kingdom shattered into smaller provinces soon thereafter. These nomadic peoples were not very different, culturally speaking, from their neighbors the Flan, being superstitious, rustic, proud, and relatively primitive compared to the great empires of the Suel and Baklunish. ** An time period that started 213 CY when the rulers of the Great Kingdom started to fall. * 576 CY ** Autumn (week before Brewfest): Rose, Ehrendil, Norah and Sariel arrive in the City of Greyhawk. The end came swiftly in 586 CY, when rivals for the throne, perhaps including the fiendish Duke Szeffrin of Almor, attacked the capital after hearing news indicating Ivid V had died or been deposed. Accounting for the lack of a year zero in the Common Year calendar, 428 OR should be -217 CY. (From the Ashes 9), On the same day, Rary instigates a massive magical battle within the Great Hall and attempts to assassinate the other members of the Circle of Eight, killing only Otiluke and Tenser before fleeing into the Bright Desert to form his own kingdom. * 254 CY Ferrond province breaks from The Great Kingdom, becomes the independent Kingdom of Furyondy. It was heavily influential, originating the Common language, Common Year calendar, and the gold/silver/copper coinage standard used throughout the Flanaess. **, * 528 CY ** Ulanu Flickflower born in Orchid Brook at the Lortmil foothills in the County of Ulek. He ruled a land now called the kingdom of Aerdy (aer meaning sky in Old Oeridian). * 575 CY ** Winter: Wizardry Guild of Greyhawk sponsors its first expedition to storm-locked Blackmoor. . AGE OF AERDY (rise of The Great Kingdom) The Great Kingdom saw a brief, violent resurgence during the reign of Ivid V, who assumed the Malachite Throne in 556 CY. 213 CY Age of Great Sorrow. ** * 337 CY ** Elven Queen Eldrell Yeni Surinen of the Divine House of Larethian appears in the Duchy of Ulek. Note: conflicts with 461 CY. He is corrupted by it. This controversy would be recognized as the beginning of a succession crisis known as the Turmoil Between Crowns. Does this mean you have material about the rest of Oerth hidden in your basement?" Aerdy nearly doubled in size, and was thereafter known as the Great Kingdom, though its ruler still held the old nationial title and office of Grand Prince. He killed all 123 of his brothers and sisters before bribing Ivid IV's favorite concubine to pour acid into his ear. * 459 CY ** The Mightyhammers of Clan Dankil adapt drow trap techniques to create the Assassins Run in the Valley of the Mage. ** * 223 BCY Oeridians found the Kingdom of Aerdy in eastern Flanaess. (Crypt of Lyzandred the Mad 2), The Wars end with a Brotherhood-inspired general peace treaty, the Pact of Greyhawk in the month of Harvester. The chronology given below, however, includes five other calendars which were once used and are sometimes referred to in ancient writings. The empires borders had by now reached all the way to the Fals Gap and the mountainous Quaglands. The Great Kingdom survived attack by the Golden League in 579-580 CY and civil unrest following the Red Death plague of 581 CY. The second adventure path after Paizo learned the ropes after Shackled City, Age of Worms has the most classic feel, flow and theme of any adventure path. 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