Copyright c1998 Peter Metcalfe, save for the copyright bits quoted from other credited sources which is (ha ha) at least 90% of the document. But then that's them Great Poets for ya... Written 7 Feb 1998
Commentary: This chronology contains events limited to the lands which it describes. For instance, the fact that the Battle of Argentium Th'rile was fought in 230 ST is common knowledge yet it is not recorded here due to it having occurred outside the area. I have stuck mainly to published material and have shied away from interpretations and interpolations. If you have any questions, corrections and/or mindless trivia that you feel compelled to share with me upon reading this, then please do not hesitate to contact me.
Revisions: Given the scanty knowledge about some periods in history, this document will almost certainly be revised. If I get some more dates, then I will add them dates in. In such a case, this section will contain a brief precis of the revisions to date.
15/2 Added entries for 826 ST, 889 ST and 890 ST. Added a Note on Alakoring Dragonbreaker based on discussions with Jeff Richard.
Timeline of Saird, Talastar, Balazar and the Elder Wilds
-100 ST Unity Council Settlers follow the retreating ice in the Elder Wilds, and help repopulate the devastated land [BCG]
0 ST The Dawn [G:CotHW#1]
10 ST Elven Awakeners pass through Dorastor and find a land devoid of human life [BCG].
78 ST The Council of All Races in the Elder Wilds joins the World Council of Friends [BCG].
80 ST The World Council of Friends discovers the Hyalorings of Saird [D:LoD].
95 ST War in the Sky between Orlanth and Kargzant. Kargzant is beaten [GRoY].
98 ST The Skanthi of Aggar joins the World Council of Friends [BCG].
99 ST The Lakrene are contacted by Council Missionaries but refuse to join [BCG].
100 ST Talastar joins the World Council of Friends [BCG].
114 ST Kalasmas the Settler settles eastern Dorastor [D:LoD].
115 ST First missionaries attempt to enter Dara Happa. They do not return [BCG].
137 ST Vyrope becomes the First Priestess of Dorasta at the Cleft [D:LoD]
140 ST First of the Feldici ruins are discovered by Isidros the Dancer at Dokat [BCG].
147 ST Kulebras, spouse of Vyrope, travels to Thunder Mountain and receives the sword Ironbreaker [BCG].
148 ST The woods of Talastar join the World Council of Friends. They promptly invite the Council to move to Dorastor [BCG].
149 ST Kartolin Pass is discovered by a team of scholars mounted on wyrms and dragons [D:LoD].
150 ST The World Council of Friends decides to move to Dorastor. Gwalynkas the Good founds the Dorastan Nation by bringing together the Lanisti of Lakrene, the Skanthi and the Dorastan settlers [BCG].
155 ST Sylila joins the World Council of Friends. Minor conflicts begin between the World Council of Friends and Dara Happa [BCG].
167 ST After the brutal slaughter of missionaries, full scale war erupts between the Pelorians and the World Council of Friends [UL]. Senit-Ranor is appointed the Seventh of the Inner Council to resolve a deadlock. Varzor Kitor is appointed Warlord of the Council. Kulestan, heir of Kulebras, gifts Ironbreaker to the Council who made it the hereditary weapon of the Warlord [BCG].
172 YS Varonal Zar leads an army of Uz and Dragons to the City of Yemes in Saird and kills Emperor Kestinoros. This concludes hostilities for a while between Dara Happa and the World Council of Friends [GRoY, BCG].
180 ST The World Council of Friends renames itself as the High Council of the Land of Genertela [D:LoD].
193 ST Talastar elves expand their forests into the lands of the Lenshi and the Lendarshi [BCG].
200 ST The High Council of Genertela relocates to Dorastor and creates the Tower of Justice. Within a year, the City of Miracles springs around the Tower [D:LoD]. Isidilian the Wise retires from the Inner Council and is replaced by Iron-Skull Fanak [BCG].
212 ST Iron-Skull Fanak proposes that the High Council make war upon the Nidan Decamony. Nida declares Greatway anathema as a result. Angarko removes Iron-Skull Fanak as the Speaker for Stone and appoints Iron Diamond Voice. Iron-Skull Fanak is named Foreman of the Council [BCG].
259 ST The High Council recognizes the People's Movement of Dorastor and make Seri the first governer of Dorastor [BCG].
307 ST The Pseudo-Cosmic Egg is discovered in Dorastor [BCG].
350 ST The God Project is announced [BCG].
352 ST Erzanelm mets with the World Council of Friends and signs the Treaty of Lakrene. Some Heortlings revolt and are burned in the Immolation [BCG].
375 ST Sunstop. The Sun Stops in the Sky. Time is broken and the Perfect One is born in Dorastor. He is immediately renamed Nysalor, the Bright One [G:CotHW#1].
410 ST The Kings of Tanisor plead from help from Dara Happa in a war against the Atheists of the West. Radaidavu's emmisaries are sickened by the depravities of the Tanisorian Kingdom and refuse to do so. The Westerners raze Tanisor and Nysalor much saddened composes his Epistle 'At the Edge of Light is Always Darkness' [D:LoD].
450 ST Arkat leads an army from Dragon Pass, aided by Pentan Nomads to invade Dara Happa. He then goes against Nysalor in Dorastor and kills him leaving Dorastor a sleeping ruin. [G:CotHW#1]
562 ST An army of Sun Dome worshippers settle a temple city in Holay. The Troll overlords muster quickly to destroy the incursion but are destroyed in battle when a trollkin lieutenant betrays the attack to the other side [UL].
717 ST A horde from the Redlands moves southwards through Votankiland towards Dragon Pass and disrupt the herds [GM].
718 ST Votanki hunters ambush the Redland Horde, laiden with the Plunder of Dragon Pass, at Highbridge with aid from Uz and Dragonewts [GM].
720 ST King Hargaad Silverfist of Votankiland returns the plunder stolen by the Redland Horde to the EWF [GM].
721 ST The EWF aids Elves and Votanki to drive out all Uz and Dwarves from Votankiland [UL]. Comment:: Odd. The Votanki had the aid of the Uz in destroying the Redland Horde at Highbridge. Now they have turned upon the Uz. - PHM
747 ST Uz invade the Dwarf Citadel of Greatway with great success [UL].
780 ST Lorvay of Arnlor with his Troll Slaves enters Dorastor via Geery's cut. He is somehow betrayed and killed by his slaves [BoDR:C].
792 ST The God Learner Meltobast is killed in Dorastor [LoT].
798 ST Pandarus Orkippus crosses Kartolin and report that Elves still lived in Dorastor [D:LoD].
800 ST The Greasefire burns in Dorastor [D:LoD].
824 ST Balarzak Leatherwing, a Tarshite dragonworshipper, leads his comrades to recover Ash and Water from Dorastor [D:LoD].
826 ST The Here-and-nows take control over the EWF from the Forwards Faction and change its internal structure to become the Third Council [KoS, GM]
827 ST Last of Balarzak Leatherwing's followers dies with blood bubbling from his lips [D:LoD].
850 ST The Telmori reach Dorastor and occupy Nangtali's Plateau at the behest of the Poisonthorn Elves. Lakrene falls under the control of the EWF. It is given collector status over Talastar [D:LoD].
852 ST Sir Rodard enters Dorastor via Kartolin Pass [BoDR:C].
857 ST Two Talastari heroes, Torvay the Foreigner and Hardral the Flying Urox, enter Dorastor to repeat the adventures of Balarzak Leatherwing [D:LoD]
858 ST Torvay and Hardral are seen as Draugr [D:LoD].
870 ST Anadikki is conquered by the EWF [FS].
889 ST Internal dissent within the EWF as the Third Council, led by Isangdrang Dragonspeaker, demand to be worshipped as Gods [GM, KoS]. Comment Isangdrang Dragonspeaker is dated to this event because he is stated in KoS as having 'enslaved the people'. His reported grandson, Usdaros the Impatient, began a civil war. This would occur around 920 which fits the known problems affecting the EWF at that time - PHM.
890 ST Elves of the Elder Wilds withdraw from the EWF. They send a large raiding force into the EWF which escapes unharmed [GM].
900 ST The Ash Flat sumps in Dorastor [BoDR:C]
905 YS A Carmanian Army led by Survilstor marches through Brolia to attack the Dragons at the battle of Three Dragons Fall in Anadikki. He then establishes a dynasty there [FS].
921 YS Karvanyar liberates Sylila and Northern Vanch from the EWF [FS].
923 ST Southern Vanch is liberated from the EWF although some Cities are still occupied [FS].
925 YS Karvanyar liberates Saird completing the expulsion of the EWF from Dara Happa. He then turns his army from the EWF to the North to fight against the Horse Nomads. Hostilities are still in force against the EWF [FS].
947 YS The EWF send an army against Dara Happa and regains Vanch and Sylila [FS].
955 ST A Carmanian army kills Dragons at old Jillaro and frees Saird from the EWF
1042 ST The EWF disappears after its leaders are all betrayed by the Dragonewts and assassinated overnight [G:CotHW#1].
1082 ST Balazar enters Votankiland with the Yelmalio Cult [GM].
1087 ST Balazar is acknowledged leader by all of Vontakiland [GM].
1089 ST Balazar is crowned King of Votankiland [GM].
1100 ST The Great Rain strikes Dorastor [BoDR:C]
1120 ST The True Golden Horde enters Dragon Pass. Less than one man in twenty returns. The Deathline and crossline are erected to keep humans out of Dragon Pass [KoS]. Broo trouble reported on the bounds of Dorastor [FS].
1124 ST A Broo Army led by Ralzalkark invades Talastar [D:LoD].
1125 ST Ralzakark's Army invades Dara Ni [D:LoD]. Emperor Alenvus of Dara Happa invades Vanch and conquers it [FS].
1126 ST The Oslir is polluted with hair-gorp [D:LoD]
1127 ST Emperor Alenvus defeats a broo army in the battle of Oxbow in Dara-ni [FS, D:LoD]. Comment:: Corrected from 1107 ST in D:LoD which claims 1100 ST as the Dragonkill War - PHM
1130 ST Ralzakark's Broos reported in Yolp Mountains [FS].
1132 ST Last of the Survalstorites are slain by Ralzakark's Broos [FS].
1137 ST The invasion of Ralzalkark is destroyed by Uroxi in Worian [FS].
1139 ST Terarir taken; Saird "threatened" [NB]
0/27 1247 ST The Red Goddess ascends into the Sky [G:CotHW#1].
1/15 1262 ST Jannisor Moonchaser creates the Mad Sultanate of Tork [LWC].
1/24 1271 ST Jannisor Moonchaser joins the Dara Happan Tripolis in their revolt. He raised an army of Laramite and Wilktar tribal warriors and magicians to accompany him. Jannisor and his army then crushed a Lunar army at Einar's Farm [LWC].
1/25 1272 ST Jannisor Moonchaser destroys a Lunar army at Vashpolis [LWC].
1/42 1289 ST The Butterfly Princess of Peloria dies. Dara Ni, Sylilings, the Osliri, the Rist Aldryami and Dara Happan refugees attempt to prevent her lands from falling within the Lunar Empire [LWC].
1/44 1291 ST Last of the holdings of the Butterfly Princess falls to the Lunar Empire. Moonson orders a Moonburn to be leveled against the forest of Rist [LWC].
1/49 1296 ST The Moonburn razes the Elf forest of Rist. The Moonbow Legion stands apart [CoP]. The Adryami flee into Dorastor. Hwarin Dalthippa is present at the resettlement of Rist [LWC].
1/50 1297 ST The Aldryami of Rist found the Forest of Hellwood. They drive out Undranda who leads an army of Broos and chaos monsters into Talastar [D:LoD].
1/53 1300 ST Undranda and his army return to Dorastor at their leisure [D:LoD].
2/8 1309 ST Hwarin Dalthippa marries Ingkot Axe-and-a-half, King of Sylila [D:LoD].
2/15 1316 ST A Dara Ni expeditionary party against the Lunar Empire is defeated and they sue for Peace. The Osliri withdraw in disgust and move up the Erinflarth River [LWC].
2/16 1317 ST The Blue Deer Princes of Vanch invade Sylila and burn Jillaro. Retaliation is swift and their hides are captured [LWC].
2/25 1326 ST The Kingdom of Sylila becomes a Sultanate of the Lunar Empire [D:LoD].
2/29 1330 ST Holay falls to the Conquering Daughter. Arim the Pauper flees across the Deathline [KoS].
2/32 1333 ST Phirmax, son of Ingkot and Hwarin Dalthippa is slain by Bold Vareleus, an Osliri spirit. Bold Vareleus is slain by ingkot who is drowned in the attempt. Hwarin plans the Daughter's Road campaign [LWC].
2/46 1347 ST Hwarin Dalthippa builds the Road between Jillaro and Mirin's Cross. She then defeats Gwythar Longwise at Mirin's Cross and enslaves him. Mirin's Cross then falls to the Lunar Empire and Hwarin Dalthippa continues to Filichet where she recieves the submission of many barbarian generals [LWC].
2/48 1349 ST Hwarin Dalthippa starts her second road from Cafol and finishes at Imther where she trades with the Dwarves [LWC].
3/3 1358 ST The City of Jillaro is rebuilt by the scupltor Iphigos. Hon-eel is killed by No-Print while celebrating its opening [LWC].
3/7 1362 ST King Arim the Pauper of Tarsh crushes a Lunar army, which was searching for a grove of trees in Holay, with the aid of his twin children, the Balazarings and some Aldryami Friends at the Battle of Falling Hills [LWC].
3/19 1374 ST King Varstapoor of Tarsh joins local Lunar forces to repel the Poalli Nation of the Pure Horse People at the battle of Quintus Vale in Imther [LWC].
3/21 1376 ST A Lunar relief convoy from Sylila is ambushed on the river by the Osliri. The Osliri then aid the nomads to cross the river without any problems. Another Lunar Army is destroyed marching to meet the foe [LWC].
3/42 1397 ST A Sylilan army marches north to relieve Alkoth. The nomads attack but are destroyed [LWC].
4/14 1423 ST Sylila sends a secret army to Alkoth which surprises the barbarians there and drives them out [LWC].
4/21 1430 ST The Horse Nomads are by this stage reported to be raiding Lakrene regularly [D:LoD].
4/25 1434 ST Haronzagal leads an army out of Dorastor. It is noted as being to big to be a human, too smart to be a giant and too consistently formed to be a shapeless thing. Haronzagal accepts King Arkal's challenge to a single combat and is slain. The army slinks back into Dorastor [D:LoD].
4/39 1448 ST King Orios of Tarsh accidentally crosses the borders of the Mad Sultanate of Tork thus releasing a horde of Madmen. They destroy the Tarshite Army and then turn north into Sheng Seleris's lands. The Mad Sultanate slays Takenegi who was hiding the borders with magic. Sheng Seleris manages to turn them into Talastar [LWC].
4/44 1453 ST The Mad Sultanate enters Lakrene and eats Urnandle. Jojo the Bojo tricks the Mad Sultan into entering Dorastor [LWC].
5/7 1470 ST Hon-eel and her new grain are rejected by the people of Talastar [LWC].
5/14 1477 ST Hon-eel turns the Telmori of Sylila into wolves [LWC].
5/42 1505 ST The Lunar Provincial Army marches through Jarst to relieve the Sultannate of Oraya. They are defeated and destroyed [LWC].
5/43 1506 ST Kardalo the Genertelan Dragon returns to Talastar and then leaves for Doblian [D:LoD]. Comment:: Corrected from 1501 ST in the source - PHM.
6/3 1520 ST The Uroxi clear Riskland in Dorastor under the leadership of Taranmador Ironblade [D:LoD].
6/22 1539 ST The Dragonewt Dream begins [FS].
6/23 1540 ST The Dragonewt Dream ends [FS].
6/28 1545 ST The Lunar Provincial Government is formed to help Prince Phargentes liberate Tarsh [G:CotHW#2].
6/38 1555 ST Quinscion the Patient is appointed General of Procurement and Disbursement within the Provincial Government [G:CotHW#2].
6/44 1561 ST The Errio unit clan takes over the Sylila Sultanate [G:CotHW#2].
7/9 1580 ST Amal-see Calax, a Lunar emissary, signs a trade treaty with Ralzakark the Unicorn Emperor [D:LoD]. The Slimestone Gorp pulses and ravages eastern Dorastor with Gorp [BoDR:C]
7/15 1586 ST Appius Luxius is appointed the Provincial Overseer [G:CotHW#2]
7/19 1590 ST Talastar is converted to the Lunar Way in the White Shirt Day [DLoD].
7/21 1592 ST A Carmanian expedition enters Dorastor [D:LoD].
7/24 1595 ST Opand of Voranel is named King of Talastar by the Lakrene Council. He has to face civil war after the Bilini claimed it would offend Orlanth if the Bilini were subjects of Lakrene. They then crowned Hrodar Grizzlebeak as King of the Bilini using the ancient regalia. King Hrodar negotiated a secret alliance with the DaraNi promising them Lakrene if they would join him in his fight against Opand of Voranel. Soon afterwards he and his army stormed Relain, the capital of the Arkalings. Opand gathered his forces and met Hrodar at Endeel, leaving the DaraNi free to conquer Lakrene. Hrodar won the battle of Endeel and captured the city of Endeel. He then was acclaimed King of Talastar. The DaraNi then took Voranel and other cities of Lakrene. In disgust, the Lakrene had denounced Opand as their king [D:LoD].
7/25 1596 ST The DaraNi send ambassadors to King Hrodar of Talastar demanding Endeel which they said had been promised to them. Hrodar refused and so war began between between DaraNi and Lakrene. The DaraNi invaded but were unable to take any cities. After the DaraNi left, Hrodar raised an army and demanded tribute from all the cities of Lakrene. He then invaded DaraNi and recieved tribute from them too.
7/28 1599 ST Farnhan, a Lunar Historian and Geographer, visits Dorastor [D:LoD]
7/32 1603 ST Civil unrest in Aggar spills over into clans raiding from Tarsh [DW#28]
7/33 1604 ST King Moraides of Tarsh dispatches an army to punish certain Aggar clans for raiding Tarsh soil [DW#28].
7/34 1605 ST Imperial Ambassadors ordered King Hrodar of Talastar to return all cities that he had seized, to return all tributes, gifts and bribes paid to him or his people, to withdraw from all occupied lands and to abandon all titles based on those promises. After refusing, Hrodar began great magics with his fellows planning to call upon all the powers of Orlanth to help them. But the Red Emperor was too fast and swept into the Hearth and captured Hrodar Grizzlebeak and imprisoned him. Eric Norallsson is crowned King of Talastar with the new regalia and banishes the Uroxi from Bilini [D:LoD].
7/35 1606 ST Anqus Farquinils is appointed Chief of Wagons [G:CotHW#2]. Hakon the Swimmer marries Gudmund the Golden [D:LoD]. Comment:: This is actually Hakon's second marriage as he has a son, Renekot the Stone, who was clan chief in 1621! - PHM.
7/36 1607 ST After propitiatory sacrifices to Malia, a phantom demanded one hundred times more from King Eric of the Bilini or she would come again to every member of the land. This was believed to be the cause of Wowander's Chaos raid which swept through Bilini and Lakrene the next year [D:LoD]. Praxians are reported to be raiding in Balazar [DW#28].
7/37 1608 ST Praxians are reported in Aggar as mercenaries [DW#28]. Wowander and the Stag Riders emerge from Dorastor at the head of a mob of Chaos things. Refugees fled into Darani and elsewere. Gudmund the Golden fought against Wowander and gained great glory but fell prey to the Wasting disease which rendered her an invalid. [D:LoD]. The Seven Troubles from Dorastor are crushed [FS]. Margario IV and Abastis are crowned King and Queen of Imther [C#3].
7/38 1609 ST Praxians raid Dorastor [DW#28]. Comment:: Probably looking for Wowander. This must be a tough army if it can manage to raid Aggar in the next year! - PHM
7/39 1610 ST Praxians raid Aggar [DW#28].
7/40 1611 ST A Sylilan Army marches into Talastar to seek Wowander and finds nothing. King Eric of the Bilini then goes to the Bilini refugees to persuade them to return home. At one such moot, he is slain by Ketil White-eye in a duel. Hakon the Swimmer is elected his successor. Hakon then promises to the Lunar Empire that he will hold Dorastor at bay, so that his people could maintain their Orlanthi ways. To seal this agreement, he gave many hostages and some land to Lakrene. Much of this land was Hahlgrim's which caused a feud between Hahlgrim and King Hakon [D:LoD].
7/41 1612 ST Tusk Riders raid the Kingdom of Vanch [DW#28]. The Civil War in Imther ends [C#3]
7/42 1613 ST Tusk Riders raid the Kingdom of Holay [DW#28].
7/44 1615 ST Unrest reported in Aggar [DW#28].
7/45 1616 ST Unrest reported in Aggar [DW#28] Vanch annexes New Lolon and Orilstand from Imther [NLG#1].
7/46 1617 ST Unrest Reported in Aggar [DW#28].
7/47 1618 ST Icilius Overholy is appointed General Priestess of the Provincial Church [G:CotHW#2].
7/49 1620 STThe Queendom of Holay annexes the Sun Dome Temple in Imther [NLG#1]
7/50 1621 ST The Red Emeror declares 1621 the Extra Full Moon Year after the fall of Whitewall [KoS]. Hahlgrim returns from exile and slays King Hakon of the Bilini after the King continued to persecute his kin. [D:LoD]
BCG: Broken Council Guidebook.
BoDR:C: Book of Drastic
Resolutions: Chaos.
C#3: Codex #3.
D:LoD: Dorastor: Land of
Doom.
DW#28: Different Worlds #28.
FS: Fortunate
Succession.
G:CotHW#1: The Glorantha Book of the Genertela:
Crucible of the Hero Wars boxed set.
G:CotHW#2: The Genertela Book
of the Genertela: Crucible of the Hero Wars boxed set.
GM:
Griffin Mountain.
GRoY: Glorious ReAscent of Yelm.
LoT:
Lords of Terror.
LWC: Lunar Wane
Chronicles.
KoS: King of Sartar.
NB Nick Brooke's Carmanian
Timeline
NLG#1: New Lolon Gospel.
UL: The Uz Lore Book
from the Trollpak boxed set.
WF: Wyrms Footprints.
Alakoring Dragonbreaker is a prominent hero in Orlanthi mythos as he is responsible for the Orlanthi Rex cult and the death of Drang the Diamond Storm Dragon. However we have no dates for his existance. Based on discussions with Jeff Richard, the most probable dates for him are: Alakoring defeated Drang the Diamond Storm Dragon probably sometime between 907-920 and "seized much land in Dragon Pass for himself" [WF] some time between 920-935 or so. Jeff suspects that he was killed before 945, in time for a general EWF counter-offensive. He cannot have been killed before 890 ST as the Elves of the Elder Wilds had not seceded from the EWF then.
Based on the similarity between Isangdrang Dragonspeaker and Drang the Diamond Storm Dragon, it is suspected that Isangdrang may be a part of Drang.
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