History of Eberron

The Dragons share their Arcane secrets with the Giants.

The Giants are punished for their insolence and abuse of power.

As the goblin civilizations advanced, they were followed by the rise of the first true orc nations in western Khorvaire, in the areas known in later times as the Shadow Marches and the Elderbourne Reaches. These orcish states soon competed with the goblin kingdoms for resources and territory.

The Goblinoids solidify their hold on Khorvaire but the Orcs are given powerful gifts by an unlikely source.

The remnants of a great empire doom what's left of their civilization.

Humans begin the migration to Khorvaire

The bloodlines of sivis are founded.

Human settlements continue spreading into Khorvaire.

Three other houses come to light.

The alien Quori once again enter Eberron but through different means and with different results.

Wielders of Aberrant marks are eliminated in the shadows of the kingdom of Galifar.

The creation of house Medani.

The Inspired rise to power through politics and careful planning.

Galifar ir’Wynarn became the Warlord of Karrnath after the death of his father shortly before his twenty-first birthday in -20 YK. Following Galifar’s ascent to the throne, he began a massive military build-up in Karrnath aimed at reestablishing Karrn the Conqueror’s empire—and extending beyond it. Galifar’s expansion of the Karrnathi military goes over well with the Karrn aristocracy, who expect to greatly enrich themselves in lands and wealth seized from the rest of the Five Nations.

In the seventh year of his war to unite Khorvaire, Galifar made a deal with the dragonmarked houses of the Five Nations, offering them neutral status and natural economic monopolies in the new united kingdom he was building in exchange for their financial and political support in his campaign to unite the Five Nations under one crown.

Galifar, now proclaimed to be King Galifar I, and his five scions—Prince Cyre, Prince Karrn, Prince Thrane, Princess Aundair, and Prince Brey— officially took control of the unified Five Nations in the name of their father in the first year of theGalifar Calendar. Fourteen years after the war of unification began (the war did not officially conclude until 4 YK because some pockets of resistance took longer to overcome), the Five Nationslaid down their arms and surrendered to Galifar ir’Wynarn. True to his word, Galifar did not come as a conqueror from Karrnath—he proclaimed himself the king of a new kingdom composed of five equal parts.

At the age of eighty-five winters, King Galifar I abdicated his throne and passed the rulership of the united kingdom he had founded to his oldest remaining son, Prince Cyre ir’Wynarn, the governor-prince of Cyre. This event marked the establishment of an important tradition for the feudal nobility that came to rule Galifar—the eldest of the ruling monarch’s children, regardless of gender, always succeeded to the throne.

The gnomes of Zilargo who carried the Mark of Scribingoffered a variety of services relating to communication, from magically notarizing documents to sending short messages rapidly over long distances by means of an arcane sending. Written or verbal messages could also be sent across longer distances through the use of what the house called message stations.

The inquisition to wipe out lycanthropes, known as the Silver Purge, was launched by the Church of the Silver Flame across western Khorvaire and ended in the Eldeen Reaches where the lycanthropic infestation had grown the most dangerous; the Purge lasted fifty years and drove the natural as well as afflicted members of the shapeshifting species almost to extinction, catching up many innocent shifters in the murderous passions of the inquisitors.

The first confirmed sighting of Blackroot—Mordain the Fleshweaver’s new tower—occurred in 873 YK. In the heat of the Silver Purge against the lycanthropes of Khorvaire, a troop of Aundairian templars of the Silver Flame pursued a few werewolves far to the south of modern Aundair. Weeks later, another patrol encountered a lone survivor, half-mad and delirious. He spoke of a tower “with blackened, leathery walls, twisted as the limb of a dragon reaching up to grasp the sun.”

King Jarot ir’Wynarn, the last ruler of Galifar, died in 894 YK. PrinceThalin of Thrane, Prince Kaius of Karrnath, and Princess Wroann of Breland unexpectedly rejected the rightful succession of Princess Mishann, the governor of Cyre and the eldest child of King Jarot, to the throne of Galifar. In contrast, Prince Wrogar of Aundair backed his sister’s claim to the Galifaran Crown because of a promise that King Jarot exacted from his son on his deathbed, and the Last War began as Thrane, Karrnath, and Breland mobilized their relatively small militaries to prevent Mishann from being crowned Queen of Galifar at Thronehold. When it became clear that no negotiated end to the crisis was possible, each of the contending princes declared themselves to be the king or queen of their respective nations. Thronehold was abandoned and the Kingdom of Galifar dissolved into the vicious civil strife that will last for more than a century and will be known as the Last War.