The world of Eberron was founded, as the outcome of a war between three great dragons of the cosmos.
This timeline details the story of Eberron, from it's founding to the current day, where our latest campaign lies. It is based on the Galifar calendar.
This is the mythic past, a time where dragons founded the world of Eberron. The start date is a gross estimate, as no one knows exactly when the Foundation happened.
The world of Eberron was founded, as the outcome of a war between three great dragons of the cosmos.
In this age, the demons of Khyber run rampant throughout the world, until dragons go to war with them.
Khyber's fiendish offspring overrun the surface world, creating a hellish environment where rakshasas and night hags rule supreme.
The dragon returns in a more primitive form, and wage war on the demons of Khyber.
The demons are defeated and the dragons leave the main continents.
The dragons, victorious, migrate and settle into the continent of Argonessen.
The giants rise from the ruins of the Dragon-Fiend Wars and forever change Eberron.
From the ruins of the Dragon-Fiend War, Giants Rise. They establish on the continent Xen'Drik.
Dragonborn's existence come into knowledge. The exact date of their creation is unknown.
The dragons teach arcane magic to the giants.
The Dream plane of Dal-Quor gets close enough to Eberron to create a connection. The Quori invade, and the Giants use their arcane magic to defeat them.
The elves, slave to Giants, rebel and seek freedom, sending prophets and others to travel and spread the word. The giants, still reeling from the Quori invasion, try to use the last of their strength to regain power over their slain, but the dragons intervene, ending the reign of giants.
The elves, needing to escape the carnage between giants and dragons, flee from Xen'Drik to another continent, and settle in Aerenal.
Giants revert to primitive monsters, and monstrous races, such as orcs, goblin-kind and others appear.
The first goblin kingdom is founded on the Continent of Khorvair. The Kingdom of Dhakhaan, that will become Breland and Darguun.
Orc nations arise in western Khorvaire to compete with the goblinoid kingdoms.
The Undying Court appears in Aerenal. First skirmish between the elves and the dragons, which sets a pattern of long periods of peace punctuated by short, devastating battles every few hundred years.
The goblinoids push the kechuala (lizardfolk) out of the Talenta Plains and into the Endworld Mountains. Many of the lizardfolk that survived the goblin armies die in the mountains. The small remaining fraction make their way into the jungle of what is now Q'barra.
The Dhakaani unite the goblinoid nations to create the greatest empire the goblins have ever known.
The dragon Vvaraak, in response to a portion of The Prophecy she had been studying, begins teaching the orcs druidic magic. These orcs become the first Gatekeeper druids.
The dwarves migrate from the Frostfell to the Ironroot Mountains.
Aerenal elves establish a colony in what is now present-day Valenar. Peaceful coexistence doesn't last, and the elves come into conflict with the Dhakaani. The elves abandon the colony when another clash with the dragons threatens Aerenal.
The daelkyr - a race of immensely powerful beings from Xoriat, the Plane of Madness - invade Eberron. They are eventually defeated by the Gatekeeper druids, who seal the portals to Xoriat and trap the remaining daelkyr below ground, but not before decimating the western reaches of Khorvaire.
Weakened by the Daelkyr War, the Dhakaani government collapses to internal power-struggles and civil strife. Goblinoid city-states and smaller nations endure, but lack the political and military cohesion of the earlier empire.
The greatpine Oalian (the future Great Druid of Eldeen Reaches) is awakened.
This is the era where "lesser races" rule, and the prophecy begins to unfold. It's title is yet to be secured, and few know its outcome.
The greatpine Oalian (the future Great Druid of Eldeen Reaches) is awakened.
The Mark of Hospitality appears among halflings of the Talenta Plains.
The Mark of Shadow and the Mark of Death appear among the elves of Aerenal. The dragons watch in awe and horror as the Prophecy begins to unfold among the “lesser” races.
Founding of Io'vakas in Argonnessen built by the "lesser races" that the dragons transplanted from their ancestral homes across Eberron.
Lhazaar leads humans from the continent of Sarlona to the eastern shores of Khorvaire. The humans land in the pre-Galifar Lhazaar Principalities, and have little or no contact with the fractious goblin states.
The Mark of Healing appears among halflings of the Talenta Plains.
Founding of the city of Shaarat by Malleon the Reaver built on top of the ruins of the Dhakaani city of Duur'Shaarat.
The Mark of Scribing appears among the gnomes of Zilargo.
The Mark of Sentinel appears among humans of pre-Galifar Karrnath.
Lady Vol, Lich Queen of the Dead is created. House Phiarlan leaves Aerenal to relocate among the humans of Khorvaire.
Elves & dragons unite to destroy House Vol (which carries the Mark of Death), ending millennia of intermittent warfare between the two species.
The Mark of Making appears among humans of pre-Galifar Cyre.
The Mark of Warding appears among the dwarves of the Mror Holds.
King Breggor of the nation of Wroat orders the city of Shaarat destroyed due to the descendants of Malleon refusing to bow to his authority.
The city of Sharn is built on top of the ruins of the city of Shaarat by King Breggor.
People start to appear bearing the Aberrant Mark, uncontrolled by families, unlike the other marks.
Karrn the Conqueror establishes the nation of Karrnath, defeats the remaining goblinoid settlements, and unsuccessfully attempts to conquer the other four human nations.
The Mark of Storm appears among half-elves of pre-Galifar Thrane.
The Mark of Passage appears among humans of pre-Galifar Aundair.
The Mark of Handling appears among humans in the Eldeen Reaches.
Quori begin conquest of Sarlona which brings a second wave of humans to Khorvaire's eastern shores.
The Mark of Detection appears among half-elves of pre-Galifar Breland.
The dragonmarked houses launch the War of the Mark to end the threat of aberrant and mixed marks.
The War of the Mark comes to an end when Lord Tarkanan, the Lady of the Plague, and his other lieutenants - in a last great act of defiance - cause the destruction of the city of Sharn and the believed extinction of the aberrant mark.
The Twelve, a coalition of powerful wizards, is established.
Founding of Riedra, a Quori empire in Sarlona, and their unification under the Inspired.
Galifar I is born in the city of Korth in Karrnath.
The Border Wars begin, eventually drawing in all five human nations of central Khorvaire.
Galifar assumes rulership of Karrnath.
The Mark of Finding appears among humans and half-orcs of the Shadow Marches.
This is the year where the Galifar calendar begins and calls year 1, matching the foundation of the Kingdom of Galifar. Galifar I and his five scions - Cyre, Karrn, Thrane, Aundair, and Brey - take control of the Five Nations and establish the Kingdom of Galifar.
Galifar I establishes the Arcane Congress in Arcanix in Aundair.
Galifar-Lhazaar War, a decade-long conflict, begins.
The city of Sharn is once again rebuilt on top of the old cities' ruins.
Galifar, now eighty-five winters old, steps down and passes rulership of the kingdom to his oldest remaining scion, Cyre.
Galifar I dies
The Church of the Silver Flame is born.
House Lyrandar takes possession of an island off the coast of Aundair to create Stormhome.
The Battle of Arnaarlasha's Fall begins a day after Arnaarlasha (gold dragon great wyrm of the Warders) dies. The battle only lasts 4 days as the city successfully defends itself from the Rogue dragons.
Clan Noldrun of the Mror Holds disappears.
Medusas from Khyber take possession of Cazhaak Draal, in Khorvaire.
The first speaking stones developed by the Twelve.
First lightning rail connects Flamekeep and Fairhaven.
The Inquisition to wipe out lycanthropes (aka the Silver Purge) is launched by the Church of the Silver Flame. Over the course of the next 50 years, virtually all Lycanthropes on the continent are slain.
Discovery of Blackroot (Mordain the Fleshweaver's tower in Droaam).
King Jarot, the last ruler of Galifar dies. Thalin, Kaius, and Wroann reject the succession of Mishann. Wrogar backs his sister's claim, and the Last War begins.
Order of the Emerald Claw established
Desperate to save Karrnath from the ravages of the Last War, Kaius I of Karrnath pledges his kingdom to The Blood of Vol. For his trouble, Kaius I is turned into a vampire by the lich-goddess Vol.
Kaius II ascends to the throne of Karrnath after Kaius I disappears
Thalin of Thrane dies and the Church of the Silver Flame assumes control of the nation.
Unknown saboteurs destroy the Glass Tower of Sharn.
Duke Ven ir'Kesslan leads settlers from Cyre to forge the nation of Q'barra.
Southern annex of Cyre becomes the Elf Nation of Valenar.
The Eldeen Reaches declares itself an independent nation under the protection of the Wardens of the Wood and the guidance of the Great Druid Oalian.
Boranel becomes king of Breland.
Haruuc leads the hobgoblin rebellion against the nation of Valenar & Breland, and the nation of Darguun is born.
House Cannith perfects the modern-era warforged, living constructs designed to fight the Last War.
Regent Moranna of Karrnath outlaws the Order of the Emerald Claw.
Queen Aurala's reign of Aundair begins.
A trio of hags known as the Daughters of Sora Kell invade western Breland with an army of trolls, ogres, and gnolls. Unable to confront both the monsters and fight its opponents in the Last war, King Boranel pulls settlers back and seals off the land west of the Graywall Mountains. The Daughters of Sora Kell declare the sovereignty of the nation of Droaam.
The first elemental airships go into service for House Lyrandar.
Kaius III's rule of Karrnath begins upon his 20th birthday.
Jaela Daran (age 6) assumes the power of the Keeper of the Silver Flame.
A magical blast of unprecedented power obliterates the nation of Cyre creating the Mournland.
The mysterious appearance of Dolurrh's Dawn in Droaam.
Orphans of Eberron campaign begins!
The Mournlands campaign begins!!
The royal scepter off Breland, which permitted the granting of a permanent Death Ward boon each year, was lost to theft.
Beloved King og Breland, Boranel ir'Wynarn, has died due to poisoning and resulting illness.