History of East Faerun

The fragile peace left in the wake of The Fourth Crown War was shattered in -9200 DR when the Elven Court decreed that the sun elves of The Vyshaantar Empire were responsible for the thousands of years of war. The Vyshaantar Empire declared war on all elven kingdoms in response, and within 200 years of fighting The Vyshaantar Empire was no more.

The gods of the Imaskari Empire's enslaved peoples, the Mulani, rise up and shatter the empire. The Untheric and Mulhorandi Pantheons landed upon the Godswatch Mountians where they split into mortal avatars, known as incarnations, and swept down into the fertile plains below to lead their long-lost people against Imaskar. Many of the greatest wizard-lords of the realm battled to the last, until Lord Yuvaraj fell in battle with the god Horus, ending the war and the Imaskar Empire. The energy unleashed in their battle turning the capital and the fertile Raurin basin into a desert.

The Golden Age of Netheril was a period of profound arcane advancements for Netheril, and saw many of the Netherese Enclaves lifted into the sky that would ride air currents around the loosely defined Netherese borders.

Karsus, Archmage of Netheril, in a desperate attempt to gain the power to weld his nation back together from the magic of the Sharn, tried to rest the mantle of divinity from Mystryl using the spell Karsus's Avatar. Mystryl sacrificed herself to prevent the weave from breaking, causing all magic to briefly cease functioning. Without magic the floating cities of Netheril crashed to the ground, and Karsus in the last moments of life in a petrified stone body caught a glimpse of the fall of Netheril, and his heart broke. Mystryl was reborn as Mystra within moments, and recreated the weave of magic in such a way so no one could ever wield such powerful magics ever again.

The Time of Troubles, also known as The Arrival, was a cataclysmic period where deities were forced to walk the earth in mortal form. Many deities died during The Time of Troubles, and many mortals ascended to godhood.

The Spellplague, known also as the Blue Breath of Change, was a cataclysmic disaster that struck Realmspace and even the planes themselves, caused by the assassination of Mystra at the hands of Cyric and Shar. It continued for a decade, in which arcane magic ceased to function.   The most popular and widely accepted theory was that the event had been caused by the death of Mystra, however some scholars point out that two earlier incarnations of Mystra had died only to be reborn and The Weave would hold it's power for the duration of her deaths. In truth no moral may ever know the truth, and perhaps not even the gods themselves will know the truth.

The Second Sundering, also known as the Sundering of Toril and Abier, started when Ao The Hidden One began to write the new Tablets of Fate. The gods, trying to gather as much power as possible to be in high of divine ranking as possible before the tablets were finalized, created many Chosen among mortals. Chosen who were granted power often would have no idea why, or given little direction or reason for their power. For some these powers were a curse, as many were captured and had their power harvested from them, The practice being most common in Thay and Tanthul.

Gods all fall silent across the material plane, no longer exacting as much influence on the plane as they once did. Their ability to discern character in clerics seems to diminish as churches fracture as new lines of religious questioning pit worshipers against each other. Scholars theorize many reasons for this silence, perhaps they wish to leave to plane to its own devices, or the Overseer Ao had set a divine law that limited the influence of gods. Gods still seem to communicate, perhaps in more esoteric and subtle ways, but its clear the full effects of this silence are still to be seen.