Timeline - History of Faerûn

The mageocracy of Halruaa can no longer peacefully contain the drifting ideologies of the wizard elders. The established laws of magical safeguards were placed on themselves to prevent them from destroying themselves just as the great Netheril Empire did so long ago but growing numbers of wizard elders want to push for freedom of magical practices. The conflict arose from a secret faction of elders pushing arcane experiments that are too extreme even for the old Netherese Empire are eventually discovered. This leads to a magical civil war with each side fighting for control of the council of elders and Halruaa. The renegades were forced out of the kingdom and eventually, settled in time founding Thay.

The Elders and Netyarch of Halruaa continue to see the complications of their mageocracy and move to adopt a strong centralized government that is separated from magic practices. They ratify their laws to pave the way for a government that continues to embrace the ideals of their fine nation but allows the nobles to rule more over the non-magical affairs of Halruaa. They adopt a constitution known as the Edicts of Lumen, which separates these responsibilities and ends the reigns of mage-kings. This creates a noble republic senate with a monarch king to rule most of the affairs of the land while allowing the council of archmage elders led by a High Elder to focus on the rule over the magical affairs of the land.

The Halruaa reformation from a magocratic oligarchy to a republic monarchy continues. The crowned monarchy House von Kessel relocates the capital from Halagard to Halarahh for defensive purposes and provides an independent seat of power for House nobles to govern more efficiently.

As a major result of the Tablets of Fate being destroyed, Toril experiences a massive planar shift to the Beastlands, a region of plains at the eastern end of the Shaar. The region suddenly becomes home to hundreds of miles of features and inhabitants from several other planes including Abeir, Aborea, the Shadowfell, and the Feywild. The sudden planar shift in the same place causes massive damage to all parties.   The confusion and destruction lead many of the empires to wrongly assume other parties were responsible and fighting and bloodshed takes place. These results ultimately lead to a great war among the powerful political powers of this now newly formed "Shifted Lands" as each fought for their way of life and very survival in a new hostile homeland.

The chaos from the planar shifting in the Beastlands of Eastern Shaar, now known by many as the Shifted Lands, has settled but resulted in countless bloodshed among converged empires and factions currently all occupying the same region. The Veldorn Empire, an Abeir draconic empire, has made it clear that peace is impossible by formalizing the war on the elven kingdom known as the Court of Stars.

Prior to the founding of the Kingdom, the Many-Arrows tribe was known as the largest, most notorious, and most successful orc tribe in the North, boasting about 40,000 members. They began waging war with Mithral Hall within three years and were widely expected to raise a horde and launch an invasion of the whole Silver Marches.   The Kingdom of Many-Arrows was founded, as a loose coalition of tribes in the Spine of the World brought together under Obould’s rule by violence and war. This centralization of orc leadership made the prospect of recognizing the Kingdom appealing to the realms of the North as they believed it would be easier to negotiate with a single king than with the various belligerent orc tribes. Thus, tired of war with the orcs, several members of the Silver Marches recognized Many-Arrows as a sovereign realm in the Year of Wild Magic, 1372 DR, with the signing of the Treaty of Garumn's Gorge.

A disease known as the Wailing Death, that resisted even magical healing, killed much of the population of Neverwinter. The cure was eventually found but the casualties by that time were catastrophic. It was soon discovered that the Wailing Death was merely the precursor of war between Neverwinter and its longtime rival, the city of Luskan. Although it was Queen Morag who sponsored the war, as part of her plot to return to Toril, rather than the Host Tower of the Arcane, the fighting soured the relationship between the two cities even more.

Legendary archmage Akhlaur, is only interested in increasing his power through research of dangerous magic and accidentally opens a permanent gateway to the Elemental Plane of Water which he was lost to for some time. His experiments and return from the Elemental plane had driven him insane and he begins a war with Halruaa. He ends up battling the Grand Elder archmage himself Zalathorm Kirkson, in which in a grand terrifying display of magic they end each other's life.

The Spellplague strikes Neverwinter. Though was not hit as hard as other settlements on the Sword Coast, and when Lord Nasher died, his son, Bann Alagondar, founded the Alagondar royal family that ruled Neverwinter fair and well, allowing to the city to prosper in the hard times after the Spellplague. Unknown to the citizens of Neverwinter, however, was the fact that a small plagueland was formed in the Underdark below the city.

With the Halruaan royal family assumed dead, Mannfred von Kessel, the next heir in line declares himself the king of Halruaa only to be challenged by the more popular younger sister Cecilia von Kessel. This political maneuvering ultimately spills into a civil war between eastern Traditionalist forces that support Mannfred von Kessel and western Reformation forces that support Cecilia von Kessel. The war would go on for eight years resulting in the loss of much Halruaan blood only to end suddenly with both heirs assassinated.

Multiple military operations have attempted to retake the capital of Halarahh since the Year of Blue Fire. Each has ended in miserable failure, and the contaminated ruins have swallowed thousands of soldiers' lives. What remains of these assaults are merely twisted monsters and undead monstrosities form from the risen corpses of these regiments.   Under the leadership of Lord Commander Elias Drexel, the Hooded Lanterns have finally broken the losing streak of previous military operations. Rather than making an all-out assault on the ruins, they have taken a methodical approach. After spending nearly a year carefully scouting out the ruins, they began clearing out important fortifications in the city to use as staging grounds for future operations.

The Alagondar line of kings and queens ruled their city fairly and well until, at some point before Year of Knowledge Unearthed, 1451 DR, the Lords of Waterdeep put Lord Hugo Babris in charge of the city and shadow war for Neverwinter takes place between the Netherese and Red Wizards of Thay. Using Adventures as pawns they have an expedition to Mount Hotenow that briefly awakes the primordial Maegera, who, in a fit of rage, released a burst of energy so powerful that it forced the eruption of the dormant volcano.   The resultant earthquake and combination of pyroclastic flow and lava destroyed much of Neverwinter. A great rift known as the Chasm ripped apart the southeastern quarter of the city, and strange ash zombies and plaguechanged horrors haunted the ruins, being released from the plagueland below Neverwinter. Thousands of citizens died during the cataclysm, including the Alagondar royal family, while many others fled to other cities, leaving only a desperate few to carve out an ill existence among the ruins.   The remaining Neverwintians were determined to survive in spite of the tragedy, however, and put a brave resistance against the plaguechanged horrors. They eventually built the Wall, using debris and other materials, sacrificing the southeastern quadrant but securing the rest of the city. The Blacklake District endured the cataclysm almost unscathed, and for a time it became the center of the city

Lord Dagult Neverember, seeing an opportunity to add to his financial empire, hired workers to help rebuild the city and Mintarn mercenaries to protect it from monsters and bandits. Claiming to be a descendant of Neverwinter's former rulers and thus the rightful "Lord Protector" of the city, Dagult started the New Neverwinter movement. Lord Neverember invested a great deal of his own fortune to rebuild the city's infrastructure, buy the interest of merchants to send their caravans again to Neverwinter, and even ensure Neverwintan refugees had enough food and gold in hand.

The Many-Arrows vanguard led by Vansi Bloodscar had occupied area near Neverwinter and demanded tribute from their people. Discovery now Lord Dagult Neverember has taken the city as Lord Protector strikes against Neverwinter. Vansi acted against Obould's orders, believing she had a chance to seize control of Neverwinter and annex it for the kingdom of Many-Arrows. Her forces penetrated the city walls and occupied the abandoned Cloak Tower, making it their headquarters. While the Neverwintans predicted the orcs would be beaten back by the tower's magical defenses or by its cloaks, Vansi's orcs seemed to have had little trouble. From there, they claimed territory in the northeastern part of the River District, where the city was still ruined.

Willing to take advantage of the chaos in Neverwinter because of the actions of many factions within the city, Valindra Shadowmantle launched a surprise attack against the city. With the aid of a few Red Wizards, Valindra sent a legion of undead to besiege Neverwinter. She also got control over a dracolich, and she sent it to attack the ships in and near the Docks before sending it to attack the city proper. How she got control over a dracolich was unknown, but some speculated it was given to her by members of the Cult of the Dragon.   Under the military leadership of General Sabine and Sergeant Knox, Neverwinter's city guard organized a quick defense against the undead and was able to defeat the dracolich and ultimately push back the invading Red Wizards.   After their defeat, Valindra and the Red Wizards were forced to flee from the heart of the city. They took refuge in Neverdeath, and began to plot their next movement. In the following weeks, several factions and individuals tried to take advantage of the chaos caused by the attack to advance their own agendas