The thri-kreen people first arrive in wildspace, and their great civilization rises and wanes before most humanoids learned agriculture.
Spelljammer Events
An overview of the history of the spelljamming community and the Rapide Frontier for my campaigns in the setting.
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2000000 BCR
The thri-kreen first learn how to travel through wildspace
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3000 BCR
The People of the Celestial Mantis evangelize across the Known Spheres
Religious eventThe thri-kreen unite under the shared banner of the People of the Celestial Mantis and spread across the Known Spheres. Their dedication to the "inevitability" of their god's universal worship brings them into conflict with the other spacefaring races.
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2150 BCR
The Kingdom of Kemet obtains spelljammers
Technological achievementThe Kingdom of Kemet on the planet Geb first gain access to spelljammers, which are originally used to create their great Flying Pyramids.
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1040 BCR
990 BCR
Spelljamming is discovered on Toril
Discovery, ExplorationThe ancient Netherese Empire on Toril discovers Spelljamming, but quickly comes into conflict with the greater Spelljamming community due to a variety of "experiments" performed by the Netherese on captured species. Shunned by the greater community and attacke on sight, the Netherese end their spelljamming ambitions a century later.
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820 CR
Shardminds first move into Mindspace
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902 CR
1282 CR
The Era of Empty Thrones in Arcanaspace
Military: WarThe Era of Empty Thrones, a planet-wide war on Syre in Arcanaspace, consumes the entire system. Arcanaspace is shut off from the wider spacefaring community.
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1063 CR
1072 CR
First Unhuman War
Military: WarThe First Unhuman War was a war fought between the Imperial Elven Navy (IEN) and the various goblin, orc, kobold, and ogre spelljamming fleets that often raided the Known Spheres. A brutal war of near extermination, the IEN's victory secured their hegemony as the dominant spelljamming military and scattered the defeated races to the far corners of the Known Spheres.
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1078 CR
Imperial Elven Navy establishes a garrison in Coldspace
Military action -
1108 CR
Dukagsh, Father of the Scro, dies
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1282 CR
The Start of the Era of Ascension in Arcanaspace
Religious eventThe ascension of the Major Arcana in Arcanaspace ends the Era of Empty Thrones and its perpetual war. Since the war's end, the planet Syre has begun its slow societal rebuild and was welcomed back into the greater astral community.
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1320 CR
The Rock of Bral is first settled
Founding -
1412 CR
Inhabitants of Arborspace begin mining sap from the future
Technological achievementHaving built an expansive society that ran on the mined sap of the Modun world tree, a crisis strikes Arborspace when it is revealed that the world tree's sap is nearly depleted. To maintain their way of life, a lottery is instituted to send Arborians into the future from inside the world tree to mine the sap once it had regrown.
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1474 CR
Locke's Freebooters Settle in Podspace
Criminal ActivityLocke's Freebooters, a band of living and undead pirates, settle in Podspace to capture migratory kindori and turn them into their skeleton ships.
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1479 CR
1485 CR
Second Unhuman War
Military: WarThe Second Unhuman War, also known as the War of Revenge, saw the forces of the Imperial Elven Navy (IEN) and the Scro clash in a protracted and bloody conflict that spread across nearly all of the Known Spheres. Though the IEN nominally came out on top, the Scro were not destroyed and the elves of the IEN saw their influence drastically weakened for the first time in centuries.
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1485 CR
The Battle of Gardenspace
Military: BattleThe Battle of Gardenspace, one of the climactic battles of the Second Unhuman War, occurs in the eponymous sphere in the Rapide Frontier. The resulting battle destroys the entire Scro fleet and every Imperial Elven Navy vessel save for one.