| -12.000 The Crown Wars begin / Rise of the
Vyshaantar Empire: After centuries of fruitless diplomacy, the
impatient grasping rulers of Aryvandaar attack Miyeritar and begins putting
political pressure on Shantal Othreier to join them or suffer the same fate. |
| -11.800: Miyeritar militarily occupied and annexed by Aryvandaar,
though a number of clans and strongholds resist and continue to fight. Many
elves of Illefarn despite its officially neutral stance provide secret safe heavens
for Miyeritary refugees. |
| -11.700: Dragons set the southern expanse of Shantal Othreier
aflame, separating the soon-to-be-called wyrmwood from its greater body. Tethyr
kin of Keltormir (allied with the northern elves) and Shantal
Othreier. The second Crown war
flares up in answer to the aggressions of Aryvandaar. Ilythiir rises up and
viciously strikes out at any who support the gold elves of the north. Its
nearest neighbor of Orishaar, as a major trade partner with Aryvandaar,
falls swiftly in a brutal surprise attack. |
| -11.600: The Ilythiiri destroy Syņrpiir by fire, separating them
from their allied neighbors and burning their homes to the ground. |
| -11.500: Thearnytaar and Eiellūr band together and declare war on
Ilythiir, decrying the use of fire and wanton destruction far more than the
power plays of the northern elves. They fight a holding action , preventing
the Ilythiiri from advancing north. |
| -11.450 The Sable Wars: Thearnytaar
and Eiellūr, with minimal allies from Keltormir and Shantal Othreier,
invade Ilythiir, intent on destroying or reforming the dark elves before
more realms fall. More than half their forces are decimated by the corrupt magic
of the dark elves. |
| -11.400: Fall of Eiellūr as the Ilythiiri once again use magic to
destroy their realm around them and isolate them from aid. They also were
helped by traitor green elves, who thought their appeasement actions
could help restore peace. |
| -11.300: End of the first Crown war Miyeritar conquered by
Aryvandaar. |
| -11.200: Thearnytaar falls to the savage and now-unrepentant dark
elves, who enslaved monsters and undead to occupy the thorn-and-bramble
choked woods. Ilythiir now directly skirmishes with the major realm of
Keltormir along its eastern and southern expanses. |
| -11.000: Dwarves establish the first holds of deep shanatar in the
southern underdark (Modern: Almraiven Mountains, Lake of Steam). |
| -10.900: The third Crown war erupts as accords finally fail between
Shantal Othreier and Aryvandaar.. |
| -10.700 Battle of the God's Theater:
The god's Theater (Modern: the Tunlands) on eastern Shantal Othreier
is the site of the largest and costliest of all the Crown wars battles.
Nearly 70.000 elves died at the hands of elven or orcish enemies, as an orc
horde 100.000 strong fell upon the already embattled elves. Aryvandaar won
the day, and occupied the northern half of Shantal Othreier |
| -10.690: The God Silvanus Creates the Oak Staff of
Nature
to restore the balance in the God's Theater area. |
| -10.600: Shantal Othreier conquered by Vyshaantar empire of
Aryvandaar after the mysterious death of Coronal Ynoleth. Guerrilla fighting
and rebel mages arise in parts of Miyeritar and the newly conquered
territories. |
| -10.500 The dark Disaster: Miyeritar
is engulfed in killing storms, which reduce this entire forest and realm
into a barren wasteland in three months. While no proof could ever be found
many believe that the high mages of Aryvandaar inflicted the dark disaster
on Miyeritar. Shock over the dark
disaster established an uneasy four decades of peace, as nearly every elf of
Faerun shrank back in awe and horror from what havoc the Crown Wars Wrought. |
| -10.450 The Fourth Crown War: Ilythiir`s
seething counter-attack to avenge Miyeritar sees their open use of the
corrupt powers of Ghanunadar and other dark, evil gods for the first time. |
| -10.300: The elves of Keltormir opposed on both sides by the
Vyshaan of Aryvandaar and the dark elven clan of Hume of Ilythiir, strategically
withdraw from eastern Keltormir, holding their lines at highland's edge. |
| -10.270 The Stone and Claw campaigns:
The withdrawal of Keltormir forces to close and defend its own borders
pitted the forces of Aryvandaar and Ilythiir against each other. They soon
closed ranks and fought incessantly for two centuries. Battles raged
across giant-infested mountains and wemic-claimed plains north of Keltormir. |
| -10.110: In opposition to the corrupt dark elves of Ilythiir and
their continued destruction of the forested elven homelands by fire (an
elven enemy of long-standing), over 1000 priests and high mages in neutral Illefarn
and other free spend decades in fervent prayers for salvation by Corellon
Larethian and the seldarine gods. |
| -10.100: Through enslaved dragons and other powers, the dark elves
of Ilythiir engulf all of Shantal Othreier in flames, destroying over
70% of its threes over the course of 50 years. |
| -10.000 Descent of the Drow: Corellon“s magic as directed through
his priests and high mages, transforms the dark elves, whether the corrupt
Ilythiiri or others, into the drow. Whether by magic or by weaknesses that
banish them from the sunlit lands, all drow retreat within two months
passing into the Underdark.
Elves are summoned by the seldarine to the site that becomes elven court one
month after the descent of the drow to settle differences and restore the
peace among the elves. |
| -9.900: Aryvandaar“s covert persecution of high mages and priests
begin, as the attempt to destroy or control any who might somehow force
their descent as they did the drow. While not destroyed utterly, Illefarn
& its colony in the Llewyrrwood is annexed by Aryvandaar as its nobility
of priests and high mages died under the persecution of the
increasingly-crazed Coronal Giilvas Vyshaan. Many elves of both lands flee
to the remnants of Shantal Othreier. |
| -9.800: The Vyshaantar Empire's forces occupy all elven realms
(save Keltormir) from the high forest of Aryvandaar to the sweltering
southern forest of Ilythiir. They begin the colonization and settlement of
Evermeet. A large force of Llewyrr
elves escape the oppressive mainland and resettle the isolation and
safety among the mountains of the Moonshae islands, their new land becomes
Synnoria, after the elf queen who led the Llewyrr to this island sanctuary. |
| -9.600: Rise of the first drow civilization in the underdark
beneath southern Faerun. Their constant harassment of the Vyshaantar forces
help prevent their annexing Keltormir or any other lands. |
| -9.200 Fifth Crown War: The first
proclamation of Elven Court leads to the revolt of the nobles of Aryvandaar
and the last Crown War begins. The Elven Court, the Seldarine
priesthood, and the long hidden high mages restore pockets of resistance and
freedom across the entire Vyshaantar Empire, fragmenting the armies and
nobles to limit their coordination. |
| -9.000: The Fifth Crown War ends with the utter defeat of the
Vyshaan and the dissolution of Aryvandaar. Much of the high forest is
abandoned for an age, leaving the forest open so the gods might restore its
peace. The wandering years of
elven colonization begin. Many elves begin migrating back to Elven Court in
its eastern forest. Illefarn and Keltormir are the sole remaining
civilizations to emerge intact from the Crown
Wars. Drow overwhelm the dwarves
of Bhaerynden and take their rift-city for their own. |