Timeline

Current year:

• Hashkar 127 (Sigil)
• 587 CY (Oerth)
• 1369 DR (Toril)
• 382 AC (Krynn)
• FY 5 (Athas)
• 1523 HC (Cerilia)
• 752 BC (Demiplane of Dread)
• 1038 AC (Mystara)

Timeline

Events without listed years are given only in a general chronological ordering; any ordering with dated events is only tentative. All dated events are given with reference to Factol Hashkar rather than the proper factol of their time period, for ease of reading.

• The previous multiverse is destroyed, with the leShay the only survivors.
• Draedens exist in the "space" later to hold the multiverse.
• The planes are first formed.
• The baernaloths, one of five primal forces representing the five basic foundations of belief (Good, Evil, Law, Chaos, and Neutrality), come forth within the Grey Waste.
• The yugoloths are created by the baernaloths.
• The River Styx grows from a minor trickle through the Lower Planes to a full-fledged planar path.
• Apomps, trying to duplicate the creation of the yugoloths, inadvertently forms the gehreleths. Because of this failure, Apomps and his creations are exiled to Carceri.
• The Heart of Darkness is created by the General of Gehenna, the first ultraloth.
• The influx of law and chaos purged by the Heart of Darkness is channeled into the larvae of the Grey Waste. These larvae are herded to Baator and the Abyss, forming the first baatezu and tanar'ri.
  • Some stories claim that the tanar'ri are in fact creations of the obyriths, not the ultraloths, but of course records from this time are more unconfirmable stories than anything.
• Obox-Ob declares himself the most powerful of all Abyssal beings, taking on the title Prince of Demons. With this act, a great power becomes mystically associated with the title, a power coveted by many throughout history.
• ~Hashkar -1000000 - Turaglas, one of the first and oldest tanar'ri, is spawned. He still lives today, once the ruler of the 32nd layer of the Abyss, though he has since been imprisoned by Demogorgon and XXXXXX in the void between planes. Their alliance then proceeded to kill all cultists of Turaglas across the multiverse and destroyed all written record of his existence, and little knowledge of him survives today.
• The baatezu gains total ownership of their planes over the baatorians.
• The Queen of Chaos murders Obox-Ob when he refuses to join her in her war against the Wind Dukes of Aaqa, powerful lawful scions of elemental air. She proceeds to bestow the title Prince of Demons upon her servant, the tanar'ri lord Miska the Wolf-Spider.
• The Queen of Chaos's army, consisting of numerous obyrith lords cowed into fighting alongside her, are defeated by the Wind Dukes on the Prime world later known as Oerth through the aid of the artifact of their own creation, the Rod of Seven Parts (then known as the Rod of Law). This conflict between the philosophies of law and chaos in this battle are believed by some to be the historical origins for the Blood War.
• Following the defeat of the Queen of Chaos, the obyrith alliance breaks apart. Taking advantage of their weakened state, a host of ghaele knights under orders from Queen Morwel strike against them upon the Plain of Infinite Portals. Simultaneously, the tanar'ri take the opportunity to rebel from their masters. The combined forces succeeded in overcoming the obyriths, while the tanar'ri easily managed afterwards to clear out the eladrin forces from the Abyss. One of the major victories against them involved a trick by Pale Night that resulted in the consignment of an entire generation of eladrin children to entrapment within Androlynne.
• With the death of Miska the Wolf-Spider, the tanar'ri lord Demogorgon takes the title Prince of Demons.
• The baernaloths withdraw from their positions as rulers of the yugoloths, leaving little evidence of their former existence.
• The Blood War begins when a party of baatezu explorers set out from Baator, encountering first the "weak-willed" and "foolish" yugoloths before pressing through Carceri to the Abyss, resulting in a mass slaughter. A group of tanar'ri set out at almost the same time, also briefly encountering the yugoloths before reaching Baator, where things proceed similarly.
• The Lords of the Nine and Princes of the Abyss first appear. Though some are initially deposed, both groups soon set up hierarchies of forms and powers amongst the others of their kind, so as to encourage infighting and reduce the chances of a true foe.
• The earliest records presently accessible to mortals begin to appear.
• The baatezu and tanar'ri begin exploring the planes outside the scope of the Blood War, discovering various portals and paths far beyond their home planes.
• The celestials marshal forces to send against the fiends, in an attempt at wiping them out. A force of archons and aasimon millions strong is sent into the Lower Planes, and though initially successful as both types of fiends are forced into a two-front war, the baatezu and tanar'ri soon join forces to fight against the celestial armies as one. Within a week, only 3,000 celestials are said to survive this conflict.
• Realizing that if they are to be successful, the celestials must focus on wiping out either one race of fiends or the other, a schism forms amongst their number between the lawful archons wishing to destroy the tanar'ri, and the chaotic aasimon wishing the end of the baatezu.
• Aboleths arise as the first known mortal race in existence, predating the powers according to their racial memory. They form great empires across a number of Prime worlds, empires which fall soon after the first powers come about.
• The first powers come into existence.
• Though the evil powers initially begin aiding the fiends in the Blood War, after the death of one of the first gods of chaos to move into the fight, they largely withdraw, helping only through their proxies if helping at all.
• The Mask of the Pit gambit is attempted.
• Bel is given command of the armies of Avernus, after the extraordinarily successful Four-Cross.
• Petitioners begin arriving from the Prime, and fiends soon discover that those arriving in their own planes can be twisted into new fiends, allowing their numbers to grow for the first time since their creation.
• The fiends discover Sigil, as well as the presence of the Lady of Pain preventing its use as a launching point for planar invasion.
• ~Hashkar -36000 - The sarrukh empires, one of the first recorded major races in any world's history, arise on the continent of Faerun on the planet of Toril. Primitive humans are also recorded as existing by this time on Toril, however elves and dwarves are not.
• ~Hashkar -30000 - Kiaransalee slays the entire population of the world of Threnody and becomes a demigoddess; Lolth has not yet arisen.
• The succubi appear, the first tanar'ri to spontaneously manifest from the Abyss itself rather than being twisted from larvae. The War of Ripe Flesh commences soon after, in which numerous succubi whose names are now lost to time gather their resources and battle amongst one another for superiority. It ends after a short few years with only four surviving major succubi forces, nearly evenly-matched with one another over the next millennia.
• Active recruiting by the fiends on the Prime first begins, with both baatezu and tanar'ri trying to lure mortals over to their outlooks in life, so as to bring more petitioners to their planes in death.
  • As a result of this recruiting, the first cambions and alu-fiends come about, eventually followed by the first tieflings.
• The mortal that would become XXXXXX is born upon the Prime, becoming a larvae and eventually a true tanar'ri upon his death.
• The future demon lord Graz'zt is born to Pale Night and an unknown father; according to various rumors, Set, a baernaloth, or Asmodeus.
• The only near-successful attempt at displacing the Lady of Pain from her rule of Sigil is made by a mortal mage; though this attempt ultimately failed, the Lady herself was missing from the city for weeks after the conflict, assumedly recovering from the strain. The mage that attempted this coup was imprisoned in the depths of Pandemonium for his efforts.
• The great wars between Demogorgon, XXXXXX, and Graz'zt begin, the breadth of which nearly match the Blood War at times. These wars persist up to the present day, despite the occasional absence of one of these three figures.
• ~Hashkar -15000 - The earliest dated local records on Oerth; the arrival of the valley elves to the Vale of the Mage.
• Hashkar -14508 - The beginning of the King's Age calendar on the prime world of Athas. At the time, only halflings are recorded as an intelligent race on Athas.
• Hashkar -13383 - Athas becomes a desert with the end of the Blue Age. Other races arise on Athas at this time, including humans.
• ~Hashkar -11000 - The drow are banished to the Underdark of the various Prime realms as a result of the war between Lolth and Corellon Larethian.
• The Lady of Pain begins Mazing people, rather than trapping their essences in black soul crystals in the lowest layer of Pandemonium.
• ~Hashkar -10000 - Shekelor makes his ultimately-failed attempt at dethroning the Lady of Pain from Sigil, using the aid of the mage that tried such eons hence. He vanishes mysteriously after his attempt.
• ~Hashkar -9950 - Shekelor reappears in the midst of the City Courts of Sigil, and spontaneously combusts immediately thereafter.
• ~Hashkar -9250 - The first intelligent races, ogres, arise on the world of Krynn, forming great empires over the mountains of the world. Over the next 500 years, elves arise, followed by humans.
• Garat, an elemental cleric of Athas, becomes the first of the ruvoka.
• A massive portal the size of a tenement opens from a Blood War battlefield to the Hive Ward in Sigil, bringing with it massive numbers of baatezu and tanar'ri in the midst of fighting. The portal remains only for a few days before receding, the two forces departing with it for the most part, but the damage caused by the spill-over remains to this day in the form of the Slags, as well as the tanar'ri creation known as the Kadyx.
• The failed attempt by the Dark Eight to ferment dissent amongst the baatezu, known as the Rebellion of the Inferiors, occurs.
• ~Hashkar -3307 - Minotaurs, dwarves, tinker gnomes, and kender appear on Krynn as a side effect of the divine Graygem artifact.
• The Ghoresh Chasm forms in the Grey Waste, displacing a yugoloth citadel.
• ~Hashkar -3000 - The Olman gods first discover the Prime realm of Oerth and the Olman people.
• Hashkar -2120 - The Athasian defiler Qwith first begins investigating the Inner Planes as a potential source of power.
• ~Hashkar -1975 - Malcanthet, a survivor of the War of Ripe Flesh, takes the title of Queen of the Succubi, after having worked since the end of the War against the only figures that could contend for the title, the other three survivors: Shami-Amourae, Xinivrae, and Lynkhab.
• Hashkar -1581 - Karsus' Folly: The Torilian mage Karsus casts Karsus' Avatar, the most powerful spell in recorded history, temporarily stealing the portfolio of magic from the god Mystryl, and disrupting all magic on Toril for a short time as a result. This results in widespread disaster and millions of deaths due to the numerous floating cities now crashing to the ground. Mystryl sacrifices himself to save magic on Toril, reincarnating as the first Mystra, and proceeds to change the rules of magic within Realmspace to render it and all spells like it uncastable in the future.
• The Occluded Empire of Vecna runs across a wide swath of the Prime realm of Oerth. At some time during this period, Vecna pens the Codex of the Infinite Planes.
• Skall founds the Dustmen.
• Red Shroud, one of many daughters of Malcanthet and Pazuzu, is born.
• Hashkar -882 - Twin Cataclysms: Two massive arcane strikes, the Invoked Devastation and Rain of Colorless Fire, occur on the Prime realm of Oerth, ending a war between two of that world's major empires in mutual annihilation.
• ~Hashkar -875 - 12 factols appeal to the Lady of Pain at the current location of the Twelve Factols inn about halting the slow Sigilian take-over of the Expansionist faction. In response, the Lady mazes their factol, Vartus Timlin, and bars the Expansionists from the city. This faction dissolves soon after.
• ~Hashkar -875 - The Bleak Cabal is founded.
• Hashkar -866 - The Fraternity of Order is founded.
• ~Hashkar -850 - Vlaakith CLVII becomes queen of the githyanki.
• ~Hashkar -775 - The Planewalker's Guild is founded in Sigil, taking advantage of its position as a hub of multiversal travel.
• Hashkar -722 - The god Aoskar is slain by the Lady of Pain and his high temple is destroyed, after the defection of a dabus to his priesthood.
• The Athar are formed from the meeting of Dunn and Ciro at the site of the Shattered Temple relatively soon after the death of Aoskar.
• The faction known today as the Believers of the Source is founded.
• The Sign of One is founded.
• The Transcendent Order is founded.
• Hashkar -665 - Vlaakith CLVII becomes a lich
• ~Hashkar -570 - The earliest known reference to what may be the modern day Revolutionary League.
• ~Hashkar -570 - The Society of Sensation is first formed, as a loose organization at this time rather than a faction. purchasing and clearing a large lot in the Clerk's Ward to begin work on what will become the Civic Festhall, drawing from all the planes and a thousand Prime worlds to choose the most aesthetically perfect materials for its construction.
• The slow rise of law in Sigil is counterbalanced once more; this time by a new flow of visitors, travelers, and tourists into Sigil, encouraged to no small degree by the Sensates and their regular performances and shows at the still-being-constructed Civic Festhall. With the sudden influx of beings from across the multiverse, they bring with them a number of various philosophies of existence, life, and the like, philosophies that oft conflicted with both one another and those held by the city's small group of existing factions. This quickly leads to the now-infamous 10 year Public Debates, where the growing numbers of factions confronted one another in the arena of the Hall of Speakers in manners both pleasant and not.
• The growing interest in and influence of the factions embroils the entire city of Sigil, outsiders and natives alike; chaos reigns on the streets as the occasionally heated debates turn violent increasingly often, even within the Lady's Ward. Though factions had existed in Sigil for centuries before this, this is most commonly considered the beginning of the kriegstanz.
• Hashkar -503 - Great Upheaval: Sigil's over four dozen factions are restricted by order of the Lady of Pain to 15.
  • The loose organization of the Sinkers evolves into the Doomguard.
  • The Mercykillers are formed from the merger of the Sons of Mercy and the Sodkillers.
  • The Society of Sensation coalesces into a true faction.
  • The Athar temporarily depart the city of Sigil for a complex at the foot of the Spire.
  • The shakeup caused by the Upheaval inflates the membership of the Indeps to almost one million.
• ~Hashkar -470 - Construction finally completes on the Civic Festhall.
• ~Hashkar -470 - A plague strikes the Indeps, reducing its membership from its tremendous heights down to a mere 20,000. The plague then vanishes, leading some to develop theories of a conspiracy against the Free League.
• The Fraternity of Order cedes the duty of law enforcement in Sigil to the Doomguard and Mercykillers, deciding to instead handle judicial matters only.
• ~Hashkar -400 - Due to increasing numbers of fair-weather namers amongst the factions, they agree to enforce a strict requirement amongst their ranks of single-faction membership only, with members of one faction not allowed membership in any other Sigilian faction, guild, or sect. Due to the by-now tremendous influence of the factions in Sigil, this has the side effect of depressing the memberships of many of Sigil's guilds to the point of near-nonexistence.
• ~Hashkar -375 - The Planewalker's Guild departs Sigil as a consequence of its dwindling membership and influence thanks to competition from the factions, hoping that by no longer being a Sigilian guild, it can recover from its current nadir. Selling off its holdings and collections, the Guild becomes an itinerant organization, keeping no halls and few safe houses.
• ~Hashkar -370 - The Harmonium are founded on the prime world of Ortho.
• ~Hashkar -370 - The Bleak Cabal take over the Bedlam Blight asylum, renaming it the Gatehouse.
• Hashkar -275 - The first recorded appearance of the Demiplane of Dread, as it takes Strahd von Zarovich into its mists.
• Hashkar -258 - The first death knights are created, as a result of a pact between Demogorgon and a group of Oerthian paladins.
• ~Hashkar -175 - The Revolutionary League murders the factol of the Mercykillers, spawning a war that eventually embroils a full dozen factions, and resulting in the dissolution of the Incanterium, the Zactar, and the Ochlocrats. The Harmonium, having been waiting for such an opportunity, move into Sigil, quickly filling one of these new-found gaps to become one of the city's 15 factions. The Athar take this chance to return as well, once more taking possession of the Shattered Temple from the vagrants and barmies that had been calling kip there.
• The Harmonium attempt to take over the task of city guard for the city from the Doomguard. War breaks out between the two factions; the Doomguard invade and take the Armory, and the Harmonium begin a siege that continues for months.
• Enraged by the philosophy of the Athar, a factor of the Harmonium redirects patrols to assault the Shattered Temple. The factor is mazed, but the faction still institutes discrete guerrilla strikes against the faction for some time.
• The Hall of Speakers finally acts to stop the continued warfare of the Harmonium against both the Doomguard and the Athar, threatening to revoke the faction status of both the Harmonium and the Doomguard. The Doomguard are forced to sign a blood pact swearing to never again instigate war in Sigil. The Harmonium are given the duty of city guard, with the Doomguard taking the new duty of creating and distributing weapons for the factions. The Harmonium proceeds to move its fight against the Athar to the arena of political debate, bringing the Mercykillers and the Fated on their side against the Athar.
• Hashkar -75 - The city of Broken Reach is constructed by the succubus Red Shroud over the remains of the most recent Plague-Mort to pass into the Abyss.
• ~Hashkar -70 - XXXXXX is slain by Kiaransalee. She proceeds to wipe all mention of his name from all records throughout the multiverse, and has two of her servants hide his wand in the depths of Pandemonium.
• Hashkar -67 - War breaks out between the Doomguard, at the time holding the position of city guard, and the Harmonium, finding the idea of entropy-worshipers as guards a dangerous one. The war continues for months before eventually settled, with the Doomguard signing a treaty to never instigate such a conflict again. They are stripped of their position, and the Harmonium are instituted as the new guard of Sigil.
• Hashkar -40 - Zagig Yragerne becomes the demigod Zagyg.
• ~Hashkar -20 - The first reference to the Xaositects under their current name, though references to near-identical factions under other names (including the above-mentioned Ochlocrats) can be found dating back centuries.
• Days of Xaos: The Sensates throw a massive party for the newly-formed Xaositects, as a show of welcome to the city. With over a thousand Xaositects in one place, and with the encouragement of a few Anarchists, perhaps the biggest riot in the history of the planes hits Sigil. The riot quickly swells over the next day as the Doomguard, the Bleak Cabal, and a number of Indeps join in, despite all attempts of the Harmonium, the Mercykillers, the Guvners, and even the Ciphers to quell it. Oddly enough, no intervention by the Lady of Pain was recorded, likely thanks to the lack of any leaders to Maze and little impetuous to slaughter them all. The riot continues for the course of a week before finally petering out; by the end of the riot, the City Court had burned for hours before being quenched, the Hall of Records had nearly collapsed, a fire had swept through the Hive Ward, and thousands are recorded as having died.
• Hashkar 1 - Hashkar becomes factol of the Fraternity of Order, replacing Factol Lariset the Inescapable following her mysterious disappearance.
• Hashkar 1 - The cambion and future demigod Iuz is born to Graz'zt and Iggwilv, later renown as one of the most powerful and knowledgeable demonologists across the planes.
• A few Xaositects manage to assassinate the factol of the Harmonium by hitting him in the head with an hourglass.
• ~Hashkar 25 - The Planewalker's Guild makes a settlement on the Infinite Staircase and takes it as a new base of operations, though it still keeps many of the trappings of the nomadic existence it's held the last few centuries.
• Hashkar 27 - The modrons proceed on their march around the planes.
• Hashkar 29 - The Modron March returns to Mechanus.
• ~Hashkar 50 - Athux is born to Graz'zt and Eclavdra.
• ~Hashkar 75 - The Revolutionary League places a covert operative, Omar, in the ranks of the Harmonium. Omar reaches the eventual level of Factol, discovered and arrested only when he attempted to order the dissolution of the faction. Omar was eventually executed.
• Hashkar 94 - Erin Darkflame Montgomery is born in the village of Grim's Head in Tir na Og.
• Hashkar 104 - Montgomery becomes a novitiate to Diancecht.
• ~Hashkar 105 - Sarin arrives in Sigil from Ortho.
• ~Hashkar 105 - A group of Xaositects hit a number of manor courtyards in the Lady's Ward; some are left as ragged ground, others as beautiful rock gardens.
• The Xaositects paint the Armory pink.
• Hashkar 107 - Captain Za'rafas, the prized strategist of a powerful Abyssal Lord, hires Toddy to strike against Mason, a wanderer with the ability to possibly stop his planned Blood War raid against a number of villages in Tir na Og thought to be sending resources to the Baatezu. Toddy refuses the assignment on the advice of Darius the Veyl of Welbey, and Mason leads a contingent of the Outlands villagers, including then-Priestess Erin Montgomery, against the raiders. The strike was much less vicious than it could have been, but a number of hamlets were destroyed, including Welbey, and though Diancecht's teachings demand healing both friend and foe, Montgomery had no spells left upon reaching the raiders. Blaming Montgomery for his death, Za'rafas's patron sends a number of assassins after her over the coming years.
• Hashkar 108 - Alisohn Nilesia is born in the Prison.
• A series of Clueless murders hit the Hive Ward, as a result of a few Xaositects upset at their stupidity.
• Hashkar 111 - Montgomery finally leaves Grim's Head after an especially vicious attack, hoping to spare the village from the continuous tanar'ri strikes.
• ~Hashkar 115 - The Xaositects arrange an alliance with every single faction simultaneously; the alliance lasts about a half hour before the factions discover what happened.
• Hashkar 116 - Time of Troubles: Due to widespread divine negligence, the overpower Ao forces all deities within Realmspace to walk the surface of Toril for one year as mortal avatars. Many deific deaths (or, for multisphere deities, exiles) result, as do a small number of new deific ascensions.
• Hashkar 116 - Nilesia tries to join the Mercykillers at age 8, but is refused by Factol Mallin.
• Hashkar 119 - Nilesia is finally allowed to join the Mercykillers.
• The tanar'ri, working alongside the Doomguard, work to create the first Ships of Chaos.
• Montgomery frees Cuatha Da'nanin from the Pax Imperica and flees to Sigil.
• Montgomery and Da'nanin join the Sensates.
• Hashkar 126 - Rowan Darkwood arrives in Sigil. He quickly maneuvers to replace Emma Oakwright as factol of the Fated.
• Hashkar 126 - A Plague-Mort scheme to infiltrate the factions of Sigil is uncovered by a group of adventurers and overturned.
• Hashkar 127 - A group of Xaositects paint a mural on the side of the Great Gymnasium; many consider it one of the most beautiful pieces of art on the planes.
• Hashkar 127 - The modrons begin their march unexpectedly early, flowing out of Automata and starting their procession around the Great Ring.