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three days the northerners rampaged, venting their frustration on the keeps, manors, and villages nearby. Finally, the Orbaalese retired, carrying off many women and much booty.

The Cape Renda Disaster[edit | edit source]

In the late summer of 707 a second assault force embarked in 100 (?) ships. Most doubt that Thay could have withstood this army. While rounding Cape Renda, however, a freak storm arose and sank many vessels, cast others on to the Renda Rocks, and scattered the remainder. The surviving ships retired to Keron to regroup only to find that their island base had al~o been destroyed. This was more than the "masters of wmd and wave" would stand. They limped home to Orbaal. Many Thayans believe the Cape Renda disaster was no accident but intervention by Mclderyn.

Epilogue[edit | edit source]

The West[edit | edit source]

Two kingdoms and a republic maintain an uneasy peace in 'I'harda. Over the past fifty years they have fought several wars and there is no reason to suppose that relations will improve. The "black-souled and evil" Kingdom of Rethem bides its .time. I~ will either <:ollapse into bloody civil war or Chafm III Will put down .mternal strife and strike out against the peaceful and chivalrous kingdom of Kanday. Neither kingdom has reason to trust the Thardic Republic with its radically alien politi?al structure and its avaricious, expedient-folloWing senators. The republic's worst enemies dwell within its own borders, where the great families vie constantly for status and wealth and factions form and reform daily. The republic's decadence and internal disunity alone will likely eliminate it as a threat to its neighbours until some strong general can climb . to the throne over 8: heal? of bodies. Per an is a harsh Wilderness, a land of Wlld tr1bes who have not forgotten that their fathers almost conquered all of the rich, soft South.

The East[edit | edit source]

The present King of Kaldor is Miganath, who succeeded his father Torastra at the age of 41. He has always been sickly and ever since he took the throne physicians have been predicting his imminent death from any one of his numerous ailments . After 27 years, the aged monarch continues to baffle his subjects simply by living on. Miganath has never married which leaves the succession a bone of contention between two or three bastard sons and fourteen nieces and nephews.

The hand of the seemingly eternal, ineluctable kingdom of Melderyn rests lightly on its mainland fiefs around Thay but King Chunel could at any time send an army to claim the tiny kin~dom of Chybisa, whi:ch is al~o claimed by Kaldor. Chyb1sa's monarch, Verlid VII, 1s apparently obsessed with the notion that either Melderyn or Kaldor will take up arms against him.

King Aranath maintains his elven court in the splend1d isolation of the Shava Forest; King Hazmadul III reigns over the Khuzdul of Azadmere.

The North[edit | edit source]

Since the Cape Renda Disaster, the Orbaalese have settled into normal squabbling among themselves. The occasional minor raid is still made on isolated coastal settlements of Harn but most of their efforts are spent in internal dispute and in subduing the ever bitter, restless Jarin. When Alegar died in 714 he was succeeded by his son, Ale gar II. Not least among his worries is an ambiguous threat from Ivinia itself, which regards Orbaal as a colony. The Kingdom of Orbaal is less a kingdom than a confederation of petty domains.

Between these islands of "civilisation", travellers may encounter barbaric tribes of humans or Gargun and there are always rumours of fell, enchanted beasts. Harn remains a land of subtle intrigue and sudden bloody violence.

Chronology[edit | edit source]

20000 BT EARTHMASTERS ARRIVE ON KETHIRA /HARN _.,_.)
15000 BT EARTHMASTERS DEPART
10000 BT SINDARIN REACH HARN
7000 BT THE KHUZDUL APPEAR ON HARN
1300 BT MEN REACH HARN (THE JARIN)
900 BT THE ATANI WARS BEGIN
683 BT BATTLE OF SORROWS
1 TR KINGDOM OF MELDERYN FOUNDED
100 TR TYRANNY OF THE FOULSPAWNER BEGINS
110 TR FIRST APPEARANCE OF THE GARGUN
120 TR CARNAGE OF KIRAZ/BATTLE OF SIRION
128 TR FOUNDING OF TASHAL
160 TR FOUNDING OF THE KINGDOM OF CHYBISA
188 TR KINGDOM OF KALDOR PROCLAIMED
301 TR CORANI EMPIRE FOUNDED
356 TR CITY OF ALEATH FOUNDED
362 TR KALDORIC CIVIL WAR BEGINS
377 TR BATTLE OF KIBAN. CIVIL WAR ENDS
388 TR CITY OF MERETHOS (GOLOTHA) FOUNDED
391 TR CITY OF SHIRAN FOUNDED
343 TR ALEATHIA INVADES CORANI EMPIRE
347 TR MEJENES THE GREAT DEFEATS ALEATHIA
406 TR THE RESTORATION
453 TR CORANI EMPIRE ANNEXES ALEATHIA
477 TR KUSTAN MASSACRE
493 TR CHARTER OF THE MANGAI (GUILD RIGHTS)
521 TR GREAT FLOOD OF THARDA
558 Tk BALSHA EXECUTED/BALSHAN JIHAD BEGINS
559 TR RED DEATH (PLAGUE) UNTIL 561
562 TR BALSHANS CAPTURE MERETHOS (GOLOTHA)
564 TR SHIRAN JOINS BALSHAN JIHAD
565 TR CORANAN CAPTURED/END OF CORANI EMPIRE
568 TR THEOCRACY OF TEKHOS FOUNDED.
572 TR AGONY OF ALEATH/ ALEATHIAN ODYSSEY
573 TR CITY OF THA Y FOUNDED
588 TR THEOCRACY OF TEKHOS COLLAPSES
589 TH KINGDOM OF KANDA Y FOUNDED . "'
598 TR KANDA Y CAPTURES EDINU ............ ,
612 TR SECOND ALEATH REPUBLIC FOUNDED
620 TR KANDAY CAPTURES DYlUSA
621 TR CORANAN REPUBLIC FOUNDED
625 TR SHIRAN REPUBLIC FOUNDED
625 TR KUBORA UNIFIED BY ARLUN THE BARBARIAN
629 TR ARLUN INVADES RETHEM/SHOSTIM TAKEN
633 TR ALEATH JOINS KANDAY AS FREETOWN
635 TR KINGDOM OF RETHEM FOUNDED
636 TR THARDIC LEAGUE FORMED
652 TR IVINIAN CONQUEST BEGINS
661 TR FIVE YEAR WAR BEGINS
663 TR BATTLE OF TEB MARSHES
665 TR BATTLE OF EIDRU
666 TR PEACE OF QUIVUM/FIVE YEAR WAR ENDS
672 TR SALT WAR BEGINS/BATTLE OF CHELNA GAP
673 TR BATTLE OF RAMALA GAP/SALT WAR ENDS
674 TR PROCLAMATION OF THARDIC REPUBLIC
675 TR TREASURE WAR (KALDOR-CHYBISA) TO 678
686 TR KINGDOM OF ORBAAL PROCLAIMED
687 TR BALESIR REGAINS CHYBISAN THRONE
682 TR EZAR'S WAR BEGINS
688 TR RETHEM CAPTURES SARKUM/HEBON
690 TR KANDAY LIBERATES HEBON
692 TR KANDAY LIBERATES SARKUM
694 TR ASSASSINATION OF QUEEN ERIEL
697 TR PEACE OF SELVOS /EZAR'S WAR ENDS
701 TR JARIN REBELLION (ORBAAL) TO 703
705 TR RAPE OF THA Y
707 TR CAPE RENDA DISASTER
712 TR KUSEME WAR (KANDA Y-THARDIC REPUBLIC)

NOTE: ALL BT DATES ARE APPROXIMATE