Eberron Timeline

Eberron has a rich and varied history; a history that can be seen all around you. From the ruins of recent wars to the ancient ruins of Xen'drik, what follows are the known highlights of the past. This timeline uses the Galifar Calendar to mark dates. Events from the distant past are intended to be read as a number of years before the present day, dates in the current era are to be read as expected.

The Age of Dragons

Date: Unknown

• According to myth, the three Progenitor Wyrms created reality itself, weaving the thirteen planes into existence, each a concept founding the material plane. The three were alleged to create (or discover) the Draconic Prophecy. Though, eventually Khyber sought to claim dominion over the reality that she and her siblings had created and a battle ensued. She struck Siberys unprovoked, tearing the dragon apart. Eberron, knowing she could not defeat Khyber in battle, wrapped her coils around Khyber, becoming a living prison that would forever contain the wyrm's evil.
• In the aftermath, Siberys' shattered body became the golden ring of dragonshards that wrap around the planet; Eberron became the world, the source of all natural life; and Khyber became the Underdark, the source of many evils to come.
• Siberys called forth the next generation of dragons, Eberron creates natural life, and Khyber begins to spit out fiends.

The Age of Demons

Date: -10,000,000

• Khyber's fiendish offspring overrun the surface world, creating a hellish environment where rakshasas and night hags rule supreme.

Date: -1,500,000

• Dragons rediscover the Prophecy and rise from their primitive state to oppose their demonic overlords. Unable to defeat the demonic hordes of the Dragon Below alone, the dragons ally with the couatls.
• The common races, still in primitive states, hide from the godlike combatants and find a way to survive.

Date: -100,000

• Recognizing their cause would otherwise be lost, the couatls sacrifice most of their number to bind the most powerful of the demon lords and the majority of the fiends back to Khyber. The couatls remain trapped for eternity with the fiends they bind. Victorious, the dragons retreat to Argonnessen to contemplate the Prophecy, ignoring the "lesser races."

The Age of Giants

Date: -80,000

• The giants rise from the ruins of the Dragon-Fiend Wars to establish a civilization on the continent of Xen'drik. They enslave the eladrin of the feyspire Shae Tirias Tolai, creating elves and drow through magic experiments.

Date: -75,000

• Dragons and dragonborn come to Q'barra to guard Haka'torvhak.

Date: -60,000

• Dragons make contact with the giant kingdoms and teach the giants arcane magic.
• The giants master the arcane arts, creating wonders unequaled even in the modern day. The elves—ignored by their giant masters—watch and learn.

Date: -40,000

• The quori invade Xen'drik from the plane of Dal Quor, the Plane of Dreams. After years of battle, the giants call upon the most powerful magics of the dragons to throw Dal Quor out of planar alignment, forever sealing that plane away from Eberron. The resulting backlash shakes Xen'drik to its core and plunges large chunks of the continent beneath the sea.

Date: -39,000

• 1,000 years after the end of the Giant-Quori War, Xen'drik is still suffering from the magical backlash of disrupting Dal Quor's planar orbit. Horrible curses and plagues still sweep through the land, and the elves use the opportunity to rebel.
• A corps of elves - called the Phiarlan or "Spirit Keepers" - work as bards, scouts, and couriers during the elven rebellion against the giants.
• In a desperate attempt to regain control of their slaves and save their dying civilization, the giants turn again to the most powerful draconic magics. Before they can unleash such destruction a second time, the dragons attack Xen'drik and the giant civilization collapses.
• The Phiarlan spread the word of the elven prophet Aeren, gathering elves to flee Xen'drik for the sub-continent that would become known as Aerenal. The drow remain behind in Xen'drik and go into hiding.

The Age of Monsters

Date: -38,000

• The giants revert to primitive monsters living in the ruins of their shattered civilization as the dragons return to their secluded continent and the elves settle Aerenal.
• The first of the goblinoid kingdoms, rises in the area that will one day become Breland and Darguun.

Date: -30,000

• Orc nations arise in western Khorvaire to compete with the goblinoid kingdoms.
• Aerenal elves spread across the sub-continent of Aerenal, creating clusters of city-states.

Date: -25,000

• The Undying Court appears in Aerenal.
• First skirmish between the elves and the dragons, which sets a pattern of long periods of peace punctuated by short, devastating battles every few hundred years known as the Elf-Dragon Wars.

Date: -16,000

• The Dhakaani unite the goblinoid nations to create the greatest empire the goblins have ever known.
• The dragon Vvaraak, in response to a portion of The Prophecy she had been studying, begins teaching the orcs of western Khorvaire druidic magic. These orcs become the first Gatekeeper druids.

Date: -15,000

• The founding of the city of Ja'shaarat ("Bright Blade" in Goblin).

Date: -14,000

• The dragonborn empire of Q'barra is founded following a prolonged period of restlessness in the Trothlorsvek clans—who felt they could do little to contribute to the black dragon lord Rhashaak's spiritual battle with the overlord Masvirik. For a period of a thousand years, clashes with the Dhakaani Empire known as the Goblin Wars recur while the dragonborn carve out a nation in the Blade Desert and Talenta Plains.

Date: -13,000

• The dragonborn returned to Haka'torvhak when Rhashaak faltered and the region started to fall to Masvirik's influence.

Date: -12,000

• The dwarves migrate from the Frostfell to the Ironroot Mountains.

Date: -10,000

• The goblinoids of the Dhakaani Empire push the lizardfolk out of the Talenta Plains and over the Endworld Mountains into the jungle of what is now Q'barra.
• Tairnadal elves from Northern Aerenal establish a colony in what is now present-day Valenar. The elves come into conflict with the Dhakaani. The elves abandon the colony when another clash with the dragons threatens Aerenal.

Date: -9,000

• The Daelkyr War occurs, devastating much of western Khorvaire. The daelkyr - a race of immensely powerful beings from Xoriat, the Plane of Madness - invade Eberron. They are eventually defeated by the Gatekeeper druids, who seal the portals to Xoriat and trap the remaining daelkyr below ground.
• The goblin city of Ja'shaarat becomes the ruin of Duur'shaarat ("Blade of Sorrows" in Goblin).

Date: -5,000

• Weakened by the Daelkyr War, the Dhakaani Empire collapses to internal power-struggles and civil strife. Goblinoid city-states and smaller nations endure, but lack the political and military cohesion of the earlier empire.

Current Age

Date: -4,100

• The greatpine Oalian (the future Great Druid of the Eldeen Reaches) is awakened.

Date: -3,200

• The Mark of Hospitality appears among halflings of the Talenta Plains.
• The Mark of Shadow and the Mark of Death appear among the elves of Aerenal. The dragons watch in awe and horror as the Prophecy begins to unfold among the “lesser” races.

Date: -3,000

• Lhazaar leads an exodus of humans from Sarlona across the Sea of Rage to land in eastern Khorvaire in what will become the modern-day Lhazaar Principalities.
• The Mark of Healing appears among halflings of the Talenta Plains.
• Founding of Io'vakas in Argonnessen built by the "lesser races" that the dragons transplanted from their ancestral homes across Eberron.

Date: -2,975

• Founding of the city of Shaarat by Malleon the Reaver built on top of the ruins of the Dhakaani city of Duur'shaarat. Malleon the Reaver enslaves the goblins there.

Date: -2,800

• The Mark of Scribing appears among the gnomes of Zilargo.

Date: -2,600

• The Mark of Sentinel appears among humans of pre-Galifar Karrnath.
• Elves and dragons unite to destroy House Vol (which carries the Mark of Death), ending millennia of intermittent warfare between the two species, if only for a time.
• Lady Vol, Lich Queen of the Dead is created.
• House Phiarlan leaves Aerenal to relocate among the humans of Khorvaire.

Date: -2,500

• The distinct settlements that will become the Five Nations are cut out of goblin-controlled central Khorvaire.
• The Mark of Making appears among humans of pre-Galifar Cyre.
• The Mark of Warding appears among the dwarves of the Mror Holds.

Date: -2,200

• King Breggor of the nation of Wroat orders the city of Shaarat destroyed due to the descendants of Malleon refusing to bow to his authority.
• The city of Sharn is built on top of the ruins of the city of Shaarat by King Breggor the Bear.

Date: -2,000

• Karrn the Conqueror establishes the nation of Karrnath, defeats the remaining goblinoid settlements, and unsuccessfully attempts to conquer the other four human nations.
• The Mark of Storm appears among half-elves of pre-Galifar Thrane.

Date: -1,800

• The Mark of Passage appears among humans of pre-Galifar Aundair.
• Taratai and the kalashtar appear in Adar fleeing Dal Quor.

Date: -1,649

• Death of Haztaratai, the first kalashtar.

Date: -1,500

• Quori begin conquest of Sarlona which brings a second wave of humans to Khorvaire's eastern shores.
• The Mark of Detection appears among half-elves of pre-Galifar Breland.
• The dragonmarked houses launch the War of the Mark to end the threat of aberrant and mixed marks.
• The Twelve is established.

Date: -1,493

• The War of the Mark comes to an end when Lord Halas Tarkanan, the Lady of the Plague, and his other lieutenants - in a last great act of defiance - cause the destruction of the city of Sharn and the believed extinction of aberrant marks.
• Shaarat is left abandoned for 500 years, believed to be a cursed ruin.

Date: -1,302

• Founding of Riedra and their unification under the Inspired.

Date: -1,300

• Lords of Daskara (modern Thrane), Karrnath, Metrol (modern Cyre) begin to purge changelings from their borders. Changelings flee to Fairhaven (Aundair) and Wroat (Breland). The hero Kel wanders and shares his vision of a changeling homeland on the edge of the world&emdash;leading a journey to the island of Lastpoint on the Lhazaar Principalities to establish the Gray Tide Principality at the border with the Gray Wall.

Date: -1,200

• Io'vakas is destroyed by the dragons due to a small sect of yuan-ti who sought more power and the deepest mysteries of draconic magic for themselves.
• Arnaarlasha (the noble gold dragon great wyrm of the Warders) along with a dozen elder dragons shepherd a thousand survivors of Io'vakas to the slopes of Mount Erishnak where they create the city of Io'lokar, the City of Knowledge over the following year.

Date: -1,099

• The kalashtar descendants of Taratai are among the first to experience visions of the Shroud in winter. Construction of the shroud resonators began soon after, deep within Adar.

Date: -1,043

• Galifar I is born in the city of Korth in Karrnath.

Date: -1,041

• The Border Wars, eventually drawing in all five human nations of central Khorvaire in a conflict over land rights and water sources that would last for a decade.

Date: -1,022

• Galifar assumes rulership of Karrnath right before he turned twenty-one years old.

Date: -1,012

• Galifar begins his campaign to unite the Five Nations of Khorvaire.

Date: -1,005

• Galifar makes a deal with the dragonmarked houses, offering them neutral status in exchange for support in his campaign.

Date: -1,000

• The Mark of Finding appears among humans and half-orcs of the Shadow Marches.
• Sharn is rebuilt.

Date: 1 YK (-998)

• Galifar I and his five scions - Prince Cyre, Prince Karrn, Prince Thrane, Princess Aundair, and Princess Brey - take control of the Five Nations and establish the Kingdom of Galifar with each of the five ruling as governor-princes of the Five Nations. Galifar frees the goblins in his conquest of the Five Nations.

Date: 15 YK

• Galifar I establishes the Arcane Congress.

Date: 28 YK

• Galifar-Lhazaar War, a decade-long conflict, begins.

Date: 32 YK

• The Five Nations of Galifar adopt the names of King Galifar's children who ruled them as governor-princes as their own.
• The city of Sharn is once again rebuilt on top of the old cities' ruins.

Date: 40 YK

• Galifar, now eighty-five winters old, steps down and passes rulership of the kingdom to his oldest remaining scion, Cyre.

Date: 53 YK

• Galifar I dies.

Date: 106 YK

• House Kundarak is recognized by the established dragonmarked houses.

Date: 299 YK

• The Church of the Silver Flame is born.

Date: 347 YK

• House Lyrandar takes possession of an island off the coast of Aundair to create Stormhome.

Date: 400 YK

• The Church of the Silver Flame becomes the dominant religion in Thrane.

Date: 498 YK

• House Sivis discovers the Mark of Finding while exploring the Shadow Marches. House Tharashk is created shortly thereafter.

Date: 512 YK

• King Daroon orders the construction of the Starpeaks Observatory.

Date: 558 YK

• Queen Joliana begins her reign of Galifar after serving as Thrane's regent. After attempting to force all of Galifar to accept the Silver Flame as the one true religion, Joliana dies suddenly before a civil war can break out near the end of the second year of her reign.

Date: 600 YK

• Clan Noldrun of the Mror Holds disappears.
• The Battle of Arnaarlasha's Fall begins a day after Arnaarlasha (gold dragon great wyrm of the Warders) dies. The battle only lasts 4 days as the city successfully defends itself from the Rogue dragons.

Date: 778 YK

• Medusas from Khyber take possession of Cazhaak Draal.

Date: 783 YK

• The first speaking stones developed by the Twelve.

Date: 789 YK

• House Sivis message stations begin operations.

Date: 797 YK

• Mordain the Fleshweaver is excoriated from House Phiarlan for practicing the forbidden magical arts of the Daelkyr.

Date: 800 YK

• The Twelve appeals to the Kingdom of Galifar to put an end to the piracy from Stormreach, and establish a port there.

Date: 802 YK

• The Kingdom of Galifar reaches an accord with five pirate lords of Stormreach and extends amnesty. This forms the Stormreach Compact allowing the five Storm Lords to maintain authority in the city, and joining with the dragonmarked houses to fund the expansion of the city of Stormreach.

Date: 811 YK

• First lightning rail connects Flamekeep and Fairhaven.

Date: 832 YK

• The Inquisition to wipe out lycanthropes (aka the Silver Purge) is launched by the Church of the Silver Flame. Over the course of the next 50 years, virtually all lycanthropes on the continent are slain.

Date: 845 YK

• King Jarot begins a public works project to connect all of central Khorvaire via lightning rails.

Date: 873 YK

• Discovery of Blackroot (Mordain the Fleshweaver's tower in Droaam).

Date: 865 YK

• Lightning rail lines connect the Five Nations, Zilargo, the Mror Holds, and the Talenta Plains.

Date: 878 YK

• House Deneith begins to provide clients with goblinoid mercenaries from the Darguun region.

Date: 890 YK

• The city of Stormreach puts down the Omaren Revolt.

Date: 894 YK

• King Jarot, the last ruler of Galifar dies. Thalin, Kaius, and Wroann reject the succession of Mishann. Wrogar backs his sister's claim, and the Last War begins.

Date: 896 YK

• Order of the Emerald Claw established.

Date: 897 YK

• Desperate to save Karrnath from the ravages of the Last War, Kaius I of Karrnath pledges his kingdom to The Blood of Vol. For his trouble, Kaius I is turned into a vampire by the lich-goddess Vol.

Date: 910 YK

• Kaius II ascends to the throne of Karrnath after Kaius I disappears
• The alliance between Thrane and Breland crumbles.

Date: 914 YK

• The Mror Holds declares its independence.
• Thalin of Thrane dies and the Church of the Silver Flame assumes control of the nation. The Keeper of the Flame assumes leaders of Thrane and the theocracy is formed.

Date: 918 YK

• Unknown saboteurs destroy the Glass Tower of Sharn.

Date: 928 YK

• Duke Ven ir'Kesslan leads settlers from the Five Nations to forge the nation of Q'barra.

Date: 946 YK

• The city of Stormreach is attacked by the fire giants of the Battalion of the Basalt Towers, calling down meteors on the city, but with the help of the Giants of Rushemé Stormreach wins the battle.

Date: 956 YK

• Southern region of Cyre becomes the elf nation of Valenar as elf mercenaries from Aerenal annex the land.

Date: 958 YK

• The Eldeen Reaches declares itself an independent nation under the protection of the Wardens of the Wood and the guidance of the Great Druid Oalian.

Date: 961 YK

• Boranel becomes king of Breland.

Date: 962 YK

• Zilargo formally aligns with Breland.

Date: 965 YK

• House Cannith perfects the modern-era warforged, living constructs designed to fight the Last War.

Date: 969 YK

• Haruuc leads the hobgoblin rebellion against the nations of Cyre and Breland, and the nation of Darguun is born.

Date: 972 YK

• House Thuranni splits off from House Phiarlan in the Shadow Schism.

Date: 976 YK

• Regent Moranna of Karrnath outlaws the Order of the Emerald Claw.

Date: 980 YK

• Queen Aurala's reign of Aundair begins.

Date: 986 YK

• A trio of hags known as the Daughters of Sora Kell invade western Breland with an army of trolls, ogres, and gnolls.

Date: 987 YK

• Unable to confront both the monsters and fight its opponents in the Last War, King Boranel pulls settlers back and seals off the land west of the Graywall Mountains. The Daughters of Sora Kell declare the sovereignty of the nation of Droaam.

Date: 990 YK

• The first elemental airships go into service for House Lyrandar.

Date: 991 YK

• Kaius III's rule of Karrnath begins upon his 20th birthday.

Date: 993 YK

• Jaela Daran (age 6) assumes the power of the Keeper of the Silver Flame.

Date: 994 YK

• Cyre is destroyed and becomes The Mournland.

Date: 996 YK

• The Treaty of Thronehold officially ends the Last War. The treaty officially recognizes the nations of Aundair, Breland, Thrane, Karrnath, the Talenta Plains, Zilargo, Q'barra, the Lhazaar Principalities, the Mror Holds, the Eldeen Reaches, Darguun, and Valenar.
• The treaty further commands House Cannith to destroy the creation forges (the devices used to create warforged). Remaining warforged are granted the rights of sentient beings.
• The Tribunal of Thronehold is established by the treaty with jurisdiction over prosecuting war crimes conducted during the worst offenses of the Last War—including ten magistrates from all signatory nations save Q'barra and Valenar.
• The mysterious appearance of Dolurrh's Dawn in Droaam.

Date: 997 YK

• Largely due to war refugees, the city of Stormreach expands.

Date: 998 YK

• The present year