History
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Eberron is a world where the actions of the players help dictate the shape of the future, but where today's problems and challenges are usually the result of a long and tangled past. As such, it can be wise for even action-oriented adventurers and pulp heroes to know a little of what has happened before throughout the history of the world.

Below is a very abbreviated list of some of the more notable events.

The common era is reckoned from the birth of the Kingdom of Galifar, as "the Year since the founding of the Kingdom", or "Year of the Kingdom", usually shortened to "YK".

Events from the more distant past are shown as a number of years before the current day. F.ex: –10'000'000 BN (Before Now).

Major Events

NAME Date Years ago
War of the Mark –1'500 BN 1'500
Lycanthropic Inquisition 832 YK to 880 YK 166 and 118
The Last War 894 YK to 996 YK 104 and 2
Day of Mourning 994 YK 4
Current date 998 YK

See Also: Calendar

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Current Age

–4'100 BN: The greatpine Oalian is awakened.
–3'200 BN:
●The Mark of Hospitality appears among hobbits 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 Draconic Prophecy begins to unfold among the “lesser” races.
–3'000 BN:
●Lhazaar the Explorer leads humans from Sarlona to the eastern shores of Khorvaire.
●The Mark of Healing appears among hobbits of the Talenta Plains.
–2'800 BN: The Mark of Scribing appears among the gnomes of Zilargo.
–2'600 BN:
●The Mark of Sentinel appears among humans of pre-Galifar Karrnath.
●House Vol, which carries the Mark of Death, is wiped out in Aerenal.
House Phiarlan leaves Aerenal to relocate among the humans of Khorvaire.
–2'500 BN:
●The distinct settlements that will become the Five Nations appear in 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.
–2'000 BN:
●Karrn the Conquerer 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 khoravar of pre-Galifar Thrane.
–1'900 BN: The Mark of Passage appears among humans of pre-Galifar Aundair.
–1'800 BN:
●The Mark of Handling appears among humans in the Eldeen Reaches.
Kalashtar reach Sarlona, fleeing Dal Quor and the persecution of the quori.
–1'500 BN:
●Creation of the empire of Riedra begins, the lengthy process of uniting and rebuilding the shattered remains of the war-torn continent of Sarlona.
●Second wave of humans reach Khorvaire’s western shores.
●The Mark of Detection appears among khoravar 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.
–1'043 BN: Galifar I is born in Karrnath.
–1'022 BN: Galifar assumes rulership of Karrnath.
–1'012 BN Galifar begins his campaign to unite the Five Nations.
–1'005 BN: Galifar makes a deal with the dragonmarked houses, offering them neutral status in exchange for support in his campaign.
–1'000 BN: The Mark of Finding appears among humans and half-orcs of the Shadow Marches.


1 YK (–998 BN): Galifar I and his five children (Cyre, Karrn, Thrane, Aundair, and Brey)
take control of the Five Nations and establish the Kingdom of Galifar.
15 YK: King Galifar I establishes the Arcane Congress.
28 YK: Galifar–Lhazaar War, a decade-long conflict, begins.
32 YK: The Five Nations of Galifar adopt the names of King Galifar’s children as their own.
40 YK: King Galifar, now 85 years old, steps down and passes rulership of the kingdom to his oldest remaining scion, Cyre.
53 YK: King Galifar the 1st dies.
106 YK: House Kundarak is recognized by the established dragonmarked houses.
299 YK: The Church of the Silver Flame is born.
347 YK: House Lyrandar takes possession of an island off the coast of Aundair to create Stormhome.
498 YK:
●House Sivis discovers the Mark of Finding while exploring the Shadow Marches.
●House Tharashk is created shortly thereafter.
512 YK: King Daroon orders the construction of the Starpeaks Observatory.
778 YK: Medusas from Khyber take possession of Cazhaak Draal.
789 YK: House Sivis message stations begin operations.
802 YK: The Kingdom of Galifar, in cooperation with the dragonmarked houses,
funds the upgrade of the trade city of Stormreach on the northern peninsula of Xen'drik.
811 YK: First lightning rail connects Flamekeep and Fairhaven.
832 YK: The inquisition to wipe out lycanthropes is launched by the Church of the Silver Flame;
it lasts 50 years and drives the species almost to extinction.
845 YK: King Jarot begins a public works project to connect all of central Khorvaire via lightning rails.
Within twenty years, lines connect the Five Nations, Zilargo, the Mror Holds, and the Talenta Plains.
878 YK: House Deneith begins to provide clients with goblinoid mercenaries from Darguun region.

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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
As a result, the Last War begins.
896 YK: Order of the Emerald Claw established.
910 YK: Kaius II ascends to the throne of Karrnath after Kaius I dies.
914 YK:
●The Mror Holds declares its independence.
●King Thalin dies, and the Church of the Silver Flame seizes control of the nation of Thrane.
918 YK: Unknown saboteurs destroy the Glass Tower of Sharn.
928 YK: Ven ir'Kesslan leads settlers from the Five Nations to forge the nation of Q'barra.
956 YK: Aerenal mercenaries annex southern Cyre and declare the sovereignty of the elf nation of Valenar.
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.
961 YK: Boranel becomes king of Breland.
962 YK: Zilargo formally aligns with Breland.
965 YK: House Cannith perfects the modern-era warforged, living constructs designed to fight the Last War.
969 YK: Haruuc leads the hobgoblin rebellion, and the nation of Darguun is born.
972 YK: House Thuranni splits off from House Phiarlan.
976 YK: Regent Moranna of Karrnath outlaws the Order of the Emerald Claw.
980 YK: Queen Aurala's reign of Aundair begins.
986 YK: A trio of hags known as the Daughters of Sora Kell arrive in Droaam with an army of trolls, ogres, and gnolls.
987 YK:
King Boranel pulls settlers back and seals off the land west of the Graywall Mountains.
●As a result, the Daughters of Sora Kell declare the sovereignty of the nation of Droaam.
990 YK: The first elemental airships go into service for House Lyrandar.
991 YK: Kaius III’s rule of Karrnath begins.
993 YK: Jaela Daran assumes the power of the Keeper of the Silver Flame.


994 YK: The Day of Mourning:
Cyre is destroyed
●The Mournland is created.
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.
●House Cannith is ordered to destroy all creation forges.
●The remaining warforged are granted the rights of sentient beings.

998 YK:
Right now.
●The saga begins…
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Age of Monsters

–38'000 BN:
●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.
●Meanwhile, on Khorvaire, the first of the goblinoid kingdoms rises in the area that will one day become Breland and Darguun.
–30'000 BN: Orc nations arise in western Khorvaire to compete with the goblinoid kingdoms.
–25'000 BN:
●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.
–16'000 BN:
●The Dhakaani unite the goblinoid nations to create the greatest empire the goblins have ever known.
●The Gatekeepers appear among the orcs of western Khorvaire.
–12'000 BN: The dwarves migrate from the Frostfell to the Ironroot Mountains.
–10'000 BN:
Aerenal elves establish a colony in what is now present-day Valenar.
●Peaceful coexistence doesn’t last, and the elves come into conflict with the Dhakaani.
●The elves abandon the colony when another clash with the dragons threatens Aerenal.
–9'000 BN: The Daelkyr War decimates the western reaches of Khorvaire.
–5'000 BN: Weakened by the Daelkyr War, the Dhakaani Empire is shattered by
infighting and civil strife, eventually leading to the collapse of the goblinoid civilization.
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Age of Giants

–80'000 BN to –39'000 BN

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Age of Demons

–10 million BN: Khyber’s fiendish offspring overrun the surface world,
creating a hellish environment where rakshasas and night hags rule supreme.
–1.5 million BN:
●The Chromatic & Metallic Dragons (re)discover the Prophecy.
●They use this to rise from their primitive state and oppose their demonic overlords.
●The True Dragons ally themselves with other draconic species, including the couatls.
●The common races, still in primitive states, hide from the godlike combatants and find a way to survive.
–100'000 BN:
●The couatls sacrifice most of their number to send the most powerful of the demon lords
and the majority of the fiends back to Khyber, where they are trapped for eternity.
●The dragons retreat to Argonessen (presumably to contemplate their Prophecy), ignoring the “lesser races”.

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Age of Dragons

–??? BN: The Mythic Past
●The world was one, and the Progenitor Wyrms, the first and greatest of dragonkind, ruled all.
●The three most powerful were Siberys, Eberron, and Khyber.
●Together they created the thirteen outer dimensions, with varying levels of cooperation from world to world, before they set themselves the task of crafting the central masterpiece of the cosmos: the mortal world, the core dimension of material existence.
●A world-shattering struggle followed, splitting the world into three parts, as Khyber attacked and killed its sibling Siberys, whereupon Eberron sacrificed her freedom in order to imprison her beloved sibling Khyber forever within her embrace.
●In the end, the remains of slain Siberys became the glowing ring that surrounds the world, Khyber was bound in the darkest depths as The Dragon Below, and Eberron healed the world between by becoming one with it, turning into the planet we live on.
●The spilled blood and lifeforce of Siberys saturated the world with arcane magic and called forth the next generation of dragons; Eberron created all the living things found in nature (like animals and plants, birds and fish, etc); while imprisoned Khyber raged and spat out the fiends, and many of the aberrations.

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