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 * Eleasias 4: An overambitious archmage attempts to gain the power of the Magister by attacking the incumbent along with a dozen clones of himself. The nine surviving clones then annihilate each other, and the original is murdered by his own apprentice. Another mage in turn kills him, only to then be killed by his own apprentice, marking the Night of Fourteen Magisters.
 * The Tenth Serôs War erupts as over seven separate civil wars break out in Hmurrath. Almost every race in the Inner Sea is at war with with every other race.
 * Yuan-ti use a portal to secretly abduct halflings from the southern Lluirwood. They spirited away to the Black Jungles to undergo experimentation.
 * Three nycaloths freed the previous year from a prison over Cormanthyr, and their summoned yugoloth allies spend twenty-nine months assembling an army. In addition to lesser yugoloths, they gather bugbears, flinds, hobgoblins, gnolls, orcs, ogres, and trolls in the mountains and hills north of the Dragon Sea.