-17600 DR


 * Circa: Elven high mages use High Magic to create Evermeet but cause the First Sundering. The magic stretches both backward and forward in time. The continent of Faerûn is split apart, hundreds of cities are destroyed in floods, and thousands of elves are killed.
 * Ongoing seismic activity leads to a thousand years of earthquakes, maelstoms and other deadly oceanic phenomena, making travel and colonization of the waters exceptionally difficult.


 * Circa: Angharradh blessed the new island of Evermeet with natural life, and Corellon wards it against Lolth, Malar and other deities the Seldarine oppose.
 * Circa: Corellon grants the Tree of Souls to the elves of Evermeet.


 * The vast majority of the sea creatures in the Black Sea are killed during the First Sundering.


 * Circa: Elliandreth of Orishaar writes a prophecy of the Second Sundering.