1018 DR


 * The period known as the Rage of Dragons begins when dragons sweep into the Heartlands and areas surrounding the Shining Sea and launch attacks on the cities of the region.
 * Three red dragons and Thauglor, the black dragon, descend upon Suzail, laying waste to much of the city, and other dragons wreak havoc across Cormyr.
 * The city of Zhentil Keep is assaulted by dragons. The city ultimately turns away the attack, but not before the dragons manage to destroy the keep along with many of the lords who had taken up shelter inside of it.  The city blames the attacks on the Cult of the Dragon and swears revenge.
 * Uruth Ukrypt suffers greatly in battle against the green dragon Claugiyliamatar and the black dragon Shammagar as both wyrms plunder the orcs’ amassed wealth and destroy their food sources.
 * The dragon Sapphiraktar the Blue comes from the Calim Desert and destroys Calimport and Keltar, bringing an end to the Seventh Age of Calimshan. Beginning of the Eighth Age of Calimshan.
 * Mintar is left largely in ruins due to a nearly-month long battle between the city's defenders and the blue dragon Iryklathagra.
 * Lheshayl and Ormauth are reduced to blackened ruins. In retaliation, four dragons are killed by Shining Plains mercenary groups, including the great wyrm Andraxis.


 * Gargauth is freed by Tuelhalva Drakewings of the Cult of the Dragon and assists him in conquering the realm of Peleveran, south of Chessenta. When Tuelhalva subsequently breaks from the Cult of the Dragon in Sembia, Algashon musters the dracoliches of the Cult, and in their destruction of this realm, both Tuelhalva and Algashon are slain.


 * The Twisted Rune has become the most powerful organization in southwestern Faerûn, with agents in every country south of the High Moor and west of the Storm Horn Mountains.
 * The dragon-in-disguise King Tchazzar of Chessenta disappears while fighting the Sahuagin of the Alamber Sea. His people believe him ascended to godhood, since his body is not found.
 * When the King of Westgate is slain by a red dragon without an heir, the mercenary lord Sarvyn Eorn, acclaimed as his successor, reverses the Templeban Edict, allowing religious buildings back inside the city. The hills outside the walls where divine rites have been performed for the past 91 years are abandoned and eventually become known as the Hills of the Seven Lost Gods.


 * Thauglor, the Black Doom, is defeated in the King's Forest in Cormyr after being lured into a trap. Prince Azoun II laid the final blow with the aid of Jorunhast, piercing his brain with the sword Orbyn.
 * High Mage Thanderahast is grievously wounded in an aerial battle against Thauglor.
 * The blue dragon Alasklerbanbastos allies with the Cult of the Dragon cell in Mourktar and is transformed into a dracolich.