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13/01/2013 – 20/01/2013

 * Colderan Morn was the great-grandfather of Randal Morn and a tyrant of Daggerdale.
 * Woumar's Wheloon Mill was operated by Wheloon's local gossip, Leahon Woumar.
 * Allian and Pawldo went together to the Spring Dance in Lowhill in 1345 DR.
 * Quimby was the innkeeper of the Snowdrift Inn in Easthaven in Icewind Dale in 1281 DR.
 * The Highfire Crown was an Elven High Magic artifact granting the powers of thirteen high mages.

20/01/2013 – 27/01/2013

 * An obedient avalanche spell dropped a massive load of snow, burying creatures, damaging buildings, and uprooting plants.
 * Around −8900 DR, the Taangan (later Tuigan) tribes first settled in the Endless Wastes of the east.
 * Erinyes were a kind of devil said to have once been fallen angels who'd been corrupted by temptation or a misdeed.
 * Randalla Brasshorn was a merchant of Baldur's Gate who served the Harpers, but was turned into a vampire by Xanhast.
 * Accalia was a priestess of Tempus from Neverwinter who moved to Easthaven in Icewind Dale, and wore armor at all times.

27/01/2013 – 3/02/2013

 * In −2941 DR, goblins sacked the Netherese city of Cantus when they learned the Netherese had no interest in their trade goods.
 * rosecork wood was almost completely resistant to fire, commonly used in building, and imported to Cormyr by Sarliman Eurdoe.
 * The Circle of Rust and the Worm was an insane cult of Talos-worshipping sages and mystics dedicated to destroying the world.
 * Pomab Ak'azmjir was the owner of Pomab's Emporium in Easthaven in Icewind Dale, and claimed to be Calishite royalty.
 * The Purple Dragon Roadcaptain Thondar chased Kelemvor Lyonsbane, Midnight, and Adon out of Wheloon during the Time of Troubles.

3/02/2013 – 10/02/2013

 * Rhaugilath the Ageless was a surviving Netherese sorcerer-king bound to Larloch, and author of Of the Fall of Netheril.
 * Bran Skorlsun was the father of Arilyn Moonblade and triggered the schism of the Harpers into the Tel'Teukiira.
 * Nolan was a cleric of Caer Corwell who preached against the druids of the Earthmother.
 * Ginyak weed was a plant from Calimshan known for its acrid smell when burned.
 * Wheloon Tack & Leather sold leather goods of all kinds, and was owned by Landon "Wonderwand" Bhentyl.

10/02/2013 – 17/02/2013

 * Chalannos "the Masked" Firehawk was a retired adventurer who could train others in any weapon.
 * The Cities of the Heart were the most populous in Zakhara, and contained centers of its industry and culture.
 * Elaerue Estspirit was the Herald for Wheloon and the clerk and record-keeper of Lord Sarp Redbeard.
 * Mahabba was repeatedly occupied by military forces of the Pantheist League, to quell rebellions by the cult of Bala.

17/02/2013 – 24/02/2013

 * The Zakharan seas defined much of the continent and enabled travel and trade.
 * Taharak was a ghost drow warrior of Maerimydra and a champion of Kiaransalee.
 * The Thorass alphabet was used by the old Thorass language, Common, and many others.
 * Lord Sarp Redbeard of Wheloon was popular but lax on taxes and smuggling.
 * House Jysstev of Amn was bankrupted after backing a failed pretender to Tethyr's throne.

24/02/2013 – 3/03/2013

 * Shanna "Blackbard" Northgate was a bard, thief, fence, smuggler, and one of the best boatbuilders in Wheloon.
 * The Battle of the Gods' Theater was a three-way battle between Shantel Othreier, Aryvandaar, and a Tunlands orc horde in −10700 DR.
 * The Tun Marshes in the Tunlands east of Cormyr were inhabited by black dragons, human bandits, and lizardfolk.
 * An orizon is a wizard's workbook for notes and miscellaneous spells.
 * The Abyssal Plague was yet another cosmic plague.

3/03/2013 – 10/03/2013

 * A ruby pendant was a ruby of beguiling powers and one was stolen by Regis from Pasha Pook of Calimport.
 * Semkhrun, the Oracle City, was a lost and forgotten city in Mulhorand and founded where a donkey died based on a prophetic vision.
 * The temple of Deneir in Procampur was once home to Koja of Khazari and the noted scholar-monk and explorer of the Hordelands, Vilhiard.
 * Tzindylspar, the City of Rubies in the Nether Mountains was founded by dwarves from Delzoun and Netherese humans in −1715 DR.

10/03/2013 – 17/03/2013

 * A skindancer was a creature that wore the skin of its slain victims to appear human.
 * The Scarlet Sheath was a popular drinking hole in Wheloon, but was built inside a patched-up burnt-out ruin.
 * In −34,500 DR the sarrukh founded Isstosseffifil in the lands now known as Anauroch.
 * Hildeth Highhammer was a dwarven adventuress who joined Hrothgar's expedition to aid Kuldahar in the Spine of the World in 1281 DR.
 * The cellar of the Winter's Cradle Tavern in Easthaven in Icewind Dale was once infested by beetles.

17/03/2013 – 24/03/2013

 * A High Haspur was an alpine village in the Earthfast Mountains governed by the Morninglight gnomes.
 * A Sendever's Stables was an excellent stables in Wheloon and home to skilled horse doctors and hostlers.
 * A Jarthon Drael was a ranger who hunted the People of the Black Blood, until he became a werebadger and joined them.
 * In −31000 DR the Tearfall disaster caused earthquakes, fires, and windstorms, reshaped continents, and created the Sea of Fallen Stars.
 * Zendaros Rallogar owned Rallogar Hardware in Wheloon and also ran a black market in magic items.

24/03/2013 – 31/03/2013

 * githyanki silver swords were magical greatswords given only to knights and leaders of the githyanki race.
 * The High Desert was a major desert of Zakhara and home to many nomadic tribes called Al-Badia.
 * Circa −25100 DR the gold elf Durothil became the first ever dragon-rider, but later died in battle against the red dragon Mahatnartorian.
 * The Knights of the Mystic Fire were an order of paladins devoted to the goddess of magic Mystra who could learn arcane magic.

31/03/2013 – 7/04/2013

 * Rathool's Pond in Wheloon was a burial site for war heroes, until their rusting weapons and armor contaminated the water.
 * The Darksong Knights were elite warriors of Eilistraee, who battled yochlol and other demonic servants of Lolth.
 * Kar'r'rga was the monstrous crab-headed god of Jazayir al-Sartan in the Crowded Sea of Zakhara.
 * Circa −25000 DR, elves created the Dracorage mythal to trigger the First Rage of Dragons.
 * Tarchamus the Unyielding was a legendary Netherese arcanist who created a volcano to destroy the city of Tenish.

7/04/2013 – 14/04/2013

 * The Harvest Hall was a temple of Chauntea in Wheloon that gave agricultural produce to the poor.
 * Ashabenford was the capital of Mistledale and had market services down the Moonsea Ride and its backstreets.
 * Shajar was the hippopotamus god of the Nogaro River in Zakhara, who brought both life and destruction.
 * The Stoneplague was a disease that calcified its victims, and was contracted by handling cursed gold in 1480 DR.
 * Dahl Peredur was a former paladin of Oghma, mysteriously ejected from his order before he became a Harper.

14/04/2013 – 21/04/2013

 * Tarhun was a dragonborn and the Vanquisher, or ruler, of Tymanther and general of the Lance Defenders in 1479 DR.
 * The Gods of the Pantheon were the enlightened and Great Gods of the Cities of the Pantheon of Zakhara, who collectively preached unity against outsiders.
 * The Eagles' Eyrie was a rocky knoll and a former dwarven stronghold that guarded trading routes from the Mines of Tethyamar.
 * Drik Hargunen was a duergar city near the East Rift, and its people were somewhat more tolerant of humans.
 * The Order of Delvers was a guild of dwarven delvers and explorers.

21/04/2013 – 28/04/2013

 * Sshumath Daerindra was a very curious and inquisitive half–deep dragon drow who wandered the Deep Wastes of the Underdark.
 * The Temple of Ten Thousand Gods faith believed all gods were facets of a single god and all creatures had a spark of the divine.
 * A stiletto was a thin-bladed piercing dagger that was easy to conceal, and so many cities outlawed their use.
 * A jabbrawuk was a fantastical long-necked dragon, and statues of them adorned the walls of old manors like Oldstone Hall.
 * Torrin Ironstar was a human of Earthheart who believed he was a reincarnated dwarf, and joined the Order of Delvers.

28/04/2013 – 5/05/2013

 * The drow mage Susztam Mar-Shinn was the Head Student of the Inverted Tower of Szith Morcane and a user of the Shadow Weave.
 * Thayan knights were the sworn bodyguards of the Red Wizards of Thay and generals of their armies.
 * Buldegas Mhaerkoon was the innkeeper of the Wyvern Watch Inn in Wheloon, before he built a new inn in Arabel.
 * spruce beer was home-brewed by the druid Orlenstar Thirlthorn of the God's Grove.
 * Exorcessum was a powerful magical greatsword forged by alien gods and wielded by the deva Demascus.

5/05/2013 – 12/05/2013

 * In −24,000 DR the god Ubtao summoned couatls from Maztica to serve him in Chult.
 * Dulwar was a tanner in Dagger Falls who made popular leather goods for the locals and Zhent soldiers.
 * Telnarquel, or "the Hidden City", was a legendary lost city of the drow.
 * firescythe was a fireball-like spell invented by Myrin Darkdance circa 1479 DR.
 * The Dead Rats were a street gang of Luskan in 1480 DR, largely consisting of wererats.

12/05/2013 – 19/05/2013

 * The House of Winds was a temple of Talos in Westgate and the Forgotten Realms Wiki's 12,000th article.
 * Phultan was a vampire of the Night Masters, leaders of the Night Masks, who was locked in their own lair.
 * Urthag the Knife was a notorious pirate of the early 7th century DR, who lost the ancient Raumathari sword Galathos in Chessagol.
 * Thelgaar Ironhand was the Northlander king of Oman's Isle in the Moonshae Isles, who wanted to make peace with the Ffolk.
 * Corwyss was a moorhound belonging to Tristan Kendrick.

19/05/2013 – 26/05/2013

 * King Lamoth of Chessagol in the 7th century DR was famous for his huge family and trying to marry them off to other royal lines.
 * Drone Wyvernspur was the elderly archmage of the Wyvernspur noble house of Cormyr, who had a cat named Spot..
 * The Smoke Wyrm was a tavern in Ravens Bluff run by Tharzon Brewhammer, famous for its Old Smokey stout.
 * Sable was a black falcon belonging to Keren Donnell, which delivered a message to Robyn Moonsinger after the bard's capture.

26/05/2013 – 2/06/2013

 * Circa −17800 DR, moon elves and green elves began to settle Keltormir in search of simpler and more peaceful lives.
 * Vournoth's Mire was an underdark swamp near Maerimydra inhabited by a mindflayer and a beholder.
 * The Ahtahqugotak Sea on the Great Glacier was abundant with fish and wildlife but avoided by local Angulutiuns.
 * Newt was a faerie dragon of Myrloch Vale in the Moonshaes who aided Tristan Kendrick.
 * Sarghathuld was an orcslayer sword forged in the dwarven kingdom of Roldilar and later a relic of Old Impiltur.

2/06/2013 – 9/06/2013

 * Bleyshar was a noble house of Cormyr that had only two remaining members by 1479 DR.
 * Sysquemalyn was the chamberlain to Lady Polaris of Delia in the Netherese Empire.
 * Archtassel was a village in Tasseldale whose woodcarvers were famous for their relief-cut doors and wall panels.
 * Cressyl Blackbones was red half-dragon orc from the Thunder Peaks who led an army in Hullack Forest.
 * The Lightning Dragon Dojo was a martial arts school in the Xiousing district of Marsember.

9/06/2013 – 16/06/2013

 * Circa −15000 DR, dwarves founded Bhaerynden, their first great kingdom, beneath the plains of the Shaar.
 * Boraksaghegirak was a blue dragon who laired in the Calim Desert and commanded the local tribes through her Sons.
 * Oraundas Haeltower was a vintner from Tethyr known for his table wines, which contained small treasures in 1479 DR.
 * The War of Gold and Gloom was fought by gold dwarves of the Great Rift and gray dwarves of Dunspeirrin over Deep Shanatar.
 * Elvenblood Pass was named for the death of the legendary hero of the Vast, Beluar, in an orc ambush.

16/06/2013 – 23/06/2013

 * In −8170 DR drow from Guallidurth attacked Alatorin, triggering the First Spider War with the dwarves of Shanatar.
 * Kara Chermosk was the iron-fisted Zhentarim commander of the Tethyamar Fortress, and a skilled negotiator.
 * Balduran's Log Book told of Captain Balduran's exploration of Anchorome on the Wandering Eye.
 * Symrustar Auglamyr was a Chosen of Mystra slain during the Weeping War of 713 DR.
 * The First Age was a period of Netherese history beginning with the founding of Seventon.
 * The Maw of the God Swallower was a gigantic sphere of annihilation in southern Chessenta in 1479 DR.

23/06/2013 – 30/06/2013

 * A wraith spider was an undead giant spider created by drow cultists of Kiaransalee as blasphemies against the Spider Queen.
 * The Tyrantfog spread across Faerûn in 1370 DR and harmed followers of Bane and Cyric, creating tyrantfog zombies.
 * The Fang in the Forest was an extinct volcano in the Earthfast Mountains inhabited by the green dragon Aglaraerose.
 * Nojheim was a goblin kept as a slave in Pengallen who had a profound effect on Drizzt Do'Urden.
 * In −6400 DR the elves of Cormanthor saved the dwarves of Sarphil from defeat at the hands of orcs in the Vast.

30/06/2013 – 7/07/2013

 * In −3717 DR, duergar founded Gracklstugh, the City of Blades, which quickly came to dominate the surrounding Underdark.
 * Yathla Oloryn was a makeup artist and cosmetic surgeon for hire living in the city of Calaunt in the Vast.
 * The Weeping Unicorn was an inn and tavern in Calaunt with a "no fighting" rule enforced by a cockatrice.
 * Nhyris D'Hothek was a yuan-ti slaver dwelling in Skullport who once possessed Myrkul's Crown of Horns.
 * Crookspar Parlor was a gambling den located in Skullport, and considered neutral ground by the local gangs.

7/07/2013 – 14/07/2013

 * Chahir was a vampire sorcerer who laired in the crypts of Dordrien near Daggerdale, and descended from noble family.
 * corpselight was a spell that caused a corpse, whether dead or undead to glow with light.
 * In −2811 DR goblins and orcs lured away defenders and attempted to burn Seventon.
 * Ioma was a small island in the Nelanther Isles and the primary source of Iomic Crystal.
 * The Shadowcloaks were the mysterious thieves guild of Calaunt, known for the gray shadowcloaks they wore.

14/07/2013 – 21/07/2013

 * The Battle of Caer Moray in 1479 DR was fought between lycanthropes over the castle of Caer Moray in the Moonshaes.
 * The Sword Heralds constructed a number of arcane public works projects early in Cormyr's history.
 * Elisia  was a sea spirit who lived in Lac Dinneshere in Icewind Dale, who died while fighting Icasaracht in 1181 DR.
 * Duke Iritar of Calaunt was a cruel and ruthless wizard and the secret master of the city.
 * In −2722 DR the Netherese city of Arisome enacted a bounty on orc ears.

21/07/2013 – 28/07/2013

 * Jestra was a wizard of Arabel in Cormyr who used transmutation magic for cosmetic enhancements.
 * Beniago was an assassin who wielded a dagger very similar to the vampiric one famously wielded by Artemis Entreri.
 * In −2710 DR a tribe of lizardfolk settled in the Marsh of Simplicity.
 * Thoon was a mysterious philosophy adopted by certain outcast mind flayers.
 * Martyrdom was the realm of Ilmater the Crying God and the most peaceful place in the planes.

28/07/2013 – 4/08/2013

 * The Shadowstone was a heavy mace of powerful Shadow Weave magic created by the goddess Shar.
 * Sylora Salm was a sorceress of Thay who aimed to release a fire primordial in Gauntlgrym in 1462 DR.
 * Ashaerond was a merchant of Westgate who donated generously to the Church of Ilmater.
 * The forcecage spell was originally created by Valdick in −1811 DR.
 * In the Year of Turning Tides, −664 DR, drow assaulted the town of Keltar in Calimshan, enslaving half its people.

4/08/2013 – 11/08/2013

 * The plant sphere was a selection of spells granted to druids and shamans that aided agriculture and manipulated vegetation.
 * astral celerity was an alteration spell of the Astral sphere that enhanced speed on the Astral plane.
 * In the Year of Shattered Walls, −387 DR, Tethyrian barbarians sacked and burned Zazesspur in a surprise attack on Calimshan.
 * Ill-Mater was an oft-abused slapstick clown character created by traveling entertainers to mock the Church of Ilmater.
 * Chalsembyr's Heart was a holy sword of the paladins of Torm forged at the House of the Hand in Procampur.

11/08/2013 – 18/08/2013

 * Dornavver was a master sword-smith in the 3rd century DR who forged the legendary "Demonbane" sword that was named after him.
 * Water walk was a transmutation or alteration spell that allowed creatures to stride upon water, oil, snow, mud, or quicksand.
 * The alleviators were a clerical order devoted to the god Ilmater, who focused on counselling others to cope with suffering.
 * The transmute rock to mud spell required a vremyonni of Rashemen to toss a ball of wet clay as a somatic and material component.
 * The City of Brass sat in an enormous hemisphere of brass that floated over the raging heat of the Elemental Plane of Fire.

18/08/2013 – 25/08/2013

 * Hlintar was a wealthy town in the Vast and famous for its top-quality bacon.
 * In −10,100 DR, during the Fourth Crown War, Shantel Othreier was destroyed by Ilythiir.
 * Lady Quallem was once the head of the Quallem family of Dordrien before she became a ghost.
 * The Traveler's Cloak Inn in Mulmaster had a fireplace in every room.
 * The animal friendship spell allowed a druid to have animals perform tricks.

25/08/2013 – 1/09/2013

 * Hornmoot was the traditional spring trading festival between the dwarves and humans of the Vast.
 * Blessed watchfulness was a divine alteration spell that granted a creature extraordinary vigilance.
 * The Church of Selûne was the group of those faithful to the goddess in Waterdeep.
 * Ruqiah was a Bedine woman of the Desai tribe in the 15th century.

1/09/2013 – 8/09/2013

 * Lord Falzo Hawklin of Cormyr organized adventurers to drive bandits out of the Black Crater of Tilverton in 1372 DR.
 * The darkness spell blocked light in a selected area, and required bat fur, a drop of pitch, and/or piece of coal.
 * Bambryn was a village of the Vast and once the base of the notorious highwayman Iljack of the Black Blade.
 * Tierak Morcane was a drow priestess of Lolth who fled the Kiaransaleean takeover of Szith Morcane in 1372 DR.
 * A martyred champion of Ilmater had heroically sacrificed themselves then been raised from the dead.

8/09/2013 – 15/09/2013

 * Pericolo Topolino was a halfling assassin's guildmaster in Delthuntle who managed a pearl farm.
 * Ebonsoul was a lich mage who captained the Thepurl's Diamond until it was sunk by pirates.
 * The wyvern watch spell paralyzed intruders who entered a warded area, marked by a wyvern-like mist.
 * The blacklight spell produced magical darkness and was published in Volo's Guide to All Things Magical.

15/09/2013 – 22/09/2013

 * A wispling was a planetouched descendant of a halfling and a demon, marked by bright red hair.
 * The Arming was an annual festival in the Vast, when militias were mustered and youths were granted weapons.
 * Dispel law was a chaos domain abjuration spell that banished lawful creatures or negated lawful spells.
 * In the Year of the Peoples' Mourning, 662 DR, Rathdaen, a much-loved mage of Myth Drannor, died in his sleep.
 * Variscite was poisonous to lycanthropes if it was somehow introduced into the bloodstream.

22/09/2013 – 29/09/2013

 * In the Year of the Erupting Crypts, -304 DR, the snake god Sseth established the yuan-ti empire of Serpentes.
 * The shoehorn of puissant castleblasting was a magic item with a variety of powerful abilities, dedicated to removing shoes.
 * Iliphanar was a trade city in Semphar where most business was conducted within its restaurants.
 * The spear of Lurue spell transformed a non-magical weapon into a potent silvered spear.
 * The grounding spell insulated against electricity and lightning.

29/09/2013 – 6/10/2013

 * In the Year of the Golden Staff, −225 DR, Wo Mai retrieved the Emblems of Imperial Authority and became emperor of Shou Lung.
 * The protection from law spell shielded a being from physical and mental attacks made by lawful beings.
 * The Cabal of the Crown adventuring company from Procampur met a disturbing end in a gravel pit outside the village of Orlimmin.
 * The create campsite spell conjured invisible sprites to set up a campsite, and could clean one up as well.
 * Tayrom Onetry was a merchant from Elmwood in the Moonsea and would-be adventurer who had an unfortunate run-in with kobolds.

6/10/2013 – 13/10/2013

 * In the Year of the Bloody Goad, -105 DR, the Illuskan Rus tribe traveled through a malfunctioning portal and arrived in Rashemen.
 * Blaern's Trail through the Vast linked the city of Calaunt to the village of Dead Tree Hollow.
 * The hovering road spell conjured a smooth stone that hovered over any difficult terrain.
 * Goolgog Elvenbane was an ancient orc leader who defeated an army of elves and humans and built the Arch of Goolgog.
 * The goodberry healing spell could be reversed to create poisonous badberries.

13/10/2013 – 20/10/2013

 * The Children of the Starry Quill was an organization of bards that served the Church of Mystra to gather information.
 * A chwidencha was a hideous mass of nothing but spider legs, created from drow that failed the Spider Queen.
 * Krehlan Arunsun was the son of Khelben Arunsun and, like his father, became Blackstaff in 1400 DR.
 * Pandorym was an Elder Evil summoned and bound by ancient Imaskari for use as a weapon against the Mulan gods.

20/10/2013 – 27/10/2013

 * In the Year of the Burning Glades, −10 DR, Lord Halueth Never led the elves of Iliyanbruen to victory over Illusk.
 * The sticks to snakes spell allowed a cleric or druid to transform lengths of wood into snakes under their command.
 * The Abolethic Sovereignty was a group of aboleths in the floating city of Xxiphu, who sought to open a gate to the Far Realm.
 * Windsong Tower was the school of magic in the lost city of Myth Drannor, and was built in the boughs of a Shadowsong Tree.
 * Shar Cormrael was a Dark Diviner of Windsong Tower who discovered the the fate of the famous seer Augathra the Mad.

27/10/2013 – 3/11/2013

 * Malkizid was a fallen solar from the Dawn Age, cast into the Nine Hells for conspiring with Araushnee (Lolth).
 * A spinel was a precious stone that when crushed and ingested allowed a spellcaster to regain the last spell cast.
 * A grell was a sightless aberration inhabiting the Underdark whose entire skin was sensitive to sound.
 * The tree stride (aka pass plant) spell allowed a druid to enter a tree and teleport to other trees of the same type.
 * Muranndin was a kingdom of monsters established in the 1370's DR when two ogre mages led an army against southern Amn.

3/11/2013 – 10/11/2013

 * In the Year of Dark Venom, 37 DR, Calimshan was struck by five tidal waves in a single year.
 * The Netherese flying city of Synod was thought to have been lost beneath the Inner Sea.
 * The line of protection spell formed a harmful barrier between two or more priests or objects.
 * The Champions Vigilant was an order of knights devoted to Helm that saved many people during the Tethyrian Interregnum.

10/11/2013 – 17/11/2013

 * The Book of the Holy Scourge was the most well-known and useful of the sacred books of the Church of Ilmater.
 * A viper tree was a horrific fusion of demon, tree, and snake found growing across the Lower Planes and later Thay.
 * Remove paralysis was a divine spell that freed creatures from paralyzing effects.
 * The town of Carathryn was sunk beneath the Sea of Swords in the Year of the Talking Spiders, 1132 DR.
 * In the Year of the Barbed Wind, 50 DR, many cities rose to prominence around the Vilhon Reach.

17/11/2013 – 24/11/2013

 * A veserab was a monstrous flying worm-like beast that was often ridden by Shadovar soldiers.
 * The Leaves of Learning was a temple of Oghma in Highmoon, and one of the finest libraries around.
 * The impregnable mind spell made the recipient highly resistant to charms, domination, beguilement and so on.
 * Shrymaun Beldaerth was the Exalted Sufferer of the House of Holy Suffering temple to Ilmater.

24/11/2013 – 1/12/2013

 * Arcanists of the Netherese Sargauth Enclave in Undermountain became the Skulls of Skullport after the Fall of Netheril.
 * A tchazar was a fragile, straw-yellow semi-precious stone that when cut and polished could blur scrying in a 2 ft (60 cm) radius.
 * The breath of life spell could cure an entire small town of a natural disease, but could also be reversed to become breath of death.
 * The Worried Wyvern was a high-quality inn located in Sevenecho in the Vast.
 * Cherlrigo's Darkness was thought to be a translation of a prophetic sonnet that cryptically refers to the Chosen, the Shadowfell and the Sundering.

1/12/2013 – 8/12/2013

 * The Trades Ward was one of the main districts of Waterdeep, on the eastern side of the city.
 * Rasaad yn Bashir was a former orphan street-kid who became a Selûnite monk of the Order of the Sun Soul.
 * Irphiina was a shade necromancer who served as an emissary of Lord Telamont Tanthul of the Shade Enclave.
 * The mystic transfer spell allowed priests of the same faith to pass on the benefits of their spells.
 * Bronsheir's Charge was a bloody battle fought between feuding factions of the Church of Ilmater.

8/12/2013 – 15/12/2013

 * Afafrenfere was a monk who fought with the Cavus Dun mercenaries, before traveling with Drizzt Do'Urden.
 * The quest spell allowed a priest to command a subject to undertake a mission and return with proof of its completion.
 * In the year −2513 DR the city of Monikar was founded by a group of Netherese who despised arcane magic.
 * In the Year of the Flood, 108 DR, the city of Unthalass in Unther was flooded by the Alamber River.

15/12/2013 – 22/12/2013

 * In the Year of Fallen Guards, 111 DR, the Netherese realm of Anauria fell to an orc horde, which was also wiped out.
 * Amazandar, the City of Gems, was the capital of Anauria and known for its gem mines.
 * In the year −1921 DR, General Anglin of Seventon was sucked through a magical doorway and killed.
 * Adolican Rhand was a wizard in service to the Shadovar who twice crossed paths with the warlock Farideh.
 * The remove fear spell gave a being courage in the face of supernatural terror.

22/12/2013 – 29/12/2013

 * Sinhalas were yellowish gemstones found in streams and rivers that could prevent magical darkness when cut and polished.
 * Hundelstone was a trading community of gnomes, dwarves, and humans at the western edge of the Spine of the World.
 * The music of the spheres spell stopped creatures from attacking the caster and made them susceptible to charm effects.
 * In the Year of the Wolfstone, 153 DR, Gauntlgrym fell to illithids from the Underdark leading an army of lycanthropes.
 * The House of the Broken God in Keltar, Calimshan, was the largest complex devoted to Ilmater and included a hospital.

51st week

 * Tam Zawad, a Harper cleric of Selûne, took the Book of Tarchamus from the Library of Tarchamus in 1478 DR.
 * Fossil was a sentient mask that was once a fallen angel who was in service to Cyric, and brought Madri back to life.
 * The Constable's Tower was once the seat-of-rule of Colderan Morn, tyrant of Daggerdale, and later a wild magic site.
 * In −23,900 DR the gold elves first began to settle in Aryvandaar, later known as the High Forest.
 * Bresnos Huantilar was a member of the Cult of the Dragon who guarded a portal in Saerloon.

52nd week

 * Marden Norwood was a lord of Ravens Bluff who rewarded Jack Ravenwild for rescuing his daughter, Seila.
 * Maldrithor, or "the Sarbreenar Wyrm", tore roofs off houses in Procampur in search of food.
 * Sekrr was a beholder who dwelt in Vournoth's Mire and enjoyed sculpting with his petrified victims.
 * Ironcloak was a Turmish town that was wiped out by the druids of the Emerald Enclave.
 * Yggdrasil, or the "World Ash", was a cosmic plane-spanning tree linking Asgard to Hades in the Great Wheel cosmology.

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 * Monkberry, a Rengarth woman of the Raven Tribe, mother of Sunbright Steelshanks, made bowstrings from her own hair.
 * The legal thoughts spell forced its victim to precisely obey a certain law in place over an area.
 * Darcassan the Farseer was a sun elf diviner and custodian of Windsong Tower, and a part of the tower itself.
 * In the Year of the Quivering Mountains, 77 DR, there was a volcanic eruption in the Peaks of Flame in Chult.
 * The Tribe of the Elk of Icewind Dale was decimated in the Battle of Icewind Dale after attacking the Ten Towns.