1357 DR

Year of the Prince

 * "The Halfling's Gem" ends.
 * "Dark Mirror" (Realms of Valor)
 * "The Legacy"
 * "Starless Night"
 * "Azure Bonds": Alias and Dragonbait track down the makers of the Azure Bonds. In the process, they destroy the evil magician Cassandra of Westgate, the lich Xrie Praxis, the Fire Knives guild, and the fiend Phalse, and they ban the god of decay Moander from Faerun.
 * On the 6th of Kythorn, the avatar of Moander, the Jawed God, appears over the city of Westgate battling Mistinarperadnacles Hai Draco, a female red dragon allied with Alias of the Magic Arm, a saurial paladin named Dragonbait, a halfling bard named Olive Ruskettle, and a mage from Turmish named Akabar Bel Akash. Both Moander and the red wyrm are destroyed in a great conflagration over the city, and their shattered forms rain down over the northwestern end of the city, destroying parts of the city wall, the Dhostar warehouses, and the slum area known as the Shore. Two days later, an earthquake centered on the Hill of Fangs west of the city rocks Westgate shortly after dawn. The tremor is the result of a great battle between Alias and her friends on one hand and those who had created the swordswoman with the magic arm on the other hand, including a guild of assassins known as the Fire Knives, the sorceress Cassana of Westgate, and the lich Zrie Prakis, all of whom are destroyed.
 * During the months of Flamerule, Eleasias, and [Eleint], the Night Masks battle the Shore Patrol for control of Westgate's criminal underworld. Adventurers, hired by the city's merchant nobility as bounty hunters, deliver a sharp check to the ambitions of the Night Masks. Their efforts thwart a plot by the ruling Pentad of Night Masters to transform Westgate into a theocracy of Mask, the Shadowlord.
 * Lady Alustriel forges an alliance with Bruenor Battlehammer of Mithril Hall and helps defend the dwarf halls against the drow of House Baenre.
 * "Spellfire": Shandril Shessair kills a dracolich of the Cult of the Dragon and does heavy damage to Zhentil Keep and the Citadel of the Raven with Spellfire. The Sembian Cult of the Dragon cell also suffers, as Shandril costs the cell three dracoliches (Shargrailar the Dark, Rauglothor the Proud, and Aghazstamn) and two Wearers of the Purple.
 * "Crown of Fire"
 * Aumark Lithyl unifies Ruathym.
 * King Virdin of Damara killed in battle with Zhengyi.
 * Manshoon and Fzoul Chembryl are taken ill but are healed.
 * The Pharoah Akonhorus of Mulhorand is assassinated by the Cult of Set, leaving Horustep III (age 11) on the throne of Mulhorand.
 * Slave riots in Messemprar.
 * Gauntylgrym is re-discovered by the Company of the Gryphon.
 * Zhentil Keep wins a naval battle against Mulmaster and Melvaunt.
 * Civil War in Melvaunt.
 * The bard Ivryn Olindarr writes the comedic play Three Black Horses.
 * Malarkin Norlbertusz of Ordulin writes the play Much Ado in Sembia.
 * The Salamander War: The Tharchion of Lapendrar, allied with the Zulkirs of Enchantment and Conjuration, open a gate to the Elemental Plane of Fire, and begin a campaign against the North Coast Cities of Tilbrand, Lasdur, Taskaunt, Escalant, Murbant and Thasselen.
 * A second Thayan army of zombies invades Rashemen but is turned back.
 * Khelben "Blackstaff" Arunsun shatters the Crown of Horns, freeing Laeral Silverhand from Myrkul's evil influence. He returns to Waterdeep with her to help her heal; within three years, they are inseparable, and Laeral is often referred to as Lady Arunsun.
 * A tribe of kobolds takes up residence in the Maiden's Tomb Tor, unnoticed by Waterdeep.
 * The dwarves of the Ironeater Clan reclaim the ruined halls of Illefarn.
 * Geildarr becomes lord of Llorkh after the murder of Phintarn 'Redblade', the previous lord. Dwarves start disappearing in Llorkh.
 * The Tome of the Unicorn is stolen from Ruathym's Green Rooms royal library by the Calishite mage Shond Tharovin.
 * Shairksah, an evil merchant and mage, is banished from Amn for threatening to kill other merchants with magical creatures he controls or conjures from his home in Murann.
 * During the Festival of the Assumption, Gilgeam destroys a giant dragon turtle in Unthalass Harbor.
 * Haverstrom Lhal, husband of Myrmeen Lhal of Arabel, dies.