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 * The Halfling's Gem: latter half of the novel.
 * 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 Faerûn.
 * 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 Purple.


 * Zhentil Keep wins a naval battle against Mulmaster and Melvaunt.
 * A second Thayan army of zombies invades Rashemen but is turned back.
 * Civil War in Melvaunt.
 * 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.


 * Aumark Lithyl unifies Ruathym.
 * Slave riots in Messemprar.
 * A tribe of kobolds takes up residence in the Maiden's Tomb Tor, unnoticed by Waterdeep.
 * Lady Alustriel forges an alliance with Bruenor Battlehammer of Mithril Hall and helps defend the dwarf halls against the drow of House Baenre.
 * Geildarr becomes lord of Llorkh after the murder of Phintarn 'Redblade', the previous lord. Dwarves start disappearing in Llorkh.
 * 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.
 * The dwarves of the Ironeater Clan reclaim the ruined halls of Illefarn.
 * 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.


 * The bard Ivryn Olindarr writes the comedic play Three Black Horses.
 * Malarkin Norlbertusz of Ordulin writes the play Much Ado in Sembia.
 * Manshoon and Fzoul Chembryl take ill but are healed.
 * 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.


 * King Virdin of Damara killed in battle with Zhengyi.
 * Phintarn 'Redblade', lord of Llorkh, is murdered.
 * Haverstrom Lhal, husband of Myrmeen Lhal of Arabel, dies.
 * The Pharoah Akonhorus of Mulhorand is assassinated by the Cult of Set, leaving eleven-year-old Horustep III on the throne of Mulhorand.


 * Gauntylgrym is re-discovered by the Company of the Gryphon.
 * The Tome of the Unicorn is stolen from Ruathym's Green Rooms royal library by the Calishite mage Shond Tharovin
 * During the Festival of the Assumption, Gilgeam destroys a giant dragon turtle in Unthalass Harbor.