830 DR


 * The city of Shantil in Dambrath is besieged by drow, while King Reinhar IX and his forces are trapped on the peninsula south of the city.


 * Kartak Spellseer is arrested at Castle Spulzeer and tried and convicted of several foul murders, ruining his family's name. He is sentenced to hang. Kartak manages to escape his fate when a wizard named Rysellan the Dark and several associates break Kartak and fifteen other convicts out of jail with a ring of the ram.