1235 DR


 * The armies of Amn, while battling with humanoid forces, capture many orcs and force them to work at labor camps in Purskul.
 * Largest orc horde in history masses in the North and besieges countless settlements. Waterdeep is spared the destruction visited on its neighbors when Ahghairon and his generals introduce griffons as flying steeds for the army. This horde is known as the Black Horde and defeats the Syl-Pasha and Eldrith the Betrayer.
 * A Harper army led by Alustriel and Storm Silverhand destroys the besieging orcs at the Battle of Tumbleskulls with the unlooked-for aid of the archmage Tulrun of the Tent.


 * Warlord Khallos Shieldsunder seizes control of Silverymoon while it is besieged by the orcs of the Black Horde and has his rule usurped in turn by the mage Shallos Ethenfrost.


 * Alustriel slays the self-proclaimed High Mage Shallos Ethenfrost in spellbattle. Alustriel is unanimously chosen by the people of Silverymoon to rule as High Lady Mage.