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So! Let's get to work.

There's very little we can do to date Desert of Desolation. Provisorily we are working under the assumption it is 1356 DR. We shouldn't assume it drifts too far off the date of the other 1e modules.

While dating it, I'm going to collect some of my disordered thoughts here- feel free to pitch in if you see me being wrong on the internet.

NOTE: Martek being a seer of the future, some of these events may not have occurred in the expected order. Martek's actions can have future causes- so long as they do not involve future resources. He cannot, for instance, place the Gem of Aga-Pelar in Eilish until he has Khalitarius bound with it (i think), and he cannot work on Medinat Muskatwoon if it is still on fire (or can he?).

Year ?-y: Temple of Set is built.

Year ?-r: Martek places the inscription in the Sandvoyagers' Guild building in the Oasis of the White Palm.

Year ?-p: Martek grants gifts to the Oasis of the White Palm: two amulets, and the magic of the bride.

Year ?-q (y+??): Martek hides STAR OF KHAN-PELAR in the Temple of Set.

Year ?-a: Martek gifts the GEM OF SHAH-PELAR to a forgotten ruler.

Year ?-t (a+??): The gem of GEM OF SHAH-PELAR is stolen by Badr Al-Mosak.

Year ? (t+??): Badr Al-Mosak dies and is interred as a pharaoh with the GEM OF SHAH-PELAR.

Year ?-b: Martek gifts the STAR OF MO-PELAR to Amun-Re.

Year ?-c (b+??): Amun-Re dies, interred with the STAR OF MO-PELAR. Athis dries: CURSE OF AMUN-RE.

Year ?-d (c+??): The dome of Phoenix is built due to the CURSE OF AMUN-RE.

Year ?-h (d+??): Phoenix is finally abandoned. Krinos Pandipolous is left to die there.

Year ?-p (h+??): Martek binds Aeraldoth and places AERALDOTH'S LAMP in the ruins of Phoenix.

Year ?-e (c+??): Medinat Muskatwoon's Me'at dries due to the CURSE OF AMUN-RE. People begin to abandon the city.

Year ?-f (e+??): The last caravan arrives at Medinat Muskatwoon and is killed by desperate citizens.

Year ?-g (f+??): The last inhabitant of Medinat Muskatwoon dies. Medinat becomes a ghost town, and a target for looters.

Year ?-i (g+50): Efreet Pasha Khalitharius takes up residence in Medinat Muskatwoon, raises the Malatath army.

Year ?-j (i+??): Martek binds Khalitharius in STAR OF AGA-PELAR at Temple of Eilish, Pazar. Magical flame settles in Medinat.

Year ?-n (j+??): Pazar is finally abandoned. Kalif Maniozimus raises a statute to himself.

Year ?-k (j+20): The flames in Medinat die down, leaving the Skysea behind.

Year ?-l (k+??): Martek personally adapts the ruins of Medinat Muskatwoon to conceal the STAR OF MELOS-PELAR.

Year ?-o (c+??): Terbakar is finally abandoned due to CURSE OF AMUN-RE.

Year ?-s (c+??): Sandvoyagers' Guild makes its first trip across the Lands of Bakar.

Year ?-m: Martek dies. He is interred with his possessions: a "Visit Beautiful Cormyr" poster, and the book "201: A Sea Odyssey".

Approximately One Thousand Years Later, Aman Al-Raqib requests his penpal Elminster for some bozos to fulfill Martek's prophecy.

Year ?-z: Is it 1000 years since Amun-Re dies, or 1000 years since Big K was bound? There's no less than 50 years of diff, probably more. I'll have to look at this closer later. Any clues to the time in The Realms will show up in relief on a close reading against the original modules: they need to be later additions and changes.

The place is set, but no man knows the time. So true, Martek, so true.