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 * Mirtul: Zhentil Keep wins a naval battle against Mulmaster and Melvaunt.
 * A second Thayan army of zombies invades Rashemen but is turned back.
 * Marpenoth: Civil War in Melvaunt.
 * The Salamander War: The Red Wizards of Thay open a gate to the Elemental Plane of Fire and begin a campaign against the North Coast cities of Escalant, Murbant, and Thasselen. Escalant is besieged by fire elementals.


 * Uktar: 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 Mithral 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.
 * Thauloamur Reerist, Minstrel, writes the book Clever Words from a Failed Jester.
 * Thalamoasz Threir, Sage of Sembia, writes Signposts In The Gardens of Life.


 * 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.
 * Autumn: Taalmuth Chaadren (father of Tsarra Chaadren) is killed in a spell battle, most likely by a lich.
 * Heading to Silverymoon at the invitation of Alustriel, Drizzt Do'Urden comes across the path of a band of orcs, ogres, and their slaves. Joining with a band of farmers from Pengallen, they defeat the band, though not before one of the slaves - a goblin named Nojheim - escapes. Having been told the goblin was a captured war band leader who was to have a trial, Drizzt tracks him down and returns him, whereupon he learns that Nojheim is as temperamentally different a goblin as Drizzt is a drow. Traveling to Silverymoon to appeal to Alustriel's sense of justice, Drizzt isn't there to stop Nojheim's owner from killing him.


 * The Fire Knives move to Westgate and base their organization at Castle Cormaeril.


 * Gauntlgrym 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.
 * The "present" in the Forgotten Realms Campaign Set is Nightal 30, 1357 Dalereckoning.
 * Citta Hothemer publishes the book Musings of a Shameless Noble.


 * 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 Cassana of Westgate, the lich Zrie Prakis, 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. 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.
 * Crown of Fire: Shandril Shessair kills a clone of Manshoon, collapses Irondrake Rock, slays the lichnee Iliph Thraun and does heavy damage to Zhentil Keep and the Citadel of the Raven with spellfire.