A map of Netheril at the height of its power.
The Golden Age of Netheril was the era of Netheril when that empire was at the peak of its power. It was counted by most sages as the fifth age.[1][2][3]
Description[]
The Age was said to have begun with the birth of Jeriah Chronos in Netheril Year 1652,[1] which corresponds to −2207 DR in the Dalereckoning.[2][3] It extended for a millennium until 2654 NY/−1206 DR,[2][3] the year before chardalyn was first discovered, ushering in the Age of Discovery.[1]
During this time, Netheril was at its most powerful. There was even a stretch of time where one city was being raised into the sky as a flying enclave every year until there was a total of dozens of them moving around the empire on air currents.[1]
As this Age progressed, citizens of High Netheril had less and less say in their lives, being governed solely by the whims of the archwizard who had raised their city.[1]
For their part, it was during this age that many archwizards began to use their magic to explore the planes of existence, particularly the Inner Planes.[1]
Timeline[]
- −2207 DR — Jeriah Chronos is born.[1][2][3]
- −2103 DR — The Chronomancer fails to defend the nation of Illusk from an orc horde and is mortally wounded.[1][2][3]
- −2095 DR — The Chronomancer dies from his wounds.[2][3]
- −1896 DR — Thieves steal 24 sections of the remaining Nether Scrolls from Ioulaum.[1][2][3]
- c. −1770 DR — The empire explores the Sea of Fallen Stars and founds undersea colonies, collectively known as Deep Netheril.[2]
- −1660 DR — Deep Netheril is destroyed by the high mages of Aryselmalyr, during the Battle of the Three Seaflames,[3] and the powerful magics create the bays of Saerloon and Selgaunt.[2]
- −1658 DR — The mines of Dekanter cease producing useful ore.[1][2][3]
- −1657 DR — The enclave of Sunrest crashes to the earth because of a failed spell experiment,[1][2][3] the first of the flying cities to ever fall. There are no survivors.[1]
- −1471 DR — Thultanthar, the City of Shade, is founded.[2][3]
- −1382 DR — One of the Netherese arcanists teaches members of the barbarian Angardt tribes magic, triggering a war between the Angardt and the neighboring Rengardt tribes. The war lasted for seven years.[1][2][3]
- −1205 DR — Chardalyn is discovered, moving the empire into the Age of Discovery.[1][2][3]
Appendix[]
References[]
- ↑ 1.00 1.01 1.02 1.03 1.04 1.05 1.06 1.07 1.08 1.09 1.10 1.11 1.12 1.13 slade, Jim Butler (October 1996). “The Winds of Netheril”. In Jim Butler ed. Netheril: Empire of Magic (TSR, Inc.), pp. 8–9. ISBN 0-7869-0437-2.
- ↑ 2.00 2.01 2.02 2.03 2.04 2.05 2.06 2.07 2.08 2.09 2.10 2.11 2.12 2.13 Richard Baker, Ed Bonny, Travis Stout (February 2005). Lost Empires of Faerûn. Edited by Penny Williams. (Wizards of the Coast), pp. 97–98. ISBN 0-7869-3654-1.
- ↑ 3.00 3.01 3.02 3.03 3.04 3.05 3.06 3.07 3.08 3.09 3.10 3.11 3.12 Brian R. James, Ed Greenwood (September 2007). The Grand History of the Realms. Edited by Kim Mohan, Penny Williams. (Wizards of the Coast), pp. 33–34. ISBN 978-0-7869-4731-7.