Post by GT on Jul 11, 2014 16:43:43 GMT -5
Well, here's my newest timeline and boxed set corrections list... (Mind you, GW, I do use the Kara-Tur stuff here, as the book did have Gar-Bear's blessing at the time, despite later misgivings...) Note that Woodstock, Sentillion and Karbosh'ydrat are from my own campaign; so you can disregard them...
Timeline
Prehistory – Corellon Larethian defeats Lolth and drives her to the Abyss. Blood shed by the god in this battle is said to have formed the Olven race.
Prehistory – A force of deities of weal including Rao, Pelor and Xerkway defeat and imprison Tharizdun using a tripartite artifact.
Prehistory – Various forces of good led by elves, men and dwarves banish the Elder Elemental Gods and drive various evil races (drow, kuo-toans, duergar, krakens, etc.) into the depths of the earth and sea.
Prehistory – Races of Gith (Gityanki and Githzerai) break loose of illithid domination.
Prehistory – Crowns, Orbs and Scepters of Might made by deities of Good, Evil and Neutrality for use by their champions.
Prehistory (c. -5700 CY?)– Battle of Pesh where the Wind Dukes of Aaqa and other beings of Chaos fought the forces of Law and the Rod of Seven Parts was sundered. (The nature of the Wind Dukes is unknown and it has been speculated that they were either demigods, elemental beings of aerial nature or powerful wizard-priests. Aaqa is believed by most to have been a region, but some have suggested that this is the name of a deity. The leading entity on either side is unknown, but the breaking of the Rod is believed to have been pivotal, as this incident has survived in tales through the millennia. The battle is believed to have been a draw, as elements of both sides have remained in force ever since.)
c. -5515 CY – Beginning of Suloise Empire in southwest Oerik.
c. -4500 CY – Galap-Dreidel builds Inverness Keep in the Abbor-Alz.¹
c. -4462 CY – Olven folk settle in Celene/Highfolk/Vesve, Celadon & Welkwood Forest areas of eastern Oerik. Flan tribes are already present in the region (Flanaess).²
c. -2659 CY – Bakluni begin tracking years.
c. -2500 CY – Isles of Woe sink into the Nyr Dyv (possibly wrought through the use of the Codex of Infinite Planes by Yagrax).³
c. -2400 CY – Forced landing of the FSS Beagle in the Valley of the Ancients in Blackmoor. This becomes known as The City of the Gods. Uther Andahar becomes ruler of Blackmoor.⁴
c. -2150 CY – Flan tribes begin tracking of dates in Eastern Oerik. Flan tribes overthrow priests of Nerull under the leadership of the cleric Dahlver-Nar.
c. -2025 CY – Nung Fu ascends as ruler and Shou Lung (Suhfang) Empire begins in Kara-Tur.
c. -1585 CY – Appearance of the teachings of the Path of Enlightenment in Shou Lung.
c. -1305 CY – Acererak the lich finishes his Tomb of Horrors and begins transformation to a demi-lich.⁵
c. -1200 CY – Rule of Queen Ehlissa (South-Western Flan) begins.⁶
c. -1169 CY – Shou Lung envoys discover Wa.
c. -1150 CY – Demise of Vecna and Kas (both of Flan origin).⁷
c. -848 CY – Emperor Mori begins rule as first emperor in Kozakura.
c. -725 CY – Keraptis (Northern Flan) establishes stronghold in White Plume Mountain.⁸
c. -720 CY–Jahind Empire founded in western Oerik by Shakyabetaa.
c. -546 CY – Envoys from Shou Lung discover Kozakura.
-485 CY – Beginning of Baklunish-Suloise Wars.
-466 CY – First employment of humanoid mercenaries.
-458 CY – Oerid migrations eastward at peak point. Approximate founding of Greyhawk trading village.
-455 CY – Baron Lum (“the Mad”), an Oeridian, discovers the artifact machine that bears his name and begins conquests in west-central Flanaess.⁹
-447 CY – Suloise eastward migrations begin.
-446 – General Leuk-O, using the artifact automaton servitor found in the same locality as Lum’s Machine, rebels against the Baron; both men are destroyed and the artifacts disappear.⁹
-445 CY – Kingdom of Keoland established.
-422 CY – Suloise use artifact of Tharizdun to cause Invoked Devastation to Bakluni lands (widespread sterilizing of the soil and aging/sickening of plant and animal life, accompanied by black skies and a howling wind), and the Bakluni deity Dorgha Torgu responds by sending the Rain of Colorless Fire to destroy the Suel Imperium. Axe of the Dwarvish Lords is lost.
-421 CY – Bakluni gods give holy Cup and Talisman to High Priest Al’Akbar of the Paynims to aid the recovery from the Invoked Devastation.
-280 CY – The arch-mage Tsojcanth and his forces imprison avatar of Tharizdun in his Temple in the eastern Yatils.¹⁰
-217 CY – Founding of the Kingdom of Aerdy.
-123 CY – Mariners of Oerid/Flan stock sail eastward to Aquaria (Empyrea) to found town of Garythane.
-110 CY – Battle of a Fortnight’s Length; Great Kingdom established.
1 CY – Overking crowned in Rauxes; Frontiers of Great Kingdom reach Greyhawk City.
13 CY – Revolution leads to appointment of John Asperman as King John I of human settlements in Aquaria.
70 CY – Birth of Iuz from union of the witch, Iggwilv, and the demon prince, Graz’zt.
110 CY ?– Battle of Shamblefield.
114 CY – John II moves capital of humans in Aquaria to Bankspret and renames it Empyrea.
c. 180 CY – Collapse of Olman Empire, Tamoachan deserted.
191 CY – John III of Empyrea signs Pact of Neutrality with elves, dwarves, gnomes, and halflings of Aquaria.
213 CY – Age of Great Sorrow commences, as power of the Great Kingdom wanes.
245 CY – Unification of evil forces in Aquaria under Krellokk the Tangg-Lord. Forces included orcs, goblins, green dragons, and blue dragons.
254 CY – Kingdom of Furyondy is independent from Great Kingdom. Great Battle of Empyrea in Aquaria (“Evanescence of Empyrea”—a mighty roaring storm and flash of white light at midnight; artifact known as Egg of the Phoenix involved.).
280 CY – T’u Lung empire secedes from Shou Lung in Kara-Tur.
300 – 350 CY – Founding of Bandit Kingdoms.
320 CY – Nomads appear in the North; outer dependencies of Aerdy gain sovereignty.
350 – 360 CY – Keoland invades Ket and attacks Veluna and Verbobonc. The Jacinth of Inestimable Beauty is said to have passed into Keoland at this time.
355 CY – Porpherio seals garden from outside world on Sybarate Island and Green Man and Robin Goodfellow take up residence therein.
356 CY – Kingdom of Nyrond established; Theocracy of the Pale declares autonomy; Kingdom of Keoland at its peak.
375 CY – Zagig Yragerne (Zagyg) begins rule of Greyhawk.
400 CY – Clans of Perrenland join together.
430 CY – Founding of the Hold of Stonefist.
437 CY – Turmoil Between Crowns.
438 CY – The Short War (or, Small War) in which a Veluna-Furyondy alliance defeats the Keoland army. Bissel becomes tributary state to Furyondy.
446 CY – Bandit Kings sack Trigol; Rise of the Sea Princes.
447 CY– Founding of the Iron League.
450 CY – Grand Duchy of Geoff fights conflict with Keoland. Approximate time of Basiliv establishing himself in the Valley of the Mage.
453 CY – King Tavish III of Keoland slain by forces of the Sea Princes at the Siege of Westkeep.
461 CY – Demi-human realms of Ulek and Celene are independent of Keoish rule.
468 – 478 CY – Iggwilv subjugates Perrenland, until Graz’zt is accidentally freed.¹¹
475 CY – Modular section of spacecraft lands in the Barrier Peaks.
479 CY– Might of Iuz grows; humanoid invasions become common; Last servant in Tharizdun’s Temple dies.¹²
498 CY – Great Council of Rel Mord gives Theocracy of the Pale independence and County of Urnst becomes a Palatinate under the Duchy of Urnst; Greyhawk becomes a free city.
498 – 510 CY – Hateful Wars in which the Ulek states along with Veluna and demi-human forces drive humanoids out of the Lortmils.
500 CY – Iuz allies with Zuggtmoy to form Temple of Elemental Evil.
505 CY – Iuz imprisoned under Castle Greyhawk by Zagyg.
513 CY – Rise of the Horned Society (taking lands formerly under the sway of Iuz); humanoids take Pomarj.
516 CY – Battle of Opicm River, in which allied forces of Horned Society and humanoid host of Iuz defeat the Rovers of the Barrens.
517 CY – Nolzur reappears on Oerth after a century in Nirvana.
526 CY – Dyvers declares itself a free city.
545 CY – Rogahn and Zelligar depart Quasqueton in Ratik.
563 CY – Bone March falls to humanoids.
569 CY – Battle of Emridy Meadows—Horde of Elemental Evil scattered and Zuggtmoy sealed within the Temple.
570 CY – Iuz freed from Castle Greyhawk (along with eight other deities) by actions of Robilar. Eli Tomorast begins investigating Maure Castle.
572 CY – Battle of Medegia, in which the Sea Barons sink four warships of the Lordship of the Isles.
573 CY – Scarlet Brotherhood first reported; Prince of Furyondy/Provost of Veluna Thrommel kidnapped (by Scarlet Brotherhood, at the commission of Iuz).
575 CY – Woodstock begins career as Bard.
577 CY – Reports of The Slave Lords (who serve the Scarlet Brotherhood) begin to surface.
578 CY – Nyrond, Almor and allies issue proclamation of war against Great Kingdom and its allies. Hold of Stonefist becomes Stonehold under Rhelt Seuvord I and is divided into four atamanships. Forces of Iuz defeated by Wolf Nomads at Battle of Black Water bend. Horned Society claims Warfields and Wormhall from Bandit Kingdoms as retribution for desertion of bandit forces. Formation of the Watchers under the half-daemon lord Karbosh’ydrat and an opposing group, the Guardians, under the quasi-deitific paladin lord/wizard Sentillion.
579 CY – Gonijo becomes Emperor of Kozakura. Horned Society attempts further eastward incursions into Bandit Kingdoms, but are repulsed by united forces of the “kingdoms”. Forces of Iuz seize control of much of the northeastern portion of the Vesve Forest and the western shore of Whysetil Lake.
580 CY – Bandit Kingdoms drive the forces of the Horned Society west of the Ritensa River as the Shield Lands make a northward thrust into Society territory.
585 CY – Iuz attempts to conquer the Horned Society lands with an alliance of humanoids and forces from the Bandit Kingdoms, but unexpected reinforcements from the Scarlet Brotherhood (via the Ritensa River) thwart his plans. The war between the Great Kingdom and Nyrond/Almor ends in a virtual stalemate, with many losses of life and few gains for either side.¹³
¹ Page 2 of Module C2 states that Inverness fortress stood when “the Flan tribesmen were but newcomers to the land” so this would place it at or before c.-4500 CY.
² I view the beginning of the Olven calendar as expressing their existence in the Flanaess; they were most certainly a more ancient race, and immigrated there from further west or from a different dimension (such as Faerie/Phæree).
³ So dated because an entry of said tome foretold “the coming of the City of the Gods” in the OD&D Eldritch Wizardry supplement.
⁴ Page 2 of Module DA3 states that events in the module transpire 3000 years before present day modules.
⁵ This date is rather arbitrary as Gary gave no precise hints as to Acererak’s age; but as the only demi-lich he ever mentioned, I simply decided to make him older than Vecna and old enough for his undead lich body to wither into dust.
⁶ The DMG on page 160 states that Queen Ehlissa’s wondrous artifact was forged some 17 centuries in the past and that her reign was several centuries long.
⁷ In an online correspondence with Michael Kasparian, Gary Gygax states that while Vecna was a creation of Brian Blume, he had always envisioned him as an ancient, corrupted Flan.
⁸ In Module S2, it is stated that Keraptis built his stronghold 1300 years before the present.
⁹ Gary Gygax never gave any real indication as to the date here, but due to the apparent nature of Baron Lum and General Lek-O, I decided to place them as conquering Oeridian warlords near the height of the eastward migrations of that people; and their brief “Empire” ending as Suloise migrations were starting and just before the Kingdom of Keoland came into being.
¹⁰ Gary Gygax states to Michael Kasparian in an online correspondence that the Temple of Tharizdun in the Yatils was built shortly after the Suel-Bakluni Wars and that Tsojcanth imprisoned the deity-avatar about 750 years before the present (perhaps the avatar of Tharizdun worshipped and then imprisoned there was originally released by the Suel usage of one section of the tripartite artifact [used to imprison the deity] to cause the Invoked Devastation?).
¹¹ Page 2 of Module S4 states that Iggwilv subjugated the Marches of Perrenland nearly a century ago, for a decade.
¹² Page 3 of Module WG3 references the death of the last servant in the Introduction.
¹³ By this date, Gary had left TSR and the 2nd Edition went with the “Greyhawk Wars” which altered the borders of most nations. Meanwhile, Gary symbolically destroyed the entire world in his Gord books. Here, I have reset the situation, such that the “Greyhawk Wars/From The Ashes” never occurred, as a beginning point for playing the Greyhawk campaign.
Corrections
In “Guide to the World of Greyhawk”, pg. 28, the capital of the See Of Medegia should be listed as Mentrey, not Rel Astra (an independent city).
In “Guide to the World of Greyhawk”, pg. 40, the capital of the Valley of the Mage is Bardillingham (pop. 3000) and the ruler (Mage) is Basiliv.
In “Guide to the World of Greyhawk”, pg. 44, the regional alignment map should show the Scarlet Brotherhood as “Neutral Evil” and “Lawful Evil”, and the Valley of the Mage should be shown as “Neutral” (the nature of the Mage was not revealed at the time the Guide was published).
In “Guide to the World of Greyhawk”, pg. 45, the “?” symbol should stand for “Unknown” and the “⍉” symbol should stand for “None”.
In “Guide to the World of Greyhawk”, pg. 79, the “Knight” should be addressed as “Worthy Sir” and the “Knight Bachelor” (ranked below Knight) should be addressed as “Sir”. [See: Cavalier PC Class]
Timeline
Prehistory – Corellon Larethian defeats Lolth and drives her to the Abyss. Blood shed by the god in this battle is said to have formed the Olven race.
Prehistory – A force of deities of weal including Rao, Pelor and Xerkway defeat and imprison Tharizdun using a tripartite artifact.
Prehistory – Various forces of good led by elves, men and dwarves banish the Elder Elemental Gods and drive various evil races (drow, kuo-toans, duergar, krakens, etc.) into the depths of the earth and sea.
Prehistory – Races of Gith (Gityanki and Githzerai) break loose of illithid domination.
Prehistory – Crowns, Orbs and Scepters of Might made by deities of Good, Evil and Neutrality for use by their champions.
Prehistory (c. -5700 CY?)– Battle of Pesh where the Wind Dukes of Aaqa and other beings of Chaos fought the forces of Law and the Rod of Seven Parts was sundered. (The nature of the Wind Dukes is unknown and it has been speculated that they were either demigods, elemental beings of aerial nature or powerful wizard-priests. Aaqa is believed by most to have been a region, but some have suggested that this is the name of a deity. The leading entity on either side is unknown, but the breaking of the Rod is believed to have been pivotal, as this incident has survived in tales through the millennia. The battle is believed to have been a draw, as elements of both sides have remained in force ever since.)
c. -5515 CY – Beginning of Suloise Empire in southwest Oerik.
c. -4500 CY – Galap-Dreidel builds Inverness Keep in the Abbor-Alz.¹
c. -4462 CY – Olven folk settle in Celene/Highfolk/Vesve, Celadon & Welkwood Forest areas of eastern Oerik. Flan tribes are already present in the region (Flanaess).²
c. -2659 CY – Bakluni begin tracking years.
c. -2500 CY – Isles of Woe sink into the Nyr Dyv (possibly wrought through the use of the Codex of Infinite Planes by Yagrax).³
c. -2400 CY – Forced landing of the FSS Beagle in the Valley of the Ancients in Blackmoor. This becomes known as The City of the Gods. Uther Andahar becomes ruler of Blackmoor.⁴
c. -2150 CY – Flan tribes begin tracking of dates in Eastern Oerik. Flan tribes overthrow priests of Nerull under the leadership of the cleric Dahlver-Nar.
c. -2025 CY – Nung Fu ascends as ruler and Shou Lung (Suhfang) Empire begins in Kara-Tur.
c. -1585 CY – Appearance of the teachings of the Path of Enlightenment in Shou Lung.
c. -1305 CY – Acererak the lich finishes his Tomb of Horrors and begins transformation to a demi-lich.⁵
c. -1200 CY – Rule of Queen Ehlissa (South-Western Flan) begins.⁶
c. -1169 CY – Shou Lung envoys discover Wa.
c. -1150 CY – Demise of Vecna and Kas (both of Flan origin).⁷
c. -848 CY – Emperor Mori begins rule as first emperor in Kozakura.
c. -725 CY – Keraptis (Northern Flan) establishes stronghold in White Plume Mountain.⁸
c. -720 CY–Jahind Empire founded in western Oerik by Shakyabetaa.
c. -546 CY – Envoys from Shou Lung discover Kozakura.
-485 CY – Beginning of Baklunish-Suloise Wars.
-466 CY – First employment of humanoid mercenaries.
-458 CY – Oerid migrations eastward at peak point. Approximate founding of Greyhawk trading village.
-455 CY – Baron Lum (“the Mad”), an Oeridian, discovers the artifact machine that bears his name and begins conquests in west-central Flanaess.⁹
-447 CY – Suloise eastward migrations begin.
-446 – General Leuk-O, using the artifact automaton servitor found in the same locality as Lum’s Machine, rebels against the Baron; both men are destroyed and the artifacts disappear.⁹
-445 CY – Kingdom of Keoland established.
-422 CY – Suloise use artifact of Tharizdun to cause Invoked Devastation to Bakluni lands (widespread sterilizing of the soil and aging/sickening of plant and animal life, accompanied by black skies and a howling wind), and the Bakluni deity Dorgha Torgu responds by sending the Rain of Colorless Fire to destroy the Suel Imperium. Axe of the Dwarvish Lords is lost.
-421 CY – Bakluni gods give holy Cup and Talisman to High Priest Al’Akbar of the Paynims to aid the recovery from the Invoked Devastation.
-280 CY – The arch-mage Tsojcanth and his forces imprison avatar of Tharizdun in his Temple in the eastern Yatils.¹⁰
-217 CY – Founding of the Kingdom of Aerdy.
-123 CY – Mariners of Oerid/Flan stock sail eastward to Aquaria (Empyrea) to found town of Garythane.
-110 CY – Battle of a Fortnight’s Length; Great Kingdom established.
1 CY – Overking crowned in Rauxes; Frontiers of Great Kingdom reach Greyhawk City.
13 CY – Revolution leads to appointment of John Asperman as King John I of human settlements in Aquaria.
70 CY – Birth of Iuz from union of the witch, Iggwilv, and the demon prince, Graz’zt.
110 CY ?– Battle of Shamblefield.
114 CY – John II moves capital of humans in Aquaria to Bankspret and renames it Empyrea.
c. 180 CY – Collapse of Olman Empire, Tamoachan deserted.
191 CY – John III of Empyrea signs Pact of Neutrality with elves, dwarves, gnomes, and halflings of Aquaria.
213 CY – Age of Great Sorrow commences, as power of the Great Kingdom wanes.
245 CY – Unification of evil forces in Aquaria under Krellokk the Tangg-Lord. Forces included orcs, goblins, green dragons, and blue dragons.
254 CY – Kingdom of Furyondy is independent from Great Kingdom. Great Battle of Empyrea in Aquaria (“Evanescence of Empyrea”—a mighty roaring storm and flash of white light at midnight; artifact known as Egg of the Phoenix involved.).
280 CY – T’u Lung empire secedes from Shou Lung in Kara-Tur.
300 – 350 CY – Founding of Bandit Kingdoms.
320 CY – Nomads appear in the North; outer dependencies of Aerdy gain sovereignty.
350 – 360 CY – Keoland invades Ket and attacks Veluna and Verbobonc. The Jacinth of Inestimable Beauty is said to have passed into Keoland at this time.
355 CY – Porpherio seals garden from outside world on Sybarate Island and Green Man and Robin Goodfellow take up residence therein.
356 CY – Kingdom of Nyrond established; Theocracy of the Pale declares autonomy; Kingdom of Keoland at its peak.
375 CY – Zagig Yragerne (Zagyg) begins rule of Greyhawk.
400 CY – Clans of Perrenland join together.
430 CY – Founding of the Hold of Stonefist.
437 CY – Turmoil Between Crowns.
438 CY – The Short War (or, Small War) in which a Veluna-Furyondy alliance defeats the Keoland army. Bissel becomes tributary state to Furyondy.
446 CY – Bandit Kings sack Trigol; Rise of the Sea Princes.
447 CY– Founding of the Iron League.
450 CY – Grand Duchy of Geoff fights conflict with Keoland. Approximate time of Basiliv establishing himself in the Valley of the Mage.
453 CY – King Tavish III of Keoland slain by forces of the Sea Princes at the Siege of Westkeep.
461 CY – Demi-human realms of Ulek and Celene are independent of Keoish rule.
468 – 478 CY – Iggwilv subjugates Perrenland, until Graz’zt is accidentally freed.¹¹
475 CY – Modular section of spacecraft lands in the Barrier Peaks.
479 CY– Might of Iuz grows; humanoid invasions become common; Last servant in Tharizdun’s Temple dies.¹²
498 CY – Great Council of Rel Mord gives Theocracy of the Pale independence and County of Urnst becomes a Palatinate under the Duchy of Urnst; Greyhawk becomes a free city.
498 – 510 CY – Hateful Wars in which the Ulek states along with Veluna and demi-human forces drive humanoids out of the Lortmils.
500 CY – Iuz allies with Zuggtmoy to form Temple of Elemental Evil.
505 CY – Iuz imprisoned under Castle Greyhawk by Zagyg.
513 CY – Rise of the Horned Society (taking lands formerly under the sway of Iuz); humanoids take Pomarj.
516 CY – Battle of Opicm River, in which allied forces of Horned Society and humanoid host of Iuz defeat the Rovers of the Barrens.
517 CY – Nolzur reappears on Oerth after a century in Nirvana.
526 CY – Dyvers declares itself a free city.
545 CY – Rogahn and Zelligar depart Quasqueton in Ratik.
563 CY – Bone March falls to humanoids.
569 CY – Battle of Emridy Meadows—Horde of Elemental Evil scattered and Zuggtmoy sealed within the Temple.
570 CY – Iuz freed from Castle Greyhawk (along with eight other deities) by actions of Robilar. Eli Tomorast begins investigating Maure Castle.
572 CY – Battle of Medegia, in which the Sea Barons sink four warships of the Lordship of the Isles.
573 CY – Scarlet Brotherhood first reported; Prince of Furyondy/Provost of Veluna Thrommel kidnapped (by Scarlet Brotherhood, at the commission of Iuz).
575 CY – Woodstock begins career as Bard.
577 CY – Reports of The Slave Lords (who serve the Scarlet Brotherhood) begin to surface.
578 CY – Nyrond, Almor and allies issue proclamation of war against Great Kingdom and its allies. Hold of Stonefist becomes Stonehold under Rhelt Seuvord I and is divided into four atamanships. Forces of Iuz defeated by Wolf Nomads at Battle of Black Water bend. Horned Society claims Warfields and Wormhall from Bandit Kingdoms as retribution for desertion of bandit forces. Formation of the Watchers under the half-daemon lord Karbosh’ydrat and an opposing group, the Guardians, under the quasi-deitific paladin lord/wizard Sentillion.
579 CY – Gonijo becomes Emperor of Kozakura. Horned Society attempts further eastward incursions into Bandit Kingdoms, but are repulsed by united forces of the “kingdoms”. Forces of Iuz seize control of much of the northeastern portion of the Vesve Forest and the western shore of Whysetil Lake.
580 CY – Bandit Kingdoms drive the forces of the Horned Society west of the Ritensa River as the Shield Lands make a northward thrust into Society territory.
585 CY – Iuz attempts to conquer the Horned Society lands with an alliance of humanoids and forces from the Bandit Kingdoms, but unexpected reinforcements from the Scarlet Brotherhood (via the Ritensa River) thwart his plans. The war between the Great Kingdom and Nyrond/Almor ends in a virtual stalemate, with many losses of life and few gains for either side.¹³
¹ Page 2 of Module C2 states that Inverness fortress stood when “the Flan tribesmen were but newcomers to the land” so this would place it at or before c.-4500 CY.
² I view the beginning of the Olven calendar as expressing their existence in the Flanaess; they were most certainly a more ancient race, and immigrated there from further west or from a different dimension (such as Faerie/Phæree).
³ So dated because an entry of said tome foretold “the coming of the City of the Gods” in the OD&D Eldritch Wizardry supplement.
⁴ Page 2 of Module DA3 states that events in the module transpire 3000 years before present day modules.
⁵ This date is rather arbitrary as Gary gave no precise hints as to Acererak’s age; but as the only demi-lich he ever mentioned, I simply decided to make him older than Vecna and old enough for his undead lich body to wither into dust.
⁶ The DMG on page 160 states that Queen Ehlissa’s wondrous artifact was forged some 17 centuries in the past and that her reign was several centuries long.
⁷ In an online correspondence with Michael Kasparian, Gary Gygax states that while Vecna was a creation of Brian Blume, he had always envisioned him as an ancient, corrupted Flan.
⁸ In Module S2, it is stated that Keraptis built his stronghold 1300 years before the present.
⁹ Gary Gygax never gave any real indication as to the date here, but due to the apparent nature of Baron Lum and General Lek-O, I decided to place them as conquering Oeridian warlords near the height of the eastward migrations of that people; and their brief “Empire” ending as Suloise migrations were starting and just before the Kingdom of Keoland came into being.
¹⁰ Gary Gygax states to Michael Kasparian in an online correspondence that the Temple of Tharizdun in the Yatils was built shortly after the Suel-Bakluni Wars and that Tsojcanth imprisoned the deity-avatar about 750 years before the present (perhaps the avatar of Tharizdun worshipped and then imprisoned there was originally released by the Suel usage of one section of the tripartite artifact [used to imprison the deity] to cause the Invoked Devastation?).
¹¹ Page 2 of Module S4 states that Iggwilv subjugated the Marches of Perrenland nearly a century ago, for a decade.
¹² Page 3 of Module WG3 references the death of the last servant in the Introduction.
¹³ By this date, Gary had left TSR and the 2nd Edition went with the “Greyhawk Wars” which altered the borders of most nations. Meanwhile, Gary symbolically destroyed the entire world in his Gord books. Here, I have reset the situation, such that the “Greyhawk Wars/From The Ashes” never occurred, as a beginning point for playing the Greyhawk campaign.
Corrections
In “Guide to the World of Greyhawk”, pg. 28, the capital of the See Of Medegia should be listed as Mentrey, not Rel Astra (an independent city).
In “Guide to the World of Greyhawk”, pg. 40, the capital of the Valley of the Mage is Bardillingham (pop. 3000) and the ruler (Mage) is Basiliv.
In “Guide to the World of Greyhawk”, pg. 44, the regional alignment map should show the Scarlet Brotherhood as “Neutral Evil” and “Lawful Evil”, and the Valley of the Mage should be shown as “Neutral” (the nature of the Mage was not revealed at the time the Guide was published).
In “Guide to the World of Greyhawk”, pg. 45, the “?” symbol should stand for “Unknown” and the “⍉” symbol should stand for “None”.
In “Guide to the World of Greyhawk”, pg. 79, the “Knight” should be addressed as “Worthy Sir” and the “Knight Bachelor” (ranked below Knight) should be addressed as “Sir”. [See: Cavalier PC Class]