HISTORY: Spelljammer Timeline Va

An "official" Spelljammer Timeline [revised 1.0]
By Paul Westermeyer aka GMWestermeyer


c4700

[SJ] *Reuful Ironhand becomes king of the Reorx 
dwarves; he creates Reorx' spelljammer ports, 
introducing the gnome and dwarven peoples of 
Reorx to spelljammer commerce.
{SJR7 Krynnspace, p23}
[SJ] *Humanoids invade the discworld of Plata 
during the 1st Unhuman War, but find the 
Aarakocra of that planet too tough to defeat. 
The later destruction of the Goblinoid fleets 
leaves the invasion army stranded, and its 
members splinter back into tribes.
{SJR4 Practical Planetology, p49}
[SJ] *The IEN corners a drow fleet near the ice 
planet Century in Pirtelspace.  The drow crash on 
the planet, so the IEN builds a military base, 
Darkwatch, on a small asteroid moon above 
Century, in order make certain the drow do not 
return to wildspace..  They base two men-o-war at 
Darkwatch: the KINGFISHER and the PRINCELY ESCORT.
{Dungeon #36 'The Sea of Sorrow', pp47, 63}
[SJ] *The Arcane become active in the wider 
Astromundi Cluster.  Their sales of spelljamming 
technology to non-slaver races helps balance the 
neogi focus on slavers as trading partners. 
(c4/1272 AC)
{The Astromundi Cluster, Astrogator's Guide, p6}

c4700 to 4750
[SJ] *The Tentacle Wars between the Antilan 
Empire and the Illithids begin within the 
Astromundi Cluster.  The Antilans suffer their 
first major defeats after centuries of conquest. 
They begin delving into the lore of the Ancients 
and strike an alliance with the Arcane versus the 
illithids.  The result is the discovery of 'Sun 
Magic' which powers the crystal ships and 
citadels of the Antilans, as well as providing 
spells of devastating power.  The war continues 
until the present day, though it often devolves 
into low-level raiding and espionage.   (c4/1272 
to 2/1276 AC)
{The Astromundi Cluster, Astrogator's Guide, pp7-8}
{The Astromundi Cluster, Adventures in the Shattered Sphere, p14}

4708
[SJ]  The famous galleon SKY RANGER, and her 
equally legendary privateer captain Brent Runner, 
disappears enroute from Refuge to the elvish 
sphere Darnannon.
{Dungeon #36 'The Sea of Sorrow', p41}

4712
[SJ] The vampire T'Laan is born as the half-elf 
Dorin in Aglarond, a kingdom on the planet Toril 
in Realmspace. (1040 DR)
{Crystal Spheres, p4}

4720
[SJ] The giff war barge THUNDERER sights a 
spectral galleon in the flow near Pirtelspace. 
This is the first of 30 sightings of this 
spectral galleon over the next centuries, always 
leading the ship to Pirtelspace
{Dungeon #36 'The Sea of Sorrow', p41}

4728
[SJ]  Dukagsh dies and attains apotheosis as a 
demigod.  The planet is named after him and he is 
placed in a special coffin set in perpetual orbit 
above Dukagsh's northern pole.  His followers, 
whom he renames 'Scro' just before his death, 
largely abandon the traditional orcish pantheon 
to worship him.  Though not yet truly scro, the 
orcs of the planet Dukagsh are well on the path 
to becoming scro.
{Dragon Annual #1 'Campaign Classics: The Scro', p48}
{SJS1 Goblin's Return, p62}

4737
[SJ/FR] The half-elf Dorin of Aglarond serves as 
an advisor to Brindor in the talks following the 
Battle of Ingdal's Arm.  Through his efforts 
Brindor becomes the first king of Aglarond on the 
planet Toril.  Soon afterward, however, Dorin's 
wife is slain by assassins.  Dorin makes a pact 
with dark powers to defeat the assassins, and 
becomes the vampire later known as T'Laan.  He 
then journeys into wildspace.  (1065 DR)
{Crystal Spheres, p4}

c4742
[SJ] *The Dock in the Wu Pi Te Shao mountains is founded by the Arcane.
{SJR2 Realmspace, p21}


c4747
[SJ] Witchlight Marauders are created by the 
humanoids to destroy elven worlds during the 1st 
Unhuman War.
{MC9 Spelljammer Monstrous Compendium II, 'Witchlight Marauders'}
{SJS1 Goblin's Return, p63}
[SJ]  Only the Combined Goblin Fleet under the 
command of the half-orc Gralnakh Longtooth 
succeeds in handing the Imperial Elven Fleet 
truly damaging losses. But in the absence of 
other effective humanoid fleets it was doomed. 
It fought on for years but Gralnakh and IEN 
Admiral Leafbower (an ex-battle poet) agreed to a 
cease-fire/armistice.  The IEN Council of 
Admirals exiles the goblinoids to the most 
inhospitable planet they could find, Armistice, 
in Winterspace.  Then they establish the 
Armistice Blockade to prevent the goblinoids from 
gain spelljamming ever again.
{SJR4 Practical Planetology, p11}
{Dragon Annual #1 'Campaign Classics: The Scro', p46}
{The Radiant Dragon, p145}
[SJ] *Moragspace has been infested by gammaroids 
for ages, they ate all of the sphere's planets 
over centuries.  One of the last gammaroids eats 
a drifting Witchlight Marauder, which will slowly 
kill it over the next centuries.
{SJS1 Goblin's Return, pp7, 10}
[SJ] End of the First Unhuman War, Elves drive the humanoids from Known Space.
{Dragon Annual #1 'Campaign Classics: The Scro', p46}

c4750
[SJ] *Sindiath, an elven hero of the First 
Unhuman War, takes a large portion of the 
Imperial Elven fleet and converts it over to 
passenger and cargo service, creating the 
Sindiath Line.
{The Complete Spacefarer's Handbook, p90}
[SJ] *The Karpri Base, formed from seven archaic 
men-o-war, is created by the IEN to protect the 
aquatic elves of Karpri in Realmspace.
{SJR2 Realmspace, p34}
[SJ] *The Bionoids are kicked out of elven 
society with the end of the Unhuman War.
{MC9 Spelljammer Monstrous Compendium II, 'Bionoid'}
[SJ]  The Calidians of the Astromundi Cluster 
free themselves after centuries of shifting back 
and forth between illithid and Antilan slavery. 
(c2/1276 AC)
{The Astromundi Cluster, Adventures in the Shattered Sphere, p27}
[SJ]  In the Astromundi Cluster, Antilan Sun Mage 
Azahn Kyli badly botches (or is sabotaged) an 
attempt to obtain lichdom.  The resulting magical 
backlash sweeps across the asteroid he is on, 
which becomes the infamous, undead-haunted 'Isle 
of Banshees'. (c2/1276AC)
{The Astromundi Cluster, The Celestial Almanac, pp62-63}

c4751
[FR/SJ]  The illithids of Glyth built and 
maintained an outpost at Stardock in the Tears of 
Selune, dug from the solid rock by the claws of 
enslaved umber hulks. The outpost will be in use 
off and on for the next three centuries by the 
Glyth mind flayers.(1069 DR)
{Undermountain: Stardock, p5}

c4755
[SJ]  The Dark Oliphant, an ogre mammothship, was 
a scourge of the void long after the Unhuman War 
ended.  Over a long career it was credited with 
defeating a score of elvish warships, as well as 
single-handedly destroying two elven armadas.  It 
is finally brought to bay by the Imperial Elven 
Fleet and its helm was destroyed by an elven mage 
teleporting into the helmroom with a lit barrel 
of smokepowder.
{Dungeon #41 'Mammoth Problems', p36}

c4759
[SJ]  In Pirtelspace, following a long, drawn out 
series of attacks, the radiant dragon Blacklight 
destroys the elves of Darkwatch and tows the two 
men-o-war stationed there, the KINGFISHER and the 
PRINCELY ESCORT, back to the Sea of Sorrow.
{Dungeon #36 'The Sea of Sorrow', pp47, 63}

c4800
[SJ]  *The dwarven nations of the Astromundi 
Cluster negotiate a treaty with the Antilan Sun 
Mages.  The dwarves provide ore and mercenaries 
at favorable rates to the Antilans.  This treaty 
remains in effect into the present day.  (1/1280 
AC)
{The Astromundi Cluster, The Celestial Almanac, p21}

c4829
[SJ] The half-elven vampire Dorin, later known as 
T'Laan, enters the sphere that will eventually be 
named Darkspace.  Within he finds nine planets, 
but only one, Verin, has life beyond simple 
fungi.  The humans of that planet were not 
spelljammer aware.  Dorin/T’Laan begins to create 
more vampires as he feeds across the planet.
{Crystal Spheres, p39}

4839
[SJ] The half-elven vampire Dorin, who poses as a 
bard, changes his name to T'Laan.
{Crystal Spheres, p16}
[SJ] Castle Skyview, palace of House Shambrath, 
is constructed.  Thesalys in Greatspace enters a 
period of peace, as no war or large scale 
hostility occurs on Thesalys for the next 200 
years. (TU 652)
{Crystal Spheres, pp32-33, 35}

4842
[SJ] An infectious spelljammer crew introduces a 
plague which wipes out 30% of the population of 
the halflings of the Southern Polarate of Anadia 
in Realmspace.
{SJR2 Realmspace, p8}
[SJ] The legendary, cursed Batship enters 
Realmspace and begins to haunt the Tears of 
Selune.
{SJR2 Realmspace, pp 31, 90}

4849
[SJ] The Imperial Elven Navy takes control of 
Korvspace in order to better protect its 
inhabitants from illithid slavers.
{Polyhedron #81 'His Majesty's Spacial Service', p10}
[SJ] The radiant dragon Blacklight attacks 
Skyport, a spelljammer base that orbits the 
planet Archin in Pirtelspace.  He is beaten off 
by the archmage Azure wielding a Sphere of 
Annihilation inherited from the legendary Ice 
Mage, Pirtel.
{Dungeon #36 'The Sea of Sorrow', p52}

c4850
[SJ] The legendary wizardess known variously as 
Nimone, Larabet Vintara, Nimone, the Ice Queen, 
and Meredith is said to begin her career in 
wildspace around this time, using the name Lady 
Chaos.  She is said to be already 500 years old 
at this point.
{Spelljammer #13 'The Armada'}
{Spelljammer #5}

4858
[FR/AQ] *Grand Caliph Anwar ascends the throne 
and starts sponsoring the exploration of faraway 
lands, even those beyond Toril (spelljamming). 
(1176 DR)
{City of Delights: Gem of Zakhara, p14}

c4877
[SJ] *The Seed-Beholder Company of Realmspace is founded.
{SJR2 Realmspace, p58}

4879
[SJ] The pirate Bral establishes his base on the 
asteroid which would later bear his name.
{SJR5 Rock of Bral, p5}
[SJ] The half-elven vampire T'Laan, posing as a 
bard, is mentioned in an historical account.
{Crystal Spheres, p16}

4889
[SJ] The pirate Bral leads a flotilla of his 
Black Brotherhood in a raid against a groundling 
city. His fleet of five vessels is met by eight 
elven men-o-war and destroyed. Bral's vessel the 
STARWIND is last seen going down in flames onto 
the planet below.
{SJR5 Rock of Bral, p6}

c4890
[SJ] *The Lady Chaos, Queen of the Stellar Main, 
outwits the wizard Kavaros, who had placed her 
under a geas to hire a fleet for him to use to 
chase down the Spelljammer. She hires many 
competing factions, including opposing beholder 
nations, and when the hired fleets rendezvous at 
Kovaros' stronghold, the Citadel of Honros, a 
massive battle breaks out. Kavaros and the 
Citadel of Honros are destroyed.
{Spelljammer Comic #9 'The Geas'}

4895
[SJ] The Karpri Base is destroyed by illithids in Realmspace.
{SJR2 Realmspace, p35}

4917
[SJ] The legendary pirate Clive the Fearsome first appears in Realmspace.
{SJR2 Realmspace, p45}

4919
[SJ]  The Neogi Agreement establishes the Inner 
Ring of the Astromundi Cluster as neutral ground 
for trade and commerce.  Even the Illithids and 
Antilans keep this treaty because of the trade 
benefits, though they continue the Tentacle Wars 
outside the Inner Ring.  The Neogi found the 
Shaseogan trading asteroid to take advantage of 
this peace. (2/1289 AC)
{The Astromundi Cluster, The Celestial Almanac, p52}

4920
[DL] A spelljammer vessel visits the gnomes of 
Mount Nevermind on Krynn.  Mount Nevermind 
receives other such visits over time, becoming 
one of Krynn’s spelljamming ports. (235 AC)
{Beyond the Moons, pp138, 140}

4922
[SJ/FR] The comet K'Thoutek, which orbits the sun 
of Realmspace every 237 years, arrives in 
Torilian skies.  Its appearance is said to 
announce the birth or arrival of a powerful 
entity.  (1240 DR)
{SJR2 Realmspace, p53}

4928
[FR] First recorded use of Bombards by Lantan on 
Faerun in Realmspace.  (1246 DR)
{Forgotten Realms Campaign Setting, 2nd ed.: Running the Realms, p16}

c4929
[SJ] *On the planet Verin in Darkspace, humans 
form bands of vampire hunters to hunt the undead 
created by T'Laan. This war is called the Time of 
Death.
{Crystal Spheres, p39}

c4935
[SJ] *On the planet Verin in Darkspace, the Time 
of Death ends with every human on the planet was 
dead, leaving tens of thousands of vampires.  The 
vampires hunt one another and T'Laan, this period 
is known as the Time of Blood.
{Crystal Spheres, p39}

c4965
[SJ] *On the planet Verin in Darkspace, the Time 
of Blood ends when T’Laan destroys the last of 
his vampire children.
{Crystal Spheres, p39}

4942
[SJ] Rastipedes settle on the asteroid called 
‘Long Block’ in the Tears of Selune in Realmspace.
{Polyhedron #126 'Island Campaigns: Part 5 
Ecological Nightmares: A World of your Own', 
pp26-27}

4944
[SJ] The legendary pirate Blackjammer, original 
owner of the infamous Blackjammer's Cutlass, is 
killed.
{Dragon #159 'Bazaar of the Bizarre: Magic from the Stars', p18}

4949
[SJ] Cozar founds the Royal House of Bral.
{SJR5 Rock of Bral, p6}