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GemStone IV Adventurers

5,103    Elven Nations

Faced with a stalemate, the Dark Alliance uses the very essence of its army in a mass sacrifice to create a nightmare -- a massive six-winged creature called the Miscere'Golab. With wings the size of mountains and its body able to block out the light of the sun, the beast provides an impossible challenge to any army. Fearing destruction, a group of adventurers lead by an eccentric Illistim scholar take flight upon a small airship and board the beast. They discover the key to the magical essence that binds the monstrosity together, and destroy it before it reaches the city. During the chaos, the third piece resurfaces, and is claimed again by the Dark Alliance.

The undead horde reaches Ta'Illistim. A huge assault is mounted upon the city, but save for a few incidents, the city walls are not breached and the gates hold. The outlying provinces, however, are soon infested with droves of undead and soldiers of the Dark Alliance. Rumors of the third portion of the Griffin Sword begin to surface across the lands.

The undead forces are bolstered immensely and push through the few remaining companies stationed there. The massive army begins to head toward Ta'Illistim. Defenses are prepared.

5,103    Turamzzyrian Empire

A rogue Illistim mage's accident releases v'reen morphs into River's Rest. Controversy over the lethal shapeshifting monsters threatens to spark a war between the Empire and the Elven Nations until the Faendryl sorcerer Pheyrmerrin Azlantor banishes the v'reen from Elanith three months later.

5,102    Elven Nations

The Vaalorian forces at ShadowGuard begin to push back the undead horde. Becoming confident in the dwindling ranks of the undead, they begin to withdraw a portion of their forces back to their homelands.

The Vaalorian army mobilizes its forces and holds off the main advance of the undead horde. Political clout serves as a stopgap for any of the other Houses offering aid.

The Dark Alliance appears in the eastern Elanith. An army of well-trained Illistim soldiers ride out to meet a particularly large horde of undead and are summarily slaughtered. The lands around ShadowGuard are soon infested with massive amounts of the undead.

5,102    Turamzzyrian Empire

Solhaven is freed. Ulstram is found alive. During the struggle, the second piece of the Griffin Sword is discovered -- it is again handed to the Dark Alliance.

Sheruvian forces lay siege to Solhaven. With Ulstram detained by a clever ruse from the Dark Alliance, the city falls and Sheruvian rule is enforced upon the resistant citizens.

5,102    Teras Isle

The island is surrounded by a fleet of the Dark Alliance's ships in search of one of the Griffin Sword's shards. A heavy siege of V'tullian forces occur, but adventurers are aided by the prophet of Lorminstra, Ulstram, and cleverly destroy the fleet's flagship and glean vital information from it. The first piece of the Griffon Sword, however, is ultimately claimed by a Mularosian.

5,102    Turamzzyrian Empire

The Griffin Sword is once again shattered by Morvule, a Luukosian High Priest. A renewed alliance of the four Dark Arkati - Luukos, Sheru, Mularos and V'tull rises from the shadow and the war over the sundered sword begins anew. Wehnimer's Landing is razed by Luukosian forces, and only half of the town survives the destruction. The Dark Alliance is reborn.

The body of the Wehnimer's Landing mayor was found face up in the bay in a murder most foul. A force of guards was hired by local leaders and officials to pursue the matter and when they finally discovered and raided what they believed to be the source of trouble, they only found an abandoned headquarters, and the headless body of the mayor. Elections were called and campaigning went on for some months climaxing in a debate between the parties when all were slain from the darkness. A new mayor was installed by a dubious source and much silver is as of yet unaccounted for.

5,101    Burghal Gnomes

In one of the most impressive feats of engineering-not to mention an unprecedented case of cross-bloodline cooperation-gnomes of the Withycombe, Winedotter, and Nylem bloodlines join forces to build an airship, the Dhu Gillywack. Designed using elements from the airships of the elves and dwarves but with a distinctively gnomish twist, the Dhu Gillywack visited several cities in the Turamzzyrian Empire, Kharam Dzu, and Ta'Illistim for the purpose of selling uniquely gnomifactured goods.

5,099    Elven Nations

Queen Cadhla Loenthra opens trade and travel between House Loenthra and western Elanith with the initial voyage of the Ilyan Cloud merchant ship to the Turamzzyran Empire.

King Mattheanth of Ardenai dies. Eamon of Ardenai succeeds his father, ascending the throne.

5,098    Turamzzyrian Empire

Baron Malwind opens caravansary routes between Solhaven and Wehnimer's Landing.

Elanith is threatened with total annihilation by the Vvrael. Lorminstra calls forward seven champions to spearhead the defense, one from each profession, and tells them they must first find the Stones of Power and then take these stones north into the wilderness. During three perilous days which witness earthquakes and a rain of blood, the brave champions and countless other dauntless souls manage to seal the widening rift in the fabric of the world, forever barring the Vvrael from entry.

5,097    Turamzzyrian Empire

The Griffon Sword is recovered and made whole.

5,096    Turamzzyrian Empire

Barony of of Jantalar establishes a blockade of the free port Solhaven, causing the Terasian ship Glaesen Star to reroute to Wehnimer's Landing.

Baron Dunrith Malwind establishes the Order of the Silver Gryphon.

5,096    Elven Nations

Patriarch Ylisse of House Nalfein dies under mysterious circumstances.

5,095    Turamzzyrian Empire

The Reiver invades, bringing with him hordes of undead and killing thousands.

5,095    Elven Nations

Princess Elsevel of Loenthra weds Prince Eamon of Ardenai.

5,094    Turamzzyrian Empire

Estrion Il'Fanlas is killed near Wehnimer's Landing. Siarl Arinimus disappears.

Estrion Il'Fanlas and Siarl Arinimus seize Darkstone Castle.

Marliese kidnapped by Siarl Arinimus near Wehnimer's Landing.

5,093    Turamzzyrian Empire

Marliese first appears in the guise of a golden puma.

Earthquake rocks northwestern portions of the Elanith continent. Wehnimer's Landing takes heavy damage.

5,051    Burghal Gnomes

The Withycombe (as the eldest of the bloodline is named) dies under mysterious circumstances, and an investigation uncovers a secret society of gnomish assassins. Its leader, Todor Neimhean, was immediately put to death, but his followers created a new bloodline in his name.