Great Library Campaign Timeline

  • 1660 DR: Adrik is born in a small near-surface village in Nardith
  • 1673 DR: Adrik meets Morgana Stoneclaw for the first time
  • 1675 DR: Adrik reveals Morgana Stoneclaw’s true form and she is driven off by his parents and the village
  • 1716 DR: Samso is born in Urkabi, a small village in Apporia
  • 1737 DR: Samso returns from wandering to find Urkabi gone, seemingly swallowed by a black rot
  • May 22, 1745 DR: Brelith leaves Zarkandur to seek adventure and excitment
  • Jul 11, 1745 DR: Brelith meets Cato Stormtouched on the road in the Chasa River Valley, and begins traveling with him.
  • 1746 DR: Pestilence destroys Narazara
  • Nov 17, 1746 DR: Adrik leaves home to seek his fortune and revenge
  • Dec 09, 1746 DR: Brelith saves Cato Stormtouched from a bandit ambush in the Myraeni Gap.
  • Dec 14, 1746 DR: Brelith parts ways with Cato Stormtouched and turns towards Chardon to join the Great Library
  • Dec 17, 1746 DR: Samso leaves home to seek information
  • Jan 01, 1747 DR: Samso reaches Yeraad Marshes
  • Jan 19, 1747 DR: Samso leaves Yeraad Marshes for Chardon, having failed to find answers among his lizardfolk kin
  • Feb 16, 1747 DR: Samso and Adrik meet on the road south of Chardon and retrieve a lost messenger bag from a messenger killed by Bullywugs.
  • Apr 04, 1747 DR: Samso, Brelith, Adrik, and Alton are attacked by Goblins on the road to Voltara, and then meet Archivist Lyra at her camp.
  • Apr 05, 1747 DR: Samso, Brelith, Adrik, and Alton find the Forge of Fire and recover the Flamekeeper Scroll from a kobold tribe.
  • Apr 08, 1747 DR: Samso, Brelith, and Adrik arrive in Voltara.
  • Apr 15, 1747 DR: Samso and Adrik meet the stoneborn Aglath at The Purple Pig in Voltara, and depart to seek the Stonemaster Scroll.
  • Apr 17, 1747 DR: Samso, Adrik, and Aglath arrive at the Crystal Cavern, where the Stonemaster Scroll is hidden, after passing through orc territory. Retrieve the scroll and befriend the miniature shrunken black bear, named Friend.
  • Apr 19, 1747 DR: Samso, Adrik, and Aglath arrive back in Voltara.
  • Apr 26, 1747 DR: Samso, Adrik, Aglath, and Brelith meet Aelar and Scordith at The Purple Pig, and go to find letters of Airion at the now-haunted Pietravola Abbey, outside Voltara. Succeed in recovering notes for Archivist Lyra to study.
  • May 03, 1747 DR: Adrik, Samso, Brelith, and Aelar leave The Purple Pig to search for the Deepwater Scroll.
  • May 05, 1747 DR: Adrik, Samso, Brelith, and Aelar arrive at the Drowned Tower, and find the Deepwater Scroll.
  • May 07, 1747 DR: Adrik, Samso, Brelith, and Aelar return to Voltara.
  • May 29, 1747 DR: Wolves driven mad by some magic attack Voltara, and are defeated by Adrik, Samso, Aglath, and Brelith.
  • May 30, 1747 DR: Adrik, Samso, Aglath, Aelar, and Brelith meet Quintus Percomia, a caravan master and chalyte trader. They learn about some Centaurs to the south in trouble, but decide to head west to find the source of the wolf attacks.
  • Jun 01, 1747 DR: Adrik, Samso, Aglath, Aelar, and Brelith arrive at the entrance to the Deepriver Clan mine under Goldpeak Mountain, in the Fiatara Mountains. They enter, fight some battles, and retreat.
  • Jun 02, 1747 DR: Brelith and Aglath return to town. Samso, Adrik, and Aelar head back to the mine, where they meet Oskar and clear the mine of the magic that was causing trouble.
  • Jun 04, 1747 DR: Samso, Adrik, and Aelar return to Voltara.
  • Jun 06, 1747 DR: Samso, Adrik, Brelith, Scordith, and Aglath visit Quintus Percomia and learn of the problems of the Centaurs to the south.
  • Jun 08, 1747 DR: Samso, Adrik, Brelith, Scordith, and Aglath arrive at the centaur camp and deal with the poisoned water by placating Xameia the Forsworn, a paladin of the Order of Twilight who broke her oath. They promise to restore the temple of her order in 30 days.
  • Jun 09, 1747 DR: Scordith leaves to returns to Voltara and is never seen from again, while the others rest in the centaur camp.
  • Jun 10, 1747 DR: On the road back to Voltara, Adrik, Samso, Brelith, and Aglath are attacked by bandits, and are joined by Oskar. Subdue the bandits, and learn they need money to pay off Orcs raiding from the Lonely Watchtower.
  • Jun 11, 1747 DR: Adrik, Samso, Brelith, Aglath, and Oskar arrive at the Lonely Watchtower and destroy some orcs, including the chief Raluhk the Orog. Rescue Ralvaz, a mine captain who reports many orc raids.
  • Jun 14, 1747 DR: Adrik, Samso, Brelith, and Aglath return to Voltara with news about the raids.
  • Jun 22, 1747 DR: Samso is approached by Iara, a lizardfolk woman, seeking aid for her village. The party agrees to help, and Samso, Brelith, Aelar, and Adrik set out from Voltara.
  • Jun 26, 1747 DR: Samso, Brelith, Aelar, and Adrik find an abandoned lizardfolk village, and are attacked by evil shadow lizardfolk. Find, confront and kill the leader of these creatures.
  • Jun 27, 1747 DR: On the road back to Voltara, party kills bugbear raiders and finds a letter from Grumella the Vengeful demanding all travelers from the west be captured and ransomed.
  • Jun 29, 1747 DR: Samso, Brelith, Aelar, and Adrik return to Voltara with news of the kidnappings.
  • Jun 30, 1747 DR: Brelith finds information about the location of the ruined temple of the Order of Twilight and the party leaves to fulfill their promise to Xameia.
  • Jul 01, 1747 DR: Brelith, Aelar, Adrik, and Samso are ambushed in the hills on the way to the temple.
  • Jul 02, 1747 DR: The party arrives at the temple and fights demons, and realize they need powerful magic to cleanse the Abyssal portal at this temple.
  • Jul 04, 1747 DR: The party arrives back in Voltara and convinces a priest, Galius Filuso, to come with them to help end the Abyssal curse on the temple.
  • Jul 06, 1747 DR: The party arrives at the temple and defends Galius Filuso for 24 hours while he casts Hallow to end the Abyssal corruption and close the portal.
  • Jul 07, 1747 DR: The portal is closed and an avatar of The Night Queen appears to reward the party.
  • Jul 08, 1747 DR: The party arrives back in Voltara.
  • Jul 09, 1747 DR: The party meets the proconsul, and Archivist Lyra tells them a messenger is missing.
  • Jul 10, 1747 DR: Adrik, Brelith, Aelar, and Samso ransom the messenger from the Kobolds, but not the map they need to find the last scroll, the Skyborn Scroll.
  • Jul 11, 1747 DR: The party, with Aglath, ambushes the Kobolds and retrieves the map to the Skyborn Scroll.
  • Jul 12, 1747 DR: The party decides to immediately head north to find the Skyborn Scroll, leaving Voltara in a hurry.
  • Jul 15, 1747 DR: On the plains north of Voltara, heading for the rumored location of the Skyborn Scroll, the party is attacked and nearly killed by a hobgoblin patrol from the mountains.
  • Jul 16, 1747 DR: The party encounters Oskar on the plains, who joins them for a time.
  • Jul 19, 1747 DR: The party finds Blacksilver Peak and begin the ascend. Part way up, they fight a frost giant who hates dwarves, and bargain with a giant eagle for passage down a cliff to the old Dwarven Road.
  • Jul 20, 1747 DR: After defeating a group of basilisks, the party arrives at the entrance to the old Dwarven mines, and kills the trolls that now occupy it. They begin the ascent up the long stairs to the summit of the mountain.
  • Jul 21, 1747 DR: After resting on the stairs, the party emerges into a ruined Dwarven waystation, finding the exit after some shenanigans and defeating some sword wraiths.
  • Jul 22, 1747 DR: The party meets Dinia, and deals with her yeti problem.
  • Jul 23, 1747 DR: Aglath, Adrik, Samso, Brelith, and Aelar cross a glacier to find Airion the Mistspeaker’s floating tower. After crossing an ice bridge, defeating the guardians, figuring out the door puzzle, and freeing the djinni Mehrangeesa of Sulmana, the party finally meets Airion Mistspeaker and finds the air scroll. However, Airion turns out to be an illusion created by another wizard Zadkai, who takes the scroll. The party manages to retrieve the scroll in battle, but Zadkai gets away. The party rests for the night in the tower.
  • Jul 24, 1747 DR: After crossing the glacier and dealing with wolves, the party reaches Dinia’s and spends the night.
  • Jul 25, 1747 DR: The party heads down Blacksilver Peak, and encounters an orc patrol coming to find the Skyborn Scroll for Grumella. The orcs are defeated after a tough fight, although one gets away.
  • Jul 26, 1747 DR: Experimenting with magic items from the tower, Adrik summons a roc, who flies the party back to Voltara. Defeat a pack of wyverns from roc-back.
  • Jul 28, 1747 DR: The party returns to Voltara triumphant on the back of a giant roc.
  • Sep 15, 1747 DR: Aglath, Adrik, Samso, Brelith, and Aelar are summoned by Anton Lavernia, the proconsul of Voltara, who informs them Grumella has demanded their surrender or the city will be attacked. The party agrees to organize a defense.
  • Sep 16, 1747 DR: The party contacts allies, and leaves for the centaur camp to the south. They defeat a shadow hunter who threatens Samso that night.
  • Sep 17, 1747 DR: Arrive at centaur camp. Meet Herasto, the leader, and his wife Theopheia. Learn about manticore troubles. Rest.
  • Sep 18, 1747 DR: Travel to manticore lair. Fight manticores on the plains, then find and defeat lair. Free prisoners.
  • Sep 19, 1747 DR: Return to centaur camp. Rest and prepare for next journey.
  • Sep 20, 1747 DR: Use scroll of wind walking from centaurs to travel north to the roc’s territory. Spend the evening and learn they need to rescue a roc egg to get the roc’s aid in battle. The rocs direct them to a nearby kobold lair for clues.
  • Sep 21, 1747 DR: Party speaks with Kobolds and bribes them for information.
  • Sep 22, 1747 DR: Kobolds lead party to an earth elemental lair, and flee. Party fights guards, then explores lair, defeats dao, and emerges at dawn with the egg, which is gathered by the rocs. Party then spends the day making a boat to return to Voltara quickly, having been promised the roc’s aid in battle.
  • Sep 28, 1747 DR: Arrive in Voltara after sailing downriver in the SS Kill Grumella, a makeshift boat. War council. Leave to scout.
  • Sep 30, 1747 DR: Party buffs Aelar to scout the orc war camp.
  • Oct 01, 1747 DR: Party returns to Voltara with information and prepares for war.
  • Oct 03, 1747 DR: Dwarven and centaur troops arrive in Voltara. The reinforcements from the imperial legions are still weeks away.
  • Oct 06, 1747 DR: The Battle of Voltara, also know as the Battle of Lightning’s Wrath. Adrik, Aelar, Aglath, Samso, and Brelith gather allies, defend the city from hill giants trying to breach the gates, and finally kill Grumella.
  • Nov 10, 1747 DR: Aglath, Adrik, Aelar, Brelith, and Samso leave Voltara to head east to investigate what is happening in Brelith’s homeland, after a month of rest, trusting their new manor to a well paid steward.
  • Nov 15, 1747 DR: Party crosses Snake River at a small Chardonian fort, entering the frontier.
  • Nov 16, 1747 DR: Party attacked by remnant of Grumella’s Horde, and defeats them. Ambushed that night by survivors, but they are also defeated.
  • Nov 18, 1747 DR: Party passes Chardonian garrison camp and gives Lucilla Varentia, their commander, information about the orc attack.
  • Nov 21, 1747 DR: Party passes south of the Fort Zarnato, and leaves the Chardonian Empire. Meet Deno’qai and go to their village, Raha. Agree to deal with spider threat in exchange for scouts leading them safely through the woods to the Dwarven kingdom of Am’khazar.
  • Nov 22, 1747 DR: Travel to spider lair. Defeat spider queen, who has acid scars on her body.
  • Nov 23, 1747 DR: Return to Raha.
  • Nov 24, 1747 DR: Set out on journey to Zarkandur, the City of Gems, and Brelith’s home.
  • Nov 30, 1747 DR: Pass elven ruins, nearly killed by banshees.
  • Dec 03, 1747 DR: Arrive at the the gates to Am’khazar.
  • Dec 05, 1747 DR: Arrive in Zarkandur. Meet Diesa and Osrik, Brelith’s parents. Feast. Learn about unnatural cold spreading from the south. Agree to investigate.
  • Dec 06, 1747 DR: Learn more from people in Zarkandur.
  • Dec 07, 1747 DR: Leave, heading south, with an armed escort. Aiming for the now-abandoned and frozen city of Tumukhar.
  • Dec 13, 1747 DR: Arrive in Tumukhar, explore. Fight ice mephits, snow golems, and an ice troll. Exit the city to the barren snowy wasteland of the Sentinels. Find a sheltered place to camp.
  • Dec 14, 1747 DR: Head towards Stoneborn village to learn more. Struggle with the snow. Fight some frost-cursed creatures chanting about ice. Adrik picks up a ring and the party is teleported to an icy cave complex. Explore for a while, fighting a berserker human who cannot die. Trap him, and eventually extinguish icy blue flame, which allows berserker to be killed.
  • Dec 15, 1747 DR: Leave for Vangebekkr, an old frost giant castle. Attempt a stealthy assault, which goes poorly. Flee on mammoths. Find safe camp.
  • Dec 16, 1747 DR: Return to castle, this time using magic to ensure a more stealthy approach. Free imprisoned giants who head to retake castle. Party enters Morgana.'s lair. Kill a frost giant zombie, then attacked by a polar wereboar and Morgana herself. Kill Morgana, but not before Adrik is cursed with lycanthropy. Rest.
  • Dec 24, 1747 DR: Party returns to Zarkandur, victorious. Celebrate.
  • Jan 06, 1748 DR: Party leaves Zarkandur to return to Voltara.
  • Jan 07, 1748 DR: Adrik turns to a polar werebear at camp and must be subdued.
  • Jan 08, 1748 DR: Adrik cured of lycanthropy by Brelith.
  • Jan 17, 1748 DR: Adrik, Brelith, Samso, and Aelar arrive back in the Chardonian Empire, stopped at the border fort. Learn it is in dire straights, its winter food supplies being raided by something on the river. Attempt to scout unsuccessfully.
  • Jan 18, 1748 DR: Head north to find out what is stealing food.
  • Jan 19, 1748 DR: Find and attack a bullywug village. Kill many before making peace and learning the bullywugs were driven from their home by a dragon. Agree to kill the dragon.
  • Jan 21, 1748 DR: Return to Fort Zarnato with news. Head north to find the dragon.
  • Jan 29, 1748 DR: Party encounters Deno’qai scouts at a portage on the river. Go to council, learn the Deno’qai want to kill the dragon too.
  • Feb 01, 1748 DR: Party leaves Deno’qai council with Izkir, a guide and sorcerer blessed by the tanshi, heading for the Blackwater Fens, where the dragon lives.
  • Feb 09, 1748 DR: Party arrives at Blackwater Fens, camps outside to plan.
  • Feb 10, 1748 DR: Head into Blackwater Fens. Pass an ruined stone monument marking a treaty between elves and humans. Camp. Dragon attacks during the night.
  • Feb 11, 1748 DR: Wounded and needing a place to rest, return to the treaty stone and repair it during the day. Sleep.
  • Feb 12, 1748 DR: Spend the day scrying and scouting, sleep at the treaty stone.
  • Feb 13, 1748 DR: Travel through Blackwater Fens to approach dragon lair.
  • Feb 15, 1748 DR: Fight bugbear minions of Nymthrax, and then fight and kill Nymthrax himself.
  • Feb 18, 1748 DR: Depart Nymthrax lair, heading back to river.
  • Feb 19, 1748 DR: Arrive at the Barzhen, summon portable boat from Staff of the Swamplands, begin to travel downriver
  • Feb 22, 1748 DR: Arrive at Guluppa-Sog; return treasure, tell stories with the Pipe of Remembrance
  • Feb 24, 1748 DR: Arrive Fort Zarnato. Spend the night
  • Feb 25, 1748 DR: Depart fort for Voltara.
  • Mar 07, 1748 DR: Arrive back in Voltara
  • Mar 08, 1748 DR - Mar 13, 1748 DR: In Voltara, the party sells treasure to Quintus Percomia and Inectos Tintio, purchases an extradimensional vault for their treasure, and employs Brelith’s and Galius Filuso’ magic to protect their home base.
  • Mar 14, 1748 DR: The party leaves Voltara for Goldpeak Mines
  • Mar 15, 1748 DR: Travel
  • Mar 16, 1748 DR: The party arrives at Goldpeak Mines, fights a dwarven abberation at the camp outside, descends into the chasm, and fights a cloaker and carrion crawlers. Meet Cassia and Alton. Rest.
  • Mar 17, 1748 DR: Travel into the depths. Fight guards, and learn that the beholder Vilaxes has taken over a kobold den. Briefly imprisoned. Fight beholder, and win after Samso draws the beholder’s attacks by attempting to destroy a massive statue of Vilaxes. Samso and Cassia die, and are revived by Brelith. Rest.
  • Mar 18, 1748 DR: Return to the surface. Rest.
  • Mar 19, 1748 DR: Travel back to Voltara.
  • Mar 20, 1748 DR: Arrive back in Voltara, victorious.
  • Mar 21, 1748 DR - Aug 06, 1748 DR: Downtime in Voltara
  • Jul 03, 1748 DR: Blue heads north towards Lake Valandros and the frontier
  • Jul 16, 1748 DR: Mabist wakes up in Dinia’s cottage in the mountains.
  • Aug 07, 1748 DR: Brelith’s restaurant opens as the Silver Tempests host a party.
  • Aug 17, 1748 DR: Dinia and Mabist attacked by the Havoc Host; Dinia captured. Mabist flees
  • Aug 22, 1748 DR: Mabist arrives at the Tempest Towers with news of Dinia’s capture.
  • Aug 22, 1748 DR: Mabist arrives in Voltara, seeking the Silver Tempests.
  • Aug 23, 1748 DR: Arrive at Suwi, meet village priest, speak with Clara about the Havoc Host.
  • Aug 24, 1748 DR: Travel upriver to a small lake. Fight slimy minions, find a secret passage, enter flooded caverns. In the caverns, defeat more slime minions and meet the ghost of Milo Kentbrush. Confront Ithu’rax the aboleth, and defeat it, rescuing Dinia.
  • Aug 25, 1748 DR: Return to Voltara.
  • Aug 30, 1748 DR: Blue finds a dead messenger on the road north of Lake Valandros, with a letter about the Umbral Covenant addressed to the Silver Tempests in Voltara, and decides to deliver the message herself
  • Sep 17, 1748 DR: Blue arrives in Voltara with a letter for Samso about the Umbral Covenant. The Silver Tempests, with Blue, transport via plants to Urkabi, Samso’s village, and head downriver on Samso’s magic raft. Camp along the Zurrua.
  • Sep 18, 1748 DR: Samso turns the Silver Tempests to mist and the party wind walks to Castrella, arriving around noon. The group splits up to investigate and gather information, regrouping at The Laughing Gull that evening to discuss.
  • Sep 19, 1748 DR: The Silver Tempests speak to a group of orphans at The Whale’s Spout, then wind walk up the Kedron into the interior. Pass a Drankorian mile stone pointing towards the Cairn Dor guard post. Reach a ravine with a fort, and camp for the evening.
  • Sep 20, 1748 DR: Enter the fort, fighting off shadow guardians. Explore Drankorian ruins beyond and find an archive with information about locking the portal to Cairn Dor. Continue deeper into the ravine, passing a door with the seal of the wolf-eyed queen, which curses the party preventing sleep. Defeat two warriors of the Shemra Azem in a longhouse beyond. Find the standing stones of the soul compass (forming a light in the shape of the sigil that Samso has seen) and the Cleaver-Stone, which appears to be a portal to somewhere, beyond. Fight Yeshara’s lieutenant and more Shemra Azem and nearly die. Mabist is knocked unconscious and dragged through the portal; Adrik runs through to rescue them, while Samso, in earth elemental form, slays the lieutenant. Use the instructions from the Drankorian archive to lock the portal, seemingly stopping the ongoing incursion. Leave to regroup before entering Cairn Dor to try to find Samso’s village.
  • Sep 21, 1748 DR - Sep 25, 1748 DR: Limp back to Castrella, still under the curse of eternal waking from passing the sealed door.
  • Sep 26, 1748 DR - Oct 12, 1748 DR: Take rooms at The Laughing Gull, and recover in Castrella. Find a priest to remove the curse of eternal waking for a generous donation. Research; meet Thorek Deepdweller.
  • Oct 13, 1748 DR: Gather at The Sober Seal in the evening, to discuss plans.
  • Oct 14, 1748 DR: Plane Shift to Cairn Dor, arriving on a foggy hill near the palace. Find palace. Lure guards from the gates, kill them. Meet Yeshara and discover some human prisoners; kill minions but run away from an unwinnable fight against Yeshara. Follow road to Eshlem, meet a few villagers. Talk to Joram of Eshlem, an old war veteran who speaks Goblin, and learn of the Stillings where sleep is kept contained. Return to Sarren Kir, with wolves hunting them. Find old barrows with dead dwarf dreamers from the War of the Dark Rift, and defeat undead; Adrik finds a portal to Enderra. Find lizardfolk dreamers. Fight Shemra Azem guards, bring Daylight to barrows awakening sleepers and destroying Shemra Azem. Fight and defeat Yeshara. Fall into sleep as Yeshara falls.
  • Oct 15, 1748 DR - Jun 27, 1752 DR: Blue, Adrik, and Mabist sleep, along with the lizardfolk dreamers and all the inhabitants of Cairn Dor, as Yeshara’s dreamless slumber puts the realm into stasis. Samso, transformed to an Earth Elemental, is unaffected by sleep and wanders the realm for years, eventually deciding to sleep with his companions.
  • Jun 28, 1752 DR: Blue, Adrik, and Mabist, along with the lizardfolk dreamers, and Samso, awake in Cairn Dor; the native inhabitants still slumber. Leave Cairn Dor via the Enderra portal. Learn of chaos in Voltara and the splitting of the Northern Provinces from the Chardonian Empire. Attempt to Transport Via Plants to Tempest Towers, but fail.
  • Jun 29, 1752 DR: Arrive in Urkabi with lizardfolk rescued from Cairn Dor. Samso parts ways with his family and kin, who are eternally grateful. Adrik, Samso, Mabist, and Blue Transport Via Plants to an orchard outside Voltara.
  • Jun 29, 1752 DR, afternoon: Travel to Brelith and Dinia’s sanctuary on the western slopes of the Fiatara Mountains, and reconnect.
  • Jun 30, 1752 DR - Jul 01, 1752 DR: Catch up with Brelith and Dinia, and rest and recover from the Cairn Dor adventure. Learn that Silverstorm is looking for the Silver Tempests.
  • Jul 02, 1752 DR: Meet Silverstorm, and learn about Zadkai’s return and the Scouring Wind, a group of air elementals and djinn who want to wipe humanity off the face of the earth. Agree to seek out Airion’s Secret Lair. Travel on Silverstorm’s back to the edge of Tawir Forest, and camp.
  • Jul 03, 1752 DR, morning: Wind Walk over the forest towards Mount Graybane. Forced out of Wind Walk by the storm lingering over the mountain. Manage to struggle through, surviving wind, rain, and boulders, and arrive at the summit, where the entrance to Airion’s Secret Lair stands open.
  • Jul 03, 1752 DR, midday: Enter the lair, descend to the vault level. Explore the air realm and defeat Zadkai’s minions, taking the key and the air gemhearts. Use the air gemhearts, enter the water realm. Descent through the water, destroy the ice plug, enter the ice cave.
  • Jul 03, 1752 DR, afternoon: Defeat the ice guardian in Airion’s Secret Lair, recover its elemental key and gemheart, and escape the melting caves. Samso revives Mabist with the party’s last diamonds. After a short rest, open the fire realm’s entrance and reach the fire guardian’s lair.

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