Storm Times of the Noble East

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Storm Times of the Noble East 7799-8000 is a record of a great storm imbued with chaos power that ravaged The land. It is part of the Steel Realms Timeline Tale – known recorded knowledge.

In these years some magical influence ran loose across realms. A great power awakened that had slept for a long time unnoticed – so the sages say. In 5999, a great wall of water shattered the Dragon Shore in the south – splintered the headland and sweeping over the low hills. It is said that nearly half the dragons dies in their sleep. From there, a massive storm erupted and tore northward, passing most of the south. It changed landscapes, interrupted mystical powers, and inflicted pain and suffering in its path.

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In these years some magical influence ran loose across realms. A great power awakened that had slept for a long time unnoticed – so the sages say. In 5999, a great wall of water shattered the Dragon Shore in the south – splintered the headland and sweeping over the low hills. It is said that nearly half the dragons dies in their sleep. From there, a massive storm erupted and tore northward, passing most of the south. It changed landscapes, interrupted mystical powers, and inflicted pain and suffering in its path.

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The storm was so violent that it shook the ground and changed the air days ahead of its path. The storm raged up the Storm Coast, breaking against the Umbakain peninsula and tearing loose towns and villages from their very foundations. Raging out to see, the storm once again came inland in Blackwater Bay and broke into several lightning storms which took centuries to finally die out. In the mean time, the Curtain of Night was broken in several places and bulged in others. The eastern frontier raged in warfare for a century as whatever the storm’s influence continued to fluctuate the borders of the Darklands. The final fate of the power that loosed the storms in unknown. It is whispered that it was adventurer’s greed and curiosity that awoke an ancient power in the south, underneath the Hobnail Plateau. Over its course, it is estimated that the Chaos Storm and its effects (ruined crops, flooding, disease, slides, winds) are responsible for the death of about 15% of the total population of the Western Lands. The exact impact on the dark lands is unknown.

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Storm Times Full Timeline

  • CY 8000; The storm dies out gradually, but a wave of weird weather travels inland – covering the north in snow and rain. The Lich Lords press their advantage and Northgate garrison overrun in 4998.
  • CY 7971; An adventurous noble of Gwinn from the ancient family of Fourlaud attempts to replicate his ancestors crossing and succeeds. The “New West” becomes a place to colonize.
  • CY 7965; The storm is funneled into Blackwater Bay. The Valdeysean Isles are flooded and many small ones sink in the deluge.
  • Cy 7952-7962; ‘Storm War’ – The Merchant Cities of the North and Dunstrand fight over the changed landscape. Of note, out of this came the 3 swords of Fayne.
  • CY 7950; The storm has slowed, and now breaks on Scar Flow and Tarmysia – the Tarysian Lords are devastated. Loamwold loases half its population.
  • CY 7900; Storm hits Umbakian Peninsula and causes and sinks all small islands off the coast, waterloggin the entire western half the Kingdom. Grain is in short supply, fields soaked, rivers flooding, Rockholm flooded as well.
  • CY 7875; Storm has made its way up the Storm Coast, scouring every coastal community to the ground.
  • CY 7825; Storm makes for Gwinn; The Gwinnish priesthood of Elancil and Wavewatcher Guild combines forces to force the storm east. No one belied it possible, and there are many who believe some other force was at work that diminished the storm somehow. Waerl Bay is devastated.
  • CY 7820; Storm hits Scrape and nearly drowns the entire city; Scrape is abandoned.
  • CY 7805; Storm breaks loose from the Dragon Coast and begins slow travel north.
  • CY 7800; ‘Chaos Storm’ is unleashed above the Dragon Caves; dragons fly in the south attacking the storm, cities and herds, angry for the deaths of their kind. The great dragon-mage Morphoerastlynn vanishes forever from the sight of the living – see Morphoerastlynn’s Dream Scattering.
  • CY 7799; Wave crashed in the Dragon Coast shattered the headland and breaking the dreams of dozens of dragons.

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