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The Future of Mystara part 2

by Francesco Defferrari from Threshold Magazine issue 35

An examination of the events of Known World as outlined in the Mystaran Almanacs

Aengmor and the shadow elves, Broken lands and humanoids, Darokin, Ethengar and Glantri

This article follows “The Future of Mystara” feature from the previous issue #34 of THRESHOLD Magazine1 in which I imagined the future of the Known World and Mystara in general if the product line had continued beyond the Almanacs. Following the examination of the events in the official Almanacs (Poor Wizard’s Almanac I, II and III and Joshuan’s Almanac & Book of Facts) and the events of the “Wrath of the Immortals” boxed set2 covering the years from AC 1,010 to 1,013 I’ll now proceed to the events of the Mystaran Almanacs3 created by the fan community, which cover the years from AC 1,014 to 1,019, with AC 1,020 currently in production.
This article and the previous one have addressed only the Known World, while future articles will treat Alphatia, the North and the rest of the world. I’ll also highlight some ‘lost threads’ which were introduced in the Almanacs but never developed further later. In this issue I will focus on Glantri and some countries around it that have a specific influence on the nation of wizards in the Mystaran Almanacs. I’ve also expanded Harri Mäki’s ‘A geographical/political index for the almanacs AC 1014 to AC 1018,’4 adding the years before AC 1,013 and AC 1,019. My full expanded version of this greatly useful list will be eventually posted in the Vaults of Pandius. The events of the list here are described briefly, sometimes using the same titles as the Almanacs, sometimes explaining with more details what happens, so that it’s possible to read briefly through the events of each nation through the years. Some events are repeated in multiple countries or lands if multiple places are involved.

The Known World

As explained in the previous article, I think that the Day of Dread and the publication of Claransa’s Travels to the Center of the World should have long-term consequences on the Known World. In the Mystaran Almanacs we’ll see later that there are several actions started by Known World countries to access the Hollow World, but with limited results. As the Day of Dread becomes a yearly event, all Known World countries prepare for it as best as possible, especially wizards and magic-rich countries such as Glantri.

Elves
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Aengmor and the shadow elves (plus Alfheim)

The shadow elves received quite an extensive treatment in the five Mystaran Almanacs, following the several events of the previous official Almanacs in which they conquered Oenkmar. After waging a war with Rockhome and almost the whole Western Defence League, finally the shadow elves start some peace talks with the displaced Alfheim elves. The process however is hindered by the actions of the Alfheim Avengers and by the Church of Atzanteotl, which also raises Oenkmar/Aengmor back to the surface on Fyrmont 2nd, AC 1,014 and takes control of it. A civil war ensues in Nuwmont, AC 1,015, with the City of the Stars attacking Rafielton, where a New Way of Rafiel is spreading, and Aengmor city, which officially supports Rafielton but is really controlled by Atzanteotl’s church. Eventually the City of the Stars and Rafielton settle the matter but Aengmor City becomes de-facto independent and controlled by Atzanteotl, who at the end of the year sends a Schattenalfen army against the City of the Stars. The completion of the Chamber of the Spheres defeats the Schattenalfen at the very last moment, and they escape underground or to Aengmor City.
In Aengmor/Alfheim however, peace makes progress and on Fyrmont 3rd, AC 1,015 a treaty is signed between King Doriath and Princess Tanadaleyo which allows the former Alfheimer to return to the Canolbarth forest and help heal it. The Church of Atzanteotl and the Alfheim Avengers keep plotting against the peace, and try to assassinate Doriath and Tanadaleyo, but on Flaurmont 12th, AC 1,019 a Ceremony of Reconciliation is held in Rafielton by the two leaders, who also strike against followers of Atzanteotl with the help of other Known World nations. On Kaldmont 25th, AC 1,019 Rafielton is renamed Alfheim Town in this spirit.
Behind the scenes Ilsundal and Rafiel have allied to heal the forest, using also the new radiant soul crystals produced in the Chamber of the Spheres, which also allows shamans to cast spells even during the Day of Dread.
In AC 1,017 the forest of Canolbarth is also menaced by Synn, who tries to take control of its magic points as per the events of the videogame Shadow over Mystara, but it’s saved by a group of adventurers.

AENGMOR (colony in Canolbarth) events

1006

Fall

Twisted Trees of Alfheim (WotI p. 81)

1007

Fall

Alfheim Is No More (WotI p. 84)

1010

Flaurmont 7

Birthright in the twisted woods


Fyrmont 1

Aengmor is going dry, Princess Tandaleyo asks for help from Norwold elves


Ambyrmont 2

Shadow elves want more land and threaten Darokin


Sviftmont 5

Shadow elves reach Norwold


Eirmont 21

Darokin offers trade

1011

Vatermont 13

Torrential rains


Sviftmont 1

Weather magic in Aengmor fails to bring stable rainfall


Kaldmont 25

Alfheim avengers in Karameikos scheme

1012

Vatermont 15

Shadow elves learn of Oenkmar


26

Shadow elves march on the Broken Lands


Thaumont 9

Darokinian diplomats ask for explanation in Rafielton but are sent away


15

Rain in Canolbarth thanks to the effort of Norwold elves and shadow elves


Flaurmont 4

Shadow elves attack the dwarves around Oenkmar


6

Rockhome asks the WDL for help against the shadow elves


8

Shadow elves’ assault on Oenkmar


9

Dwarves and humanoids ally and drive the shadow elves out of Oenkmar


11

Relief troops from Rockhome arrive in Oenkmar


23

Darokin calls for peace but it’s ignored by the shadow elves


Yarthmont 1

Shadow elves renew attack on Oenkmar


10

Ylaruam and Five Shires send troops to Fort Nell


15

Shadow elves agree to a truce promoted by Darokin, war stops


22

Everast XVI and Tanadaleyo meet in Selenica; peace talks fail; war resumes


28

Karameikos sends troops to Darokin


Klarmont 2

Battle of the Black Hills, shadow elves repelled to Aengmor by forces of Darokin, Ylaruam, Karameikos and the Shires


16

Fighting continues between dwarves and shadow elves while surrounding humanoids attack both


18

Shadow elves’ assault on Oenkmar barely repelled


26

Darokin and Karameikos convince Aengmor to agree to another truce


Felmont 1

In Selenica Darokin brings proof that Oenkmar was the ancient elven city of Aengmor


2

Alebane’s humanoids attack dwarves and elves


3

General Garafaele order shadow elves to retreat to Canolbarth


28

Truce in Selenica between dwarves and shadow elves; Rockhome leaves the WDL, offended for lack of support



Ambyrmont 14

Shadow elves take Oenkmar with a surprise attack; humanoids resist in the Citadel


16

Shadow elves slaughter and drive away all humanoids in Oenkmar


Sviftmont 15

Humanoid raids increase all around the Broken Lands as many tribes escape from the shadow elves


28

Tanadaleyo informs ambassadors the shadow elves now own Oenkmar/Aengmor and the lower Broken Lands


Eirmont 20

Canolbarth’s borders recede

1013

Vatermont 22

Shadow elves’ delegation in Darokin city


Ambyrmont 10

Battle between shadow elves and humanoids along the Vesubia river causes a flood which blocks the caravan route between Darokin and Glantri


Sviftmont 23

Tiernan Chossum of Radlebb meets Princess Tanadaleyo and is told Alfheim elves who wish to cure the forest and return are welcome


Eirmont 16

Alfheim refugees return to Radlebb after talks in Aengmor

1014

Nuwmont 4

Debate among shadow elves about the elves of Alfheim, sparked secretly by the church of Atzanteotl


Vatermont 3

Agreement with former Alfheim elves


28

Jorodrin Feadiel, the Tree Keeper of Clan Feadiel, arrives in Rafielton


Thaumont 9

Spells to save the forest fail; tension mounts


27

Source of warped magic found in the former magic points


Yarthmont 12

Alfheim Avenger disguised as shadow elf attacks Jorodrin and makes the peace talk fails


19

Jorodrin and his elves escape


Fyrmont 5

Oenkmar-Aengmor’s rise to the surface revealed


Ambyrmont 22

Debate spreads on the New Way of Rafiel


Sviftmont 12

Tanadaleyo proposes peace again; some Alfheimers return to help


Kaldmont 8

Divisions in the Church of Rafiel in Aengmor, Rafielton


22

The City of the Stars declares war on the rebellious kingdoms of Rafielton and Aengmor city

1015

Nuwmont 1

Civil War between Reformists and Conservative, with the Church of Atzanteotl secretly behind the first one


4

Opportunistic raids by Huptain Khan from Hobgobland


15

Kanafasti discovers the truth in Aengmor and escapes to Rafielton


17

Prince Erian asks for peace in Rafielton and is wounded by an assassin; the civil war ends; skirmishes in Aengmor-Oenkmar


Vatermont 21

New Way of Rafiel discussed also in the City of the Stars


Thaumont 26

Way of Rafiel revised, Wanderers still have to leave home but may now return to shadow elves’ lands


Felmont 18

Tanadaleyo proposes King Doriath an encounter in Darokin



Fyrmont 3

Peace talks resume in Favaro, Darokin


26

Peace treaty signed; Alfheimers can return to the forest and help heal it



Ambyrmont 1

Many Feadiel and Red Arrow from Karameikos resettle the forest, as well as a big group of Erendyl and a few Mealidil and Long Runners from Wendar


Sviftmont 17

Some tension between shadow elves and returned Alfheimers on the anniversary of the conquest of Alfheim

1016

Nuwmont 7

Gilfrondel buried in Canolbarth after his death in Denagoth


23

East Rafielton enclave created for returned Alfheimers


Vatermont 14

Gilfronden’s corpse stolen in Rafileton to be raised in the City of the Stars


Thaumont 6

The two hidden Trees of Life left regain energy in Canolbarth, result of a cooperation between Ilsundal and Rafiel


11

More Alfheimers come and ask to settle in southwestern Canolbarth


14

Alfheimers’ request is not granted and they are sent to eastern lake Selinar


20

Alfheim Avengers infiltrated by Atzanteotl


27

Jorodrin Feadiel announces the other Trees of Life must return to Canolbarth


Flaurmont 12

Alfheim Avengers assassinate in secret shadow elven merchants and other important people


Yarthmont 7

Assassination attempt against Falanen


8

News of the crusaders’ defeat in Wendar reach King Doriath in Rafielton


13

General Sputafiel saved from drowning


18

New soul crystals work above ground


Klarmont 3

Rising paranoia among shadow elves after the assassinations


24

Trees of Life return to Canolbarth


Fyrmont 26

Shamans and Treekeepers work to use the soul crystals with the Trees of Life to heal the forest


Ambyrmont 16

Erewan elves arrive in Canolbarth to help the healing


Sviftmont 17

Tensions during the 9th anniversary of the conquest


27

Alfheim Avengers try to assassinate Tanadaleyo and Doriath but fail

1017

Yarthmont 16

Synn explores a corrupt magic point to unleash chaos on Canolbarth


Klarmont 2

Synn recruits shadow elven mercenaries


Ambyrmont 3

Skyship sent by Malachie crashes in Canolbarth


14

Synn’s fortress rises from the earth above Canolbarth


15

Synn’s fortress is attacked by skyships and disappears


25

Tanadalaeyo investigates


Sviftmont 1

Glantri denies involvement with the shadow elves

1018

Vatermont 27

New flowers growing at Ironbark


Fyrmont 8

Dreamlands restored

1019

Thaumont 1

Forest returns to life especially around Rafieltown and Selinar


Flaurmont 12

Ceremony of Reconciliation held by Doriath and Tanadaleyo in Rafielton; more Alfheimers and fairies returning to the forest


Yarthmont 5

Fights erupt in Canolbarth but are quelled; role of Atzanteotl is discovered by Ilsundal and Rafiel


Klarmont 11

Doriath, Tanadaleyo, Telemon, Mauntea, Stefan Karameikos and Bensarian of Wendar meet secretly to act against the Church of Atzanteotl


Felmont 2

Adventurers and soldiers of Aengmor, Shadowlands, Karameikos, Darokin and Wendar strike the Church of Atzanteotl


Ambyrmont 8

Atzanteotl’s priests try to kill Tanadalaeyo in Rafielton in retaliation


Eirmont 22

Secret church of Atzanteotl destroyed under Darokin, but the cult survives in Aengmor City


Kaldmont 25

Rafielton regains the name of Alfheim Town


Portrait of Tanadaleyo by Bing AI Image creator
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AENGMOR CITY (former Oenkmar) events



1014

Nuwmont 4

Debate among shadow elves about the elves of Alfheim, sparked secretly by the church of Atzanteotl


Yarthmont 20

Wanderers hidden in Oenkmar/Aengmor make plans to raise the city back to the surface, secretly inspired by Atzanteotl


Fyrmont 2

Aengmor city rises; earthquake in Darokin, southern Glantri, Ethengar; humanoids scattered


5

Rafielton announces Broken Lands belong to the shadow elves now


Ambyrmont 2

In Aengmor is put a stop to the abandonment of deformed children and exile of the Wanderers


14

Cult of Atzanteotl stirs protests in Aengmor City


Kaldmont 8

Divisions in the Church of Rafiel in Aengmor City and Rafielton


22

The City of the Stars declares war on the rebellious kingdoms of Rafielton and Aengmor City

1015

Nuwmont 10

Kanafasti and the Wanderers leave Aengmor City


20

Atzanteotl’s church conquers Aengmor and defeats the shadow elves’ army


Klarmont 11

Atzanteotl’s priests obtain the alliance of Huptain Khan’s hobgoblins




ALFHEIM events in “Wrath of the Immortals”

1006

Spring

The Master Is Hammered (WotI p. 80)


Fall

Twisted Trees of Alfheim (WotI p. 81)

1007

Fall

Alfheim Is No More (WotI p. 84)


Winter

Elves Winter in Cruth (WotI p. 84)

1008

Fall

Ethengarians Ambush Elves (WotI p. 86)



SHADOWLANDS events



1010

Kaldmont 13

Shadow elves meet the Schattenalfen in the Hollow World


16

The Queen of the Shattenalfen agrees to open diplomatic relations

1012

Vatermont 15

Shadow elves learn of Oenkmar


26

Shadow elves march on the Broken Lands


Flaurmont 4

Shadow elves attack the dwarves around Oenkmar


6

Rockhome asks the WDL for help against the shadow elves


8

Shadow elves’ assault on Oenkmar


9

Dwarves and humanoids ally and drive the shadow elves out of Oenkmar


11

Relief troops from Rockhome arrive in Oenkmar


23

Darokin calls for peace but it’s ignored by the shadow elves


Yarthmont 1

Shadow elves renew attack on Oenkmar


10

Ylaruam and Five Shires send troops to Fort Nell


15

Shadow elves agree to a truce promoted by Darokin; war stops


22

Everast XVI and Tanadaleyo meet in Selenica


28

Peace talks fail; war resumes; Karameikos sends troops to Darokin


Klarmont 2

Battle of the Black Hills; shadow elves repelled to Aengmor by forces of Darokin, Ylaruam, Karameikos and the Five Shires


16

Fighting continues between dwarves and shadow elves while surrounding humanoids attack both


18

Shadow elves’ assault on Oenkmar barely repelled


26

Darokin and Karameikos convince Aengmor to agree to another truce


Felmont 1

In Selenica Darokin brings proof that Oenkmar was the ancient elven city of Aengmor


3

After Alebane’s attack General Garafaele orders shadow elves to retreat to Canolbarth


28

Truce in Selenica between dwarves and shadow elves; Rockhome leaves the WDL, offended by lack of support


Ambyrmont 14

Shadow elves take Oenkmar with a surprise attack; humanoids resist in the Citadel


16

Shadow elves slaughter and drive away all humanoids in Oenkmar


Sviftmont 1

Wanderer contacts Royal Wizard Kanafasti and reveals several of them were hidden in Oenkmar


15

Humanoid raids increase all around the Broken Lands as many tribes escape from the shadow elves


28

Tanadaleyo informs ambassadors the shadow elves now own Oenkmar/Aengmor City and the lower Broken Lands

1013

Vatermont 22

Shadow elves’ delegation in Darokin City


Ambyrmont 10

Battle between shadow elves and humanoids along the Vesubia river causes a flood which blocks the caravan route between Darokin and Glantri

1014

Nuwmont 4

Debate among shadow elves about the elves of Alfheim, sparked secretly by the church of Atzanteotl


Kaldmont 8

Divisions in the Church of Rafiel in Aengmor City and Rafielton


22

The City of the Stars declares war on the rebellious kingdoms of Rafielton and Aengmor City

1015

Nuwmont 1

Civil War between Reformists and Conservatives, with the Church of Atzanteotl secretly behind the first one


4

Opportunistic raids by Huptain Khan from Hobgobland


15

Kanafasti discovers the truth in Aengmor and escapes to Rafielton


17

Prince Erian asks for peace in Rafielton and is wounded by an assassin; the civil war ends; skirmishes in Aengmor-Oenkmar


Vatermont 21

New Way of Rafiel discussed also in the City of the Stars


Thaumont 26

Way of Rafiel revised; Wanderers still have to leave home but may now return to shadow elves’ lands


Sviftmont 13

Geonids attack shadow elves


25

Preparation for a Rockhome attack, all ploys by Atzanteotl


Eirmont 24

Schattenalfen arrive


27

Spiders attack to distract the shadow elves’ army


Kaldmont 2

Schattenalfen attack the Great Cavern


3

Aranea and spiders driven from Losetrel


5

Schattenalfen camp in Piliny


10

Some Schattenalfen defect to shadow elves


12

Assault on the City of the Stars


14

Schattenalfen about to conquer the City


27

General Garafaele dies


28

Shamans of Rafiel repel them after completing the Chamber of the Spheres

1016

Nuwmont 1

Defeated Schattenalfen escape to Aengmor City or underground


3

Garafaele’s body brought to the Chamber of the Spheres


15

Garafaele resurrected as protector of the Chamber of the Spheres


Vatermont 8

Rafiel instructs Porphyriel to place soul crystals in the Chamber


14

Gilfronden’s corpse stolen in Rafielton to be raised in the City of the Stars


Flaurmont 28

Rafiel instruct Porphyriel to bring the new radiant soul crystals to the surface to heal the forest


Yarthmont 18

New soul crystals work above ground


Klarmont 10

Calenderi, shaman and daughter to King Telemon, sent as shaman in Rafielton


Felmont 10

Shadow elven ambassadors sent to Known World capitals, along with members of the Second Shadow rebuilt by Gilfronde


Fyrmont 1

Shamans learn that lesser soul crystals shatter in the Chamber but keep this a secret


Ambyrmont 3

Prince Erian of the shadow elves is sent to study at the Great School of Magic


Kaldmont 28

Shamans of Rafiel can cast spells using radiant soul crystal, even on the Day of Dread

1017

Yarthmont 16

Synn explores a corrupt magic point to unleash chaos on Canolbarth


Klarmont 2

Synn recruits shadow elven mercenaries


Ambyrmont 14–15

Synn’s fortress rises from the earth above Canolbarth but it is attacked by skyships and disappears


25

Tanadaleyo investigates


Sviftmont 1

Glantri denies involvement with the shadow elves

1019

Flaurmont 12

Ceremony of Reconciliation held by Doriath and Tanadaleyo in Rafielton; more Alfheimers and fairies returning to the forest


Klarmont 11

Doriath, Tanadaleyo, Telemon, Mauntea, Stefan Karameikos and Bensarian of Wendar meet secretly to act against the Church of Atzanteotl


Felmont 2

Adventurers and soldiers of Aengmor, Shadowlands, Karameikos, Darokin and Wendar strike the Church of Atzanteotl

The Mystaran Almanacs Storylines through the Years

The development of the storylines in the different years of the MA deserves some brief comments as it is apparent for this area—as we’ll see in future installments it is also the case for others—that probably different authors worked on the area depending on the year.
The AC 1,014 to AC 1,016 storyline is focused on the peace process in Alfheim/Aengmor and the attempts to sabotage it by the Alfheim Avengers and the Church of Atzanteotl which took control of Aengmor. The AC 1,017 storyline focuses instead on the story of the Shadow over Mystara videogame, forgetting to update the previous thread. The AC 1,018 Almanac has only some minor events highlighting the progress in healing the forest. The AC 1,019 storyline reprises the peace process and the struggle with the Church of Atzanteotl. There are no events focused on the Shadowlands after AC 1,016.

Comparison with the Official Almanacs

The events of the Mystaran Almanacs obviously built on some seeds already present in the official ones, especially the peace talks with the former Alfheimers and the effort to heal the forest, leading to a true peace treaty and serious hopes of a lasting reconciliation. It went therefore in a very different direction from the one presented by Robin in The Fall and Rise of the Canolbarth article of THRESHOLD Magazine issue #105, with the forest almost disappearing for some decades, as she supposed even magical regrowth would take a long time. In the official Almanacs however it seemed that shadow elves were bent on absorbing the whole Broken Lands, but this did not happen in the MA as Oenkmar/Aengmor city became de-facto independent and separated by other shadow elven dominions.

Possible Future Development

In the situation presented at the end of AC 1,019 the hypotheses on the future I made in the previous article still seem possible even if in a slightly different scenario. The elves may well become an united force but they still have to deal with Atzanteotl’s presence in the city of Aengmor and the underground menace of the Schattenalfen, which however could also become a way to reach the Hollow World. The completion of the Chamber of the Spheres could have consequences also for the Radiance in Glantri, and Synn could make another attempt to take control of the forest. Certainly now Alfheim/Aengmor is more integrated with the rest of the Known World.

Broken Lands, Great Crater and Orclands

I will treat all this big region together to examine the fate of the humanoid leaders presented in GAZ10: “The Orcs of Thar”, as the WotI and Almanacs events disperse them all around the Known World and beyond. In the official almanacs, examined in THRESHOLD Magazine issue #34, there are important storylines about Thar’s failed attacks against Glantri, Darokin and Rockhome, which ultimately led to his submission to Kol and exile to Vestland. Kol instead ascends as Prince of Glantri and becomes de-facto the leader of the Broken Lands’ humanoids. It seems however that Alebane does not submit to him, as he tries instead to conquer Oenkmar, fighting both dwarves and shadow elves. This storyline ends with the fate of Alebane unknown, Oenkmar conquered by shadow elves and Kol welcoming many refugees from the Broken Lands, supposedly increasing his power. Strangely enough all the other humanoid leaders of GAZ10 are completely ignored by the official almanacs.

BROKEN LANDS, GREAT CRATER and ORCLANDS events



1007

Summer

Thar Looks to Glantri (WotI p. 83)

1008

Spring

Shires Reinforce Darokin (WotI p. 85)


Summer

Plague Reaches Glantri (WotI p. 85)


Winter

Thar Moves South to Darokin (WotI p. 86)

1009

Spring

Heldanners Hit Thar (WotI p. 87)

1010

Vatermont 3

Thar is repelled from Glantri after betrayal by Dolores/Synn


20

Thar strikes Darokin around Lake Amsorak


Flaurmont 11

Migrations of humanoids to eastern Broken Lands


Yarthmont 17

Thar hits Akesoli


Felmont 14

Dwarven adventurers discover Oenkmar


Fyrmont 10

Thar defeated in Amsorak


Ambyrmont 7

Kol asks for Princehood, war begins between Kol and Thar


Sviftmont 1

Darokin builds Great Wall


6

Dwarves arrive in the Broken Lands


25

Thar submits to Kol


26

Dwarves settle in for siege


Eirmont 25

Kol and Thar refuse to help Alebane against the dwarves


Kaldmont 2

Dwarves build lava rafts


5

Kol on road to become Prince in Glantri but not yet


12

Dwarves find Oenkmar


18

Dwarves ask for supplies to Rockhome

1011

Nuwmont 5

Dwarves recalled from Oenkmar due to civil war


7

Thar proposes anti-dwarven alliance to Alebane


18

Black Eagle brought to Kol by goblin shaman


27

Thar and Alebane invade Rockhome


Vatermont 3

Fort Denwarf falls


5

Stahl falls


6

Battle of Stahl Plain won by dwarves; Alebane goes back to Broken Lands; Thar escapes to Vestland


Flaurmont 17

Kol petitions for his Principality but he is defeated again


Yarthmont 14

Dwarves prepare new expedition to Oenkmar; King Kol receives arms from Sind


Klarmont 16

Kol’s army brings humanoid tribes under its control


Felmont 15

Great Wall of Darokin half finished from Fort Fletcher to Fort Runnels


Felmont 21

Kol’s humanoids raid Gunjab’s humanoids

1012

Vatermont 15

Shadow elves learn of Oenkmar


26

Shadow elves march on the Broken Lands


Thaumont 23

Dwarves assault Oenkmar


24

Reinforcements arrive for dwarves


27

Fighting continues in Oenkmar


Flaurmont 4

Shadow elves attack the dwarves around Oenkmar


5

Prince Kol protests in the Council against monster hunters in the Great Crater


6

Dwarves take Oenkmar, accepting Angus McClintock surrendering after Lord Zotl dies and Xilochtli runs away with the Blue Knife


8

Rockhome ask the WDL for help against the shadow elves


9

Shadow elves’ assault on Oenkmar


11

Dwarves and humanoids ally and drive the shadow elves out of Oenkmar


23

Relief troops from Rockhome arrive in Oenkmar; Darokin calls for peace but it’s ignored by the shadow elves


Yarthmont 1

Shadow elves renew attack on Oenkmar


10

Ylaruam and Shires send troops to Fort Nell


15

Shadow elves agree to a truce promoted by Darokin; war stops


22

Everast XVI and Tanadaleyo meet in Selenica


28

Peace talks fail; war resumes; Karameikos sends troops to Darokin


Klarmont 5

King Alebane tries to unite the tribes


16

Fighting continues between dwarves and shadow elves while surrounding humanoids attack both


18

Shadow elves’ assault on Oenkmar barely repelled


26

Darokin and Karameikos convince Aengmor to agree on another truce


28

Alebane gathers troops to attack Oenkmar


Felmont 1

In Selenica Darokin brings proof that Oenkmar was the ancient elven city of Aengmor


2

Alebane’s humanoids attack dwarves and elves


3

General Garafaele orders the shadow elves to retreat to Canolbarth


4

Betrayed by Oenkmarian allies, dwarves retreat to the Citadel


5

Dwarves ask in vain for help from the WDL


7

Fighting continue with dwarves helped by adventurers and mercenaries


8

Dwarves sue for peace but General Tlatepetl refuses


10

Rescue forces help the dwarves


11

Aided by rescue forces, the dwarves escape Oenkmar


12

Dwarves and rescue forces retreat to northern Darokin


18

Alebane’s humanoids spy on Oenkmar


Fyrmont 17

Alebane’s troops storm Oenkmar


21

Battle continues in Oenkmar


Ambyrmont 12

Oenkmar ransacked by Alebane’s forces; only Temple and Citadel still resist


14

Shadow elves take Oenkmar with a surprise attack; humanoids resist in the Citadel


16

Shadow elves slaughter and drive away all humanoids in Oenkmar; Angus McClintock escapes to Glantri


Sviftmont 1

Wanderer contacts Royal Wizard Kanafasti and reveals several of them were hidden in Oenkmar


15

Humanoid raids increase all around the Broken Lands as many tribes escape from the shadow elves


28

Tanadaleyo informs ambassadors that the shadow elves now own Oenkmar/Aengmor and the lower Broken Lands


Kaldmont 1

New Kolland asks the Council for food and gold to deal with humanoid refugees from the Broken Lands

1013

Ambyrmont 10

Battle between shadow elves and humanoids along the Vesubia river causes a flood which blocks the caravan route between Darokin and Glantri

1014

Nuwmont 1

Hool and the Red Orcs decide to go west to search for the Blue Knife


5

Other humanoids not interested in following Hool


Vatermont 6

Great Wall of Darokin completed from Fort Fletcher to Corunglain


Flaurmont 3

Hool and the Red Orcs begin great migration to Atruaghin to search for the Blue Knife; Nizam’s gnolls follow


11

King Alebane, Hutai-Khan, Moghul-Khan, and General Tlatepetl unify the Orclands and clash with Fort Nell soldiers


Yarthmont 1

Orclands humanoids of Tlatepetl clash with shadow elves


Klarmont 5

Moghul-Khan’s yellow orcs from Dast clash with Hutai-Khan’s hobgoblins from Grukk


Felmont 24

Thar and Psa’gh ally in Vestland


Fyrmont 2

Earthquake after Oenkmar’s rising scares the humanoids of the Orclands


5

Humanoids discovers Oenkamr is on the surface


8

Thar attacks Rhoona


17

The red dragon Khordarg returns to her lair after several attacks in Ethengar, Darokin and Aengmor


20

Alebane raids Fort Hobarth


Ambyrmont 1

Hool and Nizam routed at Bangore in Sind


3

Khordarg visits Tlatepetl in C’Kag and he accepts to serve her


5

Thar and Psa’gh defeated in Vestland


6

Alebane defeated in Darokin, retreats to Xorg


Kaldmont 17

Synn sends the lich Deimos to raise Sable Tower in eastern Broken lands

1015

Nuwmont 4

Hutai Khan hobgoblins raid shadow elves in Aengmor


7

Schattenalfen find Barleycorn monastery as a route to the Hollow World


22

Great Migration in Atruaghin’s lands


Vatermont 4

Orcs report to Alebane in Xorg about the Darokin Tunnel to Rockhome


Thaumont 25

Shadow Lord in the Guardian Mesa to obtain the Black Staff (M3 module)


Flaurmont 3

Hool’s Great Migration retreat after he discovers Blue Knife is not in Atruaghin lands


4

Shadow Lord returns in Denagoth after retrieving one of the seven keys


5

Alebane raids near Fort Hobarth to start moving his troops toward Rockhome


Klarmont 1

Deimos defeated by adventurers


11

Hutai Khan’s hobgoblins allies with the city of Aengmor and Atzanteotl’s priests


Felmont 11

Great Migration diverted from Sind by the Master


Fyrmont 20

Ethengarians defeated in Battle of Glantri City with decisive help of Kol’s forces


24

Duric and Bifia allies with Thar and Psa’gh to take Rockhome


Ambyrmont 15

Greenston in Rockhome raided by Alebane’s forces


Sviftmont 8

Thar and Psa’gh take Kurdal


23

Hordes of yellow orcs pillage Ethengar


Eirmont 5

Thar and Psa’gh’s horde grows


Kaldmont 1

Thar and Psa’gh take Smaggeft


15

Alebane attacks western Rockhome

1016

Thaumont 25

Angus MucDuff/McClintock holds a seminar on Oenkmar/Aengmor at the School of Magic in Glantri City


Flaurmont 2

Tlatepetl proposes diplomatic relations to Darokin


3

Master uses the Great Migration against Sindian rebels


Yarthmont 13

Tlatepetl offers aid to the WDL in Rockhome


Klarmont 1

Alebane keeps harassing Greenston in Rockhome


4

DDC envoys meet Tlatepetl in Xorg


9

Alebane is killed in Styrdal Vale, Rockhome


Felmont 8

Great Migration recruits more gnolls in Baratkand, Sind


Ambyrmont 2

Humanoids defeated at Smaggeft


4

Great Migration to the Great Waste


Sviftmont 7

Thar and Psa’gh defeated at Kurdal in Rockhome


8

Shadow Lord in the Broken Lands tricks adventurers and keeps six of the seven keys of the Pits of Banishment


26

Kol’s minions retrieve Volospin Aendyr alive


Eirmont 8

Synn enraged at Kol for retrieving Aendyr


10

Battle in the Guardian Mesa as Carnifex try to return to Mystara


12

Great Migration disappears in the Plain of Fire to Graakhalia

1017

Yarthmont 1

Moghul Khan denies any help to the rebellious Ethengarian Kiyats


Kaldmont 14

Robin Moorkroft attacks Kol


19

Kol is mocked in Parliament and meditates to shift from Dolores to Jaggar

1018

Ambyrmont 8

Kol leaves Dolores and allies with Malachie and Jaggar


Sviftmont 18

False alarm on attack on New Kolland by elves

1019

Vatermont 18

Carlotina Erewan confers with Kol, threatening to reveal he is a shadow elf unless he stops harassing her territories


Felmont 3

New Kollanders ask admission at the Great School of Magic, including grandson of Doth


20

Humanoid wizards admitted at the Great School


Alebane created by Bing AI Image creator prompting the description in the PWA
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The Mystaran Almanacs Storylines through the Years

The Mystaran Almanacs introduce a new important storyline: Hool’s red orcs and Nizam’s gnolls Great Migration, to search for the Blue Knife that disappeared in Oenkmar in AC 1,011 with the priest Xilochtli. The Great Migration storyline goes on in Sind and Atruaghin lands from AC 1,014 to AC 1,016, then disappears in the Plain of Fire, entering Graakhalia.
They also reveal the fate of some humanoid leaders and the Oenkmar refugees, with Alebane, Hutai-Khan, Moghul-Khan, and General Tlatepetl in the Orclands in AC 1,014, trying to unify and rule the whole region. Alebane eventually will try to attack Rockhome and after some initial success will die there in AC 1,016. Hutai Khan’s hobgoblins end up allying with Aengmor City/Oenkmar, now controlled by shadow elven followers of Atzanteotl. Moghul Khan’s yellow orcs interfere in Ethengarian politics, helping enemies of the Great Khan. Tlatepetl becomes the true ruler of the Orclands, starts diplomatic relations with Darokin, and even offers help to Rockhome against the humanoids of Alebane and Thar. The latter, former Overking of the Broken Lands, in fact has a long dedicated storyline too in the MA, allying with kobold leader Psa’gh in Vestland in AC 1,014 and creating troubles with him until repelled to Rockhome, which they however attack in AC 1,015 until their defeat in AC 1,016.
The AC 1,017, AC 1,018 and AC 1,019 almanacs do not continue the above storylines and do not give any information about progresses of Tlatepetl or the Great Migration, or if Thar and Psa’gh survived the war. The only humanoids events of these three years are just a mention of Moghul Khan not helping his former defeated Ethengarian allies and events about Kol.
The kobold prince becomes a Glantrian hero in AC 1,015 with a decisive contribution to the victory against the Ethengarians. In AC 1,016 however his minions find Volospin Aendyr alive, with great displeasure of his ally Dolores/Synn. His relation with her worsens in AC 1,017 and eventually in AC 1,018 he shifts his alliance to Malachie and Jaggar, also obtaining in AC 1,019 admittance of humanoid wizards to the Great School of Magic.

Comparison with the Official Almanacs

Several important humanoid leaders of GAZ10 are not mentioned in either the official almanacs or the Mystaran Almanacs. These are especially Haa’k, queen of the trolls, Ohr’s, king of bugbears, and Doth and Yazar, king and queen of goblins. It is possible to suppose that they accepted Kol’s authority over them and are now the equivalent of Glantrian nobility. Indeed there is also a brief mention of Doth’s grandson entering the Great School of Magic in the AC 1,019 Almanac, but the entry does not specify if he is still alive.
Andrew Theisen wrote an article about all the humanoid leaders and personalities. It is stored in the Vaults of Pandius and deals with their possible fate, expanding on the MA events6.

Possible Future Developments

What happened to the Great Migration? What’s the fate of Thar and Psa’gh? Will Kol pay a price for shifting his allegiance away from Dolores? Will Tlatepetl be able to create a true humanoid nation in the Orclands? What happened to the other humanoid leaders not previously mentioned? Will the Broken Lands fall into the shadow of Atzanteotl-ruled Aengmor City? These and plenty other questions could be answered by future almanacs or fan works.

Darokin

The country of merchants had quite some difficulties during the Wrath of the Immortals events and in the official almanacs, with Hule’s invasion, Thar’s attacks, plague, and the end of Alfheim. The threats of Thar, Hule and the shadow elves continue in AC 1,010 to AC 1,1012 but the creation of the Western Defense League, trade improvement, and the first world games eventually bring benefits to Darokin while the menaces lessen. This trend will be further developed in the Mystaran Almanacs.

DAROKIN events



1005

Spring

The Master Seizes Sind (WotI p.78)


Winter

Nomads Invade Darokin (WotI p. 79)

1006

Spring

The Master Is Hammered (WotI p. 80)


Summer

The Master’s Revenge (WotI p. 80)

1007

Fall

Alfheim Is No More (WotI p. 84)


Winter

Elves Winter in Cruth (WotI p. 84)

1008

Spring

Shires Reinforce Darokin (WotI p. 85)


Winter

Thar Moves South (WotI p. 86)

1009

Spring

Heldanners Hit Thar (WotI p. 87)

1010

Vatermont 1

Trade agreements with Five Shires and Karameikos


16

Western Defense League created; Five Shires pledges aid


20

Thar attacks


Thaumont 4

River floods


Flaurmont 2

Flooding worsens


11

Humanoid migrations to eastern Broken Lands


12

Flooding lessens


Yarthmont 15

Hulean Sea Reavers attack


17

Thar hits Akesoli


Klarmont 6

Alphatian conquerors in Atruaghin


Felmont 15

Darokin retaliates against pirates


Fyrmont 10

Thar defeated in Amsorak


Ambyrmont 2

Aengmor threatens Darokin


4

World Games proposal


Sviftmont 1

Darokin builds wall on the Broken Lands border


Eirmont 21

Darokin offers trade to Aengmor

1011

Nuwmont 3

Mummy guardian murders a Darokinian in Ylaruam


Vatermont 13

Torrential rains


Thaumont 10

Sea Reavers from Sind capture Darokinian, Thyatian and Karameikan ships


Klarmont 3

Mummy strangler kills in Selenica


Felmont 1

News of Gareth’s philosophy arrives in Darokin


5

Naval forces of Darokin, the Shires, Ierendi, Karameikos and Minothad patrol the Sea of Dread against Sea Reavers from Sind and Jaibul


15

Great Wall half finished from Fort Fletcher to Fort Runnels


18


Fort Highlake construction begins north of Akesoli


Fyrmont 1

Phenomenal harvest

1012

Vatermont 26

Shadow elves march on the Broken Lands


Thaumont 9

Darokinian diplomats ask for explanation in Rafielton


11

Trading House Arden auctions a map to reach Atruaghin plateau through caves, without the need of the destroyed Elevator


18

Toney House wins the map


Flaurmont 1–2

Western Defense League meets and Rockhome announces attack on Oenkmar


6

Rockhome asks the WDL for help against the shadow elves


23

Darokin calls for peace but it’s ignored by the shadow elves


Yarthmont 1

Shadow elves renew attack on Oenkmar


10

Ylaruam and Five Shires send troops to Fort Nell


15

Shadow elves agree to a truce promoted by Darokin; war stops


22

Everast XVI and Tanadaleyo meet in Selenica; peace talks fail; war resumes


28

Karameikos sends troops to Darokin


Klarmont 2

Battle of the Black Hills; shadow elves repelled to Aengmor by forces of Darokin, Ylaruam, Karameikos and the Shires


9

Darokinian investigators visit Oenkmar to discover the origin of the city


22

Rockhome asks for more help to the WDL but other countries refuse and urge for peace talks


26

Darokin and Karameikos convince Aengmor to agree on another truce


Felmont 1

In Selenica Darokin brings proof that Oenkmar was the ancient elven city of Aengmor


5

Dwarves ask in vain for help from the WDL


28

Truce in Selenica between dwarves and shadow elves; Rockhome leaves the WDL, offended by lack of support


Fyrmont 15

World Games begin in Selenica, bringing athletes from as far as Yavdlom


18

Ethengar Mare wins race at World’s Games in Selenica


25

Glantrian athlete disqualified for using potions; Vestland athlete with firbolg blood not disqualified


28

First annual world games end


Sviftmont 15

Humanoid raids increase all around the Broken Lands as many tribes escape from the shadow elves


28

Tanadaleyo informs ambassadors that the shadow elves now own Oenkmar/Aengmor and the lower Broken Lands


Eirmont 20

Canolbarth’s borders recede


21

Darokin Trust challenges thieves to breach its deposit


24

Five Shires denies through the DDC involvement in the attempted kidnapping of Von Hendriks

1013

Nuwmont 3

Akesoli damaged by the gargantoid of Ferdynand Lillipt, who is banished


Vaterrmon 22

Shadow elves’ delegation in Darokin City


Thaumont 6

New bridge across the Streel opens


Flaurmont 9

Wedding between Bernard Kalimi Corun and Felicia Hallonica canceled after the groom embarrassed the bride’s family


21

At Masked Ball in Selenica participants are put asleep and thieves steal 100,000 gp of jewelry


Yarthmont 15

Partial eclipse of full moon in Glantri, Darokin, Karameikos; lycanthropic activity increases


Felmont 7

Delegates of the Atruaghin clans visit Darokin City


Fyrmont 21–22

Thunderstorms in the central plains cause flooding and crop loss


Ambyrmont 4

Humanoids raid Letizia village near Fort Lakeside


10

Battle between shadow elves and humanoids along the Vesubia river causes a flood which blocks the caravan route between Darokin and Glantri


Sviftmont 9

Gian Sebastiano of Darokin convicted for the murder of a dozen women

1014

Vatermont 6

Great Wall of Darokin completed from Fort Fletcher to Corunglain


Thaumont 5, 7

Arturo Olivera arrives in Akorros and begins preaching new faith in Gareth


Flaurmont 11

Skirmish with humanoids near Fort Nell


20

Great Migration assaults Fort Lakeside but it’s driven back


24

Great Migration pushed by Fort Highlake troops toward Sind


Yarthmont 1

Tlatepetl and Hutai Khan try to attack Fort Nell but have to face shadow elves


Fyrmont 2

Earthquake for the rising of Oenkmar


Kaldmont 11

Shrine to Gareth completed in Akorros

1015

Thaumont 8

Massive river serpent attack near Elstrich


Flaurmont 5

Alebane’s troops raid near Fort Hobarth


20

Deimos’s humanoids attack Corunglain from the sewers


Yarthmont 1

Deimos’s humanoids move from Corunglain


10

Deimos’s humanoids lay siege to Darokin city


12

Humanoid army defeated


18

Bounty on the humanoids left around the city


Klarmont 9

Vestland petitions to join the WDL


Felmont 1

Council offers a 10,000 daros bounty to investigate monster attacks in the Malpheggi swamp and bay


13

Sea Reavers found dead in the swamp


Fyrmont 3

Peace talk begin between shadow elves and former Alfheim elves


26

Treaty of Favaro signed between King Doriath and Princess Tanadaleyo


Kaldmont 24

WDL meets and decides to send help to Rockhome

1016

Vatermont 26

Lucius Linton and his two sons murdered by Minrothad assassins in Athenos


Thaumont 4

Magistrate in a borderland town dies leaving a will [CM8 seed]


5

Darokin tunnel is clear and WDL troops prepare to march to Rockhome


6–8

Envoy from Kastelios reaches Athenos; talks begin


18

Kastelian embassy granted in Athenos


20

Alfheim Avengers become more violent


Flaurmont 2

Tlatepetl contacts Darokinian Council


4

Corwyn Linton regain consciousness


8

Corwyn Linton speaks about the assassins


13

Fence with Linton jewelry arrested in Corunglain


22

One of the assassins, the elf Authrael, is arrested in Selenica


Yarthmont 2

Authrael confesses


5

Darokin formally accuses Minrothad


6

Darokin, Karameikos and Five Shires troops meet in Fort Hobarth to march to Rockhome


11

Thyatis defends Minrothad and asks for more proof


13

Tlatepetl’s humanoids join the WDL forces


22

Alfheim clanmasters meet in Selenica to discuss the Alfheimer defeat in Denagoth


Klarmont 4

DDC visits Xorg in the Orclands


18

Emilio the Great kidnapped by Alfheim Avengers en route to Selenica


Felmont 1

Painting of Greenleaf Vickers disfigured by Alfheim Avengers in Akesoli


10

Shadow elven ambassador in Darokin City


15

WDL meets in Selenica to discuss the Alfheim Avengers


Fyrmont 18

Darokin Council officially recognizes autonomy of the Orclands


Sviftmont 17

Alfheim refugees protest under the shadow elven embassy in Darokin City

1017

Nuwmont 12

Greenleaf Vickers, leader of Umbarth House, agrees to help the Master of Hule


Vatermont 3

Mineral oil discovered in Norfen near the Malpheggi swamp


Thaumont 19

Trade friction with Thyatis


26

WDL meets to discuss Thyatian expansion


Flaurmont 5

Adventurers wanted to clear Ardelphia


7

Council protests against Thyatis confiscations


23

Hulean agents stir friction with Thyatis


Felmont 1

Five Shires requests aid to Darokin and Karameikos after the Thyatian attacks on hin ships


10

Celebration in Selenica of Al-Azrad House and improved relations with Ylaruam


11

DDC reaches agreement on trade in Thyatis City


Fyrmont 4

The Council buys borderlands from magistrates


6

The Council protests against Thyatian attacks on Five Shires ships but does nothing


8

Pennydown and Linton Houses decide to retaliate autonomously


Ambyrmont 25

Tanadaleyo asks about the skyships over Aengmor’s skies


Sviftmont 3

Ierendi joins the WDL


13

Some items of Nithian Queen Nennaya-Sherat’s tomb stolen in Selenica

1018

Nuwmont 20

Mages’ Guild for Darokin proposed


Vatermont 19

Thief Shadow announces he’ll steal Allana Maunea’s necklace at the Masked Ball


Thaumont 8

Chase of the thief Shadow


Flaurmont 21

Theft of Allana Mauntea’s necklace at the Masked Ball


22

Bounty for the thief Shadow


Yarthmont 8

Darokinian wizards gather in Darokin City for the new Mages’ Guild


10-19-27

Bastian Rodens searches for the most important wizards of the country


Klarmont 11

Hallonica and Linton Houses criticize Mauntea for the handling of the theft


Felmont 15

Great Conclave of Valerias in Darokin City


18

Arturo Olivera, priest of Gareth, warns the Conclave about Immortals’ plot


22

Bastian searches for more wizards


Ambyrmont 1

Vessel of brain collectors crashes in Hendry


4

Glantrian skyships in Corunglain and Darokin City


5

Brain collectors attack people in Hendry


9

Dwarven engineers in Ardelphia


Sviftmont 15

Great Reckoning of taxes begins

1019

Nuwmont 1

Earthquake in Glantri felt in northern Darokin too


3

Ships lost in lake Amsorak


Vatermont 12

Trade deals with Ochalea; humanoids attack Ardelphia


13

Mauntea loses discussion on tariffs


Thaumont 5

Millington, former diplomat in Ierendi, arrives in Athenos to investigate the Amsorak lake


10

Shadow almost caught in Selenica


14

Adventurers sent to investigate the Amsorak disappear


Flaurmont 2

Adventurers find gold in Atruaghin lands


27

Shadow caught but involved in a Linton and Mauntea plot


Yarthmont 5

Squatters in Atruaghin lands


8

Academy Tower will be built for the Mages’ Guild of Darokin City


9

More Glantrian airships in Corunglain


18

Hule and Thyatis sign secret treaty against Darokin


19

Shadow put to trial but secretly gets a minor sentence


22

Atruaghin retaliate against squatters


26

Millington meets Shadow to try to solve the Itheldown curse in Amsorak lake


Klarmont 11

Meeting in Darokin City of Doriath and Tanadalaeyo to act against the Church of Atzanteotl; Trimark cargo ship arrives in Akorros with dead crew


13

Millington talks to Bastian in Darokin City


14

Corun House commissions an airship


16

Minrothad privateers sack a Linton ship en route to Yavdlom


17

Rush to extract oil in Norfen; the demon of Itheldown sends a disguised woman to Akesoli


18

Sindhi Prince Almiron Kalkiin visits Akesoli


Felmont 1

Ystran House starts a war in Atruaghin lands


2

Darokin joins in Atzanteotl’s hideouts’ destruction


4

Millington searches for the wizard Dusk


12

Miners attacked in Atruaghin lands


15

Ardelphia founded again


Fyrmont 2

Ystran House defeated in Atruaghin lands


18

Millington returns to Bastian to find the wizard in Akorros


20

Theft of claims in Norfen


22

Constable murdered in Norfen


Ambyrmont 1

Demons attack Bronsdale on lake Amsorak


3

Academy Tower completed


5

More deaths in Norfen


6

Goblins raid Reedle


7

Umbarth House accuses Ystran House in Akesoli


12

Millington arranges for a meeting between the wizard Graylock and the thief Shadow in Darokin City prison


15

Graylock reveals to Mauntea he and Shadow are descendants of House Ithel


17

Shadow released temporarily to stop the Ithel curse


27

Goblin attacks in the southwest


Svifmont 3–8

Graylock, Shadow, Millington and companions sail to Itheldown from Akorros, attacked by demons en route


21

Thyatians in Selenica to discuss trade


26

Demons banished in Itheldown


Eirmont 1

Millington returns to Darokin City; Shadow’s sentence reduced


8

Investigation team sent by Darokin and Thyatis to Altan Tepes goblins


22

Temple of Atzanteotl destroyed in Darokin City


24

Khoronus sends his clerics against oards in Glantri City


Kaldmont 1

Clerics of Khoronus help defeat the oards in Glantri City; indentured servants transported from Darokin to Polakatsikes by the Heldann


5

Silver Star airship of Corun House arrives in Corunglain


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The Mystaran Almanacs Storylines through the Years

Differently from other countries in the Mystaran Almanacs Darokin does not have some major storylines but many minor events and several minor storylines. The status and stability of the country steadily improves, despite several humanoid threats and a cold war with Thyatis for trade in the Sea of Dread, which at times risks becoming a true war. The Great Wall is completed, Ardelphia is being rebuilt, trade has resumed with Atruaghin, there is peace with the shadow elves of Aengmor and resettlement of the Alheimers, a skyship trade is beginning with Glantri, the Itheldown curse is finally defeated, and the Western Defence League is reinforced by the victory in Rockhome and the adhesion of Vestland and Ierendi. Still there are great potential threats Darokin could face in the future. Hule is the more obvious, but also the instability in Ethengar and the possible rising of Synn in Glantri aren’t minor. Then there is Aengmor City in the Broken Lands, even if the agreement with Tlatepetl in the Orclands could work in Darokin’s favor. The relationship with Thyatis and Minrothad is also a great unknown.

Comparison with the Official Almanacs

The ‘improving’ trend which was already present in the official almanacs continues in the MAs for Darokin, and even expands, but there are new intrigues among the major Darokinian Houses and a dangerous infiltration from Hule. Generally Darokin is cast in a positive light in official and fan almanacs, but Darokin’s classist society could well have a darker side so far unexplored.7

Possible Future Developments

A war with the shadow elves has become more improbable, but there is a growing rivalry with Thyatis and Minrothad as new trade routes open to Western Brun and Davania. The presence of the Great Wall, the refounding of Ardelphia and the presence of two relatively law-abiding humanoid leaders in Kol and Tlatepetl could lessen the humanoid threat on Darokin, unless the risen Aengmor City becomes a real danger. Darokin has possible routes to the Hollow World very near to its territory, in Atruaghin lands and in the Broken Lands. But they could bring either huge economic advantages or unexpected dangers.

Ethengar

There is not much love for Ethengar in “Wrath of the Immortals”, nor in the official Almanacs or the Mystaran Almanacs. The Great Khan’s invasion plan ends in failure against Heldann and the country does not have much space later, and is almost ignored in the Joshuan’s Almanacs. The Mystaran Almanacs will give Ethengar more spotlight, but not more success.

ETHENGAR events


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1004

Summer

Heldannic Clerics Killed (WotI p. 75)


Fall

Heldanners Attack (WotI p. 76); (Events leading to war between Heldann and Ethengar)

1006

Winter

Ethengar vs. Heldann (WotI p. 82)

1007

Spring

Ethengarians Swarm (WotI p. 82)


Winter

Plague Hits Freiburg (WotI p. 84)

1008

Summer

Massacre at Tromso (WotI p. 86)


Fall

Ethengarians Ambush Elves (WotI p. 86)

1010

Thaumont 28

Ethengarians attack Grauenberg


Flaurmont 11

Migrations of humanoids to the Broken Lands


13

Heldann counterattack with skyship


Felmont 3

Heldannic knights move to Grauenberg


5

Ethengarians pillage


14

Reinforcements reach Grauenberg


26

Moglai Khan sends peace message


Fyrmont 9

Peace treaty with Heldann includes Ethengarian volunteers to Norwold


22

Ethengarians retreat

1011

Nuwmont 27

Unknown to the khans, some warriors join humanoid attack against Rockhome


Vatermont 6

Ethengarians retreat from Rockhome


13

Blizzard


Thaumont 15

White horse escapes sacrifice


Eirmont 1

Great fire in the Sea of Grass

1012

Vatermont 1

White horse appears and defeats the Great Khan’s war stallion


Thaumont 15

White horse ceremony without sacrifice


Fyrmont 18

Ethengar Mare wins race at World’s Games in Selenica


Sviftmont 15

Humanoid raids increase all around the Broken Lands as many tribes escape from the shadow elves


21

White horse crosses border into Heldann


Eirmont 13

Heldanners meet the Ethengarians and follow them


18

Heldanners insist Ethengarians leave

1014

Fyrmont 2

Earthquake on the raising of Aengmor


26

Oktai Khan’s plot sends the Uighurs against the Heldann, but the Great Khan discovers it


Ambyrmont 4

Oktai Khan’s treachery proven


8–9

Grand Khan attacks the Taijits; Oktai Khan beheaded; war announced against Glantri

1015

Flaurmont 9

Bramyra and Tchernovodsk attacked


13

Bramyra and Tchernovodsk conquered by the Ethengarians


15

The Khan splits the horde


17

Horde blocked at Skullhorn pass


20

Boldavia besieged


23

Ethengarians fight against the undead


Yarthmont 4

Boldavia resists


18

Undead change side


20

Morphail says the Ethengarian shamans took control of them but it’s a plot by Dolores


Klarmont 11

Boldavia’s defense broken; the horde moves to Klantyre


19

Siege of Glenmoorloch begins


Felmont 3

First two Glantrian skyships sail


6

Pegasus skyship bombards the Ethengarian at Skullhorn pass and they have to retreat


8

The Griffon skyship crashes in Klantyre


10

Jaggar asks for more funds for skyships but they are denied


23

Jaggar considers hot-air balloons


26

Glenmoorloch falls


Fyrmont 1

Ethengarians plunder Krondahar


4

Ethengarians repelled in Bergdhoven and Aalban


5

Prince Jherek killed in magical duel in Braastar


8

Glantrian air fleet of 20 skyships with air balloons launched


16

Bombardments of Ethengarians who move to Glantri City; siege begins


20

Kol’s humanoids attack Ethengarians and Von Hendriks kills the Great Khan; siege broken and Ethengarians retreat


25

Lan-Syn Virayana new Princess in Krondahar, Jaggar renounces to invade Ethengar


Sviftmont 23

Hordes of yellow orcs pillage Ethengar

1016

Nuwmont 1

Manghai, Batu and others fight to become new Great Khan


Thaumont 8

Caravans attacked in Ethengar due to the civil war


Flaurmont 11

Kadan Khan dies; Kiyats merged with the Murkits; Manghai possessed by evil spirit Jaku


16

Duttai Khan rebels with some Kiyats


Yarthmont 9

Taijits at war with Yakkas


13

Kaeruts and Uighurs raid Heldann


Fyrmont 3

Undead Sliktor orcs pour out of the World Mountain


Ambyrmont 11

Manghai defeats Ortu Khan in battle and gains full control of the Murkits


Kaldmont 28

Good spirits warn shaman Trungpa of Manghai’s possession

1017

Flaurmont 11

The wizard Akmad ibn Yussef discovers the body of the Great Khan is stored in Glantri City and informs his daughter Bakai


Yarthmont 14

Moglai’s thirteen children, minus Manghai, depart with Akmad ibn Yussef for Glantri City to demand the body of the Great Khan


20

Tajits attack the expedition secretly sent by Manghai/Jaku


27

Bakai and others arrive in Bramyra


Klarmont 10

Bakai and the others are stopped at the Great School and hosted by Urmahid Krinagar


18

Moglai’s body stolen


27

Bakai and the others return home


Felmont 3

Evil spirits attack Bakai and the others; she is wounded, younger brother Hurkati killed


18

Bakai and the others return to the camp of the Great Khan but she is still sick


Fyrmont 10

Assassination attempt on Bakai


12

Akmad ibn Yussef and the shaman Trungpa set out to search for Manghai’s soul


15

Date of burial of the Great Khan set


Ambyrmont 11

Duttai defeated and slain by Manghai


Eirmont 15

Great Khan burial; only three Khans come; Trungpa and adventurers slip to the Spirit World


16

Manghai with the Tajits attacks and defeats the Bortaks of Batu Khan and his wife Bakai, but they escape

1018

Nuwmont 11

Batu Khan and the Bortaks prepare for war against Manghai


Yarthmont 5

Murkits and Tajits attack the Bortaks


Klarmont 8

Trungpa and the adventurers return with Manghai’s soul


Ambyrmont 23

Some Bortaks defect to Manghai


Eirmont 15

Trungpa confronts Jaku and banishes it from Manghai’s body


16

Rumors about dark magic in Xantha

1019

Ambyrmont 12

Raids increase by Kaeruts and Uighurs against Heldann


27

Attack on Grauenberg


28

Anna Von Hendriks takes the city


Eirmont 7

Anna Von Hendriks sends the Black Lion airship to attack Ethengar bands in the south


27

Anna marches against raiders in the southeastern coast



The Mystaran Almanacs Storylines through the Years

The Great Khan discovers a Glantrian plot to weaken him in AC 1,014 and invades Glantri in AC 1,015 but is defeated at the doors of the city. I must say I didn’t like too much the spotlight given to Von Hendriks, who in my campaign was eliminated much earlier by PCs, as I supposed was more or less meant to be in Gazetteer 1: The Grand Duchy of Karameikos. However the beauty of the Almanacs is that you can use or not use whatever you like. Anyway the defeat in Glantri causes an ongoing civil war in Ethengar as Moglai’s son, Manghai, tries to take control of the clans, first possessed by an evil spirit and later as himself in AC 1,019. The last MA however didn’t go on with this interesting storyline, as the Almanac contains only two events related to an Ethengarian raid in Heldann.

Comparison with the Official Almanacs

The official almanacs focused all the storylines on the enmity between Ethengar and Heldann, ignoring Glantri, while the MA instead created an interesting war against the nation of wizards. They also developed some hints which were present in Gazetteer 12: The Golden Khan of Ethengar. Still it is a bit of a pity that Moglai Khan is defeated multiple times and fails to conquer any lands, as an Ethengarian expansion in the territory of its neighbours could create some interesting adventures.

Possible Future Developments

A weakened Ethengar could easily become prey of the Heldann, Thar and Psa’gh, the risen Aengmor City, or even Glantrian conquest. But Manghai could still prove to be better, or luckier, than his father and finally lead his people into their much dreamed conquest of neighboring lands.

Glantri

Glantri is obviously a major focus of the “Wrath of the Immortals” war and is greatly changed after it, with the presence of the Great Crater, the death of some Princes and the disappearance of Etienne. In AC 1,010 Dolores/Synn arrives in Glantri with a mysterious agenda, probably related to the Radiance as the fact that the Day of Dread begins at the midnight of Glantri City is bound to reveal to all wizards and astronomers of the world something’s going on there. She rapidly rose to Principality, allying with Jaggar and sponsoring Kol as a new Prince too. In the meantime Averoigne is contested between Henri and Isidore, with the final victory of the latter in AC 1,011. In the end Dolores loses her ally Henri but gains a new one in Kol. In AC 1,012 Dolores tries to have Malachie killed, as he is investigating her, but ultimately he discovers what she truly is. Kol enjoys and protects Von Hendriks as new advisor and the War in Oenkmar actually makes New Kolland stronger. The Joshuan’s Almanac in AC 1,013 has some minor interesting events for Glantri but almost nothing to continue the ‘Dolores’ storyline.

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GLANTRI events



1004

Spring

A Spy Perishes (WotI p. 73)


Summer

Alphatian Proclamation (WotI p. 74); Death of Torenal (WotI p. 74); ‘Assassins’ Escape (WotI p. 75)


Fall

Glantrians Assassinated; Thyatis intrudes (WotI p. 76); Asterius’s Temples Burned (WotI p. 77)


Winter

Alphatian Armada Burns (WotI p. 77)

1005

Spring

War Is Declared (WotI p. 77)


Summer

Empires Build Forces (WotI p. 78); Alphatia Sends Monsters (WotI p. 78)

1006

Spring

Sabotage in Alphatia (WotI p. 79)


Summer

The Master’s Revenge (WotI p. 80)

1007

Summer

Thar Looks to Glantri (WotI p. 83)

1008

Summer

Plague Reaches Glantri (WotI p. 85)


Fall

Rad Grows Desperate (WotI p. 86)


Winter

Thar Moves South (WotI p. 86)

1009

Spring

Heldanners Hit Thar to help Glantri (WotI p. 87)


Fall

The Week Without Magic (WotI p. 89);


Winter

Thousand Wizards Convene (WotI p. 89); The War Ends (WotI p. 90)

1010

Nuwmont 20

Synn arrives in Glantri; Margaret Fenswick dies


23

Synn poses as Dolores Hillsbury, daughter of Margaret and Volospin Aendyr


Vatermont 3

Dolores becomes a heroin by stopping King Thar’s attack


Thaumont 15

Attempted kidnapping of Isidore and Richard d’Ambreville


Flaurmont 15

Frau Gertrud Von Drachenfels dies


18

Council refuses help to Erewan


Klarmont 12

Isidore and Richard captured by Henri


25

Henri new Prince of Averoigne


Felmont 9

Several Erewan elves to Karameikos


Ambyrmont 7

Kol petitions to become a Prince but doesn’t succeed yet


26

Dolores becomes Princess of Fenswick


Kaldmont 5

Kol on three-month probation to become Prince

1011

Nuwmont 1

Reaction to the Day of Dread


Vatermont 13

Heavy snow in Glantri


Thaumont 24

Agents of Morlay-Malinbois fail to free Isidore and Richard from Henri d’Ambreville’s dungeon


Flaurmont 1

White Wolf and his men free Isidore and Richard


7

Prince Malachie brings charges against Prince Henri in the Council


14

Council hearings begin


17

Kol petitions for his Principality but he is defeated again


Yarthmont 7

Prince Henri fined by the Council


Fyrmont 20

Isidore petitions the Council against Henri


27

Council votes to reconsider the succession of Nouvelle Averoigne


Ambyrmont 6

Parliament reopens succession of Averoigne


20

Ferdynand Lillipot’s flying Gargantoid stolen in Glantri City


Sviftmont 5

Prince Malachie tries to set up a trap against Henri


8

Vote on Averoigne is a tie so a duel will take place for the succession


9

Henri attacked by werewolves, but he and his guards kill them


12

Isidore attacked by assassins, but the attempt is unsuccessful


14

Henri cursed


15

Isidore defeats Henri in duel and disintegrates him


Eirmont 6

Great School of Magic announces students will be able to learn custom spells, to compete with the Karameikan School


Kaldmont 19

Murders in Nouvelle Averoigne; secret attacks by Synn


21

Principality of New Kolland is approved


27

Preparation for the Day of Dread

1012

Nuwmont 14

New Kolland borders set


Vatermont 18

New worm from Great Crater displayed at Monster Fair


Flaurmont 4

Prince Kol protests in the Council against monster hunters in the Great Crater


5

Malachie discovers Dolores cannot be the daughter of late Lady Margaret of Fenswick


27

D’Ambrevilles called in Castle Amber; Malachie investigates


Yarthmont 4

Dolores declares the White Wolf dead


8

Glantri City’s canals dry up due to an underground elemental battle


11

Malachie declared dead and Morlay-Malinbois awarded to John Beaumarys-Moorkroft


14

Prince Malachie returns and dominions awards stop


Klarmont 15

Malachie hunted by Geneviève de Sephorà in the Night of the Red Moon, escapes


Felmont 21

Council votes to improve roads and travel means; shadow elves slaughter and drive away all humanoids in Oenkmar; Angus McClintock escapes to Glantri city


Ambyrmont 23

Adventurers meets Ferdinand Lillipot and his Gargantoid in the Kurish Massif on his way to Sind


Sviftmont 15

Humanoid raids increase all around the Broken Lands as many tribes escape from the shadow elves


Eirmont 8

Ludwig Von Hendriks captured by halflings in New Kolland


12

Von Hendriks rescued by kobolds


14

A Prince Malachie spy sees Dolores transforming into a dragon


15

Kol demands protest is sent to the Five Shires for attempted kidnapping


19

Malachie ask Jaggar’s help to ascertain if he knows Dolores is a dragon


24

Five Shires denies through the DDC involvement in the attempted kidnapping of Von Hendriks


Kaldmont 1

New Kolland asks the Council for food and gold to deal with humanoid refugees from the Broken Lands

1013

Nuwmont 5

Great snowstorm in Glantri


Vatermont 18

Trained yowler bought for 5,000 gp at Monster Fair


Thaumont 7

Early thaw of the canal drowns 19 skaters


27

Mishap at the Arcanium Fair provokes destruction of tents but no victims


Yarthmont 15

Partial eclipse of full moon in Glantri, Darokin, Karameikos; lycanthropic activity increases


Felmont 17

Escaped giant tarantella spider kills 100


25

Mages from the Great School in Glantri and the Karameikan School sail from Mirros to study the Behemoth


Fyrmont 1

Plague in Morlay-Malinbois stopped by priests


20

Mild eruption of Mount Skullhorn in Glantri


Ambyrmont 10

Battle between shadow elves and humanoids along the Vesubia river causes a flood which blocks the caravan route between Darokin and Glantri


Kaldmont 3

Avalanche blocks Skullhorn Pass

1014

Nuwmont 1

Hool and the red orcs decide to leave New Kolland; Kol lets them go


5

Great Migration decides to go west to search for the Blue Knife; no other humanoids want to go


Thaumont 28

Etienne secretly saves Malachie from assassination attempt


Flaurmont 3

Great Migration commences; Nizam’s gnolls join it


Felmont 15

Glantri boycotts Third World Games in Ylaruam due to rules against wizards


Fyrmont 2

Earthquake in southern Glantri, western Ethengar and northern Darokin for the rising of Aengmor City


Ambyrmont 9

Ethengar prepares a war against Glantri


Sviftmont 3

Jaggar understands Dolores is evil and begins working against her


Kaldmont 17

Synn and Deimos begin their attacks on Darokin from the Orclands

1015

Nuwmont 17

Jaggar wants to rebuild Volospin’s Dragonflies


Vatermont 3

Dragonflies cannot be rebuilt


7

Jaggar asks for new skyships


17

Glantri City attacked by the Thousand Fists of Khan


Flaurmont 9

Bramyra and Tchernovodsk attacked


13

Bramyra and Tchernovodsk conquered by the Ethengarians


15

The Khan splits the horde


17

Horde blocked at Skullhorn pass


20

Boldavia besieged


23

Ethengarians fight against the undead


Yarthmont 4

Boldavia resists


18

Undead change side


20

Morphail says the Ethengarian shamans took control of them but it’s a plot by Dolores


Klarmont 11

Boldavia’s defense broken; the horde moves to Klantyre


19

Siege of Glenmoorloch begins


Felmont 3

First two Glantrian skyships sail


6

Pegasus skyship bombards the Ethengarian at Skullhorn pass and they have to retreat


8

The Griffon skyship crashes in Klantyre


10

Jaggar asks for more funds for skyship but they are denied


23

Jaggar considers hot air balloons


26

Glenmoorloch falls


Fyrmont 1

Ethengarians plunder Krondahar


4

Ethengarians repelled in Bergdhoven and Aalban


5

Prince Jherek killed in magical duel in Braastar


8

Glantain air fleet of 20 skyship with air balloons launched


16

Bombardments of Ethengarians who move to Glantri City; siege begins


20

Kol’s humanoids attack Ethengarians; Jaggar mutilated by the Great Khan, who is killed by Von Hendriks; siege broken and Ethengarians retreat


25

Lan-Syn Virayana new Princess in Krondahar; Jaggar renounces to invade Ethengar


26

Urbaal accuses Montgolfière of stealing his air balloons


28

Duncan McGregor meets Von Hendriks to increase power of non-mages


Ambyrmont 4

Urbaal and Montgolfière meet and agree to cooperate


14

Qenildor Erewan new Baron of Huledain


Sviftmont 4

Angus McClintock recognized as new Baron of Uigmur; his mother Mira can now rest


6

Dolores asks that Jaggar is stripped of nobility as he cannot cast spell without an arm


25

Hobgoblin Goznuk hides in Glantri City as he knows Von Hendriks did not slay the Khan

1016

Nuwmont 1

Dolores and Malachie to compete for supreme judge; Brannart presumed dead


2

Isidore promotes improvement of roads


3

Jaggar increases military budget and narrowly maintains title of Prince in voting


5

New Tree of Life in the Barony of Celedyl


13

Angus McGregor claims the title of Prince of Klantyre


15

Karameikos and Five Shires protest Von Hendriks’s presence


Vatermont 3

Ralindi and Rejladan Virayana challenge Lan-Syn’s title of Princess


4

Jaggar ponders how to replace his arm


13

Werewolves in the service of Dolores attack Les Hiboux


16

Dolores meets Aleah Virayana to support her son Ralindi


Thaumont 7

New road commissioned between Celedyl and Fort Fletcher in Darokin


17

Werewolves attack Stratford in Westheath


25

Angus McClintock, now McDuff, hosts a seminar on Aengmor City/Oenkmar at the Great School


Flaurmont 12

Von Hendriks stages and defeats a bandit attack in Estin, Sablestone


20

Werewolves attack Galadyl in Erewan and Dolores plants proofs against Malachie


Yarthmont 1

Dolores wins the title of Supreme Judge


23

Rolf von Graustein makes a new mechanical arm for Jaggar


Klarmont 3

Ralindi Virayana voted as new Prince of Krondahar


Felmont 9

Von Hendriks courts Juliana Vlaardoen


10

Shadow elven ambassador in Glantri City


15

Sinaria Verlien found by adventurers in the Nightmare Dimension


Ambyrmont 1

Juliana Vlaerdoen voted as new Treasurer


3

Prince Erian of the shadow elves is sent to study at the Great School of Magic


10

Juliana and Von Hendriks go to the theater


16

Carlotina Erewan agrees to assist the shadow elves in healing Canolbarth forest in exchange for help against humanoids


Sviftmont 26

The goblin Broknag finds Volospin Aendyr in Silverston


Eirmont 8

Synn as a black dragon attacks settlements in New Kolland, displeased by Volospin Aendyr’s return

1017

Nuwmont 2

Brotherhood of the Radiance has strange dreams


14

Montgolfière & Urbaal reveal their flying gondola


Vatermont 3

Taterhill Races proposed by Archduke John Beaumarys-Moorkroft


7

Long Runner exiles fleeing Wendar arrives at the Forteresse d’Ylourgne


9

Warehouses of Montgolfière & Urbaal, Ltd. set ablaze in Leenz


10

Alfheim refugees continue on to Erewan


12

Moorkroft has interests in Taterhill


15

Taterhill Races proposal voted down


24

Alfheim refugees welcomed in Erewan


Thaumont 6

Attempted assassination of Dolores in the theatre; assassin disintegrated


8–9

Investigation goes on on the assassination attempt


11

Erendyl refugees from Wendar arrive in Celedyl


14

Investigation on assassin’s identity leads nowhere as a suspect is found killed


Flaurmont 4

Morphail meets Jaggar


11

Ethengarians discover the body of the Great Khan is in the Great School of Glantri; Don Fernando de Casanegra feels a presence in the Radiance


13

Atzanteotl sends Dolores a dream of Canolbarth


Yarthmont 27

Bakai and other children of the Khan arrive in Bramyra


Klarmont 10

Bakai and the others are stopped at the Great School and hosted by Urmahid Krinagar


11

Morphail propose three new Council charges and a new Duchy


17

Volospin sighted in Eriadna


18

Moglai’s body stolen by Krinagar and given to Bakai


20

Parliament votes on the new charges


Felmont 7

Anton Vlaardoen talks to Feldian to plot against Von Hendriks


15

Midsummer Night’s Ball of Princess Carnelia sees the apparition of the supposed mortal forms of Ixion and Valerias


18

Malachie is Warden of the Marches with Jaggar’s support, Prince Ralindi Virayana is Merchant-Mage, Prince Angus McGregor is new viceroy of the fort to be built between Ylourgne and Sablestone; Duchy of Taterhill approved


20

The Erewan suspicious of Dolores’s activities in Canolbarth


Fyrmont 3

Clerics of Valerias from Darokin visit Glantri and meet Carnelia


7

Humanoids attack Trintan


16

Feldian contacts Juliana


23

In Adlertum Rolf Löwenroth, heir to the Baron, marries Viktoria von Drachenfels, cousin of Jaggar, and Walburg Löwenroth, the baron’s daughter, marries Jaggar’s heir Sigmund


Ambyrmont 1

Volospin sighted in Glantri City


3

Malachie sends skyships to Aengmor


15

Synn defeated in Aengmor


22

Pilgrims of Valerias to Belcadiz Manor in Glantri City


24

Feldian saved from assassins by halflings


25

Princess Tanadaleyo asks about the skyships


27

Lovecraft asylum burns in Rymskigrad and Sinaria Verlien escapes


Sviftmont 1

Carlotina and Urhamid speak with shadow elven ambassador about the skyships


12

Alasdair McAllister new duke of Taterhill


20

Duel set for Viscount seat


Eirmont 2

Juliana is pregnant


5

Gerrid Rientha wins the duel and is the new Viscount of Castelbianco


10

Juliana confides in Dolores


20

Robin Moorkroft and his Mundaners pillage the McAllister caravan in Taterhill


Kaldmont 14

Robin robs Prince Kol


19

Kol protests in Parliament and is mocked by Dolores and others


22

Chaos in Parliament with cross-accusations about the identity of Robin Moorkroft


26

Dolores orders the removal of Valerias’s pilgrims camped near Belcadiz Manor


27

Alexander Day massacre of pilgrims leaves dozens dead

1018

Nuwmont 1

Council of Princes following the massacre


5

Gnomes leave Torkyn Falls for Rockhome; new meeting of the Council


Vatermont 3

Baron of Oxhill Pieter Vandehaar stages his death by Followers of Claymore to avoid judgment for cheating in duel; infant son becomes new baron


9

Thousand Fists of the Khan attack at the Monster Fair


18

Church of Valerias and some nations like Sind, Ylaruam and Ethengar promise retribution for the massacre


28

Tubak/Ixion appears to Boldavian barons, in truth a prank by Robin Moorkroft


Thaumont 7

Followers of Claymore take over the new Fort Augusburg


11

Malachie retakes the fort with skyships bombardment


15

Marriage in Krondahar of Prince Ralindi Virayana and Rina Krinagar


Flaurmont 1

Brotherhood of the Radiance hears new voices


19

Failed assassination attempt against ambassador Catherine d’Ambreville in Thyatis City


Yarthmont 10

Followers of Claymore attack Sablestone and Prince Harald defeats them with water magic


12

Morphail goes to Norwold to investigate Nyx’s realm and seek contact with her


16

Attempt to kill Morphail by supposed Belcadiz undead slayers


Klarmont 3

Sinaria Verlien goes to Juliana


15

Jaggar’s heir has triplets


Felmont 4

John Beaumarys-Moorkroft shifts sides again and allies with Krinagar


15

Carnelia host her Summer party again but there are no Immortals apparition this year


18

Conclave of Valerias in Darokin City; Gareth speaks in favor of Glantri


26

Volospin Aendyr returns and proposes to appease Darokin, Karameikos and Thyatis by selling skyships, extraditing Von Hendriks, and granting a plot of land to clerics of Valerias to build a church


Fyrmont 1

Juliana, freed of Von Hendriks’s spell, denounces him


9

Juliana gives birth


14

Von Hendriks tries to kidnap the baby but is defeated by Juliana


22

Von Hendriks arrested, departs by caravan to Karameikos


Ambyrmont 4

Skyships fly to Darokin


8

Juliana and Kol no longer Dolores’s allies


27

Sigmund von Drachenfels unveils the metallic dragon ‘Old Dolores’ in Graez


Sviftmont 1

Voice from the Radiance


15

Skirmish with elves in New Kolland


20

Tel’Erond meets Carlotina


Eirmont 2

Sigmund Von Drachenfels abducted in Leenz


12

Ground broken in Caurenze for the new monastery of Valerias


Kaldmont 1

Von Hendriks arrives in Mirros


2

Sigmund reappears in Leenz after oards’ kidnapping


5

Harsh winter hits


17

Prince Harald’s breakdown


22

Frau Hildegarde prepares for a duel with Innocenti di Malapietra in Caurenze

1019

Nuwmont 1

Earthquake in Glantri after the death of Innocenti


4

Fake Innocenti killed at the Abbey of Valerias sent by Hildegarde


7

Ellerovyn clan oracles divine Kol is a shadow elf


25

Blackmoorian artifact belonging to Danira Voshane, baroness of Egorn, is reactivated by oards


Vatermont 7

Rolf Löwenroth will have illegitimate heir


18

Carlotina tells Kol she knows his secret and demands a stop to raids against Erewan


27

Lucrecia di Malapietra hosts a banquet in Glantri City


Thaumont 4

Agostino di Malapietra seemly dies attacking Lucrecia but it’s really Cesare Fulvina


10

Horde from the plane of Earth attacks Sablestone


22

Robin Moorkroft turns Ambreville paintings into caricatures


Flaurmont 2

Two young werewolves rough up three teen partygoers


7

Free Anachronic Society denounced by Jaggar as criminal in Aalban


15

Young werewolves cause more nuisance


18

Young werewolves hurt young mage Valachi Sulescu


22

Pieter Verlien campaigns against fraudulence among the nobility


26

Lucrezia announces death of Innocenti, Agostino claims Sirecchia, Lucrecia dies and Agostino is the new Viscount


Yarthmont 2

Agostino dies and Bartolomeo is Viscount


3

Young werewolf killed


7

Hildegarde von Drachenfels visits Berrym


9

More airships to Darokin


12

Fake Marchioness of Berrym exposed, kills herself


13

Official investigation on young werewolves ends


Klarmont 12

Award festival for Berrym


14

Corun House commissions airship


21

Dian and Diane de Moriamis fight at Chateau Morlay


22

Malachie in Court House of the Parliament; Dian is arrested but vanishes


Felmont 3

New Kollanders at the Great School


9

Werewolves battle a female wizard in Glantri City


11

Werewolf hunter Myndella unmasked; Malachie and Morphail meet


18

Werewolves attack a caravan near Braastar


20

School of Magic admits humanoids


Fyrmont 7

Play mocking Juliana ends in fire at the theatre


11

Werewolves arrive in Karameikos to hunt the hunter


17

Three students die at laboratory incident in the Great School, Carlotina saves the others


27

Carlotina escapes aerial assassination


Ambyrmont 2

Carlotina meets Harald in Sablestone


15

Wedding of Dominick Haaskinz with Ysabel de Fedorias where Etienne is sighted


Sviftmont 11

Bounty on Myndella elapses as per agreement between Malachie and Morphail


12

Harald dines with Carlotina and Carnelia


23

Sean McAllister kidnapped


Eirmont 5

Students reveal to Grand Master of the School Harald that Sean McAllister is Robin Moorkroft


14

Fireball at the Ice Games when Sinaria Verlien confronts Jissel de Gheyn, who affirms to have Juliana’s real mother


24

Clerics of Khoronus in Darokin have a vision of oards in Glantri City


28

The oards find the Beagle engine


Kaldmont 1

The oard Viktoria von Drachenfels and her minions fight in Alexander Platz with Harald, Carlotina, other School masters and clerics of Khoronus but are defeated


17

Synn learns about the location of the Radiance


26

Silver Star airship of Corun House’s first flight to Glantri City



Kol made with Bing AI Image creator prompting the description in the PWA, not exactly as the known illustrations but interesting.
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The Mystara Almanacs Storylines through the Years

Glantri has even more space in the MAs than it had in the official Almanacs. AC 1,014 has only some events, with the rift between Jaggar and Dolores which develops from some hints in the Poor Wizard’s Almanac III and an intervention by Etienne which also stems from the PWA’s events. The AC 1,015 storyline is focused instead on the war with Ethengar with the victory of Glantri and the development of new skyships. In AC 1,016 Glantri rebuilds after the war, continuing with the usual intrigues. Dolores tries to maneuver Von Hendriks to gain the alliance of Juliana Vlaardoen but she is displeased with Kol, whose minions retrieve her alleged ‘father’ Volospin Aendyr. In AC 1,017 there are many events, with the usual intrigues and political maneuvers. Dolores is busy in Aengmor/Canolbarth (the plot of the videogame Shadow over Mystara) but is eventually defeated by adventurers and Malachie’s skyships. Juliana is torn between Von Hendriks and her former lover Feldian, and discovers she is pregnant at the end of the year. Morphail and Malachie begin to talk, and Dolores may lose him too after losing Kol as an ally. The year ends with the Alexander Day massacre of clerics of Valerias gathered after a supposed apparition of Ixion and Valerias at Belcadiz Manor. In AC 1,018 the massacre has repercussion with Glantri threatened by the Church of Valerias and attacked internally by Followers of Claymore and the Thousand Fists of the Khan, so eventually it has to apologize, granting an abbey to the Church and supplying skyships to Darokin. Von Hendriks tries to kidnap Juliana’s baby but is defeated and extradited to Karameikos. Dolores as Supreme Judge of Glantri suffers a diminishing reputation for the massacre and loses Juliana too as an ally. Volospin Aendyr publicly returns to the Council and officially recognizes her as a daughter. A bandit, Robin Moorkroft, becomes famous with some daring thefts and pranks against famous wizards. In the meantime the oards (a cybernetic civilization which appeared in CM6 Where Chaos Reigns) have discovered the Radiance and want to take control of it! In AC 1,019 there are again many events for Glantri. Hildegarde Von Drachenfels secretly kills Innocenti di Malapietra and after a long series of assassinations, Bartholomeo di Malapietra is the new Viscount of Sirecchia. Young werewolves cause some troubles in Glantri City while Dolores continues her intrigues. At the end of the year the oards try to take control of the Radiance but are defeated by Harald and Carlotina and other wizards of the School. Dolores finally learns where the Radiance is exactly located and will probably act on this information.

Comparison with the Official Almanacs

The Mystaran Almanacs developed several more storylines on Glantrian nobility, also using the vast material of the Glantrian Personnel Division and Paparazzi Glantri, two great fan works on the country of wizards of which we give some more details in this issue. Dolores/Synn and her search for the Radiance is obviously still the most important one. It’s a great idea to use the plots of the videogames Tower of Doom and Shadows over Mystara in this context as the MAs did in AC 1,014–15 and AC 1,017, as it makes sense Dolores doesn’t know exactly where the Radiance is located and the shadow elves’ crystals may well be one of her first hypothesis. At the end of 1,019, also ‘thanks’ to the meddling of the oards, she knows. And this will certainly not bode well for the future of Glantri.

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Possible Future Developments

Dolores/Synn had several setbacks and lost some allies during her years in Glantri, but she’s still the major menace the nation has to face. It could be expected that in AC 1,0208 Synn will make her move to take control of the Radiance and probably Etienne/Rad would have to intervene to stop her. The outcome of this battle will likely shape the future of Glantri.



1Here it is in the Vaults of Pandius as pdf https://pandius.com/Threshold_34.pdf and html https://pandius.com/ftrmyst.html

2The Wrath of the Immortals boxed set and official Almanacs can be bought as pdf on the Drivethrurpg site: https://www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/284479/Wrath-of-the-Immortals and https://www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/17347/poor-wizard-s-almanac, https://www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/16994/poor-wizard-s-almanac-ii-basic, https://www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/17348/poor-wizard-s-almanac-iii-book-of-facts, https://www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/17350/joshuan-s-almanac-book-of-facts-basic-2e.

3The Mystaran Almanacs created by the fan community can be downloaded for free here in the Vaults of Pandius http://pandius.com/alm.html

4I will follow more or less the geographical division outlined by Harri Mäki in ‘A geographical/political index for the almanacs AC 1014 to AC 1018’ which can be found here in the Vaults http://pandius.com/almindex.html. I am working on an expanded version of this greatly useful list which I’ll post in the Vaults of Pandius as soon as it’s completed.


5See here the pdf https://pandius.com/Threshold_10.pdf#67 and the html article in the Vaults of Pandius https://pandius.com/risefall.html and related maps https://pandius.com/thrs_mag.html#10

6Whatever happened to ... your favourite humanoids by Andrew Theisen https://pandius.com/noids.html

7But in THRESHOLD Magazine #28, check Dark Darokin by Not A Decepticon https://pandius.com/Threshold_28.pdf#91, also in html here https://pandius.com/drkdrkin.html

8Working thread on AC 1020 Almanac, which Hausman is editing, is here https://www.thepiazza.org.uk/bb/viewtopic.php?t=17075&start=250 on The Piazza forum