Obviously a lot more to it than that...but it's kinda difficult to break down 4 years of game time into a paragraph. ;)
try harder :P
NEVER!! I'd rather die!
We started a few months before Kalak's death... she (Thri-Kreen Gladiator) and and a few others escaped from the slave pens of Nibenay, made their way through the Crescent Forest, fought off persuing templars, got ran out of Gulg, fought off Slavers, came to terms with their various personality conflicts and made their way to Tyr just in time to catch a big show at the arena... now she's getting ready to join the Crimson Legion in the war with Urik.
We're now going to switch to another character for a while.
When I get the band back together, we'll probably do Road to Urik and Arcane Shadows. After that, I'll probably switch back to my own material. I might do Asticlian Gambit....
I'd really like to do a game in FY 12+, but only once I've actually used all these old 2nd ed materials I have lying around. (sigh) Someday...
The PCs got into the golden circlet into their hands with which they were able to trace the Obsidian Man. They decided to drop the circlet into the Silt Sea, because they thought, that this item would be too dangerous in the wrong hands (besides that ordered to kill everyone, who has been catched with golden circlet in his possesion).
Right now the campaign is only a couple months before Kalaks fall. So far the PCs have manged to hinder Dregoth's plans to conquer the tablelands, but this only causes only a delay to the point where many sorcerer kings got killed or imprisoned. Good for me, that they don't know the timeline, so they won't notice that they will be the reason for Dregoth's success in taking Raam down.
My idea was that Dregoth could have started his invasion erlier, but the PCs allways got in his way so that his plans only got delayed. With the events coming, more and more sorcerer kings will fall, that could have stopped Dregoth.
Personally, I find the current timeline much, much deadlier, because chaos is more rampant, and people have much more to lose, but huge amounts to gain. The risks seem to be worth it, and so the power struggle is enormous.
The PCs didn't ask what the year was and I didn't tell them! That is, until the city of Raam started falling down around their ears with riots after Abalach-Re's death. So FY10 it is. I thought it would make an interesting transition for most of the players who had only known 2nd ed for the most part.
Other things going on in my world.. Borys is starting his romp to gather his levy, and the group is wondering what to do since Raam (their home town) is without a SK now to deal with it, they don't think they could manage to somehow gather 1,000 slaves to pony up.. so they are instead on a mission to find some fabled artifact that made it's way to Athas millenia ago that is rumored to slay dragons so that they can rid the world of Borys (and not have to deal with the trouble of gathering his levy).
Kalak is moving towards his plan to skip into full stage dragon. I presented tidbits, and bait to get the group to Tyr in time to do something about it, but they would rather not go there, so I will probably have Kalak succeed, go insane from the transformation, and start wreaking havok on the world.
Thri-kreen are beginning to amass in the northwestern areas, raiding outposts and such. Growing restless. I still don't know where exactly I want to go with this just yet, but it is happening....
And of course, Dregoth is soon to beging his siege of Raam again.. (Yes, in my campaign it has been maybe 4 months tops since the group foiled his plans from the City by the Silt Sea adventure, but no matter... It was actually Dregoth in my world that killed Abalach-Re to throw Raam into a state of confusion so as to make his invasion that much easier to deal with when the time came)
So, in a way, I take some elements from "canon", but my world is progressing differently.