581 CY

Events

In this year

• Early this year, the Fellowship of the Torch meet up again in the Free City of Greyhawk after Grimmri Fischer obtains a treasure map to a tomb in the Cairn Hills. They discover the Torch of Anazander which gives the group their name. (CoG, FFF p.71)
• Early this year, Schinus Balint of Greyhawk joins the city's militia. He quickly rises through the ranks, eventually becoming Commander of the Cairns Hills Force. (From the Ashes, Campaign Book p.85)
• Jallarzi Sallavarian invited to join the Circle of Eight to replace Bucknard. (LGJ #0 p.6)
• Assassination of the Circle of Eight. Halmadar the Cruel escapes his prison. Using both the Hand and Eye of Vecna, and under Vecna's control, he slays the entire Circle of Eight. Vecna attempts to become a greater deity, but is banished at Tovag Baragu by adventurers. Senior Vecna cultist Diraq Malcinex, the Heart of Vecna, is slain. (WGA4 Vecna Lives!; LGG p.15; LGJ #0 p.6)
• The summer of this year is particularly hot. (CoG, FFF p.76)
• Adri Forest burned by 300 warriors of the Great Kingdom. The druid Griffith Adarian conjures the last ki-rin living in the Flanaess to defend the forest. (CoG, FFF p.76)
• A great magical battle rages for two days at Stankaster Tower. (From the Ashes, Campaign Book p.30)
• In the Bandit Kingdoms, the Grand Clans of Grosskopf absorbs the Fellands by intermarriage. (LGG p.26)
• Sheroyl Kubiak joins Wasim Qharallah's Golden Scimitar mercenary group at Sefmur, capital of Tusmit. (From the Ashes, Campaign Book p.74)
• The Directing Oligarchy of Greyhawk creates a council representatives from the eight city quarters, following calls for great public involvement in the city's government. (TAB p.65)
• The Red Death plague sweeps the Flanaess. (LGG p.24)
• Castle at Hommlet completed. (LGG p.132)
• The Falcon, an evil cleric, attacks the temple of St. Cuthbert in the Free City of Greyhawk, resulting in increased fortification of the temple. (TAB p.89)
• The Falcon is finally brought to justice. (TAB p.83)
• A distant relative of Duke Karll of Duchy of Urnst disappears during an expedition to the ruins of the Vale of the Lamia. (TAB, Adventure Maps p.4)
• "Farmer Giles' squash" incident. In Needfest in the City of Greyhawk, the prize-winning vegetable at Guild Day contest is found to have been magically enlarged. (TAB p.46)
• Turrosh Mak becomes leader of the Pomarj. (LGG p.99)
• The Scarlet Brotherhood begins enslavement of the Hepmonaland Olman and Touv peoples. They begin recruiting Hepmonaland Suel as mercenaries. (The Scarlet Brotherhood p.5)
• Foreign mercenaries infiltrate the Scarlet Brotherhood's headquarters, Hesuel Ilshar, and smash the Weeping Hexagram. (The Scarlet Brotherhood p.5,86)
• By this year, almost all of the Shield Lands has fallen to the Horned Society, goblinoids, and Bandit Kingdoms troops. Only Critwall remains. (LGG p.104)

Around this year

• The wizard Sevant is attacked and slain by his rival, the Black Sorcerer of Verbobonc. (Slavers p.48)