597 CY
| World of Greyhawk Timeline • Common Era • Age of Great Sorrow | ||||||||||
| 592 | 593 | 594 | 595 | 596 | 597 CY | 598 | 599 | 600 | 601 | 602 |
| In other reckonings: 1017 SE • 1241 OR • 1401 OL • 2005 TC • 2747 FT • 3256 BH • 5059 OC • 6112 SD | ||||||||||
Events
In this year[edit timeline]
- Riggby the Patriarch dies in Verbobonc. His body is returned to the Free City of Greyhawk for his funeral. (Expedition to the Ruins of Greyhawk p.4)
- Iuz attempts to invade the Free City, via the dungeons of Castle Greyhawk. (Expedition to the Ruins of Greyhawk p.4)
- Unbeknownst to most, Lord Robilar is returned to Oerth after an absence of 15 years. (Expedition to the Ruins of Greyhawk p.188,189)
- The Baklunish god Zuoken is released by adventurers, after being missing since 505 CY. (Events of Expedition to the Ruins of Greyhawk)
- The Cairn Hills Treaty is nullified. The Free City of Greyhawk cedes the Cairn Hills back to the Duchy of Urnst, allowing Greyhawk to move troops stationed there into the Wild Coast and Woolly Bay to counter the Orcish Empire of the Pomarj. (The Griffon's Nest)
- The buffer zone between the Domain of Greyhawk and Pomarj experiences a quiet period, with no raids for several months. (The Griffon's Nest)
- A damaged Fruztii ship sails into Ountsey, reporting the dead rising from the waves south of Atirr. (The Isle of Lost Souls)
Around this year[edit timeline]
Publications
The following publications are set in the year 597 CY:
- Expedition to the Ruins of Greyhawk
- Dungeon #142 to #151, including the following Greyhawk adventures:
- Here There Be Monsters (Dungeon #142; Savage Tide)
- Tides of Dread (Dungeon #143; Savage Tide)
- The Lightless Depths (Dungeon #144; Savage Tide)
- City of Broken Idols (Dungeon #145; Savage Tide)
- Vile Addiction (Dungeon #145)
- Serpents of Scuttlecove (Dungeon #146; Savage Tide)
- Spawn of Sehan (Dungeon #146)
- Dread Pagoda of the Inscrutable Ones (Dungeon #147)
- Into the Maw (Dungeon #147; Savage Tide)
- In the Shadows of Spinecastle (Dungeon #148)
- Wells of Darkness (Dungeon #148; Savage Tide)
- Enemies of My Enemy (Dungeon #149; Savage Tide)
- War of the Wielded (Dungeon #149)
- Prince of Demons (Dungeon #150; Savage Tide)
In Living Greyhawk
 | This section contains content from the Living Greyhawk organized-play campaign. |
The 597 campaign year began on January 1, 2007 and ended on December 31, 2007.
Notes
Living Greyhawk content published in 2007 is set in 597 CY.
As was Wizards of the Coast's policy at the time, the Living Greyhawk campaign continuity advanced the timeline to 591 CY for works released in 2001, continuing on a year-for-year basis for all adventures and Wizards.com web articles up to to 598 CY in 2008. This timeline concurrency rule would also be applied in Dragon, Dungeon, and Polyhedron magazines. The Living Greyhawk Gazetteer (2000), set in 591 CY, and Expedition to the Ruins of Greyhawk (2007), set in 597 CY CY, explicitly set dates bookending these years.
In several Paizo forum threads, editor Erik Mona asserted that the rule applies in general to all Greyhawk adventures:[1][2][3]
"The default assumption of all Greyhawk adventures in Dungeon ... is that the last digit of the year in which they were published corresponds to the last digit in the Common Year calendar... 59X CY (X= last digit of real world year). So adventures published in 2004, for example, take place in 594 CY."
—Erik Mona (Jul 2007)[3]
Citations
- ↑ Mona, Erik (22 November 2006). Appropriate Year for Greyhawk SCAP (forum). Paizo Forums. Paizo. Retrieved on 7 January 2024.
- ↑ Mona, Erik (2 February 2006). What happens before the Greyhawk Wars? (forum). Paizo Forums. Paizo. Retrieved on 7 January 2024.
- ↑ a b Mona, Erik (31 July 2007). Campaign Dates for all three APs (forum). Paizo Forums. Paizo. Retrieved on 7 January 2024.