Unknown past

Events

In this year

These events took place at some unknown time in the past. No fixed date is associated with them, and the order in which they took place is uncertain.

• The multiverse comes into being. From the primordial chaos arises the planes. (Guide to Hell p.2-3)
• Before the gods exist or any mortal empires rise, the chaotic obyrith demons come into being and rule the Abyss. (Dragon #359 p.44; Fiendish Codex I p.106)
• Io, the Ninefold Dragon, emerges from the First Void and sheds blood in the Shadow Void to inspire all creation. (Expedition to the Ruins of Greyhawk p.91)
• The Elemental planes birth the Elemental Princes of Good. (Dragon #353 p.43)
• The aboleth are spawned by the Great Old One, Piscaethces. They seed Oerth with aquatic life, but are eventually cast down by gods worshiped by their creations. They return millennia later to find dry land teeming with new species of life. (Lords of Madness p.26)
• An obyrith called the Queen of Chaos begins conquering worlds of the Material Plane. On the world of Oerth, in the Battle of Pesh in the shadow of White Plume Mountain, the Wind Dukes of Aaqa use the Rod of Law to defeat the Queen's general, Miska the Wolf-Spider. The obyrith demons fall, and the tanar'ri demons come to rule the Abyss. (Dragon #357 p.70; Dungeon #124 p.16-17; Fiendish Codex I p.106)
  • Oerth Journal #1 suggests a date of 60 OC or -4403 CY for this battle, though this date is not official.
• The tanar'ri demons and baatezu devils begin the Blood War. (Dragon #357 p.70; Fiendish Codex I p.106)
• According to legend, Oerth's second sun disappears thousands of years ago. (Greyspace p.26)
• Thousands of years before the rise of humans, the faranth civilization, a species of monstrous aberrations, inhabits the northern Flanaess as far south as the Nyr Dyv. After "thousands of years of enlightened rule", a star falls from the sky causing global ice age. (Dungeon #83 p.13-14)
• An unknown civilization inhabits the Flanaess. The Sinking Isle is a remnant of that species. (Greyhawk Adventures p.93)
• The first Dwarven King crafts the Axe of the Dwarvish Lords. (AD&D 1e DMG p.156)
• The Flan tribesmen spread throughout the Flanaess. (C2 The Ghost Tower of Inverness p.2)
• The Flan mountain city of Tostenhca (Skrellingshald) is built. (Greyhawk Adventures p.92)
• The Ur-Flannae send emissaries to the gray elves of the City of Summer Stars in what is now the Coldwood, seeking the elven magic from Queen Sharafere. When she refuses, the Ur-Flannae destroy the forest. Sharafere's son Darnakurian creates the evil sword Hunger, but is controlled by its evil to slay his own people in what is known as Darnakurian's Doom. (Ivid p.74)
• The Empire of Vecna is founded. (LGG p.64)
• The great wizard Galap-Dreidel inhabits the great fortress Inverness in the foothills of the Abbor-Alz. He hides the powerful Soul-Gem therein. (C2 The Ghost Tower of Inverness p.2)
• Tzunk, the High Wizard Priest of the Isles of Woe, discovers the Codex of the Infinite Planes and uses it to raise an empire and conquer to the City of Brass. Upon his death, his body is cut into a hundred pieces to prevent his resurrection. The Isles of Woe later sink into the Nyr Dyv. (AD&D 1e DMG p.156; Book of Artifacts p.27; LGJ #2 p.19)
• Founding of the empire of Lum the Mad. (AD&D 1e DMG p.159)

Notes

This article lists events which took place at an unknown point in the distant past.