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Midwood
Ancient history
-2900 - (Midwood) The human civilization now only known as the Invisible Kingdom was at its peak in the Green Mountain and Tulgey Wood area. The civilization vanishes long before the Grailwarden dwarves explore the area.
The founding of Glangirn and the coming of Gax
-891 - (Midwood) The Grailwarden dwarves found the fortress of Glangirn, "Lost Mountain," within the depths of Green Mountain.
202 - (Midwood) The green dragon Gax arrives at Green Mountain, and enters the dwarven fortress of Glangirn there, with her kobold armies close behind. After three days of fighting, all the dwarves are either dead or have fled. Her kobold armies do a similar number on the Tulgey Wood gnomes community of Treeline, who had been feuding with the dwarves for several decades.
The founding of the Barony of Midwood
344 - (Midwood) The Prustan knight Gideon Midwood is given a rather undesirable fief -- it has a dragon next door -- and named Baron of Midwood. The village that grows up around the castle he builds becomes known as Middleborough.
561 - (Midwood) A river troll kills two lovers at a bridge later christened The Maiden's Bridge in a popular song.
572 - (Midwood) A hamlet grows up around The Maiden's Bridge.
581 - (Midwood) The Sisters of the New Dawn, an order of nuns devoted to Lothian, establish Maidensbridge Abbey southwest of town.
610 - (Midwood) The abbess of Maidensbridge Abbey goes mad and kills the nuns before taking her own life. The abbey is abandoned ever since.
647 - (Midwood) Philologus Midwood vanishes in a magical accident.
660 - (Midwood) Laadan becomes the seventh Baron of Midwood.
670 - (Midwood) A paladin named Artos Nachtmann enters Maidensbridge Abbey, determined to lift the curse he believed was on the building. The log of his explorations -- as well as his slow descent into madness -- is discovered after he eventually disappears.
692 - (Prustan Peninsula) Benoni Midwood, the heir to the Barony of Midwood killed in an avalanche.
693 - (Midwood) becomes becomes the eight Baron of Midwood.
697 - (Midwood) The Black Reavers kill Baroness Talitha Midwood.
698 - (Midwood) Nicodemus becomes the ninth Baron of Midwood.
709 - (Midwood) Baron Nicodemus Midwood conceals Hangman's Pass from the Eastern Hordes with illusions and trickery, thus saving his barony from invasion.
710 - (Midwood) Khenemet-Apep arrives in the area and soon after builds a tower on the slopes of Green Mountain. He eventually becomes known as "The Wizard of Green Mountain."
711 - (Midwood) Gax is seen leaving Glangirn by daylight, flying off to the west. She has never returned and her destination and fate are unknown.
712 - (Midwood) Rubik and his family arrive in the barony, constituting the first major gnomish presence in the region since the coming of Gax. They create a great manor house, which they call Wit's End, and then conceal it with powerful illusions.
712 - (Midwood) A Clan Farrin expedition to retake Glangirn arrives in Maidensbridge. After much preparation, they set off for the mountain and are never seen again. A kobold expedition several months later meets the same fate.
718 - (Midwood) The Green Mountain Kobold bard known as Fiddler shows up at a music competition at the Cat & the Fiddle in Maidensbridge. He narrowly loses to a gnomish bard. He appears at every subsequent musical contest held in the barony.
720 - (Southerly) Bailiff Gerard Schultheis of Blackberry Ridge is slain by a poison arrow fired by a goblin bandit. His young daughter, Arabelle Schultheis, is elected the village's new bailiff.
720 - (Midwood) Ronco and Priscilla Kem are brutally murdered at Kem House, hacked open with an axe or hatchet. Their son, Rando Kem, is the only witness, but is too traumatized to remember or articulate what happened to them. Despite a near-frantic investigation by Constable Ward Bridger, the culpit is never identified.
The present day
Midwood and surrounding regions
721, Birth 2 -- (Midwood) Fibber Bridger comes into the Cat & the Fiddle and shows a group of local Maidensbridge adventurers a helmet he allegedly retrieved from a previously undiscovered cairn in the Tulgey Barrow. The next day, the group, including Tosh Bergin, Tock Chandler, Ragglus Chaplin, Tucker Gallaway, Emmerson Grant, Emus Graymullet, Renraw Kem, Ebuferpaly Potentloins and Hazel Sawyer, sets out to seek their fortunes in what came to be known as Fibber's Cairn. There, they battled skeletons, a strange shadowy owl creature and an owlbear and discovered a set of five mirrors, guarded and locked away. The mirrors were later taken by Steward Eule Wood for "safekeeping."
721, Birth 15 -- (Midwood) Following up on a note the adventurers discovered in the owlbear's den during their first adventure in Fibber's Cairn, the adventurers -- this time including Emmerson Grant, Renraw Kem, Ebuferpaly Potentloins, Hazel Sawyer, Katadid Leach, Tucker Gallaway and Emus Graymullet -- return to the cairn to stake out an apparent rendezvous of bandits. Instead, they encounter a group of kobolds also interested in the cairn, led by the kobold known as Pick. The group had previously found dead kobold adventurers inside the cairn. A hostage exchange, where the kobolds took Bufer in exchange for good behavior, while the adventurers took Wormy, went bad when Emus and Emmerson attacked the kobold group to rescue the gnome. In the ensuing battle, Emmerson was killed. He was subsequently raised from the dead by Bishop Jurgen Lehmann, who charged the boy with becoming the new priest of Lothian in Maidensbridge.
721, Wind 24 -- (Midwood) The third day of Frost's Leaving in Maidensbridge. Renraw Kem is sought out by Khenemet-Apep, whom he flees. The older wizard eventually catches up with him, placing a geas on him to kill Tucker Gallaway when the Green Mountain Kobolds attack the hamlet at some unspecified date. The spell is overheard by Ebuferpaly Potentloins, and the wizards both claim they would like to be interviewed in front of Bishop Jurgen Lehmann, so that no one can lie. Treason is punishable by death in the empire, and Kem's friends, Tock Chandler, Katadid Leach and a man known as Stotch, free Renraw before he can be taken before the baron. The group then makes their way through the Tulgey Wood by night as fugitives, the forces of Imperial law in pursuit. The fugitives escape from the barony with a perilous trip down the Moss River rapids. The baron hears the evidence against them and later swears out a warrant for their arrest when he learns Renraw, Kat and Tock survived their descent. Khenemet-Apep reveals the Green Mountain Kobolds are planning a ritual to destroy the barony which involves five colors of dragonscale. Bufer and Emmerson strike a deal with the bishop, to turn Maidensbridge Chapel into a multi-denominational church, if they just do one little task for him first ...
721, Rain 4 -- (Midwood) Oktav Grosskopf, an acolyte of Lothian sent by Bishop Jurgen Lehmann, arrives in Maidensbridge, looking for Emmerson Grant, bearing written documents detailing the history of Maidensbridge Abbey, which the bishop wants Grant and Ebuferpaly Potentloins to clear out of whatever haunts it.
721, Rain 5 -- (Midwood) The adventurers -- Vonmora Farrin, Tucker Gallaway, Emmerson Grant, Emus Graymullet, Ebuferpaly Potentloins and Hazel Sawyer -- set out for Maidensbridge Abbey, with Oktav Grosskopf in tow. There they encounter the kobold druid Flower, who joins their group. Inside the abbey, the find it strangely cared for yet twisted and altered. In the dormitory for the nuns, they encounter the undead knight Artos Nachtmann. The adventurers defeat him and his minions and the weapons Judgement and Urak are recovered. The adventurers finally confront the abbess, who has been transformed into an allip by the Book of Ascendant Night, which was originally sent to the abbey by Iristul Vladaam, the head of House Vladaam in Ptolus. The adventurers defeat the abbess, but Bufer descends into madness as a result.
721, Rain 5 -- (Midwood) Heath Leach and Rogren Kem have a violent confrontation at Kem House in Maidensbridge. Leach is arrested by Ward Bridger as a possible suspect in the murder of Ronco Kem and his wife Priscilla Kem the year before. The litorian bounty hunter Nargrav arrives in town, looking for information on the fugitives. Heath is transported to Middleborough for trial.
721, Rain 12 -- (Midwood) Ebuferpaly Potentloins, Emus Graymullet and Hazel Sawyer head to the Black Tower of Khenemet-Apep to learn what he knows of the plot the Green Mountain Kobolds are formulating against the barony. The wizard tells him the kobolds are seeking to purchase the last scale of the black dragon Flavivirus. Meanwhile, Tucker Gallaway and Emmerson Grant are ordered by Constable Ward Bridger to help look for two missing children, who are discovered to have been snatched by a river troll living in an air-filled cave beneath Moss Pond. The adventurers come together to rescue the children and imprisoned faeries, and slay the two trolls who lived in the cave.
721, Rain 13 -- (Midwood) Tucker Gallaway, Emmerson Grant, Emus Graymullet, Heda Littlelark, Ebuferpaly Potentloins and Hazel Sawyer set out to intercept the adventurer Valerius as he travels north out of Kem, seeking to buy a scale of Flavivirus before Pick and her fellow champions of Tiamat can do the same.
721, Rain 21 -- (Duchy of Southerly) An expedition of dwarves escorting Thrushbeard to Grail Keep is poisoned by an unknown assassin, leaving Emus Graymullet and Morili Farrin to save the life of their king.
721, Rain 21 -- (Midwood) The Black Reavers led by Snig the Axe attack Maidensbridge in an attempt to elevate Snig's status among his tribe mates and help him reclaim the leadership role. He is killed by Tucker Gallaway, Emmerson Grant and Hazel Sawyer.
721, Rain 21 -- (Wit's End) Boddynok Barennackle is poisoned by an unknown assassin and when the enclave is sealed to allow guards to search for the culprit, Ebuferpaly Potentloins is trapped inside with him or her.
721, Bloom 6 -- (Bootblack) Hazel Sawyer, Tucker Gallaway, Emmerson Grant and Emus Graymullet visit the town, attempting to discover whether the Green Mountain kobolds have retrieved a white dragon scale from neighboring Bald Mountain. The next morning, they ascend the mountain, and find themselves the guest of Fegurd Grylasdottir. The group flees her and the Gryalsons that night, and kill the creature called Nigliktok the next morning. Fegurd kidnaps Maximilian Runcible from Bootblack, holding him hostage in return for Gravechill, which she claims belongs to her family. Emmerson Grant rescues Runcible, and vows to return to the mountain within a year and battle her for the sword, which the group takes with it back to Maidensbridge. Upon arrival, the group is met by Ulrich von Tannhauser, who recruits Emmerson Grant as a knight-aspirant of the Order of the Dawn. Hazel, Tucker and Emus are all drafted into a special unit of the imperial army serving under Baron Nicodemus Midwood.
721, Sun 17 -- (Uraq) Hazel Sawyer, Tucker Gallaway and Emus Graymullet arrive in Rashadar aboard the imperial naval vessel, the Sea Lion.
721, Sun 17 -- (Tarsis) After a month of visiting holy sites in the Duchy of North Folk, Emmerson Grant and Ulrich von Tannhauser arrive in the capital of the Tarsisian Empire, where Emmerson is to undergo both the testing and training involved with being a knight-aspirant in the Order of the Dawn.
721, Sun 26 -- (Uraq) The Midwood adventurers visit the Oasis of the White Palm, the domain of the blue dragon Ra'ad, there seeking a scale from him. They confront Pick and other Green Mountain Kobolds, who are there for the same reason.
721, Sun 27 -- (Tarsis) The knight-aspirant Agravain Eitelkeit dies in the basilica of the Order of the Dawn, an apparent suicide, although Emmerson Grant believes it to be murder, based on a late night encounter with a shadowy robed figure in his room. Several days later, Sir Johannes Greinberger, a church inquisitor who is one of the trainers evaluating the aspirants, is murdered as well.
The flight of the fugitives
721, Rain 4 -- (Southerly) The fugitives from Maidensbridge, now including Ragglus Chaplin, are summoned by bailiff Arabelle Schultheis while staying in Blackberry Ridge. She asks them to investigate burglaries that have been occuring in town, and which have been traced to a mysterious figure that sought refuge in the town's well. The quartet find a hidden cave complex that has been modified by (now-slain) dwarven engineers and battle a werebadger. Following a map found in his belongings, the fugitives take a potion that shrinks them down to the size of mice and they enter the rat warrens that extend to the north of the werebadger's lair. In their explorations, they encounter a choker and avoid a giant ant nest before battling the fiendish pseudodragon Blackspine, who apparently serves the goddess Kran. The fugitives discover that the schemes against the town were the machinations of the town's constable, Manfred Richter, whom they slay and expose as a criminal. They flee Blackberry Ridge when they discover a price is on their heads for their crimes in Midwood, and head for Kem.
721, Rain 7 -- (Kem) Tock Chandler, Ragglus Chaplin, Renraw Kem and Katadid Leach flee Blackberry Ridge and cross over into Kem. As they approach The Great Tower, they are chased by a great beast into the ruins south of the tower. There, they are taken in by cultists and discover their old friend Tosh Bergin is among them, as is the pirate Bele. The cultists' suspect intentions and unwillingness to give the group back their horses leads to a desperate break-out attempt. When it goes wrong, the group finds themselves deeper within the ruins, which turn out to be a city constructed by the Invisible Kingdom prior to the Wars of Fire. There, they are beset by shadowy monsters.
721, Rain 7 -- (Kem) Having struck a deal with Kashchej, the Master of The Great Tower, the fugitives step into a teleport circle and find themselves on the cliffs above a coastal village on the Southern Sea.
721, Rain 9 -- (Southern Sea) The fugitives, now hired as guards for a prisoner in the brig of the pirate ship Melann set sail toward Freeport.
721, Rain 10 -- (Goblin Falls) The litorian bounty hunter Nargrav arrives in town, following the fugitives' trail. He savagely beats Petra Kujau in an attempt to extract information from her before leaving town.
721, Rain 13 -- (Southern Sea) The fugitives and the crew of the Melann survive an attack by a ghost ship, the Sea Maiden. Vincenz, who had been a prisoner aboard the ship, is freed prior to the attack and participates in the ship's defense.
721, Rain 19 -- (Freeport) The fugitives, aboard the pirate ship Melann, arrive in Freeport.
Ptolus
596 -- (Ptolus) Longcoat kills five prostitutes on the Docks during the autumn and winter before vanishing without a trace.
720, Moons 1 -- (Ptolus) A new series of killings on the Docks makes residents suspect that Longcoat has returned after more than 100 years. A mismatched group of residents take it upon themselves to bring the killings to a halt. The finally slay the culprit, a Redcap fey, in a basement beneath the haunted Ten Bells tavern.
721, Rain 2 -- (Ptolus) A special division of the City Watch, called The Tenth Precinct is formed in response to a murder of a quill and writing implements merchant. After multiple confrontations with many Guilds and the Shuul, the Tenth discover a distant relative named Donald Coldwater is responsible.
721, Rain 2 -- (Ptolus) Erac Kunstler sends three of his apprentices and a handful of staff members to investigate a report of a four-armed ratling that has broken into the Bankers' Guild building in Oldtown.
721, Rain 3 -- (Ptolus) The Tenth raid and arrest Donald Coldwater for the murder of Cadderly Frickard.
721, Rain 30 -- (Ptolus) The Tenth slay a Redcap fey who has been killing workers in Dalenguard.
721, Bloom 10 -- (Ptolus) The Tenth are conscripted to guard a wedding between House Abanar and House Dallimothan. The main suspect Elmo Potentloins, is unofficially caught. Baeril Underhill vanishes soon after. Kinkade Munro secretly commissions Toridan Cran to free Hakim Card from The Prison.
721, Bloom 11 -- (Ptolus) Hakim Card is broken out of The Prison.
721, Bloom 12 -- (Ptolus) The Tenth have a series of separate adventures.
- Three members of the Tenth investigate the attempted murder of Phon Quartermain, which leads them to Toridan Cran's Gang.
- Felix Dallimothan is requested to investigate the killings of homeless lizardfolk by Ssesselis and runs afoul of a murderous altered fey.
- Elissa Gladesmere foils an assassination attempt of Hayman Knapp, leader of the Longfingers Guild.
- Kinkade Munro confronts the Republicans, as they attempt to cover up the rescue of Hakim Card. The Shuul is killed by the Sorn.
721, Sun 1 -- (Ptolus) The Emperor of the Church officially declares himself Emperor of the Tarsisian Empire and the city of Ptolus as the new capital. A riot almost ensues until it is averted by Kinkade Munro.
Freeport
-79 -- (The Serpent's Teeth) Freeport founded.
522 -- (Freeport) Captains Drac and Francisco lead a combined pirate fleet, raiding imperial ports along the coast of the Southern Sea. Each declares himself Sea Lord of Freeport.
531 -- (Freeport) Civil war in Freeport; Drac betrays Francisco, assumes sole control of the city.
561 -- (Freeport) Drac dies and is succeeded by Captain Cromney. A century of prosperity begins.
671 -- (Freeport) Marten Drac becomes Sea Lord, nearly bankrupts Freeport. Institutes Drac succession law.
685 -- (Freeport) Anton Drac succeeds Marten, repairs much of the damage wrought by his predecessor, but does not repeal succession law.
694 -- (Freeport) The Wizards Guild comes to Freeport.
696 -- (Freeport) Anton Drac assassinated; Milton Drac becomes Sea Lord.
721, Rain 19 -- (Freeport) Tosh Bergin, Ragglus Chaplin, Tock Chandler, Lyadak Greensward, Renraw Kem and Katadid Leach arrive in the city. Brother Egil at the Temple of Locharit (Freeport) asks for their help in locating the missing Lucius Freeman. Tock is reunited with Helena Grant, who is now a novitiate at the temple. Tosh leaves the company of his friends, asking them in a note not to look for him. In the course of their investigation, the group battles the half-orc pirate Scarbelly, routing him and killing much of his crew. They follow clues that lead them to a hidden temple of Dagon hidden within the city, where they confront Milos, a priest of Locharit, who is actually a cleric of Dagon.
721, Growth 1 -- (Freeport) Tosh Bergin, Ragglus Chaplin, Tock Chandler, Lyadak Greensward, Renraw Kem, Katadid Leach and Helena Grant all celebrate Swagfest, a party commemorating the Great Raid of 522. Along the way, the group foils an assassination attempt on Captain Lydon (apparently related to his gambling debts to the Quickling Benevolent Association) and rescue a number of citizens from an aranea's larder in Scurvytown.
Also see Praemal calendar.
