584 CY

Events

• Twenty-seven of the thirty lords of the Sea Princes assassinated in a single night by the Scarlet Brotherhood. The remaining lords surrender. (LGG p.101)
• The thieves' guild of Scant flee the city. The Scarlet Brotherhood subsequently captures the city, and Onnwal falls to the Scarlet Brotherhood. (LGG p.80)
• Lordship of the Isles declares loyalty to the Scarlet Brotherhood. (Player's Guide p.7)
• A fleet from the Lordship of the Isles, led by the Scarlet Brotherhood, attempts to invade Gradsul, but is repelled. They move on to harry the ships of Irongate. (LGG p. 66,72)
• Leastisle is sacked by marauders, throwing the isle into anarchy. (LGG p.99,100)
• The Iron League enters into alliance negotiations with Nyrond, even weathering the defection of the Lordship of the Isles to the Scarlet Brotherhood. (From the Ashes, p.7)
• Ket allies with Iuz, and promptly attacks Bissel. (From the Ashes, p.7)
• Turrosh Mak of the Pomarj attacks the Wild Coast and Ulek. Pomarj forces are stopped at the Battle of the Pass of Celene by a coalition of humanoid warriors. (From the Ashes, p.7, LGG p.152; Slavers, p.122-124)
• Fearing invasion of the city of Fax by Turrosh Mak, forty members of the Crescent League hijack a ship and flee to Onnwal. This act destroys the Crescent League's reputation across the Flanaess. (Dragon #256 p.47)
• Fratern Milblinnis, an anti-magic secret society, is established. (Dragon #256 p.48)
• Renewed giant and evil humanoid raids hit the Grand Duchy of Geoff, Sterich, and the Yeomanry. Geoff and Sterich are conquered by the invaders. Dwarves and humans flee to the Good Hills. (From the Ashes, p.7; LGG p.49,107,145)
• Nonhumans despoil the Loftwood by setting fires. (LGG p.141)
• Giants and nonhumans overrun the Oytwood. (LGG p.141)
• All half-orcs in Safeton and Narwell killed in a single night. (Player's Guide p.61)
• The Battle of Innspa marks the peak of the Aerdy invasion of Nyrond. The battle results in a decisive defeat of the Great Kingdom's armies. Mass executions follow, ordered by Ivid V. (unbeknownst to much of the Flanaess, Ivid murders loyal generals and turns them into undead servants. Ivid is subsequently assassinated by remaining generals and rises as an undead animus by priests of Hextor.) Mass killings of the Aerdy populace instigated by Ivid. (From the Ashes, p.8)
• The North Province secedes from the Great Kingdom. (From the Ashes, p.8, LGG p.24)
• The Scarlet Brotherhood begins campaign of assassinations in Iron League states with an aim to destabilize their governments. Cobb Darg of the Free City of Irongate orders the execution of every known Scarlet Brotherhood agent within the city. (From the Ashes, p.9)
• Iuz designates the Free City of Rookroost, Free City-State of Stoink and one other as regional capitals of the Bandit Kingdoms. (LGG p.29-30)
• In Goodmonth, Ketite cavalry attack Bissel, which falls by mid-Harvester. (LGG p.33)
• In the month of Harvester, the Pact of Greyhawk is signed, ending what would retroactively be known as the Greyhawk Wars. The treaty fixes national borders. (From the Ashes, p.9; LGG p.16)
• On the same day, Rary instigates a massive magical battle within the Great Hall and attempts to assassinate the other members of the Circle of Eight, killing only Otiluke and Tenser before fleeing into the Bright Desert to form his own kingdom. (From the Ashes, p.9; LGG p.16,38)
• Rary's older brother, the legendary scholar Arkalan Sammal of Ket, disavows his brother. He succumbs to alcoholism. (LGJ #5 p.8)
• Tenser returned to life, but leaves the Circle of Eight. Warnes Starcoat, Alhamazad the Wise and Theodain Eraison join the Circle of Eight. (LGG p.156)
• Cairn Hills Treaty. Cairn Hills ceded from the Duchy of Urnst to the Free City of Greyhawk. (LGG p.144; The Griffon's Nest)
• Exalted Dweomercraft, a tome of Aerdy and drow magic, disappears from the Valley of the Mage.n (Dragon #241 p.76)
• During the feast of Brewfest, a cleric of Iuz commits a heinous massacre at Steelbone Meadows in Wormhall, the Bandit Kingdoms. Five thousand men are killed as they sleep following drunken celebrations upon receiving word of the Pact of Greyhawk. (LGG p.31)
  • Dragon Annual 4 p.21 provides a contradictory date of Ready'reat 13 for this event, around six weeks after Brewfest. It is recorded as the Day of Treachery.