591 CY

Events

• On Needfest 1, Nyrond's new provincial layout comes into effect. (LGG p.75)
• In Coldeven, the first new Windmarch trade caravan begins. (LGG p.24)
• Early this year, Kusnir becomes a rallying point for freed Olman and Touv slaves, who follow the Touv leader Utavo the Wise. (The Duchy of Berghof)
• In Growfest, Scarlet Brotherhood forces led by Krevaradan recapture Kusnir. Utavo and some of his forces flee into the mountains, and return a month later to recapture Kusnir in a ferocious massacre, tearing Krevaradan limb from limb. (The Duchy of Berghof)
• The "yellow-sails" of the revived Slavers begin to terrorize the waters of the central Flanaess.^{[citation needed]}
• Tyrem appointed the Father of Faith by the Scarlet Brotherhood.^{[citation needed]}
• Voorman Karenin of Perrenland's term in office ends. (LGG p.86)
• Vecna escapes his imprisonment in the Demiplane of Dread and plots the destruction of the other gods. (LGG p.186; Die Vecna Die! p.2; Player's Guide p.18,21)
  • Note: The Greyhawk Player's Guide, set in 591 CY, lists Vecna as still imprisoned, while the Living Greyhawk Gazetteer, also set in 591 CY, lists him as recently escaped. For this to be accurate, Vecna must have escaped in exactly 591 CY.
• In spring, the xvart slave Xiq-Xiq is murdered by adventurers in the Blue Dragon Inn in Greyhawk. (LGJ #4 p.29)
• In Patchwall, Tobin Potriades, Senior Tutor at the University of Magical Arts in Greyhawk, dies in his sleep. He is succeeded by Abrazaldin Hosk. (LGJ #5 p.6)
• The sword Druniazth resurfaces in Dyvers. (Dragon #294 p.?)
• The Gran March begins building a road through the Dim Forest.^{[citation needed]}
• The bard Finnadrel of Delaric defrauds investors in his theatrical production. (Places of Mystery I)
• Giants against begin attacking Geoff from the Crystalmists and Barrier Peaks (the events of Against the Giants: The Liberation of Geoff)^{[citation needed]}

Publications

The following publications take place in this year:

• Player's Guide
• The Adventure Begins
• Die Vecna Die!
• Dungeon #78 to #89, including the following Greyhawk adventure modules:
  • Deep Freeze (Dungeon #83)
  • Lord of Scarlet Tide (Dungeon #85)
  • Cradle of Madness (Dungeon #87)
  • Headless (Dungeon #89)
• Slavers
• Against the Giants: The Liberation of Geoff
• Living Greyhawk Gazetteer
• Living Greyhawk Journal #0 - #7
• Return to the Temple of Elemental Evil

Living Greyhawk

The 591 campaign year began on August 1, 2000 and ended on December 31, 2001. Subsequent years would run for one year from Jan 1 to Dec 31.

Notes

591 CY is a significant year for World of Greyhawk products. Following TSR's bankruptcy and acquisition by Wizards of the Coast in 1997, the Dungeons & Dragons brand returned to producting Greyhawk products for the first time since 1993's WGR6 The City of Skulls. In 1998, Wizards of the Coast released the Player's Guide, which explicitly advanced the timeline by six years from 585 CY (used in 1993's WGR4 The Marklands and recommended in 1998's Return of the Eight) to 591 CY.

This year remained explicitly current in D&D 3rd edition's Living Greyhawk Gazetteer, published in 2000, and in 2001's Return to the Temple of Elemental Evil, based on the dating of the Battle of Emridy Meadows (569 CY) as "22 years ago".

No other Greyhawk sourcebooks were published until Expedition to the Ruins of Greyhawk in 2007, leaving 591 CY "current" for several years. However, the timeline was advanced in the Living Greyhawk continuity starting from Living Greyhawk Journal #8, asserting adventures published in 2002 as equivalent to 592 CY, and beginning a precedent of one real-world year equivalent to one in-world year, which would continue until the end of Living Greyhawk in 2008, with modules such as COR8-12 Foundations dated 598 CY. This timeline concurrency was also respected by Dragon and Dungeon magazines, and is generally accepted by the Greyhawk community.