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Baldur's Gate 3 takes place in 1492 DR.[1][2][note 1] It immediately follows the events of its prequel, Baldur's Gate: Descent into Avernus, which took place earlier in the same year.[url 1]

This is a non-exhaustive list of dated events noted in-game occurring during and before 1492. This is in chronological order.

Far Past edit

-339 edit

  • The Netherese archmage Karsus attempts to seize control of the Weave from Mystryl, a previous incarnation of Mystra, and become a god. Being unsuccessfull in this results in his death and the fall of the Empire of Netheril.[3]

c. 567 edit

612 edit

698 edit

  • Zholtan Farr the Eviscerator succeeds Eravask as master vampire in what would later be Baldur's Gate.[6]

713 edit

  • Madame Tallon the Well-Preserved succeeds Zholtan Farr as master vampire in what would later be Baldur's Gate.[6]

888 edit

  • The end of Madame Tallon and the beginning of the Interregnum: a temporary Lathanderian suppression of the master vampires of what would later be Baldur's Gate.[6]

955 edit

  • Blaiseuse the Coryphee becomes master vampire in what would later be Baldur's Gate. She is noted for leading her spawn in ecstatic blood dances.[6]

986 edit

998 edit

  • Dyckson Nightbinder succeeds Blaiseuse as master vampire in what would later be Baldur's Gate.[6]

1019 edit

  • Faibleur the Fleeting succeeds Dyckson Nightbinder as master vampire in what would later be Baldur's Gate.[6]
  • Hideous Gathwycke 'Who Knew Not Satiety' succeeds Faibleur as master vampire in what would later be Baldur's Gate.[6]

between c. 1059 and c. 1068 edit

c. 1068 edit

  • Balduran departs on his final sea voyage aboard the Wandering Eye,[11] but not before commanding that some of his wealth be used to fund the construction of a wall around his hometown of Gray Harbour, thus inspiring its later name of Baldur's Gate.[12][13][note 4]

1138 edit

  • Donnela Szarr the Architect, who opened the Tourmaline Depths, succeeds Gathwycke as master vampire in Baldur's Gate.[6]

1204 edit

1276 edit

  • Cazador Szarr 'The Avid' succeeds Vellioth as master vampire in Baldur's Gate.[6]

1300s edit

1322 edit

1356 edit

  • Bruenor Battlehammer slays shadow dragon Shimmergloom, and becomes the Eighth King of Mithral Hall. [15]

between c. 1367 and c. 1370 edit

  • 10 Tarsahk — Ketheric Thorm is informed by Thisobald Thorm that the Mason spoke out against him. [16][note 2]
  • 6 Flamerule — Thisobald is poisoned with truth serum, and confesses to poisoning drinks, Malus 'treatments', interrogations and more. His poisoner threatens to reveal it to the Baldur's Gate authorities unless bribed.[16][note 2]
  • 23 Eleint — Harpers poison Ketheric Thorm. He survives, evidence of his immortality. [16][note 2]
  • Khelben Arunsun sends a Letter of Surrender to General Ketheric Thorm on behalf of the High Harper Council and its allies seeking to end the suffering of the people of Reithwin and prevent further loss of life. Ketheric Thorm declines their surrender.[note 2]

1371 edit

  • 3 Uktar — Apprentice starts writing a journal [17]
  • 6 Uktar — Two druids from the Emerald Grove are sent up north. [18]
  • 9 Uktar — Adventurers from Baldur's Gate set up camp, clearing some forest near the Emerald Grove.[18]
  • 10 Uktar — The Emerald Grove Druids confrontation with the adventurers doesn't go well.[18]
  • 12 Uktar — The Emerald Grove Druids retaliate with a mudslide. They hear reports of a Red Wizard in a nearby village. Rangers are sent to investigate. [18]
  • 6 Nightal — Former Red Wizard Ilyn Toth starts a journal. He has begun work as an Apothecary in Moonhaven. He continues his necromantic research and sends his familiar to secure bodies.[19]

between c. 1372 and c. 1392 edit

Moonhaven Logbook edit

The Moonhaven Logbook is written before Ketheric's Dark Justiciar forces are vanquished.[note 5][note 6]

  • 26 Eleasis — Calishite Merchant Oliver Synge arrives in Moonhaven. [20]
  • 27 Eleasis — Oliver Synge leaves Moonhaven. [20]
  • 7 Eleint — A possibly Rashemi stranger passes through Moonhaven. [20]
  • 14 Marpenoth — Three men in black armour pass through Moonhaven. [20]
  • 2 Uktar — Journeyman Hackett passes through Moonhaven. [20]
  • 30 Uktar — Moonhaven raided by soldiers in black armour. [20]
  • 14 Nightal — The key gem of Necromancy of Thay goes missing. Apothecary suspects apprentice. [20]
  • 15 Nightal — Oliver Synge passes through Moonhaven without stopping. [20]
  • 18 Nightal — Apothecary apprentice disappears near well. [20]
  • 20 Nightal — Smoke on the horizon. Apothecary suspects a potential raid. [20]

Olam's Journal edit

Olam's Journal begins after Ketheric is slain.[note 5][note 6] The journal's use of "Darkness" presumably is recording the days since the shadow curse was unleashed.

  • Darkness 2 — Olam recalls how Ketheric's curse changed the land. [21]
  • Darkness 5 — Olam calls his familiar Corvin to him. He searches the land.[21]
  • Darkness 18 — Olam finds scrolls by the House of Healing, but doesn't dare enter. [21]
  • Darkness 26 — Olam can bear his torment no longer. [21]

1400—1491 edit

c. 1440 edit

  • A druid writes a journal of his first encounter with the shadow curse.[22]

c. 1475 edit

1477 edit

  • Tarsakh — Amanita Szarr recalls how at 13 she was summoned to Szarr Palace. [23]
  • Kythorn — Amanita Szarr struggles against her vampiric nature. She recalls how she has been imprisoned in the attic for over a year.[24]
  • Flamerule — Amanita Szarr rejects the name of Szarr. She dubs herself Lady Incognita and vows to stay in the attic. [25]
  • The Dark Urge, accompanied by his butler, commits a spree of murders in Baldur's Gate.[26]

c. 1479 edit

  • Duke Belynne Stelmane is known to have recently experienced a "seizure" followed by a prolonged period of unconsciousness after which she awoke a changed woman, debilitated as if by a stroke. Secretly this was caused by an illithid taking mental possession of her.[27]

1481 edit

  • 2 Alturiak — Last entry of Lenore De Hurst's diary. She has been called to Baldur's Gate to confer with other clerics of Mystra.[28]

1482 edit

1485 edit

c. 1491 edit

Unknown year edit

  • Nightal 3 — Bhaal sends a butler to his newest chosen. The butler is returned. [33]
  • Nightal 4 — The butler returns, praising its murderer. It is murdered again. [33]
  • Nightal 9 — The butler returns again. Bhaal's chosen makes plans for it. [33]

1492 (Current year) edit

Baldur's Gate 3 takes place in the year of 1492 DR, known as the "Year of Three Ships Sailing".[2]

Pre-game events edit

  • In an event known as "the Descent", Elturel is plunged into Avernus, the result of an Infernal conspiracy involving Zariel among others.[34]
    • Grand Duke Ravengard disappears during the Descent, but is returned alongside the rest of the city to the Material Plane.[32]
    • The tieflings of Elturel become scapegoats for the crisis. The increased prejudice forces them to leave the city, becoming refugees.

Tarsakh ("The Claw of Storms") edit

Eleasis ("Highsun") edit

  • 20 Eleasis - A nautiloid crashes on the banks of the River Chionthar, with a number of its captives making it out alive.[note 8]

Eleint ("The Fading") edit

  • 14 Eleint — The tiefling refugees have settled in at the Emerald Grove.[36]

Marpenoth ("Leaffall") edit

  • 2 Marpenoth — Adventurers in search of the Nightsong arrive at the Emerald Grove.[36]
  • 9 Marpenoth — Four merchants with a single wagon pass by the Risen Road tollhouse.[2]
  • 12 Marpenoth — A Flaming Fist company consisting of 15 Fists and a Gauntlet passes by the Risen Road tollhouse.[2]
  • 21 Marpenoth — Brewer and two guards headed for Waukeen's Rest pass by the Risen Road tollhouse.[2]

Uktar ("The Rotting") edit

  • 2 Uktar — Seven wounded farmers pass by the Risen Road tollhouse.[2]
  • 3 Uktar — Risen Road tollhouse sends couriers to request extra guards.[2]
  • 7 Uktar — Too many farmers to count, carrying their own dead, pass by the Risen Road tollhouse.[2]
  • 11 Uktar — The toll collectors find Risen Road post untenable.[2]
  • 16 Uktar — The toll collectors prepare to leave the Risen Road Tollhouse.[2]

Unknown month edit

  • Lord Enver Gortash becomes a contender for the position of Duke of Baldur's Gate.[32]
  • Ulder Ravengard returns to Baldur's Gate and endorses Gortash for Archduke.[32]

Footnotes edit

  1. ↑ DR stands for Dalereckoning, the most common calendar in Baldur's Gate 3's setting of the Faerûn continent, and the only calendar used in-game.
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 Grymforge: A History states that Grymforge was built 800 years before Ketheric Thorm's Sharran forces rediscovered it. Ketheric turned openly to Shar at some point between 1367 (when Moonrise Towers was the residence of the Harper ally High Herald Crescentcoat Naernythra Thaloudyn),[4] and 1370 (which is the latest year that Khelben Arunsun could have sent his Letter of Surrender to General Ketheric Thorm on behalf of the High Harper Council since Khelben was exiled from the Harpers that year).[5] 1367 minus 800 is 567, thus giving a rough year estimate for the original construction of Grymforge.
  3. ↑ AD&D sourcebook The Horde recounts events as they were in 1359.[9] It says that construction of the Great Spire of the Ice Sea began "several centuries ago."[10] 1359 minus 300 is 1059, giving a rough estimate of the earliest year Balduran and Ansur could have visited it.
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 The videogame expansion Baldur's Gate: Tales of the Sword Coast takes place during the Bhaalspawn Crisis of 1368. It contains the following line of player character dialogue when speaking to Kaishas: "It bears the markings of Balduran, a hero that went missing some three hundred years ago." 1368 minus 300 is 1068, giving a rough year estimate for Balduran's final voyage.
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 The Dark Journal states that Ilyn Toth and his apprentice were settled peacefully in Moonhaven on 6 Nightal, 1371. Nightal is the final month of the calendar year. The later journal Moonhaven Logbook describes Moonhaven descending into violence due to recurring attacks by Dark Justiciar forces in Uktar, which is an earlier calendar month than Nightal. This means that the Moonhaven Logbook must have been written after 1371 with the earliest possible year being 1372.
  6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 While speaking to the player in Last Light Inn during Act 2, Jahaeira states "We tracked them to this ancient village only to be faced with a man we killed and buried over a century ago." The events of Baldur's Gate 3 take place in 1492, which means that Ketheric must have been killed in battle with the Harpers some time before 1392.
  7. ↑ 7.0 7.1 According to his dialogue in-game, Wyll was 17 when he signed his pact with Mizora and then he spent 7 years exiled from Baldur's Gate. That would make him approximately 24 at the time of Baldur's Gate 3, which takes place in 1492. In Act 3 when asked about Stelmane, Wyll says he was "a boy of seven or eight" when he first met her.
  8. ↑ Derived from the in-game calendar. This however conflicts with the other entries regarding the Emerald Grove in 1492 DR.

References edit

  1. ↑ Baldur's Mouth 1492 DR Issue 83
  2. ↑ 2.00 2.01 2.02 2.03 2.04 2.05 2.06 2.07 2.08 2.09 Tollhouse Ledger (Risen Road)
  3. ↑ Brian R. James, Ed Greenwood (September 2007). The Grand History of the Realms. Edited by Kim Mohan, Penny Williams. (Wizards of the Coast), p. 47. ISBN 978-0-7869-4731-7.
  4. ↑ Ed Greenwood (September 1993). The Code of the Harpers. Edited by Mike Breault. (TSR, Inc.), p. 37 & 79. ISBN 1-56076-644-1.
  5. ↑ Brian R. James, Ed Greenwood (September 2007). The Grand History of the Realms. Edited by Kim Mohan, Penny Williams. (Wizards of the Coast), p. 150. ISBN 978-0-7869-4731-7.
  6. ↑ 6.00 6.01 6.02 6.03 6.04 6.05 6.06 6.07 6.08 6.09 6.10 Vampires before Vellioth — Lady Incognita
  7. ↑ Reithwin Necrology
  8. ↑ Dear Ansur
  9. ↑ Brian R. James, Ed Greenwood (September 2007). The Grand History of the Realms. Edited by Kim Mohan, Penny Williams. (Wizards of the Coast), p. 144. ISBN 978-0-7869-4731-7.
  10. ↑ David Cook (August 1990). “Volume I”. In Steve Winter ed. The Horde (TSR, Inc.), p. 53. ISBN 0-88038-868-4.
  11. ↑ Balduran's Log Book
  12. ↑ Ed Greenwood, Matt Sernett, Steve Winter (August 20, 2013). “Murder in Baldur's Gate”. In Dawn J. Geluso ed. Murder in Baldur's Gate (Wizards of the Coast), p. 4. ISBN 0-7869-6463-4.
  13. ↑ Jeff Grubb and Ed Greenwood (1990). Forgotten Realms Adventures. (TSR, Inc), p. 77. ISBN 0-8803-8828-5.
  14. ↑ Astarion dialog with Sebastian in Cazador's Dungeon. Sebastian: "How long have I been down here?" Astarion: "One hundred and seventy years. You were one of my first."
  15. ↑ Flintdigger's Abridged Dwarven History
  16. ↑ 16.0 16.1 16.2 The Waning Moon: Consignments — Thisobald Thorm
  17. ↑ Apprentice's Journal
  18. ↑ 18.0 18.1 18.2 18.3 Logbook XII: 1371
  19. ↑ Dark Journal — Ilyn Toth
  20. ↑ 20.00 20.01 20.02 20.03 20.04 20.05 20.06 20.07 20.08 20.09 Moonhaven Logbook — Ilyn Toth
  21. ↑ 21.0 21.1 21.2 21.3 Olam's Journal — Olam
  22. ↑ Dead Druid's Journal
  23. ↑ Tarsakh 1477 — Amanita Szarr
  24. ↑ Kythorn 1477 — Amanita Szarr
  25. ↑ Flamerule 1477 — Amanita "Lady Incognita" Szarr
  26. ↑ Blood in Baldur's Gate
  27. ↑ Ed Greenwood, Matt Sernett, Steve Winter (August 20, 2013). “Campaign Guide”. In Dawn J. Geluso ed. Murder in Baldur's Gate (Wizards of the Coast), p. 36. ISBN 0-7869-6463-4.
  28. ↑ De Hurst's Diary — Lenore De Hurst
  29. ↑ Manifesto — Orin the Red
  30. ↑ Ed Greenwood, Matt Sernett, Steve Winter (August 20, 2013). “Campaign Guide”. In Dawn J. Geluso ed. Murder in Baldur's Gate (Wizards of the Coast). ISBN 0-7869-6463-4.
  31. ↑ Karlach's dialog when asked about her history with Gortash and her dialogue after killing him. Karlach: "That's my reward for everything I suffered. That's why I survived ten years of torment."
  32. ↑ 32.0 32.1 32.2 32.3 32.4 The Dukes of Baldur's Gate
  33. ↑ 33.0 33.1 33.2 Experiment on Cruor — Dark Urge
  34. ↑ Adam Lee, et al. (September 2019). Baldur's Gate: Descent into Avernus. Edited by Michele Carter, et al. (Wizards of the Coast). ISBN 978-0-7869-6687-5.
  35. ↑ Contractor's Record
  36. ↑ 36.0 36.1 Grove Annals
  1. ↑ Twitter: Lee, Adam (2019-09-24). 1492 DR. Retrieved 2024-01-02. Archived from the original on 2019-09-24.

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