• 316 DR [Year of the Vibrant Land]

  • The city of Kholtar is founded by the dwarves of Great Rift for humans to trade with them and each other. »

  • 1231 DR [Year of the Bright Star]

  • The Talons of Timindar adventuring band find Yornar's Trail Companion among the ruins of Ilimar, an overgrown, fallen city overcome with nagas, lamia, and gigantic spiders.

    The Talons take the Companion to Kholtar, and there sell it to a mysterious dwarf who went about with two ravens perched, one on each shoulder, and seemed to be a servent or slave of the evil sisters Halatha and Murbreistra Starnar of Phelzol, renegade sorceresses of Halruaa. »