• -3983 DR

  • Kahvoerm Irithyl is led by a vision to a hill in a clearing toward the northern border of the old realm of Jhyrennstar. There he plants the Crownblade, summoning the Rule Tower, first and tallest of the spires of Castle Cormanthor, founding the city that would come to be Myth Drannor. »

  • -223 DR [Year of Burning Briars]

  • The Sixth Rysar of Cormanthor (Myth Drannor) begins with the realm's greatest warrior, Eltargrim, taking his first steps toward magic (and High Magic). »

  • 101 DR [Year of the Smiling Moon]

  • Josidiah Starym is born In Myth Drannor a gold elf of House Starym to his gold elf father and moon elf mother (Ysmyrl'da Starym). He has his father's features and golden hair, but he has his mother's uncanny sapphire eyes - a strange combination for a noble gold elf child. »

  • 145 DR [Year of the Pirates' Port]

  • Lady Ahskahala Durothil is born at Semberholme to Lady Uschymna and Lord Phaendar Durothil of Myth Drannor. »

  • 146 DR [Year of the Risen Towers]

  • Aravae Irithyl is born in Myth Drannor, the first child of House Irithyl in centuries. Her mother dies giving birth, leaving the infant and her great-uncle, the coronal Eltargrim, as the sole heirs of House Irithyl. From birth, Aravae has a personal guard of three soldiers whose sole purpose is to protect the child who will be the coronal's heir. »

  • 220 DR [Year of the Sword Violets]

  • Coronal Eltargrim Irithyl opens the forest of Cormanthor (Myth Drannor) to non-elves, N'Tel'Quess, primarily druids, great wizards, and crafters who can add to the glory of Cormanthyr. »

  • 249 DR [Year of the Crystal Casket]

  • Coronal Eltargrim Irithyl commissions the creation of a mythal over Myth Drannor. »

  • 261 DR [Year of Soaring Stars]

  • The elf city at the heart of Cormanthyr becomes the unified city of Myth Drannor with the completion of its mythal (aided in it's creation by the Srinshee, and Alea Dahast). Coronal Eltargrim Irithyl, in an edict called the Opening, declared that Cormanthyr was to be an open realm, accessible to all non-elves (N'Tel'Quess), following the laying of the mythal and the renaming of the city. »

  • 262 DR [Year of Pages Perilous]

  • Formation of the Eldreth Veluuthra
    Five leading elf houses - Bharaclaiev, Hyshaanth, Rhae-vaern, Tellynnan, and Starym - declare that they cannot support coronal Eltargrim's liberal attitude toward non-elves (particularly humans), nor can they allow the continued encroachment of humans into ancestral elf lands. Rather than battle fellow elves, the five houses depart Myth Drannor and begin to catalog the crimes of humans against both nature and the land they inhabit. »

  • 266 DR [Year of the Unspoken Name]

  • A number of humans are murdered in Myth Drannor by a bigoted servant elf of House Ammath, secretly working for its rival, House Symbeam. »

  • 273 DR [Year of the Delighted Dwarves]

  • Three dwarf clans from Ammarindar and Citadel Felbarr migrate together to Myth Drannor. »

  • 276 DR [Year of the Burnished Blade]

  • The forges of the dwarf clans Snowbattle and Honedaxe produce three great gifts in gratitude for their new homes in Myth Drannor: the Beljuriled Belt of Battle for Coronal Eltargrim, the Shield of Briars for the Arms-Major, and the Herald's Horn for the Spell-Major of the Akh'Faer (which becomes better known later by its primary wielder's name as The Harking Horn of Ishilde). »

  • 284 DR [Year of Fallen Flagons]

  • A great hin migration (hundreds strong) arrives at Myth Drannor from Meiritin and Tethyr via the first magical gates set up to bring people to the city. »

  • 286 DR [Year of the Jolly Mongrels]

  • The hin immigrants to Myth Drannor open taverns to all races, thereby causing all elf-run taverns, inns, and halls to lessen their strictures on patrons over the next several years. »

  • 292 DR [Year of Frostfires]

  • Gnomes walk the sylvan glades of Myth Drannor for the first time since escaped gnome slaves passed through Cormanthor in Netheril's time. »

  • 307 DR [Year of Sundered Sails]

  • After decades of debate, the elves decide to allow N'Tel'Quess (non-elves) to join the Akh'Velabrn (the army of Myth Drannor) after training in the Cormanthyran methods of battle. More than four hundred humans and one hundred dwarves eagerly enlist. »

  • 330 DR [Year of Roused Giants]

  • Arun Maerdrym is born the first half-elf among the senior noble Houses of Myth Drannor, to the surprise of many elves, he is accepted by the patriarch and allowed to retain his name and position in the family and clan. »

  • 331 DR [Year of the Cold Clashes]

  • Elminster leaves Cormanthyr (Myth Drannor) for the first time in seventy years at Mystra's insistence. »

  • 335 DR [Year of Seven Stones]

  • Flamerule The Darkwoods Massacre
    The fourth major foray by Myth Drannor forces against the invading orcs occur within the Darkwoods in high summer. The battle is lost as the orcs surround over half of the allied forces and decimate them in their sleep; since the human guards were also among the slain, no explanation is apparent for the negligence. In all, more than 1,000 soldiers died that night, though only 100 of them were elves. »

  • 346 DR [Year of Blushing Stars]

  • Saeval Ammath returns from an excursion into the western mountains and immediately sequesters himself in a House Ammath townholding outside the mythal of Myth Drannor. While many find this behavior curious, none suspect that he has found and claimed a dragon's egg. »

  • Seven elf officers of the Akh'Velabrn are exiled from Myth Drannor and Cormanthyr after their court martials discover their barbaric treatment of non-elf troops and responsibility for the Darkwoods Massacre. »