• -110 DR [Year of Shadowed Glances]

  • Akkabar el Shoon is born in Myratma to a Calishite noble and his favored harem girl, and all three return home to Memnon. »

  • -94 DR [Year of Many Bats]

  • The 16-year-old Akkabar el Shoon arrives in Tethyr and becomes a pupil of the Vizera Princess Rhynda based on his reputation as a prodigy in the Art. »

  • -88 DR [Year of Hostile Hails]

  • Akkabar el Shoon leaves the tutelage of Princess Rhynda of Tethyr and begins his movements among Calishite society and business, selling his powerful magical abilities to the highest bidders. Within four years, Akkabar is a near-permanent fixture within Calimport society, and his political savvy is outmatched only by his magic. »

  • -78 DR [Year of the Gleaming]

  • Midsummer Akkabar el Shoon marries Munaa yr Shunnari el Tarchaj, the fifth daughter of Syl-Pasha Kadar. As a wedding gift, Akkabar becomes the Syl-Vizar (and ruler) of Memnon. »

  • -77 DR [Year of Flaming Stones]

  • Midwinter The deaths of nearly all members of el Tarshaj places Syl-Pasha Akkabar el Shoon on the caleph's throne, as he had planned. »

  • -75 DR [Year of Leather Shields]

  • Garynor Ithal, king of Tethyr dies. Princess and Vizera, Rhynda Ithal becomes Regent. She arranges a marriage between Syl-Pasha Akkabar Shoon's (Calimshan) daughter and her own son, the future King Nishan II, to ensure the stability of both realms despite objecting nobles on both sides. »

  • -64 DR [Year of Gleaming Frost]

  • King Nishan II Ithal ascends to Tethyr's throne and marries Arhymeria yr Una el Shoon, thus ending the regency of Rhynda. »

  • -60 DR [Year of Vain Questing]

  • Birth of Amahl I Shoon, brother of Arhymeria Ithal, queen of Tethyr. »

  • -37 DR [Year of Patriots]

  • Birth of Amahl II Shoon, nephew of Amahl I in Tethyr. »

  • -14 DR [Year of the Cloaker]

  • Birth of Amahl III Shoon, son of Amahl II of Tethyr. »

  • -6 DR [Year of Scarlet Scourges]

  • Tethyrian royals (including king Nishan II Ithal, and his third son, Clovis) are slain by pirates. Syl-Pasha Amahl I Shoon secretly congratulates himself on arranging the coup and takes the throne, though his attempts to link the murders with the rising power of the Rundeen merchant cabal fails.
    Yardane is taken into exile. »

  • -5 DR [Year of Feuds]

  • Amahl I Shoon, younger brother of the late Queen Arhymeria, arrives within a month of Ithalyr's fall. Calishite forces and advisors set him up as the reluctant king in the newly renamed city of Zazesspur. »

  • -3 DR [Year of Ruins]

  • King Amahl I of Tethyr dies of poison at the direction of his grandfather Syl-Pasha Akkabar el Shoon. His nephew, Amahl II Ithal, becomes king of Tethyr. A scourging of Ithal clan lands begins. »

  • -2 DR [Year of Gruesome Streams]

  • After 18 months of war, Ithmong is destroyed and Clan Ithal nearly wiped out by royal forces. King Amahl II of Tethyr swears fealty to Syl-Pasha Shoon on Greengrass upon his victory. This is the true start of the Shoon Imperium with Akkabar's rule over both Calimshan and Tethyr. »

  • -1 DR [Year of Shattered Relics]

  • Akkabar the Younger, eldest grandson of the syl-pasha and elder brother of Amahl I and Arhymeria, dies in a tavern brawl in Memnon that is later revealed to be a revenge assassination by vengeful Tethyrian clansman. As the father of King Amahl II of Tethyr and the proclaimed heir of Syl-Pasha Akkabar Shoon, his death brings much suffering to Tethyr. »

  • 4 DR [Year of the Slaked Blade]

  • Birth of Rahman Cormal, son-in-law of Amahl III Shoon. »

  • 15 DR [Year of Glittering Glory]

  • King Amahl II of Tethyr dies and is succeeded by his only son, Amahl III. The syl-pasha moves his court and much of Calimshan's power to Shoonarch. Since Calimport remains the primary port for his empire even though it is no longer his capital, Syl-Pasha Akkabar Shoon establishes a tightly controlled puppet dynasty on the caleph's throne. »

  • 27 DR [Year of Shadowed Blades]

  • Syl-Pasha Akkabar dies mysteriously, and Amahl III Shoon rules both Calimshan and Tethyr. Abandoning the old times, Amahl crowns himself qysar (emperor) over both, joining them as the Shoon Imperium. The qysar places his brother-in-law, Rahman Cormal, on Tethyr's throne, beginning the Cormal Dynasty of Tethyr. Start of the Sixth Age of Calimshan, also known as the Age of Shoon. »

  • 50 DR [Year of the Barbed Wind]

  • Death of Q ysar Amahl III Shoon in Tethyr. »

  • 61 DR [Year of the Branded Mage]

  • Q ysar Shoon I decrees the establishment of the Wizard's Consortiums of all the cities of his realm, at which attendance is mandatory for all wizards. Those who resist are slain, and soon Shoon I knows of nearly every mage within his domain, which allows him better control over such forces. »

  • 75 DR [Year of Clinging Death]

  • Qysar Shoon I dies and is succeeded by his third son, Qysar Shoon II. »