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Prehistory

¸ Water covers most of Athas, and a sapphire sun fills the sky. Halflings are the only intelligent race. Halfling society, led by the nature-masters, develops into a highly advanced civilization.

1st World's Age - Ral's Fury (Y1) / -14630FY

¸ Creation of the World's Age calendar by the nature-masters based on the rotation of Athas' two moons. 77 years make up one World's Age. Later renamed to the King's Age calendar.

4th World's Age - Ocean's Slumber (Y53) / -14270FY

¸ Discovery of the nature-benders, corrupt nature-masters who experiment with life in immoral ways.

4th World's Age - King's Slumber (Y74) / -14249FY

¸ First appearance of elemental clerics on Athas.

4th World's Age - Enemy's Reverence (Y76) / -14247FY

¸ Evil elemental clerics form an alliance with the nature-benders.

7th World's Age - Island's Agitation (Y14) / -14078FY

¸ War between the nature-masters and the nature-benders until Ral's Vengeance of this age. In the end, the nature-benders are defeated along with their cleric allies.

8th World's Age - Ral's Defiance (Y12) / -14003FY

¸ Nature-masters of Ty'agi attempt to expand the lifeforce of the ocean and accidentaly create the Brown Tide, which brings about the end of the Blue Age.

8th World's Age - Island's Agitation (Y14) / -14003FY

¸ The new races of The Rebirth - humans, gnomes, dwarves, elves, and others - appear across the face of Athas. Great cities such as Tyr, Bodach, and Guistenal are founded to house the new races. Last use of "Island" and "Ocean" on the World's Age calendar.

8th World's Age - Freind's Reverence (Y13) / -14002FY

¸ Surviving nature-masters create the Pristine Tower to destroy the Brown Tide. This action changes the sun from blue to yellow, destroying the halfling civilization and bringing about The Rebirth.

8th World's Age - King's Slumber (Y74) / -13941FY

¸ Ruler of the rhul-thraun, High Lord Rhan Thes-onel, leaves the Jagged Cliffs to locate any rhulisti remaining on Athas. He never returns.

8th World's Age - Guthay's Agitation (Y77) / -13938FY

¸ First use of psionic powers by the races of The Rebirth.

9th King's Age - Ral's Fury (Y1) / -13937FY

¸ World's Age calendar renamed to King's Age calendar by rulers of various cities. Dates remain the same.

9th King's Age - Ral's Vengeance (Y45) / -13893FY

¸ First reported sighting of the Messenger by a Tyrian astronomer. The comet appears every 45 years until the 190th King's Age - Enemy's Slumber when the cycle is mysteriously broken.

11th King's Age - Enemy's Fury (Y43) / -13741FY

¸ Birth of Rajaat, the War-Bringer.

55th King's Age - Ral's Reverence (Y34) / -10362FY

¸ The thri-kreen of Athas, a previously thought unintelligent race, migrate from the Crimson Savanna to the Tyr Region. Though short-lived and alien in appearance, the thri-kreen possess great wisdom and insight. The king of Tyr welcomes them with open arms. The thri-kreen give no reason for the migration.

66th King's Age - Wind's Defiance (Y5) / -9544FY

¸ Mareet, ruler of Saragar, is visited by a time-traveler from the future. He tells the king of appending doom to Athas before disappearing. Obsessed with the warning, Mareet orders his two most powerful psionicists to breach the time stream and determine the nature of the warning. They are later joined by a third psionicist.

66th King's Age - Desert's Slumber (Y25) / -9524FY

¸ The psionicists breach the time barrier and learn of the impending Cleansing Wars, Rajaat, and defiling magic. Mareet wants to warn all of Athas, but the psionicists disagree and take control of their leader. The three use their formidable powers to shield Saragar from the rest of the world. The Mind Lords are born.

78th King's Age - Friend's Slumber (Y46) / -8579FY

¸ Ruler of Urik persecutes the kreen and orders the death of all their kind in the city. Many kreen across the land leave the cities to live in the wild. Migrations of kreen from the west comes to a halt.

81st King's Age - Silt's Agitation (Y42) / -8352FY

¸ Rajaat arrives at the base of the Jagged Cliffs where he conducts experiments with the powers of life for the next 200 years.

84th King's Age - King's Defiance (Y19) / -8144FY

¸ After nearly two centuries of experiments, Rajaat discovers the basics of magic, but is nearly killed in the process. After recovering, he leaves the Jagged Cliffs and travels to the Pristine Tower to refine the magic process, creating defiling and preserving magic.

87th King's Age - Ral's Slumber (Y67) / -7866FY

¸ An unknown disaster befalls the city of Celik, which casts it into ruins. Survivors blame the ordeal on the reackless use of psionics.

123rd King's Age - Wind's Fury (Y71) / -5089FY

¸ The feral halfling scout Too'lane discovers the Last Tree atop a mountain in the Forest Ridge. This ancient artifact's location is kept secret by the halflings.

125th King's Age - Guthay's Reverence (Y55) / -4951FY

¸ After three eons of study, Rajaat emerges from the Pristine Tower to teach magic to the Rebirth races. He teaches preserving magic openly, and defiling magic in secret to those of "questionable" character. For the next 1,500 years Rajaat studies how magic interacts with the Rebirth races, and decides that humans have the most potential of all to suit his needs.

134th King's Age - King's Agitation (Y63) / -4250FY

¸ Rajaat begins a jihad against the preservers of Athas for the next thousand years. Preservers across the land go into hiding while fighting a losing battle against the followers of Rajaat.

144th King's Age - Priest's Contemplation (Y37) / -3506FY

¸ Rajaat sends all but a few of his students away. Using the power of the Pristine Tower and the mysterious Dark Lens, Rajaat creates his Champions. Each Champion is ordered to eliminate one specific race from the face of Athas in an effort to bring about the return of the Blue Age.

147th King's Age - King's Slumber (Y74) / -3238FY

¸ Kobold Cleansing. Sacha of Arala, 1st Champion of Rajaat eliminates the last of the kobolds from the face of Athas.

155th King's Age - Ral's Defiance (Y12) / -2684FY

¸ Goblin Cleansing. Daskinor Goblin Death, 14th Champion of Rajaat exterminates the last goblin from the face of Athas.

155th King's Age - Ral's Slumber (Y67) / -2629FY

¸ Pixie Cleansing. Wyan of Bodach, 12th Champion of Rajaat obliterates the last pixie from the face of Athas.

156th King's Age - Friend's Contemplation (Y2) / -2617FY

¸ Orc Cleansing. Uyness of Waverly (later known as Abalach-Re), 5th Champion of Rajaat slaughters the last of the orcs from the face of Athas.

160th King's Age - Guthay's Defiance (Y33) / -2278FY

¸ Ogre Cleansing. Kalak, 2nd Champion of Rajaat kills the last of the ogres of Athas.

160th King's Age - Ral's Reverence (Y34) / -2277FY

¸ Gallard (later known as Nibenay), 6th Champion of Rajaat massacres the last of Athas' gnomes.

160th King's Age - Ral's Reverence (Y34) / -2277FY

¸ Keltis, Lizard Man Executioner arrives at Saragar despite the powers of the Mind Lords. The Mind Lord's cleverness hides the entire population of lizard men from the Champion, and he soon leaves the Last Sea.

160th King's Age - Desert's Reverence (Y69) / -2242FY

¸ The First Sorcerer orders the defiler Qwith to explore the workings of the Inner Planes as a possible means of power.

160th King's Age - Wind's Fury (Y71) / -2240FY

¸ The great cities of Ebe, Waverly, and Arala are swallowed by the expanding Silt Sea, though later it recedes from Waverly. The nearby city of Bodach is spared, but becomes surrounded by silt.

160th King's Age - Mountain's Vengeance (Y73) / -2238FY

¸ The warlord Irikos, the left hand of Rajaat, sacks the city of Bodach, but is killed at the conclusion of the battle. His sword (a creation of Rajaat's), the Silencer, is lost for 2,000 years.

161st King's Age - Ral's Fury (Y1) / -2233FY

¸ The Dead Lands are born. Infuriated at her lack of progress, Rajaat turns research of the Inner Planes over to Qwith's subordinates. Shortly after, an accident of unknown origins opens a gate to the Inner Planes, and obsidian flows across the land for hundreds of miles in each direction until the gate is closed by the Seventh Tree. Thousands die in the disaster. Those killed by obsidian rise as undead through a mysterious power from the Inner Plane. Rajaat's servants arise as the rulers of this land, becoming powerful thinking undead wizards and psionicits.

161st King's Age - Silt's Agitation (Y42) / -2192FY

¸ Necromancy is born. All life across the obsidian plain is obliterated except for the Seventh Tree, which becomes immune to defiling magic. Soon after, the undead defiler Gretch discoveres necromantic magic to replace the loss of defiling magic.

162nd King's Age - Friend's Reverence (Y13) / -2144FY

¸ Lizard Men Cleansing. Keltis (later known as Oronis), 10th Champion of Rajaat believes he exterminates the last of the lizard men. In reality, several tribes survive, proteced by the Mind Lords.

162nd King's Age - Wind's Slumber (Y60) / -2097FY

¸ Wemic Cleansing. Tectuktitlay, 9th Champion of Rajaat destroys the last wemics on Athas.

163rd King's Age - King's Vengeance (Y52) / -2028FY

¸ Myron of Yorum is replaced as Troll Scorcher by Manu of Deche, later known as Hamanu of Urik. He is given the sword, the Scorcher, created by Rajaat to complete his task.

164th King's Age - Friend's Contemplation (Y2) / -2001FY

¸ Troll Cleansing. Hamanu, new 4th Champion of Rajaat, kills Windreaver, the last troll of Athas and king of his people.

164th King's Age - Desert's Vengeance (Y3) / -2000FY

¸ Rkard, the last dwarven king of Kemalok, is slain by Borys of Ebe in mortal combat. Borys himself is gravely injured. The Champion's attendants spirit him from the battlefield leaving his sword, the Scourge, still buried in the dwarf's chest.

164th King's Age - Desert's Vengeance (Y3) / -2000FY

¸ Rajaat Falls. Hamanu tells Borys of Rajaat's true plans for Athas. Becoming aware that Rjaat intends to wipe out all races except the halflings, Borys leads the Champions in a rebellions against their master, from which they emerge victorious. Rajaat's halfling servants are banished to the Black. Despite their power, the children of Rajaat cannot destroy his mortal remains. Instead Rajaat's essence is placed in the Hollow, and his physical remains are placed in the Black Sphere. Gallard hides the Black Sphere in a location known only to him and Borys. Sacha and Wyan, who remained loyal to Rajaat, attempt to release Rajaat from the Black Sphere before it is hidden away. Their plan is discovered and they are beheaded by Borys.

164th King's Age - Desert's Vengeance (Y3) / -2000FY

¸ Birth of Sorcerer-kings. Through the use of the Dark Lens, Borys rewards the reamining Champions by beginning their transformation into sorcerer-kings. This process links each of them to living vortices, which allows them to grant their followers clerical/templar spells.

164th King's Age - Desert's Vengeance (Y3) / -2000FY

¸ The Dragon of Athas. The Champions realize that Rajaat's prison will not hold. Even segmented, Rajaat's power is supreme and he would one day be free. Hence, the Champions once again used the Dark Lens to transform Borys into the Dragon, whose power would keep Rajaat imprisoned for all time. Borys' transformation causes him to become temporarily insane, beginning a century of rampages across the land.

164th King's Age - Desert's Vengeance (Y3) / -2000FY

¸ Two dwarven knights named Jor'orsh and Sa'ram steal the Dark Lens.

164th King's Age - Desert's Vengeance (Y3) / -2000FY

¸ The remaining sorcerer-kings each claim a city of Athas and barricade it from the rampaging Dragon.

164th King's Age - Friend's Fury (Y57) / -1946FY

¸ Lead by Abalach-Re of Raam, the sorcerer-kings attack Guistenal and kill Dregoth, Ravager of Giants, just before he is to become a 30th-leve Dragon. The battle destroys the city, the land, and most of its population. Afterwards, Hamanu throws the Scorcher into the Silt Sea.

164th King's Age - Friend's Fury (Y57) / -1946FY

¸ With the aid of his high templar Mon Adderath, Dregoth is returned to life as an undead dragon king. The surviving populace is gathered soon after, and construction of New Guistenal begins.

165th King's Age - Wind's Defiance (Y5) / -1921FY

¸ Borys emerges from his insanity and learns Rajaat's prison is on the verge of collapse. Soon after he collects a levy of 1,000 slaves from each sorcerer-king, using their lifeforce to reseal the First Sorcerer's prison on a yearly basis.

167th King's Age - Ral's Agitation (Y56) / -1716FY

¸ In an attempt to increase her power, Sielba, Queen of Yaramuke attacks Urik. Hamanu easily defeats her army and personaly slays the sorcerer-queen. On the heels of victory, Urik's army sacks Yaramuke and burns the city to the ground. To appease the Dragon's wrath for killing a sorcerer-queen, Hamanu presents Borys with a levy of Yaramuke's riches, which pleases the beast and spares Urik.

167th King's Age - Silt's Defiance (Y75) / -1697FY

¸ Borys uses the booty gained from Yaramuke to build Ur Draxa, which becomes the greatest city on all of Athas. At the center of the city Borys places the Black Sphere for him and his city to protect.

167th King's Age - Enemy's Reverence (Y76) / -1696FY

¸ The sorcerer-kings call for a jihad against the druids of Athas. For the next three centuries the blood of druids across the land stains the sands red in what would be known as the Eradication.

168th King's Age - Desert's Fury (Y36) / -1659FY

¸ After years of study, Dregoth finally deciphers halfling records found in the caverns beneath Guistenal. The end result is the creation of the first generation dray, which Dregoth deems a failure and banishes to Kragmorta.

168th King's Age - Friend's Defiance (Y68) / -1627FY

¸ The thri-kreen prophet Ka'Cha begins the first of several journeys across the Tablelands to spread the word of peace and enlightenment to the thri-kreen, as well as other races.

168th King's Age - Guthay's Agitation (Y77) / -1618FY

¸ After several more failures, Dregoth succeeds in his experiments, and the second generation of dray are created in his own image.

170th King's Age - Guthay's Slumber (Y11) / -1530FY

¸ Dregoth, Ravager of Giants, discovers the planar gate. After a decade of research, he uses the device to travel the Outer Planes for the next 19 centuries.

170th King's Age - Wind's Slumber (Y60) / -1481FY

¸ After being nearly wiped from the face of Athas, the remaining druids of the land go into hiding for the next 1,000 years to a secret location in the Forest Ridge.

171st King's Age - Silt's Reverence (Y20) / -1444FY

¸ Daskinor Goblin Death slips into insanity following this year's levy, and builds an army to slay the Dragon upon his return the following year. Borys learns of the plot, and not needing the levy to maintain Rajaat's prison, never returns.

171st King's Age - Silt's Reverence (Y20) / -1444FY

¸ Keltis, Lizard Man Executioner, has an attack of conscience and denounces being a sorcerer-king. Over the next centuries he strives to become something more noble. Because of the actions of nearby Daskinor, Borys never returns to Kurn and both cities become isolated from the rest of Athas.

174th King's Age - King's Contemplation (Y30) / -1203FY

¸ In an effort to inrease his power, Kalid-Ma attempts to further his dragon metamorphosis to a power near that of Borys of Ebe. The attempt is successful, but his mind is destroyed in the process. The dragon that was Kalid-Ma destroys his city of Kalidnay and begins to move into the rest of the Tyr region. The creature is later slain by the combined efforts of Borys of Ebe, Kalak of Tyr, and Hammanu of Urik.

174th King's Age - King's Contemplation (Y30) / -1203FY

¸ [Campaign Hook: Dark Sun - Ravenloft] To earn the undying devotion of Kalid-Ma, his most loyal Templar Thakok-An sacrificed her family on top of the sorcerer-kings ziggurat while Kalid-Ma completed his dragon metamorphosis in the chamber below. Anguished cries rose frose the city below, as the ziggurat cracked and a wave of powerful defiler magic swept outward from the ziggurat. The people of Kalidnay were completely drained of life force. That night, the city of Kalidnay reforms in the Demiplane of Dread, Thakok-An its only living occupant.

174th King's Age - King's Contemplation (Y30) / -1203FY

¸ With the loss of Kalidnay, the levy to keep Rajaat imprissoned becomes a firm 1,000 slaves from the seven remaining sorcerer-kings.

177th King's Age - Guthay's Reverence (Y55) / -947FY

¸ A powerful Druid named Tehnik creates the four artifacts known as the Hearts of the Drake, and dies in the process.

179th King's Age - Silt's Defiance (Y75) / -783FY

¸ Tarandas of Raam, a powerful psionicist and teacher throughout the Tyr Region, disappears without a trace. Her students insists she has ventured beyond her mastery of the Way into realms unseen by lesser beings.

183rd King's Age - Guthay's Fury (Y22) / -518FY

¸ With the aid of a wizard named Besteren, Oronis (formerly known as Keltis) develops the preserver metamorphosis spell to counter Rajaat's vile magic. The spell nearly kills him, but in the end Oronis emerges as Athas's first avangion.

Free Year 1

¸ King Kalak killed by Rikus, Sadira, Neeva, Agis, and Tithian. [Novel: The Verdant Passage]

Free Year 1

¸ Tithian I becomes king of Tyr. King Tithian's First Edict frees Tyr's slaves. [Novel: The Verdant Passage]

Free Year 2

¸ Tyr's Crimson Legion, ex-slaves commanded by Rikus, defend the city from Urik. [Novel: The Crimson Legion]

Free Year 2

¸ Neeva marries the dwarf sun cleric, Caelum. [Novel: The Crimson Legion]

Free Year 2

¸ Tithian secretly pays the Dragon's levy with captured slaves. [Novel: The Crimson Legion]

Free Year 3

¸ Sadira gains the power of a sun wizard at the Pristine Tower. She then drives off the Dragon, denying him Tyr's levy this year. [Novel: The Amber Enchantress]

Free Year 3

¸ Neeva gives birth to the mul, Rkard. [Novel: The Amber Enchantress]

Free Year 4

¸ The quest for the Dark Lens begins.

Free Year 4

¸ Tithian pays the Dragon's levy secretly for the next five years with slaves captured in raids of nearby villages.

Free Year 4

¸ The Order makes a play for power using the Psionatrix artifact.

Free Year 6

¸ Lead by Queen Trinth, the Githyanki of the Astral Plane discover a way to safely breach the Gray and invade Athas from the Black Spine mountains. The githyanki's plans are foiled by a group of heroes that travel through the portal and kill the queen. With Trinth dead, the portal collapses.

Free Year 7

¸ The Messenger, a brilliant comet that lights the sky every 45 years, did not appear as scheduled.

Free Year 8

¸ The Dragon and Nibenay, both concerned about the missing Messenger, order their templars to discover what happened to the comet. So far, their efforts have been to no avail.

Free Year 9

¸ Tithian locates the Dark Lens. [Novel: The Obsidian Oracle]

Free Year 9

¸ Agis reluctantly helps Tithian recover the Dark Lens, then dies at Tithian's hands. [Novel: The Obsidian Oracle]

Free Year 10

¸ Sadira kills Abalach-Re, sorcerer-queen of Raam. [Novel: The Cerulean Storm]

Free Year 10

¸ Borys, the Dragon of Athas, is killed. [Novel: The Cerulean Storm]

Free Year 10

¸ Rajaat the Warbringer, First Sorcerer of Athas, escapes from the Hollow. [Novel: The Cerulean Storm]

Free Year 10

¸ Andropinis, sorcerer-king of Balic, is imprisoned in the Black. [Novel: The Cerulean Storm]

Free Year 10

¸ King Tectuktitlay of Draj is killed by Rajaat. [Novel: The Cerulean Storm]

Free Year 10

¸ Rkard uses his sun spell and the Dark Lens to put Rajaat back in his prison and to trap Tithian in the newly formed Cerulean Storm. [Novel: The Cerulean Storm]

Free Year 10

¸ The Great Earthquake strikes, opening a great rift to the west of the Tyr Region. [Novel: The Cerulean Storm]

Free Year 10

¸ Dregoth the undead dragon king begins a new and secret campaign against the Tyr Region. [Novel: The Cerulean Storm]

Free Year 11

¸ The Wanderer discovers the lost halflings, the rhul-thaun, of the Jagged Cliff.

Free Year 12

¸ Present Day. Dark Sun Campaign Setting: Expanded and Revised (1995) [TSR2438]

Free Year 12

¸ After leaving the Jagged Cliffs, the Wanderer travels north and learns of the Last Sea. There he discovers the bizarre land of the Mind Lords.

Free Year 12

¸ The Coruscation begins. The Day of Light, prophesied by the dray when the blood of a thousand unbelievers runs in rivers at the feet of Dregoth. This sign is to bring about the coming of a new age where Dregoth is supreme.

King's Age Calendar

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