History of Eberron

Fiends of Khyber rule a hellish empire on Eberron. Rakshasa rajahs and aboleth elders dominate the world – even the dragons are slaves in the infernal dominions of the Overlords. They create some of the most primordial species – sahuagin from the sharks of the Thunder Sea, gnolls and minotaurs from the cave hyaenas and aurochs of Khorvaire.

Dragons rediscover the Prophecy and rise from their primitive state to oppose their demonic overlords. Unable to defeat the demonic hordes of the Dragon Below alone, the dragons ally with the couatls. The common races, still in primitive states, hide from the godlike combatants and find a way to survive.

Recognizing their cause would otherwise be lost, the couatls sacrifice most of their number to bind the most powerful of the demon lords and the majority of the fiends back to Khyber. The couatls remain trapped for eternity with the fiends they bind. Victorious, the dragons retreat to Argonnessen to contemplate the Prophecy, ignoring the "lesser races."

The giants rise from the ruins of the Dragon-Fiend Wars to establish a civilization on the continent of Xen'drik. They enslave the primitive elves, which has the inadvertent effect of pulling the first of the common races out of their primitive state.

The quori invade Xen'drik from the plane of Dal Quor, the Plane of Dreams. After 1000 years of battle, the giants call upon the most powerful magics of the dragons to throw Dal Quor out of planar alignment, forever sealing that plane away from Eberron. The resulting backlash shakes Xen'drik to its core and plunges large chunks of the continent beneath the sea.

1000 years after the end of the Giant-Quori War, Xen'drik is still suffering from the magical backlash of disrupting Dal Quor's planar orbit. Horrible curses and plagues still sweep through the land, and the elves use the opportunity to rebel.   In a desperate attempt to regain control of their slaves and save their dying civilization, the giants turn again to the most powerful draconic magics. Before they can unleash such destruction a second time, the dragons attack Xen'drik and the giant civilization collapses.   The Phiarlan spread the word of the elven prophet Aeren, gathering elves to flee Xen'drik for the sub-continent that would become known as Aerenal.

The greatest dirge singer in history, Jhazaal Dhakaan, the Voice of Doom, unites the six hobgoblin kings and founds the Dhakaani empire; later Dhakaani historians would take their dates from this year. The dragon Vvaraak is reputed to have taught the first Gatekeepers around this date.

The daelkyr - a race of immensely powerful beings from Xoriat, the Plane of Madness - invade Eberron. They are eventually defeated by the Gatekeeper druids, who seal the portals to Xoriat and trap the remaining daelkyr below ground, but not before decimating the western reaches of Khorvaire.

The daelkyr lords are finally sealed within Khyber by the Gatekeepers. The Dhakaani empire, eroded by the Daelkyr Incursion, immediately turns on itself in civil war.

The generally recognized fall of the Dhakaani Empire. Weakened by the Kapaa'vola, which eroded the social bonds that bound the Dhakaani together, the empire collapses into smaller individual nations and city states.

The Mark of Hospitality appears among halflings of the Talenta Plains. The Mark of Shadow and the Mark of Death appear among the elves of Aerenal.

Galifar I and his five scions - Cyre, Karrn, Thrane, Aundair, and Brey - take control of the Five Nations and establish the Kingdom of Galifar.

Thalin, Kaius, and Wroann reject the succession of Mishann. Wrogar backs his sister's claim, and the Last War begins.

The Treaty of Thronehold officially ends the Last War. The treaty officially recognizes the nations of Aundair, Breland, Thrane, Karrnath, the Talenta Plains, Zilargo, Q'barra, the Lhazaar Principalities, the Mror Holds, the Eldeen Reaches, Darguun, and Valenar.