History of Waterdeep

The Rise of the Warlords

472 DR 1032 DR

  • 882 DR


    Founding of Nimoar's Hold
    Founding

    Nimoar the Reaver vanquishes the Bloodhand tribes, and he seizes the docks and harbor buildings.  Nimoar's Hold rises at the city's current north end fortified by a log palisade.  The city walls expand around the Hold and the city's perimeter.

    Location
    Waterdeep
  • 920 DR

    Midsummer

    Birth of Ahghairon
    Life, Birth

    Ahghairon is born on Midsummer's Night, and many legends report Mystra's symbol glowing brightly among the stars of the North.

  • 932 DR


    First Trollwar
    Military action

    After a number of attacks on the city, Nimoar's forces clear the Evermoors of trolls, burning miles of land bare while slaying the everlasting ones.

The Return of the Lords

1273 DR and beyond

  • 1358 DR

    15 Kythorn
    1358 DR

    15 Marpenoth

    Time of Troubles
    Religious event

    The Time of Troubles, also known as the Arrival, the Godswar, and the Avatar Crisis, was a cataclysmic time period in the chronology of Faerûn. Taking place during 1358 DR, the Year of Shadows,[2] the Time of Troubles was a period during which the deities of Faerûn were forced to walk the earth in their mortal avatar forms. Several major deities died during the Time of Troubles (see Deaths, Ascensions, and Resurrections) and a handful of mortals rose to divinity.

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