Timeline

The timeline of the campaign — the dated history of Faerûn as Deez Nuts have lived it and learned it, from the deep past to the present day.

How dates are reckoned

Faerûn counts years in Dalereckoning (DR) and days by the Calendar of Harptos: twelve months of thirty days each — Hammer (deep winter), Alturiak, Ches (early spring), Tarsakh, Mirtul, Kythorn (early summer), Flamerule, Eleasis (high summer), Eleint (autumn), Marpenoth, Uktar (late autumn), and Nightal (year's end) — with festival days between some months (Midwinter, Greengrass, Midsummer, Highharvestide, the Feast of the Moon).

The campaign began in 1488 DR, the Year of Dwarvenkind Reborn — fittingly, a year that opened with a dwarf's wagon and ended with a dwarf joining the party. Events of ages past are listed by year; events of the campaign itself are given to the month and day, with c. marking approximate dates, and a count of weeks since the campaign's first day (Hammer 5, 1488).

Ages past

Year	What happened
c. 685 DR	The Skarhald Clan — orc warriors and mystics who rejected Gruumsh — rises to prominence east of the High Moor.
759 DR	The first Grove Burning: Starspire Grove, holy to the Skarhald, burns in a single night — accounts of the era name Balagos the Flame Tyrant — and the clan is destroyed in the seasons that follow, its champions lured out and slain. (The Grove Burnings, Skarhald Clan)
759 DR	In the same season of ruin, Garmok the Chainbearer seals an infernal rift beneath the Mere of Dead Men at the cost of his own binding — his spirit chained there until Session 44.
c. 788 DR	Veylan Duskbane slays Nythrazhul, the Plague of the Emerald Vale; his tomb is raised inside the dragon's skull in the Forest of Wyrms.
951 DR	The Fall of Wave Echo Cave: orc hordes sweep the North and destroy the great mine of the Phandelver's Pact — Wave Echo Cave and its Forge of Spells are lost for over five centuries.
1132 DR	The House of the Still Pool, an elven seer-house near Silverymoon, burns so hot the stone glazes. (The Grove Burnings)
1201 DR	The Drowned Sisters — three fey-touched druid circles in the Lizard Marsh — are swallowed by burning black water in a night. (The Grove Burnings)
1261 DR	Manshoon founds the Zhentarim at Zhentil Keep.
1264 DR	Cloudcrown Vale and its sky-watchers are destroyed by a storm out of a clear sky. (The Grove Burnings)
1310 DR	The Whitepetal Enclave north of Luskan freezes solid in a single midsummer night. (The Grove Burnings)
1354 DR	The Ride of the Hellriders: the paladins of Elturel open a gate into Hell beside the Gray Watch — now Nuts Deep — and ride through to break a devilish threat; the gate closes behind them and only a handful return. Elturel's paladin corps bears their name to this day.
1358 DR	During the Time of Troubles, Cyric slays Bhaal on Boareskr Bridge; the Winding Water runs black below it for years after. (Harper Dispatch: Boareskr Bridge) The bridge's black granite bears sculpted images of both gods, and the legend is told at the crossing to this day (S54).
1359 DR	The Dreaming Bower in Neverwinter Wood withers; its dream-seers die without a mark. (The Grove Burnings)
1376 DR	A dragon attack ruins the Host Tower of the Arcane — the event that names Luskan's Dragon Beach. The ruin stands for over a century.
1402 DR	Thornwild Court, a fey crossing in the Misty Forest, burns end to end; hunters report "wings against the moon." (The Grove Burnings)
1444 DR	The Rise of the Companion: a lich secretly seizes the leadership of Elturel; Thavius Kreeg, high priest of Torm, summons the Companion, whose light breaks the lich's grip.
1447 DR	Narthalas, Keyleth's home village in the Glimmerwood, burns end to end — the last of the cullings in the Harpers' ledger. (The Grove Burnings)
1450 DR	High Overseer Tamal Thent of Elturel vanishes with her entire caravan near Boareskr Bridge; no trace is ever found. Thavius Kreeg is elected High Overseer all but unanimously and begins rebuilding the Hellriders.
1451 DR	The Eruption of Mount Hotenow: Thundertree is buried in ash and abandoned.
c. 1475 DR	The Keep at Greenest is built. (The Keep (Greenest))
1483 DR	Lord Valtheran brokers the Grain Charter in Waterdeep.
1484 DR	The Order of the Gauntlet is founded in the wake of the Second Sundering.
c. 1484 DR	The Arcane Brotherhood returns to Luskan, drives the undead from the Host Tower ruin, and rebuilds it.
1485 DR	Valtheran's Harbor Levies Reform passes in Waterdeep.
1486 DR	The Salt Ledger Fire response cements Valtheran's reputation; the Bronze Blades begin operating out of Baldur's Gate.

The campaign — 1488 DR, the Year of Dwarvenkind Reborn

When	Week	Sessions	What happened
c. Hammer 5	1	S1	The company takes Gundren Rockseeker's escort job out of Neverwinter; goblin ambush on the Triboar Trail. The campaign begins.
Hammer	1–2	S2–S3	The Cragmaw hideout; arrival in Phandalin.
Hammer–Alturiak	2–4	S4–S8	Cragmaw Castle stormed and Gundren rescued; the Redbrands broken; Thundertree, Shade's parentage, and the friendship with Venomfang.
Alturiak	4–5	S9–S12	Wave Echo Cave reclaimed; the Black Spider falls at the Forge of Spells.
c. Alturiak 10	6	S13 + Interlude	Phandalin prospers; Thurmin retires into business with the Rockseekers.
Alturiak–Ches	6–13	—	The long road south toward Greenest.
c. Tarsakh 1	13	S14–S17	The Siege of Greenest: the Cult of the Dragon and a blue dragon raid the town through the night; villagers saved, the mill defended, Leosin Erlanthar taken.
c. Tarsakh 2	13	S18	Xanphina defeats Langdedrosa Cyanwrath in single combat at dawn.
Tarsakh	13–17	S19–S22	The cult camp infiltrated; the dragon hatchery cleared; Frulam Mondath falls; the eggs are… dealt with.
late Tarsakh–Mirtul	16–21	S23–S26	Undercover on the cult's caravan; Murray is murdered on the Trade Way; the Carnath Roadhouse smuggling tunnel found.
c. Mirtul	19	(revealed S48)	The Cult negotiates the Draakhorn away from Arauthator.
Mirtul–Kythorn	21–25	S27–S29	The Dead Moors; alliance with the lizardfolk; Castle Naerytar liberated; Rezmir's journal recovered.
Kythorn	22–26	S30–S33	Talis the White's lodge; Parnast; the Skyreach Castle heist — and victory. The flying castle is theirs.
Flamerule	26–30	S34–S38	Escarlotta's revelations; training in Elturel; the Tower of Madness; the Temple of Death, where Gootcha makes her pact with the Raven Queen; a hoard claimed. Around this time Maccath the Crimson sails north from Luskan into the Sea of Moving Ice.
Eleasis	30–35	S39–S41	The Misty Forest trail; Alexios breaks his oath; Skyreach Castle secured as a base.
c. Eleasis 23	34	S42	Waterdeep: the Bronze Blades, the gala, and Lord Valtheran exposed.
Eleasis 30	35	S43	The Council of Waterdeep convenes. The party testifies and receives its sanction; Shade dreams of iron.
Eleint	35–39	S44–S46	A week beneath Garmok's Mine: the infernal rift, Garmok the Chainbearer freed, Voaraghamanthar slain; the Underdark, the Mind Gobbler, Ilyra Voss, and a bypass tunnel carved to song.
Marpenoth	39–44	S47 pt 1	North along the High Road — five days to Neverwinter, then by sea to Luskan. The Host Tower of the Arcane briefing on Maccath the Crimson; weeks of outfitting, scroll-craft, and refitting the Frost Skimmer for the ice.
c. Uktar 10	45	S47 pt 2	The Frost Skimmer sails into the Sea of Moving Ice — eight hours of daylight to sixteen of dark. Verithrax the bronze dragon, Mick the marid, sea hags, and the ice hunters of Oyaviggaton.
c. Uktar 15	45	S48	Inside Oyaviggaton: the ice toads and trolls won over, Maccath the Crimson freed, Hrimthur revived — and the Draakhorn confirmed at the Well of Dragons.
c. Uktar 16	46	S49	Battle with Arauthator — and the fall of the whole company. In a demiplane of the Hells, Lady Calera and Dispater offer a bargain.
c. Uktar 17	46	S50	Reforged. Alexios's soul slips away; Baelgrum is bound in his place. Arauthator dies in a single time-frozen volley. The voyage home runs the gauntlet of the ice.
c. Uktar 24	47	S51	Luskan, two weeks after the party's coins hit its streets: the blood-red gold reckoning, the curse broken city-wide, the Arcane Brotherhood made a true ally.
late Uktar–Nightal	47–52	S52	The long march south with Maccath — razed homesteads on the road, a red dragon two weeks gone; Ulder Ravengard grants the old Hellriders' fort, promptly named Nuts Deep; the turnip wagon ambush.
c. Nightal 29	52	S53	The Battle of Nuts Deep: the fort's first day is its first victory. Baelgrum joins the Dawnbringers; the history of Elturel's Companion and the Hellriders is told; the third stanza of the Prophecy of the Thorn-Born Star arrives.

The campaign — 1489 DR, the Year of the Warrior Princess

When	Week	Sessions	What happened
c. Hammer 1–7	53	S54 (downtime)	The downtime at Nuts Deep carries the company across the new year into 1489 DR. Every member receives a faction retinue and a rank-3 faction boon; faction charges are delivered (Harper Dispatch: A Source at the Bridge, Zhentarim Instruction: An Asset at the Bridge, Dawnbringer Charge: The Foreseen Artifact).
c. Hammer 8–19	54–55	S54	The march north up the Trade Way after Varram the White — three days to Triel, seven more to Soubar, then on to the bridge. Safe roads, no encounters.
Hammer 14	54	(between sessions)	Gootcha files her first dispatch to The Nightingales' archive (Nightingale Dispatch: Eyes at the Bridge); Keyleth sends letters to Nettle and to King Melendrak of the Misty Forest. Leosin's reply returns on Hammer 17.
c. Hammer 20	55	S54	Serpents at Boareskyr Bridge: Varram's weeks-old heroics retold; two Yuan-ti infiltrators unmasked and killed; the Yuan-ti Anathema slain in the street and harvested; Otho recruited for the Harpers, Bolo for the Zhentarim; the Cult of the Dragon's four orb-bearing "travelers" destroyed on the road by Elturgard paladins. The Anvil ordered to hold the bridge; The Hearthwardens sent to the razed village north of Neverwinter; Carl stays behind.
c. Hammer 21	55	current	Northeast along the Winding Water on Varram's trail — a cold camp, dwarf-sized prints striding hard, clawed inhuman tracks among her mercenaries, and a murdered yuan-ti hunter carrying Varram's portrait sewn into its flesh.

See also

• Correspondence — every letter, dispatch, and charge of the campaign, gathered oldest first