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1616-1625 The Conquest of the Holy Country

DateEventHomelandPrimarySecondary
1613-1615 Previous section – Rebellion in Sartar
1616Wolf Pirates Navy
Wolf Pirates crush Holy Country fleet
EsroliaGtGRQG Family History
HoDP (GS)
1616Battle of the Lion King’s Feast.
Holy Country army is destroyed by barbarian invaders (Ditali and Solanthi) led by warlord Greymane.
EsroliaGtGRQG Family History
WF#15
HoDP (GS)
RQC, “Holy Country”
1616The god-king Belintar disappears (slain by Jar-eel), and the Tournament of the Masters of Luck and Death fails to produce a replacement.EsroliaGtGRQG Family History
HoDP (GS)
RH (GS)
1616White Bull Society formed in Prax.PraxRQG Family History
1616Rabbit Hat farm sacked by nomads.PraxSC
1617The Governor of Heortland dies performing a ritual; Richard the Tiger-Hearted seizes kingdom.HeortlandGtG
1617Broyan of Whitewall is declared King of the Hendrikings.GtG
1617On Ygg’s Island the piratical god Ygg chooses as champion. Harrek the Berserk becomes leader of the Wolf Pirates.GtG, Fronela
1617Over Winter General Fazzur Wideread receives orders to prepare to invade Kethaela to seize a port for trade.CHoDP (KOS), The Lost Chapter
1618Greymane’s Great Raid.
Solanthi and Ditali raid deeply into Esrolia
EsroliaGtGRQG Family History
WF#15
RQC, “Holy Country”
1618The city Brol buys its safety from Greymane with a tremendous ransom.EsroliaGtGRQG 112
1618Dizbos is overrun by Greymane’s army.EsroliaGtG
1618The fire magicians of Solung defend the city against Greymane’s army vigorously enough to persuade the Warlord to accept a ransom.GtG
1618The Dundealos tribal dynasty is destroyed by the Empire and replaced with Lunar settlers.SartarRQG 108 (Errata)
1618Civil war in HeortlandHeortlandWF#15
1619Hendriking Campaign.
Lunars invade Hendrikiland / Heortland, take Karse 
Hendrikiland
Heortland
CHoDP (KOS)RQG Family History
GtG
RH (GS)
WF#15
1619King Broyan of the Hendrikings retreats to the fortress temple of Whitewall. Lunar siege begins.GtGRQG Family History
HoDP (GS)
1619Lunar Army seizes Karse.JB (KOS), Events of My LifeGtG
1619-1620Grazelanders raiding in EsroliaEsroliaWF#15GtG
1620The goddesses Ernalda and Vinga confront the Feathered Horse Queen near Monros and force her army to retreat from Esrolia.EsroliaRQG 112
1620Heortland Campaign / Conquest of Malkonwal
Conquest of Heortland by Lunars
HeortlandGtGRQG Family History
WF#15
HoDP (GS)
1620Richard the Tiger-hearted captured. He abdicates, then escapes.CHoDP (KOS)GtG
HoDP (GS)
1620Lunar Army seizes all Holy Country.JB (KOS), Events of My Life
1620Argrath enters the Hero Plane and achieves the quest of the Drinking Giant’s Cauldron, gaining the gratitude of the Rockwood giantsGtG
1621Giant’s Cradle comes down Zola Fel River, escapes.
Sor-eel replaced as Governor of Prax.
PraxAAN (KOS)RQG Family History,126
HoDP (GS)
SC
GtG
1621Gareth Swordsharp vanishes.PraxSC
1621-1624Argrath sails with Harrek and his Wolf Pirates around the Inner Seas of Glorantha.AAN (KOS)HoDP (GS)
1621Internal dissent in Esrolia between pro- and anti-Lunar factionsEsroliaCHoDP (KOS)
1621Fall of Whitewall to Lunar Empire.
The gods Orlanth and Ernalda were proclaimed dead.
Windstop, Great Winter, Year One
SartarCHoDP (KOS)GtG
HoDP (GS)
RQG Family History
WF#15
HWTD (KOS)
JB (KOS), Events of My Life
1621Fazzur then appointed general of Tarsh armies by Pharandros, King of Tarsh.Lunar TarshCHoDP (KOS)HoDP (GS)
1621Lunars burn down Gringle’s Pawnshop in Apple Lane and kill the local thane.GMSP 58
1621King Broyan appears at the city of Bullflood with a household of heroic companions at Orlanth’s High Holy DayCHoDP (KOS)HoDP (GS)
1621Gim-Gim the Grim, head of Lunar Intelligence in Pavis, returns to the Lunar Empire. Replacement unknown.PraxSC
1621Fazzur replaced by Tatius the Bright.CHoDP (KOS)HoDP (GS)
RH (GS)
AB (KOS)
1622Fazzur relieved of command, replaced by Tatius.Lunar TarshCHoDP (KOS)RQG 126
1622-1625Tatius the Bright is Governor of Dragon Pass.CHoDP (KOS)HoDP (GS)
AB (KOS)
1622History of Player Character beginsRQG Family History
1622Windstop, Great Winter, Year TwoRQG Family History
1622Civil War in Esrolia
Hendrikiland musters against Lunars. Pro-Lunar faction ousted from power in Esrolia.
EsroliaCHoDP (KOS)RQG Family History, 109
1622Samastina becomes Queen of Esrolia by overthrowing her pro-Lunar predecessor, Hendira, in a coup.EsroliaHoDP (GS)
RH (GS)
RQG 110
1622-1625Construction of a Temple of the Reaching Moon in Sartar.CHoDP (KOS)HoDP (GS)
1622Battle of the Porkers.
A large Tusker army from the Stinking Forest invades Tarsh. Slaughtered by local Tarshite militia lead by Fazzur Wideread.
WF#15HoDP (GS)
GtG
1622Tatius releases chaos horde from Larnste’s PrintCHoDP (KOS)HoDP (GS)
1622Orlanth is Dead.
Battle of the Auroch Hills.
King Broyan awakens Orlanth.
CHoDP (KOS)RQG Family History
HoDP (GS)
RH (GS)
WF#15
JB (KOS), Events of My Life
1622King Broyan of the Hendriki reclaims WhitewallSartarRQG 109
1623The Swarm.
A great Swarm of thousands of trolls, trollkin, Dehori, and insects of every variety crosses over the Western Rockwoods from Halikiv and enters Dragon Pass on its way to Dagori Inkarth.
WF#15RQG Family History
HoDP (GS)
GtG
1623King Broyan leads his army into Esrolia, defeating the Grazeland Horse Army.GtGHoDP (GS)
1623Red Earth, Old Earth.
Siege of Nochet.
Lunar fleet refused landing at Nochet City. Nochet besieged by Lunars.
CHoDP (KOS)HoDP (GS)
WF#15
1623Mirina, the Feathered Horse Queen, is killed fighting in Esrolia, while her sister Vistera leads a rebellion against her.GrazelandsHoDP (GS)
1623–1625Vistera is Feathered Horse Queen known as “With Bitter Heart”.GrazelandsHoDP (GS)
FHQ (GS)
1623–1624Civil StrifeRQG Family History
1624Argrath, Harrek and the Wolf Pirates return to Three Step Isles.AAN (KOS)HoDP (GS)
1624The Sky Ship.
A Sartarite rebel army enters the Grazelands and protects a band of heroquesters as they raise a new planet in the heavens.
WF#15HoDP (GS)
1624Battle of Pennel Ford (also known as the Battle of Milran / Zarn Kados)
Harrek, Wolf Pirates, Warm Earth Alliance, Western barbarians attack Lunars at Pennel Ford. Western barbarians switch sides, but Lunars defeated.
CHoDP (KOS)AAN (KOS)
RQG Family History
WF#15
HoDP (GS)
RH (GS)
GtG
1624Orlanth is freedHWTD (KOS)JB (KOS), Events of My Life
GtG
1624Argrath and White Bull Brothers liberate Corflu.CHoDP (KOS)
1624Jaldon Goldentooth SummonedHoDP (GS)RQG Family History
1624Hendira, former Queen of Esrolia, dies at age 44.EsroliaHoDP (GS)
1624Sacking the City of Wonders
Wolf Pirates sack City of Wonders.
CHoDP (KOS)RQG Family History
HoDP (GS)
1624Temertain, “Prince” of Sartar, slain by “Humakti fanatics.”CHoDP (KOS)ZL (KOS)
AB (KOS)
HoDP (GS)
1624The Olontongi are formed as a new tribe during the Hendriking uprising out of the ruins of the Kultain and Sylangi tribes.SartarRQG 109
1624Daringle “the Warlord”, son of Dorasar “Prince of Pavis”, diesHoE (KOS)
1625Liberation of Pavis.
Argrath Whitebull liberates Pavis. Army then destroyed by a demon while on its way to Sartar.
CHoDP (KOS)WF#15
HoDP (GS)
1625King Broyan of Whitewall slain by a demon.CHoDP (KOS)HoDP (GS)
1625Leika survives the magical assault from the Lunar College of Magic that kills King Broyan.GMSP 23
1625-1630 Next section – The Liberation of Sartar

Related Pages

  • 1042-1230 The Fall of the Empire of the Wyrms Friends
  • 1237-1297 The Inhuman Occupation
  • 1297-1325 The Taming of Dragon Pass
  • 1330-1387 The Carving of Tarsh
  • 1395-1470 The Kingdom of Tarsh
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  • 1557-1600 Conflict with the Lunar Empire
  • 1602-1612 The Fall of the Kingdom of Sartar
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