What They Don't Tell You About The Rise & Fall of Dwarves - D&D Timeline

today we will continue on our quest to cover the entire history of the Forgotten Realms from the beginnings of this world's history to the present day where you and your characters play this is a sequel in our forgotten realm series our first video was what they don't tell you about the Forgotten Realms our second was what they don't tell you about the rise and fall of the elves and now this would be our third video on this series with two more coming after this to finalize it we will go from the very beginning all the way until the end covering all of the major plot points of the history of the Forgotten Realms all the way again to the present day the calendar that we're using to run through the timeline is called the Dale Reckoning or Dr for short this would be the main time keeping mechanism of 5th edition and one of the most important calendars in the Forgotten Realms currently as we stand the person day is around 1492 Dr our story started in the age called the Days of Thunder at -35 000 Dr when the ice age of the planet ended and the Creator races sprawl rolled forth from the newly formed verdant Fields these Creator races fought each other viciously using the powers of gods and primordials to tilt war in their favor however such Divine meddling left the world devastated as a massive meteorite was loved unto the planet leaving the world forever changed we talked about the dragons and the Giants that followed after that world-ending cataclysm as they fought one another for Dominion in what is called the dawn age the Giants were left devastated and crippled In Their Kingdoms in the north while the Dragons Were magically cursed by a new group of creatures that spawned from magically created portals the elves had entered the planet thanks to fake creatures who seeked for ways to damage the mighty Dragons using overwhelming magic and convoking power never before seen the Dragons Were cursed to Madness forced to eat their own young to fight their friends to destroy their cities and forevermore never hold a true sizable Gatherings ever again the spreading of the elves into the world ushered the age called the first flowering which ended when War ensued between the Divergent Elvish Kingdoms in the age that we now call the crown Wars today we shall cover what happened after these Crown Wars as the powerful Elvish kingdoms lose control over their territories and other humanoids begin to build their very own civilizations in the age called the founding time the this marks the beginning of the very first human Kingdom however before we begin this video is brought to you by Factor always fresh never Frozen Chef prepared meals delivered directly to your home for maximum convenience a factor is delivered to you on a big box with all of the meals that you carefully curate from the website which by the way they have a ton of different delicious options creamy lemon peppered chicken Italian sausage and sweet pepperonata peanut Buddha bowl Southwest ground 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elether as corelon's curse spread through the dark Elven communities scattered across the globe every single dark elf was forced to abandon the sun filled lands of above and instead Escape into the dark-filled caverns of the underdark it only took two months in all of the ilethor cities were abandoned not a single dark Elven Soul was left up above this unbelievably large migration of creatures ended up creating one of the biggest shake-ups in the world's history see the Empire of the ilethor laid in a large area that we call the Shore but underneath the Char was an entirely different group a group that had laid unbothered unmolested for thousands of years these were the dwarves the dwarves had a great Kingdom only known as barinden now not much is known about this particular Kingdom but it is believed to have been their very first racial Kingdom and it sprawled quite far stretching for most of the Char now the the reason why we don't know much about this place or why there's really no history left of these individual dwarves will become apparent soon see this is the tragic reality of the circumstances that followed from The Descent of the drow the now curse Dark Elves are known now as the drow had to go into the underdark as the powerful curse inflicted upon them made the sun painful to them but right underneath them were the dwarves who now were being surrounded by running dark elves from the north south east and west and you must also understand these drow even though they were cursed they were still basically the most powerful Empire on the planet at the time they had the control of demons a powerful legendary magical Warfare designed for Destruction and they had been warring now for thousands of years the dark Elven culture at the time was a warring culture and they were ready to fight the Dwarven Kingdom on the other hand was not and they weren't prepared for this the drow absolutely annihilated them taking control over the kingdom of varindin for themselves now thankfully about 2 000 years prior the dwarves had birthed a Visionary who dreamed of creating their own kingdom in a far-flung location his name was tarek shanet known as the Crusader and he took his clan and a large number of dwarves on a settling Expedition and settled on an area right underneath what is now am deathir and kalimshan it had been successful and they had been growing for quite some time now so when barinden was crushed and the dwarves were forced to abandon in their homes and run for their lives they had this new area to settle in and learn from their mistakes this new kingdom was called shanitor and they would end up becoming a more defensible more war-minded civilization thanks to the warnings given to them about these new evil creatures called drow that had been invading the caverns of the underdark now the drow would inhabit barinden for a while but as fate would have it for an unknown reason the cavern ceilings would all end up collapsing years later effectively obliterating the kingdom and many of the Dark Elves within it and with that a considerably weakening the power of the dark elves and also deleting the much beloved capital city of the dwarves to be forgotten forevermore now the dwarves would come back later and resettle it and attempt to restore its former glory but it would never reach the full size that it would have had in the past now the dwarves that were originally from the city and would come back to restore foreign would be known as the gold dwarves and they still live there to this day in fact I believe this would be the biggest concentration of pure dwarves in The Forgotten Realms today they live in what is now known as the Great Rift with cities uh both above ground and underground now you should know when the dwarves lost barinden originally not everyone went to shanatar the Great Migration went in many different places most famously you have the dwarves that ended up in chult known as the wild dwarves and those that went far north known as the Arctic dwarfs anyways the dwarves that originally left barinden and founded and stayed in shanatar would then be known as The Shield dwarves and these guys are fairly important at least I should say there is a lot of stuff that happens to these guys see shanatar wasn't just a single entity but really eight the eight sons of tarek shanatar each developed their own kingdom each following the tenet of one particular dwarvish deity so the ideologies of each kingdom sometimes conflicted with those of others which ended up causing infighting among the dwarves of shanatara the first such Civil War was called the spawn Wars it had seemed that a group of creatures that was found near where shanatar was formed was a group of monsters called The Deep spawn these bizarre creatures when they ate a person they could birth a perfect replica of the person they ate as the creatures were tamed and controlled by the dwarves they started infighting by using replicas of one another in essentially what ended up forming something of a clone wars quote today I slew my twin brothers seven times and nearly died four times at the hands of my twins what kind of war is this that we replicate ourselves time and again only to waste our own lives on Ax blades dulled by endless inter-missign fighting which one of us represents the hopes and dreams of our shared parents is it truly death if I am reborn time and again am I more worthy of living or is my twin might we not Ally ourselves despond against the firsts who recline on Golden Thrones stirring themselves only to order us into freticide could we not reunite our lifeblood in some way other than slowly expiring together on some nameless Cavern floor who are our gods have the morning salmon truly abandoned us that they allow brother to slay brother in their name I fear the children of muradin are growing weak through self-inflicted wounds and soon the spiders will be spinning their webs in the hollow husks that once housed our souls perhaps we are no longer even dwarves when a work of art is copied and that copy is copied again and again the results become gross parodies of the original I fear that I am but a pale imitation of the first I once was willingly killing myself in an absurd parody of narcissism by the ax I live and by the acts I fear I am already dead end quote the spawn Wars would end thanks to a drow Invasion which forced the drought kingdoms to unite in order to fight these were then called the spider wars which went back and forth throughout the course of three Wars that ended in something of a stalemate later the powerful mind flayer city of orendol would start a war with the dwarves as well in what would become uh the Mind stalker Wars or the war of clothing thoughts as it was known to the mind flayers the dwarves also persevered on this defensive war against the Mind players however as the war ended the dwarves found out that one of their kingdoms had disappeared in the aftermath sea the kingdom of barakuyir was cut off early on in the war and when the war ended the whole kingdom was just empty Clan duragar who were the masters of this great city were just all gone the Mind flayers had taken them and throughout the next thousands of years they experimented on them abused them and performed macabreed eating programs on them to change them to suit their needs those dwarves would end up becoming the Deep dwarves also known to everyone else as the duragar these dwarves had been changed and were now very different their Joy had been eliminated their sense of Pride removed it would take the duragar 4 000 years to escape enslavement eventually succeeding and building their own cities and civilization though a civilization opposed to the rest of Dwarven kind because there was a deep-seated hatred and resentment that would be formed by the duragar feeling that the other dwarves had abandoned them to torture and aberratic service they would become one of the greatest enemies of Dwarven kind in the world the kingdom of janitar however would grow quite drastically eventually even expanding above ground in the areas of on and tethir then creating sub kingdoms far and wide all scattered across faerun a specific around the areas of the north these sub kingdoms would not be directly connected to shanatar but were more efforts by the dwarvish Kings to expand a dwarvish influence as far as they could reach though most of these kingdoms would end up destroyed over time or conquered by other civilizations some notable examples are the Delson Empire which formed all across the north basically all of the different Dwarven cities and forts found on the silver marches and around these areas here are remnants of the powerful Old Kingdom including of course the famous mithril hall now the kingdom inevitably fell to Orcs of the mountains and of course a mysterious group of creatures which we will talk about later other examples of dwarvish Kingdoms that came out of shenatar were the basilmer in the area known today as the deserine valley ogram in the fields of Tom and then amarindar in the gray Peak mountains with amerindar being one of the longest lasting ones passing by a relatively unscathed throughout this age and on to the next now every everything that I have talked about on this video so far is but only one of the many civilizations that sprawled out during this age the founding time also known as the age of The Proud peoples spanned minus 9000 Dr all the way to minus 3000 Dr and there's a lot of stuff that happens but also stuff that happens scattered all throughout the map at different intervals within this timeline the story of the dwarves is of course a fairly important overall at least at a high level delving any deeper than this is probably unnecessary for the purposes of this video series but yeah I will be jumping back and forth within the timeline a bit just so that I can cover topics from start to finish without having to jump around too much overall though here on the screen is the rough timeline of some of the things that I have talked about already about the dwarvish Ascension so that you can see how they change throughout the years we're told that the height of Dwarven power in the Forgotten Realms was at the year minus 5600 Dr where they were the biggest and most powerful or rather that was where they were their biggest before they started to decline now something did happen to the main shanitar Empire but we will touch on it in a bit for now let's move across the globe far to the east through the lake of steam and through the shower until we arrive to the very edge of the continent of faerun further we will go back in time a bit to the beginning of the founding time the year would be minus 8 350 Dr and the humans of the Roaring Plateau have just discovered agriculture or better put they have stopped being hunter-gatherer tribes and have begun to create permanent settlements this is the beginning of a will become the imuskari Empire or the very first human Empire in the Forgotten Realms and the Empire will last until minus 2480 ADR so almost 6 000 years and the Empire at its height would span from the great ice sea to the golden water and from the Alam number c to the katakura plateau in karatour only to be destroyed in oh man the coolest way possible so the early Warlords of the ancient the mascara empire were masters of trans-dimensional magic how exactly they became so good at it is quite unknown however there are a lot of illusions that they had either uncovered or had been Guided by bhatrachi technology if you remember the batrachi were the Second Empire to have ever risen in this world Back in the Days of Thunder at the beginning of time on this planet and they were particularly known for summoning ancient primordials onto the world some of that technology must have found their way to the imaskari who used it to great effect the reason they managed to spread so far and create such a vast Empire so fast was thanks to one the dark elves of the shark being no more so they basically had nothing to fear from this entire section of the the world and two they created powerful gate that would allow entire armies to pass through from one side of the Empire onto the other it's something that even to this day is incredibly difficult to do and of course uh those Gates were in particular but trashy technology now after reaching its height however a series of misfortunes would befall the empire about 2 000 years into the Empire's growth a massive and sudden krakensua attack would destroy the capital city splintering the empire into two major regions Opera imascari and lower imascari and then 2 000 years later quote in minus 4 370dr a devastating plague racked lower in mascar beginning the period of chartra which means darkness in the imesgari tongue ailing citizens flocked to Temples throughout the Empire but their priests could not cure the plague even more mysteriously a blight killed most of the Empire's crops bringing famine to the few who had survived the plague and the impact of this so-called silent death was catastrophic even the most likely affected areas 15 to 20 percent of the population died impoverished and isolated lower amascar survived the following decade only because of the weakness and misfortunes of its enemies in their bitterness the people turned against their gods and most priests were slain or driven into Exile though the silent death did spread North into the region known today as the endless wastes upper emaskar remained safe and untouched end quote this is where things get crazy so the current Lord artificer which was the term given to the magical ruler of a mascar devised a plan to create two new Bukhara spiers those were the famous deportation Gates of the Empire except that in instead of connecting two locations within the Empire they would connect this world with another they went and opened up these portals to Earth yes literally planet Earth but then it gets pretty dark so they did this to kidnap tens of thousands of people from the planet Earth in order to enslave them here in the imascari Empire and specifically they chose planet Earth because they saw that the art which is the term that we use for magic was not known on the planet which meant that Earth was basically defenseless I say basically because in this Multiverse gods are of course Very Much real and very much powerful including the gods from Earth and so as the imaskari kidnapped and enslaved humans from Earth and they would then quickly close those portals and create dimensional barriers to prevent the gods from these people that were enslaving to follow them now the people kidnapped were both Egyptian and Mesopotamian though they would eventually intermari with the peoples of a mascar to form their own unique ethnicity in any case uh the slave labor brought in unprecedented prosperity to the kingdom allowing both lower and upper Mass car to unite again it is at this time at around minus four thousand to minus three thousand Dr when the shadow plane would be discovered by one of the two best artificers of the Empire matriarch who would go on to use it for evil only to be stopped by the other powerful Arch wizard hilethur who by then was a hero and one of the most powerful Wizards in the world so then how does this thriving Empire suddenly end well the freaking Egyptian and Sumerian gods show up it had taken the avatars thousands of years of traveling through the Multiverse before they finally arrived here on this planet and they were pissed all this time the violent abuse and torture of the Egyptian and Sumerian people had not gone unnoticed they had been praying for hundreds of years for salvation from this torment and one of the greatest slavery aliens was about to unfold quote the imascar civilization came to a violent end in minus 2488 Dr unbeknownst to the imaskari the gods of the Mulan had finally heard their people's prayers bypassing the great planner seals these Gods send powerful avatars of themselves through the empty void of Space tutorial upon their arrival on the peaks of Taylor Shawn these Powers quickly descended into the Roaring Plateau building an army and fermenting Rebellion as they passed within 10 days most of the empires in major cities had been sacked the final confrontation occurred on the palace steps of inupress between Lord artificer juvarach and the Mulan god Horus who emerged Victorious and quote there is of course much more that happens after this with the people now known as the Mulan which were the new ethnicity that I mentioned that was formed but remember this video only covers the founding time and technically the founding time ends at -3000 Dr but I went a bit further for you guys there to at least finish that story it does get even crazier though oh and right before the fall the great art wizard hillether would escape the wrath of the deities by hiding in a secret stronghold in the mountains and entering temporal stasis he of course later on becomes a Laster black cloak the creator of undermount and the greatest dungeon in the world right underneath waterdeep and of course an important character in this adventure though I suppose that is a story for another day but anyways ancient Mascari was the first though it certainly would not be the last of the great ancient human civilizations a group of humans would settle on the Southern Shores of the Sea of fallen stars by around minus 5800 Dr led by a powerful psionic Warrior known as Haram he would settle this city in from it a burgeoning civilization would eventually Sprout known as yamdoth which would cover a fairly decent area from the north side of the lake of steam all the way to about what is now the Candlewood this was a fairly powerful psionic civilization though its role in history wasn't quite as important other than the fact they basically curtailed the expansion of another humanoid civilization rising from the West which moves us over here see in the area now known as kalimshan tethir and am lots of stuff happens we already talked about the Dwarven Empire of shanatar that grew tremendously from down below but to catch you up on other events and here if you remember there was one of those ancient Elvish Empires one that was called keltermir who had stayed neutral in the great crown Wars well the dragons who had been completely decimated by the elves finally took Revenge at least the ones on this region on a massive flight of Red Dragons they attacked keltormir in force quote after an attack by a flight of Red Dragons on the center of the great El Forest of keltermir at the dragon's fire sparked a forest fire that raged out of control this fire extinguished four entire clans of elves 11 giant settlements at least four green dragons and thousands of square miles of Woodlands the ones unified elves of keltermir splintered into a number of separate Clans due to Fire sundered and otherwise ravaged homelands celtramir dissolves into three separate forests the wormwood darthier wood or present-day Forest of Mir and the forest of tethir and quote uh these elves are basically either migrate outwards or become small Clans that simply exist without much force in the region by now the Empire of shanitar is still down below and the land here is basically ripe for the taking though the dwarves would not be the ones to move in first that would come later first came the Genies a powerful gin would find Fair Rune and claim this land right here as its own he would arrive with armies of genies and thousands and thousands of humans and halfling slaves the the Gin was called Callum who would then build a great city called kalimport this Genie was unimaginably powerful in fact the dragons that destroyed keltormir would come back to also destroy kalimport and they would succeed though after a century of warfare Callum the Jinn annihilates every single Dragon within the marching mountains which is where they were layering and then he uses his Genie Magic to regrow calimport in only a year now things however would get hectic in the genie world as word of this world would have started to spread among the elemental planes as other Genies would then start to arrive one of them most notably being memnon who would settle in the lands north of galenport by what is now tethir and am a memnon was a formidable ifriti with an army of fire and both Genies would eventually Clash for dominion over the region their fights were so messed up that they would eventually create what is now known as the desert of Callum just magic basically obliterating the Earth creating a massive desert it is said that their battles which by the way lasted for 400 years were cataclysmic as in they were simply destroying the land permanently again the desert of Callum being an example of the permanent Devastation that they were creating that still lasts to this day it got so bad had that the elves were forced to intervene again using High magic to settle it they effectively imprisoned both Genies in an escapable magical prison disembodying their bodies into the elements with kalim being disembodied onto the sky and memnon into the Earth the remaining Genies that existed within the area albeit still fairly powerful and a strong army they were then further defeated by an alliance of the dwarves of shenatar down below which remember they were incredibly strong at the time and the freed human slaves that escaped amidst the chaos of Calum and memnon being imprisoned the alliance persevered and all of the Genies were defeated though this friendship between the escaped humans and the dwarves would not last long the humans would take control over the lands south of the marching mountains while a shinatar would take control of the lands North an unfortunate incident however would spiral between the two the humans and the dwarves a few thousand years later as human tomb robbers would be killed trying to enter Dwarven sacred tombs the unfortunate part though was that one of those tomb robbers happened to be the heir to the throne of the now human kalimshen the political ramifications were unavoidable and the Dwarven Kingdom of shanitar and the human Kingdom of kalinsham then were forced to basically go to war this war would last 3 000 years so it was a fairly slow moving War at least by human standards in fact it's it's crazy just how long this War lasted especially so as the dwarves in high shinatar were also fighting a massive war with Giants all across their Holdings which allowed the humans to gain a lot of ground it all ultimately ended in a decisive battle at around minus 2 600 Dr when the last dwarves of upper shenatar would fall to the might of kalimshan which would force the dwarfs to then seal the last remaining tunnels leading to deep shenatar where the bulk of their empire was located kelimshen also had aspirations to expand further onto the East but they had been stopped again by this ionic Empire of yamdath which would keep them at Bay and that's uh that's basically that the founding time as the name implies was a moment in the history of the Forgotten Realms where many different Empires and kingdoms would be formed all thanks to the elves losing control over many parts of the world at the elves of course were still very much very strong but severely weakened from their warring and mostly collected onto the northern sections of faerun the Elven Court which was the location where the Elvish Gods convened to figure out what to do about the crown Wars had become the center of Elvis civilization in the area in the area that we now call kormanthor with other Elvish kingdoms again still looking pretty strong such as the kingdom of ilethorn in the sword coast and Ireland in the north of the high forest and we also had the famous city of evaresca that was formed in secret and hidden which became a powerful Congregation of Elvish power in the region most of the elves are during the founding time were basically focused on fighting Orcs that would come down from the mountains as sporadically throughout the era including many powerful warbands from the spine of the world this time Epoch is also characterized by the rise of the dwarves and their dominion and expansion over many of the lands in the world until the end of the era by which time their empire enters into stagnancy and Decay it is also characterized by the beginning of the rise of humans with imaskari splintering into what will become two new empires which we will talk about in our next video and with kalimshen growing into a massive Forest to be reckoned with on the west but it is at the end of the founding time when the most memorable and most impactful Kingdom that this world will ever see will start right at the end of this era at around minus 3500 Dr are A small collection of villages will band together in a remote but relatively fertile area east of the high forest and west of cormentor in what is now the massive desert of anarak back in the day it wasn't a desert but the birth Rock of netheral 99 of spells that you use in Dungeons and Dragons comes from netheral most random magic items that you find is scattered around in the world probably come from nethro the reason the goddess of magic banned the use of spells higher than ninth level was because of netheral this very small collection of villagers will radically shift the world order and enter us into the age of humanity which pans from minus 3000 Dr to 1000 Dr so on our next video we will cover how humans effectively begin just dominating the world we will cover not only netheral the Empire of magic but also what happens after the Egyptian and Sumerian gods destroy ancient imuscar we will cover how humans and elves settle their differences and also we will touch on what happens when we finally reach year zero when the Dale Reckoning calendar finally starts all that and 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