Base Timeline

Base canon: https://eberron.fandom.com/wiki/Eberron_Timeline

Short, short version

Year Events
990 First elemental airships enter service
994 The Mournland is created, the Last War effectively ends
996 Treaty of Thronehold officially ends the Last War. Creation Forges must shut down--no new warforged.
998 "Present year" for Eberron games

Extended Timeline

980 YK (24 years ago)

Heavier-than-air flight achieved for the first time by Richart and Brienne Madrigal, with an airplane powered by dragonshards. Their technology would influence the development of airships (with propellers in particular making them significantly faster and easier to maneuver), but there was little interest in airplanes themselves as instruments of war at first, given their minimal carrying capacity and scant airspeed advantage, and their many limitations compared to airships. The family business manages to sell a small number of hand-crafted planes for mail delivery and crop dusting.

982 YK (22 years ago)

Tyburn Madrigal born in Aquila, Cyre

990 YK (14 years ago)

The perfected Madgrial biplane, capable of reaching 13,000 ft, surpassing 100 mph in airspeed, and carrying ordnance or small cargo loads, finally gets the attention of Cyran leadership, and the planes are pressed into military service.

994 YK (10 years ago)

The entire Madrigal family, save Tyburn and Waldo, dies in the cataclysm that formed the Mournland. All that remains of their legacy lives on with Tyburn at Waldo's Sharn estate.

999 YK

1000 YK

Everybody assumed some cool shit would happen, but nothing really did.

1001 YK

The Dragon Within campaign occurred in this year.

1002 YK

Tyburn Madrigal completes the first successful flight monocoque, single-wing aircraft, the prototype for all modern airplanes.

1003 YK

Rhaan (month 9)

SoL campaign begins.

The Dame Gorshen, a commercial airship owned by the Praxis company, suffers an explosion while docked at the Civil Aerodrome in Sharn. The explosion compromises its airworthiness, and the ship sinks into the waters of the Lower City with most of its cargo. Initially thought to be an act of sabotage, or perhaps a terrible engineering failure, the truth was revealed by journalists writing for the Korranberg Chronicle: the ship's Chief Mate, Frederisk Parmal, had been smuggling dangerous and illegal cargo in the ship. This particular cargo was a living creature, a fire-breathing creature, and its escape doomed the ship. Despite efforts by local gangs and opportunists to capture it, the beast was safely recovered and rendered to the Handlers Guild to be rehomed in the wild. (Actually, it was a wyrmling dragon, which remained with the party).

Aryth (month 11)

Tyburn flies Ariadne and Selina to Aundair in his seaplane, the Catalina. Entering Aundairan airspace, he is intercepted by the Dragonhawks and forced to land. Ultimately, he and the others are taken before the Queen, who expresses great interest in his invention, along with her close ally Ezra d'Lyrandar. Negotiations are cut short when the Queen is abducted by agents of the Black Blood, a cult of Sacrament-worshippers and dangerous agents, such as Quintus Travelyan, a former agent in her employ.

Escaping the rightfully-suspicious Aundairan authorities, the party fled to Karrnath, but the night flight and lack of refueling doomed them to a crash landing in the forest near Korth. Encountering and defeating an ancient Death Tyrant beholder (and claiming some nifty treasure), they eventually made it to town to begin pursuing the knowledge of who might have abducted the Queen and where she may have been taken. Their investigations uncovered a terrible truth: the Black Blood has many agents in high places, including Queen Etrigan, bride of Kaius, who was complicit in Aurala's abduction. Apparently, the Black Blood cult is based around a dark ritual that can render an ordinary human (or humanoid) immortal and super-powered, by sacrificing a newborn dragon. Many powerful figures had thus been tempted by the cult, but in exchange for this "gift", they become agents of the Black Blood to wield as they will.

After outing Etrigan as a superhuman monster, they work with Zorlan, with resources offered by Kaius, to track down the ailing Queen. For days, she wasted away in a dungeon, with only one hope for survival: accepting the Black Blood's "gift", which she refused. They finally located the dungeon: beneath a dilapidated temple near Xandrar, in Breland. With a newly-crafted seaplane, the Queen's Chariot, the party set forth to her rescue.

The temple was well-guarded, but ill-prepared for an aerial assault. The cultists and their undead servants were overcome. Storming the temple, the PCs encountered Etrigan again, who unleashed her full power, nearly drowning them in a torrent of blood. After clutching victory, they proceeded into the dungeon, finding the ailing queen nearly dead, watched over by a projected image of Travelyan. Ariadne did psychic battle with him, but ultimately lost, which would have meant her end--but the quori within sacrificed itself in her stead. With the queen freed, they rushed to give her medical attention, but it wasn't clear if she could be saved.

Restored to Fairhaven, thanks to a portal from the First Warlord, her brother Adal, she was judged to be mortally ill, beyond ordinary healing magic. She was offered the Black Blood's concoction, with a note that Selina's ritual could free her of its control, but she refused. With her resigned to die, the PCs left her with her family so they could attend her passing. However, her brother had been offerred another option by Travelyan: a spell that transfers vitality. He had already been using it for years, and many had noted it odd how rapidly the 46-year-old warlord seemed to be aging, and yet his sister was so youthful and vigorous. But with her death on the line, he used the spell to sacrifice all the vitality he had, restoring her life and youth, but perishing himself.

In the aftermath, Aurala cleared the PCs of any suspicion and praised their heroic actions. Her lords confirmed her son Riven as the new First Warlord.

1004 YK

Current year in SoL.

Tyburn Madrigal demonstrates a successful flight of the first seaplane--an airplane that can land on and take off from any calm body of water.

Campaigns in the Extended Canon

This is the canon of previous campaigns, from the perspective of current ones.

2005 Eberron Game (996 YK)

City of Towers (998 YK)

Prince Riven of Aundair, attending Morgrave University, joins an adventuring party with Loganna Rheys, Glimden Fiddleberry, and Kason Blackfoot. Together, they:

The Dragon Within (1001 YK)

A chartered guild in Sharn, consisting of Ruby, Tristian, Ember, Ash, and some NPCs, went on several adventures, such as:

Then there's the big one.

Osborn's Endgame

Falsely accused of crimes, the party is placed under house arrest pending a (no doubt rigged) trial, with Osborn pulling the strings. But they escape via astral projection, and start looking into why Ash keeps getting attacked by revenants, but get sidetracked by yet more Cannith shenanigans. Osborn's ally, the ousted Queen of Thrane, begins a civil war against the Church of the Silver Flame that was meant to be quick and decisive, thanks to his airships, but the party blows them out of the sky and saves the Speaker of the Flame from the Queen's clutches. Surely, with such an ally vouching for them, they will prevail in their trial. But it doesn't come to that, as Osborn just straight-up nukes the guildhall, killing most of the guild members. Thanks to the sacrifice of Ironheart, the PCs survive, and no doubt countless thousands of citizens, as the destruction was mostly reflected.

Convalescing at Blackstone Cathedral in the Lower City, the PCs learn what has transpird over the past few days. The city is at a standstill: the trains, the elevators, the lights, and every warforged and artifice gizmo in the city has stopped functioning. The city is being held hostage by Osborn, in a desperate plea to save himself from the consequences of his many crimes. They determine that this is caused by the Dominus Engine, a device in the Lower City that allows him to command every artificial device within a vast radius. They confront him there (although he's merely a projection), and the defeat Lady Valice and the other protectors of the engine, disabling it.

At this point, with an evil laugh, Osborn's image explains that the engine doesn't actively control constructs, it reprograms them--destroying it will seal the city's fate, rendering every construct in the city permanently useless. The only way to undo what he's done is to command the machine to do so, and that requires the Mark of Making. Mwahaha!

But every member of the guild possesses an aberrant dragonmark. And with their powers combined, they repair the machine and command it to liberate all the constructs of the city.

Later, on a luxurious train bound for Korth, far beyond the reach of Breland's law, Osborn drinks champagne and makes plans for the continuation of his glorious purpose with the help of his ally Zorlan. However, the attendant who brings him his champagne is Ash in disguise, who shackles him and teleports him back to Sharn to face justice.

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