4718 AR

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Age of Lost Omens
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4718 AR in conflicts

The funeral of Princess Eutropia Stavian following an assassination attempt during the War for the Crown.

• Cut off from their previous tribute given to them by the now defunct government of Sargava, pirates of the Shackles begin attacking Mbe'ke shipping once again, leading to the third Corsair War.
• The Fifth Mendevian Crusade comes to an end with the defeat of Deskari and the closing of the Worldwound.✝
• As the Taldan senate attempts to repeal primogeniture and make Princess Eutropia Stavian the legitimate heir of Grand Prince Stavian III to the crown of Taldor, a civil war of succession later known as the War for the Crown erupts. In the resulting conflict, Stavian III orders the deaths of half of the Taldan senate in the Exaltation Massacre, resulting in the Senate's dissolution. Stavian III is injured and presumed dead, then later found alive but suffering from dementia and is deposed.

Eutropia and High Strategos Maxillar Pythareus, whom Stavian III had secretly adopted prior to the Massacre, both attempt to claim the right of succession. After months of opposing claims, discrediting acts and revelations, a plot by the secret society of the Immaculate Circle to usurp the crown by proxy of Eutropia's long-dead and forcibly resurrected brother Carrius II, and an assassination attempt resulting in Eutropia's brief death and subsequent resurrection, Eutropia is ultimately crowned the legitimate Grand Princess of Taldor and names Carrius II as her heir.

4718 AR in environment

• The Mendevian Crusaders perform a ritual to close the Worldwound, resulting in the Sarkoris Scar.✝
  • Efforts are made to reclaim the cities lost to the Worldwound, but it is determined that they are too corrupted to be saved. Storasta, Undarin, and Iz are razed after heavy fighting as a result.

4718 AR in organizations

• The War for the Crown has wide-reaching effects on several organizations.
  • Prominent Pathfinder Lady Gloriana Morilla backs Eutropia's claim to the crown during the War and becomes a close advisor to the newly crowned Grand Princess.
  • The Lion Blades aid Eutropia's claim to the crown and support her after she becomes Grand Princess.
  • Allies of former High Strategos Maxillar Pythareus form a hawkish semi-clandestine faction known as the Ninth Army of Exploration and begins a campaign of sabotage against Eutropia's rule.
  • The Cult of the Twilight Child persists and continues to deifically worship Carrius II as savior of Taldor.
  • The secret society of the Immaculate Circle becomes a cult of the three-headed sakhil Thassritoum.
• Eras the Needle enters his sixth failed petition to be captain of the Grinning Pixie.
• A Pathfinder Society expedition out of Iceferry Lodge clears the name of Kolvi, an aspirational linnorm king accused of killing the Linnorm King Alvard with fey magic. This revelation also aids Princess Eutropia by warning her of her nation's imminent upheaval.
• Rashmivati Melipdra founds Niswan Lodge, a Pathfinder lodge in the city on Jalmeray.
• A fourth House of Perfection, the Monastery of Unbreaking Waves, re-emerges from centuries of desolation after being destroyed by a tsunami.
• The Challenge of Sky and Heaven is left incomplete when all of the Houses of Perfection are disqualified.

4718 AR in people

• The mind of Pathfinder Society Venture-Captain Alois Lofton is briefly replaced by a criminal's through fey magic, resulting in strange behavior until a team of Pathfinders reverses the effect.

4718 AR in politics

Ranginori, elemental lord of air, is freed from imprisonment in 4718 AR.

• The events of the War for the Crown upend several strata of Taldan politics.
  • Stavian III is injured and presumed dead during the Exaltation Massacre, but is secretly kept alive, diagnosed with dementia, and deposed.
  • High Strategos Maxillar Pythareus loses his rank and influence for attempting to incite an unprovoked war with Qadira in order to consolidate his claim on the crown.
  • Pythareus' agents reveal evidence that the entire Stavian line of Grand Princes was illegitimate, with Stavian I instead born of the disgraced House Adella.
  • Taldor is briefly split during the war into factions of Loyalists who backed Eutropia and Imperialists who backed Pythareus. Following those revelations, dozens of nobles make their own claims on the crown.
• Brevoy is once again plunged into political uncertainty when the head of House Lebeda is accused of treason, disrupting a marriage alliance between Lebeda and House Surtova.
• In the wake of the temporal tampering of the Runelord Alaznist, the nation of New Thassilon is founded.
• Despite inteference from Hshurha, Pathfinders and the Concordance of Elements free Ranginori, elemental lord of air, from eons of imprisonment.

Deaths in 4718 AR

• Grand Prince Stavian III orders the deaths of half of the Taldan senate in the Exaltation Massacre.
• An assassination attempt on Eutropia Stavian results in the deaths of both her and her dog Taldogis. Both are subsequently resurrected.
• Alaznist awakens and kills Xanderghul.
• Alaznist is killed by adventurers.

Miscellaneous

• Sages and numerologists predicted the countdown clocks of Osirion would expire in this year, potentially heralding an invasion by the Dominion of the Black. Hints and clues about this invasion are known as the Aucturn Enigma.
• Several other Thassilonian runelords emerge. Runelord Alaznist damages the flow of time before she is defeated.