4702 AR

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Age of Lost Omens
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4702 AR in conflicts

• Mzali warriors sack the Sargavan city of Kalabuto for the third time (the previous times were in 4684 and 4690 AR). The city is eventually resettled by colonists a few months later.
• Slave riots erupt in Katapesh rumored to be started by Adril Hestram.

4702 AR in deities

• Nualia Tobyn converts to the worship of Lamashtu, burns down the Sandpoint Cathedral, and flees the Varisian town of Sandpoint.

4702 AR in environment

• The Ivory Sea freezes nearly a month early trapping many whales who are slaughtered without mercy by local whalers. A humpback whale escapes but, after dying from its wounds, transforms into an undead bakekujira that seeks revenge on all whalers.

4702 AR in people

• The blue dragon Cadrilkasta, in her search for shards of the Sihedron, locates the Shard of Wrath in Belkzen. That shard also leads her to Guiltspur.
• The stone giant wizard Mokmurian reactivates a runewell of greed, bringing Karzoug, a long-sleeping runelord, back into the world.
  • Karzoug's awakening also rouses the runelord Sorshen, though she does not fully awaken and emerge until Queen Ileosa Arabasti of Korvosa activates the Everdawn Pool in 4708 AR.

4702 AR in politics

• Castruccio Irovetti seizes control of Pitax from the Liacenza family.
• The White Marquis of the Pirate Pact is assassinated. The Crimson Marquis, a Vudran maharaja pirate, seizes power in the Protectorate.
• In the Lands of the Linnorm Kings, Sveinn Blood-Eagle sends a cohort of his soldiers to stabilize the city of Jol.
• Chief Grask Uldeth of the Empty Hand tribe begins instituting new, controversial laws to make the city of Urgir in the Hold of Belkzen friendlier to non-orcs.

Deaths in 4702 AR

• Twenty-five✝ citizens of the Varisian town of Sandpoint are killed by a crazed artist named Jervis Stoot. These are related events are termed the "late unpleasantness" by locals. Notable deaths include the town's sheriff Casp Avertin, noblewoman Atsuii Kaijitsu, and the town's high-priest Ezakien Tobyn.
• The family of the empyrean Swiftarrow are killed in Lastwall by orc marauders. In response, she founds the Order of the Honored Dead.
• Kyrdu Bellhorn is executed after his errant clockwork excavator killed many merchants.

Miscellaneous

• An unforeseen result of the reactivation of a runewell of greed is the reactivation of other runewells throughout Varisia. One such runewell stirs to life beneath the town of Sandpoint, filling the citizens with wrath and leading to what locals come to refer to as the "late unpleasantness".
• Grave robbers discover and plunder the tomb of Pharaoh Sharsqa II.
• The Brotherhood of Tala is founded in Mendev to create a potent relic for the fight against the demons of the Worldwound.