594 CY
| World of Greyhawk Timeline • Common Era • Age of Great Sorrow | ||||||||||
| 589 | 590 | 591 | 592 | 593 | 594 CY | 595 | 596 | 597 | 598 | 599 |
| In other reckonings: 1014 SE • 1238 OR • 1398 OL • 2002 TC • 2744 FT • 3253 BH • 5056 OC • 6109 SD | ||||||||||
Events
In this year[edit timeline]
- In Coldeven, the Scarlet Brotherhood raids Onnwal, attacking Sornhill and Longbridge. Onnwal signs an alliance with the United Kingdom of Ahlissa, protecting them against the Brotherhood but conceding to Ahlissa's claim to Idee. (Piecing Together the Splintered Sun)
- Darl Quethos secretly acquires the Hand of Vecna. (Dungeon #132 p.80)
- Ricard Damaris' wife and daughter abandon the Free City of Greyhawk and return to their ancestral lands outside the city of Dyvers. (Expedition to the Ruins of Greyhawk p.10)
- The Choking City closed off after explorers unearth a disastrous curse. Expeditions to the ruins officially cease. (The Choking City)
Around this year[edit timeline]
- Darl Quethos secretly acquires the Hand of Vecna. (Dungeon #132 p.80)
- Ricard Damaris' wife and daughter abandon the Free City of Greyhawk and return to their ancestral lands outside the city of Dyvers. (Expedition to the Ruins of Greyhawk p.10)
Publication
The following publications are set in the year 594 CY:
- Living Greyhawk Journal #24 was published in Harvester 594 CY.
- Dungeon #106 to #117, including the following adventures:
- Tammeraut's Fate (Dungeon #106)
- Test of the Smoking Eye (Dungeon #107; Shackled City)
- Secrets of the Soul Pillars (Dungeon #109; Shackled City)
- Lords of Oblivion (Dungeon #111; Shackled City)
- Maure Castle (Dungeon #112)
- Foundation of Flame (Dungeon #113; Shackled City)
- Mad God's Key (Dungeon #114)
- Torrents of Dread (Dungeon #114)
- Thirteen Cages (Dungeon #114; Shackled City)
- Raiders of the Black Ice (Dungeon #115)
- Strike on Shatterhorn (Dungeon #115; Shackled City)
- Asylum (Dungeon #116; Shackled City)
- Touch of the Abyss (Dungeon #117)
In Living Greyhawk
 | This section contains content from the Living Greyhawk organized-play campaign. |
The 594 campaign year began on January 1, 2004 and ended on December 31, 2004.
Notes
Living Greyhawk content published in 2004 is set in 594 CY.
As was Wizards of the Coast's policy at the time, the Living Greyhawk campaign continuity advanced the timeline to 591 CY for works released in 2001, continuing on a year-for-year basis for all adventures and Wizards.com web articles up to to 598 CY in 2008. This timeline concurrency rule would also be applied in Dragon, Dungeon, and Polyhedron magazines. The Living Greyhawk Gazetteer (2000), set in 591 CY, and Expedition to the Ruins of Greyhawk (2007), set in 597 CY CY, explicitly set dates bookending these years.
In several Paizo forum threads, editor Erik Mona asserted that the rule applies in general to all Greyhawk adventures:[1][2][3]
"The default assumption of all Greyhawk adventures in Dungeon ... is that the last digit of the year in which they were published corresponds to the last digit in the Common Year calendar... 59X CY (X= last digit of real world year). So adventures published in 2004, for example, take place in 594 CY."
—Erik Mona (Jul 2007)[3]
Citations
- ↑ Mona, Erik (22 November 2006). Appropriate Year for Greyhawk SCAP (forum). Paizo Forums. Paizo. Retrieved on 7 January 2024.
- ↑ Mona, Erik (2 February 2006). What happens before the Greyhawk Wars? (forum). Paizo Forums. Paizo. Retrieved on 7 January 2024.
- ↑ a b Mona, Erik (31 July 2007). Campaign Dates for all three APs (forum). Paizo Forums. Paizo. Retrieved on 7 January 2024.