Dwarf/Gnome Timeline

[Havard]

The "strange comet" in 1019 - how does that relate to the Dwarves? Connected to the economic depression?

Good question. I think I put it in there because it is linked to the development of technology. While perhaps not apparent yet, discoveries made in the Valley of the Ancients will have dramatic consequences on on the things that dwarves and Gnomes have already been working on. IMC I also theorize that dwarves have a secret linked to this.

I've been putting the date of the mines about 40 years further back (460) to reconcile with the line on pg189 of the 4eTFC sourcebook “nearly 600 years of mining”; that'd give about 570 years which is just close enough to 600, I think but still in keeping with "DA1:63; “over half a millenium ago”.

That would work

Some interesting bits about dwarves in Daves' Izmer writeup too...

Very interesting! Will check it out ASAP. Thanks for pointing this out.

Also, I realized that for some reason the timeline in the OP had been cut in the middle of 1019. I have now edited it to include the last decades:

1019
Dwarves enter an economic depression which is still felt to some degree even 15 years later.
“The Saboteurs” begin destroying machinery, claiming it is a threat to the dwarven way of life. C&S

1020
Dwarves begin building war machines. C&S

1021
Dwarf War Machine destroys Orc Army in the Dragon Hills. C&S

1021
University of Blackmoor founded in Blackmoor City. The new University staff includes dwarves, elves, halflings and many scholars sent by the bishop of Blackmoor Garamond Bolitho (DA1).
Blackmoor University Professor Telgrim Whistlegate begins studying clockwork inventions. (C&S) DA1, C&S

1022 Whistlegate creates humanoid Clockwork Defenders.
Order of the Pendulum founded. It is a sinister organization devoted to the development of technology at any cost. C&S

1023
Clockwork appendages used to replace lost limbs
Clockwork spies outlawed in Blackmoor and the Thonian Empire.
Dwarven Steamsaw construct destroyed. Westryn Rangers suspected. C&S

1024 Uberstar Kazakhum is captured by Orcs. The dwarves set up right away a military force to free him, but they are defeated and pushed back until the gates of Northern Delving, where they are besieged by the Orcs. This is the start of the Sixth War between dwarves and Orcs. Lortz Kazakhum, the son of Uberstar, becomes ad-interim Regent of the Mines. The siege forces him to interrupt any communications with Blackmoor and the humans (DA1). DA1

1025
Events of the DA series begin DA1-4

1030
DAB Campaign Begins DAB

-Havard