King Tellemon of the Shadow Elven Territories, Aengmor, and the Cannolbarth forest dies of a heart attack in his sleep. Sadiya is crowned queen of all the Shadow Elf lands.

Semi-hostile elves begin to appear in the Dymark forest. They threaten the settlers of the reigion, but no causalties have occured as of now.

Corwyn Mauntea, Chancellor of Darokin, suffers a massive stroke. Though he is rushed to local priests for healing, the loss of blood and oxygen to his brain has left irreversible damage to his mind and motor skills.

In an attempt to keep the country moving and lessen debate by the wealthy merchant families, his estranged niece. Isabella De'Angelo, is named acting Chancellor until the time of census to determine which family is the richest.

Grygory, a loyal follower of Baron Yuschiev, is knighted.

Etienne De'Ambriville makes his grand reappearance...and is promptly given his principality back by Isidore. He looks to "rally the troops" of Glantri to discover all they can about Dolores/Synn's plans for Glantri and the rest of the Known World.

Humanoids, toteing crossbows and using advanced tactics, begin systemmatically attacking cities in the country of Darokin. They claim to be under the banner of a Glantrian, on Connor MacGregor of the House Klantyre. Casualties are steep, but the soldiers manage to dig in and keep the cities alive.

A band of heros depart for the Great School of Magic in Glantri. They have been granted permission by Harrald of Haskins to search the records of students for the name of Connor MacGregor. His hope is that when they fail to find the existance of such a person, they will give up all hope of attack the House Klantyre.

An assasination attempt on the life of King Stefan is thwarted by a delegation of Vyalian elves coming to Mirros to discuss the situation in the Dymark forest. Though the would-be assasin remains unknown, Thyatians automatically suspect the Traladarans, furthering the bad relations in the land.

King Reston is declaired king of Ierendi for life. They queen competition will continue as normal, and the king competition will likewise go on, except the title of "best man" goes to the winner until Reston passes away.

The ship, the Pioneer, return to port in Mirros after a trip around Mystara. The ship, however, holds only three men, the first mate, the mid-shipman, and a strange halfling.

The two men tell of a voyage which began well, but got off to tragedy quickly. The ship discovered a strange floating island in a location where none was supposed to have been. Closer inspection showed it to bear strange ruins like those found in Ylaruam. They, once under a comprehend languages, told the tale of the Nithian peoples, and had strange markings about worship and entropy. Shortly after the discovery, they were attacked and lost half the crew to unknown monsters.

They continued to say while circling Davinia, they were assaulted by hostile dragons of unknow types,some with yellow scales, some with scales of shadows, and some meere skeletons. They were the only two to survive the attack, and the ship would have surely sank if not for the aid of the halfling traveller's race.

They said he claimed to belong to people similar to the hin, but much more humorous. They claimed they had lived in eastern Skothar for centuries, and came from a different dimension. The name they used for themselves was "Krynnish."

A strange new Immortal, calling herself Tiamat, Empress of all Dragons, begins an attempt to influence the dragons. The Great One calls for the Immortal of entropy who sponsored her to come forth, but no one states they have even seen or heard from her before.

The World Games take place in Shireton. Five Shires. The game is a booming success, with the return of swimming venues, the addition of rapids-running events, canoe races, and Hardball (and Alphatian favorite).

All the world is present, except for the Dwarves of Rockhome who prepair for war with the Shadow Elves and the Shadow Elves themselves. New additions to the games are the New Alphatian Empire, which barely keeps from bombing the Glantrian athletes' dorms, the Peral Islands which have good showings in the new water races, and Ocheala, who take time out of their busy Druid/Cleric lives to enjoy the competition.

Thyatis pushes heavily for the next games, but they once more lose out, this time to Minrothad's Minrothad City.

Estlor of the Estate of Achelos recieves a mysterious dream from Mealidean telling him to, "Look towards Ylaruam." He believes Mealidean is telling him to claim Ylaruam as their new homeland, in retribution for the murder of a few refugees that accidentally entered Ylari soil.

Estlor begins to band the Alfhiem, Shadow, and Shiye elves in Karameikos into a loose army and attempts to train them to strike sometime next year.

The Day of Dread occurs once more. Etienne finally links this event to the Radience, and begins to wonder if his loss of Immortality was what recharged the artifact.