4709 AR

Age of Lost Omens
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4709 AR in conflicts

• The Rathangut, a small tribe of centaurs living in the Kortos Mounts, begin attacking travelers and robbing caravans. This sparks off a bloody conflict with Absalom as bounties are offered for centaur hides, leading to innocent centaur tribes being attacked and escalating the conflict further.
• The abbess of the Monastery of Tala reveals herself to be a cleric of Deskari and betrays her companions.

4709 AR in environment

• The Tree of Souls in Kasai blooms for the last time in at least three years.

Migrations in 4709 AR

• Non-elven surface-dwellers learn of the existence of the drow, an underground race of elves.

4709 AR in people

• Calisro Benarry is named venture-captain of the Grinning Pixie. She succeeds Venture-Captain Schlero Val DuMorign.

4709 AR in politics

• The Eight Fingers tribe of orcs takes over control of the ancient fortress of Deepgate from the Haskodar tribe in the Hold of Belkzen.
• Beginning of the reign of Her Infernal Majestrix Abrogail Thrune II of Cheliax after the death of Infrexus Thrune. Abrogail Thrune II sells the soul of Cheliax to Hell and so her House becomes the "Thrice-Damned House of Thrune".
• Razmiran cultists begin recruiting in Nirmathas and Molthune.
• The corruption of Fulldrin Blythe, captain of the Graycloaks in Absalom's Ascendant Court, is exposed and leads to his forced removal. The Chamber of Ecclestials deliberate on a replacement and select former gladiator Runewulf the Unbeliever, who accepts the charge and runs out Blythe's remaining sympathizers.

4709 AR in wildlife

• A strange metal scorpion—later named an annihilator robot—capable of shooting fire from its mouth and tails, appears in western Numeria and destroys a number of villages. It captures numerous people alive before returning to the Felldales.
• The mighty red dragon Horranath attacks the Taldan town of Dalaston.
• The Pale Mountain in Katapesh erupts, exposing the remains of the Spawn of Rovagug named Xotani the Firebleeder.

Deaths in 4709 AR

• Lord Einmarch Henderthane is killed in Egorian by the devil Orxines for resisting the fiend's decades-long plot to install his own offspring as the heads of Cheliax's leading noble families.
• Majestor Infrexus Thrune of Cheliax falls through the ice of the Adivian River and drowns.

Miscellaneous

• A magical ship called the King Xeros suddenly appears in Absalom's harbor. After a brief exploration by a group of Pathfinders, the vessel disappears as suddenly as it arrived.
• The wreckage of the barge Hanspur's Luck is found on the Sellen River.
• The half-orc Aucinda Fermender becomes trapped in the Hanging Tower after her companions are slain by the glabrezu Yracanda.
• A Dominion of the Black force lands in the Scar of the Spider aboard a spaceship and immediately sets about retrofitting the two annihilator robots they find there to harvest humanoids for their experiments.
• Agents of the Dominion of the Black encounter an artificial intelligence core in the Scar of the Spider.
• In this year on the distant planet Earth, a global conflict called the Great War began and would continue until 4713 AR. On Earth, this year is denoted as AD 1914.
• The killer known as the Portside Strangler takes his first victim and is tried and executed in the Andoren city of Almas. Crimes fitting his modus operandi are committed in the following years and continue to the present.
• The Master of the Gales wins the third of five consecutive Free Captains' Regattas.
• Over several months in Taldor, more than six dozen guards and workers with the Imperial Naval Shipyards are kidnapped.
  • Taldan Navy ship production is delayed for the first time in a decade.
  • Grand Prince Stavian III institutes martial law and increases patrols by the city constabulary, but this has little effect on the kidnappings.
  • The Pathfinder Society and Aspis Consortium work together to free 14 kidnapped people, including an agent from each of their organizations. The culprits are a cult of Groetus and their allies.
  • A dero plot to kidnap residents of Cassomir and sell them as slaves is uncovered, as is their settlement of the abandoned neighborhood known as Cassomir Below.