Chronology

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Please note that AL stands for After Loregiver.

376 AL

- 20th of Dar: Birth of Saladin.

427 AL

- 9th of Nau: Birth of Farooq.

473 AL

- 14th of Qawafil: Birth of Ramanhi

499 AL

- 28th of Mihla: Farooq arrives at Tajar and is greeted by Ramanhi, an askar at the service of the city. They form a quick friendship. They intervene when a man his being mugged. As they chase the robbers, the stranger thanks them and offers them a job to help him fulfill his duties. He is Didoufri Aegyptian ambassador and general. He as to gather the necessary gifts required for the wedding of the Pharaoh's daughter. As they leave Didoufri to report to Karim, the captain of the guard, Ramanhi noticed his scimitar was stolen. After reporting everything to Karim, Ramanhi and Farooq went to the Sun Dune Inn, owned by Asam bin Diyad. He approaches the heroes and ask them for their help. He is being asked to pay for "protection" and would like Ramanhi to investigate, which he does. He asked around and finaly asks Faram, a Gnoll merchant close to the inn. Faram informed them that he was not approached for money. In the meantime, Farooq started spreading the word of Jauhar in the streets. As night drew nearer, Ramanhi invited Farooq to spend the night at his house.

- 29th of Mihla: Karim wakes up Ramanhi and Farooq to inform them that Asam bin Diyad was found murdered and the murder weapon is Ramanhi's stolen scimitar. Karim informs them not to leave the city pending investigation. Ramanhi and Farooq start their own investigation. They search the inn and found a letter signed by someone nammed Rashid ordering the hit on the gnome. After learning this and convinced that the heroes are innocent, and also because his life is in danger, Didoufri officially hires Ramanhi and Farooq as bodyguard. They get a note to meet with someone at the Suq. The meeting turns out to be a plea from the Sheikh's daughter to stop the investigation and to leave the town. After her departure and some pondering, Ramanhi and Farooq are ambushed by four men with piercing black eyes. Their objective was not termination since after a few blows, they retrated. As they retreated, one drops a pouch which Farooq recovers. They find inside a letter from Faram the Gnoll merchant. Ramanhi recognize the handwriting as the one who signed Rashid on the letter ordering the execution of Asam the gnome. They come up with a plan and inform Didoufri. Farooq is really winning the crowd with his preaching of Jauhar, attracting the attention of the clergy of Jisan.

- 30th of Mihla: Ramanhi and Farooq catch Faram and expose him as Rashid the blackmailer. It seems the Gnoll had a dual identity. He explains to them the bargain with the Sheikh's daughter before ordering his minions to attack our heroes. While they fight off the goons, Rashid is bitten by a huge snake. As they dispatch the remaining followers of Rashid, they stare as the snake slowly changes into a man with black eyes, wearing a scaly plate mail and yielding a Kopesh sword. They fight the warrior which burns away just as Karim arrives to take them to the Sheikh. Even though the evidence they accumulated is impressive, the Sheikh Ali al-Hadd, who is still under the manipulation of his daughter, exiles Ramanhi and Farooq from Tajar for a year and a day. As they leave the city, Farooq notices a few people talking about Jauhar and her philosophy and left the city under the cursing eye of the clergy of Jisan for introducing the faith of Jauhar in Tajar. With nowhere to go, Ramanhi finally accepts the offer of Didoufri and embarks on the road.

- 1st to the 11th of Qawafil: Travel from Tajar to Hiyal through the High Desert. They stop at an oasis on the 8th where they meet an elf. His name is Saladin Min Zann Bin Naamon, a Faris of Zann the Learned and a Sha'ir, which they recognized since his gen, Alia, introduced herself. Saladin is on the quest to find the mystical city of Ur in which he finds to find ultimate knowledge. As the caravan gets ready to leave, they are ambushed by desert riders. Saladin helps the heroes repel the ambush. Didoufri invites Saladin to join them, which he does. They resume their travel.

- 11th of Qawafil: Encounter with the Vishap. It kills most of the guards but Saladin, Farooq and Ramanhi manages to negotiate with the wingless dragon. As they reached an agreement, Saladin is shown a map of Zakhara which predates the Loregiver which would put Ur in one of these three location: The Genie's Anvil, The Great Anvil or the Ruined Kingdom.

- 12th to the 20th of Qawafil: Travel the reminder to the trip to Hiyal from the lair of the Vishap. On the 14th of Qawafil, Ramanhi turned 26.

- 21st of Qawafil: Arrival at Hiyal, City of Intrigue. Didoufri needs to tend to a lot of orders here so he asks the heroes to go see Master Bulad, the greatest steelmaker in the Land of Fate to pick up an item. Arrived there, Master Bulad challenges, at the request of Farooq (and a wager), Ramanhi at a duel. Ramanhi lost the duel but he proved his hearth and strength to Bulad. Ramanhi is offered the hand of Bulad's only daughter, Fuladayah. Ramanhi now needs to become an Hiyal citizen and for that he needs a lot of money. Farooq, forever helpful, founds a bounty that pays 500 000 dinars for the capture of Ali al-Lazan, a flame mage who is a member of the Brotherhood of the True Flame. As the day draws to an end, the heroes are ready to go and so is Didoufri. They have one stop to make, Huzuz, to ask the Grand Caliphate to allow Saladin to accompany our heroes.

- 22nd to the 25th of Qawafil: Travel from Hiyal to Huzuz aboard the Efreet's Horn under the orders of Captain Diyad, a minotaur. They are attacked by scrag (Qawafil is the month of the Scrag) which are pushed back by the heroes.

- 26th of Qawafil: Saladin asks the Grand Caliphate of Huzuz the permission to accompany the party and Didoufri to Radim, City of Pharaoh. The Grand Caliph grants Saladin's request, allowing him to be independant of his church.

- 27th to the 30th of Qawafil: Travel by water from Huzuz to Hiyal with Diyad on the Efreet's Horn. Clear waters all the way.

- High Holy Days: Our heroes celebrate the High Holy Days with the Bulad family before continuing their journey.

- 1st to the 3rd of Safa: Boat and land travel from Hiyal to Qudra, City of Power. Uneventful journey.

- 3rd to the 5th of Safa: Spent three days at Qudra waiting for the boat and to clear with customs. The party got to know each other more during this calm period. They stock up on several items and gear before leaving for Radim with General Didoufri.

- 5th to the 15th of Safa: Boat travel from Qudra toward Radim, City of Pharaohs. Smooth sailing aboard the Aegyptian boat Amtetput's Pride.

- 15th of Safa: Ten days before reaching Qadid, the boat is attacked by men at arms and a saher. After a lenglty battle, our heroes fight of the men at arms, captures the saher and their ship. They got their hands on the magical gear which was in the cargo of the pirates ship. Ramanhi inherited a scimitar which was identified as Genie Bitter but whose powers are not identified. Farooq got a Morningstar of Disruption, an undead's bane and Saladin got a long sword which is magical but is resistant to all sorts of identification. They also found a gem which is a genie prison. During the night, Saladin frees the genie inside the gem to found out it is Efreet, the real lord of the Efreeti. They struck a bargain: in exchange for help and information about Ur, the party will help Efreet to reclaim his throne within a year and a day.

- 16th to the 24th of Safa: Smooth sailing until they reach Qadid, City of Wands. The only information they could get out of the saher is that a Moralist of Jisan ordered the execution of Farooq.

- 24th of Safa: Arrival in Qadid. The sultan, Kamal al-Hadi, summons Didoufri. He explains to him the appearance of the temple of Seth and tells him that if the temple is not gone by sunrise the 26th of Safa, he will not surender the Kopesh of Osiris. They scout the city for info and the exterior of the temple but found no visible entrances. They also learn from Asham the barber that a rawun nammed Tala lost her brother to the temple and might have found an entrance. She performs at the Magical Den tonigh. At the universities, they learn that Rashas al-Ridesh,a saher of Flame and Sand was sent to investigate the temple but never returned. That night, they attend Tala's performance and approach her to ask her to help them so they help her in return. They meet at midnight in the mosque district to infiltrate the temple.

- 25th of Safa: Assault of the Temple of Seth. After braving the carrion crawlers infested sewers to infiltrate the temple, the heroes with Tala are greeted by a converted Rashas al-Ridesh and several guards. Our heroes quickly dispatches them. They move up the stories of the temple to face the high priest of Seth, Ahmosis and his four priests and four minions of Seth, staring at them with theire black eyes. After a difficult battle, they rescur Tala's brother, destroy the Followers of Seth. Just as they exited the obelisk, it crumbled. The heroes claim the Kopesh of Osiris and get back to their trip towards Radim.

- 26th of Safa to 3rd of Dar: Uneventful travel by boat from Qadid to Radim.

- 3rd of Dar: Arrival in Aegyptian land. The party must stop at the gate fort to pick up the last of the gifts and have an ecnounter with Ahmenhotep, leader of the Protector of Ra, whom have been ambushed at the fort. The heroes help them fight off the Sharns that were summoned to attack them. After charging the gifts on the boat, they set sail for Radim. once arrived, the heroes are introduced to the pharaoh, whom is informed of all that the heroes did in his name for his daughter's wedding. They are all invited to a banquet in their honor and their success.

- 5th of Dar: Two days before the wedding. After exploring the city for a day, the heroes are called upon to save the princess, whom was turned to stone by unknown magic. Nobody can turn her back. As the heroes investigate this mystery, they hear a muffled cry for help. As they crash in the room, they see the groom being attacked by a copper monkey, an automaton. The Heroes fight off the Mechanical device, only to find the groom as been poisoned by a dart and his turning to stone also. As they continue to look for answers, Saladin suddenly hears in his head that the Pharaoh is in danger. As they arrive to the Pharaoh's chambers, they find him in convulsions, being poisoned also. His clerics cast slow poison on him but it only delays the spreading. The cure must be found. All their investigation have turned up so far is some yak hair from the dart that turned the groom to stone. Thinking fast, they heard that the Aegyptian People are always at war with the Yak Men and this may be their doing. The heroes found the secret passage used by the copper monkey to get in and follow it to an underground cave guarded by a Dao nommed Balboa. After just a hit from Genie Bitter, Ramanhi's scimitar, Balboa negociates a way out of servitude from this Yak-Man that bounded him. He also tells them that the blood of the this Yikaria will cure the three infected. After a fierce battle with the Yikaria nammed the Renderer and after collection his blood, they rush to save the pharaoh and do so just in time. They also turn from stone the princess and the groom.

- 7th of Dar: The wedding of Princess Tefnout and Anwar al-Assad al-Zahir conducted by Farooq min Jauhar with Saladin and Ramanhi as witnesses. The Pharaoh promised to use his resources to help our heroes catch Ali al-Lazan. He asked them to give his informants a month to gather their info.

- 20th of Dar: Saladin turns 123 years old.