D&D 5E FR "official" timeline? roll of years?

[Quickleaf]

What is the current year in the "official" Forgotten Realms? By "official" I mean what they're using internally at WotC, with Adventurer's League, and with the hardcover adventure releases.

Is the Forgotten Realms Wiki accurate in this regard? If so, where do all the named years come from post 1491? Are they just fan-made placeholders for the wiki? Or do they have an actual origin in a publication or article somewhere?

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1489 — "Year of the Warrior Princess" — Hoard of the Dragon Queen

1490 — "Year of the Star Walker's Return" — ?

1491 — "Year of the Scarlet Witch" — Princes of the Apocalypse

1492 — "Year of Three Ships Sailing" — ?

1493 — "Year of the Purple Dragons" — ?

1494 — "Year of Twelve Warnings" — ?

1495 — "Year of the Tyrant's Pawn" — ?

And so on...

 

[pukunui]

If you look at WotC's old FR calendar tool, you'll see that the names match up. In fact, the calendar gives names for every year between -700 DR and 1600 DR. Since the tool is on the WotC website, I can only assume that the names are official.

 

[Al2O3]

I'm not sure events and years all sync up if you include the novels. But after 1491 or similar I would expect the material in SCAG to be correct. Parts of the Rage of Demons storyline in the novels take place in 1486, but the order of AL games might not work with that. I think either asking in the Candlekeep forum or WotC directly would be your best bet if you really want to know, otherwise just pick what you like and pick a year that suits you.

 

[Quickleaf]

I'm asking more for publishing reasons than for home play. I don't have SCAG, so I'd be curious if that updates their official timeline.

I managed to find this bit at the wiki — http://forgottenrealms.wikia.com/wiki/Marking_the_Years :

Augathra the Mad wrote a comprehensive list of the names of the years from -422 DR to what will be 1600 DR (The Year of Unseen Enemies), although it is widely believed that the roll of years was created by Alaundo of Candlekeep. Because some of the names of the years went missing, Alaundo replaced these with his own choices.[7] Supposedly, the names given the years are prophecies made by Alaundo as to the most significant event of that year.[8]

The sources are [7] 3e Forgotten Realms Campaign Setting, and [8] the novel Blackstaff.

 

[pukunui]

The SCAG doesn't provide a Roll of Years. It just provides a brief history up to 1489 DR.

The 3e FRCS's Roll of Years just covers the years 1372 to 1380 DR. I am really not sure where all the other names have come from. It's possible either Ed or someone at TSR/WotC just came up with a big long list that stretches from -700 all the way to 1600. (I'm banking on all the names listed in WotC's FR calendar tool being legit.)

 

[Irennan]

What is the current year in the "official" Forgotten Realms? By "official" I mean what they're using internally at WotC, with Adventurer's League, and with the hardcover adventure releases.

Is the Forgotten Realms Wiki accurate in this regard? If so, where do all the named years come from post 1491? Are they just fan-made placeholders for the wiki? Or do they have an actual origin in a publication or article somewhere?

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1489 — "Year of the Warrior Princess" — Hoard of the Dragon Queen

1490 — "Year of the Star Walker's Return" — ?

1491 — "Year of the Scarlet Witch" — Princes of the Apocalypse

1492 — "Year of Three Ships Sailing" — ?

1493 — "Year of the Purple Dragons" — ?

1494 — "Year of Twelve Warnings" — ?

1495 — "Year of the Tyrant's Pawn" — ?

And so on...

Found this over Candlekeep, about the origin of the names: http://forum.candlekeep.com/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=20843&whichpage=1#480738

and this: http://www.candlekeep.com/downloads/roll_of_years.zip

 

[Enevhar Aldarion]

The official start year with the release of 5th edition and the beginning of the Adventurer's League in 2014 was 1489 DR. The in-game year currently advances with the real-world year, so in-game it should currently be 1491. So all of the hardcover adventures and all AL modules are set in 1489 or later.

 

[Duan'duliir]

The SCAG mentions that the next Sheildmeet, the Faeruian quadrenial holiday, is in 1492, so the year is one of the following: 1491, 1490, or 1489. Given that PotA was in 1491, I'd say that is the current year.

 

[pukunui]

[MENTION=6818233]Enevhar Aldarion[/MENTION] and [MENTION=6802320]userZynx_name[/MENTION]: Yeah, but that's not the question that the OP is asking. He's not asking what the current year in the FR timeline is. He's asking where the names of the years (eg. "Year of the Scarlet Witch") come from. They're not mentioned in the SCAG. The Roll of Years in the 3e FRCS only goes up to 1380, while the one in the 4e FRPG only goes up to 1482. And 5e's SCAG doesn't have a Roll of Years in it.

As I've mentioned above, the WotC FR calendar tool includes names for all the years between -700 DR and 1600 DR, but it doesn't say where the names came from.

Luckily, the candlekeep thread linked to above appears to have an answer:

Ed created the roll of years, but too many years ago, Steven Schend pulled Eric Boyd and a group of other Realms fans together to create names for the next 100 years or so. We were much more prolific than Steven anticipated and thus the current roll....

As an aside, 1492 is the "Year of Three Ships Sailing". Do you suppose those three ships are called the Niña, the Pinta, and the Santa Maria? And will they, perhaps, be sailing across the ocean blue to (re)discover Maztica?

 

[Quickleaf]

Oh man. 1492. Glaringly obvious pun. *face palm*

Thanks [MENTION=6778119]Irennan[/MENTION]. Tom Costa (one of the FR designers, right?), said in that conversation on Candlekeep that...

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Ed created the roll of years, but too many years ago, Steven Schend pulled Eric Boyd and a group of other Realms fans together to create names for the next 100 years or so. We were much more prolific than Steven anticipated and thus the current roll....

So, it sounds like [MENTION=54629]pukunui[/MENTION] is right, that the official roll of years stops at 1482? And everything thereafter is made up by fans?