Great Moments in Greyhawk History?

[Starfox]

I have what could potentially become a Dr Who-like time-traveling story set in Greyhawk. I wonder if people have ideas for particularly interesting moments for players to visit? This is so far just on the horizon, giving me time to plan.

The central character for this is a female elf with a talent for time magic. Playing this under homebrew rules, but the closest DnD parallel would be a cleric focused on time and space but with no particular patron.

I am thinking of when Zagyg the mad imprisoned the 9 deities to become a god and perhaps something connected to Iggwilv. The future techno-punk Greyhawk is also on the map for this.

 

[the Jester]

How about a quick visit to the place and time of the Rain of Colorless Fire or Invoked Devastation?

 

[darjr]

or the war around the first founding of the temple of elemental evil

 

[Starfox]

Considering the Vecna wars too

 

[Jacob Marley]

The Battle of Pesh could be pretty interesting. In the shadow of White Plume Mountain the Wind Dukes of Aaqa invoked the Rod of Law to banish Miska the Wolf-Spider. The result was, amongst other things, the banishment of Miska, the deaths of the vast majority of Wind Dukes, and the creation of the Rift Canyon.

 

[the Jester]

Or maybe the sinking of the Isles of Woe?

 

[Starfox]

Good ideas all... Thanks ^^

 

[grodog]

Some other pivotal moments (assuming that you want to possibly shift history in a different direction):

- the signing of the Treaty of Greyhawk (that ended the Greyhawk Wars), during which Rary and Robilar slew Circle of Eight members Otiluke and Tenser
- insuring that Prince Thrommel does not disappear from the Battle of Emridy Meadows (or whenever he was "lost"), only to resurface as an illusionary vampire in the Temple of Elemental Evil
- preventing the betrayal and destruction of Vecna at the hands of Kas
- on the Iggwilv front, the PCs could aid her in her moment of need, to help her defeat and perhaps even recapture Graz'zt, so that her empire never falls
- insure that the Turmoil Between Crowns comes about in favor of the house of Rax vs. Naelex, so that Ivid I never rises to power
- insure that the scions of the House of Maure do not fall