Stonehold (Ruins)

[23 BR] Foundation of Stonehold
Morghun the Black founded Stonehold as a fortress for Baator and his infernal allies, becoming its first ruler.

[20 BR]
Drak'Law Emberblaze succeeds Morghun the Black as second ruler of Stonehold.

[14 BR] Benwick - Stonehold War
Benwick fights against the Dragon Cult located within Stonehold. During the war, a rift was created between the followers of Queen Xyndral and the followers of Duke Darius Tristam, culminating in the leaving of Darius and all his followers to Kohlingen. The War takes place sometime between 15 BR and 10 BR.

[01 AR] Banite's Stonehold Takeover
Among those swallowed by the Great Rift was count Dra'Klaw Emberblaze, creating a power vacuum in Stonehold. This situation was seized upon by Daller Mange who claimed the citadel for the Banites and proclaimed himself as the First Dreadmaster.

[02 AR] Cordor - Stonehold War
Cordor declares war against Stonehold. Within a year later, Benwick joins the hostilities against the Banites. The reason for the conflict was lost to time.

[03 AR] Benwick - Stonehold War
After a year of conflict, Benwick joins Cordor in the war against the Banite Stonehold.

[11 AR]
Ryan Valtheran deposes and exiles Daller Mange, becoming the second Dreadmaster of Stonehold.

[12 AR] Cordor - Stonehold War
An Army led by the Cordorian Aristotlus marches against Ryan Valtheran, the Dreadmaster of Stonehold. The reason for the conflict was lost to time.

[13 AR] The Battle for Bendir
The hin village is brutally attacked by a Banite force from Stonehold under the command of Dreadmaster Ryan Valtheran. When runners are sent for aid, it arrives in the form of a small dwarven army led by the Thane Belrun. This alone is not enough to counter the Banite army and Bendir suffers a crippling defeat. The hin settlement is pillaged and numerous halflings are taken as slaves.

[13 AR] The Destruction of Stonehold
After the brutal attack on Bendir, Benwick mustered a large army under the command of Queen Xyndral's husband, the Praetorian Grandmaster Severian. Along with Councilman Duty, the gathering marched against the Stronghold. Knowing the Banites employed large numbers of Devils in their ranks, the Benwick clerics called upon the heavens for aid, and a host of celestials descended. Together, the army of mortals and gods assaulted the Bane Fortress. Though gravely wounded, Praetorian Severian defeated the infernal army of Dreadmaster Ryan Valtheran and his Drow Mistress Layra Dria'fiend, bringing the Stonehold to ruin. After its destruction, what Banite forces remaining retreat into exile.

Praetorian Grandmaster Severian would later die from the wounds suffered.

After the defeat, Ryan Valtheran and his Dreadmistress Lana Valtheran, formerly known as Layra Dria'fiend, would disappear from the island. In the power vacuum a half-orc, whose name was forgotten, took command of the surviving Banite forces to form a mercenary company known as the Dogz of War. Though nominally unaffiliated, these mercenaries became the private guard of the Baron of Lower Cordor, a dubious figure who quietly reintroduced Banite influence into city politics under the guise of pragmatism and coin.

[26 AR]
The "Stained Paw" Gnoll tribe takes up camp outside of Old Stonehold

[40 AR]
The elven Commander Daedin Angthalion and Airk Dar’danowin die fighting the Drow near the Stonehold Ruins.

[50 AR]
The activity of Dark Cults is confirmed in the ruins of old Stonehold.

[141 AR]
Stonehold's connecting tunnel into the Underdark collapses from instability, sealing off the once commonly used path.

[174 AR] Return to Stonehold
The Vampire Adelyn Belle'rose manipulates the Aasimar Zaphiel Aethos and Paladin Tove Knudsdottir into opening the Hell gate within the ruins of Old Stonehold to defeat Herbert the Gatekeeper. Upon the devil lord's death, the opened portal was sealed with the combined prayer of those assembled and celestial intervention. Afterwards the gathered adventurers from Guldorand, Cordor, and Myon attempted to slay the vampire, who manages to escape with the aid of her slave, the haversted horns of Herbert the Gatekeeper safely in her clutches.

Stonehold (Skull Craigs)

[18 AR] The Stonehold Reform
Though defeated in the fall of Stonehold, Dreadmaster Ryan Valtheran and his wife did not remain absent for long. Vanishing into obscurity after his forces’ collapse, he eventually resurfaced with renewed purpose, rallying the scattered Banite faithful. Retreating deep into the Skull Crags, they established a new fortress, a Second Stonehold, built atop the mountain that would come to bear his name: Mt. Valtheran. Constructed with labor stolen from Bendir Dale, the halfling slaves were forced to dig a vast pit at the project’s end, only to be cast into it and buried alive in a final act of cruelty and fanaticism. This dark rebirth marked not only a physical reconstruction but an ideological one as well. In the wake of defeat and disgrace, the Church of Bane underwent a ruthless reform. Its hierarchy, doctrine, and laws were reshaped, forged anew in blood and stone amid the peaks of the Skull Crags.

His return culminated in a second siege of Bendir Dale, a campaign that met an unexpected and abrupt end when a wandering tiefling named Salik defeated Valtheran in single combat.

[19 AR]
Ryan and Lana Valtheran's disappear a second and final time, leaving the Banite ranks in disarray and creating a temporary power vacuum. During this time, Valtheran’s half-drow daughter attempts to assert herself as Dreadmistress, but her bid for power faltered due to a lack of support among the faithful. As a result, Rizzen Coloana claims the title of Dreadmaster.

[21 AR]
Rizzen Coloana mysteriously vanishes, and after Stonehold stands leaderless until Lothar the Steelsworn claimed the title of Dreadmaster. The fourth person to hold the position.

[22 AR] Second Stonehold - Cordor War
Zeer is revived by the Banites of Stonehold, and shortly after Cordor is set aflame in a surprise attack. Stonehold forces would then begin a search for the orb of creation, but the relic is destroyed by the Beetroots Kobolds.

[25 AR]
Lothar the Steelsworn is banished and Tarok claims the title to become the fifth Dreadmaster.

[36 AR] The Destroyer’s Coup
Tzila ascends to Dreadmistress of Stonehold, and becomes the sixth to hold the title, with the support of the Talossians. Shortly after the followers of the Storm Lord stage a coup, pushing the Banites out and claiming the Fortress for themselves. Dreadmistress Tzila and her supporters relocate to the temple of Bane constructed in Minmir by 40 AR. (New Dungeon added to Server)