While Li Wei slept peacefully deep within the White City treasury, time flowed on like a murmuring stream.
The situation across the Coriel Continent shifted with the winds and clouds, as all manner of magnificent or tedious epic tales vied to unfold:
In 1340 DR, under the intervention of Cormyr's great army, the four-year dispute between Sembia and the Cult of the Dragon finally came to an end.
An "elven ranger" named Eilwen and a "shield dwarf warrior" of Leviathan shone brilliantly in this war. The ranger, who had consecutively shot down at least a hundred mid- to high-ranking evil cultists of the Cult of the Dragon, was suspected of breaking through the legendary threshold on the battlefield and awakening the [Nemesis Slayer] feat.
Yet no one knew that not only him—the "shield dwarf" who had constantly spread noise across the battlefield also advanced the following year, awakening [Legendary Fortitude Barrier] with little surprise.
In 1345 DR, beneath Isabella's raised banner and under the command of the legendary warrior Skard, Ascore thoroughly purged the Bedine barbarians and orcs entrenched all along Ascore Road.
That same year, the green dragon druid "Aige" sat withered beneath the 1.09 millionth ginkgo tree he had planted in his northeastern shelter forest for three days and four nights, achieving legend. Perhaps the vast forest, which had already dyed a third of the Anauroch Desert green, had moved even the Earth Mother Goddess Chauntea, for "Aige" actually awakened the exceedingly rare druid feat [Emerald Dream].
In 1347 DR, on the night the centaur king, who had ruled Vaasa for less than ten years, signed an alliance treaty with the orcs, he was bizarrely assassinated under the protection of tens of thousands of troops. His spraying blood dyed half the tent red.
That night, the black dragon