- Age of Strife began with Blade of the Horned Rat being found, and lasted 1789 years from 0 AB to 1789 AB
- Mages of the Vrankish Empire conspired to wipe out a major city of the Vlaanderen Empire
- Caused massive amounts of Rot energy to seep into the material plane, and the creation of the Broken Spine Mountains and the corresponding Central Blight on top of them
- The Arad Spring occurred a brief time after the events of the Festival of Rot
- During this era, the major Empires fractured, into what is now known as the Angevin Empire and Vermandois
