The Valley of the Fallen Stars is completely subsumed by the Shadowfell, a realm of dread and darkness.

The Luminaires, scions of the god Arawan, arrive in the Valley, and fight against the Shadowfell to restore the balance of life and death.

Shield Dwarves build Sunspire, a fortress atop the Sunspire Mountains, as a base for the Luminaires. The fortress is constructed above a cavern with a natural spring and a fallen star.

The Luminaires convert many Animal Spirits to the worship of Arawan, and establish them as Gods of the Valley:

• Dorodorodorandel, the Dragon Turtle, god of storms and stones.

• Mithrakin, the Kind Raven, god of day, night, and language.

• O'gwa, the Mother of Mysteries, goddess of animals, birth, and death.

• Vorenzis, the Wolf King, god of dreams and the hunt.

• Senn Venn Va, the Coatl, Serpent of Four Winds, god of the wind, farming, and life.

• Talemai, the Copper Penny Catfish, goddess of rivers, travel, and luck.

Some spirits fall in battle:

• Niethress the River Lion

• The Worm Morayan

• Eiderdon the Wood Giant

When Mithrakin, the Kind Raven, joins the forces of Arawan, his children, the Kenku, instead join the forces of the Shadowfell. They are cursed for this, and their wings and creative abilities are lost.

Victory is claimed over the Dark Powers of the Shadowfell when Dorodorodorandel summons an army of dragons.

The Luminaires imprison the Dark Powers in the Amber Temple, a prison made from the amber gems of a fallen star.

Most of the Luminaires leave the valley. However, the Abbot builds Grayview Abbey in the Sunspire Mountains. He claims to hear a voice that promises unlimited knowledge...

Some tortles still carry the magic of the Shadowfell in their blood. These tortles are born with a concealed third eye, and are known as Skywatchers.

The Luminaires teach the Skywatchers to call down Fallen Stars, from which they can construct magic items.

These Fallen Stars are parts of other realms, and contain within them magic materials, but also new people, creatures, and gods.

Sir Ardent Rothvel and Mog the Mighty work together to slay the dragon Orzamora. Mog is knighted.

The Dread arrives in the Valley of the Fallen Stars.

Nostraya visits the Amber Temple, and receives a gift from the Dark Powers.

Nostraya learns from the Amber Temple how to break open the Ember Heart, a massive fallen star at the center of the Ember Keep. Doing so gives her power to repel the Dread, but costs her humanity.

Warqueen Nostraya and the other Starsworn Knights are cursed with vampirism.

Sir Ardent Rothvel, cursed with vampirism, flees to the town of Rothvel. He slays his friend Sir Mog the Mighty, and buries him beneath Ardent Hold.

Queen Nostraya and the Keepers of the Feather try to force Granny O'gwa from the Hagwood in the Battle of Berez. They fail. When Queen Nostraya comes for her daughter Marina, the Baron of Berez kills the young woman rather than hand her over. Tatiana, Marina's daughter, is taken away by the Keepers of the Feather.

Baron Rothvel's wife Thureta makes a deal with Granny O'gwa to save her children. In punishment, Baron Rothvel locks her in the Starsworn Tomb. Through Granny O'gwa's magic, she transforms into a dryad.

The gnome Gazu, working as an alchemist in the Ember Keep, discovers a woman who escaped from Harvest, a town where Queen Nostraya kept prisoners to feed on. The woman had escaped through a nearby mine, which eventually led to the prison beneath the Ember Keep. Gazu realized his healing potions were being used to keep Nostraya's chattel alive. He fled the Ember Keep.

The goliath Dawnbreaker arrived in the Valley of the Fallen Stars, seeking a mythical foe known as the Pale Fellow. She was killed by Baron Rothvel. She awakens, later, cursed with vampirism, and is taken to Grayview Abbey.

An adventuring party arrives in the Valley of the Fallen Stars, set on slaying Queen Nostraya. In an epic battle atop the Ember Keep, all are slain, except for one aasimar. This aasimar is nursed back to health in the hermitage of Hawthorne, and due to his love of a certain leafy green, is nicknamed Cabbage.

An order of warriors known as the Soldiers of the Storm attacks a flock of kenku used as spies but Queen Nostraya. One kenku named Quiet flees and is taken in by Skywatcher Aris in Umber Dell.

The gnome alchemist and necromancer Skirovan is sent by Queen Nostraya to kill Skywatcher Aris, the spiritual leader of the tortles of Umber Dell. He is driven off by the warriors of the Omyrian Order, and retreats to research the necromantic rituals of the dragon god of death, Null.

Two of three magic fish are stolen from the Blue Otter Pub & Boatworks; one is stolen by Granny O'gwa, the other by the Wolf King.

Father Wolfgang, a firbolg priest from the hermitage of Hawthorne, arrives in Rothvel to consult the tortle fortuneteller Madam Zolenka. The Wolf King and his Nachthund, magical transforming wolves, arrest Wolfgang and leave Madam Zolenka to die.

Madam Zolenka uses her Tarokka Cards to foretell a prophesy of how Queen Nostraya can be destroyed.