In the history of the Shadows Over Westgate game setting, the timeline of the Forgotten Realms lore forks at around [https://forgottenrealms.fandom.com/wiki/1358_DR 1358 DR], at the advent of the [https://forgottenrealms.fandom.com/wiki/The_Time_of_Troubles Time of Troubles]. From here, a new history is written.

The events of the in-game world begin somewhere in the middle of [https://forgottenrealms.fandom.com/wiki/1372_DR 1372 DR], the same year that the [https://nwn.fandom.com/wiki/Original_campaign original campaign] concludes in, and all events following this point are frozen. Events that have happened will be recorded in the Timeline.

quote = The Godswar never really ended after all, did it? | speaker = [[Violet Craul]] of [[Westgate]], Maven of [[Mask]]

Angered by the lust for power exhibited in the gods of Toril, the overgod Ao cast down the pantheons to the mortal world in 1358 DR, hereafter the year known as the Time of Troubles; also known as the Arrival, the Avatar Crisis, the Godswar, the Time of the Avatars, the Fall of the Gods, and the Intervention of Ao.

* Cyric, under the machinations of Shar, hunted down and killed Midnight, preventing Mystra’s return. With no successor, the divine aspects and domains of magic were scattered and untethered. * Mask, in the guise of Godsbane, aided in the deception leading to Midnight’s death. In the chaos, he siphoned fragments of the Weave, granting him control over shadow magic and vanishing from divine perception. He can no longer be seen or sensed by other gods. * Eleasis 13: Bane, greater god of tyranny, strife, and hatred, was fated to battle Torm outside Tantras, but Torm was waylaid en route, choosing to save innocents from cataclysmic fallout. Tyr took his place in the duel and was slain. Bane absorbed the portfolio of Law. The Justice domain fractured and vanished—its absence is keenly felt across the realms. * Marpenoth 15: Myrkul, god of death, was fated to fall to Midnight. With her death, he survives unchallenged. The divine balance of death remains in his hands, and his influence grows unchecked. Mortality darkens, and the dead linger. * With Mystra slain and Midnight never ascending, Kelemvor never takes up the mantle of Judge of the Dead. Instead, he is bound in service to Myrkul, his soul shackled as an exarch. * Nightal 3: The Tablets of Fate are destroyed. Ao departs from Toril, leaving no arbiter, no cosmic judge, and no boundaries. Divine order collapses. The pantheons become fragmented, volatile, and prone to collapse or consumption. * In the wake, Cyric ascends rapidly, claiming multiple portfolios at once: deception, murder, lies, madness. The burden splinters him. His mind and essence fracture into avatars—some semi-divine, others unstable. One such avatar is rumored to be imprisoned beneath Westgate, its dreams leaking into the minds of prophets, madmen, and thieves. '''