This section outlines the known timeline of the Raven Queen's madness, the Shadowfell's genocidal attack, and the fallout of that conflict.

• Over two and a half millennia, ago after the Sundering had begun and the planes were just beginning to crack and split, the bickering warlords of the Shadowfell fall behind a single powerful leader.
• Military bases to train and support troops and magic are mustered.
• The three great blades of the Raven Queen are corrupted to serve these Warlords.
• The Shadowfell, empowered by the weakness of the Feywild in balance, marches on the material and elemental planes with murderous intent.
• The warlords are joined by the arch-Daeva Ashriel the Mourning Saint.
• Groups of heroes on the Prime Material plane mount a resistance force against this attack, but not before the Feywild is scoured of “undesirables” leaving only the strongest and wealthy.
• Eilac takes the Raven Queen's powers and returns her sister Ariyah to life.
• Led by Aryiah, the Warlords of the Shadowfell are cast down. Flaygallows is created by Steve McSword 21st to try these war criminals and to create a prison for those souls that should never be allowed to leave for the outer planes.

Soon after this period of unrest, the deities of the outer planes fall silent.