Bel Shanaar
Bel Shanaar the Navigator was a wise and just Phoenix King who bought much prosperity to the High Elves. His bloody death heralded in an era of war and torment.
[edit] Timeline All dates are based on the Sigmarite Calendar.
c -4420 - Bel Shanaar is coronated; marking the end of the Great War against Chaos. A great period of rebuilding starts, in which many of the sacked and ruined Elf cities are rebuilt.
c -4164 - The first Elven colonies are built in the New World. Malekith defends Athel Toralien from Orc Warlord Gritok Redfang and wins.
c -4119 - Dwarf King Snorri Whitebeard is befriended by Malekith. Elves and Dwarfs drive the remaining forces of chaos back into the Chaos Waste.
c -3419 - In Nagarythe the Cult of Pleasure takes hold. It seeps across all of Ulthuan.
c -2839 - Bel Shanaar journeys to Karaz-a-Karak to pledge eternal friendship between the Elves and Dwarfs. Malekith remains as ambassador.
c -2789 - Malekith wanders the world in search for Magical Artefacts of Elder Times.
c -2775 - In the ruined city of Vorshgar Malekith finds the Circlet of Iron.
c -2774 - On his return to Ulthuan Malekith denounces his mother as a worshiper of Slaanesh. The whole Cult of Pleasure is revealed as a Cult of Slaanesh.
c -2749 - Bel Shanaar is assassinated after the massacre at the Shrine of Asuryan. Malekith tries to walk into the Sacred Flame but is burned and horribly mutilated.