Every passing year sees an abundance of new writings, songs and poetry unleashed into the Forgotten Realms.
Broadsheets, books, chapbooks, and poems are listed under the year they were first published. Ballads and songs are listed under the year they were first performed or the year they first became popular. Exceptions to this ordering are noted at the end of a given listing.
Year of Shadowed Blades (27 DR)
BOOKS
Dreams of a Dark Future: A Sage's Visions Regarding Fair Tethyr; Ilmdrar of Zazesspur
Blackoun's Book Of Tired Wit; Heldurr Blackoun, Sage of Neverwinter
Year of the Scourge (1150 DR)
BALLADS
Alustriel Comes Calling; Orammus 'the Black Bard' of Waterdeep
When Revels Go All Wrong; Orammus 'the Black Bard' of Waterdeep
BOOKS
Old Or's Black Book; Orammus 'the Black Bard' of Waterdeep; contents include the ballads Alustriel Comes Calling and When Revels Go All Wrong
Year of Empty Crowns (1201 DR)
BALLADS
Swords And War And Sorrows; Dathglur "the Roaring Bard"
Year of Silent Steel (1254 DR)
BALLADS
Nobles Have A Certain Spice; anonymous; a minstrel's ballad
Year of the Dying Stars (1284 DR)
BOOKS
One Bard's Musings; Aumra Darreth Vauntress
Year of the Mace (1307 DR)
BOOKS
Idle Notions of a Sage; Mallowthear Stelthistle
Year of the Adder (1328 DR)
BALLADS
Friends I Weep For You; Velorna Jalaneth, Bard
Year of the Highmantle (1336 DR)
BOOKS
The Vizier and the Satrap: Twenty Tales of Foible; Ambauree of Calimport
Year of the Wanderer (1338 DR)
BOOKS
Musings On Mortality; Ulvryn Hamadarakh
Year of the Saddle (1345 DR)
CHAPBOOKS
Proof I Cannot Write Poetry: A Fat Man's Chapbook; Mirt the Moneylender
Year of the Bloodbird (1346 DR)
BOOKS
A Life's Cargo of Mistakes; Tamper Tencoin
Year of the Bright Blade (1347 DR)
BOOKS
The Realm of the Dragon: Cormyr In The Time of Vangerdahast, Volume I; Sebren Korthyn, Sage of Elturel
Year of the Spur (1348 DR)
BALLADS
The Dead, They March This Day; Tethmurra "Lady Bard" Starmar; 1351 DR is the year this ballad was published, but the source does not state in what form (chapbook, book, etc.), nor does it give a title for that form.
SONGS
Dauntless Goes A'Brawling; anonymous; a streetsong popular among Cormyr's Purple Dragons
Year of the Crown (1351 DR)
BALLADS
Raise High My Cup of Dreams; Tethmurra "Lady Bard" Starmar; 1351 DR is the year this ballad was published, but the source does not state in what form (chapbook, book, etc.), nor does it give a title for that form.
Trust Only In Your Sword; Tethmurra "Lady Bard" Starmar; 1351 DR is the year this ballad was published, but the source does not state in what form (chapbook, book, etc.), nor does it give a title for that form.
BOOKS
Twenty Summers A Purple Dragon: One Soldier's Life; Onstable Halvurr
Year of the Bow (1354 DR)
BOOKS
Never A Highknight: The Life of a Dragon Guard; Horvarr Hardcastle
Year of the Worm (1356 DR)
PLAYS
Dread Triumph and Fall; anon.
Year of the Prince (1357 DR)
BOOKS
Arasper's Little Book; Arasper Ardanneth, Sage of the Road
Year of the Turret (1360 DR)
BALLADS
The Lord Constable; Lellara the "Bright Bard" Narenth
BOOKS
One Merchant's Musings; Gornrel Murtarren
Year of the Gauntlet (1369 DR)
BOOKS
Gloryswords: An Informal And Incomplete Overview of Adventuring Bands in the Year of the Spur; Ragefast, Sage of Baldur's Gate
Year of the Tankard (1370 DR)
BOOKS
Bright Remembrances and Dark Moments: Thirty-Six Summers As A Lady Escort; Tilzarra Rahlaera of Athkatla
