Bel Shanaar

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Bel Shanaar the Navigator is a fictional character from the Warhammer Fantasy gaming universe.

A wise and just Phoenix King Bel Shanaar bought much prosperity to the High Elves. His bloody death heralded in an era of war and torment.

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All dates are based on the Sigmarite Calendar.

c -4420 - Bel Shanaar is crowned; 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 and the Shrine of Asuryan. Malekith tries to walk into the Sacred Flame but is burned and horribly mutilated.