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Who attacked the Shattered Sanctum?

Someone with Merregons and Hell Boars, someone with something large but who?

I've put the most in spoilers, because I don't know, how far you are with your playthrough. The spoilered part is for act 2


The Shattered Sanctum was a Selunite temple, so it is likely, that

I'm on my 10th or 12th playthrough but this time I remembered to ask

D'ooooh, I meant Grymforge

I that case it's what Fylimar wrote.

But walking back to the Sanctum and the village, has somebody pieced together the exact(ish) timeline for the fall of those? I feel much of it hints towards Ketheric along with some internal medical malpractice being the cause of the their fall, which sets both a century in the past. But then there are elements that feel much more recent, like the remnants of children's games.

I guess it wasn't a one-time event. There were dark justiciar raids during Ketheric's Shar rule, but the village may have resisted. There's also a note somewhere, but I don't remember the exact content, which warns not to trust some other kind of warriors coming in to "defend" the area. So the village might be under recurring attacks for a long period, but finally abandoned after the absolute settled in the old Selune temple and their Goblin hordes took the weakened village.
(Think of some European towns that had repeated Viking attacks , but crumbled only after decades of resisting this)

The Sharran attacks seemed to have at least started during Ilyn Toth's exile there. I think I remember him writing about conspicuous proceedings and unknown riders. That was during or maybe before the Year of the Unstrung Harp, 1371 DR. It depends on when Toth left Thay and when he arrived in Moonhaven. There's also a bit of a muddle regarding the timing of Melodia's and Isobel's deaths and Ketheric's subsequent "relapse" to Shar worship and thus new Dark Justiciars who would attack places of Selûnite worship. I remember some sources in Reithwin giving dates in the 1390s while WotC-sources seem to retcon the events to the 1370s which, however, clashes with established lore. The Shadow Curse was set upon the Reithwin area in or around the Year of the Wrathful Eye, 1391 DR according to in-game sources. Neither date works with Khelben fighting in the war and dying during the events of the Blackstaff novel which I think is set in the mid-1370s. Unless, the mentioned Khelben was his grandson, Khelben, the Younger, or unless the actual Khelben Arunsun, like Myrkul and Bhaal, wasn't really that dead after 5e purged a lot of 4e continuity.