> Well, I think I can see a few hints about the first two (Wind,
> Death...), but why 1621, not 1620, say?
1621 is fairly unspectacular if you are looking for cyclical activity. The Wane ends in 1625, making Tatius' temple dedication rite somewhat urgent, but that's the only event hooked up by the year number I can think of offhand.
The Devil's Cycle every 600 years is fairly loose, and the end of the Imperial Age is extremely fuzzy. Going back to the end of the First Age, we find the Birth of Nysalor in 375 (resulting in 1575: Tarkalor gets King of Dragon Pass, five years later Dormal Opens the Seas) and Death of Nysalor in 450 (1650: probably a time of culmination of various Hero Wars activities).
By these mathematics we go back to 421, which saw Arkat somewhere in Ralios IIRC. Locally, the date for the Battle of the Verge might be sometime in that region, maybe the closest equivalent.
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