High Wood Quake

Mîm Khazun Zealot

The High Wood Quake was no normal earthquake. It came about in 1251 when Mîm Khazun zealots out of Tarbhunarâg evoked the last words of a mighty enchantment. This spell involved draining the power of an entombed primordial and transferring it into a weapon that would become one of unsurpassed power. The Mîm Khazun enchanters seem to have greatly miscalculated the amount of power in the primordial because it caused excess energy to spill over in great pressure waves. All those around the enchanting area and most living things up to ten miles away were pressure pulverized and killed. The Mîm Khazun enchanters failed to create an artifact, with the hammer reduced to dust by an onslaught of pressure waves. It is believed by some though that making an artifact was never their real intent. Alatáriël, Spirachiln, and other elven groups of the High Wood Country, and even some Tarbhunarâg historians, say that the true intent of the zealots was to cause a great earthquake that would even put a smile on Geb's broad face. Hopefully then, the quake would drain lake Nelshreen into the bowels of the Underdark causing an ecological disaster for the elven peoples of Voternil. This would then make conquest of the area easier for Daklode's armies.

The High Wood Quake caused breaches to open between the Underdark of the world Kriav and with that of Bal-Kriav's Underdark. These feydark fissures devastated Baranarth and Einreth. Both of these once verdant forests were turned into desolate wastelands. It also led to the development of Nanyerien's entropic breaches. Some of the creatures that have come to inhabit these areas of Voternil and beneath, have blood-lines tracing back to the world Kriav. Today, creatures still come over from Kriav's feydark fissures coming up from Menortamon and then up tunnels that breach the surface in the wastes of Baranarth and Einreth.