Bul

Bul Cambion

Lake Bul is sited in the northern reaches of the Khizunul mountains. Its shores are a hazardous place to travel and its depths far worse. This is because in the Demon Spawn War, it was stocked with specimens brought over from Abyss.

It is said that Yeenoghu had an insatiable desire for fish and other aquatic delicacies of his abyssal home plane. When his forces captured the area around lake Bul, he had minions stock the lake with abyssal specimens. As his forces faltered in the Demon Spawn War, they were forced to abandon the eastern tracts of the Clans and his favorite fishery. Some of the things his minions put in the lake were intelligent, like the dim-witted skulvyn. These bestial demons normally haunt the reeking seas of the Abyss. Some out of either lust or macabre mortal experiments, mated with gnolls and other mortal humanoids resulting in a population of aquatic cambions. These half-demons are perhaps the most dangerous foes of lake Bul and the area around it. Over the ages, some have cajoled gnoll tribes into paying tribute and even serving them. An order of demon hunters called the Khalag Narkûn are based out of Dul-Kiz. This organization was established to deal with Bul's demon problem.

Hettar

Hettar

Hettar is a primordial creation of Piranoth. For a time, Hettar had the gift of creation. This boon was given to him by his father. One of the races that Hettar created are the hill giants. Piranoth later stripped Hettar of this power of creation after he sensed that Hettar had aspirations of becoming a Primordial Lord. Hettar would eventually become such, but only after proving his leadership on the fields of battle.

In the Dawn War, Hettar was a general of a super army group that invaded Bal-Kriav. He was a brutal and domineering leader. This war caused him to shift from chaotic neutral to chaotic evil. His success on the field of battle, even though he was becoming more dark, led to him being favored over the neutral ways of his brother Geb. Where Hettar would use any measure to defeat the enemy, Geb was more forgiving, thus more likely to act civilized to the defeated. Hettar's war activities were focused in the Great Expanse region. In sector Crotheise he had a permanent base in the Radveig valley. This area was a vast source of gold deposits. This gold was needed to cover the costs of Hettar's war operations on Bal-Kriav. The heavy mining of the area would leave the valley pockmarked with mining pits that came to be called Hettar's Spittoons.

Hettar was defeated by the dragon Bahamut. In the battle between these two, Bahamut drank the blood of a previously defeated primordial which combined parts of a hydra with that of medusa. The blood of the defeated foe allowed Bahamut to temporarily change his breath to one of holy petrification. Bahamut's holy breath of petrification overcame the immunities of Hettar, causing him to go rigid and fall backwards into Rumak. Even though he was petrified he did not lose conscious or die. His primordial essence took thousands of years to completely drain away, with him finally expiring late in the Horgon Era.

In the Horgon Era, he was worshiped by the Cûngin-Zar. The people of this empire dedicated many shrines and temples around Rumak to a figure that once led their ancestors in the battles of the Dawn War.

Maeraddyth Brigade

Hezxis wielding Webreaver

In the Demon Spawn War, the demon lord Hezxis sought to carve out territory for himself on the world Kriav. Opposing him, was the supreme commander of Kriav's military operations, the archangel Corellon. In a bold gamble, Hezxis sought to surprise and overwhelm the forces at a Covenant Holy Bastion named Liamenor. Hezxis, never one to lead from the front, sent nearly all his forces through the Hezxis Pocket with himself remaining behind in his Abyssal hold Una'gah. Corellon's spies, some even say a demon traitor lured by finery and precious stones, gave up information on this planned attack. While Hezxis's forces were besieging Liamenor, Corellon sent an elite unit to attack Una'gah and take out their leader. The elite unit was the Maeraddyth Brigade. Its leader a crafty and charismatic figure named General Maeraddyth. They stormed the place, beating down a token defense and trapping Hezxis with magic preventing the use of inter-dimensional escape. This all happened while the demon forces back on Kriav were close to breaching the walls of what was thought to be an impregnable bastion of good. Hezxis's head was taken back to Liamenor and displayed from high atop the battlements. This caused such confusion in the demon ranks that they broke-up the siege and began to quarrel over who would now lead the army and enjoy the piles of loot rumored to be in Una'gah's vaults. Those that escaped the wrath of Corellon's forces went back through the Hezxis Pocket and headed home. Along the way, they ran into the Maeraddyth Brigade which were hastily trying to make it back the Hezxis Pocket and home to Liamenor. In the fighting, the demons outnumbered their foes by two to one, had the advantage of mobility with many that could fly, and 1:1 on the demons were far superior to most mortal elven soldiers, with only the celestials able to go toe-to-toe, but they were only about 10% of the unit's composition. The demons captured all that they could, tortured them to no end, and then infused them with demoniac energy. This transformed the captives into something with only a vague resemblance to an elf, creating what is now known as the orc race. They were instilled with a hatred of elves that often supersedes other enmities. General Maeraddyth ditched his elven name, thereafter calling himself Gruumsh. The Maeraddyth Brigade ceased to exist, its soldiers divided out to various demon commanders. In the Demon Spawn War, they were taken to various war theaters, scattered across Prime worlds serving the demons until they could escape and even turning on them when given the chance. When it suited them, some allied with Covenant forces, but never to those answering to Corellon.

At Liamenor the actions of the Maeraddyth Brigade are honored with a memorial. At Aphalur, can be found a plaque expressing Corellon's grief of what happened to them.


If I could have helped General Maeraddyth and his men I would have done so. Kriav was being assailed by demons in great numbers, so to risk opening a rift and going to the Abyss was not something I could afford. They succeeded in killing a demon lord, saved Liamenor, but suffered a terrible price. They became twisted and malevolent and having a hatred for elves that only the demons could have conceived. When he became an orc, my old friend Maeraddyth changed his name, becoming my arch-enemy Gruumsh.

- Corellon, from a Plaque of Aphalur - "Maeraddyth Brigade"

Amphitrite

Amphitrite

Amphitrite is one of fifty daughters (the Nereids) of Nereus and Doris (the daughter of Oceanus). Poseidon and Amphitrite were lovers. One of their most well-known children is Triton.

Midway through the Dawn War, Amphitrite had a change of heart, she left the destructive side of chaos and joined the forces of law. She rose through the ranks of the Nawirrûs Covenant becoming a general of operations in the Sea of Mourning. Her song of the deeps, the Amphitrite Hymn, was so strong that it could calm sea creatures and break any mental domination of them by even primordial lords like Poseidon. She became such a problem that Poseidon forged the artifact Buldadel to capture her. He reasoned that this Cairn Scythe weapon would hold her and over time he could bring her back around to helping the primordial cause. Sadly, the weapon was used with malign intent by one of Poseidon's merfolk champions. The killing blow to Amphitrite was supposed to capture her soul energy, but the weapon broke causing her essence to be drawn back into the Elemental Chaos where it dissolved into raw entropic energy. Amphitrite was so highly regarded by her triton army at Fëamanirya, that they had the citadel renamed in her honor.

Shift Tome

Shift Tome

The Shift Tome is a book of conjuration and summoning. It holds spells from across the ages, from as far back as the Dawn Era to the present day. Work on the tome began with Piranoth, and when he abandoned the realm of his creation, Piranoth's Steps, to the demons, it fell into the hands of one of his garrison commanders. This garrison commander of the remote outpost of Lyktion was a twisted, depraved warmonger named Baphomet. At the time, Baphomet was already half corrupted and warped by the chaos creeping across a realm that would become better known as the Abyss. In the Demon Spawn War, Baphomet used the Shift Tome to move his forces across vast distances.

The book ended up on Bal-Kriav in the Horgon Era. Tiefling agents, working with information from Dispater, snuck into Baphomet's maze-hold Lyktion and absconded with it.

The Shift Tome holds some very powerful spells that can get its user(s) in trouble. In the Horgon Era, tieflings wizards of Lod Stohl tried to use the book to summon an army from the Nine Hells. This was to be an army of lowly spine devils but instead the wizards were tricked by Dispater. Instead of summoning an army, Lod Stohl was summoned, "shifted" from Bal-Kriav to the Nine Hells. The abrupt disappearance of Lod Stohl from Bal-Kriav caused a split in the earth to open up under where it once was, creating a smoking rift called Ausul Raf.

In 1778, the minotaur wizard Mishat-Kurse used the Shift Tome to shift the city of Huaglim from Azrik to Karnegmoth.

Ukhilgam

Sehkmora, Ukhilgam's First Harpy Queen

Ukhilgam is a sea cliff on the northwestern edge of the Clans. It came about in the Demon Spawn War, when the primordial Ingu'lumin opened his second rift to the Elemental Chaos. When weave spiders shut the rift down, it created the great sinkhole Zurukthûr sending shock waves across the land beneath. This caused powerful earthquakes and the collapse of a 120 mile section of Narbuzad's western seaboard. The land crumbled downward into the sea and into great piles of rubble making it nearly impassible out of crustaceans and sea spiders. The coastal seabed was blanketed with boulders and rocks for 4 miles. This area became a rich reef and into later ages a fishery for anglers out of Spirachiln and Grimmarsveinn. The cliff's large population of harpies, wyverns, and other predators are the greatest dangers for those that fish here.

Ukhilgam's cliff walls tower over the Nielalroch strait. They vary in height with the land behind it, ranging anywhere from a few dozen feet to a few thousand feet. As mentioned, the area is rich in predators, but also rich in wealth. The cliff is dotted with rubies and veins of platinum. Some have taken to scaling the cliffs to cut out gemstones but larger operations create structures descending the cliff with cranes and mining shafts following the veins into the bowels of Unaraggumak.

In 544, the Daklode city Lokumord came under attack by organized bands coming out of Ukhilgam. These raiders were a motley of races - goblins, orcs, ogres, hill giants, and even some dwarves. It was soon learned that these attackers were under the harpy's charm. They were too well organized and commanded to be under just individual harpies, so a force was sent out to gather intelligence. The few that made it back reported that a harpy queen named Sehkmora was the leader. They also said that she was much more powerful than a normal harpy with a priestly connection to Graz'zt and overpowering charming abilities. The conflict with Sehkmora became known as the First Harpy War. To date, Daklode has waged five wars with the harpies and malcontents of Ukhilgam.

Hurguulich

Hurguulich

Shortly after the formation and stabilization of Sphere 411, Io put a young green dragon named Hurguulich in a region that would one day become known as the Aerie of Dragons. Hurguulich was put here along with many other young dragons of different colors, and in time they would spread outward across the world.

Hurguulich was extremely intelligent and cunning, such that she became one of the mightiest green dragons of the Dawn Era. In the Dawn War, she became the leader of all the dragons of the Aerie. She kept the primordials and angelic forces out of this region and even schemed to take on whoever proved victors of the war, hoping that they would be weakened from the conflict. Her designs were interrupted when Maen Grirngrim came to the region and started capturing dragons for use in his necromantic experiments. Hurguulich attacked the chaos archons and other primordial minions but could never make much headway against their seemingly endless numbers. She was ultimately duped into meeting with Maen Grirngrim, convinced by a master diplomat named Rilthang. At this meeting, she was incapacitated with a gas composed of primordial essence and then bound. Maen Grirngrim then used his necromantic skills to turn her into the first dracolich; up until this point she was aligned chaotic neutral.

As a dracolich, Hurguulich proved to be very difficult to control. Her great power and heightened mental prowess made her a constant threat to Maen Grirngrim and his minions. She knew that she was under the control of her creator, yet cunningly found ways in the logic of his rules which allowed her to bring harm on his minions while at the same time keeping to the wording of what she could and could not do. When the Golden Seven did battle with Maen Grirngrim, they did it against a primordial with only the remnants of his army. Hurguulich had strung out his army over fifty miles with her magic and deadly clouds of poisonous vapor. By the time they arrived to the battle site, they came disorganized and in small groups and became easy pickings for the army of the Golden Seven.

Hurguulich was never seen again after the death of Maen Grirngrim. The Golden Seven, angels, and even the gods searched far and wide across Bal-Kriav, but found no trace of her. In the Second Epoch, Sammaster found a powerful source of necromantic energy in an ancient dragon burial ground. Sammaster employed an army of ghouls, ghasts and grave golems to excavate an area of Viing Qeth. He left the place with dozens of mottled green and black scales. These are said to have come off Hurguulich while she fought to free herself from the clutches of Maen Grirngrim.