Qalatesh

Qalatesh was the capital of the city-state of the Qabalrin , the lost civilization of elves from the Age of Giants that once occupied the Ring of Storms in Xen'drik . [1]

History

The Qabalrin elves were the first mortals to discover the great mysteries of necromancy. They are said to be responsible for the creation of the first vampires . [2]

Their city-state was destroyed by a giant Siberys dragonshard that fell from the sky more than forty millennia ago. The resulting impact created the Ring of Storms. The elven city existed over a thousand miles southeast of what is modern-day Stormreach . [1] [3]

The Qabalrin were powerful conjurers and necromancers. [2] [3] The giants believed that the Qabalrin's magic was evil, and derived from the Shadow of their version of the Sovereign of Light and Law, Ouralon . When the elves' civilization was destroyed, the giants declared that Ouralon was punishing the elves for deriving their magic from his Shadow. [1] [3]

Legacy

The impact of the Heart of Siberys striking the land created the Ring of Storms and dropped the ruins of the Qabalrin city-state into Khyber . [1] A culture of drow discovered a lost power of the Qabalrin and bonded with it to become the first Umbragen . [4]

The traditions of the Qabalrin are rumored to have inspired the dark practices of the line of Vol , and the faith of the Blood of Vol was first started in the island of Farlnen in the Lhazaar Principalities . [2]

The ruins of the Qabalrin elves are now occupied by various undead remnants of their people. [1]

Appendix

Background

The fortress city of the Qabalrin is not named in any Eberron sourcebooks . Instead, the capital of the lost elven civilization of the Ring of Storms is named Qalatesh in the Dungeons & Dragons: Dragonshard real-time-strategy video game.

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