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.
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 Keith Baker (May 2005). “ The Ring of Storms ”. Dungeon #122 ( Paizo Publishing ) (122)., pp. 73–80.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Keith Baker (2006/01/30). Libris Mortis, Part One . Eberron Expanded . Wizards of the Coast . Archived from the original on 2016/11/01. Retrieved on 2021/08/15.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 Keith Baker , Jason Bulmahn , & Amber Scott (2006). Secrets of Xen'drik . ( Wizards of the Coast ), p. ?. ISBN 0-7869-3916-8 .
- ↑ Keith Baker (April 2005). “ The Umbragen: Shadow Elves of Xen'drik ”. Dragon #330 ( Paizo Publishing ), pp. 43–48.