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.