Ereshval is an isolated desert nation in Eastern Valrindor, bordering Ulzathir and Varnhallow, with the Plains of Eternity along its northern frontier. Its coastal capital is Qarezh. The interior has high dunes, cold mountain passes, and dangerous sandstorms.
Ereshval is an isolated desert nation in Eastern Valrindor, bordering Ulzathir and Varnhallow, with the Plains of Eternity along its northern frontier. Its coastal capital is Qarezh. The interior has high dunes, cold mountain passes, and dangerous sandstorms.
History
In 2107 AX, Sultan Tharezh and his viziers governed from Qarezh. Qirath mined essence cores for Ereshval’s other cities, while sandships carried people and goods across the dunes. Walls protected roads from sandstorms. At the coast, fishermen and shipbuilders worked in ports sheltered by an earth wall, and mages filtered water and removed salt from seawater.
After creatures from the Plains overran the northern wall, Tharezh ordered the frontier settlements evacuated. He approved an expedition in exchange for Kaelion teaching temporal magic. Drashir and Vashir commanded Ereshval’s fleet on Isandriel’s expedition. Tharezh later allowed Thalion’s army to stay in Qarezh in return for contributing to the city’s work.
During Thalion’s battle with Abraxas, Abraxas’s attacks hurled him into Qarezh. Thalion’s impact ruined the city, and the void rays pursuing him vaporized it. Tsunamis of water and sand devastated the surrounding lands. Ereshval’s people began rebuilding Qarezh with aid from Nahm and Haverloch. Benedict offered reconstruction aid on condition that the survivors keep silent about what had happened.
Ereshval is an isolated desert nation in Eastern Valrindor, bordering Ulzathir and Varnhallow, with the Plains of Eternity along its northern frontier. Its coastal capital is Qarezh. The interior has high dunes, cold mountain passes, and dangerous sandstorms.
History
In 2107 AX, Sultan Tharezh and his viziers governed from Qarezh. Qirath mined essence cores for Ereshval’s other cities, while sandships carried people and goods across the dunes. Walls protected roads from sandstorms. At the coast, fishermen and shipbuilders worked in ports sheltered by an earth wall, and mages filtered water and removed salt from seawater.
After creatures from the Plains overran the northern wall, Tharezh ordered the frontier settlements evacuated. He approved an expedition in exchange for Kaelion teaching temporal magic. Drashir and Vashir commanded Ereshval’s fleet on Isandriel’s expedition. Tharezh later allowed Thalion’s army to stay in Qarezh in return for contributing to the city’s work.
During Thalion’s battle with Abraxas, Abraxas’s attacks hurled him into Qarezh. Thalion’s impact ruined the city, and the void rays pursuing him vaporized it. Tsunamis of water and sand devastated the surrounding lands. Ereshval’s people began rebuilding Qarezh with aid from Nahm and Haverloch. Benedict offered reconstruction aid on condition that the survivors keep silent about what had happened.
More than two decades after Thalion left the ancient world, Drashir and Vashir had become twin sultans and rebuilt much of Qarezh. They joined the Order and agreed to conceal what had happened to Qarezh.
In modern Qarezh, bronze statues outside the sultan’s palace commemorate the twins as founders and rebuilders. Their plaque mentions a cataclysm three millennia earlier, without explaining what destroyed the capital.