Imaskar The Imaskar Empire ( also known as the Raurin Empire ) was an ancient human nation that ruled lands in the east that came to comprise of the nations of Mulhorand , Thay , and Unther . Its citizens were the Imaskari . Early History . The earliest of all known records ( from the steppes , and Var the Golden ) describe the great empire of Imaskar . Ruled by powerful godless human wizard s , this empire was centered in what is now the Raurin Desert . Its borders were vast , reaching from the Endless Wastes to the Golden Water and from the Alamber Sea to the very frontiers of Kara - Tur . In the year - 8350 DR Imaskari tribes began to settle the then - fertile plain of the Raurin Desert . About 230 years later the Imaskari Artificer s created the first permanent extradimensional space . Their fascination with such magics soon transformed Imaskari city design . The following years saw the rise of many grand cities , among them the capital city of Inupras around - 7975 DR . About this time the first Emperor , Umyatin , rose to assume the title of Lord Artificer . Under orders from Lord Artificer Omanond in - 7891 DR , that Imaskari artificers created the Imaskarcana – seven items in which the empire ' s immense magical lore is recorded for all eternity . In - 6422 DR the great city of Solon was founded east of the Raurinshield Mountains . Sometime around - 4370 DR a suspicious plague decimated Imaskari cities . In answer to the plague , four years later the wizard - rulers of the Raurin brought hundreds of thousands of people from another world to be their slaves . The prisoners in turn brought their faith , and their deities - the Mulhorandi and Untheric pantheon s - with them . Although they came from the same plane , the prisoners came from different regions as well as different times . They soon intermarried with each other and the surviving Imaskari citizens to form the race now known as Mulan humans . The slaves prayed hard for salvation , but the prayers went unheard since the wizards had closed all portals and created a barrier preventing divine intervention . This barrier banned the gods from the sphere and made them effectively nonexistent as long as the barrier held . As time passed , the slaves divided into two distinct cultural factions in service in the Imaskar Empire , which scholars name " Proto - Untheric " and " Proto - Mulhorandi " . The Proto - Untheric culture was a more aggressive culture ; it believed in achieving absolute supremacy over its dominions . The gods of Unther have , since their beginnings , been uncaring entities , as opposed to the gods of Mulhorand , who are merely neglectful . The philosophy of the Untherites has always been that life is hard and cruel ( perhaps because of the hardships they suffered as slaves ) , and only through hard work and submission to one ' s deity can one survive . About seven hundred years later in - 3234 DR , the Imaskari created the outpost known as Metos in Methwood as its westernmost outpost . Entry of the Gods . After some time , Ao heard the slaves ' prayers and summoned the god Ptah , an ancient deity of Wildspace whose faith had originated in the homeworld of the Mulan . At the request of Ao , Ptah returned to his homeworld and assembled the two relevant pantheons of that sphere . He told them what had happened to their followers and of their prayers for salvation . Ao had offered to extend their influence to the sphere of Abeir - Toril . The only way to gain access to the sphere of Realmspace was to send avatars through Wildspace under the guidance of Ptah . Ptah told them that their avatars had to be as powerful as possible to be able to battle the Imaskari wizards . Creating such avatars , known as manifestations , required them to sacrifice much of their divine power . Both Ra , head of the deities of the Mulhorandi pantheon , as well as Enlil , the leader of the Untheric pantheon , agreed to Ao ' s offer . Many , but not all of their fellow deities agreed upon this as well . Ptah led the gods as they rode in two different galleys . The followers of Re ( as Ra ' s manifestation was called ) rode on the galley named " Matet " ( at night it changed into a barge called " Semktet " ) . The manifestations of Enlin and his children rode in the " Galley of Gods " . On their journey through Wildspace Ptah guided them with the Beacon of Light , a 1 - foot - square golden cube with silver cylinders extending from the top at the four corners . Each face of the cube is engraved with an ancient hieroglyphic rune of unknown origin or meaning . The manifestations landed on the highest peaks in a range of mountains on the northeastern edge of the Imaskar Empire known today as the Teyla Shan , or Godswatch Mountains . There they split into more divine forms , such as mortal forms of avatars , known as incarnations . These descended into the fertile plain below amongst their long - lost people . The most talented they made into priests ; the truly faithful were transformed into divine minions . Before the Imaskari lords realized what was happening , their mulan slaves rose in rebellion . Many of the incarnations and divine minions were destroyed in the battles with the Imaskari artificers , and the rebellion began to falter . Then the manifestations joined the fray . Coming down from the mountains along a path that would become known as the Road of the Gods , they unleashed their divine fury upon the wizards . By - 2488 DR , the Imaskar Empire was tottering , its cities engulfed in flames . The current Lord Artificer , Yuvaraj , fell in battle with Horus in Inupras . The rest of its armies had been defeated by the incarnate gods of the rebellious Mulhorandi and Untheric slaves . Many of the greatest wizard - lords of the realm battled to the last . When the ancient wizard rulers were defeated by the manifestations who would later become the god - kings of Mulhorand and Unther , the manifestations summoned spirits of retribution that destroyed all that had not been slain in the war . When the god - kings fled Raurin , these spirits took the land as their own domain , with each pack stirring from slumber every century to wreak havoc on all that oppose them . Rise of Deep Imaskar . A powerful lord named Ilphemon chose to abandon the falling empire . Leading a small number of his family members , apprentices and retainers , and taking with him the " Third Imaskarcana " , he descended into a wild and uncharted corner of the Underdark , hoping to escape the wrathful former slaves . Ilphemon and his retinue sought out a large cave imbued with powerful faerzress and discovered the vault that would become Deep Imaskar . After driving out the monsters that lived there , Ilphemon sealed the passage behind his people . The wizard - lord and his apprentices labored for many long years to lay the groundwork of the Great Seal and make their cavern home into a living garden , illuminated by the brilliantly radiant light . Ilphemon ' s descendants ruled Deep Imaskar for many centuries as kings and queens . In the Year of Dwindling Darkness ( - 634 DR ) , a cabal of arrogant , evil necromancers overthrew Ilphemon ' s heir and slaughtered his family , bringing an end to the line of the ancient Imaskari lord . For more than a century , Deep Imaskar suffered at the hands of these ruthless necromancers , but in the Year of Dangerous Icicles ( - 511 DR ) a charismatic champion by the name of Chaschara led a revolt against the necromancer - lords and freed Deep Imaskar . Chaschara refused to claim the throne , instead declaring herself Lady Protector of the Realm . She selected officers for the new posts of Planner , Apprehender and Enactor , and those offices have continued to the present day , despite the eventual abolition of the protectorate . Deep Imaskar has flirted with expansion on several occasions , most notably into the more hospitable reaches of the Elemental Planes . The city ' s protectors conquered several small regions of the Elemental Planes of Air and Water and bound their empire together with great planar gates . However , in the Year of the Laughing Gull ( 799 DR ) the Imaskari lost their holdings in the Plane of Air to an assault of chichimec s . These terrible abominations invaded Deep Imaskar itself through the planar portals and caused great destruction before they where driven off . In the aftermath of that conflict , the city ' s Lord Protector Stilofyr was exiled and the protectorate abolished , and the planar gates were dismantled . In 1372 DR , the Year of Wild Magic , Deep Imaskar ended its millennia - long isolation by sending explorers to the surface . Settlers from Deep Imaskar later founded the empire of High Imaskar on the lands that formerly comprised Mulhorand after the Spellplague .