Shoon IV Shoon IV was the first necromancer emperor of the Shoon Imperium and the second - most evil and infamous of all its emperors . He was the only non - elf to ever succeed in designing a " create mythal " spell . Personality . Shoon IV was arrogant , bold , and manipulative and had a famous bad temper . In his favor , he was also a master of domestic and foreign policy , because of his impressive foresight into such matters . Possessions . Shoon IV possessed a pair of rings , Annulus Qysarus Major and Annulus Qysarus Minor . The former ring acted like a " ring of spell turning " ; the latter as a ring of spell storing . If both rings were worn together , Shoon IV also gained the powers of a " ring of vampiric regeneration " . His greatest magical work , rumored to include a " create mythal " spell , was called the " Necroqysarus " . It included twelve volumes of magical spells . It was lost to history after the fall of the Imperium . Activities . Shoon IV was a wizard of ever - growing power . He amassed a vast amount of magical knowledge and artifact s in his thirst for power . Many evil magical artifacts were created during his reign , including Jaralth , Kuraltaar , and Morthinmar . One of his most significant magical achievements was the invention of a spell to create a mythal . He was the only non - elf ever able to do so . Using its power , he surrounded the entire palace in Shoonach with a magical field that only permitted necromantic spells to work , and he cast similar fields around the necropolis of Debukkher within that city as well . He used undead in his armies , which greatly disturbed most of his nobles , who feared his reckless powers . He gained his largest collection of magical artifacts when he slew the silver dragon Rhimnasarl and carried off the great treasures from her lair . Politically , it was his reign that saw the Calishar Emirates evolve into what would soon become Amn . He made a treaty with Dalagar of Andlath — or perhaps magically coerced him — to build a trade route from Ormath to Athkatla . He was also influential in the rise of the demihuman realms of Tathtar and Meiritin , which he sought to exploit to his own ends . For civic works , Shoon IV erected the two Sea Towers in the Nelanther Isles , which served as lighthouses for his fleet as they passed through those islands . Relationships . Shoon IV was the grandson of Amahl Shoon V and the brother of Amahl Shoon VI . He had a single son , but that son married three separate times and produced many grandchildren for Shoon IV . Shoon IV had a close relationship with the young Emyr , child heir of Tethyr , and the latter saw Shoon IV as a mentor . Shoon IV made enemies with the great blue dragon Iryklathagra , triggering her hatred toward Calimshan that would last for centuries . History . Shoon IV was born in the Year of the Murmuring Dead , 183 DR . Only fifteen months after his brother became qysar , Shoon IV assassinated him by arranging for a poisonous scorpion to find its way into Amahl ' s bed . In this way , Shoon IV became the next emperor in the Year of the Greengrass , 205 DR . For nearly twelve years , Shoon IV had attempted to dispel Tethyrian riots and terrorist activities in Ithmong and the villages between it and Shoonach . In 231 DR , the emperor finally lost his patience and unleashed a horde of zombie s , skeleton s , and wight s upon the rebels , created from dead slaves and villagers of Tethyr . This Death Parade attacked on the night of Marpenoth 30 and decimated all known rebels . In the morning , the undead were returned to death , but the fear of incident lived on among the populace of Ithmong and its vicinity . In 236 DR , Shoon IV sought to destroy the silver dragon Rhimnasarl the Shining , because the dragon was strongly opposed to Shoonite rule . Shoon conspired with the blue dragon Iryklathagra and learned a way to defeat the great wyrm . However , Shoon betrayed Iryklathagra and defeated and killed Rhimnasarl before Iryklathagra could challenge the other dragon to a formal duel . He then kept all the plunder for himself . Enraged , Iryklathagra attacked Shoon and severely wounded him , but she was driven off and retreated to the Marching Mountains to patiently plan her revenge against the Shoon . Two years later , when Elminster Aumar defeated the Mad Mage Ihundyl , who had previously conquered the halfling realm of Meiritin , Shoon IV reconquered that small country . Secret plans were uncovered , revealing that Ihundyl had previously conspired with many of the disgruntled nobles of Calimshan to attempt to remove Shoon from power . In retribution , Shoon IV ordered the deaths of 232 of the conspirators and their relatives for treason . 229 DR was the year in which Shoon IV succeeded in scribing his " create mythal " spell . During its casting , he survived the process by sucking the life forces from all the six other casters whom he had deceived into assisting him . Four of the assistant casters were elven sorceress es , and they were said to haunt the ruins of the Shoonach as banshee s . Shoon IV ' s decision not to interfere in the founding of the country of Tathtar proved problematic initially for his empire , as that young country tried to expand into Tethyr . It took Shoon IV ten years to force a peace treaty with them in the year 240 DR . It was Shoon IV ' s intent to become a lich and rule in perpetuam . He sustained himself with magic until he had almost reached one hundred years of age . All of his heirs had mysteriously died off , with the exception of his great - grandaughter Muanaa yr Oma el Shoon . Shoon formally named her as his heir , even though she was a woman and this angered his advisers , but he never expected her to actually rule . She in fact did , however , because , despite his great magical power , his transformation to a lich failed , and he died in 281 DR . Muanaa took the name Shoon V and became the first empress of the Imperium .