Calim Calim was the noble djinni lord who founded the Calim Empire in what is now Calimshan . For millennia his body and mind were split and imprisoned in the Calim Desert . Description . There are no records describing Calim when he had a physical form . His manifestation within the Calim Desert was known as " Calim ' s Breath " . Calim ' s Breath was a low , mournful tone on the winds , or a whispering breeze , or a thundering boom in a storm . However , on rare occasion , when Calim gathered the remnants of his magical power together , he could shape the clouds or dust with wind and appear in the form of a 50 - foot - tall genie . Personality . In his solid form , Calim was a tactical genius and innovator . He saw his rule as that of an artist . Every city and battle plan was seen as a masterpiece in his eyes . For this reason he was slow and calculating in all of his plans both civic and military . Abilities . In his disembodied and imprisoned form , Calim bore a strong resistance to spells and magical effects , apart , of course , from the elven high magic that was binding him . He could create water as rain , cast advanced illusions , create gusts of wind , control the weather , and grant the ability to walk on wind to others . He could also focus his power into the form of a 250 - foot - tall whirlwind . Possessions . One of the most powerful possessions held by Calim was his magical scepter . The " scepter of Calim " was a golden , club - like rod of metallic fire . Calim sacrificed the artifact in the Shattering . ( See below . ) A vast collection of Calim ' s treasures were said to be stored in the Altar of the Air in the ruins of Dashadjen . The delusional mummy priestess El Sadhara guarded those treasures and had pledged to return them to Calim upon his return . The majority of Calim ' s riches , however , were hidden in an extradimensional palace located in the Forest of Mir . These were guarded for millennia by an ancient crystal dragon named Klaruuotur and several djinn . Family . Calim was known to have had at least one queen and two twin sons . They survived Calim ' s defeat and slept in temporal stasis within the same palace in the Forest of Mir where Calim ' s treasures were guarded , awaiting his release . History . The Great Arrival . Calim arrived in Faerûn , in a region around what was later Calimport , in approximately - 7800 DR , bringing with him a massive following of genies and halfling and human slaves . This group was collectively called the Djen , and the event was known as the Great Arrival . Calim ' s reasons for coming to Faerûn are unknown , nor is it certain whence he came . Some scholars claimed the Djen came from the Elemental Plane of Air , while others claimed he came from Zakhara . Some legends told that Calim had been a former slave to wizards on another world and escaped to Faerûn with those he freed from bondage . The Calim Caliphates . Regardless of the reasons for immigrating , within a few months , Calim ' s slaves had built the city of Calimport . Other cities followed shortly thereafter — such as Dashadjen ( a garrison city ) , Teshyll ( where Calim ' s impressive Harem Palace was located ) , and Keltar — and by the end of the year the Calim Empire , also known as the Calim Caliphates , was founded . The Empire grew quickly over the next thousand years , clearing trees south of the Marching Mountains and driving out the giants and dragons who once lived there . The Calim Empire soon became the first civilization on Faerûn populated primarily by humans . By - 7690 DR The Empire reached as far north as the River Agis and as far east as the Alimir Mountains , at which point it stopped expanding due to agreements made with the elves and dwarves . The Dragon Wars . In - 7790 DR , dragons had sacked and burned Calim ' s capital of Calimport . In retaliation , in what was known as the Dragon Wars , Calim slew every dragon in the Marching Mountains , leaving them free of dragons for 6 , 000 years . He also drove the remaining giants away . The Steam Clashes . During the Dragon Wars , a number of genie nobles defected from the Calim Empire to form their own kingdoms . Of note among these was the marid kingdom founded by Ajhuu , located between the River of Ice and the Alimirs and with its capital city of Ajhuutal . When Calim returned home from his war with the dragons in - 7687 DR , he was enraged to discover this betrayal and declared war . These battles became known as the " Steam Clashes " . Calim slew two of Ajhuu ' s lieutenants in the Alimir Mountains , the marids Haj and Luar . The magical destruction caused in these fights supposedly led to the creation of Azure Falls and the Maridflow river . By - 7684 DR , Calim had still not managed to defeat Ajhuu , however , so in that year , he resorted to using powerful dao magic and sacrificed the artifacts he had used to bring the Djen to Faerûn to utterly destroy the city of Ajhuutal with a great earthquake . This magic was so powerful that it destroyed hundreds of square miles of his Empire , forming the inland bay southwest of the Alimirs and creating what would later be called the Spider Swamp . This catastophic event was known as " The Shattering " The First Era of Skyfire . In - 6800 DR , another genie entered Faerûn by magic who would become Calim ' s archenemy , the efreeti lord Memnon . Memnon founded the kingdom of Memnonnar north of the River Agis , and for a few hundred years , many skirmishes between the djinni and efreeti armies occurred before open war erupted by - 6500 DR , beginning what was known as the Era of Skyfire . Over the next 400 years , a series of 22 major battles took place between the two genie - led armies . The centuries long war destroyed the nearly every city of Memnonnar and half those of the Calim Caliphates as well as the lush farmlands that once existed in both empires . The Night of Binding . This all ended in - 6100 DR due to actions taken by the elves . On Ches 4 , at the 22nd battle of the Era of Skyfire , the Battle of the Teshyllal Fields , at the site of the ruined city of Teshyll , the two genies unleashed the full power of their armies and magic and set the fields ablaze . Then , unexpectedly , the elf High Mage Pharos appeared . Calling on the ancient power of elven high magic , he enacted a spell that split Calim and Memnon ' s bodies from their consciousnesses . Memnon ' s mind was sent into the ground , while Calim ' s was sent into the air . Their bodies — and those of a hundred other genies — were entrapped and fused together into a more - than - sixty - sided gem , now known as the Calimemnon Crystal . In this way , Calim and Memnon were each imprisoned in two places at once . Still with some level of will , the two disembodied genies continued to fight for millennia , and this perpetual , magical battle , where neither could ever reach the other nor the gem where their bodies were encapsulated , formed the Calim Desert . Within the Calim Desert , the Calimemnon Crystal was itself protected by a magical structure , the Spinning Keep of Siri ' wadjen . This 70 - foot - wide structure hovered 40 feet above the desert floor , had twelve sides , and was made from crystalline stone of the color of pearl . Neither Calim nor Memnon could penetrate the keep to reach the crystal within . If ever they did , they would be freed . The crystal was considered to be one of the most powerful artifacts ever to have existed in Faerûn . The Second Era of Skyfire . During the Spellplague , the Calimemnon Crystal shattered , freeing Memnon and Calim and beginning the Second Era of Skyfire .