The Rise & Fall of Netheril

To the east, on the sandy shores of the calm and shining Narrow Sea, human fishing villages grew into small tonws and then joined together as the nation of Netheril. Sages believe the fishing towns were unified by a powerful human wizard who had discovered a book of great magic power that had survived from the Days of Thunder - a book that legend calls the Nether Scrolls. Under this nameless wizard and those hwo followed, Netheril rose in power and glory, becoming both the first human land in the Norht and the most powerful. Some say this discovery marked the birth of human wizardry, since bfore this time mankind had only shamans and witch doctors. For over 3,000 years Netheril dominated the North, but even its legnedar wizards were unable to stop their final doom.
Doom for Netheril came in the form of a desert, devouring the Narrow Sea and spreading to fills its banks with dry dust and blowing sand. Legend states when the great wizards of Netheril realized their land was lost, they abandoned it and their countrymen, fleeing to all corners of the world and taking the secrets of wizardry with them. More likely, this was a slow migration that began 3,000 years ago and reached its conclusion 1,500 years alter.
Whatever the truth, wizards no longer dwelled in Netheril. To the north, the once-majestic dwarven stronghold of Delzoun fell upon hard days. Then the orcs struck. Orcs have always been foes in the North, surging out of thei rholes every few tens of generations when their normal haunts cna no longer suppor tthier burgeoning numbers. This time thye charged out of their caverns in the Spine of the World, poured out of abandoned mines in the Graypeaks, screamed out of lost dwarfholds in the Ice Mountains, raged forht form crypt complexes in the Nether Mountains, and stormed upward from the bowels of the High Moon Mountains. Never before or since has then been such an outpouring of orces.
Delzoun crumbled before this onslight and was driven in on itself. Netheril, without its wizards, was wiped from the face of history. The Eaerlann elves along withstood the onslaught, and with the aid of treants of Turland and other unnamed allies, were able to stave of the final days of thei rland for yet a few centuries more.
In the east, Eaerlann built the fortress of Ascalhorn and turned it over to refugees from Netheril as Netherese followers built the town of Karse in the High Forest. The fleeing Netherese founded Llorkh and Loudwater. others wandered the mountains, hills, and moors norht and west of the High Forest, becoming ancestors of the Uthgardt and foundrs of Silverymoon, Everlund, and Sundabar.
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