The Burning Hills

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----The Burning Hills of Netheril, or in the Nethir tongue Al-Nethir Amhruqa Alta, and in Vortais Netér and Luskan Sundila, was a large subcontinent of southwestern Faerun. It was a large dry land home to a shattered gulf full of several small islands. It was mostly enclosed by mountains, with a guarded valley pass into The Fallo, some mountain passes through to Turmish, and an opening into The Danderillon's Nethir Upland.
Netheril's striking appearance was due to its abundance of scorched red-brown sand and rock that covered the land, but it was not always like that. Before The Dalereckoning, the land was not dissimilar to The Danderillon, albeit more mountainous and warmer. 
The Synod of Dragons, colloquially called the First Empire of Netheril was a magocracy that worshipped nine ancient Great Dragons, including Tyrvok, and had in their service many lesser, younger dragons too. In the year 0, as part of The Dalereckoning, the subjugated dragons rose up and warred, destroying almost all Netherese cities in a horrific and months-long battle. The warring ended with one of Seiros' coronal mass ejections, and the land was flash-scorched, causing many survivors to leave as fast they could. 
All of the Great Dragons either fled or died. The white dragon Morrigan fled to Setfjall, and the green dragon Mả'i'ia fled to Ne'em'irah. As for the others.... who knows?
Some of the original Nethir inhabitants of the land fled to found Thay, some into the Boarwood Enclave and others still to Ne'em'irah. Only few remained behind. Seeking an opportunity, the rock gnomes once from the Boarwood took the chance, and formed the modern-day Second Mandate of Netheril, ruling based in the capital of Xinlelal and exerting weak control over the surrounding lands and the gulf. Most the current inhabitants were kobolds, dragonborn and brown-skinned humans, as well as rock gnomes. 
Netheril was home to many geothermal rock pools, as seen on the map - there were three huge ones. They produced copious amounts of sulfur. As such, The Vortic Mercatorium invaded Netheril in the year 1199, signing a trade deal with the Mandate. This was crucial to the Vortais firearms industry. Their territory was known as Lesser Netheril, or Moin-dre-Netér. 
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