History of Alshifa

## Summary

A country founded by a colelctive of species, mostly stemming from an original tribe of humanoids, many thought to belive past elves who made a deal to become the Yaun-Ti of note and legend. They have gone from nomadic families to the group who rules the mostly desert nation,

## Pre-Human Era

### Scale Rot Years & Cult of Mol'Sylk

**8500 PHE -** A group of earth elves and lizard folk come down with a disease at the time know as *scale-rot*, which appears to be a mixture of separate inflictions. In an attempt to cure it a group of tribal humanoids begin researching the cause. They are able to link it to a curse placed on a crypt locked deep within The Dragon Spine. The beings begin to work on a cure but it only leads them to more interlocked magic.

**8307 PHE -** The humanoids find a link between the original curse and a poison only found deep within a desert oasis. They begin trying to create a cure from the original poison, but they are unable to figure out the final link.

**8109 PHE -** A small cult of Mol'Sylk, the great serpent, promises to find a solution, at the cost of a generation, but are denied on the grounds that the cure can never be worse then the disease.

**8003 PHE** - The cult starts to gain traction as more and more succumb to the scale-rot, a group of tribe elders fight with the cult and win only by a small fraction.

**7987 PHE** - The elders once again face off with the cult of Mol'Sylk, this time they are getting backing from a group of clerics under  Meyanok who's deity promised them a cure. Their leader, a youth by the name of Yuan-Ti Solkash, leads the group to victory against the elders.

**7907 PHE -** Yuan-Ti Solkash contracts scale rot while trying to cure a group located on the coast of Urma Ear, the cleric order of Meyanok push again for a great promise to their god. The cult of Mol'Sylk begins to build a grand temple under the leadership of Yuan-Ti Mayit among The Dragon Spine.

**7550 PHE -** The humanoid tribes take on the name of Yaun-Ti and use the surname Solkash to denote authority after the leaders who had fallen to the curses and diseases they took on as a way to solve the original scale-rot.

**7525 PHE -** Sisavah Solkash reaches out to the cult of Mol'Sylk for a way to fight scale-rot, they perform the ritual of Niemat Alsiha. Without explaining the full front of consequences, the yuan-ti begin gaining some of the better benefits. The Yuan-Ti figure out the final cure for scale-rot and are able to stem the growing infections. The afflicted recover swiftly and by years end the curse/poison seems to have come to an end. At the same time a wave of children born at the end of the year are born with scales and serpentine features.

### Laenat Alshifa - The Great Curse & The Great Drought

**7500 PHE -** Laenat Alshifa', commonly called the great curse is inflicted on the Yaun-Ti, the children from the year of the Niemet Alsiha, gain an immunity to poison and a resistance to magic. This makes them the perfect for a generation of clerics and healers. Taking the curse as more of a blessing they name the temple built by the old cult after Sisavah Solkash, calling it Makan Alshifa Sasavah. They build the twelve great temples throughout the area, with the help of the Ethuba Clan of Earth Elves. Inside the temple they etch in lines from the rite of Niemet, along with other ailments and curses that they come across. The temples  are called Makan Alshifa', or place of healing,  as a group and specific ones named after a grand master.

**6003 PHE -** The Yuan-Ti tribes, each originally lead by one of the children of Niemet Alshia, spread out among Wahat Nasyan, the forgetful oasis, and continue to build temples to each of their leaders or great healers. They grow in knowledge of healing and breaking curses helps to elevate them to healers throughout the region.

**4500 PHE -** The Water Elves come to the Yuan-Ti to find a way to host the knowledge gained over the years of healing. They join forces with the Earth Elves and Loxodon tribes to construct a coastal library and haven. They name the haven Kaune Lona. It is partially submerged to keep it safe from those who would use the knowledge to harm others.

**2500 PHE** - An agreed peace reigns in the nomadic tribes across the desert, each one following a cycle to avoid conflict. The Yuan-Ti sticking to their temples, building new ones as the old are taken by the sands.

**50 PHE** - *The Great Drought,* a sandstorm sweeps across the desert and sends large sections of the river that cuts through below ground, shrinking many of the old oases.

## Human Era

### The Fall to The Great Silence

**1 HE -** *Fall of Makan Alshifa Eltzi,* the first humans encounter Al'maealij Eltzi, a yuan-ti matriarch who was caring for the temple and a tribe of lizardfolk. The human mercilessly murder the majority of those in residence. The few who survive escape into the desert.

**15 HE -** Baeshra Vagbak attempts to reclaim Temple Eltzi, but is defeated by the humans. Her corpse, along with those of the captured Yuan-Ti are hung from the temple. The surviving members escape back into the desert and take refuge in Makan Alshifa Nisa.

**31 HE -** A continued retreat as the numbers of humans increase, a small delegation of Al'maealij Ashmun Solkash attempt to broker a peace with the humans, but is met with violence. The delegation returned to Makan Alshifa Sisavah with the butchered corpse of Ashmun.

**35 HE** *- The Great Silence,* trade routes to the Yaun-Ti are cut off as they slowly receded back to Makan Alshifa Talash and the territory surrounding. Many of the tribes of Yuan-Ti come together under the leadership of Al'Maealij Zihu Althae, who lead them into the caves within The Dragon Spine. One of the remaining tribes lead by Alkatib Mustashar Otleh take residence with the Water Elves at Kuane Lona.

### The Lost Temple

**112 HE -** Ashmun Otleh, a young Yuan-Ti scribe finds the temple of Makan Alshifa Mukhfi, a temple once thought lost and buried to the desert.

### The Great Awakening

**401 HE -** *The Great Awakening,* Zaeim Malik Solkash, a yaun-ti pureblood with a mainly human appearance, appears at the foot of Makan Alshifa Sasavah with seven other purebloods. They are the first to be seen outside of Kaune Lona since Almaealij Zihu disappeared into the desert. The temple had been split between lake Baythun, one side dubbed Malkan Alshifa Hafin and the other keeping the name Makan Alshifa Sisavah.

**1141 HE** - Mistaken Divinity, Sissillia Mareotis, named Eiraf Sissillia Solkash, a yuan-ti druid, begins to grow a following under her visions of a great cataclysm coming. They are dismissed as hereasy, and Khalifa Zihu Solkash has Sissilia silenced.

### The Gods' War & The Broken Wheel

**1220 HE -** *The Gods’ War.* A divine conflict that had been raging in other realms for an untold amount of time spills over into Avalon, with cataclysmic consequences. Earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, floods, and other natural disasters sweep the continent. In response, Hamia Utel Solkash leads those in the region the caves beneath their cities. The war climaxes with the meteoric fall of the death-god Ruedi as he is slain; the force of his impact literally reshapes Old Avalon’s eastern coastline. Though there are some indications that sentient cultures lived in that region before the Gods’ War, they were completely obliterated by Ruedi’s fall.

**1225 HE** -  The nation of Alshifa re-emerges from the safe haven of the caves within the Dragon Spine, under the rule of Hamia Utel Solkash

**1545 HE** - *The Silent Nightmare*. After the ripples of the Gods' war, a self-proclaimed king of the South, Ima Shallows, rises from a small water elf tribe and attempts to conquer across territories rallying troops from enclaves spread through the desert oases. Qady Zenzu Solkash attempts to stop them using his standing army, but his own forces turn against him, Alshifa is left under the control of Sahir Manuya Nahr, renamed Sahir Manuya Solkash.

**1550 HE** - *Broken Wheel.* After 15 years of conflict, Ima Shallows is betrayed by their general Temblori Ari. The established leaders of the area meet for the first time and collectively dismantle Ima's army. Sahir Manuya Solkash offers a peaceful haven for some of the soldiers at Alkuhulf

### The Era of Unification & The Rebellion

**1867 HE** - Era of Unification. The human nations, now intermixed with the non-humans attempt to forge a treaty that will actually combine the powers of the clan Solkash, the Orian Empire,  Litsë, and Virya.

**1884 HE** - Muahad Sisava Solkask, originally named Sisava Hassan, pledges Alshifa to the Confederacy for access to Yaun-Ti temple in Saqaf and joins as the region of Alshifa, two port cites are constructed on the coast of Urma Ear. They are named Mina and Ramili.

**2054 HE** - *The Alshifa Rebellion.* Led by Itstli Sands, a group of yaun-ti abominations, a name given to them by the human's living within Alshifa, try and dethrone elected Zaeim Asutali Solkas. The confrontation last for six years, and in her final days as Caliph, Asutali promises them a safe haven within Alshifa that will be inaccessible by any outside of the yuan-ti.

**2064 HE** - The Revival of Central Alshifa.

**2066 HE** - The Restructure of the Elder Council and End of Life Long Engagmenents

**2071 HE** - The Return of the Eastern Counil

**2095 HE** - The Peoples Revolution

**2175 HE** - The Cult Revival

### The Revival of the Temples

**2240 HE** - The Return of the Desert

**2344 HE** - The Expedition Beyond

**2412 HE** - Broken Wheel and Woe

**2735 HE** - Unification of the Natural Wonders

**2906 HE** - The Fae Conflict - Readjust agreement with the elementals that reside among the sands

**2967 HE** - The Elemental council converts children of Elementals into elves to help with the convergance.

**3022 HE** - A drought to the north brings increase of pull from the southern states for food/supplies

**3051 HE**

**3104 HE** - The Fae Convergence