Azer

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**Azers** (pronounced: /ˈeɪzɜːr/ *AY-zur* about this audio file listen) were elemental creatures native to the Elemental Plane of Fire and Elemental Chaos. Azers were created by fire titans and fire giants, whom they often served. Others served the gods Dumathoin, Gorm Gulthyn, Kossuth, Laduguer, and Moradin. Still others, however, lived free and worked for their own benefit.

## Description

Azers resembled their ancestors, the dwarves, but with brass-colored skin and hair, their hair and beards composed of flames. Azer bodies were so hot that their weapons conducted heat, so much so that any creature within reach of an azer was injured by the intense heat. Many azers wore kilts of brass, bronze, or copper.

## Society

Azer society was best described as communal, as every individual had a place in society and matters of the state were more important than that of the individual. Living within fortresses made of bronze on the Elemental Plane of Fire, azer nobles wielded absolute power.

Despite loving gems and constantly waging war against the efreet, Azers never started a fight unless the foe was carrying gems and in which case they might take them prisoner.

## Relations with other races

Azers were often slaves of fire giants and titans. As for the other races, azers despised efreet, with whom they were often at war. They maintained good relations with the yak folk found on the planes.

## History

Some sages claimed that dwarves were once all enslaved to giants and titans; modern dwarves descended from those who escaped slavery, while azers were the descendants of those who'd remained enslaved and were unable to escape their captors. Exposure to the Plane of Fire produced their unique fire qualities.

Others maintained that azers were in fact native to the Elemental Plane of Fire and that their dwarvish appearance was merely a façade.

The azers had once been allies of the efreet, and even helped build the City of Brass. When construction was finished, the efreet betrayed the azers, trying to enslave them to prevent their knowledge of the city's secrets from spreading. Since then, the fact that the azers knew secret ways into the city had prevented the efreet from unleashing an all-out conflict, so that only skirmishes between them happened.

At some point, the archmage Trobriand summoned five azers to work for him on his layer of Trobriand's Graveyard in Undermountain.Later, the gnome Zox Clammersham was able to trick them into serving him.

## Notable azer

* Cripakolus, Clan Lord of the Everash Tribe.
* Lakataki, seneschal of the Everash Tribe.
* Amaimon, a legendary king among the azer.

## Appendix

### Gallery

NwN Azer F.jpgAn azer female in the game editor for Neverwinter NightsNwN Azer M.jpgAn azer male in the game editor of Neverwinter Nights
### Appearances

Adventures
* *Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage*

Novels

* *The Gossamer Plain*

Computer games

* *Neverwinter Nights: Shadows of Undrentide*

### External Links

* Azer article at the ***NWNWiki***, a wiki for the *Neverwinter Nights* games.
* File:Eberron logo.png Azer article at the ***Eberron Wiki***, a wiki for the *Eberron* campaign setting.

### References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 Wolfgang Baur (1993). *Secrets of the Lamp (Monstrous Compendium Pages)*. (TSR, Inc.). ISBN 1-56076-647-6.
2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 Mike Mearls, Jeremy Crawford, Christopher Perkins (2014-09-30). *Monster Manual 5th edition*. Edited by Scott Fitzgerald Gray. (Wizards of the Coast), p. 22. ISBN 978-0786965614.
3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 Mike Mearls, Stephen Schubert, James Wyatt (June 2008). *Monster Manual 4th edition*. (Wizards of the Coast), pp. {{#regex:22–23|%(,)(\S)%|$1 $2}}. ISBN 978-0-7869-4852-9.
4. ↑ 4.00 4.01 4.02 4.03 4.04 4.05 4.06 4.07 4.08 4.09 4.10 4.11 4.12 Skip Williams, Jonathan Tweet, Monte Cook (July 2003). *Monster Manual 3.5*. (Wizards of the Coast), pp. {{#regex:21–22|%(,)(\S)%|$1 $2}}. ISBN 0-7869-2893-X.
5. ↑ Gary Gygax (August 1983). *Monster Manual II 1st edition*. (TSR, Inc), p. 12. ISBN 0-88038-031-4.
6. ↑ Frank Mentzer (January 1985). “Ay pronunseeAYshun gyd”. In Kim Mohan ed. *Dragon* #93 (TSR, Inc.), p. 25.
7. ↑ 7.0 7.1 7.2 7.3 Mike Mearls, Stephen Schubert, James Wyatt (June 2008). *Monster Manual 4th edition*. (Wizards of the Coast), p. 22. ISBN 978-0-7869-4852-9.
8. ↑ Sean K. Reynolds (2002-05-04). Deity Do's and Don'ts (Zipped PDF). Wizards of the Coast. pp. {{#regex:10–15|%(,)(\S)%|$1 $2}}. Archived from the original on 2016-11-01. Retrieved on 2018-09-08.
9. ↑ Wolfgang Baur (November 1997). “Campaign Classics: The Roof of the World”. In Dave Gross ed. *Dragon* #241 (TSR, Inc.), pp. {{#regex:88–95|%(,)(\S)%|$1 $2}}.
10. ↑ Christopher Perkins (November 2018). *Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage*. Edited by Jeremy Crawford. (Wizards of the Coast), p. 177. ISBN 978-0-7869-6626-4.
11. ↑ Thomas M. Reid (May 2007). *The Gossamer Plain*. (Wizards of the Coast), p. 222. ISBN 978-0786940240.
12. ↑ Thomas M. Reid (May 2007). *The Gossamer Plain*. (Wizards of the Coast), p. 223. ISBN 978-0786940240.

### Connections

Dwarves
Arctic dwarf • Chultan dwarf • Desert dwarf • Gold dwarf • Shield dwarf • Urdunnir dwarf • Wild dwarf
 **Related Races**
 **Azer** • Derro • Duergar • Durzagon • D'tarig • Korobokuru • Maeluth