Ythryn
After using the Ythryn Mythallar to lift the enclave of Ythryn into the sky, Iriolarthas and his apprentices traveled to the frozen north in search of relics from magic-wielding giants that waged war against the dragons some 10,000 years earlier. After many fruitless excavations, they found a large stone spindle bearing strange sigils at the bottom of the Oerich's Maw and brought it back to Ythryn for study. During one of their experiments, something went wrong—a flash of power from the spindle caused the mythallar to shut down, which in turn caused the city to fall out of the sky and crash into the ice below.
The inhabitants of Ythryn had only a few moments to react as the city fell. Iriolarthas conjured a doorway to a magical demiplane and stepped through it just in time. As Ythryn settled into its icy grave, all magic in the city became undone for a brief time, as though something was trying to siphon it all away. The demiplane expelled Iriolarthas in that instant, trapping the lich in Ythryn, and became a living demiplane. Iriolarthas searched the ruins of the city for his spellbook and his phylactery, recovering only the former. He also found several magical servants in stasis that had survived the devastation, as well as a handful of apprentices who had used their spells in ingenious ways to escape death.
Some of those inside tried to flee Ythryn, but glacial ice blocked all conventional routes of escape, and attempts to leave by magic were thwarted by a troublesome intercessor: the mysterious spindle in Iriolarthas’s citadel was still putting out magical pulses of energy to hinder spellcasting. By the time this disruption stopped some 50 years later, fear and madness had warped the minds of the apprentice mages, transforming them into nothics. Meanwhile, Iriolarthas grew increasingly feeble until, finally, the lich’s skeletal body turned to dust.
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