Thakok-An

A great city known as Kalidnay once existed on the world Athas, ruled by the brutal sorcerer-king Kalid-Ma. He was noted for his strict laws, and even stricter enforcement. Even his own templars - men and women who served both as his enforcers and the city's religious leaders - were not immune to the law. Thus, Kalidnay had a reputation for being a harsh but fair city, unusual on Athas. His most loyal templar was Thakok-An. A vicious woman, she retained her post by zealously enforcing all decrees and constantly extolling Kalid-Ma's virtues, appealing to his vanity. Singing the praises of her king was easy, since she desired him above all things.
The sorcerer-king of Kalidnay was unmatched in the arts of defiling magic (a type of spellcasting unique to Athas, where the caster draws life force from the surrounding area to power the spell). He was so strong, in fact, that the sorcerer-kings of the other cities feared him and plotted to kill him.
Thakok-An learned of their plot. Instead of telling Kalid-Ma about the plan, Thakok-An instead chose to save him herself and thereby earn his undying devotion. Maddened by the thought of losing him, she turned to the books of arcane lore stored in the king's palace, learning how to speed the process her king was already embarked upon - that of becoming a Dragon of Athas, the most powerful being on the planet. The price would be high, but she did not hesitate to pay it.
As Kalid-Ma performed the nightly ceremony required as part of his eventual ascension to the rank of Dragon, Thakok-An brought her family to the top of the sorcerer-king's ziggurat. One by one, she slaughtered them in gruesome fashion. The blood of her own mother spilled across the stones of the ziggurat as Kalid-Ma completed the ritual in his chamber below. Anguished cries rose from the city below, as the ziggurat cracked and wave upon wave of powerful defiler magic swept outward from the ziggurat. The people of Kalidnay were completely drained of their life force. Thakok-An crouched on the top of the collapsing building, knowing that something had gone wrong. From what she had read, the ziggurat should not have cracked, nobody else should have died, and Kalid-Ma should have transformed.
Thakok-An awoke amid the rubble atop the broken ziggurat after having been struck unconscious by falling rock. The streets of Kalidnay appeared devoid of life. Climbing to the top of the palace tower, however, she saw lights and smoke at the edges of the city. Looking further, she saw that Kalidnay now sat on a plateau in a silt sea. No other land was visible in any direction.
After a full month of cleaning and restoring the ziggurat, Thakok-An found her sorcerer-king in the underground corridors. Kalid-Ma's body was unchanged, though he sleeps eternally.