The Founding of the City of Sharn

Founding

The magnificent city of Sharn is founded.

While a wave of human settlers from Sarlona eventually followed Lhazaar’s expedition to Khorvaire's eastern shores, these brave people did not stop there. They soon pushed inland and explored their new continent’s northern and southern coasts seeking fertile land to settle and new kingdoms to establish. As a result, Malleon the Reaver, another Rhiavhaaran pirate from Sarlona, discovered the inlet of the Dagger River in southwestern Khorvaire twenty-five years after Lhazaar’s historic arrival. Malleon enslaved the goblins he discovered there hiding in the Dhakaani ruins of Duur’shaarat and built a fortress within those ruins on the bluff above the river.

Malleon, a superstitious man, hoped to make peace with whatever spirits remained in the ruins of the once-great Dhakaani city. He sealed off the deeper levels of the goblin-made mountain-monoliths that had been the home of the majority of the hobgoblins and he named the new human city Shaarat, deriving the name from the stories of Ja’shaarat told by his goblin slaves.

Over the next six hundred years, Shaarat grew into a powerful and wealthy city. Around-1,400 YK, Breggor, the first king of the nation of Wroat that would eventually become the Kingdom of Breland, demanded that Shaarat bow to his authority. Malleon’s descendants, who were the lords of the city, refused. A long siege followed, ending when King Breggor ordered his wizards to rain down magical destruction on Shaarat, destroying the city once more.

Breggor wanted the city on the Dagger River for his own and he did not allow the place to remain ruined for long. Within a decade of the siege of Shaarat, Breggor renamed the city Sharn. For the next eight hundred years, until the outbreak of the War of the Mark in -1,500 YK, Sharn’s towers began to rise along the bluffs of the river and the city flourished along with the rest of the Five Nations.