Xinlenal

Xinlenal was the first of the flying Netherese enclaves. After the enclave was formed, Netherese citizens traveled en masse to live high above those they deemed lesser than themselves, with the city eventually becoming the capital of Netheril. 
As the first of the Netherese enclaves, Xinlenal became a model for all future floating cities within the empire. Each enclave was given laws by its archwizard. Xinlenal's laws formed the outline for those of the other arcanists.

History

It was created in −2954 DR by the archwizard Ioulaum, sixty years after he had invented the mythallar. The creation of Xinlenal led many other powerful mages of Netheril to create flying enclaves of their own, in effect splitting the nation into two, High and Low Netheril.
In the Year of Sundered Webs, −339 DR, Ioulaum suddenly and mysteriously abandoned his enclave. The sudden disappearance of their great champion caused widespread panic in Netheril, leading to the casting of Karsus's Avatar and the end of the Empire of Magic.
The city crashed in the Northern Wastes, the ruins eventually overrun by Uthgard barbarians.

RUINED SETTLEMENT
-339 DR

Founding Date

-2954 DR

Alternative Name(s)

Ioulaum's Enclave

Type

Capital

Location under

Anauroch

Owning Organization

Netheril