Thultanthar

Thultanthar ("Shade" in the Loross language), also known as the Shade Enclave and the City of Shade, was a Netherese flying city situated in the middle of the Anauroch desert.

Demographics

Shades and Shadar-kai.

History

Origins Thultanthar was created in the year −1471 DR, Thultanthar's high mage, known only as Lord Shadow, experimented with the Plane of Shadow for some time and successfully shifted the entire city into the Plane of Shadow mere days before Karsus cast Karsus's Avatar and temporarily destroyed the Weave in the Year of Sundered Webs, −339 DR. For some reason, however, Lord Shadow could not move the city back to the Prime Material Plane. It took weeks but eventually, they managed to return to Netheril, or at least what was left of it. Searching for survivors for days, the city floated over the ruins of the Netherese empire. Finding none, Lord Shadow assumed it was the work of the phaerimm and began planning his revenge. He stopped, however, when he realized that one city was not a match for them and that his subjects were likely the last of the empire's people. He abandoned those plans and retreated back into the Plane of Shadow, vowing that one day, they would return and reestablish the empire.
The city's clerics of Shar cast divinations and saw what had really happened, but only informed the noble families, presumably on the whim of Shar herself for some reason. The excursion into the Plane of Shadow, due to unforeseen circumstances, lasted much longer than Lord Shadow anticipated. For over 1,700 years, the inhabitants battled the malaugrym and the other shadowy horrors of the realm, while each generation became gradually more attuned to the plane itself, becoming what were known as shades or shadovar.
Return On Hammer 1 in the Year of Wild Magic, 1372 DR, Thultanthar returned to Faerûn after the elf Galaeron Nihmedu finished a spell to bring Shade back to Toril where the shadovar, led by Telamont Tanthul, found themselves floating over the Dire Wood. Almost immediately, the princes of Thultanthar (now known more commonly by its translated name of Shade) got busy looking for Netherese ruins and artifacts, like the red pyramids of Ascore, as well as spying on, sabotaging, and even trying to destroy those people and places that could possibly hinder their ultimate goal of creating a new Netheril in their image.
The Netherese expanded their new empire for the next 113 years.
In the Year of the Rune Lords Triumphant, 1487 DR, Thultanthar was brought to ground by Elminster. It fell upon Myth Drannor, destroying both cities.

RUINED SETTLEMENT
1487 DR

Founding Date

-1471 DR

Founders

• Lord Shadow

Alternative Name(s)

City of Shades, The Shade Enclave

Inhabitant Demonym

Shadovar