“"I've seen a scene to terrible it sickens my heart... a city of shining towers and verdant streets, a great bastion of song and culture, laid waste and despoiled"” — Queen Virdia Tiriande, 680 DR
Myth Drannor, formerly known as the city of Cormanthor, the City of Song, or the City of Love among other names, was the former capital city Cormanthyr in the forest of Cormanthor. It was considered by many to be the pinnacle of shared knowledge, culture, and civilization in Faerûn, as well a beacon of serenity and solidarity in the chaotic Realms.
It was the homeland of Adriella and Maressea Lirayne, the elven twins that accompanied the Founder Queen Tiriande for the founding of Tiriande.
In 680 DR, the then-Queen of Tiriande Virdia the Vain had a vision of a terrible demonic army laying waste to the city. Despite her many attempts to warn the elven city, it was destroyed in 714 DR in an event known as the Weeping War.
For hundreds of years after the Weeping War, Myth Drannor languished as fiend-infested ruins. After hundreds of years the city was reclaimed by the elves of Evermeet in the late 14th century DR. It enjoyed a century-long renaissance, before falling to ruin once more.
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