Baklunish Near West
The lands of the Baklunish people extend from the great Tyruzi mountain range in the west to the Yatils, Barrier Peaks and Crystalmist Mountains in the east. This vast land, between the Dramidj Ocean and the Sulhaunt mountains, was once the location of the ancient Empire of Baklun. Its great capital city was located on the shores of the Gulf of Ghayar, a great bight that splits the western Baklunish lands from the eastern. Their civilization flourished for centuries and they became renowned masters of horsemanship, weaponcraft, silk making, the fermenting of wine and, most famously, for their mastery of elemental magic, including the summoning of genies.
The Baklunish-Suloise Wars were a decades-long conflict that profoundly altered the course of history of Oerik. The wars began in -484 CY and ended with the world-shaking events known as The Twin Cataclysms in -421 CY. The disasters in question were precipitated when the Suloise Mages of Power, who practiced a kind of magic unknown to the present day, created a terrible cataclysm remembered as the Invoked Devastation.
A wave of invisible destruction swept over the lands of the Bakluni from the Sulhaut to the Dramidj and from the Crystalmists to the Tyurzi. Buildings crumbled as if being powdered by an oerthquake, only the ground did not shake. All living things within the area were sickened. Although some survived, the vast majority were less fortunate. The wind was black and howling, and under its strange force the work of the hands of man decayed as if time were running a thousand times faster for such non-living matter.
Living things suffered increased aging, as well. Trees grew suddenly, depleted their soil, and died. Animals and people alike aged and died. Children became old men and women and soon died without caretakers. The remains of the dead were visible for some period, but the habitations and cities were naught but powder and dirt. In a score of years however, the whole area became covered by weeds and struggling plants, and slowly, as the worms and insects made their way into the soil, the land became a steppeland of short grasses and sedges and became known as the Dry Steppes. The area worst affected appears to be the old Bakluni homelands of Ghayar which, even to this day, is avoided by all sentient creatures as its ruins are home to foul undead not found elsewhere on Oerth.
In retribution, the surviving Baklunish elementalists gathered within the stone circles of Tovag Baragu and conjured a mighty dweomer, bringing down the terrible Rain of Colourless Fire upon the ir hated foes in the Suloise basin.
The Suloise lands were inundated by a nearly invisible fiery rain which killed all creatures it struck, burned all living things, ignited the landscape with colourless flame, and burned the very hills themselves into ash, leaving the Sea of Dust as a monument to the hubris of humanity. Together, the Invoked Devastation and the Rain of Colourless Fire are known as the Twin Cataclysms.
Though their lands were dessicated, four cohorts of survivors eventually found their way to the northern and western frontiers of their old empire; guides and escorted by jinn lords. With these great elementals as protectors, the Baklunish began the long hard work of rebuidling their civilization.
The Baklunish-Suloise Wars were a decades-long conflict that profoundly altered the course of history of Oerik. The wars began in -484 CY and ended with the world-shaking events known as The Twin Cataclysms in -421 CY. The disasters in question were precipitated when the Suloise Mages of Power, who practiced a kind of magic unknown to the present day, created a terrible cataclysm remembered as the Invoked Devastation.
A wave of invisible destruction swept over the lands of the Bakluni from the Sulhaut to the Dramidj and from the Crystalmists to the Tyurzi. Buildings crumbled as if being powdered by an oerthquake, only the ground did not shake. All living things within the area were sickened. Although some survived, the vast majority were less fortunate. The wind was black and howling, and under its strange force the work of the hands of man decayed as if time were running a thousand times faster for such non-living matter.
Living things suffered increased aging, as well. Trees grew suddenly, depleted their soil, and died. Animals and people alike aged and died. Children became old men and women and soon died without caretakers. The remains of the dead were visible for some period, but the habitations and cities were naught but powder and dirt. In a score of years however, the whole area became covered by weeds and struggling plants, and slowly, as the worms and insects made their way into the soil, the land became a steppeland of short grasses and sedges and became known as the Dry Steppes. The area worst affected appears to be the old Bakluni homelands of Ghayar which, even to this day, is avoided by all sentient creatures as its ruins are home to foul undead not found elsewhere on Oerth.
In retribution, the surviving Baklunish elementalists gathered within the stone circles of Tovag Baragu and conjured a mighty dweomer, bringing down the terrible Rain of Colourless Fire upon the ir hated foes in the Suloise basin.
The Suloise lands were inundated by a nearly invisible fiery rain which killed all creatures it struck, burned all living things, ignited the landscape with colourless flame, and burned the very hills themselves into ash, leaving the Sea of Dust as a monument to the hubris of humanity. Together, the Invoked Devastation and the Rain of Colourless Fire are known as the Twin Cataclysms.
Though their lands were dessicated, four cohorts of survivors eventually found their way to the northern and western frontiers of their old empire; guides and escorted by jinn lords. With these great elementals as protectors, the Baklunish began the long hard work of rebuidling their civilization.
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