![]() ![]() They are forced to flee after they are set upon by lamias (humanoid lions that work magic) and their legions of asabis. The drow in the War of the Spider Queen series arrive here by means of a portal. It is a city that landed near the High Ice and was eventually abandoned. Hlaungadath is one of the three floating cities that Mystra saved during the destruction of Netheril. The Shadovar are striving to make the Empire of Shadows into a cohesive and permanent nation. The Empire of Shadows is nebulous country in southern Anauroch, mainly consisting of whatever territory the City of Shade controls at any given time. ![]() The most northerly region is a vast sheet of ice overlying bedrock and marked with many rifts named "the High Ice." North of that lies a region of wind-scoured bare rock, called "the Plain of Standing Stones" despite very little of it being flat plain. The hot, dry desert of sand dunes which most folk imagine all Anauroch to be like is known as "the Sword" and actually makes up only roughly the southern third of the region. It is now inhabited by the Bedines, magically transported there from Zakhara, the vicious asabi, the dreaded phaerimms and, since very recently, by the archwizards of Shade.Įlminster has said of Anauroch that "It is not a natural desert, and it is not all hot sands." The desert is a remnant of the once-powerful Netheril Empire. Anauroch, also called The Great Sand Sea, is a magical desert on the continent of Faerûn. ![]()
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