Shandaular

Description
Shandaular was a city in Ashanath of Thesk, which later expanded through a permanent gate to a location which would take the same name in the Council Hills in the Eastern Shaar.

Geography
The original city was found on the western shore of Lake Ashane, approximately 20 miles north of the town of Kront. The remnants of the southern portions of the city which spread beyond the gate formed buried ruins beneath the Council Hills.

History
A two-way gate was established between Shandaular and the Council Hills in -1064 DR, and thereafter the city expanded through the gate and its name was given to the southern portions of the city.

Northern Shandaular was destroyed by the forces of the Nentyarch in -946 DR. Refugees fled through the gate and settled in Southern Shandaular and the surrounding Council Hills and took the name Arkauin in honour of the heroic leader who sealed the gate to the Nentyarch's armies.

In -69 DR an Illuskan tribe arrives in the area via a gate and proceeds to intermingle with the descendants of the surviving Arkaiuns and eventually go on to found the nation of Dambrath.

In 106 DR followers of Myrkul seized control of southern Shandaular and establish the theocracy of Eltabranar. Encompassing most of the Eastern Shaar, in 202 DR Eltabranar would begin a series of raids, skirmishes and campaigns against Mulhorand and Unther which would come to be known as the War of Claws and would continue for almost a decade until 211 DR when the rulers of Eltabranar were forced to flee and abandon their lands.

In more recent times, the Shaaryan tribes of the Shaar used some of the more easily accessible tunnels of the ruins of southern Shandaular as burial grounds for their honoured dead, but avoided disturbing the deeper areas beneath the hills.

Appearances
The Shield of Weeping Ghosts.