Maerimydra

Maerimydra is a large drow city located below the Dalelands in the Deep Wastes.

History
In 714 DR, in the wake of the fall of Myth Drannor the city conquered what was to be Shadowdale. They ruled it for nearly 200 years until 906 DR when the water wizard Ashaba drove the invaders out of the Twisted Tower.

The city was relatively quiet between then and 1372 DR. The Silence of Lolth began on 28 Elesias, causing some mild unrest, until the city's archmage, Duneth Wharreil, weakened the city. On 23 Eleint, the city was sacked by the half-fiend Kurgoth Hellspawn and his army of goblins, ogres, fire giants and demons. Most of the drow inhabitants of the city were killed or enslaved, with some escaping into the surrounding Deep Wastes. The single drow house to survive with any assets was House Dhuurniv, because most of them lay outside Maerimydra.

While the mage and Kurgoth's army were destroying the city's strongholds the local cult of Kiaransalee took over Castle Maerimydra, the home of House Chûmavh which, at the time was the ruling house. The leader of the cult, an albino drow named Irae T'sarran killed Duneth and, under her god's direction summoned Kiaransalee's Undying Temple to the Prime Material Plane. She in now concerned with using the temple's negative energy to research a new spell that will raise all of the corpses in and around the city simultaneously as a singular horde of powerful undead all under her command.

A few small bands of Drow refugees fled the sacking of the city. One party managed to travel the 100 miles to Szith Morcane, an old outpost of Maerimydra. The Lolth-worshiping leaders were slain by Irae's two children who then organized raids on Daggerdale.