Datharathi

The Datharathi chaka was a merchant family from Vaelan. They became de-facto rulers of the city by.

History
Before the creation of plangents, Datharathi minerals was one of the eleven most influential families in Durpar; besides mining, they controlled several shipbuilding docks.

In 1369 DR, Warian Datharathi lost an arm to an accident. His grandfather, the wizard Shaddon Datharathi, used a recently discovered crystal to build him a prosthetic; though it could move, it was numb, and it was both weak and slow. This prosthetic would also serve as the first plangent prototype. Over the next few years, the family business would soon come to include the construction and application of plangent limbs, both in order to overcome disabilities and to improve existing capabilities in healthy people. By, the Datharathi's plangent art was known throughout the continent.

The Datharathi, somewhere in the next century, would propose an alliance with the Iron Eye goblins from the Curna mountains. Despite the Adama, several families broke the agreement with the goblins; the Datharathi managed to come out on top of the ensuing Merchant Wars. They imposed a tax on trade with Delzimer, Estagund, and Deep Imaskar for the other chakas, and raised a standing army, including goblins, hobgoblins, and bugbears integrated during the war.

Xaemar Datharathi
Xaemar was the oldest of Shaddon's children. He was lampooned in underground plays for his overweening confidence. According to family gossip, he never drank, was celibate, and got on average half a night's sleep per night. He sported a number of crystal prostheses.

Zelthaebar Datharathi
According to most of his family, Zel never told the whole truth. He was a master of disguise who had passed up on becoming a plangent. At the time of Warian's return, several of his men were looking for Eined, who had gone into hiding; the rest of his family had grown insistent that he become a plangent too. He hid the skyship which Warian and Sevaera rode towards Shaddon's workshop on Adama's Tooth, and helped Warian in the ensuing fights against both Shaddon and Sevaera. He was the sibling of both Xaemar and Sevaera, and the uncle of Warian.

Warian Datharathi
Warian bore the first plangent prototype, starting on, after losing his arm to a rockfall while inspecting a family mine. He allowed his grandfather, Shaddon, to create a prosthetic for him; he was so thankful that he temporarily considered staying. However, his sister Eined recommended he see the world; he left, and did not return until, having supported himself up to that point by gambling. On arrival, he spent two days before meeting his family. They would insist he go see his grandfather later that evening. His visit to his grandfather would turn sour quickly, and he would find himself locked in combat with Pandorym's forces not much later that night.

Eined Datharathi
Eined was the older sister of Warian Datharathi. Their parents had both perished in an accident. She had fled her home as of the spring of 1374, suspicious that something was controlling her family members through the crystal in their bodies.[12] During this time, she found Ususi Manaallin and Iahn Qoyllor outside of the Body Shop; she quickly approached them for help in shutting down the crystal's production. Eined Datharathi was slain by Shaddon on after allowing the two Deep Imaskari with her inside Shaddon's chambers.

Sevaera Datharathi
Sevaera Datharathi was a wizard who had half of her face turned to plangent. She liked playing the harp. She was dismembered and used as a puppet by Pandorym on while trying to stop Warian and Zelthaebar from accessing the Celestial Nadir; her head would then cross the portal on its own to try and finish them off. It would take Iahn Qoyllor and Ususi Manaallin to completely destroy it.

Shaddon Datharathi
The patriarch of the Datharathi family, Shaddon was the wizard who built Warian's prosthetic and later developed the plangents. He later gained the power to possess, and thus both spy on and control, any plangent in Vaelan, unfortunately discovering he had made himself thrall to Pandorym in the process. When Warian Datharathi returned to Vaelan, he insisted, through Xaemar, that the man come see him immediately. When Warian arrived, he attempted to remove his prosthetic by force after an initial refusal; Zel knocked him out using a crowbar, which prompted him to attack them using Sevaera and several plangent spiders as proxies. Later, as Eined arrived together with Iahn and Ususi, he'd attack them too; they'd paralyze him and escape. Shaddon Datharathi was finally slain in the Imperial Weapons Cache of the Palace of the Purple Emperor by the elf Kiril Duskmourn, on.