Unther

Unther was one of the Old Empires in eastern Faerûn. The Untherite were brought to Toril from Earth by the Imaskar Empire looking for some manpower. After countless praises, the gods of the Untheric pantheon were able to manifest into Toril by sending physical avatars. With the help of their deities, the former slaves freed themselves and settled that lands that later became Unther. Ironically, their rival in the millennia to come was another human tribe captured by the Imaskari and freed at the same time, which founded the empire of Mulhorand.

Government
After the foundation of the First Untheric Empire, the god-kings of the Untheric pantheon ruled the land without opposition. After Enlil left the Realms in -734 DR, Gilgeam became the inmortal ruler of Unther until his death in 1358 DR. In the chaotic period before Gilgeam's death, Mulhorand conquered most of Unther, and a group of spellcasters known Northern Wizards were able to maintain the north free of the presence of the occupation force. Then, the Spellplague took place and Unther was transported to the world of Abeir, where the surviving Untherite became slaves of the Shyran genasi. Hearing the pleas of the people of Unther, a second incarnation of Gilgeam appeared to lead them against the genasi before the Second Sundering returned Unther to the world of Toril.

Navy and seafaring
Vessels from Unther were named after sea creatures or sea-related myths.

AD&D Information
"The language of Unther is called Untheric. It belongs to the same language family as the language of Mulhorand, but it so greatly changed over the course of many centuries that there are now very few similarities between the two languages. The runes used by the Untheri are entirely different from those used by the Mulhorandi; these runes pre-date their migration from Raurin. Early Untheric writing consisted of syllabic hieroglyphs (runes that represent one syllable, as opposed to the hieroglyphs of Mulhorand, which represent one word) and seems to have had at least minor influence on the alphabet of Thorass (Old Common)."

Post-Spellplague
Like its neighbor Mulhorand, Unther was completely wiped out by the Spellplague. The Untherians and Mulhorandi armies in Unther were almost entirely erased, and a fragment of the dragonborn nation of Tymanchebar was transplanted from Abeir onto Unther. As of 1479 DR, these dragonborn have formed the realm of Tymanther, named in honor of their native realm and the realm that it destroyed.

After the Second Sundering, it was revealed that the people of Unther had actually been shifted to Abeir. During their time there, they had been dominated by the natives until a hero named Gilgeam rose to defend them. On the eve of a great battle against their masters, however, they suddenly returned to Toril. Gilgeam quickly led them against the dragonborn, retaking much of their old territory from the "godless lizards" whom they blame for their century of oppression.

Locations

 * Shussel: In 1372 DR, this city hosted a Shou Town