Rasilith

Rasilith was the capital city of the ancient realm of Thaeravel, and later a settlement of returned Netheril.

Description
After its abandonment, Rasilith was partially buried by sand dunes but still stood intact. It had thick gray stone walls, standing structures, and a central fortress. The central courtyard of the fortress had a deep well that connected to a series of underground caverns and chambers with rivers of cool, pure water. These were inhabited by the phaerimm and their laerti slaves.

Geography
Rasilith was north of the Windy Plains and Araugul the Goblinmount, and after the coming of Anauroch it lay in the Quarter of Emptiness. The Angardt city of Kismet was founded near it in the Flats.

History
Rasilith was the capital of Thaeravel, a realm of sorcerers, when it was founded around -4300 DR. The expansion of Netheril and their quest for arcane secrets led to them overrunning Thaeravel and Rasilith in -3392 DR.

After the fall of Netheril, the area became known as the Quarter of Emptiness, an especially desolate and uninhabitable region of the Sword, and became confused with Tower Hlithal, a much more recent ruin of Anauria. The deep caverns beneath it became inhabited by hundreds or thousands of laertis ruled by phaerimm, who sent their servants to kill any who risked discovering their lair.

In the early 1300's DR, a Bedine tribe located the ruins and deemed it a good location to settle, thanks to its intact walls and pure water supply. The first night that they camped there, laertis climbed up from their underground caverns and slaughtered almost the entire tribe, with only a few children escaping on camels.

After the return of Thultanthar in 1372 DR and the following extermination of phaerimm and greening of Anauroch, Rasilith was resettled with Bedine people. They became urbanized and were assimilated into Netherese culture.