Amazandar, also known as the City of Gems was the capital of the Lost Kingdom of Anauria.[3]
Geography[]
Amazandar was located west of the Desertsmouth Mountains, due west of the peak Rausrawna, known as Mount Shaddath to the Anaurian people,[2] southwest of Anauril, the City of Swords.[2]
Geographical Features[]
The city lay above rich veins of gems that could be reached by numerous deep shafts and tunnels.[1][3]
Trade[]
As the capital of Anauria, Amazandar dominated trade between Anauria, and the other survivor-states of ancient Netheril, Asram, and Hlondath.[2]
History[]
The city was founded about the same year as Netheril's fall in −339 DR. It would eventually have to contend with the encroaching Anauroch desert[4].
In the Year of Fallen Guards, 111 DR, pressures from the encroaching desert combined with large raids of goblins led by the orc shaman Andegril the Wise, caused the collapse of the kingdom of Anauria.[note 1] Its survivors melted away into the surrounding kingdoms, melded into nomadic tribes or perished in the harsh conditions[5].
Rumors and Legends[]
A crypt system beneath a temple of Jergal in the city was said to house the fabulous tomb of King Thausimbel the Wise and his daughter, Queen Shaddara the Fair.[1] In fact this underground tomb system merely held a portal that linked to a nexus beneath another false Thardresk Crypt beneath what would later be called the Serpent Hills.[2].[6]
Inhabitants[]
Circa the Year of Lightning Storms, 1374 DR, over a thousand years after the fall of Anuaria, the gem mines beneath Amazandar were inhabited by the phaerimm of the Buried Realms.[2]
Appendix[]
Notes[]
- ↑ According to pages 116 of Netheril Empire of Magic: The Winds of Netheril, this event occurred in 450 DR. This is direct conflict with a statement on page 12 of the same book that says the kingdom fell in 3970 Netheril Year, or 111 DR.
References[]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Ed Greenwood (November 1991). Anauroch. Edited by Karen S. Boomgarden. (TSR, Inc.), p. 68. ISBN 1-56076-126-1.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 2.6 2.7 Richard Baker, Ed Bonny, Travis Stout (February 2005). Lost Empires of Faerûn. Edited by Penny Williams. (Wizards of the Coast), p. 104. ISBN 0-7869-3654-1.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 Greg A. Vaughan, Skip Williams, Thomas M. Reid (November 2007). Anauroch: The Empire of Shade. (Wizards of the Coast), p. 133. ISBN 0-7869-4362-9.
- ↑ Brian R. James, Ed Greenwood (September 2007). The Grand History of the Realms. Edited by Kim Mohan, Penny Williams. (Wizards of the Coast), p. 48. ISBN 978-0-7869-4731-7.
- ↑ Brian R. James, Ed Greenwood (September 2007). The Grand History of the Realms. Edited by Kim Mohan, Penny Williams. (Wizards of the Coast), p. 63. ISBN 978-0-7869-4731-7.
- ↑ Ed Greenwood, Eric L. Boyd, Darrin Drader (July 2004). Serpent Kingdoms. (Wizards of the Coast), p. 106. ISBN 0-7869-3277-5.