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The yurians,[1] also known as crabmen,[2] were a race of crustacean beings that inhabited the seas and rivers of Faerûn.[5][note 1]
History[]
During the Second Serôs War in −8298 DR, the sea elf empire, Aryselmalyr, used crabmen, merfolk, and locathah forces to destroy the Kuo-Toan Consortiums. The war ended in −8282 DR with a massacre of the kuo-toa in the Sea of Fallen Stars.[6]
In 1369 DR[7] a community of crabmen inhabited caverns just south from Port Llast, and began raiding first the fishing boats, then the town itself. The First Captain Haeromos Dothwintyl was slain defending the town, so Hylas of Elturel, an arrogant knight of Torm’s fury, serving the Lords' Alliance arrived to help the command the militia alongside the veteran Kendrack. An exploratory advance upon the crabmen's caverns sent the force fleeing, and an excursion to sea likewise ends in failure and death as the crabmen leads a massive jellyfish to attack the cog. After yet another raid on Port Llast they learn, with help from a local sage, that the crabmen have been enslaved by magic. While most of the militia distracted the crabmen, Kendrack and Hylas lead a small team into the crabmen's caves, here they found a sahuagin sorcerer controlling the crabmen and jellyfish both. Slaing the sahuagin freed the crabmen community who in turned let the group depart back to Port Llast.[8]
Settlements[]
Many yurians made their homes in the caverns surrounding the Snout of Omgar.[5]
Crabmen could also be found in the Sea of Fallen Stars. They had colonies settled under the surf between the southern coast of Impiltur and the western coast of Aglarond.[9]
On the Sword Coast a colony were to be found south of Port Llast.[8]
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Notes[]
- ↑ The book Serpent Kingdoms conflates yurians with aldani. Though both are crustaceans with humanoid traits, the other details given for aldani in Jungles of Chult and Tomb of Annihilation do not mesh with those given for yurians. Because of this, they are considered to be distinct creatures.
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- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Eric Cagle, Jesse Decker, James Jacobs, Erik Mona, Matthew Sernett, Chris Thomasson, and James Wyatt (April 2003). Fiend Folio. (Wizards of the Coast), pp. 198, 199. ISBN 0-7869-2780-1.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 Doug Stewart (June 1993). Monstrous Manual. (TSR, Inc). ISBN 1-5607-6619-0.
- ↑ Don Turnbull (1981). Fiend Folio. (TSR Hobbies). ISBN 0-9356-9621-0.
- ↑ James Wyatt (August 1998). “Heroes of the Sea”. In Dave Gross ed. Dragon #250 (TSR, Inc.), pp. 26–35.
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 Ed Greenwood, Eric L. Boyd, Darrin Drader (July 2004). Serpent Kingdoms. (Wizards of the Coast), p. 117. ISBN 0-7869-3277-5.
- ↑ Brian R. James, Ed Greenwood (September 2007). The Grand History of the Realms. Edited by Kim Mohan, Penny Williams. (Wizards of the Coast), p. 16. ISBN 978-0-7869-4731-7.
- ↑ Eric L. Boyd, Ed Greenwood, Steven E. Schend (2000). Presenting...Seven Millennia of Realms Fiction. Wizards of the Coast. Archived from the original on 2003-06-21. Retrieved on 2015-08-12.
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 Richard Lee Byers (March 2000). “Lost Cause”. In Philip Athans ed. Realms of the Deep (Wizards of the Coast), pp. 101–130. ISBN 0-7869-1568-4.
- ↑ Steven E. Schend (1999). Sea of Fallen Stars. (TSR, Inc), pp. 38, 42, 184. ISBN 0-7869-1393-2.