In the year 386 (Faraway reckoning) or 1226 (Imperial reckoning), the powerful Sorcerer-king of the Mountain rose in the southern Boût range.

While the terrible red dragon Azracha, who had come from the North, held the country in terror, a mighty mage from elsewhere destroyed the dragon with a great column of light, visible across the entire land. Seizing the treasure and the lair, the magician established their own kingdom, to which the Boût monsters—formerly serving Azracha—submitted.

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The Sorcerer-king of the Mountain is a mysterious figure, about whom little is known. Some accounts claim the ruler is an elven lady of unparalleled beauty; others speak of a gaunt, angular man who spends his time cackling; yet others describe a disembodied form seated upon a throne of fire, and so on. It is certain that the truth has been lost amid tavern tales, and that many so-called scholars of our academy are rather unreliable sources.

In any case, the establishment of a magitocratic principality fundamentally changed the balance of the region. All trembled, wondering whether this new power would be benevolent or malevolent. The answer to this question did not take long to appear, when… [the rest of this archive was lost in the Great Fire of the Imperial Library in 1234.]

THE END.

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