Udoxia

Udoxia

The Udoxia of Jhaamdath are powerful magical artefacts that helped establish and preserve the empire for a millennia where they were worshipped as the embodiment of the gods of Jhaamdath.

History

History records that the first Udoxia is mentioned in -5725 DR, when Laszik Silvermind presented the first Udoxia to the people of Jhaamdath and set out the vision of civilization as communicated to him by the god Auppenser.

Over the following decades Laszik created a number of Udoxia and bequeathed them to the people of Jhaamdath to help guard the cities of the Sword (as the Vilhon Reach was then known), as new cities were established a Udoxia was laid at its centre to protect it and promote the growth of the Invisible Art.

Originally six Udoxia were created, for only 6 Cities of the Sword were ever supposed to exist (according to the Code of Auppenser). Eventually Jhaamdath outgrew its cities and more than 12 cities were created in the Vilhon, each of which contained its own Udoxia, so at some point the Council of Exarchs learned how to create new Udoxia.

Over the centuries the Udoxia remained fairly stable as the foundation of every major city in Jhaamdath, until -273 DR when the Emperor Dharien began to confiscate them, beginning first with those held directly inside temples to Auppenser, and later those held by individual cities (culminating in the bloody sacking of the city of Gharrent).

The tsunami created by the elves of Nikerymath destroyed any evidence of what happened to the Udoxia and from that point they were lost to history and have never been seen since, despite hundreds of expeditions from various treasure hunters over the last millennium.