The Great Kingdom

When the Ninth Circle fled K'el after the rebellion, they crossed the Azure Sea.  On the far side, they already knew that a kingdom of humans existed, because S'el had had intermittent contact with it for centuries, and more recently, their young kingdom of K'el had clashed with it occasionally in the Azure Sea. The kingdom they found was far older than they had expected, spanning the narrow straits.  Cities abounded, with huge stone ziggurats towering over them.  What they realised, which they had not before, was that these humans were actually in thrall to a race of strange human-snake hybrids.  The yuan-ti as this race was called, rivalled the Archmages of S'el in the decadence and depravity of their desires, and their human subjects were treated as nothing more than beasts. The Ninth Circle had originally travelled to the east in search of allies in an attempt to retake K'el, but realised that an easier route to power lay here in the east.  Secreting themselves on the Stone Plateau, they started building a secret organisation that infiltrated yuan-ti society and started to organise their slave humans.  The process was slow, but gradually a two-pronged attack was developed.  They trained a small but effective army from runaway slaves on the plateau, while at the same time building an underground resistance in the cities.  The blow when it came was swift and devastating - yuan-ti control over most of the northern cities as disrupted by a simultaneous slave uprising in almost all cities, and the armies of the Ninth Circle were able to liberate the cities one by one.  The yuan-ti perished in their thousands, and their aura of terror, which had kept their slaves in line, was shattered.  Even in the southern cities, which the Circle never attacked, local uprisings let to massacres and the abandonment of most of the cities.  The yuan-ti vanished into myth and legend.  The humans soon found that they had exchanged one set of masters for another though.

Type

Geopolitical, Empire

Subsidiary Organizations

• Merkgard