Rise and Fall of the Azlanti traitor and the Master of the Final Incantation.

Rise and Fall of the Azlanti traitor and the Master of the Final Incantation.

From the recovered manuscripts from the history of the Knights of the Ioun Star, with additions by various Hellknight Scholars.

Nhur Athemon was an Azlanti wizard prince, used to a life of luxury and debauchery. A noble of the Azlanti empire who was responsible for founding an Azlanti settlement in the Echo Wood over 10,000 years ago.
The reason for the travel to Avistan and later Echo Woods, was as Nhur Athemon —a devotee of the demon lord Abraxas—was discovered plotting against the royal family and forced to flee into exile across the sea
Some scholars recon that Nhur Athemon was the original creator of the Emerald Spire, this is unconfirmed at this stage. But some records show that Nhur Athemon was the first one that bent the Emerald Spires power to his own will.

Nhur Athemon and his followers chose a remote woodland for their home in exile. Not only was the Echo Wood thousands of miles from Azlanti justice; but also a highly magically untamed wilderness with easy access to the Darklands.

The exiled prince was a very talented wielder of the arcane and have been instrumental in many of the Azlanti amalgamations using Arcane Energies, Mechanical Constructs and in some cases Living Matter. Fascinated by the arcane power that the Spire could hold and further extend and improve upon his previous unique fabrications. Among other unusual properties, the substance of the Emerald Spire proved physically nigh indestructible but magically malleable and capable of serving as an arcane battery for powering long-lasting spells or creating constructs. Creating advanced constructs was one of Nhur Athemons areas of expertise.

The design of the emerald constructs are said to resembled the gearsman, clockwork humanoid-shaped soldiers that serve as the military power for the Technic League of Numeria.

These emerald constructs are believed to have been powered with fragments of green crystal believed to be harvested from the Spire itself.




Most importantly, the Emerald Spire serves as a powerful focus for planar energy, tapping the subtle magical currents miles beneath the world’s surface to create potent resonances with every known plane of existence.

The broad, raised clearing that extends 250 yards around the Emerald Spire in each direction is known as the Spire Glen, and is devoid of any natural growth larger than a sapling. The intensely magical auras surrounding the spire are probably the cause of these very Common unique ecological mutations that are exclusively found in Echo Woods.

The Spire Glen occasionally generates invisible gates or portals that drift through the Glen, briefly linking deeper levels of the Spire to the surrounding countryside. In any case powerful planar magic is at work within the Emerald Spire, perhaps even caused by the Spire itself. Pathfinder Society, Gold Fire Order wizards amongst others are at work trying to figure it out, but as of now, there’s no telling how far the planar arm reaches, where all of the portals go, or what may have decided to step through onto Golarion soil.

Nhur Athemon must have figured that the Spire was the catalyst to vast power—perhaps power enough to overthrow the enemies who had forced him to flee Azlant. He raised the green glass tower that remains today over the Spire’s uppermost point. Below ground, he sculpted strange dungeons to access different points along the Emerald Spire and built laboratories to experiment with the Spire’s planar properties.

However, Nhur Athemon and his followers didn’t escape Azlanti justice forever. A few decades after the evil archmage fled his homeland, the Azlanti authorities successfully divined his location and launched a powerful attack to eradicate the vile traitors. Sending their most valinat and powerful warriors The Knights of the Ioun Star. The Knights wiped Nhur Athemon’s palace off the crown of Brokenhelm Hill and shattered the upper reaches of the Emerald Spire. But Nhur Athemon had a multitude of secret dungeons and hidden vaults all over Echo Woods that the Knights of the Ioun Star raided. The Knights finally managed to track down Nhur Athemon and slay the wizard in his lair and root out the remainder of his followers.

Thus ends the legend of the Nhur Athemon the Azlanti traitor and the Master of the Final Incantation. But the dark legacy of Echo Woods and Emerald Spire lives on. Over that time, others occasionally discovered the Spire from outside—powerful wizards, deadly cults, or insidious monsters—believing it to be an nexus point of vast power.

Later addendum written by Chaid DiViri, Hellknight Signifer of the Order of the Gate, Tamer of the Emerald Spire and Master Scholar of Planar Cosmology and Demiplanes.

Serpentfolk scholars hailing from the buried Darklands, refuges fleeing the surface world. Humans came to the region, but the primitive tribes of the Echo Wood and the early settlers of the River Kingdoms avoided the Spire, spooked by the eerie otherness of the place and stories of the various monsters from other worlds that frequently plagued it.

The largest and most famous of the rulers of Echo Woods know to the uneducated masses. The goblins of Zog, which occupied the Echo Wood roughly 500 years ago, used the Emerald Spire as a creative form of execution, driving those sentenced to death into the dungeon to meet grisly ends in the monster-infested depths.

After the goblin kingdom was defeated by the half­-elf heroine Tarwynna, leader of the army of humanity. Settlers slowly moved back into the northwest corner of the River Kingdoms.

After I have explored the deepest depths of the Emerald Spire I will add more volumes to the Journals of the Emerald Spire as seen through the eyes of Chaid DiViri, Hellknight Signifer of the Order of the Gate, Tamer of the Emerald Spire and Master Scholar of Planar Cosmology and Demiplanes.

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Record, Historical