WHERE DID THESE PARTICULAR ANCIENT RUINS COME FROM? (Free Tier) (Patreon)

Here’s a non-exhaustive roster of lost, fallen, or nigh-gone realms in the Realms that were home to gnolls, goblins, hobgoblins, ogres, and orcs. This is “raw” Realmslore; dates may shift as they are incorporated into the grand tapestry of Realmslore by some of my friends, the Lore Lords.

BAHELOKH
BAHELOKH is an orc kingdom in the westernmost Smoking Mountains, that was formally founded in 331 DR by the orc chief Bahrel, and fell to a fatal sickness, the Trembling Disease (a brain affliction that made the limbs tremble constantly, and the body arch and writhe in spasms, as vision and motor skills decayed, that beset only goblins and hobgoblins, and seems to have now entirely faded away from Faerûn), in 806 DR. The orcs of this realm thought that the orc gods favored them specially, and sent boons in the form of strength and inspiration to those orcs who tarried nigh the deep volcanic rifts that gave the mountain range its name (as “smoke” gases drifted from them up into the sky through rock fissures), so there were many losses as orcs encountered dwarves in various subterranean rift-caverns, and fought to the death.

CULGLUTHUK
CULGLUTHUK is a small ogre realm confined to alpine valleys in the Alamir Mountains (west side, north end of that range) from about 166 DR to 784 DR or so, when the last ogres were exterminated by hobgoblins who’d been moving in (from the mountain ranges to the north) over the previous forty or fifty years. The hobgoblins are there still, though they’ve dwindled to few in number, in part because perytons and wyverns insist on roosting in the same area, and feeding on them. The hobgoblin realm is known as Klarthlurr (see).

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