He used these newfound powers to banish Andropinis of Balic to the Black and to kill Tectuktitlay of Draj. During his incarceration, and through unknown means, Rajaat’s obsession with the Blue Age of Athas had seen him transform into a living conduit for the elemental force of water. In the Year of Friend’s Agitation of the 190th King’s Age (FY 10), Rajaat was momentarily freed from the Hollow following the machinations of king Tithian of Tyr. To perform this feat, the Champions had used the Dark Lens, an item created by Rajaat himself as a tool to focus and amplify his own magical powers. Rajaat was first imprisoned within the Hollow some 2,000 years before the Liberation of Tyr, following his Champions’ betrayal at the close of the Cleansing Wars. Within the confines of this nothingness, Rajaat, the First Sorcerer languishes, trapped in a prison formed of magic and treachery. Strangely enough, or perhaps not so strange, there exists no connections to the Black in places of complete darkness, for no shadows can be cast in the absence of light.īeyond the darkness of the Black lies a realm of absolute nothingness, not even darkness, sometimes referred to as the “Deep Black”, and other times simply as “the Hollow”. The shadow wizards of Athas tap into the Black through these connections, offering up a portion of themselves in exchange for the powers they receive, partially becoming like shadows themselves. It has been described as a continually shifting, twisted place that imperfectly mirror Athas itself.ĭespite its strange nature, the Black is easily accessible, at least by Athasian standards, and connections to it are found wherever light creates shadow.

While the world of Athas exists outside the shell of this metaphorical egg, the inside – the realm of the Black – is a world of chilling darkness.

This domain of shadows is said to separate everything that exists from everything that doesn’t, and the Wanderer described it as a vast, leathery egg, filled with cold gloom that lies below the surface of all things, buried in the shallow sands and about to hatch. (Note that Graben Island and Todstein are all part of the domain of the Nocturnal Sea.The endless dark of the Black appears only as a darkened absence – an immense void in the fabric of the world. Unlike the pocket domains in the mainland (the House of Lament and Castle Island), theses island domains are not considered pocket domains. However, many of the islands within the seas have their own darklords. Note that the two seas of the Core are domains in and of themselves, each with their own darklord.

House of Lament (Pocket Domain within Borca).Castle Island (Pocket Domain within Tepest).3 The Core's Development from 351 BC to 730 BCĬanon Domains of the Core By Region The Mainland The Northern Core.

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