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The '''Tsol'teth''' are the descendants of the [[Tsol'aa]] warriors, known as [[Qui'anar]], who fought during the battle at [[Nishnatoba]]. Upon returning home, these Tsol'aa began to disagree with others of their race in regards to how to treat other races, (considering these races inferior, and worthy only of enslavement.) While it is possible the effects of battle may have hardened the Qui'anar, other factors may have been at work, though no solid evidence has been found for any current theories as to what may have caused this change.

The Tsol'teth left their cousins in an exodus that eventually led them far below the earth, to the [[Underrealm]]. There, they enslaved other races - [[goblin]]s, [[hobgoblin]]s, [[ogre]]s, and an insect-like race that may have been [[horkval]]i - to serve them and worship them as gods. During the travels of [[Nicator]], in his search for [[Seleucar]], the Tsol'teth took an interest in the surface world once more. Three Tsol'teth in particular were involved in the war to come: [[Agith'maal]], [[Terrin'ukia]], and [[Gattan'lier]], the strongest amongst them being Agith'maal. These Tsol'teth summoned forth the demon prince [[Pazuzu]] in hopes of learning how they might better achieve their new goal, the destruction of all mortals who roamed the surface world, though the demon lord's simple answer, "Seleucar," frustrated them.

The Tsol'teth were eventually able to divine the meaning of this word, but were unable to travel to the surface world with their army of slaves, as the sunlight burned them. They prepared for some time, and sent curses and plagues to weaken Nicator and his followers, while amassing a great army and training them to better understand the surface world. Eventually the Tsol'teth slew their [[goblinoid]] and [[horkval]] slaves in a great ritual. From their corpses, the Tsol'teth took "[[spiral ribbons of future creation]]" and used these objects to give life to fiercer, more heartless slaves with an insatiable bloodlust and an immunity to the sun. Only their hobgoblin captain, Blademaster [[Matic Ridley]], was spared, trained in the ways of the surface world and used by his masters to help prepare the new army for battle. Matic Ridley became vengeful, however, feeling the true soul of his people had been lost.

In what was to be known as the [[War of the Deeps]], each of the three Tsol'teth took their forces to different major [[city-states]] of the realms: Agith'maal to Seleucar, Terrin'ukia to [[Ashtan]], and Gattan'lier to [[Shallam]]. They nearly decimated these cities until Agith'maal was betrayed by Matic Ridley, who pulled away the [[cloak of darkness]] protecting the Tsol'teth lord and stabbed him in the back. Matic Ridley aided the Seleucarians, and they were able to defeat Agith'maal and his forces by tearing out the Tsol'teth's heart. An unfortunate side effect of this was that the occultist [[Adchachel]] devoured the heart to gain essence, and later went mad.

 

 

No more was heard of the Tsol'teth until the [[Modern Age]], when an unknown Tsol'teth invaded the previously hidden Barony of [[Dun Valley]], slaying its inhabitants with the aid of ogre and orc slaves. Before his plans could be realised, however, he was betrayed by one of his slaves, [[Vukub Ysin’zhu]]. An apprentice of the Tsol'teth, [[Zh'risia]], survived, and managed to manipulate the orc, [[Kroul]]. Kroul was under the command of Vukub, and through him Zh'risia nearly succeeded in his vile plans, the extent of which are unknown. Eventually, an army of Achaeans, grouped from many walks of life and united in their purpose to stop the machinations of Vukub, invaded the fortress and found Zh'risia there, ruining his plans and slaying him after a great battle.