Waterdeep - Kyorlamshin (–677 to 493 DR)
In the Year of Fervent Glances (–677 DR), drow from the city of Karsoluthiyl (located beneath the Trackless Sea, west of the mouth of the River Chionthar) began their first incursions against the Stout Folk of Melairbode.
After centuries of inconclusive skirmishing, the drow mustered a huge army in the Year of Purloined Power (34 DR) and swarmed up from the depths, overwhelming the shield dwarves and slaying King Melair IV, the last clan chief of the Melairkyn.
The dwarves were forced to retreat to successively lower and less important levels of the Underhalls, until they fi nally vanished in the Year of Spoiled Splendors (211 DR).
The drow named their new holdings Kyorlamshin and claimed most of fallen Melairbode as their demesne.
They established a chain of portals linking Kyorlamshin’s central temple with Karsoluthiyl and began regular slaving runs between the Northdark and the more southerly Realms Below.