Samarach - Regional History
The isolated realm of Samarach was once the western half of Thindol.
At that time, its populace was dominated by Tashlutan immigrants who settled the Sanrach Basin after the Tashalar Campaigns (circa 300 DR).
In the Year of Many Serpents (605 DR), the Thindolese in both the Chultan-dominated east and the Tashlutan-dominated west unmasked a host of yuan-ti infiltrators in their midst.
During the months of anarchy that followed this event, roving bands of ophiophobes attacked anyone they suspected of possessing serpentine ancestry.
Unlike the eastern Thindolese, the folk of western Thindol fled en masse, marshalling a great flotilla of ships and sailing for the fabled isle of Nimbral.
After a great storm dashed much of this slapdash fleet against the Beacon Rocks, a legion of pegasi -mounted Knights of the Flying Hunt appeared above the remnants of the fleet and ordered the Thindolese to return to their homes.
After listening to their pleas for mercy, Lord Samar, a Nimbral Lord and the commander of the Nimbran legion, agreed to return to the Chultan Peninsula with the refugees and drive the yuan-ti from the Sanrach Basin.
Once the survivors returned home, the archmage Samar cloaked the mountain passes and roads of the realm in veils of illusion, then began a decades-long hunt for the agents of the yuan-ti.
In time, the western Thindolese began calling their isolated land Samarach, after the first Nimbral Lord to rule it actively, and the inhabitants of the realm came to consider it a vassal state of distant Nimbral.