Ravage

The Ravage was the name given to the attack by agents of Imperator Shey'Zim on the Kingdom of Sildredge. It devastated the region and ultimately lead to the destruction of the kingdom and the death of Sotha Sil I, partner to King Wiran Beloth.

History
In the year 15 BR, Imperator Shey'Zim, sick of the seemingly endless growth and power of the Kingdom of Sildredge. Promising land and wealth to he and his sons, Shey'Zim successfully recruited an old elven wizard, Quintel Balfour, to help him break the kingdom.

Balfour was a respected and wealthy wizard of the Sestine Fells. He lectured at a great many colleges, but after his drow wife was killed by rangers of the Sestine Fells, and with Wiran Beloth in the west, maybe never to return, he felt that the kingdom had grown unwieldy with no true leadership, and blamed his wife's death on the institutions around him. He began to turn popular opinion against Beloth and the idea of the kingdom. When Shey'Zim pushed for more, Balfour resisted, but when the Imperator threatened the lives of his children, the sorcerer had no choice but to acquiesce.

In the year 1 BR, Balfour successfully helped Shey'Zim raise an ancient dragon from the depths of the bay, blasting open the hold of Quorrim and creating what is now known as Dragonrent Bay, leaving the island of Balfour's Folly in his wake. The dragon destroyed much of the kingdom. Sotha Sil I died attempting to stop the dragon, managing at last to banish it to the ethereal plane.

Quintel Balfour was executed almost immediately by the rangers of the Sestine Fells after a furious chase to the Balfour Family Estate. His body was paraded through the capitals of the Sidredgian holds and sits now in the Tomb of the Scorned on Eastwater Isle, while his soul rests in a Ring of Mind Protection held by his youngest son, Wex.

Balfour's son Jance was killed as a mob destroyed the estate, but his son Wex survived by fleeing into the underdark, through tunnels connected to drow territory. He returns to have his revenge on the holds that ruined his family: Old Rath Isle, the Sestine Fells, Eastwater Isle, and Sildredge.

Wex Balfour is a mid-level wizard who now works with the drow to undermine Old Rath Isle and the Sestine Fells.