| Category | Fallen Empires | ||||||
| World | Bal-Kriav | ||||||
| Region | Buccaneer Archipelago, Necrocrypt, Karnegmoth | ||||||
| Government | Dictatorship | ||||||
| Capital | Phanêthil | ||||||
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| Alignment | chaotic evil | ||||||
| Deities | none | ||||||
| Enemies | Tuc'hoom | ||||||
| Founder | Molakh-Búle | ||||||
| Reign | 862 HE - 1011 HE | ||||||
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Driven from their home world in the Second Suellk Invasion (430 HE - 537 HE), the Durkoth escaped into the Void, drifting through space for three centuries. Aboard a megalithic voidship that would become better known as the Spire of Molakh-Búle, one group of Durkoth settled on the isles of Necrocrypt. Their leader, a master necromancer named Molakh-Búle, was quick to solidify his power, establishing an empire on 13 Witchrite 862 HE. Named Abâthigûr, meaning "reborn Thigûr", its population was made-up of the Durkoth, a Hydrocur security force, and the Sussgurd; a subjugated people.
Over a period of nearly 200 years, the empire spread outward from Necrocrypt, southwest into the Buccaneer Archipelago and then as far as the cliff coasts of northern Karnegmoth. They bypassed northern Izagunbar; imperial surveys saying the land too rugged for settlement, and the dangers of old wars and whatever they left behind, too great. In their dealings with other peoples, pirates of the Buccaneer Archipelago, merchants out of Mir'piamauza, and even the self-righteous sea captains out of Leza-Sîk, Abâthigûr learned of Izagunbar's place in the Creation War and the Demon Spawn War. They had great respect, and fear for those that fought in that time. The Durkoth, brought to Bal-Kriav in Helas Vessels, primordial constructions of great power, did not risk settling Izagunbar. Molakh-Búle in particular, did not want to see his nascent empire brought down with the finding of some primordial relic or demon war machine.
The empire's founder Molakh-Búle, ruled right up till its end. He encouraged the use of the necromantic arts as if it were just another way to make something new.
Like other Durkoth empires and holds across the land, Abâthigûr buckled and eventually fell in the Durkoth Descent (995 HE - 1355 HE). As the Durkoth left, former minions and soldiers scattered and jockeyed for power. Abâthigûr's hydrocur, no longer constrained by the Durkoth, looked to keep the Sussgurd as their minions. Across the isles of Necrocrypt, they faced fierce resistance. The fiercest of the resistance fighters eventually had to pay the price for selling their souls for victory. They became known as Cinnuru's Minions, the ghosts of Cinnuru Mine. Seeing inevitable doom, the Hydrocur fled to the northern bays and islands of Athoreon. Necrocrypt's living Sussgurd, for a time benefiting from Cinnuru's Minions, now fell victim to them. The lucky found passage to Râpha-Sûn and other former Abâthigûr holds along Karnegmoth's shores.
By 1011 HE, the empire was no more, its Hydrocur concentrated around Ginnoth, its Sussgurd were in northern Karnegmoth. Its former Durkoth masters, no longer able to function on land, were under the sea at Ogharkú.