Varelay

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In the Demon Spawn War (89 GE - 269 GE), a demon commander named Aperoq, seeing defeat in the vale of Imrabêl, took his Vauquix regiment into hiding. A reconnaissance unit, they hid in the deepest subterranean reaches, eluding detection and capture for six centuries. In 590 LE, tired of the poor living below, Aperoq and his Vauquix went to the surface, raiding and slaving across Ma'Ohari and into the deeps below.

In 684 LE, eighteen years after the founding of Orias Vual, Aperoq established the empire of Varelay; named after one of his favorite succubus, accidentally killed in a fit of anger.

Three centuries after the empire's formation, Varelay controlled nearly all of Ma'Ohari and the region beneath. Tilnangau and most other large holdings across the region became either vassal states or states with demon governors.

During Aperoq's long reign (684 LE - 984 LE), he and his succubus consorts created a lot of magic items and some new spells. On the first day of his 300th year of ruling, he was given a present from his succubus wizards. They gave him a crown, a scepter and an orb, artifacts of great magic. These items became known as the Regalia of Evil. When Aperoq mysteriously disappeared on the night of 1 War March 984 LE, the Regalia of Evil were left behind, then lost in the strife that followed Aperoq's ascension.

Brought on by centuries of bad mining practices, driven by greed and corruption, in 2608 LE, the empire was wracked by the sudden eruption of two volcanoes. The start of the Varelay Upheaval (2608 LE - 16 HE), over the next century and a half, the empire's two millennia reign was slowly torn down from poverty, famine, unrest, and occupied states hungering for freedom.