Sulm (Greyhawk)

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In the Dungeons & Dragons World of Greyhawk campaign setting, Sulm refers to an ancient Flan kingdom which once occupied much of the Bright Desert, in the days when it was a fertile land.

[edit] History

The Kingdom of Sulm came to prominence circa -1900 CY. Throughout its history, the kingdom spent much of its time crushing its neighbors. Only the Kingdom of Itar was strong enough to stand against Sulm, though it, too, would eventually fall.

Sulm began its slow decline circa -1400 CY, some say due to the influence of Nerull and other dark powers. Some seven centuries later, circa -700 CY, the Kingdom of Sulm fell, destroyed by its last king, Shattados, who used the power of a dark artifact known as the Scorpion Crown in an attempt to gain perpetual dominion over his subjects. Instead, the crown turned Shattados into a gigantic scorpion, and his people into manscorpions and dune stalkers. The land itself was even changed, transformed into a vast wasteland now known as the Bright Desert.

[edit] References

• Broadhurst, Creighton. "Into the Bright Desert." Dungeon #98 (Paizo Publishing, 2003).

• Broadhurst, Creighton, Paul Looby, and Stuart Kerrigan. "The Brightlands" (Wizards of the Coast, 2004). Available online: [1]

• Holian, Gary, Erik Mona, Sean K Reynolds, and Frederick Weining. Living Greyhawk Gazetteer (Wizards of the Coast, 2000).

• Mona, Erik. "Reflections in Silica: Sulm and Itar" (Wizards of the Coast, unpublished). Available online: [2]

• Pryor, Anthony. Rary the Traitor (TSR, 1992).