| Category | Cities | ||||||||||
| Continent | Karterus | ||||||||||
| Region | Dhark Bolg, Ma'Ohari | ||||||||||
| Owner | Smizerak | ||||||||||
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| Deity | Demogorgon | ||||||||||
| Founded | 11 Warper 311 LE | ||||||||||
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Felak was founded during the Lith-Crillion Era by settlers from the continent of Straiden. A joint venture of the clans Akthol and Tharag, they traversed the Earth Seam, arriving in the Aerruxa Sector a year later. On 11 Warper 311 LE, the Felak settlement was established, named for a crew member who fell and was lost in the Earth Steam. The settlement was built at the base of a dimly lit canyon, growing upward along the ore veins. On the surface, they traded adamantine for cloth, sugar, salt, and other scarce resources. With their growing prosperity, Felak expanded eastward and westward, establishing outposts and ports along the Earth Seam, often maintaining amicable relations with the river's earth elementals, and penetrating further into Aerruxa.
For three centuries, Felak reigned in relative tranquility. This peaceful era came to a close when prospectors discovered another adamantine deposit in the depths of Khuzir. The excavation stirred a trio of dragons from their ancient slumber. These dragons, the Reds of Kilth, were primeval beasts, second-generation scions of Tiamat's Clutch. Against Felak, the Reds deployed their armies of Fomorian, Derro, and troglodytes. By the conclusion of the Kilth-Deeps War (614 LE - 623 LE), Felak and her sibling city-states Gulud-Burâg and Urbal Nabad had fallen under the yoke of the dragons and their fomorian overlords.
When the empire of Varelay rose to power in 684 LE, the Reds of Kilth established slave armies to combat the demons, an event known as the Red Scourge. Demon infiltrators, often disguised as succubi or incubi, infiltrated these slave armies and incited rebellion. They convinced the dwarves that once the dragons' yoke was broken, they would regain their freedom and return to their ancestral cities. However, when Varelay emerged victorious, the three dragons slain, the dwarves did not attain the promised liberty. Instead, they were rounded up by the demons and taken back in chains to places like Drachlaz and Orias Vual. The prolonged captivity and often unwelcome interactions between Varelay's demons and slaves led to the birth of many Cambion offspring. For centuries thereafter, the cambion dwarves and other cambions of the region, reminders of demonic dominance, were subject to harassment and often barred from positions of power.
Varelay's decline during the Varelay Upheaval (2608 LE - 16 HE) resulted in many deceased demons and a large number of freed slaves. Most of the freed slaves returned to their ancestral homelands, with dwarves and cambion dwarves going back to their old holds in the Kilth Mountains. They cleared these areas of their unlawful occupants, then commenced the rebuilding process and reactivated their ancient forges.
The Smizerak Federation was established in 630 HE, designating Felak as the administrative capital.
The thriving city of Felak sprawls along the base and ramparts of a cavernous chasm measuring 2,000 feet in depth. Regarded as a metropolis straddling both the surface and the subterranean domain, Felak serves as a vital commercial hub, sparing merchants the expense of transferring goods between the upper realm and the shadowy, cavern-lined realm below. On the subterranean side of the city lies a grand port situated along the Earth Seam.
