| Category | Fallen Empires | ||||||
| World | Bal-Kriav | ||||||
| Region | Buccaneer Archipelago, Necrocrypt, Karnegmoth | ||||||
| Government | Dictatorship | ||||||
| Capital | Phanêthil | ||||||
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| Enemies | Tuc'hoom | ||||||
| Founder | Molakh-Búle | ||||||
| Reign | 862 HE - 1011 HE | ||||||
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Driven from their home world during the Second Suellk Invasion, which spanned from 430 HE to 537 HE, the Durkoth escaped into the vast Void, drifting through the cosmos for three centuries. Aboard a colossal voidship that would later become renowned as the Spire of Molakh-Búle, a group of Durkoth settled upon the isles of Necrocrypt. Their leader, a master necromancer named Molakh-Búle, swiftly consolidated his power, establishing an empire on 13 Witchrite 862 HE. This empire, known as Abâthigûr, meaning "reborn Thigûr," comprised the Durkoth, a Hydrocur security force, and the subjugated Sussgurd people.
Over nearly 200 years, the empire expanded outward from Necrocrypt, spreading southwest into the Buccaneer Archipelago and as far as the cliff coasts of northern Karnegmoth. They bypassed northern Izagunbar, as imperial surveys deemed the land too rugged for settlement, and the dangers of old wars and their remnants too great. In dealings with pirates of the Buccaneer Archipelago, merchants out of Mir'piamauza, and even the self-righteous sea captains of Leza-Sîk, Abâthigûr learned of Izagunbar's role in the Creation War and Demon Spawn War. They held great respect and fear for those who 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 by the discovery of some primordial relic or demon war machine.
The empire's founder, Molakh-Búle, presided over it until its very demise. He actively promoted the utilization of the necromantic arts, almost as if they were merely another method for creating innovative constructs.
Like other Durkoth empires and strongholds across the land, Abâthigûr succumbed and eventually fell during the Durkoth Descent ( 995 HE - 1355 HE ) . As the Durkoth withdrew, their former underlings and soldiers scattered and vied for power. Abâthigûr's hydrocur, no longer constrained by the Durkoth, sought to maintain the Sussgurd as their subordinates. Across the isles of Necrocrypt, they faced fierce resistance. The fiercest of the resistance fighters ultimately 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, temporarily benefiting from Cinnuru's Minions, now fell victim to them. The fortunate found passage to Râpha-Sûn and other former Abâthigûr strongholds along Karnegmoth's shores.
By the year 1011 HE, the empire had ceased to exist, with its Hydrocur consolidated around the city of Ginnoth, and its Sussgurd situated in northern Karnegmoth. The former Durkoth masters, no longer capable of operating on land, had retreated beneath the waves of Ogharkú.