In the days when Helmgar ruled Dynkyr alone, the majk of the Fairies reached its foulest nadir. In their pride and in their fear of waning dominion, they wrought a terror upon Erenth such as had not been seen since the drowning of the Valley of Summer.
By curse and binding, and by arts better left forgotten, they unleashed the Terrasque upon the world.
Great was its swath of destruction. Cities were leveled. Fields were made barren. Rivers were turned from their courses. Many Besnir were slain before the beast was brought low, and its passing scarred the lands long after its flesh was scattered.
The Stoneborn did not war alone in those days, for even the Terani who had loosed the terror could not master it. For two years the peoples of Erenth contended with the creature, and victory came at grievous cost.
Thus were stoked the fires of rebellion against the Fairies. The arrogance that had long been endured was no longer suffered. Alliances were formed where none had stood before, and the power of the Fairy Lords began to wane. In the years that followed, their dominion faltered and collapsed.
Yet the scars of their pride did not fade swiftly. A faction of the Fairies called the Drow fought wars of sabotage against all the Stoneborn of all the Duns. When they were finally brought to heel by their own kind, the Drow were sentenced to exile at the end of the Gunvirega River. To watch over them the Regns of Five Duns set the Duergar as wardens over them at Nil Duergara.
Helmgar was Regn for nine and twenty and two hundreds of years before he died, having seen both the terror of the Terrasque and the breaking of the Fair ascendancy. He was succeeded by Brannor the Regn.
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