For many long years the kraken studied the troves of lore which he found there and used what he learned to subjugate nearby underwater tribes. This ancient elven city was sacked by dark elves and cast into the sea during an ancient ice age. Slarkethrel eventually stumbled across the sunken city of Ascarle. It craved the knowledge – and the power given by that knowledge – that it found there. It spent its youth exploring the deepest depths of the ocean, its wanderlust slowly transforming into an obsession with the shipwrecks and ruins it found from surface species. The reality is that Slarkethrel was born, according to the Dale Reckoning, in the second century, in the Year of the Kraken (151 DR). None of this is true, however (although the Kraken of the Purple Rocks does yearn for a divine ascension to follow in the footsteps of his “brethren”). In these tales, the King of the Trackless Depths is destined to regain its lost hegemony, and the Society’s members will be wrapped in the loving embrace of its tentacles when that day comes. The inner mysteries of the Kraken Society describe a vast kraken empire which once ruled the seas before they were betrayed and driven into the sanctuaries of the abyssal rifts. This would make Slarkethrel one of the preternatural kraken – one of those legendary entities which served the gods before the birth of the mortal races and are said to have ascended to a higher plane of existence. Assassins of the Purple Veil, a highly trained order that was once part of the Kraken Society but which has since become independent (although its services may still be called upon by those within the Society’s inner circles).Īccording to the lore enshrined by the Heralds of the Deep, Slarkethrel is more than forty thousand years old, either pre-dating Toril or being born in the instant of its creation (depending on which version of the tale you’re looking at).Forgotten Empire of Ascarle, a vast underwater demesne (once larger than the entire Savage Frontier) ruled by the kraken.Heralds of the Deep, an ancient cult in the Purple Rocks which worships the kraken.Kraken Society, the so-called “Thieves’ Guild of the North,” most of the members of which (except for those indoctrinated in its inner mysteries) do not realize their service to the kraken.These tentacles extend from Slarkethrel – the Kraken of the Purple Rocks, King of the Trackless Depths, Consort of the Bitch Queen, the Master of the Veil – and they include the: This organization lacks any true name, but among those in the know it is often referred to as the Tentacles of the Deep. What few know is that the Kraken Society is only one slithering tentacle of a much larger – and far older – organization. Their agents then slide into the power vacuum and “end the threat” that the Kraken Society created in the first place. Once their agents – known as krakenar – have been covertly placed, they use the same methods (plus strategic assassination) to disrupt organizations and topple regimes. The lord protector’s banner consists of three black boars on a red background.Surface-dwellers know the Kraken Society as a cloak-and-dagger organization that brokers the information they glean through spying, theft, blackmail, and intimidation to gain influence. Many of these guides are retired adventurers who know the North well. They take merchants and other travelers all over the Sword Coast North (typically for stiff fees). In addition, a number of guides operate from Triboar. Blacksmiths, harnessmakers, and wagonworks flourish in town. Triboar is a horse-market for a dozen nearby ranches that turn out trained Draft Horses, Riding Mounts and Ponies, and Pack Mules.
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Darathra enacts and modifies local laws (known as “The Lord’s Decree”), which are then enforced by “The Twelve,” a dozen mounted Veterans drawn from the militia to serve in a tenday cycle.
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The current lord protector is a good-natured ex-adventurer named Darathra Shendrel, known for the excellent wine she makes. Its name is thought to reflect a traveler’s tale of killing three boars on the same day. Over the centuries it has been the assembly point for human armies in response to the orc hordes from the mountains in the north along the River Surbrin. It is a large town with a population of around 2500. Triboar is the chief rival to Yartar, and the 2 communities compete for the trade of the Dessarin Valley.
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The town of Triboar stands to the east of Phandalin, where the Long Road meets the Evermoor Way, a well-used caravan road that runs east to the city of Yartar.