Editing Nerash

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* [[Empyrean]] ([[Dericostian]])
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* [[Rhethis Eipoth]]
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* RE 895 - Death on the [[Battlefield of Ayn Tayan]]
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* [[Anadil]]
* [[Leikotha Arenir]]
* [[Jaera]]
* [[Kelannik]]
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<font color=darkgoldenrod>Leikotha tells you, "I had told Wari of Nerash's poison arrow and my fall at the Plateau of Gelid. Of how Nerash, a foul undead minion of Dericost, had sought to keep me at his side for all eternity. Of how I had been tortured and twisted by his dark rites and doomed to never know the peace of oblivion. Of my daughter, Alysse, who only knew her mother as a loathsome monster, who had been forced to flee the light."</font><ref> 2000/04 - [[Thorns of the Hopeslayer]] - [[Silifi of Crimson Stars Quest#Lore & Dialog]]</ref>

* Nerash was one of the [[Sand Kings]] or [[High Desert Nomads]] serving [[Geraine IV]], "His Eternal Splendor".<ref name="Aerfalle's Letter"> 2000/07 - [[To Raise a Banner of Flame]] - [[Aerfalle's Letter]]</ref>
* He led the armies of [[Dericost]] at the final battle of the [[Millennium War]] – the siege of the Plateau of Gelid. <ref name="Bestiary">[[AC:DM CD Lore/Bestiary/Derethian Bestiary#Undead]]</ref>, and lost against the forces of [[Jailne]] and [[Alaidain]].
* For losing this battle, he was disgraced. During the engagement, however, a beautiful [[Haebrous|Haebraen]] warrior named [[Leikotha Arenir|Leikotha]] caught his eye and heart. In the aftermath, he abducted her and turned her, unwillingly, into an undead. <ref name="Bestiary">[[AC:DM CD Lore/Bestiary/Derethian Bestiary#Undead]]</ref><ref>[[AC:DM CD Lore/Dericost Texts/The Lay of Leikotha]]</ref><ref>2000/08 [[Taste of Twilight]] - [[Mu-Miyah Note Translation]]</ref>
* It is said that after Leikotha, the great warrior of Haebrous, was made undead by the Sand King Nerash, she wept for thirty days and thirty nights<ref>2005/07 - [[Throne of Destiny]] - [[Pauldrons of Leikotha's Tears]]</ref>
* She later escaped, and had her vengeance at the conclusion of the Empyrean Shadow War.<ref name="Bestiary">[[AC:DM CD Lore/Bestiary/Derethian Bestiary#Undead]]</ref> Nerash was slain by Leikotha at the [[Battlefield of Ayn Tayan]], a titanic three-day battle between undead and Shadow. Leikotha fought at the side of the Shadows, "under the sway of [[Ferah]]'s poison". The four Cairns and the green mist on the Battlefield mark where Nerash was slain.<ref name="Aerfalle's Letter"> 2000/07 - [[To Raise a Banner of Flame]] - [[Aerfalle's Letter]]</ref>
* Lady [[Jaera]] fought beside Nerash at the end and was killed by [[Bael'Zharon]] during the battle. Thought Nerash perished, the companies of [[Kelannik]], [[Anadil]], and Nerash crushed the survivors into carrion and dust. Only Leikotha escaped.<ref name="Aerfalle's Letter"> 2000/07 - [[To Raise a Banner of Flame]] - [[Aerfalle's Letter]]</ref> She however, lost her sword, [[Ashbane]], on the battlefield.<ref>2000/04 - [[Thorns of the Hopeslayer]] - [[Leikotha#Lore & Dialog]]</ref>

== Related Pages ==
=== Locations ===
* [[Tombs of the Sand Kings]] 
* [[Battlefield of Ayn Tayan]] 

=== Creatures ===
* [[Undead#Mu-miyah]] - the Mu-miyah are followers of the [[Sand Kings]]

== References ==
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=== Other References to {{PAGENAME}} ===
# 2000/08 - [[Taste of Twilight]] - [[Dark Revenant Note Translation]]