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Through his own strength of will, a slave to one of the
ruling aboleth of the city named Ssil na’Than threw off his
master’s control. Wisely, he waited to act, biding his time
and continuing to behave as though he remained under the
monster’s thrall. When the ruling aboleth next gathered
in council, he at last judged the time was right to strike.
He derived a poison from the shell of a rare and exotic
Underdeep clam and fed it to the fish that were to make
up the council’s meal. The poison quickly slew the cruel
beasts that had enslaved the Sulzthul, and as his master and
others twisted in their final agonies, Ssil na’Than rallied
the other drow to shake off the aboleths’ control and rise
up in rebellion.
The battle was brutal and furious, lasting for hours. Many
drow were slain in their desperate fight for freedom but the
Sulzthul were at last victorious, for with the ruling council
of the aboleths slain, the foul aberrations were without
leadership or co-ordination in their defence. The drow
indulged in an orgy of slaughter,
stabbing, clawing and beating at
the corpses of their tormentors
until there was no piece left larger
than a child’s fist and the aboleth
city they had served for so long
was stained with the ichor of
their former masters. Still, they
would have kept going, pouring
out centuries of hate and rage
in a potentially endless act of
vengeance, if Ssil na’Than had
not intervened. He realised the
drow were not safe and that soon
the lack of any word from this
city would bring aboleth of other
cities, a force his people could not
hope to stand against. By turns
pleading and threatening, Ssil
na’Than at last led the Sulzthul
away from the terrible place of
their enslavement.
The flight of the drow from the
aboleth was a long and dangerous
journey through winding
Underdeep waterways, always
with the threat of the aboleth
behind them and of the unknown
Underdeep all about them. Ssil
na’Than led the Sulzthul through
miles of passageways, forcing
them to walk for days out of
the water to reach a new and
unexplored river or lake, until they
came at last to a wide, low-ceilinged cavern pocked with
small lakes and p ools, all of which were connected beneath
the surface by an intricate system of caves. Convinced they
were safe at last, Sulzthul settled in this new home, and
called it Uthzo Tesslath, the Broken Chain.
The Sulzthul breed quickly and are far more fertile than
most drow. Before long, their burgeoning population grew
too large for Uthzo Tesslath and the descendants of Ssil
na’Than led the first of several groups of colonists to a
new home. Within a few centuries, there were some two
dozen cities and villages of the Sulzthul thriving in the
Underdeep.
Overview of the Sulzthul
From a distance, the Sulzthul look like other drow, but a
closer inspection will quickly reveal something is amiss.
Their skin, while black, gleams with mucus, and has
an almost translucent quality to it. Their ears are less