Nurthrot of the Lich Lords

Steel Realms

Nurthrot is the name given to the effect that creates an effect that suppresses life magics and is inimical to the health and well being of the living. A mass Nurth suicide/sacrifice pulls the veil between planes aside, and allows the taint of evil and death to spread like a miasma.

It is based on the corrupted ritual of Djerduth that is part of the Nurth faith. It was developed by the degenerate spawn long after “The Faul of Nurthland”

i20™ Effect Details

  • Disadvantage on Constitution and Charisma checks, and -2 CON/CHA
  • Disadvantage on Initiative checks
  • Loss of 5′ of movement
  • Healing operates at half effectiveness
  • A Short Rest now takes a Long Rest

iCore iCore™ Effect Details

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Cherokian’s Curse

Originally it was seen in the Dwarven citadel of Steel Ring, in the Tolkisson Mountain Range, south of North Gate Pass. When an army of skeletons struck from the mountains, it was noted they were all Dwarven. A force went sent to the citadel guarding the Underlight path and it found the citadel overrun but no bodies.

The dwarven priest Cheriokan could not identify it, it was simply dubbed “Cherokian’s Curse“. Weeks later, the mass pile of decomposing pale bodies of what we be known as Nurth was discovered. It was considered some strange and evil ritual of sacrifice.

History of Nurthrot’s Presence

  • 2330 Nurthland Falls in the east; the remaining Nurthlanders are enslaved
  • 2890 First manifestation of the Nurthrot (“Cheriokan’s Curse”) seen in the Dwarven citadel of Steel-Ring, in the Tolkission
  • 3230 Nurthrot manifests the lands north of Ados; The true nature of the sacrifice and its effect is understood for the first time.
  • 3528 Nurthrot manifests near Norfolk.
  • 3751 Nurthrot manifests in Stormfront Fastness.
  • 5115 When the Nurthrot caught the roots of the Arliet Reach, it corrupted the defenses, and blinded the elves of Ynth for thousands of years as the source of the constant Orrish raiders that first attacked the villages in Ther-Arliet (what became Vale Evander) and then has pressed constantly on the edges of the great woke forest.
Realm's Aptitude Powers: Divine, Occult, and Psychic