Eredil Lantradi
From Codex Vocrotha
Eredil Lantradi was one of the last Tenebriel to be born in the Adaric Archipelagos. Born in 2423 DR, he had a little over a hundred years to mature -- a fairly short period for his kind -- before the volcano Uladir would erupt in 2557 DR during the attack on the Wraith-Queen of Melikoth, destroying the resistance against the Wraith-Queen and sending himself and his contemporaries into exile on the sea. While he helped as best he could during the exodus from the archipeligos, he found his calling on the sea voyage, rallying support among even those predisposed against him and his kind.
Eredil was a listener -- not out of lack of conviction, but from the simple belief that only through comprehension could decisions be made. He was often known to summon a council, listen to all the arguments made therein and then make a decree that had nothing to do with any of the arguments whatsoever. Many believed this an act of arrogance, but those who knew him best insisted that he simply wanted to be sure he was seeing all the possible perspectives before moving ahead with a plan.
With one noteable exception, his own council would always prove best, but that exception would prove his undoing. Eredil began a crusade against the Lords of Night once he defeated the Nightmare Imperium, and brought his prodigious forces to bear in an attempt to cleanse the land of the faiths of night. His hatred for the god Dalor knew no bounds, and he rooted out the Mad God's followers wherever he could find them. Unfortunately, his obsession merely made the faithful of Dalor stealthier and forced them to create a secret network he would ultimately be unable to combat. Some suspect that his irrational hatred of the Dalorics, and especially Paldor Daln, caused him to evoke the Runes in a gesture of mutual destruction at the end of the siege of Throntor, rather than continuing to find a more rational means by which to break the siege.
While Eredil's military exploits and successes are detailed under the section on the Throntorian Empire, his genius was not confined to military matters. He was an accomplished statesman, forming the Council of Seven with the most powerful of his contemporaries directly after his victory against the Warlord. His intent was to enlist his potential rivals in a focused alliance to help keep the peace, rebuild the nation and cleanse the scourge of Night from the land, and he succeeded spectacularly in this. He not only reunited all the remaining clans of Kâlindur, he also somehow managed to secure an alliance with the Drakkhozhn Empire in Khozhn'ol, a feat never before attempted and never thereafter replicated. The Drakkhozhn Emperor at the time, Fzh'khirhnakkh, spent quite a bit of time at the Throntorian court, and though his advisors found it unsettling, Eredil found a strange kinship with the cold-blooded Emperor.
Though Eredil's long rule was marked with marvel, wonder and peace, the blot of his racial identity was never quite erased; the Solindriel loudly, publicly and repeatedly blamed the Tenebriel for many of the ills that befell the Adaric Archipeligos -- and rightly so in many cases. Many muttered darkly that Throntor would come to a bad end simply because of Eredil's heritage. Sadly, though race ultimately had nothing to do with Throntor's fall, fall it did, and utterly. The fall of Eredil's empire also marked his death, in 3752 DR, when he unleashed a Rune, destroying Throntor and its environs utterly. Though the Drakkohzhn Emperor was unable to lend assistance due to the Warlord's two-pronged attack, he remembered Eredil after the fall of Throntor in the Drakkhozhn Book of Deeds, and commanded an empty grave be raised for him in the Sahn t'Drakkh, the resting place of all Drakkhozhn heroes. Only one other warmblood would ever be given this honor.
