Ferah
Related topics: Black Ferah, A Shadow of Black Ferah, A Shadow of Black Ferah (Level 135 Creature), A Shadow of Black Ferah (Level 205 Creature)
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There are only three Shadows known by name. Ler Rhan and Black Ferah are “generals” in the service of Bael'Zharon. They are extremely powerful entities that do not seem to fully exist in our world. Instead, they send aspects of themselves into Dereth.[1]
Third Sending of Darkness
- During the occupation of the Dericost town of Daralet by Yalaini soldiers, Ferah accompanied Ilservian Palacost when he was banned from the village. [2]
- Ferah is described as "a tall warrior woman whose blue-green eyes bespoke Falatacot blood". [2]
- Their encounter with the Nameless turned Ilservian Palacost and his company into Shadows. Since then, Ferah is known as Black Ferah
- Bael'Zharon's forces assault the Empire's holdings in the Haebrous continent
- At the Battlefield of Ayn Tayan, Ferah led the Shadow forces, and was also responsible for reinforcing Leikotha Arenir hate for Nerash[3]
- She is most likely the one who has slain Patriarch Taancraiti Omair and his wife Aleth, the leaders of the Order of Heiromancers who defended the capital of Yalain, Tentael. [4]
- After laying waste to a large part of the continent, Bael'Zharon was captured by the Council of Five and imprisoned in the Soul Crystals
- Three of the companions of Ilservian Palacost, Isin Dule, Ferah and Ler Rhan survive the Third Sending of Darkness, two Omadin and Elithra of Daralet are slain.
The Fourth Sending of Darkness
- Ilservian's surviving friends became corporeal once more and raised the Thorns, using them to alter the patterns of magic in the world. Ferah, by now called Black Ferah, and Ler Rhan weighed the measure of the strange outlanders that had come to their world with probing attacks and individual trials. [2]
- The Shadows launched their invasion during the Thorns of the Hopeslayer patch. Their armies poured into the Direlands under the leadership of general Black Ferah. After being defeated a few times, she moved her command post into one of the Shadow Spires where she was overwhelmed after a coordinated attack of the Isparians.[5]
- Ler Rhan's forces flooded the wastes of the A'mun Desert. Unlike Ferah, he elected to establish his headquarters in the Spires at the outset. However, the portals to the Spires proved unresponsive to powerful adventurers. Younger warriors, mages, and archers sortied into the Spire and were beaten back by his fearsome apparition. Eventually, however, he was overcome, and moved on to the plains in the Aluvian-settled regions of Dereth. Again, he was tracked and defeated. Once more he moved, into the Spire found in the Blackmire Swamp. Once more he fell. The conquered Spires held keys to the Nexus Crystal, which was defended by an army of Undead and Shadows (See als Nexus Shadow Armor). [5] Until the To Raise a Banner of Flame, the Spires moved over the landscape, but their army and their generals, remained unseen.[6]
- While Ferah and Ler Rhan's Thorns attacked Cragstone and Arwic, drawing the attentions of the defenders, the elder Shadows destroyed a long-buried circle of standing stones beneath the oasis of Tufa. [2]
- Ferah and Ler Rhan assumed human guise once more to contact the Dark Masters. Vidorian sought out her aggrieved masters, and begged forgiveness for her failure to break the Vigil and the stone. On a quiet night in the third week of the Vigil, the two Shadow generals and Vidorian swept into the dungeon, driving the defenders back and shattering the Shard of the Herald. With a shriek that could be heard across worlds, Ilservian Palacost was freed. [2]
After the Fourth Sending
- After the second time the Hopeslayer is defeated, the Shadows retreat[7]
- They become active again during the The War of Blood and Shadow Story Arc. The three generals, Ler Rhan and Black Ferah on one side, Isin Dule on the other, concentrate their activities on Caul, where Isin Dule keeps a close eye on the whereabouts of the other two [7][8][9]
- Ferah is responsible for the creation of the Shadow Stone[10]
Related Pages
Appearances In Game
Black Ferah Shadow aspects appear in various quests and she was one of two leaders (along with the A Shadow of Ler Rhan) that led the Shadow invasions during the Thorns of the Hopeslayer event.[11]
- Nexus Shadow Armor (AKA Shadow Invasions) - Retired
- The destruction of the Shard of the Herald
- A Shadow of Black Ferah (Level 135 Creature) (Sword of Lost Hope Quest)
- A Shadow of Black Ferah (Level 205 Creature) (Aerbax's Prodigal Shadow)
Related Items
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Related Locations
- Black Ferah's Vault
- Sepulcher of the Hopeslayer - as A Shadow of Black Ferah (Level 135 Creature)
- Orphanage Wing - as A Shadow of Black Ferah (Level 205 Creature)
Images
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A Shadow of Black Ferah in the Sepulcher of the Hopeslayer
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References
- ↑ AC:DM CD Lore/Bestiary/Derethian Bestiary#Shadows
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2000/11 - Should the Stars Fall/The Child of Daralet--Leafcull to Frostfell, PY 11 / (November to December, 2000)
- ↑ 2000/07 - To Raise a Banner of Flame - Aerfalle's Letter
- ↑ 2001/02 Lonely In The World - A Text Book
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 2000/05 Heroes' Respite General History of Dereth Vol. V
- ↑ 2000/08 Taste of Twilight - General History of Dereth Vol. VIII
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 2006/05 - The Price of Loyalty - Isin Dule's Orders
- ↑ 2006/01 Reprisals - Instructions (Shriveled Lump)
- ↑ 2006/02 A Change in Tactics - Instructions (Shadowfire Stone)
- ↑ 2006/08 - Shattering the Dark - Varetha#Lore & Dialog
- ↑ 2000/04 Thorns of the Hopeslayer - Thorns of the Hopeslayer Maggies Site- Thorns of the Hopeslayer
Other References to Ferah
- 2000/04 - Thorns of the Hopeslayer - Nexus Orders