Greyhawk Rebooted - 576CY

Tuerny The Merciless After centuries of indignities, manipulations and

Tuerny was born in approximately schemes, Tuerny has managed to migrate his
-316 CY into the Oerdian Cranden clan form up the Abyssal hierarchy and is currently a
of the Aerdi tribe, in what is now the vicious Nalfeshnee in the employee of an un-
known Demon Prince.
South Province. He became a great
wizard, one of the most feared in all of
history, and a counsellor to the ruler of
the Aerdi principality of Thalland that
preceded the rise of the Great Kingdom.
As ambitious as he was, he slew his
liege and the rest of the royal family,
founding an expansionist tyranny in
his own name.

Tuerny used his magic to charm or

enslave those among his generals who
resisted him, and summoned demons
to bolster his armies. Unfortunately,
he had little control over them, and
though his efforts created great terror,
notoriety, and disgust, his kingdom
grew little.

He created his Iron Flask artifact

circa -266 CY, binding within it an
aspect of Graz’zt himself. As Iggwilv
would do centuries later, Tuerny forced
Graz’zt to aid him in his conquests but
Graz’zt ultimately turned the tables on
Tuerny. The demon prince transformed
the warlord into a dretch, a kind of
minor demon, and dragged him into
the Abyss to be his slave.

led the other Oerdian tribes through the were founded shortly afterwards. Other
Fals Gap, where they first encountered petty empires formed, including those of
the Flan. Tuerny (see sidebar above). These small
principalities accomplished little under
Pushing ever east, the Aerdi eventually their loose confederation, as they were
came upon the impassable barrier of an individually unable to take on the more
ocean. They named that vast ocean the powerful Flan confederations nor the
Solnor (literally, “the birthplace of the nascent Suel settlements, so they quickly
sun”), and along its shores the petty gathered under a single banner.
kingdoms of Thalland and Medegia

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