About five hundred years ago, the city of Rhest came to control the Elsir’s Vale anllong with a large swath of land between the Sword Mountains and Mithril Hall. The wise King Jarmaath the 1st and his peoples built levies and irrigation systems creating verdant croplands for miles and miles and began a period of prosperity. And Jarmaath did not stop there. He and his soldiers secured the roads all the way from Neverwinter in the West to the Skull Gorge Bridge in the East and this safe passage became known as the "Dawn's Way."
The Kingdom of Rhestilor grew wealthy on the tariffs exacted from the passing merchants. Under the kingdom's shield, the towns along the Dawn Way - Triboar, Tartar, Noanar's Hold, and the rest - grew up from tiny hamlets or lonely soldiers' posts to flourishing human settlements.
The prosperity lasted for centuries, but as is the case in all times of posterity, it never lasts forever. The kingdom of Rhestilor eventually collapsed under civil strife, monstrous incursions, and magical blights. Almost two hundred years ago, the city of Rhest was burned by savage horde out of the Wyrmsmoke Mountains. And while the warriors of Rhestilor killed many of the goblins and their kind, but the strength of the horde was too great to resist.
Either out of spite, or desperation, as the city of Rhest lay burning and nearly overrun, the decision was made to bust open the locks and canals and now the once a prosperous city and center of the kingdom of Rhestilor, lies half-drowned. A ruin slowly sinking into the Evenmoors.
In the aftermath, the survivors abandoned their homes and resettled in Triboar to the south. It is said that Lord Jarmaath is rightful heir to the kingdom, but that was two centuries ago. Now the city of Rhest has slowly been sinking into the sodden Evenmoors.
It is said that the Wyrmlord Saarvith was been sent here on a special mission, but none can say why. It is said to be populated by the Lizardfolk and of no strategic importance. They are simply a swampy grassland, impassible and unpleasant.