The Mage-King Solmany was reputed to be one of the wisest and most powerful of the Wensharian emperors, a just and fair leader in the times before XXXX and the Wensharian Civil War.
Many parables and folk tales demonstrating wisdom and insight are passed down from legends of his words and deeds.
Solmany was not only wise, he was also magically gifted. His knowledge of arcane lore concerning otherworldly and summoned creatures was unparalleled. He researched and unearthed the ancient pacts binding the djinn, and building upon that knowledge developed an arcane tradition of strictures and covenants that still apply to the known species and cultures of the djinn to this day.
Using these alliances and bargains, Solmany brought great prosperity to the Wensharian Empire, its allies, and the people under its protection.
But many of the evil djinn and spirits that inhabited the lands in those days were not content with prosperity for all, some desired to rule the realms of Alyndryca for themselves, and subjugate all the people of the continent and even the world in slavery and miserable servitude.
The djinn and other evil spirits that could not be bargained with created strife and conflict upon the land, until the forces of the Wensharian Empire were forced to either slay, banish, or capture them. There were those among the ranks of the genies that could not be slain, for they would just reform in their otherworldly realms and return to the conflict. Some could be banished, but others had the struck such bargains and alliances that that the "Maxims of the Djinn" (the ancient pacts and rules concerning the djinn from primordial times) protected them from such a fate.
For Solmany and the Wensharian Empire, there was apparently only one solution left for those most powerful and troublesome of the djinn and their spirit brethren, imprisonment.
Solamny used his wisdom and knowledge to cast the offenders into the "Well of Souls" a deep and wide sealed oubliette that spiraled down into the depths of the ground. The Well of Souls is located in an undisclosed location, and to this day still contains the djinn and evil spirits bound and constrained by Solmany within its depths.
It is said that one of the loopholes of eternal imprisonment is that the captive must be able to communicate with its jailors. Tales say that as more and more spirits were consigned to the depths of the Well of Souls that the whispers and entreaties of the prisoners could be heard by all who passed near their cells, and that the voices soon became a cacophony of madness and despair.
