Legends tell of the first fire giant, a prince named Adaxus, who gained terrible powers and permanently twisted his bloodline through a fiendish alliance. Adaxus was defeated and bound by his enemies, but he left the line of the fire giants and the mystical tradition of the Sul’at League as his legacy. By the time the quori came to Xen’drik, the league was a powerful alliance of fire giant city-states. Sul’at wizards were best known for conjuration, transmutation, and elemental binding. According to one legend, the Sul’at giants created the drow by binding dark forces to normal elves; another states that the Sul’at were developing dimensional portals to take their battle with the quori to Dal Quor itself.
The knowledge and wisdom of the Sul’at League was lost in the cataclysm that destroyed Xen’drik, and the fire giants fell into barbarism with their kin. One legacy of this civilization remains, however—the Sulatar drow, who still live in the ruined fi reglass fortresses of their former masters.
The Battalion of the Basalt Towers (see page 60) might some day seek to regain the knowledge of the Sul’at League. At the moment, however, these giants exploit their physical might rather than arcane knowledge.