They out-competed the rising power of the yuan-ti of Mhairshaulk, ensuring they would never achieve the heights of their creators, the sarrukh. The Batrachi Empires rose to power circa −33,500 DR. When they became amphibious, they moved onto the land and supplanted the dinosauroids. The batrachi were an amphibious race who evolved in the seas, their growth mirroring the sarrukh on land. The nation became the preserve of the yuan-ti. Īround −33,500 DR, the sarrukh empire of Mhairshaulk began its decline. Īround −34,000 DR, the sarrukh founded the Ba'etith. Īround −34,100 DR, Okoth fell after a century of civil unrest that caused many sarrukh to travel into the planes. Īround −34,500 DR, the sarrukh empire of Isstosseffifil was founded in the lands that would become Anauroch. Īround −34,800 DR, the sarrukh empire of Mhairshaulk was founded on the Chultan Peninsula. The first was the realm of Okoth, which came to dominate much of the land that would be Faerûn over the next century.
Time of the SarrukhĮmpires of the sarrukh, a sauroid creator race, arose around −35,000 DR. Life bloomed on this landmass in the form of the creator races and the ancient ape-like ancestors of humans. The Days of Thunder began when the majority of the glaciers left by the cooling of Abeir-Toril's ocean during the Shadow Epoch finally revealed a supercontinent that would eventually be called Merrouroboros.