Ferah

Character Summary

Ferah

Race:

There are only three Shadows known by name. Ler Rhan and Black Ferah are “generals” in the service of Bael'Zharon. They are extremely powerful entities that do not seem to fully exist in our world. Instead, they send aspects of themselves into Dereth.<ref>AC:DM CD Lore/Bestiary/Derethian Bestiary#Shadows</ref>

Third Sending of Darkness

During the occupation of the Dericost town of Daralet by Yalaini soldiers, Ferah accompanied Ilservian Palacost when he was banned from the village. <ref name="A Brief History for Travelers">2000/11 - Should the Stars Fall/The Child of Daralet--Leafcull to Frostfell, PY 11 / (November to December, 2000)</ref>
Ferah is described as "a tall warrior woman whose blue-green eyes bespoke Falatacot blood". <ref name="A Brief History for Travelers">2000/11 - Should the Stars Fall/The Child of Daralet--Leafcull to Frostfell, PY 11 / (November to December, 2000)</ref>
Their encounter with the Nameless turned Ilservian Palacost and his company into Shadows. Since then, Ferah is known as Black Ferah
Bael'Zharon's forces assault the Empire's holdings in the Haebrous continent
At the Battlefield of Ayn Tayan, Ferah led the Shadow forces, and was also responsible for reinforcing Leikotha Arenir hate for Nerash<ref>2000/07 - To Raise a Banner of Flame - Aerfalle's Letter</ref>
She is most likely the one who has slain Patriarch Taancraiti Omair and his wife Aleth, the leaders of the Order of Heiromancers who defended the capital of Yalain, Tentael. <ref>2001/02 Lonely In The World - A Text Book</ref>
After laying waste to a large part of the continent, Bael'Zharon was captured by the Council of Five and imprisoned in the Soul Crystals
Three of the companions of Ilservian Palacost, Isin Dule, Ferah and Ler Rhan survive the Third Sending of Darkness, two Omadin and Elithra of Daralet are slain.

The Fourth Sending of Darkness

Ilservian's surviving friends became corporeal once more and raised the Thorns, using them to alter the patterns of magic in the world. Ferah, by now called Black Ferah, and Ler Rhan weighed the measure of the strange outlanders that had come to their world with probing attacks and individual trials. <ref name="A Brief History for Travelers">2000/11 - Should the Stars Fall/The Child of Daralet--Leafcull to Frostfell, PY 11 / (November to December, 2000)</ref>
The Shadows launched their invasion during the Thorns of the Hopeslayer patch. Their armies poured into the Direlands under the leadership of general Black Ferah. After being defeated a few times, she moved her command post into one of the Shadow Spires where she was overwhelmed after a coordinated attack of the Isparians.<ref name=HistoryDerethV>2000/05 Heroes' Respite General History of Dereth Vol. V</ref>

Ler Rhan's forces flooded the wastes of the A'mun Desert. Unlike Ferah, he elected to establish his headquarters in the Spires at the outset. However, the portals to the Spires proved unresponsive to powerful adventurers. Younger warriors, mages, and archers sortied into the Spire and were beaten back by his fearsome apparition. Eventually, however, he was overcome, and moved on to the plains in the Aluvian-settled regions of Dereth. Again, he was tracked and defeated. Once more he moved, into the Spire found in the Blackmire Swamp. Once more he fell. The conquered Spires held keys to the Nexus Crystal, which was defended by an army of Undead and Shadows (See als Nexus Shadow Armor). <ref name=HistoryDerethV>2000/05 Heroes' Respite General History of Dereth Vol. V</ref> Until the To Raise a Banner of Flame, the Spires moved over the landscape, but their army and their generals, remained unseen.<ref name=HistoryDerethVIII>2000/08 Taste of Twilight - General History of Dereth Vol. VIII</ref>

While Ferah and Ler Rhan's Thorns attacked Cragstone and Arwic, drawing the attentions of the defenders, the elder Shadows destroyed a long-buried circle of standing stones beneath the oasis of Tufa. <ref name="A Brief History for Travelers">2000/11 - Should the Stars Fall/The Child of Daralet--Leafcull to Frostfell, PY 11 / (November to December, 2000)</ref>
Ferah and Ler Rhan assumed human guise once more to contact the Dark Masters. Vidorian sought out her aggrieved masters, and begged forgiveness for her failure to break the Vigil and the stone. On a quiet night in the third week of the Vigil, the two Shadow generals and Vidorian swept into the dungeon, driving the defenders back and shattering the Shard of the Herald. With a shriek that could be heard across worlds, Ilservian Palacost was freed. <ref name="A Brief History for Travelers">2000/11 - Should the Stars Fall/The Child of Daralet--Leafcull to Frostfell, PY 11 / (November to December, 2000)</ref>

After the Fourth Sending

After the second time the Hopeslayer is defeated, the Shadows retreat<ref name=IsinOrders>2006/05 - The Price of Loyalty - Isin Dule's Orders</ref>
They become active again during the The War of Blood and Shadow Story Arc. The three generals, Ler Rhan and Black Ferah on one side, Isin Dule on the other, concentrate their activities on Caul, where Isin Dule keeps a close eye on the whereabouts of the other two <ref name=IsinOrders>2006/05 - The Price of Loyalty - Isin Dule's Orders</ref><ref>2006/01 Reprisals - Instructions (Shriveled Lump)</ref><ref>2006/02 A Change in Tactics - Instructions (Shadowfire Stone)</ref>
Ferah is responsible for the creation of the Shadow Stone<ref>2006/08 - Shattering the Dark - Varetha#Lore & Dialog</ref>