Yarrillarr's Cloud Castle

In the year NR604, the legendary conjurer Yarrillarr One-Eye shocked the realms when her tower-house broke free of the ground in the city of Dambrusk, rose high into the sky, was enveloped in clouds, and floated westward out of sight across southern Mercia toward the Tellarn Mountains. Her cloud castle was not seen again for many years.

At the time of the event, Yarrillarr was a very well respected human wizard of advanced years, stooped and frail in the twilight years of her life. She had fought against the evil forces in the Northlands for many decades, and had trained many of the great conjurers of succeeding generations. She was one of the most powerful wizards in the Realms.

Some say that Yarrillarr left to search the Northlands for lost magics of great power. Some say that an evil spirit took control of Yarrillarr and her home, stealing them away for dark purposes. Still others say that Yarrillarr's home wrenched itself out of the earth at the moment of her death, and took to the sky to become an eternal tomb for her spirit, and to keep her accumulated magical knowledge safe from falling into evil hands.

Whatever the truth may be, there have been a few sightings over the years purporting to be of Yarrillarr's Cloud Castle. In the 640's, it was claimed to have been seen over the High Plateau. In the 660's, a wagon train of settlers heading north said they saw it over the Hills of Horeb southwest of Turil. In the 680's, a band of dwarves heading into the Onorian Wilderlands reported that it was flying eastward over the Silver Hills in the direction of the Shadowveil Forest. Lastly, in NR 701, the wizard Charazar the Underdark-Walker supposedly saw it floating over the southern Iron Spire Mountains, flew up to it, and was unable to find a way inside. No further sightings have been reported.

In every sighting, the description is very similar; a stone tower of considerable size, perched on a hunk of rock and wreathed in clouds, flying yellow banners with a single red eye.