Unapproachable East

"Thay" is also a name applied to the Vietnamese Zen Buddhist teacher named Thich Nhat Hanh.

The Unapproachable East is a fictional region on the subcontinent of Faerûn in the Forgotten Realms role-playing game. It is a borderregion between the Northeast Faerûn and East Faerûn. The region sports great adversity; from the scheming Red Wizards of Thay to the boisterous barbarians of Rashemen, it is a place rife with conflict. The region is bordered to the south by the Old Kingdoms, and to the north by The Cold Lands. To the northeast is The Hordelands.

Aglarond
Aglarond is an autocratic kingdom in the southwesternmost part of the Unapproachable East, with the capital of Velprintalar. It is a peninsula bordered on the west by the Sea of Fallen Stars and Altumbel and on the East by Thar. Most of its land is covered by the Yuirwood. Filled with magic and mystery, it is ruled by one of the most potent spellcaster of the Realms, the Simbul, who also has an affair with the immensely powerful archmage Elminster. On the north are the Dragonjaw Mountains. It is mostly humans who make up the 1,300,000 inhabitants, though one third are half-elves and a fair number elves.

Altumbel
Altumbel is a sub-peninsula, that is, a peninsula's peninsula, which is located at the western end of the peninsula of Aglarond. Its capital is Spandeliyon, and the inhabitants distrust non-humans, especially elves. It has the reputation of being backward.

Economy:Mostly fishing, but piracy is exceptionally high here and may be counted as part of the economy.



The Great Dale
The Great Dale is governed by a Druidic hierarchy, under rule of Nentyarch. It is a human land, of 200,000 inhabitants.

According to rumours, The Great Dale is the place from Dalelanders come.

Impiltur
Impiltur is a kingdom of 1,200,000 inhabitants, mainly humans, but also dwarves and halflings, who is ruled by Queen Sambryl from the capital of Lyrabar

Rashemen
Rashemen is a magocratic gynarchy, land of the famous Witches of Rashemen. The 650,000 people of Rashemen are almost all humans. It is ruled from the capital of Immilmar. One of the most famous denizens of Rashemen is the barbarian Minsc (and his hamster Boo), who journeyed out as the cohort of Dynaheir, a Rashemen witch in training.

Thay
Thay is the magocracy of the dreaded Red Wizards. It can be considered as the evil pendant of the magocracy of Halruaa, which makes senses, both being practitioners of circle magic. The coastal part of Thay is the Priador.

Thayans are esclavagists.

Thesk
Thesk is an oligarchian country of 850,000 people, inhabited by Humans, gnomes, and orcs, with the capital of Phsant. It is economically dependent on the city-state of Telflamm.

Ashanath
Ashanath is a minor kingdom east to The Great Dale and Thesk, south to Narfell and north to Thay.

Despite its fertile lands, it is at present mostly unsettled, with few resemblances of the fallen kingdom of capital city Shandaular, which was destroyed in –946 DR.

Telflamm
Telflamm is a large city state and a port near Thesk. Its approximately 23,500 inhabitants appearently are under the rule of a "merchant prince", though behind the scene it is The Shadowmasters, a thieves guild, who runs the city.

Official Material

 * Brief descriptions, by Ed Greenwood
 * Unapproachable East, introduction
 * More of the Unapproachable East
 * Monsters of the Unapproachable East
 * Thay
 * The Crimson Gold: Power and Politics of Thay
 * Lords of Darkness

Realmslore

 * The Great Dale
 * Uthmere
 * part one
 * part two
 * part three
 * part four
 * part five
 * part six
 * part seven
 * part eight

Portals

 * Impiltur
 * The Longsaddle Portal
 * Thay
 * Garbage disposal portal and its ecology
 * Thayan Portal
 * Tharch of Thazalhar
 * Strongholds of Undeath Portals
 * Portals of Thay

Personalities

 * Altumbel
 * Tycho Arisaenn
 * Rashemen
 * Fyldrin of the Eleven Chairs
 * Thay
 * Abalajar Ocerat, Magehunter
 * Diedora Shadow's Child
 * Udalamath, Tiefling Ranger
 * Thesk
 * Riggilla the Dark

Specific prestige classes

 * Aglarond
 * Aglarondan Griffonrider (image)
 * Master of the Yuirwood (image)
 * Rashemen
 * Durthan (image)
 * Hathran (image 1, image 2, epic)
 * Runescarred Berserker (image)
 * Telflamm
 * Telfammar Shadowlord (image)
 * Thay
 * Black Flame Zealot (image). Addendum: The Black Mysteries
 * part one
 * part two
 * part three
 * Red Wizard
 * Thayan Slaver (image)
 * Thesk
 * Shou Disciple (image)

Templates

 * Gray Orc

Regional feats

 * Thay
 * Favored of the Zulkir