Lore · Continents & Moons
The Shissar
Ssraeshza Temple was the end of the line for a lot of Luclin raid guilds. The Shissar inside had been waiting a very long time.
Masters of Kunark
The Shissar were an intelligent serpent race that took the lead on Kunark while the dragons were still slowly organizing. They enslaved the iksar for labor and food, and from their capital of Chelsith they explored dark rites and forgotten evils that would later shape iksar knowledge and philosophy.
Sources: Allakhazam: Shissar · Library of Erudin: Rise of the Iksar
The Green Mist
Nearly two thousand years before the Combine Empire, the Green Mist swept over Kunark. Over a year, tens of thousands of Shissar died. The pampered emperor, his nobles and their slaves shut themselves away from the lower castes to escape it.
Emperor Ssraeshza, military and spiritual leader of the Shissar, spoke of a vision that promised to deliver the noble Shissar to Luclin, the moon, free of the green death forever.
Sources: Library of Erudin: Shissar
Two escapes
Not everyone trusted him. A noble named Zhisza quietly made his own plan to stay alive on Norrath, to retreat, rebuild and one day reclaim the empire. On the day Ssraeshza and his followers cast their great spells to reach Luclin, Zhisza and his nobles teleported deep into Empotith, an unfinished underground school of dark arts. Ssraeshza’s people arrived on the moon believing Zhisza dead.
On Luclin, the Shissar later captured the Vah Shir hero Khati Sha in the Grey and twisted him into the grimlings’ god.
Sources: Library of Erudin: Shissar · Library of Erudin: Khati Sha
Where the sources disagree
- The iksar remember the Green Mist as a sacred deliverance; an iksar sage says the snake people had angered even their own gods.
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Retold in our own words from the sources linked under each chapter; short quotes are marked and sourced. The illustration is an original AI-generated painting made for this page alone, not from the game.