The Vah Shir & Shar Vahl

Kerran nobles

Before the war between Erudin and the heretics, the Vah Shir were the nobility of kerran society. During that war they were caught in a blast of experimental magic, the same one that created what is now called the Hole. Their spiritual nature gave them some protection, and their shamans were especially quick to raise magical defenses for themselves and their warrior companions.

The RPG puts it plainly: the final battle of the Erudite civil war translocated the Vah Shir city of Shar Vahl off Norrath itself and left behind the crater that leads into the depths of Odus.

Sources: Library of Erudin: Vah Shir (On the Town of: Shar Vahl) · Library of Erudin: EverQuest RPG Player’s Handbook: History of Norrath (2002) · Allakhazam: Vah Shir

No books

The Vah Shir do not use written works. They hold that the impure magic behind the cataclysm came from Erudite research that twisted pure spiritual magic into something unnatural. So their lore passes from generation to generation in stories and songs, kept by the bards and the shamans.

Sources: Library of Erudin: Vah Shir

A city of acrylia

Shar Vahl is a beautiful walled city built from acrylia, a marble-like stone with glowing veins, at the center of a great crater made where the Shard of Norrath struck Luclin. A canyon surrounds it, and kerran fortifications add to its defense. The Vah Shir are not hostile to strangers, but anyone who earns their anger meets a Vah Shir warrior’s blade.

Sources: Library of Erudin: Vah Shir · Allakhazam: Shar Vahl (zone)

A hero lost

Their greatest beastlord, Khati Sha, went to explore the moon after the city arrived and never came back. The beastlord guild still bears his name. Read what really became of him on Khati Sha the Twisted.

Sources: Library of Erudin: Khati Sha