Time of the (Race) Batrachi (jan 1, 33500 BC – dec 31, 31001 BC)

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The batrachi were an amphibious race who evolved in the seas, their growth mirroring the sarrukh on land. When they became amphibious, they moved onto the land and supplanted the dinosauroids. The Batrachi Empires rose to power circa −33,500 DR. They out-competed the rising power of the yuan-ti of Mhairshaulk, ensuring they would never achieve the heights of their creators, the sarrukh.

Batrachi, the amphibioid creator race, rulers of the Batrachi Empires from −33,500 DR and creators of the bullywugs, doppelgangers, kuo-toa, and other amphibious, piscine, and shapeshifter races

The batrachi came to prominence during the Days of Thunder (−35,000 DR to −30,000 DR), following the time of the sarrukh. The Batrachi Empires rose to power circa −33,500 DR.[8][2] They out-competed the rising power of the yuan-ti of Mhairshaulk, ensuring they would never achieve the heights of their creators, the sarrukh.

The transformed batrachi lived on in Limbo, but were often confused with the similarly amphibious slaadi who also dwelt there. A few Faerûnian sages correctly theorized the batrachi had escaped to Limbo, but believed they had become the slaadi. Some thought the Pandemonium Stone in the Elemental Chaos was a batrachi artifact and furthermore that examining it would reveal the truth of whether the slaadi had descended from the batrachi. Bazim-Gorag was Lord of the Pandemonium Stone and an ascended batrachi invoked by gamblers and those desperate for luck.

However, the batrachi created or were the ancestors of a number of the amphibious, piscine, and shapeshifting races of the Realms, including the bullywugs, doppelgangers, and kuo-toa.

At their height, the Batrachi Empires spread across the whole of the supercontinent of Merrouroboros, and included the realms of Kolophoon, Boitumelo, Nadezhda, and (Region) Zhoukoudien, neighboring the Black Sea, the sea of Pourounkorokale, and the Great Blue. Bazim-Gorag described his domain as "stretching from the depths of the Black Sea in the north to the fiery peaks of Lopango in the south". Much later, the Sea of Fallen Stars lay over the flooded lands of the lost batrachi realm of Kolophoon.

They built proud cities on the land

Like the sarrukh before them and the aearee after them, the batrachi once dominated the group known as the Ba'etith during the Days of Thunder. Its purpose was to record and study the primitive magic practiced by the races of Faerûn. Over millennia, the Ba'etith codified this knowledge in the Golden Skins of the World Serpent, later called the Nether Scrolls.

The batrachi created or were the ancestors of a number of amphibious, piscine, and shapeshifting races and creatures, including bullywugs, doppelgangers, kopru, kuo-toa, locathah, sivs, and tako.

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