Thread:Eureka Enderborn/@comment-26184570-20160713000203/@comment-26084195-20160721000752

A little more lore for you:

This is a very secret situation. But the Sarnakki as we know them were not actually created by the Iksar. They were created by the High Elves.

See, there used to be an island west of Kunark before the Shattering, Burning of the Earth and 100 Year War, upon which was a High Elven city named Firiona Vie after its founder and ruler. And when the Iksar created the first Sarnakki, they rebelled against their creators, but were destroyed. However, Firiona Vie was worried that the Iksar would soon be able to destroy her home. So she managed to steal the formula for creating the Sarnakki and set up a bunch of laboratories all over to breed their new guardian race. But Venril Sathir found out in a sudden premonition that a new breed of Sarnakki was being created, one which would be capable of destroying the Sathirian Empire. Enraged, he directed the armies of the Iksar to destroy all of the laboratories. Then, just as the 100 Year War began, they attacked the island-city of Firiona Vie, and Venril Sathir, in his anger, used his exceptional power to sink the island. Firiona Vie herself was presumed dead for a very long time, until she reappeared in Quinos. Those Elves that managed to survive, through luck or providence managed to locate Teren's Grasp where they were safe.

However, the Iksar missed one of the laboratories. The most hidden of all of them, deep in a volcano on the islands known as Timorous Deep.